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Purchased Service Pricing Strategy, the leading provider of purchased service expense reduction, has launched the first and only subscription service that provides price benchmarking data for all of a hospital’s purchased service spend. PSPS uses their proprietary and comprehensive database of 107 purchased service categories to offer hospitals market-competitive pricing with in each category.

Increasingly, the typical areas that hospitals look to achieve savings are becoming exhausted, resulting in the shift for healthcare leaders to look elsewhere to meet expense reduction needs. Purchased Service is an area of immediate opportunity for hospitals, as it usually accounts for 50% of a hospital’s total purchased dollars.

Research has identified three important areas in purchased services contracting. First, the opportunity to increase profits through more effective purchasing probably is greater in the decisions on services then on the decisions on goods. Second, Purchased Services are historically known for costly errors resulting in substantial financial losses. Finally and most critical, when cost savings are pursued, savings on purchased services ranged from 10% to 29% versus the average 5% to 17% for other commodities or materials.

PSPS’s experienced team consists of healthcare executives, clinicians, business analysts, and financial analysts who save hospitals, on average, 16% on their Purchased Services Spend through PSPS services.

Through Purchased Services Pricing Strategy, co-founders Lisa Miller and George Malik are revolutionizing how hospitals can reduce purchased services costs. Lisa Miller founded VIE in 1999 and has generated over $ 250 million in non-labor cost savings and revenue improvements. Miller is a respected leader within health care supply chain management and hospital revenue cycle. George Malik’s 30 year career in Healthcare Materials Management has provided him with extensive experience in reducing expenses throughout hospitals.

PSPS recognized the healthcare marketplace needed a specific benchmarking service for purchased service. Malik states “Purchased Services are so commonly over looked, one of the reasons is the complex nature and unavailable benchmarking data. Over the past 13 years we have seen money being lost through overpriced purchased services, and we decided to come up with PSPS as a solution.”

To start a PSPS subscription service at your hospital email PSPS(at)VIEHealthcare(dot)com, or call (732) 359-7646 EXT 500. Or you can visit http://purchasedservicespricingstrategy.com/ to learn more about the PSPS subscription. Until January 15th, 2012 PSPS is offering a 10% discount to all new subscribers.

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Charlotte, NC (PRWEB) November 24, 2011

Belk.com is pulling out all the stops to give online customers the deals of the season during its Cyber Monday Specials promotion beginning at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, Nov. 27, through midnight on Monday, Nov. 28.

The promotion features an online coupon good for 20 percent off regular and sale prices on all Belk.com merchandise (some exclusions apply) plus free shipping on all orders with no minimum purchase amount required.

Belk.com customers making purchases during the promotion can enter a contest to win the amount of the purchase (up to $ 250) by “liking” Belk on its Facebook Page and entering an online confirmation code.

“Our CyberMonday Specials promotion is an outstanding opportunity for Belk.com customers to cash in on great savings for their Christmas purchases, plus get free shipping,” said Ivy Chin, Belk senior vice president of eCommerce. “We have hundreds of outstanding merchandise offers that can’t be beat. We also offer the convenience of online shopping, gift boxes, and hassle-free returns to our stores or Belk.com. We invite customers to visit our website to see our great selection of perfect gifts at the perfect price.”

Examples of the outstanding values to be featured at Belk.com as part of the CyberSpecials promotion on November 27 and 28 include:

50 percent off Calvin Klein “Emmy” pump shoes for women
Clinique Lip Cravings Set, $ 28.00
Grace cashmere sweaters, $ 59.99 – $ 74.99
25 percent off designer bras from Calvin Klein, Jessica Simpson, DKNY and Lunaire
30 percent off fashion jewelry and watches from New Directions, Erica Lyons, and
Ruby Rd

Izod kimono robes for men, $ 19.99
20 percent off Holiday Barbie doll
40 percent off Teen Vogue bedding
Lenox Winter Greetings holiday dinnerware, $ 74.99 (5-piece place setting)
Leisure Escape 7-piece luggage set, $ 99.99

About Belk, Inc.

Charlotte, N.C.-based Belk, Inc. (http://www.belk.com) is the nation’s largest privately owned mainline department store company with 303 Belk stores located in 16 Southern states and serving customers nationwide via Belk.com. The company was founded in 1888 by William Henry Belk in Monroe, N.C., and is in the third generation of Belk family leadership. Its belk.com Web site offers a wide assortment of fashion apparel, shoes and accessories for the entire family along with top name cosmetics, a wedding registry and a large selection of quality merchandise for the home. To connect with Belk via Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blog, mobile phone text messages or by email, go to: Belk Get Connected.

