Question re: Physician Referral for Outpatient Services

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Greetings. For those of you that own or manage outpatient PT/OT/SLP services...

I'm supervising a student research project that is looking at physician referral

patterns. We want to develop a referral rate eligibility criterion for

determining which physicians in our data set to include in the analysis. There

is no evidence on this topic, so I'm hoping you can help with some good old

fashioned experience and wisdom!

Here is our question:

What is the minimun number of referrals in a single year you would need to see

from one physician to consider him/her a " regular " referral source?

Thanks in advance for any input on this.

Dianne Jewell, PT, DPT, PhD, CCS

Assistant Professor - VCU Dept. of PT

Richmond, VA