Cost/Budget Analysis

Providing adequate healthcare to offenders can be very expensive, although providing something less can cost you even more.

Healthcare budgets are often overwhelmed by both increases in demand pressure (based on offender population needs, desires and turnover) and increases in the unit costs of services.

One of the keys to cost control is understanding the origins of utilization decisions. Developing an ongoing means to monitor healthcare costs by category of service and by vendor/provider can also prove valuable.

Questions concerning staffing levels can also arise. Population demand pressure relates directly to the workload placed on in-house clinical staff. Regulatory requirements, accreditation needs and internal logistics are among a variety of factors influencing clinical workload as well.

Coupled with a graduate-level business education, my experience as a hospital management analyst prior to entering the correctional field has led to an understanding of clinical productivity potentials and workload monitoring methods. My more recent work in the private correctional managed care industry focused on budgetary performance as well.