Six Best Practices for Managing CME Spend in Healthcare
SAP Concur's blog provides six best practices for managing Continuing Medical Education (CME) spend in healthcare: create a fair expense policy, use tools to ease compliance, send regular budget balances, create an audit plan, maintain visibility even when bookings are outside the system, and simplify expense report filing. It notes that 45% of CME hotel bookings are made outside managed tools, emphasizing tools like Concur TripLink to capture direct bookings for compliance and spend tracking.
Impact and considerations
Provides specific strategies for CME spend management in healthcare, emphasizing tools and processes for compliance and cost control, practical for healthcare finance teams.
Key points
- A fair expense policy is foundational.
- Use tools like Concur TripLink to ease compliance.
- Send regular budget balances to avoid overspending.
- 45% of CME hotel bookings are made outside managed tools.
Sources and time
- Primary source
- SAP Concur
- Other sources
- 0
- First source publication
- 30 Jun 2025, 22:16
- Page published
- 13 Aug 2026, 08:32
- Last updated
- 30 Jun 2025, 22:16
- Original links
- SAP Concur Blog:Six Best Practices for Managing CME Spend in Healthcare (opens in a new tab)Primary source · en · Published 30 Jun 2025, 22:16