Premier Urges Congress to Include Additional Front-line Support and Supply Chain Reforms in COVID-19 Legislation

Premier sent a letter to House and Senate leaders calling on Congress to provide additional financial support and to enact healthcare supply chain reforms that will advance health systems’ and other providers’ critical work during the pandemic. Specifically, we urged Congress to:

• Ensure the financial viability of front-line healthcare providers by adding $35 billion to the Provider Relief Fund, extending the current moratorium on the 2 percent Medicare sequestration cuts and designating funds to reduce or eliminate repayment of the Accelerated and Advance Payment Program loans;
• Leverage tax incentives to further incentivize onshoring of manufacturing; and
• Continue federal investment in COVID-19 testing, vaccination efforts, medical supplies and disease surveillance.

About Premier, Inc.

Premier, Inc. is a leading technology-driven healthcare improvement company. Playing a critical role in the rapidly evolving healthcare industry, Premier unites providers, suppliers and payers to make healthcare better with national scale, smarter with actionable intelligence and faster with novel technologies. Headquartered in Charlotte, N.C., Premier offers integrated data and analytics, collaboratives, supply chain solutions, advisory services and other solutions in service of our mission to improve the health of communities. Please visit Premier’s news site at www.premierinc.com; as well as X, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, Instagram and Premier’s blog for more information about the Company.

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