Contract management in healthcare
- Agreements in the repository
- 67
- Renewal dates a year at this term
- 67.0
- Calendar entries a year (renewal plus its notice date)
- 134.0
The numbers on this page come from the inputs you enter and the method stated: 30.44 days to a month, eight hours to a working day, and nothing else. Where a page quotes a federal figure it names the rule, and the rule is the source: the 5-year Medicare revalidation cycle in 42 CFR 424.515, the 3-year DMEPOS cycle in 42 CFR 424.57(g) and the 1 calendar year claim filing deadline in 42 CFR 424.44(a)(1).
Contract management in healthcare is not drafting. It is the year after signature: knowing which agreements you hold, what each one committed the organisation to, when the term ends, how many days of notice the other side requires and whether the practitioners named on it are still credentialed and enrolled. That work is a register and a diary, and it is what this site is about.
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Build the register
One row per agreement, with the counterparty, the term and the notice period. A register nobody can produce on request is the failure mode this whole discipline exists to prevent.
Work the diary backwards
The date that matters is not the renewal, it is the notice deadline in front of it. The worksheet computes how many days from signature that falls, so it can be diarised the day the agreement is signed.
Join it to the credential files
An agreement that names practitioners is only as good as their enrolments. Keeping both on one record means a lapsed credential surfaces against the contract it puts at risk.
Will it do what you need for Contract management in healthcare?
Tell us what your contracts and credential files live in today and where the dates get missed; a person who knows the work answers.
Contract management in healthcare: common questions
Who usually owns this work?
In a medical group it is often one contract manager or the practice administrator; in a health system it is a managed care or contracting team with credentialing beside it. Medcontra is priced for one organisation either way.
How often should the register be reviewed?
That is your organisation's decision, not ours. The worksheet tells you how many renewal dates a year your folder carries and how long a full pass takes, which is the input that decision needs.
Is this legal advice?
No. Medcontra records what your agreement says and when its dates fall. What a term ought to be, and whether a clause is enforceable, is for you and your counsel.