BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. (BTSG)
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SEC company page: https://www.sec.gov/edgar/browse/?CIK=1865782. Latest filing source: 0001193125-26-079454.
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Business
Read BTSG's verbatim Item 1 Business section from its latest 10-K: Business.
Risk Factors
Read BTSG's verbatim Item 1A Risk Factors from its latest 10-K: Risk Factors.
Selected Fundamentals
| Metric | Value | Unit | FY | Filed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 12,910,564,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-27 |
| Net income | 190,666,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-27 |
| Assets | 6,413,311,000 | USD | 2025 | 2026-02-27 |
Financials
Annual standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-02-27. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001865782.json. Derived margins, ratios, and free cash flow are computed from the extracted annual SEC facts.
| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | 7,720,560,000 | 7,691,016,000 | 10,072,214,000 | 12,910,564,000 |
| Net income | -53,907,000 | -154,603,000 | -18,062,000 | 190,666,000 |
| Operating income | 187,830,000 | 58,125,000 | 107,954,000 | 295,252,000 |
| Gross profit | 1,354,244,000 | 1,138,996,000 | 1,266,427,000 | 1,517,777,000 |
| Diluted EPS | -0.46 | -1.31 | -0.09 | 0.87 |
| Operating cash flow | -4,653,000 | 210,783,000 | 23,774,000 | 490,169,000 |
| Capital expenditures | 70,113,000 | 73,527,000 | 80,913,000 | 95,484,000 |
| Share buybacks | 650,000 | 650,000 | 43,173,000 | |
| Assets | 5,532,721,000 | 5,926,140,000 | 6,413,311,000 | |
| Liabilities | 4,920,172,000 | 4,274,555,000 | 4,526,945,000 | |
| Stockholders' equity | 584,740,000 | 1,647,855,000 | 1,875,065,000 | |
| Cash and cash equivalents | 13,071,000 | 60,954,000 | 88,370,000 | |
| Free cash flow | -74,766,000 | 137,256,000 | -57,139,000 | 394,685,000 |
Ratios
| Metric | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Net margin | -0.70% | -2.01% | -0.18% | 1.48% |
| Operating margin | 2.43% | 0.76% | 1.07% | 2.29% |
| Return on equity | -26.44% | -1.10% | 10.17% | |
| Return on assets | -2.79% | -0.30% | 2.97% | |
| Liabilities / equity | 8.41 | 2.59 | 2.41 | |
| Current ratio | 1.17 | 1.33 | 1.57 |
Industry Peer Context
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Financial Bridges
Income statement bridge from reported figures
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Free cash flow = operating cash flow - capital expenditures
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Financial Charts
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Quarterly
Quarterly standardized facts from SEC companyfacts as of latest extracted filing date 2026-05-01. Source: https://data.sec.gov/api/xbrl/companyfacts/CIK0001865782.json.
| Quarter | End Date | Revenue | Net Income | Diluted EPS | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-Q1 | 2024-03-31 | 2,576,638,000 | -45,750,000 | -0.26 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q2 | 2024-06-30 | 2,730,210,000 | 19,919,000 | 0.10 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q3 | 2024-09-30 | 2,906,823,000 | -8,230,000 | -0.04 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2024-Q4 | 2024-12-31 | 3,052,801,000 | 15,999,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2025-Q1 | 2025-03-31 | 2,878,129,000 | 29,542,000 | 0.14 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q2 | 2025-06-30 | 3,147,698,000 | 28,208,000 | 0.13 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q3 | 2025-09-30 | 3,334,106,000 | 55,836,000 | 0.26 | reported discrete quarter |
| 2025-Q4 | 2025-12-31 | 3,550,631,000 | 77,080,000 | derived Q4 = FY annual - nine-month YTD | |
| 2026-Q1 | 2026-03-31 | 3,613,721,000 | 148,767,000 | 0.67 | reported discrete quarter |
Quarterly Charts
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Macro Cross-References
- CPIAUCSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items in U.S. City Average
- UNRATE - Unemployment Rate
- FEDFUNDS - Federal Funds Effective Rate
- CES0500000003 - Average Hourly Earnings of All Employees, Total Private
- DFEDTARU - Federal Funds Target Range - Upper Limit
- DFEDTARL - Federal Funds Target Range - Lower Limit
- DGS3MO - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 3-Month Constant Maturity
- DGS2 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 2-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS10 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 10-Year Constant Maturity
- DGS30 - Market Yield on U.S. Treasury Securities at 30-Year Constant Maturity
- T10Y2Y - 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Minus 2-Year Treasury Constant Maturity
- CPILFESL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: All Items Less Food and Energy
- CPIUFDSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Food
- CPIENGSL - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Energy
- CUSR0000SAH1 - Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers: Shelter
- PCEPI - Personal Consumption Expenditures: Chain-type Price Index
- PCEPILFE - Personal Consumption Expenditures Excluding Food and Energy: Chain-type Price Index
- PPIACO - Producer Price Index by Commodity: All Commodities
- T10YIE - 10-Year Breakeven Inflation Rate
- U6RATE - Total Unemployed, Plus All Marginally Attached Workers Plus Total Employed Part Time for Economic Reasons
- PAYEMS - All Employees, Total Nonfarm
- CIVPART - Labor Force Participation Rate
- EMRATIO - Employment-Population Ratio
- UNEMPLOY - Unemployed
- CE16OV - Employment Level
- ICSA - Initial Claims
- JTSJOL - Job Openings: Total Nonfarm
- JTSQUR - Quits: Total Nonfarm
- GDPC1 - Real Gross Domestic Product
- A191RL1Q225SBEA - Real Gross Domestic Product: Percent Change from Preceding Period
- INDPRO - Industrial Production: Total Index
- TCU - Capacity Utilization: Total Index
- HOUST - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Started: Total Units
- PERMIT - New Privately-Owned Housing Units Authorized in Permit-Issuing Places: Total Units
- RSAFS - Advance Retail Sales: Retail Trade
- PCE - Personal Consumption Expenditures
- DSPIC96 - Real Disposable Personal Income
- PSAVERT - Personal Saving Rate
- M2SL - M2
- BOPGSTB - U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services: Balance
- MSPUS - Median Sales Price of Houses Sold for the United States
- HSN1F - New One Family Houses Sold: United States
- RHORUSQ156N - Homeownership Rate in the United States
- TTLCONS - Total Construction Spending: Total Construction in the United States
- RRVRUSQ156N - Rental Vacancy Rate in the United States
- TOTALSL - Total Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- REVOLSL - Revolving Consumer Credit Owned and Securitized
- DRCCLACBS - Delinquency Rate on Credit Card Loans, All Commercial Banks
- GDP - Gross Domestic Product
- GPDI - Gross Private Domestic Investment
- GCE - Government Consumption Expenditures and Gross Investment
- PCEC - Personal Consumption Expenditures
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Latest quarter (10-Q)
Latest 10-Q source: 0001193125-26-199339.
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.
The following discussion analyzes our financial condition and results of operations and should be read in conjunction with our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q (our “Form 10-Q”). This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Forward-Looking Statements.” When reviewing the discussion below, you should keep in mind the substantial risks and uncertainties that characterize our business. Known material factors that could affect our financial performance and actual results, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements included in this discussion or otherwise made by our management, are described in Item 2 of Part I of this Form 10-Q, and in Item 1A, “Risk Factors” of Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025 (our “Form 10-K”). Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference are not limited to those identified in “Risk Factors.” When used in the following discussion, “Senior” patients and populations mean individuals who are aged 65 and older, and “Specialty” patients and populations mean individuals who have unique, specialized and most often chronic/life-long health conditions and needs.
Overview
We are a leading home and community-based healthcare services platform, focused on delivering complementary pharmacy and provider services to complex patients. We have a differentiated approach to care delivery, with an integrated and scaled model that addresses critical services that the highest-need and highest-cost patients require. With a focus on Senior and Specialty patients, our platform provides pharmacy and provider services (both clinical and supportive care in nature) in lower-cost home and community settings largely to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially-insured populations. We are an essential part of our nation’s health delivery network as a front-line provider of high-quality and cost-effective care to a large and growing number of people, who increasingly require a combination of specialized solutions to enable holistic health care management. Our presence spans all 50 states; we serve over 475,000 patients daily through our approximately 12,400 clinical providers and pharmacists; and our services make a profound impact in the lives and communities of the people we serve.
Unless otherwise noted, amounts and disclosures throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis relate to our continuing operations. Refer to “PART I - Item 1. Note 2” of our Form 10-K for additional information regarding discontinued operations.
For additional overview of our business, see “PART I - Item 1. Business” of our Form 10-K.
First Quarter of 2026 Key Highlights
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Completed the divestiture of the Community Living business on March 30, 2026
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Completed an underwritten secondary offering of our common stock by affiliates Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and certain members of management in March 2026
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Repurchased 1,464,807 shares of common stock in connection with the March 2026 secondary offering
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Company leverage of 2.27x at March 31, 2026
Financial Performance Highlights: First Quarter of 2026 Compared to First Quarter of 2025
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Revenue grew by $735.6 million, or 25.6%, to $3.6 billion
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Pharmacy Solutions segment revenue grew by $639.2 million, or 25.2%, to $3.2 billion
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Provider Services segment revenue grew by $96.4 million, or 27.9%, to $442.4 million
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Net income increased by $65.1 million to $74.3 million
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Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased by $58.7 million, or 44.8%, to $189.8 million
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Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA increased by $53.3 million, or 46.1%, to $169.1 million
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Provider Services segment EBITDA grew by $14.9 million, or 29.2%, to $66.0 million
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Diluted EPS increased by $0.29 from $0.05 to $0.34
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Adjusted EPS(1) increased by $0.20 from $0.19 to $0.39
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided below under the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”
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Recent Developments
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc. to divest our community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. The divestiture closed on March 30, 2026. The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and therefore met the criteria for classification as discontinued operations in the first fiscal quarter of 2025. This transaction provides for continuity of important intellectual and developmental disability services while BrightSpring focuses on a concentrated group of customers, patients and stakeholders in the future. We believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payer mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment our expected revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require BrightSpring’s needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, hospice, rehab, and primary care. Unless otherwise noted, amounts and disclosures throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis relate to our continuing operations. Refer to “PART I - Item 1. Note 2” of our Form 10-K for additional information regarding discontinued operations.
On March 4, 2026, KKR Stockholder and certain management selling stockholders completed a registered secondary public offering of 20,000,000 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “March 2026 Offering”). The Company did not sell any shares of common stock that were offered in the March 2026 Offering. Also, the Company did not receive any proceeds from the March 2026 Offering, other than proceeds received in connection with the cash exercise of stock options by the management selling stockholders in connection with the March 2026 Offering.
In connection with the March 2026 Offering, the Company concurrently purchased from the underwriter, out of the aggregate of 20,000,000 shares of common stock that were the subject of the March 2026 Offering, 1,464,807 shares of common stock at a price of $40.96 per share, for a total purchase price of $60.0 million. The purchase price reflected a discount to the closing market price on the date of purchase. The repurchase was reviewed and approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors.
Our Service Offerings
We are one of the largest independent providers of home and community-based health services in the United States, delivering both pharmacy and provider services. We believe our high-quality and complementary health services offerings address significant and important patient and stakeholder needs. We enhance patient outcomes through the delivery and coordination of high-quality services that high-need, high-cost patients require. Our services are principally delivered in patient-preferred and lower-cost settings and often over longer periods of time, given the chronic nature of the patient conditions that we address. We believe our breadth of service capabilities and proven outcomes position us as a provider of choice for patients, families, referral sources, customers, and payors. We deliver services through two reportable segments: Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services. For additional details regarding our diversified service offerings within each reportable segment see “PART I - Item 1. Business” of our Form 10-K.
The following table summarizes the revenues generated by each of our reportable segments:
| For the Three Months Ended | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| March 31, | ||||||||||||||||
| 2026 | 2025 | |||||||||||||||
| ($ in millions) | Revenue | % of Revenue | Revenue | % of Revenue | ||||||||||||
| Pharmacy Solutions | $ | 3,171.3 | 87.8 | % | $ | 2,532.2 | 88.0 | % | ||||||||
| Provider Services | 442.4 | 12.2 | % | 345.9 | 12.0 | % | ||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | $ | 3,613.7 | 100.0 | % | $ | 2,878.1 | 100.0 | % |
Payor Mix
We are characterized by payor diversification across our platform. Our payors are principally federal, state, and local governmental agencies, commercial insurance, private, and other payors. Additionally, our Medicaid payors can be further broken down across each individual state with our top 10 Medicaid states representing 6% of total Company revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025.
We provide our services across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, with our top 10 states of operations comprising 52% and 53% of total Company revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2026 and 2025, respectively. The federal, state, and local programs under which we operate are subject to legislative and budgetary changes that can influence reimbursement rates.
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The following tables summarize the percentage of revenue generated by each payor type for each of our service offerings and reportable segments:
| For the Three Months Ended March 31, 2026 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Commercial insurance | Medicaid | Medicare Part A | Medicare Part B | Medicare Part C | Medicare Part D | Private & other | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy | 23.9 | % | 7.2 | % | — | 0.6 | % | 16.7 | % | 23.6 | % | 1.2 | % | 73.2 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Home and Community Pharmacy | 2.6 | % | 1.3 | % | 3.8 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 6.1 | % | 0.8 | % | 14.6 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Pharmacy Solutions | 26.5 | % | 8.5 | % | 3.8 | % | 0.6 | % | 16.7 | % | 29.7 | % | 2.0 | % | 87.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care | 0.4 | % | 0.3 | % | 4.7 | % | 0.0 | % | 1.7 | % | — | 0.2 | % | 7.3 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Rehab Care | 1.0 | % | 0.6 | % | — | 0.0 | % | 0.1 | % | — | 0.4 | % | 2.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal Care | 0.1 | % | 1.8 | % | — | — | — | — | 0.9 | % | 2.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Provider Services | 1.5 | % | 2.7 | % | 4.7 | % | 0.0 | % | 1.8 | % | — | 1.5 | % | 12.2 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | 28.0 | % | 11.2 | % | 8.5 | % | 0.6 | % | 18.5 | % | 29.7 | % | 3.5 | % | 100.0 | % |
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Latest 10-K MD&A
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion analyzes our financial condition and results of operations and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Forward-Looking Statements.” When reviewing the discussion below, you should keep in mind the substantial risks and uncertainties that characterize our business. Known material factors that could affect our financial performance and actual results, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements included in this discussion or otherwise made by our management, are described in “Risk Factors.” Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference are not limited to those identified in “Risk Factors.”
Overview
We are a leading home and community-based healthcare services platform, focused on delivering complementary pharmacy and provider services to complex patients. We have a differentiated approach to care delivery, with an integrated and scaled model that addresses critical services that the highest-need and highest-cost patients require. With a focus on Senior and Specialty patients, our platform provides pharmacy and provider services (both clinical and supportive care in nature) in lower-cost home and community settings largely to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially-insured populations. Our presence spans all 50 states, we serve over 465,000 patients daily through our approximately 10,500 clinical providers and pharmacists, and our services make a profound impact in the lives and communities of the people we serve.
We have built a significant presence and capability in delivering complementary and high-touch daily healthcare services and programs to complex patients in their homes and in communities in order to address their multiple health needs and requirements more completely, through two reportable segments: Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services. In pharmacy, we leverage our national infrastructure to provide daily medication therapy management to various customer and patient types wherever they reside in the community, including home and in-clinic infusion patients, oncology and other specialty patients in their homes, residents of independent and senior living communities, people receiving hospice care, neuro and Behavioral clients’ and patients’ homes, residents of skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, hospital patients, and the homes of Seniors who are on a significant number of medications. Within provider services, we address the clinical and supportive care needs of Senior and Specialty populations, including neuro patients, primarily in their homes, as well as some clinic and community settings. Our clinical services consist of home health and hospice and rehab therapy, and our supportive care services address activities of daily living and social determinants of health as well. We also provide home-based primary care for patients in senior living communities, long-term care, and individual homes to directly manage and optimize patient outcomes and to enable value-based care. By providing these complementary and necessary services for complex patients, our care model is designed to address multiple patient needs and better integrate health services delivery to improve quality and patient experiences, while reducing overall costs.
Discontinued Operations
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc. to divest our community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. We expect the divestiture to close in the first fiscal quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. This transaction provides for continuity of important intellectual and developmental disability services while the Company focuses on a concentrated group of customers, patients and stakeholders in the future. We believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payor mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment our expected Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require the Company's needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, rehab, primary care, and hospice.
The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and therefore met the criteria for classification as discontinued operations. As a result, the financial results of the Community Living business, which were previously reported as part of our Provider Services segment, have been classified as discontinued operations in the audited consolidated statements of operations, and its assets and liabilities have been classified as held for sale for all periods presented. Unless otherwise noted, amounts and disclosures throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis relate to our continuing operations. Refer to Part II, Item 8. Note 2 for additional information regarding discontinued operations.
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2025 Key Highlights
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Completed three acquisitions within our Provider Services segment
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Announced definitive agreement to divest the Community Living business
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Completed two underwritten secondary offerings of our common stock by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and certain members of management, which were completed in June 2025 and October 2025. As a result of these offerings, we are no longer a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq
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Repurchased 1,500,000 shares of common stock in connection with the October 2025 secondary offering
Financial Performance Highlights: Fiscal Year 2025 Compared to Fiscal Year 2024
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Revenue grew by $2.8 billion, or 28.2%, to $12.9 billion
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Pharmacy Solutions segment revenue grew by $2.7 billion, or 30.7%, to $11.4 billion
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Provider Services segment revenue grew by $146.9 million, or 11.1%, to $1.5 billion
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Net income increased by $173.7 million from a net loss of $68.9 million to net income of $104.8 million
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Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased by $157.4 million, or 34.2%, to $617.6 million
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Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA grew by $148.8 million, or 37.7%, to $543.5 million
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Provider Services segment EBITDA grew by $27.4 million, or 13.3%, to $232.7 million
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Diluted income per share increased by $0.82 from diluted loss per share of $(0.34) to diluted income per share of $0.48
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Adjusted EPS (1) increased by $0.65 from $0.35 to $1.00
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
Our Service Offerings
We are one of the largest independent providers of home and community-based health services in the United States, delivering both pharmacy and provider services. We believe our high-quality and complementary health services offerings address significant and important patient and stakeholder needs. We enhance patient outcomes through the delivery and coordination of high-quality services that high-need, high-cost patients require. Our services are principally delivered in patient-preferred and lower-cost settings and often over longer periods of time, given the chronic nature of the patient conditions that we address. We believe our breadth of service capabilities and proven outcomes position us as a provider of choice for patients, families, referral sources, customers, and payors. We deliver services through two reportable segments: Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services.
The following table summarizes the revenues generated by each of our reportable segments for the most recent two years:
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| Pharmacy Solutions | $ | 11,445.8 | 88.7 | % | $ | 8,754.3 | 86.9 | % | ||||||||
| Provider Services | 1,464.8 | 11.3 | % | 1,317.9 | 13.1 | % | ||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | $ | 12,910.6 | 100.0 | % | $ | 10,072.2 | 100.0 | % |
Pharmacy Solutions
We opportunistically provide pharmacy services when and where demanded and as required to customers and patients in their homes and communities, often in coordination with our provider services. The Company filled over 43 million prescriptions in 2025 from over 175 pharmacies across all 50 states, with services delivered to approximately 6,600 customer locations, approximately 73,000 individual or group homes, and over 410,000 patients, all through over 4,500 unique customer and payor contracts. Our leading pharmacy support across customer and patient settings is achieved through a focus on medication availability and reliability, cost containment, customer staff and patient support programs, clinical and regulatory education and support, and leading customer service. Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy prescriptions and Home and Community Pharmacy prescriptions have grown at more than 27% and 3%, respectively, from December 2024 to December 2025. We have a unique opportunity to increasingly provide more
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pharmacy services in the future to provider patients and patients transitioning across settings of care. Almost every one of the Company’s patients who receive provider services from us have a significant medication support need given their polypharmacy profile, which we have the opportunity to further address.
Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy
We provide infused, injectable, and oral medication services in the home and clinic focused on pharmaceutical therapies that require expert administration and high-touch clinical services to patients by our pharmacists, registered nursing staff, and patient support teams. Infusion therapy services are a specialty form of pharmaceuticals that involve the intravenous administration of higher-cost, specially-handled medications that treat a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions, including, for example, infections, auto-immune illnesses, oncology, multiple sclerosis, hemophilia, and nutritional deficiencies. Oral and injectable medication therapies for complex disease management treat oncology, neurology, dermatology, cardiology, immunology, inflammatory, rare and orphan, and other conditions. Within oncology, as one of the leading independent specialty pharmacies in the United States, our services encompass clinical coordination, patient education, protocol compliance, patient assistance with insurance access and outside funding, and timely delivery of medication. Our certified oncology pharmacists are available 24/7 to provide support for patients and caregivers while working in close coordination with their physicians.
As a result of our unique capabilities in serving pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotech companies, we have exclusive or preferred relationships in specialty oncology drugs, as manufacturers select our pharmacy – exclusively or as part of a group of a few other pharmacies – to distribute and support their therapies in the market. We currently have 149 limited distribution oncology drugs in the market, with an additional 18 in the pipeline still to launch over the next 12 to 18 months.
Home and Community Pharmacy
Our home and community-based pharmacy solutions ensure that medications are accessible and clinically supported for patients outside of retail pharmacies. The Company’s footprint of pharmacies covers all 50 states with a localized model that features “white-glove” and customized programs and allows for faster response times and a better customer and patient experience. We service customer locations typically multiple times a day and 24/7 as needed, within a radius of approximately 100 miles of a pharmacy location. Our pharmacy services are all customized to specific settings and patients among the Senior and Specialty populations served, for example whether a patient receiving our medications is in a senior living community, a behavioral group home, or a hospice patient in their own home.
Provider Services
We deliver a variety of impactful and valuable provider services to high-need, chronic, and complex patients in home and community settings. These services consist of clinical and supportive care to approximately 16,000 Senior and Specialty populations, with both census for Home Health Care services specifically, and rehab hours served, having grown approximately 9% and 12% from December 2024 to December 2025, respectively. While the clinical services that we provide have demonstrated attractive volume growth over the past several years, supportive care services have also demonstrated stability and growth due to the valuable nature of these services that address activities of daily living and social determinants of health. Many of our provider patients also receive their pharmacy services through the Company, which helps to optimize their pharmacy and medication care and needs, simplify their experience, and improve their satisfaction.
Subsequent to the divestiture of the Community Living business, we believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payer mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment the Company’s expected Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require the Company's needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, rehab, primary care, and hospice. The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and therefore met the criteria for classification as discontinued operations. The results of operations of Community Living are excluded from continuing operations in the Company's results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Home Health Care
We provide patient-centric, highly skilled, and compassionate clinical care to Seniors and others in their homes. For Seniors and other patients recovering from surgery or illness or living with chronic diseases, we provide clinical home health care in the home. We also provide physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort and support primarily for Senior patients with terminal illnesses and their families through our hospice services. Like patients receiving home health care, our interdisciplinary hospice teams tailor individualized plans for patients and their families based on a comprehensive understanding of their needs. Our hospice patients require important daily pharmacy support, which we deliver through our pharmacy services. Additionally, for Seniors and others who require supportive care and activities of daily living support that address social determinants of health, including dietary and nutrition management and cognitive and social engagement, among others, we offer these daily or weekly services.
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We are continuing to build out specialized and different primary care capabilities through our home-based primary care medical home model and platform, which we view as central to the future of optimizing patient management, including patient experiences, outcomes, and cost. Home-based primary care is more patient-centered and incorporates patients’ specific objectives and goals by pro-actively addressing gaps in care and triaging health events in-place when possible, thus mitigating avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Home-based primary care coordinates care and resources for patients in pulling together previously disparate information and contact points into one place for more coordinated and informed patient care.
In addition to many of our provider patients also receiving their pharmacy services from the Company, our patients often receive multiple in-home provider services from the Company to improve outcomes, including home-based primary care and home health or hospice and transitions from home health to hospice. As more of our patients utilize the multiple needed services that they require and we provide, we pro-actively monitor patients and deploy triage tools through our Clinical (Nursing) Hub to address risks and optimize quality outcomes in real-time, particularly for higher risk patients. Within the Clinical (Nursing) Hub, we centralize on-call and tele-triage, perform high-risk patient monitoring and intervention, conduct “Aftercare” patient calls, and manage care coordination opportunities across the enterprise.
Rehab Care
Our Rehab Care services provide highly-skilled patient-centric clinical care to Senior and Specialty clients and patients living with age-related acute or chronic conditions, or recovering from a catastrophic neuro event (ABI/TBI or stroke) requiring intensive therapy. These services support individuals of all ages who need various forms of expert clinical care and therapy, including ABA therapies.
We provide specialized, highly-skilled, and custom-designed rehabilitation services, including physical, speech and occupational therapy and ABA, for clients and patients of all ages with a range of injuries and conditions, including brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, pediatric neuro conditions, and autism. Our programs are principally administered in individuals’ homes and are predominantly based on individual support and clinical care plans designed to encourage greater independence and manage medical conditions.
Personal Care
Our Personal Care services provide home care support that assist with activities of daily living. These services allow Seniors who require long-term care and assistance with activities of daily living to maintain their independence at home with their families. These supportive care activities address social determinants of health, including dietary and nutrition management and cognitive and social engagement, among others, and we offer these daily or weekly services.
Locations of Operations
We are headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky with operations in all 50 states and Canada. We deliver a higher proportion of services in select regions with favorable demographics and regulatory environments.
We serve patients from and across approximately 7,700 offices, customer locations and group homes, as well as serving approximately 330,000 patients in their own homes, every day with co-location of our pharmacy and provider services in 40 states.
Payor Mix
We are characterized by payor diversification across our platform. Our payors are principally federal, state, and local governmental agencies, commercial insurance, private, and other payors. No payor represents more than 35% of our revenue in the aggregate for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. Additionally, our Medicaid payors can be further broken down across each individual state with our top 10 Medicaid states representing 6% of total Company revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. The federal, state, and local programs under which we operate are subject to legislative and budgetary changes that can influence reimbursement rates.
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The following tables set forth revenue by payor type for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 (in millions):
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| Commercial insurance | $ | 3,303.3 | 25.6 | % | $ | 2,528.1 | 25.1 | % | ||||||||
| Medicaid | 1,495.2 | 11.6 | % | 1,166.5 | 11.5 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare Part A | 1,094.3 | 8.4 | % | 999.6 | 9.9 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare Part B | 82.8 | 0.6 | % | 95.9 | 1.0 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare Part C | 2,413.1 | 18.7 | % | 1,665.0 | 16.6 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare Part D | 4,097.8 | 31.7 | % | 3,202.0 | 31.8 | % | ||||||||||
| Private & other | 424.1 | 3.4 | % | 415.1 | 4.1 | % | ||||||||||
| $ | 12,910.6 | 100.0 | % | $ | 10,072.2 | 100.0 | % |
We provide our services across all 50 states and Canada, with our top 10 states of operations comprising 53% and 47% of total Company revenue for the years ended December 31, 2025, and 2024 respectively.
The following tables summarize the percentage of revenue generated by each payor type for each of our service offerings and reportable segments:
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| Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy | 21.4 | % | 6.6 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.6 | % | 17.6 | % | 23.3 | % | 1.0 | % | 70.5 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home and Community Pharmacy | 2.7 | % | 1.9 | % | 4.4 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 8.4 | % | 0.8 | % | 18.2 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Pharmacy Solutions | 24.1 | % | 8.5 | % | 4.4 | % | 0.6 | % | 17.6 | % | 31.7 | % | 1.8 | % | 88.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care | 0.2 | % | 0.3 | % | 4.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 1.1 | % | — | 0.3 | % | 5.9 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Rehab Care | 1.2 | % | 0.7 | % | — | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | — | 0.4 | % | 2.3 | % | ||||||||||||||||||
| Personal Care | 0.1 | % | 2.1 | % | — | — | — | — | 0.9 | % | 3.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Provider Services | 1.5 | % | 3.1 | % | 4.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 1.1 | % | — | 1.6 | % | 11.3 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | 25.6 | % | 11.6 | % | 8.4 | % | 0.6 | % | 18.7 | % | 31.7 | % | 3.4 | % | 100.0 | % |
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| Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy | 20.5 | % | 5.9 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.7 | % | 15.4 | % | 21.4 | % | 0.9 | % | 64.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home and Community Pharmacy | 2.9 | % | 2.3 | % | 5.4 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 10.4 | % | 1.1 | % | 22.1 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Pharmacy Solutions | 23.4 | % | 8.2 | % | 5.4 | % | 0.7 | % | 15.4 | % | 31.8 | % | 2.0 | % | 86.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care | 0.3 | % | 0.3 | % | 4.5 | % | 0.3 | % | 1.2 | % | — | 0.0 | % | 6.6 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Rehab Care | 1.3 | % | 0.6 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | — | 0.8 | % | 2.7 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal Care | 0.1 | % | 2.4 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | — | 1.3 | % | 3.8 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Provider Services | 1.7 | % | 3.3 | % | 4.5 | % | 0.3 | % | 1.2 | % | — | 2.1 | % | 13.1 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | 25.1 | % | 11.5 | % | 9.9 | % | 1.0 | % | 16.6 | % | 31.8 | % | 4.1 | % | 100.0 | % |
See Note 3 of the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes in this Form 10-K for information regarding revenue by payor type for each reportable segment for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024.
Trends and Other Factors Affecting Business
Continued Growth of our Pharmacy Solutions Patient Populations
We focus on providing health-dependent medications in a timely and well-supported manner to our patients receiving pharmacy solutions in their home and community-based settings. Our pharmacy services are primarily delivered directly to patients in their place of residence, home, or stay, and sometimes in a clinic setting. Our high-need Senior and Specialty patients depend on closely and expertly managed daily medication regimens that are supported by pharmacist and nurse consultants whom are available in a timely and 24/7 manner. According to industry reports, pharmacy solutions delivered to and tailored for the home environment, such as home infusion services, oncology services, and daily medication management services in the home, will continue to grow faster than the overall and general pharmacy market. Each of the end markets that these home and community-based pharmacy services supply and support are growing at attractive rates, and the lack of appropriate pharmacy medication management and resulting non-adherence among complex and polypharmacy patients in homes are significant contributors to ER visits, hospitalizations and increased costs.
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We have continued to expand our pharmacy capabilities to serve this need. Overall, our pharmacy has grown patient census and prescriptions by 4% over the past year. We are a leading independent pharmacy provider in our respective pharmacy patient markets, and we expect to continue to increase our share. Our growth in serving numerous patient types has been well into the double digits, including home infusion patients, specialty oncology patients, behavioral patients, in-home Seniors, and hospice patients.
