Reuse

Red Flag: Devices are reported with no retail dollar value.

If a number of AT devices is reported, there must be an associated retail price greater than zero. AT devices cannot be reported/acquired and no savings realized. If the device actually has no retail value, then it should be given away and not reported at all.

Red Flag: Average retail price per device is very low.

Look carefully at the total number of devices and retail price. If average retail price per device is very low ($1–$2), make sure the devices are really AT and not “consumables” or supplies.

Red Flag: Too many devices per recipient, or recipient always equals device number.

Look carefully at the total number of devices per recipient. While one person can have multiple AT devices reported, it is highly unusual for one recipient to have more than two to three devices acquired, especially multiple devices in the same AT type as those are typically reported as a group. Any one AT type device total that is larger than the total number of recipients should be investigated.

In addition, when overall reuse numbers get really large (2000 and more), it is a little worrisome when the device total and recipient total is identical as this suggests that perhaps the AT device is the core record and the associated recipient data could be duplicative. If one recipient acquires three devices but each are reported as separate reuse events, then that recipient is duplicated three times and they would need to provide three separate performance measures, which is not consistent with APR directions. This should have been reported as one reuse event with three devices and one performance measure.

Last updated January 2023