Procure-to-Pay Outlook for Health Systems for 2024
Health systems face a constant challenge: ensuring efficient and cost-effective operations while maintaining the highest quality of care for patients. At the heart of this challenge lies the procure-to-pay (P2P) process, a critical component of supply chain management and cash flow. Procure-to-pay transformed to adapt post-pandemic, driven by technology and the healthcare supply chain’s growing […]
How to Create a Culture Prioritizing Work-Life Balance
How do you increase your team’s productivity while decreasing burnout? Studies continue to show that leaders who prioritize a work-life balance achieve an increase in productivity by an average of 13 percent. But how do you accomplish this? 5 Ways to Create a Culture that Prioritizes Work-Life Balance Promote Flexibility Creating flexibility acknowledges the diverse […]
Centralized AP vs Decentralized AP at your Healthcare System
Does your health system operate a centralized Accounts Payable (AP) department or run decentralized departments and systems? Is your current structure effective and efficient, or is money being leaked through your AP operations? Understanding how your health system’s AP operates and the benefit of different operating models is essential to decision-making. It takes AP one […]
5 Accounts Payable (AP) Benefits of a Recovery Audit
Account Payable (AP) gets the “short end of the stick” in health systems’ procure to pay (P2P) process. AP is often left resolving exceptions, rushing last-minute payment requests, and struggling to keep the hospital off vendor credit hold. AP corrects upstream P2P mistakes, resulting in more work and backlogs and reducing efficiency. However, many AP […]
Taking on Healthcare’s Greatest Challenges in 2023
Nonprofit health systems and hospitals will take years to recover from the effects the pandemic has on their labor force, cash flow, and supplies. In fact, high labor and supply costs are adding unprecedented debt to hospitals leaving one health system reporting their debt as high as $6.34 billion in December 2022. However, 2023 is […]
How to Increase your Health System’s Spend Visibility (Spend Visibility Part 3)
To truly reap the benefits of spend data, health systems must take action to clean and structure all procure to pay (P2P) data. Follow the steps outlined below to gain true visibility at your hospital. [blockquote author=”” link=”” target=”_blank”] Read Parts One and Two of our spend visibility series now to discover the benefits […]
Is your Health System Achieving Clear Spend Visibility? (Spend Visibility Part 2)
Insight into spend visibility is essential for decision-making within finance and supply chain in health systems. Clear spend visibility provides information for leaders to make supply decisions, evaluate their procure to pay processes and gain insight into usage and product waste. The benefits of spend visibility are endless, but health systems and hospitals struggling to […]