7 Ways to Save

Seven Ways MCR Helps Healthcare Facilities Save
Your MCR Consultant works to identify opportunities to reduce costs, recover value, and make better use of capital throughout the healthcare equipment lifecycle. Behind your consultant is the MCR Marketplace, participating healthcare facilities, brokers and resellers, the MCR Financial Network, and the MCR Purchasing Network.

Savings #1 — Smarter New Equipment Purchasing
15–30% Potential Price Reduction
Potential savings on new equipment purchases
Before your facility commits to a new capital-equipment purchase, your MCR Consultant can help broaden the competitive landscape. By comparing new-equipment proposals with available pre-owned equipment, refurbished options, alternative manufacturers, and current secondary-market values, facilities gain additional market intelligence and negotiating leverage.
Even when purchasing new equipment remains the best choice, understanding the available alternatives can help procurement teams evaluate pricing more effectively and negotiate from a stronger position.
More information. More competition. Better capital decisions.

Savings #2 — Strategic Used & Refurbished Equipment
35–60% Potential Price Reduction
Compared with purchasing comparable equipment new
When new equipment is not essential, your MCR Consultant can search the private MCR Marketplace and our network of healthcare facilities, brokers, and resellers for quality used and refurbished alternatives.
Significant savings can sometimes be achieved without sacrificing the clinical capabilities a facility actually needs. A comparable refurbished imaging system, surgical platform, monitor, or other capital asset may provide substantially greater value than purchasing the latest new model.
Your MCR Consultant helps bring those opportunities to your facility rather than requiring your staff to search multiple equipment sources themselves.
Tell your MCR Consultant what you need. We search the network for you.

Savings #3 — Recovering More Value From Unused Equipment
Turn Idle Assets Back Into Capital
Improve investment recovery from unused and underutilized equipment
Traditional trade-ins and equipment disposition programs may provide only a fraction of an asset's potential secondary-market value.
Your MCR Consultant can help identify equipment that is no longer being fully utilized, evaluate potential market opportunities, and introduce those assets to prospective buyers through the MCR network of healthcare facilities, brokers, and resellers.
Instead of allowing valuable equipment to continue depreciating in storage—or accepting the first trade-in offer presented—facilities can explore a broader market before determining the best disposition strategy.
Unused equipment can still have value. Your MCR Consultant helps you find it.

Savings #4 — Flexible Acquisition & Financing Strategies
Preserve Capital. Increase Flexibility.
MCR Financial Network
Not every equipment need has to result in an immediate capital purchase.
Your MCR Consultant can help evaluate alternative acquisition strategies, including used or refurbished equipment, rental opportunities, and financing solutions available through the MCR Financial Network.
Connecting clients with financing companies that understand healthcare capital equipment may provide additional ways to preserve cash, spread acquisition costs over time, address unexpected equipment needs, or acquire equipment before the next capital-budget cycle.
The objective is not simply to finance a purchase—it is to help the facility determine the most practical way to obtain the equipment it needs while protecting other capital priorities.
The right equipment. The right acquisition strategy. The right time.

Savings #5 — Internal Equipment Sharing & Redeployment
8–14% Potential Capital Savings
Through improved utilization and reduced duplicate purchasing
In multi-hospital systems, IDNs, surgery-center networks, and other multi-site organizations, the equipment one location needs may already exist somewhere else within the organization.
MCR can help facilities identify opportunities to redeploy underutilized capital equipment between locations before purchasing or renting additional equipment.
A structured internal equipment-sharing strategy can improve utilization, reduce unnecessary duplicate purchases, extend the useful life of existing assets, and help organizations get more value from capital they have already invested.
Before you buy another one, determine whether you already own one.

Savings #6 — Reduce the Total Cost of Equipment Ownership
Savings Beyond the Purchase Price
MCR Purchasing Network
The cost of healthcare capital equipment does not end when the equipment is purchased.
Maintenance, preventive service, repairs, replacement parts, extended service coverage, relocation, installation support, and specialized transportation can represent significant costs throughout an asset's useful life.
Through the developing MCR Purchasing Network, your MCR Consultant can help connect your facility with selected providers offering products and services related to the care, maintenance, service, repair, and transportation of healthcare capital equipment.
Creating competition among qualified service and logistics providers—and helping facilities identify alternatives to traditional OEM-only support—may provide opportunities to reduce lifecycle costs while maintaining the service standards and equipment reliability the organization requires.
Purchase price matters. Total cost of ownership matters more.

Savings #7 — Lower-Cost New Equipment Alternatives
Significant Savings Without Compromising Standards
Through MCR relationships with new-equipment providers
Not every facility needs to choose between premium-priced OEM equipment and used or refurbished alternatives.
MCR is developing relationships with new-equipment manufacturers, distributors, and other qualified providers that can offer competitively priced equipment designed to meet the clinical, operational, and safety requirements of healthcare organizations.
Your MCR Consultant can help identify new-equipment options that may provide many of the capabilities your facility requires at a significantly lower acquisition cost than some traditional premium-brand alternatives.
These opportunities are intended to expand choice—not lower standards. Equipment must still be evaluated based on appropriate regulatory requirements, clinical needs, reliability, service support, warranty coverage, and the facility’s own purchasing and value-analysis processes.
By introducing additional qualified manufacturers and suppliers into the purchasing decision, MCR can help create greater competition and give healthcare organizations more ways to control capital costs without sacrificing patient safety or clinical outcomes.
Lower cost should not mean lower standards. It should mean more choices.

One Consultant. Multiple Ways to Save.
MCR.Market is not about asking your staff to search another marketplace.
Your MCR Consultant brings the resources to you—helping your organization search for equipment, recover value from equipment you no longer need, evaluate acquisition and financing strategies, improve equipment utilization, and identify opportunities to reduce ongoing ownership costs.
Behind that relationship is a growing network of healthcare facilities, brokers, resellers, financing resources, and equipment-support providers.
One Consultant. One Relationship. Smarter Capital Decisions.
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Connect with an MCR Consultant to explore ways to reduce capital-equipment costs, recover value from underutilized assets, and access resources through the MCR Marketplace, Financial Network, and Purchasing Network.
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