7 unchanged sentences
There are a number of risks related to our business, regulation, our indebtedness and our common stock that you should consider.
−Removed: You should carefully consider all the information presented in this section.
Some of the principal risks related to our business include the following:
+Added: ● We face inspections, reviews, audits and investigations under federal and state government programs and contracts .
+Added: As a result of PACE contracts with CMS and state government agencies, state licenses and participation in Medicaid, we are routinely subject to various governmental inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information and investigations to verify our compliance with applicable laws and regulations, assess the quality of our services provided to our participants and evaluate the accuracy of the risk adjustment data we submit.
+Added: As a result of deficiencies found in these audits, our enrollments are suspended in each of our centers in Colorado and our Sacramento, California center and are in the process of implementing corrective action plans (CAPs).
+Added: At this time, we cannot guarantee the final outcome of the processes described above or other audits of our centers.
+Added: If we are unable to effectively remediate the deficiencies and implement the CAPs or otherwise satisfy the agencies’ concerns, we could be subject to additional sanctions.
+Added: ● We are subject to legal proceedings, enforcement actions and litigation, malpractice and privacy disputes, which are costly and could materially harm our business.
+Added: We are party to lawsuits and legal proceedings from employees, participants and various third parties in the normal course of business.
+Added: These matters are often expensive and disruptive to normal business operations.
+Added: In October 2021, as amended in June 2022, we were named as a defendant in a putative class action complaint filed in the District Court of Colorado on behalf of individuals who purchased or acquired shares of our stock during a specified period.
+Added: Additionally, in April 2022, we received a books and records demand pursuant to Section 220 of Delaware law in connection with a shareholder’s investigation of, among other things, breaches of fiduciary duty and mismanagement.
+Added: In addition, we have received civil investigative demands from the Attorney General for the State of Colorado, with respect to our Colorado centers, and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”), with respect to all our centers, on similar subject matter.
+Added: There can be no assurance that these matters are resolved in our favor or without significant cash settlements.
+Added: The time and resources necessary to litigate the claims could harm our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations and market price of our common stock.
● Under our PACE contracts, we assume all of the risk that the cost of providing services will exceed our compensation .
−Removed: Approximately 99.5% of our revenue for each of the years ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 is derived from capitation agreements with government payors in which we receive fixed PMPM fees.
+Added: Approximately 99.7% and 99.5% of our revenue for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, was derived from capitation agreements with government payors in which we receive fixed PMPM fees.
To the extent that our participants require more care than is anticipated and/or the cost of care increases, aggregate fixed capitation payments may be insufficient to cover the costs associated with treatment.
2 unchanged sentences
When aggregating the revenue associated with Medicare and Medicaid by state, Colorado, California and Virginia accounted for a total of approximately 83.3% and 82.6% of our capitation revenue for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: A majority of our revenues will continue to be derived from a limited number of key government payors, which may terminate their contracts with us upon the occurrence of certain events.
+Added: We expect a majority of our revenues will continue to be derived from a limited number of key government payors, which may terminate their
+Added: contracts with us upon the occurrence of certain events.
The sudden loss of any of our government contracts or the renegotiation of any of our contracts could adversely affect our operating results and limit our ability to expand into new markets.
2 unchanged sentences
As a result, our operations are dependent on government funding levels for PACE programs.
−Removed: Any changes that limit or reduce general PACE rates could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial
−Removed: condition and cash flows, restrict our ability to continue providing high quality care to our participants and limit our opportunities for growth.
+Added: Any changes that limit or reduce general PACE rates could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows, restrict our ability to continue providing quality care to our participants and limit our opportunities for growth.
● Our records and submissions to government payors may contain inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of participants, which could cause us to overstate or understate our revenue and subject us to payment obligations or penalties.
1 unchanged sentence
CMS may audit PACE organizations’ risk adjustment data submissions.
−Removed: We could be required to refund a portion of the revenue that we received, which refund, depending on its magnitude, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Moreover, substantial changes in the risk adjustment mechanism, including changes that result from enforcement or audit actions, could materially affect our capitated reimbursement.
−Removed: ● Non-renewal or termination of capitation agreements with government payors could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We could be required to refund a portion of the revenue that we received, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: ● Renegotiation, non-renewal or termination of capitation agreements with government payors could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
If we enter into capitation contracts with unfavorable economic terms, or a capitation contract is adjusted to include unfavorable terms, we could suffer losses with respect to such contract.
In addition, some states in which we operate undergo periodic reconciliations with respect to enrollments that present a risk to our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: ● If we fail to adhere to all of the complex government laws and regulations that apply to our business, we could suffer severe consequences that could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation and stock price.
+Added: ● Allegations of failure and failure to adhere to complex government laws and regulations that apply to our business, have had and could in the future have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation and stock price.
Our operations are subject to extensive federal, state and local government laws and regulations.
−Removed: The various laws and regulations that apply to our operations are often subject to varying interpretations and additional laws and regulations potentially affecting providers continue to be promulgated that may impact us.
−Removed: A violation or departure from any of the legal requirements implicated by our business may result in, among other things, government audits, decreased payment rates, significant fines and penalties, the potential loss of certification, recoupment efforts or retractions of reimbursement previously paid, voluntary repayments, exclusion from governmental healthcare programs, written warnings, corrective action plans, monitoring, reputational harm, suspension of new enrollment (as is the case currently with respect to our Sacramento, California center) or the restriction of current enrollment, the withholding of payments under the PACE program agreement, and termination of the PACE program agreement, each of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations and our ability to grow our business.
−Removed: ● Our existing indebtedness could adversely affect our business and growth prospects.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, we had (i) $75.0 million principal amount outstanding under the Term Loan Facility, (ii) $2.4 million principal amount outstanding under the convertible term loan and (iii) no amounts outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility (each as defined in Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements).
−Removed: Our indebtedness may (1) limit funds otherwise available for financing our capital expenditures and pursuing our growth strategies by requiring us to dedicate a portion of our cash flows from operations to the repayment of debt and the interest on this debt, and (2) increase our vulnerability to rising interest rates.
−Removed: Our level of indebtedness may place us at a competitive disadvantage to our competitors that are not as highly leveraged.
−Removed: If we cannot generate sufficient cash flow from operations to service our debt, we may need to refinance our debt, dispose of assets or issue equity to obtain necessary funds.
−Removed: ● We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flow to service all of our indebtedness, and may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our obligations under such indebtedness, which may not be successful.
−Removed: Our ability to make scheduled payments or to refinance outstanding debt obligations depends on our financial and operating performance, which will be affected by prevailing economic, industry and competitive conditions and by financial, business and other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: Any failure to make payments of interest and principal on our outstanding indebtedness on a timely basis would likely
−Removed: result in penalties or defaults, which would adversely impact our ability to incur additional indebtedness to fund our operating results or to support our growth strategies.
−Removed: ● Our Principal Shareholders control us, and their interests may conflict with ours or yours in the future.
−Removed: Our Principal Shareholders beneficially own approximately 86% of our common stock, which means that, based on their combined percentage voting power, the Principal Shareholders together control the vote of all matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders, which enable them to control the election of the members of the Company board of directors (the “Board”) and all other corporate decisions.
−Removed: Accordingly, for such period of time as our Principal Shareholders beneficially own a majority of the voting power, the they will have significant influence with respect to our management, business plans and policies, including the appointment and removal of our officers, decisions on whether to raise future capital and amending our charter and bylaws, which govern the rights attached to our common stock.
+Added: Allegations of violation, or actual violations of the legal requirements implicated by our business has resulted in and may in the future result in, among other things, government audits, decreased payment rates, significant fines and penalties, the potential loss of certification, recoupment efforts or retractions of reimbursement previously paid, voluntary repayments, exclusion from governmental healthcare programs, written warnings, corrective action plans, monitoring, reputational harm, suspension of new enrollment (as is the case currently with respect to our Sacramento, California and Colorado centers) or the restriction of current enrollment, the withholding of payments under the PACE program agreement, and termination of the PACE program agreement.
+Added: ● Ignite Aggregator LP (an investment vehicle owned by certain funds advised by Apax Partners LLP) and funds affiliated with Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe (together, our “Principal Shareholders”) control us, and their interests may conflict with ours or yours in the future.
+Added: Our Principal Shareholders beneficially own approximately 86% of our common stock, which means that, based on their combined percentage voting power of our common stock, the Principal Shareholders together control the vote of all matters submitted to a vote of our stockholders, which enable them to control the election of the members of the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board”) and all other corporate decisions.
+Added: Accordingly, for such period of time as our Principal Shareholders beneficially own a majority of the voting power, they will have significant influence with respect to our management, business plans and policies, including the appointment and removal of our officers, decisions on whether to raise future capital and amending our charter and bylaws, which govern the rights attached to our common stock.
Risks Related to Our Business
+Added: We face inspections, reviews, audits and investigations under federal and state government programs and contracts.
+Added: These audits require corrective actions and have resulted in adverse findings that have negatively affected and continue to affect our business, including our results of operations, liquidity, financial condition and reputation.
+Added: As a result of our PACE contracts with CMS and state government agencies, state licenses, and participation in Medicaid, we are routinely subject to, and will continue to be subject to, various governmental inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information and investigations to verify our compliance with requirements of these programs and applicable laws and regulations, assess the quality of the services we are providing to our participants, and evaluate the accuracy of the risk adjustment data we have submitted to the government.
+Added: On May 26, 2021, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (“HCPF”) and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (“CDPHE”) initiated a joint audit of our Colorado PACE centers, and on June 21, 2021, CMS also initiated a separate focused desk audit of our Colorado PACE program.
+Added: Effective December 23, 2021, CMS suspended new enrollments at the Company’s Colorado centers, based on deficiencies detected in the joint audit related to participant provision of services, which can be categorized as care delivery and management, care coordination and documentation of care.
+Added: The suspension will remain in effect until CMS determines that we have remediated the deficiencies to their satisfaction.
+Added: Effective on the same date, HCPF also determined to impose sanctions and suspended new enrollments at the Company’s Colorado centers identifying certain deficiencies specific to Medicaid or state law.
+Added: In addition, as a result of their specific findings, CDPHE mandated that we retain a consultant for a period of 12 months to oversee our remediation efforts, and issued a $10,000 penalty, which we have paid.
+Added: In January and February 2022, we submitted corrective action plans (“CAP”) to each of these agencies.
+Added: Each of the agencies has accepted our CAPs, and, in June 2022, both CMS and HCPF began monitoring the implementation of the CAPs.
+Added: We cannot guarantee that we will be able to implement the CAPs, or that we will be able to remedy the deficiencies specified by each of the agencies.
+Added: In addition, although these agencies coordinate many of the actions taken with respect to these audits, they each have separate mandates and are not obligated to act together or reach the same decisions.
+Added: Therefore, we cannot guarantee that the agencies will not separately request further actions or impose additional separate sanctions.
+Added: On May 10, 2021, CMS began an audit of our Sacramento, California center.
+Added: On September 17, 2021, we were notified that CMS had determined to suspend new enrollments at our Sacramento center based on deficiencies detected in the audit related to participant provision of services, which can be categorized as care delivery and management, care coordination and documentation of care, and on September 30, 2021, we were further notified that the Department of Health Care Services (“DHCS”) of the State of California had reached the same determination.
+Added: The suspension will remain in effect until CMS and DHCS determine that we have remediated the deficiencies to their satisfaction.
+Added: We submitted a CAP in October 2021, which has been accepted by both CMS and DHCS.
+Added: We are in the process of working with CMS and the state to determine the remaining steps before entering the validation process.
+Added: On January 7, 2022, DHCS notified us that it was suspending the State’s previously provided assurances that it would enter into a PACE program agreement with the Company (State Attestations) with respect to de novo centers in the State of California until such time as the CAPs and the remediation and validation processes for our Sacramento center have been successfully completed and the enrollment sanctions are lifted.
+Added: As a result of the suspension, we will be unable to open one of the de novo centers we had identified in California within our planned timeline.
+Added: In March 2022, CMS and DHCS began separate audits of our San Bernardino, California center.
+Added: In August 2022, CMS issued preliminary results identifying certain deficiencies, but verbally notified us that no enforcement actions will be taken.
+Added: To address the deficiencies identified in the audit processes, we are required to implement immediate corrective actions.
+Added: Our plans to do so (“iCARs”) have been accepted by CMS and we are currently working on the audit close process.
+Added: There can be no assurance as to the timeline of such close out.
+Added: In November 2021, CMS began an audit of our Albuquerque, New Mexico center.
+Added: On November 23, 2021, we received preliminary results identifying certain deficiencies related to participant provision of services, which can be categorized as care delivery and management, care coordination and documentation of care.
+Added: Validation results were received in March 2022.
+Added: In July 2022, CMS verbally notified us that no enforcement actions will be taken.
+Added: To address the deficiencies identified in the audit process, we are required to implement iCARs.
+Added: Our iCARs have been submitted to CMS
+Added: and we are currently working with CMS on the audit close out process.
+Added: There can be no assurance as to the timeline of such close out.
+Added: On February 9, 2022, we received notice from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services of the State of Kentucky informing us that they no longer intend to enter into an agreement with us to be a PACE provider in the State of Kentucky.
+Added: On February 14, 2022, CMS denied our initial application to develop the previously announced PACE center in Terre Haute, Indiana, based on deficiencies detected during CMS’s 2021 audits of our Sacramento and Colorado PACE programs.
+Added: We have committed to CMS and the Agency for Healthcare Administration in the State of Florida, that we will proactively pause remaining steps with respect to planned de novo centers in the State of Florida, to focus on remediating deficiencies raised in the audit processes.
+Added: We cannot guarantee the final outcome of any of the audits and processes described above.
+Added: If we are unable to effectively remediate the deficiencies raised by the audits, implement the CAPs or iCARs we have submitted, will submit or may be required to submit, or otherwise satisfy the agencies’ concerns, we could be subject to additional sanctions and our business plan, including our growth strategy (including with respect to enrollment growth and de novo openings), would continue to be adversely impacted.
+Added: Our management has been working collaboratively with the various agencies, including CMS.
+Added: In general, inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information or investigations with adverse findings, and in particular the audits described above, have resulted in and may further result in:
+Added: ● temporary or permanent enrollment sanctions in the affected center(s), as is the case with our Sacramento, California center and our centers in the State of Colorado;
+Added: ● refunding amounts we have been paid by the government;
+Added: ● state or federal agencies imposing CAPs, fines, penalties, training, policies and procedures, and other requirements or sanctions on us;
+Added: ● temporary suspension of payments;
+Added: ● debarment or exclusion from participation in federal health care programs;
+Added: ● self-disclosure of violations to applicable regulatory authorities;
+Added: ● damage to our reputation;
+Added: ● the revocation of a center’s license;
+Added: ● loss of certain rights under, or termination of, our contracts with government payors.
