Decision Support & Tools
Health care systems are increasingly challenged to keep up with planning demands in a rapidly evolving market and industry. It has also been difficult to keep leadership informed of external market changes and internal performance trends at a granular level with ease of access and timeliness. We have a solution. Our streamlined series of plug & play decision support navigation tools help address these challenges and facilitate service line tactical goal setting. The most powerful benefit derived from these user-friendly graphic tools is the live utilization of them at planning sessions or retreats. They allow the audience to quickly grasp the inter-relationships of multiple complex data points and helps keep data in decision making. Ultimately, our decision support tools will serve as vital catalysts in the service line planning process and the dissemination of market and internal performance data. While we use proprietary methodologies, our analytical tools are born out of experience. Our planning is practical and pragmatic — what works and what doesn’t based on our extensive experience.
Patient Flow Opportunity Model
An interactive, efficient method to assess hospital costs and potential for revenue growth by reducing length of inpatient stay
Post-Acute Utilization & Outmigration
Assesses utilization of post/sub-acute venues versus national, regional, and local peers
Market Share and Geographic Opportunity
An interactive assessment of inpatient market performance – by service area, unique market zone, or even zip code
Service Line & Specialty Encounter Management
Predict service line and specialty encounters based on your hospital’s demanding growth strategies
Service Line Profitability Calculator
Develop financial projections and market scenarios for your hospital’s individual service lines
Demos of these five tools will give you an opportunity to explore how you can evaluate different planning scenarios.
Patient Flow Opportunity Model
Navvis & Company's Patient Flow Opportunity tool offers an interactive, efficient method to assess hospital costs and potential for revenue growth by reducing length of inpatient stay. Compared against the CMS geometric mean for average length of stay by DRG (and defined service lines) the tool provides users the ability to generate financial and patient flow scenarios based on reducing length of stay among patient diagnosis-related and service line volumes, as well as the potential costs, profitability, and savings associated with each.
This resource helps health care decision makers hone the implementation of targeted length-of-stay and cost reduction strategies, and can supplement various other organizational patient flow-related initiatives such as discharge planning development, improvements in care coordination, and communication with clinical staff.
Demo Usage Instructions
- Select Service Line or DRG level views
- Select specific service line or DRG in the drop down box at the top right corner
- Adjust variable cost weight slider to estimate variable costs per day at the end of patient stay
- Move length of stay slider to view financial scenarios based on ALOS reduction initiatives at the DRG, service line, or organizational level
Post-Acute Utilization & Outmigration
As the largest demographic in U.S. history reaches Medicare age, a predicted increase in chronic disease and age-related conditions threaten to strain health care provider capacities - underscoring the need for accessible and effective post-acute settings to facilitate and optimize patient flow.
Navvis & Company's Post-Acute Utilization tool assesses your organization's utilization of post/ sub-acute venues versus national, regional, and local peers - identifying opportunities to improve patient care in these less-costly post-acute settings while reducing acute length of stay. In addition, the Inpatient Outmigration resource identifies employment of your own post-acute assets upon inpatient discharge, and the potential financial impact of increasing communication and discharge planning between clinical staff & care coordinators to curb outmigration of patients to competitor facilities.
Demo Usage Instructions
- Choose view by DRG or service line
- Roll over bars to see utilization rates by post acute venue
- Using the Outmigration tab, drill down into potential to regain lost revenue to competitors based on utilization rates of your own post- acute facilities based on inpatient encounter records, various financial metrics and referral data
Market Share and Geographic Opportunity
Using state and regional regulatory/reporting data, the Navvis & Company Market Share Insight tool provides a completely interactive assessment of inpatient market performance - by service area, unique market zone, or even zip code - identifying opportunities based on comprehensive demographics within these geographies.
Coupled with current and projected market size data depending on diagnosis or procedure data, Navvis & Company can help your hospital(s) pinpoint service & specialty-specific strategies that optimize the opportunity any geographic area provides.
Demo Usage Instructions
- Choose specific service area or county view
- Choose Service Line
Service Line & Specialty Encounter Management
Navvis & Company's Service Line Prioritization and Specialty Encounter projection resource provides an efficient method to predict service line and specialty encounters based on your hospital's demanding growth strategies - quantifying and projecting specialist need based on historic patient "touches" and volume.
These projections account for current and predicted market size and diagnosis & procedure utilization data, helping health care decision-makers proactively identify current and future clinical staffing requirements and opportunities.
Demo Usage Instructions
- Choose hospital
- Under Patient Type tab choose either inpatients or outpatients
- Choose Service Line
- Dial case volume up or down to see impact on physician encounters by specialty for the service line and campus/system
Service Line Profitability Calculator
The Navvis Service Line Profitability Calculator offers the ability to develop financial projections and market scenarios for your hospital's individual service lines. The calculator helps health care decision-makers create growth projections based on a number of encounter-data variables, including current and projected service line volume, net revenue, variable and fixed costs, net income, and market share.
Users can also choose market zones of interest, allowing hospitals to pinpoint geographic areas that have the potential to yield the greatest growth and bottom-line building opportunity.
Demo Usage Instructions
- Insert current cases and projected cases based on desired growth
- If you want to adjust the case level net revenue, variable cost or fixed cost per case performance levels of the service line you do so in the bottom part of the chart by adjusting the slide bars
- Move the dial to create scenarios based on various growth targets
