Hospitals Bypassing GPOs To Form Sole-Source Deals – Ethicist Hanson
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
The move to multi-source group purchasing organization contracts has not completely resolved anti-competition issues with vendors, according to Kirk Hanson, executive director of Markkule Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University
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