“Hospital Group Purchasing: Lowering Costs at the Expense of Patient Health and Medical Innovation?”

April 23, 2002

NOTICE OF SUBCOMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition will hold a hearing on Tuesday, April 30, 2002, at 2:30 p.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building on "Hospital Group Purchasing: Lowering Costs at the Expense of Patient Health and Medical Innovation?"

Senator Kohl will preside.

By order of the Chairman

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Witness List

Hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary
Subcommittee on Antitrust, Business Rights and Competition
on

"Hospital Group Purchasing: Lowering Costs at the
Expense of Patient Health and Medical Innovations?"

Tuesday, April 30, 2002
2:30 p.m., SD 226

Ms. Trisha Barrett BSN
Assistant Director, Materiel Services
Value Analysis Facilitator
UCSF Medical Center
San Francisco, California

Mr. Lynn R. Detlor
Principal
GPO Concepts, Inc.
San Diego, California

Dr. Mitchell Goldstein
Neonatologist
Citrus Valley Medical Center
West Covina, California

Mr. Joe Kiani
President and Chief Executive Officer
Masimo Corporation
Irvine, California

Mr. Mark McKenna
President
Novation, LLC
Irving, Texas

Mr. Richard A. Norling
Chief Executive Officer
Premier, Inc.
San Diego, California

Ms. Elizabeth A. Weatherman
Managing Director
Warburg Pincus, LLC
New York, New York