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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: David McDonough
Phone: 703-243-9262

HIGPA ELECTS ALLAN FINE TO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 14, 2001) -- The Health Industry Group Purchasing Association (HIGPA) is pleased to announce that Allan Fine, vice president and director of the Chicago office of CHPS Consulting, Inc., has been elected to HIGPA's Board of Directors. Mr. Fine is the second outside director to serve on HIGPA's Board, following the appointment in October 2000 of D. McWilliams Kessler, executive director of the Wills Eye Hospital, as HIGPA's first outside director.

"Allan brings decades of experience in the health care supply chain to HIGPA's Board of Directors," said HIGPA President & CEO Robert Betz, Ph.D. "I can think of no other business and financial consultant with more experience and knowledge. HIGPA welcomes him into the Association."

As vice president and director of the Chicago office of CHPS Consulting, Inc., Mr. Fine has extensive experience in strategy, managed care, strategic partnering, post-merger integration, marketing, sales, marketing analysis, and facilitating board and senior executive retreats. He has assisted providers, MCOs, ancillary providers, and pharmaceutical companies develop, validate, and implement enterprise-wide strategic plans, marketing plans, and mergers/acquisitions. Additionally, Mr. Fine has written numerous articles on various health care topics in many of the industry's leading publications.

Following is a complete list of HIGPA's 2001 Board of Directors:

HIGPA's trading partner members include many of the world's leading health care product and medical supply manufacturers, distributors, wholesalers and related suppliers. HIGPA's industry members include for-profit and not-for-profit corporations, purchasing groups, associations, multi-hospital systems, and health care provider alliances. According to a recent study conducted by a former principal analyst at the Congressional Budget Office, hospitals saved patients up to $19 billion in 1999 by purchasing products through group contracts.

HIGPA is a chartered trade association of approximately 180 health care purchasing and supply chain organizations that serve approximately three out of every four U.S. acute care hospitals, as well as most of the long term care, home care and medical group practice markets. To learn more about HIGPA, visit our Web site: www.higpa.org or call 703-243-9262.

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