A group purchasing organization (GPO) is an entity that helps hospitals,   health systems, physician offices, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers realize savings and efficiencies by aggregating purchasing volume and using that leverage to negotiate discounts with manufacturers, suppliers and distributors.

AmeriNet
AmeriNet, founded in June 1986 as a "purchasing cooperative" by a consortium of regional purchasing organizations, has grown to become one of the nation's largest and most respected purchasing organizations.. In fact, AmeriNet is the largest membership based group purchasing organization (GPO) in the country.

At the close of the company's 1999-2000 fiscal year, AmeriNet and its three shareholder organizations: AmeriNet Central, Warrendale (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania; Intermountain Health Care, Inc., Salt Lake City, Utah; and Vector, Providence, Rhode Island, had a combined membership of 14,790 facilities located in all 50 states.

Broadlane
Broadlane began as the corporate procurement division of Tenet Healthcare, one of the nation's largest hospital companies. With our insider experience,  we have become an innovative leader in the industry, offering a comprehensive suite of supply chain management services. The bottom line? Better negotiating power, better contracts and bigger savings on the very best healthcare supplies.

By designing the right mix of services for each situation, Broadlane has helped hospitals across the country reduce their annual cost of supplies to less than 14 percent of net revenue - nearly half the industry average of 25 percent. That can mean millions of dollars in savings, going straight to the bottom line.

Comprehensive Medical Imaging (CMI)
Comprehensive Medical Imaging (CMI) is one of the nation's leading providers of medical imaging services. We offer high quality, outpatient diagnostic imaging, with a variety of modalities, through a network of owned, managed and affiliated centers.

Concentra
Concentra Health Services is focused on preventing workplace injuries, healing injured workers promptly and returning them to work safely. The result is better outcomes for all involved - employees, employers and payers.

The Concentra team includes primary care physicians, physical therapists, injury management experts, cost containment nurses, medical and vocational case managers, and preferred provider network professionals. Our clients include 3,900 insurance carriers and third party administrators and over 130,000 employers throughout the United States and Canada. Working with our clients we take a comprehensive approach to reducing costs of occupational health care - from pre-injury services to managing a difficult case through to successful resolution.

Consorta
Consorta, Inc, based in suburban Chicago, is a leading health care resource management and GPO, whose shareholders are Catholic-sponsored, faith-based or non-profit health systems. Formed in 1998 as a cooperative, Consorta's shareholders and participants share fully in the organization's bottom-line performance, as well as receiving significant discounts through scale purchasing economies.

Consorta is the third largest GPO in the nation in purchases per facility. Consorta's twelve shareholders operate more than half of all Catholic hospitals in the United States. The Consorta membership encompasses 320 acute care facilities representing nearly 50,000 beds and more than 800 alternate care providers.

MedAssets/HSCA
HSCA is a national healthcare group purchasing organization celebrating   more than 30 years of improving purchasing to improve healthcare. Because supplies are typically the second largest expense for most healthcare   organizations, our focus is cost-effective purchasing and efficient management of the supply distribution chain. Hospitals, health systems, physician  offices, nursing homes, and other healthcare providers become members of HSCA to take advantage of our solutions, services, and support.

InSight Health Services
InSight Health Services Corp. is the nation's leading provider of high technology diagnostic imaging and imaging-guided therapy services. InSight develops, operates, and manages freestanding imaging centers, hospital-based radiology services, and provides mobile magnetic resonance Imaging (MRI) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET) services. InSight provides services to more than 50,000 patients across the country each month.

Novation
Novation, the supply company of VHA and UHC manages more than $12 billion in annual purchases on behalf of more than 5,000 health care organizations - the largest volume in the industry. That strength has enabled Novation to forge superior agreements with the highest-quality supply partners, delivering significant value to VHA and UHC members.

Premier, Inc.
Premier is a leading healthcare alliance enterprise collectively owned by more than 200 independent not-for-profit hospitals and health systems in the United States. Together, they operate or are affiliated with more than 1,800 hospitals and other healthcare sites.

Premier's owners include some of the nation's largest and best-known not-for-profit hospital and healthcare systems and referral centers as well as strong community hospitals, generally mirroring the composition of the hospital/health system industry in the United States.

Radiologix, Inc.
Radiologix, Inc. (AMEX stock symbol RGX) is the leading provider of financial, technical, information and management services for radiology service networks. These networks consist of free-standing diagnostic imaging centers, other imaging locations and managed radiology practices. With 120 radiology centers in operation, Radiologix is one of the largest independent operators of free-standing radiology centers in the United States.

Radiology Partners, Inc. (RPI)
Radiology Partners, Inc., based in Tampa, Florida has over 1,400 clinic and physician practices as members, representing over 10,000 physicians in 36 states. The first national GPO designed specifically to meet the need of radiology facilities, RPI provides radiology practices and departments with discounted products and services. Recently, RPI has extended its membership to include hospitals, ultrasound clinics, and other medical specialty clinics.

Shared Services Healthcare
Shared Services Healthcare, Inc., is the largest regional group purchasing organization in the nation. Its core competency is the negotiation of purchasing and services contracts for a diverse membership of nearly a thousand healthcare providers.

The organization has carved a unique niche for itself in the southeast by remaining member-owned and with a non-profit mission for more than a quarter century. SSH's first priority is to assist healthcare facilities in total cost containment by providing aggressive, useful contracts to its members, who continue to guide the contract negotiation process through critical feedback on needs analysis and market acceptability.