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		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?" 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" 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? 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? April 30, 2002 HEALTHCARE LITIGATION Samuel Lipari vs. VHA-Novation (State Antitrust) Samuel Lipari vs. General Electric Company (State Contract/RICO) Samuel Lipari vs. US Bancorp, NA (State Contract) Medical Supply Chain, Inc. vs. Novation et al (Federal Antitrust) Medical Supply Chain, Inc. vs. General Electric Company (Federal Antitrust) Medical Supply Chain, Inc. vs. US Bancorp Piper Jaffray (Federal Antitrust) "Blowing the Whistle, Many Times" The New York Times By Mary Williams Walsh - November 18, 2007 "Putting the Bite on Hospitals" Fort Worth Weekley By Pablo Lastra - October 4, 2007 "Hijacking at the Hospital" Fort Worth Weekley By Pablo Lastra - November 23, 2005 AUDIO DISCLOSURE U.S. Magistrate Judge James P. O'Hara Former Managing partner of Shughart Thomson & Kilroy USB Becky Hainje USB Ed Higgins USB Lars Anderson Bryan Kabbes Shughart Thompson Kilroy Steve Ruse Mark Olthoff GE Acceptance George Frickie GE Lease Termination George Frickie GE Capital Doug McKay Perkins Coie LLP. Jason Burlingame Rex Sharp LETTERS OF CONCERN AT&T Demand Letter Edward E. Whitacre Jr., April 9, 2008 Sprint Corporation Mr. Dan Hesse, March 6, 2008 Senator Claire McCaskill, March 28, 2007 Chief Judge Honorable Dean Whipple, July 20, 2006 Kansas City Star, December 21, 2005 Senator Arlen Specter, November 23, 2004 Senator Arlen Specter, November 10, 2004 Chief Clerk Mr. Patrick Fisher, July 1, 2004 Chief Judge Honorable John W. Lungstrum, November 7, 2003 PRESS RELEASE "Medical Supply Chain Discovers US Bancorp's Davis Continued Extortion Policy" Kansas City, MO - February 20, 2008 "Medical Supply Chain 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 "Medical Supply Chain 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 Medical Supply Chain’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 "Medical Supply Chain Enables Interactive eBusiness Communications; A Strategy to Remove Artificially Inflated Health Care Cost" Kansas City, MO. - January 26, 2005 "Medical Supply Chain 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 Medical Supply Chain, Inc. 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 "Medical Supply Chain, Inc. is Raising the Standards in Healthcare E-Commerce, Defining Efficiencies for the Healthcare Supply Chain" Kansas City, MO. - March 21, 2001 "MedicalSupplyChain.com Launches Global Trade Exchange for Institutional Healthcare Enterprises" Kansas City, MO. - May 30, 2000 "MedicalSupplyChain.com Selects theSupplyChain.com to Enable Independent Trading Exchange" Newport Beach, CA. - May 25, 2000 BROADCAST "Blowing the Whistle, Many Times" The New York Times Cynthia Fitzgerald By MARY WILLIAMS WALSH November 18, 2007 "US Company To Run UK Healthcare?" 27 July 2006 UK Special Report "Supplying The NHS" 26 July 2006 PUBLICATIONS "Firm Handed £4bn NHS Contract Was Investigated For Overcharging" By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times - July 31, 2006 "US Firm Given £4bn NHS Deal by Labour Faces 'Bribes' Probe" By Sharon Churcher and Glen Owen - July 30, 2006 "Union Warning On Health Reforms" By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times - July 30, 2006 "US Company To Run UK Healthcare" The Times By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor - July 27, 2006 "Huge Orders For Products From Vaccines To Gloves" By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times - July 26, 2006 "American Firm Is Hired To Do All NHS Shopping" By Nigel Hawkes, Health Editor The Times - July 26, 2006 "Hospital Chiefs Get Paid for Advice on Selling" By Walt Bogdanich - July 17, 2006 "Hijacking at the Hospital" By Pablo Lastra - November 23, 2005 "Healthcare Providers Look to Dodge New Mandates" By Jeffrey Young - July 12, 2005 "Supply Middlemen May Leave Hospitals Ailing" By Michael Hiltzik - April 14, 2005 "Business Owner Challenges System" By James Dornbrook - April 11, 2005 "US Atorney's Office Loses 3 Go-To Guys'" By Matt Stiles - October 18, 2004 "Wide U.S. Inquiry Into Purchasing for Health Care" By Mary Williams Walsh - August 21, 2004 "A Persistent Small Supplier Gets Contract for Hospitals" By Barry Meier - September 4, 2002 "3 Medical Supply Companies Receive U.S. Agency Subpoenas" By Mary Williams Walsh - August 15, 2002 "Buying Group for Hospitals Vows Change" By Barry Meier with Mary Williams Walsh - August 9, 2002 "Buying Group for Hospitals Changes Ways" By Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh - August 6, 2002 "Hospitals Strut in a Lurching Market" By Reed Abelson - August 4, 2002 "Accusation of Conflicts at a Supplier to Hospitals" By Mary Williams Walsh - August 1, 2002 "Audits Scrutinized at Operator of Hospital-Supplies Web Site" By Mary Williams Walsh - July 24, 2002 "Questioning $1 Million Fee in a Needle Deal" By Barry Meier with Mary Williams Walsh - July 19, 2002 "A Mission to Save Money, a Record of Otherwise" By Mary Williams Walsh - June 7, 2002 "Senate Panel Criticizes Hospital Buying Groups" By Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh - May 1, 2002 "Hospitals Sometimes Lose Money by Using a Supply Buying Group" By Barry Meier and Mary Williams Walsh - April 30, 2002 "Hospital Group's Link to Company Is Criticized" By Mary Williams Walsh - April 27, 2002 "Hospital Products Get Seal of Approval at a Price" By Barry Meier - April 23, 2002 "When a Buyer for Hospitals Has a Stake in Drugs It Buys" By Mary Williams Walsh - March 26, 2002 "Medicine's Middlemen; 2 Powerful Groups Hold Sway Over Buying at Many Hospitals" By Walt Boglanich - March 4, 2002 REPORTS 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 MEDICAL Copyright © 2000-2008 Medical Supply Chain, Inc. 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