As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on December 20, 2013.
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Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public: As soon as practicable after the effective date of this registration statement.
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Title of Each Class of Securities to be Registered | Proposed Maximum Aggregate Offering Price(1)(2) |
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common stock, par value $0.001 per share | $ | 35,000,000 | $ | 4,508.00 |
(1) | Includes shares of common stock to be sold upon exercise of the underwriters option to purchase additional shares. |
(2) | Estimated solely for purposes of calculating the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. |
The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to Section 8(a), may determine.
The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and we are not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.
Shares
Common Stock
This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock of Medical Transcription Billing, Corp.
Prior to this offering there has been no public market for our common stock. It is currently estimated that the initial public offering price per share will be between $ and $ . We intend to apply to list our common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol MTBC.
We are an emerging growth company under federal securities laws and are subject to reduced public company reporting requirements.
Investing in our common stock involves risks. See Risk Factors beginning on page 10 to read about factors you should consider before buying shares of our common stock.
Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the adequacy or accuracy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.
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Initial public offering price | $ | $ | ||||||
Underwriting discount | $ | $ | ||||||
Proceeds, before expenses, to MTBC | $ | $ |
The underwriters may also exercise their option to purchase up to an additional shares of common stock from us, at the initial public offering price, less the underwriting discount.
The underwriters expect to deliver the shares against payment in New York, New York on , 2014.
Prospectus dated , 2014.
Through and including , 2014 (the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to a dealers obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to an unsold allotment or subscription.
The market data and certain other statistical information used throughout this prospectus are based on independent industry publications, governmental publications, reports by market research firms or other independent sources. Some data are also based on our good faith estimates.
Neither we nor the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide any information or to make any representations other than those contained in this prospectus or in any free writing prospectuses we have prepared. We take no responsibility for, and can provide no assurance as to the reliability of, any other information that others may give you. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.
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In this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires, we use the terms MTBC, we, us, the company and our to refer to Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Medical Transcription Billing Company (Private) Limited, a private limited company organized under the laws of Pakistan, and does not include any of the following companies, which we refer to as the Target Sellers, whose businesses we will acquire upon the close of this offering:
| the subsidiaries of Omni Medical Billing Services, LLC (which we collectively refer to as Omni) |
| Practicare Medical Management, Inc. (Practicare) |
| the subsidiaries of CastleRock Solutions, Inc. (which we collectively refer to as CastleRock) |
Concurrently with the consummation of the offering made by this prospectus, through a series of asset purchases, we will acquire the businesses of the Target Sellers. The aggregate purchase price will amount to approximately $33 million (assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), consisting of cash in the amount of approximately $23 million, and shares of our common stock with a market value of $10 million based on the initial public offering price of the shares sold in this offering. Pursuant to the terms of the respective purchase agreements, the aggregate purchase price we will pay for the assets of each of the Target Sellers will be calculated as a multiple of either 1.5 or 2.0 of the revenue generated by such Target Seller in the most recent four quarters included in this prospectus from its customers that are in good standing as of the closing date.
All of the shares to be issued to the Target Sellers will be deposited into escrow to secure our rights (i) to be indemnified under the purchase agreements, and (ii) to cancel a portion of the shares in the event our revenues from the Target Sellers customers in the 12 months following the closing are below specified thresholds. With respect to each Target Seller, 15% of the escrowed shares will be eligible for release six months following the closing and the remaining shares will be eligible for release following the determination of such Target Sellers revenue in the 12 months following the closing. In addition, 10% of the cash consideration payable for the acquisition of Practicare and 15% of the cash consideration payable for the acquisition of CastleRock will be held in escrow for 120 days following the closing to satisfy indemnification claims we may have during that period.
Unless we close the acquisition of all of the Target Sellers, we will not close any of those acquisitions and we will not close this offering. See Business Acquisitions for further information on our acquisition of the Target Sellers.
Unless otherwise indicated, all share, per share and financial data set forth in this prospectus have not been adjusted to give effect to the closing of the acquisition of the Target Sellers.
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The following summary highlights selected information contained in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all the information that may be important to you. You should read the more detailed information contained in this prospectus including, but not limited to, the risk factors beginning on page 10.
Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. is a healthcare information technology company that provides a fully integrated suite of proprietary web-based solutions, together with related business services, to healthcare providers practicing in ambulatory care settings. Our integrated Software-as-a-Service (or SaaS) platform is designed to help our customers increase revenues, streamline workflows and make better business and clinical decisions, while reducing administrative burdens and operating costs. We employ a highly educated workforce of more than 1,000 people in Pakistan, where we believe labor costs are approximately one-half the cost of comparable India-based employees, thus enabling us to deliver our solutions at competitive prices.
Our flagship offering, PracticePro, empowers healthcare practices with the core software and business services, on one unified SaaS platform, to efficiently operate their businesses, manage clinical workflows and receive timely payment for their services. PracticePro consists of:
| Practice management solutions and related tools and applications, which facilitate the day-to-day operation of a medical practice; |
| Electronic health record (or EHR) solutions, which allow our customers to reduce paperwork and qualify for government incentives; and |
| Revenue cycle management (or RCM) services, which includes end-to-end medical billing, analytics, and related services. |
As of September 30, 2013, we served approximately 475 practices representing approximately 1,190 providers (which we define as physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other clinical staff that render bills for their services), practicing in 50 specialties and subspecialties, in 37 states. Pro forma for the acquisition of the Target Sellers, as of September 30, 2013, we served approximately 970 practices representing approximately 2,180 providers, practicing in approximately 50 specialties and subspecialties, in 40 states. As of December 31, 2011, we served approximately 355 practices representing approximately 1,280 providers, approximately 55 specialties and subspecialties, in 38 states, and as of December 31, 2012, we served approximately 400 practices representing approximately 1,320 providers, practicing in approximately 55 specialties and subspecialties, in 39 states. Approximately 98% of the practices we serve consist of one to ten providers, with the majority of the practices we serve being primary care providers. However, our solutions are scalable and are appropriate for larger healthcare practices across a wide range of specialty areas. In fact, our largest customer is a hospital-based group with more than 120 providers.
Our growth strategy includes acquiring smaller revenue cycle management companies and then migrating the customers of those companies to our solutions. The revenue cycle management service industry is highly fragmented, with many local and regional revenue cycle management companies serving small medical practices. We believe that the industry is ripe for consolidation and that we can achieve significant growth through acquisitions. We estimate that there are more than 1,500 companies in the United States providing revenue cycle management services and that no one company has more than a 5% share of the market. We further believe that it is becoming increasingly difficult for traditional revenue cycle management companies to meet the growing technology and business service needs of healthcare providers without a significant investment in information technology infrastructure.
In addition, upon the completion of this offering, we intend to hire sales and marketing executives to spearhead our customer acquisition initiative and enhance our team of marketing and communications professionals. We believe that these new team members will also be able to successfully leverage the Target Sellers network of relationships and our existing infrastructure. By devoting greater resources to sales and marketing, we expect that our organic growth will increase more rapidly, as our current organic growth is driven primarily by customer referrals and internet search engine optimization techniques.
For the years ended December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2012, and the nine months ended September 30, 2013, without giving effect to the acquisition of the assets of the Target Sellers, our total
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revenue was $10.1 million, $10.0 million and $7.5 million, respectively. For the years ended December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2012, our net income was $470,000 and $117,000, respectively, and for the nine months ended September 30, 2013, our net loss was ($268,000). For the years ended December 31, 2011 and December 31, 2012, and the nine months ended September 30, 2013, our EBITDA was $1.3 million, $870,000 and $526,000, respectively. Because EBITDA is closely related to our cash flow from operations, management uses EBITDA as a financial measure to evaluate the profitability and efficiency of our business model. For information on how we define and calculate EBITDA, and a reconciliation of net income to EBITDA, see the section titled Summary Consolidated Financial Other Financial Data.
For the twelve months ended September 30, 2013, without giving effect to the acquisition of the assets of the Target Sellers, our total revenue was $9.9 million, our net loss was ($207,000), and our EBITDA was $792,000. Pro forma for the acquisition of the Target Sellers, our total revenue for the twelve months ended September 30, 2013 was $33.4 million, our net loss was ($5.0 million), and our EBITDA was $1.3 million.
The American healthcare industry is in a state of transformation. For decades, the U.S. healthcare delivery system has been characterized by a vast cottage industry of small, independent practices functioning in a low-technology fee-for-service environment. Recent changes in the industry, including legislative reform and increasing reimbursement complexity, have created opportunities for MTBC, as traditional practice tools are not well-suited for the modern medical practice.
Our fully integrated suite of technology and business service solutions is designed to enable healthcare practices to thrive in the midst of a rapidly changing environment in which managing reimbursement, clinical workflows and day-to-day administrative tasks is becoming increasingly complex, costly and time-consuming. Our end-to-end solution combines clinical and practice management solutions with critical business services and knowledge driven tools. The standard fee for our complete, integrated, end-to-end solution is 5% of a practices healthcare-related revenues plus a nominal one-time setup fee, and is among the lowest in the industry.
PracticePro empowers healthcare practices with the core software and business services, on one unified SaaS platform, to efficiently operate their businesses, manage clinical workflows and receive timely payment for their services. PracticePro customers are able to leverage our revenue cycle management services, electronic health record solutions, practice management solutions and related services. For an additional fee, our customers can access additional services we provide, such as transcription, document indexing, coding, coding audit support, and consulting services.
Our objective is to become a leading provider of integrated, end-to-end software and business service solutions to healthcare providers practicing in an ambulatory setting. To achieve this objective, we employ the following strategies:
| Provide comprehensive practice management, electronic health record and revenue cycle management solutions. We believe that physician practices are in need of an integrated, end-to-end solution to manage the different facets of their businesses, from clinical documentation to claim submission and financial reporting. |
| Provide exceptional customer service. We realize that our success is tied directly to our customers success. Accordingly, a substantial portion of our highly trained and educated workforce is devoted to customer service activities. |
| Leverage significant cost advantages provided by our skilled offshore workforce. Our unique business model includes our web-based software and a cost-effective offshore workforce primarily based in Pakistan. We believe that this operating model provides us with significant cost advantages compared to other revenue cycle management companies and it allows us to significantly reduce the operational costs of the companies we acquire. |
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| Pursue strategic acquisitions. Approximately 31% of our current providers were obtained through strategic transactions with regional revenue cycle management companies (before giving effect to the acquisition of the Target Sellers). With most of our acquisition transactions, our goal is to retain the acquired customers over the long-term and migrate those customers to our platform soon after closing. During 2012, we acquired four revenue cycle management companies, and successfully migrated a majority of the customers of those companies from eight distinct revenue cycle management platforms to PracticePro within 120 days of closing, and approximately two-thirds of the practices we acquired in those transactions remained our customers as of September 30, 2013. In our most recent acquisition completed on June 30, 2013, we successfully migrated 50% of acquired customers to PracticePro within 90 days of closing, and have retained 96% of acquired customers during the first 90 days following the acquisition. |
We offer a suite of fully-integrated, web-based SaaS platform and business services designed for healthcare providers. Our products and services offer healthcare providers a unified solution designed to meet the healthcare industrys demand for the delivery of cost-efficient, quality care with measureable outcomes. The three primary components of our proprietary web-based suite of services are: (i) practice management applications, (ii) a certified electronic health record solution, and (iii) revenue cycle management services.
Our flagship product, PracticePro, offers all three components in one seamlessly-integrated, end-to-end solution. Our web-based electronic health record solution is also available to customers as a stand-alone product. We regularly update our software platform with the goal of staying on the leading edge of industry developments, payer reimbursements trends and new regulations.
Our proprietary, web-based practice management application automates the labor-intensive workflow of a medical office in a unified and streamlined SaaS platform. The various functions of the platform collectively support the entire workflow of the day-to-day operations of a medical office in an intuitive and user-friendly format. A simple, individual and secure login to our web-based platform gives physicians, other healthcare providers and staff members access to a vast array of real time practice management data which they can access at the office or from any other location where they can access the Internet. Users can customize the Practice Dashboard to display only the most useful and relevant information needed to carry out their particular functions. We believe that this streamlined and centralized automated workflow allows providers to focus on delivering quality patient care rather than office administration.
Our web-based electronic health record solution allows a provider to view all patient information in one online location, thus avoiding the need for numerous charts and records for each patient. Utilizing our web-based electronic health record solution, providers can track patients from their initial appointments; chart clinical data, history, and other personal information; enter and submit claims for medical services; and review and respond to queries for additional information regarding the billing process. Additionally, the electronic health record software delivers a robust document management system to enable providers to transition to paperless environments. The document management function makes available electronic connectivity between practitioners and patients, thereby streamlining patient care coordination and communications.
