Utilization Management Archives - Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

Making a Difference with Savings Beyond Price Optimization

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Producing a Major Impact on Savings Beyond Price Optimization There are many different views about how Value Analysis is making a difference in our healthcare world, but I believe the biggest difference that Value Analysis […]

Savings Beyond Price – You Control the Faucet with Consumption Management

April 2, 2024 Robert Yokl Comments Off

“Consumption management is an opportunity to fine tune contracting, vendor service levels, and clinicians’ use patterns to best practice levels.” Where to Find an Abundance of Savings Opportunities Beyond Price in These Inflationary Times Let’s […]

Starting Your Own Clinical Supply Utilization Management Program

January 30, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

I recently had a sales call with a hospital Director who was interested in starting a Clinical Supply Utilization Management (CSUM) program at his hospital. His reasons were that they had been doing as much […]

How Utilization Reporting Helps You Pick Up Savings Opportunities Including Price

June 6, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Price is a very simple element of the healthcare supply chain procurement process. You order the product at that price and get the total spend for that line-item product. This is the total spend that […]

If You Don’t See Big Clinical Supply Utilization Savings, Does That Mean They Aren’t There?

December 10, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions Ninety-five percent of hospitals and health systems have no way of knowing where their clinical supply utilization savings opportunities are right […]

How Do You Know if Your Supply Costs are Running High, Low, or Right Where They Should Be?

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions At this point in time, it is safe to say that we are well beyond using gut feel as a way of measuring our supply […]

February 2021 – Featured Articles – Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

February 26, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – Optimizing Patient Care in the Emergency Department Using a Guidewire-Assisted Intravascular Catheter Approved for Placement in the Internal and External Jugular Veins – Andrew Little, DO, AdventHealth Central Florida, KaiDan Guan, MBDC, BHSc, CRG-EVERSANA […]

You Will Only Reap What You Sow with Clinical Supply Utilization Management

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions “Future consequences are inevitably shaped by present actions.” This old proverb becomes a reality for healthcare supply chain organizations in that you must first plan, […]

Why Early Prevention is Better Than the Cure with Healthcare Supply Utilization Management

July 13, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions We all get excited when we identify a nice big utilization and/or value analysis savings opportunity. We get even more excited when […]

5 Tips to Better Visualize Data You Want to Present to Get More Yeses on Your Proposals

July 13, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions One little known secret of persuasion is to help your customers visualize, with charts, graphs or graphics, the data you want to present to them to get more yeses. […]

April 2020 – Featured Articles – Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

April 28, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – Importance of Urinary Catheter Management and Supply Chain Process – Erica Deboer, MA, NR, CCRN-K, Sanford Health, Kimberly Alsbrooks, BSN, RN, RT (R), VA-BC, BD, Halit O. Yapici, MD, MBA, MPH, Boston […]

How Triangulating Your Supply Value Analysis Studies Destroys Speculation, Lip Service and All Other Push-Backs You Encounter

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions I was working with a client’s value analysis team and one of their value analysis project managers came back and reported that after further review […]

Utilization Management: The Devil Is In the Details

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The major contributor to cost is in your in-use (or consumption) cost! If you think you have nailed down all of your supply chain expenses with your GPO and […]