Continued Growth of our Provider Services Patient Populations
Our Provider Services segment focuses on delivering high-touch and coordinated services to medically complex Senior and Specialty patients in the home and community-based settings where they live. As the baby boomer population ages, Seniors, who comprise a significant majority of our patients, will represent a higher percentage of the overall population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the U.S. population aged 65 and over will grow substantially from 15% of the population in 2016 to 21% of the population by 2030, and the population size of people over age 85 is expected to double by 2040, according to the Administration for Community Living. Given the proven value proposition of home-based health services, we believe patients will increasingly seek treatment and referral sources and payors will increasingly support treatment in homes more often than in higher cost, less convenient, higher acuity institutional settings. Home health care can reduce 365-day post-discharge costs by more than $6,000 per patient, and as healthcare spending rises, home health care can improve the continuity of care while reducing overall costs. In addition, advancements in medical technology have allowed providers to expand access points and the breadth of services available in the home.
The vast majority of patients we serve in our provider businesses are served in the home, and we have purposefully continued to expand our service offering and footprint to serve patients in this lower cost setting. Over the past five years we built upon supportive care services to patients, as we have meaningfully expanded our footprint of highly clinical and expert services to home health, rehabilitation, and hospice patients to address a large national healthcare need and more completely and better serve Senior and Specialty patients in the home as evidenced by continued census growth within the Provider Services segment. Our complementary services that address the multiple needs of these patient populations will increasingly provide integrated care opportunities to provide more complete and better coordinated services to patients across health settings and stages.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in the first fiscal quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The sale of this business will represent a strategic shift from our services to Behavioral populations. After closing, our focus will be primarily on Seniors and Specialty patients receiving neuro rehab.
Stable Reimbursement Environment Across our Portfolio of Businesses
Our revenue is dependent upon our contracts and relationships with payors for our “must-serve” patient populations. We partner with a large and diverse set of payor groups nationally and in each of our markets to form provider networks and to lower the overall cost of care. We structure our payor contracts to help both providers and payors achieve their objectives in a mutually aligned manner. Maintaining, supporting, and both deepening and increasing the number of these contracts and relationships, particularly as we continue to grow market share and enter new markets, is important for our long-term success.
We have observed relatively stable reimbursement rates from government and commercial payors in our pharmacy and provider services over a number of years, particularly for services provided to high-need, medically complex populations. Due to the medical necessity of our services, which are lower cost than healthcare services provided in other settings and reduce ER, hospital and institutional facility utilization, we have a history of reimbursement stability across our lines of business.
Culture of Quality and Compliance and Consistent Operations Execution
Quality and compliance are central to our strategies and mission. We have demonstrated leading and excellent service and customer/patient/family satisfaction scores across the organization, as referenced in prior and other sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition to quality and compliance resources and programs in field operations, we invest in people, training, auditing, signature programs, accreditations, advocacy, and technologies to support quality, compliance, and safety as part of our “Quality First” framework. We have demonstrated consistently high and often leading marks for service levels, satisfaction scores, and quality metrics in our industries.
For example, across our pharmacies we achieve 99.99% order accuracy and 99.34% order completeness, “excellent” and “world class” NPS, a 94% satisfaction rating from infusion patients, and a reduction in hospitalizations with CCRx, while also driving savings through medication adherence and therapeutic interchanges. We achieve 100% patient satisfaction in our outpatient rehab services, and we achieve an 87% overall rating of care in hospice (compared to the national average of 81%), hospitalizations 35% lower than the national average in our home-based primary care, and four stars (out of five) in the CAHPS home health patient survey ratings. 91% of our home health branches have a STAR rating of 4 or higher. Our complex Behavioral clients, often with three or more comorbidities and requiring eight or more medications, are still able to spend 360 days a year at home on average. We believe that we are positioned to identify potential medical problems and avoid adverse events due to our highly proximate position to patients and attentive care protocols, as evidenced by these quality metrics.
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Operational excellence is also an ongoing focus at the Company, including how we collect and share key metrics, hold operational reviews, audit, conduct training, deploy expert support resources, execute on corrective and preventative actions, and implement continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. We have continued to make investments in automation, data, and technology systems to support enhanced workflows, further scale, and future growth across service lines.
Ability to Build De Novo Locations
We have a proven ability to augment growth of existing operations by expanding our presence and opening new locations – in both of our operating segments in Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services – across geographies with consistent ramp-up in performance after site opening. We believe our platform can continue to build further scale nationally, adding density to additional and targeted key markets as a lever to facilitate maximum pharmacy and provider services overlap, integrated and value-based care, and growth. The Company’s geographic and operations scale and platform of complementary segments and service lines provides us with access to more de novo opportunities to consider and prioritize.
Since January 1, 2018, we have opened 150 de novo offices (branches/agencies) and clinics in new locations across our pharmacy and provider services (not including offices divested as a part of the sale of the Community Living business). In 2025, we opened 7 de novo offices. We typically identify and open new locations within proximity of an existing location as we leverage existing market knowledge and presence to expand in target markets, regions, and states. Our internal support resources in real estate, purchasing, IT, credentialing, payor contracting, HR, and sales and marketing, along with our PMO, help to support and manage de novos from start to opening. We expect to continue to selectively and strategically expand our footprint within the United States and extend our service offerings to our patients and for customers, referral sources, and payors, and we believe de novo investments facilitate more integrated care capability and are a meaningful organic growth driver for the Company.
Ability to Facilitate Integrated Care
Our operating model consists of complementary pharmacy and provider services that high-need Senior and Specialty populations require, and it is designed to increasingly coordinate, manage, and serve patients across our various needs and settings over time, leading to improved patient, family, physician, and referral source satisfaction, improved payor experiences, and better outcomes. Our performance and potential to drive increased service volume for increased patient and health outcomes impact is driven partly by our appeal with our patients, families, customers, referral sources, and payors to provide multiple integrated care services – either in the same setting at the same time or across settings and stages of health – within our collection of pharmacy solutions and provider services and differentiated overall capabilities.
We provide multiple pharmacy and provider services to approximately 8,100 patients today, and we believe that there are substantially more opportunities to deliver more integrated care, given the hundreds of thousands of patients we serve and a similar number of patients discharging from customers annually. Value-add, beneficial, and multiple integrated care opportunities exist for our customer base and all Senior and Specialty patient populations and not only across pharmacy and provider services, but also within each segment. Within the pharmacy services, CCRx is aimed at providing medication risk and therapy management continuously and longitudinally post discharge from hospitals and skilled nursing customers. Within the provider services, patients often transition from home health to hospice services and can receive therapy and supportive care services concurrent with each other and with home health and hospice.
Aligning to Value-Based Care Reimbursement Models with Innovative Solutions
The scale and depth of our complementary platform of diverse yet related customer and patient services – that complex patients require – positions us at the forefront with governmental and commercial payors who are increasingly seeking ways to expand value-based reimbursement models. Our high-quality services that are delivered in home and community-based and patient and family-preferred settings at lower comparable costs are well-positioned for the long-term, and we continue to add wraparound care management capabilities and offerings to our core services. In addition to our large Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary populations, we have a large number of non-governmental payor contracts across the organization today, which both diversifies our payor mix, and provides for additional value-based opportunities and partnerships.
The Company’s focused build out of its (i) Home-Based Primary Care, transitional care programs, and in-home medication therapy management (CCRx), and (ii) Clinical (Nursing) Hub, are key enablers to coordinate base pharmacy and provider services and drive improved quality and lower costs for value-based care constructs.
In addition to numerous payor contracts that feature reimbursement incentives, in the past year the Company has entered into several ACO arrangements to participate in shared savings from its attributed primary care patients and other ACO partnerships and contract as a preferred provider.
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Factors Affecting Results of Operations and Comparability
Acquisitions
In addition to organic growth, we have grown through acquisitions that have deepened and expanded our presence in current markets and facilitated entry into attractive adjacent markets.
During the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2025, we completed eight and three acquisitions for aggregate consideration, net of cash acquired, for these acquisitions of approximately $110.6 million and $247.0 million, respectively.
Discontinued Operations
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Community Living business to National Mentor Holdings, Inc., for $835.0 million in cash upon closing, subject to certain post-closing adjustments. We entered into the transaction in order to streamline our service offerings and further focus on the senior and specialty populations. The transaction is currently expected to close in the first fiscal quarter of 2026, subject to receipt of customary regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other closing conditions.
The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and has concluded the criteria for classification as discontinued operations were met during the first fiscal quarter of 2025. Accordingly, the Community Living business is reported as discontinued operations in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205-20, Discontinued Operations. The related assets and liabilities of the Community Living business are classified as assets and liabilities held for sale in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, and the results of operations from the Community Living business are classified as discontinued operations in the consolidated statements of operations. Applicable amounts in prior years have been recast to conform to this discontinued operations presentation. The Community Living business was historically presented as a part of the Provider Services reportable segment.
See Note 2 “Discontinued Operations” within the consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
Legal Costs and Settlements Accrual
In November 2023, the Company agreed to settle the Silver matter without admitting liability. On May 29, 2024, the parties entered into a final settlement agreement, which was approved by both the United States Department of Justice and the District Court. The total financial impact of the settlement was $120.0 million; $110.0 million of the settlement was paid in 2024, and the remaining $10.0 million was paid in 2025. The District Court entered an order dismissing the Silver action in its entirety, with prejudice, on July 3, 2024. See Note 15 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenues. The Company recognizes the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. For transactions involving the transfer of goods, revenues are primarily recognized when the customer obtains control of the products sold, which is generally upon shipment or delivery, depending on the delivery terms specified in the sales agreement. For transactions exclusively involving provision of services, revenues are recognized over time based on an appropriate measure of progress.
Cost of Goods and Cost of Services. We classify expenses directly related to providing goods and services, including depreciation and amortization, as cost of goods and cost of services. Direct costs and expenses primarily include cost of drugs, net of rebates, salaries and benefits for direct care and service professionals, contracted labor costs, insurance costs, transportation costs for clients requiring services, certain client expenses such as food, supplies and medicine, residential occupancy expenses, which primarily comprise rent and utilities, and other miscellaneous direct goods or service-related expenses.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general, and administrative expenses consist of expenses incurred in support of our operations and administrative functions and include labor costs, such as salaries, bonuses, commissions, benefits, and travel-related expenses, distribution expenses, facilities rental costs, third-party revenue cycle management costs, and corporate support costs including finance, information technology, legal costs and settlements, human resources, procurement, and other administrative costs.
Loss on Extinguishment of Debt. Loss on extinguishment of debt reflects the write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs upon the early repayment of our Second Lien Facility.
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Interest Expense, net. Interest expense, net includes interest paid on and debt service costs associated with our various debt instruments, including our First Lien Facilities, and the amortization of related deferred financing fees, which are amortized over the term of the respective credit agreement. Interest expense, net also includes the portion of the gain or loss on our interest rate swap agreements that is reclassified into earnings.
Income Tax Expense (Benefit). Our provision for income taxes is based on permanent book/tax differences and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining the provision for income taxes.
Results of Operations
This section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K generally discusses the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 and year-over-year comparisons between the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024. For information regarding our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2023, refer to Exhibit 99.1 of our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 10, 2025, which contains retrospective revisions for the changes resulting from the discontinued operations, where applicable, to Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our previously filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Consolidated Results of Operations
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | Amount | % | |||||||||||||
| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
| Products | $ | 11,445,777 | $ | 8,754,282 | $ | 2,691,495 | 30.7 | % | ||||||||
| Services | 1,464,787 | 1,317,932 | 146,855 | 11.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Total revenues | 12,910,564 | 10,072,214 | 2,838,350 | 28.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of goods | 10,507,431 | 8,008,501 | 2,498,930 | 31.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of services | 885,356 | 797,286 | 88,070 | 11.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 1,517,777 | 1,266,427 | 251,350 | 19.8 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 1,222,525 | 1,158,473 | 64,052 | 5.5 | % | |||||||||||
| Operating income | 295,252 | 107,954 | 187,298 | 173.5 | % | |||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment of debt | — | 12,726 | (12,726 | ) | n.m. | |||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | 157,311 | 190,546 | (33,235 | ) | (17.4 | )% | ||||||||||
| Income (loss) from continuing operations before income taxes | 137,941 | (95,318 | ) | 233,259 | n.m. | |||||||||||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 33,145 | (26,387 | ) | 59,532 | n.m. | |||||||||||
| Net income (loss) from continuing operations | $ | 104,796 | $ | (68,931 | ) | $ | 173,727 | n.m. | ||||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA (1) | $ | 617,570 | $ | 460,220 | $ | 157,350 | 34.2 | % |
* n.m.: not meaningful
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
The following discussion of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with the foregoing table summarizing our consolidated results of operations.
Revenues
Revenues were $12,910.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $10,072.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $2,838.4 million or 28.2%. The increase resulted from growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $10,507.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $8,008.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $2,498.9 million or 31.2%. The increase resulted from an increase in Pharmacy Solutions cost of goods. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
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Cost of Services
Cost of services was $885.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $797.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $88.1 million or 11.0%. The increase resulted from an increase in Provider Services cost of services. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $1,222.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $1,158.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $64.1 million or 5.5%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $74.0 million, or 6.4%, on consolidated 2024 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below;
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an increase of $12.8 million, or 1.1%, on consolidated 2024 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of an increase in other operational expenses year-over-year; offset by,
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a decrease of $22.7 million, or 2.0%, on consolidated 2024 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of the termination fees incurred at the time of the IPO Offerings in connection with the termination of our Monitoring Agreement for which there is no comparable expense in 2025.
Interest Expense, net
Interest expense, net was $157.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $190.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, a decrease of $33.2 million or 17.4%. The decrease primarily resulted from a decrease in both the variable-rate and applicable margin for the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the prior periods and lower outstanding term debt as compared to the prior period, offset by a $20.1 million decrease in interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk.
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
Income tax expense was $33.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with an income tax benefit of $26.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase in the income tax expense of $59.5 million. The increase in the income tax expense is primarily driven by the increase in pre-tax book income for the year ended December 31, 2025 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2024, and a decrease in the effective tax rate for the year ended December 31, 2025 of 24.0% compared to 27.7% for the year ended December 31, 2024. The decrease in the effective tax rate is primarily as a result of $4.9 million in tax benefits resulting from the net impact of the recognition of excess tax benefits from stock-based compensation partially offset by limitations on the deductibility of certain executive compensation as a percentage of estimated pre-tax book income for the year ended December 31, 2025. In addition, the discrete tax benefit related to the Silver matter increased the effective tax rate on pre-tax book loss for the year ended December 31, 2024. See Note 15 "Commitments and Contingencies" within the consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Net Income (Loss)
Net income was $104.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with a net loss of $68.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $173.7 million. The increase in net income is primarily attributable to the increase in gross profit and the aforementioned decrease in interest expense, net, and loss on extinguishment of debt, partially offset by an increase in selling, general, and administrative expenses and income tax expense (benefit).
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
Adjusted EBITDA was $617.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $460.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $157.4 million or 34.2%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $176.2 million, or 38.3%, on consolidated 2024 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by
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a decrease of $18.8 million, or 4.1%, on consolidated 2024 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of increases in investments in information technology and positions to support growth within the business.
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
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Segment Results of Operations
Pharmacy Solutions Segment
The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, our segment results of operations.
| Pharmacy Solutions | ||||||||||||||||
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| ($ in thousands, except Business Metrics) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| Change | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | Amount | % | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 11,445,777 | $ | 8,754,282 | $ | 2,691,495 | 30.7 | % | ||||||||
| Cost of goods | 10,507,431 | 8,008,501 | 2,498,930 | 31.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 938,346 | 745,781 | 192,565 | 25.8 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 502,042 | 462,219 | 39,823 | 8.6 | % | |||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 436,304 | $ | 283,562 | $ | 152,742 | 53.9 | % | ||||||||
| Segment EBITDA | $ | 543,502 | $ | 394,665 | $ | 148,837 | 37.7 | % | ||||||||
| Business Metrics: | ||||||||||||||||
| Prescriptions dispensed | 43,367,072 | 41,816,584 | 1,550,488 | 3.7 | % | |||||||||||
| Revenue per script | $ | 263.93 | $ | 209.35 | $ | 54.58 | 26.1 | % | ||||||||
| Gross profit per script | $ | 21.64 | $ | 17.83 | $ | 3.81 | 21.4 | % |
Revenues
Revenues were $11,445.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $8,754.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $2,691.5 million or 30.7%. The increase primarily resulted from an increase in revenue per prescription dispensed, as well as volume growth in prescriptions dispensed across and within Pharmacy Solutions segment. Revenue attributable to Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy was $9,095.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $6,526.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $2,569.9 million or 39.4% attributable to an increase in prescriptions dispensed on certain specialty branded drugs. Revenue attributable to Home and Community Pharmacy was $2,349.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $2,228.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $121.6 million or 5.5% attributable to mix changes in prescriptions dispensed.
The increase in revenue per prescription dispensed is due to mix changes year-over-year and a greater relative increase in volume growth in certain specialty brand drugs, which carry a higher revenue per prescription dispensed.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $10,507.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $8,008.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $2,498.9 million or 31.2%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period as well as an increase in cost per prescription dispensed as a result of mix shift.
Gross profit was $938.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $745.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $192.6 million or 25.8%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period, primarily the result of outsized volume growth as well as mix in certain specialty branded drugs, which have lower margins.
Gross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2025 was 8.2% compared to 8.5% for the year ended December 31, 2024. The decrease in gross profit margin is due to mix shift in the Pharmacy Solutions segment with greater relative volume growth in Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy, along with product-level mix shifts, rate changes, and an increase in the fulfillment cost per script in Home and Community Pharmacy.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $502.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $462.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $39.8 million or 8.6%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period with selling, general, and administrative expenses growing less than the volume growth rate and demonstrating economies of scale.
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Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $543.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $394.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $148.8 million or 37.7%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue and gross profit growth in the period. See Note 17 “Segment Information” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Provider Services Segment
The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, our segment results of operations.
| Provider Services | ||||||||||||||||
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| ($ in thousands, except Business Metrics) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| Change | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | Amount | % | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 1,464,787 | $ | 1,317,932 | $ | 146,855 | 11.1 | % | ||||||||
| Cost of services | 885,356 | 797,286 | 88,070 | 11.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 579,431 | 520,646 | 58,785 | 11.3 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 374,256 | 340,034 | 34,222 | 10.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 205,175 | $ | 180,612 | $ | 24,563 | 13.6 | % | ||||||||
| Segment EBITDA | $ | 232,654 | $ | 205,287 | $ | 27,367 | 13.3 | % | ||||||||
| Business Metrics: | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care average daily census | 31,135 | 28,532 | 2,603 | 9.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Rehab Care persons served | 7,127 | 6,597 | 530 | 8.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Personal Care persons served | 16,079 | 15,879 | 200 | 1.3 | % |
Revenues
Revenues were $1,464.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $1,317.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $146.9 million or 11.1%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth as well as rate increases received during the period. Revenue attributable to Home Health Care was $767.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $655.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $112.5 million or 17.2%. Revenue attributable to Rehab Care was $294.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $276.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $18.1 million or 6.5%. Revenue attributable to Personal Care was $402.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $385.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $16.3 million or 4.2%.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $885.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $797.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $88.1 million or 11.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and included operational improvements resulting in lower cost of services increases compared to revenue growth.
Gross profit was $579.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $520.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $58.8 million or 11.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and cost of services improvements in the period.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $374.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $340.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $34.2 million or 10.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period with selling, general, and administrative expenses growing less than the volume growth rate and demonstrating economies of scale.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $232.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $205.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, an increase of $27.4 million or 13.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue
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growth and operational improvements impacting cost of services. See Note 17 “Segment Information” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our results of operations prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, which we have discussed above, we also evaluate our financial performance using EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS. These non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to replace financial performance measures determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, such as net income (loss) and diluted EPS. Rather, we present EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS as supplemental measures of our performance.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS
The following are key financial metrics and, when used in conjunction with U.S. GAAP measures, we believe they provide useful information for evaluating our core business performance, enable comparison of financial results across periods, and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management for financial and operational decision-making. We define EBITDA as net income (loss) before income tax expense (benefit), interest expense, net, and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS exclude certain other items that are either non-recurring, infrequent, non-cash, unusual, or items deemed by management to not be indicative of the performance of our core operations, including non-cash, share-based compensation; acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs; restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs; legal and settlement costs associated with certain historical matters for PharMerica; significant projects; and management fees. In determining which adjustments are made to arrive at Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS, management considers both (1) certain non-recurring, infrequent, non-cash, or unusual items, which can vary significantly from year to year, as well as (2) certain other items that may be recurring, frequent, or settled in cash but which management does not believe are indicative of our core operating performance. The financial measure calculated under U.S. GAAP which is most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA is net income (loss). The financial measure calculated under U.S. GAAP which is most directly comparable to Adjusted EPS is diluted EPS.
We have historically incurred substantial acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs. The underlying acquisition activities take place over a defined timeframe, have distinct project timelines, and are incremental to activities and costs that arise in the ordinary course of our business. Therefore, we have excluded these costs from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS because it provides management a normalized view of our core, ongoing operations after integrating our acquired companies.
The legal costs and settlements adjustment represents defense costs associated with certain PharMerica litigation matters, all of which were finalized in 2024, that commenced prior to KKR Stockholder’s and Walgreen Stockholder’s acquisition of PharMerica in December 2017, as well as settlement costs associated with the Silver matter, which settled in November 2023. We have excluded defense costs associated with these PharMerica litigation matters from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS due to the magnitude of these cases and the costs attributable to them, the timing of the commencement of the cases and the fact that no similar cases have been brought against the Company since the acquisition of PharMerica, and the fact that these cases are unlike our routine legal and regulatory proceedings that we see in the normal course of business. Further, we have excluded settlement costs associated with the Silver matter from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS due to the magnitude of the case and the costs attributable to it, as well as the fact that the Silver matter is unlike our routine legal and regulatory proceedings that we see in the normal course of business.
The significant projects adjustment represents costs associated with certain transformational projects, which are not considered to be a part of our normal and recurring business operations and are not expected to recur in our future business plans. All significant projects were finalized in 2024. Moreover, the costs associated with significant projects, which are incurred on an infrequent and limited basis, are not reflective of our operating performance. Due to the aforementioned reasons, we have excluded the costs related to significant projects from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS, as such adjustment provides a more meaningful understanding to investors and others of our ongoing results.
The management fees adjustment represents fees paid historically under the Monitoring Agreement related to either (i) activities that are expected to be performed by our existing personnel upon the termination of the Monitoring Agreement, and thus not expected to result in incremental costs subsequent to the IPO Offerings, or (ii) acquisitions, divestitures, and external financing activities, which costs would otherwise be excluded from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS. Therefore, we have excluded management fees from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS, as such fees are no longer applicable and representative of our ordinary operating performance as a result of the completion of the IPO Offerings.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS are not measures of financial performance under U.S. GAAP and should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, net income (loss), diluted EPS or other financial measures performed in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Our method of determining non-GAAP financial measures may differ from other companies’ financial measures and therefore may not be comparable to methods used by other companies.
Given our determination of adjustments in arriving at our computations of EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS, these non-GAAP measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes or
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alternatives to net income (loss), operating income, income (loss) per diluted share, cash flows from operating activities, total indebtedness, or any other financial measures calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The following table reconciles net income (loss) from continuing operations to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA:
| ($ in thousands) | For The Years Ended | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Net income (loss) from continuing operations | $ | 104,796 | $ | (68,931 | ) | |||
| Income tax expense (benefit) | 33,145 | (26,387 | ) | |||||
| Interest expense, net | 157,311 | 190,546 | ||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 162,948 | 162,144 | ||||||
| EBITDA | $ | 458,200 | $ | 257,372 | ||||
| Non-cash share-based compensation (1) | 59,164 | 61,336 | ||||||
| Acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs (2) | 40,424 | 31,953 | ||||||
| Restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs (3) | 59,782 | 61,688 | ||||||
| Legal costs and settlements (4) | — | 21,886 | ||||||
| Significant projects (5) | — | 2,604 | ||||||
| Management fees (6) | — | 23,381 | ||||||
| Total adjustments | $ | 159,370 | $ | 202,848 | ||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 617,570 | $ | 460,220 |
(1)
Represents non-cash share-based compensation to certain members of our management and other full-time employees. The year ended December 31, 2024 includes $15.0 million of previously unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to performance-vesting options under the 2017 Stock Plan, a portion of which vested upon completion of the IPO.
(2)
Represents transaction costs incurred in connection with planned, completed, or terminated acquisitions, which include investment banking fees, legal diligence and related documentation costs, finance and accounting diligence and documentation; costs associated with the integration of acquisitions, including any facility consolidation, integration travel, or severance; and costs associated with other planned, completed, or terminated non-routine transactions. The years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 included other non-routine transaction costs of $26.8 million and $5.8 million, respectively.
(3)
Represents costs associated with restructuring-related activities, including closure costs, and related license impairment, and severance expenses associated with certain enterprise-wide or significant business line cost-savings measures. These costs included $23.4 million and $23.7 million of costs that did not meet the criteria for discontinued operations related to the Community Living divestiture for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. These costs also included $12.7 million of unamortized debt issuance costs associated with the extinguishment of our Second Lien Facility in the year ended December 31, 2024.
(4)
Represents settlement and defense costs associated with certain historical PharMerica litigation matters, including the Silver matter, all of which were finalized in 2024. See Note 15 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, for additional information.
(5)
Represents costs associated with certain transformational projects and for the periods presented primarily included general ledger system implementation, pharmacy billing system implementation, and ransomware attack response costs, all of which were finalized in 2024.
(6)
Represents annual management fees payable to the Managers under the Monitoring Agreement through the date of the IPO, and $22.7 million of termination fees resulting from the Monitoring Agreement being terminated upon completion of the IPO Offerings. All management fees ceased following the completion of the IPO in 2024.
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The following table reconciles diluted EPS to Adjusted EPS:
| (shares in thousands) | For The Years Ended | |||||||
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| December 31, | ||||||||
| 2025 | 2024 | |||||||
| Diluted EPS | $ | 0.48 | $ | (0.34 | ) | |||
| Non-cash share-based compensation (1) | 0.27 | 0.30 | ||||||
| Acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs (1) | 0.18 | 0.16 | ||||||
| Restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs (1) | 0.27 | 0.31 | ||||||
| Legal costs and settlements (1) | — | 0.11 | ||||||
| Significant projects (1) | — | 0.01 | ||||||
| Management fee (1) | — | 0.12 | ||||||
| Income tax impact on adjustments (2) | (0.20 | ) | (0.32 | ) | ||||
| Adjusted EPS | $ | 1.00 | $ | 0.35 | ||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding used in calculating diluted U.S. GAAP net income (loss) per share | 219,774 | 192,997 | ||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding used in calculating diluted Non-GAAP earnings per share | 219,774 | 202,106 |
(1) This adjustment reflects the per share impact of the adjustment reflected within the definition of Adjusted EBITDA.
(2) The income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments is calculated using the estimated tax rate for the respective non-GAAP adjustment. For the year ended December 31, 2024, the income tax impact on adjustments is inclusive of a discrete tax benefit related to the Silver matter that was finalized in connection with the signing of the settlement agreement during the second fiscal quarter of 2024. For all periods presented, the income tax impact on adjustments is inclusive of a discrete tax benefit related to share-based compensation.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of cash have historically been from operating activities. Our principal source of liquidity in excess of cash from operating activities has historically been from proceeds from our debt facilities and issuances of common stock. Our principal uses of cash and liquidity have historically been for acquisitions, debt service requirements, and financing of working capital. We believe that our operating cash flows, available cash on hand, and availability under our Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility will be sufficient to meet our cash requirements for the next twelve months and beyond. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors that are difficult to predict, including the size, timing, and structure of any future acquisitions, future capital investments, and future results of operations. We cannot assure you that cash provided by operating activities or cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our future needs. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flows from operations in the future, we may have to obtain additional financing. If we obtain additional capital by issuing equity, the interests of our existing stockholders will be diluted. If we incur additional indebtedness, that indebtedness may contain significant financial and other covenants that may significantly restrict our operations. We cannot assure you that we could obtain refinancing or additional financing on favorable terms or at all.
We evaluate our liquidity based upon the availability we have under our First Lien Facilities, as applicable, in addition to the net cash provided by (used in) operating, investing, and financing activities. Specifically, we review the activity under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility and consider period end balances outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility. Based upon the outstanding borrowings and letters of credit under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility, we calculate the availability for incremental borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility. Such amount, in addition to cash on our balance sheet, is what we consider to be our “Total Liquidity.”
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The following table provides a calculation of our Total Liquidity:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | ||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | ||||||
| Revolving Credit Facility Rollforward | |||||||
| Beginning Revolving Credit Facility balance | $ | 63,300 | $ | 50,700 | |||
| (Repayments) borrowings of swingline debt, net | (63,300 | ) | 12,600 | ||||
| Ending Revolving Credit Facility balance | $ | — | $ | 63,300 | |||
| Calculation of Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility availability | |||||||
| Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility limit | $ | 540,000 | $ | 540,000 | |||
| Less: outstanding Revolving Credit Facility balance | — | 63,300 | |||||
| Less: outstanding letters of credit subject to LC Sublimit | — | — | |||||
| Less: outstanding letters of credit under the LC Facility | 62,790 | 61,821 | |||||
| End of period Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility availability | 477,210 | 414,879 | |||||
| End of period cash balance | 88,370 | 60,954 | |||||
| Total Liquidity, end of period | $ | 565,580 | $ | 475,833 |
Cash Flow Activity
The activity discussed in this section relates to our consolidated company results and includes the impacts of discontinued operations. The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows provided by (used in) operating, investing, and financing activities for the periods presented:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | Variance | ||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 490,169 | $ | 23,774 | $ | 466,395 | ||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | $ | (305,079 | ) | $ | (140,237 | ) | $ | (164,842 | ) | |||
| Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities | $ | (157,866 | ) | $ | 164,645 | $ | (322,511 | ) |
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities increased by $466.4 million, from $23.8 million for 2024, to $490.2 million for 2025. The increase was primarily due to the following:
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a $228.4 million increase in operating income in 2025 as compared to 2024;
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a $41.1 million increase in operating income from discontinued operations in 2025 as compared to 2024;
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a $30.9 million decrease in one-time cash outflows for direct and indirect remuneration (“DIR”) fees paid in connection with the conclusion of the DIR program;
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a $100.0 million decrease in cash outflows attributable to the timing of Silver legal settlement payments;
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a $27.9 million decrease in cash outflows for interest, net primarily as a result of a reduction in the variable interest rates applicable to our outstanding term debt;
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a $22.7 million decrease in cash outflows directly attributable to management fees paid in 2024 as a result of the termination of the Monitoring Agreement in connection with the IPO Offerings, and
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a $2.0 million increase in cash outflows for income taxes.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities increased by $164.8 million, from $140.2 million in 2024, to $305.1 million in 2025. The increase was primarily due to a $14.6 million increase in purchases of property and equipment and an increase of $144.8 million in cash paid for acquisitions.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities was $157.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, primarily attributable to repayments on our long-term debt of $50.3 million, net repayments on our Revolving Credit Facility of $63.3 million, repurchase of shares of common stock of $43.2 million in connection with the October 2025 secondary offering, and payment of finance lease
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obligations of $13.5 million, offset by proceeds from shares issued under share-based compensation plan of $25.3 million and other financing activities.
