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Conmed Expands Services in Pacific Northwest with Acquisition

of Emergency Medicine Documentation Consultants, P.C.

Will Provide Correctional Facility Healthcare Services

for Six Additional Counties in Oregon

Hanover, Md. -- (BUSINESS WIRE)—March 12, 2008 -- Conmed Healthcare Management, Inc. (OTCBB:CMHM - News), a leading full service provider of correctional facility healthcare services to county detention centers, today announced that it has acquired, for cash and stock, nine healthcare service contracts with six counties in Oregon currently being serviced by Dr. Robert Tilley, M.D., MBA, doing business as Emergency Medicine Documentation Consultants, P.C. (“EMDC”). Dr. Tilley will remain with Conmed as Vice President and Medical Director of the Northwest Region. The transaction closed on February 28, 2008. Terms were not disclosed.

“We are pleased to welcome Dr. Tilley’s practice to our organization as we expand our footprint in the Pacific Northwest,” commented Richard W. Turner, PhD, President and Chief Executive Officer, Conmed Healthcare Management, Inc. “The contracts, which are primarily for physician services, offer significant growth opportunities, since they fit well with Conmed’s geographic expansion strategy and our overall business model. We strive to expand our services with our existing accounts and leverage our expertise in providing full on-site staffing, acute care, mental health, pharmacy, and out-of-facility health care services, so we are very excited about this opportunity.”

Dr. Tilley has spent more than a decade working within the correctional facility healthcare industry. He is a Certified Corrections Health Care Provider (CCHP) through the National Commission on Correctional Health Care (NCCHC). He received his medical degree from Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons, and has an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of Washington and an MBA from Portland State University. Dr. Tilley is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine.

About Conmed

Conmed has provided correctional healthcare services since 1984, beginning in the state of Maryland, and currently services detention centers and correctional facilities in thirty counties in five states, including Washington, Oregon, Kansas, Virginia and Maryland. Conmed's services have expanded to include mental health, pharmacy and out-of-facility healthcare services.

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Contact:

Conmed Healthcare Management, Inc.

Thomas W. Fry, 301-609-8460

Chief Financial Officer

tfry@conmed-inc.com

Hayden Communications

Peter Seltzberg, 646-415-8972

peter@haydenir.com

Brett Maas, 646-536-7331

brett@haydenir.com

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	CONMED HEALTHCARE MANAGEMENT, INC.

Date: March 12, 2008	By:	/s/ Richard Turner
		Richard Turner
		President and Chief Executive Officer

99.1	Press Release dated March 12, 2008