Modern. Southern. Style.

Belk seeks to satisfy the modern Southern lifestyle like no one else, so that their customers get the fashion they desire and the value they deserve. Their vision is for the modern Southern woman to count on Belk first – for her, for her family, for life.

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Foster City, CA (PRWEB) May 26, 2011

SavingsAccounts.com releases results of a poll in which most respondents believe they are as good as or better than their parents at saving money. But savings data and retirement surveys of American workers suggest that these perceptions are overly optimistic. The savings habits of the current generation of American workers trail those of their parents’ generation.

The SavingsAccounts.com poll found that 49 percent of respondents believe they are doing a better job of saving money than their parents. Another 22 percent said they were saving as well as their parents, and 30 percent believe they are “worse” or “much worse” at saving money than the previous generation.

Those results are contrasted sharply by the Bureau of Economic Analysis’ personal savings data, which show that Americans’ personal savings rate averaged only 3.48 percent of income over the previous 10 years, despite a bump up to 5.8 percent in 2010. Even the recent 5.8 percent high doesn’t come close to matching the 10-year average personal savings rate of 9.63 percent in 1981.

“The 1980s were famous for many things…mullets, parachute pants, fluorescent colors and building your own dynasty, thanks to high interest savings account rates of 14 percent or more,” says Richard Barrington, personal finance expert at MoneyRates.com and author of the poll analysis. “These days, successful saving, amid measly bank rates below 1 percent, means following a new set of rules.”

Barrington’s analysis shows just how big a barrier today’s interest rates are to savers. According to Federal Reserve data, 3-month CD rates were above 14 percent in early 1981. Those same CD rates were well below 1 percent in the first quarter of 2011. Savings account interest rates and money market rates have suffered similar declines. Lower interest rates require individuals to save a far larger share of income to accumulate the same amount of wealth.

Barrington proposes a new set of rules for retirement planning:

1 – Saving more to make up for weak growth

2 – Keeping expectations low – calculating savings plans assuming today’s modest rates and factoring in diminished stock market expectations

3 – Building savings into a monthly budget

4 – Heeding tough lessons learned by the last generation – remaining frugal to get ahead in good times when rates are high, in anticipation of rates heading south again

5 – Carefully selecting the best savings account by life stage and comparing high interest savings account rates online

For more analysis and details of Barrington’s recommendations for retirement saving, read “CD rates up to 14 percent: How to save like it’s 1981” at SavingsAccounts.com.

About SavingsAccounts.com

For over a decade, SavingsAccounts.com has been a leading consumer resource helping people quickly and easily discover the best rates on savings accounts, money market accounts and certificates of deposit (CDs). With daily rate updates, no-nonsense savings advice and in-depth bank information, the site has been featured at Forbes.com, MSNMoney.com, GetRichSlowly.org and FoxBusiness.com.

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Columbus, OH (PRWEB) February 2, 2007

With the holidays now over, thoughts are turning to vacation savings, travel deals and time in the sun and sand.

Huntington has just made saving for those leisure hours easier with a high yield online savings account that can be established and accessed easily. The account offers:

    High yield savings account rate: 5.30% APY

    $ 1,000 minimum opening balance

    ATM Card

    Easy application at Directhuntington.com

“Huntington is offering customers a high yield online savings account to make saving easier for a vacation, retirement or everyday money management,” said Mary Navarro, senior executive vice president of retail and commercial banking at Huntington Bank. “With Anywhere Savings, customers simply visit Directhuntington.com where they apply online for the account. At Huntington, we are committed to making banking convenient for our customers.”

Saving for that long-awaited golf vacation, second honeymoon or European vacation is even easier with high yield savings accounts at DirectHuntington.com that feature online banking, electronic statements and electronic money transfer.

About Huntington

Huntington Bancshares Incorporated is a $ 36 billion regional bank holding company headquartered in Columbus, Ohio. Through its affiliated companies, Huntington has been providing a full range of financial services including checking, loans, savings, insurance and investment services to customers for 141 years. Huntington also offers retail and commercial financial services online at huntington.com; through its technologically advanced, 24-hour telephone bank; and through its network of almost 1,000 ATMs.

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Oh, and… http://www.youtube.com/TheMatt7000 will be getting this printer. Why? Because instead of whining and complaining, he… actually asked if he could have it. I thought: “Why not?” And so, it’ll be on its way to Matt soon.

Let that be a lesson to you pancakes.

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