Net cash provided by financing activities was $164.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily attributable to net proceeds received from the IPO Offerings of $1,045.5 million, net borrowings on our Revolving Credit Facility of $12.6 million, partially offset by extinguishment of and net repayments on our long-term debt of $830.3 million, payment of debt issuance costs of $47.0 million, payment of finance lease obligations of $11.6 million, and other financing activities.
Debt
We typically incur debt to finance mergers and acquisitions, and we borrow under our Revolving Credit Facility for working capital purposes, as well as to finance acquisitions, as needed.
On March 5, 2019, the Company entered into the First Lien Credit Agreement with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent. The Company also entered into a $450.0 million Second Lien Facility with certain Lenders and Wilmington Trust, National Association as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, on the same date. The First Lien Credit Agreement, as amended, also extends credit in the form of a Revolving Credit Facility, or the Revolver, which is comprised of Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans. The total borrowing capacity of the Revolver as of December 31, 2025 was $475.0 million. Additionally, the Letter of Credit Issuer may issue standby Letters of Credit at any time and the Swingline Lender may issue Swingline Loans in an aggregate amount outstanding not in excess of $65.0 million.
Following our IPO Offerings in January 2024, we used a portion of the net proceeds received to repay all outstanding borrowings under the Second Lien Facility and repay $343.3 million of borrowings under the First Lien Facility. No remaining obligation exists related to the Second Lien Facility and the transaction was accounted for as a debt extinguishment resulting in a $12.7 million write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs. At that time, we also established a new Tranche B-4 under the First Lien to refinance the equivalent amount of the remaining First Lien Tranche B-1, B-2 and B-3 borrowings. On December 11, 2024, we again amended the First Lien to establish a new Tranche B-5 Term Loan (“Tranche B-5”) in an aggregate principal amount of $2,553.2 million to refinance the equivalent amount of the remaining Tranche B-4 borrowings at a rate equal to SOFR plus 2.50% or ABR plus 1.50% with a maturity date of February 21, 2031.
Concurrently with the IPO, we issued 8,000,000 TEUs, which have a stated amount of $50.00 per unit. Each TEU is comprised of a prepaid stock purchase contract and a senior amortizing note (“Amortizing Note”) due February 1, 2027, each issued by the Company. Refer to Note 7 within our consolidated financial statements and related notes in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Our outstanding debt as of December 31, 2025 was $2,569.7 million, which is primarily comprised of $2,521.3 million outstanding under the First Lien Facility and $31.4 million outstanding related to Amortizing Notes.
The First Lien Credit Agreement described above contain customary negative covenants, including, but not limited to, restrictions on the Company and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to merge and consolidate with other companies, incur indebtedness, grant liens or security interests on assets, make acquisitions, loans, advances, or investments, pay dividends, sell or otherwise transfer assets, prepay or modify terms of certain junior indebtedness, enter into transactions with affiliates, or change their lines of business or fiscal year. In addition, under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Company will not permit the consolidated first lien secured debt to consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) ratio to be greater than 6.90 to 1.00, which shall be tested as of the end of the most recent quarter at any time when the aggregate revolving credit loans exceed 35% of the total revolving credit commitments. We were in compliance with all applicable financial covenants under the First Lien Facilities as of December 31, 2025.
Interest Rate Swap Agreements
To manage fluctuations in cash flows resulting from changes in the variable rates, the Company entered into receive-variable, pay-fixed interest rate swap agreements. For the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, interest expense, net includes interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk of $15.2 million and $35.3 million, respectively. Refer to Note 6 within our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
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The table below summarizes the total outstanding debt of the Company:
| ($ in thousands) | Rate | Long-term obligation and note payable | Interest Expense | |||||||||||||||||||
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| 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | |||||||||||||||||
| First Lien - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | — | $ | 18,151 | ||||||||||||
| First Lien Tranche B-2 and B-3 - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | — | — | — | — | 12,923 | ||||||||||||||||
| First Lien Incremental Term Loan Tranche B-4 - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | — | — | — | — | 150,759 | ||||||||||||||||
| First Lien Incremental Term Loan Tranche B-5 - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | 6.22 | % | 6.86 | % | 2,521,255 | 2,546,787 | 146,482 | 8,857 | ||||||||||||||
| Second Lien - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | — | — | — | — | 4,482 | ||||||||||||||||
| Revolving Credit Loans - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | 6.47 | % | 7.61 | % | — | — | — | 331 | ||||||||||||||
| Swingline Loans and Base Rate Loans - payable to lenders at ABR plus applicable margin | 8.50 | % | 9.75 | % | — | 63,300 | 6,996 | 10,602 | ||||||||||||||
| Amortizing Notes | 31,360 | 53,804 | 4,183 | 4,899 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Notes payable and other | 17,129 | 19,428 | 886 | 316 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of deferred financing costs & other, net of interest income from cash flow hedges | — | — | (1,236 | ) | (20,774 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total debt | $ | 2,569,744 | $ | 2,683,319 | $ | 157,311 | $ | 190,546 | ||||||||||||||
| Less: debt issuance costs, net | 62,200 | 72,736 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt, net of debt issuance costs | 2,507,544 | 2,610,583 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: Current portion of long-term debt | 52,340 | 48,725 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total long-term debt, net of current portion | $ | 2,455,204 | $ | 2,561,858 |
Our Company's leverage, as calculated under our First Lien Credit Agreement, was 2.99x and 4.16x at December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The results of the Community Living business are included in such calculation pursuant to the terms of our First Lien Credit Agreement.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, we did not have any material off-balance sheet arrangements. As part of our ongoing business, we do not participate in transactions that generate relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, or SPEs, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, we were not involved in any unconsolidated SPE transactions. We do enter into letters of credit in the normal course of our operations.
Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
In preparing our consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, we must use estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and related disclosures and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses. In general, our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. We evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis and make changes to the estimates and related disclosures as experience develops or new information becomes known. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
We consider our critical accounting policies and estimates to be those that involve significant judgments and uncertainties and may potentially result in materially different results under different assumptions and conditions. See Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a summary of all of our significant accounting policies.
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. For transactions involving the transfer of goods, revenues are primarily recognized when the customer obtains control of the products sold, which is generally upon shipment or delivery, depending on the delivery terms specified in the sales agreement. For transactions exclusively involving provision of services, revenues are recognized over time based on an appropriate measure of progress. Additionally, as a policy, where we are required to collect sales taxes from our customers, revenue is recognized net of any taxes collected, and the sales tax amounts are recorded as a liability until remitted to the governmental taxing authorities.
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Revenues and the associated receivables are based upon the actual reimbursements to be received and include contractual allowances based upon historical trends, contractual reimbursement terms, and other factors which may impact ultimate reimbursement. Amounts are adjusted to actual reimbursed amounts based upon cash receipts.
Pharmacy Solutions
Pharmacy Solutions revenues are generated from the products and services provided in association with the distribution of prescription drugs to consumers primarily under contracts with Prescription Drug Plans, or PDPs, under Medicare Part D, state Medicaid programs, long-term care institutions, third party insurance companies, and private payors. Services provided include individualized medication management and support, staff and patient support programs and solutions, regulatory support, and product delivery. When an order for a prescription is placed with the Company, it creates the performance obligation to deliver a prescription and related services. The performance obligation is satisfied at a point in time upon shipment for specialty pharmacies and upon delivery for other pharmacies. Revenues are recognized at a point in time when the associated performance obligations are satisfied at the contractual rate established at or before the time the performance obligation is satisfied.
Provider Services
Provider Services revenues are generated from providing care services directly to consumers under contracts with state, local, and other governmental agencies, as well as commercial insurance companies, long-term care insurance policies, private pay customers, and management contracts with private operators. Generally, these contracts, which are negotiated based on current contract practices as appropriate for the payor, establish the terms of a customer relationship, and set the broad range of terms for services to be performed at a stated rate. The contracts do not give rise to rights and obligations until a service request is placed with the Company. Contract terms vary but generally are for one year or less with available renewal options and a 30 – 60-day reimbursement period. When a service request is placed with the Company, it creates the performance obligation to provide a defined quantity of service hours per patient. Performance obligations to deliver patient care services are satisfied over time and revenue is recognized using a time-based input method to measure progress against the contract between the Company and the customer, given that consumers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits provided by the Company as the services are performed. Revenues are recognized over a period of time as the services are rendered at the contractual rate established at or before the time services are rendered; thus, there are no forms of variable consideration associated with the various revenue streams.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Credit Losses
Accounts receivable primarily consist of amounts due from PDPs under Medicare Part D, institutional healthcare providers, state Medicaid programs, other government agencies, third-party insurance companies, and private payors. The Company performs a periodic analysis to review the valuation of accounts receivable and collectability of outstanding balances. Management’s evaluation takes into consideration factors such as historical bad debt experience, business and economic conditions, trends in healthcare coverage, other collection indicators, and information about specific receivables. The Company’s evaluation also considers the age and composition of the outstanding amounts in determining their estimated net realizable value. The Company’s ability to collect outstanding receivables is critical to its results of operations and cash flows. To provide for accounts receivable that could become uncollectible in the future, the Company establishes an allowance for credit losses to reduce the carrying value of such receivables to the extent it is probable that a portion or all of a particular account will not be collected, with the related expense recorded as a component of selling, general, and administrative expenses.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill Impairment Analyses
Goodwill represents the amount of the purchase price in excess of the fair values assigned to the underlying identifiable net assets of acquired businesses. Goodwill is not amortized, but is subject to an annual impairment test. Tests are performed more frequently if events occur or circumstances change, that would more-likely-than-not reduce the fair value of the reporting unit below its carrying amount.
The Company performs an annual goodwill impairment test on October 1st of each year for each reporting unit. The Company first assesses certain qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances would indicate that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit was less than its carrying amount. If after assessing the totality of events and circumstances, we were to determine that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then we would perform quantitative impairment testing. The quantitative impairment test is a single-step process. The process requires the Company to estimate and compare the fair value of a reporting unit to its carrying amount, including goodwill. If the fair value exceeds the carrying amount, the goodwill is not considered impaired. To the extent a reporting unit’s carrying amount exceeds
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its fair value, the reporting unit’s goodwill is deemed impaired, and an impairment charge is recognized based on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value.
A reporting unit is either an operating segment or one level below the operating segment. The Company has six reporting units: Institutional Pharmacy, Specialty Solutions, Home Infusion, Hospice Pharmacy, Behavioral Health, and Home Health & Therapies.
In 2025 and 2024, we performed a quantitative assessment of all reporting units as of October 1. We engaged a third-party valuation firm to assist in calculating each reporting unit’s fair value, which is derived using a combination of both income and market approaches. The material assumptions underlying the estimate of fair value of each reporting unit included the following:
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Future cash flow assumptions—the projections for future cash flows utilized in the model were derived from historical experience and assumptions regarding future growth and profitability of each reporting unit. These projections are consistent with our operating budget and strategic plan. Beyond the forecasted period, a long-term growth rate was utilized to determine a terminal value that reflects our estimate of stable and perpetual growth.
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Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)—the WACC is the rate used to discount each reporting unit’s estimated future cash flows. The WACC is calculated based on a proportionate weighting of the cost of debt and equity. The cost of equity is based on a capital asset pricing model and includes a company-specific risk premium to capture the perceived risks and uncertainties associated with each reporting unit’s projected cash flows.
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Market approach—the market approach measures the value of an asset through the analysis of publicly traded companies or present sales of similar businesses. The analysis entails measuring the multiple of sales and/or EBITDA at which the comparable companies are currently trading or were purchased.
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Equal weighting was applied to the discounted cash flow analysis or income approach (50%) and the market approach (50%).
Our 2025 and 2024 goodwill impairment analyses concluded that the fair value of each reporting unit was in excess of the carrying amount of each reporting unit. Subsequent to completing each goodwill impairment test, no indicators of impairment were identified.
Intangible Impairment Analyses
The Company’s intangible assets are comprised primarily of customer relationships, trade names, and definitive-lived licenses, which are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which is generally two to twenty years. The Company’s indefinite-lived intangible assets are comprised of indefinite lived licenses, which are reviewed for impairment annually or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change that would more-likely-than-not reduce the fair value of the intangible asset below its carrying amount. We elected to perform a qualitative assessment for our intangible assets for our annual impairment test in the fourth quarter of 2025 and 2024. As a result of our qualitative analyses, we determined that it was more-likely-than-not that the fair values of our indefinite-lived intangible assets were greater than their carrying values. We recorded intangible impairment of $10.8 million and $1.7 million related to definite-lived intangible licenses for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024, respectively.
The estimates and assumptions we use to estimate fair values when performing quantitative assessments are highly subjective judgments based on our experience and knowledge of our operations. Significant changes in the assumptions used in our analysis could result in an impairment charge related to goodwill or the indefinite-lived intangible assets. Circumstances that could result in changes to future estimates and assumptions include, but are not limited to, expectations of lower revenue growth, which can be caused by a variety of factors, fluctuations in comparable company and acquisition market multiples, increases in income tax rates, and increases in discount rates.
Self-insurance
The Company is self-insured for a substantial portion of the Company’s general and professional liability, automobile liability, workers’ compensation risks, and health benefits, subject to certain stop loss coverage at a high level of losses. Given the policy limits and high deductibles and/or self-insured retentions on many of the Company’s insurance programs, the vast majority of claims may not be paid by third-party insurance.
The Company’s self-insured liabilities contain uncertainties because management must make assumptions and apply judgment to estimate the ultimate cost of reported claims and claims incurred but not reported as of the balance sheet date. The Company’s provisions for losses for workers’ compensation and health benefit risks are based upon actuarially determined estimates and include an amount determined from reported claims and an amount based on past experiences for losses incurred but not reported. The Company’s provisions for general and professional and automobile liabilities are recorded on a claims-made basis, which includes
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estimates of fully developed losses for both reported and unreported claims. Accruals for general and professional and automobile liabilities are based on analyses performed internally by management.
On a quarterly basis, the Company evaluates the assumptions and the valuations to determine the adequacy of the self-insurance liabilities. The following are certain of the key assumptions and other factors that significantly influence the Company’s estimate of self-insurance liabilities: historical claims experience; trending of loss development factors; trends in the frequency and severity of claims; coverage limits of third-party insurance; demographic information; medical cost inflation; and payroll dollars. Any adjustments to the liabilities are reflected in earnings in the period identified.
The time period to resolve claims can vary depending upon the jurisdiction, the nature, and the form of resolution of the claims. The estimation of the timing of payments beyond a year can vary significantly. In addition, if current and future claims differ from historical trends, our estimated liabilities for self-insured claims may be significantly affected. The Company’s self-insurance liabilities for workers’ compensation are discounted based on actuarial estimates of claim payment patterns.
The Company believes the provision for loss is adequate for claims that have been reported but not paid and for claims that have been incurred but not reported. Due to the considerable variability that is inherent in such estimates, there can be no assurance the ultimate liability will not exceed management’s estimates. If actual results are not consistent with the assumptions and judgments, the Company may be exposed to gains or losses that could be material.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” within our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
MD&A history
Prior-year 10-K MD&A spans are extracted from SEC filings with the same bounded parser used for the latest filing. The latest 10-K appears above; prior years are below.
FY 2024 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0000950170-25-034196.
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion analyzes our financial condition and results of operations and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Forward-Looking Statements.” When reviewing the discussion below, you should keep in mind the substantial risks and uncertainties that characterize our business. Known material factors that could affect our financial performance and actual results, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements included in this discussion or otherwise made by our management, are described in “Risk Factors.” Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference are not limited to those identified in “Risk Factors.”
Overview
We are a leading home and community-based healthcare services platform, focused on delivering complementary pharmacy and provider services to complex patients. We have a differentiated approach to care delivery, with an integrated and scaled model that addresses critical services that the highest-need and highest-cost patients require. With a focus on Senior and Specialty patients, our platform provides pharmacy and provider services (both clinical and supportive care in nature) in lower-cost home and community settings largely to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially-insured populations. Our presence spans all 50 states, we serve over 450,000 patients daily through our approximately 11,000 clinical providers and pharmacists, and our services make a profound impact in the lives and communities of the people we serve.
We have built a significant presence and capability in delivering complementary and high-touch daily healthcare services and programs to complex patients in their homes and in communities in order to address their multiple health needs and requirements more completely, through two reportable segments: Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services. In pharmacy, we leverage our national infrastructure to provide daily medication therapy management to various customer and patient types wherever they reside in the community, including home and in-clinic infusion patients, oncology and other specialty patients in their homes, residents of independent and senior living communities, people receiving hospice care, neuro and Behavioral clients’ and patients’ homes, residents of skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, hospital patients, and the homes of Seniors who are on a significant number of medications. Within provider services, we address the clinical and supportive care needs of Senior and Specialty populations, including neuro patients, primarily in their homes, as well as some clinic and community settings. Our clinical services consist of home health and hospice and rehab therapy, and our supportive care services address activities of daily living and social determinants of health as well. We also provide home-based primary care for patients in senior living communities, long-term care, and individual homes to directly manage and optimize patient outcomes and to enable value-based care. By providing these complementary and necessary services for complex patients, our care model is designed to address multiple patient needs and better integrate health services delivery to improve quality and patient experiences, while reducing overall costs.
2024 Key Highlights
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Completion of our Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) on January 30, 2024
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Extinguishment of our Second Lien Facility
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Paydown and modification of our First Lien Facility, including interest rate refinancings that resulted in interest savings
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$63.3 million of equity awards granted to management and certain other full-time employees at the time of our IPO
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7.7 million restricted stock units granted to certain full-time employees in the second fiscal quarter of 2024, as disclosed in connection with our IPO
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Completed eight acquisitions within our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments
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Announcement of the pending divestiture of our Community Living business on January 20, 2025
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Financial Performance Highlights: Fiscal Year 2024 Compared to Fiscal Year 2023
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Revenue grew by $2.4 billion, or 27.6%, to $11.3 billion
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Pharmacy Solutions segment revenue grew by $2.2 billion, or 34.2%, to $8.8 billion
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Provider Services segment revenue grew by $208.5 million, or 9.0%, to $2.5 billion
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Net loss decreased by $136.3 million from $156.8 million to $20.5 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million quality incentive payment (“QIP”) received in 2023, net loss decreased by $166.5 million
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Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased by $50.3 million, or 9.3%, to $588.1 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Adjusted EBITDA increased by $80.5 million or 15.9%
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Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA grew by $23.7 million, or 6.4%, to $394.7 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA increased by $53.9 million or 15.8%
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Provider Services segment EBITDA grew by $53.9 million, or 17.6%, to $360.6 million
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Loss per share decreased by $1.22 from $(1.31) to $(0.09)
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Adjusted EPS (1) increased by $0.49 from $0.07 to $0.56
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
Our Service Offerings
We are one of the largest independent providers of home and community-based health services in the United States, delivering both pharmacy and provider services. We believe our high-quality and complementary health services offerings address significant and important patient and stakeholder needs. We enhance patient outcomes through the delivery and coordination of high-quality services that high-need, high-cost patients require. Our services are principally delivered in patient-preferred and lower-cost settings and often over longer periods of time, given the chronic nature of the patient conditions that we address. We believe our breadth of service capabilities and proven outcomes position us as a provider of choice for patients, families, referral sources, customers, and payors. We deliver services through two reportable segments: Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services.
The following table summarizes the revenues generated by each of our reportable segments for the most recent two years:
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| Pharmacy Solutions | $ | 8,754.3 | 77.7 | % | $ | 6,522.5 | 73.9 | % | ||||||||
| Provider Services | 2,512.2 | 22.3 | % | 2,303.7 | 26.1 | % | ||||||||||
| Consolidated | $ | 11,266.5 | 100.0 | % | $ | 8,826.2 | 100.0 | % |
Pharmacy Solutions
We opportunistically provide pharmacy services when and where demanded and as required to customers and patients in their homes and communities, often in coordination with our provider services. The Company filled over 41 million prescriptions in 2024 from over 180 pharmacies across all 50 states, with services delivered to approximately 7,100 customer locations, more than 60,000 individual or group homes, and over 400,000 patients, all through over 4,700 unique customer and payor contracts. Our leading pharmacy support across customer and patient settings is achieved through a focus on medication availability and reliability, cost containment, customer staff and patient support programs, clinical and regulatory education and support, and leading customer service. Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy prescriptions and Home and Community Pharmacy prescriptions have grown at more than 22% and 11%, respectively, from December 2023 to December 2024. We have a unique opportunity to increasingly provide more pharmacy services in the future to provider patients and patients transitioning across settings of care. Almost every one of the Company’s patients who receive provider services from us have a significant medication support need given their polypharmacy profile, which we have the opportunity to further address.
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Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy
We provide infused, injectable, and oral medication services in the home and clinic focused on pharmaceutical therapies that require expert administration and high-touch clinical services to patients by our pharmacists, registered nursing staff, and patient support teams. Infusion therapy services are a specialty form of pharmaceuticals that involve the intravenous administration of higher-cost, specially-handled medications that treat a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions, including, for example, infections, auto-immune illnesses, oncology, multiple sclerosis, hemophilia, and nutritional deficiencies. Oral and injectable medication therapies for complex disease management treat oncology, neurology, dermatology, cardiology, immunology, inflammatory, rare and orphan, and other conditions. Within oncology, as one of the leading independent specialty pharmacies in the United States, our services encompass clinical coordination, patient education, protocol compliance, patient assistance with insurance access and outside funding, and timely delivery of medication. Our certified oncology pharmacists are available 24/7 to provide support for patients and caregivers while working in close coordination with their physicians.
As a result of our unique capabilities in serving pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotech companies, we have exclusive or preferred relationships in specialty oncology drugs, as manufacturers select our pharmacy – exclusively or as part of a group of a few other pharmacies – to distribute and support their therapies in the market. We currently have 125 limited distribution oncology drugs in the market, with an additional 16 in the pipeline still to launch over the next 12 to 18 months.
Home and Community Pharmacy
Our home and community-based pharmacy solutions ensure that medications are accessible and clinically supported for patients outside of retail pharmacies. The Company’s footprint of pharmacies covers all 50 states with a localized model that features “white-glove” and customized programs and allows for faster response times and a better customer and patient experience. We service customer locations typically multiple times a day and 24/7 as needed, within a radius of approximately 100 miles of a pharmacy location. Our pharmacy services are all customized to specific settings and patients among the Senior and Specialty populations served, for example whether a patient receiving our medications is in a senior living community, a behavioral group home, or a hospice patient in their own home.
Provider Services
We deliver a variety of impactful and valuable provider services to high-need, chronic, and complex patients in home and community settings. These services consist of clinical and supportive care to approximately 40,000 Senior and Specialty populations, with both census for Home Health Care services specifically, and rehab hours served, having grown approximately 9% and 13% from December 2023 to December 2024, respectively. While the clinical services that we provide have demonstrated attractive volume growth over the past several years, supportive care services have also demonstrated stability and growth due to the valuable nature of these services that address activities of daily living and social determinants of health. Many of our provider patients also receive their pharmacy services through the Company, which helps to optimize their pharmacy and medication care and needs, simplify their experience, and improve their satisfaction.
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc. to divest the Company's community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. The Company expects the divestiture to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. This transaction provides for continuity of important intellectual and developmental disability services while BrightSpring focuses on a concentrated group of customers, patients and stakeholders in the future. We believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payer mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment the Company’s expected Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require BrightSpring’s needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, rehab, primary care, and hospice. The Company expects to account for this sale as a strategic shift in fiscal year 2025. As of December 31, 2024, the Community Living business did not meet the definition of held for sale or discontinued operations. The results of operations of Community Living are consolidated in the Company’s results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024.
Home Health Care
We provide patient-centric, highly skilled, and compassionate clinical care to Seniors and others in their homes. For Seniors and other patients recovering from surgery or illness or living with chronic diseases, we provide clinical home health care in the home. We also provide physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort and support primarily for Senior patients with terminal illnesses and their families through our hospice services. Like patients receiving home health care, our interdisciplinary hospice teams tailor individualized plans for patients and their families based on a comprehensive understanding of their needs. Our hospice patients require important daily pharmacy support, which we deliver through our pharmacy services. Additionally, for Seniors and others who require supportive care and activities of daily living support that address social determinants of health, including dietary and nutrition management and cognitive and social engagement, among others, we offer these daily or weekly services.
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We are continuing to build out specialized and different primary care capabilities through our home-based primary care medical home model and platform, which we view as central to the future of optimizing patient management, including patient experiences, outcomes, and cost. Home-based primary care is more patient-centered and incorporates patients’ specific objectives and goals by pro-actively addressing gaps in care and triaging health events in-place when possible, thus mitigating avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Home-based primary care coordinates care and resources for patients in pulling together previously disparate information and contact points into one place for more coordinated and informed patient care.
In addition to many of our provider patients also receiving their pharmacy services from the Company, our patients often receive multiple in-home provider services from the Company to improve outcomes, including home-based primary care and home health or hospice and transitions from home health to hospice. As more of our patients utilize the multiple needed services that they require and we provide, we pro-actively monitor patients and deploy triage tools through our Clinical (Nursing) Hub to address risks and optimize quality outcomes in real-time, particularly for higher risk patients. Within the Clinical (Nursing) Hub, we centralize on-call and tele-triage, perform high-risk patient monitoring and intervention, conduct “Aftercare” patient calls, and manage care coordination opportunities across the enterprise.
Community and Rehab Care
Our Community and Rehab Care services provide both client- and patient-centric clinical care and supportive care to Senior and Specialty clients and patients living with age-related acute or chronic conditions, living with life-long indications (including I/DD and autism), or recovering from a catastrophic neuro event (ABI/TBI or stroke) requiring intensive therapy. These services support individuals of all ages who need various forms of expert clinical care and therapy in addition to assistance with daily skill building and living. The majority of these clients and patients receive daily pharmacy support, delivered through our pharmacy business, along with ongoing behavioral therapy consults and primary care medical care, which is increasingly being delivered through our home-based primary care practice.
We provide specialized, highly-skilled, and custom-designed rehabilitation services, including physical, speech and occupational therapy and ABA, for clients and patients of all ages with a range of injuries and conditions, including brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, pediatric neuro conditions, and autism. We also offer a variety of programs for individuals with I/DD through our community living services, including group homes, supported living and family living models (host homes), behavioral therapy, vocational therapy, and case management. Our programs are principally administered in individuals’ homes and are predominantly based on individual support and clinical care plans designed to encourage greater independence and manage medical conditions, as the majority of I/DD individuals have multiple chronic conditions and require eight or more medications.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions, and will represent a strategic shift in fiscal year 2025.
Locations of Operations
We are headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky with operations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada. We deliver a higher proportion of services in select regions with favorable demographics and regulatory environments.
We serve patients from and across approximately 11,300 offices, customer locations and group homes, as well as serving approximately 300,000 patients in their own homes, every day with co-location of our pharmacy and provider services in 40 states.
Payor Mix
We are characterized by payor diversification across our platform. Our payors are principally federal, state, and local governmental agencies, commercial insurance, private, and other payors. No payor represents more than 30% of our revenue in the aggregate for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. Additionally, our Medicaid payors can be further broken down across each individual state with our top 10 Medicaid states representing 12% and 14% of total Company revenue for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The federal, state, and local programs under which we operate are subject to legislative and budgetary changes that can influence reimbursement rates.
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| For the Years Ended December 31, | ||||||||||||||||
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| ($ in millions) | 2024 | 2023 | ||||||||||||||
| Revenue | % of Revenue | Revenue | % of Revenue | |||||||||||||
| Commercial insurance | $ | 2,557.9 | 22.8 | % | $ | 1,811.6 | 20.5 | % | ||||||||
| Medicaid | 2,196.1 | 19.5 | % | 1,974.2 | 22.3 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare A | 999.6 | 8.8 | % | 958.6 | 10.8 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare B | 96.0 | 0.8 | % | 82.8 | 1.0 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare C | 1,665.0 | 14.8 | % | 1,450.4 | 16.5 | % | ||||||||||
| Medicare D | 3,202.0 | 28.4 | % | 2,031.9 | 23.0 | % | ||||||||||
| Private & other | 549.9 | 4.9 | % | 516.7 | 5.9 | % | ||||||||||
| $ | 11,266.5 | 100.0 | % | $ | 8,826.2 | 100.0 | % |
We provide our services across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, with our top 10 states of operations comprising 47% and 49% of total Company revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023 respectively.
