title: Bang without the buck? Bypassing merger, four systems look for buying power, reduced costs with collaboration.
abstract: Four not-for-profit systems are banding together in an arrangement that falls short of a merger but aims to increase the partners' buying power. "We favor the idea of local control and local governance. It's not financial because we've had as good a financial year as we've had in a decade," says Steven Edwards, president and CEO of CoxHealth.
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kutscher
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D003363:Cost Control / Q000379:methods; D017754:Group Purchasing / Q000191:economics* / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007087:Illinois; D008923:Missouri; D009096:Multi-Institutional Systems; D019982:Organizational Case Studies