InnovAge Holding Corp. (INNV) Business
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Item 1. BUSINESS
Who We Are
InnovAge is the leading healthcare delivery platform by number of participants focused on providing all-inclusive, capitated care to high-cost, seniors, many of whom are dual-eligible. Our programs are designed to address two of the most pressing challenges facing the U.S. healthcare industry: rising costs and poor outcomes. The purpose of our participant-centered care delivery approach is to improve the quality of care our participants receive, while keeping them in their homes for as long as safely possible and reducing over-utilization of high-cost care settings such as hospitals and nursing homes. Through our Program of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (“PACE”), we fulfill a broad range of medical and ancillary services for seniors, including in-home care services (skilled, unskilled and personal care), in-center services such as primary care, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, dental services, mental health and psychiatric services, meals, and activities; transportation to and from the PACE center and third-party medical appointments; and care management. We directly contract with government payors, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and do not rely on third-party administrative organizations or health plans. We believe our model aligns with how healthcare is evolving, namely (i) the shift toward value-based care, in which coordinated, outcomes-driven, quality care is delivered while reducing unnecessary spend, (ii) eliminating excessive administrative costs by contracting directly with the government, (iii) focusing on the patient experience, and (iv) addressing social determinants of health.
InnovAge Holding Corp. (formerly, TCO Group Holdings, Inc.) and certain wholly owned subsidiaries were formed as for-profit corporations effective May 13, 2016, for the purpose of purchasing all the outstanding common stock of Total Community Options, Inc. d/b/a InnovAge, which was formed in May 2007. In connection with this purchase, Total Community Options, Inc. and certain of its subsidiaries converted from not-for-profit organizations to for-profit corporations. In connection with our initial public offering (“IPO”), which occurred in March 2021, we changed the name of our company from TCO Group Holdings, Inc. to InnovAge Holding Corp. (“InnovAge”). In this Annual Report, the terms “we”, “our”, “our company” and “us” may refer, as the context requires, to InnovAge or collectively to InnovAge and its subsidiaries.
InnovAge is headquartered in Denver, Colorado and manages its business as one reportable segment, PACE.
PACE
As of June 30, 2025, the Company served approximately 7,740 PACE participants, making it the largest PACE provider in the United States (the “U.S.”) based on participants served, and operated 20 PACE centers across California, Colorado, Florida, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
PACE is a fully-capitated managed care program, which serves the frail elderly, and predominantly dual-eligible, population in a community-based service model. We define dual-eligible seniors as individuals who are 55+ and qualify for benefits under both Medicare and Medicaid. InnovAge provides all needed healthcare services through an all-inclusive, coordinated model of care, and the Company is at risk for 100% of healthcare costs incurred with respect to the care of its participants. PACE programs receive capitation payments directly from Medicare Parts C and D, Medicaid, Veterans Administration (“VA”), and private pay sources. Additionally, under the Medicare Prescription Drug Plan, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) share part of the risk for providing prescription medication to the Company’s participants. We deliver our participant-centered care through the InnovAge Platform (as defined herein), which is designed to bring high-touch, comprehensive, value-based care.
We believe the traditional fee-for-service reimbursement model in healthcare does not adequately incentivize providers to efficiently manage this complex population. Dual-eligible seniors must navigate a disjointed, separately administered set of Medicare and Medicaid benefits, which often results in uncoordinated care delivered in silos. Our vertically integrated care model and full-risk contracts require us to coordinate and manage all aspects of a participant’s health, and deliver the necessary care. Costs under the PACE program are estimated to be 12% lower on average than for a comparable dual-eligible population aged 65 and older under Medicaid, based on an analysis of most recently available data by the National PACE Association in January 2024. Importantly, we believe our vertically integrated model can deliver better health outcomes and reduce unnecessary or avoidable medical spend. In addition, as of June 30, 2025, we believe our participants had a lower hospital readmission rate compared to a frail, dual-eligible or disabled waiver population. In addition to reducing spend, we also focus on ensuring our participants are satisfied with the services delivered and frequently evaluate benchmarks and survey methodologies to measure their satisfaction. Our participant satisfaction is currently measured through a Net Promoter Score (“NPS”). NPS is a metric used to measure customer satisfaction, loyalty and enthusiasm by
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asking how likely they are to recommend a company to a friend or colleague, and is reported as a number between negative 100 and positive 100. Based on quarterly surveys to measure emerging sentiment within a subset of our participants nationally, our average NPS was 45. According to Qualtrics, the creator of the NPS, Bain and Company suggests a score above 20 is favorable and above 50 is excellent. As part of our quarterly surveys, each year, we conduct an I-SAT survey (“Integrated Satisfaction Measurement for PACE”) to measure NPS across a national sample of our participants. In fiscal year 2025, our I-SAT NPS score was 56, which compares favorably to a national PACE program average of 55.
We believe our value proposition to each constituency translates into a predictable economic model. We directly contract with Medicare and Medicaid on a per member, per month (“PMPM”) basis, which creates recurring revenue streams and provides significant visibility into our revenue trajectory. We receive 100% of the pooled capitated payment to directly provide or manage the healthcare needs of our participants.
Industry Challenges
Unsustainable and rising healthcare costs. According to data from the Office of the Actuary of CMS, healthcare spending in the United States grew at approximately 6% per year from 2018 to 2023, and in 2023 represented $4.9 trillion of annual spend, or 17.6% of U.S. GDP. The overall growth rate of healthcare spending is expected to accelerate due to the aging population.
We believe government healthcare spend has been higher for the dual-eligible population, who typically suffer from multiple chronic conditions and require long-term services and support. Average total spend, including Medicare, Medicaid, supplemental insurance and out-of-pocket spending across all payers, for dual-eligible seniors was more than twice the amount than other Medicare beneficiaries, based on data from the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission (MedPAC) as of 2022. Improved care management of dual-eligible seniors is critical to reducing the rapid growth in government healthcare spending in the United States.
Highly fragmented, uncoordinated healthcare system. The U.S. healthcare system is complex and highly fragmented, resulting in piecemeal care delivery across different providers who each lack a complete picture of the patient. Furthermore, this dynamic often makes the healthcare system difficult for patients to navigate. Primary, acute, behavioral and long-term care providers need to work together to effectively manage a patient’s care, yet, today, they often work in silos. This lack of care coordination can result in missed or inaccurate diagnoses, gaps in care, unnecessary spend and ultimately sub-optimal patient outcomes.
High-cost, dual-eligible seniors are at high risk of falling through the cracks of the U.S. healthcare system. Few government-sponsored programs other than PACE bring together the Medicare and Medicaid benefit for these individuals, creating further barriers to delivering coordinated care. Dual-eligible beneficiaries are among the most medically complex, high-frequency users of healthcare services. Based on InnovAge data as of June 30, 2025, the typical InnovAge participant had, on average, ten chronic conditions and, based on the data most recently available to us from a 2023 modified health outcomes survey, required, on average, assistance with two or more activities of daily living (“ADLs”). A lack of coordination across providers can have severe consequences given the high occurrence of chronic illnesses and other underlying health issues in this population.
Prevalence of wasteful spending and sub-optimal outcomes. Proper management of chronic conditions and targeted interventions to mitigate challenges presented by social determinants of health can significantly reduce the incidence of acute episodes, which are the main driver of emergency room visits and hospitalization among the dual-eligible senior population. Healthcare spending on nursing care facilities and continuing care retirement communities is expected to reach approximately $247.1 billion in 2025, based on the latest projections made by the Office of the Actuary of CMS, which is an 8.0% increase compared to the current 2024 projection. Similar to spend on hospitals and other high-acuity care settings, we believe many of these dollars can ultimately be saved by providing proactive treatment and investing in proper medical and social supports to enable frail seniors to live in their homes and communities.
Despite high levels of spending, the U.S. healthcare system struggles to produce better health outcomes and delivers low levels of patient and provider satisfaction.
