The Thomas Group entered the cost containment market in an effort to help our healthcare clients maintain staff while reducing overhead. The goal of our cost containment program is to assist our clients in developing effective strategies for equipment and service acquisition activities and operational efficiencies.  Using our proprietary database of national equipment and service costing information, we benchmark our client's operations to enhance performance.  Along with cost containment initiatives, we also provide operational improvement strategies that enhance a radiology department’s operations.  For further information on  some of the various cost containment strategies we offer, just click on that link below:

The Thomas Group offers you significant savings through our cost containment programs. Our experience affords us a unique opening of identifying money-saving opportunities. It may seem odd that we suggest you spend money in order to save money. If you are seriously looking for ways to contain your costs or improve operations, we are confident that we will be able to help you conduct a thorough review of your current practices to determine where there are areas for improvement in your service and equipment contracts or your operational processes. Our goal is to help you better manage your departments through service and equipment purchasing budgets and operational efficiencies. The Thomas Group wants to be your advocate in creating new cost containment strategies that will save you time and money.

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Diagnostic Imaging Equipment Maintenance Evaluation/Negotiation

This program helped launch The Thomas Group more than a decade ago.  The aim of the program was, and still is, to assist our clients in developing effective strategies for service acquisition activities.  We pride ourselves on our ability to save you money with our program.  We have experience working negotiations from both the vendor’s and buyer’s perspective.  This experience affords us a unique opening of identifying money-saving opportunities.  We also have real world technical expertise that allows us to dissect vendor contracts and quantify whether you are getting the best buy for your dollar. We can save you money on service acquisitions by:

The Thomas Group will evaluate and renegotiate all existing service agreements directly with your existing vendors, as well as assist you in the negotiations for the purchase of new or refurbished equipment.  We will help you develop and implement operational processes to reduce service costs and improve service quality while coordinating the implementation of the new agreements.

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High-end Diagnostic Equipment Acquisition

While we can help with the purchase of any diagnostic imaging equipment, it is the capital intensive equipment (i.e., multislice CT, MRI, PET/CT) that we focus our cost containment consulting efforts on. Our goal is to save you money and help you navigate the continually changing market. We will:

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Radiology Department Operational Evaluation

Sometimes radiology directors may feel as though their departments are not as efficient as they could be.  We will come into your facility and do an evaluation of the workflow processes and then give our recommendations on improving that workflow.  The following are some of the activities that can be involved in this evaluation:

This information provides us with an understanding of your facility’s specific operational processes.  The results of this evaluation will be provided to you in a written report and includes a summary of findings, conclusions and recommendations regarding where improvements in operations can be made and suggesting methods to implement these improvements.

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