AccentCare Irvine, CA www.accentcare.com | AccentCare News AccentCare provides in-home custodial care services to seniors who do not want to move to an institution but who need assistance with the activities of daily living. AccentCare treats private-pay patients, where its fees are paid directly by the customer, and insured patients. About half of AccentCare's business is based in California and Arizona with the remaining half in New York. Biff Comte is CEO of the company. Marty Felsenthal serves on the board of AccentCare. Aethon, Inc. Pittsburgh, PA www.aethon.com | Aethon News Aethon developed and markets a robotic transport device, the Tug, which attaches to standard hospital carts and autonomously transports materials, such as medications, surgical supplies, nursing supplies, medical records, blood and urine samples, between points within a hospital with the single push of a button. The company's hospital automation systems improve the productivity of many types of hospital personnel that are in short supply nationwide, including pharmacists, pharmacist technicians and nurses, and enables them to focus on their core responsibilities rather than running errands. Aldo Zini is CEO of the company. David Ward serves on the board of Aethon for Salix. Ancillary Care Management Los Angeles, CA www.acmcentral.com | Ancillary Care News Ancillary Care Management provides outsourced services and systems to health plans to assist them in managing the cost and delivery of ancillary care. Ancillary Care Management primarily focuses on managing the rapidly rising costs of specialty biologics (high cost drugs administered by injection or infusion), home health services, durable medical equipment services, and home infusion services. Health plan spending on specialty biologics is estimated at $18 billion and projected to grow to $40 billion by 2010. In addition, health plans currently spend over $42 billion annually on home health, durable medical equipment, and home infusions services. David Willcutts is CEO of the company. Marty Felsenthal serves on the board of Ancillary Care Management. Elder Health Baltimore, MD www.elderhealth.com | Elder Health News Elder Health is a Medicare HMO that provides personalized medical care for the poor elderly. The poor elderly population numbers approximately six million people in the United States today (a $72 billion market), and that number is expected to increase over 400%, to 24 million people by 2010. These "dual eligibles" receive coverage from both Medicare and Medicaid for their healthcare costs. Elder Health operates health plans in Maryland and Pennsylvania. Mike Steele is CEO of the company, and David Jensen is Chairman. David Ward serves on the board of Elder Health. Healthcare Management Resources Hendersonville, TN www.cashforhospitals.com | HMR News Healthcare Management Resources provides business office outsourcing and other revenue cycle management services to hospitals. The Company's services address a hospital's need to solve its growing bad debt and cash collection problems. In the full outsource model, HMR handles all aspects of billing, collections and accounts receivable management for the hospital. HMR's consulting services include accounts receivable clean-up, temporary billing staff, and training and workshops for hospital staff. David "Buddy" Bacon is CEO of the Company. David Ward serves on the board of Healthcare Management Resources for Salix. Intellicare Portland, ME www.intellicare.com | Intellicare America News IntelliCare is a provider of outsourced call center and customer relationship management services to hospital systems, managed care plans, and disease management companies. The company's proprietary IntelliView technology operates on an integrated web-telephony platform and is used to provide nurse line, nurse triage, medical chat, general provider answering services, and e-health customer support over voice, e-mail, on-line chat, and formed data record communications. Victor Otley is President and CEO of the company. Chris Grant serves on the board of IntelliCare. Neighborhood Diabetes Wakefield, MA www.sugartest.com | NDS News Neighborhood Diabetes provides direct-to-consumer, mail order diabetes testing supplies and value-added educational services to the large and growing diabetic population. NDS, founded in 1998, sells a full selection of glucose meters, test strips, infusion pumps, lancets, lancing devices and other ancillary supplies. NDS provides its customers with the convenience of no up-front, out-of-pocket expenses and free home delivery, while billing Medicare or third-party payors on behalf of its customers. Tom Cronin is the CEO of the Company. Chris Grant and Mark Donovan serve on the board of Neighborhood Diabetes. Pathology Partners Dallas, TX www.pathologypartners.com Pathology Partners operates a specialty anatomic pathology reference laboratory focused primarily on gastroenterology disease diagnosis. PPI's clients are physicians, primarily gastroenterologists, and their patients. The company has developed a proprietary system named IntelliPath that enables the GI surgeon to automate several administrative post-surgery chores and combine them with the pathology reports, providing an important chain of custody function. Steve Spotts is President and CEO of the company. Chris Grant serves on the board of Pathology Partners. Patient Care Newton, MA www.patientcare.com / Patient Care News Patient Care is a provider of home health care services. Its two business units, outsourced staffing services and direct patient care services, are provided by either skilled nurses who deliver traditional nursing care in the home setting or caregivers who assist with the daily living activities in patients' homes or health care facilities. Trends fueling the industry's growth include mounting pressure to contain spending at a time when the elderly population is growing rapidly, an increasing desire by consumers to avoid long-term institutional care settings and health care technology improvements that allow providers to accommodate these desires. Dr. Arthur Stratton is Patient Care's Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President. Chris Grant serves on the company's Board of Directors.   