Press Releases – Articles – White Papers – Congressional Hearings
Healthcare Reform 2.0 “Press Releases”
President-Elect Donald Trump First Press Conference Admonishes Healthcare Middlemen for Exorbitant Costs
— Kansas City, MO – December 18, 2024
Medical Supply Chain Launches MSC Marketplace 2.0
— Lake Ozark, MO – June 30, 2021
Healthcare Reform “Industry Articles”
“Puncture”….Will Congress Answer?
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – September 26, 2011
“Captain America is Calling”….Will Obama Answer?
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – September 19, 2011
“Obamacare Marketplace Exchange”
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – February 4, 2011
“The Day Healthcare Reform Died”
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – August 10, 2010
“When Losers Try to Pick Winners For Our Economy”
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – July 3, 2010
“What if Health Care Reform is Defeated?”
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – November 16, 2009
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s Trigger Mechanism “Smoke & Mirrors”
— OpEdNews by Samuel Lipari – October 27, 2009
“Senators Investigate Hospital Purchasing”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – August 13, 2009
“Trust Busters” Antitrust Chief Christine Varney
— Centers For American Progress May 13, 2009
“Firm Handed £4bn NHS Contract Was Investigated For Overcharging”
— The Times Online By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor – July 31, 2006
“US Firm Given £4bn NHS Deal by Labour Faces ‘Bribes’ Probe”
— Daily Mail By Sharon Churcher and Glen Owen – July 30, 2006
“Union Warning On Health Reforms”
— BBC By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times – July 30, 2006
“US Company To Run UK Healthcare”
— London Marketplace By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times – July 27, 2006
“Huge Orders For Products From Vaccines To Gloves”
— The Times Online By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times – July 26, 2006
“American Firm Is Hired To Do All NHS Shopping”
— The Times Online By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times – July 26, 2006
“Hospital Chiefs Get Paid for Advice on Selling”
— The New York Times By Walt Bogdanich – July 17, 2006
“Hijacking at the Hospital”
— FW Weekley By Pablo Lastra – November 23, 2005
“Healthcare Providers Look to Dodge New Mandates”
— LJWorld By Joel Mathis – July 27, 2005
“Supply Middlemen May Leave Hospitals Ailing”
— The New York Times By Michael Hiltzik – April 14, 2005
“Business Owner Challenges System”
— The Examiner By James Dornbrook – April 11, 2005 (removed)
“US Atorney’s Office Loses 3 Go-To Guys'”
— The Dallas Morning News By Matt Stiles – October 18, 2004
“Wide U.S. Inquiry Into Purchasing for Health Care”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – August 21, 2004
“A Persistent Small Supplier Gets Contract for Hospitals”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier – September 4, 2002
“3 Medical Supply Companies Receive U.S. Agency Subpoenas”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – August 15, 2002
“Buying Group for Hospitals Vows Change”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier with Mary Williams Walsh – August 9, 2002
“Buying Group for Hospitals Changes Ways”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh – August 6, 2002
“Hospitals Strut in a Lurching Market”
— The New York Times By Reed Abelson – August 4, 2002
“Accusation of Conflicts at a Supplier to Hospitals”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – August 1, 2002
“Audits Scrutinized at Operator of Hospital-Supplies Web Site”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – July 24, 2002
“Questioning $1 Million Fee in a Needle Deal”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier with Mary Williams Walsh – July 19, 2002
“A Mission to Save Money, a Record of Otherwise”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – June 7, 2002
“Senate Panel Criticizes Hospital Buying Groups”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh – May 1, 2002
“Hospitals Sometimes Lose Money by Using a Supply Buying Group”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh – April 30, 2002
“Hospital Group’s Link to Company Is Criticized”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – April 27, 2002
“Hospital Products Get Seal of Approval at a Price”
— The New York Times By Barry Meier – April 23, 2002
“When a Buyer for Hospitals Has a Stake in Drugs It Buys”
— The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh – March 26, 2002
“Medicine’s Middlemen; 2 Powerful Groups Hold Sway Over Buying at Many Hospitals”
— The New York Times By Walt Boglanich – March 4, 2002
“Cynthia Fitzgerald Blowing the Whistle, Many Times”
–The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh November 18, 2007
“US Company To Run UK Healthcare”
–London Marketplace By Steven Beard July 27, 2006
UK Special Report “Supplying The NHS” Blocked By DOJ”
–London Channel 4 News July 26, 2006
“UK Special Report “Supplying The NHS” AUDIO”
–London Channel 4 News July 26, 2006