Payment structures are evolving to address healthcare issues. Policymakers and healthcare experts generally acknowledge that the fee-for-service model is not designed to deliver on the “triple aim” of providing low-cost, high-quality care while improving the patient experience. Historically, healthcare delivery was oriented around reactive care for acute events, which resulted in the development of a fee-for-service payment model. By linking payments to the volume of encounters and pricing for higher complexity interventions, the fee-for-service model does not incentivize providers to practice preventative medicine or manage patients in lower cost settings. Rather, many policymakers and healthcare experts
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believe it unintentionally creates the opposite result—acute, episodic care delivered in high-cost settings that unnecessarily drive up the total cost of healthcare.
High-cost, dual-eligible seniors often require proactive, coordinated care plans to address their medical acuity, need for long term support and risks related to social determinants of health. Without personalized, patient-centered care that removes barriers to preventative or other early treatment, high-cost, dual-eligible seniors would likely continue to over-utilize healthcare in higher-cost settings, such as emergency rooms and nursing homes.
PACE is a value-based government-sponsored, provider-led managed care program focused on enabling frail, dual-eligible seniors who have skilled nursing needs to age independently in their homes that can mitigate concerns over utilization of high-cost healthcare. PACE providers receive a monthly risk-adjusted payment for each participant (PMPM) directly from Medicare and Medicaid to oversee the totality of medical care an enrolled participant needs. Fully capitated models, such as PACE, incentivize organizations to better manage chronic conditions to avoid high-cost acute episodes and to invest in services that fall outside the scope of a fee-for-service model. These services, such as care coordination and ancillary support to remove barriers created by social determinants of health, can have a significant impact on a participant’s overall health.
InnovAge participants are, on average, more complex and medically fragile than other Medicare-eligible patients, including those in average Medicare Advantage (“MA”) programs. As a result, we receive larger payments for our participants compared to MA participants. This is driven by two factors: (i) we believe we provide care for a higher acuity population, with an average Medicare Risk Adjustment Factor (“RAF”) score of 2.42 based on InnovAge data as of June 30, 2025, with a higher RAF score indicating poorer health and higher predicted healthcare costs, and (ii) we have Medicaid spend in addition to Medicare. Our comprehensive care model and globally capitated payments are designed to cover participants from enrollment until the end of life, including coverage for participants requiring hospice and palliative care.
Legacy healthcare delivery infrastructure has been slow to transition from fee-for-service to value-based care models. In order for the shift to value-based payment models to drive meaningful results, we believe there must be a corresponding shift in care delivery models. While there has been significant investment by providers, payors and technology companies in developing solutions to enable higher-quality and lower-cost care, the healthcare industry still relies on fee-for-service reimbursement models.
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the need for integrated, multimodal value-based care delivery models. Traditional healthcare providers experienced reduced revenue and strained ability to provide care during shutdowns and restrictions and as a result of general patient fear of medical settings. Providers that operate comprehensive value-based models, like us, were and remain better positioned to quickly pivot the care delivery approach to safely treat patients in virtual settings without losing revenue.
Our Market Opportunity
We are one of the largest healthcare platforms focused on frail, dual-eligible seniors, serving participants exclusively through our PACE program. We have built the largest PACE-focused operation in the country based on number of participants, with 20 PACE centers across six states; we are 16% larger than the size of our closest PACE-focused competitor and more than 30 times larger than the typical PACE operator. Given our scale across geographies, we believe we are positioned to capitalize on a significant market opportunity to provide care to frail, high-cost, dual-eligible seniors.
Our care model targets the most complex, frail subset of the dual-eligible senior population. We estimated our target population at approximately 2.3 million in 2024 based on data from the U.S. Census Bureau from 2018, representing seniors who we believe are dually eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and meet the nursing home eligibility criteria for PACE. We prioritize growth in high-density urban and suburban areas, where there are sizable numbers of frail dual-eligible seniors who would benefit most from our program. We leverage the InnovAge Platform (as defined herein) which is designed to provide comprehensive, coordinated healthcare to enable our frail, eligible for skilled nursing seniors to live independently in their homes and communities. We believe people want to stay in their home for as long as possible, and the InnovAge Platform is designed to empower seniors to age independently in their own homes, on their own terms, for as long as possible.
Based on historical results for the year ended June 30, 2025 and our experience and industry knowledge, we estimate an average annual revenue opportunity of $115,000 per participant (or $9,600 PMPM) and a total addressable market opportunity of $265 billion, based on our estimated market of approximately 2.3 million PACE eligible participants in the United States in 2024, as described above. Of these estimated PACE eligible participants, only approximately 85,000 are
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enrolled in a PACE program, based on a June 2025 report from the National PACE Association, and over the next four years, the National PACE Association is targeting a PACE enrollment increase at a compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) of approximately 27%. As a result, we believe that we have a substantial opportunity to bring our comprehensive value-based model of care to more frail, dual-eligible seniors across the country. This opportunity is subject to our ability to effectively execute our growth strategy and assumes no adverse macroeconomic or regulatory changes. For example, reductions to the Medicaid portion of PACE capitation rates from the recently enacted federal budget reconciliation bill, the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (the “OBBBA”), will have a negative impact on the size of our estimated total addressable market opportunity for PACE.
The InnovAge Platform
Our participant-centered approach is tailored to address the complex medical and social needs of our frail dual-eligible senior population. We leverage the InnovAge Platform to deliver comprehensive, coordinated healthcare to our participants. The InnovAge Platform consists of (1) our Interdisciplinary Care Teams (“IDTs”) and (2) our community-based care delivery model. The key attributes of the InnovAge Platform include:
Our participant focus. Our model is focused on caring for frail, high-cost, dual-eligible seniors. Our target participant population is the frail, nursing home-eligible subset of dual-eligible seniors to whom we refer as “high-cost, dual-eligibles” given their high healthcare acuity and the associated high level of spend. Our participants are among the most frail and medically complex individuals in the U.S. healthcare system. Based on InnovAge data as of June 30, 2025, the typical InnovAge participant had, on average, ten chronic conditions and, based on the data most recently available to us from a 2023 modified health outcomes survey, required, on average, assistance with two or more ADLs. Our platform is designed to enable participants to exercise their preference to age independently in their homes and stay active in their communities for as long as safely possible. All of our participants are certified as nursing home-eligible. As of June 30, 2025, approximately 93% of our participants were able to live safely in their homes and communities.
Our interdisciplinary care teams. The IDT structure is core to our clinical model. Our IDTs oversee all aspects of each participant’s unique care plan and function as the core group of care providers to our participants. Our IDT structure is designed to enhance access to care for our participants and eliminate information silos and gaps in care that frequently occur in a fee-for-service model. We are responsible for all of our participants’ medical care, and we direct care delivery across multiple settings. We deliver individualized care for each participant that addresses both his or her specific medical conditions and social determinants of health. We deliver or manage primary and specialist care, in-home care, hospital visits, nutrition, transportation to and from our care centers and to other medical appointments, pharmacy and behavioral health. We leverage a technology suite, which we believe is powered by industry-leading clinical and operational information technology solutions to collect and analyze data, streamline IDT workflows and empower our teams with timely participant insights that improve outcomes.
Each IDT convenes, at a minimum, experts across at least 11 disciplines to collectively manage the complex care needs of each participant. IDTs are typically comprised of a primary care provider, registered nurse, master’s level social worker, physical therapist, occupational therapist, recreational therapist or activity coordinator, dietician, center manager, home care coordinator, personal care attendant and driver. Members of the IDTs meet multiple times per week to discuss participant care and to closely monitor key clinical metrics so that each participant receives optimal treatment based on his or her current conditions.
