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Forward-Looking Statements
Certain statements that we make from time to time, including statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. All statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are forward-looking statements. 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,” “shall,” “should,” “could,” “intends,” “expects,” “plans,” “goals,” “projects,” “anticipates,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “forecasts,” “predicts,” “possible,” “potential,” “target,” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. Our operations involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are outside of our control, and any one of which, or a combination of which, could materially affect our results of operations and whether the forward-looking statements ultimately prove to be correct. Forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q include, without limitation, statements reflecting management’s expectations for future financial performance and operating expenditures (including our ability to continue as a going concern, to raise additional capital and to succeed in our future operations), expected growth, profitability and business outlook, increased sales and marketing expenses, and the expected results from the integration of our acquisitions.
Forward-looking statements are only predictions, are uncertain and involve substantial known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other factors that may cause our (or our industry’s) 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. These factors include, among other things, the unknown risks and uncertainties that we believe could cause actual results to differ from these forward-looking statements as set forth under the heading “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024. 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, including without limitation, risks and uncertainties relating to:
| ● | our ability to manage our growth, including acquiring, partnering with, and effectively integrating acquired businesses into our infrastructure and avoiding legal exposure and liabilities associated with acquired companies and assets; | |
| ● | our ability to retain our clients and revenue levels, including effectively migrating new clients and maintaining or growing the revenue levels of our new and existing clients; | |
| ● | our ability to maintain operations in Pakistan, Azad Jammu and Kashmir, and Sri Lanka (together, the “Offshore Offices”) in a manner that continues to enable us to offer competitively priced products and services; | |
| ● | our ability to keep pace with a rapidly changing healthcare industry; | |
| ● | our ability to consistently achieve and maintain compliance with a myriad of federal, state, foreign, local, payor and industry requirements, regulations, rules, laws and contracts; | |
| ● | our ability to maintain and protect the privacy of confidential and protected Company, client and patient information; | |
| ● | our ability to develop new technologies, upgrade and adapt legacy and acquired technologies to work with evolving industry standards and third-party software platforms and technologies, and protect and enforce all of these and other intellectual property rights; | |
| ● | our ability to attract and retain key officers and employees, and the continued involvement of Mahmud Haq as Executive Chairman and A. Hadi Chaudhry as Chief Executive Officer, all of which are critical to our ongoing operations and growing our business; | |
| ● | our ability to realize the expected cost savings and benefits from our restructuring activities and structural cost reductions; | |
| ● | our ability to comply with covenants contained in our credit agreement with our senior secured lender, Silicon Valley Bank, a division of First Citizens Bank, and other future debt facilities; | |
| ● | our ability to resume and then continue to pay our monthly dividends to the holders of our Series A and Series B preferred stock; | |
| ● | our ability to incorporate AI into our products faster and more successfully than our competitors, protecting the privacy of medical records and cybersecurity threats; | |
| ● | our ability to compete with other companies developing products and selling services competitive with ours, and who may have greater resources and name recognition than we have; | |
| ● | our ability to effectively integrate, manage and keep our information systems secure and operational in the event of a cyber-attack; | |
| ● | our ability to respond to the uncertainty resulting from pandemics, epidemics or other public health emergencies and the impact they may have on our operations, the demand for our services, our projected results of operations, financial performance or other financial metrics or any of the foregoing risks and economic activity in general; | |
| ● | our ability to keep and increase market acceptance of our products and services; | |
| ● | changes in domestic and foreign business, market, financial, political and legal conditions; and | |
| ● | other factors disclosed in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q or our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”). |
The forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are based on our current expectations, beliefs and views as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q concerning future developments and their potential effects on our business. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are reasonable, we cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. We anticipate that subsequent events and developments may cause our assessments to change. Except as required by law, we are under no duty to update or revise any of such forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise, after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
You should read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the understanding that our actual future results, levels of activity, performance and events and circumstances may be materially different from what we currently expect. The forward-looking statements contained herein should not be relied upon as representing our assessments as of any date subsequent to the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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PART I. FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1. Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements
CARECLOUD, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
($ in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
| March 31, | December 31, | |||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| (Unaudited) | ||||||||
| ASSETS | ||||||||
| Current assets: | ||||||||
| Cash | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accounts receivable - net | ||||||||
| Contract asset | ||||||||
| Inventory | ||||||||
| Current assets - related party | ||||||||
| Prepaid expenses and other current assets | ||||||||
| Total current assets | ||||||||
| Property and equipment - net | ||||||||
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | ||||||||
| Intangible assets - net | ||||||||
| Goodwill | ||||||||
| Other assets | ||||||||
| TOTAL ASSETS | $ | $ | ||||||
| LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY | ||||||||
| Current liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts payable | $ | $ | ||||||
| Accrued compensation | ||||||||
| Accrued expenses | ||||||||
| Operating lease liability (current portion) | ||||||||
| Deferred revenue (current portion) | ||||||||
| Notes payable (current portion) | ||||||||
| Dividend payable | ||||||||
| Total current liabilities | ||||||||
| Notes payable | ||||||||
| Borrowings under line of credit | ||||||||
| Operating lease liability | ||||||||
| Deferred revenue | ||||||||
| Total liabilities | ||||||||
| COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES (NOTE 7) | ||||||||
| SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY: | ||||||||
| Preferred stock, $ par value - authorized shares. Series A, issued and outstanding shares at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023. Series B, issued and outstanding and shares at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively | ||||||||
| Common stock, $ par value - authorized shares. Issued and shares at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively. Outstanding and shares at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, respectively | ||||||||
| Additional paid-in capital | ||||||||
| Accumulated deficit | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Accumulated other comprehensive loss | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Less: common shares held in treasury, at cost at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Total shareholders’ equity | ||||||||
| TOTAL LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY | $ | $ | ||||||
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CARECLOUD, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS (UNAUDITED)
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2024 AND 2023
($ in thousands, except share and per share amounts)
| March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| NET REVENUE | $ | $ | ||||||
| OPERATING EXPENSES: | ||||||||
| Direct operating costs | ||||||||
| Selling and marketing | ||||||||
| General and administrative | ||||||||
| Research and development | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | ||||||||
| Total operating expenses | ||||||||
| OPERATING INCOME (LOSS) | ( | ) | ||||||
| OTHER: | ||||||||
| Interest income | ||||||||
| Interest expense | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Other income - net | ||||||||
| LOSS BEFORE PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Income tax provision | ||||||||
| NET LOSS | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Preferred stock dividend | ||||||||
| NET LOSS ATTRIBUTABLE TO COMMON SHAREHOLDERS | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Net loss per common share: basic and diluted | $ | ) | $ | ) | ||||
| Weighted-average common shares used to compute basic and diluted loss per share | ||||||||
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CARECLOUD, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE LOSS (UNAUDITED)
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2024 AND 2023
($ in thousands)
| March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| NET LOSS | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| OTHER COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS), NET OF TAX | ||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment (a) | ( | ) | ||||||
| COMPREHENSIVE LOSS | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| (a) |
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CARECLOUD, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY (UNAUDITED)
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2024 AND MARCH 31, 2023
($ in thousands, except for number of shares)
| Preferred Stock Series A | Preferred Stock Series B | Common Stock | Additional Paid-in | Accumulated | Accumulated Other Comprehensive | Treasury (Common) | Total Shareholders’ | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Shares | Amount | Capital | Deficit | Loss | Stock | Equity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance - January 1, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of stock under the equity incentive plan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation, net of cash settlements | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred stock dividends | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance - March 31, 2024 | $ | | $ | | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance - January 1, 2023 before adoption of ASC 326 | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Cumulative effect of adopting ASC 326 | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance - January 1, 2023 after adoption | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Net loss | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Foreign currency translation adjustment | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of stock under the equity incentive plan | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Stock-based compensation, net of cash settlements | - | - | - | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shares issued for services | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Issuance of Series B Preferred Stock | - | - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Preferred stock dividends | - | - | - | ( | ) | ( | ) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Balance - March 31, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
For the three months ended March 2023, the preferred stock dividends were paid monthly at the rate of $ and $ for Series A and Series B, respectively, per share per annum.
dividends were paid for the three months ended March 2024.
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CARECLOUD, INC.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS (UNAUDITED)
FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2024 AND 2023
($ in thousands)
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| OPERATING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Net loss | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash provided by operating activities: | ||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||
| Lease amortization | ||||||||
| Deferred revenue | ||||||||
| Provision for expected credit losses | ||||||||
| Provision for deferred income taxes | ||||||||
| Foreign exchange gain | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Interest accretion | ||||||||
| Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense | ( | ) | ||||||
| Changes in operating assets and liabilities: | ||||||||
| Accounts receivable | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Contract asset | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Inventory | ( | ) | ||||||
| Other assets | ( | ) | ||||||
| Accounts payable and other liabilities | ( | ) | ||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | ||||||||
| INVESTING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Purchases of property and equipment | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Capitalized software and other intangible assets | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| FINANCING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Preferred stock dividends paid | ( | ) | ||||||
| Settlement of tax withholding obligations on stock issued to employees | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Repayments of notes payable | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Proceeds from issuance of Series B Preferred Stock, net of expenses | ||||||||
| Proceeds from line of credit | ||||||||
| Repayment of line of credit | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| EFFECT OF EXCHANGE RATE CHANGES ON CASH | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| NET INCREASE (DECREASE) IN CASH | ( | ) | ||||||
| CASH - Beginning of the period | ||||||||
| CASH - End of the period | $ | $ | ||||||
| SUPPLEMENTAL NONCASH INVESTING AND FINANCING ACTIVITIES: | ||||||||
| Dividends declared, not paid | $ | $ | ||||||
| Purchase of prepaid insurance with assumption of note | $ | $ | ||||||
| Reclass of deposits for property and equipment placed in service | $ | $ | ||||||
| SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION - Cash paid during the period for: | ||||||||
| Income taxes | $ | $ | ||||||
| Interest | $ | $ | ||||||
See notes to condensed consolidated financial statements.
