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August 24, 2023

Choosing the Right Recovery-Audit Company for your Health System

How to Choose the Right Company to Perform Your Next Recovery Audit

Health systems and hospitals leak over $2B* annually – above the average annual hospital expenditure. While some leaked funds will be lost forever, healthcare leaders can partner with third-party companies to perform a diagnostic recovery audit and get up to 25 percent of the leaked funds back. Recovery audits are a vital tool for identifying and recovering this lost revenue. By systematically examining financial and operational data, recovery audits can help healthcare organizations identify errors and prevent future financial leakage. However, not all companies that perform recovery audits are created equal. When choosing a partner, consider several factors, including healthcare […]

April 14, 2023

Centralized AP vs Decentralized AP at Healthcare Systems - TAG Inc

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 step closer to obtaining a holistic view of its function, what it could improve upon, and where it already excels. What AP Structure is your Health System Using? Centralized AP A truly centralized AP exists when all AP functions and staff across all entities inside […]

February 27, 2023

Top 5 Benefits of a Recovery Audit for Accounts Payable at Health Systems

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 departments fail to use one of the most powerful tools available – today we will discuss the benefits of a recovery audit. Despite recovery audits often having a bad reputation, TAG’s Discovery Review complements AP and Supply Chain departments. We work as an extension of […]

October 18, 2020

Tips for Collecting Vendor Statements-TAG Inc - The Audit Group

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 to your organization. Periodic statement collection ensures you capture all available credits, preventing vendors from unauthorized use or escheatment to the state, and saving your AP team from time spent chasing unclaimed property. While the benefits of vendor statement collection are vast, health systems do […]

July 1, 2020

Press Release from TAG Inc - The Audit Group

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 the hardships COVID-19 has placed on healthcare providers, TAG dedicated all of its resources to providing free recovery audits – foregoing revenue from May 1, 2020, through June 30, 2020, for all participating health systems. “This has been the most rewarding venture we’ve done in […]

June 4, 2020

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 to the hardships COVID-19 places on healthcare providers, TAG is dedicating all of its resources to providing free recoveries, foregoing revenue from May 1, 2020, through June 30, 2020. \”We are in a fortunate position during these trying times, so I could not think of […]

May 22, 2020

Why Internal Auditing Should Utilize Recovery Audits - TAG Inc - The Audit Group

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 routinely lost millions each year from unnecessary and unmitigated financial risks. Hospitals rely largely on Internal Audit to help shore up these risks, but one department alone often cannot handle the overwhelming number of system-wide procedural repairs that need to be made. Generally, gaps that […]