establishing Lawson items for items to be charged to a patient

Can you provide the reasoning for why a Lawson item # needs to be established for all items charged to a patient (if this is a requirement)?

We have discussed this issue frequently and I'm not yet convinced there is an actual need for this, but I'd like to hear what other options might be available.

A good deal of time is spent creating items that are only used once or very, very rarely and I can't seem to understand why it's necessary.

Thanks,

Gretchen

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unknown

We experienced this at the hospital system. Typically we only created items #s after we performed tests on how frequent a special item was ordered. Even if the item was above the ordering threshold, we would create the item as a non-stock item. Otherwise, the facility would just continue to order it as a special item.

2011-10-27_CH-Stammtisch_2.pdf

gtesche

Even for items used in your OR?

todd-brown

For us, since we do not have contract management, you have to have a Lawson item number to be on a price agreement

gtesche

But if you were using CM, you might be able to avoid establishing a Lawson item #? That might be all the motivation we need.

unknown

If I can recall correctly, we always created new parts for the OR. Our billing team needed new #s to tie HCPCS, UNSPSC and charge codes to the part.

todd-brown

That was my next point, is for us too, we have to have a CDM attached to an item to send to our Patient Accounting system. So I guess it depends on what other downstream systems need that item number.

gtesche

But if that item were in CM, couldn't that reqline/PO line as a special type be sent to your downstream systems using the vendor catalog #?

todd-brown

Dont know on that one

unknown

I'm really curious since we're just setting up with Infor and we're still in the early stages But why is setting up a number for patient billing that time consuming in Lawson? It isn't real difficult under our current system. It takes a few minutes to do. Or is your situation related to how many items that fall under the billing criteria? Or is the situation as I suspect is the case , that Lawson has too many steps to complete a item creation?

gtesche

We have an OR buyer that spends 3/4 of their time setting up new items, and it doesn't leave much time for dealing with buyer functions. It's not one item, it's setting up ALL the items they use.

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