+Added: We may be required to refund amounts we have been paid and/or pay fines and penalties as a result of these inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information and investigations.
+Added: Any of the results noted above could have further material adverse effects on our business and operating results.
+Added: Furthermore, the legal, document production and other costs associated with complying with these inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information or investigations is significant.
+Added: We are subject to legal proceedings, enforcement actions and litigation, malpractice and privacy disputes, which are costly to defend and could materially harm our business and results of operations.
+Added: We are party to lawsuits and legal proceedings in the normal course of business from participants, employees, or other third parties for various actions.
+Added: These matters are often expensive and disruptive to normal business operations.
+Added: or may face allegations, lawsuits, including class actions, and regulatory inquiries, requests for information, audits and investigations regarding care and services provided to participants, the FCA, data privacy, security, labor and employment, consumer protection or intellectual property.
+Added: We also face or may face allegations or litigation related to our acquisitions, securities issuances or business practices, including public disclosures about our business.
+Added: On October 14, 2021, and subsequently amended on June 21, 2022, the Company was named as a defendant in a putative class action complaint filed in the District Court for the District of Colorado on behalf of individuals who purchased or acquired shares of the Company’s common stock during a specified period.
+Added: We are currently unable to predict the outcome of this proceeding.
+Added: In addition, on April 20, 2022, the Board of Directors of the Company received a books and records demand pursuant to Section 220 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, from a purported stockholder of the Company, in connection with the stockholder’s investigation of, among other matters, potential breaches of fiduciary duty, mismanagement, self-dealing, corporate waste or other violations of law by the Company’s Board with respect to these matters.
+Added: We are currently unable to predict the outcome of this matter.
+Added: Litigation and regulatory proceedings are protracted and expensive, and the results are difficult to predict.
+Added: Certain of these matters include claims for substantial or indeterminate amounts of damages and may include claims for injunctive relief.
+Added: Additionally, our litigation costs could be significant.
+Added: Adverse outcomes with respect to litigation or any of these legal proceedings may result in significant settlement costs or judgments, penalties, fines and sanctions.
+Added: In the event of compliance issues, sanctions could include civil monetary penalties, corrective action plans, monitoring, contract termination, and/or CMS and/or Medicaid agencies suspending or restricting enrollment with us (as is the case currently with respect to our Sacramento, California center, and our centers in the State of Colorado), which have and could continue to negatively impact our expansion and revenue growth.
+Added: We are also subject to periodic audits, which have and may continue to increase our regulatory compliance costs and have required and may require further change to our business practices, which could negatively impact our revenue growth.
+Added: Managing legal proceedings, regulatory inquiries, litigation and audits, even if we achieve favorable outcomes, is costly, time-consuming and diverts management’s attention from our business.
+Added: The results of regulatory proceedings, investigations, inquiries, litigation, claims, and audits cannot be predicted with certainty, and determining reserves for pending litigation and other legal, regulatory and audit matters requires significant judgment and assumptions.
+Added: There can be no assurance that our expectations will prove correct, and even if these matters are resolved in our favor or without significant cash settlements, these matters, and the time and resources necessary to litigate or resolve them, cause harm to our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations and the market price of our common stock.
+Added: We are also subject to lawsuits under the FCA and comparable state laws for submitting allegedly fraudulent, inadequately supported or otherwise inappropriate bills for services to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
+Added: These lawsuits, which may be initiated by government authorities as well as private party relators, can involve significant monetary damages, fines, attorney fees and the award of bounties to private plaintiffs who successfully bring these suits, as well as to the government programs.
+Added: In recent years, government oversight and law enforcement have become increasingly active and aggressive in investigating and taking legal action against potential fraud and abuse.
+Added: In July 2021, the Company received a civil investigative demand from the Attorney General for the State of Colorado under the Colorado Medicaid False Claims Act.
+Added: The demand requests information and documents regarding Medicaid billing, patient services and referrals in connection with the Company’s PACE program in Colorado.
+Added: We continue to fully cooperate with the Attorney General and produce the requested information and documentation.
+Added: We are currently unable to predict the outcome of this investigation.
+Added: In February 2022, the Company received a civil investigative demand from the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) under the Federal False Claims Act on similar subject matter.
+Added: The demand requests information and documents regarding audits, billing, orders tracking, and quality and timeliness of patient services in connection with the Company’s PACE programs in the states where the Company operates (California, Colorado, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Virginia).
+Added: We continue to fully cooperate with the DOJ and produce the requested information and documentation.
+Added: We are currently unable to predict the outcome of this investigation.
+Added: Furthermore, our business exposes us to potential medical malpractice, professional negligence or other related actions or claims that are inherent in the provision of healthcare services.
+Added: While the industry has not seen an increase in the number
+Added: of claims of this nature due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this remains a possibility due to the relatively lengthy claim development inherent in professional liability claims.
+Added: These claims, whether or not they have merit, could cause us to incur substantial costs, and could place a significant strain on our financial resources, divert the attention of management from our core business, harm our reputation and adversely affect our ability to attract and retain participants, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: Although we maintain third-party professional liability insurance coverage, it is possible that claims against us may exceed the coverage limits of our insurance policies.
+Added: Even if any professional liability loss is covered by an insurance policy, these policies typically have substantial deductibles for which we are responsible.
+Added: Professional liability claims in excess of applicable insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: In addition, any professional liability claim brought against us, whether or not they have merit, could result in an increase of our professional liability insurance premiums.
+Added: Insurance coverage varies in cost and can be difficult to obtain, and we cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtain insurance coverage in the future on terms acceptable to us or at all.
+Added: If our costs of insurance and claims increase, then our earnings could decline.
+Added: We may not realize expected results from our business strategy.
+Added: Part of our business strategy, if and when allowed, is to grow by expanding our network of centers and is significantly dependent on adding center capacity in our existing markets, expanding into new geographies by developing de novo centers, executing on tuck-in acquisitions, recruiting new participants and directly contracting with government payors, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
+Added: In the future, we expect to seek growth opportunities both organically and through acquisitions, the availability and success of which may be impacted by factors outside of our control.
+Added: Our ability to grow organically depends upon a number of factors, including the results of ongoing and future audits (including our audits in California, Colorado and New Mexico), investigations and remediation efforts, recruiting new participants, finding suitable geographies that have aging populations and viable rate structures, entering into government payor arrangements in new jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements, identifying appropriate centers, purchasing centers or obtaining leases, completing build-outs of new centers within proposed timelines and budgets and hiring members of our IDTs and other employees.
+Added: We cannot predict the results of ongoing or future investigations or audits, nor can we guarantee that we will be successful in our remediation efforts necessary to enter additional markets.
+Added: Additionally, if we fail to evaluate and execute new business opportunities properly, we may not achieve anticipated benefits and may incur increased costs.
+Added: Our growth strategy involves a number of risks and uncertainties, including that:
+Added: ● we are subject to sanctions as a result of deficiencies identified during audits of our PACE centers in Sacramento, California and Colorado and may not be able to successfully implement the corrective action plans (CAPs);
+Added: as a result, we are currently precluded from growing organically in the states of California and Colorado and from opening de novo centers in the states of California, Kentucky, Indiana and Florida;
+Added: ● we may not be able to successfully enter into contracts with government payors and/or other healthcare providers on terms favorable to us or at all.
+Added: In addition, we compete for government payor relationships with other potential players, some of whom may have greater resources than we do.
+Added: This competition may intensify due to the ongoing consolidation in the healthcare industry, which may increase our costs to pursue such opportunities;
+Added: ● we may not be able to recruit or retain a sufficient number of new participants to execute our growth strategy, and we may incur substantial costs to recruit new participants and we may be unable to recruit a sufficient number of new participants to offset those costs;
+Added: ● we may not be able to hire sufficient numbers of physicians and other clinical staff, particularly on account of heightened demand for healthcare personnel on account of the COVID-19 pandemic;
+Added: ● when expanding our business into new states, we may be required to comply with laws and regulations that may differ from states in which we currently operate;
+Added: ● we may have difficulty identifying appropriate acquisition targets, be precluded from acquiring targets as a result of the sanctions we face in the states of California and Colorado or due to other legal restrictions (e.g.
+Added: federal or state antitrust laws), or make investments in acquisitions that we are unable to effectively integrate, involve associated risks or liabilities that we are unable to uncover in advance, or that require greater resources than anticipated.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully capitalize on growth opportunities, which has negatively impacted our business model, revenues, results of operations and financial condition.
Under our PACE contracts, we assume all of the risk that the cost of providing services will exceed our compensation.
−Removed: Approximately 99.5% of our revenue for each of the years ended June 30, 2021 and 2020 is derived from capitation agreements with government payors in which we receive fixed PMPM fees.
+Added: Approximately 99.7% and 99.5% of our revenue for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively, was derived from capitation agreements with government payors in which we receive fixed PMPM fees.
While there are variations specific to each agreement, we generally contract with government payors to receive a fixed per member per month fee to provide or manage all healthcare services a participant may require while assuming financial responsibility for the totality of our participants’ healthcare expenses.
11 unchanged sentences
transplants);
−Removed: ● an increase in the cost of healthcare services and supplies, whether as a result of inflation, wage increases, purchases of vaccines and personal protective equipment (“PPE”) as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or otherwise;
+Added: ● an increase in the cost of healthcare services and supplies, whether as a result of inflation, wage increases, purchases of vaccines and PPE as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, other health emergencies, such as Monkeypox, or otherwise;
● changes to mandated benefits or other changes in healthcare laws, regulations and practices;
2 unchanged sentences
● contractual or claims disputes with providers, hospitals or other service providers;
−Removed: ● the occurrence of catastrophes, major epidemics or pandemics or acts of terrorism;
+Added: ● the occurrence of catastrophes, health emergencies, including epidemics or pandemics or acts of terrorism;
● the reduction of government payor payments.
3 unchanged sentences
When aggregating the revenue associated with Medicare and Medicaid by state, Colorado, California and Virginia accounted for a total of approximately 83.3% and 82.6% of our capitation revenue for the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, respectively.
−Removed: A majority of our revenues will continue to be derived from a limited number of key government payors, which may terminate their contracts with us upon the occurrence of certain events.
−Removed: The sudden loss of any of our government contracts or the renegotiation of any of our contracts could adversely affect our operating results.
+Added: We believe that majority of our revenues will continue to be derived from a limited number of key government payors, which may terminate their contracts with us upon the occurrence of certain events, including as a result of inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information or investigations with adverse findings.
+Added: The sudden loss of any of our government contracts or the renegotiation of any of such contracts could adversely affect our operating results.
In the ordinary course of business, we engage in active discussions and renegotiations with government payors in respect of the services we provide and the terms of our agreements.
As the states respond to market dynamics and financial pressures, and as government payors make strategic budgetary decisions in respect of the programs in which they participate, certain government payors may seek to renegotiate or terminate their agreements with us.
−Removed: Any reduction in the budgetary appropriations for our services, whether as a result of fiscal constraints due to recession, emergency situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in policy or otherwise, could result in a reduction in our capitated fee payments and possibly loss of contracts.
−Removed: These discussions could result in reductions to the fees and changes to the scope of services contemplated by our original contracts and consequently could negatively impact our revenues, business and prospects.
−Removed: See “—A pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States or worldwide, including the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, could adversely affect our business” and “—We conduct a significant percentage of our operations in the State of Colorado and, as a result, we are particularly susceptible to any reduction in budget appropriations for our services or any other adverse developments in that state.”
+Added: Any reduction in the budgetary appropriations for our services, whether as a result of fiscal constraints due to recession, or economic downturn, emergency situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, changes in policy or otherwise, could result in a reduction in our capitated fee payments, changes to the scope of services and possibly loss of contracts and could negatively impact our revenues, business and prospects.
+Added: Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Our Business—A pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States or worldwide, including the ongoing effects of COVID-19, could adversely affect our business” and “Risks Related to Our Business—We conduct a significant percentage of our operations in the State of Colorado and, as a result, we are particularly susceptible to any reduction in budget appropriations for our services or any other adverse developments in that state.”
Because we rely on a limited number of government-funded agencies, namely CMS and state Medicaid agencies, for a significant portion of our revenues, we depend on federal funding, as well as the financial condition of the states in which we operate, and each state’s commitment to its participation in the PACE program.
9 unchanged sentences
Implementation of these and other types of measures has in the past and could in the future result in substantial reductions in our revenue and operating margins.
−Removed: Legislation enacted in 2011 requires CMS to sequester or reduce all
−Removed: Medicare payments, including payments to PACE organizations, by two percent per year for a period of years.
−Removed: Subsequent legislation extended these cuts through 2030, but legislation enacted in 2020 suspended the cuts during the pandemic.
−Removed: Currently, the 2% cuts under sequestration are scheduled to be reinstated in 2022, which once reinstated will negatively impact our revenue.
−Removed: We cannot predict what other deficit reduction, other payment reduction or budget enforcement initiatives may be proposed by Congress, whether Congress will attempt to restructure or suspend sequestration or the impact sequestration, other payment reductions or budget enforcement initiatives may have on our business.
+Added: Legislation enacted in 2011 requires CMS to sequester or reduce all Medicare payments, including payments to PACE organizations, by 2% per year for a period of years.
+Added: Subsequent legislation extended these cuts through 2030, but legislation enacted temporarily suspended these cuts in 2020 during the pandemic.
+Added: On December 10, 2021, the “Protecting
+Added: Medicare and American Farmers from Sequester Cuts Act” extended the 2% Medicare sequester moratorium through March 31, 2022, and adjusted the sequester to 1% between April 1, 2022 and June 30, 2022.
+Added: These cuts were reinstated on July 1, 2022 and will negatively impact our revenue.
+Added: We cannot predict what other deficit reduction, other payment reduction or budget enforcement initiatives may be proposed by Congress, which could impact our business, including whether Congress will attempt to increase, restructure or suspend sequestration.
Each year, CMS establishes the Medicare PACE benchmark payment rates by county for the following calendar year.
8 unchanged sentences
Our records and submissions to government payors may contain inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of participants, which could cause us to overstate or understate our revenue and subject us to repayment obligations or penalties.
−Removed: The claims and encounter records that we submit to government payors impact data that support the Medicare RAF scores attributable to participants.
+Added: The claims and encounter records that we submit to government payors impact data that support the RAF scores attributable to participants.
These RAF scores determine the payment we are entitled for the provision of medical care to such participants.
The data submitted to CMS is based on diagnosis codes and medical charts that our employed, contracted, and noncontracted providers identify, record and prepare.
−Removed: Historically, this documentation has been required to be completed during an in-person visit with a participant, but due to COVID-19 and going forward, CMS is now allowing documentation of conditions identified during qualifying telehealth visits with participants.
