The Health Care Cost Breakthrough Team (the team that brought you options first for reducing inmate pharmaceutical costs and then medical costs) is working on our next project…looking at how we might provide local governments with options to reduce costs on health care supplies.
Holding to our value of being “data driven,” the team did a pricing comparison on a sampling of medical supplies currently purchased by some local governmental entities. These included Douglas County Jail, Halstead EMS, Harvey County Health Department, Hesston Emergency Services, Jefferson County Ambulance, Jefferson County Health Department, Home Health & Hospice, Juvenile Justice Authority, and Rice County EMS.
Comparing current costs to costs on the MMCAP contract with McKesson (you might remember the MMCAP contract from our pharmaceutical work), savings vary widely per item (3% to 94%) with an average savings potential of 24%. Our team meets on Wednesday, May 16, to discuss “next steps” and to explore additional options. We’ll keep you posted and certainly welcome your participation in future meetings.
If you have the opportunity to thank the current team members, please do so. They continue to work tirelessly on behalf of “government working together for better results.”
- Debbie Donaldson, Sedgwick County
- Eileen Filbert, Jefferson County
- Betsy Gillespie, Johnson County
- Lee Harmon, Juvenile Justice Authority
- Chris Howe, Division of Purchases
- Mike Kearns, Riley County
- JoRene Kerns, Correct Care Solutions
- Dennis Kriesel, Kansas Association of Counties
- Ken Massey, Douglas County
- Viola Riggin, Kansas Department of Corrections
- Craig Simons, Harvey County
- John Waltner, Harvey County
Until next month…
Kathleen and Joel