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Physicians Against Drug Shortages is a patient advocacy group whose goal is to end drug shortages via reform of the hospital group purchasing (GPO) industry.

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#drugshortages #GPOs #PBMs #RepealSafeHarbor If you care about drug shortages/patients read stunning comment to FDA about Premier& Novation(Vizient) kickbacks by Anne Jarrett, RPh MS/fmr drug purchaser NC's Wake Forest Baptist Hosp. YOUR BLOOD WILL BOIL! https://t.co/SwbGrTaFcB

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Can't believe Pfizer is hosting this meeting, which is backed by Vizient (formerly Novation), largest #GPO, which caused #DrugShortages:https://t.co/LCFUv9mPV5)

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Why #Drugshortages don't end? See @SenSchumer berating Antitrust colleagues Herb Kohl(D-WI)&Mike DeWine(R-OH)4 holding last(3/15/06) of 4 hearings on GPO abuses.They drafted bipartisan bill to REPEAL unsafe AKS safe harbor,Schumer killed it for @GNYHA $$$: https://t.co/JokYMi0C1K

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WATCH "Drug Shortages: The Movie!":https://t.co/ZxbfHjpzlE on how 3 giant hospital group purchasing (GPOs) cartels---@VizientInc @PremierHA @HealthTrustpg caused chronic generic #drugshortages & inflated supply costs by est. $90-$100BB/yr--& how we can stop them!
@MartyMakary

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Outraged that @HouseCommerce still kicking #drugshortages can down road w/useless bills, hearings like 6/10.No excuses @BrettGuthrie @RepDianaDeGette @FrankPallone.U attended hearing 9/23/11 when savvy Rep.Shimkus (R-IL) nailed the #GPO cartels w/ right question. @RepBuddyCarter

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Congrats to @MartyMakary on Senate confirmation as FDA commissioner! Read his 11/13/18 JAMA piece on how #GPOs caused #drugshortages & inflated hc costs. In 2019 book THE PRICE WE PAY, he called for repealing the unsafe GPO safe harbor to end shortages

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Jehoshaphat Research
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OUR NEW SHORT: PINC We are short Premier Inc. $PINC, a $2bn business services stock in the health care sector (a Group Purchasing Organization, or GPO)

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Jehoshaphat Research
@JehoshaphatRsch

OUR NEW SHORT: PINC We are short Premier Inc. $PINC, a $2bn business services stock in the health care sector (a Group Purchasing Organization, or GPO)

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KUDOs to @Sandoz_Global for calling a spade a shovel in #drugshortages report pointing the finger at the culprits:monopolistic hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs)::https://t.co/JmSPLP96so @SecBecerra @DrCaliff_FDA @BrookingsInst @SenFinance @JusticeATR
@neeratanden

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@ASCO @AdriannaUSAT I read USAToday article. U & reporter R clueless about cause of #drugshortages. Do your homework before regurgitating bad info:https://t.co/5g0Fuh5MsM. @DrCaliff_FDA @USATODAY

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@medicine_maker Shout out to @USPharmacopeia SVP @AnthonyLakavage 4 courageously speaking the truth on "intermediaries" (aka GPOs) as cause of #drugshortages: https://t.co/xsFHrUddA9. See Graf#3 of his intro to USP's OFFICIAL line submitted to @SenateFinance for 12/5/23 hearing.

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@medicine_maker Why don't you ask @USPharmacopeia 1) what they think of the @FTC /@HHSGov investigation into the role of the "Big Three" GPOs @VizientInc @HealthTrustpg & @PremierHA in causing #drugshortages & 2) what USP gets from @Vizient in return for its "collaboration?"

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@KoontzOncology We beg to differ @RepLarryBucshon. Pharma/HC supply chain=RIGGED mkt, NOT free mkt, created by 3 huge buying cartels, aka group purchasing orgs (GPOs): @VizientInc @PremierHA & @HealthTrustpg . They caused #drugshortages by selling sole-source contracts to highest bidders.

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@UrologyUS That bill wud just kick-the-can-down-the-road again. Bipartisan 2005 bill drafted by Sens Kohl (D-WI)& DeWine (R-OH), who held 4 Senate Antitrust hearings on group purchasing abuses bet 2002-06. Wud have repealed unsafe 1987 Antikickback safe harbor, prevented crisis.

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@01StefanSchmidt @FiercePharma Sorry to inform you but USP is on the WRONG side of #drugshortages issue. It's "collaborating" w/Vizient, largest group purchasing org (GPO), whose anticompetitive contracting/pricing practices,self-dealing,conflicts of interest caused decades-long fiasco:https://t.co/Uy2kg71IQA

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@UpScriptHealth Your founder may be a good guy, but he doesn't have a clue about #drugshortages. Read the 2/14/24 announcement by FTC/HHS on their joint investigation into the role of hospital group purchasing orgs (GPOs) & their big distributor partners in causing this decades long fiasco.

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Led by Minn Atty Gen Keith Ellison, 7 state AGs+DC AG lambast GPOs & "Big 3" distributors 4 causing #drugshortages:https://t.co/38nvF3YVeY. Comments posted in response to FTC/HHS Request4info (RFI) on role of GPOs, distributors in causing scandal. Way to go AGs. Lock 'em up!

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@KoontzOncology If YOU really care about drug shortages, then comment to FTC & HHS, which on 2/14 announced joint probe into role of hospital group purchasing organizations (GPOs) and their big distributor partners in causing crisis. Deadline: Thursday, May 30.https://https://t.co/8VAlEd8YRm.

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@ASHPOfficial If U really care bout #drugshortages then comment in response to RFI by @FTC & @HHSGov which announced 2/14 probe into role of hospital group purchasing orgs #GPOs @VizientInc @PremierHA @HealthTrustpg
& big distributors in causing crisis.Deadline: 5/30.https://t.co/Rn3d4RvWOs.