−Removed: Thus far, we have been able to document the health conditions of our participants during telehealth visits as well as we did during in-person visits prior to COVID-19;
+Added: Since CMS has started allowing documentation of conditions identified during qualifying telehealth visits with participants, we have been able to document the health conditions of our participants during telehealth visits as well as we did during in-person visits prior to COVID-19;
however, any issues with documenting such conditions could adversely impact Medicare RAF scores and our resulting revenue for future periods.
−Removed: CMS may periodically audit PACE organizations’ risk adjustment submissions.
+Added: CMS periodically audits PACE organizations’ risk adjustment submissions.
The submission of inaccurate, incomplete or erroneous data could result in inaccurate revenue and risk adjustment payments, which may be subject to correction or retroactive adjustment in later periods.
This corrected or adjusted information may be reflected in financial statements for periods subsequent to the period in which the revenue was recorded.
−Removed: We might also need to refund a portion of the revenue that we received, which refund, depending on its magnitude, could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We could be required to refund a portion of the revenue that we received, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Historically, these true-up payments typically occur between May and August, but the timing of these payments is determined by CMS, and we have neither visibility nor control over the timing of such payments.
2 unchanged sentences
In addition, we could be liable for penalties to the federal government under the FCA, which may include per claim penalties, plus up to three times the amount of damages caused by each false claim, which can be as much as the amounts received directly or indirectly from the government for each such false claim.
−Removed: Most recently, on June 19, 2020, the Department of Justice issued a final rule announcing adjustments to FCA penalties, under which the per claim penalty range increases to a range from $11,665 to $23,331 for penalties assessed after June 19, 2020, if the underlying conduct
−Removed: occurred after November 2, 2015.
+Added: In addition, the penalties that can be imposed for each false claim ranges from $12,537 to $25,076 for penalties assessed after May 9, 2022, if the underlying conduct occurred after November 2, 2015.
There is a high potential for substantial penalties in connection with any alleged FCA violations.
Elements of the risk adjustment mechanism continue to be challenged, reevaluated, and revised by the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Justice, the HHS Office of the Inspector General (“HHS OIG”), and CMS.
−Removed: For example, CMS has indicated that payment adjustments will not be limited to errors identified in the sampled population, but that the error rate identified in the sample may also be extrapolated to all risk adjusted payments made under the PACE contract being audited.
+Added: Department of Justice, the OIG, and CMS.
+Added: For example, CMS has indicated that payment adjustments, such as adjustments
+Added: made in connection with Risk Adjustment Data Validation (“RADV”) audits, will not be limited to errors identified in the sampled population, but that the error rate identified in the sample may also be extrapolated to all risk adjusted payments made under the PACE contract being audited.
CMS has described its audit process as plan-year specific and stated that it will not extrapolate audit results for plan years prior to 2011.
Because CMS has not stated otherwise, there is a risk that payment adjustments made as a result of one plan year’s audit would be extrapolated to prior plan years after 2011.
−Removed: In addition, proposed regulations relating to the Risk Adjustment Data Validation Audit (“RADV audit”) and extrapolation methodology have been outstanding since 2018 and may result in additional changes in recoupments arising from RADV audits.
+Added: The proposed regulations relating to RADV audit and extrapolation methodology have been outstanding since 2018 and if implemented, could allow retroactive recoupments arising from RADV audits.
+Added: CMS is expected to issue its final rule on the audit and extrapolation methodology by November 1, 2022.
There can be no assurance that a PACE organization will not be randomly selected or targeted for review by CMS or that the outcome of such a review will not result in a material adjustment in our revenue and profitability, even if the information we submitted to CMS is accurate and supportable.
Substantial changes in the risk adjustment mechanism, including changes that result from enforcement or audit actions, could materially affect our capitated reimbursement.
−Removed: Non-renewal or termination of capitation agreements with government payors could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Renegotiation, non-renewal or termination of capitation agreements with government payors could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Under most of our capitation agreements with government payors, the state is generally permitted to adjust certain terms of the agreements from time to time.
14 unchanged sentences
This increase, combined with slower state revenue growth, has led both the federal government and many states to institute measures aimed at controlling the growth of Medicaid spending, and in some instances reducing aggregate Medicaid spending.
−Removed: Due to budget constraints, including those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, we may experience negative Medicaid capitated rate payment pressure from certain states where we operate, such as Colorado, where we conduct a significant percentage of our operations.
+Added: Due to budget constraints, including those resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic or a potential economic downturn or recession, we may experience negative Medicaid capitated rate payment pressure from certain states where we operate, such as Colorado, where we conduct a significant percentage of our operations.
In addition, as part of past attempts to repeal, replace or modify the ACA and as a means to reduce the federal budget deficit, there have in recent years been congressional efforts to move Medicaid from an open-ended program with coverage and benefits set by the federal government to one in which states receive a fixed amount of federal funds, either through block grants or per capita caps, and have more flexibility to determine benefits, eligibility or provider payments.
−Removed: If those changes are implemented, we cannot predict whether the amount of fixed federal funding to the states will be based on current payment amounts, or if it will be based on lower payment amounts, which would negatively impact those states that expanded their Medicaid programs in response to the ACA.
+Added: If those changes are implemented, we cannot predict whether the amount of fixed federal funding to the states will be based on current payment amounts, or if it will be based on lower payment amounts, which would negatively impact those states
+Added: that expanded their Medicaid programs in response to the ACA.
We expect state and federal efforts to reduce healthcare spending to continue for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: A pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States or worldwide, including the ongoing outbreak of COVID-19, could adversely affect our business.
−Removed: The severity, magnitude and duration of the current COVID-19 pandemic is uncertain and rapidly changing.
−Removed: Because of our business model, the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be fully reflected in our results of operations and overall financial condition until future periods.
−Removed: Additionally, any future pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease may adversely affect our business if one of the geographies we serve is affected by the outbreak, particularly at the onset of any such outbreak before response protocols have been developed.
+Added: Our overall business results may suffer from an economic downturn.
+Added: During periods of high unemployment, governmental entities often experience budget deficits as a result of increased costs and lower than expected tax collections.
+Added: These budget deficits at federal, state and local government entities have decreased, and may continue to decrease, spending for health and human service programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, PACE and similar programs, which represent nearly all of the payor sources for our centers.
+Added: Additionally, we have and may continue to experience an increase in cost of care due to enhanced wage pressures, labor shortages, or other adverse economic conditions which we might not be able to offset and which may have a material effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: A pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease in the United States or worldwide, including the ongoing effects of COVID-19, could adversely affect our business.
+Added: We face a wide variety of risks related to health epidemics, pandemics and similar outbreaks, especially of infectious diseases, including COVID-19 and its variants and Monkeypox.
+Added: While the full effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to develop, the pandemic dramatically impacted the global health and economic environment, including business slowdowns or shutdowns, labor shortages and supply chain challenges.
+Added: Additionally, any future pandemic, epidemic or outbreak of an infectious disease may adversely affect our business if one of the geographies we serve is affected by such outbreak, particularly at the onset of any such outbreak before response protocols have been developed.
Specifically, if our participants fall ill due to an outbreak, we may experience a high level of unexpected deaths, increased costs, and other effects, including a loss of revenue, negative publicity, litigation and inquiries from government regulators.
−Removed: Even though to date, the COVID-19 pandemic has not materially adversely impacted our revenue or expenses, adverse market conditions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic may materially and adversely affect our business and the value of our common stock.
−Removed: Numerous state and local jurisdictions, including some markets where we operate, have and could continue to impose, and others in the future may impose, travel bans and restrictions, “shelter-in-place” orders or shutdowns, quarantines, curfews, executive orders and similar government orders and restrictions for their residents to control the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19.
−Removed: Such orders or restrictions have resulted in largely remote operations at our headquarters and centers, work stoppages among some vendors and suppliers, slowdowns and delays, travel restrictions and cancellation of events and have restricted the ability of our front-line outreach teams to host and attend community events, among other effects, thereby significantly impacting our operations.
+Added: Although the COVID-19 pandemic has not materially adversely impacted our revenue or expenses, it may continue to have an adverse effect on market conditions, including the value of our common stock, and impact our workforce, including increased competition for healthcare professionals and wage increases.
In addition, the COVID-19 virus disproportionately impacts older adults, especially those with chronic illnesses, which describes many of our participants.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic has significantly increased demand for our telehealth and in-home offerings.
−Removed: The telehealth market is relatively new, and it is uncertain whether it will achieve and sustain high levels of demand, consumer acceptance and market adoption.
−Removed: By June 2021, we fully opened all our centers and transitioned to a predominantly in-person, center-based care model, supplemented by telehealth.
−Removed: We expect telehealth care delivery to remain a part of our ongoing care model.
−Removed: If our participants do not perceive the benefits of telehealth services, or if our services are not competitive, it could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
−Removed: Similarly, individual and healthcare industry concerns or negative publicity regarding participant confidentiality and privacy in the context of telehealth could limit market acceptance of such healthcare services.
−Removed: In addition, some of our participants may be unable to use the telehealth technology on their own.
−Removed: Because some of our participants may not be comfortable with a team member coming to their home to deliver face-to-face care or entering with a device to assist with using our telehealth services, participants may be reluctant to seek necessary care given their inability to use telehealth services, coupled with preference to stay at home due to the continuing risks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: This could have the effect of deferring healthcare costs that we will need to incur at later periods and may also affect the health of participants who defer treatment, which may cause our costs to increase in the future.
−Removed: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we may not be able to document the health conditions of our participants as completely as we have in the past.
+Added: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, our ability to document the health conditions of our participants as completely as in the past may have been impacted.
Medicare pays capitation using a “risk adjustment model,” which compensates providers based on the health status (acuity) of each individual participant.
1 unchanged sentence
Medicare requires that a participant’s health issues be documented annually regardless of the permanence of the underlying causes.
−Removed: Historically, this documentation has been required to be completed during an in-person visit with a participant, but due to COVID-19 and going forward, CMS is now allowing documentation of conditions identified during qualifying telehealth visits with participants.
−Removed: Thus far, we have been able to document the health conditions of our participants during telehealth visits as
−Removed: well as we did during in-person visits prior to COVID-19;
−Removed: however, any issues with documenting such conditions could adversely impact Medicare RAF scores and our resulting revenue for future periods.
−Removed: See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Our records and submissions to government payors may contain inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of participants, which could cause us to overstate or understate our revenue and subject us to repayment obligations or penalties.”
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic temporarily forced our centers to close or to perform operations remotely reducing our frequent in-person contact with participants and exacerbated difficulties to hire additional healthcare professionals, causing certain of our centers to be understaffed or staffed with personnel that requires training.
−Removed: The general lack of in-person interaction and the reduction in healthcare personnel, and specifically, trained personnel, has impacted and may continue to impact our ability to adhere to the complex government laws and regulations that apply to our business.
+Added: Any issues with documenting such conditions during the COVID-19 pandemic could have adversely impacted our ability to accurately record Medicare RAF scores and may result in adjustments to revenues.
+Added: See Item 1A.Risk Factors “—Risks Related to Our Business—Our records and submissions to government payors may contain inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of participants, which could cause us to overstate or understate our revenue and subject us to repayment obligations or penalties.”
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic has and continues to exacerbate difficulties to hire additional healthcare professionals, causing certain of our centers to be understaffed or staffed with personnel that requires training.
+Added: The reduction in healthcare personnel, and specifically, trained personnel, has impacted and may continue to impact our ability to adhere to the complex government laws and regulations that apply to our business.
PACE regulators require that new participants be assessed within a period of 30 days from enrollment to our programs and for us to provide them a personalized care plan.
1 unchanged sentence
We have implemented improvement plans and continue to work diligently and monitor our progress in remediating this issue.
−Removed: Failure to conduct assessments or produce care plans within the required period of time may subject us to suspension of new enrollment or restrict enrollment at the affected centers and other centers in the affected state.
+Added: Failure to conduct assessments or produce care plans within the required period of time may further subject us to suspension of new enrollment or restrict enrollment at the affected centers and other centers in the affected state.
These or future violations of these requirements or other government laws or regulations could result in significant consequences that may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was signed into law.
−Removed: The CARES Act provided for $100.0 billion in funding for healthcare providers, including hospitals on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic, and subsequent COVID-19 economic relief legislation authorized additional funding to be distributed to healthcare providers.
−Removed: The state of Pennsylvania enacted Act 24 of 2020 (“Act 24”), which allocated $10.0 million in federal CARES Act funding to Managed Long Term Care Organizations to cover COVID-19 related costs.
−Removed: Our Pennsylvania centers were granted $1.0 million of funding from Act 24.
−Removed: During the year ended June 30, 2020, we recognized $0.7 million of such funds as a reduction of expense within our consolidated statement of operations, with the remaining $0.3 million recognized during the year ended June 30, 2021.
+Added: On March 27, 2020, the CARES Act was signed into law and provided for $100.0 billion in funding for healthcare providers.
+Added: Pursuant to the CARES Act, the state of Pennsylvania granted our Pennsylvania centers $1.0 million of funding.
As a result of receiving this funding, we may be subject to audits and oversight by the federal government and Pennsylvania regulators, and there is no guarantee that the funds we received could not be subject to recoupment.
−Removed: Recipients are not required to repay these funds, provided that they attest to and comply with certain terms and conditions, including not using funds received to reimburse expenses or losses that other sources are obligated to reimburse, as well as certain audit and reporting requirements.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, we incurred $8.3 million of COVID-19 related costs, $4.8 million of which related to the year ended June 30, 2021.
−Removed: It is uncertain whether our COVID-19 related expenses will continue to increase, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: The extent and continued impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business will depend on certain developments, including:
−Removed: the duration and spread of the outbreak, including virus variants;
−Removed: government responses to the pandemic, including responses to state budget shortfalls;
−Removed: the impact on our participants and enrollment;
−Removed: the availability, effectiveness and receipt of vaccines by our participants and our employees;
−Removed: the impact on participant, industry or employee events;
−Removed: and the effect on our supply chains, all of which continue to be uncertain and are difficult to fully predict.
−Removed: Because of our business model, the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be fully reflected in our results of operations and overall financial condition until future periods.
+Added: We are not required to repay these funds, provided that we attest to and comply with certain terms and conditions, including not using funds received to reimburse expenses or losses that other sources are obligated to reimburse, as well as certain audit and reporting requirements.
+Added: We depend on our senior management team and other key employees, and the loss of one or more of these employees or an inability to attract and retain other highly skilled employees could harm our business.
+Added: Our future success depends largely upon the services of our senior management team and other key employees.
+Added: We rely on our leadership team in the areas of operations, provision of medical services, information technology and security, marketing, and general and administrative functions.
+Added: Since we became a public company, there have been changes in our executive management team resulting from the hiring or departure of executives, including the appointment of Patrick Blair to the position of President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2022.
+Added: Even though Mr.
