Group Purchasing Organizations

1. Prologue*: Hearing of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy, and Consumer Rights
S. Prakash Sethi

2. Healthcare Industry in the United States
S. Prakash Sethi

3. Industry Structure of Group Purchasing Organizations
S. Prakash Sethi

4. Market Dominance and Anticompetitive Conduct of GPOs
S. Prakash Sethi

5. Government Created Protections of the GPO Industry: Financial Burden of GPO Activities on the U.S. Healthcare Industry
S. Prakash Sethi

6. GPO Activities, Conflict of Interest, and Their Adverse Consequences for the Healthcare Providers
S. Prakash Sethi

7. Congressional Deliberations of GPO Operations
S. Prakash Sethi

8. Congressional Drive toward Regulatory Reform
S. Prakash Sethi

9. The GPO Industry’s Efforts in Creating a Voluntary Code of Conduct: The Hanson Report
S. Prakash Sethi

10. Theoretical Underpinnings for Creating Effective Industry-wide Voluntary Codes of Conduct
S. Prakash Sethi

11. Healthcare Group Purchasing Industry Initiative (HGPII)
S. Prakash Sethi

12. Epilogue: A Whistleblower Files a Law Suit against Novation
S. Prakash Sethi

Keywords: Economics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice, Economic Policy, Business Ethics, Procurement