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Your patient return rate measures the percentage of your most recent patients who returned for a second session within 30 days of their first completed appointment.

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This metric includes:

• Your last 30 patients with completed first appointments
• Returning patients defined as someone who, completed their first appointment, and completed at least one additional appointment within 30 days of their first session start time
• Fay-sourced and provider-sourced patients

You can click on your patient return rate tile to learn more and view opportunities to optimize your practice.

You can click on your patient return rate tile to learn more and view opportunities to optimize your practice.

How it’s calculated

Your patient return rate is calculated on a rolling basis using your last 30 patients with completed first appointments.

Formula:

of patients who had 1 or more occurred follow-up appointment(s) within 30 days of their first session

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of patients with a completed first appointment, minus exclusions below

× 100

= patients return rate

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The following patients are excluded from this metric, so your patient return rate directly reflects the impact of your care, outside of circumstances that may be beyond your control:

• Patients who cancel or no-show within their first 30 days
• Patients still within their initial 30-day window, until that window closes
• Patients who were charged greater than the initial estimate provided during booking
• Patients with an invalid payment method
  • If you retain a patient with an invalid payment method, they will be included in the metric (you will receive credit for retaining this patient)
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Example calculation

Let’s say your last 30 new patients completed their first appointment with you.

• 18 returned for a second occurred session within 30 days
• 5 canceled or no-showed during their first 30 days and are excluded