Ambu and Xenocor over the past week each announced agreements with U.S. healthcare purchasing groups involving single-use scopes.
Ambu said on October 7 that it won a national single-use endoscopy contract in the single-use endoscope category of a “major U.S. group-purchasing organization.” The deal enables Ambu to serve a fifth of the acute care hospitals in the United States — and it comes more than a month after the Columbia, Md.–based company won a single-use endoscopy contract in the category of surgical disposable scopes with Premier.