The following tables summarize the percentage of revenue generated by each payor type for each of our service offerings and reportable segments:
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| Commercial insurance | Medicaid | Medicare Part A | Medicare Part B | Medicare Part C | Medicare Part D | Private & other | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy | 18.4 | % | 5.3 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.6 | % | 13.7 | % | 19.1 | % | 0.8 | % | 57.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home and Community Pharmacy | 2.6 | % | 2.1 | % | 4.8 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 9.3 | % | 1.0 | % | 19.8 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Pharmacy Solutions | 21.0 | % | 7.4 | % | 4.8 | % | 0.6 | % | 13.7 | % | 28.4 | % | 1.8 | % | 77.7 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care | 0.3 | % | 2.5 | % | 4.0 | % | 0.2 | % | 1.1 | % | — | 1.2 | % | 9.3 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Community and Rehab Care | 1.5 | % | 9.6 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | — | 1.9 | % | 13.0 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Provider Services | 1.8 | % | 12.1 | % | 4.0 | % | 0.2 | % | 1.1 | % | — | 3.1 | % | 22.3 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | 22.8 | % | 19.5 | % | 8.8 | % | 0.8 | % | 14.8 | % | 28.4 | % | 4.9 | % | 100.0 | % |
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| Commercial insurance | Medicaid | Medicare Part A | Medicare Part B | Medicare Part C | Medicare Part D | Private & other | Total | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy | 17.0 | % | 5.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.7 | % | 15.7 | % | 12.6 | % | 1.0 | % | 52.0 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home and Community Pharmacy | 1.8 | % | 2.4 | % | 6.2 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | 10.4 | % | 1.1 | % | 21.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Pharmacy Solutions | 18.8 | % | 7.4 | % | 6.2 | % | 0.7 | % | 15.7 | % | 23.0 | % | 2.1 | % | 73.9 | % | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care | 0.4 | % | 3.1 | % | 4.6 | % | 0.2 | % | 0.7 | % | — | 1.4 | % | 10.4 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Community and Rehab Care | 1.3 | % | 11.8 | % | 0.0 | % | 0.1 | % | 0.1 | % | — | 2.4 | % | 15.7 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Provider Services | 1.7 | % | 14.9 | % | 4.6 | % | 0.3 | % | 0.8 | % | — | 3.8 | % | 26.1 | % | |||||||||||||||||
| Consolidated BrightSpring | 20.5 | % | 22.3 | % | 10.8 | % | 1.0 | % | 16.5 | % | 23.0 | % | 5.9 | % | 100.0 | % |
See Note 2 of the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes in this Form 10-K for information regarding revenue by payor type for each reportable segment for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
Trends and Other Factors Affecting Business
Continued Growth of our Pharmacy Solutions Patient Populations
We focus on providing health-dependent medications in a timely and well-supported manner to our patients receiving pharmacy solutions in their home and community-based settings. Our pharmacy services are primarily delivered directly to patients in their place of residence, home, or stay, and sometimes in a clinic setting. Our high-need Senior and Specialty patients depend on closely and expertly managed daily medication regimens that are supported by pharmacist and nurse consultants whom are available in a timely and 24/7 manner. According to industry reports, pharmacy solutions delivered to and tailored for the home environment, such as home infusion services, oncology services, and daily medication management services in the home, will continue to grow faster than the overall and general pharmacy market. Each of the end markets that these home and community-based pharmacy services supply and support are growing at attractive rates, and the lack of appropriate pharmacy medication management and resulting non-adherence among complex and polypharmacy patients in homes are significant contributors to ER visits, hospitalizations and increased costs.
We have continued to expand our pharmacy capabilities to serve this need. Overall, our pharmacy has grown patient census and prescriptions by 12% over the past year. We are a leading independent pharmacy provider in our respective pharmacy patient markets,
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and we expect to continue to increase our share. Our growth in serving numerous patient types has been well into the double digits, including home infusion patients, specialty oncology patients, behavioral patients, in-home Seniors, and hospice patients.
Continued Growth of our Provider Services Patient Populations
Our Provider Services segment focuses on delivering high-touch and coordinated services to medically complex Senior and Specialty patients in the home and community-based settings where they live. As the baby boomer population ages, Seniors, who comprise a significant majority of our patients, will represent a higher percentage of the overall population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the U.S. population aged 65 and over will grow substantially from 15% of the population in 2016 to 21% of the population by 2030, and the population size of people over age 85 is expected to double by 2040, according to the Administration for Community Living. Given the proven value proposition of home-based health services, we believe patients will increasingly seek treatment and referral sources and payors will increasingly support treatment in homes more often than in higher cost, less convenient, higher acuity institutional settings. Home health care can reduce 365-day post-discharge costs by more than $6,000 per patient, and as healthcare spending rises, home health care can improve the continuity of care while reducing overall costs. In addition, advancements in medical technology have allowed providers to expand access points and the breadth of services available in the home.
The vast majority of patients we serve in our provider businesses are served in the home, and we have purposefully continued to expand our service offering and footprint to serve patients in this lower cost setting. Over the past five years we built upon supportive care services to patients, as we have meaningfully expanded our footprint of highly clinical and expert services to home health, rehabilitation, and hospice patients to address a large national healthcare need and more completely and better serve Senior and Specialty patients in the home as evidenced by continued census growth within the Provider Services segment. Our complementary services that address the multiple needs of these patient populations will increasingly provide integrated care opportunities to provide more complete and better coordinated services to patients across health settings and stages.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The sale of this business will represent a strategic shift, in fiscal year 2025, from our services to Behavioral populations. After closing, our focus will be primarily on Seniors and Specialty patients receiving neuro rehab.
Stable Reimbursement Environment Across our Portfolio of Businesses
Our revenue is dependent upon our contracts and relationships with payors for our “must-serve” patient populations. We partner with a large and diverse set of payor groups nationally and in each of our markets to form provider networks and to lower the overall cost of care. We structure our payor contracts to help both providers and payors achieve their objectives in a mutually aligned manner. Maintaining, supporting, and both deepening and increasing the number of these contracts and relationships, particularly as we continue to grow market share and enter new markets, is important for our long-term success.
We have observed relatively stable reimbursement rates from government and commercial payors in our pharmacy and provider services over a number of years, particularly for services provided to high-need, medically complex populations. Due to the medical necessity of our services, which are lower cost than healthcare services provided in other settings and reduce ER, hospital and institutional facility utilization, we have a history of reimbursement stability characterized by low-to-mid single digit rate increases across our lines of business from 2014 to 2022. Our average reimbursement rate increases based on revenue during this time period included 4.2% for personal care services associated with activity of daily living services for Seniors, 4.5% for Behavioral services, 2.2% for hospice services, and 1.6% associated with long term care pharmacy services.
Culture of Quality and Compliance and Consistent Operations Execution
Quality and compliance are central to our strategies and mission. We have demonstrated leading and excellent service and customer/patient/family satisfaction scores across the organization, as referenced in prior and other sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition to quality and compliance resources and programs in field operations, we invest over $200 million a year in people, training, auditing, signature programs, accreditations, advocacy, and technologies to support quality, compliance, and safety as part of our “Quality First” framework. We have demonstrated consistently high and often leading marks for service levels, satisfaction scores, and quality metrics in our industries.
For example, across our pharmacies we achieve 99.99% order accuracy and 98.63% order completeness, “excellent” and “world class” NPS, a 94% satisfaction rating from infusion patients, and a reduction in hospitalizations with CCRx, while also driving savings through medication adherence and therapeutic interchanges. We achieve 97% patient satisfaction in our outpatient rehab services, and we achieve an 85% overall rating of care in hospice (compared to the national average of 81%), hospitalizations 35% lower than the national average in our home-based primary care, and four stars (out of five) in the CAHPS home health patient survey ratings. 84% of our home health branches have a STAR rating of 4 or higher. Our complex Behavioral clients, often with three or more comorbidities and requiring eight or more medications, are still able to spend 359 days a year at home on average. We believe that we
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are positioned to identify potential medical problems and avoid adverse events due to our highly proximate position to patients and attentive care protocols, as evidenced by these quality metrics.
Operational excellence is also an ongoing focus at the Company, including how we collect and share key metrics, hold operational reviews, audit, conduct training, deploy expert support resources, execute on corrective and preventative actions, and implement continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. We have continued to make investments in automation, data, and technology systems to support enhanced workflows, further scale, and future growth across service lines.
Ability to Build De Novo Locations
We have a proven ability to augment growth of existing operations by expanding our presence and opening new locations – in both of our operating segments in Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services – across geographies with consistent ramp-up in performance after site opening. We believe our platform can continue to build further scale nationally, adding density to additional and targeted key markets as a lever to facilitate maximum pharmacy and provider services overlap, integrated and value-based care, and growth. The Company’s geographic and operations scale and platform of complementary segments and service lines provides us with access to more de novo opportunities to consider and prioritize.
Since January 1, 2018, we have opened 164 de novo offices (branches/agencies) and clinics in new locations across our pharmacy and provider services. In 2024, we opened 21 de novo offices. We typically identify and open new locations within proximity of an existing location as we leverage existing market knowledge and presence to expand in target markets, regions, and states. Our internal support resources in real estate, purchasing, IT, credentialing, payor contracting, HR, and sales and marketing, along with our PMO, help to support and manage de novos from start to opening. We expect to continue to selectively and strategically expand our footprint within the United States and extend our service offerings to our patients and for customers, referral sources, and payors, and we believe de novo investments facilitate more integrated care capability and are a meaningful organic growth driver for the Company.
Ability to Facilitate Integrated Care
Our operating model consists of complementary pharmacy and provider services that high-need Senior and Specialty populations require, and it is designed to increasingly coordinate, manage, and serve patients across our various needs and settings over time, leading to improved patient, family, physician, and referral source satisfaction, improved payor experiences, and better outcomes. Our performance and potential to drive increased service volume for increased patient and health outcomes impact is driven partly by our appeal with our patients, families, customers, referral sources, and payors to provide multiple integrated care services – either in the same setting at the same time or across settings and stages of health – within our collection of pharmacy solutions and provider services and differentiated overall capabilities.
We provide multiple pharmacy and provider services to approximately 20,000 patients today, and we believe that there are substantially more opportunities to deliver more integrated care, given the hundreds of thousands of patients we serve and a similar number of patients discharging from customers annually. Value-add, beneficial, and multiple integrated care opportunities exist for our customer base and all Senior and Specialty patient populations and not only across pharmacy and provider services, but also within each segment. Within the pharmacy services, CCRx is aimed at providing medication risk and therapy management continuously and longitudinally post discharge from hospitals and skilled nursing customers. Within the provider services, patients often transition from home health to hospice services and can receive therapy and supportive care services concurrent with each other and with home health and hospice.
Aligning to Value-Based Care Reimbursement Models with Innovative Solutions
The scale and depth of our complimentary platform of diverse yet related customer and patient services – that complex patients require – positions us at the forefront with governmental and commercial payors who are increasingly seeking ways to expand value-based reimbursement models. Our high-quality services that are delivered in home and community-based and patient and family-preferred settings at lower comparable costs are well-positioned for the long-term, and we continue to add wraparound care management capabilities and offerings to our core services. In addition to our large Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary populations, we have a large number of non-governmental payor contracts across the organization today, which both diversifies our payor mix, and provides for additional value-based opportunities and partnerships.
The Company’s focused build out of its (i) Home-Based Primary Care, transitional care programs, and in-home medication therapy management (CCRx), and (ii) Clinical (Nursing) Hub, are key enablers to coordinate base pharmacy and provider services and drive improved quality and lower costs for value-based care constructs.
In addition to numerous payor contracts that feature reimbursement incentives, in the past year the Company has entered into several ACO arrangements to participate in shared savings from its attributed primary care patients and other ACO partnerships and contract as a preferred provider.
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Initial Public Offering
On January 30, 2024, we completed our IPO of 53,333,334 shares of common stock at a price of $13.00 per share and a concurrent offering of 8,000,000 6.75% tangible equity units (“TEUs”) with a stated amount of $50.00 per Unit (collectively, the “IPO Offerings”). The net proceeds from the IPO Offerings amounted to $656.5 million and $389.0 million for the common stock and TEUs, respectively, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and offering-related expenses. The shares of common stock and TEUs began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on January 26, 2024 under the ticker symbols “BTSG” and “BTSGU,” respectively.
We used a portion of the net proceeds received from the IPO Offerings to (i) repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Second Lien Facility, (ii) repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility, (iii) repay $343.3 million outstanding aggregate amount under the First Lien Facility, and (iv) pay certain expenses in the offering. We retained the remaining proceeds for general corporate purposes. Additionally, we paid $22.7 million of termination fees in connection with the termination of our monitoring agreement with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”) and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (together with KKR, the “Managers”) (the “Monitoring Agreement”).
New Equity Awards
We granted approximately $63.3 million in non-cash share-based compensation with equity awards to our management and certain other full-time employees in January 2024 at the time of the IPO Offerings. Additionally, as previously disclosed in connection with the IPO, we granted approximately $100.0 million in non-cash share-based compensation equity awards, which equates to approximately 7.7 million restricted stock units, to certain full-time employees in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024.
Factors Affecting Results of Operations and Comparability
Acquisitions and Divestitures
During the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2024, we completed five and eight acquisitions, respectively, within the Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. Aggregate consideration, net of cash acquired, for these acquisitions was approximately $73.1 million and $110.9 million, respectively.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The Company's Community Living business was not accounted for as held for sale or discontinued operations as of December 31, 2023 or 2024. Thus, the Community Living business' results of operations are consolidated in the Company’s results of operations. We intend to use the proceeds from the sale to reduce debt resulting in accelerated deleveraging while also increasing capital availability. We believe the divestiture will result in enhanced operational efficiency across the organization by optimizing resource allocation to further strengthen our position in our service offerings within the Pharmacy Solutions and remaining Provider Services segments by focusing on seniors and specialty populations with similar business and delivery models.
Quality Incentive Payment
As discussed under Part I, Item 1. “Business”, the Company was eligible to receive incentive payments in connection with a payor contract based on the Company's Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) achieved from surveys performed directly by the payor. During the second fiscal quarter of 2023, our Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy services earned a quality incentive payment (“QIP”) of approximately $30 million. The Company did not receive a QIP during the year ended December 31, 2024. The QIP program has reached its conclusion.
Legal Costs and Settlements Accrual
In November 2023, the Company agreed to settle the Silver matter without admitting liability, as discussed under Part I, Item 3. “Legal Proceedings”. On May 29, 2024, the parties entered into a final settlement agreement, which was approved by both the United States Department of Justice and the District Court. The total financial impact of the settlement is $120.0 million; $115.0 million of which was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2023 as an estimate, and an incremental $5.0 million was recorded in the year ended December 31, 2024 once the settlement agreement was finalized. We paid $110.0 million of the settlement in 2024, and the remainder will be paid in 2025.The District Court entered an order dismissing the Silver action in its entirety, with prejudice, on July 3, 2024. See Note 14 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Update on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
On May 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services declared the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a public health emergency. New variants could affect our operations for an extended period; however, at this time we cannot confidently forecast the duration or the ultimate financial impact on our operations, should such an impact occur. In the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company received no funds from the Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) and recognized no income related to the program. The Company received and recognized into income $18.8 million from the PRF for the year ended December 31, 2023. The income recognized was offset directly by the expenses incurred within selling, general, and administrative expenses in our audited consolidated statement of operations, which resulted in no net financial impact to the Company.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenues. The Company recognizes the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. For transactions involving the transfer of goods, revenues are primarily recognized when the customer obtains control of the products sold, which is generally upon shipment or delivery, depending on the delivery terms specified in the sales agreement. For transactions exclusively involving provision of services, revenues are recognized over time based on an appropriate measure of progress.
Cost of Goods and Cost of Services. We classify expenses directly related to providing goods and services, including depreciation and amortization, as cost of goods and cost of services. Direct costs and expenses primarily include cost of drugs, net of rebates, salaries and benefits for direct care and service professionals, contracted labor costs, insurance costs, transportation costs for clients requiring services, certain client expenses such as food, supplies and medicine, residential occupancy expenses, which primarily comprise rent and utilities, and other miscellaneous direct goods or service-related expenses.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general, and administrative expenses consist of expenses incurred in support of our operations and administrative functions and include labor costs, such as salaries, bonuses, commissions, benefits, and travel-related expenses, distribution expenses, facilities rental costs, third-party revenue cycle management costs, and corporate support costs including finance, information technology, legal costs and settlements, human resources, procurement, and other administrative costs.
Loss on Extinguishment of Debt. Loss on extinguishment of debt reflects the write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs upon the early repayment of our Second Lien Facility.
Interest Expense, net. Interest expense, net includes interest paid on and debt service costs associated with our various debt instruments, including our First Lien Facilities and Second Lien Facility, and the amortization of related deferred financing fees, which are amortized over the term of the respective credit agreement. Interest expense, net also includes the portion of the gain or loss on our interest rate swap agreements that is reclassified into earnings.
Income Tax Benefit. Our provision for income taxes is based on permanent book/tax differences and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining the provision for income taxes.
Results of Operations
This section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K generally discusses the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 and year-over-year comparisons between the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. For information of our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to the year ended December 31, 2022, refer to Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our previously filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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Consolidated Results of Operations
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| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
| Products | $ | 8,754,282 | $ | 6,522,450 | $ | 2,231,832 | 34.2 | % | ||||||||
| Services | 2,512,190 | 2,303,725 | 208,465 | 9.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Total revenues | 11,266,472 | 8,826,175 | 2,440,297 | 27.6 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of goods | 8,008,501 | 5,840,716 | 2,167,785 | 37.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of services | 1,669,536 | 1,551,665 | 117,871 | 7.6 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 1,588,435 | 1,433,794 | 154,641 | 10.8 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 1,382,061 | 1,286,614 | 95,447 | 7.4 | % | |||||||||||
| Operating income | 206,374 | 147,180 | 59,194 | 40.2 | % | |||||||||||
| Loss on extinguishment of debt | 12,726 | — | 12,726 | n.m. | ||||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | 228,386 | 324,593 | (96,207 | ) | (29.6 | )% | ||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (34,738 | ) | (177,413 | ) | 142,675 | n.m. | ||||||||||
| Income tax benefit | (14,217 | ) | (20,578 | ) | 6,361 | n.m. | ||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (20,521 | ) | $ | (156,835 | ) | $ | 136,314 | n.m. | |||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA (1) | $ | 588,075 | $ | 537,808 | $ | 50,267 | 9.3 | % |
* n.m.: not meaningful
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
The following discussion of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with the foregoing table summarizing our consolidated results of operations.
Revenues
Revenues were $11,266.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $8,826.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $2,440.3 million or 27.6%. The increase resulted from growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below. Revenues for the Company's Community Living business were $1,194.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,135.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. When excluding the Community Living business revenues, consolidated revenues increased by $2,381.2 million or 31.0%.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $8,008.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $5,840.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $2,167.8 million or 37.1%. The increase resulted from an increase in Pharmacy Solutions cost of goods. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $1,669.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,551.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $117.9 million or 7.6%. The increase resulted from an increase in Provider Services cost of services. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $1,382.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,286.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $95.4 million or 7.4%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $66.4 million, or 5.2% growth on consolidated 2023 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below;
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an increase of $44.1 million, or 3.4% growth on consolidated 2023 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of our IPO Offerings and are therefore not expected to reoccur. These expenses include $22.7 million of termination
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fees paid to the Managers in connection with the termination of our Monitoring Agreement; $15.0 million of previously unrecognized non-cash share-based compensation expense related to performance-vesting options, a portion of which vested upon the IPO; and $6.4 million of non-capitalizable offering costs;
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an increase of $49.2 million, or 3.8% growth on consolidated 2023 selling, general, and administrative expenses, due to non-cash share-based compensation related to the new equity awards granted to management and certain full-time employees in conjunction with the IPO;
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an increase of $41.5 million, or 3.2% growth on consolidated 2023 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of an increase in other operational expenses year-over-year; offset by,
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a decrease of $105.8 million, or 8.2%, decline on consolidated 2023 selling, general, and administrative expenses, due to the settlement and changes in estimate of legal settlements and defense costs related to certain historical PharMerica litigation matters, which includes the Silver matter. See Note 14 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes.
Interest Expense, net
Interest expense, net was $228.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $324.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, a decrease of $96.2 million or 29.6%. The decrease primarily resulted from lower outstanding term debt as compared to the prior period and a $3.9 million increase in interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk. The Company's outstanding term debt decreased in the first fiscal quarter of 2024 as a result of the paydowns on our term debt using proceeds from the IPO Offerings. The Company also refinanced the First Lien facility in the first fiscal quarter of 2024 and, again, in the fourth fiscal quarter of 2024 resulting in a reduction of the applicable interest rate margin to 3.25% and 2.50%, respectively.
Income Tax Benefit
Income tax benefit was $14.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $20.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, a change of $6.4 million which corresponds with a change in the effective tax rate from 11.6% for the year ended December 31, 2023 to 40.9% for the year ended December 31, 2024. The increase in the effective tax rate is primarily due to limitations on the deductibility of certain executive compensation that now apply to the Company upon completion of its IPO in January 2024, partially offset by the tax benefit related to the Silver legal settlement. The terms of the settlement agreement, including partial deductibility for tax purposes, were finalized in 2024 and resulted in favorable treatment for tax purposes. See Note 14 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Net Loss
Net loss was $20.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $156.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, a decrease of $136.3 million. Net loss for 2024 includes the aforementioned $44.1 million of expense related to non-recurring costs directly associated with the IPO Offerings. Additionally, the Company incurred a write-off of $12.7 million of unamortized debt issuance costs upon the extinguishment of the Second Lien and $49.2 million of non-cash share-based compensation expense related to new equity awards granted to management and certain full-time employees in connection with the IPO Offerings. The increase in expenses is offset by the aforementioned decrease in interest expense, net, income tax benefit, and legal settlement and defense costs, and increase in revenues. When excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, net loss decreased by $166.5 million compared to a net loss of $187.0 million in 2023.
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Adjusted EBITDA (1)
Adjusted EBITDA was $588.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $537.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $50.3 million or 9.3%. When excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Adjusted EBITDA increased $80.5 million or 15.9%. The increase of $50.3 million primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $77.6 million, or 14.4% growth on consolidated 2023 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by,
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When excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, consolidated Adjusted EBITDA related to the Pharmacy Solutions segment increased 10.6% compared to consolidated Adjusted EBITDA of $507.6 million in 2023.
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a decrease of $27.3 million, or 5.1% decline on consolidated 2023 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of increased corporate expenses incurred primarily due to investments in information technology and positions to support growth within the business.
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
Segment Results of Operations
Pharmacy Solutions Segment
The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, our segment results of operations.
| Pharmacy Solutions | ||||||||||||||||
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| ($ in thousands, except Business Metrics) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| Change | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | Amount | % | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 8,754,282 | $ | 6,522,450 | $ | 2,231,832 | 34.2 | % | ||||||||
| Cost of goods | 8,008,501 | 5,840,716 | 2,167,785 | 37.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 745,781 | 681,734 | 64,047 | 9.4 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 462,219 | 426,521 | 35,698 | 8.4 | % | |||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 283,562 | $ | 255,213 | $ | 28,349 | 11.1 | % | ||||||||
| Segment EBITDA | $ | 394,665 | $ | 370,962 | $ | 23,703 | 6.4 | % | ||||||||
| Business Metrics: | ||||||||||||||||
| Prescriptions dispensed | 41,816,584 | 37,390,655 | 4,425,929 | 11.8 | % | |||||||||||
| Revenue per script | $ | 209.35 | $ | 174.44 | $ | 34.91 | 20.0 | % | ||||||||
| Gross profit per script | $ | 17.83 | $ | 18.23 | $ | (0.40 | ) | (2.2 | )% |
Revenues
Revenues were $8,754.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $6,522.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $2,231.8 million or 34.2%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth in prescriptions dispensed across and within the Pharmacy Solutions segment. Revenue attributable to Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy was $6,526.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $4,600.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $1,925.1 million or 41.8% attributable to an increase in prescriptions dispensed on certain specialty branded drugs. Revenue attributable to Home and Community Pharmacy was $2,228.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,921.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $306.7 million or 16.0% attributable to volume growth.
The increase in revenue per prescription dispensed is due to mix changes year-over-year and a greater relative increase in volume growth in certain specialty brand drugs, which carry a higher revenue per prescription dispensed.
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Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $8,008.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $5,840.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $2,167.8 million or 37.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period as well as an increase in cost per prescription dispensed as a result of mix shift.
Gross profit was $745.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $681.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $64.0 million or 9.4%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period, primarily the result of outsized volume growth as well as mix in certain specialty branded drugs, which have lower margins, partially offset by the QIP received in 2023 for which there was no comparable in 2024. When excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, gross profit increased 14.5% compared to gross profit of $651.5 million in 2023.
Gross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2024 was 8.5% compared to 10.5% for the year ended December 31, 2023. The decrease in gross profit margin is due to mix shift in the Pharmacy Solutions segment with greater relative volume growth in Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy, along with product-level mix shifts, rate changes, an increase in the fulfillment cost per script in Home and Community Pharmacy, and the QIP received in 2023 for which there was no comparable in 2024. When excluding the aforementioned QIP, gross profit margin was 10.0% for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $462.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $426.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $35.7 million or 8.4%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period with selling, general, and administrative expenses growing less than the volume growth rate and demonstrating economies of scale.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $394.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $371.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $23.7 million or 6.4%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue and gross profit growth in the period, partially offset by the QIP received in 2023 for which there was no comparable in 2024. When excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, segment EBITDA increased 15.8% compared to segment EBITDA of $340.8 million in 2023. See Note 17 “Segment Information” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Provider Services Segment
The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, our segment results of operations.
| Provider Services | ||||||||||||||||
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| ($ in thousands, except Business Metrics) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||||||
| Change | ||||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | Amount | % | |||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 2,512,190 | $ | 2,303,725 | $ | 208,465 | 9.0 | % | ||||||||
| Cost of services | 1,669,536 | 1,551,665 | 117,871 | 7.6 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 842,654 | 752,060 | 90,594 | 12.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 549,026 | 518,297 | 30,729 | 5.9 | % | |||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 293,628 | $ | 233,763 | $ | 59,865 | 25.6 | % | ||||||||
| Segment EBITDA | $ | 360,642 | $ | 306,776 | $ | 53,866 | 17.6 | % | ||||||||
| Business Metrics: | ||||||||||||||||
| Home Health Care average daily census | 44,920 | 40,068 | 4,852 | 12.1 | % | |||||||||||
| Community and Rehab Care persons served | 16,684 | 16,655 | 29 | 0.2 | % |
Revenues
Revenues were $2,512.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $2,303.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $208.5 million or 9.0%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth as well as rate increases received during the period. Revenue attributable to Home Health Care was $1,041.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $921.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $119.9 million or 13.0%. Revenue attributable to Community and Rehab Care was $1,470.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,382.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $88.6 million or 6.4%.
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Revenues for the Company's Community Living business were $1,194.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,135.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. When excluding the Community Living business revenues, Provider Services revenues increased by $149.4 million or 12.8%.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $1,669.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,551.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $117.9 million or 7.6%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and included operational improvements resulting in lower costs of services increases compared to revenue growth.
Gross profit was $842.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $752.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $90.6 million or 12.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and costs of services improvements in the period.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $549.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $518.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $30.7 million or 5.9%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period with selling, general, and administrative expenses growing less than the volume growth rate and demonstrating economies of scale.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $360.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $306.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $53.9 million or 17.6%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and operational improvements impacting cost of services. See Note 17 “Segment Information” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our results of operations prepared in accordance with U.S. GAAP, which we have discussed above, we also evaluate our financial performance using EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS. These non-GAAP financial measures are not intended to replace financial performance measures determined in accordance with U.S. GAAP, such as net loss and diluted EPS. Rather, we present EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS as supplemental measures of our performance.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS
The following are key financial metrics and, when used in conjunction with U.S. GAAP measures, we believe they provide useful information for evaluating our core business performance, enable comparison of financial results across periods, and allow for greater transparency with respect to key metrics used by management for financial and operational decision-making. We define EBITDA as net loss before income tax benefit, interest expense, net, and depreciation and amortization. Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS exclude certain other items that are either non-recurring, infrequent, non-cash, unusual, or items deemed by management to not be indicative of the performance of our core operations, including non-cash, share-based compensation; acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs; restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs; legal and settlement costs associated with certain historical matters for PharMerica; significant projects; management fees; and unreimbursed COVID-19 related costs. In determining which adjustments are made to arrive at Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS, management considers both (1) certain non-recurring, infrequent, non-cash, or unusual items, which can vary significantly from year to year, as well as (2) certain other items that may be recurring, frequent, or settled in cash but which management does not believe are indicative of our core operating performance. The financial measure calculated under U.S. GAAP which is most directly comparable to Adjusted EBITDA is net loss. The financial measure calculated under U.S. GAAP which is most directly comparable to Adjusted EPS is diluted EPS.
We have historically incurred substantial acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs. The underlying acquisition activities take place over a defined timeframe, have distinct project timelines, and are incremental to activities and costs that arise in the ordinary course of our business. Therefore, we have excluded these costs from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS because it provides management a normalized view of our core, ongoing operations after integrating our acquired companies.
The legal costs and settlements adjustment represents defense costs associated with certain PharMerica litigation matters, all of which have been finalized as of December 31, 2024, that commenced prior to KKR Stockholder’s and Walgreen Stockholder’s acquisition of PharMerica in December 2017, as well as settlement costs associated with the Silver matter, which settled in November 2023. We have excluded defense costs associated with these PharMerica litigation matters from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS due to the magnitude of these cases and the costs attributable to them, the timing of the commencement of the cases and the fact that no similar cases have been brought against the Company since the acquisition of PharMerica, and the fact that these cases are
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unlike our routine legal and regulatory proceedings that we see in the normal course of business. Further, we have excluded settlement costs associated with the Silver matter from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS due to the magnitude of the case and the costs attributable to it, as well as the fact that the Silver matter is unlike our routine legal and regulatory proceedings that we see in the normal course of business.
The significant projects adjustment represents costs associated with certain transformational projects, which are not considered to be a part of our normal and recurring business operations and are not expected to recur in our future business plans. As of December 31, 2024, all significant projects have been finalized. Moreover, the costs associated with significant projects, which are incurred on an infrequent and limited basis, are not reflective of our operating performance. Due to the aforementioned reasons, we have excluded the costs related to significant projects from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS, as such adjustment provides a more meaningful understanding to investors and others of our ongoing results.
The management fees adjustment represents fees paid historically under the Monitoring Agreement related to either (i) activities that are expected to be performed by our existing personnel upon the termination of the Monitoring Agreement, and thus not expected to result in incremental costs subsequent to the IPO Offerings, or (ii) acquisitions, divestitures, and external financing activities, which costs would otherwise be excluded from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS. Therefore, we have excluded management fees from our Adjusted EBITDA and Adjusted EPS, as such fees are no longer applicable and representative of our ordinary operating performance as a result of the completion of the IPO Offerings.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS are not measures of financial performance under U.S. GAAP and should be considered in addition to, and not as a substitute for, net loss, diluted EPS or other financial measures performed in accordance with U.S. GAAP. Our method of determining non-GAAP financial measures may differ from other companies’ financial measures and therefore may not be comparable to methods used by other companies.
Given our determination of adjustments in arriving at our computations of EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, and Adjusted EPS, these non-GAAP measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes or alternatives to net loss, operating income, loss per diluted share, cash flows from operating activities, total indebtedness, or any other financial measures calculated in accordance with U.S. GAAP.
