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SELECTED WORK / 01 / Atlantic Dialysis Management Services

A referral is only valuable when care can begin.

Connect physician trust, institutional access, payer coordination, admissions, and facility capacity across a 13-facility kidney-care network.

Vice President, Growth & Population Health · 2024–2025

annualized referral-revenue engine
$44M+
referral concentration
42% → 18%
intake-to-treatment time
−4.2 days
An ivory membrane passes continuously through three suspended oxblood forms.
04 / Continuity of careExplore artwork

THE CONSTRAINT

Can a provider organization turn market demand into reliable, timely access?

A regional network needed both a broader referral base and a more dependable path from referral to treatment. Commercial relationships alone could not resolve documentation, payer, capacity, and handoff friction.

01 / BROADEN ACCESS

The relationship mix changed.

Expanded access has to be understood alongside concentration and referral quality. The source reports these changes together without assigning a controlled causal effect.

REPORTED REFERRAL CONCENTRATION

Before42%
After18%
Before
After
Physician relationships
40+
Institutional & community channels
15+

The concentration denominator and measurement dates are not supplied. No intermediate observations are invented.

02 / MAKE THE HANDOFF EXECUTABLE

Readiness had to travel with the referral.

Documentation, payer coordination, clinical acceptance, and facility readiness entered the same operating cadence.

  1. 01Referral sources
  2. 02Documentation + payer
  3. 03Clinical acceptance
  4. 04Facility readiness
  5. 05Treatment begins
−32%Referral-cycle time
+64%Acceptance improvement
+25%Throughput increase

Reported changes across the operating system. Acceptance improvement is not an acceptance rate. No numeric lift is attributed to an individual handoff.

03 / CONNECT GROWTH TO TREATMENT

The network was the unit of work.

The operating record connects the scale of the network, time to treatment, and annualized referral economics.

Facilities
13
Dialysis stations
348
−4.2 daysReported change in intake-to-treatment time
$44M+Annualized referral-revenue engine

Facility markers show count only, not geography or utilization. Revenue is self-reported annualized referral economics, not separately audited incremental revenue. The time change is not a final treatment duration.

04 / EXTEND THE OPERATING PERIMETER

Upstream access. Downstream readiness.

The work extended beyond referral development into testing-access collaboration and the operating response to a payment transition already described in the source.

REPORTED COLLABORATION

Renalytix / NYKHM

2,000+

Patients in the testing-access scope for kidneyintelX.dkd

REPORTED READINESS WORK

One operating cadence.

Sourcing, billing, and patient access coordinated around the 2025 oral-only phosphate-binder payment transition.

Test a connected operating decision

Testing access is not a count of completed tests or a measured clinical benefit. No quantified outcome is supplied for the readiness work.

RECONSTRUCTED OPERATING EXHIBIT

Referral-to-treatment operating map

A reconstructed executive exhibit of the handoffs behind the operating record—not an original employer dashboard.

  1. 01Referral sources
  2. 02Documentation + payer
  3. 03Clinical acceptance
  4. 04Facility readiness
  5. 05Treatment begins

WHAT I BUILT

01

Diversify access

Expanded 40+ physician relationships and 15+ institutional and community channels.

02

Rebuild the handoff

Made documentation readiness, payer coordination, clinical acceptance, and facility capacity part of the same operating cadence.

03

Extend upstream

Originated a Renalytix / NYKHM collaboration to expand kidneyintelX.dkd testing access to 2,000+ patients.

04

Translate policy into operations

Coordinated network readiness for the 2025 oral-only phosphate-binder payment transition across sourcing, billing, and patient access.

REPORTED OPERATING OUTCOMES

What changed.

THE EXECUTIVE DECISION

Executive decision brief

CEO question

What system did this work make more launchable, fundable, or scalable?

Operating answer

In complex care categories, growth happens when referral, intake, payer logic, and field relationships are engineered as one system.

Proof to inspect

Annualized referral revenue, multi-site cadence, cycle-time compression, acceptance quality, and faster intake-to-treatment matter because they show a full handoff system improving, not one isolated sales outcome.

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Scope & source

Revenue is the annualized referral-revenue engine described in the résumé, not a separately audited incremental-revenue measure. The network model is illustrative; intermediate slider values are not historical observations.

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