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5 Steps to Physician Preference Item Optimization
Physician Preference Items
Lisa Miller

5 Steps to Physician Preference Item Optimization

PPI Optimizations Physician preference items (PPIs) are often comprised of the most expensive products ordered by hospitals and can have a negative impact on your hospital’s operating margins. In this blog, I outline 5 key steps to physician preference item

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Cost Reduction
Lisa Miller

Understanding The Terms of Your Outsourced Agreements

Understanding the Clinical Financial and Operational Terms Understanding the clinical, financial and operational terms is the second of the four mission critical components essential to manage your outsourced agreements and identify vital cost savings for your hospital.  Most of the

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7 Steps to Optimize Outsourcing For Your Hospital
Supply Chain Management
Lisa Miller

7 Steps to Optimize Outsourcing For Your Hospital

Outsourcing For Your Hospital Optimization For hospital leaders required to deliver margin improvements, generate more revenue and provide value based care, hospital outsourcing can be an attractive solution. Before making that decision, I advise reviewing my 7 steps to optimize

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Cost Savings
Jim Cagliostro

A Plan For Price Transparency

Price Transparency Strategy This article addresses the CMS rules on price transparency and how your organization should respond. As of January 2021, hospitals in the US are required to provide price transparency in a way that has never been seen

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