CHARLOTTE, N.C., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, located 75 miles southeast of Tucson, Ariz., has selected Preferred Medical Marketing Corporation (PMMC) to assist with cost accounting and budgeting issues. Sierra Vista Regional Health Center will use PMMC FlexCost Pro software system to track costs, help balance budgets and provide detailed reporting for the regional health system.
The Sierra Vista Regional Health Center serves more than 40,000 residents in the communities of Sierra Vista, Fort Huachuca and Cochise County. The Center offers more than two dozen areas of medical specialty and includes an 82-bed acute care facility and a staff of 79 physicians. The center averages 7,600 annual patient visits.
“With an integrated budget and cost system we will be able to provide data quicker to the end user allowing for more proactive and better decisions,” said Bruce Norton, Chief Financial Officer, Sierra Vista Regional Health Center. “We will also finally get to the point of understanding true profitability related to our managed care contracts and various business lines.”
For health systems such as Sierra Vista Regional Health Center, it is essential to track costs and budgets in a timely and accurate manner. PMMC FlexCost Pro helps to identify salary expenditures for departments and individual staff as well as track supply changes and productivity factors by department, allowing management to balance costs accordingly. Of most value to hospitals is having all this data resident on one system versus various spreadsheets maintained by different departments and staff members. PMMC FlexCost PRO has an easy-to-learn and navigate interface that allows health care providers to get up to speed and gleaning useful information from the system quickly. A second major value is having a costing system that directly feeds the hospital’s contract management system.
“PMMC believes strongly in the concept of user friendly applications that bring sophisticated financial and cost management business solutions to non-financial executive managers,” said Roger Shaul, PMMC President. “Our goal is to deliver the right information at the right time so that it can be effectively used by the recipient. It is critical that the information be understandable and useful to both the department manager as well as the financial team. PMMC does this in a manner that appeals to both the highly trained analyst as well as the day-to-day operational executive.”
PMMC, headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., is a Microsoft-certified software development and consulting company. Since 1986, its innovative software and consultants have assisted over 300 hospitals and 13,000 physician clients improve their financial operations through enhanced contract management, payment verification, cost accounting, financial decision support and market-oriented consulting services. For more information, go to www.pmmconline.com.
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