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Find the stage where patients you already paid for are leaking out.

Cost per lead is the wrong number to optimise. Cost per treatment start is closer to the right one, and the gap between them is a set of specific stages where patients go missing. Follow your own numbers from inquiry to collected revenue, and see which stage is costing you most.
What you spend
Your patient journey, last month
What it produced

Nothing is sent anywhere. This runs in your browser, there is no form to submit and no email is collected.

Where your revenue appears to leak

Start with your spend and your inquiries, then work down the chain. Each stage you add shows how many patients it keeps, and collected revenue shows what the biggest leak is costing.

Reading the result

What the worst stage usually means

The stage with the steepest drop tends to point at a specific, fixable thing rather than a general marketing problem.

Inquiry to booked
Usually answering and follow-up rather than lead quality. Calls nobody picked up, forms sitting in a shared inbox, one callback attempt and no second.
Booked to shows
Usually the gap between booking and the appointment date, and what happens in it. A patient who booked three weeks ago has had three weeks to change their mind.
Shows to treatment presented
Usually the visit itself. The patient came in for one thing and the conversation about the treatment they actually need never happened, or happened without a plan attached.
Presented to accepted
Usually cost, and almost always cost that nobody followed up on. A patient who leaves to think about the money has not said no, but nobody calls them back to find out.
Accepted to treatment starts
The one that looks like success everywhere except the bank. The patient said yes, the start was scheduled weeks out, and it quietly never happened.
Starts to collected revenue
Not a conversion rate, so the calculator does not draw it as one. It is the line that turns a count of patients into what those patients were actually worth.

The full chain

This calculator covers the middle of it. The version RevSource Dental instruments runs the whole way, from the acquisition source through to the revenue that was actually collected.

Patient journey

Source held throughout

What happens here

Someone searches for the treatment, finds a listing, or is referred by a patient you already have.

Where it leaks

Nothing records which of those it was, so every later number is unattributable.

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