All Entries in the "Utilization Management" Category
Hospital Cost-Cutting focus Shifts to Utilization
I think that most hospital executives are getting it that under healthcare reform many organizations will need to reduce their overall operating expenses by 15% – 20% (or, about five-percent below the Medicare rates you are receiving now) with supply chain expected to be a major contributor. The other big “aha” that is hitting home [...]
Who’s Minding Your Supply Chain Store?
We were doing a little research for a Podcast we are planning, so we decided to review our Ultimate Value Analysis Program to see what had changed since we first published this course a few years ago. To our absolute amazement 97% of the real-life illustrations and examples that were given in our course material [...]
Extreme Makeover: Demystifying Supply Utilization Management
We have been hearing and reading about numerous supply chain professionals talking about how they are focusing on supply utilization management at their healthcare organization, but in most cases what they are really talking about is reigning in their price, standardization and non-compliance on their products, services and technologies. Just like the “extreme makeover” television [...]
The Physicians Role in Hospital Supply Utilization Management
We all talk about getting our physicians involved in our utilization management initiatives, but how do you, in fact and in practice, get your physicians emotionally and operationally engaged in this worthy endeavor? It’s not going to happen by having them attend your value analysis team meetings, since they don’t have the time or patience [...]
Utilization Management: If Not Now, When?
I can’t tell you how many times I hear from supply chain professionals who have utilization management on their radar screen, but they have other initiatives they are working on (e.g. new MMIS installation, data cleansing initiative, regional GPO formation, etc.) that are taking precedence. Then six months or a year goes by and these [...]
Are You Measuring What Matters?
If you are not in the measuring what matters business you should be, since it is the essence of getting better than just good. Just as important, even if you are measuring you could miss a critical indicator if your database isn’t frequently updated or you could be wasting your time collecting and analyzing data [...]
Breakthrough Game Changing Book is Yours for FREE!
Healthcare Supply Utilization Revolution Become a Savings Magnet Read this book and in a few weeks save more money than you have in years. Sounds unbelievable? Robert T. Yokl and Robert W. Yokl, healthcare’s leading authorities in Supply Utilization Management, have helped hundreds of hospitals, healthcare systems and integrated delivery networks to saved close to [...]
Bridging the Gap Between Price and Utilization
By now I hope our readers realize that they aren’t limited to just price savings alone. There is now a whole new world of supply savings in utilization (i.e. targeting your products, services and technologies in use cost) just waiting to be harvested at your healthcare organization. But how do you bridge the gap between [...]
Control Your Savings Gains or Risk Losing Them
I have talked about this topic before, and I will talk about it again until everyone gets it: If you don’t control your savings gains, you will lose them. I know this to be a fact, since we see this occurring each and every quarter with our Utilizer® Dashboard clients. To their credit, our dashboard clients [...]
Road to Success: Utilization Management
We are learning a great deal from our clients on the best ways that they have found to uncover strategies which would eliminate utilization misalignments, and which they believe is the third-way (price and standardization being one and two) to dramatically reduce their supply spend by as much as 7% to 15%. Not bad, when you consider that [...]
