Letter to Members

GPA is proud to announce the expansion of several of our current programs and introduce several new programs in 2011 for the benefit of our members.

We have sought to include in our current formulary high quality brand names and "generic" items you like to use and have requested! Our new med/surg program includes an all new med-surg, pharmaceutical and capital equipment program with new content and pricing from our new partner Midwest Medical Supply. Midwest Medical has warehousing across the US and can ship anywhere within 2-3 days. Our current program (with a new defined formulary) includes much more aggressive pricing than previously offered and is better and more complete than that currently offered by Schein for the various specialty and subspecialty member programs (Dermatology, Plastic Surgery etc.).

Our new suture program is both scalable and competitive with any national discount program involving Ethicon suture in the nation. We have an all new suture program for members from our valued partner Suture Express. Our new program has been expanded to include all suture codes and all Dermabond codes manufactured by Ethicon. We still offer a "bucket account" program for our members -but new for 2011 we can now offer a new tiered pricing program for those members who buy suture in volume. Contact GPA for further details about this exciting new program.

Our new partner, ES Medical has a line of Garments that you have seen at the conventions-but now can access at new aggressive pricing for our members. We will be offering specials on this complete line of products throughout 2011, so stay tuned for further updates about this new service on our website!

Announcing the re-launch of our office based (and computer products) program with Office Depot. We are excited to now be able to provide you with access to monthly specials that we will be premiering exclusively on our website and by e-mail in the months ahead. The OfficeMax program provided discounts on too few products and coordination of their online and in-store programs proved to be a problem, so we have discontinued that program in favor of the expanded and simplified Office Depot program.

Several new services and programs will be offered to GPA members by Digital One in 2011. The exciting news is you can still use your current software to access this new technology. Look for updates here coming soon!

Exciton is a new valued partner for GPA and they are offering GPA members access to some of the best wound care and post surgical products on the market including Exalt SD-7. We invite you to test drive their current offerings and to see for yourself the improvement in patient comfort and healing their products offer your patients. Use of their products is reimbursable by Medicare.

We have expanded all of our programs and improved the discounting offered to GPA members. We invite you to try out our new programs. Your membership in GPA pays off quickly for those items you use in your clinic or office.

For further information on any of these new programs, contact Scott P. DeWeese at
1-800-716-4644 for further information.