GPO hearing details
Executive Summary
Senate Judiciary/Antitrust Subcommittee is understood to be looking at April 30 as date for hearing on group purchasing organization practices. Witnesses are likely to include GPO executives (possibly Novation and Premier). General Accounting Office plans to submit preliminary findings from study of GPO practices. Primary focus of hearings is complaints by small medical device manufacturers about contracting practices, but investigations have spilled over to the pharmaceutical side (11"The Pink Sheet" April 1, p. 6)...