Our community-based care delivery model. Our high-touch model delivers care across a continuum of community-based settings. Our multimodal approach leverages (1) the care center, (2) the home and (3) virtual care capabilities to deliver comprehensive care to our participants. Our capitated payment model gives us the flexibility to invest in care coordination, transportation and other services to mitigate challenges presented by participants’ social determinants of health, regardless of what is traditionally covered by insurance. As a result, our capabilities are not limited to what we are able to offer inside of our centers.
Our community-based care centers. Our purpose-built community-based care centers are designed for the specific needs of our target population and serve as a medical and social hub for our participants. Our participants often spend the full day in these centers receiving medical treatment, meals and physical therapy and socializing with peers. Our care centers are larger than those of most other comparable care organizations and include dedicated spaces for medical care, physical therapy, behavioral health and dentistry, in addition to day-rooms and dining spaces for socialization among our participants. We incorporate population-specific design elements, such as grab bars and rounded hallways, to accommodate the frailty and the prevalence of dementia among our participant population. The size and design of our centers enable us to
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deliver a significant portion of our participants’ care in one location, simplifying the healthcare experience for participants and their families.
Our in-home care capabilities. Our in-home care capabilities are designed to enable our participants to live safely in their homes and avoid nursing homes to the extent safely possible. We directly deliver or manage all skilled and unskilled care a participant may require to live independently at home. Additionally, we have dedicated strategic partnerships with “hospital-at-home” providers to deliver acute care in-home when appropriate. In addition, we manage transportation not only to and from our centers, but also to all third-party medical appointments. Our capitated payment model gives us the flexibility to invest in home modifications, such as ramps, grab bars and shower chairs, to reduce falls and make the home safer for our participants. We believe our presence in our participants’ homes gives us real-time insight into their health and enables us to positively influence many environmentally-driven social determinants of health.
Our virtual care capabilities. Our virtual care capabilities give us the flexibility to deliver medical care and social services virtually when appropriate. Our physicians are equipped with HIPAA compliant platforms to provide virtual care. We offer telehealth visits when clinically indicated, allowed per regulations and more convenient for the participant. Our aim is to make virtual care access simple and convenient for our participants.
Addressing social determinants of health. Our care delivery model is designed to provide services that mitigate challenges presented by participants’ social determinants of health, such as:
•Economic stability
•Transportation
•Physical environment
•Community and social context
•Food and nutrition
•Health literacy
•Fitness
Our technology suite. Our fully capitated care model is operationally complex; it requires coordination among dozens of different providers per participant, real-time integration of clinical data from disparate sources and predictive analytics to enable effective interventions. We license a suite of third-party clinical technologies that we use to create a comprehensive view of our participants’ health, empowering our IDTs to make optimal care decisions. We leverage what we believe to be industry-leading reporting and predictive analytics solutions to collect and analyze data, stratify our population and uncover actionable participant insights.
Our Value Proposition
We believe that our healthcare model is one where all constituencies involved, including participants, their families, providers and government payors, have the ability to “Win.”
Our participants “Win” by enjoying a better participant experience, improved health outcomes and remaining in their homes and communities for longer. We leverage our differentiated care delivery model to improve the health of our participants and help them avoid unnecessary hospitalizations and nursing home care. We enable our participants to remain in their homes as long as possible and age independently. As a result, as of June 30, 2025, approximately 93% of our participants lived in their preferred setting: their home or community. We believe our care model also delivers better clinical outcomes: our participants have fewer hospital admissions and lower hospital readmission rates. Our care model is not “one size fits all,” it is customized to the unique needs of each participant, which benefits participant health and increases participant satisfaction with our program.
Families “Win” as we reduce their caregiving burden and provide “peace of mind”. We significantly reduce the caregiving burden on the families of our participants. Our model handles all transportation to and from medical appointments and center visits, helps participants with ADLs, and creates social outlets for participants to reduce isolation. Most importantly, we believe we offer “peace of mind” to our participants’ families who know their loved one’s complex needs are cared for. “Friends and family” of participants remain one of our largest referral sources for recruiting new participants.
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Our providers “Win” as they are able to focus on improving the lives of their participants. We enable our providers to focus on taking care of participants by providing them with meaningful clinical and administrative support. We remove the pressure of trying to optimize visit volume by rewarding quality, not quantity, of care. We estimate that our providers (1) have a smaller number of participants to care for and spend more time with each participant than providers in similar care organizations, and (2) benefit from the support of a multidisciplinary team.
Government payors “Win” through fiscal certainty and lower costs. We believe we provide fiscal certainty through our capitated payment arrangements and reduce the cost of both medical and long-term support and services for high-cost, dual-eligible seniors. For states, costs under the PACE program were estimated to be 12% less than the cost of caring for a comparable population through other Medicaid services based on an analysis of most recently available data by the National PACE Association in January 2024.
Our Growth Strategy
Increase participant enrollment and capacity within our centers
•For the fiscal year ended June 30, 2025, our participant census was approximately 7,740 across our 20 centers in six states. During fiscal year 2025, we focused on increasing enrollments and utilization of capacity at our existing centers, in part by furthering engagement in communities in which our centers operate.
Build de novo centers
•In fiscal year 2025, we ramped up our newer de novo centers in Florida (Tampa and Orlando).
•We believe de novo centers generate compelling long-term unit economics and the potential for robust internal rates of return.
•We have operated our platform across different geographies and we expect to prioritize a list of target markets that we believe are optimal environments to launch the InnovAge Platform.
•Our approach to de novo developments includes building centers to our experience-based specifications, with flexibility for future center expansion factored into the blueprints where possible.
Execute tuck-in acquisitions, strategic transactions and partnerships
•Over the past seven fiscal years, we have acquired and integrated four PACE organizations for a total of eight operational centers (excluding the PACE center in Bakersfield, California, which is not yet operational). These acquisitions represent expansion of our InnovAge Platform into one new state and five new markets. In addition, in fiscal year 2025, we acquired certain pharmacy assets from Tabula Rasa HealthCare Group (“TRHG”) with the goal of supporting our growth and improving pharmacy cost-management. By bringing acquired organizations under the InnovAge Platform, we hope to further realize revenue growth and improve operational efficiency and care delivery post-integration.
•We believe there is a robust landscape of potential tuck-in acquisitions to supplement our organic growth. In fiscal year 2024, we completed an acquisition of two PACE programs in California from ConcertoCare, which included one operational center in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles and a second program that is a planned de novo in Bakersfield. When integrating acquired programs, we work closely with key constituencies, including local governments, health systems and senior housing providers, to enable continuity of high-quality care for participants.
•We also have pursued and intend to pursue additional relationships with key stakeholders, existing organizations and other care providers in order to form partnerships in target geographies. In fiscal year 2024, we opened the Orlando PACE center as a joint venture with Orlando Health, a healthcare system broadly recognized for its care programs, services and extensive community outreach and support with the goal of magnifying the impact and extend the reach of PACE services for eligible seniors in the Orlando market. In fiscal year 2025, enrollments at our Orlando center increased, in part because of this partnership. In August 2025, we entered into a joint venture with Tampa General Hospital to support our Tampa PACE center. We expect to continue to explore additional strategic partnerships in the communities in which we operate.
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Reinvest in the InnovAge Platform to optimize performance
•We believe that our ongoing investment in the InnovAge Platform drives greater efficiency across our business, creating a virtuous cycle that allows us to continue providing necessary care to our participants. Our platform is the largest among PACE providers based on participants served and one of the most geographically diverse.
•We plan to continually invest in technology improvements and seek to unlock new insights through enhanced data analytics capabilities that will advance our care model.
•We are investing in building capabilities to increase our sophistication as a payor to drive clinical value, improve outcomes, and manage cost trends.
•We believe our investments will ultimately result in better health outcomes and lower medical costs for participants. In the long-term, we intend to reduce medical costs in order to generate savings for reinvestment to support continuous improvement of the InnovAge Platform.
