Chapter 17 - Health care purchasing and supply management. Chapter 17 is a special feature of the textbook. There are critical differences between the health care supply chain and industrial supply chain, such as the automotive supply chain. The focus of this chapter is on purchasing day-to-day supplies and capital equipment acquisition.
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Chapter 17:
Health Care Purchasing and Supply Management
Trang 2• Inventory control
• The DRG System and Operating Cost
• Health Care Supply Chain
• Group Purchasing Organization (GPO)
• Opportunities in Health Care Supply Management
• Process Overview of Capital Equipment Acquisition
Trang 3• Hospitals are complex organizations providing services including:
• Inpatient treatment (nursing units), surgery, radiology, pharmacy, laboratory
• Dietary, housekeeping, physical plant engineering, administration
• Outlook
• Expected to grow and consume an even greater share of GNP
• Challenges
• Uncontrollable nonsalary costs and declining profits
Trang 4• Inventory control
• An important component in supporting the objective of providing patient care
• The 2 primary functions of inventory (in the hospital
setting):
1. To maximize supply service consistent with maximum
efficiency and optimum inventory investment
2. To provide a cushion between the forecasted and actual
demand
Trang 5• Inaccurate demand estimations
• Complex patterns of the length of stay and patient mix (types of patients and diagnoses)
• More accurate forecasts could be made by using DRG or CPP related practices
• The practitioners (medical staff)
• The supply management function
• Hospitals as a set of “little fiefdoms”
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• Safety Stock
• High cost of stock outs unique to healthcare
• Classification of the stockout tolerances:
Trang 7• The DRG system
• A reimbursement system
• Flat rate reimbursement based on a patient’s diagnosis
• Under the DRG system, reduction of hospital operating cost has become extremely important
Trang 8Hospital Supply Management Trends
• Training and education have become a key priority
• Reduction in inventory levels is becoming less important
• More of the supply managers report to VPlevel upper management
• Including physicians in the materials acquisition process has shown to reduce costs
• More hospitals are establishing a corporate supply chain management department
• Eliminating nonmoving supplies by implementing a
stockless distribution service
Trang 9• Characteristics:
• A prolonged costbased reimbursement system
• High buyer’s switching cost and dependence on a supplier
because of many buyers and few suppliers
• The performance criteria is based on hospital value for patients
• There are a variety of organizations that bridge the suppliers and the hospitals
• e.g., group purchasing organization (GPO)
• An oligopolistic environment with a relatively small number of GPOs dominate the market
Trang 10• An organization created to leverage the purchasing
power of its member hospitals to obtain discounts from suppliers
• Current trends:
• Approximately 96–98% of hospitals utilize GPO contracts
• On average, 2~4 GPOs per facility
• Annually, more than $175 billion is spent through a GPO
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• Areas of opportunity in supply management:
• Supply chain planning
• Product management
• Sourcing and contracting
• Distribution and inventory management
• Technology enablement
• Supply management must be elevated to an integral component of the hospital executive management team
Trang 13• Factors and Decision Rules
• If two projects are judged to be of equal financial worth, the
project which better satisfies the following factors should be chosen:
Trang 141. Priorities must be set beforehand
2. Form subcommittees (interdepartmental planning) including:
• Medical personnel who use the equipment
• Physicians
3. Make the committee tour the facility and become familiar with the
equipment on hand
• Look into the possibility of upgrading current equipment
4. Conduct interviews of the personnel who use the equipment
• Rank the needs within and among the departments
5. Enter information into a database
• Develop a comprehensive database
Trang 15• The process:
1) Develop a list of functional specifications
• Necessary feature
• Desirable feature
• A characteristic that is irrelevant or even undesirable
2) Establishing a bid list/initial base of qualified suppliers
3) Arrange a prebid conference
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