Seeing your practice clearly means looking beyond your gut.

Running a pediatric practice comes with its fair share of surprises. Some days you’re flooded with sick visits; other days, the schedule feels like it has holes big enough to drive a toy car through. Payments fluctuate, patient flow changes, and even your best guesses about what’s “normal” can be way off.

That’s where pediatric benchmarking changes the game.

Instead of wondering how your practice is performing, benchmarking lets you see it — clearly, objectively, and in context. It’s not about keeping up with competitors down the street. It’s about understanding your own practice in a deeper way.

Why Pediatric Benchmarking Matters

Every pediatric practice is different, but only when you compare yourself to similar practices do the numbers start to tell a real story.

That’s what makes OP’s Pediatric Benchmarking so valuable. It focuses exclusively on pediatric data — drawn from more than 1,100 practices across the U.S. and the Caribbean — so the comparisons are meaningful and actually make sense. You’re not being measured against adult-focused or multispecialty clinics. You’re seeing how your practice stacks up against others that care for kids just like you do.

These insights go beyond curiosity. They highlight what’s working, what’s slipping, and where small changes could make a real difference.

The KPIs That Tell the Story

Every pediatric practice generates mountains of data, but not all numbers matter equally. The most revealing key performance indicators (KPIs) usually fall into a few clear buckets:

• Accounts Receivable (A/R): How long does it take to get paid, and where does money get stuck?
• Revenue per Visit: Are you getting fair reimbursement for the work you’re doing?
• Missed Appointments: How much revenue disappears when families cancel or don’t show?
• Scheduling Mix: Are you balancing sick and well visits in a way that meets demand?

Each metric gives a piece of the picture. Together, they show how well your practice is functioning—financially, operationally, and clinically.

Seeing Patterns You Couldn’t See Before

Data tables can make your eyes glaze over. But visualizing benchmarking data brings it to life.

When you can see A/R aging trends, missed appointment spikes, or seasonal visit shifts laid out in charts, you don’t just know what’s happening — you understand why it’s happening. And that’s when the right questions start to form and better business decisions can be made:

• Is this dip in volume just us, or is it happening across the region?
• Our sick visits are down. Is it us, or is it that the flu vaccine was spot-on this season?
• Are we improving, or just catching up?
• What small adjustment could close that gap?

Benchmarking helps you move from reacting to predicting, from guessing to knowing.

Up Next: Turning Insights into Action

Of course, numbers alone don’t change anything. What matters is what you do with them.

In our next blog, we’ll explore how practices use pediatric benchmarking insights to make better financial, scheduling, and staffing decisions, and how they tailor comparisons to find the most meaningful insights.

Want to See Pediatric Benchmarking in Action?

Office Practicum’s Pediatric Benchmarking takes the guesswork out of understanding your data. Watch our short webinar, Level Up Your Practice with Pediatric Benchmarking, to see how real practices are using benchmarking to find hidden opportunities and make smarter decisions.