Group purchasing organizations (GPOs) help healthcare providers—such as hospitals, nursing homes, surgery centers and clinics, and home health agencies—realize savings and efficiencies by aggregating purchasing volume and using that leverage to negotiate discounts with manufacturers, distributors and other vendors.
GPOs also save hospitals all of the legal and contracting work with hundreds of different vendors. GPOs provide long-term relations with best-in-class suppliers and offer additional value-added services such as analyzing procurement data, revenue management, consulting and e-commerce solutions.
Consolidation and affiliation in the group purchasing industry remains a main strategy for growth. Recent activities included:
- Capstone announced a partnership with North Carolina Healthcare Association Strategic Partners (NCHASP), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the North Carolina Healthcare Association (NCHA).
- Health Resource Services (HRS) announced that they will partner with Premier.
- HealthTrust acquired ROi with more than 100 GPO members, as well as 250 hospitals and 2,800 non-acute facilities at the time of the acquisition.
- Vizient signed an agreement under which it will acquire Intalere from Intermountain Healthcare. Vizient also acquired health care consulting firm Soriant to extend the capabilities of its Purchased Services solutions.
- Premier acquired Acurity, Inc. and Nexera, Inc., two indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of the Greater New York Hospital Association (GNYHA). Premier also acquired Conductiv (formerly known as Medpricer) to optimize healthcare provider savings across purchased services contracts.
- Asembia and Walgreens announced a new group purchasing organization contracting solution.
- Kroger and Walgreens recently created a GPO called the Retail Procurement Alliance.
AMI’s GPOs 2021 Annual Review, 130+ pages, offers comprehensive intelligence on the leading group purchasing organizations, grouping the market into National GPOs, Pharmacy/Oncology GPOs, Physician GPOs, and Long-Term Care GPOs. AMI’s report also provides background on the market.
Each company profile includes: company background, corporate strategy, top executives, financial/investor information, programs and services, and recent activities.
The report’s Table of Contents:
- GPO Background – pgs. 5-6
National GPO Profiles – pgs. 7-64
- Capstone Health Alliance – pgs. 8-10
- CHAMPS Group Purchasing/Oncology – pgs. 11- 14
- Children’s Hospital Association – pgs. 15- 17
- Commonwealth Purchasing Group – pgs. 18- 19
- Community Health Ventures – pgs. 20-21
- Defense Logistics Agency – pgs. 22-23
- HGP Group – pgs. 24-25
- Health Resource Services – pgs. 26-27
- HealthTrust Purchasing Group/ROi – pgs. 28-32
- HPS – pgs. 33-35
- Intalere/Vizient – pgs. 36- 39
- MAGNET Group – pgs. 40-41
- PDM Healthcare – pgs. 42-43
- Premier Inc. – pgs. 44-51
- TPC – pgs. 52-53
- Veira Medical Group – pgs. 54-55
- VHA Procurement and Logistics – pgs. 56-57
- Vizient Inc./Provista – pgs. 58-62
- Yankee Alliance – pgs. 63-64
Pharmacy/Oncology GPO Profiles – 65-97
- American Associated Pharmacies – pgs. 66-67
- AmerisourceBergen (ION/IPN/INN) – pgs. 68-71
- Ascent Health Services LLC – pgs. 72-73
- Asembia – pgs. 74-75
- Cardinal Health/VitalSource GPO – pgs. 76-77
- Civica Rx – pgs. 78-79
- Cornerstone Specialty Network – pgs. 80-81
- CVS Health/Zinc Health Services – pgs. 82-83
- Evernorth CuraScript SD/Matrix GPO – pgs. 84-86
- Independent Pharmacy Cooperative – pg. 87
- McKesson Specialty Health (Onmark/Unity GPO) – pgs. 88-91
- MMCAP Infuse – pgs. 92-94
- National Cancer Care Alliance – pg. 95
- PBA Health – pg. 96
- Retail Procurement Alliance – pg. 97
Physician GPO Profiles – pgs. 98-114
- Afaxys GPO – pgs. 99-100
- Blood Centers of America – pgs. 101-103
- CCPA Purchasing Partners – pgs. 104-105
- Healthcare Procurement Solutions, LLC – pg. 106
- MediGroup – The Specialty GPO – pgs. 107-109
- MedResults Network – pg. 110
- Physicians’ Alliance of America – pgs. 111-112
- ViaCentric – pgs. 113-114
LTC GPO Profiles – pgs. 115-132
- Care Purchasing Services LLC – pg. 116
- Ceres Purchasing Solutions – pg. 117
- Forum Purchasing – pgs. 118-119
- GeriMed – pgs. 120-122
- HPSI – pgs. 123-124
- Link-age – pgs. 125-126
- MHA – pgs. 127-129
- PRIME Services, Inc. – pgs. 130-131
- Prime Source GPO – pg. 132