HME provider Extrakare LLC (Norcross, Ga.) was ranked 271 on the 2009 Inc. magazine list of America’s 500  fastest-growing private businesses.

The provider was also ranked the 25th fastest-growing private healthcare business in the United States and the eighth fastest-growing private business in Atlanta.

Co-founded by Scott Lloyd and Kevin Godwin in 2004, Extrakare is a full-line HME supplier with an emphasis on home oxygen and PAP therapy. The provider serves the greater metro Atlanta area and says it tries to differentiate itself by providing patients with innovative, patient-friendly products. Extrakare says much of its success is due to its local ownership and management, which helps it be responsive to the needs of its patients, their caregivers and referral sources.

“We are pleased to have the hard work of our employees recognized in a national ranking,” Lloyd said. “We are proud of the people that have worked so hard to make Extrakare successful.”

“Our disciplined operating model has allowed the company to expand at high annual rate, while preserving an excellent reputation with patients and the Atlanta medical community at large,” Godwin added.