Kroger and Walgreens expanding their relationship to compete against larger companies
Premier Focused on Purchased Services Savings with Medpricer Acquisition
Capstone Health Alliance (Capstone) represents over $9 billion in acute care supply chain spend. In 2018, Capstone’s member impact exceeded $50 million in savings and value delivered through its contract portfolio of over 700 agreements. Purchased services and strategic sourcing efforts offer Capstone members new savings opportunities and the organization continued to make great progress […]
HealthTrust recently announced the signing of a definitive agreement with Resource Optimization & Innovation (ROi) to assume ownership and operations of the company. ROi has been a provider-operated group purchasing organization (GPO) and accountable for the supply chain organization of Mercy, one of the nation’s largest Catholic health systems. ROi delivers a range of cost […]
HealthTrust recently selected OptumRx as its exclusive pharmacy care services partner for its member organizations. OptumRx and HealthTrust, through its CoreTrust division, will partner to deliver transparent pharmacy benefit solutions intended to support better health outcomes, improved consumer experiences and lower costs. OptumRx will provide custom programs, tools and mobile technology that will improve how […]
Vizient Launches Next Generation eCommerce Exchange Growing trends in group healthcare group purchasing/procurement include hospitals and health systems creating new supply chain management organizations and new market entrants developing procurement platforms to make purchasing of healthcare and pharmaceutical products easier and more cost-efficient. Vizient, Inc., the largest member-driven health care performance improvement company in the […]