Key policies, practices, and documents

Overview

These documents represent a compilation of Premier's key policies, practices, and documents. They are intended to provide insight into Premier's governance, regulatory compliance activities, business practices, management, and finances.

These documents, all in Adobe Acrobat format (get Acrobat reader), are divided into six main sections:

Premier membership forms

• Members: sign up facilities or make changes to your roster

Structure and governance

• Legal structure
• Corporate entities, relationships, and member terminology
• Board of Directors
  • Members
  • Conflict of interest and confidentiality policy
  • Charters of Board committees
  • Corporate governance processes and practices of the Board of Directors
• Group Purchasing and Member Relations Committee
• Quality Improvement Committee
• Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration terms and conditions
  • Amendment to terms and conditions - September 2006

Business practices

• Group Purchasing Code of Conduct (printable version .pdf)
• Group Purchasing Code of Conduct (readable version)
• Supplier Guide (.pdf)
• Business Conduct Guidelines (.pdf)
• 2006 Annual Group Purchasing Code of Conduct Compliance Report (.pdf)

Management

Financial management

• External and internal audit process and the charter for internal audit
• Disclosure of corporate equity interests (.pdf)
• Participating vendor relationships (.pdf)
• Medicare cost reporting requirements associated with membership distributions from Premier Purchasing Partners, LP, to its members (.pdf)

Additional key policies and procedures (login required)

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