Group Purchasing Organizations (GPO) for Health Care Providers: Federal Oversight and Self-Regulation

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By Linda T. Kohn (au)
Year: 2012
Pages: 18
Binding Paperback
ISBN 978-1-4578-3311-3

Product Code: 1457833115

Description

Hospitals and other health care providers have faced pressures to address rising health care costs. They have increasingly relied on purchasing intermediaries known as GPO. The GPO, on behalf of their customers, negotiate contracts for products and services with vendors. Vendors pay fees to GPO, known as äóìcontract admin. fees,äó which are based on a percentage of the costs of the products that GPO customers purchase through GPO-negotiated contracts. GPO formed a GPO membership assoc., the Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative (HGPII), in 2005. This report describes the oversight of GPO, incl.: (1) oversight of GPO since 2004 by goväó»t agencies; and (2) GPO self-regulation through HGPII. A print on demand report.

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