Regulation
Our operations are subject to extensive federal, state and local governmental laws and regulations. These laws and regulations require us to meet various standards relating to, among other things, arrangement and provision of covered healthcare services to our participants, operation and management of PACE centers, dispensing of pharmaceuticals, personnel qualifications, maintenance of proper records, and quality assurance programs. If any of our operations are found to violate applicable laws or regulations, we could suffer severe consequences that would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation and stock price, including:
•suspension, termination or exclusion of our participation in government payor programs;
•loss of our licenses required to operate healthcare facilities or administer prescription drugs in the states in which we operate;
•criminal or civil liability, fines, damages or monetary penalties for violations of healthcare fraud and abuse laws, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the False Claims Act (“FCA”) and/or state analogs to these federal enforcement authorities, or other regulatory requirements;
•enforcement actions by governmental agencies and/or state law claims for monetary damages by patients or employees relating to breach of, impermissible use or disclosure of, or other incidents relating to protected health information (“PHI”) and other types of personal data or personally identifiable information (collectively, “PII” and, together with PHI, “PHI/PII”) that we collect, use, and disclose, in violation of federal or state privacy laws, including, for example and without limitation, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended by HITECH Act (“HIPAA”), or state data privacy and security laws;
•mandated changes to our practices or procedures that significantly increase operating expenses or decrease our revenue;
•imposition of and compliance with corporate integrity agreements that could subject us to ongoing audits and reporting requirements as well as increased scrutiny of our business practices which could lead to potential fines, among other things;
•termination of various relationships and/or contracts related to our business, including joint venture arrangements, contracts with government payors, and real estate leases or contracts with clinical providers;
•changes in and reinterpretation of rules and laws by a regulatory agency board, or court, such as state corporate practice of medicine laws, which could affect the structure and management of our business;
•changes in payor reimbursement, including negative adjustments to government payment models including, but not limited to, Medicare Parts C and D and Medicaid; and
•harm to our reputation, which could negatively impact our business relationships, the terms of government payor contracts, our ability to attract and retain participants, physicians, and other clinicians, our ability to obtain financing and our access to new business opportunities, among other things.
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We expect that our industry will continue to be subject to substantial regulation, the scope and effect of which are difficult to predict. Our activities have been and could continue to be subject to investigations, audits and inquiries by various government and regulatory agencies with whom we contract at any time in the future. See Item 1A. Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Regulation.”
Federal and State Regulation of PACE Providers
We are subject to a complex array of federal and state laws, regulations, and guidance, including legal requirements directly applicable to PACE providers as well as Medicare and Medicaid laws and regulations. These laws and guidance relate to our organizational structure, governance, fiscal soundness, marketing activities, participant enrollment and disenrollment, charges to participants, provision of healthcare and other services to participants, care planning activities, service delivery settings and maintenance of centers, participant rights, employment and contractual arrangements with healthcare providers and other staff, quality assessment and performance improvement activities, participant grievances and appeals, medical records documentation, compliance program activities, and other aspects of our operations and financing. As a PACE provider that provides qualified prescription drug coverage, we are also subject to Medicare laws, regulations, and requirements applicable to Medicare Part D plan sponsors.
The regulations and contractual requirements applicable to PACE providers are complex and subject to change, making it necessary for us to invest significant resources in complying with these requirements. Scrutiny through federal and state government audits, oversight and enforcement and the highly technical regulatory scheme in which we operate require us to allocate significant resources to our compliance efforts. In addition, new centers that we may acquire in the future may have less developed compliance and quality infrastructures, which may require us to allocate additional resources to making any required enhancements.
CMS and state regulatory authorities regularly audit our performance to determine our compliance with CMS’s regulations and our contracts with CMS and state authorities, and to assess the quality of the services we provide to our participants. Such audits have in the past, and may in the future, result in the identification of deficiencies in connection with our compliance with regulatory requirements, participant quality of care, care plan development and implementation, grievance and appeal processes, clinicians acting outside of their scope of practice, and other issues. See Item 1A. Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Regulation” .
Whether identified through such audits or other avenues, our failure to comply with the federal and state laws applicable to our business could result in significant or material retroactive adjustments to and/or withholding of capitation payments, fines, criminal liability, civil monetary penalties, requirements to make significant changes to our operations, corrective action plans, CMS imposed sanctions (including suspension or exclusion from participation in government programs), loss of contracts, or cessation of our services.
Licensing Laws
We, our healthcare professionals, and our centers are subject to various federal, state and local licensure and certification requirements in connection with our provision of healthcare and other services. Specifically, in some of the states in which we operate, we are required to maintain licensure or certification as an adult day health center, home health or home care provider, diagnostic and treatment center, pharmacy provider, clinical laboratory and/or other type of facility, and our affiliated physicians and other clinicians also must be licensed or certified, as applicable, in the states in which they are providing services. In addition, certain of the states where we currently operate regulate the operations and financial condition of risk bearing providers and impose capital requirements, licensing or certification, governance controls, and other obligations. While the states in which we operate do not currently impose these regulations on entities solely bearing risk under the PACE program, these states may seek to license or otherwise regulate our operations and financial solvency in the future; further, states in which we expand in the future may impose similar requirements on our operations. In addition to state requirements, we, our centers, and our healthcare professionals are in some cases subject to federal licensing and certification requirements, such as certification or waiver under the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments of 1988 for performing laboratory services and Drug Enforcement Administration registrations for prescribing, storing, and dispensing controlled substances.
Failure to comply with federal, state and local licensing and certification laws, regulations and standards could result in a variety of consequences, including cessation of our services, loss of our contracts, prior payments by payors being subject to recoupment, requirements to make significant changes to our operations, or civil or criminal penalties. While we endeavor to comply with federal, state and local licensing and certification laws and regulations and standards as we interpret them, the laws and regulations in these areas are complex, changing and often subject to varying interpretations.
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Any failure to satisfy applicable laws and regulations could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and reputation.
Corporate Practice of Medicine
The laws and regulations relating to our operations vary from state to state, and some states in which we operate prohibit general business corporations, such as us, from practicing medicine, directly employing physicians, controlling physicians’ or other clinicians’ medical decisions, or engaging in some practices such as splitting professional fees with physicians or other clinicians. In certain states, we contract with physicians to provide healthcare services that are required to be provided by licensed physicians to comply with such requirements. While we believe that we are in substantial compliance with state laws prohibiting the corporate practice of medicine, regulatory agencies and other parties may assert that we could be engaged in the corporate practice of medicine. Further, many such state laws are often vague or have otherwise only been infrequently interpreted by courts or regulatory agencies and are subject to change. The consequences associated with violating corporate practice of medicine laws vary by state and may result in physicians or other clinicians being subject to disciplinary action, as well as forfeiture of revenues from government payors for services rendered. However, if allegations are successfully asserted before the appropriate judicial or administrative forums, we could be subject to adverse judicial or administrative penalties, certain of our contracts could be determined to be unenforceable, and we may be required to restructure our organization or our contractual arrangements. Any allegations or findings that we have violated these laws could have a material adverse impact on our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition.
See Item 1A. Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Our Business—Laws regulating the corporate practice of medicine could restrict the manner in which we are permitted to conduct our business, and the failure to comply with such laws could subject us to penalties or require a restructuring of our business.”
Federal Anti-Kickback Statute
The federal Anti-Kickback Statute prohibits, among other things, knowingly and willfully offering, paying, soliciting, or receiving remuneration, directly or indirectly, in cash or kind, to induce or reward either the referral of an individual for, or the purchase, order or recommendation of, any good or service, for which payment may be made under federal and state healthcare programs such as Medicare and Medicaid. Court decisions have held that the statute may be violated even if only one purpose of remuneration is to induce referrals. In addition, a defendant need not have actual knowledge of, or the specific intent to violate, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute in order to have the requisite intent to support an Anti-Kickback Statute violation.
