Secure Waste has provided medical waste management and disposal for over 25 years. Learn from our extensive expert knowledge of medical waste disposal; we can give you some insights on huge medical waste savings tips, including sharps needles and biomedical waste. Medical waste management and disposal can be costly. With disposal costs predicted to increase sharply based on population and healthcare services, many doctors’ offices and other medical facilities are looking for ways to reduce medical waste disposal costs.
1. Contract– Want to SAVE Money on medical waste disposal? Don’t sign a contract! Probably the most argumentative practice is long-term contracts. Not just any contract but a special contract used to lock in customers, seemingly forever.
These contracts developed by the larger service providers are so one-sided that they always find themselves in court across multiple States. 12, 24, sometimes even 60 months with hidden automatic renewal and any time price increases for you, the consumer, when you hear a contract, scratch that biohazard disposal company off your list.
2. Waste-Broker– Don’t use a company that subcontracts your medical waste to someone else! Sub-work and using sub-contractors for disposal of your biomedical waste services is a no-go. We are a true full-service Regulated Waste Management Company serving Maryland, Virginia, and Washington D.C. Secure Waste has its permitted trucks and drivers. It is licensed, bonded, and insured across several States to service our customers’ biohazard waste and sharps needles management.
In today’s crazy & sometimes not very transparent regulated medical waste market, there are a handful of waste brokers marketing waste disposal services across the country. These brokers act as if they are personally working in your neighborhood. Waste-broker you ask? Yes, someone who is not even in the area selling services and sub-contracting your waste disposal to the lowest bidder – And the actual work is done by whom? And who is really permitted in this scenario.
3. Pick-Up Frequency – Consider if the service schedule is appropriate for your needs. Could you save money by cutting down on frequency of service by having fewer medical waste pickups? Secure Waste has multiple service schedules for pickups. We can do bi-weekly, monthly, will-call PRN and one time pickups.
Secure Waste is also very flexible to adjust schedule to your needs without any additional cost. Sometimes a new practice may start as will-call, but will move to monthly when there business in picks up. Secure Waste is here to help and will remain flexible with you with no additional cost to you.
4. Clinical Biohazard Waste Classification – Secure Waste is here to help ensure your staff is properly recognizing and segregating medical waste. It is crucial for not only saving your practice money, but protecting the environment and your staff from health issues and penalties and fines.
There are several categories for medical waste in, each needing special handling and disposal, in addition different waste classes can be transported and treated for final disposal at different facility’s some with lower cost for sharps medical waste disposal. Some waste classes are more expensive than others, have a Secure Waste expert help you today for proper segregating and disposal of your infectious waste and sharps needle disposal.
5. Special Pollution Insurance – Secure Waste is fully permitted in Richmond Virginia and carries all the proper insurance to handle your special medical waste. Our insurance properly covers your practice and your medical waste and can protect you case your medical waste was involved in an environmental situation while in route to a biohazard processing facility.
6. No Hidden Fees – First, Sign up, monthly & hidden fees. First – With Secure Waste, we do not have any sign up fees or monthly fees, for that matter we have no hidden fees at all. For us this seems strange & counterproductive for expert medical waste services all the while saving you money.
Example: Let’s say you sign up today with a new disposal service provider – But the new company wants to “charge you” to sign up, for what? Handling a few documents and entering your information into the computer. Secondly – We have seen some companies charge a set-up fee, like to drop off the medical waste supplies. Secure Waste will drop off your waste disposal supplies the next time we are in your area, for free – That’s our job.
If you need those supplies right away – We will Fed-Ex them to your front door, no extra charge for that either – Secure Waste has you covered!
In closing hope these expert tips for saving on medical waste disposal offered some insights. If you would like a free quote for medical waste disposal near you, or maybe even sharps or biohazard management. Contact Secure Waste today and start saving tomorrow.