Our proprietary revenue cycle management offering is designed to improve the medical billing reimbursement process, allowing healthcare providers to accelerate and increase collections, reduce errors in submission and streamline workflow to free up practitioners to focus on patient care. Customers using PracticePro will generally see an improvement in their collections, as illustrated by the following:
| Our first pass acceptance rate is 98%. |
| Our first pass resolution rate is 95%. |
| Our clients median days in accounts receivable is 33 days for primary care and 36 days for combined specialties. |
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These rates are among the most competitive in the industry and compare favorably with the performance of our largest competitor, among others. Our revenue cycle management service employs a proprietary rules-based system designed and constantly updated by our knowledgeable workforce, which screens and scrubs claims prior to submission for payment.
Following our past acquisitions, some acquired customers terminated their relationships with us. These terminations occurred for a variety of reasons, including because of our transition of workflow from local employees previously assigned to their account to our offshore team members; actual or perceived disruptions to customers businesses; our migration of customers from their existing practice management software platform to our solution; and the exacerbation of the strain that already existed in some of the customers relationships with the acquired companies. For example, following our 2010 acquisition of the customers of Medical Accounting Billing Company, we retained a key employee of the seller to assist us in transitioning the acquired customers to our solution. However, that employee became disabled by an illness soon after closing, becoming incapable of effectively guiding the accounts through the transition. As a result, we eventually lost all of the acquired customers and were required to write-off intangible assets in the amount $126,000 in 2012. In addition, of the eight practices we acquired in our June 2011 acquisition of a small New Jersey-based revenue cycle management company, only three are current customers of ours.
During 2012, we acquired four revenue cycle management companies and successfully migrated a majority of their customers to PracticePro within 120 days of closing. One year after acquisition, the average quarterly revenue generated from the customers acquired in our 2012 acquisitions was 85% of the quarterly revenue generated from these customers in the quarter preceding the respective acquisitions. Approximately two-thirds of the practices we acquired in those transactions remained our customers as of September 30, 2013. In addition, following our most recent acquisition in June 30, 2013, we successfully migrated 50% of the acquired customers to PracticePro within 90 days of closing, and retained 96% of acquired customers and 99% of the revenue as of September 30, 2013, 90 days after the closing. Notwithstanding the recent improvement in our migration and retention of acquired customers, we expect to experience customer loss following our acquisition of the Target Sellers and any other future acquisitions for a variety of reasons, including our inability to transition the existing workflow to our off shore infrastructure and the existing strain on customer relationships at the time of acquisition.
We will seek to address the challenges we have experienced in prior acquisitions by working more closely with acquired customers in the future to understand which combination of software and services is best for their practice. To that end, we plan on retaining a larger portion of the Target Sellers existing workforce for a longer period of time than in previous acquisitions, as well as developing integrations with existing software solutions to ensure customer satisfaction and retention.
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks described in Risk Factors beginning on page 10 of this prospectus before making a decision to invest in our common stock. If any of these risks actually occurs, our business financial condition and results of operations would likely be negatively affected. In such case, the trading price of our common stock would likely decline, and you may lose part, or all, of your investment. Below is a summary of some of the principal risks we believe we face:
| We may be unable to manage our growth effectively and our pro forma results may not be indicative of our future performance. |
| We operate in a highly competitive industry, and our competitors may be able to compete more efficiently or evolve more rapidly than we do. |
| We may be unable to implement our strategy of acquiring additional companies and acquisitions may subject us to additional unknown risks. |
| Future acquisitions may result in potentially dilutive issuances of equity securities, the incurrence of indebtedness and increased amortization expense. |
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| The continued success of our business model is heavily dependent upon our operations in Pakistan, and any disruption to those operations will adversely affect us. |
| We have incurred recent operating losses, and we may not be able to achieve or subsequently maintain our profitability in the future. |
| Government programs in the United States initiated to accelerate the adoption and utilization of electronic health record solutions may not be effective in changing the behavior of providers or may not be fully implemented or fully funded by the government. |
| We may need additional capital to fund our operations and finance our growth, and we may not be able to secure such capital on terms acceptable to us, or at all. |
| Our proprietary software may not operate properly, which could damage our reputation, give rise to claims against us, or divert application of our resources from other purposes, any of which could harm our business and operating results. |
| We may be unable to protect unauthorized access to our web-based software and servers which store our customers information, which could subject us to significant liability and reduce the attractiveness of our services. |
We were incorporated in Delaware on September 28, 2001 under the name Medical Transcription Billing, Corp. Our principal executive offices are located at 7 Clyde Road, Somerset, New Jersey 08873, and our telephone number is (732) 873-5133. Our website address is www.mtbc.com. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this prospectus, and you should not consider information on our website to be part of this prospectus.
MTBC, MTBC.com and A Unique Healthcare IT Company, and other trademarks and service marks of MTBC appearing in this prospectus are the property of MTBC. Trade names, trademarks and service marks of other companies appearing in this prospectus are the property of their respective holders.
We are an emerging growth company as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering, the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.0 billion, the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer (this means the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the end of the second quarter of that fiscal year), or the date on which we have issued more than $1.0 billion in non-convertible debt securities during the prior three-year period. An emerging growth company may take advantage of specified reduced reporting requirements and is relieved of certain other significant requirements that are otherwise generally applicable to public companies. As an emerging growth company:
| We will present only two years of audited financial statements and only two years of related managements discussion and analysis of financial condition and results of operations. |
| We will avail ourselves of the exemption from the requirement to obtain an attestation and report from our auditors on the assessment of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. |
| We will provide less extensive disclosure about our executive compensation arrangements. |
| We will not require shareholder non-binding advisory votes on executive compensation or golden parachute arrangements. |
However, we are choosing to opt out of the extended transition periods available under the JOBS Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards.
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Common stock offered by us |
Shares |
Common stock to be issued to Target Sellers |
Shares |
Total shares of common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering |
shares (or shares if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares from us in full). |
Use of proceeds |
We expect our net proceeds from this offering will be $ million (or $ million if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares in full), based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering to fund the cash portion of the purchase price for the Target Sellers in the amount of approximately $23 million (assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and for working capital and general corporate purposes. We may also use a portion of the net proceeds for future acquisitions of or investments in other medical billing companies. See Use of Proceeds. |
Dividend policy |
We do not anticipate paying cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. See Dividend Policy. |
Proposed NASDAQ Global Market symbol |
MTBC |
Risk factors |
Please read the section entitled Risk Factors beginning on page 10 for a discussion of some of the factors you should carefully consider before deciding to invest in our common stock. |
In connection with this offering we will amend and restate our certificate of incorporation and effectuate a [ ] for 1 stock split to ensure that our authorized and outstanding capital stock is sufficient to consummate this offering. Unless the context indicates otherwise, the number of shares of common stock to be outstanding after this offering:
| assumes the completion of a for 1 stock split; |
| excludes shares of our common stock reserved for issuance under the 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, or 2014 Plan; |
| assumes the underwriters will not exercise their over-allotment option; and |
| assumes that the shares of our common stock to be sold in this offering are sold at $ per share, the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus. |
Unless otherwise indicated, the information presented in this prospectus:
| has been adjusted retroactively to reflect a for 1 stock split; |
| gives effect to the acquisition of the Target Sellers; and |
| assumes no exercise of the underwriters option to purchase an additional shares from us. |
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The historic consolidated statements of operations data for MTBC presented below for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2012 have been derived from our audited financial statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. The condensed consolidated statements of operations data for MTBC for the nine-month periods ended September 30, 2012 and 2013 and the condensed consolidated balance sheet data for MTBC at September 30, 2013 have been derived from our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for those periods included elsewhere in this prospectus, and have been prepared on a basis consistent with the respective audited consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, include all adjustments, including usual recurring adjustments, necessary for a fair presentation of that information for such periods.
We derived the summary unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial data for MTBC as of and for the year ended December 31, 2012 and as of and for the nine months and twelve months ended September 30, 2013 from the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements you can find elsewhere in this prospectus. These pro forma financial data give effect to this offering and our completed and planned acquisitions as if each of these had occurred on January 1, 2012 (in the case of the consolidated income statement data) and on September 30, 2013 (in the case of the consolidated balance sheet data). You should read this data in conjunction with the information set forth under Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information, which describes these transactions and the related adjustments in greater detail.
The financial data set forth below are only a summary. They also do not necessarily indicate or represent anything about our future operations. You should read these summary financial data in conjunction with the disclosure under Capitalization, Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information, Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Information and Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the financial statements and the related notes thereto included elsewhere in this prospectus.
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Year ended December 31, |
Nine Months ended Sept. 30, |
Year ended December 31, 2012 |
Nine Months ended Sept. 30, 2013 |
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Consolidated Statements of Operations Data | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Net revenue | $ | 10,089 | $ | 10,017 | $ | 7,600 | $ | 7,489 | $ | 34,044 | $ | 24,766 | $ | 33,394 | ||||||||||||||
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Direct operating costs | 4,506 | 4,257 | 3,273 | 3,187 | 18,789 | 14,509 | 18,981 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Selling, general & administrative | 4,030 | 4,663 | 3,545 | 3,721 | 13,626 | 9,422 | 13,061 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Research and development | 410 | 396 | 296 | 291 | 396 | 291 | 391 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 546 | 679 | 500 | 675 | 9,492 | 7,118 | 9,558 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 9,492 | 9,995 | 7,614 | 7,874 | 42,303 | 31,340 | 41,991 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income (loss) | 597 | 22 | (14 | ) | (385 | ) | (8,259 | ) | (6,574 | ) | (8,597 | ) | ||||||||||||||||
Interest expense net | 16 | 74 | 48 | 85 | 222 | 154 | 219 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Other income net | 133 | 169 | 118 | 236 | 219 | 254 | 318 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) before provision (benefit) for income taxes | 714 | 117 | 56 | (234 | ) | (8,262 | ) | (6,474 | ) | (8,498 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Income tax provision (benefit) | 244 | | | 34 | (3,382 | ) | (2,574 | ) | (3,514 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) | $ | 470 | $ | 117 | $ | 56 | $ | (268 | ) | $ | (4,880 | ) | $ | (3,900 | ) | $ | (4,984 | ) | ||||||||||
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Basic and diluted | 590 | 590 | 590 | 590 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic and diluted | $ | 0.80 | $ | 0.20 | $ | 0.10 | $ | (0.45 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
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Cash | $ | 408 | $ | 268 | $ | 928 | $ | (22,414 | ) | |||||||||||
Working capital (net)(1) | 279 | (504 | ) | (1,016 | ) | (24,149 | ) | |||||||||||||
Total assets | 2,838 | 3,484 | 6,106 | 16,220 | ||||||||||||||||
Long term debt | 414 | 330 | 1,921 | 1,921 | ||||||||||||||||
Stockholders' equity | 360 | 406 | 17 | 10,131 |
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Year ended December 31, 2012 |
Nine Months ended Sept. 30, 2013 |
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EBITDA(4) | $ | 1,276 | $ | 870 | $ | 604 | $ | 526 | $ | 1,452 | $ | 798 | $ | 1,279 |
(1) | Working Capital is defined as current assets less current liabilities. |
(2) | The pro forma balance sheet data gives effect to the completed and planned acquisitions. You should read the following summary consolidated financial data in conjunction with Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information. |
(3) | The pro forma as adjusted balance sheet data gives effect to our issuance and sale of shares of common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, the midpoint of the price range listed on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the range listed on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) the pro forma as adjusted amount of each of cash and cash equivalents, working capital, total assets and total stockholders equity by approximately $ million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. You should read the following summary consolidated financial data in conjunction with Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information. |
(4) | To provide investors with additional insight and allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making, we supplement our consolidated financial statements presented on a basis consistent with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, with EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure of earnings. EBITDA represents net income before income tax expense, income tax benefit, interest income, interest expense, depreciation and amortization. Our management uses EBITDA as a financial measure to evaluate the profitability and efficiency of our business model. We use this non-GAAP financial measure to assess the strength of the underlying operations of our business. These adjustments, and the non-GAAP financial measure that is derived from them, provide supplemental information to analyze our operations between periods and over time. Investors should consider our non-GAAP financial measure in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. The following table contains a reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA. |
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Reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Net income (loss) | $ | 470 | $ | 117 | $ | 56 | $ | (268 | ) | $ | (4,880 | ) | $ | (3,900 | ) | $ | (4,984 | ) | ||||||||||
Depreciation | 342 | 263 | 202 | 179 | 665 | 296 | 599 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization | 204 | 416 | 298 | 496 | 8,827 | 6,822 | 8,959 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense net | 16 | 74 | 48 | 85 | 222 | 154 | 219 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax provision (benefit) | 244 | | | 34 | (3,382 | ) | (2,574 | ) | (3,514 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||
EBITDA | $ | 1,276 | $ | 870 | $ | 604 | $ | 526 | $ | 1,452 | $ | 798 | $ | 1,279 |
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If you purchase our securities, you will assume a high degree of risk. In deciding whether to invest, you should carefully consider the following risk factors, as well as the other information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. Any of the following risks could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations or prospects and cause the value of our securities to decline, which could cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
Our strategy is to expand through the acquisition of additional RCM companies and organic growth. Since 2006, we have acquired eight RCM companies and entered into agreements with two additional RCM companies under which we service all of their customers. Our prior acquisitions were on a much smaller scale and may not be indicative of our ability to successfully manage our currently proposed or future acquisitions. Our acquisition of the Target Sellers and any future acquisitions may require greater than anticipated investment of operational and financial resources as we seek to migrate customers of the Target Sellers and any acquired companies to PracticePro. Acquisitions may also require the integration of different software and services, assimilation of new employees, diversion of management and IT resources, increases in administrative costs and other additional costs associated with any debt or equity financings undertaken in connection with such acquisitions. We cannot assure you that any acquisition we undertake will be successful. Future growth will also place additional demands on our customer support, sales, and marketing resources, and may require us to hire and train additional employees. We will need to expand and upgrade our systems and infrastructure to accommodate our growth. The failure to manage our growth effectively will materially and adversely affect our business.
