Devices Represented on
Inc.’s List of Fastest-
Growing Companies
Acompany that helps implantable
device manufacturers manage their
operations better has been named one
of the top 500 fastest-growing companies in America by Inc. magazine.
Implantable Provider Group (IPG;
Alpharetta, GA) has grown more than
1500% since its founding in 2004,
good enough for #138 on Inc.’s list,
highest among device industry firms.
It is helped by the double-digit annual
growth of the medical implant market.
IPG had revenues of $11 million in
2007, up from $652,000 in 2004.
IPG helps clinical providers manage
complex authorization, procurement,
contracting, and billing functions related to implant devices in the neurology, cardiovascular, and orthopedic
areas. Its partners include Medtronic Neuromodulation and Smith &
Nephew, among others.
Other device and related companies
in the top 500 include the following:
• OraMetrix (Richardson, TX),
which provides 3-D medical imaging for orthodontic care.
• Reliant Technologies (Mountain
View, CA), which develops laser
treatment systems that tighten, rejuvenate, and resurface skin.
• Health Diagnostics (Melville, NY),
which provides diagnostic imaging
for private-practice physicians.
• InTouch Health (Santa Barbara,
CA), which makes the Remote Presence Robotic System, a wireless,
mobile robot featuring a two-way
video and audio computer system
that allows physicians to monitor
and interact with patients.
• HemCon Medical Technologies
(Portland, OR), which makes bandages that control bleeding and infection for the healthcare industry,
the Department of Defense, and
first responders worldwide.
—Erik Swain
AdvaMed Names
Government Affairs VP
Former White House staffer Leah
Kegler is the new vice president of
government affairs at AdvaMed. As
the associate director of the National
Economic Council, Kegler offered
policy guidance in healthcare finance,
organized more than 30 presidential
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events related to economic policy, and
worked with CMS as it transitioned to
a new administrator.
Kegler also served as the director of
CMS’s Partnership Relations Group.
During the implementation of the
Medicare Modernization Act of 2003,
she was the health policy advisor to
the Senate Committee on Finance’s
Majority Staff. —ES
