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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 FOURTH QUARTER CONFERENCE
                            CALL LIVE ON THE INTERNET

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Sept. 26, 2000) - American Healthways, Inc. (Nasdaq/NM: AMHC)
today announced it will provide an online Web simulcast and rebroadcast of its
2000 fourth 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 call is scheduled to begin at 4:15 p.m. EDT on October 3,
2000. The online replay will follow shortly after the call and continue through
November 3, 2000.

         Nashville-based American Healthways (www.americanhealthways.com) is the
nation's leading provider of specialized, comprehensive disease management
services to health plans, physicians, and hospitals. Through its three product
lines - DIABETES HEALTHWAYS(SM), CARDIAC HEALTHWAYS(SM), and RESPIRATORY
HEALTHWAYS(SM) - the company provides disease management programs to health
plans in more than 50 markets. American Healthways is the nation's largest
disease management organization. The company has contracts to provide diabetes,
cardiac disease, and respiratory disease management programs to more than
300,000 health plan equivalent lives. The company also operates diabetes
management programs in hospitals nationwide.



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