Bio-Reference Laboratories Announces CareEvolve Selection by Healthvision.

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc (NASDAQ - "BRLI"), announced that Healthvision, a leading healthcare Internet company, will use CareEvolve, the BRLI web-based connectivity solution, to serve as the lab connectivity service for healthcare professionals wishing to order clinical laboratory tests via the Healthvision portal. The service allows providers to universally order laboratory and pathology tests, perform medical necessity verification and access lab results from the Healthvision system using any web-enabled computer. CareEvolve is delivering the laboratory connectivity component of the Healthvision Connected Healthcare Community (CHC).

"The ability to deliver a patient's laboratory results to physicians in real time is a critical differentiator for us to offer our physician members," said Scott Decker, CEO of Healthvision. "CareEvolve is the premier vendor for delivering clean orders and results to physicians and laboratories. Since CareEvolve is a true Internet-based, browser solution, there is no need to send anyone or anything to the healthcare professional's office in order to maintain the system. Healthvision and our partners are continually searching for new, better or more efficient solutions that can easily be integrated into our platform. CareEvolve provides the next piece of that puzzle."

Marc Grodman, M.D., CEO of BRLI, stated, "At BioReference, we believe that we are finally at the forefront of the healthcare technology revolution. We have talked about this for many years, as have many other healthcare spokespersons. The difference today is that Washington has now joined the chorus. Over the next few years, we believe that there will be a tremendous movement to create revolutionary electronic healthcare solutions. Healthvision and CareEvolve have both been espousing these solutions for many years; together we can make a difference in the way providers deliver healthcare to physicians. CareEvolve has become a leading provider of connectivity solutions to the physicians desktop; we believe that this relationship with Healthvision will not only enhance CareEvolve's marketing capability, but will enable it to reach its full potential as a physician productivity tool. We look forward to working with Healthvision and continuing our long-stated goal of helping to move healthcare into the modern era of electronic healthcare technology."

About Healthvision

Healthvision creates Connected Healthcare Communities by helping market leaders quickly and cost-effectively plan for and deliver patient-centric information via shared information exchanges. Healthvision's capabilities cover the spectrum of needs ranging from a suite of strategic consulting services to web-based infrastructure and applications -- all designed to enhance decision making and effectiveness. The Healthvision e-Health Interoperability Platform and applications improve access to clinical information and enhance coordination and collaboration of care.

The company's Web-based infrastructure, e-Healthsource, is the most widely used in the industry, hosting more than 7.5 million unique patient records. Additionally, more than 350 healthcare organizations use the company's solutions to make health care easier for their key audiences - a number that represents more than 23,000 clinicians (including 11,000 physicians), thousands of patients and millions of consumers. A privately held company, based in Irving, Texas, Healthvision was formed in July 1999. For more information, visit www.healthvision.com.

About Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc.

The Company is the largest independent regional clinical laboratory operating in the Northeast with major market positions in physician offices, nursing homes and clinics. The Company also maintains specialized focused market offerings that are national in scope. These include GenPath, its cancer and genomics laboratory, and an expanding correctional health program. PSIMedica, a business unit of the Company, is a clinical knowledge management (CKM) organization offering an array of information solutions for reducing healthcare costs and improving quality performance based on claims data, enrollment data, prescription data and laboratory data. The Company also provides a comprehensive connectivity solution to physicians and laboratories nationwide through CareEvolve, its web based healthcare portal.

Statements included in this release that are not historical in nature, are intended to be, and are hereby identified as "forward-looking statements". Statements looking forward in time are included in this release pursuant to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such statements involve known and unknown risks and uncertainties that may cause the Company's actual results in future periods to be materially different from any future performance suggested herein.

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