Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital on Board With Lean Six Sigma to Overhaul Onboarding Process

Prior to improving their onboarding process, Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH)’s provider enrollment process was slow and inefficient, with an average enrollment time of six months. Without timely enrollment in health plans, JHACH was dealing with patients who either had their scheduled visit delayed or had to see someone else, ultimately leading to practitioner and patient dissatisfaction. By using Lean Six Sigma workflow, combining departments to improve efficiencies and developing a tracking tool to keep an eye on what was going on, JHACH revamped their onboarding process and increased the number of hospital-employed providers who are active with health plans by nearly 30 percentage points.

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