+Added: Blair has had a long and successful career in healthcare, joining the Company from BAYADA Home Health Care, where he was the Group President responsible for overall quality and financial performance of the Home Health, Hospice and Personal Care businesses, changes to our business strategy resulting from this transition could have a disruptive impact on our ability to implement our business strategy and could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: In addition, our employment agreements with our executive officers and other key personnel do not require them to continue to work for us for any specified period and, therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time.
+Added: The loss, whether as a result of voluntary termination or illness, of one or more of the members of our senior management team, or other key employees, could harm our business.
+Added: Changes in our executive management team may also cause disruptions in, and harm to, our business.
+Added: If certain of our suppliers do not meet our needs, if the price increases on supplies is sustained as a result of inflation, if we are not reimbursed or adequately reimbursed for medical products we purchase or if we are unable to effectively access new technology or medical products, it could negatively impact our ability to effectively provide the services we offer and could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We have significant suppliers that may be the sole or primary source of products critical to the services we provide, or to which we have committed obligations to make purchases, sometimes at particular prices.
+Added: If any of these suppliers do not meet our needs for the products they supply, including sustained price increases as a result of inflation, a product recall, product shortage or dispute, and we are not able to find adequate alternative sources, it could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: In addition, the technology related to the products critical to the services we provide is subject to new developments which may result in the availability of superior products.
+Added: If we are not able to access superior products or new medical products, including biopharmaceuticals or medical devices, on a cost-effective basis or if suppliers are not able to fulfill our requirements for such products, including PPE, we could face attrition with respect to our participants or health care providers and other personnel and other negative consequences which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
We began operating as a for-profit company in 2016 and have limited operating history as a for-profit company.
2 unchanged sentences
Due to our relatively limited operating history as a for-profit company, our historical and recent financial and business results may not be representative of what they may be in the future.
−Removed: We have encountered and will continue to encounter significant risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing and highly regulated industries, such as determining appropriate investments for our limited resources, competition from other providers, acquiring and retaining participants, hiring, integrating, training and retaining skilled
−Removed: personnel, unforeseen expenses and challenges in forecasting accuracy.
−Removed: Although we have successfully expanded our footprint outside of Colorado and our other existing geographies and intend to continue to expand into new geographies, we cannot provide assurance that any new centers we open, centers that we acquire, or new geographies we enter will be successful.
−Removed: If we are unable to increase participant enrollment, successfully manage our external provider costs or successfully expand into new geographies, our revenue and our ability to sustain profitability could be impaired.
+Added: We have encountered and will continue to encounter significant risks and uncertainties frequently experienced by new companies in rapidly changing and highly regulated industries, such as determining appropriate investments for our limited resources, competition from other providers, acquiring and retaining participants, hiring, integrating, training and retaining skilled personnel, unforeseen expenses and
+Added: challenges in forecasting accuracy.
+Added: Although we have expanded our footprint outside of Colorado into other geographies, we cannot provide assurance that we will be able to expand into new geographies or that any new centers we open or acquire, or new geographies we enter will be successful.
+Added: If we are unable to increase participant enrollment, manage our external provider costs or expand into new geographies, our revenue and our ability to sustain profitability could be impaired.
If we make acquisitions to expand our footprint, we may experience operational difficulties or challenges with integrating and realizing the benefits of such acquisitions and we may need to expend resources to ensure such centers are operating in compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements, as well as any corrective action plans.
4 unchanged sentences
If our new hires perform poorly, if we are unsuccessful in hiring, training, managing and integrating these new employees, if we are not successful in retaining our existing employees, or if we are unable to provide the care and services that our participants require in compliance with regulatory requirements, our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: Our growth strategy may not prove viable, and we may not realize expected results.
−Removed: Our business strategy is to grow rapidly by expanding our network of centers and is significantly dependent on adding center capacity in our existing markets, expanding into new geographies by developing de novo centers, executing on tuck-in acquisitions, recruiting new participants and directly contracting with government payors, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
−Removed: We seek growth opportunities both organically and through acquisitions, the availability and success of which may be impacted by factors outside of our control.
−Removed: Our ability to grow organically depends upon a number of factors, including recruiting new participants, finding suitable geographies that have aging populations and viable rate structures, entering into government payor arrangements in new jurisdictions, ensuring compliance with regulatory and contractual requirements, identifying appropriate facilities, purchasing facilities or obtaining leases, completing build-outs of new facilities within proposed timelines and budgets and hiring members of our IDTs and other employees.
−Removed: We cannot guarantee that we will be successful in pursuing our growth strategy.
−Removed: If we fail to evaluate and execute new business opportunities properly, we may not achieve anticipated benefits and may incur increased costs.
−Removed: Our growth strategy involves a number of risks and uncertainties, including that:
−Removed: ● we may not be able to successfully enter into contracts with government payors and/or other healthcare providers on terms favorable to us or at all.
−Removed: In addition, we compete for government payor relationships with other potential players, some of whom may have greater resources than we do.
−Removed: This competition may intensify due to the ongoing consolidation in the healthcare industry, which may increase our costs to pursue such opportunities;
−Removed: ● we may not be able to recruit or retain a sufficient number of new participants to execute our growth strategy, and we may incur substantial costs to recruit new participants and we may be unable to recruit a sufficient number of new participants to offset those costs;
−Removed: ● we may not be able to identify optimal target markets for our de novo centers, have difficulty entering into our prioritized list of markets, or the de novo centers we build may require more capital than expected and not yield anticipated returns;
−Removed: ● we may not be able to hire sufficient numbers of physicians and other clinical staff, particularly on account of heightened demand for healthcare platforms on account of the COVID-19 pandemic;
−Removed: ● when expanding our business into new states, we may be required to comply with laws and regulations that may differ from states in which we currently operate;
−Removed: ● we may have difficulty identifying appropriate acquisition targets, or make investments in acquisitions that we are unable to effectively integrate, involve associated risks or liabilities that we are unable to uncover in advance, or that require greater resources than anticipated (see “Risk factors—Risks Related to Our Business-Security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions have in the past and could in the future compromise sensitive information related to our business or our participants, or prevent us from accessing critical information and expose us to liability, and could adversely affect our business and our reputation.”).
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully capitalize on growth opportunities, which may negatively impact our business model, revenues, results of operations and financial condition.
If we are unable to attract new participants, our revenue growth will be adversely affected.
To increase our revenue, our business strategy is to expand the number of centers and participants in our network.
−Removed: In order to support such growth, we must continue to recruit and retain a sufficient number of new participants both within our existing centers and in new centers.
−Removed: Our ability to do so depends in large part on the success of our sales and marketing efforts, which are subject to various federal and state laws and regulations that impact marketing.
−Removed: We are focused on frail, dual-eligible senior population and face competition from other healthcare providers and payors in the recruitment of potential participants.
−Removed: Therefore, we must demonstrate that our services provide a viable solution for potential participants.
−Removed: If we are unable to convince the frail, dual-eligible senior population of the benefits of the InnovAge Platform or if potential or existing participants prefer the healthcare provider model of one of our competitors, we may not be able to effectively implement our growth strategy, which depends on our ability to attract new participants.
−Removed: Participant enrollment for PACE is ongoing each month and require states to verify eligibility, a process which can result in delays in enrollment.
−Removed: Our inability to identify and recruit new eligible participants and retain existing participants would harm our ability to execute our growth strategy and may have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial position.
+Added: In order to support such growth, we must continue to recruit and retain a sufficient number of new participants.
+Added: Our ability to do so depends in large part on the states of California and Colorado lifting current enrollment sanctions and the success of our sales and marketing efforts, which are subject to various federal and state laws and regulations that impact marketing.
+Added: As a result of the sanctions and deficiencies identified during the audits of our centers, our reputation has been harmed which has impacted and could in the future continue to impact our ability to attract new participants.
+Added: Additionally, as part of our remediation efforts, we have hired additional staff which has increased our PMPM expenses and, as a result, has negatively impacted our profit margin.
+Added: If we are unable to convince the frail, dual-eligible senior population of the benefits of the InnovAge Platform or if potential or existing participants prefer the healthcare provider model of one of our competitors, we may not be able to effectively implement our growth strategy, which depends on our ability to attract new participants, if permitted.
+Added: Participant enrollment for PACE is ongoing each month and requires states to verify eligibility, a process which can result in delays in enrollment.
+Added: Our inability to identify and recruit new eligible participants and retain existing participants has and could continue to harm our ability to execute our growth strategy and has and may continue to have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial position.
We conduct a significant percentage of our operations in the State of Colorado and, as a result, we are particularly susceptible to any reduction in budget appropriations for our services or any other adverse developments in that state.
3 unchanged sentences
In June 2022, we completed negotiations relating to the capitated fee rates with government payors in the State of Colorado, which resulted in a mid-single digit rate increase applicable for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: If we fail to manage our growth effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain high levels of service and participant satisfaction or adequately address competitive challenges.
−Removed: We have experienced, and may continue to experience, rapid growth and organizational change, which has placed, and may continue to place, significant demands on our management and our operational and financial resources.
−Removed: For example, we completed our conversion from a not-for-profit to a for-profit organization in 2016.
−Removed: Additionally, our organizational structure may become more complex as we expand our operational, financial and management controls, as well as our reporting systems and procedures as a public company.
−Removed: We may require significant capital expenditures and the allocation of valuable management resources to grow and evolve in these areas.
−Removed: We must effectively increase our headcount, ensure our personnel have the necessary licenses and
−Removed: competencies and continue to effectively train and manage our employees.
−Removed: We will be unable to manage our business effectively if we are unable to alleviate the strain on resources caused by growth in a timely and successful manner.
−Removed: If we fail to effectively manage our anticipated growth and change or fail to ensure that the level of care and services provided by our employees complies with regulatory and contractual requirements, the quality of our services may suffer, which could negatively affect our brand and reputation, harm our ability to attract and retain participants and employees and lead to the need for corrective actions.
−Removed: In addition, as we expand our business, it is important that we continue to maintain high levels of patient service and satisfaction.
−Removed: As our participant base continues to grow, we will need to expand our services and personnel to provide personalized participant care.
−Removed: If we are not able to continue to provide high quality healthcare that meets PACE requirements and generates high levels of participant satisfaction, our reputation, as well as our business, results of operations and financial condition would be adversely affected.
−Removed: The healthcare industry is highly competitive.
+Added: Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Our Business—Our business strategy may not realize expected results.”
+Added: If we fail to manage our operations effectively, we may be unable to execute our business plan, maintain effective levels of service and participant satisfaction or adequately address competitive challenges.
+Added: We have experienced, and may continue to experience, and organizational change and growth, which has placed, and may continue to place, significant demands on our management and our operational and financial resources.
+Added: For example, we completed our conversion from a not-for-profit to a for-profit organization in 2016 and completed our IPO in 2021.
+Added: Additionally, our organizational structure continues to become more complex as we expand our operational, financial and management controls, as well as our reporting systems and procedures as a public company.
+Added: We may require significant capital expenditures and the allocation of valuable management resources to grow and evolve our operational and financial operations and grow.
+Added: We must effectively increase our headcount, ensure our personnel have the necessary licenses and competencies and continue to effectively train and manage our employees.
+Added: We will be unable to manage our business effectively if we are unable to alleviate the strain on resources caused by growth in a timely and efficient manner.
+Added: If we fail to effectively manage our potential growth and change or fail to ensure that the level of care and services provided by our employees complies with regulatory and contractual requirements, and levels of patient service and satisfaction, our brand and reputation, could suffer, adversely affecting our ability to attract and retain participants and employees and lead to the need for corrective actions.
+Added: Results of audits conducted by CMS and other regulators resulted in suspensions of new enrollments in the states of California and Colorado due to deficiencies detected in the audits related to participant care.
+Added: Risk Factors “Risks Related to Our Business—We face inspections, reviews, audits and investigations under federal and state government programs and contracts.
+Added: These audits require corrective actions and have resulted in adverse findings that have negatively affected and may continue to affect our business, including our results of operations, liquidity, financial condition and reputation” for more information.
+Added: The healthcare industry is highly competitive and, if we are not able to compete effectively, our business could be harmed.
We compete directly with national, regional and local providers of healthcare for participants and clinical providers.
12 unchanged sentences
For example, the service area for our Sacramento, California center, opened July 1, 2020, overlaps with an existing PACE program in the region.
−Removed: Additionally, as we expand into new geographies, we may encounter competitors with stronger local community relationships or brand recognition, which could give those competitors an advantage in attracting new participants.
+Added: Additionally, once restrictions on our ability to enroll participants as a result of the audits of our centers in Sacramento, California and Colorado and on our ability to open de novo centers as a result of actions taken by other states or us, are lifted or resolved, as we expand into new geographies, we may encounter competitors with stronger local community relationships or brand recognition, which could give those competitors an advantage in attracting new participants.
Individual physicians, physician groups and companies in other healthcare industry segments, some of which have greater financial, marketing and staffing resources, may become competitors in providing health care services, and this competition may have a material adverse effect on our business operations and financial position.
Our presence is currently limited to Colorado, California, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and we may not be able to successfully establish a presence in new geographic markets.
−Removed: We currently operate in Colorado, California, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia, and currently have plans to provide our services in Florida and Kentucky.
+Added: We currently operate in Colorado, California, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
+Added: As described in Item 1A.
+Added: Risk Factors, “ Risks Related to Our Business—We face inspections, reviews, audits and investigations under federal and state government programs and contracts.
+Added: These audits require corrective actions and have resulted in adverse findings that have negatively affected and may continue to affect our business, including our results of operations, liquidity, financial condition and reputation,” as we continue to resolve current audits by CMS and other regulatory authorities, our ability to open de novo centers in current or new markets is uncertain and may be delayed.
+Added: While we continue to provide services in our current centers, there can be no assurance when or if we will expand our operations into new geographic markets.
For the year ended June 30, 2022, approximately half of our revenue was driven by our businesses in Colorado.
−Removed: As a result, our exposure to many of the risks described herein are not mitigated by a diversification of geographic focus.
+Added: As a result, our exposure to many of the risks described in these risk factors are not mitigated by a diversification of geographic focus.
To continue to expand our operations to other regions of the United States, we will have to devote resources to identifying and exploring such perceived opportunities.
Thereafter, we will have to, among other things, recruit and retain qualified personnel, develop new centers and establish new relationships or contracts with physicians and other healthcare and services providers.
−Removed: In addition, we will be required to comply with laws and regulations of states that may differ from the ones in which we currently operate, and could
−Removed: face competitors with greater knowledge of such local markets.
+Added: In addition, we will be required to comply with laws and regulations of states that may differ from the ones in which we currently operate, and could face competitors with greater knowledge of such local markets.
We anticipate that further geographic expansion will require us to make a substantial investment of management time, capital and/or other resources.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we will be able to continue to successfully expand our operations in any new geographic markets.
