Six Best Practices for Managing CME Spend in Healthcare
This SAP Concur blog post outlines six best practices for managing Continuing Medical Education (CME) spend in healthcare organizations. These include creating a fair expense policy, using tools like TripLink and Budget for compliance, sending regular budget updates, establishing an audit plan, maintaining visibility into direct bookings, and simplifying expense reporting with mobile solutions. The article emphasizes automation and mobile tools to improve efficiency, reduce errors, and prevent fraud.
Impact and considerations
Managing CME spend is complex and error-prone; these practices help improve compliance, control costs, and reduce burden on finance teams.
Key points
- Create a clear and fair CME expense policy, involving healthcare providers in its development.
- Use tools like Concur TripLink, Budget, and Detect to ensure compliance and prevent fraud.
- Send regular budget balance updates to providers to avoid overspending.
- Establish an audit plan combining automated and human auditing to ensure expenses align with policy.
- Capture direct bookings via TripLink to maintain visibility and duty of care.
- Offer mobile expense reporting tools like ExpenseIt to simplify the process.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
- Other sources
- 0
- First source publication
- 3 Nov 2023, 20:00
- Page published
- 14 Aug 2026, 08:18
- Last updated
- 3 Nov 2023, 20:00
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog：Six Best Practices for Managing CME Spend Management in Healthcare (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 3 Nov 2023, 20:00