60% Cost Reduction & a Full-Service Solution for a Local Dental Practice

The Situation

When we first walked into this dental office, they were paying $400 per quarter to a national medical waste hauler — for a single box that they openly admitted they didn’t always fill before pickup. They were locked into a rigid schedule, paying for capacity they didn’t need, and no one had ever sat down with them to ask what their actual volume looked like.

Like many small dental practices, they had signed a contract years earlier and simply renewed it. They assumed the price was just what it cost. It wasn’t.

The Audit

We did what we always do: walked the office, talked to the team, and looked at what they were actually generating. Within a few minutes it was clear they were on the wrong service tier entirely. Their waste volume called for a different container size and a less frequent pickup schedule — both of which cost significantly less.

We also noticed two other things their current hauler had completely ignored: they had confidential patient documents with no shredding plan in place, and they were purchasing sharps containers from a retail supplier at a premium.

What We Did

• Right-sized their medical waste service — matched container size and pickup frequency to their actual generation volume
• Cut their quarterly cost by 60% — from $400 down to a fraction of what they had been paying, with no lapse in compliance
• Added document destruction (shredding) — their patient files and EOBs were being disposed of without a proper chain-of-custody; we put a HIPAA-compliant shredding program in place
• Supplied sharps containers — we now sell and service their sharps containers directly, eliminating the retail markup they had been paying

Why This Happens So Often

National medical waste haulers are built for volume. Their contracts, pricing tiers, and service schedules are designed around large hospitals and multi-location health systems — not a 3-operatory dental office with one small sharps box every quarter. Small practices end up paying large-practice prices.

When you work with MedWaste Solution, we start by understanding your actual workflow. We don’t fit you into a pre-packaged tier. We build a program around what you generate, when you need pickup, and what compliance requirements apply to your specific practice type.

Serving Dental Practices Across Illinois and the Midwest

We work with dental offices, oral surgery centers, orthodontic practices, and dental schools across Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Kentucky. Whether you have one location or ten, we can build a program that keeps you compliant and keeps costs in line.

Services available to dental practices include:

• Medical and regulated waste pickup and disposal
• Sharps container supply, exchange, and disposal
• HIPAA-compliant document shredding and destruction
• Pharmaceutical and controlled substance waste disposal
• Staff compliance training (OSHA, HIPAA, Bloodborne Pathogens)