Federal criminal penalties for the violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute include imprisonment, fines and exclusion of the provider from future participation in federal healthcare programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. Violations of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute are punishable by imprisonment for up to ten years, fines of up to $100,000 per kickback or both. Larger fines can be imposed upon corporations under the provisions of the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines and the Alternate Fines Statute. Individuals and entities convicted of a criminal violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute are subject to mandatory exclusion from participation in Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal healthcare programs for a minimum of five years. Civil penalties for violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute include up to $124,732 (adjusted for inflation) in monetary penalties per violation, fines, or penalties of up to three times the total payments between the parties to the arrangement and potential exclusion from participation in Medicare and Medicaid. In addition, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute provides that any claims for items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute are considered false or fraudulent for purposes of the FCA, which is further discussed below. Any findings that we have violated these laws could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation and stock price.
The federal Anti-Kickback Statute includes statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors that protect certain arrangements. These exceptions and safe harbors are voluntary. To receive safe harbor protection, business transactions and arrangements must meet all the requirements of a safe harbor. However, transactions and arrangements that do not satisfy all elements of a relevant safe harbor do not necessarily render the arrangement per se illegal. When an arrangement does not satisfy a safe harbor, the arrangement must be evaluated upon all facts and circumstances, on a case-by-case basis considering among other things, the parties’ intent, and the arrangement’s potential for abuse. Arrangements that do not satisfy a safe harbor may be subject to greater scrutiny by enforcement agencies.
Additionally, some states have enacted statutes and regulations similar to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Unlike the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, however, certain state laws may be applicable regardless of the payor source for the patient.
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Moreover, these state laws may contain exceptions and safe harbors that are different from and/or more limited than those of federal law and that may vary from state to state.
We have entered, and may continue to enter, into arrangements that may not fit squarely within enumerated safe harbors and could potentially implicate the Anti-Kickback Statute if the requisite intent were present, such as:
•Joint Ventures. As of June 30, 2025, we operated two of our centers, our Sacramento, California center, and Orlando, Florida center, under joint ventures, each with a not-for-profit healthcare provider. Additionally, in August 2025, we entered into a joint venture with Tampa General Hospital, a not-for-profit healthcare provider in Tampa, Florida. We may enter other joint ventures with providers and payors in the future. The Office of Inspector General (the “OIG”) of the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) has warned healthcare entities in the past that certain joint venture relationships have a potential for abuse. We have endeavored to structure our joint ventures to satisfy as many elements of the applicable safe harbor for investments in small entities as we believe are commercially reasonable. For example, we believe that these investments are offered and made by us on a fair market value basis and provide returns to the investors in proportion to their actual investment in the venture.
•Discounts. Our centers sometimes acquire certain items and services at a discount that may be reimbursed by a federal healthcare program. We endeavor to structure our vendor contracts that include discount or rebate provisions to comply with the federal Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbor for discounts.
•Sales Force and Participant Recruitment. We employ our own sales force and attempt to meet the Anti-Kickback safe harbor for bona fide employment.
Many of our arrangements are structured to provide for compensation that is fair market value for services rendered and in a manner that does not reflect the volume or value of referrals generated between the parties. In structuring our relationships with providers, including our physician partners, and other healthcare entities, we endeavor to comply with the regulatory requirements of such safe harbors and exceptions.
On January 19, 2021, the OIG issued regulations under the Anti-Kickback Statute that added new safe harbors and modified existing safe harbors that protect certain payment practices and business arrangements from sanctions under the Anti-Kickback Statute in order to remove potential barriers to more effective coordination and management of patient care and delivery of value-based care. Among other changes, these regulations contained safe harbors for value-based arrangements centering around value-based enterprises, which are enterprises, such as ours, composed of participants collaborating to achieve one or more value-based purposes, including coordinating, and managing the care of a target patient population and coordinating and managing the care of a target population. These new and modified value-based care safe harbors may allow our business to pursue new value-based arrangements with safe harbor protections under the Anti-Kickback Statute. However, compliance with these new Anti-Kickback Statute safe harbors is complex and, to the extent that one of our value-based arrangements does not squarely fit within the relevant safe harbors, it could be subject to greater scrutiny by enforcement agencies.
Federal Self-Referral Prohibition
The federal Ethics in Patient Referral Act (“Stark Law”) generally prohibits a physician who has (or whose immediate family member has) a financial relationship with certain entities from making referrals to such entities for “designated health services” if payment for the services may be made under Medicare or Medicaid. “Designated health services” include clinical laboratory services, inpatient and outpatient hospital services, physical and occupational therapy services, outpatient speech-language pathology services, certain radiology services, radiation therapy services and supplies, durable medical equipment and supplies, parenteral and enteral nutrients equipment and supplies, prosthetics, orthotics and prosthetic devices and supplies, home health services, and outpatient prescription drugs. To the extent we fall within the types of entities to which the Stark Law applies, then we need to ensure that any financial relationships that we have with a referring provider would satisfy a statutory or regulatory exception to the general Stark Law prohibition.
Providers are prohibited from billing Medicare and Medicaid for services related to a prohibited referral and a provider that has billed for prohibited services is obligated to notify and refund the amounts collected from the Medicare program or to make a self-disclosure to CMS under its Self-Referral Disclosure Protocol. Penalties for violation of the Stark Law include denial of payment, recoupment, refunds of amounts paid in violation of the law, exclusion from the Medicare or Medicaid programs, and substantial civil monetary penalties ($30,868 per prohibited item or service and $205,799 if there is a circumvention scheme; penalty amounts reflect current 2024 levels and are adjusted for inflation from time to time).
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Claims filed in violation of the Stark Law may be deemed false claims under the FCA. In addition to the Stark Law, various states in which we operate have adopted similar self-referral prohibition statutes.
In parallel with OIG’s regulations on value-based care discussed above, on January 19, 2021, CMS issued a sweeping set of regulations that introduce significant new value-based exceptions to the Stark Law, including new exceptions for certain remuneration exchanged between or among eligible participants in value-based arrangements. These exceptions and their various requirements apply based on the level of financial risk assumed by the arrangement’s participants. These regulations purport to ease the compliance burden for healthcare providers across the industry while maintaining strong safeguards to protect patients and programs from fraud and abuse. To the extent that we rely on the new value-based exceptions to the Stark Law for our value-based arrangements, we intend to comply with such safeguards. However, if we were to be found as out of compliance with such exceptions, we could be subject to penalties, as discussed above.
The False Claims Act
Among other things, the FCA authorizes the imposition of up to three times the government’s damages and significant per claim civil penalties on any “person” (including an individual, organization or company) who, among other acts:
•knowingly presents or causes to be presented to the federal government a false or fraudulent claim for payment or approval;
•knowingly makes, uses or causes to be made or used a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim;
•knowingly makes, uses or causes to be made or used a false record, report or statement material to an obligation to pay the government, or knowingly conceals or knowingly and improperly avoids or decreases an obligation to pay or transmit money or property to the federal government; or
•conspires to commit the above acts.
The federal government has used the FCA to prosecute a wide variety of alleged false claims and fraud allegedly perpetrated against Medicare and state healthcare programs, including but not limited to coding errors, billing for services not rendered, the submission of false cost or other reports, billing for services at a higher payment rate than appropriate, billing under a comprehensive code as well as under one or more component codes included in the comprehensive code, billing for care that is not considered medically necessary and false reporting of risk-adjusted diagnostic codes, encounter data or other information used to determine capitated payments. The Affordable Care Act (“ACA”) provides that claims for payment that are tainted by a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (which could include, for example, illegal incentives or remuneration in exchange for enrollment or referrals) are false for purposes of the FCA. In addition, amendments to the FCA and Social Security Act impose severe penalties for the knowing and improper retention of overpayments from government payors. This could be relevant to our business the extent we receive payments on account of RAF determinations that are based on improper or erroneous records or reports. Failure to return overpayments could subject us to liability under the FCA, exclusion from government healthcare programs and penalties under the federal Civil Monetary Penalty Statute.