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CARECLOUD, INC.
NOTES TO CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
AS OF AND FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 2024
AND 2023 (UNAUDITED)
1. ORGANIZATION AND BUSINESS
CareCloud, Inc., (together with its consolidated subsidiaries, “CareCloud,” the “Company,” “we,” “us” and/or “our”) is a leading provider of technology-enabled services and solutions that redefine the healthcare revenue cycle. We provide technology-enabled revenue cycle management and a full suite of proprietary cloud-based solutions to healthcare providers, from small practices to enterprise medical groups, hospitals, and health systems throughout the United States. Healthcare organizations today operate in highly complex and regulated environments. Our suite of technology-enabled solutions helps our clients increase financial and operational performance, streamline clinical workflows, and improve the patient experience.
Our portfolio of proprietary software and business services includes: technology-enabled business solutions that maximize revenue cycle management and create efficiencies through platform agnostic AI-driven applications; cloud-based software that helps providers manage their practice and patient engagement while leveraging analytics to improve provider performance; digital health services to address value-based care and enable the delivery of remote patient care; healthcare IT professional services & staffing to address physician burnout, staffing shortages and leverage consulting expertise to transition into the next generation of healthcare; and, medical practice management services to assist medical providers with operating models and the tools needed to run their practice. Our high-value business services, such as revenue cycle management, are often paired with our cloud-based software, premiere healthcare consulting and implementation services, and on-demand workforce staffing capabilities for high-performance medical groups and health systems nationwide.
CareCloud has its corporate office in Somerset, New Jersey and maintains client support teams throughout the U.S., and offshore offices in Pakistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir, a region administered by Pakistan (the “Pakistan Offices”), and in Sri Lanka. Effective February 1, 2024, MTBC Acquisition Corp. (“MAC”) and its wholly owned subsidiary were merged into CareCloud, Inc. (“CCI”). There was no financial or operational impact as a result of the merger.
2. BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) for interim financial reporting and as required by Regulation S-X, Rule 8-03. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and notes required by GAAP for complete financial statements. In the opinion of the Company’s management, the accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements contain all adjustments (consisting of items of a normal and recurring nature) necessary to present fairly the Company’s financial position as of March 31, 2024, the results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 and cash flows for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023. When preparing financial statements in conformity with GAAP, the Company must make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ significantly from those estimates. The condensed consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.
The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and notes thereto should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2023, which are included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024.
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Liquidity
and Going Concern — Primarily due to a decline in revenue associated with our Healthcare IT segment and a goodwill impairment
of $
However,
management has considered its plans to continue the Company as a going concern and believes substantial doubt is alleviated by focusing
on cost-control. As discussed in Note 9, the Company approved a restructuring plan to reduce headcount and operating costs and generate
positive cash flow. In addition, the Company has suspended the dividend on the Company’s Preferred Stock, which saves approximately
$
Significant Accounting Policies — During the three months ended March 31, 2024, there were no changes to the Company’s significant accounting policies from its disclosures in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements — From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) and are adopted by us as of the specified effective date. Unless otherwise discussed, we believe that the impact of recently adopted and recently issued accounting pronouncements will not have a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
In
June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses: Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments.
The guidance in Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) 2016-13 replaces the incurred loss impairment methodology under current
GAAP. The new impairment model requires immediate recognition of estimated credit losses expected to occur for most financial assets
and certain other instruments. It will apply to all entities. For trade receivables, loans and held-to-maturity debt securities, entities
will be required to estimate lifetime expected credit losses. This may result in the earlier recognition of credit losses. In November
2019, the FASB issued ASU No. 2019-10, which delayed this standard’s effective date for SEC smaller reporting companies to the fiscal
years beginning on or after December 15, 2022. The Company adopted this guidance on January 1, 2023 using a modified retrospective adoption
methodology, whereby the cumulative impact of all prior periods is recorded in accumulated deficit or other impacted balance sheet items
upon adoption. The impact to the accumulated deficit as of January 1, 2023 was a charge of approximately $
In March 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-01, Leases (Topic 842): Common Control Arrangements – Issue 2. The amendments in this update require that leasehold improvements associated with common control leases be: (1) amortized by the lessee over the useful life of the leasehold improvements to the common control group as long as the lessee controls the use of the underlying asset through a lease and (2) accounted for as a transfer between entities under common control through an adjustment to equity if, and when, the lessee no longer controls the use of the underlying asset. The amendments in this update are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023. There was no impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements as a result of this standard.
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In October 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-06, Disclosure Improvements: Codification Amendments in Response to the SEC’s Disclosure Update and Simplification Initiative. This update amends the disclosure or presentation requirements related to various subtopics in the FASB Accounting Standards Codification (the “Codification”). The new guidance is intended to align U.S. GAAP requirements with those of the SEC and to facilitate the application of U.S. GAAP for all entities. The effective date for each amendment will be the date on which the SEC’s removal of that related disclosure requirement from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K becomes effective, with early adoption prohibited. If by June 30, 2027 the SEC has not removed the applicable requirement from Regulation S-X or Regulation S-K, the pending content of the associated amendment will be removed from the Codification and will not become effective.
In November 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-07, Segment Reporting (Topic 280), Improvements to Reportable Disclosures. The amendments in this update improve segment disclosure requirements, primarily through enhanced disclosures about significant segment expenses. The amendments are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2023, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The expected impact would only be to the financial statement disclosures.
In December 2023, the FASB issued ASU 2023-09, Income Taxes (Topic 740), Improvements to Income Tax Disclosures. The amendments in this update enhance the transparency and decision usefulness of income tax disclosures primarily related to rate reconciliation and income taxes paid information. The update also includes certain other amendments to improve the effectiveness of income tax disclosures. The amendments are effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect this update to have a material impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements.
In March 2024, the FASB issued ASU 2024-02, Codification Improvements – Amendments to Remove References to the Concepts Statements. This update contains amendments to the Codification that remove references to various FASB Concepts Statements. This Codification updates are for technical corrections such as conforming amendments, clarifications to guidance, simplifications to wording or the structure of guidance and other minor improvements. The resulting amendments are referred to as Codification improvements. The amendments in this update are effective for public business entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024. Early adoption is permitted. The Company does not expect this update to have a material impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements.
3. GOODWILL AND INTANGIBLE ASSETS-NET
Goodwill
consists of the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of identifiable net assets of businesses acquired. At March 31, 2024
and December 31, 2023, approximately $
The
Company tests goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level annually or more frequently if a change in circumstances or the
occurrence of events indicates that potential impairment exists. As a result of a triggering event in December 2023 resulting from
the decreased equity market value following the suspension of the Preferred Stock dividend, the Company updated its annual goodwill
impairment test that was performed as of October 31, 2023 for the Healthcare IT segment. It was determined that the fair value of
the Healthcare IT reporting unit was less than the carrying value at both October 31 and as of the date of the triggering event.
Accordingly, impairment charges of approximately $
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The following is the summary of the carrying amount of goodwill for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and the year ended December 31, 2023:
| Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |||||||
| March 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Beginning gross balance | $ | | $ | | ||||
| Impairment charges | ( | ) | ||||||
| Ending gross balance | $ | $ | ||||||
Intangible assets – net as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 consist of the following:
| March 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Contracts and relationships acquired | $ | $ | ||||||
| Capitalized software | ||||||||
| Non-compete agreements | ||||||||
| Other intangible assets | ||||||||
| Total intangible assets | ||||||||
| Less: Accumulated amortization | ||||||||
| Intangible assets - net | $ | $ | ||||||
Capitalized
software represents payroll and development costs incurred for internally developed software. Other intangible assets primarily represent
purchased intangibles. Amortization expense was approximately $
As of March 31, 2024, future amortization is scheduled to be expensed as follows:
| Years ending December 31, | ($ in thousands) | |||
| 2024 (nine months) | $ | |||
| 2025 | ||||
| 2026 | ||||
| 2027 | ||||
| 2028 | ||||
| Thereafter | ||||
| Total | $ | |||
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| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands, except share and per share amounts) | ||||||||
| Basic and Diluted: | ||||||||
| Net loss attributable to common shareholders | $ | ( | ) | $ | ( | ) | ||
| Weighted-average common shares used to compute basic and diluted loss per share | ||||||||
| Net loss attributable to common shareholders per share - basic and diluted | $ | ) | $ | ) | ||||
At March 31, 2024, the unvested equity restricted stock units (“RSUs”) as discussed in Note 12 have been excluded from the above calculations as they were anti-dilutive. All of the warrants previously outstanding expired unexercised in 2023 and are excluded from the above calculations. At March 31, 2023, the unvested equity RSUs have been excluded from the above calculations as they were anti-dilutive. Vested RSUs, vested restricted shares and exercised warrants have been included in the above calculations.
5. ACCRUED EXPENSES AND DEBT
Accrued expenses as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 consist of the following:
| March 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Accrued expenses | $ | $ | ||||||
| Payable to managed practices | ||||||||
| Taxes and other | ||||||||
| $ | $ | |||||||
Bank
Debt —The Company has a revolving line of credit with Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). The Company’s credit facility
is a secured revolving line of credit where borrowings are based on a formula of
As
of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, there was $
In
connection with the original SVB debt agreement, the Company paid SVB approximately $
During March 2023, SVB became a division of First Citizens Bank & Trust Company. The agreements that governed the former SVB relationship remain in place. As a result, there was no change to the terms of the credit agreement.
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The
Company maintains cash balances at SVB in excess of the FDIC insurance coverage limits. The Company performs periodic evaluations of
the relative credit standing of this financial institution to ensure its credit worthiness. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023,
the Company held cash of approximately $
Vehicle Financing Note — The Company financed a vehicle purchase in the United States. The vehicle financing note has a six year term and was issued at current market rates.
