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Tier earned against tier on for three agreements: the whole arithmetic on one page

The complete tier gap and utilisation calculation on three health system agreements, small enough to check by hand: each agreement's tier thresholds and the tier the customer is priced on, the trailing year's volume from the invoice lines, the tier that volume earns, the price difference per unit between the two tiers times the volume, contracted categories against categories actually bought, the agreement inside its renegotiation window with no activity, and the identity that revenue under agreements plus off-agreement equals the ledger, so a reader can reproduce every figure and then run it on their own agreement register.

The short answerThree agreements with tiered pricing: tier thresholds by annual volume, the tier each customer is on, and the trailing year's volume from the invoice lines. One system has grown past tier one's threshold and is still priced at tier two: the difference per unit times the volume is $180,000 a year it is overpaying and will raise at renegotiation. One GPO agreement is on tier one with tier two's volume: $40,000 a year underpriced. One system buys four of twelve contracted categories. Two agreements are inside their renegotiation windows; one has no logged activity. Revenue under the three plus off-agreement revenue equals the ledger. Every number can be reproduced by hand.

Tier earned against tier on is a threshold lookup and a multiplication, and on three agreements it can be done by hand with the utilisation and the window. This page works the tiers, the gap, utilisation, the renegotiation window and the identity.

The agreements

Agreement Customer Type Tier thresholds, annual units Tier on Price per unit by tier Categories contracted End date Window Activity in window
AG-1 System S-1 System T1 ≥ 100,000; T2 50,000 to 99,999; T3 < 50,000 T2 T1 $38; T2 $40; T3 $43 12 30 Jun 2027 12 months: from 1 Jul 2026 None
AG-2 GPO G-3 GPO T1 ≥ 200,000; T2 < 200,000 T1 T1 $36; T2 $38 11 31 Mar 2027 9 months: from 1 Jul 2026 Yes: meeting 4 Sep
AG-3 System S-7 System T1 ≥ 30,000; T2 < 30,000 T2 T1 $39; T2 $41 8 31 Dec 2027 12 months: from 1 Jan 2027 Not yet in window

The volume and the tier earned

From invoice lines, trailing twelve months, on the contracted categories:

Agreement Volume Tier earned Tier on Gap
AG-1 90,000 → 112,000 this year T1 T2 Customer overpaying
AG-2 180,000 T2 T1 Customer underpaying
AG-3 27,000 T2 T2 None

The tier gap in dollars

Gap = (price on tier on − price on tier earned) × volume

Agreement Per unit Volume Annual
AG-1 40 − 38 = $2 overpaid 112,000 $224,000 the customer will raise
AG-2 36 − 38 = −$2 underpaid 180,000 $360,000 the supplier is giving away against its own tiers

Utilisation

Agreement Contracted categories Categories bought Utilisation Revenue
AG-1 12 4 33% $4.1m
AG-2 11 10 91% $6.5m
AG-3 8 7 88% $1.1m

The window and the list

Agreement In window? Activity List
AG-1 Yes, since 1 Jul None Renegotiate now: tier gap against the supplier, four of twelve categories
AG-2 Yes Meeting 4 Sep In progress; the tier question is the supplier's to raise or not
AG-3 From 1 Jan Calendar

The identity

Ledger revenue on the facilities under these three agreements and on unmapped facilities: $12.4m.

Σ agreements = 4.1 + 6.5 + 1.1 = $11.7m; off-agreement = $0.7m; total = $12.4m. Holds.

The $0.7m off-agreement is two facilities buying at list with no mapping, listed.

Where it goes wrong, even at three

Tier on read as the tier. AG-1's system raises $224,000 at the table and the supplier learns it there.

Utilisation not computed. AG-1 renegotiated as a twelve-category agreement; eight of them are theoretical.

Activity not logged against the agreement. AG-1's account manager may have met the system; the register cannot say.

Off-agreement dropped. $0.7m of list-price revenue nobody owns.

From three to three hundred

The same threshold lookup, gap, utilisation and window per agreement, every month. Covirage runs it on the agreement register, the invoice lines and the activities. The agreement expiry calendar guide covers the measure, and the price compliance guide covers the tier errors that show up on invoice lines first.

Questions people ask

Which tier applies at renegotiation?

The one the volume earns. A customer priced at tier two on tier one's volume knows it, or its supply chain team will find it, and the renegotiation starts there. A customer on a better tier than it earns is a conversation the supplier chooses whether to have.

What is utilisation of an agreement?

Contracted categories with purchases over contracted categories. An agreement covering twelve categories where the facilities buy four is renegotiated on four; the other eight are a compliance question or a scope to drop, and the shape of the next agreement.

Why does the identity include off-agreement revenue?

Because revenue on a facility mapped to no agreement, or to an expired one, is a finding: purchases at list, or an agreement running on without a signature. The three agreements' revenue plus off-agreement equals the ledger, and the off-agreement figure is listed.