Alanda CMS Reporting Gut Check System
Alanda software prides itself on continually improving our client’s transparency reporting experience. As a company who has participated year after year in CMS Open Payment submissions, we can attest to the fact that CMS Validation rules are a significant pain point for many pharmaceutical companies each reporting period. Alanda identified this as an area where we could provide our clients with a significant advantage prior to submissions.
Our team of experts utilized the resources provided by CMS that outline their specific and sometimes intricate, reporting requirements to identify specific scenarios that knowingly lead to validation errors. Alanda was able to configure one of our own platforms as a mimic of the CMS Open Payments requirements, dedicated to identifying these issues in advance of the CMS submission process. This allows our clients to pre-emptively receive insight into potential errors.
Our system aids in identifying missing required fields, incorrect values, data coherency errors, and more. For example, our Gut Check system helps find invalid HCP taxonomies and allows for updates to be made in advance, ensures only approved values are being used in specific fields like Nature of Payment, we even go as far as monitoring field length requirements where applicable. After providing our clients with the information they need regarding what will be flagged by CMS’s Validation engine, we then aid clients directly in resolving those errors prior to their submission.
Alanda has been able to greatly improve our client’s reporting experience with the free usage of our Gut Check solution. They cannot only identify but resolve these issues ahead of time allowing for a smoother upload of Spend into CMS, for Sunshine Act reporting.
We are continuously making improvements to this system as the CMS user experience itself undergoes changes. Fields are added, rules are changed, and new errors arise each year. Alanda ensures our clients will have the best experience possible by monitoring these changes and incorporating them into our tools. The Gut Check System, as we refer to it, is just one of many features Alanda has to offer.
Gut Check is a free platform, as a courtesy for all our CMS reporting clients. For more information about our products and services contact us at [email protected].
