Surgical Savings Calculator




Our Surgical Savings Calculator helps you understand how much you can potentially save with Broadlane by utilizing our Surgical Procedure Optimization Program. It provides the user with a high level calculation of potential savings in your surgical suite. By simply entering your hospital's total annual supply spend, annual total surgical cases and the hospital's case mix index for all your payors, a high level cost per surgical case is calculated. The potential savings is derived by comparing your hospital's supply cost per case against Broadlane's benchmark data.

As you are not required to submit any information prior to using the calculator, it's an easy - and anonymous - way for you to get a sense for how you can affect your bottom-line using Broadlane as your partner in Surgical Savings. If you wish to hear details around the cost savings Broadlane can assist you with, then all you have to do is drop us a quick e-mail or give us a call.

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What is the Broadlane Surgical Procedure Optimization Program?
Surgical Procedure Optimization Program (SPOP) is the collection, analysis and benchmarking of data to provide hospital leaders with procedure specific cost and resource utilization so that they can better understand clinical variances, specific cost drivers and operational inefficiencies. Using proven continuous improvement methodologies, Broadlane works with hospitals to help uncover significant savings opportunities

Who is the Broadlane Surgical Consulting Team?
Broadlane's Surgical Consulting Team members are clinicians who have an intimate working knowledge of the challenges encountered in the surgical suite such as surgical supply, productivity, high cost physician preference items and procedure profiling.

How does Broadlane's Surgical Consulting Team determine a facility's potential savings opportunity?
The Surgical Consulting Team reviews the facility's current surgical supply spend and compares it to national and Broadlane benchmarks. Potential for savings is calculated utilizing your facility's current procedure volumes and utilization patterns.

What are the next steps toward realizing my potential savings?
The first steps to determine your hospital’s opportunity for savings is by sending the hospital’s total annual surgical supply spend, total number of surgical procedures and CMI (case mix index) for all payors. This information provides the information necessary to determine your hospital’s opportunity for savings. If you are interested please send information electronically to surgicalsavings@broadlane.com.

What benchmarks does the Broadlane Surgical Procedure Optimization Program use for comparison data?
Benchmarks are derived from best practices seen in Broadlane’s customer database and from nationally recognized sources such as AORN, AHRMM, ONN.

Will our surgeons be affected by this program?
Gaining physician confidence in the process can provide strong leverage for the hospital resulting in sustainable practice change and cost savings. Senior leadership will communicate with key surgeons early in the program to reinforce that there will be no required change in individual surgeon practice. It is important to assure surgeons that the ultimate goal is to provide hospital leaders and surgeons insight into opportunities to streamline processes, decrease variability and determine the true cost per procedure in an attempt to better manage escalating surgical procedure cost while maintaining physician preference and patient outcomes.

Will we be able to track my savings and compliance with the new agreements?
The Surgical Procedure Optimization Program provides your facility with ongoing tracking and information services, providing timely, vital information regarding contract compliance, individual surgeon practice and utilization patterns as well as cost savings.

If you have any questions, please send us an e-mail at surgicalsavings@broadlane.com