SMBI Symbion (MM)

Symbion, Inc. (NASDAQ/NM:SMBI), an owner and operator of surgery centers, announced today that Richard E. Francis, Jr., chairman and chief executive officer of Symbion, Inc., and Kenneth C. Mitchell, senior vice president and chief financial officer, will present at the 24th Annual JPMorgan Healthcare Conference to be held January 9 - 12, 2006, in San Francisco, California. A live broadcast of its conference presentation will be available on Thursday, January 12, 2006, beginning at 11:30 a.m. Pacific Time. To access the broadcast, listeners should go to the Company's website, www.symbion.com, approximately 15 minutes prior to the event to register and download any necessary software, Microsoft Media Player or RealPlayer. For those unable to listen to the live broadcast, a replay will be available for 14 days on the Company's website. Symbion, Inc., headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, owns and operates a network of surgery centers in 22 states. The Company's surgery centers provide non-emergency surgical procedures across many specialties.