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Each year HR professionals undertake an annual process to determine what benefits will be offered to employees as part of their benefit package – possibly considering what benefit will be taken away or how much premiums will increase to offset growing benefit plan costs. Additionally, providers rely more heavily upon Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements than ever before; more people, more complex health care issues and payments that don’t cover the majority of operating costs. MORE
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Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.” Cutting costs by fiat via executive orders reduces the capability of the organization. Those costs are often born by customers. In the short term reducing costs in such a manner improves the financial statements. Minimizing costs in one place can often lead to maximizing costs in another. MORE
It’s useful because it reminds us that just because we get billed for mobile in one package, we should decompose the costs like we would for other capabilities. It’s worth the time to break bundled costs down: you may need to differentiate service levels among your customers or find that mobile is providing capability that makes other options redundant (e.g., It could be confusing because the costs aren’t as easily severable as other capabilities. MORE
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Many hospitals have much worse rates of infections and medical errors that have a serious effect on employers and their employees, both in terms of financial cost as well as human lives. All hospitals are not the same! MORE
The attrition rate on my partners ICU ward is incredible. In the year or so she’s been working there, an entire shift of nurses has left the unit. Those people are often amongst the more experienced, so not only is there the considerable expense of advertising, recruiting and on-boarding new staff, there is also a significant drop in the skill and experience level on the ward as younger nurses replace more experienced ones. MORE
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It’s useful because it reminds us that just because we get billed for mobile in one package, we should decompose the costs like we would for other capabilities. It’s worth the time to break bundled costs down: you may need to differentiate service levels among your customers or find that mobile is providing capability that makes other options redundant (e.g., It could be confusing because the costs aren’t as easily severable as other capabilities.
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Real benefits come when managers begin to understand the profound difference between “cost cutting” and “eliminating the causes of costs.” Cutting costs by fiat via executive orders reduces the capability of the organization. Those costs are often born by customers. In the short term reducing costs in such a manner improves the financial statements. Minimizing costs in one place can often lead to maximizing costs in another.
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