Would you perform a procedure on a patient before validating eligibility for reimbursement? Of course you wouldn’t. Then why not follow this same validation for your supplies? By relying on your item master content as your source of truth, the right supply cannot be validated before purchase. And as you struggle to control costs through value analysis and standardization, you typically turn to the item master as the baseline source for data but unfortunately this ‘source of truth’ isn’t always so truthful.
