Bonutti Technologies is on the lookout for the next big thing in medical devices. The company discovers, develops, and delivers innovative surgical and rehabilitation products. Its research and development programs focus on instruments, implants, and procedure technologies with applications in orthopedic surgery and rehabilitation therapy; successfully developed products are often spun off into independent companies. Other programs are conducted through licensing and partnership agreements with medical equipment firms such as Stryker. Bonutti Technologies markets a limited-incision total knee replacement called the L-I Approach. The company was founded by CEO Peter Bonutti.

Burkhart Dental Supply is dedicated to supplying dentists with the tools they need.Burkhart Dental Supply company provides dental equipment and supplies to more than 5,000 dentists throughout the midwestern, southwestern, and western US.Burkhart Dental Supply company also offers a variety of technical services, equipment repairs, office management software, continuing education, financing, and consulting services, such as office design and equipment planning. It distributes products made by some 100 manufacturers including Becton Dickson, Dentsply, and J&J. Its operating subsidiaries include ADC Group Financial Services, Burkhart Consulting, and Summit Dental Study Group. The family-owned company was founded by Dr. William Burkhart in 1888.

HealthSpring provides Medicare Advantage plans in seven US states. The company has more than 190,000 members in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Texas. Its Medicare Advantage plans offer the support of Medicare with additional benefits such as Medicare Part D prescription benefits, vision and hearing benefits, and transportation programs. In addition, HealthSpring runs a nationwide prescription drug plan with more than 310,000 members, and offers management services to independent physician associations in Alabama, Tennessee, and Texas.

Consulate Health Care is a consummate elder care provider. The company offers long-term care, including assisted living, skilled nursing, and independent living services, to residents of its facilities in half a dozen states. Consulate owns, manages, and leases dozens of nursing homes and other long-term health care centers staffed with physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. It also provides rehabilitation, diagnostic imaging, hospice, and pharmacy services. In addition, Consulate offers Alzheimer's care and short-term transitional care programs for patients needing complex medical treatment. Consulate Health Care, Inc. operates facilities in Florida, Maryland, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Seton Healthcare Network provides medical care within Austin's city limits, as well as surrounding areas of Central Texas. The not-for-profit organization, part of Ascension Health, includes nine urban and rural acute-care hospitals, as well as psychiatric and children's hospitals and a network of community clinics. With a total of 1,600 beds, Seton's facilities (known as the Seton Family of Hospitals) offer patients a wide range of services, including regional trauma, heart transplant, neurological, and neonatal intensive care units, as well as primary and specialty care medical services for the uninsured. Seton was first established in Austin in 1902 by the Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul.

Integrated Dental Holdings is a UK holding company that owns and operates two dental practice subsidiaries: Petrie Tucker and Partners, and Whitecross Dental Care. Through its subsidiaries Integrated Dental Holdings manages more than 150 dental centers that provide dental services to more than 900,000 UK patients. In July 2004 the company was taken private in a buyout led by Channel Four chairman Luke Johnson and other Integrated Dental officers. Johnson sold his stake in the company to Legal & General Ventures in 2006.

Rotech Healthcare Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides home medical equipment and related products and services in the United States. It rents and sells oxygen and other respiratory therapy equipment and services, including oxygen concentrators, liquid oxygen systems, high pressure oxygen cylinders, homefill systems, portable oxygen concentrators, continuous positive airway pressure devices and supplies, bi-level positive airway pressure devices and supplies, non-invasive positive pressure ventilator devices and supplies, and nebulizer devices and medications. The company also sells and rents a line of durable medical equipment, such as hospital beds, wheelchairs, walkers, patient aids, and other ancillary supplies. Its patient service technicians or clinicians provide instruction and training to the patient and the patient’s family regarding equipment use and maintenance for the prescribed therapy. In addition, the company’s activities include reimbursement by third-party payors comprising Medicare, Medicaid, the Veterans Administration, and private insurers. Rotech Healthcare Inc. serves older patients with breathing disorders, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, which include chronic bronchitis, emphysema, obstructive sleep apnea, and other cardiopulmonary disorders. As of December 31, 2009, it had approximately 450 operating locations located primarily in non-urban markets in 48 states. Rotech Healthcare Inc. was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Orlando, Florida.

Hill Physicians Medical Group is the doctors' answer to HMOs.Hill Physicians Medical Group is an independent practice association (IPA) serving some 300,000 health plan members in northern California. Hill contracts with managed care organizations throughout the region -- including HMOs belonging to Aetna, CIGNA, and Health Net -- to provide care to health plan members. Its network includes about 3,000 primary care and specialty physicians and some 30 hospitals. PriMed, a management services organization, organized Hill Physicians Medical Group in 1984 and still runs the company.

Q-Med seeks a smooth future, but thus far it still has a few wrinkles in its plans. The company develops and manufactures the high-tech goo Restylane dermatologists inject to fill in lines and creases in facial skin. Its Durolane product, also based on its non-animal sourced hyaluronic acids, is used as an injection to treat osteoarthritis of the knee. Its products are distributed in over 70 countries, but only Restylane has received FDA approval for use in the US. The Swedish company entered the US exchanges by buying up the shell of a public company in 2008.

ResMed makes and distributes medical equipment used to diagnose and treat respiratory disorders that occur during sleep, such as sleep apnea. Most of its products treat obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), a condition in which a patient's air flow is periodically obstructed, causing multiple disruptions during sleep that lead to daytime sleepiness and possibly other conditions such as high blood pressure. Its products include air-flow generators, face masks, diagnostic products, and accessories. ResMed sells directly and through distributors worldwide to home health equipment dealers, sleep clinics, and hospitals.

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