Patient and business services provider contracts with Alabama fertility center.

2004 APR 5 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IntegraMed America, Inc. (Nasdaq: INMD) announced an exclusive agreement with the Mobile, Alabama-based Center for Reproductive Medicine to offer IntegraMed Shared Risk Refund service to the Center's patient population.

Under the terms of the agreement, the Center joins IntegraMed's national network and has access to the Company's inventory of patient and business services. The Center provides fertility services in Alabama and provides an important new distribution channel for IntegraMed's Shared Risk Refund program.

The physicians of the Center, George T. Koulianos, MD, and George B. Inge, MD, are a private practice of reproductive endocrinologists who specialize in the assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of endocrine disorders and infertility through medical, surgical, and technological interventions. A full array of services to identify and treat causes of infertility are offered, including assisted reproductive technologies such as in vitro fertilization, intracytoplasmic sperm injections, assisted hatching, and reproductive surgeries. The Center draws patients from the entire state of Alabama as well as portions of northwest Florida, southern Mississippi, and southern Georgia.

Under the terms of the agreement, IntegraMed is committed to providing the Center with access to patient and business service offerings. Initially, the focus is on the Company's patient-oriented offerings including the Shared Risk Refund program and the Company's Internet marketing services. In addition, the Center can access a full portfolio of other products and services that the Company makes available to its network of affiliated fertility centers.

According to the Center's Koulianos: "... the market is becoming more competitive and we recognize the need to provide the kind of products and services to our patients that IntegraMed has pioneered successfully in other parts of the country. Aside from the patient oriented programs they offer, I am also particularly impressed with the quality of the physicians that IntegraMed has affiliated with around the country. It's clearly a group of providers we want to be associated with."

IntegraMed's network is now made up of 24 contracted fertility centers. These centers employ 140 physicians and PhD scientists in 79 locations across the United States.

This article was prepared by Health & Medicine Week editors from staff and other reports. Copyright 2004, Health & Medicine Week via NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net.