Healthcare procurement software for long term care and ambulatory care
Multi-facility long term care and ambulatory groups negotiate good pricing, then lose it when each location buys its own way. ProcureDesk enforces your approval limits at the request, steers buying to contracted suppliers, and codes every dollar to facility and cost center.
Who this is for, and who it isn’t
Healthcare software is a crowded shelf, and most of it solves a clinical problem. Here’s the line, before you spend time on a demo.
✓Built for you if
- You run a multi-facility group of 3 to 30 locations: skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care, surgery centers, urgent care, physician groups or dialysis
- Your finance team is a controller and a few accounting staff, supporting facilities that each buy their own way
- You belong to a GPO or hold negotiated vendor contracts, and you can’t say how much of your spend follows them
- Administrators, directors of nursing, office managers and facility leads order supplies, food and repairs without a PO
- Your accounting sits in QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, NetSuite or Business Central
- You couldn’t produce cost per facility by department for last quarter without a week in spreadsheets
—Look elsewhere if
- You run a hospital or health system and need clinical supply chain or materials management. That’s a different category with its own vendors
- You need pharmacy or drug purchasing tools. We don’t handle formulary management or drug ordering
- You want an EHR, billing or revenue cycle product. We never touch clinical records or claims
- You need surgical preference cards and implant tracking for cases in the OR
- You operate one facility with a short vendor list. The controls here are more than you need
You negotiated the pricing, and no system makes anyone use it
Most multi-facility groups have a GPO agreement and a few regional vendor deals, and few have anything that stops a facility from buying somewhere else.
Contract pricing leaks at the facility
GPO contracts are voluntary to use. An administrator or office manager can order briefs, gloves or paper goods from whoever answers first, and the contracted price stays in a PDF while the facility pays list.
Approval limits live in text messages
Your policy says larger purchases need a regional sign-off. In practice a text or a hallway nod counts. When the invoice arrives, the work is done and the approval is hard to find.
Cost per facility gets rebuilt at month-end
HVAC repair, food service and nursing supplies land in one account. Finance splits them by hand, so cost per facility and cost per resident day arrive late. Cost report season turns into a reclassification project.
Local work, no rate comparison
HVAC, plumbing and repair vendors serve one city, so every facility finds its own. Nobody sees what the Dayton location pays next to what the Columbus location pays for the same job.
Four controls decide whether your pricing holds across facilities
Private healthcare operators don’t buy against a federal threshold ladder, so your controls come from your GPO agreements, your own approval policy and your chart of accounts. Each one only works if something enforces it at the request.
| Control | Who sets it | What goes wrong without a system | What ProcureDesk holds |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPO and vendor contract pricing | Your GPO, or agreements you negotiated | Contracts are voluntary to use, so facilities buy off contract | Contracted catalogs at agreed pricing. One-off vendors go through the approval path you set |
| Internal approval limits | Your policy, by amount, facility, department and category | Approval by text message, found again at audit | Limits applied at the request. Approval attached to the PO |
| Cost center coding | Your chart of accounts. For Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities, also the annual cost report | Splits rebuilt by hand at month-end | Facility, department and cost center captured at the request and posted to your accounting system |
| Local vendor selection | Facility leads, with regional input | Each location sources its own HVAC, plumbing and repair vendors | Quotes attached to the request so a buyer can compare rates across locations |
GPO membership is voluntary, and members are free to buy off contract (source: Healthcare Supply Chain Association FAQ). Medicare-certified skilled nursing facilities file an annual cost report that breaks costs out by cost center (source: CMS cost reports). ProcureDesk applies the rules you define and keeps the record. It doesn’t interpret regulations for you, and your auditor or reimbursement advisor decides what satisfies a cost report.
Which reporting rules touch you depends on how you’re paid
Cost coding helps every operator, and how strictly it applies depends on whether you file a cost report.
| Facility type | Cost report requirement | What governs your purchasing |
|---|---|---|
| Medicare-certified skilled nursing | Annual Medicare cost report (Form CMS-2540), and in some states a Medicaid cost report too | Your approval policy, GPO and vendor contracts, and cost center mapping |
| Dialysis facilities | Renal facility cost report (Form CMS-265) | Your approval policy and vendor contracts, with costs tracked by cost center |
| Assisted living and memory care | Usually none, since most aren’t Medicare-certified. Medicaid waiver and state licensing rules vary | Your approval policy, GPO agreements, and owner or lender reporting |
| Surgery centers, urgent care, physician groups | No institutional cost report | Your approval policy, vendor contracts, and per-location budgets |
Source for the cost report forms: CMS cost reports.
Enforce the contract and the approval limit at the request, not at month-end
You set the approval limits, preferred suppliers and cost centers your policy uses. ProcureDesk applies them before a vendor is contacted.
The limit and the supplier are checked before the spend
Facility staff raise a request from a desktop or phone with facility, department and cost center attached. Below your facility limit it clears. Above it, the request routes to a regional approver or to finance. Items from contracted catalogs move straight through. A one-off vendor follows the approval path you set, with quotes attached for local work like HVAC or plumbing repair.
The PO carries the paperwork
Quotes, scope and approval attach to the purchase order and stay with it. PO history is organized by vendor and facility, so you can see what each location pays the same supplier for the same job.
Coded once, posted by facility
Invoices match against the PO and the receipt. Approved lines post by facility, department and cost center to QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, NetSuite or Business Central, so facility P&Ls and cost reports start from the same record.
Facility, department and cost center, captured at the request
Most systems make you code at the invoice, which means someone rebuilds the split weeks after the work happened. ProcureDesk captures it at the request, so every dollar carries its facility, department, cost center and GL account before a vendor is contacted.
