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So many people have fallen sick in California that pharmacies have run out of flu medicines, emergency rooms are packed, and the death toll is rising higher than in previous years. Tamiflu is nowhere to be found. Cases seem to be 10% above last year and climbing. Here is an interesting article showing the struggle …

Flu running rampant in California causing supply shortagesRead More

It’s never good when our industry is on the cover of The Wall Street Journal, and that is exactly what I found this Monday morning. The quote that really jumped out at me is: “It’s hard to overstate the public-health crisis,” said Craig Frost, vice president of clinical pharmacy services at Catholic Health Initiatives. “It’s …

Shortage of IV Bags continuesRead More

Thanks for reading this issue of National Accounts Weekly! Let me know what you think! You are now in the know! John Pritchard News@NationalAccountsWeekly.com P.S. You can follow us on twitter @NatAcctWeekly P.S.S.: Please forward this to your friends and colleagues. They can receive their own free subscription to National Accounts Weekly by clicking here.

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Wishing all of you a very happy holiday season! I hope everyone gets to spend time with family and loved ones! See you in 2018!

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays from all of us at Share Moving Media!Read More

This is the most common question I am asked! I have my thoughts on it but I thought I’d see what the readers of National Accounts Weekly think! So in a recent survey I asked: It is estimated that we have around 600 IDNs in the United States today. Mergers and acquisitions continue at a …

How many IDNs will we end up with?Read More

The Journal of Healthcare Contracting recently conducted a survey on National and Corporate Account Executives compensation plans in 2017. The results of this study allow you to compare compensation packages with peers in relation to the area of responsibility and job title. This report will show you average salary by: Title Area of responsibility (by …

2017 National and Corporate Account Executives compensation report now available!Read More

1. Gartner releases its Top 25 Healthcare Supply Chains Intermountain Healthcare tops Gartner’s 2017 Top 25 Healthcare Supply Chains for the second year in a row. Also finishing in the top 10 are: Mayo Foundation Mercy Cleveland Clinic This is a list that I look forward to reading every year. It measures the organizations on …

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UnitedHealth’s Optum unit will acquire the physician group from DaVita, a large for-profit chain of dialysis centers. Here are some of the numbers: -Purchase price of $4.9b -300 clinics in 6 states -Already own 250 Urgent Care Centers -Currently has 30,000 employed docs From a supply point of view this becomes very interesting. Should suppliers, …

Payer or Provider? Lines blur as United Health buys Physician GroupRead More

While not all device manufacturers authorize Amazon to distribute products, Amazon is frequently used by physicians to purchase supplies and devices, a CNBC report suggests. Here’s what you need to know: A CNBC survey to participating physicians indicated 34 percent are using Amazon to purchase medical and dental supplies. As the online retail giant begins …

34% of physicians use Amazon to purchase medical, dental suppliesRead More

Thanks for reading this issue of National Accounts Weekly! Let me know what you think! You are now, in the know! John Pritchard News@NationalAccountsWeekly.com P.S. You can follow us on twitter @NatAcctWeekly P.S.S.: Please forward this to your friends and colleagues. They can receive their own free subscription to National Accounts Weekly by clicking here.

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Jeff Petry now Managing Director, Life Science & Health Care at Deloitte Consulting Tom Emmerson is now V.P. Global Sales and Global World Wide Technology ShaJuan White joins HealthTrust as Sr. Manager Implementations

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You can hardly go five minutes reading a newspaper, surfing the internet or watching the news without hearing about Bitcoin and Blockchain. But have you heard how Blockchain could help Healthcare Contracting? Cardinal does a really nice job explaining how Blockchain might help us get to the panacea…the Smart Contract. But first, what is Blockchain? …

Understanding how Blockchain could help the Healthcare Supply ChainRead More

Last week I joined Mark Haddad, VP of Marketing for Definitive Healthcare, to discuss this crazy era of consolidation. You can now listen to the discussion in its entirety at the below link…for free! In this webinar I tried to answer the following: Why is consolidation happening? How many IDNs will we end up with …

IDN, GPO consolidation discussion now available on demandRead More

Healthcare Links is a best-in-class Corporate Accounts consulting firm run by partners Ken Murawski and Maria Hames. Both veteran and neophyte National Accounts Executives have to check out their list of the 10 biggest mistakes made in the contracting arena. Number 9 is my favorite! Always surprises me when people believe their pricing is a …

Top 10 mistakes in dealing with GPOs, IDNs, and RPCsRead More