Martha Jefferson Hospital Saves $396,000 in Laboratory Costs Using HMC Benchmarks
Martha Jefferson Hospital achieves its goal to improve benchmark position while improving quality by tackling four key areas of Laboratory costs.
Jeff Willy, Manager, Anatomic Pathology Laboratory explains how HMC tools were used to achieve this success
The Martha Jefferson team targeted these four cost areas:
Purchased Services
Charge Capture
Supplies
Salary Cost
The cost saving strategies in these four areas were:
Renegotiating the reference lab contract
Inventory reduction
Renegotiating the chemistry reagent contract
Overtime reduction
Bringing Homocysteine tests in-house
Adding to revenue by finding $79,600 in charge capture.
Detailed information about the above strategies, and others MJH used to achieve this success (including MJH's in-house presentation), are available to HMC Partners at HMCCentral.com
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