- Split one invoice at the line across facilities, departments and cost centers
- Capital and operating flagged separately, so equipment purchases stay out of facility operating costs
- Management company and central office costs kept distinct from facility costs
- Each line posts to the location it belongs to
What a lean finance team supporting many locations actually needs
Everything here assumes a small finance team, a long list of facilities, and buyers who aren’t procurement people.
Approval limits
Set the tiers your policy uses. Each request routes by amount, facility, department or budget owner, so the right person approves before the PO goes out.
Facility and department coding
Facility, department, cost center and GL captured at the request and split at the line on the invoice.
Contracted catalogs
200+ punchout catalogs, including Medline, McKesson, Henry Schein, Cardinal Health and Grainger, at your contracted pricing, with facility and cost center attached to the order.
Quotes and vendor history
Quotes attach to the request and stay with the PO. Spend by vendor and facility shows what each location pays the same supplier.
Automated invoice matching
Match to the PO and receipt. AP reviews exceptions and duplicates, not every invoice.
Inventory and restocking
Track supplies on hand by location and restock from your contracted catalogs.
Mobile requests
Facility staff raise a request from the floor: item, vendor, facility, done. Quick enough that busy staff use it.
SOC 2 and full audit trail
Every request, approval, change and payment timestamped and attributed, searchable by facility, department, vendor or period.
What finance teams see after switching
Beside your EHR and your GPO, on the business side
Four systems, four jobs. Knowing which one you need saves everybody a call.
Your EHR and practice management system
PointClickCare, MatrixCare, athenahealth, NextGen and the like. Clinical records, scheduling, census and billing. Stays exactly as it is.
Your GPO and clinical supply portals
Contracts, negotiated pricing and the distributor ordering sites. We make sure your facilities buy at the pricing your GPO negotiated.
ProcureDesk
Requests, approval limits, POs, receiving, invoice matching and cost center coding for everything the business side buys, plus the invoices that follow.
Your accounting system
QuickBooks, Sage Intacct, NetSuite, Business Central or Xero. We sync natively, two-way, and post the approved, coded result there.
One platform, from request to payment
How much of your spend is approved before it happens?
Answer nine questions on pre-approval, PO coverage, approval automation and month-end close. See where uncontrolled spend is hiding and what to fix first.
Take the 3-minute scorecardSee what manual AP is costing you
Enter your monthly invoice volume, minutes per invoice and AP hourly cost. You get the annual cost of processing invoices by hand, and what that looks like automated.
- Invoices per month
- Minutes per invoice
- AP hourly cost
- Annual spend
Healthcare procurement, answered
Does ProcureDesk replace our EHR or practice management system?
No. PointClickCare, MatrixCare, athenahealth, NextGen and similar systems stay exactly as they are for clinical records, scheduling, census and billing. ProcureDesk sits on the purchasing and AP side and posts the approved, coded result to your accounting system.
Can ProcureDesk enforce our GPO contract pricing?
Your GPO still negotiates the pricing. ProcureDesk steers buying to your contracted suppliers through punchout and internal catalogs, and sends one-off vendors through the approval path you set. Punchout catalogs return the pricing tied to your supplier account, so contracted pricing appears when the supplier has your GPO terms on that account.
Can we set different approval limits by facility and department?
Yes. You define tiers by amount, facility, department, category or budget owner. Each request routes to the right approver before a PO is issued, and the approval stays attached to the record.
Does ProcureDesk prepare our Medicare cost report?
No. ProcureDesk captures facility, department and cost center at the request so your spend arrives already coded, and your accounting team or reimbursement advisor builds the report from your accounting system.
Can one invoice be split across facilities and departments?
Yes. A single invoice splits at the line across facilities, departments, cost centers and GL accounts, with capital and operating flagged separately. Each line posts to the location it belongs to.
Does it work for surgery centers, urgent care, physician groups and dialysis, or only long term care?
It works for any multi-location healthcare group that buys supplies, services and equipment on the business side: long term care and assisted living, surgery centers, urgent care, physician groups and dialysis. It doesn’t cover surgical preference cards, implant tracking or drug purchasing.
Does ProcureDesk handle pharmacy or formulary purchasing?
No. Drug ordering and formulary management belong in pharmacy systems. ProcureDesk covers facility maintenance, food service, housekeeping, office and medical supplies, service vendors and capital purchases.
Which accounting systems do you integrate with?
Native two-way sync with QuickBooks (Online, Desktop and Enterprise), Sage Intacct including dimensions and locations, NetSuite, Microsoft Business Central and Xero, plus Bill.com for payments.
Will facility staff use it without training?
Requests are built for people who don’t work in finance. Staff pick an item from a catalog or describe what they need, attach facility and department, and submit from a desktop or the mobile app.
Who is this built for, and who should look elsewhere?
It fits multi-facility healthcare groups of roughly 3 to 30 locations in long term care, assisted living, surgery centers, urgent care, physician groups and dialysis. If you run a hospital system, need clinical supply chain or pharmacy purchasing, or operate a single facility, ProcureDesk isn’t the right fit, and we’ll say so on the call.
How long does implementation take?
2 to 3 weeks. ProcureDesk builds your approval workflows, accounting integration and supplier catalogs from your spec. Your team tests; you don’t configure.
See it on your facilities.
A 30-minute walkthrough mapped to your locations: your facilities, your approval limits, your GPO suppliers and your accounting system. Bring last quarter’s off-contract purchases and we’ll show you where they would have stopped.
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