Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Strong | Premier Inc. provides a solid level of transparency around its climate-policy advocacy. It identifies specific policy initiatives it has worked on, including the White House/Department of Health and Human Services Health Sector Climate Pledge and the Environmental Protection Agency’s new ethylene oxide emission standards, and describes broader efforts to press Congress for incentives that help healthcare providers decarbonise. The company is clear about how it tries to influence these measures: its Washington, D.C. Government Affairs team “engages directly with legislators, regulators, and key government decision-makers,” submits recommendations to the White House, responds to congressional inquiries, publishes an Advocacy Roadmap, activates members through its Government Affairs Network and uses an employee PAC, explicitly naming targets such as Congress, the White House/HHS and the EPA. Premier also articulates the outcomes it seeks, advocating for federal incentives that enable hospitals to “make greener choices,” supporting stricter but workable ethylene-oxide emission rules, and pushing for policies that allow the sector to halve greenhouse-gas emissions by 2030 and reach net-zero by 2050. While many of these positions are framed in broad terms rather than with precise legislative language, the company still offers a coherent picture of the policies, mechanisms and objectives that guide its climate-related lobbying. | 3 |