You may know us as a leading supplier of quality health care products and bottom line cost management programs. But everyday we help hundreds of hospital systems around the country optimize their supply chain distribution systems, improve clinical outcomes and help standardize their products to further drive efficiencies and cost reduction.
The 10-2 Program guarantees savings typically between 5%-10% on products converted to Medline brand products. On all non-Medline brand products that are currently being purchased by your facility, Medline will supply them at a guaranteed cost-plus reduction – typically 2%-3%. We will create a customized distribution plan with options such as deliveries in lowest unit of measure to nursing units, just-in-time, consignment and shipments on pallets for warehouse locations.
The Service Center Program provides all the benefits of the 10-2 program, but with the addition of outsourcing all of your logistical and operational needs. In effect, the Service Center 10-2 program outsources your warehouse and many of your materials management functions into one location called a Service Center. Medline's logistics experts will work with you to assess your current operations and analyze the true cost of running your existing warehouse. Medline will then take responsibility for all designated and predefined outsourcing distribution responsibilities and identify and implement cost-saving methods to improve your operations. We will bill you monthly for the actual costs of running the Service Center with no additional management fees. Our activity-based cost structure ensures you will be billed for only those services we perform.
View our National Brand Vendor Partners
S.M.A.R.T. – Solutions to Margin and Supply Chain Advancement with Results Totally Quantifiable is a proven, guaranteed cost management method to help reduce your supply costs (usually between 10-15%). S.M.A.R.T. analyzes your current supply budget and determines which products can be converted to Medline's high quality brand products, many of which are market leaders, such as surgical procedure trays, Aloetouch exam gloves, Excel wheelchairs, textile products, and traditional and advanced wound care products.
TrueCost, Medline's activity-based supply management program, distinguishes between your actual supply costs and your logistical services so you see exactly what you are paying. TrueCost then identifies where you can achieve cost savings and efficiencies in those areas and then guarantees those savings by a minimum of 10% from your current expenditures. Most importantly, our goals are aligned with yours since the more efficiently your supply chain is run, the more cost effectively we can operate our business.
ACCESS reduces inventory investment and improves cash flow. ACCESS enables you to keep your products in your warehouse but you pay for only those products actually used. ACCESS starts by purchasing those products that can be converted to Medline brand products, giving you an immediate cash infusion. In effect, Medline owns your inventory – medical-surgical products, textiles, sterile procedure trays, etc.– but the product remains on site in the quantities you deem necessary. In addition to reducing your investment in your inventory, ACCESS also enables you to reduce product obsolescence costs and extends your payment cycle 45 days or more, so that your payment cycle to Medline often extends beyond third-party reimbursement.
Supply management for sutures and endoscopic products pose several – and expensive – challenges to your facility, including erratic usage, obsolescence and rush orders. Medline's Suture Control program enables you to maintain your inventory in your facility without financial investment. With Suture Control, you will:
Medline account representatives will conduct a physical inventory from all your locations. PAR programs (based on actual usage) will be developed, reducing overall supply costs as well as a surgery's overall per case cost.
Take our pioneering inventory consignment program and tailor it to the needs of the operating room and you have ACCESS O.R. Your supplies remain in your storeroom but you are billed only after you use them, shifting the cost of your inventory to Medline.With ACCESS O.R., you will also reduce product obsolescence, save on product acquisition costs (usually 8%-10% on Medline products) and improve your inventory management with enhanced reports. And, with over 70,000 quality products, we have the majority of the items you'll need for your O.R.
TexCap is a comprehensive linen supply management program that guarantees to reduce costs on textile product, utilization and distribution expenses. TexCap starts by establishing benchmarks on linen mix, usage patterns, product acquisition and processing costs. Those costs are then lowered, usually 5% to 10%, and capped for the life of the agreement. The guarantee is based on capping the total linen processing and replacement costs per adjusted patient day. TexCap provides mutual incentives for both parties to maximize savings by having Medline and the facility share in the savings once the original goal is met.
Physician-Office Direct is a health care supply management program for physician offices and clinics. The program creates a one-stop-shop for an office's medical supply needs. Physician-Office Direct starts by standardizing supplies and ordering processes across all of a system's locations. All locations can then order from one standard form, resulting in consolidated invoicing, allowing you to more easily identify your supply costs and reducing administrative time. By working with a single source vendor, you reduce time and labor tracking non-stock items. Products are also provided in lowest unit of measure to reduce inventory expenses. At the end of each month, Medline provides manifest billing enabling you to identify all of your supply costs broken out by purchase order, by office or any other way you would like to analyze your purchases.
Similar to our physician and home care programs, the Surgery Center Supply Management Program was designed to streamline a surgery center's ordering process by developing a formulary of often-used medical and surgical products. The formulary standardizes your supplies and eliminates cost inconsistencies and product duplication. To further help reduce your costs, the program features standard procedure trays for many of your procedures developed in tandem with a committee of perioperative nurses.
Patient-Home Direct is the industry's leading patient-specific supply management program for home health agencies. Patient-Home Direct helps agencies capture patient charges and reduce nursing staff time and other costs associated with medical supplies by shipping the products directly to the patient's house or to the agency branch in patient-specific packaging. Each package is accounted for and billed to the appropriate payer source. This increases the nurses' productivity and leaves more time for them to spend on patient-care duties. Patient-Home Direct also standardizes products and streamlines the ordering process as well as improves information and reporting systems. These are all extremely important benefits in light of the new Medicare prospective pay system that demands agencies maximize nursing visits and reduce supply expenses.
Our VIP Access Program was designed to provide a comprehensive array of services and tools that enable you to enhance your supply chain and internal services. Our experienced team of logistics, IS, product and clinical experts will work closely with your staff to develop an understanding of your needs and help integrate the recommendations we have agreed upon. We will train and coach your staff to develop the necessary skills for improving performance. Areas we will address include:
This is a proven guaranteed cost management method to help reduce your supply costs (usually between 10 and 20%) and subsequently improve your operating margins. The program focuses on providing savings on products or a group of products on which you commit to obtaining a certain level of growth. These are prime Medline products, many of which are among the market leaders, such as surgical procedure trays, Aloetouch exam gloves, proxima surgical gowns and drapes, textiles, and patient utensils.
