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Group purchasing organizations = an undisclosed scandal in the U.S. healthcare industry /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Group purchasing organizations/ S. Prakash Sethi.
Reminder of title:	an undisclosed scandal in the U.S. healthcare industry /
Author:	Sethi, S. Prakash.
Published:	New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2009.,
Description:	xvi, 183 p. :ill. ; : 25 cm.;
Subject:	Medical supplies - Purchasing - United States. -
Online resource:	access to fulltext (Palgrave)
ISBN:	9780230621725

Group purchasing organizations = an undisclosed scandal in the U.S. healthcare industry /
Sethi, S. Prakash.

Group purchasing organizationsan undisclosed scandal in the U.S. healthcare industry /[electronic resource] :S. Prakash Sethi. - 1st ed. - New York, NY :Palgrave Macmillan,2009. - xvi, 183 p. :ill. ;25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-177) and index.

Healthcare industry in the United States -- Industry structure of group purchasing organizations -- Market dominance and anticompetitive conduct of GPOs -- Government created protections of theGPO industry : financial burden of GPO activities on the U.S. healthcare industry -- GPO activities, conflict of interest, and their adverse consequences for the healthcare providers -- Congressionaldeliberations of GPO operations -- Congressional drive towards regulatory reform -- The GPO industry's efforts in creating a voluntary code of conduct : the Hanson report -- Theoretical underpinningsfor creating effective industry-wide voluntary codes of conduct -- Healthcare group purchasing industry initiative (HGPII).

Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) are a massive subset of the healthcare industry that negotiate lower costs for healthcare supplies bybuying for several hospitals at once. Group PurchasingOrganizations provides an analysis and critique of this industry.

Electronic reproduction.
Basingstoke, England :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.

Mode of access:World Wide Web.

ISBN: 9780230621725

Standard No.: 10.1057/9780230621725doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

305092
Medical supplies
--Purchasing--United States.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

96803
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: RA971.33 / .S48 2009

Dewey Class. No.: 338.4/73621

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2009 G-075

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