−Removed: Our overall business results may suffer from an economic downturn.
−Removed: During periods of high unemployment, including as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, governmental entities often experience budget deficits as a result of increased costs and lower than expected tax collections.
−Removed: These budget deficits at federal, state and local government entities have decreased, and may continue to decrease, spending for health and human service programs, including Medicare, Medicaid, PACE and similar programs, which represent nearly all of the payor sources for our centers.
+Added: There can be no assurance that we will be able to continue to expand our operations in any new geographic markets.
+Added: Competition for physicians and other clinical personnel or other factors could increase our labor costs and adversely affect our revenue, profitability and cash flows.
+Added: Our operations are dependent on the efforts, abilities and experience of our physicians and clinical personnel.
+Added: We compete with other healthcare providers, primarily hospitals and other centers, in attracting physicians, nurses and medical staff to support our centers, and recruiting and retaining qualified management and support personnel responsible for the daily operations of each of our centers.
+Added: In some markets, the lack of availability of clinical personnel, such as nurses and mental health professionals, has become a significant operating issue facing all healthcare providers, which situation was further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: This shortage has required us to enhance wages and benefits to recruit and retain qualified personnel or to contract for more expensive temporary personnel.
+Added: For the years ended June 30, 2022 and 2021, our total center-level employee costs represented 18.5% and 17.7%, respectively, of our revenue.
+Added: We also depend on the available labor pool of semi-skilled and unskilled workers in each of the markets in which we operate.
+Added: A sustained labor shortage, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or as a result of general macroeconomic conditions, could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects and conditions.
+Added: Our labor costs have increased due to higher wage rates associated with the increased competitive labor market.
+Added: Because the vast majority of our revenue consists of prospective monthly capitated, or fixed, payments per participant, our ability to pass along increased labor costs is limited.
+Added: In particular, if labor costs rise at an annual rate greater than our net annual consumer price index basket update from Medicare, our results of operations and cash flows will likely be adversely affected.
+Added: Any union activity at our centers that may occur in the future could contribute to increased labor costs.
+Added: Certain proposed changes in federal labor laws and the National Labor Relations Board’s modification of its election procedures to allow for faster elections and absentee ballots could increase the likelihood of employee unionization attempts.
+Added: Although none of our employees are currently represented by a collective bargaining agreement, to the extent a significant portion of our employee base unionizes, it is possible our labor costs could increase materially.
+Added: Our failure to recruit and retain or contract with qualified management and medical personnel, or to control our labor costs, could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
Security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions have in the past and could in the future compromise sensitive information related to our business or our participants, or prevent us from accessing critical information and expose us to liability, and could adversely affect our business and our reputation.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of our business, we create, receive, maintain, transmit, collect, store, use, disclose, share and process (collectively, “Process”) sensitive data, including protected health information (“PHI”) and other types of personal data or personally identifiable information (collectively, “PII” and, together with PHI, “PHI/PII”) relating to our employees, participants and others.
+Added: In the ordinary course of our business, we create, receive, maintain, transmit, collect, store, use, disclose, share and process (collectively, “Process”) sensitive data, including protected health information (“PHI”) and other types of personal data or personally identifiable information (collectively, “PII” and, together with PHI, “PHI/PII”) relating to our
+Added: employees, participants and others.
We also Process and contract with third-party service providers to Process sensitive information, including PHI/PII, confidential information and other proprietary business information.
8 unchanged sentences
However, some PACE organizations that we have acquired in the past or may acquire in the future may not have implemented such agreements with their third-party service providers, which may expose us to legal claims or proceedings, liability, and penalties.
−Removed: The organizations that we have acquired, or may acquire, may not have in place all of the required agreements, and to the extent we terminate contracts with such third-party service providers, we may not be able to ensure that the relevant PHI/PII of our participants is maintained in compliance with HIPAA.
−Removed: The training that we provide to our workforce and measures taken to protect our systems, the systems of our contractors or third-party service providers, or more generally the PHI/PII or other sensitive data or information that we or our contractors or third-party service providers Process may not adequately protect us from the risks associated with Processing sensitive data and information.
−Removed: We may be required to expend significant capital and other resources to protect against security breaches, to safeguard the privacy, security, and confidentiality of PHI/PII and other sensitive data and information, to investigate, contain, remediate, and mitigate actual or potential security breaches, and/or to
−Removed: report security breaches to participants, employees, regulators, media, credit bureaus, and other third parties in accordance with applicable law and to offer complimentary credit monitoring, identity theft protection, and similar services to participants and/or employees where required by law or otherwise appropriate.
−Removed: Despite our implementation of security measures, cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and frequent, and we or our third-party service providers may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate protective measures against them or to prevent additional attacks.
−Removed: Our information technology networks and systems used in our business, as well as those of our service providers, may experience an increase in attempted cyber-attacks, seeking to take advantage of shifts to employees working remotely, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic or otherwise, using their household or personal internet networks.
−Removed: The success of any of these attempts could substantially impact our platform, and the privacy, security, or confidentiality of the PHI/PII and other sensitive data and information contained therein or otherwise Processed in the ordinary course of our business operations, and could ultimately harm our reputation and our business.
−Removed: In addition, any actual or perceived security incident or breach may cause us to incur increased expenses to improve our security controls and to remediate security vulnerabilities.
+Added: We may be required to expend significant capital and other resources to protect against security breaches, to safeguard the privacy, security, and confidentiality of PHI/PII and other sensitive data and information, to investigate, contain, remediate, and mitigate actual or potential security breaches, and/or to report security breaches to participants, employees, regulators, media, credit bureaus, and other third parties in accordance with applicable law and to offer complimentary credit monitoring, identity theft protection, and similar services to participants and/or employees where required by law or otherwise appropriate.
+Added: Cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and frequent, and we or our third-party service providers may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate protective measures against them or to prevent future attacks.
+Added: The remote work environment as a result of COVID-19 has increased these risks.
We exercise limited control over our third-party service providers and, in the case of some third-party service providers, may not have evaluated the adequacy of their security measures, which increases our vulnerability to problems with services they provide.
−Removed: A security breach, security incident, or privacy violation that leads to unauthorized use, disclosure, access, acquisition, loss or modification of, or that prevents access to or otherwise impacts the confidentiality, security, or integrity of, participant or employee information, including PHI/PII that we or our third-party service providers Process, could harm our reputation, compel us to comply with breach notification laws, cause us to incur significant costs for investigation, containment, remediation, mitigation, fines, penalties, settlements, notification to individuals, regulators, media, credit bureaus, and other third parties, complimentary credit monitoring, identity theft protection, training and similar services to participants and/or employees where required by law or otherwise appropriate, for measures intended to repair or replace systems or technology and to prevent future occurrences.
+Added: A security breach, security incident, or privacy violation that leads to unauthorized use, disclosure, access, acquisition, loss or modification of, or that prevents access to or otherwise impacts the confidentiality, security, or integrity of, participant or employee information, including PHI/PII that we or our third-party service providers Process, could harm our reputation and business, compel us to comply with breach notification laws, cause us to incur significant costs for investigation, containment, remediation, mitigation, fines, penalties, settlements, notification to individuals, regulators, media, credit bureaus, and other third parties, complimentary credit monitoring, identity theft protection, training and similar services to participants and/or employees where required by law or otherwise appropriate, for measures intended to repair or replace systems or technology and to prevent future occurrences.
We may also be subject to potential increases in insurance premiums, resulting in increased costs or loss of revenue.
1 unchanged sentence
In addition, security breaches and incidents and other compromise or inappropriate access to, or acquisition or processing of, PHI/PII or other sensitive data or information can be difficult to detect, and any delay in identifying such breaches or incidents or in providing timely notification of such incidents may lead to increased harm and increased penalties.
−Removed: Any such security breach or incident or interruption of our systems or those of any of our third-party service providers could compromise our networks or data security processes, and PHI/PII or other sensitive data and information could be made inaccessible or could be compromised, used, accessed, or acquired by unauthorized parties, publicly disclosed, lost or stolen.
−Removed: Any such interruption in access, compromise, use, improper access, acquisition, disclosure or other loss of information could result in legal claims or proceedings and/or liability or penalties under laws and regulations that protect the privacy, confidentiality, or security of PHI/PII, including, without limitation, HIPAA, the CCPA, other state PHI/PII privacy, security, or consumer protection laws, and state breach notification laws.
−Removed: Unauthorized access, loss or dissemination of PHI/PII could also disrupt our operations, including our ability to perform our services, access, collect, process, and prepare company financial information, provide information about our current and future services and engage in other participant and clinician education and outreach efforts.
−Removed: Any such incident could also result in the compromise of our proprietary information, which could adversely affect our business and competitive position.
While we maintain insurance covering certain security and privacy damages and claim expenses, we may not carry insurance or maintain coverage sufficient to compensate for all liability and in any event, insurance coverage would not address the reputational damage that could result from a security incident.
9 unchanged sentences
The Company confirmed that this former third-party service provider has removed the PHI/PII of our participants from its servers, and the service provider has advised that all vulnerabilities in its environment and lack of security controls have been resolved.
−Removed: In addition, future incidents of this nature that could occur with respect to our systems or the systems of our third-party service providers, as well as any other security incident or other misuse or disclosure of our participant or other data could lead to improper use or disclosure of Company information, including PHI/PII obtained from our participants, and information from employees.
−Removed: Any such incident or misuse of data could harm our reputation, lead to legal exposure, divert management attention and resources, increase our operating expenses due to the employment of consultants and third party experts and the purchase of additional security infrastructure, and/or subject us to liability, resulting in increased costs and loss of revenue.
−Removed: The perception that we do not adequately protect the privacy of information of our participants could inhibit our growth and damage our reputation.
−Removed: We may be subject to legal proceedings, enforcement actions and litigation, malpractice and privacy disputes, which are costly to defend and could materially harm our business and results of operations.
−Removed: We may be party to lawsuits and legal proceedings in the normal course of business.
−Removed: These matters are often expensive and disruptive to normal business operations.
−Removed: We may face allegations, lawsuits and regulatory inquiries, requests for information, audits and investigations regarding care and services provided to participants, the FCA, data privacy, security, labor and employment, consumer protection or intellectual property.
−Removed: We may also face allegations or litigation related to our acquisitions, securities issuances or business practices, including public disclosures about our business.
−Removed: Litigation and regulatory proceedings may be protracted and expensive, and the results are difficult to predict.
−Removed: Certain of these matters may include speculative claims for substantial or indeterminate amounts of damages and include claims for injunctive relief.
−Removed: Additionally, our litigation costs could be significant.
−Removed: Adverse outcomes with respect to litigation or any of these legal proceedings may result in significant settlement costs or judgments, penalties, fines and sanctions.
−Removed: In the event of compliance issues, sanctions could include civil monetary penalties, corrective action plans (as is the case currently with respect to our Sacramento, California center), monitoring, contract termination, and/or CMS and/or Medicaid agencies suspending or restricting enrollment with us, which could negatively impact our geographical expansion and revenue growth.
−Removed: We may also become subject to periodic audits, which would likely increase our regulatory compliance costs and may require us to change our business practices, which could negatively impact our revenue growth.
−Removed: Managing legal proceedings, regulatory inquiries, litigation and audits, even if we achieve favorable outcomes, is time-consuming and diverts management’s attention from our business.
−Removed: The results of regulatory proceedings, investigations, inquiries, litigation, claims, and audits cannot be predicted with certainty, and determining reserves for pending litigation and other legal, regulatory and audit matters requires significant judgment.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that our expectations will prove correct, and even if these matters are resolved in our favor or without significant cash settlements, these matters, and the time and resources necessary to litigate or resolve them, could harm our reputation, business, financial condition, results of operations and the market price of our common stock.
−Removed: We also may be subject to lawsuits under the FCA and comparable state laws for submitting allegedly fraudulent, inadequately supported or otherwise inappropriate bills for services to the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
−Removed: These lawsuits, which may be initiated by government authorities as well as private party relators, can involve significant monetary damages, fines, attorney fees and the award of bounties to private plaintiffs who successfully bring these suits, as well as to the government programs.
−Removed: In recent years, government oversight and law enforcement have become increasingly active and aggressive in investigating and taking legal action against potential fraud and abuse.
−Removed: In July 2021, we received a civil investigative demand (“CID”) from the Attorney General for the State of Colorado.
−Removed: The CID requests information and documents regarding Medicaid billing, patient services and referrals at InnovAge’s Colorado program.
−Removed: We are currently unable to predict the outcome of this investigation.
−Removed: See Item 3, Legal Proceedings.
−Removed: Furthermore, our business exposes us to potential medical malpractice, professional negligence or other related actions or claims that are inherent in the provision of healthcare services.
−Removed: While the industry has not seen an increase in the number of claims of this nature due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, this remains a possibility due to the relatively lengthy claim development inherent in professional liability claims.
−Removed: These claims, with or without merit, could cause us to incur substantial costs, and could place a significant strain on our financial resources, divert the attention of management from our core business, harm our reputation and adversely affect our ability to attract and retain participants, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: Although we maintain third-party professional liability insurance coverage, it is possible that claims against us may exceed the coverage limits of our insurance policies.
−Removed: Even if any professional liability loss is covered by an insurance policy, these policies typically have substantial deductibles for which we are responsible.
−Removed: Professional liability claims in excess of applicable insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: In addition, any professional liability claim brought against us, with or without merit, could result in an increase of our professional liability insurance premiums.
−Removed: Insurance coverage varies in cost and can be difficult to obtain, and we cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtain insurance coverage in the future on terms acceptable to us or at all.
−Removed: If our costs of insurance and claims increase, then our earnings could decline.
Our business depends on our ability to effectively invest in, implement improvements to and properly maintain the uninterrupted operation and data integrity of our information technology and other business systems.
8 unchanged sentences
Connectivity among technologies is becoming increasingly important.
−Removed: Our failure to effectively invest in and properly maintain the uninterrupted operation and data integrity of our
−Removed: information technology and other business systems could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position and cash flow.
+Added: Our failure to effectively invest in and properly maintain the uninterrupted operation and data integrity of our information technology and other business systems could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position and cash flow.
A failure to accurately estimate incurred but not reported medical expenses or the risk scores of our participants could adversely affect our results of operations.
External provider costs include estimates of future medical claims that have been incurred by the participant but for which the provider has not yet billed.
−Removed: These claim estimates are made utilizing actuarial methods and are continually evaluated and adjusted by management, based upon our historical claims experience and other factors, including an independent assessment by a nationally recognized actuarial firm.
+Added: These claim estimates are made utilizing actuarial methods and are continually evaluated and adjusted by management, based upon our historical claims experience and other factors, including an
+Added: independent assessment by a nationally recognized actuarial firm.
Positive or negative adjustments, if necessary, are made when the assumptions used to determine our claims liability change and when actual claim costs are ultimately determined.
