GF Health Products helps patients gain ground. A leading maker and distributor of wheelchairs, the company (also known as Graham-Field) distributes medical and surgical supplies, rehabilitative and respiratory equipment, home safety products, pressure management equipment, specialized furnishings, and lifts and other mobility aids. Brands include Lumex, Grafco, Basic American, and Everest & Jennings. GF's clients fall into four main categories: primary care, home care, long-term care (nursing homes), and acute care (hospitals). An investment group that includes some of GF Health Products' officers own the company.

Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Utica Region provides health insurance coverage to members in about a dozen upstate New York counties. The company's health insurance plans include traditional indemnity, HMOBlue, BluePPO, and BluePoint 2 (point-of-service plan). The company also provides college student health coverage (College Blue) and consumer-driven health coverage for small businesses and individuals (HealthyBlue and SimplyBlue), as well as Medicare supplement and dental coverage. Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, Utica Region is part of Excellus BlueCross BlueShield, which itself is a subsidiary of The Lifetime Healthcare Companies.

Broncus Technologies is developing and commercializing innovative solutions for diagnosing and treating lung diseases. Physicians use LungPoint® Virtual Bronchoscopic Navigation Systems to plan bronchoscopic procedures and maneuver to selected targets in the lungs accurately and quickly. The unique 18 gauge FleXNeedle™ coring needle enables peripheral sampling and access to hard-to-reach areas of the lungs. Airway Bypass is an investigational bronchoscopic procedure for emphysema patients who have shortness of breath due to lung hyperinflation.

Franciscan Services Corporation was founded in 1984. Franciscan Services Corporation is a Catholic health care system sponsored by the Sisters of St. Francis of Sylvania, Ohio. The health system operates hospitals, long-term care centers, and nursing homes in Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas. Its facilities are organized into regional provider groups including Trinity Health System (Ohio), St. Joseph Health System (Texas), Trinity Health Services Corporation (Texas), and Franciscan Living Communities (Kentucky and Ohio). Franciscan Services operates a total of about 925 hospital beds and 1,700 senior living units. It also manages counseling centers and shelters for domestic violence victims.

Liberty Healthcare is focused on freeing up overworked doctors and nurses.Liberty Healthcare company is a contract medical management organization that manages and staffs health care facilities and treatment programs in about 20 states. Liberty Healthcare offers permanent nursing staff to hospitals, as well as provides behavioral treatment programs for sex offenders, drug addicts, and others with "challenging behaviors." The programs are managed mostly for public agencies. The company's Habilitative Services group manages facilities for those with developmental disabilities while its Corporate Health and Wellness business designs workers' compensation, health care, and education programs for large employers.

Priority Health Managed Benefits' chief concern is its members' wellbeing. The health insurance provider serves some 500,000 members in 65 counties throughout the state of Michigan. The company offers managed care plans to about nearly 8,000 employer groups; it also provides individual coverage. It contracts with a network of nearly 100 acute care hospitals and more than 12,000 health care providers, including primary care doctors and specialists. Health plan offerings include HMO, POS, PPO, Medicaid, and Medicare plans. Priority Health also offers health savings accounts (HSAs) and provides administrative services for companies with self-funded plans.

Chemed Corporation brings a professional dignity to times of transition and sewer line clogs. Operating through two major subsidiaries, Chemed Corporation offers hospice care to terminally ill patients through its VITAS Healthcare subsidiary which operates in some 15 US states. VITAS employs doctors, nurses, and other professionals to provide at-home and inpatient services in care facilities. Chemed's better-known Roto-Rooter subsidiary offers plumbing and drain-cleaning services for residential and commercial customers through company-owned, contractor-operated, and franchised locations, some 600 total. A stalwart of the industry, Roto-Rooter offers services throughout the US and in parts of Canada.

The Western Pennsylvania Hospital is a part of the West Penn Allegheny Health System. The 512-bed teaching hospital is affiliated with Clarion University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, and Temple University. It offers specialized services such as emergency medicine, heart care, breast disease treatment, cancer treatment, orthopedics, and surgery (including microscopic surgery). Special facilities include an area burn center, cancer treatment center, and a hospice facility.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (BCBSA) -- known as "the Blues" -- serve more than 100 million members nationwide. The association is a federation of about 40 independent health insurance companies who license the Blue Cross and Blue Shield brand names. Member companies own the rights to sell Blue-branded health plans within defined regions. BCBSA coordinates some national programs such as BlueCard, which allows members of one franchisee to have coverage in other service areas, and the Federal Employee Program (FEP), which covers more than half of federal government employees, retirees, and their families.

WellPoint, Inc., through its subsidiaries, operates as a health benefits company in the United States. It offers various network-based managed care plans to large and small employer, individual, Medicaid, and senior markets. The company’s managed care plans include preferred provider organizations; health maintenance organizations; point-of-service plans; traditional indemnity plans; and other hybrid plans, including consumer-driven health plans, hospital only, and limited benefit products. WellPoint also provides various managed care services comprising claims processing, underwriting, stop loss insurance, actuarial services, provider network access, medical cost management, disease management, wellness programs, and other administrative services. In addition, it offers specialty and other products and services, including pharmacy benefit management; specialty pharmacy; life and disability insurance benefits; dental, vision, and behavioral health benefits; radiology benefit management; analytics-driven personal health care guidance; and long-term care insurance and flexible spending accounts. Further, WellPoint serves as an intermediary providing administrative service for the Medicare program that offers coverage for persons, who are 65 or older and for persons who are disabled or with end-stage renal disease. As of December 31, 2009, the company served approximately 33.7 million medical members. It markets its products through a network of independent agents and brokers, as well as through in-house sales force. The company, formerly known as Anthem, Inc., was founded in 1944 and is based in Indianapolis, Indiana.

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