PayerPath Richmond, VA www.payerpath.com | PayerPath News PayerPath is a provider of Web-based electronic claims processing services, including complete payer edits, on-line claims correction, the ability to process claims for all payers, interfaces with common practice management systems, electronic remittance, and electronic funds transfer. The company provides its services to health care providers for a fixed monthly fee and also receives payment from payers for facilitating the electronic receipt of provider claims. Jim Brady is President and CEO of PayerPath. David Ward serves on the board for Salix. Phase Forward Waltham, MA www.phaseforward.com | Phase Forward News Clinsoft, Salix's investment in the pharmaceutical information technology sector, was acquired by Phase Forward in August 2001. Phase Forward develops and markets e-process solutions for accelerating global pharmaceutical development. The company's software products use Internet technologies to conduct and manage clinical trials efficiently and effectively. Phase Forward's software and services enable its customers to optimize the processes they use for clinical data management, addressing the entire continuum of clinical research from data capture and management to medical data review and safety reporting. Bob Weiler is President and CEO of the company. Prism Education Group Newton, MA Prism Website | Prism News Prism Education Group is a provider of postsecondary allied health education programs. The company's services address the critical shortage of allied health professionals by improving access to career-oriented education and vocational training. Prism is developing a network of schools offering postsecondary education at the diploma, associate and baccalaureate level for students seeking healthcare as a first career as well as for existing healthcare workers seeking advancement from their current positions. Steve Garfinkle is the CEO of the company. Chris Grant and Mark Donovan serve on the board of Prism Education Group for Salix. Radiant Research Seattle, WA www.radiantresearch.com | Radiant News Radiant Research is a national clinical trials management company that owns and operates sites that conduct Phase I-IV clinical trials for the FDA approval process for new drugs. Radiant's customers are comprised of pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, and contract research organizations, which use the company's sites to shorten the time to market for new pharmaceuticals, to reduce development costs, and to improve the overall research quality of human clinical trials. Mike Lester is Chairman, President and CEO of the company. Chris Grant serves on the board of Radiant Research.   SemperCare Dallas, TX www.sempercare.com | SemperCare News SemperCare develops and operates long term acute care hospitals ("LTACs"). An LTAC is an acute care hospital that specializes in the treatment of patients with medically complex conditions who require intensive care and management over several weeks. SemperCare co-locates its facilities with top-tier hospitals throughout the U.S. and is reimbursed separately by Medicare and private payors in recognition of the intensive care required by these patients. Bob Lefton is the President and CEO of the company. David Ward serves on the board of SemperCare. Titan Health Sacramento, CA www.titanhealth.com | Titan Health News Titan Health develops and manages practice-based ambulatory surgery centers for spinal diagnostics, pain management, and orthopedic procedures. Titan's strategy is to develop new centers in partnership with physicians. Improved technology and employers' focus on return to work has resulted in significant demand for the procedures performed in Titan's centers. David Hall is Executive Chairman of the company and Marc Jang is CEO. Marty Felsenthal serves on the board of Titan Health. Trilogy Health Services Louisville, KY www.trilogyhs.com | Trilogy News Trilogy develops and operates long-term care facilities in non-urban, Midwestern markets. The company's services include skilled nursing, assisted living, memory care and adult day care services. Trilogy provides these services at its health campuses, which consist of a 65 bed skilled nursing unit and a 40 bed assisted living unit. Randy Bufford is CEO of the company. David Ward serves on the board of Trilogy. U.S. HealthWorks Alpharetta, GA www.ushealthworks.com | U.S. HealthWorks News U.S. HealthWorks is the second largest provider of occupational healthcare services in the United States. The company provides medical services to injured employees, and helps employers avoid workplace healthcare costs through comprehensive loss prevention programs. U.S. HealthWorks operates 115 occupational medicine centers in 18 states. Dan Crowley is interim President and CEO of the company. David Ward serves on the board of U.S. HealthWorks. Vantage Oncology Orange County, CA www.vantageoncology.com | Vantage News Vantage Oncology develops, acquires, and operates high quality radiation oncology treatment centers for the treatment of cancer patients. More than 50% of all cancer patients require radiation during the course of their disease. Vantage's centers provide access to significant new technologies used in the provision of radiation therapy, offer outpatient service in convenient locations, and, through affiliation with one of the largest and most prestigious radiotherapy groups in the West Coast, offer clinical care by high quality physicians. In certain situations, the company affiliates with hospitals in the development of centers, providing these partners with access to operating expertise and capital for the upgrade of equipment and facilities. Mike Fiore is Chairman, President and CEO of the company. Marty Felsenthal serves on the board of Vantage Oncology. Vivius Minneapolis, MN www.vivius.com | Vivius News Vivius is a defined contribution group health company that provides employers with a means to control health expenditures; employees the ability to select their own co-pays and deductibles (creating a benefit plan structure that best suits their individual needs) and access to their preferred providers without many of the managed-care imposed burdens, such as utilization review and denied coverage; and providers with the flexibility to determine their own prices and the freedom to operate without the oversight and administrative burdens of managed care. David Teckman is President and CEO of the company. Marty Felsenthal attends board meetings for Salix.