For 25 years, Healthways (Nasdaq: HWAY) has been working with health plans, hospitals and physicians to improve health, enhance the fundamental care experience and reduce the cost of care. The company’s Health and Care SupportSM programs focus on prevention, education, behavior change and evidence-based medicine to help drive adherence to proven standards of care, medications and the physician’s plan of care. Our programs have been reviewed and approved by NCQA, URAC and Johns Hopkins and are delivered to more than 2.4 million people worldwide.

Healthways has been recognized both for its growth and its proven outcomes, consistently ranking among the best and fastest growing companies in America by BusinessWeek, Fortune and Forbes magazines. Healthways is a three-time winner of the Disease Management Association of America Leadership Award and has been recognized for program excellence by the Harvard Medical School's Department of Healthcare Policy and the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association. Headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, Healthways has been ranked among the Best Places to Work in Tennessee.

Our goal is to measurably improve the health/care experience for people across the health continuum. We have made it our business to keep as many people as possible on the healthy side of the health/care equation through education, motivation and empathetic, sustained relationships guided by sound, evidence-based medicine.

As one of the world’s most experienced providers of health and care support services, we’ve spent years researching and refining our strategy. The result is Health and Care Support — a comprehensive and integrated approach to health and care, which supports and supplements the patient/physician relationship, to improve health outcomes and reduce the costs of care across the health/care continuum.

Healthways is the nation's leading and largest provider of health and care support services. Our programs focus on improving people’s lives across the entire health and care continuum by providing a total population with the motivation, education and support they need to follow treatments and make lifestyle changes that result in healthier lives.

Healthways’ strength is based on the relationships we build between people. Every relationship we establish is built on a solid foundation of trust that we call the Trust ChannelSM. We foster each relationship by delivering innovative solutions for health and care support in order to achieve our goal of measurably improved outcomes for all our customers.

Our unprecedented growth and the emergence of new markets for our services have created exceptional opportunities for colleagues in a variety of locations.

Healthways is the nation's largest provider of disease and care management services. Our programs are designed to coordinate and integrate a patient's care to achieve a more successful health outcome. Using sophisticated technology and a team of highly skilled, empathetic health care professionals, we work closely with patients, physicians, health plans and hospitals to encourage adherence to evidence-based standards of care that generate significant improvements in health and significantly reduced costs of care.


With our expanded care enhancement programming, we are able to provide the same outcomes-focused programming to all members of an insurer's population.

Healthways' Study Shows Medicare Advantage Beneficiaries Benefit from Disease Management Programs
May 15, 2007
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Research Demonstrates Improved Clinical Control in Diabetes Population

Nashville, Tenn. – May 15, 2007 – Disease management programs improve adherence to diabetes standards of care for Medicare Advantage patients, according to a Healthways Center for Health Research study presented at the recent Third Annual World Congress Leadership Summit on Medicare. Authorized by the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act, Medicare Advantage plans have special flexibility to offer patients disease management and other complementary care services not available through traditional Medicare coverage.

“Healthways is pleased to contribute its findings to the growing body of research pointing toward the fact that disease management programs drive adherence to established diabetes standards of care and, as a result, provide the necessary systems of support to enable individuals to achieve their personal best health,” said Healthways Chief Medical Officer Dexter Shurney, M.D. MPH.

Healthways Senior Medical Director Virginia Gurley, M.D., MPH, presented the study: Improved Clinical Control in a Medicare Advantage Diabetes Population, which followed more than 1,500 Medicare Advantage plan members for a two-year period to assess adherence to diabetes care guidelines.


Key findings from the study include:

Medicare Advantage members of all ages benefited from participation in Healthways’ diabetes disease management program.
Participation in Healthways’ diabetes disease management program led to improved A1C and LDL testing and clinical values for the Medicare Advantage population.
Participation in Healthways’ diabetes disease management program increased the number of Medicare Advantage members with appropriate A1C and LDL clinical control.
Healthways Center for Health Research is dedicated to the advancement of health research based in large part on analysis of more than 25 years of Company data. The work of the Center for Health Research is focused on understanding the drivers of health outcomes leveraging advanced analytics and research to focus on effective management of at-risk behaviors and mitigating the progression of disease. This work helps to improve programs that offer support for millions of people to lead healthier, more productive lives. For additional information or a copy of the report, visit www.healthways.com/research.


About Healthways
Healthways (NASDAQ: HWAY) is the leading provider of specialized, comprehensive Health and Care SupportSM solutions to help millions of people maintain or improve their health and, as a result, reduce overall healthcare costs. Healthways' programs are designed to help healthy individuals stay healthy, mitigate and slow the progression of disease associated with family or lifestyle risk factors and promote the best possible health for those already affected by disease. Our proven, evidence-based programs provide highly specific and personalized interventions for each individual in a population, irrespective of age or health status, and are delivered to consumers by phone, mail, internet and face-to-face interactions, both domestically and internationally. Healthways also provides a national, fully accredited complementary and alternative Health Provider Network, offering convenient access to individuals who seek health services outside of, and in conjunction with, the traditional healthcare system. For more information, please visit www.healthways.com/.

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