Concurrently with the consummation of the offering made by this prospectus, we will acquire the Target Sellers via asset purchase agreements, including approximately 490 healthcare practice customers as of the date of this prospectus. A majority of the customers of the Target Sellers have the right to terminate their practice management, EHR and RCM contracts for any reason at any time upon notice of 90 days or less. These customers may elect to terminate their contracts as a result of our acquisition or to not renew their contracts upon the expiration of their terms. In the past, our failure to retain acquired customers has led to decreases in our revenues. For example, our revenues for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 decreased by 1.5% as compared to the nine months ended September 30, 2012, even though we acquired Metro Medical on June 30, 2013, primarily as a result of our loss of a large customer we previously acquired in 2010, and our net loss for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 was ($268,000) compared to net income of $56,000 for the nine months ended September 30, 2012. In addition, of the practices we acquired in the four acquisitions we completed in 2012, approximately two-thirds were our customers as of September 30, 2013. Our inability to retain customers of the Target Sellers following their acquisition could adversely impact our ability to benefit from those acquisitions and increase our future revenues and operating income.
A major component of our business plan is to migrate most of the customers of the Target Sellers from the existing practice management, EHR and RCM solutions they are using to PracticePro. In our past acquisitions, we experienced customer loss while attempting to migrate customers from their existing practice management software platform to our solution due to the customers comfort with their existing software. In particular, following our 2010 acquisition of Medical Accounting Billing Company customers, we retained a key employee of the seller to assist us in transitioning the acquired customers to our solution. However, that employee became disabled by an illness soon after closing, becoming incapable of effectively guiding the accounts through the transition. As a result, we eventually lost all of the acquired customers and were required to write-off intangible assets in the amount $126,000 in 2012. In addition, of the eight practices we acquired
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in our June 2011 acquisition of a small New Jersey-based revenue cycle management company, only three are current customers of ours. However, more recently, we acquired four RCM companies during 2012, and successfully migrated a majority of the customers of those companies from eight distinct RCM platforms to PracticePro within 120 days of closing. The migration of customers of the Target Sellers may also entail significant costs and IT resources, and the failure or delay in migrating a significant portion of such customers could occur. Our failure or delay in successfully migrating the customers of the Target Sellers to PracticePro will negatively impact our ability to retain those customers and to assist those practices in increasing collections, thereby reducing our revenue and profitability.
The customers of the Target Sellers are currently using the practice management, EHR and RCM solutions provided by the Target Sellers. Because we may be unable to retain the customers of the Target Sellers following their acquisition or successfully migrate those customers from the solutions they are currently using to PracticePro, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information in this prospectus may not be indicative of what our operating results and financial condition would have been for the periods presented had the acquisition of the Target Sellers taken place on the dates indicated or of our future financial condition or operating results. In addition, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheets included in this prospectus reflect preliminary estimates of the values of assets to be acquired and liabilities to be assumed, and those values could differ materially once we complete our final valuations of those assets and liabilities.
Except for the acquisition of the Target Sellers, we have no understanding or commitments with respect to any other acquisition as of the date of this prospectus. Although we expect that one or more acquisition opportunities will become available in the future, we may not be able to acquire any additional RCM companies at all or on terms favorable to us. Certain of our larger, better capitalized competitors may seek to acquire some of the RCM companies we may be interested in. Competition for acquisitions would likely increase acquisition prices and result in us having fewer acquisition opportunities.
In completing the acquisition of the Target Sellers or any future acquisition, we will rely upon the representations and warranties and indemnities made by the sellers with respect to each acquisition as well as our own due diligence investigation. We cannot assure you that such representations and warranties will be true and correct or that our due diligence will uncover all materially adverse facts relating to the operations and financial condition of the acquired companies or their customers. To the extent that we are required to pay for obligations of an acquired company, or if material misrepresentations exist, we may not realize the expected benefit from such acquisition and we will have overpaid in cash and/or stock for the value received in that acquisition.
Future acquisitions may result in dilutive issuances of equity securities, the incurrence of debt, the assumption of known and unknown liabilities, the write-off of software development costs and the amortization of expenses related to intangible assets, all of which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our acquisitions are structured as the purchase of assets, primarily consisting of medical billing contracts with healthcare providers. This structure may limit the transferability of some of the acquired assets, including contracts that have contractual provisions limiting their assignment. In our prior acquisitions, substantially all
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of the medical billing contracts we acquired did not have restrictions on their assignment to us. However, other medical billing contracts we may seek to acquire in the future may be subject to these restrictions. Furthermore, certain software and vendor contracts which we may seek to acquire for use during the transition period following our acquisitions may not be assignable to us, which may disrupt the operations of the acquired customers.
Furthermore, creditors of a seller from whom we acquire assets (including creditors of the Target Sellers) could challenge the acquisition as a fraudulent transfer under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code and comparable provisions of state fraudulent transfer laws. In general, a transfer of assets can be found to be fraudulent and avoided if a court determines that the transferor, at the time of the asset transfer (i) delivered such assets with the intent to hinder, delay or defraud its existing or future creditors or (ii) received less than reasonably equivalent value and the transferor was insolvent at the time of the transfer or was rendered insolvent as a result of the transfer. If a court determines that any of our acquisitions constitutes a fraudulent transfer, the court could order us to return to the transferor or its creditors the acquired assets, their value, or payments received by us on account of such assets.
The market for practice management, EHR and RCM information solutions and related services is highly competitive, and we expect competition to increase in the future. We face competition from other providers of both integrated and stand-alone practice management, EHR and RCM solutions, including competitors who utilize a web-based platform and providers of locally installed software systems. Our competitors include larger healthcare IT companies, such as athenahealth, Inc., Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. and Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., all of which may be able to respond more quickly and effectively than we can to new or changing opportunities, technologies, standards, regulations or customer needs and requirements. Many of our competitors have longer operating histories, greater brand recognition and greater financial, marketing and other resources than us. We also compete with various regional RCM companies, some of which may continue to consolidate and expand into broader markets. We expect that competition will continue to increase as a result of incentives provided by the HITECH Act, and consolidation in both the information technology and healthcare industries. Competitors may introduce products or services that render our products or services obsolete or less marketable. Even if our products and services are more effective than the offerings of our competitors, current or potential customers might prefer competitive products or services to our products and services. In addition, our competitive edge could be diminished or completely lost if our competition develops similar offshore operations in Pakistan or other countries, such as India and the Philippines, where labor costs are lower than those in the U.S. (although higher than in Pakistan). Pricing pressures could negatively impact our margins, growth rate and market share.
Our business depends on our ability to adapt to evolving technologies and industry standards and introduce new products and services accordingly. If we cannot adapt to changing technologies and industry standards and meet the requirements of our customers, our products and services may become obsolete, and our business would suffer. Because both the healthcare industry and the healthcare IT technology market are constantly evolving, our success will depend, in part, on our ability to continue to enhance our existing products and services, develop new technology that addresses the increasingly sophisticated and varied needs of our customers, respond to technological advances and emerging industry standards and practices on a timely and cost-effective basis, educate our customers to adopt these new technologies, and successfully assist them in transitioning to our new products and services. The development of our proprietary technology entails significant technical and business risks. We may not be successful in developing, using, marketing, selling, or maintaining new technologies effectively or adapting our proprietary technology to evolving customer requirements or emerging industry standards, and, as a result, our business and reputation could suffer.
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We may not be able to introduce new products or services on schedule, or at all, or such products or services may not achieve market acceptance. A failure by us to introduce new products or to introduce these products on schedule could cause us to not only lose our current customers but to fail to grow our business by attracting new customers.
The majority of our operations, including the development and maintenance of our Web-based platform, our customer support services and a substantial portion of our sales and marketing efforts, are performed by our highly educated workforce of more than 1,000 employees in Pakistan, which has experienced, and continues to experience, political and social unrest and acts of terrorism. Conditions in Pakistan may further deteriorate following the planned withdrawal of U.S. armed forces from neighboring Afghanistan. The performance of our operations in Pakistan, and our ability to maintain our offshore offices, is an essential element of our business model, as the labor costs in Pakistan are substantially lower than the cost of comparable labor in India, the United States and other countries, and allows us to competitively price our products and services. Our competitive advantage will be greatly diminished and may disappear altogether if our operations in Pakistan are negatively impacted. Our operations in Pakistan may be negatively impacted by any number of factors, including political unrest; social unrest; terrorism; war; vandalism; currency fluctuations; changes to the law of Pakistan, the United States or any of the states in which we do business; or increases in the cost of labor and supplies in Pakistan. Our operations in Pakistan may also be affected by trade restrictions, such as tariffs or other trade controls. If we are unable to continue to leverage the skills and experience of our highly educated workforce in Pakistan, we may be unable to provide our products and services at attractive prices, and our business would be materially and negatively impacted or discontinued.
The risks and challenges associated with our operations outside the United States include laws and business practices favoring local competitors; compliance with multiple, conflicting and changing governmental laws and regulations, including employment and tax laws and regulations; and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Foreign operations subject us to numerous stringent U.S. and foreign laws, including the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, and comparable foreign laws and regulations that prohibit improper payments or offers of payments to foreign governments and their officials and political parties by U.S. and other business entities for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. Safeguards we implement to discourage these practices may prove to be less than effective and violations of the FCPA and other laws may result in severe criminal or civil sanctions, or other liabilities or proceedings against us, including class action lawsuits and enforcement actions from the SEC, Department of Justice and overseas regulators.
While government programs have been initiated to improve the efficiency and quality of the healthcare sector, these programs may not be fully implemented or fully funded and there is no guarantee that our customers will receive any of these funds. Providers may also be slow to adopt EHR solutions in response to these government programs, may not select our products and services, or may decide not to implement an EHR system at all. Adoption of EHR technology imposes increased costs on providers and requires providers to spend time becoming familiar with its use. Any delay in the purchase of our EHR solutions and services in response to government programs, or the failure of providers to purchase an EHR solution, could have an adverse effect on our ability to grow our business. It is also possible that Congress could repeal or not fund the HITECH Act as originally planned or otherwise amend it in a manner that would have an adverse effect on our business.
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As the healthcare industry evolves, changes in our customer base may reduce the demand for our services, result in the termination of existing contracts, and make it more difficult to negotiate new contracts on terms that are acceptable to us. For example, the current trend toward consolidation of healthcare providers may cause our existing customer contracts to terminate as independent practices are merged into hospital systems or other healthcare organizations. Such larger healthcare organizations may have their own practice management, EHR and RCM solutions, reducing demand for our services. If this trend continues, we cannot assure you that we will be able to continue to maintain or expand our customer base, negotiate contracts with acceptable terms, or maintain our current pricing structure, which would result in a decrease in our revenues and market share.
Our business model depends on our ability to sell our products and services. Acceptance of our products and services may require providers to adopt different behavior patterns and new methods of conducting business and exchanging information. Providers may not integrate our products and services into their workflow and may not accept our solutions and services as a replacement for traditional methods of practicing medicine. Providers may also choose to buy our competitors products and services instead of ours. Achieving market acceptance for our solutions and services will continue to require substantial sales and marketing efforts and the expenditure of significant financial and other resources to create awareness and demand by providers. If providers fail to broadly accept our products and services, our business, financial condition and results of operations will be adversely affected.
