When these
programs and services are available to participants along with programs for
the management of chronic and high-cost episodic conditions, health plans and
employers have the tools to manage the full continuum of care.

San Francisco Chronicle Launches Culture Blog

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With the integration of CorSolutions and Matria, the
awards of business included in today's announcement also include the new and
expanded accounts awarded to CorSolutions.
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Culture Blog are now able to post their comments directly to the Culture Blog.

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SAFE HARBOR STATEMENT
This press release contains forward-looking statements. We have the talent
and the traffic to make SFGate the blogging destination for anyone living in
or interested in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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matria."
Peter Negulescu, vice president of SFGate, who has been the overall
architect of this launch, said, "Blogs offer our writers a quick and
convenient way to converse with our community and audience in a more casual
forum.

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Combined with its online partner, SFGate.3 million monthly unique visitors and over 64
million monthly page views.

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Headquartered in Marietta,
Georgia , Matria has more than 40 offices in the United States and
internationally. These statements are based
on current information and belief, and are not guarantees of future
performance.com recently launched the Culture Blog, located at
http://sfgate. In February, The San Francisco Chronicle was
the first major metropolitan newspaper to launch its own podcasts. In the near future, blogs from
sports, business and other areas of interest will be added.

Weblogs and blogs related to the broad topic area of mental health or mental health advocacy.

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Ours is a Culture Blog that's
entertaining, hilarious, interesting , engaging and unique.

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Matria expects to implement services for all but one of the new and
expanded accounts during the first and second quarters of 2006.

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The Company reported that the new and expanded awards of business
announced today are in addition to the new business awards last announced by
Matria on October 11, 2005. Matria manages major
chronic diseases and episodic conditions including diabetes, congestive heart
failure, coronary artery disease, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary
disease, high-risk obstetrics, cancer, chronic pain, depression, end-stage
renal disease , and obesity; delivers programs that address wellness, healthy
living, productivity improvement, and patient advocacy; and provides case
management of acute and catastrophic conditions.com, The
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In
addition, one of the Company's current large self-insured employer clients has
successfully completed a pilot program for one of Matria's disease management
programs, and will now be offering that program to its entire population of
employees and dependents . More information about Matria can be found on line at
http://www.

com/blogs/culture / , according to Phil Bronstein, editor of The
San Francisco Chronicle. Culture Blog is just the first step in getting that conversation
going.

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Petit added, "The HRA is completed by the participant
and becomes another valuable tool for our clinicians to use in identifying
health improvement opportunities for appropriate participants and initiating
the process of effecting the behavioral change in the participant and coaching
them in adopting healthier lifestyle practices."
To start, a group of columnists, reporters and editors from both The
Chronicle and The Gate will have daily postings on various arts, culture,
media and Web-related interests and obsessions.

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One of the existing health plan clients
expanding its Matria health enhancement programs is a national health plan
that is adding the Company's HRA and Wellness/Lifestyle Management programs to
28 of its Administrative Services Only (ASO) self-insured employer clients., a leading provider of disease management and health and
productivity services to employers, health plans and government-sponsored
healthcare programs. For consistency of reporting, the
Company has only included the new and expanded accounts awarded to
CorSolutions since October 11, 2005. With these
programs in place and managed by a provider with Matria's data and technology
sophistication and clinical expertise, the improved outcomes and positive
health impact can be extremely compelling.

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Matria's ten new awards of business are with seven self-insured employers,
one health plan and two TPAs. Another existing health plan account is also a
nationwide plan and is adding one new ASO self-insured employer to its client
base participating in Matria's health enhancement programs.
The Culture Blog marks the second major new interactive feature the
newspaper has launched this year.

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Each of the 28 clients of this health plan already participates in Matria's
programs for the management of diabetes, coronary artery disease (CAD),
congestive heart failure (CHF), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
and asthma."
Six of the ten new accounts are offering the Company's wellness program to
improve the health awareness, lifestyle choices and productivity of their
participants, and five of the ten are utilizing the Company's Health Risk
Assessment (HRA) tool. SAN FRANCISCO, The San Francisco Chronicle and
SFGate.

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The San Francisco Chronicle is the Bay Area's leading news and information
source and has been connecting the region with its award winning journalism
since its founding in 1865.

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million on Sunday.

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The Company also announced that six of its current health
plan and Third Party Administrator (TPA) accounts have expanded the Matria
health enhancement programs and services offered to their clients or have
added new clients to their roster of clients receiving Matria services.

It is especially gratifying to see the significant increase in
demand for programs that address wellness and healthy living.

ABOUT MATRIA HEALTHCARE
Matria Healthcare is a leading provider of comprehensive health
enhancement programs to health plans and employers.

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Matria Healthcare Announces Ten New Disease Management Accounts and Numerous Expansions Within Seven Existing Accounts

On January 19, 2006, Matria acquired CorSolutions
Medical, Inc. The one other
account is expected to be implemented early in the third quarter of 2006. Such statements
include but are not limited to the ability of the Company to convert awards of
business into implemented contracts, the timing of contract implementation,
the Company's ability to implement multiple accounts into its programs and
services, the continuing demand for the Company's wellness, disease management
and case management programs, and the trend among existing accounts to expand
their use of the Company 's programs and services. By making these forward-looking statements, Matria does not undertake
to update them in any manner except as may be required by Matria's disclosure
obligations in filings it makes with the Securities and Exchange Commission
under the federal securities laws. The six time Pulitzer Prize-winning Chronicle is the
nation's 10th largest daily newspaper and SFGate.

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(Nasdaq: MATR) announced today that it has been awarded ten new disease
management accounts. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to
differ materially from those indicated by such forward -looking statements
include delays or problems in implementation of new disease management and
wellness contracts, failure to convert awards of disease management business
into implemented contracts, delays or problems in contract implementation,
decreased employer and health plan interest in or demand for the Company's
wellness, disease management and case management programs, failure of existing
accounts to expand their use of the Company's programs and services,
developments in the healthcare industry, third-party actions over which Matria
does not have control, regulatory requirements applicable to Matria's business
and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Matria's periodic reports
and registration statements filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including Matria 's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31,
2004.5 million Bay Area residents daily and 1.

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Another of the existing health plan accounts is adding the
Company's 24/7 nurse triage services to the current disease management
programs being provided to three of its ASO self-insured employer clients.

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, Matria Healthcare, Inc. Petit, Chairman and CEO, said, "We are extremely pleased to be
assisting our health plan partners not only in offering added valuable health
enhancement services to their fully insured participants, but also in
broadening the health improvement impact that they can provide to their many
ASO clients.

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In
addition, this health plan is adding four Matria disease management programs
to its offering to clients.

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In announcing the Culture Blog, Bronstein said, "Blogs have become a key
part of expression, interaction and dialogue on the Web.com is the nation's fourth
largest newspaper website with 5.