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EXHIBIT 99
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Henry D. Herr
Executive Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
(615) 665-1122
AMERICAN HEALTHWAYS TO BROADCAST FIRST QUARTER
CONFERENCE CALL LIVE ON THE INTERNET
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 14, 2000) - American Healthways, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: AMHC)
today announced it will provide an online Web simulcast and rebroadcast of its
fiscal 2001 first quarter earnings release conference call.
The live broadcast of American Healthways, Inc.'s quarterly conference
call will be available online by going to www.americanhealthways.com and
clicking on the link to Investor Relations and at www.streetevents.com and
www.vcall.com. The Company intends to issue its first quarter earnings release
at approximately 1:00 p.m. EST and the call is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m.
EST on December 21, 2000. The online replay will follow shortly after the call
and continue through January 21, 2001.
Nashville-based American Healthways (www.americanhealthways.com) is the
nation's leading and largest provider of specialized, comprehensive care and
disease management services to health plans, physicians, and hospitals. Through
its four product lines - DIABETES HEALTHWAYS(SM), CARDIAC HEALTHWAYS(SM),
RESPIRATORY HEALTHWAYS(SM), and MYHEALTHWAYS(SM) - the Company provides its
programs to health plans in nearly 60 markets and serves more than 312,000
health plan equivalent lives. The Company's DIABETES HEALTHWAYS(SM) program for
hospitals is used by hospitals and health systems in approximately 70 markets,
serving more than 100,000 people with diabetes each year.
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