The penalties for a violation of the FCA may include per claim penalties, plus up to three times the amount of damages caused by each false claim, which can be as much as the amounts received directly or indirectly from the government for each such false claim. As of January 15, 2025, the minimum False Claims Act penalty increased from $13,946 to $14,308 per claim. The maximum penalty has increased from $27,894 to $28,619 per claim.
In addition to civil enforcement under the FCA, the federal government can use several criminal statutes to prosecute persons who are alleged to have submitted false or fraudulent claims for payment to the federal government. Private parties may initiate qui tam whistleblower lawsuits against any person or entity under the FCA in the name of the federal government, as well as under the false claims’ laws of several states, and may share in the proceeds of a successful suit. Generally, federal and state governments have made investigating and prosecuting healthcare fraud and abuse a priority. Any allegations or findings that we have violated the FCA could have a material adverse impact on our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition.
In addition to the FCA, the various states in which we operate have adopted their own analogs of the FCA. States are becoming increasingly active in using their false claims laws to police the same activities listed above, particularly with regard to capitated government-sponsored healthcare programs, such as Medicaid managed care and PACE. Under Section 6031 of the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, as amended, if a state enacts a false claims act that is at least as stringent as the
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federal statute and that also meets certain other requirements, the state will be eligible to receive a greater share of any monetary recovery obtained pursuant to certain actions brought under the state’s false claims act. As a result, more states are expected to enact laws that are similar to the federal FCA in the future along with a corresponding increase in state false claims enforcement efforts.
For additional information regarding allegations against us under Federal and State FCA statutes, see Item 1A. Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Our Business—We are subject to legal proceedings, enforcement actions and litigation, malpractice and privacy disputes, which are costly to defend and could materially harm our business and results of operations.”
Civil Monetary Penalties Statute
The Civil Monetary Penalties Statute, 42 U.S.C. § 1320a-7a, authorizes the imposition of civil monetary penalties, assessments and exclusion against an individual or entity based on a variety of prohibited conduct, including, but not limited to:
•presenting, or causing to be presented, claims, reports or records relating to payment by Medicare, Medicaid or other government payors that the individual or entity knows or should know are for an item or service that was not provided as reported, is false or fraudulent or was presented for a physician’s service by a person who knows or should know that the individual providing the service is not a licensed physician, obtained licensure through misrepresentation or represented certification in a medical specialty without in fact possessing such certification;
•offering remuneration to a federal healthcare program beneficiary that the individual or entity knows or should know is likely to influence the beneficiary to order or receive healthcare items or services from a particular provider, unless an exception applies;
•arranging contracts with or making payments to an entity or individual excluded from participation in the federal healthcare programs or included on CMS’s preclusion list;
•violating the federal Anti-Kickback Statute;
•making, using or causing to be made or used a false record or statement material to a false or fraudulent claim for payment for items and services furnished under a federal healthcare program;
•making, using or causing to be made any false statement, omission or misrepresentation of a material fact in any application, bid or contract to participate or enroll as a provider of services or a supplier under a federal healthcare program; and
•failing to report and return an overpayment owed to the federal government.
We could be exposed to a wide range of allegations to which the federal Civil Monetary Penalty Statute would apply. We perform monthly checks on our employees and certain affiliates and vendors using government databases to confirm that these individuals have not been excluded from federal programs or otherwise ineligible for payment. We have also implemented processes to avoid payments to contracted or noncontracted providers listed on CMS’s preclusion list and payments for drugs prescribed by individuals on the preclusion list. Should an individual or entity be excluded, on the preclusion list, or otherwise ineligible for payment and we fail to detect it, a federal agency could require us to refund amounts attributable to all claims or services performed or sufficiently linked to such individual or entity. Due to this area of risk and the possibility of other allegations being brought against us, we cannot foreclose the possibility that we could face allegations of noncompliance with the Civil Monetary Penalty Statute that have the potential for a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Privacy and Security
HIPAA requires covered entities, and the business associates with whom such covered entities contract for services involving the use or disclosure of PHI to provide certain protections to their patients or participants and their health information. Through our various service offerings, the Company acts primarily as a covered entity under HIPAA but may also act as a business associate of other covered entities. The HIPAA privacy and security regulations extensively regulate the use and disclosure of PHI and require covered entities and their business associates, to develop and maintain policies and procedures and implement and maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect the security of
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such information. Additional security requirements apply to electronic PHI. These regulations also provide our participants with substantive rights with respect to their health information.
The HIPAA privacy and security regulations also require covered entities to enter into written agreements with their business associates. Covered entities may be subject to fines and penalties for, among other activities, failing to enter into a business associate agreement where required by law or as a result of a business associate violating HIPAA. Business associates are also directly subject to liability under certain HIPAA privacy and security regulations. In instances where we act as a business associate to a covered entity, there is the potential for additional liability beyond our status as a covered entity.
Covered entities must notify affected individuals of breaches of unsecured PHI without unreasonable delay but no later than 60 days after discovery of the breach. Reporting must also be made to the HHS Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) and, for breaches of unsecured PHI involving more than 500 residents of a state or jurisdiction, to the media in accordance with HIPAA requirements. All impermissible uses or disclosures of unsecured PHI are presumed to be breaches unless an exception to the definition of breach applies or the covered entity or business associate establishes that there is a low probability the PHI has been compromised. Beginning in December 2022, OCR issued guidance on the use of tracking technologies on websites and mobile applications by covered entities and business associates, indicating that certain information collected by tracking technology vendors from websites and applications may cause a breach under HIPAA. However, in June 2024, a federal court limited the scope of this guidance by ruling that collecting IP addresses from visits to unauthenticated public health-related webpages does not trigger HIPAA obligations, and HHS is assessing next steps.
Violations of HIPAA by covered entities and business associates, including, but not limited to, failing to implement appropriate administrative, physical and technical safeguards, have resulted in enforcement actions and in some cases triggered settlement payments or civil monetary penalties. Penalties for impermissible use or disclosure of PHI were increased by the HITECH Act by imposing tiered penalties of more than $50,000 (not adjusted for inflation) per violation and up to approximately $1.9 million (not adjusted for inflation) per year for identical violations. In addition, HIPAA provides for criminal penalties of up to $250,000 and ten years in prison, with the most severe penalties associated with obtaining and disclosing PHI with the intent to sell, transfer or use such information for commercial advantage, personal gain or malicious harm. Further, state attorneys general may bring civil actions seeking either injunction or damages in response to violations of the HIPAA privacy and security regulations that threaten the privacy of state residents. There can be no assurance that we will not be the subject of an investigation (arising out of a reportable breach incident, audit or otherwise) alleging non-compliance with HIPAA regulations in our maintenance of PHI.
We may also be subject to other laws governing the privacy and security of data, such as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 1918 (“CCPA”) and data breach notification laws. Additionally, many states have also enacted laws that protect the privacy and security of confidential, personal and health information, which may be even more stringent than HIPAA and may add additional compliance costs and legal risks to our operations. Some state privacy and security laws overlap with federal law, some of which are preempted, in part by federal laws, whereas others are not. States have also passed privacy and security laws and regulations that apply across sectors and go beyond federal law, such as data security laws, secure destruction, Social Security number privacy, online privacy biometric information privacy, and data breach notification laws. Some of these state laws impose fines and penalties on violators and afford private rights of action to individuals who believe their personal information has been misused. Various state laws and regulations also require us to notify affected individuals in the event of a data breach involving personal information without regard to the probability of the information being compromised.
Looking ahead, it is possible that Congress could pursue a federal privacy bill to harmonize privacy regimes across states. While states have urged Congress not to weaken existing state privacy protections by adopting a less stringent national standard, many healthcare stakeholders have supported federal preemption of state data privacy legislation.
