Inspired by the Deloitte & Touche Study entitled Economic Impact of Laparoscopic Surgery, USSC's Best Practices Program* provides today's hospital administrator with an analytical tool to demonstrate cost-reduction through improved efficiency.


A comprehensive program that identifies efficiencies and cost reductions for the four primary cost drivers of surgical cases - Resource Utilization, OR Time Management, Ancillary Service Utilization and Length of Stay.


Need to standardize? Need to reduce costs? Let USSC help you capture the savings with our Best Practices* program.

"Mission possible - we won the war agains lap chole costs" Materials Management in Health Care, July 1998

"Partnering Program is a Boon to Business" Strategic Sales Management, June 1998 (for a copy of this article please contact the USSC's Consultation Center at 800.336.0263)

"The Economic Impact of Laparoscopic Surgery" A Deloitte & Touche study

"Cost Containment and...Best Practices" Vol.3 Winter '94-'95

As a tool to organize care, Critical Pathways is the hottest topic in hospital healthcare. It signals managed care companies that the hospital is cost conscious and committed to quality. USSC's Critical Pathways program provides a simple step-by-step approach.


Within six meetings, your staff can participate in a dynamic process and replicate a generic template that can be applied to any clinical diagnosis or procedure. As partners, USSC has the tools to help you get the job done.

The most cost-effective way to obtain USSC's Instrumentation and Suture is through procedure kits and suture packs.


Quick Pick and Cost Containment Kits are procedure specific and can increase your efficiency, reduce your waste and save you money. Kits, standardized for your hospital, enhance quality of care, promotes systemwide efficiency and reduces your costs.


Suture packs can reduce your costs through standardization. USSC's suture packs are organized to promote efficiency in your hospital's procedure set-up and post-op needle counts.

Part of USSC's history is to deliver innovation that saves time and money. From our introduction of the surgical stapling device to the development of the ABBI* system, our newest product that will revolutionize a minimally invasive approach to breast biopsy, USSC's technology continually stays ahead of the competition by meeting the needs of today's cost-conscious customer.

Adopting a strategic view of minimally invasive surgery can send a financially rewarding message to your community's payors. Let USSC help you send a message that states you are a facility committed to a cutting edge technology and system-wide strategy that meets today's economic and quality care challenges. Minimally invasive surgery is a proven strategy that reduces costs, increases quality of care and increases revenue. Several independent studies by McGraw-Hill document both direct and indirect savings associated with MIS. Direct savings include a decreased length of hospital stays, decreased disability time, quicker return to work and increased worker productivity. Increased output to the economy resulting from less invasive surgery has been calculated to exceed $1.9 billion.