IRVING, Texas and BEARSVILLE, New York, Dec. 12, 2001 - AdvancePCS (Nasdaq: ADVP), the nation's leading health improvement company, and LifeLink Monitoring Corporation, a leading provider of biometric home telemonitoring services, today announced a strategic relationship to provide telemonitoring services to clients of AdvancePCS.

These services add power to AdvancePCS' current health improvement programs in hypertension, congestive heart failure and diabetes. The agreement will result in improved management of chronic diseases, increased compliance with treatment plans and reduced expenditures for hospitalization, home nursing and office visits. It also will reduce the cost of prescription medications for some patients and improve drug compliance for others.

The telemonitoring system employs patient-friendly technologies to monitor blood pressure, heart rate, weight, blood glucose and self-reported symptoms. Respiratory function and other telemonitoring services will be added in the coming months. At the press of a button, patients can monitor one or more of these parameters and send their readings over regular telephone lines to the LifeLink Monitoring data center. Patients receive immediate voice feedback, including congratulations or instructions to call their doctor, if appropriate. The objective data are then summarized, integrated with pharmacy utilization and compliance data supplied by AdvancePCS, and reported to the patient's physician or case manager.

"This agreement represents an enhancement to our current product offering and aligns well with our goal of improving the health of our members while decreasing costs for our clients," said Andrew Garling, AdvancePCS senior vice president, clinical operations. "It is part of AdvancePCS' commitment to continuously improve our comprehensive portfolio of disease prevention and management programs."

AdvancePCS' health improvement programs address diseases and conditions that affect millions of Americans and account for a disproportionately large share of health care expenditures. The health improvement portfolio promotes health care practices that are consistent with the most recently published clinical guidelines. Each program is designed to work in conjunction with the care management and quality initiatives of AdvancePCS clients.

Home biometric telemonitoring provides an effective source of clinical information for physicians and patients, improving the diagnosis and treatment of chronic conditions. It offers health care providers higher quality and more timely information than they collect during office or home nursing visits. It also provides a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of a patient's condition, better treatment plans and improved results.

Art Avedisian, president and CEO of LifeLink Monitoring, said, "We're very excited by AdvancePCS' companywide commitment to health improvement. The combination of AdvancePCS' utilization and compliance data with our objective telemonitoring data and subjective patient-reported symptoms offers physicians and case managers an unprecedented capability to diagnose and treat chronic diseases."

The agreement will enable AdvancePCS and LifeLink Monitoring to provide turnkey telemonitoring solutions to AdvancePCS' payer clients. LifeLink and AdvancePCS will manage all aspects of telemonitoring without the need for the clients to add staff, devote resources or make capital investments. The service includes physician education, patient enrollment, hardware inventory management, device activation, customer service activities, data collection and reporting.

About LifeLink Monitoring Corporation
LifeLink Monitoring (www.llmi.com) is a leading provider of turnkey telemonitoring services to healthcare organizations. The company's disease management tools can be used by anyone responsible for the care of patients with chronic conditions, either in a primary care setting or a formal disease management program.

The company provides comprehensive telemonitoring services to managed care organizations, integrated delivery systems, self-insured employers and disease management companies.

About AdvancePCS
AdvancePCS (www.advancepcsrx.com) is the nation's largest independent provider of health improvement services, touching the lives of more than 75 million health plan members and managing more than $21 billion in annual prescription drug spending. The company offers health plans a wide range of health improvement products and services designed to improve the quality of care delivered to health plan members.

The company's capabilities include integrated mail service and retail pharmacy networks, innovative clinical services, customized disease management programs, specialty pharmacy, clinical trials and outcomes research, information management, and prescription drug services for the uninsured. AdvancePCS clients include Blue Cross and Blue Shield organizations, insurance companies and HMOs, Fortune 500 employers, Taft-Hartley groups, state and local governments, and other health plan sponsors.

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