Various other federal and state laws restrict the use and protect the privacy and security of individually identifiable information, as well as employee personal information, including certain state laws modeled to some extent on the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. Federal and state consumer protection laws, including laws that do not on their face specifically address data privacy or security, have been applied to data privacy and security matters by a range of government agencies and courts.
In late 2024, the OCR proposed an update to the HIPAA Security Rule aimed at strengthening the health sector’s cybersecurity infrastructure in response to a significant increase in cyber attacks in recent years. The proposed updated would impose additional requirements on covered entities and business associates to enhance the protection of electronic PHI.
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Healthcare Reform Efforts
The U.S. federal and state governments continue to enact and consider many broad-based legislative and regulatory proposals that have had a material impact on or could materially impact various aspects of the healthcare system and our business, operating results and/or cash flows. In addition, state and federal budgetary shortfalls and constraints pose potential risks for our revenue streams. We cannot predict how government payors or healthcare consumers might react to federal and state healthcare legislation and regulation, whether already enacted or enacted in the future, nor can we predict what form such legislation or regulations will take. Some examples of legislative and regulatory changes impacting our business include:
•In March 2010, broad healthcare reform legislation was enacted in the United States through the ACA. There have since been numerous political and legal efforts to repeal, replace or modify the ACA, some of which have been successful, in part, in modifying the law. Although some provisions of the ACA have been and may be modified, the reforms, particularly those relating to Medicare and Medicaid programs, could continue to have an impact on our business. These and other provisions of the ACA remain subject to ongoing uncertainty due to developing regulations as well as continuing political and legal challenges at both the federal and state levels.
•There have in recent years been congressional efforts to move Medicaid from an open-ended program with coverage and benefits set by the federal government to one in which states receive a fixed amount of federal funds, either through block grants or per capita caps, and have more flexibility to determine benefits, eligibility or provider payments. If these types of changes are implemented in the future, we cannot predict whether the amount of fixed federal funding to the states will be based on current payment amounts, or if it will be based on lower payment amounts, which would negatively impact those states that expanded their Medicaid programs in response to the ACA.
•Legislation enacted in 2011 requires CMS to sequester or reduce all Medicare payments, including payments to PACE organizations, by two percent per year beginning on April 1, 2013. This sequestration has been extended through fiscal year 2032 for Medicare benefit payments.
•Implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) introduced significant changes to Medicare prescription drug pricing, including requirements for Medicare drug price negotiations, inflationary rebates, and a reduction in the out-of-pocket spending cap for Medicare Part D beneficiaries from $7,050 to $2,000 beginning in 2025. While these provisions are intended to lower drug cost for beneficiaries, they may affect prescription drug costs and reimbursement for PACE organizations. Implementation of the IRA is subject to ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the IRA’s Medicare drug price negotiation program, and the full effects on our business and the healthcare industry remain uncertain.
•Recent federal legislation has extended many of the Medicare telehealth flexibilities that were implemented during the COVID-19 pandemic through September 30, 2025. The OBBBA, signed into law on July 4, 2025, also includes a provision for permanent pre-deductible coverage of telehealth services under high-deductible health plans linked to health savings accounts, which could result in permanent Medicare telehealth flexibilities, potentially impacting PACE care delivery models.
•The “Medicare Program; Contract Year 2024 Policy and Technical Changes to the Medicare Advantage Program, Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit Program, Medicare Cost Plan Program, and Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly” final rule (“2024 PACE Final Rule”) set out a number of changes for PACE organizations, including (i) clarifying that CMS has enforcement discretion to impose civil monetary penalties or an intermediate sanction in the event CMS has made a determination that could lead to the termination of a PACE program; and (ii) reinstating the requirement that PACE organizations enter into written contracts with each outside organization, agency, or individual that furnishes administrative or care-related services not furnished directly by the PACE organization, including 25 medical specialties enumerated by the PACE Final Rule.
•The remaining provisions of the 2024 PACE Final Rule were issued alongside the new PACE final rule for 2025 (the “2025 PACE Final Rule”). The 2025 PACE Final Rule includes various changes that include but are not limited to: (i) implementation of past performance guidelines used to evaluate new PACE organization applications; (ii) personnel medical clearance guidelines; (iii) updates to service delivery timeframes by which participants must receive services; (iv) guidelines on IDT care coordination across all service settings with timeframes applied to external provider recommendations; (v) new content and documentation guidelines for participant plans of care; (vi) expansion of participant rights in care settings; and (vii) revisions to existing grievance process to align with standard determination request guidance.
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•CMS released an updated PACE Medicaid Capitation Rate Settling Guide, effective January 1, 2025, which clarifies and expands requirements for state development and documentation of PACE Medicaid capitation rates. Under the new guidance, states must provide more detailed supporting data and methodologies when submitting proposed rates to CMS for approval.
•The OBBBA mandates significant reductions in federal Medicaid spending, with the Congressional Budget Office estimating a decrease of approximately $1 trillion over the next ten years. OBBBA also introduces new work requirements for Medicaid recipients aged 19 to 64, necessitating at least 80 hours per month of work, education, or volunteer activities, unless they qualify for certain exemptions. The OBBBA also narrows Medicaid eligibility for qualified immigrants. States will be required to conduct eligibility verifications of Medicaid enrollees in the expansion population every six months (unless otherwise exempt), increasing from the previous annual requirement. These changes may lead to decreased Medicaid enrollment among existing and prospective PACE participants, potentially reducing our funding and decreasing margins. OBBBA also introduces cost-sharing measures, requiring Medicaid beneficiaries with incomes between 100% and 138% of the federal poverty level to pay up to $35 per service for certain healthcare services. As a result, eligible participants could be deterred from enrolling in or continuing enrollment with PACE programs, possibly impacting our ability to retain or increase our participant base. In addition, the new requirements will necessitate adjustments in our administrative processes to ensure compliance with more frequent eligibility verifications and other reporting standards mandated by federal and state regulatory agencies
CMS and state Medicaid agencies also routinely adjust the RAF which is central to payment under PACE and Managed Medicaid programs in which we participate. The monetary “coefficient” values associated with diseases that we manage in our population are subject to change by CMS and state agencies. Such changes could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition. See Item 1A. Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Our Business — Our records and submissions to government payors may contain inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of participants, which could cause us to overstate or understate our revenue and subject us to payment obligations or penalties.”
Other Regulations
Our operations are subject to various state hazardous waste and non-hazardous medical waste disposal laws. These laws do not classify as hazardous most of the waste produced from medical services. Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations require employers to provide workers who are occupationally subject to blood or other potentially infectious materials with prescribed protections. These regulatory requirements apply to all healthcare facilities, including our participant centers, and require employers to make a determination as to which employees may be exposed to blood or other potentially infectious materials and to have in effect a written exposure control plan. In addition, employers are required to provide or employ hepatitis B vaccinations, personal protective equipment and other safety devices, infection control training, post-exposure evaluation and follow-up, waste disposal techniques and procedures and work practice controls. Employers are also required to comply with various record-keeping requirements.
In January 2025, we completed the acquisition of certain pharmacy assets from TRHC. Our pharmacy business subjects us to additional extensive federal, state, and local regulation governing various aspects of the business, including the distribution and dispensing of drugs; licensure of facilities and professionals; packaging, storing, distributing, shipping, and tracking of pharmaceuticals; repackaging of drug products; labeling consumer disclosures; interactions with prescribing professionals; supply chain security; as well as additional requirements of various governmental authorities, including state boards of pharmacy and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. Federal and state law also governs the purchase, handling, and dispensing of controlled substances by physicians and other clinicians. If we are unable to maintain our registrations this could limit or affect our ability to purchase, handle, or dispense controlled substances and other violations of these laws could subject us to criminal or other sanctions. In addition, certain laws may apply to activities of our affiliated physicians and clinicians. For example, the Prescription Drug Marketing Act governs the provision of drug samples to physicians and other clinicians, and physicians and other clinicians are required to report relationships they have with the manufacturers of drugs, medical devices and biologics through the Open Payments Program database.
