She is a management consultant with the Wilkerson Group, a health care and pharmaceutical consulting company in New York.

Ms. Gardner is a research assistant at the Wilkerson Group, a health-care consulting company in New York.

In August, Mrs. Brooks is to become an associate consultant at the Wilkerson Group, a health-care consulting company in New York.

An intravascular ultrasound would cost insurers about $3,000 to $4,000, said Melissa Sabino, vice president of the Wilkerson Group, a New York health care consulting company.

She is a health-care consultant with the Wilkerson Group in New York.

In 1986, home health-test kits were a $290 million industry, according to John Wilkerson, president of the Wilkerson Group, a health-care consultant in New York.

Profit varies sharply by test, said John W. Teipel, a senior consultant at The Wilkerson Group, a health-care consulting firm.

L. John Wilkerson, chairman of the Wilkerson Group, a health products consulting firm, said the increases might be less steep as more drugs faced competition.

Mrs. Miller, 23, was until recently an associate consultant at the Wilkerson Group in New York, a management consultant to the health-care industry.

She is a consultant at the Wilkerson Group, management consultants to the health care industry in New York.