Curative Health Services to Report First Quarter 2004 Results.

Business Editors

HAUPPAUGE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 14, 2004

Curative Health Services, Inc., (Nasdaq: CURE), will hold a conference call to discuss the Company's first quarter 2004 financial results, recent developments, business strategy and outlook on Tuesday, May 4, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. Eastern Time. To participate in the conference call, dial 1-800-915-4836 approximately 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start time.

If you are unable to participate, a digital replay of the call will be available from May 4, 2004 at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on May 11, by dialing 1-800-428-6051 with passcode # 351116. The live broadcast of Curative Health Services quarterly conference call will be available online by going to www.curative.com and selecting the Investor Relations link, on www.streetevents.com, and on www.companyboardroom.com. An online replay will be available shortly after the call through May 11, 2004 at those sites.

About Curative Health Services

Curative Health Services, Inc., through its two business units, Specialty Pharmacy Services and Specialty Healthcare Services, seeks to deliver high-quality results and exceptional patient satisfaction for patients experiencing serious or chronic medical conditions.

Curative's Specialty Pharmacy Services business unit provides services to help patients manage the health care process, and offers related pharmacy products to patients for chronic and critical disease states including Hemophilia, Immune System Disorders, Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV), Multiple Sclerosis, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Cancer.

Curative's Specialty Healthcare Services ("SHS") business unit is an industry leader in chronic wound care management. SHS provides a broad continuum of services to health care providers through a nationwide network. This national network of hospital-based Wound Care Center(R) programs has offered comprehensive treatment to over 375,000 patients.

For more information, visit www.curative.com.

This press release contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company, or industry results, to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Factors that might cause such differences include, but are not limited to, risks associated with our pending acquisition of Critical Care Systems including, but not limited to, receipt of regulatory approvals required for the transaction, completion of financing and other associated conditions, uncertain market conditions that the proposed bond offering and expansion of the Company's credit facility are subject to, integration risks and costs, risks of client retention, risks associated with the operations of the acquired business, as well as risks in our current businesses such as the termination or non-renewal of a material number of contracts, an inability to obtain new contracts, changes in the government regulations relating to the Company's Specialty Pharmacy Services or Specialty Healthcare Services business units, changes in the regulations governing third party reimbursements for the Company's services, manufacturing shortages of products sold by Curative's Specialty Pharmacy Services business unit, and the other risks and uncertainties detailed in the Company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Readers of this release are referred to the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended September 30, 2003, for further discussion of these and other factors that could affect future results.