ApolloMD is a private US group practice owned and operated by its physicians. With more than 750 medical directors, doctors, and mid-level practitioners, the group provides clinical outsourcing services focused on anesthesia, emergency medicine, and radiology to high-volume hospitals, surgery centers, and health systems primarily in the Southeast and Midwest. Boasting about a 97% physician retention rate, ApolloMD uses a performance-based compensation model, which pays physicians equitably according to the amount of clinical work they accomplish rather than seniority. Its PaymentsMD division offers health care providers a medical billing and payment collections system that allows patients to pay bills online.

John Muir Health provides health care to residents in the San Francisco Bay area. The not-for-profit system operates three hospitals, outpatient and urgent care centers, a physician practice organization, and several community health foundations. The John Muir Medical Center Walnut Creek Campus has about 325 beds and specializes in providing services such as neurological, orthopedic, and obstetrics care. The system's Concord Campus, which has some 260 beds, specializes in providing cardiac and cancer care. The John Muir Behavioral Health Center is a 70-bed psychiatric hospital. It also provides labortory testing through its MuirLab division, and it offers home health, rehabilitation, and wellness programs.

Highmark has staked its claim as the largest health insurer in the Keystone state. A licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, the not-for-profit firm covers some 3.9 million people in central and western Pennsylvania, as well as the Lehigh Valley. It serves another 800,000 customers in West Virginia and other areas of Pennsylvania through affiliations and partnerships with other insurers, and it provides administrative and network-access services nationally. In addition, Highmark sells Medicare Advantage and prescription drug plans to seniors in both states. Other subsidiaries (not operating under the BCBS license) provide dental insurance, vision care, and other products and services nationwide.

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Healthfirst is a hospital-owned, not-for-profit health care management organization that serves some 560,000 members throughout New York City and Long Island, as well as northern New Jersey. The company offers a variety of government-sponsored health insurance programs, including Medicaid, Medicare, Family Health Plus, and Child Health Plus plans, to low-income and special needs clients. It also offers commercial HMO and point-of-service plans to individuals and small employer groups. Healthfirst company was formed in 1993 and is owned by about 40 New York-area hospitals. Its plans are administered by HF Management Services.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital studies and treats catastrophic diseases in children, especially pediatric cancers. The hospital only has about 70 beds -- most of the more than 5,000 children it treats annually are seen on an outpatient basis as part of the hospital's research efforts into finding cures and more effective treatments. St. Jude not only helps kiddos with their health; it also helps out their parents: The organization pays all expenses not covered by insurance, and patients without insurance don't have to pay. Entertainer Danny Thomas founded St. Jude in 1962; Thomas also founded the American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities (ALSAC), the fundraising organization for the hospital.

Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings, together with its subsidiaries, operates as an independent clinical laboratory company in the United States. The company offers a range of testing services used by the medical profession in routine testing, patient diagnosis, and in the monitoring and treatment of disease, as well as specialty testing services. Its routine tests include blood chemistry analyses, urinalyses, blood cell counts, thyroid tests, Pap tests, HIV tests, microbiology cultures and procedures, and alcohol and other substance-abuse tests.

Optos has opted to provide improved imaging tools to eye doctors. The company is a manufacturer of digital diagnostic imaging equipment used by ophthalmologists and other eye care professionals in the detection and management of eye disease. The company's Optomap laser ophthalmoscopes are used by ophthalmologists to perform precision retinal examinations. Its tools are used to detect ailments such as retinal detachments, age-related macular degeneration, and glaucoma and are marketed to physicians in Europe and North America. Optos was founded in 1992 by executive vice chairman and engineer Douglas Anderson after his son's retinal disorder was overlooked by eye doctors.

Orthovita develops and sells materials for physicians to use as bone substitutes in reconstruction and replacement procedures. The company's products are designed to mimic natural bone characteristics and harden quicker than other available products. Orthovita's VITOSS product line, used for the repair of spinal and pelvic bone defects, accounts for about 60% of the company's sales. Its CORTOSS bone augmentation material -- expected to eventually become Orthovita's lead product -- received North American marketing approval from the FDA in 2009. Orthovita company already sells CORTOSS, which is used to repair vertebral compression fractures, in the EU and Australia.

Connecticut Children's Medical Center (CCMC) centerpiece is its children's hospital that cares for children from babyhood to adulthood with a variety of services including surgery, behavioral care, and emergency medicine. The critical care department houses a Level I Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) that receives referral patients from more than 30 hospitals throughout the region. The center also conducts clinical research and provides pediatric training to health professionals. CCMC is home to more than 10 outpatient facilities throughout Connecticut and a 120-student school for children with physical and behavioral challenges.

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