GHS Selected for Inc. 5000 List

Publish date: 09/06/2007

AUGUSTA, Maine, September 6 – GHS has been selected as one of the 5,000 fastest growing, privately held American companies by Inc. Magazine. GHS is a healthcare management company with offices in Augusta, Maine and Des Moines, Iowa that specializes in helping its clients save on their prescription drug costs using a variety of innovative practices.

“We are honored to be selected by Inc. Magazine,” said GHS’ CEO, Jim Clair. “Our placement on the list validates what we are building here at GHS: a company committed to ‘growing smartly’ by providing sound pharmacy and other healthcare value-added services to our clients. The core of who we are is reflected in the more than 150 GHS employees who work in our “integrated clinical teams” - - doctors, pharmacists, nurses, data analysts, developers, technicians and others - - working with our clients to achieve important health outcomes. We look forward to creating more quality jobs as we continue to grow.”

GHS has been in business for over three decades. Among its core healthcare offerings are on-line, real-time pharmacy claims adjudication, focused clinical pharmacy services (including preferred drug list management and supplemental rebate negotiations), prior authorization, drug utilization and rebate management, prescription drug monitoring programs, electronic data capture, healthcare assessments and data center services. GHS has state clients in Colorado, Iowa, Maine, Utah and Vermont.

The 5,000 companies chosen by Inc. Magazine are America’s elite, a tiny fraction of the approximately 7 million companies that have employees. This is the first published list that identifies and profiles the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America. The 5,000 companies were ranked according to percentage of revenue growth between 2003 and 2006. GHS ranked #3,918 with a three-year growth rate of 65.5 percent.

To learn more about Inc. Magazine’s 5,000 list, visit www.inc.com.

CONTACT: Jason Hargrove, Strategic Project Manager, GHS, 800.832.9672 or jhargrove@ghsinc.com