Vizient announces 2025 Spend Management Visionary honorees

IRVING, Texas, Oct. 9, 2025 – Vizient® announced the 2025 Spend Management Visionary recipients, recognizing extraordinary client organizations for excellence in healthcare sourcing, innovation, ambulatory practice and leadership. The distinctions were presented Sept. 17 at Vizient’s annual Connections Summit in Las Vegas.

The Spend Management Visionary honors were created to spotlight those individuals and teams whose work sets a new benchmark for excellence — across categories that include medical-surgical, pharmacy, capital, laboratory, physician preference, indirect spend/purchased services and non-acute practice.

“Through their innovation, discipline and leadership, these honorees are advancing the supply chain’s critical role in supporting high-quality, cost-effective patient care. Their accomplishments demonstrate what’s possible when health systems and Vizient work together to harness data, drive value and deliver sustainable impact across the healthcare enterprise,” said Dan Kistner, PharmD, senior vice president and general manager, Vizient.

Congratulations to the following honorees:

Learn about the Spend Management Visionary recognitions. Read about the 2025 Vizient Spend Management Visionary.

About Vizient, Inc.
Vizient, Inc., the nation’s largest provider-driven healthcare performance improvement company, provides solutions and services to more than two-thirds of the nation’s acute care providers and more than one-third of ambulatory providers. Vizient offers proprietary data and analytics to deliver unique clinical and operational insights and a contract portfolio representing $156 billion in annual purchasing volume enabling the delivery of cost-effective care. With its acquisition of Kaufman Hall in 2024, Vizient expanded its advisory services to help providers achieve financial, clinical and operational excellence. Headquartered in Irving, Texas, Vizient has offices throughout the United States. Learn more at www.vizientinc.com.