2. Novation is owned by VHA Inc.
and University HealthSystem Consortium. Its total
includes contracted purchasing volume for supplies
and services for VHA, UHC and Provista LLC.
3. MedAssets’ annual purchasing
volume was derived from the organization's initial
public offering filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and reflects 2008 data because
2009 data were unavailable for release at press
time.
5. Broadlane declined to
participate this year until a standard definition
for "annual purchasing volume" shared by all GPOs
is proposed, accepted and adopted. HPN ranked
Broadlane, based on a "guestimation" of past
performance coupled with a growth multiple. HPN
estimates Broadlane oversees $15 billion to $20
billion in unconfirmed annual purchasing volume,
which would place it in the third, fourth or fifth
ranking but we listed them fifth based on the fact
that the third- and fourth-ranked organizations
provided their results.
7/8. The U.S. Departments of
Defense and Veterans Affairs typically purchase
products via the same programs and suppliers so
they are ranked together but their annual
purchasing volumes are listed separately. The VA’s
volume was derived from a report by the VA’s
Office of Inspector General.
9. MAGNET declined to disclose its
annual purchasing volume, due to its proprietary
nature, but assisted HPN in ranking itself based
on the purchasing volume of the nearest
competitors. MAGNET offers the nation’s largest
capital equipment portfolio among the top GPOs.
Capital equipment represents 60 percent of its
contract portfolio.
