Provider Referral Management

Reimagine Patient Referrals with AI-Powered Efficiency
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19.7M
clinically inappropriate physician referrals annually

Overview

Reimagine Patient Referrals with AI-Powered Efficiency

Every referral represents a critical handoff in the patient journey. Yet for many healthcare organizations, referral management remains a maze of fax folders, manual triage, and data re-entry that delays care and strains staff.

Genzeon’s Referral Management Automation solution streamlines this process end-to-end — empowering providers to accelerate intake, improve data accuracy, and deliver seamless, patient-centered care.

Overview

Referral Management Challenges

Manual referral processing consumes thousands of staff hours each year.

Healthcare teams must receive, review, and route hundreds of referral documents — often arriving as faxes or scanned forms in multiple formats — while ensuring completeness and compliance.

Common challenges include:

  • Manual document handling: Sorting and indexing 800+ daily referrals from varied sources (fax, email, EHR printouts).
  • Incomplete data: Missing patient or insurance information that triggers time-consuming fax-back loops.
  • Complex triage: Specialty routing that relies on manual ICD-10 lookups and subjective decision-making.
  • Operational bottlenecks: Delays in intake and appointment scheduling leading to revenue leakage and reduced patient satisfaction.
  • Limited visibility: No automated alerts for new or incomplete referrals, leading to scheduling gaps.

These challenges lead to longer wait times, lost revenue, and lower CSAT scores, while overburdening referral coordinators and clinical staff.

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Referral Management Experts

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Frequently Asked Questions

Many healthcare systems still rely on manual referral intake — handling hundreds of faxed or scanned documents daily. This creates bottlenecks, delays in patient scheduling, and revenue leakage. Genzeon’s solution automates the entire referral lifecycle, eliminating manual sorting, triage, and data entry. The result? Faster intake, fewer errors, and more time for patient care — not paperwork

Our approach combines UiPath’s Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) and Robotic Process Automation (RPA) with integration to leading EHR platforms like Epic.
• IDP models classify referral vs. non-referral documents.
• AI extraction pulls patient, diagnosis, and insurance data.
• RPA bots validate information, check for completeness, and automatically create referral records.
If data is missing, the process flags exceptions to a human-in-the-loop dashboard for review — ensuring both accuracy and efficiency

Typical implementations can vary in length but average around 15 weeks, following a proven three-phase model:
1. Analysis & Design – Workflow discovery and system mapping
2. Development – Build, test, and refine automation modules
3. Hypercare – Support, training, and optimization

For patients, automation shortens referral turnaround times and ensures faster access to care. For staff, it replaces repetitive data entry with intelligent task routing and exception review — reducing burnout and rework. Together, these improvements increase appointment throughput, reduce no-shows, and strengthen patient-provider relationships

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