Free for dentists and patients
Send the referral. See it arrive. Know when the report is back.
iReferral tracks a referral from the request to the returned report. Every stop has an owner and a time, and the dentist who answers needs no account.
- Sentfax goes out
- Receivedno confirmation
- Schedulednobody knows
- Seen?
- Report back?
- Closed?
- SentMon 9:02
- ReceivedMon 9:14
- ScheduledThu 2:30
- SeenThu 2:30
- Report backFri 8:41
- ClosedFri 8:41
Times are made up. The point is the shape: each stop either confirms or shows who is waiting.
Step one
Find your hospital
Names and places come from the public CMS Hospital General Information file. A listing is not an endorsement. Nothing you type here leaves your browser.
A referral is not finished when it is sent. It is finished when the report is back with the office that asked.
Pick your seat
Three people, one referral, the same six stops
Keep your dental evaluation moving
Four questions to ask your care team, and a one page request to hand them and your dentist.
Open the patient guideAnswer from a link or a code
No account, no fee. Open the link, or type the code from the printed sheet. You send the report your usual way, then mark it sent.
See how it worksSee how long each one has waited
Claim your page, name an owner, and see how long each referral has waited.
Claim your pageWhat the status means
Three levels, and every hospital starts at the first
Listed
A page exists from public federal data. A dentist or physician can send a referral toward the hospital today.
Claimed
A named person at the hospital, often a quality director or care coordinator, is confirmed by the hospital as the contact for this page.
Used
One referral reached all six stops and the report came back closed. Only then does a hospital show as used.
Start with your system
One decision can cover a whole health system
If your hospital belongs to a larger system, the system page lists every hospital in it. A system owner can claim them together.
Questions people ask
Plain answers
What is iReferral?
A free place to follow a referral from the request to the returned report. Each of six stops has an owner and a time, so the office that asked can see where it is waiting.
Why is my hospital listed if it never signed up?
Every hospital in the public CMS file is listed so a referral has somewhere to go. Listing does not mean the hospital has joined or endorses anything. To correct or remove a listing, send a correction request at ireferral.org/claim/?k=correct and it is done.
Does this site hold patient information?
It asks for no names, no contact details and no notes, and nothing you type is stored: every field is a choice from a list, a date picked from a calendar, or a code the server makes. A referral records the hospital, who is asking, what is needed, how the report should get back, the time of each stop, the dentist's one-line finding, and questions and answers chosen from fixed lists. A referral can carry an optional needed by date, an asked for date and the dentist's visit date, and dates tied to a hospital can still be sensitive, so treat the links as private. Referrals are deleted after 180 days with no activity, and the person who started one can delete it at any time. Keep the patient details in your own system. Every field is listed on the page for your reviewer, ireferral.org/about/security.
Is it free?
Dentists and patients pay nothing. Starting and answering a referral is free, and nobody pays to be listed or to be sent a referral. No money comes from any party, and iReferral never picks the dentist.
What do Listed, Claimed and Used mean?
Listed means a page exists from public data. Claimed means a named person at the hospital owns the page. Claimed and Used are set by hand after we confirm with the hospital, not counted from referrals. Used means one referral went through every stop and the requester confirmed the report arrived. Closed does not mean anyone is cleared for treatment.
Can a patient start a referral here?
Yes. Pick the hospital and say what is needed, and you get two links: one to follow the referral, one to give the dentist, plus a code to write on the written order and two printed sheets, one for the dentist and one for your care team. The dentist answers from the link with no account. The hospital is not notified unless your care team adds the referral to its desk.
The dentist only has the fax or the printed sheet. How do they open it?
At ireferral.org/r they pick the hospital on the written order and type the eight character reference code printed with it. That opens their page. No account, nothing to install.
What is a desk?
One coordinator, one private link, one list. A desk shows every referral started from it, or pasted into it, with where each one stands and how long it has been waiting, so the coordinator calls only the ones that are stuck. No account and no sign in. Make one at ireferral.org/d.
Where does the hospital information come from?
The CMS Hospital General Information file for names, places and types, and the CMS Hospital Enrollment files for parent organizations. Both are public federal data.
Who runs it?
Continuum Health Systems LLC. To reach us, use the request page linked in the footer.
Free for dentists and patients
Find your hospital and see where its referrals stand.
If a listing is wrong, or you want it gone, one short request fixes it. Nobody pays to be listed.