Insurance
Financing — The Company finances certain insurance purchases over the term of the policy life. The interest rate charged is
currently
6. LEASES
We determine if an arrangement is a lease at inception. We have operating leases for office and temporary living space as well as for some office equipment. Operating leases are included in operating lease right-of-use (“ROU”) assets, current operating lease liability and non-current operating lease liability in our condensed consolidated balance sheets as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023. The Company does not have any finance leases.
As most of our leases do not provide an implicit rate, we use our estimated incremental borrowing rates, which are derived from information available at the lease commencement date, in determining the present value of lease payments. We give consideration to our bank financing arrangements, geographical location and collateralization of assets when calculating our incremental borrowing rates. We review our incremental borrowing rate on a quarterly basis.
Our
lease terms include options to extend the lease when we believe that we may want the right to exercise that option.
If
a lease is modified after the effective date, the operating lease ROU asset and liability are re-measured using the current incremental
borrowing rate. During the three months ended March 31, 2023, there was approximately $
During
the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Miami office lease that we assumed in connection with an acquisition ended, and we entered
into a new lease arrangement with the landlord for significantly less office space. Charges of approximately $
Lease expense is included in direct operating costs, general and administrative expense, selling and marketing expense and research and development expense in the condensed consolidated statements of operations based on the nature of the expense. Our lease terms are determined taking into account lease renewal options, the Company’s anticipated operating plans and leases that are on a month-to-month basis. The Company also has some related party leases – see Note 8.
The components of lease expense were as follows:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Operating lease cost | $ | $ | ||||||
| Short-term lease cost | ||||||||
| Variable lease cost | ||||||||
| Total - net lease cost | $ | $ | ||||||
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Short-term lease cost represents leases that were not capitalized as the lease term as of the later of January 1, 2024 or the beginning of the lease was less than 12 months. Variable lease costs include utilities, real estate taxes and common area maintenance costs.
Supplemental balance sheet information related to leases is as follows:
| March 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Operating leases: | ||||||||
| Operating lease ROU assets, net | $ | $ | ||||||
| Current operating lease liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Non-current operating lease liabilities | ||||||||
| Total operating lease liabilities | $ | $ | ||||||
| Operating leases: | ||||||||
| ROU assets | $ | $ | ||||||
| Asset lease expense | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||
| Foreign exchange gain/(loss) | ( | ) | ||||||
| ROU assets, net | $ | $ | ||||||
| Weighted average remaining lease term (in years): | ||||||||
| Operating leases | ||||||||
| Weighted average discount rate: | ||||||||
| Operating leases | % | % | ||||||
Supplemental cash flow and other information related to leases is as follows:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities: | ||||||||
| Operating cash flows from operating leases | $ | $ | ||||||
| ROU assets obtained in exchange for lease liabilities: | ||||||||
| Operating leases, excluding impairments and terminations | $ | $ | ||||||
Maturities of lease liabilities are as follows:
| Operating leases - Years ending December 31, | ($ in thousands) | |||
| 2024 (nine months) | $ | |||
| 2025 | ||||
| 2026 | ||||
| 2027 | ||||
| 2028 | ||||
| Thereafter | ||||
| Total lease payments | ||||
| Less: imputed interest | ( | ) | ||
| Total lease obligations | ||||
| Less: current obligations | ||||
| Long-term lease obligations | $ | |||
The
Company leases certain apartments which are subleased to others. The sublease agreements are currently on a month-to-month basis and
are considered operating leases. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company received sublease income of approximately $
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7. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Legal
Proceedings — On December 22, 2023, an arbitrator rendered a decision in favor of Ramapo Anesthesiologists, PC (“Ramapo”)
and granted in part and denied in part certain claims brought against Origin Healthcare Solutions, LLC; Meridian Medical Management,
Inc.; and the Company for alleged breach of contract and other allegations. Ramapo was awarded mitigation related costs of $
A
former customer filed a complaint against the Company in New Jersey State Court to recover damages claimed to have been caused by
the mishandling of their account. In March 2021, the parties engaged in mediation, which did not result in a resolution of the
matter. Plaintiff alleges at least approximately $
From time to time, we may become involved in other legal proceedings arising in the ordinary course of our business. We are not presently a party to any legal proceedings that, in the opinion of our management, would individually or taken together have a material adverse effect on our business, consolidated results of operations, financial position or cash flows of the Company.
8. Related PARTIES
The
Company had sales to a related party, a physician who is the wife of the Executive Chairman. Revenues from this customer were approximately
$
The
Company leases its corporate office in New Jersey, temporary housing for its foreign visitors, a storage facility, its backup
operations center in Bagh, Pakistan and an apartment for temporary housing in Dubai, the UAE, from the Executive Chairman. The
related party rent expense was approximately $
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Included
in the ROU asset at March 31, 2024 is approximately $
Included
in the ROU asset at December 31, 2023 is approximately $
During
June 2022, the Company entered into a one-year consulting agreement with an entity owned and controlled by one of its former
non-independent directors whereby that director received
shares of the Company’s
Effective
January 9, 2024, and as amended February 12, 2024, the Company entered into a consulting agreement with an entity owned and controlled
by a member of its Board of Directors to provide investor relations services for $
During
2020, a New Jersey corporation, talkMD Clinicians, PA (“talkMD”), was formed by the wife of the Executive Chairman, who is
a licensed physician, to provide telehealth services. talkMD was determined to be a variable interest entity (“VIE”) for
financial reporting purposes because the entity will be controlled by the Company. As of March 31, 2024, talkMD had not yet commenced
operations. Cumulatively, the Company has paid approximately $
9. RESTRUCTURING COSTS
On October 2, 2023, the Company committed to effectively align resources with business priorities and improve profitability through a reduction in the workforce for the Healthcare IT segment. The Company identified opportunities for improvements in its workforce realignment, strategy and staffing, and increased its focus on performance management, to ensure it has the right skillsets and number of employees to execute its long-term vision. In addition, the Company instituted certain other expense reductions.
A
majority of the impacted employees exited in the fourth quarter of 2023. The Company estimates that it will incur expenses of approximately
$
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The expense associated with the restructuring is included in net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring cost in the condensed consolidated statement of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024. This line also includes net loss on lease terminations and unoccupied lease charges. The liabilities associated with restructuring costs are included in accrued expenses and other current liabilities in the March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023 condensed consolidated balance sheets. The following table summarizes activity related to liabilities associated with restructuring costs:
| Severance and separation costs | Equity awards acceleration costs | Other exit related costs | Total restructuring and other costs | |||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of January 1, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Additions | ||||||||||||||||
| Payments and other adjustments | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Balance as of March 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Balance as of January 1, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Additions | ||||||||||||||||
| Payments and other adjustments | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Balance as of December 31, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
10. SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
The
Company had the right to sell up to $ million of its Series B Preferred Stock using its preferred stock at-the-market facility (“ATM”).
This right terminated when the Company suspended the Preferred Stock dividends in December 2023. The Company also had the right to sell
up to $ million of its common stock using a common stock ATM facility. This right also terminated when the Company suspended the Preferred
Stock dividends. The underwriters of the ATMs receive
On December 11, 2023, the Board of Directors suspended the monthly cash dividends for Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock beginning with the payment scheduled for December 15, 2023 together with the remaining dividends that were declared. The suspension of these dividends will defer approximately $ million in cash dividend payments each month. During this suspension, dividends will continue to accrue in arrears on the Series A and Series B Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors will regularly review and consider when the suspension should be lifted.
During
the quarter ended March 31, 2024, no dividends were declared by the Board of Directors. At March 31, 2024, the Company owed
approximately $
million for dividends that had previously been declared through February 2024 (but whose payment has been suspended), and also had
total undeclared dividends of approximately $
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11. REVENUE
Introduction
The Company accounts for revenue in accordance with ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. All revenue is recognized as our performance obligations are satisfied. A performance obligation is a promise in a contract to transfer a distinct good or service to a customer, and is the unit of account under ASC 606. The Company recognizes revenue when the revenue cycle management services begin on the medical billing claims, which is generally upon receipt of the claim from the provider. For many services, the Company recognizes revenue as a percentage of the amount the customer collects on the medical billing claims. The Company’s software is utilized at the time the provider sees the patient, and the Company estimates the value of the consideration it will earn over the remaining contractual period as our services are provided and recognizes the fees over the term; this estimation involves predicting the amounts our clients will ultimately collect associated with the services they provided. Certain significant estimates, such as payment-to-charge ratios, effective billing rates and the estimated contractual payment periods are required to measure revenue cycle management revenue under the standard.
Most of our current contracts with customers contain a single performance obligation. For contracts where we provide multiple services, such as where we perform multiple ancillary services, each service represents its own performance obligation. The standalone selling prices are based on the contractual price for the service.
We apply the portfolio approach as permitted by ASC 606 as a practical expedient to contracts with similar characteristics and we use estimates and assumptions when accounting for those portfolios. Our contracts generally include standard commercial payment terms. We have no significant obligations for refunds, warranties or similar obligations and our revenue does not include taxes collected from our customers.
Disaggregation of Revenue from Contracts with Customers
We derive revenue from five primary sources: (1) technology-enabled business solutions, (2) professional services, (3) printing and mailing services, (4) group purchasing services and (5) medical practice management services.
The following table represents a disaggregation of revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Healthcare IT: | ||||||||
| Technology-enabled business solutions | $ | $ | ||||||
| Professional services | ||||||||
| Printing and mailing services | ||||||||
| Group purchasing services | ||||||||
| Medical Practice Management: | ||||||||
| Medical practice management services | ||||||||
| Total | $ | $ | ||||||
Technology-enabled business solutions:
Revenue derived on an on-going basis from our technology-enabled solutions, which typically include revenue cycle management services, is billed as a percentage of payments collected by our customers. The fee for our services often includes the ability to use our electronic health records (“EHR”) and practice management software as well as revenue cycle management (“RCM”) as part of the bundled fee. The Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) component is not a material portion of the contract compared to the stand-alone value of RCM.
