OS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 6, 2005--Hythiam, Inc. (NASDAQ:HYTM), a healthcare services management company that delivers to treatment providers proprietary administrative services and physiological protocols designed to treat substance dependence, today announced several key new hires as part of its national expansion strategy for increasing access to its HANDS Protocols(TM). Recent additions include Richard A. Anderson, Chief Administrative Officer; Alexander A. Harpe, Senior Vice President of Business Development; Jane Hart, Vice President of National Site Management; and Michael E. Green, Director of Business Development. Additionally the Company has recently hired a total of eight site managers to service new licensee locations in anticipation of selective local marketing launches. “This is a year of milestones and rapid expansion for Hythiam,” said Terren S. Peizer, Chairman and CEO of Hythiam. “To this end, we have recruited the right mix of executive management talent to help us simultaneously increase patient awareness at existing licensees while expanding the number of consumer access points for HANDS(TM). In parallel, we have accelerated the hiring of regional site managers, to locally drive patient volumes and provide quality assurance for our new licensees.”