−Removed: Due to certain uncertainties associated with the factors used in these estimates and changes in the patterns and rates of medical utilization, materially different amounts could be reported in our financial statements for a particular period under different conditions or using different, but still reasonable, assumptions.
+Added: Due to uncertainties associated with the factors used in these estimates and changes in the patterns and rates of medical utilization, materially different amounts could be reported in our financial statements for a particular period under different conditions or using different, but still reasonable, assumptions.
It is possible that our estimates of this type of claim may be excessive or inadequate in the future and we may be obligated to repay certain amounts to CMS.
20 unchanged sentences
If the results of our operations do not increase at or above the escalator rates, it would place an additional burden on our results of operations, liquidity and financial position.
−Removed: As we continue to expand and have leases with different start dates, it is likely that some number of our leases will expire each year.
+Added: If we continue to expand, we may have leases with different start dates, and it is likely that some number of our leases will expire each year.
Our lease agreements often provide for renewal or extension options.
There can be no assurance that these rights will be exercised in the future or that we will be able to satisfy the conditions precedent to exercising any such renewal or extension.
−Removed: In addition, if we are unable to renew or extend any of our leases, we may lose all of the facilities subject to that master lease agreement.
+Added: In addition, if we are unable to renew or extend any of our leases, we may lose the center subject to that lease agreement.
If we are not able to renew or extend our leases at or prior to the end of the existing lease terms, or if the terms of such options are unfavorable or unacceptable to us, our business, financial condition and results of operation could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Leasing facilities pursuant to binding lease agreements may limit our ability to exit markets.
−Removed: For instance, if one facility under a lease becomes unprofitable, we may be required to continue operating such facility or, if allowed by the landlord to close such facility, we may remain obligated for the lease payments on such facility.
−Removed: We could incur special charges relating to the closing of such facility, including lease termination costs, impairment charges and other special charges that would reduce our profits and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: Leasing centers pursuant to binding lease agreements may limit our ability to exit markets.
+Added: For instance, if one center under a lease has a delayed opening or becomes unprofitable, we have been and may be required to continue making payments under such lease agreement or continue operating such center.
+Added: We could incur special charges relating to the closing operations of such facility, including lease termination costs, impairment charges and other special charges that would reduce our profits and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
Our failure to pay the rent or otherwise comply with the provisions of any of our lease agreements could result in an “event of default” under such lease agreement and also could result in a cross default under other lease agreements and agreements for our indebtedness.
1 unchanged sentence
The exercise of such remedies could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial position, results of operations and liquidity.
−Removed: If certain of our suppliers do not meet our needs, if there are material price increases on supplies, if we are not reimbursed or adequately reimbursed for medical products we purchase or if we are unable to effectively access new technology or medical products, it could negatively impact our ability to effectively provide the services we offer and could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We have significant suppliers that may be the sole or primary source of products critical to the services we provide, or to which we have committed obligations to make purchases, sometimes at particular prices.
−Removed: If any of these suppliers do not meet our needs for the products they supply, including in the event of a product recall, shortage or dispute, and we are not able to find adequate alternative sources, or if we experience material price increases from these suppliers that we are unable to mitigate, it could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: In addition, the technology related to the products critical to the services we provide is subject to new developments which may result in the availability of superior products.
−Removed: If we are not able to access superior products or new medical products, including biopharmaceuticals or medical devices, on a cost-effective basis or if suppliers are not able to fulfill our requirements for such products, including PPE, we could face attrition with respect to our participants or health care providers and other personnel and other negative consequences which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Our corporate culture has contributed to our success, and if we cannot maintain this culture as we grow, we could lose the innovation, creativity and teamwork fostered by our culture and our business may be harmed.
−Removed: We believe that our culture has been and will continue to be a critical contributor to our success.
−Removed: We expect to continue to hire additional personnel as we expand, and we believe our corporate culture has been crucial in our success and our ability to attract highly skilled personnel.
−Removed: If we do not continue to develop our corporate culture or maintain and preserve our core values as we grow and evolve, we may be unable to foster the innovation, curiosity, creativity, focus on execution, teamwork and the facilitation of critical knowledge transfer and knowledge sharing we believe we need to support our growth.
−Removed: Moreover, liquidity available to our employee shareholders following our IPO could lead to disparities of wealth among our employees, which could adversely impact relations among
−Removed: employees and our culture generally.
−Removed: Our anticipated headcount growth may result in a change of corporate culture, which could harm our business.
−Removed: Competition for physicians and other clinical personnel or other factors could increase our labor costs and adversely affect our revenue, profitability and cash flows.
−Removed: Our operations are dependent on the efforts, abilities and experience of our physicians and clinical personnel.
−Removed: We compete with other healthcare providers, primarily hospitals and other facilities, in attracting physicians, nurses and medical staff to support our centers, and recruiting and retaining qualified management and support personnel responsible for the daily operations of each of our centers.
−Removed: In some markets, the lack of availability of clinical personnel, such as nurses and mental health professionals, has become a significant operating issue facing all healthcare providers, which situation has been further exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: This shortage may require us to continue to enhance wages and benefits to recruit and retain qualified personnel or to contract for more expensive temporary personnel.
−Removed: For the years ended June 30, 2021 and 2020, our total center-level employee costs represented 17.7% and 19.1%, respectively, of our revenue.
−Removed: We also depend on the available labor pool of semi-skilled and unskilled workers in each of the markets in which we operate.
−Removed: If our labor costs increase, we may not be able to offset these increased costs.
−Removed: Because the vast majority of our revenue consists of prospective monthly capitated, or fixed, payments per participant, our ability to pass along increased labor costs is limited.
−Removed: In particular, if labor costs rise at an annual rate greater than our net annual consumer price index basket update from Medicare, our results of operations and cash flows will likely be adversely affected.
−Removed: Any union activity at our centers that may occur in the future could contribute to increased labor costs.
−Removed: Certain proposed changes in federal labor laws and the National Labor Relations Board’s modification of its election procedures to allow for faster elections and absentee ballots could increase the likelihood of employee unionization attempts.
−Removed: Although none of our employees are currently represented by a collective bargaining agreement, to the extent a significant portion of our employee base unionizes, it is possible our labor costs could increase materially.
−Removed: Our failure to recruit and retain or contract with qualified management and medical personnel, or to control our labor costs, could have a material adverse effect on our business, prospects, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Negative publicity regarding the managed healthcare industry generally could adversely affect our results of operations or business.
−Removed: Negative publicity regarding the managed healthcare industry generally, or the PACE program in particular, may result in increased regulation and legislative review of industry practices that further increase our costs of doing business and adversely affect our results of operations or business by:
−Removed: ● requiring us to change our integrated healthcare services model;
−Removed: ● increasing the regulatory, including compliance, burdens under which we operate, which, in turn, may negatively impact the manner in which we provide services and increase our costs of providing services;
−Removed: ● adversely affecting our ability to market our products or services through the imposition of further regulatory restrictions or guidelines regarding the manner in which plans and providers market to PACE enrollees;
−Removed: ● adversely affecting our ability to attract and retain participants.
−Removed: Our centers may be negatively impacted by public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, weather and other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: Our results of operations may be adversely impacted by adverse conditions affecting our centers, including severe weather events such as tornadoes, hurricanes and widespread winter storms, earthquakes, public health concerns such as contagious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, violence or threats of violence or other factors beyond our control that cause disruption in provision of participant services,
−Removed: displacement of our participants, employees and care teams, or force certain of our centers to close temporarily.
+Added: We believe that our people are our best product.
+Added: This culture is vital to our success, and if we are not successful in attracting, hiring, and retaining purpose-driven talent to deliver quality participant care, our business may be harmed.
+Added: We believe that people are our product and that it is the most important element in what we do—this extends from our staff to our participants.
+Added: Our culture has been and will continue to be a critical contributor to our success as a PACE provider.
+Added: Subject to labor market constraints, we expect to continue to hire additional personnel to deliver on the mission at InnovAge.
+Added: If we do not continue to develop and evolve our corporate culture or maintain and preserve our core values as we grow, we may be unable to foster the collaborative environment that underpins the integrated care delivery model, which could harm our business.
+Added: Our centers have been and may be negatively impacted by public health emergencies, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, weather and other factors beyond our control.
+Added: Our results of operations have been and may in the future be negatively impacted by adverse conditions affecting our centers, including severe weather events such as tornadoes, hurricanes and widespread winter storms, earthquakes, public health concerns such as contagious disease outbreaks, epidemics and pandemics, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, violence or threats of violence or other factors beyond our control that cause disruption in provision of participant services, displacement of our participants, employees and care teams, or force certain of our centers to close temporarily.
Our insurance coverage may not compensate us for losses that may occur in the event of an earthquake or other significant natural disaster.
2 unchanged sentences
Risks Related to Regulation
−Removed: If we fail to adhere to all of the complex government laws and regulations that apply to our business, we could suffer severe consequences that could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation and stock price.
+Added: Allegations of failure and failure to adhere to all of the complex government laws and regulations that apply to our business have had and could in the future have material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows, reputation and stock price.
Our operations are subject to extensive federal, state and local government laws and regulations, such as:
● Medicare, Medicaid, and PACE statutes and regulations;
−Removed: ● federal and state anti-kickback laws, which prohibit, among other things, the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any bribe, kickback or remuneration, whether in cash or in kind, for referring an individual, in return for ordering, leasing, purchasing or recommending or arranging for or to induce the referral of an individual or the ordering, purchasing or leasing of items or services covered, in whole or in part, by federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, or by any payor;
−Removed: ● the federal civil and criminal false claims laws, including the FCA and associated regulations, which impose civil and criminal penalties through governmental, whistleblower or qui tam actions, on individuals or entities for, among other things, knowingly submitting false or fraudulent claims for payment to the government or knowingly making, or causing to be made, a false statement in order to have a claim paid.
+Added: ● federal and state anti-kickback laws, which prohibit, among other things, the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any bribe, kickback or remuneration, whether in cash or in kind, for referring an individual, in return for ordering, leasing, purchasing or recommending or arranging for or to induce the referral of an individual or the ordering, purchasing or leasing of items
+Added: or services covered, in whole or in part, by federal healthcare programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, or by any payor;
+Added: ● the federal civil false claims laws, including the FCA and associated regulations, which impose civil penalties through governmental, whistleblower or qui tam actions, on individuals or entities for, among other things, knowingly submitting false or fraudulent claims for payment to the government or knowingly making, or causing to be made, a false statement in order to have a claim paid.
When an entity is determined to have violated the FCA, the government may impose civil fines and penalties ranging from $12,537 to $25,076 for each false claim, plus treble damages, and exclude the entity from participation in Medicare, Medicaid and other federal healthcare programs;
+Added: ● the federal false claims laws, which impose criminal penalties on individuals who make or present a false, fictitious, or fraudulent claim to the government that the individual knew was false, fictitious, or fraudulent, and was made with the specific intent to violate the law or with a consciousness of wrongdoing;
● state false claims laws, which generally follow the FCA and apply to claims submitted to state healthcare programs, and state health insurance fraud laws that impose penalties for the submission of false or fraudulent claims by providers to commercial insurers or other payors of healthcare services;
1 unchanged sentence
● the federal health care fraud statute and its implementing regulations, which created federal criminal laws that prohibit, among other things, executing or attempting to execute a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or making false statements relating to healthcare matters;
−Removed: ● federal and state laws regarding the Processing, protection, retention or destruction of health information or PHI/PII (e.g., HIPAA, CCPA) and the storage, handling, shipment, disposal and/or dispensing of pharmaceuticals and blood products and other biological materials, and many other applicable state and federal laws and requirements;
+Added: ● federal and state laws regarding the collection, use disclosure and, protection of personal identifiable information or PII and protected health information or PHI (e.g., HIPAA, CCPA) and the storage, handling, shipment, disposal and/or dispensing of pharmaceuticals and blood products and other biological materials, and many other applicable state and federal laws and requirements;
● state and federal statutes and regulations that govern workplace health and safety;
1 unchanged sentence
● federal and state scope of practice and other laws pertaining to the provision of services by qualified health care providers;
+Added: ● federal or state consumer protection laws that regulate various trade practices (e.g.
+Added: consumer communications or consumer-facing activities);
● federal and state laws pertaining to the provision of services by nurse practitioners and physician assistants in certain settings, including physician supervision of those services.
In addition to the above, PACE contracts also impose complex and extensive requirements upon our operations.
−Removed: Federal and state manuals, policies, and other guidances may also affect our operations.
−Removed: The various laws, regulations and agency guidances that apply or relate to our operations are often subject to varying interpretations, and additional laws and regulations potentially affecting healthcare organizations continue to be promulgated.
+Added: Federal and state manuals, policies, and other guidance may also affect our operations.
+Added: The various laws, regulations and agency guidance that apply or relate to our operations are often subject to varying interpretations, and additional laws and regulations potentially affecting healthcare organizations continue to be promulgated and issued.
A violation or departure from any of the legal requirements applicable to our business may result in, among other things, government audits, decreased payment rates, significant fines and penalties, the potential loss of licensure or certification, recoupment efforts or retractions of reimbursement previously paid, voluntary repayments, exclusion from governmental healthcare programs, written warnings, corrective action plans, monitoring, reputational harm, suspension of new enrollment or the restriction of current enrollment, the withholding of payments under the PACE program agreement, and termination of the PACE program agreement.
9 unchanged sentences
We may face penalties, including penalties under the FCA, if we fail to report and return government overpayments within 60 days of when the overpayment is identified and quantified.
−Removed: Additionally, the federal government has used the FCA to prosecute a wide variety of alleged false claims and fraud allegedly perpetrated against Medicare, Medicaid and other federally funded health care programs.
+Added: Risk Factors, “Risks Related to Our Business—We are subject to legal proceedings, enforcement actions and litigation, malpractice and privacy disputes, which are costly to defend and could materially harm our business and results of operations.” Additionally, the federal government has used the FCA to prosecute a wide variety of alleged false claims and fraud allegedly perpetrated against Medicare, Medicaid and other federally funded health care programs.
Moreover, amendments to the federal Anti-Kickback Statute in the ACA make claims tainted by Anti-Kickback Statute violations subject to liability under the FCA, including qui tam or whistleblower suits.
+Added: In recent years, the number of suits brought in the medical industry by private individuals has increased dramatically.
Given the high volume of claims processed by our various operating units, the potential is high for substantial penalties in connection with any alleged FCA violations.
3 unchanged sentences
● refunds of amounts received in violation of law or applicable payment program requirements dating back to the applicable statute of limitation periods;
−Removed: ● loss of our licenses required to operate healthcare facilities, complete certain limited lab testing or administer prescription drugs in the states in which we operate;
+Added: ● loss of our licenses required to operate healthcare centers, complete certain limited lab testing or administer prescription drugs in the states in which we operate;
● criminal or civil liability, fines, damages or monetary penalties for violations of healthcare fraud and abuse laws, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, Civil Monetary Penalties Statute and FCA, or other failures to meet regulatory requirements;
8 unchanged sentences
It is possible that criminal proceedings may be initiated against us and/or individuals in our business in connection with investigations by the federal government.
