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EANS-Adhoc: LifeWatch announces total 2011 contracts for ACT and Home Sleep testing services. Additional 4 Million new covered lives in Q4 2011. (with document)

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Contracts/LifeWatch AG

31.01.2012

Neuhausen am Rheinfall / Switzerland - LifeWatch AG (SIX Swiss Exchange: LIFE),
the leading wireless remote cardiac and medical patient monitoring service
provider in the U.S., announced today that it has contracted with an additional
111 providers for its ACT and Home Sleep testing services in 2011. Alone in the
fourth quarter 2011 LifeWatch contracted with additional 4 million new covered
lives for its services. Collectively, these agreements represent over 25 million
incremental covered lives for the year.

You will find a PDF-version of this press release at the end of this message.

LifeWatch devotes significant resources in its managed care efforts. Dedicated
managed care specialists work with payors across the nation to demonstrate the
cost benefit and improved clinical outcomes our monitoring technologies and
services offer to their members. In 2011, LifeWatch signed 111 agreements, of
which 51 were for its NiteWatch Home Sleep Test services, and 60 for its
Ambulatory Cardiac Telemetry (ACT) services. Since 2010, LifeWatch has
negotiated 367 contracts for these two services alone.

Among the biggest private insurance companies that LifeWatch contracted
recently for its services were the East Coast Carrier Magnacare in New York
(850,000 covered lives) and the West Coast based carriers Blue Shield of
California (3.5 m covered lives) and Heritage Provider Network (550,000 covered
lives) from Southern California.

"We are extremely gratified that the momentum in obtaining contracts for our
advanced monitoring services continues to accelerate within a diverse group
of commercial payors. Our managed care strategy is focused on demonstrating the
clinical benefits of an earlier diagnosis that can lead to improved patient
outcomes and cost containment," stated Dr. Yacov Geva, Chairman and CEO of
LifeWatch AG which is the parent company of LifeWatch Services, Inc.


About LifeWatch AG:

LifeWatch AG, headquartered in Neuhausen am Rheinfall and listed on SIX Swiss
Exchange (LIFE), Switzerland, is the leading healthcare technology and solution
company, specializing in advanced telehealth systems and wireless remote
patient monitoring services. LifeWatch services cater to individuals, ranging
from high-risk and chronically ill patients, to consumers of health and
wellness products. LifeWatch has subsidiaries in the United States, the
Netherlands, Japan, the United Kingdom, Switzerland and Israel. LifeWatch AG is
the parent company of LifeWatch Services Inc., a leading US-based cardiac
monitoring service provider, and manufacturer of telecardiology products.
LifeWatch is also introducing a new program for Home Sleep Testing of
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) patients under the brand name NiteWatch. For
additional information, please visit www.lifewatch.com.

Sign-up for customized E-mail alerts and documentation requests is available at
http://production.investis.com/lifewatch/alert-service/

This press release includes forward-looking statements. All statements other
than statements of historical facts contained in this press release, including
statements regarding future results of operations and financial position,
business strategy and plans and objectives for future operations, are forward-
looking statements. The words "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue,"
"anticipate," "intend," "expect" and similar expressions are intended to
identify forward-looking statements. LifeWatch AG has based these forward-
looking statements largely on current expectations and projections about future
events and financial trends that it believes may affect the financial
condition, results of operations, business strategy, short term and long term
business operations and objectives, and financial needs. These forward-looking
statements are subject to a number of risks, uncertainties and assumptions. In
light of these risks, uncertainties and assumptions, the forward-looking events
and circumstances described may not occur and actual results could differ
materially and adversely from those anticipated or implied in the forward-
looking statements. All forward-looking statements are based only on data
available to LifeWatch AG at the time of the issue of this press release.
LifeWatch AG does not undertake any obligation to update any forward-looking
statements contained in this press release as a result of new information,
future events or otherwise.

THIS PRESS RELEASE IS NOT BEING ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND
SHOULD NOT BE DISTRIBUTED TO UNITED STATES PERSONS OR PUBLICATIONS WITH A
GENERAL CIRCULATION IN THE UNITED STATES. THIS PRESS RELEASE DOES NOT
CONSTITUTE AN OFFER OF SECURITIES OF LIFEWATCH AG OR ANY OF ITS SUBSIDIARIES
FOR SALE IN THE UNITED STATES OR AN INVITATION TO SUBSCRIBE FOR OR PURCHASE ANY
SECURITIES OF LIFEWATCH AG OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES IN THE UNITED STATES. IN
ADDITION, THE SECURITIES OF LIFEWATCH AG AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES HAVE NOT BEEN
REGISTERED UNDER THE UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD
OR DELIVERED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES OR TO U.S. PERSONS ABSENT REGISTRATION
UNDER OR AN APPLICABLE EXEMPTION FROM THE REGISTRATION REQUIREMENTS OF THE
UNITED STATES SECURITIES LAWS. ANY PUBLIC OFFERING OF SECURITIES TO BE MADE IN
THE UNITED STATES WILL BE MADE BY MEANS OF A PROSPECTUS THAT MAY BE OBTAINED
FROM LIFEWATCH AG OR ITS SUBSIDIARIES, AS APPLICABLE, AND WILL CONTAIN DETAILED
INFORMATION ABOUT THE ISSUER AND ITS MANAGEMENT AS WELL AS FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
OF THE ISSUER.

Attachments with Announcement:
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Further inquiry note:
Sensus Investor and Public Relations GmbH, Zürich:
Tel +41 43 366 55 11 | Fax +41 43 366 55 12 | Email  lifewatch@sensus.ch

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issuer:      LifeWatch AG
             Rundbuckstrasse 6
             CH-8212 Neuhausen am Rheinfall
phone:       +41 52 632 00 50
FAX:         +41 52 632 00 51
mail:         users@lifewatch.com
WWW:      www.lifewatch.com
sector:      Healthcare Providers
ISIN:        CH0012815459
indexes:     SPI, SPIEX
stockmarkets: free trade: Berlin, Open Market / XETRA: Frankfurt, Main Standard:
             SIX Swiss Exchange 
language:   English

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