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Bass, Berry & Sims has represented clients including hospitals, health systems, academic medical centers, and community-based and government-owned hospitals in hundreds of healthcare M&A transactions. The healthcare industry provides unique challenges in the areas of due diligence and the evaluation of potential risks and liabilities. A keen sensitivity to fraud and abuse issues is mandated. The experience we have developed through the large number of providers, payers and other healthcare-related companies we serve is critical to the representation of our clients in these types of transactions. Representing providers and non-providers in healthcare M&A transactions requires a thorough understanding of the legal and regulatory constraints affecting the healthcare industry.

Best Doctors provides a powerful benefit for employers that delivers a direct and immediate impact through improved healthcare quality and reduced costs. We help individuals navigate decisions about their healthcare with certainty that they have the right diagnosis and the right treatment. From expert medical consultation services to physician referrals, Best Doctors provides clinical advocacy services to ensure that individuals have the right care at the right time. For 20 years, Best Doctors has helped thousands of people take an informed, active role in their healthcare. Today Best Doctors is the trusted resource for individuals and physicians, serving more than 15 million people in 30 countries.

Booz & Company (www.booz.com) is a leading global consulting firm, helping the world's top businesses, governments, and organizations. With broad health care industry expertise and more than 3,300 people in 60 offices around the world, we work closely with our clients to create and deliver essential advantage.

Companion Data Services is your premier source for data center hosting, specializing in health care, with the stability, security and capacity you demand and the experience you can trust. Our data centers rank among the top two percent of IBM data centers in the world. Our relationships range from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. For more information, visit www.CompanionDataServices.com.

DST Health Solutions helps you optimize your organizational strengths, while reducing costs and improving quality and measurement. With DST as your partner, you can easily and efficiently take advantage of new technology, provide transparency and increased intelligence, and bring new products to market more quickly and effectively. The integrated care-management solutions provide care teams with a 360-degree view of a member, providing retrospective and prospective data to guide the best utilization of benefits and services to help drive improved outcomes. Learn more on how DST is reshaping the healthcare landscape. www.dsthealthsolutions.com

Health Dialog is a leading provider of healthcare analytics and decision support. The firm is a private, wholly-owned subsidiary of Bupa, a global provider of healthcare services. Health Dialog helps healthcare payors improve healthcare quality while reducing overall costs. Company offerings include health coaching for medical decisions, chronic conditions, and wellness; population analytic solutions; and consulting services. Health Dialog helps individuals participate in their own healthcare decisions, develop more effective relationships with their physicians, and live healthier, happier lives. For more information please visit www.healthdialog.com.

PayFlex® is leading the way in technology and innovation in account-based benefits administration. HealthHub®, powered by PayFlex®, provides solutions that educate, engage and empower employees to improve their health and financial wellbeing. Incentive-based wellness programs integrated with account-based health administration sets PayFlex® apart in the consumer-directed marketplace.

Landacorp, A Carewise Health Affiliate, provides care and health management technology and clinical solutions to execute a clear vision for collaborative care. Its' CareRadius suite provides dual areas of expertise; proven technology to link members, providers and health plans and clinical care tools to improve health and reduce costs.

As a leading global payments company, MasterCard Worldwide prides itself on being at the heart of commerce, helping to make life easier and more efficient for everyone, everywhere. MasterCard serves as a franchisor, processor and advisor to the payments industry, and makes commerce happen by providing a critical economic link among financial institutions, governments, businesses, merchants, and cardholders worldwide. Powered by the MasterCard Worldwide Network - the fastest payment processing network in the world - MasterCard processes over 22 billion transactions each year and has the capacity to handle 140 million transactions per hour.

McKesson Health Solutions delivers solutions that drive clinical and business intelligence that helps payors and providers optimize the quality and cost of care. Our clinical knowledge, process expertise and technology tools optimize payment decisions, validate appropriateness of services, automate authorizations, manage diagnostics utilization, and harness the transformative power of analytics. www.mckesson.com

Oliver Wyman, an international management consulting firm, combines deep industry knowledge with specialized expertise to help clients optimize their businesses, improve operations, and accelerate organizational performance to seize the most attractive opportunities. Oliver Wyman's Health & Life Sciences practice serves clients in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical devices, provider, and payer sectors.

Peppers & Rogers Group is a leading management consulting firm, dedicated to helping. We show clients where to focus customer-facing resources to optimize customer experiences, reduce attrition, increase loyalty, create customer advocacy and mitigate risks.

Peppers & Rogers Group's Healthcare Practice serves industry leaders in health insurance, pharmaceutical and healthcare delivery as they face changing dynamics resulting from legislative reform, technology innovation and a social customer landscape. From engaging directly with consumers to applying mobile and social technologies; capitalizing on reform-based opportunities to optimizing the customer lifecycle; Peppers & Rogers Group takes a customer-focused perspective to meet the healthcare industry's top challenges.

Pitney Bowes Management Services has proven solutions to help healthcare providers and payers cut costs, increase revenues, and boost patient/member/policy holder satisfaction. We help streamline mail and document processes, stay compliant with HIPPA regulations, and use customer communications to influence patient and member behavior or capture market share.

Summa Health System is a large, integrated healthcare delivery system serving Northeast Ohio. Known nationally for excellence in patient care and multi-disciplinary approach to care delivery, Summa includes hospitals, community health centers, a health plan, physician-hospital organization, an entrepreneurial entity, medical education, clinical research, and foundations. Tom Strauss, CEO. www.summahealth.org

TriZetto's healthcare software and services drive administrative efficiency, improve the cost and quality of care, and increase payer-provider collaboration and connectivity. Payer offerings include enterprise and component software, and application hosting, BPO and consulting services. Provider offerings, delivered by Gateway EDI, detect and fix claims issues proactively. For information, visit www.trizetto.com.