−Removed: The results of such lawsuits cannot be predicted and because qui tam suits are filed under seal, we could be subject to suits of which we are not aware.
−Removed: We, our healthcare professionals and the facilities in which we operate, are subject to various federal, state and local licensing, certification and other laws and regulations, relating to, among other things, the quality of medical care, equipment, privacy of health information, physician relationships, personnel and operating policies and procedures.
+Added: The results of such lawsuits cannot be predicted.
+Added: Qui tam actions are filed under seal and impose a mandatory duty on the U.S.
+Added: Department of Justice to investigate such allegations, and because qui tam suits are filed under seal, we could be subject to suits of which we are not aware or have been ordered by the presiding court not to discuss or disclose.
+Added: We, our healthcare professionals and the centers in which we operate, are subject to various federal, state and local licensing, certification and other laws and regulations, relating to, among other things, the quality of medical care, equipment, privacy of health information, physician relationships, telehealth, personnel and operating policies and procedures.
Failure to comply with these licensing and certification laws, regulations and standards could result in cessation of our services, prior payments by government payors being subject to recoupment, corrective action plans, the suspension of participant enrollment or requirements to make significant changes to our operations and can give rise to civil or, in extreme cases, criminal penalties.
1 unchanged sentence
While we endeavor to comply with federal, state and local licensing and certification laws and regulations and standards as we interpret them, the laws and regulations in these areas are complex, changing and often subject to varying interpretations.
−Removed: Any failure to satisfy applicable laws and
−Removed: regulations could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and reputation.
+Added: Any failure to satisfy applicable laws and regulations could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and reputation.
If we are unable to effectively adapt to changes in the healthcare industry, including changes to laws and regulations regarding or affecting U.S.
2 unchanged sentences
As has been the trend in recent years, it is reasonable to assume that there will continue to be increased government oversight and regulation of the healthcare industry in the future.
−Removed: We cannot assure our stockholders as to the ultimate content, timing or effect of any new healthcare legislation or regulations, nor is it possible at this time to estimate the impact of potential new legislation or regulations on our business.
+Added: We cannot assure our
+Added: stockholders as to the ultimate content, timing or effect of any new healthcare legislation or regulations, nor is it possible at this time to estimate the impact of potential new legislation or regulations on our business.
Since nearly all of our revenue is derived from government payors, we are always subject to regulatory changes.
11 unchanged sentences
In some states, these prohibitions are expressly stated in a statute or regulation, while in other states the prohibition is a matter of judicial or regulatory interpretation.
−Removed: For example, in Pennsylvania, the statutes that pertain to the employment of health care practitioners by health care facilities do not explicitly include a PACE organization in the list of health care facilities by which a health care practitioner may be employed.
+Added: For example, in Pennsylvania, the statutes that pertain to the employment of health care practitioners by health care centers do not explicitly include a PACE organization in the list of health care centers by which a health care practitioner may be employed.
Other states in which we may operate in the future may also generally prohibit the corporate practice of medicine.
7 unchanged sentences
Regulatory authorities and other parties may assert that our employment of physicians in some states means that we are engaged in the prohibited corporate practice of medicine.
−Removed: If this were to occur, we could be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties, our agreements with physicians could be found legally invalid and unenforceable (in whole or in part) or we could be required to restructure our arrangements with respect to the physicians that care for our participants, in each case in one or more of the jurisdictions in which we operate.
+Added: If this were to occur, we could be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties,
+Added: our agreements with physicians could be found legally invalid and unenforceable (in whole or in part) or we could be required to restructure our arrangements with respect to the physicians that care for our participants, in each case in one or more of the jurisdictions in which we operate.
Any of these outcomes may have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition, cash flows and reputation.
3 unchanged sentences
HIPAA establishes a set of national privacy and security standards for the protection of PHI by health plans, healthcare clearinghouses and certain healthcare providers, referred to as covered entities, and the business associates with whom such covered entities contract for services.
+Added: A business associate is any person or entity (other than members of a covered entity’s workforce) that performs a service for or on behalf of a covered entity involving the use or disclosure of protected health information.
HIPAA requires covered entities, such as ourselves, and their business associates to develop and maintain policies and procedures with respect to PHI that is used or disclosed, including the adoption of administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect such information.
1 unchanged sentence
HIPAA imposes mandatory penalties for certain violations.
−Removed: Under a notice of enforcement discretion issued by HHS in 2019, penalties for violations of HIPAA and its implementing regulations start at $100 (not adjusted for inflation) per violation and are not to exceed $50,000 (not adjusted for inflation) per violation, subject to a cap of $1.5 million (not adjusted for inflation) for violations of the same standard in a single calendar year.
+Added: Under a notice of enforcement discretion issued by HHS in 2019, penalties for violations of HIPAA and its implementing regulations start at $100 (not adjusted for inflation) per violation and are not to exceed approximately $63,000 (not adjusted for inflation) per violation, subject to a cap of approximately $1.9 million (not adjusted for inflation) for violations of the same standard in a single calendar year.
However, a single breach incident can result in violations of multiple standards.
6 unchanged sentences
HIPAA specifies that such notifications must be made “without unreasonable delay and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery of the breach.” If a breach affects 500 individuals or more, it must be reported to HHS without unreasonable delay, and in no case later than 60 calendar days after discovery, and HHS will automatically investigate the breach and post the name of the entity on its public breach portal.
−Removed: If a breach involves fewer than 500 people, the covered entity
−Removed: must record it in a log and notify HHS at least annually.
+Added: If a breach involves fewer than 500 people, the covered entity must record it in a log and notify HHS at least annually.
Breaches affecting more than 500 residents in the same state or jurisdiction must also be reported to the local media.
−Removed: In addition to HIPAA, numerous other federal and state laws and regulations protect the confidentiality, privacy, availability, integrity and security of PHI/PII.
+Added: In addition to HIPAA, numerous other federal and state laws and regulations protect the confidentiality, privacy, availability, integrity and security of individually identifiable information.
State statutes and regulations vary from state to state, and these laws and regulations in many cases are more restrictive than, and may not be preempted by, HIPAA and its implementing rules.
These laws and regulations are often uncertain, contradictory, and subject to changing or differing interpretations, and we expect new laws, rules and regulations regarding privacy, data protection, and information security to be proposed and enacted in the future.
−Removed: For example, the CCPA provides certain exceptions for PHI, but is still applicable to certain PII we Process in the ordinary course of our business.
+Added: For example, the CCPA provides certain exceptions for PHI, but is still applicable
+Added: to certain PII we Process in the ordinary course of our business.
The effects of the CCPA are wide-ranging and afford consumers certain rights with respect to PII, including a private right of action for data breaches involving certain personal information of California residents.
3 unchanged sentences
Consumers may also be afforded a private right of action for certain violations of privacy laws.
+Added: Other states, including Colorado and Virginia, have enacted similar privacy laws that impose new obligations or limitations in areas affecting our business and we continue to assess the impact of this state legislation on our business as additional information and guidance becomes available.
+Added: Efforts at the federal level to enact similar laws have been ongoing.
This complex, dynamic legal landscape regarding privacy, data protection, and information security creates significant compliance issues for us and potentially restricts our ability to Process data and may expose us to additional expense, adverse publicity and liability.
4 unchanged sentences
We also publish statements to our participants that describe how we handle and protect PHI.
−Removed: If federal or state regulatory authorities or private litigants consider any portion of these statements to be untrue, we may be subject to claims of deceptive practices, which could lead to significant liabilities and consequences, including, without limitation, costs of responding to investigations, defending against litigation, settling claims, and complying with regulatory or court orders.
+Added: If federal or state regulatory authorities, such as the FTC, or private litigants consider any portion of these statements to be untrue, we may be subject to claims of deceptive practices, which could lead to significant liabilities and consequences, including, without limitation, costs of responding to investigations, defending against litigation, settling claims, and complying with regulatory or court orders.
+Added: The FTC sets expectations for failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure, or failing to provide a level of security commensurate to promises made to individual about the security of their personal information (such as in a privacy notice) may constitute unfair or deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act (“FTC Act”).
+Added: The FTC expects a company’s data security measures to be reasonable and appropriate in light of the sensitivity and volume of consumer information it holds, the size and complexity of its business, and the cost of available tools to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities.
+Added: Individually identifiable health information is considered sensitive data that merits stronger safeguards.
+Added: With respect to privacy, the FTC also sets expectations that companies honor the privacy promises made to individuals about how the company handles consumers’ personal information;
+Added: any failure to honor promises, such as the statements made in a privacy policy or on a website, may also constitute unfair or deceptive acts or practices in violation of the FTC Act.
+Added: While we do not intend to engage in unfair or deceptive acts or practices, the FTC has the power to enforce promises as it interprets them, and events that we cannot fully control, such as data breaches, may be result in FTC enforcement.
+Added: Enforcement by the FTC under the FTC Act can result in civil penalties or enforcement actions.
Any of the foregoing consequences could seriously harm our business and our financial results.
−Removed: We face inspections, reviews, audits and investigations under federal and state government programs and contracts.
−Removed: These audits could require corrective actions or have adverse findings that may negatively affect our business, including our results of operations, liquidity, financial condition and reputation.
−Removed: As a result of our PACE contracts with CMS and state government agencies, state licenses, and participation in Medicaid, we are routinely subject to, or may be subject to in the future, various governmental inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information and investigations to verify our compliance with requirements of these programs and applicable laws and regulations, assess the quality of the services we are providing to our participants, and evaluate the accuracy of the risk adjustment data we have submitted to the government.
−Removed: As previously disclosed, on May 26, 2021, the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy & Financing (“HCPF”) and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (“CDPHE”) initiated a joint audit of our Colorado PACE centers, and on June 21, 2021, CMS also initiated a separate focused desk audit of our Colorado PACE program.
−Removed: We received preliminary findings from CMS and HCPF/CDPHE in July 2021 and expect to receive final reports from the agencies in early 2022.
−Removed: With respect to these three audits, to date, none of the agencies have indicated that they intend to suspend or otherwise curtail our programs, and we have not been notified of corrections that are
−Removed: required to be implemented prior to issuance of the final reports.
−Removed: However, we cannot guarantee the outcome of these audits until we receive the respective final reports from each agency.
−Removed: In addition, as previously disclosed, on May 10, 2021, CMS began a routine, scheduled audit of our Sacramento, California center.
−Removed: On September 17, 2021, we were notified that CMS had determined to suspend new enrollments at our Sacramento center based on deficiencies detected in the audit related to participant quality of care.
−Removed: The suspension will remain in effect until CMS determines that we have remediated the deficiencies to its satisfaction.
−Removed: We are currently working to develop a corrective action plan.
−Removed: In addition, we have a right to provide a written rebuttal and/or request a hearing to appeal CMS’ decision.
−Removed: At this time, we are assessing these options and cannot guarantee the outcome of this process.
−Removed: If CMS is not satisfied with proposed or implemented corrective actions, we could be subject to additional sanctions.
−Removed: Inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information or investigations with adverse findings, can result in:
−Removed: ● temporary or permanent enrollment sanctions in the affected center(s);
−Removed: ● refunding amounts we have been paid by the government;
−Removed: ● state or federal agencies imposing corrective action plans, fines, penalties, training, policies and procedures, and other requirements or sanctions on us;
−Removed: ● temporary suspension of payments;
−Removed: ● debarment or exclusion from participation in federal health care programs;
−Removed: ● self-disclosure of violations to applicable regulatory authorities;
−Removed: ● damage to our reputation;
−Removed: ● the revocation of a facility’s license;
−Removed: ● loss of certain rights under, or termination of, our contracts with government payors.
−Removed: We may be required to refund amounts we have been paid and/or pay fines and penalties as a result of these inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information and investigations.
−Removed: Any of the results noted above could have a material adverse effect on our business and operating results.
−Removed: Furthermore, the legal, document production and other costs associated with complying with these inspections, reviews, audits, requests for information or investigations could be significant.
Risks Related to Our Indebtedness
Our existing indebtedness could adversely affect our business and growth prospects.
−Removed: As of June 30, 2021, we had total outstanding debt of (i) $75.0 million principal amount under the Term Loan Facility (as defined in Note 10 to the consolidated financial statements), (ii) $2.4 million principal amount under the convertible term loan .
+Added: As of June 30, 2022, we had total outstanding debt of (i) $71.2 million principal amount under the Term Loan Facility (as defined in Note 8, “Long-term Debt” to the consolidated financial statements), and (ii) $2.4 million principal amount under the convertible term loan.
Our indebtedness, or any additional indebtedness we may incur, could require us to divert funds identified for other purposes for debt service, impairing our liquidity position.
11 unchanged sentences
The ability to make these payments depends on our financial and operating performance, which is subject to prevailing economic, industry and competitive conditions and to certain financial, business, economic and other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: We may not be able to generate sufficient cash flow to service all of our indebtedness, and may be forced to take other actions to satisfy our obligations under such indebtedness, which may not be successful.
−Removed: Our ability to make scheduled payments or to refinance outstanding debt obligations depends on our financial and operating performance, which will be affected by prevailing economic, industry and competitive conditions and by financial, business and other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: We may not be able to maintain a sufficient level of cash flow from operating activities to permit us to pay the principal, premium, if any, and interest on our indebtedness.
−Removed: Any failure to make payments of interest and principal on our outstanding indebtedness on a timely basis would likely result in penalties or defaults, which would also harm our ability to incur additional indebtedness.
−Removed: If our cash flows and capital resources are insufficient to fund our debt service obligations, we may be forced to reduce or delay capital expenditures, sell assets, seek additional capital or seek to restructure or refinance our indebtedness.
−Removed: Any refinancing of our indebtedness could be at higher interest rates and may require us to comply with more onerous covenants.
−Removed: These alternative measures may not be successful and may not permit us to meet our scheduled debt service obligations.
−Removed: In the absence of such cash flows and resources, we could face substantial liquidity problems and might be required to sell material assets or operations to attempt to meet our debt service obligations.
−Removed: If we cannot meet our debt service obligations, the holders of our indebtedness may accelerate such indebtedness and, to the extent such indebtedness is secured, foreclose on our assets.
−Removed: In such an event, we may not have sufficient assets to repay all of our indebtedness.
−Removed: We may be unable to refinance our indebtedness.
−Removed: We may need to refinance all or a portion of our indebtedness before maturity.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that we will be able to obtain sufficient funds to enable us to repay or refinance our debt obligations on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.
