Vizient, a member-driven health care performance improvement company, announced its Period 3 national group buys, available July 1 through September 30, 2016. The National Group Buy program is one of several innovative programs from Vizient designed to deliver additional savings each quarter to the hospitals it serves.

Vizient said Siemens, the Period 3 featured supplier, is offering significant savings in select categories of imaging equipment, such as: C-arms, cardiovascular imaging systems, CT scanner systems, general radiography equipment, Hemodynamic and -Electrophysiology monitors, MRI equipment, nuclear medicine equipment, PET/CT systems, radiology/fluoroscopy equipment, ultrasound equipment and urology equipment.

Other suppliers offering additional savings of contract on equipment in the Period 3 group buy include:

• CardinalHealth – centrifuge lab products
• Hamilton Medical – ventilators
• Medline – bladder scanners
• Megadyne – electrosurgical equipment and reusable grounding pads
• Mizuho Medical – OR tables
• Spacelabs Healthcare – patient monitoring systems
• Stryker Sustainability Solutions – compression sleeve products
• Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics – blood gas and reagents, chemistry/immunochemistry
• Smiths Medical – extended Q2 group buy value for IV pumps

“We are pleased to offer significant savings to all Vizient members for capital equipment purchases through our Period 3 group buy program. This program helps hospitals make these important investments in the most cost-effective manner,” said Brent Gee, associate vice president of Strategic Programs and Contract Service. “The growth we are seeing in the number of categories in each period and the participation by our members demonstrates the value of this program for hospitals as well as suppliers.”