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ABOUT HSCA
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.
INDUSTRY LEADERSHIP
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.
INSIGHTS AND NEWS
Our Latest News
Comments of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA) on USTR Request for Comments on the Proposed Modification of Action Pursuant to Section 301
On behalf of the Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA), we appreciate the...
HSCA Applauds FDA for Releasing New Data to Enable Generic Competition
Washington, DC (June 19, 2019) – Healthcare Supply Chain Association (HSCA)...
New Analysis of U.S. Health Data Finds Healthcare Group Purchasing Organizations Save Healthcare System, Medicare and Medicaid, and Taxpayers Up to $34.1 Billion Annually
Analysis of CMS expenditure data finds that GPOs will reduce healthcare spending...