Technology-assisted revenue cycle management services are the recurring process of submitting and following up on claims with health insurance companies in order for the healthcare providers to receive payment for the services they rendered. The Company typically invoices customers on a monthly basis based on the actual collections received by its customers and the agreed-upon rate in the sales contract. The fee for these services typically includes use of practice management software and related tools (on a SaaS basis), electronic health records (on a SaaS basis), medical billing services and use of mobile health solutions. We consider the services to be one performance obligation since the promises are not distinct in the context of the contract. The performance obligation consists of a series of distinct services that are substantially the same and have the same periodic pattern of transfer to our customers.
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In many cases, our clients may terminate their agreements with 90 days’ notice without cause, thereby limiting the term in which we have enforceable rights and obligations, although this time period can vary between clients. Our payment terms are normally net 30 days. Although our contracts typically have stated terms of one or more years, under ASC 606 our contracts are considered month-to-month and accordingly, there is no financing component.
For the majority of our revenue cycle management contracts, the total transaction price is variable because our obligation is to process an unknown quantity of claims, as and when requested by our customers over the contract period. When a contract includes variable consideration, we evaluate the estimate of the variable consideration to determine whether the estimate needs to be constrained; therefore, we include variable consideration in the transaction price only to the extent that it is probable that a significant reversal of the amount of cumulative revenue recognized will not occur when the uncertainty associated with variable consideration is subsequently resolved. Estimates to determine variable consideration such as payment-to-charge ratios, effective billing rates, and the estimated contractual payment periods are updated at each reporting date. Revenue is recognized over the performance period using the input method.
Our proprietary, cloud-based practice management application automates the labor-intensive workflow of a medical office in a unified and streamlined SaaS platform. The Company has a large number of clients who utilize the Company’s practice management software, electronic health records software, patient experience management solutions, business intelligence software and/or robotic process automation software on a SaaS basis, but who do not utilize the Company’s revenue cycle management services. SaaS fees may be fixed based on the number of providers, or may be variable.
Our
digital health services, which began generating revenue in 2022, include chronic care management, where a care manager has remote visits
with patients with one or more chronic conditions under the supervision of a physician who is our client. The performance obligation
for chronic care management is satisfied at a point in time once the patient receives the remote visit. The digital health services also
include remote patient monitoring where our system monitors recordings from FDA approved internet connected devices. These devices record
patient trends and alert the physician to changes which might trigger the need for additional follow-up visits. The performance obligations
for remote patient monitoring are satisfied over time as the recordings are received and the patient receives the remote visit. The revenue
for chronic care management for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, was approximately $
The medical billing clearinghouse service takes claim information from customers, checks the claims for errors and sends this information electronically to insurance companies. The Company invoices customers on a monthly basis based on the number of claims submitted and the agreed-upon rate in the agreement. This service is provided to medical practices and providers to medical practices who are not revenue cycle management customers. The performance obligation is satisfied once the relevant submissions are completed.
Additional services such as coding and transcription are rendered in connection with the delivery of revenue cycle management and related medical services. The Company invoices customers monthly, based on the actual amount of services performed at the agreed-upon rate in the contract. These services are only offered to revenue cycle management customers. These services do not represent a material right because the services are optional to the customer and customers electing these services are charged the same price for those services as if they were on a standalone basis. Each individual coding or transcription transaction processed represents a performance obligation, which is satisfied over time as that individual service is rendered.
Professional services:
Our
professional services include an extensive set of services including EHR vendor-agnostic optimization and activation, project management,
IT transformation consulting, process improvement, training, education and staffing for large healthcare organizations including health
systems and hospitals. The performance obligation is satisfied over time using the input method. The revenue is recorded on a monthly
basis as the professional services are rendered. Unbilled revenue at March 31, 2024 and 2023 was approximately $
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Printing and mailing services:
The Company provides printing and mailing services for both revenue cycle management customers and a non-revenue cycle management customer, and invoices on a monthly basis based on the number of prints, the agreed-upon rate per print and the postage incurred. The performance obligation is satisfied once the printing and mailing is completed.
Group purchasing services:
The Company provides group purchasing services which enable medical providers to purchase various vaccines directly from selected pharmaceutical companies at a discounted price. Currently, there are approximately 4,000 medical providers who are members of the program. Revenue is recognized as the vaccine shipments are made to the medical providers. Fees from the pharmaceutical companies are paid either quarterly or annually and the Company adjusts its revenue accrual at the time of payment. The Company makes significant judgments regarding the variable consideration which we expect to be entitled to for the group purchasing services which includes the anticipated shipments to the members enrolled in the program, anticipated volumes of purchases made by the members, and the changes in the number of members. The amounts recorded are constrained by estimates of decreases in shipments and loss of members to avoid a significant revenue reversal in the subsequent period. The only performance obligation is to provide the pharmaceutical companies with the medical providers who want to become members in order to purchase vaccines. The performance obligation is satisfied once the medical provider agrees to purchase a specific quantity of vaccines and the medical provider’s information is forwarded to the vaccine suppliers. The Company records a contract asset for revenue earned and not paid as the ultimate payment is conditioned on achieving certain volume thresholds.
For all of the above revenue streams other than group purchasing services and chronic care management, revenue is recognized over time, which is typically one month or less, which closely matches the point in time that the customer simultaneously receives and consumes the benefits provided by the Company. For the group purchasing services, revenue is recognized at a point in time. Each service is substantially the same and has the same periodic pattern of transfer to the customer. Each of the services provided above is considered a separate performance obligation.
There were no unsatisfied performance obligations for contracts with an original duration greater than one year. The Company has elected to utilize the practical expedient available with the guidance for contracts with an expected duration of one year or less.
Medical practice management services:
The Company also provides medical practice management services under long-term management service agreements to three medical practices. We provide the medical practices with the nurses, administrative support, facilities, supplies, equipment, marketing, RCM, accounting, and other non-clinical services needed to efficiently operate their practices. Revenue is recognized as the services are provided to the medical practices. Revenue recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of operations represents the reimbursement of costs paid by the Company for the practices and the management fee earned each month for managing the practice. The management fee is based on either a fixed fee or a percentage of the net operating income.
The Company assumes all financial risk for the performance of the managed medical practices. Revenue is impacted by the amount of the costs incurred by the practices and their operating income. The gross billing of the practices is impacted by billing rates, changes in current procedural terminology code reimbursement and collection trends which in turn impacts the management fee that the Company is entitled to. Billing rates are reviewed at least annually and adjusted based on current insurer reimbursement practices. The performance obligation is satisfied as the management services are provided.
Our contracts for medical practice management services have approximately an additional 15 years remaining and are only cancellable under very limited circumstances. The Company receives a management fee each month for managing the day-to-day business operations of each medical group as a fixed fee or a percentage payment of the net operating income which is included in revenue in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Our medical practice management services obligations consist of a series of distinct services that are substantially the same and have the same periodic pattern of transfer to our customers. Revenue is recognized over time, however for reporting and convenience purposes, the management fee is computed at each month-end.
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Information about contract balances:
As
of March 31, 2024, the estimated revenue expected to be recognized in the future related to the remaining revenue cycle management performance
obligations outstanding was approximately $
Amounts that we are entitled to collect under the applicable contract are recorded as accounts receivable. Invoicing is performed at the end of each month when the services have been provided. The contract asset includes our right to payment for services already transferred to a customer when the right to payment is conditional on something other than the passage of time. For example, contracts for revenue cycle management services where we recognize revenue over time but do not have a contractual right to payment until the customer receives payment of their claim from the insurance provider. The contract asset also includes the revenue accrued, not received, for the group purchasing services.
Changes in the contract asset are recorded as adjustments to net revenue. The changes primarily result from providing services to revenue cycle management customers that result in additional consideration and are offset by our right to payment for services becoming unconditional and changes in the revenue accrued for the group purchasing services. The contract asset for our group purchasing services is reduced when we receive payments from vaccine manufacturers and is increased for revenue earned, not received. The opening and closing balances of the Company’s accounts receivable, contract asset and deferred revenue are as follows:
| Accounts Receivable - Net | Contract Asset | Deferred Revenue (current) | Deferred Revenue (long term) | |||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of January 1, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Increase, net | ||||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 31, 2024 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Balance as of January 1, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| (Decrease) increase, net | ( | ) | ||||||||||||||
| Balance as of March 31, 2023 | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
Deferred commissions:
Our
sales incentive plans include commissions payable to employees and third parties at the time of initial contract execution that are
capitalized as incremental costs to obtain a contract. The capitalized commissions are amortized over the period the related
services are transferred. As we do not offer commissions on contract renewals, we have determined the amortization period to be the
estimated client life, which is three years. Deferred commissions were approximately $
Trade Accounts Receivable – Estimate of Credit Losses:
ASU
2016-13 requires the recognition of lifetime estimated credit losses expected to occur for trade accounts receivable. The guidance also
requires we pool assets with similar risk characteristics and consider current economic conditions when estimating losses. The adoption
of the ASU 2016-13 for trade accounts receivable was recorded as a charge to accumulated deficit of approximately $
At adoption, we segmented the accounts receivable population into pools based on their risk assessment. Risks related to trade accounts receivable are a customer’s inability to pay or bankruptcy. Each pool was defined by their internal credit assessment and business size. The pools are aligned with management’s review of financial performance. For the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, no adjustment to the pools was necessary.
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We utilize a loss-rate method to measure the expected credit loss for each pool. The loss rate is calculated using a three-year lookback period of write-offs and adjustments, divided by the revenue for each pool by aging category, net of customer payments during that period. We consider current and future economic conditions, internal forecasts, customer collection experience and credit memos issued during the current period when assessing loss rates. We reviewed these factors and concluded that no adjustments should be made to the historical loss rate data for the current quarter. In addition, the Company uses specific account identification in determining the total allowance for expected credit losses. Trade receivables are written off only after the Company has exhausted all collection efforts.
