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Premier, Inc.

10 published pieces mention Premier, Inc., newest first. Each links to the full analysis.

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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.

Vizient's supplier awards land Tuesday night; Premier's Breakthroughs moves to October, its first as a private company

September 20, 2026 · for subscribers

Vizient meets in Las Vegas from Tuesday; its supplier awards are Tuesday night, and last year the release followed the next morning with Baxter and Philips taking two awards each. Premier meets outside Washington on October 6, its first Breakthroughs since going private. Below: the day-by-day announcement schedule for both, last year's winners, and the suppliers that win at more than one GPO.

Premier and the Alliant lawsuits: where the record stands

September 18, 2026 · for subscribers

Two federal cases and an arbitration, all on hold while the parties negotiate. The next report to the court is due by November 30. Here is what has been decided, what has not, and what each side has said.

What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept

August 18, 2026 · for subscribers

Teardown #7 — What Premier Actually Sold, and What It Kept > The agreement that priced the divestiture was never sealed and never fought over. It has been on EDGAR since June 2023, and it answers questions the litigation only gestures at: what was sold, who sold it, what was deliberately left behind — and the multiple that priced it. ## The document nobody read

The Escape Hatch: The Clause That Lets a Sponsor Walk Around Its Own GPO

August 18, 2026 · for subscribers

Teardown #1 — The Escape Hatch: The Clause That Lets a Sponsor Walk Around Its Own GPO > Somewhere in your files is an agreement you signed with a GPO, and you believe you know what it lets you do. Alliant's 2024 agreement contains a clause that would surprise most people who hold that belief: a documented right to compete against the network it's contracted with, triggered by the sponsor's own judgment about price. Here is the clause, word by word — including the part previously thought to be sealed, which isn't. The claim, up front. Section 3.5 of the 2024 NHH sponsor participation agreement — the template Alliant signed in January 2024, and the template at the center of both lawsuits — carries a heading most people in the industry would not expect to find in a GPO contract: "Member's Right to Source." It provides that, notwithstanding anything else in the agreement, and even where a supplier maintains a one-GPO policy, when a Premier program contract "is not materially competitive, with respect to pricing as related to purchasing volume, (as determined by Member)," the sponsor may source, negotiate, and enter its own supplier agreement — a "Member Supplier GPO Agreement." Inside a contract otherwise built to bind the sponsor tightly, §3.5 preserves a documented right to compete against the network the sponsor is contracted with.

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