“Interview With Samuel Lipari PT. 1”
–INN World Report June 8, 2008
“Interview With Samuel Lipari PT. 2”
–INN World Report Report June 8, 2008
Healthcare Reform “Press Releases Archives”
“Novation LLC’s Healthcare Contracting Scheme Ruled Legal”
— Kansas City, KS – April 28, 2009
“Fraud Based Racketeering Awaits GE”
— Kansas City, MO – February 3, 2009
“Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill Takes Stand in Medicare Anti-Trust Case”
— Kansas City, MO – January 6, 2009
“Disqualification of Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey Sought in RICO Case”
— Kansas City, MO – September 9, 2008
“Bradley Schlozman Former US Attorney Charged With Racketeering”
— Kansas City, MO – August 26, 2008
“Cox Medical Centers Signs $60 Million Settlement Agreement”
— Springfield, MO – July 22, 2008
“MSC Discovers US Bancorp’s Davis Continued Extortion Policy”
— Kansas City, MO – February 20, 2008
“MSC Decries US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ Investigation of General Electric “
— Kansas City, MO – July 17, 2007
“Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Sandbagged Novation LLC Prosecution”
— Kansas City, MO – April 17, 2007
“US Bank Loses Dismissal of $450 Million Dollar Escrow Lawsuit”
— Kansas City, MO – April 10, 2007
“Former MO US Attorney Todd Graves the Ninth Attorney Targeted by Alberto Gonzales”
— Kansas City, MO – April 9, 2007
“MSC Selects Visual Collaboration Communication, Inc. to Enable Real Time Collaboration Exchange”
— Independence, MO – January 4, 2007
“Samuel Lipari Launches Web-Based Store Front Initiative”
— Independence, MO – December 12, 2006
“Samuel Lipari Wins Remand Order Following GE’s Untimely Removal To Federal Court”
— Independence, MO – December 12, 2006
“Healthcare Buck Stops at Harry S. Truman’s Hometown”
— Independence, MO – June 7, 2006
“Kansas Republican for Governor Dennis Hawver Joins MSC’s Antitrust Lawsuit Against Novation and Neoforma”
— Kansas City, KS – February 8, 2006
“Newspaper Exposes Novation and GHX Scheme to Monopolize Hospital Supplies”
— Kansas City, MO – November 30, 2005
“MSC CEO Samuel Lipari to Attend Emergency Meeting of the Business Advisory Council”
— Washington, D.C. – May 16, 2005
“Misuse of USA Patriot Act Leads to Exposure of Medicare/Medicaid Fraud Scheme Costing Taxpayers Tens of Billions of Dollars”
— Kansas City, MO. – March 10, 2005
“MSC Enables Interactive eBusiness Communications; A Strategy to Remove Artificially Inflated Health Care Cost”
— Kansas City, MO. – January 26, 2005
“MSC Targets Health Care’s Out of Control and Artificially Inflated Supply Costs With The Next Generation of e-Commerce”
— Kansas City, MO. – January 11, 2005
“Second US Attorney Death in Novation Medicare Fraud Case”
— Kansas City, MO. – September 17, 2004
“General Electric Faces Ruling as Novation Medicare Co-Conspirator”
— Kansas City, MO. – August 26, 2004
“General Electric Ordered Into Antitrust Mediation”
— Kansas City, MO. – April 7, 2004
“Healthcare Marketplace MSC Announces Bid to Acquire US Bank’s Troubled Investment Banking Unit US Bancorp Piper Jaffray”
— Kansas City, MO. – January 27, 2003
“Healthcare Reform Suffers A Massive Blow From Improper Use of The USA Patriot Act”
— Kansas City, MO. – February 6, 2003
“MSC is Raising the Standards in Healthcare E-Commerce, Defining Efficiencies for the Healthcare Supply Chain”
— Kansas City, MO. – March 21, 2001
“MSC Launches Global Trade Exchange for Institutional Healthcare Enterprises”
— Kansas City, MO. – May 30, 2000
“MSC Selects theSupplyChain.com to Enable Independent Trading Exchange”
— Newport Beach, CA. – May 25, 2000
Healthcare Reform “Industry White Papers”
How Industry Money and Personal Interest Shaped Medicare Part D
Case Study in Corruption
— Billy Tauzin May 2006
Defining and Measuring Product Based Cost Savings
— Lynn James Everard February 2005
The Exclusion of Competition For Hospital Sales
Through Group Purchasing Organization
— Harvard Law Professor Einer Elhauge June 2002
Testimony Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition, Business
and consumer Rights, Committee on the Judiciary, U.S. Senate
— United States General Accounting Office April 2002
Blue Print For An Efficient Healthcare Supply Chain
— Lynn James Everard Supply Chain Strategist January 2001
Healthcare Reform “Congressional Hearings”
Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy
and Consumer Rights of the United States Senate on “Hospital Group Purchasing:
Are the Industry’s Reforms Sufficient to Ensure Competition?”
— Judiciary Committee March 15, 2006
Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust,
Competition Policy and Consumer Rights of the United States Senate on “Hospital Group Purchasing: How to Maintain Innovation and Cost Savings”
— Judiciary Committee September 14, 2004
Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Subcommittee on Antitrust,Competition Policy and Consumer Rights on “Hospital Group Purchasing:
Has the Market Become More Open to Competition?
— Judiciary Committee July 16, 2003
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?
— Judiciary Committee April 30, 2002