Know what each procedure really costs.
Stop waiting weeks for the finance team to surface what your OR already knows. PREFcards delivers real-time, case-level cost data — compare surgeons performing the same procedure, surface best-practice approaches, and track surgeon contribution margins as cases happen, not months later.
You can't optimize what you can't see in time.
Surgical services are the largest revenue generator and cost center for most hospitals — but in most facilities, cost data lags weeks or months behind the cases that produced it. By the time finance surfaces a high-cost outlier procedure, ten more cases have already happened the same way. By the time surgeon-to-surgeon variance shows up in a quarterly review, the cumulative cost has already been absorbed.
Real-time cost reports break that cycle. When the data is current, you can act on it — flag a high-cost case the same day, surface a best-practice approach while there's still time to apply it, and have meaningful cost conversations with surgeons backed by data they can't dispute.
Three views, one source of truth.
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Capture case-level cost as it happens.
Every supply used, returned, or wasted gets logged at the case level. The cost data is live — no batch processing delay, no manual reconciliation, no waiting for vendor invoices to close the loop.
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Compare surgeons on identical procedures.
For any procedure family, view the per-case cost breakdown for each surgeon performing it. The variance is often dramatic — and the data makes the best-practice approach obvious without requiring a long, contentious meeting to discover it.
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Track real-time surgeon contribution margin.
Combine supply cost data with reimbursement information to see contribution margin per surgeon, per procedure, in real time. Identify your highest-margin surgeons, surface the lowest-margin cases, and make resource allocation decisions on current data.
Decisions you can finally make with live data.
Surgeon-to-surgeon cost comparison
For the same procedure with the same CPT code, see exactly how each surgeon's supply cost stacks up — without anyone having to assemble a manual spreadsheet.
Best-practice identification
When one surgeon's approach to a common procedure is materially cheaper while producing equivalent outcomes, the data makes the case for standardization on its own.
Real-time contribution margin
Track surgeon and procedure profitability live, not in retrospect. Stop discovering bad-margin cases at month-end when nothing can be done about them.
Outlier detection
When a single case runs significantly above the norm for that procedure, you find out the same day — not in the next quarterly review.
Pre- and post-optimization measurement
After a preference card optimization initiative, prove the savings with case-level cost data rather than estimates or extrapolated projections.
Value-based care reporting
Generate the cost-per-case data that bundled-payment and value-based contracts require — without quarterly finance team scrambles.
Stop waiting for cost data to catch up.
See real-time cost reports — and the rest of PREFcards — in a 30-minute walkthrough tailored to your facility.
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