“Clinical leaders changed the order set in the EHR to include different sedative medications and early mobilization to get patients moving more quickly, resulting in a drop in ventilator-associated pneumonia cases from 11 to 4 in the surgical ICU and a savings of approximately $200,000 in labor and $500,000 in …

“Inadequate reimbursement has serious consequences for the bottom line. So we work hard to predict the financial outcome of a payer’s contract terms before signing on the dotted line, which means determining at what point services will be profitable, or if there will be a profit.”