Changes in the allowance for expected credit losses for trade accounts receivable are presented in the table below:
| Three Months Ended | Year Ended | |||||||
| March 31, 2024 | December 31, 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Beginning balance | $ | $ | ||||||
| Adoption of ASC 326 | ||||||||
| Provision | ||||||||
| Recoveries/adjustments | ||||||||
| Write-offs | ( | ) | ||||||
| Ending balance | $ | $ | ||||||
As of March 31, 2024, shares of common stock and shares of Series B Preferred Stock are available for grant. Permissible awards include incentive stock options, non-statutory stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock, RSUs, performance stock and cash-settled awards and other stock-based awards in the discretion of the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors including unrestricted stock grants.
Certain equity-based RSU agreements contain a provision in which the units shall immediately vest and become converted into common shares at the rate of one share per RSU, immediately after a change in control, as defined in the award agreement.
Common and preferred stock RSUs
In February 2023, the Compensation Committee approved executive bonuses to be paid in shares of Series B Preferred Stock, with the number of shares and the amount based on specified criteria being achieved during the year 2023. During October, the Compensation Committee approved the issuance of the above shares to one of the executives who retired. The remaining shares were forfeited in 2024.
In March 2024, the Compensation Committee approved executive bonuses to be paid in shares of Series B Preferred Stock with the number of shares and the amount based on specified criteria being achieved during the year 2024. There were shares awarded. These criteria will be evaluated in early 2025. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, a net benefit of approximately $ was recorded primarily related to prior year bonuses that had been accrued but were not awarded. Stock compensation expense recorded is based on the value of the shares at the grant date and recognized over the service period. The portion of the stock compensation expense to be used for the payment of withholding and payroll taxes is included in accrued compensation in the condensed consolidated balance sheets. The balance of the stock compensation expense has been recorded as additional paid-in capital.
| Common Stock | Series A Preferred Stock | Series B Preferred Stock | ||||||||||
| Outstanding and unvested shares at January 1, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Granted | ||||||||||||
| Vested | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Forfeited | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Outstanding and unvested shares at March 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||
| Outstanding and unvested shares at January 1, 2023 | ||||||||||||
| Granted | ||||||||||||
| Vested | ( | ) | ( | ) | ||||||||
| Forfeited | ( | ) | ||||||||||
| Outstanding and unvested shares at March 31, 2023 | ||||||||||||
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The
liability for the
Stock-based compensation expense
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Direct operating costs | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
| General and administrative | ( | ) | ||||||
| Research and development | ||||||||
| Selling and marketing | ( | ) | ||||||
| Total stock-based compensation (benefit) expense | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||
13. INCOME TAXES
The
income tax expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was approximately $
The
current income tax provision for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 primarily relates to state minimum taxes and foreign
income taxes. The deferred tax provision for the three months ended March 31, 2023 relates to the book and tax difference of amortization
on indefinite-lived intangibles, primarily goodwill. To the extent allowable, prior to January 1, 2024, the federal and state deferred
tax provision had been offset by the indefinite life net operating loss. As a result of the goodwill impairment charge recorded for the
year ended December 31, 2023,
The Company has incurred cumulative losses, which make realization of a deferred tax asset difficult to support in accordance with ASC 740. Accordingly, a valuation allowance has been recorded against the federal and state deferred tax assets as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
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14. SEGMENT REPORTING
The Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Executive Chairman jointly serve as the Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”), organize the Company, manage resource allocations and measure performance among two operating and reportable segments: (i) Healthcare IT and (ii) Medical Practice Management.
The Healthcare IT segment includes revenue cycle management, SaaS solutions and other services. The Medical Practice Management segment includes the management of three medical practices. Each segment is considered a reporting unit. The CODM evaluates the financial performance of the business units on the basis of revenue and direct operating costs excluding unallocated amounts that are mainly corporate overhead costs. Our CODM does not evaluate operating segments using asset or liability information. The accounting policies of the segments are the same as those disclosed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023 filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024. The following table presents revenues, operating expenses and operating income (loss) by reportable segment:
| Three Months Ended March 31, 2024 | ||||||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Healthcare IT | Medical Practice Management | Unallocated Corporate Expenses | Total | |||||||||||||
| Net revenue | $ | $ | $ | $ | ||||||||||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct operating costs | ||||||||||||||||
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| General and administrative | ||||||||||||||||
| Research and development | ||||||||||||||||
| Depreciation and amortization | ||||||||||||||||
| Loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | ||||||||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | ||||||||||||||||
| Operating income (loss) | $ | $ | $ | ( | ) | $ | ||||||||||
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Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following is a discussion of our condensed consolidated financial condition and results of operations for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, and other factors that are expected to affect our prospective financial condition. The following discussion and analysis should be read together with our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related notes beginning on page 4 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024.
Some of the statements set forth in this section are forward-looking statements relating to our future results of operations. Our actual results may vary from the results anticipated by these statements. Please see “Forward-Looking Statements” on page 2 of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
Financial Risks
The Company maintains cash balances at Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”), a division of First Citizens Bank & Trust Company in excess of the FDIC insurance coverage limits. The Company performs periodic evaluations of the relative credit standing of this financial institution to ensure its credit worthiness. As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the Company held cash of approximately $155,000 and $255,000, respectively, in the name of its subsidiaries at banks in Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The banking systems in these countries do not provide deposit insurance coverage. The Company has not experienced any losses on its cash accounts.
During the three months ended December 31, 2023, the Company suspended its preferred stock dividend and experienced a decline in its market capitalization as a result of a sustained decrease in the Company’s stock price for its common and preferred shares. This was considered a triggering event and resulted in a goodwill impairment charge. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, the Company’s stock price for its common and preferred shares declined from their year-end values. The Company determined there was no impact on the valuation of goodwill. If the stock prices were to continue to decline, it could result in another triggering event that could impact the valuation of goodwill.
Overview
The Company is a healthcare information technology company that provides technology-enabled revenue cycle management and a full suite of proprietary cloud-based solutions to healthcare providers, from small practices to enterprise medical groups, hospitals, and health systems throughout the United States. Our integrated Software-as-a-Service (“SaaS”) platform includes revenue cycle management (“RCM”), practice management (“PM”), electronic health records (“EHR”), business intelligence, telehealth, patient experience management (“PXM”) solutions and complementary software tools and business services for high-performance medical groups and health systems. The Company also offers printing and mailing and group purchasing services.
Our technology-enabled business solutions can be categorized as follows:
| ● | Technology-enabled revenue cycle management: |
| ○ | Revenue Cycle Management services including end-to-end medical billing, eligibility, analytics, and related services, all of which can be provided utilizing our technology platform and robotic process automation tools or leveraging a third-party system; | |
| ○ | Medical coding and credentialing services to improve provider collections, back-end cost containment, and drive total revenue realization for our healthcare clients; and | |
| ○ | Healthcare claims clearinghouse which enables our clients to electronically scrub and submit claims and process payments from insurance companies. |
| ● | Cloud-based software: |
| ○ | Electronic Health Records, which are easy to use and sometimes integrated with our business services, and enable our healthcare provider clients to deliver better patient care, streamline their clinical workflows, decrease documentation errors, and potentially qualify for government incentives; | |
| ○ | Practice Management software and related capabilities, which support our clients’ day-to-day business operations and financial workflows, including automated insurance eligibility software, a robust billing and claims rules engine, and other automated tools designed to maximize reimbursement; |
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| ○ | Artificial intelligence (“AI”): |
| ● | CareCloud cirrusAI is designed to serve as a digital healthcare assistant, helping to enhance clinical decision-making, streamline workflows, reduce administrative burdens, optimize revenue management, and promote patient-centered care. The functions include: |
| ● | AI-Powered Clinical Decision Support: CareCloud cirrusAI Guide automates clinical data input, and assists clinicians in workflow tasks, providing real-time, evidence-based recommendations and personalized suggestions via Vertex AI’s generative AI tools for providers to consider. This innovation can lead to enhanced diagnosis accuracy and treatment planning. | |
| ● | AI-Powered Virtual Support Assistant: CareCloud cirrusAI Chat facilitates natural language conversations with practice staff members, offering valuable assistance in navigating CareCloud Electronic Health Records workflows. This tool streamlines post-training and onboarding for new staff, reducing response times and providing real-time assistance, ultimately saving time. | |
| ● | AI-Driven Appeals: CareCloud cirrusAI Appeals generates customized appeal letters by analyzing patient claim details, the appeal’s reason, and the specific payor involved for healthcare workers to review, edit, and send. This functionality supports CareCloud’s RCM teams in optimizing providers’ RCM and securing proper reimbursement. |
| ● | CareCloud cirrusAI integrates with CareCloud’s EHR solution, talkEHR, making it easily accessible to providers of all sizes. |
| ○ | Patient Experience Management solutions designed to transform interactions between patients and their clinicians, including smartphone applications that assist patients and healthcare providers in the provision of healthcare services, contactless digital check-in solutions, messaging, and online appointment scheduling tools; | |
| ○ | Business Intelligence (“BI”) and healthcare analytics platforms that allow our clients to derive actionable insights from their vast amount of data; and | |
| ○ | Customized applications, interfaces, and a variety of other technology solutions that support our healthcare clients. |
| ● | Digital health: |
| ○ | Chronic care management is a program that supports care for patients with chronic conditions by certified care managers that operate under the supervision of the patient’s regular physician; | |
| ○ | Remote patient monitoring enables patient data collected outside the clinical setting through remote devices to be fed into their provider’s EHR to enable proactive patient care; and | |
| ○ | Telemedicine solutions which allow healthcare providers to conduct remote patient visits and extend the timely delivery of care to patients unable to travel to a provider’s office. |
| ● | Healthcare IT professional services & staffing: |
| ○ | Professional services consisting of a broad range of consulting services including full software implementations and activation, revenue cycle optimization, data analytic services, and educational training services; | |
| ○ | Strategic advisory services to manage system evaluations and selection, provide interim management, and operational assessments; and | |
| ○ | Workforce augmentation and on-demand staffing to support our clients as they expand their businesses, seek highly trained personnel, or struggle to address staffing shortages. |
Our medical practice management solutions include:
| ● | Medical practice management: |
| ○ | Medical practice management services for medical providers, including facilities, equipment, supplies, support services, nurses, and administrative support staff. |
We are able to deliver our industry-leading solutions at very competitive prices because we leverage a combination of our proprietary software, which automates our workflows and increases efficiency, together with our team of approximately 350 experienced health industry experts throughout the United States. These experts are supported by our highly educated and specialized offshore workforce of approximately 3,100 team members that are approximately 15% of the cost of comparably educated and skilled workers in the U.S. Our unique business model also allowed us to become a leading consolidator in our industry sector, gaining us a reputation for acquiring and positively transforming distressed competitors into profitable operations of CareCloud.
