Services Operating Room Supply Chain Cost per Case Analysis
Cost Per Case Analsyis
Operating Rooms typically account for more than 40% of hospital operating expenses. These expenses are for labor, supplies, implants, and purchased services related to surgical cases. Frequently hospitals struggle to determine what it actually costs to perform each case. Historically, hospitals have caclculated cost per case by taking total operating expense divided by the total number of cases performed, and trending this value over time. This methodology fails to capture variation and complexity of cases, and changes in types of surgeries performed over time.
Focusing on purely variable costs of supplies, implants and other non-labor costs per case is more practical and accurate than ever as record-keeping in more and more ORs is automated, and the integration between OR and supply chain management improves. We have extensive experience and expertise in merging information from OR information systems and ERP/materials management information systems to quantify costs of actual items consumed using actual acquisition costs to produce an actual non-labor cost per case. From here we can analyze the variability in these cost per case across surgeons and service lines.
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