Tips to Reduce Payment Errors and Improve Process in Accounts Payable

John Weiss, Jr.

TAG, Inc.

• CEO and founder of TAG, Inc.; TAG was one of the first companies to provide AP recovery audits to hospitals and health care systems and today is one of the only companies still committed exclusively to improving health care accounts payable and supply chain practices and processes
• TAG has more than 30 years of health care specific auditing experience in procurement-to-payment processes
• A pioneer in auditing health care payment systems back when vendor payments were primarily manual, he saw the movement of health care payment systems to incorporate complex ERP processes; TAG’s technological capabilities continue evolving to analyze ERP systems to uncover errors leading to financial loss within health care provider organizations
• TAG is a national health care consulting company producing guaranteed, measurable results for its clients by recovering funds disbursed in error and recommending corrective actions; today, TAG provides a variety of project-based and continuous consulting services exclusively committed to large, complex health care organization throughout the U.S.
• Has spoken at seminars and workshops through industry organizations like Association of Health Care Internal Auditors (AHIA), Association of Human Resource and Materials Management (AHRMM), and the Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA) Compliance Institute
• Has written for several industry publications; articles include "Identifying Supply Chain Disbursement Errors and Reducing Waste" for Healthcare Financial Management Association (HFMA) Healthcare Cost Containment magazine, October 2013, and the HFMA St. Louis Chapter newsletter
• TAG has sponsored memberships in HFMA, AHRMM, and AHIA
• Graduate coursework in business management, University of MO-Columbia; B.A. degrees in history and political science, Southeast Missouri State University; executive business leadership seminars sponsored by Entrepreneurs’ Organization and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Can be contacted at 636-536-6333 or johnw@theauditgroup.com