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Vizient’s private label spans more than 14,000 line items. The antitrust case that ended on October 5 never examined it.Vizient's Novaplus private label spans more than 14,000 line items across 130 contracts. The antitrust case that ended on October 5 was told the label competes with the suppliers VLitigationMembershipFees & economicsCoreTrust added members for fifteen months and none of them were spending membersCoreTrust's homepage carried two member counts side by side for fifteen months: total members and spending members.Contracts & awardsMembershipSubscribersYankee Alliance is winding down. Neither it nor Pandion has named a destination for the acute membership.Yankee Alliance announced a planned wind down on September 29, 2026. Members and services move to "new strategic partnerships" from January 1, 2027, and the release does not name aM&ALeadershipMembershipSubscribersPandion bought Yankee's non-acute business ten weeks after raising money to buy things. It is Yankee's second sale in two years.Pandion Optimization Alliance has agreed to acquire Yankee Alliance's non acute affiliate business. Pandion announced a multi hundred million dollar commitment for acquisitions tenM&AMembershipNon-acuteSubscribersHSCA names HPS's Michelle Pleiness board chair, succeeding Capstone's Tim BuggHSCA, the GPO industry's Washington trade association, named Michelle Pleiness of HPS its board chair on September 14. She replaces Tim Bugg of Capstone Health Alliance. The changeLeadershipMembership