Amerinet Launches New, High Performance Solution

Amerinet Inc., a leading national healthcare group purchasing organization, announced today a new, exclusive, innovative program available to healthcare providers to reduce costs and improve quality.

Amerinet Prestige, open to all Amerinet members regardless of volume or facility type, whenever possible, provides market-leading pricing on high spend product areas. Through partnerships with market share-leading suppliers, along with value-added contracting features, Amerinet Prestige addresses the high spend product areas that directly affect a facility’s bottom line. Other benefits of the Prestige solution include a more efficient sign-up process, open access with no requirements to combine agreements across categories, increased overall value and several pathways to savings, including high committed tiers and contracts.

“We are extremely excited about this new, innovative solution,” noted Randy Walter, executive vice president, enterprise solutions and marketing for Amerinet. “This new strategy is a testimony to Amerinet’s commitment to develop programs for our members that will assist them in continuing to provide quality care by maximizing savings while improving their bottom line.”

Amerinet Prestige currently includes these five agreements:

— Cardinal Health: The agreement anchors Amerinet’s generic pharmaceuticals sourcing program. It is designed to reduce its members spend while maintaining a competitive portfolio of direct agreements with generic and branded pharmaceutical manufacturers.

— Fukuda Denshi: The contract includes patient monitoring products for bedside, transport, central stations and telemetry. Denshi offers a five-year warranty on Fukuda Denshi-manufactured products purchased on this contract.

— Philips: A leader in patient monitoring and resuscitation products, Philips provides market-leading pricing through this contract on defibrillators and AEDs (automated external defibrillators).

— Sage Products: The contract with Sage Products, an industry leader, features pre-packaged washcloths for bathing and incontinence care, along with a one-piece waterless shampoo cap, heel protector, oral hygiene toothettes and suction systems, and the only FDA-approved preoperative skin prep in a full-size cloth.

— Westmed: A vertically integrated ISO9001 medical device manufacturing company, Westmed provides anesthesia breathing circuits and masks at market-leading prices. Westmed designs, manufactures and markets leading quality medical devices for anesthesia and respiratory professionals.

Amerinet will continue to develop additional Amerinet Prestige agreements for high spend categories, which will stand alone and not be tied together in any way. Members can then select those agreements that provide the value needed for their particular facility.

For more information on Amerinet Prestige, contact Amerinet customer service at 877- 711-5700.

About Amerinet, Inc.

As a leading national group purchasing organization, Amerinet strategically partners with healthcare providers to reduce costs and improve quality.

Through Amerinet’s total spend management solutions and operational performance improvement tools and services, we assist providers in reducing costs, improving efficiencies and creating new revenue streams.

Supported by a team of clinical, data and supply chain experts, Amerinet offers a comprehensive and competitive portfolio of product and service contracts designed to address members’ specific needs.

Based in St. Louis, with offices in Salt Lake City, Providence, R.I., and Warrendale, Pa., Amerinet serves acute and non-acute care healthcare providers nationwide. To learn more, visit www.amerinet-gpo.com.