A chargeback can be defined as healthcare distributor debit memos to
manufacturers. They are used when a vendor establishes a special price
for a specific item during a specific period of time for qualified
institutions, and the item is supplied out of the healthcare distributor’s
regular inventory. Since the healthcare distributor purchases the item
at the regular price, chargebacks provide a mechanism by which the
vendor can reimburse the healthcare distributor for the different between
the healthcare distributor’s current product cost at invoice date or
sale to the hospital and the special or contract price.
HDMA's eCommerce Task Force, with the assistance of the Contracts and Chargebacks Working Group, recently published updated EDI guidelines for the contract administration and chargeback process. (June 2008)
Committees/Taskforce
Publications
2009-2010 HDMA Factbook
 Order the 2009-2010 HDMA Factbook for analyses, trends and easy-to-use demographic and benchmarking data on contracts and chargebacks. The Factbook includes information on manufacturers' contracts profile, distributors' chargeback profile and the total administration costs of contracts and chargebacks.
View the 2008-2009 HDMA Factbook Table of Contents
Contract & Chargeback Administration Guidelines for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI)
HDMA’s eCommerce Task Force (eCTF) developed three new implementation guidelines for the 845 Price Authorization Acknowledgement/Status Bid Award/Change Notification, 844 Product Transfer Account Adjustment Chargeback Notification and 849 Response to Transfer Account Adjustment Chargeback Reconciliation electronic data interchange (EDI) transaction sets.
Streamlining the Contract
Administration Process
Contact
Marjorie DePuy
Director, Industry Relations
703-885-0283
mdepuy@hdmanet.org |
