Overhead

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When working on hospital cost reduction plans, physicians often grapple that before you look for savings in clinical areas, you should first tackle excess in Overheard areas, such as Personnel or Marketing. While the approach of focusing exclusively on non-patient areas first certainly has it's merits, the most effective cost reduction plans tend to be focused on reducing the the largest pockets of cost excess that have been identified within an organization, irrespective of their expense category classification.

Regardless of the overall approach, every hospital leadership team needs to head the imperative to review their Benefit Plan Administration with the same vigor used for scrutinizing other areas within the hospital.