Calculating the Total Cost of Care

Endoscopy Insights

Transitioning from reusable to single-use endoscopes has obvious infection control benefits and even provides workflow and efficiency advantages — but the financial implications are usually one of the biggest hurdles to implementation.

That’s why it’s important to explore all the variables that go into achieving cost savings with single-use devices and assessing that shift within the context of other healthcare paradigm shifts. In this conversation, four experts do exactly that by exploring the elements that go into calculating the total cost of care and better understanding what they call “the math problem” at the root of this analysis.

This conversation was part of a virtual session sponsored by Ambu as part of Becker’s Hospital Review’s 12th Annual Meeting. Here are the experts you’ll hear from in this episode:

• Karen Conway, vice president, healthcare value, GHX
• Brian Howard, director, contract services, Vizient
• Karen Niven, director, performance groups, Premier
• India D. Randerson, vice president, strategic sourcing and procurement to payment, Henry Ford

Steering the conversation is Wes Scruggs, Ambu’s vice president of corporate accounts.

Show notes:

• Virtual Session: The Financial Case for Single-Use Endoscopy
• Becker’s Hospital Review: “Strategy: The Financial Case for Single-Use Endoscopy”
• Upcoming Becker’s virtual events
• Single-Use Endoscopy webinars page
• Endoscopy Insights show page