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A sample of medical transcription services request for proposal.

This Special Fraud Alert focuses on the specific attributes and practices of PODs that OIG believes produce substantial fraud and abuse risk and pose dangers to patient safety.

The Strategic Marketplace Initiative (SMI) is a consortium of healthcare supply chain executives united to re-engineer and advance the future of the healthcare supply chain. SMI has provided AHRMM with free supply chain industry resources. To access the resources, visit www.smisupplychain.com or click on the topic below. You will be prompted to register with SMI in order to access the free tools.

In 2001 the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published

As a Leading Practice, the AHRMM Board of Directors adopts that Supply Chain Services be fully integrated into high cost clinical services departments.

The Medical Device Excise Tax, a component of the Affordable Care Act, is approaching implementation at the beginning of 2013. The tax is intended to provide an estimated $20 billion in tax revenues to help pay for the expansion of health coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans. Healthcare supply chain leaders have until May 7, 2012, to comment on the way in which the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) intends to implement this new tax.

AHRMM supports the concept and use of Comparative Effectiveness Research (CER) to provide evidence-based data to help inform purchasing decisions. CER is designed to support healthcare decisions by providing objective conclusions after comparing the effectiveness, benefits, and potential harm of various medical equipment, devices, or treatment options for specific episodes of care or states of disease.   By using objective data provided by CER, healthcare supply chain professionals have the ability to:

Managing contract pricing more effectively—from creation to renewal or expiration—can deliver real operational and financial benefits for healthcare organizations. Yet because of its complexity, contract price management may be one of the most underutilized tools for maximizing cost savings in healthcare. Disparate information technology (IT) systems that do not share information and lack of widespread adoption of industry data standards for product and organizational/location identification all contribute to this complexity.