Comments on: “Publicly Available” Is Not the Same as “Free” http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/2008/08/25/publicly-available-is-not-the-same-as-free/ "Know Your Vendor" -- the pulse of vendor management Wed, 18 Aug 2010 13:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Don Sizemore http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/2008/08/25/publicly-available-is-not-the-same-as-free/#comment-795 Don Sizemore Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:08:16 +0000 http://vendorcompliance.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-795 I did not see any explanation of understanding or solutions in the blog. Surely the writer can see that there is a problem with charging so many reps and companies for so many hospitals. There will be a collaborative effort to work toward a solution and I suggest that Vendormate get on the bandwagon. We are not opposed to your company or the services it charges for, only the repetitive cost that could prevent us from doing business. I did not see any explanation of understanding or solutions in the blog. Surely the writer can see that there is a problem with charging so many reps and companies for so many hospitals. There will be a collaborative effort to work toward a solution and I suggest that Vendormate get on the bandwagon. We are not opposed to your company or the services it charges for, only the repetitive cost that could prevent us from doing business.

]]> By: David Campbell, PhD http://vendorcompliance.vendormate.com/2008/08/25/publicly-available-is-not-the-same-as-free/#comment-786 David Campbell, PhD Thu, 28 Aug 2008 22:38:40 +0000 http://vendorcompliance.wordpress.com/?p=115#comment-786 The writer seems to have the "cart before the horse" with regard to HHS/OIG Alert look ups as part of Vendor Credentialing. Certainly a hospital would not want to conduct business with a company on these lists and supposedly the hospital has done its due diligence, and shouldered its responsibilities in the past, as vendors (one by one) were chosen for a business relationship and added to Accounts Payable. For new relationships (which don't come along in "train loads"), once a new product has past review by hospital committees and the supplier is being vetted for issues such as this, there is merely ONE company to look up, and practically zero expense to do so, since government makes the information availalble. To check up on any and all potential companies, in advance, is simply idiotic. Similar to checking the SSN of all potential employees in the US in advance of a recruitment effort to fill a position, instead of using the E-Verify program once you have a candidate in hand. Hospitals should not expect business partners to cover their own lack of attention to responsibilities over time, on someone else's dime. David Campbell, PhD Chairman of the Board Independent Medical Distributors Assn. The writer seems to have the “cart before the horse” with regard to HHS/OIG Alert look ups as part of Vendor Credentialing. Certainly a hospital would not want to conduct business with a company on these lists and supposedly the hospital has done its due diligence, and shouldered its responsibilities in the past, as vendors (one by one) were chosen for a business relationship and added to Accounts Payable.

For new relationships (which don’t come along in “train loads”), once a new product has past review by hospital committees and the supplier is being vetted for issues such as this, there is merely ONE company to look up, and practically zero expense to do so, since government makes the information availalble.

To check up on any and all potential companies, in advance, is simply idiotic. Similar to checking the SSN of all potential employees in the US in advance of a recruitment effort to fill a position, instead of using the E-Verify program once you have a candidate in hand.

Hospitals should not expect business partners to cover their own lack of attention to responsibilities over time, on someone else’s dime.

David Campbell, PhD
Chairman of the Board
Independent Medical Distributors Assn.

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