Hythiam Adds HANDS(R) Licensee In San Francisco Bay Area

LOS ANGELES & SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2005-- HANDS Protocols(TM) to be Administered by Dr. William Glatt, Medical Director of Chemical Dependency Services at Mills-Peninsula Hospital Hythiam, Inc. (NASDAQ:HYTM), a healthcare services management company that delivers to treatment providers both proprietary administrative services and physiological protocols designed to treat substance dependence, has entered into a licensing relationship for its HANDS Protocols(TM) with Solomon, Stern & Glatt, a medical corporation specializing in internal medicine and addiction. Treatments will take place at Mills-Peninsula Hospital, a not-for-profit 403 bed acute care hospital located south of San Francisco in Burlingame, California. Mills is an affiliate of the Sutter Health System which is the largest provider of healthcare in Northern California.