GPO Cartels
​Risking Innovation, Inflating Cost, Killing Patients
"...GPOs are buying exclusivity at the risk of innovation, at the risk of cost, at the risk of lives of patients,”
Makan Delrahim, Former Assistant Attorney General, United States.
"Big GPO shareholder facilities stick with their GPOs because they and/or their executives get share backs aka patronage fees,"
Phillip Zweig, Journalist & Author, 2021 Healthcare Person of the Year 
Group Purchasing Oligopoly
​The Fleecing of US Healthcare
We have a symbiosis of sleazy Group Purchasing Organizations sharks masquerading a step-above the law, touting “value” and “savings”, while all the while contributing to the fleecing of America through an organized pay-to-play racket.
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Drug Purchasing Cartels
​GPOs Fighting The Import of Cheaper Canadian Drugs
The drug industry has a lot to lose if drug importation is allowed because its prices in the United States could be dramatically reduced. And it’s going to fight any efforts to allow that to happen.​
Intensivists At Night
Putting Resources In The Right Place
Management by intensivists has become a quality indicator for many ICUs and many institutions have hired full-time intensivists for both day and night coverage in the ICU. 
End of Fee for Service
Really?
​​Regardless of all the payment reform talk, fee-for-service is not going away soon.
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Portes Tournantes Hospitaliers
The Readmissions Cycle
​​​Nearly 1in 5 Medicare patients returned to the hospital within a month of discharge, with an estimated 1 in 8 avoidable.