The following table reconciles net loss to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| Net loss | $ | (20,521 | ) | $ | (156,835 | ) | ||
| Income tax benefit | (14,217 | ) | (20,578 | ) | ||||
| Interest expense, net | 228,386 | 324,593 | ||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 204,482 | 202,336 | ||||||
| EBITDA | $ | 398,130 | $ | 349,516 | ||||
| Non-cash share-based compensation (1) | 69,174 | 3,917 | ||||||
| Acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs (2) | 34,869 | 20,734 | ||||||
| Restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs (3) | 38,031 | 21,848 | ||||||
| Legal costs and settlements (4) | 21,886 | 127,695 | ||||||
| Significant projects (5) | 2,604 | 8,379 | ||||||
| Management fees (6) | 23,381 | 5,631 | ||||||
| Unreimbursed COVID-19 related costs | — | 88 | ||||||
| Total adjustments | $ | 189,945 | $ | 188,292 | ||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 588,075 | $ | 537,808 |
(1)
Represents non-cash share-based compensation to certain members of our management and other full-time employees. The year ended December 31, 2024 includes $49.2 million of costs related to new equity awards granted upon the completion of our IPO under the 2024 Equity Incentive Plan and $15.0 million of previously unrecognized share-based compensation expense related to performance-vesting options under the 2017 Stock Plan, a portion of which vested upon completion of the IPO.
(2)
Represents transaction costs incurred in connection with planned, completed, or terminated acquisitions, which include investment banking fees, legal diligence and related documentation costs, finance and accounting diligence and documentation; costs associated with the integration of acquisitions, including any facility consolidation, integration travel, or severance; and costs associated with other planned, completed, or terminated non-routine transactions. The year ended December 31, 2024 includes acquisition and integration related costs of $17.4 million, earn-out adjustments from previous acquisitions of $2.4 million, and other non-routine transaction costs of $8.7 million, as compared to acquisition and integration related costs of $3.7
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million for the year ended December 31, 2023. These costs also included $6.4 million and $4.7 million of costs related to the IPO Offerings which were not capitalizable for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
(3)
Represents costs associated with restructuring-related activities, including closure costs, and related license impairment, and severance expenses associated with certain enterprise-wide or significant business line cost-savings measures. These costs included $12.7 million of unamortized debt issuance costs associated with the extinguishment of our Second Lien Facility in the year ended December 31, 2024. These costs also included $7.3 million and $10.6 million of intangible asset and other non-cash investment impairment for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
(4)
Represents settlement and defense costs associated with certain historical PharMerica litigation matters, including the Silver matter, all of which were finalized in 2024. See Note 14 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, for additional information.
(5)
Represents costs associated with certain transformational projects and for the periods presented primarily included general ledger system implementation, pharmacy billing system implementation, and ransomware attack response costs, all of which were finalized in 2024. General ledger system migration and related business intelligence system implementation costs, which were capitalized as development costs and are subsequently amortized in accordance with ASC 350-40, Internal Use Software, were $0.7 million and $2.0 million for the years ended December 31, 2024, and 2023, respectively. Pharmacy billing system implementation costs were $0.7 million and $2.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Ransomware attack response costs were $1.0 million and $3.4 million for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023.
(6)
Represents annual management fees payable to the Managers under the Monitoring Agreement through the date of the IPO, and $22.7 million of termination fees resulting from the Monitoring Agreement being terminated upon completion of the IPO Offerings. All management fees have ceased following the completion of the IPO.
The following table reconciles diluted EPS to Adjusted EPS:
| (shares in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| Diluted EPS | $ | (0.09 | ) | $ | (1.31 | ) | ||
| Non-cash share-based compensation (1) | 0.34 | 0.03 | ||||||
| Acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs (1) | 0.17 | 0.16 | ||||||
| Restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs (1) | 0.19 | 0.17 | ||||||
| Legal costs and settlements (1) | 0.11 | 1.01 | ||||||
| Significant projects (1) | 0.01 | 0.07 | ||||||
| Management fee (1) | 0.12 | 0.04 | ||||||
| Unreimbursed COVID-19 related costs (1) | — | 0.00 | ||||||
| Income tax impact on adjustments (2)(3) | (0.29 | ) | (0.10 | ) | ||||
| Adjusted EPS | $ | 0.56 | $ | 0.07 | ||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding used in calculating diluted U.S. GAAP net loss per share | 192,997 | 117,868 | ||||||
| Weighted average common shares outstanding used in calculating diluted Non-GAAP earnings per share | 202,106 | 126,355 |
(1) This adjustment reflects the per share impact of the adjustment reflected within the definition of Adjusted EBITDA.
(2) The income tax impact of non-GAAP adjustments is calculated using the estimated tax rate for the respective non-GAAP adjustment.
(3) For the year ended December 31, 2024, the income tax impact on adjustments is inclusive of a discrete tax benefit related to the Silver matter that was finalized in connection with the signing of the settlement agreement during the second fiscal quarter of 2024.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of cash have historically been from operating activities. Our principal source of liquidity in excess of cash from operating activities has historically been from proceeds from our debt facilities and issuances of common stock. Our principal uses of cash and liquidity have historically been for acquisitions, debt service requirements, and financing of working capital. We believe that our operating cash flows, available cash on hand, and availability under our Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility will be sufficient to meet our cash requirements for the next twelve months and beyond. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors that are difficult to predict, including the size, timing, and structure of any future acquisitions, future
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capital investments, and future results of operations. We cannot assure you that cash provided by operating activities or cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our future needs. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flows from operations in the future, we may have to obtain additional financing. If we obtain additional capital by issuing equity, the interests of our existing stockholders will be diluted. If we incur additional indebtedness, that indebtedness may contain significant financial and other covenants that may significantly restrict our operations. We cannot assure you that we could obtain refinancing or additional financing on favorable terms or at all.
We evaluate our liquidity based upon the availability we have under our First Lien Facilities, as applicable, in addition to the net cash provided by (used in) operating, investing, and financing activities. Specifically, we review the activity under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility and consider period end balances outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility. Based upon the outstanding borrowings and letters of credit under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility, we calculate the availability for incremental borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility. Such amount, in addition to cash on our balance sheet, is what we consider to be our “Total Liquidity.”
The following table provides a calculation of our Total Liquidity:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| Revolving Credit Facility Rollforward | ||||||||
| Beginning Revolving Credit Facility balance | $ | 50,700 | $ | 74,800 | ||||
| Borrowings (repayments) of swingline debt, net | 12,600 | (24,100 | ) | |||||
| Ending Revolving Credit Facility balance | $ | 63,300 | $ | 50,700 | ||||
| Calculation of Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility availability | ||||||||
| Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility limit | $ | 540,000 | $ | 530,000 | ||||
| Less: outstanding Revolving Credit Facility balance | 63,300 | 50,700 | ||||||
| Less: outstanding letters of credit subject to LC Sublimit | — | 6,632 | ||||||
| Less: outstanding letters of credit under the LC Facility | 61,821 | 54,279 | ||||||
| End of period Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility availability | 414,879 | 418,389 | ||||||
| End of period cash balance | 61,253 | 13,071 | ||||||
| Total Liquidity, end of period | $ | 476,132 | $ | 431,460 |
Cash Flow Activity
The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows provided by (used in) operating, investing, and financing activities for the periods presented:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2024 | 2023 | Variance | ||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 23,774 | $ | 210,783 | $ | (187,009 | ) | |||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | $ | (140,237 | ) | $ | (134,433 | ) | $ | (5,804 | ) | |||
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | $ | 164,645 | $ | (76,907 | ) | $ | 241,552 |
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities decreased by $187.0 million, from $210.8 million for 2023, to $23.8 million for 2024. The decrease was primarily due to the following:
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a $114.0 million increase in cash outflows for the payments of legal settlements including the Silver matter in 2024;
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a $55.0 million increase in cash outflows due to an increase in strategic inventory purchases from 2023;
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a $35.5 million increase in one-time cash outflows for direct and indirect remuneration (“DIR”) fees paid in connection with the conclusion of the DIR program;
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an approximately $30 million decrease in cash inflows related to the QIP received in 2023 that was not received in 2024;
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a $18.8 million decrease in cash inflows related to the PRF general distribution received in 2023 that was not received in 2024;
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a $17.6 million increase in cash outflows attributable to acquisition and restructuring activities;
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a $17.3 million increase in cash outflows directly attributable to management fees paid in 2024 as a result of the termination of the Monitoring Agreement in connection with the IPO Offerings; offset by
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a decrease of $92.1 million in cash outflows for interest, net primarily as a result of paydowns, extinguishments and modifications of debt utilizing proceeds from the IPO Offerings; and
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a decrease of $12.5 million in cash outflows for income taxes.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities increased by $5.8 million, from $134.4 million in 2023, to $140.2 million in 2024. The increase was primarily due to a $7.4 million increase in purchases of property and equipment and a decrease of $3.3 million cash paid for acquisitions.
Financing Activities
Net cash provided by financing activities was $164.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, primarily attributable to net proceeds received from the IPO Offerings of $1,045.5 million, net borrowings on our Revolving Credit Facility of $12.6 million, partially offset by extinguishment of and net repayments on our long-term debt of $830.3 million, payment of debt issuance costs of $47.0 million, payment of finance lease obligations of $11.6 million, and other financing activities.
Net cash used in financing activities was $76.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, primarily attributable to repayments on our long-term debt of $30.4 million, net repayments on our Revolving Credit Facility of $24.1 million, payment of finance lease obligations of $11.6 million, and other financing activities.
Debt
We typically incur debt to finance mergers and acquisitions, and we borrow under our Revolving Credit Facility for working capital purposes, as well as to finance acquisitions, as needed.
On March 5, 2019, the Company entered into the First Lien Credit Agreement with Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent. The Company also entered into a $450.0 million Second Lien Facility with certain Lenders and Wilmington Trust, National Association as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, on the same date. The First Lien Credit Agreement, as amended, also extends credit in the form of a Revolving Credit Facility, or the Revolver, which is comprised of Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans. The total borrowing capacity of the Revolver as of December 31, 2024 was $475.0 million. Additionally, the Letter of Credit Issuer may issue standby Letters of Credit at any time and the Swingline Lender may issue Swingline Loans in an aggregated amount outstanding not in excess of $65.0 million.
Following our IPO Offerings in January 2024, we used a portion of the net proceeds received to repay all outstanding borrowings under the Second Lien Facility and repay $343.3 million of borrowings under the First Lien Facility. No remaining obligation exists related to the Second Lien Facility and the transaction was accounted for as a debt extinguishment resulting in a $12.7 million related to the write-off of unamortized debt issuance costs. At that time, we also established a new Tranche B-4 under the First Lien to refinance the equivalent amount of the remaining First Lien Tranche B-1, B-2 and B-3 borrowings. On December 11, 2024, we again amended the First Lien to establish a new Tranche B-5 Term Loan (“Tranche B-5”) in an aggregate principal amount of $2,553.2 million to refinance the equivalent amount of the remaining Tranche B-4 borrowings at a rate equal to SOFR plus 2.50% or ABR plus 1.50% with a maturity date of February 21, 2031.
Concurrently with the IPO, we issued 8,000,000 TEUs, which have a stated amount of $50.00 per unit. Each TEU is comprised of a prepaid stock purchase contract (“Purchase Contract”) and a senior amortizing note (“Amortizing Note”) due February 1, 2027, each issued by the Company. Refer to Note 6 within our consolidated financial statements and related notes in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Our outstanding debt as of December 31, 2024 was $2,683.3 million, which is primarily comprised of $2,546.8 million outstanding under the First Lien Facility, $63.3 million outstanding under the Revolver, and $53.8 million outstanding related to Amortizing Notes.
The First Lien Credit Agreement described above contain customary negative covenants, including, but not limited to, restrictions on the Company and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to merge and consolidate with other companies, incur indebtedness, grant liens or security interests on assets, make acquisitions, loans, advances, or investments, pay dividends, sell or otherwise transfer assets, prepay or modify terms of certain junior indebtedness, enter into transactions with affiliates, or change their lines of business or fiscal year. In addition, under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Company will not permit the consolidated first lien secured debt to consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) ratio to be greater than 6.90 to 1.00, which shall be tested as of
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the end of the most recent quarter at any time when the aggregate revolving credit loans exceed 35% of the total revolving credit commitments. We were in compliance with all applicable financial covenants under the First Lien Facilities as of December 31, 2024.
Interest Rate Swap Agreements
To manage fluctuations in cash flows resulting from changes in the variable rates, the Company entered into three receive-variable, pay-fixed interest rate swap agreements, with a combined notional value of $2.0 billion, all effective September 30, 2022 with a maturity date of September 30, 2025. The refinancings of existing term debt in 2024, did not result in a change to the terms of the interest rate swap agreements. For years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, interest expense, net includes interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk of $35.3 million and $31.4 million, respectively.
The table below summarizes the total outstanding debt of the Company:
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| First Lien - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | 8.72 | % | $ | — | $ | 1,719,360 | $ | 21,217 | $ | 146,167 | |||||||||||
| First Lien Tranche B-2 and B-3 - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | 8.97 | % | — | 1,189,975 | 15,106 | 104,190 | |||||||||||||||
| First Lien Incremental Term Loan Tranche B-4 - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | — | — | — | 176,223 | — | ||||||||||||||||
| First Lien Incremental Term Loan Tranche B-5 - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | 6.86 | % | — | 2,546,787 | — | 10,353 | — | |||||||||||||||
| Second Lien - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | — | 13.97 | % | — | 450,000 | 5,239 | 62,012 | |||||||||||||||
| Revolving Credit Loans - payable to lenders at SOFR plus applicable margin | 7.61 | % | 9.59 | % | — | 50,000 | 387 | 3,988 | ||||||||||||||
| Swingline Loans and Base Rate Loans - payable to lenders at ABR plus applicable margin | 9.75 | % | 11.75 | % | 63,300 | 700 | 12,392 | 12,243 | ||||||||||||||
| Amortizing Notes | 53,804 | — | 5,726 | — | ||||||||||||||||||
| Notes payable and other | 19,428 | 4,356 | 316 | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Amortization of deferred financing costs & other, net of interest income from cash flow hedges | — | — | (18,573 | ) | (4,009 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
| Total debt | $ | 2,683,319 | $ | 3,414,391 | $ | 228,386 | $ | 324,593 | ||||||||||||||
| Less: debt issuance costs, net | 72,736 | 50,177 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total debt, net of debt issuance costs | 2,610,583 | 3,364,214 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Less: Current portion of long-term debt | 48,725 | 32,273 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total long-term debt, net of current portion | $ | 2,561,858 | $ | 3,331,941 |
Our Company leverage, as calculated under our First Lien Credit Facilities, was 4.16x at December 31, 2024. Our Company leverage, as calculated under our First Lien Facilities and the Second Lien Credit Agreement, was 5.86x at December 31, 2023.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, we did not have any material off-balance sheet arrangements. As part of our ongoing business, we do not participate in transactions that generate relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, or SPEs, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. As of December 31, 2024 and 2023, we were not involved in any unconsolidated SPE transactions. We do enter into letters of credit in the normal course of our operations.
Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
In preparing our consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, we must use estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and related disclosures and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses. In general, our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. We evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis and make changes to the estimates and related disclosures as experience develops or new information becomes known. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
We consider our critical accounting policies and estimates to be those that involve significant judgments and uncertainties and may potentially result in materially different results under different assumptions and conditions. See Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a summary of all of our significant accounting policies.
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Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. For transactions involving the transfer of goods, revenues are primarily recognized when the customer obtains control of the products sold, which is generally upon shipment or delivery, depending on the delivery terms specified in the sales agreement. For transactions exclusively involving provision of services, revenues are recognized over time based on an appropriate measure of progress. Additionally, as a policy, where we are required to collect sales taxes from our customers, revenue is recognized net of any taxes collected, and the sales tax amounts are recorded as a liability until remitted to the governmental taxing authorities.
Revenues and the associated receivables are based upon the actual reimbursements to be received and include contractual allowances based upon historical trends, contractual reimbursement terms, and other factors which may impact ultimate reimbursement. Amounts are adjusted to actual reimbursed amounts based upon cash receipts.
Pharmacy Solutions
Pharmacy Solutions revenues are generated from the products and services provided in association with the distribution of prescription drugs to consumers primarily under contracts with Prescription Drug Plans, or PDPs, under Medicare Part D, state Medicaid programs, long-term care institutions, third party insurance companies, and private payors. Services provided include individualized medication management and support, staff and patient support programs and solutions, regulatory support, and product delivery. When an order for a prescription is placed with the Company, it creates the performance obligation to deliver a prescription and related services. The performance obligation is satisfied at a point in time upon shipment for specialty pharmacies and upon delivery for other pharmacies. Revenues are recognized at a point in time when the associated performance obligations are satisfied at the contractual rate established at or before the time the performance obligation is satisfied.
Provider Services
Provider Services revenues are generated from providing care services directly to consumers under contracts with state, local, and other governmental agencies, as well as commercial insurance companies, long-term care insurance policies, private pay customers, and management contracts with private operators. Generally, these contracts, which are negotiated based on current contract practices as appropriate for the payor, establish the terms of a customer relationship, and set the broad range of terms for services to be performed at a stated rate. The contracts do not give rise to rights and obligations until a service request is placed with the Company. Contract terms vary but generally are for one year or less with available renewal options and a 30 – 60-day reimbursement period. When a service request is placed with the Company, it creates the performance obligation to provide a defined quantity of service hours per patient. Performance obligations to deliver patient care services are satisfied over time and revenue is recognized using a time-based input method to measure progress against the contract between the Company and the customer, given that consumers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits provided by the Company as the services are performed. Revenues are recognized over a period of time as the services are rendered at the contractual rate established at or before the time services are rendered; thus, there are no forms of variable consideration associated with the various revenue streams.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Credit Losses
Accounts receivable primarily consist of amounts due from PDPs under Medicare Part D, institutional healthcare providers, state Medicaid programs, other government agencies, third-party insurance companies, and private payors. The Company performs a periodic analysis to review the valuation of accounts receivable and collectability of outstanding balances. Management’s evaluation takes into consideration factors such as historical bad debt experience, business and economic conditions, trends in healthcare coverage, other collection indicators, and information about specific receivables. The Company’s evaluation also considers the age and composition of the outstanding amounts in determining their estimated net realizable value. The Company’s ability to collect outstanding receivables is critical to its results of operations and cash flows. To provide for accounts receivable that could become uncollectible in the future, the Company establishes an allowance for credit losses to reduce the carrying value of such receivables to the extent it is probable that a portion or all of a particular account will not be collected, with the related expense recorded as a component of selling, general, and administrative expenses.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill represents the amount of the purchase price in excess of the fair values assigned to the underlying identifiable net assets of acquired businesses. Goodwill is not amortized, but is subject to an annual impairment test. Tests are performed more frequently if events occur or circumstances change, that would more-likely- than-not reduce the fair value of the reporting unit below its carrying amount.
The Company performs an annual goodwill impairment test on October 1st of each year for each reporting unit. The Company first assesses certain qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances would indicate that it
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is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit was less than its carrying amount. If after assessing the totality of events and circumstances, we were to determine that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then we would perform quantitative impairment testing. The quantitative impairment test is a single-step process. The process requires the Company to estimate and compare the fair value of a reporting unit to its carrying amount, including goodwill. If the fair value exceeds the carrying amount, the goodwill is not considered impaired. To the extent a reporting unit’s carrying amount exceeds its fair value, the reporting unit’s goodwill is deemed impaired, and an impairment charge is recognized based on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value.
A reporting unit is either an operating segment or one level below the operating segment. The Company has six reporting units. Through November 1, 2022, the Company had a seventh reporting unit, Workforce Solutions, which was sold effective November 1, 2022.
In each of 2024, 2023, and 2022, we performed a quantitative assessment of all reporting units as of October 1. We engaged a third-party valuation firm to assist in calculating each reporting unit’s fair value, which is derived using a combination of both income and market approaches. The material assumptions underlying the estimate of fair value of each reporting unit included the following:
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Future cash flow assumptions—the projections for future cash flows utilized in the model were derived from historical experience and assumptions regarding future growth and profitability of each reporting unit. These projections are consistent with our operating budget and strategic plan. Beyond the forecasted period, a long-term growth rate was utilized to determine a terminal value that reflects our estimate of stable and perpetual growth.
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Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)—the WACC is the rate used to discount each reporting unit’s estimated future cash flows. The WACC is calculated based on a proportionate weighting of the cost of debt and equity. The cost of equity is based on a capital asset pricing model and includes a company-specific risk premium to capture the perceived risks and uncertainties associated with each reporting unit’s projected cash flows.
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Market approach—the market approach measures the value of an asset through the analysis of publicly traded companies or present sales of similar businesses. The analysis entails measuring the multiple of sales and/or EBITDA at which the comparables are currently trading or were purchased.
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Equal weighting was applied to the discounted cash flow analysis or income approach (50%) and the market approach (50%).
2024 Goodwill Impairment Analysis
As of October 1, 2024, our six reporting units had an aggregate carrying amount of $4.3 billion. Our Behavioral Health, Specialty Solutions, and Hospice Pharmacy reporting units had fair values that substantially exceeded their respective carrying amounts and an aggregate goodwill balance of $559.2 million.
Our Home Infusion, Home Health and Therapies, and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units had fair values that exceeded their carrying amounts by less than 25%, carrying amounts of $334.3 million, $1.8 billion, and $1.1 billion and goodwill balances of $192.5 million, $1.4 billion, and $454.0 million, respectively.
Notwithstanding our belief that the assumptions we used for WACC and long-term growth rates in our impairment testing were reasonable, we performed sensitivity analyses for the Home Infusion, Home Health and Therapies and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units. The results of these sensitivity analyses on our impairment tests revealed that if there was a hypothetical 1% increase in the WACC or a hypothetical 1% decrease in the long-term growth rate, the fair value of the Home Infusion, Home Health and Therapies, and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units each would continue to be in excess of its carrying amount. We believe that our estimates and assumptions used in the 2024 goodwill impairment tests are reasonable but are subject to change from period to period. Actual results of operations and other factors may differ from the estimates used and it is possible that differences could be significant. A change in the estimates we use could result in a decline in the estimated fair values derived in the 2024 impairment testing.
We then conducted an analysis of market data inputs and risk considerations in the period since the 2024 impairment test date and do not believe that market or risk considerations changed materially. Further, we had no substantial changes in our long-term projections between those used in the 2024 impairment test. Therefore, we do not believe there were any material changes to the conclusions reached with no impairment of goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets.
2023 and 2022 Goodwill Impairment Analyses
Our 2023 goodwill impairment analysis concluded that the fair value of the Behavioral Health, Specialty Solutions, Hospice Pharmacy, and Home Infusion reporting units were each substantially in excess of carrying value. Our Home Health and Therapies and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units had fair values that exceeded their carrying amounts by less than 10%, carrying amounts of $1.6 billion and $1.2 billion, and goodwill balances of $1.4 billion, and $447.0 million, respectively.
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Our 2022 goodwill impairment analysis concluded that the fair value of the Home Health and Therapies, Behavioral Health, Institutional Pharmacy, Specialty Pharmacy and Home Infusion reporting units were each substantially in excess of carrying value. Our Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units had carrying amounts that exceeded their respective fair values, and an aggregate carrying amount of $332.1 million. We recognized non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $25.5 million and $15.4 million related to the Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2022. Following the goodwill impairment charges, the Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units had goodwill balances of $92.1 million and $77.4 million, respectively.
The Company’s intangible assets are comprised primarily of trade names, customer contracts and relationships, and licenses, which are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which is generally two to twenty years. The Company’s indefinite-lived intangible assets are comprised of indefinite lived licenses, which are reviewed for impairment annually or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change that would more-likely-than-not reduce the fair value of the intangible asset below its carrying amount. We elected to perform a qualitative assessment for our intangible assets for our annual impairment test in the fourth quarter of 2024, 2023 and 2022. As a result of our qualitative analyses, we determined that it was more-likely-than-not that the fair values of our indefinite-lived intangible assets were greater than their carrying values. We recorded intangible impairment of $6.6 million and $8.3 million related to definite-lived intangible licenses for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recorded no impairment related to intangible assets.
The estimates and assumptions we use to estimate fair values when performing quantitative assessments are highly subjective judgments based on our experience and knowledge of our operations. Significant changes in the assumptions used in our analysis could result in an impairment charge related to goodwill or the indefinite-lived intangible assets. Circumstances that could result in changes to future estimates and assumptions include, but are not limited to, expectations of lower revenue growth, which can be caused by a variety of factors, fluctuations in comparable company and acquisition market multiples, increases in income tax rates, and increases in discount rates.
Self-insurance
The Company is self-insured for a substantial portion of the Company’s general and professional liability, automobile liability, workers’ compensation risks, and health benefits, subject to certain stop loss coverage at a high level of losses. Given the policy limits and high deductibles and/or self-insured retentions on many of the Company’s insurance programs, the vast majority of claims may not be paid by third-party insurance.
The Company’s self-insured liabilities contain uncertainties because management must make assumptions and apply judgment to estimate the ultimate cost of reported claims and claims incurred but not reported as of the balance sheet date. The Company’s provisions for losses for workers’ compensation and health benefit risks are based upon actuarially determined estimates and include an amount determined from reported claims and an amount based on past experiences for losses incurred but not reported. The Company’s provisions for general and professional and automobile liabilities are recorded on a claims-made basis, which includes estimates of fully developed losses for both reported and unreported claims. Accruals for general and professional and automobile liabilities are based on analyses performed internally by management.
On a quarterly basis, the Company evaluates the assumptions and the valuations to determine the adequacy of the self-insurance liabilities. The following are certain of the key assumptions and other factors that significantly influence the Company’s estimate of self-insurance liabilities: historical claims experience; trending of loss development factors; trends in the frequency and severity of claims; coverage limits of third-party insurance; demographic information; medical cost inflation; and payroll dollars. Any adjustments to the liabilities are reflected in earnings in the period identified.
The time period to resolve claims can vary depending upon the jurisdiction, the nature, and the form of resolution of the claims. The estimation of the timing of payments beyond a year can vary significantly. In addition, if current and future claims differ from historical trends, our estimated liabilities for self-insured claims may be significantly affected. The Company’s self-insurance liabilities for workers’ compensation are discounted based on actuarial estimates of claim payment patterns.
The Company believes the provision for loss is adequate for claims that have been reported but not paid and for claims that have been incurred but not reported. Due to the considerable variability that is inherent in such estimates, there can be no assurance the ultimate liability will not exceed management’s estimates. If actual results are not consistent with the assumptions and judgments, the Company may be exposed to gains or losses that could be material.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” within our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
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FY 2023 10-K MD&A
SEC filing source: 0000950170-24-027316.
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion analyzes our financial condition and results of operations and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Forward-Looking Statements.” When reviewing the discussion below, you should keep in mind the substantial risks and uncertainties that characterize our business. Known material factors that could affect our financial performance and actual results, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements included in this discussion or otherwise made by our management, are described in “Risk Factors.” Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference are not limited to those identified in “Risk Factors.”
Overview
We are a leading home and community-based healthcare services platform, focused on delivering complementary pharmacy and provider services to complex patients. We have a differentiated approach to care delivery, with an integrated and scaled model that addresses critical services that the highest-need and highest-cost patients require. With a focus on Senior and Specialty patients, which includes Behavioral populations, our platform provides pharmacy and provider services (both clinical and supportive care in nature) in lower-cost home and community settings largely to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially-insured populations. We are an essential part of our nation’s health delivery network as a front-line provider of high-quality and cost-effective care to a large and growing number of people, who increasingly require a combination of specialized solutions to enable holistic health care management. Our presence spans all 50 states, we serve over 400,000 patients daily through our approximately 10,000 clinical providers and pharmacists, and our services make a profound impact in the lives and communities of the people we serve.
Our model focuses on delivering high-touch and coordinated services to medically complex clients and patients, which is a large, growing, and underserved population in the U.S. healthcare system. These high-need and high-cost Senior and Specialty patients comprise a market of over $1.0 trillion across our business. The chronic conditions and long-term health needs of these patients not only represent an outsized share of health care spend today, according to RAND, but we believe that they are expected to also drive a disproportionate share of future expenditures. Americans with five or more chronic conditions make up over 10% of the population and account for 40% of total health care spending, on average spending 10 times more on health services than those without chronic conditions. These patients most often require both pharmacy and provider services to achieve the best outcomes, but must often navigate disjointed and separately-administered health services. This can result in uncoordinated care delivery with adverse medical consequences, as compared to receiving timely, proximal, and complete care support in the home and community that improves health and reduces cost.
We have built a significant presence and capability in delivering complementary and high-touch daily healthcare services and programs to complex patients in their homes and in communities in order to address their multiple health needs and requirements more completely. In pharmacy, we leverage our national infrastructure to provide daily medication therapy management to various customer and patient types wherever they reside in the community, including home and in-clinic infusion patients, oncology and other specialty patients in their homes, residents of independent and senior living communities, people receiving hospice care, neuro and Behavioral clients’ and patients’ homes, residents of skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, hospital patients, and the homes of Seniors who are on a significant number of medications. Within provider services, we address the clinical and supportive care needs of Senior and Specialty populations, including neuro and Behavioral patients, primarily in their homes, as well as some clinic and community settings. Our clinical services consist of home health and hospice and rehab therapy, and our supportive care services address activities of daily living and social determinants of health as well. We also provide home-based primary care for patients in senior living communities, long-term care, and individual homes to directly manage and optimize patient outcomes and to enable value-based care. By providing these complementary and necessary services for complex patients, our care model is designed to address multiple patient needs and better integrate health services delivery to improve quality and patient experiences, while reducing overall costs.
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2023 Overview and Key Highlights
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A leading, diversified, independent provider of home and community-based healthcare services in the United States
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Scaled national platform with a presence in all 50 states, a quality and compliance focus, longer-term customer relationships, a successful M&A track record, and an experienced management team
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Complementary pharmacy and provider services that more completely address the multiple needs of complex Senior and Specialty patients across their various settings and over time
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Focus on clinical and operational excellence and coordinated front-line healthcare services to deliver improved outcomes in lower-cost settings with high levels of satisfaction among stakeholders
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Compelling and proven value proposition for all constituents, including our clients, patients and their respective families, customers, partners, payors, employees, and investors
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Over $1.0 trillion combined market opportunity with numerous positive industry trends and drivers
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Growth opportunities available through organic expansion in core pharmacy and provider businesses, our ability to leverage complementary and care management services for integrated care synergies and value-based care payment models, and through strategic acquisitions
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In 2023, grew revenue by $1.1 billion, or 14.3%, to $8.8 billion
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In 2023, Pharmacy Solutions segment revenue grew by $1.3 billion, or 23.9%, to $6.5 billion
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In 2023, Provider Services segment revenue grew by $122.2 million, or 5.6%, to $2.3 billion
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In 2023, net loss increased by $102.6 million to $156.8 million
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In 2023, increased Adjusted EBITDA(1) by $15.3 million, or 2.9%, to $537.8 million
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In 2023, Pharmacy Solutions Segment EBITDA grew by $26.5 million, or 7.7%, to $371.0 million
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In 2023, Provider Services Segment EBITDA grew by $18.0 million, or 6.2%, to $306.8 million
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Overall, the comprehensive services that we provide at the scale we provide them create economies of scale, stability, and attractive near-term and long-term commercial opportunities that address societal needs
Our Service Offerings
We are one of the largest independent providers of home and community-based health services in the United States, delivering both pharmacy and provider services. We believe our high-quality and complementary health services offerings address significant and important patient and stakeholder needs. We enhance patient outcomes through the delivery and coordination of high-quality services that high-need, high-cost patients require. Our services are principally delivered in patient-preferred and lower-cost settings and often over longer periods of time, given the chronic nature of the patient conditions that we address. We believe our breadth of service capabilities and proven outcomes position us as a provider of choice for patients, families, referral sources, customers, and payors. We deliver services through two reportable segments: Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services.
