Stop GPO Kickbacks is a coalition of patients, physicians, healthcare workers, device manufacturers, distributors, and concerned citizens committed to returning true competition to the marketplace and ensuring an efficient effective healthcare system through repeal of the GPO safe harbor.

Latest Developments

Putting the Bite on Hospitals
An ex-employee’s lawsuit describes payola and pressure by a North Texas medical-supply giant.
Fort Worth Weekly
By Pablo Lastra
October 4, 2007

Novation ex-worker files suit alleging kickbacks; Irving firm says claims 'without merit'
The Dallas Morning News
By Jason Roberson
September 22, 2007

What the Experts Are Saying
"Most troubling is that some GPOs are funded by suppliers rather than solely by hospitals. The fees that suppliers pay, which would normally be considered illegal kickbacks, are allowed by the 1986 amendment to the Social Security Act. Thus, buying groups may serve the interests of the suppliers that provide their funding, not providers, thereby undermining value-based competition. While the extent of this bias is contested, the potential for conflict of interest is indisputable. to enable value-based competition, every buying group...should voluntarily pay for it. "

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By Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg

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