Under most of our customer contracts, we base our charges on a percentage of the revenue that our customer collects through the use of our services. Many factors may lead to decreases in customer revenue, including:
| reduction of customer revenue resulting from increased competition or other changes in the marketplace for physician services; |
| failure of our customers to adopt or maintain effective business practices; |
| actions by third-party payers of medical claims to reduce reimbursement; |
| government regulations and government or other payer actions or inaction reducing or delaying reimbursement; |
| interruption of customer access to our system; and |
| our failure to provide services in a timely or high-quality manner. |
The current economic situation may give rise to several of these factors. For example, patients who have lost health insurance coverage due to unemployment or who face increased deductibles imposed by financially struggling employers or insurers could reduce the number of visits those patients make to our customers. Patients without health insurance or with reduced coverage may also default on their payment obligations at a higher rate than patients with coverage. Added financial stress on our customers could lead to their acquisition or bankruptcy, which could cause the termination of some of our service relationships. With a reduction in tax revenue, state and federal government healthcare programs, including reimbursement programs such as Medicaid, may be reduced or eliminated, which could negatively impact the payments that our customers receive. If our customers revenue decreases for any of the above or other reasons, or if our customers cancel or elect not to renew their contracts with us, our revenue will decrease.
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Although we generated net income of $117,000 and $470,000 for the years ended December 31, 2012 and 2011, respectively, we generated a net loss of ($268,000) for the nine months ended September 30, 2013, and our net income for the year ended December 31, 2012 resulted in part from exchange rate gains. On a pro forma basis, if we had acquired the Target Sellers on January 1, 2012 and had not effected any cost-saving measures, including utilizing our offshore workforce, we would have reported net losses of ($4.9 million) and ($3.8 million) for the year ended December 31, 2012 and nine months ended September 30, 2013, respectively, in part due to amortization of intangible assets from the acquisitions.
We may not succeed in achieving efficiencies from our acquisition of the Target Sellers, including by moving labor to our offshore subsidiary, in an amount necessary to offset increased costs resulting from the acquisitions, including $8.0 million in increased amortization expense associated with $23.9 million of additional intangible assets, and we may continue to incur losses in future periods. Furthermore, because we are acquiring all three Target Sellers simultaneously, we expect that the pace of cost reductions will be slower as compared to cost reductions we effected, for example, following our acquisition of Metro Medical. We expect to incur additional operating expenses associated with our new status as a public company and we intend to continue to increase our operating expenses as we grow our business. We also expect to continue to make investments in our proprietary technology, sales and marketing, infrastructure, facilities and other resources as we seek to grow, thereby incurring additional costs. If we are unable to generate adequate revenue growth and manage our expenses, we may continue to incur losses in the future and may not be able to achieve or maintain profitability.
The sales cycle for our services can be variable, typically ranging from two to four months from initial contact with a potential customer to contract execution, although this period can be substantially longer. During the sales cycle, we expend time and resources in an attempt to obtain a customer without recognizing revenue from that customer to offset such expenditures. Our implementation cycle is also variable, typically ranging from two to four months from contract execution to completion of implementation. Each customers situation is different, and unanticipated difficulties and delays may arise as a result of a failure by us or by the customer to meet our respective implementation responsibilities. During the implementation cycle, we expend substantial time, effort, and financial resources implementing our services without recognizing revenue. Even following implementation, there can be no assurance that we will recognize revenue on a timely basis or at all from our efforts. In addition, cancellation of any implementation after it has begun may involve loss to us of time, effort, and expenses invested in the canceled implementation process, and lost opportunity for implementing paying customers in that same period of time.
In order for us to grow and successfully execute our business plan, we may require additional financing which may not be available or may not be available on acceptable terms. If such financing is available, it may dilute your ownership of our stock. Failure to obtain financing may have a material adverse effect on our financial position. If we are unable to obtain adequate financing or financing on terms satisfactory to us when we require it, our ability to continue to support the operation or growth of our business could be significantly impaired and our operating results may be harmed.
We may lose sales or incur significant expenses should states be successful in imposing state sales and use taxes on our products and services. A successful assertion by one or more states that we should collect sales or other taxes on the sale of our products and services that we are currently not collecting could result in
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substantial tax liabilities for past sales, decrease our ability to compete with healthcare IT vendors subject to sales and use taxes, and otherwise harm our business. Each state has different rules and regulations governing sales and use taxes, and these rules and regulations are subject to varying interpretations that may change over time. We review these rules and regulations periodically and, when we believe that our products or services are subject to sales and use taxes in a particular state, we voluntarily approach state tax authorities in order to determine how to comply with their rules and regulations. We cannot assure you that we will not be subject to sales and use taxes or related penalties for past sales in states where we believe no compliance is necessary.
Vendors of products and services like us are typically held responsible by taxing authorities for the collection and payment of any applicable sales and similar taxes. If one or more taxing authorities determines that taxes should have, but have not, been paid with respect to our products or services, we may be liable for past taxes in addition to taxes going forward. Liability for past taxes may also include very substantial interest and penalty charges. Nevertheless, customers may be reluctant to pay back taxes and may refuse responsibility for interest or penalties associated with those taxes. If we are required to collect and pay back taxes and the associated interest and penalties, and if our customers fail or refuse to reimburse us for all or a portion of these amounts, we will have incurred unplanned expenses that may be substantial. Moreover, imposition of such taxes on our products and services going forward will effectively increase the cost of those products and services to our customers and may adversely affect our ability to retain existing customers or to gain new customers in the states in which such taxes are imposed.
We may also become subject to tax audits or similar procedures in states where we already pay sales and use taxes. The incurrence of additional accounting and legal costs and related expenses in connection with, and the assessment of, taxes, interest, and penalties as a result of audits, litigation, or otherwise could be materially adverse to our current and future results of operations and financial condition.
Our future success depends in part on our ability to attract, hire, integrate and retain the members of our management team and other qualified personnel. In particular, we are dependent on the services of Mahmud Haq, our founder, principal stockholder and Chief Executive Officer, who among other things, is instrumental in managing our offshore operations in Pakistan and coordinating those operations with our U.S. activities. The loss of Mr. Haq, who would be particularly difficult to replace, could negatively impact our ability to effectively manage our cost-effective workforce in Pakistan, which enables us to provide our products and solutions at attractive prices. Our future success also depends on the continued contributions of our other executive officers and certain key employees, each of whom may be difficult to replace, and upon our ability to attract and retain additional management personnel. Competition for such personnel is intense, and we compete for qualified personnel with other employers. We may face difficulty identifying and hiring qualified personnel at compensation levels consistent with our existing compensation and salary structure. If we fail to retain our employees, we could incur significant expenses in hiring, integrating and training their replacements, and the quality of our services and our ability to serve our customers could diminish, resulting in a material adverse effect on our business.
Our success depends in part upon our ability to establish, protect and enforce our intellectual property and other proprietary rights. If we fail to establish, protect or enforce our intellectual property rights, we may lose an important advantage in the market in which we compete. We rely on a combination of patent, trademark, copyright and trade secret law and contractual obligations to protect our key intellectual property rights, all of which provide only limited protection. Our intellectual property rights may not be sufficient to help us maintain our position in the market and our competitive advantages.
We only have one patent pending and none issued, and primarily rely on trade secrets to protect our proprietary technology. Trade secrets may not be protectable if not properly kept confidential. We strive to enter into non-disclosure agreements with our employees, customers, contractors and business partners to limit access to and disclosure of our proprietary information. However, the steps we have taken may not be sufficient to prevent unauthorized use of our technology, and adequate remedies may not be available in the
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event of unauthorized use or disclosure of our trade secrets and proprietary technology. Moreover, others may reverse engineer or independently develop technologies that are competitive to ours or infringe our intellectual property.
Accordingly, despite our efforts, we may be unable to prevent third-parties from using our intellectual property for their competitive advantage. Any such use could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. Monitoring unauthorized uses of and enforcing our intellectual property rights can be difficult and costly. Legal intellectual property actions are inherently uncertain and may not be successful, and may require a substantial amount of resources and divert our managements attention.
Our competitors protect their proprietary rights by means of patents, trade secrets, copyrights, trademarks and other intellectual property. We have not conducted an independent review of patents and other intellectual property issued to third-parties, who may have patents or patent applications relating to our proprietary technology. We may receive letters from third parties alleging, or inquiring about, possible infringement, misappropriation or violation of their intellectual property rights. Any party asserting that we infringe, misappropriate or violate proprietary rights may force us to defend ourselves, and potentially our customers, against the alleged claim. These claims and any resulting lawsuit, if successful, could subject us to significant liability for damages and/or invalidation of our proprietary rights or interruption or cessation of our operations. Any such claims or lawsuit could:
| be time-consuming and expensive to defend, whether meritorious or not; |
| require us to stop providing products or services that use the technology that allegedly infringes the other partys intellectual property; |
| divert the attention of our technical and managerial resources; |
| require us to enter into royalty or licensing agreements with third-parties, which may not be available on terms that we deem acceptable; |
| prevent us from operating all or a portion of our business or force us to redesign our products, services or technology platforms, which could be difficult and expensive and may make the performance or value of our product or service offerings less attractive; |
| subject us to significant liability for damages or result in significant settlement payments; or |
| require us to indemnify our customers. |
Furthermore, during the course of litigation, confidential information may be disclosed in the form of documents or testimony in connection with discovery requests, depositions or trial testimony. Disclosure of our confidential information and our involvement in intellectual property litigation could materially adversely affect our business. Some of our competitors may be able to sustain the costs of intellectual property litigation more effectively than we can because they have substantially greater resources. In addition, any litigation could significantly harm our relationships with current and prospective customers. Any of the foregoing could disrupt our business and have a material adverse effect on our business, operating results and financial condition.
We may from time to time be subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, such as claims brought by our clients in connection with commercial disputes and employment claims made by our current or former employees. Claims may also be asserted by or on behalf of a variety of other parties, including government agencies, patients of our physician clients, or stockholders. Any litigation involving us may result in substantial costs and may divert managements attention and resources, which may seriously harm our business, overall financial condition, and operating results. Insurance may not cover existing or future claims, be sufficient to fully compensate us for one or more of such claims, or continue to
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be available on terms acceptable to us. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or underinsured could result in unanticipated costs, thereby reducing our operating results and leading analysts or potential investors to reduce their expectations of our performance resulting in a reduction in the trading price of our stock.
We may encounter technical obstacles that prevent our proprietary applications from operating properly. If our applications do not function reliably or fail to achieve customer expectations in terms of performance, customers could assert liability claims against us or attempt to cancel their contracts with us. This could damage our reputation and impair our ability to attract or maintain customers.
Moreover, information services as complex as those we offer have in the past contained, and may in the future develop or contain, undetected defects or errors. We cannot assure you that material performance problems or defects in our products or services will not arise in the future. Errors may result from receipt, entry, or interpretation of patient information or from interface of our services with legacy systems and data that we did not develop and the function of which is outside of our control. Despite testing, defects or errors may arise in our existing or new software or service processes. Because changes in payer requirements and practices are frequent and sometimes difficult to determine except through trial and error, we are continuously discovering defects and errors in our software and service processes compared against these requirements and practices. These defects and errors and any failure by us to identify and address them could result in loss of revenue or market share, liability to customers or others, failure to achieve market acceptance or expansion, diversion of development resources, injury to our reputation, and increased service and maintenance costs. Defects or errors in our software might discourage existing or potential customers from purchasing our products and services. Correction of defects or errors could prove to be impossible or impracticable. The costs incurred in correcting any defects or errors or in responding to resulting claims or liability may be substantial and could adversely affect our operating results.
In addition, customers relying on our services to collect, manage, and report clinical, business, and administrative data may have a greater sensitivity to service errors and security vulnerabilities than customers of software products in general. We market and sell services that, among other things, provide information to assist healthcare providers in tracking and treating patients. Any operational delay in or failure of our technology or service processes may result in the disruption of patient care and could cause harm to patients and thereby create unforeseen liabilities for our business.
Our customers or their patients may assert claims against us alleging that they suffered damages due to a defect, error, or other failure of our software or service processes. A product liability claim or errors or omissions claim could subject us to significant legal defense costs and adverse publicity, regardless of the merits or eventual outcome of such a claim.
Our services involve the web-based storage and transmission of customers proprietary information and patient information, including health, financial, payment and other personal or confidential information. We rely on proprietary and commercially available systems, software, tools and monitoring, as well as other processes, to provide security for processing, transmission and storage of such information. Because of the sensitivity of this information and due to requirements under applicable laws and regulations, the effectiveness of our security efforts is very important. We maintain servers which store customers data, including patient health records, in the U.S. and Pakistan. Upon the acquisition of the Target Sellers, we will process, transmit and store some data of our customers on servers and networks that are owned and controlled by third-party contractors and situated in Poland, India and elsewhere. If our security measures are breached or fail as a result of third-party action, acts of terror, social unrest, employee error, malfeasance or for any other reasons, someone may be able to obtain unauthorized access to customer or patient data. Improper activities by third-parties, advances in computer and software capabilities and encryption technology, new tools and
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discoveries and other events or developments may facilitate or result in a compromise or breach of our security systems. Our security measures may not be effective in preventing unauthorized access to the customer and patient data stored on our servers. If a breach of our security occurs, we could face damages for contract breach, penalties for violation of applicable laws or regulations, possible lawsuits by individuals affected by the breach and significant remediation costs and efforts to prevent future occurrences. In addition, whether there is an actual or a perceived breach of our security, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed and we could lose current or potential customers.
