BUSINESS BRIEFS: COLUMBIA/HCA; ENVOY; VALUE HEALTH;

      Columbia/HCA Healthcare Corp.'s Central Florida division has
 created the Company Care Program to handle workers' compensation
 cases.  The state recently mandated that workers' compensation be
 handled through managed care (Orlando Sentinel, 6/16) .........
 Nashville, TN-based Envoy Corp. will pay Hartford, CT-based Aetna
 U.S. Healthcare $36.4 million for its Healthcare Data Interchange
 Corp. subsidiary.  As part of the deal, Aetna will contract with
 Envoy  for its electronic health care transactions (Reuters/New
 York Times, 6/17) ........    Flagship Health, a Baltimore-based
 doctors group, has agreed to merge with Towson, MD-based Clinical
 Associates in a $50 million merger.  The deal, which is to be
 completed next month, will create Flagship Health Care with 135
 physicians serving over 250,000 patients (Somerville, Baltimore
 Sun, 6/19) ........ The Western Medical Services division of
 Western Staff Services Inc., a national home health and staffing
 services provider based in Walnut Creek, CA, has acquired
 California-based Amador Home Health Agency Inc.  Amador has eight
 offices, specializes in providing care in rural areas and reports
 annual sales in excess of $10 million (Western Staff Services
 release, 6/16) ........  A new dental HMO, Coral Gables, FL-based
 Atlantic Dental Inc., began operating in Central Florida in June. 
 The HMO has 3,000 enrollees and a network of 1,500 South and
 Central Florida dentists (Lundine, Orlando Business Journal,
 6/16) .........  Rockville, MD-based biotechnology firm PerImmune
 Inc. announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with
 Santa Barbara, CA-based Mentor Corp. to market its rapid test for
 bladder cancer.  The urine test, which was approved by the Food
 and Drug Administration in April, tests for the recurrence of
 bladder cancer (Guidera, Baltimore Sun, 6/19).