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Our offshore operations in the Pakistan Offices and Sri Lanka together accounted for approximately 15% and 13% of total expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. A significant portion of those foreign expenses were personnel-related costs (approximately 75% and 81% for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively). Because personnel-related costs are significantly lower in Pakistan and Sri Lanka than in the U.S. and many other offshore locations, we believe our offshore operations give us a competitive advantage over many industry participants. We are able to achieve significant cost reductions and leverage technology to reduce manual work and strategically transition a portion of the remaining manual tasks to our highly-specialized, cost-efficient team in the U.S., the Pakistan Offices and Sri Lanka.
Key Performance Measures
We consider numerous factors in assessing our performance. Key performance measures used by management, including adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net income and adjusted net income per share, are non-GAAP financial measures, which we believe better enable management and investors to analyze and compare the underlying business results from period to period.
These non-GAAP financial measures should not be considered in isolation, or as a substitute for or superior to, financial measures calculated in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”). Moreover, these non-GAAP financial measures have limitations in that they do not reflect all the items associated with the operations of our business as determined in accordance with GAAP. We compensate for these limitations by analyzing current and future results on a GAAP basis as well as a non-GAAP basis, and we provide reconciliations from the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures to the non-GAAP financial measures. Our non-GAAP financial measures may not be comparable to similarly titled measures of other companies. Other companies, including companies in our industry, may calculate similarly titled non-GAAP financial measures differently than we do, limiting the usefulness of those measures for comparative purposes.
Adjusted EBITDA, adjusted operating income, adjusted operating margin, adjusted net income and adjusted net income per share provide an alternative view of performance used by management and we believe that an investor’s understanding of our performance is enhanced by disclosing these adjusted performance measures.
Adjusted EBITDA excludes the following elements which are included in GAAP net loss:
| ● | Income tax provision or the cash requirements to pay our taxes; |
| ● | Interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest on principal payments, on our debt; |
| ● | Foreign currency gains and losses and other non-operating expenditures; |
| ● | Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense includes cash-settled awards and the related taxes, based on changes in the stock price; |
| ● | Depreciation and amortization charges; |
| ● | Integration costs, such as severance amounts paid to employees from acquired businesses, and transaction costs, such as brokerage fees, pre-acquisition accounting costs and legal fees and exit costs related to contractual agreements; and |
| ● | Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs. |
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Set forth below is a presentation of our adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Net revenue | $ | 25,962 | $ | 30,001 | ||||
| GAAP net loss | (241 | ) | (401 | ) | ||||
| Provision for income taxes | 39 | 65 | ||||||
| Net interest expense | 338 | 130 | ||||||
| Foreign exchange gain | (5 | ) | (8 | ) | ||||
| Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense, net of restructuring costs | (708 | ) | 1,072 | |||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 3,930 | 3,038 | ||||||
| Transaction and integration costs | 12 | 72 | ||||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | 322 | 269 | ||||||
| Adjusted EBITDA | $ | 3,687 | $ | 4,237 | ||||
Adjusted operating income and adjusted operating margin exclude the following elements that are included in GAAP operating loss:
| ● | Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense includes cash-settled awards and the related taxes, based on changes in the stock price; |
| ● | Amortization of purchased intangible assets; |
| ● | Integration costs, such as severance amounts paid to employees from acquired businesses, and transaction costs, such as brokerage fees, pre-acquisition accounting costs and legal fees and exit costs related to contractual agreements; and |
| ● | Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs. |
Set forth below is a presentation of our adjusted operating income and adjusted operating margin, which represents adjusted operating income as a percentage of net revenue, for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| Net revenue | $ | 25,962 | $ | 30,001 | ||||
| GAAP net loss | (241 | ) | (401 | ) | ||||
| Provision for income taxes | 39 | 65 | ||||||
| Net interest expense | 338 | 130 | ||||||
| Other income - net | (7 | ) | (17 | ) | ||||
| GAAP operating income (loss) | 129 | (223 | ) | |||||
| GAAP operating margin | 0.5 | % | (0.7 | %) | ||||
| Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense, net of restructuring costs | (708 | ) | 1,072 | |||||
| Amortization of purchased intangible assets | 840 | 1,323 | ||||||
| Transaction and integration costs | 12 | 72 | ||||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | 322 | 269 | ||||||
| Non-GAAP adjusted operating income | $ | 595 | $ | 2,513 | ||||
| Non-GAAP adjusted operating margin | 2.3 | % | 8.4 | % | ||||
Adjusted net income and adjusted net income per share exclude the following elements which are included in GAAP net loss:
| ● | Foreign currency gains and losses and other non-operating expenditures; |
| ● | Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense includes cash-settled awards and the related taxes, based on changes in the stock price; |
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| ● | Amortization of purchased intangible assets; |
| ● | Integration costs, such as severance amounts paid to employees from acquired businesses, and transaction costs, such as brokerage fees, pre-acquisition accounting costs and legal fees and exit costs related to contractual agreements; |
| ● | Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs; and |
| ● | Income tax provision resulting from the amortization of goodwill related to our acquisitions. |
No tax effect has been provided in computing non-GAAP adjusted net income and non-GAAP adjusted net income per share as the Company has sufficient carry forward net operating losses to offset the applicable income taxes. The following table shows our reconciliation of GAAP net loss to non-GAAP adjusted net income for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||
| GAAP net loss | $ | (241 | ) | $ | (401 | ) | ||
| Foreign exchange gain | (5 | ) | (8 | ) | ||||
| Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense, net of restructuring costs | (708 | ) | 1,072 | |||||
| Amortization of purchased intangible assets | 840 | 1,323 | ||||||
| Transaction and integration costs | 12 | 72 | ||||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | 322 | 269 | ||||||
| Income tax provision related to goodwill | - | 26 | ||||||
| Non-GAAP adjusted net income | $ | 220 | $ | 2,353 | ||||
Set forth below is a reconciliation of our GAAP net loss attributable to common shareholders, per share to our non-GAAP adjusted net income per share:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| GAAP net loss attributable to common shareholders, per share | $ | (0.02 | ) | $ | (0.28 | ) | ||
| Impact of preferred stock dividend | 0.00 | 0.25 | ||||||
| Net loss per end-of-period share | (0.02 | ) | (0.03 | ) | ||||
| Foreign exchange gain | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Stock-based compensation (benefit) expense | (0.04 | ) | 0.07 | |||||
| Amortization of purchased intangible assets | 0.05 | 0.09 | ||||||
| Transaction and integration costs | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | 0.02 | 0.02 | ||||||
| Income tax provision related to goodwill | 0.00 | 0.00 | ||||||
| Non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share | $ | 0.01 | $ | 0.15 | ||||
| End-of-period common shares | 16,118,492 | 15,592,608 | ||||||
| In-the-money warrants and outstanding unvested RSUs | 192,125 | 630,094 | ||||||
| Total fully diluted shares | 16,310,617 | 16,222,702 | ||||||
| Non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share | $ | 0.01 | $ | 0.15 | ||||
For purposes of determining non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share, the Company used the number of common shares outstanding at the end of March 31, 2024 and 2023. Non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share was computed using an as-converted method and includes warrants that are in-the-money as of that date as well as outstanding unvested RSUs. Non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share and non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share do not take into account dividends paid on preferred stock. No tax effect has been provided in computing non-GAAP adjusted earnings per share and non-GAAP adjusted diluted earnings per share as the Company has sufficient carry forward net operating losses to offset the applicable income taxes.
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Key Metrics
In addition to the line items in our condensed consolidated financial statements, we regularly review the following metrics. We believe information on these metrics is useful for investors to understand the underlying trends in our business.
Providers and Practices Served: As of both March 31, 2024 and 2023, we provided services to an estimated universe of approximately 40,000 providers (which we define as physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and other clinical staff that render bills for their services), representing approximately 2,600 independent medical practices and hospitals. In addition, we served approximately 150 clients who were not medical practices, but are service organizations who serve the healthcare community. The foregoing numbers include clients leveraging any of our products or services and are based in part upon estimates in cases where the precise number of practices or providers is unknown.
Sources of Revenue
Revenue: We primarily derive our revenues from subscription-based technology-enabled business solutions, reported in our Healthcare IT segment, which are typically billed as a percentage of payments collected by our customers. This fee includes technology-enabled RCM, as well as the ability to use our EHR, practice management system and other software as part of the bundled fee. These solutions accounted for approximately 67% and 65% for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Other healthcare IT services, including printing and mailing operations, group purchasing and professional services, represented approximately 21% and 25% for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
We earned approximately 12% and 10% of our revenue from medical practice management services during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and March 31, 2023, respectively. This revenue represents fees based on our actual costs plus a percentage of the operating profit and is reported in our Medical Practice Management segment.
Operating Expenses
Direct Operating Costs. Direct operating cost consists primarily of salaries and benefits related to personnel who provide services to our customers, claims processing costs, costs to operate the three managed practices, including facility lease costs, supplies, insurance and other direct costs related to our services. Costs associated with the implementation of new customers are expensed as incurred. The reported amounts of direct operating costs do not include depreciation and amortization, which are broken out separately in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Selling and Marketing Expense. Selling and marketing expense consists primarily of compensation and benefits, commissions, travel and advertising expenses.
