Financial Operations Track
Financial Operations Track: Building a Transparent Supply Chain
Monday August 30, 2021 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Speaker: Brent Petty & Matt Putman
With the rise of patient consumerism and increasingly complex supply chains, the importance of price and product transparency for IDNs will only continue to grow. Once transparency is achieved, you can reap numerous benefits beyond better patient care, including improving your supply chain operations and mitigating disruptions. We’ll begin this session with a discussion on all aspects of the new price transparency rule followed by a presentation on improving your product transparency processes.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the growing importance of transparency in the healthcare supply chain.
- Analyze solutions to simplify the pricing transparency implementation process.
- Identify strategies to improve product transparency and reduce risk in the supply chain.

Full Name
Title
Director of Supply Chain Operations
Organization
UCHealth
Speaker Bio
Matt Putman serves as the Director of Supply Chain Operations for the Northern Colorado Market of UCHealth, which includes 4 hospitals. His oversight also includes the non-acute and medical clinic locations which totals over 400 locations. Having served in other roles within the UCHealth organization, Matt has been in Supply Chain for over 10 years. Originally from Nebraska he moved to Fort Collins in 2001. He graduated from Hastings College (NE) 2001 after enjoying an athletic career of playing football as a Tight End and competing on the track & field teams throwing Discus and Hammer. His undergraduate degrees were in Sports Medicine and English. In 2013, he graduated with an MBA from Colorado State University. Matt is currently working on completing an Educational Doctorate in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis in Healthcare Administration.