The Profit Machine In The Hospital Basement - Hardcover

Kathleen A. Murphy PhD

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 099733200X ISBN 13: 9780997332001

Publisher: Ellsworth Press, 2016

Synopsis

Discover the incredible opportunity for hospital-based laboratories to outreach into the community, compete with national laboratories, and drop an additional $2-20 million dollars or more to the bottom line. No more is the laboratory a forgotten department in the hospital basement! Using success stories as the basis for this book, Dr. Kathleen Murphy proves that outreach IS a veritable profit machine to drive new revenue and margins for health systems. Most clinical laboratories utilize less than 30 percent of laboratory capacity on a 24/7 basis. Yet, few know that increasing outreach volume will lower unit costs by up to 50 percent. Discover how outreach will help improve quality, service, and population health management for all patient types: inpatient, outpatient, and outreach alike. Does this sound too good to be true Outreach offers all this and more. Nonetheless, today most hospitals and systems do not leverage their laboratory anywhere near the extent possible. You ve invested millions in sophisticated equipment and automation to provide quick turnaround time on results for inpatients. You ve created a mean, lean production machine that runs at capacity for as little as three hours a day. The power of outreach comes from leveraging sunk cost in facilities, equipment, and staff. No, it s not too complicated, non-core, or non-profitable. Don t believe the myths, propagated by the competition, that you can t compete with the likes of Quest and LabCorp. At a time of unprecedented declines in revenue and reimbursement, clinical laboratory outreach brings material value to health systems looking for new sources of income.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ellsworth Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099733200X
• ISBN 13: 9780997332001
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1