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Premier's strong performance | Shares up 17% on second day of trading

By Beth Kutscher | September 28, 2013 | Print Magazine

Premier's $760 million IPO—priced above the upper end of its expected range and trading strong out of the gate—shows investor confidence in its diversified array of services and expectations under healthcare reform.
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Seven N.J., Pa. systems form alliance to focus on population health management

By Beth Kutscher | September 19, 2013 | Basic Web

Seven systems that include 25 hospitals have formed an alliance to build expertise in population health management and capitalize on economies of scale without the complications of merging assets.
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Group blames GPOs for generic drug shortages

By Jaimy Lee | September 04, 2013

A small group of healthcare providers took to the op-ed pages of the New York Times to press their case that the business practices of group purchasing organizations are causing drug shortages.
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Strategic move | With IPO, Premier targets data analytics game plan

By Jaimy Lee | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine

Premier's planned IPO and reorganization is designed to boost its capacity to compete in the emerging data analytics and consulting market at a time when some systems are turning away from GPOs.
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Letting the sunshine in | CMS rolls out tools to make physician payments program work

By Shantanu Agrawal | August 31, 2013 | Print Magazine

Financial relationships between the healthcare industry and the clinical community are a prevalent aspect of the healthcare landscape. A common financial interaction, for example, is when a physician receives a fee for consulting with a pharmaceutical...
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Premier makes it official, files for IPO

By Jaimy Lee | August 26, 2013 | Basic Web

Premier, one of the nation's largest GPOs, filed for an initial public offering Monday, setting the company up to bring in new capital at a time when the hospital industry is under pressure to evolve.
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Web-exclusive: Suppliers see evolution in roles, influence

By Andis Robeznieks | August 24, 2013 | Print Magazine

Like insurance company executives, the leaders of big healthcare vendors, supply companies and group purchasing organizations are seeing their roles and the nature of their influence changing. And, naturally, the bigger the organization, the bigger their influence.
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Breaking the chain | Hospitals set supply cost-cutting targets, push physicians to change behavior

By Jaimy Lee | August 17, 2013 | Print Magazine

Facing declining revenue and reimbursement, hospital systems across the U.S. are making it a priority to sharply reduce spending on supplies including gloves, syringes and hip implants.
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CMS offers smartphone apps to track payments

By Rachel Landen | August 12, 2013 | Basic Web

With the Aug. 1 implementation of the Physician Payments Sunshine Act, the CMS has launched two mobile smartphone applications to help physicians, drug and medical-device manufacturers, and group purchasing organizations track payments and other transfers of value.
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Making the difference | Tavenner tells Women Leaders in Healthcare attendees they can help make reform work

By Beth Kutscher | August 10, 2013 | Print Magazine

With the complicated state health insurance exchanges going live in October, CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner has a lot to think about at the end of the day.
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