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group purchasing organizations
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Journal Sentinel details public health investigation into tainted alcohol wipes
Last week we shared the story of how MSNBC.com reporter JoNel Aleccia uncovered the FDA’s failure to take action on…
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Trade group says conflicts negate GPOs’ leverage
A recent GAO report looked at group purchasing organizations and established that they were pervasive, and that they’d adopted some…
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GAO examines competition in hospital purchasing
Group purchasing organizations are intermediaries which theoretically group hospitals together to give them more leverage in purchasing negotiations. In 2009,…
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Higher health care costs, lack of safety innovations traced to group purchasing organizations
The Washington Monthly‘s Mariah Blake writes about the ins and outs of group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and their effect on…