General and Administrative Expense. General and administrative expense consists primarily of personnel-related expense for administrative employees, including compensation, benefits, travel, facility lease costs and insurance, software license fees and outside professional fees.
Research and Development Expense. Research and development expense consists primarily of personnel-related costs, software expense and third-party contractor costs.
Depreciation and Amortization Expense. Depreciation expense is charged using the straight-line method over the estimated lives of the assets ranging from three to five years. Amortization expense is charged on either an accelerated or on a straight-line basis over a period of three or four years for most intangible assets acquired in connection with acquisitions including those intangibles related to the group purchasing services. Amortization expense related to the value of our medical practice management clients is amortized on a straight-line basis over a period of twelve years.
Net Loss on Lease Terminations, Unoccupied Lease Charges and Restructuring Costs. Net loss on lease terminations represents the write-off of leasehold improvements and gains or losses as the result of lease terminations. Unoccupied lease charges represent the portion of the lease and related costs for that portion of the space that is vacant and not being utilized by the Company. Two of the leases that had unoccupied space ended in February 2023. Restructuring costs consists of severance and separation costs associated with the optimization of the Company’s operations and profitability improvements.
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Interest Income, Interest Expense and Other Expense - net. Interest income represents interest earned on temporary cash investments and late fees from customers. Interest expense consists primarily of interest costs related to our line of credit, term loans and the amortization of deferred financing costs. Other expense - net results primarily from foreign currency transaction (losses)/gains.
Income Taxes. In preparing our condensed consolidated financial statements, we estimate income taxes in each of the jurisdictions in which we operate. This process involves estimating actual current tax exposure together with assessing temporary differences resulting from differing treatment of items for tax and financial reporting purposes. These differences result in deferred income tax assets and liabilities. Although the Company is forecasting a return to profitability, it incurred losses historically and there is uncertainty regarding future U.S. taxable income, which makes realization of a deferred tax asset difficult to support in accordance with ASC 740. Accordingly, a valuation allowance has been recorded against all deferred tax assets as of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
The critical accounting policies and estimates used in the preparation of our condensed consolidated financial statements that we believe affect our more significant judgments and estimates used in the preparation of our condensed consolidated financial statements presented in this Report are described in Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations and in the Notes to the consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023.
Capitalized Software Costs:
As of March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023, the carrying amounts of internally-developed capitalized software in use was $16.1 million and $17.1 million, respectively. The decrease was due to the current period amortization exceeding the amounts being capitalized.
There have been no material changes in our critical accounting policies and estimates from those described in the Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024.
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth our consolidated results of operations as a percentage of total revenue for the periods shown:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | ||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | |||||||
| Net revenue | 100.0 | % | 100.0 | % | ||||
| Operating expenses: | ||||||||
| Direct operating costs | 58.5 | % | 60.3 | % | ||||
| Selling and marketing | 6.8 | % | 8.7 | % | ||||
| General and administrative | 14.3 | % | 17.1 | % | ||||
| Research and development | 3.5 | % | 3.6 | % | ||||
| Depreciation and amortization | 15.1 | % | 10.1 | % | ||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | 1.2 | % | 0.9 | % | ||||
| Total operating expenses | 99.4 | % | 100.7 | % | ||||
| Operating income (loss) | 0.6 | % | (0.7 | %) | ||||
| Net interest expense | 1.3 | % | 0.4 | % | ||||
| Other income - net | 0.0 | % | 0.0 | % | ||||
| Loss before provision for income taxes | (0.7 | %) | (1.1 | %) | ||||
| Income tax provision | 0.2 | % | 0.2 | % | ||||
| Net loss | (0.9 | %) | (1.3 | %) | ||||
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Comparison of the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | Change | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | Amount | Percent | |||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Net revenue | $ | 25,962 | $ | 30,001 | $ | (4,039 | ) | (13 | %) | |||||||
Net Revenue. Net revenue of $26.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024, decreased by $4.0 million or 13% from net revenue of $30.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. Revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2024 includes $17.3 million relating to technology-enabled business solutions, $4.4 million related to professional services and $3.2 million for medical practice management services.
There was a $2.1 million decrease in project-based professional services revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2024 compared to the same period in the prior year. The 2024 revenue was also negatively impacted by two large accounts that had each been previously acquired prior to our beginning to serve them after a 2020 acquisition. The services provided to them were each winding down at the time of our acquisition and they both transitioned to the systems of their acquirers during 2022. Revenue from these two customers for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 was $186,000 and $1.0 million, respectively, accounting for approximately $800,000 of the decline in revenue. Revenue from these customers is expected to be approximately $90,000 for the remainder of 2024. (Refer to Forward-Looking Statements disclosure on page 2 of this Form 10-Q.)
| Three Months Ended March 31, | Change | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | Amount | Percent | |||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Direct operating costs | $ | 15,177 | $ | 18,107 | $ | (2,930 | ) | (16 | %) | |||||||
| Selling and marketing | 1,770 | 2,612 | (842 | ) | (32 | %) | ||||||||||
| General and administrative | 3,721 | 5,120 | (1,399 | ) | (27 | %) | ||||||||||
| Research and development | 913 | 1,078 | (165 | ) | (15 | %) | ||||||||||
| Depreciation | 503 | 492 | 11 | 2 | % | |||||||||||
| Amortization | 3,427 | 2,546 | 881 | 35 | % | |||||||||||
| Net loss on lease terminations, unoccupied lease charges and restructuring costs | 322 | 269 | 53 | 20 | % | |||||||||||
| Total operating expenses | $ | 25,833 | $ | 30,224 | $ | (4,391 | ) | (15 | %) | |||||||
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Direct Operating Costs. Direct operating costs of $15.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 decreased by $2.9 million or 16% compared to direct operating costs of $18.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, salary costs decreased by $1.9 million, outsourcing and processing costs decreased by $658,000 and billable expenses decreased by $435,000. The decrease in the salary costs was due to a decrease in the U.S. and Pakistan headcount and due to lower revenue, the redeployment of employees performing functions that were previously classified as direct operating costs to functions classified as research and development expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
Selling and Marketing Expense. Selling and marketing expense of $1.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 decreased by $842,000 or 32% from selling and marketing expense of $2.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The decrease for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was due to lower spending on salaries and selling and marketing activities.
General and Administrative Expense. General and administrative expense of $3.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 decreased by $1.4 million or 27% compared to general and administrative expense of $5.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, salary costs decreased by $1.2 million and legal and professional fees decreased by $90,000. The decrease in salary costs was due to lower headcount. Also, there was a decrease in the Company’s contributions to community-based projects in Pakistan.
Research and Development Expense. Research and development expense of $913,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 decreased by approximately $165,000 or 15% from research and development expense of $1.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. During the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, the Company capitalized approximately $1.6 million and $2.2 million, respectively, of development costs in connection with its internal-use software.
Depreciation. Depreciation of $503,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 decreased by $11,000 or 2% from the depreciation of $492,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023.
Amortization Expense. Amortization expense of $3.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 increased by $881,000 or 35% from amortization expense of $2.5 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The increase in amortization expense was due to the placement of additional internal-use software into production and beginning the related amortization.
Net Loss on Lease Terminations, Unoccupied Lease Charges and Restructuring Costs. Net loss on lease terminations represents the write-off of leasehold improvements and gains or losses as the result of lease terminations. During the three months ended March 31, 2023, the Miami office lease that we assumed in connection with an acquisition ended and we entered into a new lease arrangement with the landlord for significantly less space. Charges of $71,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023 were incurred as a result of vacating the former premises. During the year ended December 31, 2022, a facility lease was terminated in conjunction with the Company ceasing its document storage services resulting in additional costs for the three months ended March 31, 2023, of approximately $45,000. During the three months ended March 31, 2023, there were $153,000 of unoccupied lease charges. There were $322,000 of restructuring costs being recorded for the three months ended March 31, 2024, whereas in the same period for 2023, there were no restructuring costs. Restructuring costs consists of severance and separation costs associated with the optimization of the Company’s operations and profitability improvements. There were no net losses on lease terminations or unoccupied lease charges during the three months ended March 31, 2024.
| Three Months Ended March 31, | Change | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | Amount | Percent | |||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Interest income | $ | 27 | $ | 20 | $ | 7 | 35 | % | ||||||||
| Interest expense | (365 | ) | (150 | ) | (215 | ) | (143 | %) | ||||||||
| Other income - net | 7 | 17 | (10 | ) | (59 | %) | ||||||||||
| Income tax provision | 39 | 65 | (26 | ) | (40 | %) | ||||||||||
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Interest Income. Interest income of $27,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 increased by $7,000 from interest income of $20,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The interest income represents late fees from customers and interest earned on temporary cash investments, which increased due to rising interest rates.
Interest Expense. Interest expense of $365,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 increased by $215,000 from interest expense of $150,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The increase in interest expense was due to the increased use of the line of credit and the impact of a higher interest rate in 2024. Interest expense on the line of credit was $289,000 and $72,000 during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Other Income – net. Other income – net was $7,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 compared to other income – net of $17,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023. Other expense or income primarily represents foreign currency transaction losses or gains. These transaction losses or gains result from revaluing intercompany accounts which are denominated in U.S. dollars that represent amounts payable/receivable between the entities. Whenever the exchange rate varies, the losses or gains are recorded in the condensed consolidated statements of operations.
