6515--Supplies - Orthotics - VISN 10 Sites

that providing you with this competitively sensitive information will unduly expose it and its provider clinics to significant antitrust liability, including price fixing claims, since collecting negotiated rates from every provider would place you in the role of a clearinghouse. Whether knowingly

or unknowingly, maintaining such information about each supplier s negotiated prices could lead to the unintended consequence of allowing suppliers to level set their prices and increase their negotiating leverage against providers, thereby