Merge completes $52M Senior Secured Notes offering

Merge Healthcare Incorporated (NASDAQ: MRGE) ("Merge") today announced the successful completion of its previously announced private offering (the "Offering") of $52 million in aggregate principal amount of its 11.75% Senior Secured Notes due 2015. The notes were offered as additional debt securities under an indenture pursuant to which Merge previously issued $200 million in aggregate principal amount of Senior Secured Notes due 2015, and as supplemented by a first supplemental indenture entered into on June 14, 2011 in connection with Merge's previously announced consent solicitation and a second supplemental indenture entered into on June 20, 2011 in connection with the Offering.

The notes are senior secured obligations of Merge and will be guaranteed on a senior basis by all of Merge's domestic restricted subsidiaries. Merge will use the net proceeds of the Offering to, among other things, (i) redeem and retire the outstanding Series A Non-Voting Preferred Stock issued by Merge in a private placement in connection with its acquisition of AMICAS, Inc., (ii) pay the consent payments in connection with the Company's previously announced consent solicitation (the "Solicitation") and (iii) pay fees and expenses related to the Solicitation and the Offering.

Merrick RIS, LLC, a controlled affiliate of Michael Ferro, and which in the aggregate directly or indirectly owns approximately 37% of Merge's common stock on a fully-diluted basis, purchased an aggregate principal amount of $5 million of notes at the same purchase price per note as the other investors who purchased notes. As a result of this purchase, Merrick RIS, LLC now holds $10 million in aggregate principal amount of notes.