Ticker Metric

Definition

Prior Day's Production

This metric tracks the total $ amount of production that was completed yesterday. We calculate this number by adding the $ values of each code walked on patient's ledgers yesterday.

Active Hygiene Patients

This is your total number of patients who are marked as "active" in the practice management software who have been seen for a hygiene appointment within the past 18 months.

Today's Scheduled Production

This is the total $ amount of production that is on today's schedule. We calculate this number by adding the $ values of all codes on each of today's appointments.

Hygiene Pre-Appointment %

This is the percentage of active patients who are scheduled for a future hygiene visits. This number is calculated by dividing the number of patients who have a hygiene visit on the schedule for a future date by the total number of active patients.

Tomorrow's Scheduled Production

This is the total $ amount of production that is on tomorrow's schedule. We calculate this number by adding the $ values of all codes on each of tomorrow's appointments.

Perio Patient %

This is the percentage of your patient base over 30 years old who have been diagnosed with perio. We calculate this percentage by dividing the number of patients over 30 who have had a perio code (including but not limited to D4910, D4341, D4342, D4346) walked out on their ledger by the total number of active hygiene patients over 30 years old.

Future Appointments

This is the total number of appointments on your schedule beyond the previous day. This will represent all of today's scheduled appointments and all future day's scheduled appointments.

New Patients YTD

This is the total number of new patients you have seen this year. This is calculated by totalling the number of patients who had a code walked out on the ledger for the first time after January first of the current year.

Production per Visit

The average amount of production that is being completed with each visit over the past 90 days. This is calculated by dividing the total amount of production from the last 90 days by the total amount of completed visits that were on the schedule in the last 90 days.

Production YTD

The amount of production you have done in the current year. This is calculated by adding the $ values of each code that was walked out on a patient's ledger since January first of the current year.

Active Patients

Active patients are any patients that are both marked as "active" in the practice management software and have completed a visit in the past 18 months.

Collection YTD

This is the total $ amount you have collected in the current year. This is calculated by adding all collections from patient's ledgers since January first of the current year.

Pre-Appointment %

This is the percentage of active patients who are scheduled for any future visits. This number is calculated by dividing the number of active patients who have a visit on the schedule for a future date by the total number of active patients.