EXHIBIT 99


                                            (AMERICAN HEALTHWAYS, INC. LOGO)


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE                       Contact: Mary Chaput
                                                     Chief Financial Officer
                                                     (615) 665-1122


                 AMERICAN HEALTHWAYS TO BROADCAST THIRD QUARTER
                      CONFERENCE CALL LIVE ON THE INTERNET


NASHVILLE, Tenn. (June 3, 2002) - American Healthways, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMHC) today
announced it will provide an online Web simulcast and rebroadcast of its fiscal
2002 third quarter earnings release conference call. The Company intends to
issue its third quarter earnings release at approximately 4:00 p.m. EDT, and the
call is scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m. EDT, on June 20, 2002.

         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, at www.streetevents.com, and at
www.companyboardroom.com. The online replay will be available shortly after the
call at www.americanhealthways.com and www.streetevents.com through July 20,
2002. A telephone replay of the call will also be available through June 27,
2002, at 719-457-0820, confirmation number 665925.

         Nashville-based American Healthways (www.americanhealthways.com) is the
nation's leading provider of specialized, comprehensive, care enhancement
services to health plans, physicians and hospitals. Through its total population
and disease specific product lines, the Company provides care enhancement
programs to health plan members in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and
Puerto Rico. American Healthways also operates diabetes management programs in
hospitals nationwide.

                                      -END-