Healthcare Consulting Case Studies

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Strategic Supplier Campaign – Driving Quick Wins & Fostering Long-Term Supplier Partnerships

Pathstone partnered with a large academic medical center to drive remaining benefit opportunity quickly. "Speed-to-Value" became a frequent talking point in client conversations and thus, a Strategic Supplier Campaign was planned and executed.

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Improving System Coordination Across Fragmented Hyperbaric Oxygen Programs

A health system engaged our firm to review Wound Care Hyperbaric Oxygen programs across their organization. They desired to work as one system to standardize operations and drive efficiencies from a financial and service-level perspective.

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Reducing Bulk Oxygen Spend Through Consolidation

A three-hospital Academic Medical Center experiencing financial difficulties identified current agreements that were coming up for expiration. Through this search, it was found that there were multiple agreements for bulk oxygen across each individual

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Optimizing Outpatient Physical Therapy

Management at a local hospital was concerned with operations at an outpatient location providing Physical, Occupational, and Speech Therapy due to an increase in staff turnover and productivity issues, missed appointments, and a growing backlog of patients who needed appointments. Pathstone Partners was asked to assist as part of a broader engagement to develop detailed findings about the current state of operations, establish strategies to increase staff productivity, and reduce patient backlogs and the current 30% patient no-show rate.

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Optimizing Clinical Equivalencies for Bone and Biologics

A ~700 bed hospital in the Southern U.S. was facing financial challenges and tasked Pathstone with examining areas of spend that had opportunity to drive benefit. Clinical supplies is typically one of the largest and broadest areas of spend...

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Improving Employee Health Plan Outcomes with Comprehensive Medication Management

A multi-hospital health system on the west coast partnered with Pathstone to evaluate Employee Health Plan pre-rebate prescription drug spend ($40M+ annually).

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Reducing Total Courier Spend for Health Systems

An academic medical center and health system had a fragmented current state of Courier Services, with a mix of multiple external providers and internal staff.

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Evaluating Outsourced Hospitalist Provider Relationships

The supply chain leadership of a large $2B integrated health system identified the need to elevate its procurement function by establishing a strategic sourcing function...

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Balanced Partnership – Creating a flexible and adaptable approach to deliver long-term value

The supply chain leadership of a large $2B integrated health system identified the need to elevate its procurement function by establishing a strategic sourcing function...

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Delivering Benefits Through Biosimilar Conversion

A large 11-hospital health system in the southern region recognized a need for external support to identify and implement solutions to enhance net margin within pharmacy. Upon analyzing initial core data...