IDN INSIGHTS
BY DANIEL BEAIRD
Striking a Balance GPO partnerships with health systems, suppliers tackle inflationary pressures.
More than half of U.S. hospitals are
the billions of dollars, and rising expenses
president of strategic supplier engage-
projected to operate in the red through
for supplies and workforce are elevating
ment for Premier, told an audience at
2022, according to a report by Kaufman,
the pressures.
IDN Insights East in Philadelphia, hosted
Hall & Associates, LLC, and released
“Inflation’s leading to a lot of uncom-
by The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, this
by the American Hospital Association
fortable conversations between suppliers
fall. “We’re acutely aware of inflationary
(AHA) in September. The losses are in
and health systems,” Peter Aftosmes, vice
pressures due to all the data we have
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