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
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The following table summarizes the revenues generated by each of our segments for the most recent three years:
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| Pharmacy Solutions | $ | 6,522.5 | 73.9 | % | $ | 5,264.4 | 68.3 | % | $ | 4,389.4 | 65.6 | % | ||||||||||||
| Provider Services | 2,303.7 | 26.1 | % | 2,181.5 | 28.2 | % | 1,962.7 | 29.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Other | — | 0.0 | % | 274.7 | 3.5 | % | 346.0 | 5.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Consolidated | $ | 8,826.2 | 100.0 | % | $ | 7,720.6 | 100.0 | % | $ | 6,698.1 | 100.0 | % |
Pharmacy Solutions
We opportunistically provide pharmacy services when and where demanded and as required to customers and patients in their homes and communities, often in coordination with our provider services. The Company filled over 37 million prescriptions in 2023 from over 180 pharmacies across all 50 states, with services delivered to approximately 6,000 customer locations, more than 44,000 individual or group homes, and over 350,000 patients, all through over 4,900 unique customer and payor contracts. Our leading pharmacy support across customer and patient settings is achieved through a focus on medication availability and reliability, cost containment, customer staff and patient support programs, clinical and regulatory education and support, and leading customer service. Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy prescriptions and Home and Community Pharmacy prescriptions have grown at more than 20% and 8%, respectively, from December 2022 to December 2023. In addition, the pharmacy patient population grew from 2016 to 2023 with a CAGR of 30%. We have a unique opportunity to increasingly provide more pharmacy services in the future to provider patients and patients transitioning across settings of care. Almost every one of the Company’s patients who receive provider services from us have a significant medication support need given their polypharmacy profile, which we have the opportunity to further address.
Pharmacy services are a universal need and ongoing connection point across medically complex populations. Our pharmacy services delivered into homes and community settings for complex patients are extremely different as compared to retail pharmacy, with more challenging customer and patient needs and service requirements. The average Senior fills approximately 52 medication prescriptions per year, while our average pharmacy patient is usually prescribed approximately nine medications at a given time, or at least two times more than the average Senior. As a result, medication appropriateness, accuracy, and adherence are critical points of emphasis for promoting the overall long-term health and well-being of patients. Non-adherence causes approximately 40% of chronic disease treatment failures and 125,000 deaths per year in the United States. Further, non-adherence costs $100 billion annually, according to the JAMDA study. We deliver on our goals with 99.99% order accuracy and 98.20% order completeness.
There are numerous success factors that we believe are important for long-term sustainability in the pharmacy industry. First, large scale, which our pharmacy platform has and is characterized by, is of critical importance. We are able to leverage our large pharmacy scale in purchasing and all supplier contracting, in operating and fixed expenses, in payor contracting, in technology and systems, in sales and marketing and with brand reputation, in being able to address customer and growth opportunities in more markets, in driving synergies post acquisitions, and in leveraging best practices, for example, in operational, quality, and compliance oversight and human resources and people management. Second, the Company has historically targeted and served home and community pharmacy customers, patients, and channels as different from a retail strategy. We believe that these service settings and channels are more challenging to serve and present the opportunity for greater customization of offerings, differentiation, and value-add to customers. Third, and related to the customer types and channels that we serve in pharmacy, we most often provide our services through a local pharmacy and delivery model. Many of our customers require same day pharmacy service or in-person administration, and this geographical requirement can only be met through local, physical pharmacies. Fourth, many of our customers and patients have different and more significant clinical, educational, and reimbursement needs as compared to the general population’s retail medication profile, which must be addressed through particular expertise and high-touch customer and patient support vehicles and resources. Fifth, and also due to the different setting profile, heightened needs, and medication therapy profile of our patient base, there is an increased importance on service levels and quality measures in our specific pharmacy
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service types. Companies that outperform on service and quality in our pharmacy customer and patient channels have the opportunity to differentiate themselves in the market and with payors.
Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy
We provide infused, injectable, and oral medication services in the home and clinic focused on pharmaceutical therapies that require expert administration and high-touch clinical services to patients by our pharmacists, registered nursing staff, and patient support teams. Infusion therapy services are a specialty form of pharmaceuticals that involve the intravenous administration of higher-cost, specially-handled medications that treat a wide range of acute and chronic health conditions, including, for example, infections, auto-immune illnesses, oncology, multiple sclerosis, hemophilia, and nutritional deficiencies. Oral and injectable medication therapies for complex disease management treat oncology, neurology, dermatology, cardiology, immunology, inflammatory, rare and orphan, and other conditions. Within oncology, as one of the leading independent specialty pharmacies in the United States, our services encompass clinical coordination, patient education, protocol compliance, patient assistance with insurance access and outside funding, and timely delivery of medication. Our certified oncology pharmacists are available 24/7 to provide support for patients and caregivers while working in close coordination with their physicians.
Our customer service and quality metrics are in-line with, or better than, our peers, such as time-to-first-fill (3.7 day average turnaround time, which is significantly lower than the industry average of 9.7 day average turnaround time), overall MPR (97.3%, which is significantly higher than the generally accepted 80% threshold for compliance, which is also the threshold set forth in the Company’s Blue Cross Blue Shield guarantee), and infusion patient satisfaction scores (94.5%, which is in-line with the 95.6% national average). We offer value-add services including technology integrations and real-time analytics for both suppliers and payors. As a result of our unique capabilities in serving pharmaceutical manufacturers and biotech companies, we have exclusive or preferred relationships in specialty oncology drugs, as manufacturers select our pharmacy – exclusively or as part of a group of a few other pharmacies – to distribute and support their therapies in the market. We currently have 116 limited distribution oncology drugs in the market, with an additional 16 in the pipeline still to launch, including 5 exclusive and 11 ultra-narrow drugs with limited pharmacy access. In 2020, 2021, and 2022, as a testament to our leading quality and service, we achieved “world-class” NPS scores of over 90, which also triggered quality incentive payments. The Company receives incentive payments in connection with a payor contract, which includes incentive targets based on the Company’s NPS scores achieved from surveys performed directly by the payor. The Company did not receive any such incentive payments during the year ended December 31, 2020. During the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2023, the incentive payments were approximately $20 million and $30 million, respectively.
Home and Community Pharmacy
Our home and community-based pharmacy solutions ensure that medications are accessible and clinically supported for patients outside of retail pharmacies. The Company’s footprint of pharmacies covers all 50 states with a localized model that features “white-glove” and customized programs and allows for faster response times and a better customer and patient experience. We service customer locations typically multiple times a day and 24/7 as needed, within a radius of approximately 100 miles of a pharmacy location. Our services focus on achieving leading medication availability, cost containment, and clinical and regulatory education and support for our customers, and they are designed to provide a consistent, best in-class experience for customers accompanied by local concierge support. Centralized intake and order entry drives consistency across operations and markets. Our pharmacy services are all customized to specific settings and patients among the Senior and Specialty populations served, for example whether a patient receiving our medications is in a senior living community, a behavioral group home, or a hospice patient in their own home.
In addition to our very strong service delivery metrics, our pharmacy services and proprietary programs reduce drug costs to customers and patients, for example with a 99.9% generic efficiency rate (the percent of drugs dispensed as generic, when both brand and generic versions of a drug are available) and saving customers an average of $58 per therapeutic interchange. Our customers, supported by several thousand pharmacists, pharmacist consultants, and nurses, perform better than the national average, with our patients consistently outperforming non-patients on overall CMS quality measures. Moreover, we believe we have certain comparative strengths in this large and fragmented pharmacy market due to our large pharmacy scale – and associated drug purchasing capabilities and distribution reach – and robustness of proprietary and customized customer and patient support programs.
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In 2021, we launched CCRx, which is a longitudinal medication therapy and risk management program for home health patients, attempting to solve one of the biggest challenges and opportunities in healthcare, which is the ongoing management of complex patients in their homes to reduce adverse health events and hospitalizations. CCRx includes patient and home assessments, initial and ongoing medication review and reconciliation, user-friendly adherence packaging, direct patient engagement, and education by pharmacists and clinicians. The program was built for patients discharged from skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities or hospitals, and/or patients going onto home health. Studies have shown that all-cause hospitalizations are higher in patients with poor medication adherence and that medication management associated issues are a leading cause of emergency room visits and hospitalizations. CCRx has been shown to reduce hospitalizations, and, as such, is a key enabler in managing patients in value-based care constructs. For example, the JAMDA study found that home health recipients who are enrolled in CCRx experience a 73.1% lower hospitalization rate than home health recipients who are not enrolled in CCRx.
Provider Services
We deliver a variety of impactful and valuable provider services to high-need, chronic, and complex patients in home and community settings. These services consist of clinical and supportive care to over 34,000 Senior and Specialty populations today, with both census for Home Health Care services specifically, and rehab hours served, having grown approximately 10% from December 2022 to December 2023. While the clinical services that we provide have demonstrated attractive volume growth over the past several years, supportive care services have also demonstrated stability and growth due to the valuable nature of these services that address activities of daily living and social determinants of health. Many of our provider patients also receive their pharmacy services through the Company, which helps to optimize their pharmacy and medication care and needs, simplify their experience, and improve their satisfaction. We believe there is greater opportunity to provide integrated services to all of our patients in the future, as almost every one of the Company’s patients who receive provider services from us have a significant medication support need given their polypharmacy profile, and, vice versa, many of the patients we serve in pharmacy have multiple provider service needs, including, for example, home-based primary care, home health, and rehab. To this end, the Company has endeavored to build out home-based primary care over the last several years to coordinate patient services.
There are numerous success factors that we believe are important for long-term sustainability in our provider services markets. First, we are able to leverage our investments in human resources and people management initiatives and best practices across the enterprise, including in recruiting scale and centralization, onboarding and training, and career paths. Second, quality and patient satisfaction are critical, and we are able to provide increased quality and compliance and operational oversight across all locations through additional regional and enterprise resources and functions. Third, we drive strong sales and marketing best practices across geographies to drive strong referral and volume growth rates. Fourth, we are able to drive economies of scale in supplier and payor contracting, in technology and systems, and in government affairs and advocacy. Fifth, the ability to address market opportunities and geographic coverage through de novo locations and tuck-in acquisitions that benefit from synergies adds value, which we have demonstrated. Moreover, provider services scale is perhaps the most important determinant of sustainability for a provider services business, as it enables a company to be able to execute on the aforementioned success factors. Complementary scale in the pharmacy business is additive to provider services quality and growth, as our pharmacy business’ presence and footprint across geographies provide for a base of integrated care patient opportunities.
Home Health Care
We provide patient-centric, highly skilled, and compassionate clinical care to Seniors and others in their homes. For Seniors and other patients recovering from surgery or illness or living with chronic diseases, we provide clinical home health care in the home. These services help patients avoid unnecessary hospitalizations, speed up recovery time, and allow people to stay and feel secure in their own homes, which they prefer. Over $40 billion in annual U.S. health care spending is attributed to hospital readmissions, and home health care can reduce 365-day post-discharge costs by more than $6,000 per patient, each per the American Journal of Medicine. We also provide physical, emotional, and spiritual comfort and support primarily for Senior patients with terminal illnesses and their families through our hospice services. Our services have also been shown to help manage end-of-life healthcare spending. For example, Medicare spend in 2019 for patients that had received hospice care was estimated by NORC
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at the University of Chicago to be $3.5 billion less nationwide than if all such patients had not received hospice care. Like patients receiving home health care, our interdisciplinary hospice teams tailor individualized plans for patients and their families based on a comprehensive understanding of their needs. Our hospice patients require important daily pharmacy support, which we deliver through our pharmacy services. We have a 9.2 HCI score, calculated using data from CMS provider reports for each of our providers, and we believe that our nurse-to-patient visit frequency and staffing ratio is well above industry averages, as demonstrated by the fact that across our hospice services, our average total visits per patient is 22.0 visits per month as compared to the national average of 14.0 visits per month. Additionally, on average, nursing visits per patient per month was 10.5 as compared to the national average of 6.4 visits per patient per month, which monthly average was based on a MedPac report in 2022. Additionally, for Seniors and others who require supportive care and activities of daily living support that address social determinants of health, including dietary and nutrition management and cognitive and social engagement, among others, we offer these daily or weekly services. We estimate that the average cost per day of supportive home care services is 90% less than hospital care, and as Medicare spends an average of three times more on older adults with functional limitations, we also believe that supportive care services will continue to become a focus for payors to help improve outcomes and delay or prevent unnecessary facility placement.
We are continuing to build out specialized and different primary care capabilities through our home-based primary care medical home model and platform, which we view as central to the future of optimizing patient management, including patient experiences, outcomes, and cost. Many adverse health and/or medication events can be prevented through better understanding patients’ health and risk factors by managing and treating them in the environment where they reside with primary care. In doing so, home-based primary care is more patient-centered and incorporates patients’ specific objectives and goals. Home-based primary care pro-actively addresses gaps in care and triages health events in-place when possible, thus mitigating avoidable emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Home-based primary care coordinates care and resources for patients in pulling together previously disparate information and contact points into one place for more coordinated and informed patient care. Our primary care clinicians, including physicians we directly employ in certain states, optimize clinical and care decisions as they see and manage both Seniors and Behavioral (including I/DD) patients in senior living communities, in individual homes and in group homes, in skilled nursing and rehabilitation facilities, as well as through transitional care visits after patients leave hospitals or skilled nursing facilities. By engaging with patients more frequently and where they live, the Company’s home-based primary care can mitigate health issues before they escalate further and conduct many applicable treatments and procedures in a home or community setting. Our home-based primary care has delivered leading quality outcomes, including a hospital readmission rate 30% less than the national average and with acute, chronic, and complex patients served still able to spend 355 days per year at home, which is 6% more days than the Medicare average, based on the Health Days study. For I/DD patients, we have seen reductions in hospitalizations and readmissions of 44% and 84%, respectively, since beginning home-based primary care services.
In addition to many of our provider patients also receiving their pharmacy services from the Company, our patients often receive multiple in-home provider services from the Company to improve outcomes, including home-based primary care and home health or hospice and transitions from home health to hospice. In 2021, the Company implemented CCRx, which provides patients with a more coordinated experience and reduces risks through primary care expertise in the home soon after patient discharge and through optimized medication therapy management in an individual’s home. Within the last two years, the Company has built a Clinical (Nursing) Hub to be the contact and coordination point for patients, families, and their pharmacy and provider services. As more of our patients utilize the multiple needed services that they require and we provide, we pro-actively monitor patients and deploy triage tools through our Clinical (Nursing) Hub to address risks and optimize quality outcomes in real-time, particularly for higher risk patients. Within the Clinical (Nursing) Hub, we centralize on-call and tele-triage, perform high-risk patient monitoring and intervention, conduct “Aftercare” patient calls, and manage care coordination opportunities across the enterprise. We see significant potential for additional integrated care opportunities by leveraging our Home-Based Primary Care, CCRx, and Clinical (Nursing) Hub capabilities to support senior living communities, payors, our hospital partners and their patient discharges, and our skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility customers who alone discharge approximately 360,000 patients a year back into the community and their homes.
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Community and Rehab Care
Our Community and Rehab Care services provide both client- and patient-centric clinical care and supportive care to Senior and Specialty clients and patients living with age-related acute or chronic conditions, living with life-long indications (including I/DD and autism), or recovering from a catastrophic neuro event (ABI/TBI or stroke) requiring intensive therapy. These services support individuals of all ages who need various forms of expert clinical care and therapy in addition to assistance with daily skill building and living. The majority of these clients and patients receive daily pharmacy support, delivered through our pharmacy business (with an 79% penetration rate), along with ongoing behavioral therapy consults and primary care medical care, which is increasingly being delivered through our home-based primary care practice.
We provide specialized, highly-skilled, and custom-designed rehabilitation services, including physical, speech and occupational therapy and ABA, for clients and patients of all ages with a range of injuries and conditions, including brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, pediatric neuro conditions, and autism. Our services make a dramatic impact on the trajectory of a patient’s independence, skills, and life and significantly lower longer-term costs. Rehab patients see profound improvements in their conditions, with the Company’s outpatient rehab services receiving a 98% patient satisfaction score and approximately 99% of patients who would recommend our services. We also offer a variety of programs for individuals with I/DD through our community living services, including group homes, supported living and family living models (host homes), behavioral therapy, vocational therapy, and case management. Our programs are principally administered in individuals’ homes and are predominantly based on individual support and clinical care plans designed to encourage greater independence and manage medical conditions, as the majority of I/DD individuals have multiple chronic conditions and require eight or more medications.
Locations of Operations
We are headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky with operations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Canada. We deliver a higher proportion of services in select regions with favorable demographics and regulatory environments.
We serve patients from and across approximately 10,300 offices, customer locations and group homes, as well as serving approximately 250,000 patients in their own homes, every day with co-location of our pharmacy and provider services in 40 states.
Payor Mix
We are characterized by payor diversification across our platform. Our payors are principally federal, state, and local governmental agencies, commercial insurance, private, and other payors. No payor represents more than 40% of our revenue in the aggregate for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021. Additionally, our Medicaid payors can be further broken down across each individual state with our top 10 Medicaid states representing 14% of total Company revenue for the year ended December 31, 2023. The federal, state, and local programs under which we operate are subject to legislative and budgetary changes that can influence reimbursement rates.
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| Medicare D | $ | 3,365.9 | 38.1 | % | $ | 2,713.3 | 35.1 | % | $ | 2,259.0 | 33.7 | % | ||||||||||||
| Medicaid | 1,993.2 | 22.6 | % | 1,806.6 | 23.4 | % | 1,634.1 | 24.4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Commercial Insurance | 1,856.6 | 21.0 | % | 1,487.9 | 19.3 | % | 1,215.7 | 18.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Medicare A | 1,021.9 | 11.6 | % | 946.8 | 12.3 | % | 813.2 | 12.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Private & Other | 501.4 | 5.7 | % | 447.6 | 5.8 | % | 399.6 | 5.9 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Medicare B | 87.2 | 1.0 | % | 45.0 | 0.6 | % | 30.5 | 0.4 | % | |||||||||||||||
| Department of Labor | — | 0.0 | % | 273.4 | 3.5 | % | 346.0 | 5.2 | % | |||||||||||||||
| $ | 8,826.2 | 100.0 | % | $ | 7,720.6 | 100.0 | % | $ | 6,698.1 | 100.0 | % |
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We provide our services across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, with our top 10 states of operations comprising 49%, 54% and 56% of total Company revenue for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively.
Trends and Other Factors Affecting Business
Continued Growth of our Pharmacy Solutions Patient Populations
We focus on providing health-dependent medications in a timely and well-supported manner to our patients receiving pharmacy solutions in their home and community-based settings. Our pharmacy services are primarily delivered directly to patients in their place of residence, home, or stay, and sometimes in a clinic setting. Our high-need Senior and Specialty patients depend on closely and expertly managed daily medication regimens that are supported by pharmacist and nurse consultants and available in a timely and 24/7 manner. According to industry reports, pharmacy solutions delivered to and tailored for the home environment, such as home infusion services, oncology services, and daily medication management services in the home, will continue to grow faster than the overall and general pharmacy market. Each of the end markets that these home and community-based pharmacy services supply and support are growing at attractive rates, and the lack of appropriate pharmacy medication management and resulting non-adherence among complex and polypharmacy patients in homes are significant contributors to ER visits, hospitalizations and increased costs.
We have continued to expand our pharmacy capabilities to serve this need. Overall, our pharmacy has grown patient census and prescriptions by 13% and 10%, respectively, over the past year. We are a leading independent pharmacy provider in our respective pharmacy patient markets, and we expect to continue to increase our share. Our growth in serving numerous patient types has been well into the double digits, including home infusion patients, specialty oncology patients, behavioral patients, in-home Seniors, and hospice patients. Also, due to the strength of our quality and customer and patient support and relationships with pharmaceutical drug manufacturers, from 2020 to 2023 the unique number of exclusive or limited distribution drugs we dispense has increased by 26%, and the annual revenue impact from these drugs and relationships has increased by nearly 128%.
Continued Growth of our Provider Services Patient Populations
We focus on delivering high-touch and coordinated services to medically complex Senior and Specialty patients in the home and community-based settings where they live. As the baby boomer population ages, Seniors, who comprise a significant majority of our patients, will represent a higher percentage of the overall population. The U.S. Census Bureau projects that the U.S. population aged 65 and over will grow substantially from 15% of the population in 2016 to 21% of the population by 2030, and the population size of people over age 85 is expected to double by 2040, according to the Administration for Community Living. Given the proven value proposition of home-based health services, we believe patients will increasingly seek treatment and referral sources and payors will increasingly support treatment in homes more often than in higher cost, less convenient, higher acuity institutional settings. Home health care can reduce 365-day post-discharge costs by more than $6,000 per patient, and as healthcare spending rises, home health care can improve the continuity of care while reducing overall costs. In addition, advancements in medical technology have allowed providers to expand access points and the breadth of services available in the home.
The vast majority of patients we serve in our provider businesses are served in the home, and we have purposefully continued to expand our service offering and footprint to serve patients in this lower cost setting. Over the past five years we built upon supportive care services to patients, as we have meaningfully expanded our footprint of highly clinical and expert services to home health, rehabilitation, and hospice patients to address a large national healthcare need and more completely and better serve Senior and Specialty patients in the home. For example, our census for Home Health Care services have grown approximately 10% from December 2022 to December 2023. Our complementary services that address the multiple needs of these patient populations will increasingly provide integrated care opportunities to provide more complete and better coordinated services to patients across health settings and stages.
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Stable Reimbursement Environment Across our Portfolio of Businesses
Our revenue is dependent upon our contracts and relationships with payors for our “must-serve” patient populations. We partner with a large and diverse set of payor groups nationally and in each of our markets to form provider networks and to lower the overall cost of care. We structure our payor contracts to help both providers and payors achieve their objectives in a mutually aligned manner. Maintaining, supporting, and both deepening and increasing the number of these contracts and relationships, particularly as we continue to grow market share and enter new markets, is important for our long-term success.
We have observed relatively stable reimbursement rates from government and commercial payors in our pharmacy and provider services over a number of years, particularly for services provided to high-need, medically complex populations. Due to the medical necessity of our services, which are lower cost than healthcare services provided in other settings and reduce ER, hospital and institutional facility utilization, we have a history of reimbursement stability characterized by low-to-mid single digit rate increases across our lines of business from 2014 to 2022. Our average reimbursement rate increases based on revenue during this time period included 4.2% for personal care services associated with activity of daily living services for Seniors, 4.5% for Behavioral services, 2.2% for hospice services, and 1.6% associated with long term care pharmacy services.
Culture of Quality and Compliance and Consistent Operations Execution
Quality and compliance are central to our strategies and mission. We have demonstrated leading and excellent service and customer/patient/family satisfaction scores across the organization, as referenced in prior and other sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition to quality and compliance resources and programs in field operations, we invest over $200 million a year in people, training, auditing, signature programs, accreditations, advocacy, and technologies to support quality, compliance, and safety as part of our “Quality First” framework. We have demonstrated consistently high and often leading marks for service levels, satisfaction scores, and quality metrics in our industries.
For example, across our pharmacies we achieve 99.99% order accuracy and 98.20% order completeness, “excellent” and “world class” NPS, a 95% satisfaction rating from infusion patients, and a reduction in hospitalizations with CCRx, while also driving savings through medication adherence and therapeutic interchanges. We achieve 98% patient satisfaction in our outpatient rehab services, and we achieve an 84% overall rating of care in hospice, hospitalizations 30% lower than the national average in our home-based primary care, and four stars (out of five) in the CAHPS home health patient survey ratings. Our complex Behavioral clients, often with three or more comorbidities and requiring eight or more medications, are still able to spend 359 days a year at home on average. We believe that we are positioned to identify potential medical problems and avoid adverse events due to our highly proximate position to patients and attentive care protocols, as evidenced by these quality metrics.
Operational excellence is also an ongoing focus at the Company, including how we collect and share key metrics, hold operational reviews, audit, conduct training, deploy expert support resources, execute on corrective and preventative actions, and implement continuous improvement initiatives across the organization. In addition to ongoing efficiency and cost reduction activities in the businesses, the implementation of our PMO-led continuous improvement program over the past seven years at the enterprise level has resulted in approximately $47.5 million of annual savings in 2023 (and in addition to annual efficiencies and savings work achieved throughout field operations) from improved processes and working smarter, and these efficiencies have been used to reinvest in employees (both existing employees through wages and benefits and new employees to support key strategies, innovation and infrastructure needs to further scale), quality, technology, and growth initiatives. We have continued to make investments in automation, data, and technology systems to support enhanced workflows, further scale, and future growth across service lines.
Ability to Build De Novo Locations
We have a proven ability to augment growth of existing operations by expanding our presence and opening new locations – in both of our operating segments in Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services – across geographies with consistent ramp-up in performance after site opening. We believe our platform can continue to build further scale nationally, adding density to additional and targeted key markets as a lever to facilitate maximum
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pharmacy and provider services overlap, integrated and value-based care, and growth. The Company’s geographic and operations scale and platform of complementary segments and service lines provides us with access to more de novo opportunities to consider and prioritize.
Since January 1, 2018, we have opened 143 de novo offices (branches/agencies) and clinics in new locations across our pharmacy and provider services. Since beginning our de novo program in late 2018, we have accelerated the pace of our de novo openings, having opened eight in 2018, 22 in 2019, and an average of 29 per year from 2020 through 2023. We typically identify and open new locations within proximity of an existing location as we leverage existing market knowledge and presence to expand in target markets, regions, and states. Our internal support resources in real estate, purchasing, IT, credentialing, payor contracting, HR, and sales and marketing, along with our PMO, help to support and manage de novos from start to opening. We expect to continue to selectively and strategically expand our footprint within the United States and extend our service offerings to our patients and for customers, referral sources, and payors, and we believe de novo investments facilitate more integrated care capability and are a meaningful organic growth driver for the Company.
Ability to Facilitate Integrated Care
Our operating model consists of complementary pharmacy and provider services that high-need Senior and Specialty populations require, and it is designed to increasingly coordinate, manage, and serve patients across our various needs and settings over time, leading to improved patient, family, physician, and referral source satisfaction, improved payor experiences, and better outcomes. Our performance and potential to drive increased service volume for increased patient and health outcomes impact is driven partly by our appeal with our patients, families, customers, referral sources, and payors to provide multiple integrated care services – either in the same setting at the same time or across settings and stages of health – within our collection of pharmacy solutions and provider services and differentiated overall capabilities.
We provide multiple pharmacy and provider services to approximately 20,000 patients today, and we believe that there are substantially more opportunities to deliver more integrated care, given the hundreds of thousands of patients we serve and a similar number of patients discharging from customers annually. Value-add, beneficial, and multiple integrated care opportunities exist for our customer base and all Senior and Specialty patient populations and not only across pharmacy and provider services, but also within each segment. Within the pharmacy services, CCRx is aimed at providing medication risk and therapy management continuously and longitudinally post discharge from hospitals and skilled nursing customers. Within the provider services, patients often transition from home health to hospice services and can receive therapy and supportive care services concurrent with each other and with home health and hospice.
Aligning to Value-Based Care Reimbursement Models with Innovative Solutions
The scale and depth of our complimentary platform of diverse yet related customer and patient services – that complex patients require – positions us at the forefront with governmental and commercial payors who are increasingly seeking ways to expand value-based reimbursement models. In 2021, CMS established a goal to have 100 percent of Original Medicare beneficiaries, and the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries, in accountable, value-based care relationships by 2030. Our high-quality services that are delivered in home and community-based and patient and family-preferred settings at lower comparable costs are well-positioned for the long-term, and we continue to add wraparound care management capabilities and offerings to our core services. We believe our ability to enable more patients to move from the institutional acute care setting to the home (and other community settings) represents a critical part of this industry transition effort, as we have demonstrated improved patient outcomes to payors while driving incremental volume of service solution and revenue growth. In addition to our large Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary populations, we have a large number of non-governmental payor contracts across the organization today, which both diversifies our payor mix, and provides for additional value-based opportunities and partnerships.
The Company’s focused build out of its (i) Home-Based Primary Care, transitional care programs, and in-home medication therapy management (CCRx), and (ii) Clinical (Nursing) Hub, are key enablers to coordinate base pharmacy and provider services and drive improved quality and lower costs for value-based care constructs.
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In addition to numerous payor contracts that feature reimbursement incentives, in the past year the Company has entered into several ACO arrangements to participate in shared savings from its attributed primary care patients and other ACO partnerships and contract as a preferred provider.
Initial Public Offering
On January 30, 2024 we completed our IPO of 53,333,334 shares of common stock at a price of $13.00 per share and a concurrent offering of 8,000,000 6.75% Units with a stated amount of $50.00 per Unit (collectively, the “Offerings”). The net proceeds from the Offerings amounted to $657.5 million and $388.9 million for the common stock and Units, respectively, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and offering-related expenses. The shares of common stock and Units began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on January 26, 2024 under the ticker symbols “BTSG” and “BTSGU,” respectively.
We used the proceeds received from the IPO and concurrent offering of Units (i) to repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Second Lien Facility, (ii) to repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility, (iii) to repay $343.3 million outstanding aggregate amount under the First Lien Facility, and (iv) to pay certain expenses in the offering. We intend to use the remaining proceeds for general corporate purposes. Additionally, we will pay $22.7 million of termination fees in connection with the termination of our monitoring agreement with our controlling stockholders, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”) and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (together with KKR, the “Managers”) (the "Monitoring Agreement").
New Equity Awards
We granted approximately $63.3 million in non-cash share-based compensation with respect to equity awards to our management and certain other full-time employees in January 2024 at the time of our IPO, and expect to grant up to an additional $100.0 million in non-cash share-based compensation to management and certain other full-time employees starting in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024.
Factors Affecting Results of Operations and Comparability
Acquisitions and Divestitures
In addition to organic growth, we have grown through acquisitions that have deepened and expanded our presence in current markets and facilitated entry into attractive adjacent markets.
