Premier, Inc. enters sole-source pacts with Mallinckrodt, Berlex, DuPont.
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
PREMIER, INC. SOLE-SOURCE IMAGING FILM, CONTRAST MEDIA CONTRACTS will provide at least $100 mil. in first-year savings for hospital participants in the health care alliance's purchasing program. Deals signed within the last several weeks with Mallinckrodt, Berlex Laboratories, and Sterling Diagnostic Imaging (formerly the DuPont Diagnostic Imaging business) "represent combined savings of at least 20% of the projected $500 mil., first-year savings" expected for participants in the newly formed purchasing program of Premier, Inc., the company resulting from the merger of American Healthcare Systems, Premier Healthcare Alliance and The SunHealth Alliance.