Income Tax Provision. The provision for income taxes was $39,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 compared to the provision for income taxes of $65,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023. As a result of the Company having certain net operating losses with an indefinite life under the current federal tax rules, the federal and state deferred tax liability was offset against the net operating loss to the extent allowable in 2023. Through December 31, 2023, the state deferred tax liability has also been offset against state net operating losses to the extent allowable. There were no deferred income taxes for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
The current income tax expense for the three months ended March 31, 2024 was approximately $39,000 and includes state minimum taxes and foreign income taxes. The Company has incurred cumulative losses historically and there is uncertainty regarding future U.S. taxable income, which makes realization of a deferred tax losses difficult to support in accordance with ASC 740. Accordingly, a valuation allowance was recorded against all deferred tax assets at March 31, 2024 and December 31, 2023.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of March 31, 2024, the Company had total cash of $4.1 million and net working capital of $474,000. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, cash provided by operations was $4.1 million offset by cash used in investing and financing activities of $3.2 million resulting in an increase in cash of $807,000 after accounting for the effect of $17,000 of exchange rate changes. During the quarter ended March 31, 2024, the Company repaid $1.0 million on its line of credit borrowings. Subsequent to March 31, 2024, an additional $1.0 million was repaid on the line of credit.
In fiscal year 2023, the Company incurred a net loss of $48.7 million compared to $5.4 million of net income in fiscal year 2022, and at December 31, 2023, had cash of $3.3 million and a working capital deficit of $57,000. The decrease in cash for fiscal 2023 was $9 million compared to an increase in cash of $2 million in fiscal 2022. The Company also had $10 million drawn on its line of credit. Together, at December 31, 2023 these factors raised substantial doubt regarding the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.
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However, management has considered its plans to continue the Company as a going concern and believes substantial doubt is alleviated by focusing on cost-control. Management developed a plan that was substantially implemented during fiscal 2023 to improve liquidity in its operations through reductions in payroll and operating expenses. After the reductions are implemented and through employee attrition, the Company expects an improvement of approximately $20 million in annualized cost savings, of which approximately $14 million will be realized in 2024. The Company also suspended its Preferred Stock dividends in December 2023 resulting in cash savings of $1.3 million per month. Additional headcount reductions occurred in 2024 and further cost reductions will continue throughout the year. The Company is focused on reducing costs, returning to profitability, generating positive cash flow and maintaining compliance with its debt covenants. Although there are no guarantees that the Company will be successful, it believes that such initiatives will enable it to continue as a going concern through at least the next twelve months.
The Company has begun realizing the effect of these plans and expects continued effects to be realized during the remainder of 2024 and beyond, including a decrease in the Company’s operating costs and an improvement in the Company’s monthly cash flow from operations.
Management continues to focus on the Company’s overall profitability, including managing expenses, and to the extent possible growing revenue, and expects that these efforts will continue to enhance our liquidity and financial position. Based on management’s forecasts, the Company will have sufficient liquidity to meet its obligations as they become due for the next twelve months from the date of the financial statements’ issuance.
Change Healthcare, a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group, experienced an incident on February 21, 2024, in which a cybersecurity threat actor gained access to some of its information technology systems (“Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Incident”). The Company uses Change Healthcare to submit patient claims to Medicare and other payors for reimbursement. Since the time of the system disruption, the Company has worked continuously to find alternative processes to maintain overall operations.
As of March 31, 2024, the Company has not identified any compromise or unauthorized access of its systems or networks due to this third party incident. As of the end of the first quarter of 2024, the Company reconnected to certain applications maintained by Change Healthcare and resumed claims submission to several payors and utilized alternative platforms for the majority of its claims. The Company continues to work through accumulated unprocessed claims and to establish full recovery with Change Healthcare’s applications.
During the first quarter of 2024, the Company did not experience a material financial impact from the Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Incident on the financial results as reported. The impact to the first quarter financial results was primarily related to decreased cash flows from operations, which are expected to be recognized later in 2024. The Company continues to maintain its liquidity and, having substantially resumed submission of claims to payors, has determined that the Change Healthcare Cybersecurity Incident is not reasonably likely to materially impact the Company, including its business operations, financial condition or results of operations.
We have not been adversely affected by inflation as typically we receive a percentage of the fees our clients collect from our revenue cycle management services. Additionally, our medical practice management contracts are based on our costs plus a percentage of the medical practice’s operating income. We continue to monitor the impact of inflation in order to minimize its effects through pricing strategies, productivity improvements and cost reductions. In the event of inflation, we believe that we will be able to pass on any price increases for fixed rate contracts to our customers, as the prices that we charge are not governed by long-term contracts. The interest rate on our line of credit is based on prime rate which had been increasing through 2023 but has remained the same in 2024.
The Company has a revolving line of credit, and as of March 31, 2024, there was $9 million outstanding. During April 2024, an additional $1.0 million was repaid on the line of credit. As of March 31, 2024, the unused borrowing base was approximately $3.6 million.
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The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods presented:
| Three Months Ended March 31, | Change | |||||||||||||||
| 2024 | 2023 | Amount | Percent | |||||||||||||
| ($ in thousands) | ||||||||||||||||
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 4,066 | $ | 1,023 | $ | 3,043 | 297 | % | ||||||||
| Net cash used in investing activities | (1,868 | ) | (3,039 | ) | 1,171 | 39 | % | |||||||||
| Net cash used in financing activities | (1,374 | ) | (1,787 | ) | 413 | 23 | % | |||||||||
| Effect of exchange rate changes on cash | (17 | ) | (335 | ) | 318 | 95 | % | |||||||||
| Net increase (decrease) in cash | $ | 807 | $ | (4,138 | ) | $ | 4,945 | 120 | % | |||||||
The loss before income tax was $202,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024, which included $3.9 million of non-cash depreciation and amortization. The loss before income taxes was $336,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023, which included $3.0 million of non-cash depreciation and amortization.
Operating Activities
Net cash provided by operating activities was $4.1 million and $1.0 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. This increase was primarily the result of the decrease in the net loss of $160,000 which included the following changes in non-cash items: an increase in depreciation and amortization of $815,000 offset by a net decrease in stock-based compensation of $1.8 million. Accounts receivable decreased $111,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024, compared with a decrease of $156,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2023. Accounts payable, accrued compensation and accrued expenses increased by $721,000 during the three months ended March 31, 2024, compared with a decrease of $2.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2023. The contract asset decreased by $258,000 during the three months ended March 31, 2024 compared to the prior period.
Investing Activities
Net cash used in investing activities was $1.9 million and $3.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Capital expenditures were $298,000 and $835,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. The capital expenditures for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023 primarily represented computer equipment purchased and leasehold improvements for the Pakistan Offices. Software development costs of $1.6 million and $2.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively, were capitalized in connection with the development of software for providing technology-enabled business solutions.
Financing Activities
Net cash used in financing activities was $1.4 million and $1.8 million during the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively. Cash used in financing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2024 included $223,000 of repayments for debt obligations and $151,000 of tax withholding obligations paid in connection with stock awards issued to employees. Cash used in financing activities during the three months ended March 31, 2023 included $3.9 million of preferred stock dividends, $1.4 million of proceeds from issuance of Series B Preferred Stock, $236,000 of repayments for debt obligations and $1.1 million of tax withholding obligations paid in connection with stock awards issued to employees. Repayments and net proceeds on the line of credit were $1.0 million and $2.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024 and 2023, respectively.
Contractual Obligations and Commitments
We have contractual obligations under our line of credit. We were in compliance with all covenants as of March 31, 2024. We also maintain operating leases for property and certain office equipment. For additional information, see Contractual Obligations and Commitments under Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2023, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024.
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of March 31, 2024, and 2023, we did not have any relationships with unconsolidated entities or financial partnerships, such as entities often referred to as structured finance or special-purpose entities, which would have been established for the purpose of facilitating off-balance sheet arrangements or other contractually narrow or limited purposes.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
We are a smaller reporting company as defined by 17 C.F.R. 229.10(f)(1) and are not required to provide information under this item, pursuant to Item 305(e) of Regulation S-K.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer, based on the Internal Control-Integrated Framework (2013 framework) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (“COSO”), evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2024 as required by Rules 13a-15(b) and 15d-15(b) of the Exchange Act. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms.
Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.
Based on the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures, as of March 31, 2024, our Chief Executive Officer and Interim Chief Financial Officer concluded that, as of such date, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rules 13a-15(f) and l5d-15(f) of the Exchange Act) that occurred during our most recent fiscal quarter that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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Part II. Other Information
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
See discussion of legal proceedings in “Note 7, Commitments And Contingencies” of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in this Quarterly Report, which is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
In addition to the other information set forth in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I—Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on March 21, 2024, which could materially affect our business, financial condition and/or future results. The risks described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K are not the only risks facing us. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows and/or future results.
We Maintain Our Cash at Financial Institutions, Often in Balances That Exceed Federally Insured Limits.
The financial markets recently have encountered volatility associated with concerns about the balance sheets of banks, especially small and regional banks who may have significant losses associated with investments that make it difficult to fund demands to withdraw deposits and other liquidity needs. Although the federal government has announced measures to assist these banks and protect depositors, some banks have already been impacted and others may be materially and adversely impacted. Our business is dependent on bank relationships and we are proactively monitoring the financial health of such bank relationships. Continued strain on the banking system may adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
Not applicable.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
On December 11, 2023, the Board of Directors suspended the monthly cash dividends for Series A Preferred Stock and Series B Preferred Stock beginning with the payment scheduled for December 15, 2023 together with the remaining dividends that were declared. The suspension of these dividends will defer approximately $1.3 million in cash dividend payments each month. As a result of such suspension, as of the filing date of this Quarterly Report, the Company has approximately $3.2 million of dividends in arrears. During this suspension, dividends will continue to accrue in arrears on the Series A and Series B Preferred Stock. The Board of Directors will regularly review and consider when the suspension should be lifted. See discussion of preferred stock dividend suspension in “Note 10, Shareholders’ Equity” of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in this Quarterly Report.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Item 5. Other Information
Not applicable.
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Item 6. Exhibits
*The certifications on Exhibit 32 hereto are not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liability of that Section. Such certifications will not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act.
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Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
| CareCloud, Inc. | ||
| By: | /s/ A. Hadi Chaudhry | |
| A. Hadi Chaudhry | ||
| Chief Executive Officer | ||
| Date: May 14, 2024 | ||
| By: | /s/ Norman S. Roth | |
| Norman S. Roth | ||
| Interim Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller | ||
| Date: May 14, 2024 | ||
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