Harmony Health Plan of Illinois operates a Medicaid HMO that serves about 140,000 Medicaid recipients in a handful of counties in southwestern Illinois and eastern Missouri. Operated through state contracts, the company's managed health care plans include programs for needy families, supplemental security income recipients, and children of low-income families. Its plans cover basic medical care, including hospitalization, yearly check-ups, and emergency room visits, as well as pharmacy co-payments and dental and transportation services. Harmony Health Plan is a subsidiary of WellCare. It operates as Harmony Health Plans of Missouri in that market.

Licking Memorial Health Systems was founded in 1898 by the Newark Hospital Association. The health care provider operates the 230-bed Licking Memorial Hospital and a multi-specialty physician group called Licking Memorial Health Professionals. Specialty services at the hospital include cancer care, home health, occupational health, rehabilitation, and cardiology. Licking Memorial Hospital administers behavioral health care (including substance abuse treatments) through its Shepard Hill department. The physicians' group operates through about 40 practices with 90 doctors spanning over about a seven-town area.

Sanford Health-MeritCare combines two Dakota health care legends: South Dakota's Sanford Health and North Dakota's MeritCare Health System. Both date back to the 1890s, and today the combined not-for-profit health care provider is one of the largest integrated health care systems in the US. It serves many rural areas in the Midwest with about 30 regional and community hospitals (housing more than 1,600 beds) in the Dakotas, Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Its medical centers offer services in such areas as cancer, cardiology, emergency care, orthopedics, pediatrics, trauma, and women's health. Sanford Health-MeritCare also boasts expanded research and education capabilities as a result of its 2009 merger.

United Healthcare of Georgia, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, provides health insurance products and related services for nearly one million people in the Peach State; its provider network includes thousands of doctors and more than 150 hospitals. Products include dental, disability, health, life, and vision insurance coverage, as well as pharmacy benefits, for companies, their employees, and individual customers. UnitedHealth Group is the second-largest health insurer in the US (behind WellPoint) and has operations in all 50 states.

Saint Peter's University Hospital has about 480 beds. Sponsored by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Metuchen in New Jersey, the hospital provides patients with more than 900 physicians and dentists on staff. Saint Peter's also offers a variety of services including a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures, and specialized cancer, diabetes, and geriatric care. In affiliation with the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Saint Peter's provides cardiac care for infants and children. The teaching hospital is also affiliated with the Drexel University College of Medicine. Saint Peter's University Hospital was established in 1907.

Synovis Life Technologies believes no one should have to cow to life's illnesses, no matter how serious. The company makes biomaterials (using bovine heart lining) used in surgeries to reinforce tissue and prevent air and blood leaks. Its biggest seller is the Peri-Strip buttress which is used by surgeons to reinforce surgical staple lines, mainly in gastric bypass procedures. The Veritas line of devices are used to repair soft tissue during a range of reconstructive surgeries including abdominal wall, breast, and chest wall operations. Synovis manufactures products to repair and replace damaged tissue under its Tissue-Guard brand. It also makes devices that connect vessels or nerves in microsurgery procedures.

Schumacher Group looks to operate with a helping hand. Offering outsourced staffing and management services to emergency rooms, Schumacher Group provides medical professionals such as physicians and emergency room support staff, health care managers, medical directors, and other administrative staff.Schumacher company also offers medical billing and coding services. Schumacher Group operates through a handful of regional offices and serves about 150 hospitals, most of which are located in the southern US. Owner and CEO William C. Schumacher, M.D. founded the company in 1994.

Angiotech Pharmaceuticals is teaching old devices new tricks. The firm develops medical products that combine devices with drugs to make them more effective with fewer side effects. Its flagship product in the Pharmaceutical Technologies segment is the TAXUS drug-eluting stent, which Boston Scientific sells and for which it pays Angiotech royalties. The stent is used to open up diseased arteries, and the drug coating keeps scar tissue from forming and creating a new blockage. The company's Medical Products segment makes the Quill wound closure system and other single-use medical products for interventional radiology, ophthalmology, and surgery. Angiotech has facilities in North America and Europe.

OraSure is certain it can deliver results. The oral specimen kits and other diagnostic tests developed by OraSure Technologies are designed to detect drug use and certain infectious diseases, such as HIV. The company's OraSure products use oral specimens rather than traditional blood- or urine-based methods to test for HIV. Its Intercept line uses oral samples to test for marijuana, cocaine, opiates, PCP, and amphetamines. OraSure has also developed a rapid HIV blood diagnostic testing method. The company sells its products in the US and internationally through direct agents and independent distributors, primarily to public health clinics, hospitals, and doctors' offices.

Greater Baltimore Medical Center, also known as GBMC, operates an integrated health system for residents of Baltimore and surrounding counties. The 300-bed medical center provides psychiatry, surgery, women's health, oncology, and other specialty and general medical services. The hospital provides inpatient and outpatient services, and its emergency room treats about 60,000 patients every year. In addition, it provides teaching services through an affiliation with Johns Hopkins University. GBMC also includes the Greater Baltimore Medical Associates physician practices and the Gilchrist Hospice Care agency.

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