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Innovation, Competition Stifled By Hospital Group Purchasing Schemes

by David G. Imber, Freelance Writer | October 21, 2003
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WASHINGTON, September 29, 2003 Anticompetitive practices in the hospital
supply market by the nations largest "Group Purchasing Organizations"
(GPOs) threaten the quality of patient care by stifling medical innovation,
industry experts told a government inquiry last Friday.

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