Now, Even More Buying Power

A GPO is a group purchasing organization in which practitioners pool their collective buying power to exert influence on manufacturers and distributors to negotiate cost-savings opportunities on goods and services. These range from consumable dental supplies to implants, dental lab services, insurance rates, and potentially even front- and back-office “nonclinical services.”

Unlike dental support organizations (DSO) or corporate dental groups, GPOs take no ownership of or stake in a practice and, therefore, do not have any influence on a practice’s clinical decisions or operations. A GPO is a tool that both practitioners and practice owners can use to level the playing field with the DSOs and corporate dental groups. The primary benefit of a GPO is that practitioners gain the negotiating power of several hundred to several thousand practices instead of negotiating as one or two doctors or offices.

Our suppliers recognize that our experience in dental practices and in group purchasing makes us uniquely qualified to create programs that dental practices and related entities need and will use. Our ability to deliver highly interested and sophisticated members to these programs benefits the suppliers in many ways including increased sales through buyer retention and reduced costs by dealing with educated buyers.

In exchange for giving Synergy and its members a great deal, suppliers in the Synergy programs have the expectation that, if they provide Synergy members with a better deal than they currently have, Synergy members will: (a) support the Synergy programs by participating in them, and (b) switch from their current supplier(s) in order to take advantage of the superior value of the Synergy program(s).

Synergy is not a third-party distributor and does not inventory or ship dental products and supplies. Synergy simply structures cost savings agreements for our members. Members will continue to order through our vendor partners, our vendor partners will ship the products, and our vendor partner will then invoice the member at the discounted Synergy rate.

Unlike dental support organizations (DSO) or corporate dental groups, GPOs take no ownership of or stake in a practice and, therefore, do not have any influence on a practice’s clinical decisions or operations. A GPO is a tool that both practitioners and practice owners can use to level the playing field with the DSOs and corporate dental groups. The primary benefit of a GPO is that practitioners gain the negotiating power of several hundred to several thousand practices instead of negotiating as one or two doctors or offices.

Synergy is happy to provide you with a no-cost, no-obligation price comparison. In fact, we encourage such price comparisons because we know that the Synergy programs will compare favorably when objectively analyzed. Synergy obtains deep discounts negotiated on your behalf, and continually monitors those prices to make sure they maintain a competitive advantage.