IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. Files Registration Statement for Propose...( NORTH HOLLYWOOD Calif. June 17 /-...),Health

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., June 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- IPC The Hospitalist Company, Inc. (Nasdaq: IPCM), a leading national hospitalist physician group practice, today announced that it has filed a registration statement with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in connection with a proposed offering of 5,000,000 shares of its common stock. The 5,000,000 shares to be registered include 3,889,769 shares owned by certain stockholders of the Company.

Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC and Jefferies & Company, Inc. will be acting as joint book-running managers and William Blair & Company, L.L.C., Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. and Wachovia Capital Markets, LLC will be co-managers.

This offering will be made only by means of a prospectus. When available, copies of the preliminary prospectus relating to this offering may be obtained from the Credit Suisse Prospectus Department, One Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10010, (800) 221-1037, or Jefferies & Company Prospectus Department, 520 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10022, (888) 449-2342.

A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold nor may offers to buy be accepted prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

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