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HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG)

7 published pieces mention HealthTrust Purchasing Group (HPG), newest first. Each links to the full analysis.

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A Bon Secours Mercy affiliate is buying Surgery Partners, a HealthTrust member. Bon Secours runs its own GPO.

October 28, 2026 · for subscribers

On October 26, 2026, HealthSpan Partners, an affiliate of Bon Secours Mercy Health, agreed to buy Surgery Partners for an enterprise value of about $5.7 billion and take it private. Surgery Partners runs 178 surgical facilities in 30 states, and its own procurement page names its group purchasing organization: "our GPO, HealthTrust." Bon Secours Mercy runs its own GPO, Advantus Health Partners. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.

The Big Three GPOs Compared

October 18, 2026 · for subscribers

Editor's note, from GPO Intel: contributed by a member of the GPO Intel expert network and published as written. The author advises a private equity firm; the views are his own.

Analyzing GPO awards season after Premier's Breakthroughs: Vizient rewrote its award criteria, and Premier rewarded pricing predictability

October 14, 2026

Premier closed GPO awards season at Breakthroughs 26 on October 8, its first as a private company, giving its Trailblazer Award for a GPO supplier to Stryker for helping "enhance pricing predictability for members." Two weeks earlier, Vizient rewrote what its supplier awards are for, adding supply chain resiliency and non-acute care to the criteria. And in Vizient's 2024, 2025 and 2026 awards, no category went to the same supplier two years running.

Nineteen of the twenty-two jobs managing a supplier's GPO relationship sit on the supplier side

October 4, 2026

GPO Intel can read the job boards of 24 of the 254 GPOs, distributors, manufacturers and health systems it tracks, once health systems are set aside. Across those 24, twenty-two open jobs exist to manage the commercial relationship between a supplier and a group purchasing organization. Nineteen are at suppliers. The GPOs and their affiliates have 343 open roles between them and three of these. Computed October 4, 2026, from 397 open requisitions.

Ed Jones joins RoundTable. Six GPO chiefs have left since 2015; none returned to the GPO world

September 20, 2026 · for subscribers

Six GPO chief executives have left since 2015. From public records: none returned to the GPO world, and none to a health system. The three with a public next role went to private equity, public company boards, and government, then advisory work. Two have no public next role on record; the sixth appears on LinkedIn as founder of an AI startup and an operating advisor to a technology firm.

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