During the years ended December 31, 2021, 2022, and 2023, we completed 12 acquisitions, six acquisitions, and five acquisitions, respectively, within the Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. Aggregate consideration, net of cash acquired, for these acquisitions was approximately $1,137.1 million, $45.0 million, and $73.1 million, respectively. Select highlights of these acquisitions are as follows:
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On April 16, 2021, we completed the acquisition of Abode for approximately $749.2 million, net of an acquired Medicare Advanced payment liability of $25.0 million. We funded the acquisition through the incurrence of incremental term loans under our First Lien Facilities and available cash. With the purchase of Abode, we expanded our growing home health and hospice offerings with a leading and high-quality provider in 12 states that complement our existing home health and hospice states, leveraging operating infrastructure that had previously been assembled at BrightSpring, further strengthening our clinical service offerings, driving hospice pharmacy revenue synergies (and home health pharmacy revenue synergies in the future), and better positioning us to acquire “tuck-in” home health and hospice companies in the future.
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On November 1, 2021, we completed the acquisition of Hospice Home Care for approximately $213.0 million, net of cash acquired. We funded the acquisition through the incurrence of incremental term loans under our First Lien Facilities and available cash. With the purchase of Hospice Home Care, we expanded our growing hospice and palliative care offerings with a leading, high-quality provider operating in three states and positioned ourselves for additional expansion in the market.
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On November 1, 2022, the Company completed the sale of Workforce Solutions, which comprises the single business in our Other segment, for a sales price of $155.8 million, net of cash divested of $2.7 million. As of September 30, 2022, we adjusted the carrying value of the disposal group to the agreed upon sales price, which resulted in goodwill impairment loss of $15.4 million and a loss on assets held for sale of $5.5 million, which is reported in the consolidated statements of operations within selling, general, and administrative expenses. The Company used the proceeds from the sale of Workforce Solutions to pay down the Revolving Credit Facility and to fund its operations. The divestiture did not represent a strategic shift with a major effect on the Company’s operations and financial results and therefore is not reported as a discontinued operation. The results of operations of Workforce Solutions are consolidated in the Company’s results of operations for the year ended December 31, 2022. The divestiture reflects our decision to focus on driving our community-based healthcare strategy. With the sale complete, we have dedicated our resources to the Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments and further strengthening our position in our service offerings as well as a focus towards the connectivity of care services across our business lines in order to best serve our patients.
Legal Costs and Settlements Accrual
In November 2023, the Company agreed to settle the Silver matter without admitting liability, as discussed under Item 3. "Legal Proceedings”. The settlement agreement is subject to the approval of the United States Department of Justice and the District Court. The estimated financial impact is $115.0 million, which is included in selling, general, and administrative expenses in the consolidated statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2023. See Note 13 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Impact of COVID-19 and CARES Act
The emergence and spread of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, beginning in the first quarter of 2020 has impacted our business. Our primary COVID-related impacts have been in prescription drug volume with our skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility customers. During 2020 and 2021, we experienced an annual script reduction of approximately 2.7 million scripts when compared with our pre-pandemic levels in January and February 2020. These script volume impacts were due largely to industry declines in skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility occupancy rates. We took action quickly to reduce costs and mitigate the impact of these COVID-related declines. Additionally, due to the Company’s complementary diversification and mix of services we provide as a whole, we were able to continue to grow, despite the pandemic, and perform well in many of our other pharmacy and provider businesses, which helped to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 overall. Partially as a result of these factors, we dispensed 37.4 million scripts during 2023, which volume we believe was not materially impacted by the pandemic and related factors.
The COVID-19 National Emergency declared in 2020 was terminated on April 10, 2023 and the Public Health Emergency expired on May 11, 2023.
In recognition of the significant threat to the liquidity of financial markets posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Federal Reserve and Congress took dramatic actions to provide liquidity to businesses and the banking system in the United States. One of the primary sources of relief for healthcare providers is the CARES Act, which was expanded by the Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act, or the PPPHCE Act, and the Consolidated Appropriations Act, or the CAA. The following portions of the CARES Act have impacted us in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023:
Provider Relief Fund
Beginning in April 2020, funds were distributed to healthcare providers who provide or provided diagnosis, testing, or care for individuals with possible or actual cases of COVID-19. The payments received under the PRF are subject to certain terms and conditions. Payments are to be used to prevent, prepare for, and respond to COVID-19.
As of December 31, 2023, we had received a total of $68.9 million, net of returns, in cumulative PRF funds since 2020. In each year, the funds received and recognized were offset directly by healthcare related expenses attributable to COVID-19 in accordance with HHS guidelines, which resulted in no financial impact to the Company.
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In order to receive and use PRF funds, the Company has certified to various terms and conditions, as required by the HHS, including but not limited to: (1) it provides or provided after January 31, 2020 diagnosis, testing or care for individuals with possible or actual cases of COVID-19, (2) that the PRF funds will only be used to prevent, prepare for and respond to COVID-19, (3) such PRF funds shall reimburse the Company only for healthcare related expenses or lost revenues that are attributable to COVID-19, (4) the Company will not use the PRF funds to reimburse expenses or losses that have been reimbursed from other sources or that other sources are obligated to reimburse and (5) the Company will submit reports as HHS determines are needed to ensure compliance with conditions that are imposed on PRF funds. The Company believes that it is in compliance with all applicable terms and conditions, regulations, and interim guidance regarding the receipt and usage of PRF funds.
Deferred payment of the employer portion of social security tax
We were permitted to defer payments of the employer portion of social security tax for 2020, which was payable in 50% increments, with 50% due by December 31, 2021 and the remainder due by December 31, 2022. This deferral increased our 2020 cash flow from operations by approximately $66.7 million and subsequently reduced our cash flow from operations by $33.7 million in 2022 and $32.5 million in 2021 on the payback of those amounts.
Components of Results of Operations
Revenues. The Company recognizes the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. For transactions involving the transfer of goods, revenues are primarily recognized when the customer obtains control of the products sold, which is generally upon shipment or delivery, depending on the delivery terms specified in the sales agreement. For transactions exclusively involving provision of services, revenues are recognized over time based on an appropriate measure of progress.
Cost of Goods and Cost of Services. We classify expenses directly related to providing goods and services, including depreciation and amortization, as cost of goods and cost of services. Direct costs and expenses principally include cost of drugs, net of rebates, salaries and benefits for direct care and service professionals, contracted labor costs, insurance costs, transportation costs for clients requiring services, certain client expenses such as food, supplies and medicine, residential occupancy expenses, which primarily comprise rent and utilities, and other miscellaneous direct goods or service-related expenses.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses. Selling, general, and administrative expenses consist of expenses incurred in support of our operations and administrative functions and include labor costs, such as salaries, bonuses, commissions, benefits, and travel-related expenses, distribution expenses, facilities rental costs, third-party revenue cycle management costs, and corporate support costs including finance, information technology, legal costs and settlements, human resources, procurement, and other administrative costs.
Goodwill Impairment Loss. Goodwill impairment loss consists of non-cash expense resulting from the excess of the carrying values of the reporting units over their estimated fair market values during the reporting period.
Interest Expense, net. Interest expense, net includes the debt service costs associated with our various debt instruments, including our First Lien Facilities and Second Lien Facility, and the amortization of related deferred financing fees, which are amortized over the term of the respective credit agreement. Interest expense, net also includes the portion of the gain or loss on our interest rate swap agreements that is reclassified into earnings.
Income Tax (Benefit) Expense. Our provision for income taxes is based on permanent book/tax differences and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining the provision for income taxes.
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Results of Operations
Consolidated Results of Operations
Year Ended December 31, 2023 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2022
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| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
| Products | $ | 6,522,450 | $ | 5,264,423 | $ | 1,258,027 | 23.9 | % | ||||||||
| Services | 2,303,725 | 2,456,137 | (152,412 | ) | (6.2 | )% | ||||||||||
| Total revenues | 8,826,175 | 7,720,560 | 1,105,615 | 14.3 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of goods | 5,840,716 | 4,635,404 | 1,205,312 | 26.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of services | 1,551,665 | 1,730,912 | (179,247 | ) | (10.4 | )% | ||||||||||
| Gross profit | 1,433,794 | 1,354,244 | 79,550 | 5.9 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 1,286,614 | 1,125,558 | 161,056 | 14.3 | % | |||||||||||
| Goodwill impairment loss | — | 40,856 | (40,856 | ) | n.m. | |||||||||||
| Operating income | 147,180 | 187,830 | (40,650 | ) | (21.6 | )% | ||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | 324,593 | 233,584 | 91,009 | 39.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Loss before income taxes | (177,413 | ) | (45,754 | ) | (131,659 | ) | n.m. | |||||||||
| Income tax (benefit) expense | (20,578 | ) | 8,465 | (29,043 | ) | n.m. | ||||||||||
| Net loss | $ | (156,835 | ) | $ | (54,219 | ) | $ | (102,616 | ) | n.m. | ||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA (1) | $ | 537,808 | $ | 522,543 | $ | 15,265 | 2.9 | % |
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
The following discussion of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with the foregoing table summarizing our consolidated results of operations.
Revenues
Revenue was $8,826.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $7,720.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $1,105.6 million or 14.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $1,380.3 million, or 17.9% growth on consolidated 2022 revenue, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by
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a decrease of $274.7 million, or 3.6% decline on consolidated 2022 revenue, primarily as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $5,840.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $4,635.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $1,205.3 million or 26.0%. The increase resulted from an increase in Pharmacy Solutions cost of goods. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $1,551.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $1,730.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, a decrease of $179.2 million or 10.4%. The decrease primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $59.7 million, or 3.4% growth on consolidated 2022 cost of services, in Provider Services cost of services. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by
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a decrease of $238.9 million, or 13.8% decline on consolidated 2022 cost of services, as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $1,286.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $1,125.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $161.1 million or 14.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $71.6 million, or 6.4% growth on consolidated 2022 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below;
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an increase of $118.5 million, or 10.5% growth on consolidated 2022 selling, general, and administrative expenses, due to legal costs and settlements, primarily related to the Silver settlement. See Note 13 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K;
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a decrease of $16.8 million, or 1.5% decline on consolidated 2022 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022;
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a decrease of $5.5 million, or 0.5% decline on consolidated 2022 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of a loss on sale recognized in 2022 related to the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022; and
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a decrease of $6.7 million, or 0.6% decline on consolidated 2022 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of a decrease in other operational expenses year-over-year.
Included within selling, general, and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2023 were $7.6 million of certain pre-opening startup costs associated with our corporate de novo program as compared with $7.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The costs are attributable to certain strategic initiatives, and include costs incurred prior to opening de novo locations in connection with our expansion into specific new geographies, and fluctuate based on the number, timing and geographic footprint of new locations.
Goodwill Impairment Loss
There was no goodwill impairment recognized for the year ended December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recognized non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $25.5 million and $15.4 million related to the Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units, respectively.
Interest Expense, net
Interest expense, net was $324.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $233.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $91.0 million or 39.0%. The increase primarily resulted from higher variable interest rates applicable to our outstanding term debt as compared to the prior period offset by $31.4 million and $0.7 million of interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
Income Tax (Benefit) Expense
Income tax benefit was $(20.6) million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared to an expense of $8.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, a change of $29.0 million which corresponds with a change in the effective tax rate from (18.5)% for the year ended December 31, 2022 to 11.6% for the year ended December 31, 2023. The change was primarily the result of the reduction in pre-tax income during the periods and discrete tax expenses in 2022 related to our goodwill impairment that was not deductible for tax purposes offset by discrete tax expense related to the Silver legal settlement accrual in 2023 which is not deductible for tax purposes. The terms of
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the settlement agreement, including deductibility for tax purposes, are not yet finalized, and may result in a change in treatment for tax purposes upon finalization. See Note 13 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Net Loss
Net loss was $156.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $54.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $102.6 million. The increase in loss is attributable to the aforementioned increases in costs of goods and services, selling, general, and administrative expenses, and interest expense, net; offset by the aforementioned increase in revenue and change in income tax (benefit) expense.
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
Adjusted EBITDA was $537.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $522.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $15.3 million or 2.9%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $44.4 million, or 8.5% growth on consolidated 2022 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by,
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a decrease of $19.7 million, or 3.8% decline on consolidated 2022 Adjusted EBITDA, primarily as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022, and
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a decrease of $9.4 million, or 1.8% decline on consolidated 2022 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of increased corporate expenses incurred primarily due to investments in information technology and positions to support growth within the business.
Year Ended December 31, 2022 Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2021
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| Revenues: | ||||||||||||||||
| Products | $ | 5,264,423 | $ | 4,389,404 | $ | 875,019 | 19.9 | % | ||||||||
| Services | 2,456,137 | 2,308,678 | 147,459 | 6.4 | % | |||||||||||
| Total revenues | 7,720,560 | 6,698,082 | 1,022,478 | 15.3 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of goods | 4,635,404 | 3,781,897 | 853,507 | 22.6 | % | |||||||||||
| Cost of services | 1,730,912 | 1,667,974 | 62,938 | 3.8 | % | |||||||||||
| Gross profit | 1,354,244 | 1,248,211 | 106,033 | 8.5 | % | |||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 1,125,558 | 1,014,027 | 111,531 | 11.0 | % | |||||||||||
| Goodwill impairment loss | 40,856 | — | 40,856 | n.m. | ||||||||||||
| Operating income | 187,830 | 234,184 | (46,354 | ) | (19.8 | )% | ||||||||||
| Interest expense, net | 233,584 | 165,322 | 68,262 | 41.3 | % | |||||||||||
| (Loss) income before income taxes | (45,754 | ) | 68,862 | (114,616 | ) | n.m. | ||||||||||
| Income tax expense | 8,465 | 17,600 | (9,135 | ) | n.m. | |||||||||||
| Net (loss) income | $ | (54,219 | ) | $ | 51,262 | $ | (105,481 | ) | n.m. | |||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA (1) | $ | 522,543 | $ | 493,114 | $ | 29,429 | 6.0 | % |
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
The following discussion of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with the foregoing table summarizing our consolidated results of operations.
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Revenues
Revenue was $7,720.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $6,698.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $1,022.5 million or 15.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $1,093.8 million, or 16.3% growth on consolidated 2021 revenue, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by
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a decrease of $71.3 million, or 1.1% decline on consolidated 2021 revenue, primarily as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $4,635.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $3,781.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $853.5 million or 22.6%. The increase resulted from an increase in Pharmacy Solutions cost of goods. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $1,730.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $1,668.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $62.9 million or 3.8%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $123.6 million, or 7.4% growth on consolidated 2021 cost of services, in Provider Services cost of services. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by
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a decrease of $60.7 million, or 3.6% decline on consolidated 2021 cost of services, as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $1,125.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $1,014.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $111.5 million or 11.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $82.7 million, or 8.2% growth on consolidated 2021 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below;
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a decrease of $2.2 million, or 0.2% decline on consolidated 2021 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022; and
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an increase of $31.0 million, or 3.1% growth on consolidated 2021 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of acquisition, integration and transaction-related expenses increase of $10.5 million, and an increase in our restructuring and divestiture-related expenses of $22.8 million, partially offset by a decrease in other operational expenses year-over-year.
Included within selling, general, and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2022 were $7.3 million of certain pre-opening startup costs associated with our corporate de novo program as compared with $3.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021. The costs are attributable to certain strategic initiatives, and include costs incurred prior to opening de novo locations in connection with our expansion into specific new geographies, and fluctuate based on the number, timing and geographic footprint of new locations.
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Goodwill Impairment Loss
During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recognized non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $25.5 million related and $15.4 million to the Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units, respectively. There was no goodwill impairment recognized for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Interest Expense, net
Interest expense, net was $233.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $165.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $68.3 million or 41.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the increase in LIBOR as compared to the prior period offset by $0.7 million of interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to no cash flow hedges during the year ended December 31, 2021.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense was $8.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to an expense of $17.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, a decrease of $9.1 million which corresponds with a decrease in the effective tax rate from 25.6% for the year ended December 31, 2021 to (18.5)% for the year ended December 31, 2022. The decrease was primarily the result of the reduction in pre-tax income as described by the drivers listed above, the impact of which was offset by $18.2 million of discrete tax expense related to our goodwill write-off that was not deductible for tax.
Net (Loss) Income
Net loss was $(54.2) million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared to net income of $51.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, a change of $105.8 million. The change is attributable to the aforementioned increases in costs of goods and services, selling, general, and administrative expenses, goodwill impairment loss, and interest expense, net; offset by the aforementioned increase in revenue and decrease in income tax expense.
Adjusted EBITDA(1)
Adjusted EBITDA was $522.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $493.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $29.4 million or 6.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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an increase of $50.1 million, or 10.2% growth on consolidated 2021 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by,
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a decrease of $11.8 million, or 2.4% decline on consolidated 2021 Adjusted EBITDA, primarily as a result of the divestiture of the single business in our Other segment that was effective on November 1, 2022, and
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a decrease of $8.9 million, or 1.8% decline on consolidated 2021 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of increased corporate expenses incurred primarily due to investments in information technology and positions to support growth within the business.
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided in the section “Non-GAAP Financial Measures” in Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”
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Segment Results of Operations
Pharmacy Solutions Segment
Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, our segment results of operations.
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| ($ in thousands, except Business Metrics) | For the Years Ended December 31, | ’23 v ’22 Change | ’22 v ’21 Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | Amount | % | Amount | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 6,522,450 | $ | 5,264,423 | $ | 4,389,404 | $ | 1,258,027 | 23.9 | % | $ | 875,019 | 19.9 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Cost of goods | 5,840,716 | 4,635,404 | 3,781,897 | 1,205,312 | 26.0 | % | 853,507 | 22.6 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 681,734 | 629,019 | 607,507 | 52,715 | 8.4 | % | 21,512 | 3.5 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 426,521 | 398,080 | 396,951 | 28,441 | 7.1 | % | 1,129 | 0.3 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Goodwill impairment loss | — | 25,455 | — | (25,455 | ) | n.m. | 25,455 | n.m. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 255,213 | $ | 205,484 | $ | 210,556 | $ | 49,729 | 24.2 | % | $ | (5,072 | ) | (2.4 | )% | |||||||||||||
| Segment EBITDA | $ | 370,962 | $ | 344,472 | $ | 320,744 | $ | 26,490 | 7.7 | % | $ | 23,728 | 7.4 | % | ||||||||||||||
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| Prescriptions dispensed | 37,390,655 | 34,147,632 | 32,276,058 | 3,243,023 | 9.5 | % | 1,871,574 | 5.8 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Revenue per script | $ | 174.44 | $ | 154.17 | $ | 136.00 | $ | 20.27 | 13.2 | % | $ | 18.17 | 13.4 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Gross profit per script | $ | 18.23 | $ | 18.42 | $ | 18.82 | $ | (0.19 | ) | (1.0 | )% | $ | (0.40 | ) | (2.1 | )% |
* n.m.: not meaningful
2023 Compared to 2022
Revenues
Revenue was $6,522.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $5,264.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $1,258.0 million or 23.9%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth and decreased rates resulting from mix shifts across and within the Pharmacy Solutions segment. Additionally, the fourth quarter of 2022 included the full year recognition of $15.0 million of revenues, which were previously considered to be fully constrained, associated with the payor rates for certain pharmacy services. Revenue attributable to Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy was $4,600.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $3,531.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $1,069.4 million or 30.3%. Revenue attributable to Home and Community Pharmacy was $1,921.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $1,732.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $188.7 million or 10.9%.
The increase in revenue per prescription dispensed is due to mix changes year-over-year and a greater relative increase in volume growth in certain specialty brand drugs, which carry a higher revenue per prescription dispensed.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $5,840.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $4,635.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $1,205.3 million or 26.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period. Gross profit was $681.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $629.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $52.7 million or 8.4%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period.
Gross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2023 was 10.5% compared to 11.9% for the year ended December 31, 2022. The decrease in gross profit margin is due to mix shift in the Pharmacy Solutions segment with greater relative volume growth in Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy, along with product-level mix shifts, rate changes, and an increase in the fulfillment cost per script in Home and Community Pharmacy.
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Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $426.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $398.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $28.4 million or 7.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period with selling, general, and administrative expenses growing less than the volume growth rate and demonstrating economies of scale.
Goodwill Impairment Loss
There was no goodwill impairment recognized for the year ended December 31, 2023. During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recognized non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $25.5 million related to the Hospice Pharmacy reporting unit.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $371.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $344.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $26.5 million or 7.7%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue and gross profit growth in the period. See Note 16 “Segment Information" to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
2022 Compared to 2021
Revenues
Revenue was $5,264.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $4,389.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $875.0 million or 19.9%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth and mix shift across and within the Pharmacy Solutions segment. Revenue attributable to Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy was $3,531.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $2,716.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $815.4 million or 30.0%. Revenue attributable to Home and Community Pharmacy was $1,732.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $1,673.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $59.6 million or 3.6%.
The increase in revenue per prescription dispensed is due to mix changes year-over-year and a greater relative increase in volume growth in certain specialty brand drugs, which carry a higher revenue per prescription dispensed.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $4,635.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $3,781.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $853.5 million or 22.6%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period. Gross profit was $629.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $607.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $21.5 million or 3.5%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period.
Gross profit margin for the year ended December 31, 2022 was 11.9% compared to 13.8% for the year ended December 31, 2021. The decrease in gross profit margin is due to mix shift in the Pharmacy Solutions segment and greater relative volume growth in Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy, along with product-level mix shifts, rate changes, and an increase in the fulfillment cost per script in Home and Community Pharmacy.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $398.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $397.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $1.1 million or 0.3%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period with selling, general, and administrative expenses growing less than the volume growth rate and demonstrating economies of scale.
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Goodwill Impairment Loss
During the year ended December 31, 2022, we recognized non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $25.5 million related to the Hospice Pharmacy reporting unit. There was no goodwill impairment recognized for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $344.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $320.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $23.7 million or 7.4%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue and gross profit growth in the period. See Note 16 “Segment Information" to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
Provider Services Segment
Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2022 and 2021
The following table sets forth, for the years indicated, our segment results of operations.
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| ($ in thousands, except Business Metrics) | For the Years Ended December 31, | ’23 v ’22 Change | ’22 v ’21 Change | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | Amount | % | Amount | % | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Revenues | $ | 2,303,725 | $ | 2,181,487 | $ | 1,962,690 | $ | 122,238 | 5.6 | % | $ | 218,797 | 11.1 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Cost of services | 1,551,665 | 1,491,953 | 1,368,379 | 59,712 | 4.0 | % | 123,574 | 9.0 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Gross profit | 752,060 | 689,534 | 594,311 | 62,526 | 9.1 | % | 95,223 | 16.0 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Selling, general, and administrative expenses | 518,297 | 475,159 | 393,576 | 43,138 | 9.1 | % | 81,583 | 20.7 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Segment operating income | $ | 233,763 | $ | 214,375 | $ | 200,735 | $ | 19,388 | 9.0 | % | $ | 13,640 | 6.8 | % | ||||||||||||||
| Segment EBITDA | $ | 306,776 | $ | 288,825 | $ | 262,464 | $ | 17,950 | 6.2 | % | $ | 26,361 | 10.0 | % | ||||||||||||||
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| Home Health Care average daily census | 40,068 | 37,093 | 32,222 | 2,975 | 8.0 | % | 4,871 | 15.1 | % | |||||||||||||||||||
| Community and Rehab Care persons served | 16,655 | 16,463 | 16,156 | 192 | 1.2 | % | 307 | 1.9 | % |
2023 Compared to 2022
Revenues
Revenue was $2,303.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $2,181.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $122.2 million or 5.6%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth. Revenue attributable to Home Health Care was $921.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $878.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $43.0 million or 4.9%. Revenue attributable to Community and Rehab Care was $1,382.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $1,303.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $79.2 million or 6.1%.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $1,551.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $1,492.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $59.7 million or 4.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and included operational improvements resulting in lower costs of services increases compared to revenue growth. Gross profit was $752.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $689.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $62.5 million or 9.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and costs of services improvements in the period.
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Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $518.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $475.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $43.1 million or 9.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and investments in wages in the period.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $306.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, as compared with $288.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, an increase of $18.0 million or 6.2%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and operational improvements impacting cost of services. See Note 16 “Segment Information" to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
2022 Compared to 2021
Revenues
Revenue was $2,181.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $1,962.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $218.8 million or 11.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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a $121.4 million, or 6.1%, increase primarily from volume growth and rate increases; and
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a $97.4 million, or 5.0%, increase from the acquisitions of Abode and Hospice Home Care.
Revenue attributable to Home Health Care was $878.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $737.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $140.7 million or 19.1%. Revenue attributable to Community and Rehab Care was $1,303.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $1,225.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $78.1 million or 6.4%.
Cost of Services
Cost of services was $1,492.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $1,368.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $123.6 million or 9.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and investments in wages in the period. Gross profit was $689.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $594.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $95.2 million or 16.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $475.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $393.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $81.6 million or 20.7%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth and investments in wages in the period.
Segment EBITDA
Segment EBITDA was $288.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, as compared with $262.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, an increase of $26.4 million or 10.0%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
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a $5.7 million, or 2.2%, increase primarily from revenue growth in the segment, partially offset by investments in wages; and
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a $20.7 million, or 7.9%, increase associated with the acquisitions of Abode and Hospice Home Care.
See Note 16 “Segment Information" to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
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Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to our results of operations prepared in accordance with GAAP, which we have discussed above, we also evaluate our financial performance using EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA.
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA
EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are non-GAAP financial measures and are not intended to replace financial performance measures determined in accordance with GAAP, such as net (loss) income. Rather, we present EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA as supplemental measures of our performance. We define EBITDA as net (loss) income before income tax (benefit) expense, interest expense, net, and depreciation and amortization. We define Adjusted EBITDA as EBITDA, further adjusted for the impact of certain other items that are either non-recurring, infrequent, non-cash, unusual, or items deemed by management to not be indicative of the performance of our core operations, including non-cash, share-based compensation; acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs; restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs; goodwill impairment; legal costs associated with certain historical matters for PharMerica and settlement costs associated with the Silver matter; significant projects; management fees; and unreimbursed COVID-19 related costs. As non-GAAP financial measures, our computations of Adjusted EBITDA may vary from similarly termed non-GAAP financial measures used by other companies, making comparisons with other companies on the basis of this measure impracticable.
Management believes our computations of Adjusted EBITDA are helpful in highlighting trends in our core operating performance. In determining which adjustments are made to arrive at Adjusted EBITDA, management considers both (1) certain non-recurring, infrequent, non-cash, or unusual items, which can vary significantly from year to year, as well as (2) certain other items that may be recurring, frequent, or settled in cash but which management does not believe are indicative of our core operating performance. We use EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA to assess operating performance and make business decisions.
We have incurred substantial acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs in the years 2023, 2022, and 2021. The underlying acquisition activities take place over a defined timeframe, have distinct project timelines, and are incremental to activities and costs that arise in the ordinary course of our business. Therefore, we believe it is important to exclude these costs from our Adjusted EBITDA because it provides management a normalized view of our core, ongoing operations after integrating our acquired companies, which is an important measure in assessing our performance.
The legal costs and settlements adjustment represents defense costs associated with certain PharMerica litigation matters associated with three cases, two of which remain outstanding as of December 31, 2023, that commenced prior to KKR Stockholder’s and Walgreen Stockholder’s acquisition of PharMerica in December 2017, as well as settlement costs associated with the Silver matter, which settled in November 2023. We believe it is important to exclude legal costs associated with these PharMerica litigation matters from our Adjusted EBITDA due to the magnitude of these cases and the costs attributable to them, the timing of the commencement of the cases and the fact that no similar cases have been brought against the Company since the acquisition of PharMerica, and the fact that these cases are unlike our routine legal and regulatory proceedings that we see in the normal course of business. Further, we believe it is important to exclude settlement costs associated with the Silver matter from our Adjusted EBITDA due to the magnitude of the case and the costs attributable to it, as well as the fact that the Silver matter is unlike our routine legal and regulatory proceedings that we see in the normal course of business.
The significant projects adjustment represents costs associated with certain transformational projects, which are not considered to be a part of our normal and recurring business operations and are not expected to recur in our future business plans. Moreover, the costs associated with significant projects, which are incurred on an infrequent and limited basis, are not reflective of our operating performance. Due to the aforementioned reasons, we believe it is important to exclude the costs related to significant projects from our Adjusted EBITDA, as such adjustment provides a more meaningful understanding to investors and others of our ongoing results.
The management fees adjustment represents fees paid historically under the Monitoring Agreement related to either (i) activities that are expected to be performed by our existing personnel upon the termination of the Monitoring Agreement, and thus not expected to result in incremental costs subsequent to our IPO, or (ii) acquisitions, divestitures, and external financing activities, which costs would otherwise be excluded from our
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Adjusted EBITDA. Therefore, we believe it is important to exclude management fees from our Adjusted EBITDA, as such fees are no longer applicable and representative of our ordinary operating performance as a result of the completion of our IPO.
Given our determination of adjustments in arriving at our computations of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA, these non-GAAP measures have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as substitutes or alternatives to net income or loss, operating income or loss, cash flows from operating activities, total indebtedness or any other financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP.
The following table reconciles net (loss) income to EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA:
| ($ in thousands) | Year Ended | ||||||||||
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| December 31, | December 31, | December 31, | |||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | |||||||||
| Net (loss) income | $ | (156,835 | ) | $ | (54,219 | ) | $ | 51,262 | |||
| Income tax (benefit) expense | (20,578 | ) | 8,465 | 17,600 | |||||||
| Interest expense, net | 324,593 | 233,584 | 165,322 | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 202,336 | 203,970 | 199,155 | ||||||||
| EBITDA | $ | 349,516 | $ | 391,800 | $ | 433,339 | |||||
| Non-cash share-based compensation | 3,917 | 3,547 | 4,517 | ||||||||
| Acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs (1) | 20,734 | 38,023 | 27,538 | ||||||||
| Restructuring and divestiture-related and other costs (2) | 21,848 | 29,320 | 6,532 | ||||||||
| Goodwill impairment (3) | — | 40,856 | — | ||||||||
| Legal costs and settlements (4) | 127,695 | 9,157 | 11,387 | ||||||||
| Significant projects (5) | 8,379 | 3,570 | 4,082 | ||||||||
| Management fees (6) | 5,631 | 4,922 | 4,112 | ||||||||
| Unreimbursed COVID-19 related costs (7) | 88 | 1,348 | 1,607 | ||||||||
| Total adjustments | $ | 188,292 | $ | 130,743 | $ | 59,775 | |||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 537,808 | $ | 522,543 | $ | 493,114 |
(1)
Represents transaction costs incurred in connection with planned, completed, or terminated acquisitions, which include investment banking fees, legal diligence and related documentation costs, finance and accounting diligence and documentation, and integration costs incurred including any facility consolidation, integration travel, or severance associated with the integration of an acquisition. These costs were $15.6 million, $22.6 million, and $27.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. These costs also included $5.3 million of charges previously capitalized associated with the Company’s anticipated IPO for the year ended December 31, 2022, $2.7 million and $5.5 million of costs associated with a terminated transaction for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and $2.4 million and $4.6 million of system implementation costs associated with the integration of acquisitions for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
(2)
Represents costs associated with restructuring-related activities, including closure, and related license impairment, and severance expenses associated with certain enterprise-wide or significant business line cost-savings measures. These costs included $10.6 million and $10.8 million of intangible asset and other investment impairment for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively, and a $5.5 million loss on the divestiture of Workforce Solutions for the year ended December 31, 2022.
