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Empowering stakeholders, both physicians and staff, to understand how their choices impact patient costs often has immediate influence on a change in practice within the operating room. Surgical Pricing Reduction Initiative and New Growth (SPRING) is a project with achieved savings of over $15 million in 2013 and a goal of $25 million in 2014 throughout a 22-facility system. Achieving savings occur by developing the right resources: reports, dashboards, an enhanced doctor preference card update process, and culture change. The elements of SPRING can be successfully implemented in any size facility.
 
 
Learning Objectives:
 
•Determine key data points and procedure inclusion criteria in order to establish meaningful and accurate cost/case data
•Describe the process of developing a program that provides staff and surgeons with supply cost information.
•Identify strategies for creating culture change related to cost savings and sustained high quality health care 
 
 
Presenter(s):
 
Shon Wettstein, Intermountain Healthcare
Ann Putnam, Intermountain Healthcare