Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Extreme Technologies Acquires Local IT Competitor

Houston-based IT services firm Extreme Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday that it has acquired the operating assets of Talcomp Management Services Inc. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded in 1984 and headquartered in the Space City, Talcomp provides practice management and medical billing services for physicians and dentists and IT support for small- to mid-sized companies. According to Extreme, Talcomp's IT support services will merge with Extreme's IT Service and Support division while Talcomp’s practice management and medical billing operations will be facilitated through a new company, HealthTech LLC, which will be managed under contract with Extreme. Extreme also said Talcomp founder Martin Taylor will join Extreme as vice president of Healthcare Services.