Our customers and the industry leaders enacting regulatory requirements are concerned with and often require that our products and services be interoperable with other third-party healthcare information technology suppliers. Market forces or regulatory authorities could create software interoperability standards that would apply to our solutions, and if our products and services are not consistent with those standards, we could be forced to incur substantial additional development costs. There currently exists a comprehensive set of criteria for the functionality, interoperability and security of various software modules in the healthcare information technology industry. However, those standards are subject to continuous modification and refinement. Achieving and maintaining compliance with industry interoperability standards and related requirements could result in larger than expected software development expenses and administrative expenses in order to conform to these requirements. These standards and specifications, once finalized, will be subject to interpretation by the entities designated to certify such technology. We will incur increased development costs in delivering solutions if we need to change or enhance our products and services to be in compliance with these varying and evolving standards. If our products and services are not consistent with these evolving standards, our market position and sales could be impaired and we may have to invest significantly in changes to our solutions.
We depend in part on Internet search engines, such as Google, Bing, and Yahoo! to drive traffic from potential customers to our website. Although we employ search engine optimization techniques in an effort to increase traffic to our website, our ability to maintain high search result rankings is not entirely within our control. Our competitors search engine optimization efforts may result in their websites receiving a higher search result page ranking than ours, or Internet search engines could revise their methodologies in a way that would adversely affect our search result rankings. If Internet search engines modify their search algorithms in ways that are detrimental to us, or if our competitors search engine optimization efforts are more successful than ours, growth in our customer base could slow. Our website has experienced fluctuations in search result rankings in the past, and we anticipate similar fluctuations in the future. Any reduction in the number of potential customers directed to our website through search engines could harm our ability to grow our business and increase profitability.
Our information technologies and systems are vulnerable to damage or interruption from various causes, including acts of God and other natural disasters, war and acts of terrorism and power losses, computer systems failures, Internet and telecommunications or data network failures, operator error, losses of and corruption of data and similar events. Our customers data, including patient health records, reside on our own servers located in the U.S. and Pakistan. In the case of customers of the Target Sellers, such data will reside on, and be transmitted and processed through, third-party servers and networks situated inside and outside the U.S., unless and until such data are migrated to our servers. Although we conduct business continuity planning to protect against fires, floods, other natural disasters and general business interruptions to mitigate the adverse effects of a disruption, relocation or change in operating environment at our data centers, the situations we plan for and the amount of insurance coverage we maintain may not be adequate in any particular case. In addition, the occurrence of any of these events could result in interruptions, delays or cessations in service to
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our customers. Any of these events could impair or prohibit our ability to provide our services, reduce the attractiveness of our services to current or potential customers and adversely impact our financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, despite the implementation of security measures, our infrastructure, data centers, or systems that we interface with or utilize, including the Internet and related systems, may be vulnerable to physical break-ins, hackers, improper employee or contractor access, computer viruses, programming errors, denial-of-service attacks or other attacks by third-parties seeking to disrupt operations or misappropriate information or similar physical or electronic breaches of security. Any of these can cause system failure, including network, software or hardware failure, which can result in service disruptions. As a result, we may be required to expend significant capital and other resources to protect against security breaches and hackers or to alleviate problems caused by such breaches.
We provide content for use by healthcare providers in treating patients. This content includes, among other things, patient education materials, coding and drug databases developed by third-parties, and prepopulated templates providers can use to document visits and record patient health information. If content in the third-party databases we use is incorrect or incomplete, adverse consequences, including death, may occur and give rise to product liability and other claims against us. A court or government agency may take the position that our delivery of health information directly, including through licensed practitioners, or delivery of information by a third-party site that a consumer accesses through our solutions, exposes us to personal injury liability, or other liability for wrongful delivery or handling of healthcare services or erroneous health information. Our liability insurance coverage may not be adequate or continue to be available on acceptable terms, if at all. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or under-insured could harm our business. Even unsuccessful claims could result in substantial costs and diversion of management resources.
We offer electronic claims submission services for which we rely on content from customers, payers, and others. While we have implemented features and safeguards designed to maximize the accuracy and completeness of claims content, these features and safeguards may not be sufficient to prevent inaccurate claims data from being submitted to payers. Should inaccurate claims data be submitted to payers, we may experience poor operational results and be subject to liability claims, which could damage our reputation with customers and result in liability claims that increase our expenses.
Our clients are obligated by applicable law to provide necessary notices and to obtain necessary permission waivers for use and disclosure of the information that we receive. If they do not obtain necessary permissions and waivers, then our use and disclosure of information that we receive from them or on their behalf may be limited or prohibited by state or federal privacy laws or other laws. This could impair our functions, processes, and databases that reflect, contain, or are based upon such data and may prevent use of such data. In addition, this could interfere with or prevent creation or use of rules, and analyses or limit other data-driven activities that benefit us. Moreover, we may be subject to claims or liability for use or disclosure of information by reason of lack of valid notice, permission, or waiver. These claims or liabilities could subject us to unexpected costs and adversely affect our operating results.
In connection with the audit of our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2012, our independent registered public accountants identified deficiencies and in the aggregate a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. A deficiency in internal control exists when the design or operation of a control does not allow management or employees, in the normal course of performing their
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assigned functions, to prevent or detect and correct misstatements on a timely basis. A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
The issues identified by our independent registered public accountants related to the timely and accurate review over our financial closing and reporting process, and resulted in part due to our lack of experienced personnel to perform detailed reviews. We have taken steps to address this issue by hiring an experienced Chief Financial Officer who, among other things, will be responsible for implementing formal procedures and processes to adequately review financial information, formalizing segregation of duties, and upgrading our accounting system to include additional controls. We expect that the reported weakness will be successfully remediated by the end of 2014. Our remediation efforts will include the hiring of additional accounting personnel, upgrading our accounting system with multi-company and multi-currency capabilities, and implementing additional controls. We estimate that the total cost of our remediation efforts during 2013 and 2014, including the capital cost for our new accounting system and personnel expenses for 18 months, will be between $750,000 and $1.25 million.
Notwithstanding the actions we are taking, we may in the future identify other material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in connection with our internal control over financial reporting. Material weaknesses and significant deficiencies that may be identified in the future will need to be addressed as part of our evaluation of our internal controls over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which will not apply to us until our second annual report on Form 10-K. Any future disclosures of a material weakness, or errors as a result of a material weakness, could result in a negative reaction in the financial markets and a decrease in the price of our common stock.
The healthcare industry is heavily regulated and is constantly evolving due to the changing political, legislative, regulatory landscape and other factors. Many healthcare laws, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), that was signed into law in March 2010, are complex, and their application to specific services and relationships may not be clear. In particular, many existing healthcare laws and regulations, when enacted, did not anticipate or address the services that we provide. Further, healthcare laws differ from state to state and it is difficult to ensure that our business, products and services comply with evolving laws in all states. By way of example, certain federal and state laws forbid billing based on referrals between individuals or entities that have various financial, ownership, or other business relationships with healthcare providers. These laws vary widely from state to state, and one of the federal laws governing these relationships, known as the Stark Law, is very complex in its application. Similarly, many states have laws forbidding physicians from practicing medicine in partnership with non-physicians, such as business corporations, as well as laws or regulations forbidding splitting of physician fees with non-physicians or others. Other federal and state laws restrict assignment of claims for reimbursement from government-funded programs, the manner in which business service companies may handle payments for such claims and the methodology under which business services companies may be compensated for such services. Our failure to accurately anticipate the application of these laws and regulations to our business, or any other failure to comply with regulatory requirements, could create liability for us, result in adverse publicity and negatively affect our business.
In addition, federal and state legislatures and agencies periodically consider proposals to revise aspects of the healthcare industry or to revise or create additional statutory and regulatory requirements. For instance, certain computer software products are regulated as medical devices under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may become increasingly active in regulating software intended for use in healthcare settings. Regulatory authorities such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) may also impose functionality standards with regard to electronic prescribing technologies. If implemented, proposals like these could impact our operations, the use of our services and our
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ability to market new services, or could create unexpected liabilities for us. We cannot predict what changes to laws or regulations might be made in the future or how those changes could affect our business or our operating costs.
The HITECH Act provides financial incentives for healthcare providers that demonstrate meaningful use of EHR and mandates use of health information technology systems that are certified according to technical standards developed under the supervision of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The HITECH Act also imposes certain requirements upon governmental agencies to use, and requires healthcare providers, health plans, and insurers contracting with such agencies to use, systems that are certified according to such standards. Such standards and implementation specifications that are being developed under the HITECH Act includes named standards, architectures, and software schemes for the authentication and security of individually identifiable health information and the creation of common solutions across disparate entities.
The HITECH Acts certification requirements affect our business because we have invested and continue to invest in conforming our products and services to these standards. HHS has developed certification programs for electronic health records and health information exchanges. Our web-based EHR solution has been certified as a complete EHR by ICSA Labs, a non- governmental, independent certifying body, which indicates that our EHR solutions meet the 2011/2012 criteria to support Stage 1 meaningful use as required by HHS to assist providers in their efforts to meet the goals and objectives of meaningful use, making such providers eligible for funding under the HITECH Act if our EHR is used appropriately. However, Stage 1 only refers to the first set of meaningful use objectives that must be met to be eligible for incentive payments. Stage 2 criteria, which was recently defined and is set to begin in 2014, expands upon the Stage 1 criteria while ensuring a focus on the meaningful use of EHRs. Stage 3 requirements have yet to be defined. As the standards are developed, we may need to use additional resources to meet the newly defined requirements, which could lead to delays necessary to modify our solutions. We must ensure that our EHR solutions continue to be certified according to applicable HITECH Act technical standards so that our customers qualify for meaningful use incentive payments. Failure to maintain this certification under the HITECH Act could jeopardize our relationships with customers who are relying upon us to provide certified software, and will make our products and services less attractive to customers than the offerings of other EHR vendors who maintain certification of their products.
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended (HIPAA), and the regulations that have been issued under it contain substantial restrictions and requirements with respect to the use, collection, storage and disclosure of individuals protected health information. Under HIPAA, covered entities must establish administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic protected health information maintained or transmitted by them or by others on their behalf. In February 2009, HIPAA was amended by the HITECH Act to add provisions that impose certain of HIPAAs privacy and security requirements directly upon business associates of covered entities. Under HIPAA and the HITECH Act, our customers are covered entities and we are a business associate of our customers as a result of our contractual obligations to perform certain services for those customers. The HITECH Act transferred enforcement authority of the security rule from CMS to the Office for Civil Rights of HHS, thereby consolidating authority over the privacy and security rules under a single office within HHS. Further, HITECH empowered state attorneys general to enforce HIPAA.
The HITECH Act heightened enforcement of privacy and security rules, indicating that the imposition of penalties will be more common in the future and such penalties will be more severe. For example, the HITECH Act requires that the HHS fully investigate all complaints if a preliminary investigation of the facts indicates a possible violation due to willful neglect and imposes penalties if such neglect is found. Further, where our liability as a business associate to our customers was previously merely contractual in nature, the HITECH Act now treats the breach of duty under an agreement by a business associate to carry the same
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liability as if the covered entity engaged in the breach. In other words, as a business associate, we are now directly responsible for complying with HIPAA. We may find ourselves subject to increased liability as a possible liable party and we may incur increased costs as we perform our obligations to our customers under our agreements with them.
Finally, regulations also require business associates to notify covered entities, who in turn must notify affected individuals and government authorities of data security breaches involving unsecured protected health information. We have performed an assessment of the potential risks and vulnerabilities to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic health information. In response to this risk analysis, we implemented and maintain physical, technical and administrative safeguards intended to protect all personal data and have processes in place to assist us in complying with applicable laws and regulations regarding the protection of this data and properly responding to any security incidents. If we knowingly breach the HITECH Acts requirements, we could be exposed to criminal liability. A breach of our safeguards and processes could expose us to civil penalties (up to $1.5 million for identical incidences) and the possibility of civil litigation.
As a participant in the healthcare industry, our operations and relationships, and those of our customers, are regulated by a number of federal, state and local governmental entities. The impact of these regulations can adversely affect us even though we may not be directly regulated by specific healthcare laws and regulations. We must ensure that our products and services can be used by our customers in a manner that complies with those laws and regulations. Inability of our customers to do so could affect the marketability of our products and services or our compliance with our customer contracts, or even expose us to direct liability under the theory that we had assisted our customers in a violation of healthcare laws or regulations. A number of federal and state laws, including anti-kickback restrictions and laws prohibiting the submission of false or fraudulent claims, apply to healthcare providers and others that make, offer, seek or receive referrals or payments for products or services that may be paid for through any federal or state healthcare program and, in some instances, any private program. These laws are complex and their application to our specific services and relationships may not be clear and may be applied to our business in ways that we do not anticipate. Federal and state regulatory and law enforcement authorities have recently increased enforcement activities with respect to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse regulations and other healthcare reimbursement laws and rules. From time to time, participants in the healthcare industry receive inquiries or subpoenas to produce documents in connection with government investigations. We could be required to expend significant time and resources to comply with these requests, and the attention of our management team could be diverted by these efforts. The occurrence of any of these events could give our customers the right to terminate our contracts with us and result in significant harm to our business and financial condition.
