MVP Health Plan is for about 700,000 most valuable people. Operating as MVP Health Care, MVP Health Plan company provides health insurance and employee benefits to its members in upstate New York, New Hampshire, and Vermont. Outside its home base, the company works with CIGNA HeatlthCare to offer benefits jointly. MVP, a not-for-profit organization, offers a variety of plans including HMOs, preferred provider organizations (PPOs), indemnity, and dental. Subsidiaries MVP Select Care and Upstate Administrative Services provide third party administration (TPA) services for self-insured employers. MVP Health Plan was founded in 1983 as Mohawk Valley Physicians' Health Plan.

Franciscan Skemp Healthcare (FSH) is a community health system serving residents of northeastern Iowa, southeastern Minnesota, and western Wisconsin. Three hospitals in Wisconsin comprise the main facilities of the healthcare network -- the La Crosse campus, Sparta campus, and Arcadia campus hospitals. It also operates primary care clinics. Services include home healthcare, nursing homes, and tertiary care. FSH is an affiliate of the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC) has the Blues in Chicago and the Southwest. A licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, HCSC consists of four regional Blue health plans: Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Texas, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico, and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma. The mutually owned company provides group and individual health plans -- including traditional indemnity plans, managed care programs, and Medicare supplemental coverage -- to more than 12 million members, a majority of them in Illinois and Texas. Through some non-Blue subsidiaries, HCSC sells dental, life, disability, and property/casualty insurance.

When the ailing wish upon a star, Wistar might be able to find them a cure. Founded in 1892, The Wistar Institute is a not-for-profit biomedical research institution concentrating on major diseases such as cancer, immune-system disorders, heart ailments, and infectious diseases. The institute operates from about 30 laboratories with research programs targeting genetic, molecular, and cellular discoveries. The company's research has been used in the development of vaccines, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology drugs. Wistar collaborates with educational and governmental partners.

Health Alliance Plan of Michigan (HAP) provides health insurance products and related services to around 500,000 members. A subsidiary of the Henry Ford Health System, the not-for-profit corporation offers managed care plans (including HMO, PPO, and consumer-directed plans) to individuals and companies throughout its service area, which covers all of Michigan and portions of Indiana and Ohio. It also offers Medicare Advantage plans and Medicare prescription drug coverage to retirees. In addition, the company offers disease management, behavioral health, and wellness programs.

Criticare Systems helps hospitals keep better tabs on their patients. Instruments and sensors made by the company monitor the vital signs and anesthetic levels of patients undergoing surgery or confined to intensive care. Its products also provide readings for electrocardiograms and monitor oxygen saturation, carbon dioxide levels, blood pressure, temperature, heart rate, and respiration rate. Criticare's VitalView telemetry system allows one nurse to keep tabs on more than a dozen patients from a single location. The company also makes reusable pulse oximetry sensors for use with its equipment. The company is a subisidiary of India-based manufacturer Opto Circuits.

FHN is a regional health care system serving residents in northwestern Illinois and southern Wisconsin. At its heart is the nearly 200-bed FHN Memorial Hospital, which provides general medical and surgical care, emergency services, and specialty care in areas such as sleep disorders, orthopedics, obstetrics, and cardiology. The health system also features a cancer center, home health care and hospice operations, and a network of satellite facilities providing primary medical and dental care, as well as occupational health, chiropractic, and counseling services. Its Northern Illinois Health Plan subsidiary supplies PPO health plans and third-party administrative services to the region's employers.

diaDexus is a diagnostics company, located in South San Francisco, California, focusing on the development and commercialization of patent-protected in vitro diagnostic products addressing unmet needs in cardiovascular disease. diaDexus was formed in 1997 as a joint venture between SmithKline Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline) and Incyte; upon formation, GSK granted diaDexus an exclusive license to certain diagnostic intellectual property, including the PLAC Test for Lp-PLA2. The PLAC Test is the only blood test cleared by the FDA to assess risk for coronary heart disease and ischemic stroke associated with atherosclerosis.

CHRISTUS Spohn Health System, part of CHRISTUS Health, provides health care services to the residents of 12 counties in southern Texas. Its six acute care hospitals include CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Alice, CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Beeville, and CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital Kleberg. Its flagship hospital, CHRISTUS Spohn Hospital in Corpus Christi has three campuses including its Shoreline Hospital which serves as the region's primary critical care center. The health system also operates about a dozen family practice and specialty health centers, and it offers mobile clinic services to rural and underserved communities.

Fauquier Hospital was founded in 1925. Fauquier Hospital takes care of the populace of rural northern Virginia. The multi-location system provides medical, surgical, outpatient, and home health care services to a four county area. With more than 85 beds, the facility is the only hospital in Fauquier, and also serves Culpeper, Prince William and Rappahannock Counties. Specialized services include emergency medicine, oncology, rehabilitation, and cardiac and pulmonary care. The hospital's emergency room has more than 30 private rooms and services about 30,000 patients each year. Fauquier Hospital partners with Prince William Hospitalto operate the Cancer Center at Lake Manassas.

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