Consulting Services
Cost and Productivity
Tesaris takes a systematic approach to analyzing each area of concern and/or opportunity for each client. Our approach enables us to accomplish a comprehensive assessment in each key cost-driving area within a Hospital and provide recommendations that to improve operating performance and operating income. Areas of expertise:
- Cost and Productivity Profiling
- Service Line Analysis, Review and Recommendations
- Organizational Structure Assessment
Peri-Operative Services
Peri-Operative Services is typically one of the major revenue producing arenas within a hospital. It is also one of the major areas responsible for eroding away the bottom line. The operating room has become an even bigger concern for hospitals due to the high revenue cases being stripped away by physician owned Surgical Centers In order to combat this continuing trend, hospitals need to become more streamlined and efficient than Surgical Centers Tesaris typically analyzes three areas that are crucial to an operating room’s financial success, which are: patient flow, productivity, and materials management. Areas of expertise:
- Increase Compliancy and Function of Pre-admission Testing (PAT)
- Redesign of Surgical Schedule and Block Scheduling
- Redesign of Surgical Staffing and Roles
- Complete a stem to stern inventory count
- Design a flex budget through staffing grids
- Redesign the Supply Chain Management
- Review/modify Surgical Charge Capture and Surgical Coding
- Assist with facility planning
- Develop physician strategy for Surgical Services
- Interim Vice President of Surgical Services
Revenue Cycle
Revenue cycle management is becoming more complex as not only federal but also state regulations change with increasing frequency. With the increased financial pressure the allowable margin of error is steadily decreasing. The experience of the Tesaris Revenue cycle team is needed in ensuring that your facility is capturing the charges that you are entitled. No matter the skill and proficiency of your current staff, there are an ever increasing number of ways that hospitals are losing the much needed revenue. Our team focuses on the entire revenue cycle process from preventative measures that can be taken to billing and collections initiatives.
Supply Chain Management
The traditional role of materials managers will not suffice in today's healthcare industry. The entire scope of the supply chain needs to be optimized. Tesaris consulting team evaluates the integration of supply chain management into the entire care process. We are focused on not only ensuring that your acquisition costs are low, but also that the patient outcome is taken into perspective. With that basic standard of service as our mantra, Tesaris will evaluate the best means to improve contractual relationships between vendors and/or your GPO. We specialize in inventory management, financial and inventory reporting. Our team of consultants has been gathered from the not only the clinical consulting arena but also the business supply chain arena where supply chain management has far surpassed what is being done in the healthcare industry. Our team of industry professionals with varying backgrounds creates a powerful combination of the latest operational efficiencies and the clinical basis to ensure substantial returns.