These laws and regulations may change rapidly, and it is frequently unclear how they apply to our business. Any failure of our products or services to comply with these laws and regulations could result in substantial civil or criminal liability and could, among other things, adversely affect demand for our services, invalidate all or portions of some of our contracts with our customers, require us to change or terminate some portions of our business, require us to refund portions of our revenue, cause us to be disqualified from serving customers doing business with government payers, and give our customers the right to terminate our contracts with them, any one of which could have an adverse effect on our business.
Our products and services may be significantly impacted by healthcare reform initiatives and will be subject to increasing regulatory requirements, either of which could negatively impact our business in a multitude of ways. If substantive healthcare reform or applicable regulatory requirements are adopted, we may have to change or adapt our products and services to comply. Reform or changing regulatory requirements may also render our products or services obsolete or may block us from accomplishing our work or from
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developing new products or services. This may in turn impose additional costs upon us to adapt to the new operating environment or to further develop or modify our products and services. For example, the conversion to the ICD-10-CM standard for coding medical diagnoses will likely cause significant disruption to our industry and consume a large amount of our resources. Such reforms may also make introduction of new products and service more costly or more time-consuming than we currently anticipate. These changes may also prevent our introduction of new products and services or make the continuation or maintenance of our existing products and services unprofitable or impossible.
Federal or state governmental authorities may impose additional data security standards or additional privacy or other restrictions on the collection, use, transmission, and other disclosures of medical information. Legislation has been proposed at various times at both the federal and the state level that would limit, forbid, or regulate the use or transmission of medical information outside of the United States. Such legislation, if adopted, may render our use of our servers in Pakistan for work related to such data impracticable or substantially more expensive. Alternative processing of such information within the United States may involve substantial delay in implementation and increased cost.
Among other things, our services from time to time involve handling mail from payers and from patients for our customers, and this mail frequently includes original checks and credit card information and occasionally includes currency. Even in those cases in which we do not handle original documents or mail, our services also involve the use and disclosure of personal and business information that could be used to impersonate third parties or otherwise gain access to their data or funds. The manner in which we store and use certain financial information is governed by various federal and state laws. If any of our employees takes, converts, or misuses such funds, documents, or data, we could be liable for damages, subject to regulatory actions and penalties, and our business reputation could be damaged or destroyed. In addition, we could be perceived to have facilitated or participated in illegal misappropriation of funds, documents, or data and therefore be subject to civil or criminal liability.
There is currently no public market for our common stock. We cannot predict the extent to which investor interest in our company will lead to the development of a trading market in our common stock, or how liquid that market might be. If an active market does not develop, you may have difficulty selling your shares of our common stock. The initial public offering price of our common stock will be determined by the negotiations between us and the representatives of the underwriters and may not be indicative of prices that will prevail in the open market following the completion of this offering.
Variations in our quarterly and year-end operating results are difficult to predict and may fluctuate significantly from period to period. If our sales or operating results fall below the expectations of investors or securities analysts, the price of our common stock could decline substantially. Specific factors that may cause fluctuations in our operating results include:
| demand and pricing for our products and services; |
| government or commercial healthcare reimbursement policies; |
| physician and patient acceptance of any of our current or future products; |
| introduction of competing products; |
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| our operating expenses which fluctuate due to growth of our business; |
| timing and size of any new product or technology acquisitions we may complete; and |
| variable sales cycle and implementation periods for our products and services. |
We cannot predict the prices at which our common stock may trade after this offering. The market price of our common stock may fluctuate widely, depending upon many factors. These fluctuations could cause you to lose all or part of your investment in our common stock since you might be unable to sell your shares at or above the price you paid in this offering. Factors that could cause fluctuations in the market price of our common stock include the following:
| a shift in our investor base; |
| our quarterly or annual results of operations, or those of other companies in our industry; |
| actual or anticipated fluctuations in our operating results due to factors related to our business; |
| changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations or principles; |
| announcements by us or our competitors of significant acquisitions, dispositions or software developments; |
| the failure to maintain our NASDAQ listing or failure of securities analysts to cover our common stock after the distribution; |
| changes in earnings estimates by securities analysts or our ability to meet those estimates; |
| the operating and stock price performance of other comparable companies; |
| overall market fluctuations; and |
| general economic conditions. |
Stock markets in general have experienced volatility that has often been unrelated to the operating performance of a particular company. These broad market fluctuations may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock.
Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market could occur at any time. If our stockholders sell, or the market perceives that our stockholders intend to sell, substantial amounts of our common stock in the public market following this offering, the market price of our common stock could decline significantly.
Upon completion of this offering, we will have outstanding [ ] shares of common stock. Of these shares, the shares sold in this offering (except for shares purchased by affiliates), and [ ] additional shares will be freely tradable immediately. The remaining [ ] shares of common stock, including approximately [ ] shares to be issued to the Target Sellers (based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), are currently restricted as a result of securities laws, escrows or lock-up agreements but will be able to be sold after the offering as described in the section of this prospectus entitled Shares Eligible For Future Sale.
In addition, promptly following the completion of this offering, we intend to file a registration statement on Form S-8 registering the issuance of approximately [ ] shares of common stock subject to options or other equity awards issued or reserved for future issuance under our 2014 Equity Incentive Plan. Shares registered under this registration statement on Form S-8 will be available for sale in the public market subject to vesting arrangements and exercise of options, the lock-up agreements referred to above and the restrictions of Rule 144 in the case of our affiliates.
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The initial public offering price will be substantially higher than the net tangible book value of each outstanding share of common stock immediately after this offering. If you purchase common stock in this offering, you will suffer immediate and substantial dilution. At the initial public offering price of $ , which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, with net proceeds of $ million, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, investors who purchase shares in this offering will have contributed approximately [ ]% of the total amount of funding we have received to date, but will only hold approximately [ ]% of the total voting rights, giving effect to the issuance of [ ] shares of our common stock upon the closing of the acquisition of the Target Sellers. The dilution will be $[ ] per share in the net tangible book value of the common stock from the assumed initial public offering price. For more information refer to Dilution.
Your percentage ownership will be diluted in the future because of equity awards that we expect will be granted to our directors, officers and employees. Prior to the completion of this offering, our board of directors and stockholders will have approved our 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, which provides for the grant of equity-based awards, including restricted stock, restricted stock units, stock options, stock appreciation rights and other equity-based awards to our directors, officers and other employees, advisors and consultants.
Upon completion of this offering, Mahmud Haq, our founder and Chief Executive Officer, will beneficially own [ ]% of our outstanding shares of common stock. As a result, Mr. Haq will exercise a significant level of control over all matters requiring stockholder approval, including the election of directors, amendment of our certificate of incorporation, and approval of significant corporate transactions. This control could have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of our company or changes in management, and will make the approval of certain transactions difficult or impossible without his support, which in turn could reduce the price of our common stock.
We intend to use approximately $23 million of the net proceeds of this offering to fund the cash portion of the purchase price for the Target Sellers, although this amount may increase or decrease by up to 10% based on the actual price at which our common stock is sold in this offering. We expect to use the balance for working capital and general corporate purposes, which may include financing our growth, developing new products and services, and funding capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments. We will have significant flexibility and broad discretion in applying the net proceeds of this offering after paying the cash purchase price for the acquisition of the Target Sellers, and we may not apply these proceeds effectively. Our management might not be able to yield a significant return, if any, on any investment of these net proceeds, and you will not have the opportunity to influence our decisions on how to use our net proceeds from this offering.
Provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws and in the Delaware corporate law may make it difficult and expensive for a third party to pursue a tender offer, change in control or takeover attempt, which is opposed by management and the board of directors. Public stockholders who might desire to participate in such a transaction may not have an opportunity to do so. We have a staggered board of directors that makes it difficult for stockholders to change the composition of the board of directors in any one year. Further, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide for the removal of a director only for cause and by the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2/3% of the outstanding shares entitled to cast their vote for the election of directors, which may discourage a third party
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from making a tender offer or otherwise attempting to obtain control of us. These and other anti-takeover provisions could substantially impede the ability of public stockholders to change our management and board of directors. Such provisions may also limit the price that investors might be willing to pay for shares of our common stock in the future.
Our board of directors will have the authority to issue up to [ ] shares of preferred stock and to determine the price, privileges and other terms of these shares. Our board of directors may exercise this authority without any further approval of stockholders. The rights of the holders of common stock may be adversely affected by the rights of future holders of preferred stock.
Currently, we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends to holders of our common stock. As a result, capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock will be a stockholders sole source of gain.
As a public company and particularly after we cease to be an emerging growth company, we will incur significant legal, accounting, and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and rules subsequently implemented by the SEC and the NASDAQ Stock Market impose various requirements on public companies, including requiring changes in corporate governance practices. Our management and other personnel will need to devote a substantial amount of time to these compliance initiatives. Moreover, these rules and regulations have increased and will continue to increase our legal, accounting, and financial compliance costs and have made and will continue to make some activities more time-consuming and costly. For example, we expect these rules and regulations to make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage or to incur substantial costs to maintain the same or similar coverage. These rules and regulations could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified persons to serve on our board of directors or our board committees or as executive officers.
In addition, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we assess the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting annually and the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures quarterly. In particular, beginning with the year ending December 31, 2014, we will need to perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management to report on, and our independent registered public accounting firm potentially to attest to, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404. As an emerging growth company we will elect to avail ourselves of the exemption from the requirement that our independent registered public accounting firm attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. However, we may no longer avail ourselves of this exemption when we cease to be an emerging growth company and, when our independent registered public accounting firm is required to undertake an assessment of our internal control over financial reporting, the cost of our compliance with Section 404 will correspondingly increase. Our compliance with applicable provisions of Section 404 will require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management time on compliance-related issues as we implement additional corporate governance practices and comply with reporting requirements. Moreover, if we are not able to comply with the requirements of Section 404 applicable to us in a timely manner, or if we or our independent registered public accounting firm identifies deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that are deemed to be material weaknesses, the market price of our stock could decline and we could be subject to sanctions or investigations by the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.
Furthermore, investor perceptions of our company may suffer if deficiencies are found, and this could cause a decline in the market price of our stock. Irrespective of compliance with Section 404, any failure of our internal control over financial reporting could have a material adverse effect on our stated operating results
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and harm our reputation. If we are unable to implement these changes effectively or efficiently, it could harm our operations, financial reporting, or financial results and could result in an adverse opinion on internal control from our independent registered public accounting firm.
We are and we will remain an emerging growth company until the earliest to occur of (i) the last day of the fiscal year during which our total annual revenues equal or exceed $1 billion (subject to adjustment for inflation), (ii) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of this offering, (iii) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt, or (iv) the date on which we are deemed a large accelerated filer under the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. For so long as we remain an emerging growth company as defined in the JOBS Act, we may take advantage of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies that are not emerging growth companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a non-binding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved.
Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can also delay adopting new or revised accounting standards until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We have irrevocably elected not to avail ourselves of this exemption and, will therefore be subject to the same new or revised accounting standards at the same time as other public companies that are not emerging growth companies.
We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive because we will rely on some of the exemptions available to us under the JOBS Act. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile. If we avail ourselves of certain exemptions from various reporting requirements, our reduced disclosure may make it more difficult for investors and securities analysts to evaluate us and may result in less investor confidence.
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This prospectus, including the sections entitled Prospectus Summary, Risk Factors, Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and Business, contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements relate to anticipated future events, future results of operations or future financial performance. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as may, might, will, should, intends, expects, plans, goals, projects, anticipates, believes, estimates, predicts, potential, or continue or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:
| Our ability to manage our growth; |
| Our ability to retain customers of the Target Sellers and to migrate those customers to our solutions and services; |
| Our ability to compete with other companies that are developing and selling services that are competitive with our products and services and who may have greater resources and name recognition than we do; |
| Our ability to maintain our operations in Pakistan and continue to offer competitively priced products and services; |
| Market acceptance of our products and services; |
| Changes in the healthcare industry and the changing regulatory environment we operate in; |
| Our ability to attract and retain personnel, including the services of Mahmud Haq; |
| Our ability to protect or enforce our intellectual property rights; |
| Our ability to maintain and protect the privacy of our customers and their patients data; and |
| Other factors discussed elsewhere in this prospectus. |
These forward-looking statements are only predictions, are uncertain and involve substantial known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our (or our industrys) actual results, levels of activity or performance to be materially different from any future results, levels of activity or performance expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. The Risk Factors section of this prospectus sets forth detailed risks, uncertainties and cautionary statements regarding our business and these forward-looking statements. Moreover, we operate in a very competitive and rapidly changing regulatory environment. New risks and uncertainties emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict all of the risks and uncertainties that could have an impact on the forward-looking statements contained in this prospectus.
We cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity or performance. You should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this prospectus. These cautionary statements should be considered with any written or oral forward-looking statements that we may issue in the future. Except as required by applicable law, including the securities laws of the U.S., we do not intend to update any of the forward-looking statements to conform these statements to reflect actual results, later events or circumstances or to reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events. Other than with respect to the acquisition of the Target Sellers, our forward-looking statements do not reflect the potential impact of any future acquisitions, mergers, dispositions, joint ventures or other investments or strategic transactions we may engage in.
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We estimate that the net proceeds to us from the sale of our common stock in this offering will be $ million, based on an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses. Our net proceeds will increase by approximately $ million if the underwriters option to purchase additional shares is exercised in full.
Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share would increase or decrease the net proceeds that we receive from this offering by $ million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. Similarly, each increase or decrease of one million shares in the number of shares of common stock offered by us would increase or decrease the net proceeds that we receive from this offering by $ million, assuming the assumed initial public offering price remains the same and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions.
We intend to use the net proceeds of this offering to fund the cash portion of the purchase price for the Target Sellers in the amount of approximately $23 million (assuming an initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), to pay brokerage fees in the amount of approximately $1.1 million in connection with the acquisition of the Target Sellers, to repay indebtedness in the aggregate amount of approximately $1.7 million (including $736,000 due to our founder bearing interest at a rate of 7.0% per annum and maturing in July 2015, which was used to finance expenses of this offering as well working capital; and the outstanding balance of our revolving line of credit with TD Bank, which was $980,000 on November 30, 2013, bearing interest at a rate of prime plus 1.0% and maturing in August 2014). We will use the remaining proceeds for working capital and other general corporate purposes, including the expansion of our sales and marketing team, and the enhancement of our products and services. In addition, we may also use a portion of the net proceeds for the acquisition of or investment in the businesses or assets of other medical billing companies that we believe are complementary to our present business. Other than with respect to the Target Sellers, we have not entered into any agreement or commitment with respect to any acquisitions or investments at this time.
Other than the cash portion of the purchase price for the Target Sellers and the other items specified above, we have not allocated any specific portion of the net proceeds to any particular purpose, and our management will have the discretion to allocate the proceeds as it determines. Furthermore, the amount and timing of our actual expenditures will depend on numerous factors, including the cash used in or generated by our operations, the pace of the integration of the Target Sellers businesses, the level of our sales and marketing activities and the attractiveness of any additional acquisitions or investments. Pending the use of the proceeds from this offering described above, we plan to invest the net proceeds that we receive in this offering in highly liquid short-term interest-bearing obligations, investment grade investments, certificates of deposit or direct or guaranteed obligations of the U.S. government.
We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our common stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. Any determination to pay dividends in the future will be at the discretion of our board of directors and will be dependent on a number of factors, including our earnings, capital requirements, our overall financial condition and other factors that our board of directors considers relevant.
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The following table sets forth our cash and our capitalization as of September 30, 2013:
| on an actual basis; |
| on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the planned acquisitions of the Target Sellers; and |
| on a pro forma as adjusted basis to reflect the pro forma adjustments set forth above, and the |
| filing of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation to effect the -for-1 stock split of our common stock which will occur in connection with the completion of this offering, and |
| sale of shares of our common stock offered by us at an initial public offering price equal to $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and the receipt of estimated net proceeds therefrom of $ million, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses, payable by us, and assuming no exercise of the underwriters option to purchase additional shares from us. |
You should read this information together with the consolidated historical and unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial statements and the related notes thereto included in this prospectus and the Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and the Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Information sections of this prospectus.
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Cash(1) | $ | 928 | $ | (22,414 | ) | |||||||
Debt, current portion | 2,369 | 2,369 | ||||||||||
Long-term debt, net of current portion | 1,921 | 1,921 | ||||||||||
Total debt | 4,290 | 4,290 | ||||||||||
Stockholders' equity | ||||||||||||
Common stock, $.001 par value, authorized 1,000,000 shares, 589,800 shares issued and outstanding, actual; authorized [ ] shares, [ ] shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; authorized [ ]shares, [ ] shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (199 | ) | (199 | ) | ||||||||
Additional paid-in capital | 256 | 10,369 | ||||||||||
Retained earnings | (41 | ) | (41 | ) | ||||||||
Total stockholders' equity | 17 | 10,131 | ||||||||||
Total capitalization | $ | 4,307 | $ | 14,421 |
In September 2013 we issued $500,000 of convertible debt, which converts into common stock at a 10% discount to the offering price upon the closing of this offering. As of October 31, 2013, we had $561,000 of cash and $4.0 million of debt, of which $2.3 million is a current liability and $500,000 is convertible debt. We expect to repay all of our outstanding indebtedness (other than the convertible debt and notes from sellers who sold businesses to us, currently in the principal amount of $1.4 million), with the proceeds of this offering.
(1) | Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase or decrease each of cash, additional paid in capital, total stockholders equity and total capitalization by approximately $ million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. Similarly, each increase or decrease of one million shares in the number of shares of common stock offered by us would increase or decrease, as applicable, cash and |
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cash equivalents, additional paid in capital total stockholders equity and total capitalization by approximately $ million, assuming an initial offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions. The pro forma as adjusted information discussed above is illustrative only and will change based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing. |
The outstanding share information in the table above is based on 589,800 shares of common stock outstanding as of September 30, 2013, and excludes shares of common stock to be reserved for future issuance under our 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, to be adopted prior to completion of this offering.
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If you invest in our common stock in this offering, your interest will be diluted immediately to the extent of the difference between the initial offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock after this offering. Our pro forma net tangible book value as of September 30, 2013 was $ million, or $ per share of common stock. Pro forma net tangible book value per share represents the amount of our total tangible assets less our total liabilities, divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding, as of September 30, 2013, after giving effect to the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the closing of the acquisitions of the Target Sellers, and shares of our common stock upon conversion of the convertible debt we issued in September 2013, which is expected to occur upon the closing of this offering.
After giving effect to the sale by us of shares of common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value as of September 30, 2013 would have been $ million, or $ per share. This amount represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value of $ per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in pro forma net tangible book value of approximately $ per share to new investors purchasing shares of common stock in this offering at the assumed initial public offering price. The following table illustrates this dilution:
Assumed initial public offering price per share | $ | | ||
Pro forma net tangible book value per share before this offering | | |||
Increase in pro forma net tangible book value per share per share attributable to new investors purchasing shares in this offering | | |||
Pro forma net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering | | |||
Dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering | $ | |
Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase or decrease, as applicable, our pro forma adjusted net tangible book value per share to new investors by $ and would increase or decrease, as applicable, dilution per share to new investors in this offering by $ , assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions.
If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares from us in full, the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after this offering would be $ per share, and the dilution in pro forma net tangible book value per share to new investors in this offering would be $ per share.
The following table presents on a pro forma as adjusted basis as of September 30, 2013, after giving effect to the issuance of shares of our common stock upon the closing of the acquisitions of the Target Sellers, which is expected to occur on the closing of this offering, the differences between existing stockholders and new investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering, with respect to the number of shares purchased from us, the total consideration paid or to be paid to us, giving effect to the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share, which is the midpoint of the estimated offering price
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range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, before deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses.
Shares Purchased | Total Consideration | Average Price per Share |
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Number | Percent | Amount | Percent | |||||||||||||||||
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Existing stockholders | 589,800 | 100 | % | $ | 256,730 | 100 | % | $ | 0.44 | |||||||||||
New investors | 0 | % | 0 | % | ||||||||||||||||
Total | 589,800 | 100 | % | $ | 256,730 | 100 | % |
Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $ per share would increase or decrease the total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all stockholders by approximately $ million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions.
If the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares from us in full, our existing stockholders would own % and our new investors would own % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding upon the completion of this offering.
The outstanding share information in the tables above is based on shares of our common stock (including shares of common stock to be issued to the Target Sellers upon the closing of this offering and upon conversion of our convertible debt) outstanding as of September 30, 2013, and excludes shares of common stock to be reserved for issuance under our 2014 Equity Incentive Plan, to be adopted prior to completion of this offering.
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The historical consolidated statements of operations data presented below for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2012 as well as the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2011 and 2012, are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The historical consolidated statements of operations data presented below for the years ended December 31, 2008, 2009 and 2010 as well as the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2008, 2009 and 2010 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements not included in this prospectus. Our historical condensed consolidated statements of operations data for the nine months ended September 30, 2012 and 2013 and the historical condensed consolidated balance sheet data as of September 30, 2013 are derived from our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Our unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements were prepared on a basis consistent with our audited financial statements and include, in our opinion, all adjustments, consisting only of normal recurring adjustments that we consider necessary for a fair presentation of the financial information set forth in those statements. Our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future, and our interim results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year or any other period.
The financial information set forth below should be read in conjunction with Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and the audited and unaudited consolidated historical financial statements and the notes thereto for MTBC included elsewhere in this prospectus.
Year ended December 31, | Nine Months ended Sept. 30, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated Statements of Operations Data | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Net revenue | $ | 5,147 | $ | 6,501 | $ | 9,229 | $ | 10,089 | $ | 10,017 | $ | 7,600 | $ | 7,489 | ||||||||||||||
Operating expenses: |
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Direct operating costs | 2,031 | 2,543 | 3,914 | 4,506 | 4,257 | 3,273 | 3,187 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Selling and marketing | 203 | 215 | 202 | 198 | 266 | 227 | 184 | |||||||||||||||||||||
General and administrative | 1,749 | 2,534 | 3,671 | 3,832 | 4,397 | 3,318 | 3,537 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Research and development | 200 | 244 | 409 | 410 | 396 | 296 | 291 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 378 | 545 | 509 | 546 | 679 | 500 | 675 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 4,561 | 6,081 | 8,705 | 9,492 | 9,995 | 7,614 | 7,874 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income (loss) | 586 | 420 | 524 | 597 | 22 | (14 | ) | (385 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense net | 125 | 83 | 25 | 16 | 74 | 48 | 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Other income net | (65 | ) | 3 | (112 | ) | 133 | 169 | 118 | 236 | |||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) before provision (benefit) for income taxes | 396 | 340 | 387 | 714 | 117 | 56 | (234 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax provision | 126 | 100 | 140 | 244 | - | - | 34 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) | $ | 270 | $ | 240 | $ | 247 | $ | 470 | $ | 117 | $ | 56 | $ | (268 | ) | |||||||||||||
Weighted average common shares outstanding |
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Basic and diluted | 590 | 590 | 590 | 590 | 590 | 590 | 590 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) per share | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Basic and diluted | $ | 0.46 | $ | 0.41 | $ | 0.42 | $ | 0.80 | $ | 0.20 | $ | 0.10 | $ | (0.45 | ) |
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As of December 31, | As of Sept. 30, 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Consolidated Balance Sheet Data | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||
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Cash | $ | 279 | $ | 174 | $ | 302 | $ | 408 | $ | 268 | $ | 928 | ||||||||||||
Working capital (net)(1) | (462 | ) | (683 | ) | (572 | ) | 279 | (504 | ) | (1,016 | ) | |||||||||||||
Total assets | 2,177 | 2,126 | 3,537 | 2,838 | 3,484 | 6,106 | ||||||||||||||||||
Long-term debt | 944 | 399 | 412 | 414 | 330 | 1,921 | ||||||||||||||||||
Stockholders equity | (596 | ) | (359 | ) | (109 | ) | 360 | 406 | 17 |
Year ended December 31, | Nine Months ended Sept. 30, |
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Other Financial Data | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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EBITDA(2) | $ | 899 | $ | 968 | $ | 921 | $ | 1,276 | $ | 870 | $ | 604 | $ | 526 |
(1) | Working Capital is defined as current assets less current liabilities. |
(2) | To provide investors with additional insight and allow for a more comprehensive understanding of the information used by management in its financial and operational decision-making, we supplement our consolidated financial statements presented on a basis consistent with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or GAAP, with EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure of earnings. EBITDA represents net income before income tax expense, interest income, interest expense, depreciation and amortization. Our management uses EBITDA as a financial measure to evaluate the profitability and efficiency of our business model. We use this non-GAAP financial measure to assess the strength of the underlying operations of our business. These adjustments, and the non-GAAP financial measure that is derived from them, provide supplemental information to analyze our operations between periods and over time. Investors should consider our non-GAAP financial measure in addition to, and not as a substitute for, financial measures prepared in accordance with GAAP. |
The following table contains a reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA.
