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A Georgia company that entered the Sacramento market last summer obtained three more local occupational health clinics last week when it bought a rival's national operations.
U.S. HealthWorks bought Birmingham, Ala.-based HealthSouth Corp.'s entire occupational medicine division for about $30 million. The buy more than doubles U.S. HealthWorks' size, from 63 health centers in seven states to 162 centers in 29 states, with six centers in the Sacramento region.
The sale means privately owned U.S. HealthWorks is the only big nationwide player left in the occupational health market in Sacramento - and the only major rival to Burger Rehabilitation, a privately owned Folsom company with 11 clinics. Local health systems and a number of small independent companies also offer occupational healthcare in the region.
The occupational health market has changed in recent years, as big for -profit companies like HealthSouth and NovaCare Rehabilitation Inc. of Mechanicsburg, Pa., tried to make a go of it in the region by spreading the cost of providing care over large numbers of patients.
But occupational health, where...