Clinical laboratories may be subject to oversight by CMS and state regulators, including the Eliminating Kickbacks in Recovery Act of 2018. If our laboratories or laboratories that we partner with are not in compliance with the applicable CMS or state laws or regulations, they could be subject to enforcement action, which could negatively affect our business.
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We have in the past and continue to intend to grow our business through acquisitions in the states in which we currently operate or in new states that we seek to enter. Several states, including California, New Mexico and Colorado have adopted laws focused on competition, quality, access, and cost that either authorize state agencies to review and approve certain healthcare transactions or require notice prior to certain healthcare transactions, such as in California (requiring notice to the office of Health Care Affordability with certain transactions referred to their attorney general for further review) or New Mexico (requiring approval for certain transactions involving acquisitions and other changes in control of hospitals, including formation of a partnership or joint venture that results in an indirect change). Many other states, including Pennsylvania, where several bills have been proposed are currently voting on or considering similar legislation. These notices and approvals typically require a substantial amount of information, including supporting documentation. While certain of these proposed laws and restrictions primarily target physician and dental practice management, they reflect a broader trend of increased regulatory scrutiny of healthcare transactions, which could negatively affect our ability to grow our business.
Any allegations or findings that we or our providers have violated any of these laws or regulations could have a material adverse impact on our reputation, business, results of operations and financial condition. Certain states in which we do business or may desire to do business in the future have certificate of need programs regulating the establishment or expansion of healthcare facilities, including our participant centers. These regulations can be complex and time-consuming to ensure compliance with. Any failure to comply with such regulatory requirements could adversely impact our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Competition
The U.S. healthcare industry is highly competitive. We compete directly with national, regional and local providers of healthcare for participants and clinical providers. We also compete with payors and other alternate managed care programs for participants. Of these providers, there are many other companies and individuals currently providing healthcare services, many of which have been in business longer and/or have substantially more resources. Given the regulatory environment, there may be high barriers to entry for PACE providers; however, since there are relatively modest capital expenditures required for providing healthcare services, there are less substantial financial barriers to entry in the healthcare industry generally. Other companies could enter the healthcare industry in the future and divert some or all of our business. Our principal competitors for dual-eligible seniors vary considerably in type and identity by market. Our growth strategy and our business could be adversely affected if we are not able to compete efficiently, including penetrating existing markets or new markets, recruit qualified physicians or if we experience significant participant attrition to our competitors. See Item 1A. Risk Factors—“Risks Related to Our Business—The healthcare industry is highly competitive and, if we are not able to compete effectively, our business could be harmed.”
We believe the principal competitive factors for serving adults dually-eligible for Medicare and Medicaid and who meet nursing home eligibility criteria include: participant experience, quality of care, health outcomes, total cost of care, brand identity and trust in that brand.
Seasonality
Our business experiences some variability depending upon the time of year. Medical costs will vary seasonally depending on a number of factors, but most significantly the weather. Certain illnesses, such as the influenza virus and COVID-19, are far more prevalent during colder months of the year, which results in an increase in medical expenses during these time periods. We therefore see higher levels of per-participant medical costs in our second and third fiscal quarters. Medical costs also depend upon the number of business days in a period, with shorter periods generally having lower medical costs, all else being equal. There is also increased variability of participant enrollment during the open enrollment period, which occurs during our third fiscal quarter.
In addition, the retrospective capitation payments we receive for each participant are determined by a participant’s RAF score, which is calculated twice per year and is based on the evolving acuity and chronic conditions of a participant. We estimate and accrue for the expected true-up payments of our participants. Though no assurances can be made in the future, we have historically used our best estimate for accruing for this payment. We received net positive true-up payments during the fiscal years ended June 30, 2025 and 2024. Historically, these true-up payments typically occur between May and August, but the timing of these payments is determined by CMS, and we have neither visibility nor control over the timing of such payments.
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Human Capital Resources
As of June 30, 2025, we had approximately 2,440 employees, including over 1,600 clinical professionals (excluding contract labor).
Our people are our product at InnovAge, and their commitment to our participants propels our mission of enabling seniors to age at home, with dignity, for as long as is safely possible. We believe that our employees are drawn to this mission and our values, which is why our voluntary retention rate was 69% in fiscal year 2025. Additionally, in our most recent employee engagement survey conducted in January 2025, 82% of our employees indicated that they are proud to work at InnovAge.
Attracting and retaining top talent is critical to the success of InnovAge's mission and one of the highest priorities to leadership. To keep leadership informed of the health of our employee base, we report weekly on key hiring and retention metrics. Since the launch of our annual employee engagement surveys in fiscal year 2022, we continue to review and implement action plans with staff groups based on the findings and opportunities discovered.
We continue to evaluate talent needs at the senior management level, aiming to hire ahead of the curve as the business evolves and to assess and respond to any gaps in our capabilities.
Less than 1% of our workforce is represented by a union, all of which are located in Pennsylvania.
At InnovAge, we strive to be a reflection of the communities that we serve. We are steadfastly dedicated to fostering an atmosphere that champions inclusivity throughout all sectors of InnovAge. Our commitment remains in building a culture where individual distinctions are not just acknowledged but deeply valued. As of June 30, 2025, our employed workforce comprised of 76% individuals who identified as women and 58% who identified as minorities.
Training and Development
We aim to provide our employees opportunities to grow and advance in their careers at InnovAge with learning and development programs. Each year we conduct soft skills training for managers and supervisors, the content of which is informed by gap assessment surveys. A quarterly training series for front-line leaders enables them to develop their management skills. Our clinical leaders also conduct separate physician leadership trainings quarterly, with a new topic for each installment (e.g., email / phone etiquette).
We also conduct a periodic training needs assessment surveys to hear directly from employees and managers where they think they could use more support and learning content in the coming year. These assessment surveys allow the Company to develop trainings tailored to the most prevalent needs identified by our employees.
Implications of being an emerging growth company and a smaller reporting company
We qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (1) June 30, 2026, (2) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.235 billion, (3) the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer or (4) the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period. Additionally, we qualify as a “smaller reporting company,” and even after we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company,” we may still qualify as a “smaller reporting company” based on the aggregate worldwide market value of common equity securities held by non-affiliates assessed on an annual basis and measured as of the last business day of our most recently completed second fiscal quarter.
As an emerging growth company and a smaller reporting company, we may take advantage of reduced reporting requirements that are otherwise applicable to public companies. These provisions include, but are not limited to:
•not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, as amended (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”);
•a requirement to present only two years of audited financial statements, plus unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for any interim period and related discussion in the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations”;
•reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports, proxy statements and registration statements; and
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•exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
In addition, under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We intend to take advantage of the longer phase-in periods for the adoption of new or revised financial accounting standards under the JOBS Act until we are no longer an emerging growth company. Our election to use the phase-in periods permitted by this election may make it difficult to compare our financial statements to those of non-emerging growth companies and other emerging growth companies that have opted out of the longer phase-in periods permitted under the JOBS Act and who will comply with new or revised financial accounting standards. If we were to subsequently elect instead to comply with public company effective dates, such election would be irrevocable pursuant to the JOBS Act.
As a result, the information that we provide to our stockholders may be different than you might receive from other public reporting companies in which you hold equity interests.
Available Information
Our internet website is www.innovage.com. We include our website address on this Annual Report for reference only. The information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report or any other report or document we file with, or furnish to, the SEC.
Our Annual Reports on Form 10-K, Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports on Form 8-K and any amendments to those reports are available free of charge through our website at www.investor.innovage.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such material is electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. Our SEC filings are also available to the public at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.