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Price leakage

Sourcing and Procurement

Definition

Price leakage is the gap between the contracted price for a product and the price the hospital actually pays. It accumulates transaction by transaction and is often invisible until a manual reconciliation surfaces the variance, by which point the spend has already happened.

Why it matters

What you don't see is costing you.

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