● 2025 Benchmark Data

Sports medicine No-Show & Cancellation Benchmarks — Iowa 2025

6.6%
No-Show Rate
$239k
Annual Loss / Practice
75%
CaseFlow Recovery
Metric Value vs. CaseFlow Avg
Iowa Sports medicine No-Show Rate 6.6% +3.5pp above CaseFlow
CaseFlow Avg (1,247 practices) 3.1% — baseline
Avg Case Value $9,975 per surgical case
Annual Revenue at Risk $239k per practice / year

Why Iowa Sports medicine Practices Are Losing $239k Per Year

In Des Moines, Cedar Rapids, and Davenport, Sports medicine practices are losing 2 surgical slots per month on average — not due to clinical complexity, but to patient no-shows and last-minute cancellations. At $9,975 per case, each missed slot represents significant foregone revenue that could have been recovered with a systematic waitlist response system.

Iowa sports medicine practices see higher procedural volume in the 18–45 demographic. Arthroscopy and ACL reconstruction are the most frequent no-show culprits — patients underestimate recovery commitment and reschedule without canceling.

The no-show rate for Sports medicine in Iowa — 6.6% — is measured against CaseFlow's 3.1% national average for practices running automated recovery. That 3.5 percentage-point gap represents the structural opportunity for any Des Moines-area practice to recover revenue currently slipping through last-minute cancellations.

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