Priority Healthcare Corporation Acquires Partners in Care Pharmacy, a Midwestern Infertility Specialty Pharmacy

Priority Healthcare Corporation Acquires Partners in Care
Pharmacy, a Midwestern Infertility Specialty Pharmacy 


LAKE MARY, Fla., April 5  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Priority Healthcare
Corporation  today acquired certain assets of Partners In Care Pharmacy, an
infertility specialty pharmacy with a strong presence in the Midwest.

"The acquisition of Partners In Care adds additional volume to Priority
Healthcare's industry leading infertility specialty pharmacy business.  It will
also enable us to leverage our infrastructure to serve a greater number of
infertility specialists and their patients," said Steve Cosler, President and
Chief Executive Officer of Priority Healthcare.

Partners in Care will be consolidated into PriorityHealthcare's national
Freedom Drug operations that are based in Byfield, MA.  Freedom Drug is the
nation's leading provider of specialty pharmacy services for infertility. The
company's pioneering approach to expert infertility care, known as the Freedom
Advantage, offers a range of clinical and financial benefits for patients and
physicians that include 24-hour support and services.  Freedom Drug also offers
payors a range of services through its innovative waste management programs. 
Additional information for patients, physicians, and healthcare partners is
available at http://www.freedomdrug.com/

"Partners in Care generated sales of approximately $12 million in the past 12
months.  This acquisition should be accretive in the second half of 2004," added
Steve Saft, Chief Financial Officer of Priority Healthcare.

About Priority Healthcare Corporation

Priority Healthcare Corporation is a national specialty pharmacy and distributor
that provides biopharmaceuticals, complex therapies, and related disease
treatment services.  Priority Healthcare provides comprehensive programs for
patients, payors, physicians, and pharmaceutical manufacturers for a growing
number of disease states including cancer, hepatitis C, respiratory and
pulmonary conditions, infertility, rheumatoid arthritis, hemophilia, multiple
sclerosis, and macular degeneration.  Additional information regarding Priority
Healthcare is available online at http://www.priorityhealthcare.com/

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Web site:  http://www.priorityhealthcare.com/

http://www.freedomdrug.com/ 

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