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What is a GPO?
A group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that helps healthcare providers — such as hospitals, nursing homes 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. Find out why our GPO members are valued partners in healthcare.
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What Is CHeS?
The Committee for Healthcare eStandards (CHeS) was formed in 2000 as a collaborative of organizations dedicated to promoting the adoption and use of open data standards in the healthcare industry. In 2008, CHeS joined and became part of HSCA, continuing its role as a leading advocate for the promotion of data standards within the healthcare supply chain.
Issues
From generic drug prices to cybersecurity, from drug shortages to global standards, GPOs are working to help ensure that hospitals and other healthcare providers can deliver uninterrupted, high-quality care to the patients they serve.
Resources
GPOs are the sourcing and purchasing partners to American healthcare providers and deliver critical cost savings to hospitals, Medicare and Medicaid, and taxpayers.
Events
Since 1990, HSCA has evolved into one of the industry’s most influential health care policy & advocacy organizations. HSCA’s educational events continue that evolution by providing insight into the health care industry’s newest and most challenging issues. Through nationally recognized faculty and industry experts, these health care issues are reviewed and analyzed in ‘real time’ based on our member’s ‘real needs’.
100+
National, Regional, and Local GPOs that Compete to Serve Hospitals
7000+
Hospitals That Use a GPO
$55 Billion
Dollars Saved By GPOs Every Year
1910
First GPO Founded in the U.S.
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ANALYSIS: GPOs Helped Increase Domestic Manufacturing Capacity, Protected Hospitals and Patients from Thousands of Fraudulent Sellers, and Helped Identify and Bring New Suppliers to Market to Avert Supply and Drug Shortages During COVID-19
HSCA Releases Issue Brief Detailing Learnings and Best Practices from...
HSCA Support Letter to the House Committee on Energy & Commerce on House Passage of FDA User Fee Reauthorizations
On behalf of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), which represents the...
HSCA Comments to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on the PREVENT Pandemics Act
On behalf of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), which represents the...
