5 Tips for Collecting Vendor Statements
Collecting your vendor statements is essential to holding healthcare vendors accountable and ensuring the accuracy of pricing, inventory, supplies, and services received. Reconciling vendor statements allows your Accounts Payable (AP) department to monitor accounts and prevent potential credit holds. Statement collection may be the only way to capture missed credits that were not correctly sent […]
TAG, Inc. Saved Healthcare Systems $6M+ in Two Month Pay-It-Forward Recovery Program
TAG, Inc., formerly The Audit Group, helped healthcare systems recoup over $6,000,000 during its two-month COVID-19 Pay-it-Forward Recovery Program. The program took place in May and June of 2020, providing Accounts Payable (AP) and contract recovery audits at no cost or obligation to healthcare systems and hospitals. What was the Pay-it-forward program? Due to […]
Press Release: TAG, Inc. Saved Healthcare Systems $4M first month of Pay-It-Forward Recovery Program
TAG, Inc., formerly The Audit Group, helped healthcare systems recoup over $4,000,000 during the first month of the COVID-19 Pay-it-Forward Recovery Program. The program runs through the end of June 2020 providing Accounts Payable (AP) and contract recovery audits at no cost or obligation to healthcare systems and hospitals. What is the Pay-it-forward program? Due […]
Sourcing as a Strategic Means for Monitoring Rebates
Can a missed rebate really affect your hospital? The answer is yes! One of our clients in the northeast nearly missed out on a rebate of $250,000, the equivalent of purchasing a new ultrasound machine, covering the salaries of 3 – 4 RNs, or buying a new mammography system. This client did not have an […]
How Internal Audit Can Utilize Recovery Audits to Assist with Financial Stability
Bulletproofing Hospital Finances amidst COVID-19 Since the COVID-19 outbreak, hospital revenues have dropped an estimated $1.4 billion per day, causing over 200,000 healthcare employees to be furloughed or laid off. Though revenue stability is reportedly increasing, it is unlikely that hospitals will see normalcy anytime in the near future. Even before the COVID-19 outbreak, hospitals […]
Press Release: TAG, Inc. Announces New Program with Free 60-Day Recovery Audits May 1 – June 30
SAINT LOUIS, MO / ACCESSWIRE / April 30, 2020 / TAG, Inc., a leader in Procure-to-Pay optimization announces a free program to ease the financial burden health systems are undergoing during the current COVID-19 pandemic. The Pay-It-Forward program will be offered for a period of 60-days to provide recovery audit services at no cost. \”This […]
Are You Ignoring the Dark Data in Your Procure-to-Pay Process?
90% of the data that your health system produces is dark data that never gets used. Think of the knowledge and insight that could be realized if your Supply Chain and AP departments utilized more than 10% of their data. You could gain insight into efficiencies, root causes of leaked funds, and process gaps. This […]