(3)
Represents a goodwill impairment non-cash charge associated with our Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units. See Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” and Note 4 “Goodwill and Intangible Assets” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.
(4)
Represents defense costs associated with certain PharMerica litigation matters associated with three historical cases. The year ended December 31, 2023 also included a $115.0 million legal settlement accrual. See Note 13
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“Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
(5)
Represents costs associated with certain transformational projects and for the periods presented primarily included the implementation of, and transition to, new general ledger and business intelligence systems, pharmacy billing system implementation, and response costs associated with the ransomware attack in the first half of 2023 described elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. General ledger system migration and related business intelligence system implementation costs, which were capitalized as development costs and are subsequently amortized in accordance with ASC 350-40, Internal Use Software, were $2.0 million, $2.5 million, and $3.8 million for the years ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021, respectively. Pharmacy billing system implementation costs were $2.2 million and $0.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. Ransomware attack response costs were $3.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2023.
(6)
Represents annual management fees payable to the Managers under the Monitoring Agreement. This Monitoring Agreement was terminated upon completion of our IPO.
(7)
Represents unreimbursed COVID-19 related costs incurred by the Company such as incremental PPE in care of our patients as well as certain hazard pay to our caregivers.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Our principal sources of cash have historically been from operating activities. Our principal source of liquidity in excess of cash from operating activities has historically been from proceeds from our debt facilities and issuances of common stock. Our principal uses of cash and liquidity have historically been for acquisitions, debt service requirements, and financing of working capital. We believe that our operating cash flows, available cash on hand, and availability under our Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility will be sufficient to meet our cash requirements for the next twelve months and beyond. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors that are difficult to predict, including the size, timing, and structure of any future acquisitions, future capital investments, and future results of operations. We cannot assure you that cash provided by operating activities or cash and cash equivalents will be sufficient to meet our future needs. If we are unable to generate sufficient cash flows from operations in the future, we may have to obtain additional financing. If we obtain additional capital by issuing equity, the interests of our existing stockholders will be diluted. If we incur additional indebtedness, that indebtedness may contain significant financial and other covenants that may significantly restrict our operations. We cannot assure you that we could obtain refinancing or additional financing on favorable terms or at all.
We evaluate our liquidity based upon the availability we have under our First Lien Facilities and the Second Lien Facility in addition to the net cash provided by (used in) operating, investing, and financing activities. Specifically, we review the activity under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility and consider period end balances outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility. Based upon the outstanding borrowings and letters of credit under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility, we calculate the availability for incremental borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility and the LC Facility. Such amount, in addition to cash on our balance sheet, is what we consider to be our “Total Liquidity.”
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The following table provides a calculation of our Total Liquidity for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||
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| Revolving Credit Facility Rollforward | ||||||||
| Beginning Revolving Credit Facility balance | $ | 74,800 | $ | 92,100 | ||||
| Repayments from swingline debt, net | (24,100 | ) | (17,300 | ) | ||||
| Ending Revolving Credit Facility balance | $ | 50,700 | $ | 74,800 | ||||
| Calculation of Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility availability | ||||||||
| Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility limit | $ | 530,000 | $ | 375,000 | ||||
| Less: outstanding Revolving Credit Facility balance | (50,700 | ) | (74,800 | ) | ||||
| Less: outstanding letters of credit subject to LC Sublimit | (6,632 | ) | (4,300 | ) | ||||
| Less: outstanding letters of credit under the LC Facility | (54,279 | ) | (54,600 | ) | ||||
| End of period Revolving Credit Facility and LC Facility availability | 418,389 | 241,300 | ||||||
| End of period cash balance | 13,071 | 13,628 | ||||||
| Total Liquidity, end of period | $ | 431,460 | $ | 254,928 |
Cash Flow Activity
Years Ended December 31, 2023, 2022, and 2021
The following table sets forth a summary of our cash flows provided by (used in) operating, investing, and financing activities for the periods presented:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | ||||||||||
| Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities | $ | 210,783 | $ | (4,653 | ) | $ | 270,165 | |||||
| Net cash (used in) provided by investing activities | $ | (134,433 | ) | $ | 45,356 | $ | (1,190,652 | ) | ||||
| Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities | $ | (76,907 | ) | $ | (73,810 | ) | $ | 705,217 |
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities increased by $215.4 million, from $(4.7) million for 2022, to $210.8 million for 2023. The increase was primarily due to the following:
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a net $28.7 million decrease in strategic inventory purchases in 2023, as compared to a net increase of $131.8 million in 2022;
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an increase of $18.8 million of CARES Act PRF general distribution received in 2023, as compared to no CARES Act PRF general distribution in 2022;
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no repayment of FICA withholding taxes associated with the CARES Act in 2023, as compared to the repayment of $33.7 million of FICA withholding taxes associated with the CARES Act in 2022;
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a decrease of $25.5 million in acquisition and restructuring costs;
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improved cash collection of receivables of $23.2 million in 2023; offset by
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an increase of cash paid for interest of $90.2 million in 2023 as compared to 2022.
Net cash (used in) provided by operating activities decreased by $274.8 million, from $270.2 million for 2021, to $(4.7) million for 2022. The decrease was primarily due to the following:
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a decrease in operating income of $46.4 million in 2022 as compared to 2021 primarily due to non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $40.9 million in 2022;
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a net $79.1 million increase in strategic inventory purchases in 2022;
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no CARES Act PRF general distributions received in 2022, as compared to $27.5 million of CARES Act PRF general distribution received, net of returns, in 2021;
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an increase in cash paid for interest of $86.4 million in 2022 as compared to 2021; and
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an increase in cash paid for income taxes, net of refunds, of $33.5 million in 2022 as compared to 2021.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities was $134.4 million in 2023, as compared to net cash provided by investing activities of $45.4 million in 2022. The decrease in 2023 was due to proceeds received in 2022 from the divestiture of Workforce Solutions of $155.8 million; partially offset by an increase in acquisition activity in 2023. We paid an aggregate of $63.1 million, net of cash acquired, for the 2023 acquisitions and paid an aggregate of $42.5 million, net of cash acquired, for the 2022 acquisitions. Purchases of property and equipment were $73.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2023 compared to $70.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022.
Net cash provided by investing activities was $45.4 million in 2022, as compared to net cash used in investing activities of $1,190.7 million in 2021. The increase in 2022 was due to proceeds from the divestiture of Workforce Solutions of $155.8 million, partially offset by a decrease in acquisition activity in 2022. We paid an aggregate of $42.5 million, net of cash acquired, for the 2022 acquisitions and paid an aggregate of $1,142.1 million, net of cash acquired, for the 2021 acquisitions. Purchases of property and equipment were $70.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022 compared to $59.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities was $76.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, primarily attributable to repayments on our long-term debt of $30.4 million, net repayments on our Revolving Credit Facility of $24.1 million, payment of finance lease obligations of $11.6 million, repurchases of stock options of $10.0 million and other financing activities.
Net cash used in financing activities was $73.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, primarily attributable to repayments on our long-term debt of $40.7 million, net repayments on our Revolving Credit Facility of $17.3 million, payment of finance lease obligations of $10.9 million and other financing activities.
Net cash provided by financing activities was $705.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2021, primarily attributable to our long-term debt borrowings of $675.6 million incurred primarily to fund acquisitions, $92.1 million of net borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility, and $12.8 million of new stock issuance. These proceeds were partially offset by repayments on our debt of $29.0 million, payment of debt issuance costs of $17.6 million, payment of finance lease obligations of $11.8 million, payment of acquisition related earn outs of $15.0 million, and other financing activities.
Purchases of Property and Equipment
Purchases of property and equipment, or capital expenditures, are primarily comprised of purchases of leasehold improvements, furniture and equipment, vehicles, and software. Our capital expenditures expressed as a percentage of revenue was as follows for the periods presented:
| ($ in thousands) | For the Years Ended December 31, | |||||||||||
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| Purchases of property and equipment | $ | 73,527 | $ | 70,113 | $ | 59,270 | ||||||
| Percentage of total revenue | 0.8 | % | 0.9 | % | 0.9 | % |
Debt
We typically incur debt to finance mergers and acquisitions, and we borrow under our Revolving Credit Facility for working capital purposes, as well as to finance acquisitions, as needed. Below is a summary of our long-term indebtedness as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.
We were in compliance with all applicable financial covenants under the First Lien Facilities and the Second Lien Facility as of December 31, 2023 and 2022.
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First Lien Credit Agreement
On March 5, 2019, the Company entered into the First Lien Credit Agreement, among Phoenix Intermediate Holdings Inc., as Holdings, Phoenix Guarantor Inc., as the Borrower, the several lenders from time to time parties thereto and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent.
The First Lien Credit Agreement originally consisted of a principal amount of $1,650.0 million. In 2019, an additional delayed draw of $150.0 million was made on the First Lien Credit Agreement, resulting in gross borrowing of $1,800.0 million.
On June 30, 2023, the Company amended the terms of the First Lien Credit Agreement to reflect a change in reference rate from LIBOR to Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”). Borrowings of Tranche B-1 Term Loans (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) under the First Lien Credit Agreement bear interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) SOFR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 3.25% or (b) ABR plus 2.25%. Immediately prior to June 30, 2023, the borrowings bore interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) LIBOR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 3.25% or (b) ABR plus 2.25%.
Principal payments are due on the last business day of each quarter and equate to 0.25% of the aggregate principal of the original loan amount, with a balloon payment due in March 2026.
First Lien Credit Agreement – Tranche B-2 and Tranche B-3
The First Lien Credit Agreement, as amended in 2020, provided for the establishment of the new Tranche B-2 Term Loans, or Tranche B-2, in an aggregate principal amount equal to $550.0 million. The First Lien Credit Agreement, as amended in 2021, provided for the establishment of a new Tranche B-3 Term Loan, or Tranche B-3, in an aggregate principal amount equal to $675.0 million.
Borrowings under Tranche B-2 and Tranche B-3 Term Loans bear interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) SOFR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 3.50% or (b) ABR plus 2.50%. Immediately prior to June 30, 2023, borrowings under Tranche B-2 bore interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) LIBOR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 3.50% or (b) ABR plus 2.50%. Principal payments are due on the last business day of each fiscal quarter, and equate to 0.25% of the aggregate principal of the original loan amount, with a balloon payment due in March 2026.
First Lien Credit Agreement – Tranche B-4
On February 21, 2024, we used a portion of the net proceeds received from our IPO and concurrent offering of Units to repay $343.3 million of the borrowings under the First Lien, and established a new Tranche B-4 Term Loan in an aggregate principal amount of $2,566.0 million. The proceeds from Tranche B-4 borrowings was used to refinance the equivalent amount of the remaining First Lien Tranche B-1, B-2 and B-3 borrowings at a rate equal to SOFR plus 3.25% and a maturity date of February 21, 2031.
Revolving Credit Facility
The First Lien Credit Agreement, as amended, extended credit in the form of a Revolving Credit Facility, or the Revolver, made available to the Borrower at any time and from time to time prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement), in an aggregate principal amount outstanding not in excess of $187.5 million, less Swingline Loans and Letters of Credit issued under the LC Sublimit outstanding at such time. The Revolver comprises the Revolving Credit Loans and Swingline Loans. Additionally, the Letter of Credit Issuer (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) may issue standby Letters of Credit at any time, initially in an aggregate stated amount outstanding not in excess of $82.5 million, or the LC Sublimit, and the Swingline Lender may issue Swingline Loans at any time and from time to time prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, in an aggregated amount outstanding not in excess of $50.0 million.
On June 30, 2023, the Company completed an amendment of the Revolving Credit Facility that increased the revolving credit capacity to $475.0 million from $320.0 million and extended the Revolving Credit Maturity Date to June 30, 2028, subject to a springing maturity covenant if our term loans are not refinanced prior to December 4, 2025. The Company refinanced the term loans on February 21, 2024, removing the springing maturity covenant. Borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility bear interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) SOFR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 4.25%for the Revolving Credit Loans or (b) ABR plus 3.25% for the Swingline Loans.
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Immediately prior to June 30, 2023, borrowings bore interest at a rate equal to LIBOR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 4.25% for the Revolving Credit Loans or ABR plus 3.25% for the Swingline Loans.
The total borrowing capacity under the Revolving Credit Facility was $475.0 million and $320.0 million as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively. As of December 31, 2023, the Company had $50.7 million of borrowings outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and $6.6 million of letters of credit, reducing the available borrowing capacity to $417.7 million. As of December 31, 2022, the Company had $74.8 million of borrowings outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility and $4.3 million of letters of credit, reducing the available borrowing capacity to $240.9 million.
The First Lien Credit Agreement, as amended, provides for an additional $55.0 million of letter of credit commitments, or the LC Facility, which are not subject to the LC Sublimit. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, there were $54.3 million and $54.6 million of letters of credit outstanding under the LC Facility, respectively, resulting in an available borrowing capacity of $0.7 million and $0.4 million, respectively.
Second Lien Credit Agreement
On March 5, 2019, the Company entered into a $450.0 million Second Lien Facility. Borrowings under the Second Lien Facility are subordinated to the First Lien Credit Agreement and initially bore interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) LIBOR (with a floor of 1.00%) plus 8.50% or (b) ABR plus 7.50%. On June 30, 2023, the Company amended the Second Lien Facility to reflect a change in reference rate from LIBOR to SOFR (with a floor of 0.00%). Subsequent to the amendment, borrowings under the Second Lien Facility bear interest at a rate equal to, at our option, (a) SOFR (with a floor of 1.00%) plus 8.50% or (b) ABR plus 7.50%.
The aggregate principal is due with a balloon payment in March 2027. Following our IPO in January 2024, we used a portion of the net proceeds received to repay all outstanding borrowings under the Second Lien Facility.
The First Lien Credit Agreement and the Second Lien Credit Agreement described above contain customary negative covenants, including, but not limited to, restrictions on the Company and its restricted subsidiaries’ ability to merge and consolidate with other companies, incur indebtedness, grant liens or security interests on assets, make acquisitions, loans, advances, or investments, pay dividends, sell or otherwise transfer assets, prepay or modify terms of certain junior indebtedness, enter into transactions with affiliates, or change their lines of business or fiscal year. In addition, under the Revolving Credit Facility, the Company will not permit the consolidated first lien secured debt to consolidated EBITDA (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) ratio to be greater than 6.90 to 1.00, which shall be tested as of the end of the most recent quarter at any time when the aggregate revolving credit loans exceed 35% of the total revolving credit commitments.
Interest Rate Swap Agreements
To manage fluctuations in cash flows resulting from changes in the variable rates, the Company entered into three receive-variable, pay-fixed interest rate swap agreements, with a combined notional value of $2.0 billion, all effective September 30, 2022 with a maturity date of September 30, 2025. The refinancing of existing term debt on February 21, 2024, did not result in a change to the terms of the interest rate swap agreements. For years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022, interest expense, net includes interest income related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk of $31.4 million and $0.7 million, respectively.
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The table below summarizes the total outstanding debt of the Company as of December 31, 2023 and 2022:
| ($ in thousands) | Long term obligation and note payable | Interest expense, net | ||||||||||||
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| December 31, | December 31, | Fiscal Year | Fiscal Year | |||||||||||
| 2023 | 2022 | 2023 | 2022 | |||||||||||
| First Lien - payable to lenders at SOFR* plus applicable margin (8.72% and 7.63% as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively) | $ | 1,719,360 | $ | 1,737,270 | $ | 146,167 | $ | 87,870 | ||||||
| First Lien Tranche B-2 and B-3 - payable to lenders at SOFR* plus applicable margin (8.97% and 7.88% as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively) | 1,189,975 | 1,202,212 | 104,190 | 63,833 | ||||||||||
| Second Lien - payable to lenders at SOFR* plus applicable margin (13.97% and 12.88% as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively) | 450,000 | 450,000 | 62,012 | 47,833 | ||||||||||
| Revolving Credit Loans - payable to lenders at SOFR* plus applicable margin (9.59% as of December 31, 2023) | 50,000 | — | 3,988 | — | ||||||||||
| Swingline/Base Rate - payable to lenders at ABR plus applicable margin (11.75% and 10.75% as of December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively) | 700 | 74,800 | 12,243 | 9,268 | ||||||||||
| Notes payable and other | 4,356 | 452 | 2 | 405 | ||||||||||
| Amortization of deferred financing costs & other, net of interest income from cash flow hedges | — | — | (4,009 | ) | 24,375 | |||||||||
| Total debt | $ | 3,414,391 | $ | 3,464,734 | $ | 324,593 | $ | 233,584 | ||||||
| Less: debt issuance costs, net | 50,177 | 70,025 | ||||||||||||
| Total debt, net of debt issuance costs | 3,364,214 | 3,394,709 | ||||||||||||
| Less: Current portion of long-term debt | 32,273 | 30,407 | ||||||||||||
| Total long-term debt | $ | 3,331,941 | $ | 3,364,302 |
* Beginning on June 30, 2023, the debt instruments bear interest at a rate equal to SOFR plus applicable margin.
Prior to June 30, 2023, the debt instruments bore interest at a rate equal to LIBOR plus applicable margin.
Our Company leverage, as calculated under our First Lien Credit Agreement and the Second Lien Credit Agreement, was 5.86x and 6.27x at December 31, 2023 and 2022, respectively.
We used the net proceeds from our IPO and the concurrent offering of Units to repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Second Lien Facility, all indebtedness outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility, and $343.3 million outstanding aggregate amount under the First Lien Facility. Additionally, we refinanced the remaining $2,566.0 million of First Lien borrowings as discussed in the "—First Lien Facility—Tranche B-4" section above.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, we did not have any material off-balance sheet arrangements. As part of our ongoing business, we do not participate in transactions that generate relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special purpose entities, or SPEs, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes. As of December 31, 2023 and 2022, we were not involved in any unconsolidated SPE transactions. We do enter into letters of credit in the normal course of our operations.
Critical Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
In preparing our consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP, we must use estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and related disclosures and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses. In general, our estimates are based on historical experience and various other assumptions we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. We evaluate our estimates on an ongoing basis and make changes to the estimates and related disclosures as experience develops or new information becomes known. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
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We consider our critical accounting policies and estimates to be those that involve significant judgments and uncertainties and may potentially result in materially different results under different assumptions and conditions. See Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” to our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for a summary of all of our significant accounting policies.
Revenue Recognition
The Company recognizes the amount of revenue to which it expects to be entitled for the transfer of promised goods or services to customers. For transactions involving the transfer of goods, revenues are primarily recognized when the customer obtains control of the products sold, which is generally upon shipment or delivery, depending on the delivery terms specified in the sales agreement. For transactions exclusively involving provision of services, revenues are recognized over time based on an appropriate measure of progress. Additionally, as a policy, where we are required to collect sales taxes from our customers, revenue is recognized net of any taxes collected, and the sales tax amounts are recorded as a liability until remitted to the governmental taxing authorities.
Revenues and the associated receivables are based upon the actual reimbursements to be received and include contractual allowances based upon historical trends, contractual reimbursement terms, and other factors which may impact ultimate reimbursement. Amounts are adjusted to actual reimbursed amounts based upon cash receipts.
Pharmacy Solutions
Pharmacy Solutions revenues are generated from the products and services provided in association with the distribution of prescription drugs to consumers primarily under contracts with Prescription Drug Plans, or PDPs, under Medicare Part D, state Medicaid programs, long-term care institutions, third party insurance companies, and private payors. Services provided include individualized medication management and support, staff and patient support programs and solutions, regulatory support, and product delivery. When an order for a prescription is placed with the Company, it creates the performance obligation to deliver a prescription and related services. The performance obligation is satisfied at a point in time upon shipment for specialty pharmacies and upon delivery for other pharmacies. Revenues are recognized at a point in time when the associated performance obligations are satisfied at the contractual rate established at or before the time the performance obligation is satisfied.
Provider Services
Provider Services revenues are generated from providing care services directly to consumers under contracts with state, local, and other governmental agencies, as well as commercial insurance companies, long-term care insurance policies, private pay customers, and management contracts with private operators. Generally, these contracts, which are negotiated based on current contract practices as appropriate for the payor, establish the terms of a customer relationship, and set the broad range of terms for services to be performed at a stated rate. The contracts do not give rise to rights and obligations until a service request is placed with the Company. Contract terms vary but generally are for one year or less with available renewal options and a 30 – 60-day reimbursement period. When a service request is placed with the Company, it creates the performance obligation to provide a defined quantity of service hours per patient. Performance obligations to deliver patient care services are satisfied over time and revenue is recognized using a time-based input method to measure progress against the contract between the Company and the customer, given that consumers simultaneously receive and consume the benefits provided by the Company as the services are performed. Revenues are recognized over a period of time as the services are rendered at the contractual rate established at or before the time services are rendered; thus, there are no forms of variable consideration associated with the various revenue streams.
Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Credit Losses
Accounts receivable primarily consist of amounts due from PDPs under Medicare Part D, institutional healthcare providers, state Medicaid programs, other government agencies, third-party insurance companies, and private payors. The Company performs a periodic analysis to review the valuation of accounts receivable and collectability of outstanding balances. Management’s evaluation takes into consideration factors such as historical
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bad debt experience, business and economic conditions, trends in healthcare coverage, other collection indicators, and information about specific receivables. The Company’s evaluation also considers the age and composition of the outstanding amounts in determining their estimated net realizable value. The Company’s ability to collect outstanding receivables is critical to its results of operations and cash flows. To provide for accounts receivable that could become uncollectible in the future, the Company establishes an allowance for credit losses to reduce the carrying value of such receivables to the extent it is probable that a portion or all of a particular account will not be collected, with the related expense recorded as a component of selling, general, and administrative expenses.
Goodwill and Intangible Assets
Goodwill represents the amount of the purchase price in excess of the fair values assigned to the underlying identifiable net assets of acquired businesses. Goodwill is not amortized, but is subject to an annual impairment test. Tests are performed more frequently if events occur or circumstances change, that would more-likely- than-not reduce the fair value of the reporting unit below its carrying amount.
The Company performs an annual goodwill impairment test on the first day of the fourth quarter of each year for each reporting unit. The Company first assesses certain qualitative factors to determine whether the existence of events or circumstances would indicate that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit was less than its carrying amount. If after assessing the totality of events and circumstances, we were to determine that it is more-likely-than-not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, then we would perform quantitative impairment testing. The quantitative impairment test is a single-step process. The process requires the Company to estimate and compare the fair value of a reporting unit to its carrying amount, including goodwill. If the fair value exceeds the carrying amount, the goodwill is not considered impaired. To the extent a reporting unit’s carrying amount exceeds its fair value, the reporting unit’s goodwill is deemed impaired, and an impairment charge is recognized based on the excess of a reporting unit’s carrying amount over its fair value.
A reporting unit is either an operating segment or one level below the operating segment. The Company has six reporting units. Through November 1, 2022 and for the year ended December 31, 2021, the Company had a seventh reporting unit, Workforce Solutions, which was sold effective November 1, 2022.
In each of 2023, 2022, and 2021, we performed a quantitative assessment of all reporting units as of October 1. We engaged a third-party valuation firm to assist in calculating each reporting unit’s fair value, which is derived using a combination of both income and market approaches. The material assumptions underlying the estimate of fair value of each reporting unit included the following:
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Future cash flow assumptions—the projections for future cash flows utilized in the model were derived from historical experience and assumptions regarding future growth and profitability of each reporting unit. These projections are consistent with our operating budget and strategic plan. Beyond the forecasted period, a long-term growth rate was utilized to determine a terminal value that reflects our estimate of stable and perpetual growth.
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Weighted average cost of capital (WACC)—the WACC is the rate used to discount each reporting unit’s estimated future cash flows. The WACC is calculated based on a proportionate weighting of the cost of debt and equity. The cost of equity is based on a capital asset pricing model and includes a company-specific risk premium to capture the perceived risks and uncertainties associated with each reporting unit’s projected cash flows.
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Market approach—the market approach measures the value of an asset through the analysis of publicly traded companies or present sales of similar businesses. The analysis entails measuring the multiple of sales and/or EBITDA at which the comparables are currently trading or were purchased.
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Equal weighting was applied to the discounted cash flow analysis or income approach (50%) and the market approach (50%).
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2023 Goodwill Impairment Analysis
As of October 1, 2023, our six reporting units had an aggregate carrying amount of $4.2 billion. Our Behavioral Therapies, Specialty Solutions, Hospice Pharmacy, and Home Infusion reporting units had fair values that substantially exceeded their respective carrying amounts and an aggregate goodwill balance of $791.7 million.
Our Home Health and Therapies and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units had fair values that exceeded their carrying amounts by less than 10%, carrying amounts of $1.6 billion and $1.2 billion, and goodwill balances of $1.4 billion, and $447.0 million, respectively.
Notwithstanding our belief that the assumptions we used for WACC and long-term growth rates in our impairment testing were reasonable, we performed sensitivity analyses for the Home Health and Therapies and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units. The results of these sensitivity analyses on our impairment tests revealed that if there was a hypothetical 1% increase in the WACC or a hypothetical 1% decrease in the long-term growth rate, the fair value of the Home Health and Therapies reporting unit would continue to be in excess of its carrying amount. Separately if there was a hypothetical 0.5% increase in the WACC or a hypothetical 0.5% decrease in the long-term growth rate, the fair value of the Institutional Pharmacy reporting unit would be less than its carrying amount, resulting in an impairment charge. We believe that our estimates and assumptions used in the 2023 goodwill impairment tests are reasonable but are subject to change from period to period. Actual results of operations and other factors may differ from the estimates used and it is possible that differences could be significant. A change in the estimates we use could result in a decline in the estimated fair values derived in the 2023 impairment testing.
We then conducted an analysis of market data inputs and risk considerations in the period since the 2023 impairment test date and do not believe that market or risk considerations changed materially. Further, we had no substantial changes in our long-term projections between those used in the 2023 impairment test. Therefore, we do not believe there were any material changes to the conclusions reached with no impairment of goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets.
2022 and 2021 Goodwill Impairment Analyses
Our 2022 goodwill impairment analysis concluded that the fair value of the Home Health and Therapies, Behavioral Therapies, Institutional Pharmacy, Specialty Pharmacy and Home Infusion reporting units were each substantially in excess of carrying value. Our Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units had carrying amounts that exceeded their respective fair values, and an aggregate carrying amount of $332.1 million. We recognized non-cash goodwill impairment charges of $25.5 million and $15.4 million related to the Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units, respectively, during the year ended December 31, 2022. Following the goodwill impairment charges, the Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units had goodwill balances of $92.1 million and $77.4 million, respectively.
Our 2021 goodwill impairment analysis concluded that the fair value of each reporting unit was substantially in excess of the carrying amount of each reporting unit.
The Company’s intangible assets are comprised primarily of trade names, customer contracts and relationships, and licenses, which are amortized on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives, which is generally two to twenty years. The Company’s indefinite-lived intangible assets are comprised of indefinite lived licenses, which are reviewed for impairment annually or more frequently if events occur or circumstances change that would more-likely-than-not reduce the fair value of the intangible asset below its carrying amount. We elected to perform a qualitative assessment for our intangible assets for our annual impairment test in the fourth quarter of 2023, 2022 and 2021. As a result of our qualitative analyses, we determined that it was more-likely-than- not that the fair values of our indefinite-lived intangible assets were greater than their carrying values. We recorded intangible impairment of $8.3 million related to definite-lived intangible licenses for the years ended December 31, 2023 and 2022. During the year ended December 31, 2021, we recorded no impairment related to intangible assets.
The estimates and assumptions we use to estimate fair values when performing quantitative assessments are highly subjective judgments based on our experience and knowledge of our operations. Significant changes in the
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assumptions used in our analysis could result in an impairment charge related to goodwill or the indefinite-lived intangible assets. Circumstances that could result in changes to future estimates and assumptions include, but are not limited to, expectations of lower revenue growth, which can be caused by a variety of factors, fluctuations in comparable company and acquisition market multiples, increases in income tax rates, and increases in discount rates.
Self-insurance
The Company is self-insured for a substantial portion (subject to certain stop loss coverage at a high level of losses) of the Company’s general and professional liability, automobile liability, workers’ compensation risks, and health benefits. Given the policy limits and high deductibles and/or self-insured retentions on many of the Company’s insurance programs, the vast majority of claims may not be paid by third-party insurance.
The Company’s self-insured liabilities contain uncertainties because management must make assumptions and apply judgment to estimate the ultimate cost of reported claims and claims incurred but not reported as of the balance sheet date. The Company’s provisions for losses for workers’ compensation and health benefit risks are based upon actuarially determined estimates and include an amount determined from reported claims and an amount based on past experiences for losses incurred but not reported. The Company’s provisions for general and professional and automobile liabilities are recorded on a claims-made basis, which includes estimates of fully developed losses for both reported and unreported claims. Accruals for general and professional and automobile liabilities are based on analyses performed internally by management.
On a quarterly basis, the Company evaluates the assumptions and the valuations to determine the adequacy of the self-insurance liabilities. The following are certain of the key assumptions and other factors that significantly influence the Company’s estimate of self-insurance liabilities: historical claims experience; trending of loss development factors; trends in the frequency and severity of claims; coverage limits of third-party insurance; demographic information; medical cost inflation; and payroll dollars. Any adjustments to the liabilities are reflected in earnings in the period identified.
The time period to resolve claims can vary depending upon the jurisdiction, the nature, and the form of resolution of the claims. The estimation of the timing of payments beyond a year can vary significantly. In addition, if current and future claims differ from historical trends, our estimated liabilities for self-insured claims may be significantly affected. The Company’s self-insurance liabilities for workers’ compensation are discounted based on actuarial estimates of claim payment patterns.
The Company believes the provision for loss is adequate for claims that have been reported but not paid and for claims that have been incurred but not reported. Due to the considerable variability that is inherent in such estimates, there can be no assurance the ultimate liability will not exceed management’s estimates. If actual results are not consistent with the assumptions and judgments, the Company may be exposed to gains or losses that could be material.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
Refer to Note 1 “Significant Accounting Policies” within our audited consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K for further discussion.