Year ended December 31, | Nine Months ended Sept. 30, |
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Reconciliation of net income (loss) to EBITDA | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2012 | 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Net income (loss) | $ | 270 | $ | 240 | $ | 247 | $ | 470 | $ | 117 | $ | 56 | $ | (268 | ) | |||||||||||||
Depreciation | 195 | 348 | 322 | 342 | 263 | 202 | 179 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Amortization | 183 | 197 | 187 | 204 | 416 | 298 | 496 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense net | 125 | 83 | 25 | 16 | 74 | 48 | 85 | |||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax provision | 126 | 100 | 140 | 244 | | | 34 | |||||||||||||||||||||
EBITDA | $ | 899 | $ | 968 | $ | 921 | $ | 1,276 | $ | 870 | $ | 604 | $ | 526 |
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We prepared the following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements by applying certain pro forma adjustments to the historical consolidated financial statements of MTBC. The pro forma adjustments give effect to the following transactions (the Transactions):
| Our acquisition of the assets of GlobalNet Solutions, Inc. (GNet) on March 30, 2012, |
| Our acquisition of the assets of Metro Medical Management Services, Inc. (Metro Medical) on June 30, 2013, |
| Our planned acquisition of the assets of the subsidiaries of Omni Medical Billing Services, LLC (collectively, Omni), |
| Our planned acquisition of the assets of Practicare Medical Management, Inc. (Practicare), |
| Our planned acquisition of the assets of the subsidiaries of CastleRock Solutions, Inc. (collectively, CastleRock), and |
| The estimated net proceeds from our initial public offering and the application of the estimated proceeds therefrom. |
The unaudited pro forma condensed combined statements of operations for the year ended December 31, 2012 and for the nine months ended September 30, 2013 give effect to the Transactions as if each of them had occurred on January 1, 2012. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of September 30, 2013 gives effect to the Transactions as if each of them had occurred on September 30, 2013.
These pro forma condensed combined financial statements include adjustments for our planned acquisitions because we believe each of these acquisitions are probable under the standards of Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X. The results of two significant businesses acquired in 2012 and 2013 are shown for the period prior to their acquisition by MTBC. The Company also entered into three other acquisitions during 2012 that did not, individually or in aggregate, meet the significance test in Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X and are therefore not included in the pro forma condensed combined financial statements.
We determined that each acquisition shown involved the acquisition of a business, considering the guidance in Rule 11-01 (d) of Regulation S-X, and individually as well as in aggregate met the significance test of Rule 3-05 of Regulation S-X.
The historical financial statements of MTBC, Metro Medical and each of the businesses whose acquisition is planned appear elsewhere in this prospectus. The historical financial statements of GNet are not required to be presented in this prospectus, as GNet has been included in our audited 2012 results for nine months. The financial statements of Metro Medical subsequent to March 31, 2013 are not required to be presented in this prospectus as the acquisition occurred on June 30, 2013, before the end of the reporting period. We have based our historical financial information for Metro Medical for the period of April 1, 2013 through June 30, 2013 on results as reported by its management and reviewed by our accounting and finance department.
We have based the pro forma adjustments upon available information and certain assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. We describe in greater detail the assumptions underlying the pro forma adjustments in the accompanying notes, which you should read in conjunction with these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements. In many cases, we based these assumptions on preliminary information and estimates. The actual adjustments to our audited consolidated financial statements will depend upon a number of factors and additional information that will be available on or after the closing date of our initial public offering. Accordingly, the actual adjustments that will appear in our financial statements will differ from these pro forma adjustments, and those differences may be material.
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We account for our completed and proposed acquisitions using the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations under GAAP, with MTBC being considered the acquiring entity. Under the acquisition method of accounting, the total consideration paid is allocated to an acquired companys tangible and intangible assets, net of liabilities, based on their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date. As of the date of this prospectus, we have not completed the valuation studies necessary to finalize the acquisition date fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed and the related allocation of purchase price for the Metro Medical acquisition. Accordingly, the values of the assets and liabilities set forth in these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements for this business are preliminary. In addition, we have not completed the acquisition of the Target Sellers and therefore the estimated purchase price and fair value of the Target Sellers assets to be acquired and liabilities assumed is preliminary. Once we complete our final valuation processes, for both our consummated and planned acquisitions, we may report changes to the value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed, as well as the amount of goodwill, and those changes could differ materially from what we present here.
We provide these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements for informational purposes only. These unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements do not purport to represent what our results of operations or financial condition would have been had the Transactions actually occurred on the assumed dates, nor do they purport to project our results of operations or financial condition for any future period or future date. You should read these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements in conjunction with Capitalization, Selected Historical Consolidated Financial Information Managements Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, and the historical financial statements, including the related notes thereto, appearing elsewhere in this prospectus.
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MTBC 2012 |
GNet 1/1 - 3/29/12 |
Metro Medical 2012 | Adjustments for Revenues Not Acquired(1) |
MTBC + Previously Acquired Subtotal | Omni 2012 | Practicare 2012 | CastleRock 2012 |
Planned Acquisition Subtotal | Pro Forma Adjustments | Pro Forma Combined | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Net revenue | $ | 10,017 | $ | 273 | $ | 3,339 | $ | (249 | ) | $ | 13,380 | $ | 9,487 | $ | 6,425 | $ | 4,752 | $ | 20,664 | $ | | (1) | $ | 34,044 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Operating expenses: |
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Direct operating costs | 4,257 | 198 | 2,475 | | 6,930 | 5,539 | 4,768 | 1,552 | 11,859 | | 18,789 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Selling, general & administrative | 4,663 | 142 | 1,089 | | 5,894 | 3,215 | 1,254 | 3,263 | 7,732 | | (2) | 13,626 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Research and development |
396 | | | | 396 | | | | | | 396 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 679 | 3 | 44 | | 726 | 1,012 | 83 | 191 | 1,286 | 7,480 | (3) | 9,492 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 9,995 | 343 | 3,608 | | 13,946 | 9,766 | 6,105 | 5,006 | 20,877 | 7,480 | 42,303 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income (loss) | 22 | (70 | ) | (269 | ) | (249 | ) | (566 | ) | (279 | ) | 320 | (254 | ) | (213 | ) | (7,480 | ) | (8,259 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense net | 74 | | 1 | | 75 | 48 | 3 | 57 | 108 | 39 | (4) | 222 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other income net | 169 | | | | 169 | 45 | 5 | | 50 | | 219 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) before provision (benefit) for income taxes | 117 | (70 | ) | (270 | ) | (249 | ) | (472 | ) | (282 | ) | 322 | (311 | ) | (271 | ) | (7,519 | ) | (8,262 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax benefit | | | (15 | ) | | (15 | ) | | | | | (3,367 | )(5) | (3,382 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) |
$ | 117 | $ | (70 | ) | $ | (255 | ) | $ | (249 | ) | $ | (457 | ) | $ | (282 | ) | $ | 322 | $ | (311 | ) | $ | (271 | ) | $ | (4,152 | ) | $ | (4,880 | ) | |||||||||||||
Weighted average common shares outstanding |
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Basic and diluted | 590 | [ ] | (13) | [ ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income per share |
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Basic and diluted | $ | 0.20 | [ ] |
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MTBC | Metro Medical(6) 1/1 - 6/30/13 | Adjustments for Revenues Not Acquired(1) |
MTBC + Previously Acquired Subtotal | Omni | Practicare | CastleRock | Planned Acquisition Subtotal | Pro Forma Adjustments | Pro Forma Combined | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Net revenue | $ | 7,489 | $ | 1,705 | $ | (184 | ) | $ | 9,010 | $ | 8,468 | $ | 3,721 | $ | 3,567 | $ | 15,756 | $ | | (1) | $ | 24,766 | ||||||||||||||||||
Operating expenses: |
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Direct operating costs | 3,187 | 1,195 | | 4,382 | 5,934 | 3,219 | 974 | 10,127 | | 14,509 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Selling, general & administrative | 3,721 | 673 | | 4,394 | 1,796 | 832 | 2,563 | 5,191 | (163 | )(2) | 9,422 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Research and development | 291 | | | 291 | | | | | | 291 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Depreciation and amortization | 675 | 21 | | 696 | 711 | 60 | 142 | 913 | 5,509 | (3) | 7,118 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total operating expenses | 7,874 | 1,889 | | 9,763 | 8,441 | 4,111 | 3,679 | 16,231 | 5,346 | 31,340 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Operating income (loss) | (385 | ) | (184 | ) | (184 | ) | (753 | ) | 27 | (390 | ) | (112 | ) | (475 | ) | (5,346 | ) | (6,574 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Interest expense net | 85 | | | 85 | 21 | 2 | 37 | 60 | 9 | (4) | 154 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other income net | 236 | | | 236 | 18 | 0 | | 18 | | 254 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Income (loss) before provision (benefit) for income taxes | (234 | ) | (184 | ) | (184 | ) | (602 | ) | 24 | (392 | ) | (149 | ) | (517 | ) | (5,355 | ) | (6,474 | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Income tax provision (benefit) | 34 | (56 | ) | | (22 | ) | | | | | (2,552 | )(5) | (2,574 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Net income (loss) | $ | (268 | ) | $ | (128 | ) | $ | (184 | ) | $ | (580 | ) | $ | 24 | $ | (392 | ) | $ | (149 | ) | $ | (517 | ) | $ | (2,803 | ) | $ | (3,900 | ) | |||||||||||
Weighted average common shares outstanding |
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Basic and diluted | 590 | [ ] | (13) | [ ] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Basic and diluted | $ | (0.45 | ) | [ ] |
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MTBC | Omni | Practicare | CastleRock | Adjustments for Assets Not Acquired |
Planned Acquisition Subtotal | Acquisition Related Pro Forma Adjustments |
Pro Forma for Acquisitions | IPO Proceeds |
Consolidated Pro Forma Results | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cash | $ | 928 | $ | 289 | $ | 151 | $ | 457 | $ | (897 | )(7) | $ | | $ | (23,342 | ) | $ | (22,414 | ) | [ ](12) | $ | (22,414 | ) | |||||||||||||||||
Accounts receivable - net | 1,060 | 1,223 | 696 | 531 | (2,450 | )(8) | | | 1,060 | $ | 1,060 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other current assets | 594 | 49 | 91 | 69 | | (8) | 209 | | 803 | 803 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current assets | 2,582 | 1,561 | 938 | 1,057 | (3,347 | ) | 209 | (23,342 | ) | (20,551 | ) | | (20,551 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
PP&E - net | 443 | 165 | 91 | 10 | | (8) | 266 | | 709 | 709 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Intangible assets - net | 1,756 | 1,904 | 10 | 375 | (2,289 | )(8) | | 23,898 | (9) | 25,654 | 25,654 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Goodwill | 340 | 1,690 | | 329 | (2,019 | )(8) | | 9,083 | (10) | 9,423 | 9,423 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other LT assets | 985 | 20 | 24 | 11 | (55 | )(8) | | | 985 | 985 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total assets | $ | 6,106 | $ | 5,340 | $ | 1,063 | $ | 1,782 | $ | (7,710 | ) | $ | 475 | $ | 9,639 | $ | 16,220 | $ | | $ | 16,220 | |||||||||||||||||||
Accounts payable | 715 | 237 | 27 | 617 | (881 | )(8) | | | 715 | 715 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accrued expenses | 374 | | 130 | | (130 | )(8) | | | 374 | 374 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Short term debt | 2,369 | 809 | 70 | 174 | (1,053 | )(8) | | | 2,369 | 2,369 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Deferred revenue | 126 | | | | | (8) | | | 126 | 126 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other current liabilities | 14 | 171 | | | (171 | )(8) | | | 14 | 14 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total current liabilities | 3,598 | 1,217 | 227 | 791 | (2,235 | ) | | | 3,598 | | 3,598 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Long term debt | 1,921 | 392 | | 345 | (737 | )(8) | | | 1,921 | 1,921 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Other LT liabilities | 570 | | | | | (8) | | | 570 | 570 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Total liabilities | 6,089 | 1,609 | 227 | 1,136 | (2,972 | ) | | | 6,089 | | 6,089 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Common stock | 1 | | 539 | 10 | (549 | )(11) | | 1 | (11) | 2 | [ ](11) | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Additional paid-in capital | 256 | | | 1,125 | (1,125 | )(11) | | 10,113 | (11) | 10,369 | [ ](11) | 10,369 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Retained earnings (defecit) | (41 | ) | 3,731 | 297 | (340 | ) | (3,688 | )(11) | | | (41 | ) | (41 | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minority interest in subsidiary | (149 | ) | 149 | (11) | | | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Accumulated other comprehensive loss | (199 | ) | | |