The terms of the 2021 Credit Agreement restrict our current and future operations, particularly our ability to respond to changes or to take certain actions.
−Removed: The Credit Agreement contains a number of restrictive covenants that impose significant operating and financial restrictions on us and may limit our ability to engage in acts that may be in our long-term best interests, including restrictions on our ability to:
+Added: The 2021 Credit Agreement (as defined in Note 8, “Long-term Debt” to the consolidated financial statements) contains a number of restrictive covenants that impose significant operating and financial restrictions on us and may limit our ability to engage in acts that may be in our long-term best interests, including restrictions on our ability to:
● incur additional indebtedness or other contingent obligations;
31 unchanged sentences
Our Principal Shareholders own approximately 86% of our common stock, which means that, based on their combined percentage voting power held, the Principal Shareholders together control the vote of all matters submitted to a vote of our shareholders, which enables them to control the election of the members of the Board and all other corporate decisions.
−Removed: This concentration of ownership may delay, deter or prevent acts that would be favored by our other stockholders.
−Removed: The interests of the Principal Shareholders may not always coincide with our interests or the interests of our other stockholders.
+Added: This concentration of ownership may delay, deter or prevent acts that would be favored by our other shareholders.
+Added: The interests of the Principal Shareholders may not always coincide with our interests or the interests of our other shareholders.
Even when the Principal Shareholders cease to own shares of our stock representing a majority of the total voting power, for so long as the Principal Shareholders continue to own a significant percentage of our stock, the Principal Shareholders will still be able to significantly influence the composition of our Board and the approval of actions requiring shareholder approval.
3 unchanged sentences
In addition, this concentration of ownership may adversely affect the trading price of our common stock because investors may perceive disadvantages in owning shares in a company with significant stockholders.
−Removed: In addition, in connection with our IPO, we entered into a Director Nomination Agreement with the Principal Shareholders that provides the Principal Shareholders the right to designate:
+Added: In addition, we are party to a Director Nomination Agreement (defined herein) with the Principal Shareholders that provides the Principal Shareholders the right to designate:
(i) all of the nominees for election to our Board for so long as the Principal Shareholders collectively beneficially own at least 40% of the Original Amount (as defined therein);
3 unchanged sentences
and (v) one of the nominees for election to our Board for so long as the Principal Shareholders collectively beneficially own at least 5% of the Original Amount.
−Removed: If the investment vehicle through which the Principal Shareholders hold their investment is dissolved, then each of Apax and WCAS will be permitted to nominate (i) up to three directors so long as it owns at least 25% of the Original Amount, (ii) up to two directors so long as it owns at least 15% of the Original Amount and (iii) one director so long as it owns at least 5% of the Original Amount.
+Added: If TCO Group Holdings, L.P., the investment vehicle through which the Principal Shareholders hold their investment is dissolved, then each of the Principal Shareholders will be permitted to nominate (i) up to three directors so long as it owns at least 25% of the Original Amount, (ii) up to two directors so long as it owns at least 15% of the Original Amount and (iii) one director so long as it owns at least 5% of the Original Amount.
The Principal Shareholders may also assign such right to their affiliates.
−Removed: The Director Nomination Agreement also provides for certain consent rights for each of the Principal Shareholders so long as such stockholder owns at least 5% of the Original Amount, including for any increase to the size of our Board.
+Added: The Director Nomination Agreement also provides for certain consent rights for each of the Principal Shareholders so long as such shareholder owns at least 5% of the Original Amount, including for any increase to the size of our Board.
Additionally, the Director Nomination Agreement prohibits us from increasing or decreasing the size of our Board without the prior written consent of the Principal Shareholders for so long as either of our Principal Shareholders holds at least 5% of the total outstanding voting power.
2 unchanged sentences
Our certificate of incorporation provides that neither the Principal Shareholders, any of their affiliates or any director who is not employed by us (including any non-employee director who serves as one of our officers in both her or his director and officer capacities) or its affiliates have any duty to refrain from engaging, directly or indirectly, in the same business activities or similar business activities or lines of business in which we operate.
−Removed: The Principal Shareholders also may pursue acquisition opportunities that may be
−Removed: complementary to our business, and, as a result, those acquisition opportunities may not be available to us.
−Removed: In addition, the Principal Shareholders may have an interest in pursuing acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions that, in its judgment, could enhance its investment, even though such transactions might involve risks to you.
+Added: The Principal Shareholders also may pursue acquisition opportunities that may be complementary to our business, and, as a result, those acquisition opportunities may not be available to us.
+Added: In addition, the Principal Shareholders may have an interest in pursuing acquisitions, divestitures and other transactions that, in their judgment, could enhance their investment, even though such transactions might involve risks to you.
We are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the rules of Nasdaq and, as a result, we qualify for, and intend to continue relying on, exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements.
1 unchanged sentence
The Principal Shareholders control a majority of the voting power of our outstanding common stock.
−Removed: As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq.
+Added: As a result, we are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of the Nasdaq Global Select Market (“Nasdaq”).
Under these rules, a company of which more than 50% of the voting power for the election of directors is held by an individual, group or another company is a “controlled company” and may elect not to comply with certain corporate governance requirements, including:
5 unchanged sentences
As a result of these exemptions, we do not have a majority of independent directors on our Board, our Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee does not consist entirely of independent directors and our Compensation, Nominating and Governance Committee may not be subject to annual performance evaluations.
−Removed: Accordingly, you do not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company” and we have elected to comply with reduced public company reporting requirements, which could make our common stock less attractive to investors.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act.
−Removed: For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we are eligible for certain exemptions from various public company reporting requirements.
+Added: Accordingly, you do not have the same protections afforded to shareholders of companies that are subject to all of the corporate governance requirements of Nasdaq.
+Added: We qualify as an “emerging growth company” and a “smaller reporting company” and we have elected to comply with reduced public company reporting requirements, which could make our common stock less attractive to investors.
+Added: We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act and a “smaller reporting company” as defined by the Exchange Act.
+Added: For as long as we continue to qualify as an emerging growth company, we are eligible for certain exemptions from various public company reporting requirements.
These exemptions include, but are not limited to, (i) not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports, proxy statements and registration statements, (iii) exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved, and (iv) an extended transition period to comply with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies.
+Added: Additionally, as long as we qualify as a smaller reporting company, we are required to present only the two most recent fiscal years of audited financial statements in our Annual Reports on Form 10-K.
We could be an emerging growth company for up to five years after the first sale of our common stock pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), which first occurred in March 2021.
However, if certain events occur prior to the end of such five-year period, including if we become a “large accelerated filer,” our annual gross revenue exceeds $1.07 billion or we issue more than $1.0 billion of non-convertible debt in any three-year period, we would cease to be an emerging growth company prior to the end of such five-year period.
−Removed: We expect that our 2021 proxy statement will include reduced disclosure regarding executive compensation .
+Added: Additionally, even after we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company,” we may still qualify as a “smaller reporting company” if the market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates is below $250 million (or $700 million if our annual revenue is less than $100 million) as of December 31 in any given year, which would allow us to continue taking advantage of these exemptions.
+Added: Our proxy statement for fiscal year 2023 will include reduced disclosure regarding executive compensation.
In addition, we have chosen to take advantage of the extended transition period to comply with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies.
1 unchanged sentence
We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive as a result of reliance on these exemptions.
−Removed: If some investors find our common stock less
−Removed: attractive as a result of any choice we make to reduce disclosure, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and the market price for our common stock may be more volatile.
−Removed: The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources and distract our management, which could make it difficult to manage our business, particularly after we are no longer an “emerging growth company.”
+Added: If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result of any choice we make to reduce disclosure, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and the market price for our common stock may be more volatile.
+Added: The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources and distract our management, which could make it difficult to manage our business, particularly after we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company” or a “smaller reporting company.”
As a new public company, we incur legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not previously incur.
−Removed: We are now subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the listing requirements of Nasdaq and other applicable securities rules and regulations.
−Removed: Compliance with these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time-consuming or costly and increase demand on our systems and resources, particularly after we are no longer an “emerging growth company.” The Exchange Act requires that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: We are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the listing requirements of Nasdaq and other applicable securities rules and regulations.
+Added: Compliance with these rules and regulations has increased our legal and financial compliance costs, made some activities more difficult, time-consuming and costly and increase demand on our systems and resources, particularly after we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company” or “smaller reporting company.” The Exchange Act requires that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we establish and maintain effective internal controls and procedures for financial reporting.
−Removed: Furthermore, the need to continue establishing the corporate infrastructure demanded of a public company may divert our management’s attention from implementing our growth strategy, which could prevent us from improving our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We have made, and will continue to make, changes to our internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and accounting systems to meet our reporting obligations as a public company.
+Added: Furthermore, the need to continue establishing the corporate infrastructure demanded of a public company may divert our management’s attention from implementing our business strategy, which could prevent us from improving our business, financial condition and results of operations.
+Added: We have made, and will continue to make, changes to our internal controls and procedures for financial reporting and
+Added: accounting systems to meet our reporting obligations as a public company.
However, the measures we take may not be sufficient to satisfy our obligations as a public company.
−Removed: In addition, these rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs and will make some activities more time-consuming and costly.
These additional obligations could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
2 unchanged sentences
This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices.
−Removed: We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of our management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities.
+Added: We invest in resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of our management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities.
If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and there could be a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
2 unchanged sentences
In addition, because of our status as an emerging growth company, you will not be able to depend on any attestation from our independent registered public accountants as to our internal controls over financial reporting for the foreseeable future.
−Removed: As a public company, we are required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting in our annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022.
−Removed: This assessment will need to include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by management in our internal controls over financial reporting.
+Added: As a public company, we are required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting in our annual reports.
+Added: This assessment includes disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by management in our internal controls over financial reporting.
We are also required to disclose changes made in our internal controls and procedures on a quarterly basis.
−Removed: To comply with these requirements, we may need to undertake various costly and time-consuming actions, such as implementing new controls and procedures and hiring additional accounting or internal audit staff.
−Removed: The process of designing and implementing internal controls over financial reporting required to comply with this requirement will be time-consuming, costly and complicated.
+Added: To comply with these requirements, we have and may further need to undertake various costly and time-consuming actions, such as implementing new controls and procedures and hiring additional accounting or internal audit staff.
+Added: The process of designing and implementing internal controls over financial reporting required to comply with this requirement is time-consuming, costly and complicated.
If during the evaluation and testing process we identify one or more other material weaknesses in our internal controls over financial reporting, our management will be unable to assert that our internal controls over financial reporting is effective.
−Removed: In addition, if we fail to achieve and maintain the adequacy
−Removed: of our internal controls, as such standards are modified, supplemented or amended from time to time, we may not be able to ensure that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
+Added: In addition, if we fail to achieve and maintain the adequacy of our internal controls, as such standards are modified, supplemented or amended from time to time, we may not be able to ensure that we can conclude on an ongoing basis that we have effective internal controls over financial reporting in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
Even if our management concludes that our internal controls over financial reporting is effective, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue a report that is qualified if it is not satisfied with our controls or the level at which our controls are documented, designed, operated or reviewed.
−Removed: However, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest formally to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act until the later of the filing of our annual report for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2022 or the date we are no longer an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act.
+Added: However, our independent registered public accounting firm will not be required to attest formally to the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act until we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act or a “smaller reporting company” as defined by the Exchange Act.
Accordingly, you will not be able to depend on any attestation concerning our internal controls over financial reporting from our independent registered public accountants for the foreseeable future.
2 unchanged sentences
We cannot be certain as to the timing of completion of our evaluation, testing and any remediation actions or the impact of the same on our operations.
−Removed: If we are not able to implement the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in a timely manner or with adequate compliance, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue an adverse opinion due to ineffective internal controls over financial reporting, and we may be subject to sanctions or investigation by regulatory authorities, such as the SEC.
+Added: If we are not able to implement the requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-
+Added: Oxley Act in a timely manner or with adequate compliance, our independent registered public accounting firm may issue an adverse opinion due to ineffective internal controls over financial reporting, and we may be subject to sanctions or investigation by regulatory authorities, such as the SEC.
As a result, there could be a negative reaction in the financial markets due to a loss of confidence in the reliability of our financial statements.
4 unchanged sentences
Our management team may not successfully or efficiently manage us as a public company that is subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under the federal securities laws and the continuous scrutiny of securities analysts and investors.
−Removed: These new obligations and constituents require significant attention from our senior management and could divert their attention away from the day-to-day management of our business, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: These obligations and constituents require significant attention from our senior management and could divert their attention away from the day-to-day management of our business, which could adversely affect our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Provisions of our corporate governance documents could make an acquisition of us more difficult and may prevent attempts by our shareholders to replace or remove our current management, even if beneficial to our shareholders.
5 unchanged sentences
● provide that, from and after the date on which the Principal Shareholders beneficially own less than 50% of our common stock then outstanding, any amendment, alteration, rescission or repeal of our bylaws by our shareholders will require the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 66 2 ∕ 3 % in voting power of all the then-outstanding shares of our stock entitled to vote thereon, voting together as a single class;
−Removed: ● establish advance notice requirements for nominations for elections to our Board or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by shareholders at shareholder meetings, provided, however, that at any time when a Principal Shareholders beneficially owns, in the aggregate, at least 5% of our common stock then outstanding, such advance notice procedure will not apply to the Principal Shareholders.
+Added: ● establish advance notice requirements for nominations for elections to our Board or for proposing matters that can be acted upon by shareholders at shareholder meetings, provided, however, that at any time when a Principal Shareholder beneficially owns at least 5% of our common stock then outstanding, such advance notice procedure will not apply to such Principal Shareholder.
Our certificate of incorporation contains a provision that provides us with protections similar to Section 203 of the DGCL, and prevents us from engaging in a business combination with a person (excluding the Principal Shareholders and any of their direct or indirect transferees and any group as to which such persons are a party) who acquires at least 85% of our common stock for a period of three years from the date such person acquired such common stock, unless Board or shareholder approval is obtained prior to the acquisition.
These provisions could discourage, delay or prevent a transaction involving a change in control of our Company.
−Removed: These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for you and other shareholders to elect directors of your choosing and cause us to take other corporate actions you desire, including actions that you may deem advantageous, or negatively affect the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for you and other shareholders to elect directors of your choosing and cause us to take other corporate actions you
+Added: desire, including actions that you may deem advantageous, or negatively affect the trading price of our common stock.
In addition, because our Board is responsible for appointing the members of our management team, these provisions could in turn affect any attempt by our shareholders to replace current members of our management team.
6 unchanged sentences
accordingly, we cannot be certain that a court would enforce such provision.
−Removed: Our certificate
−Removed: of incorporation further provides that any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock is deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of our certificate of incorporation described above;
−Removed: however, our stockholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
+Added: Our certificate of incorporation further provides that any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in shares of our capital stock is deemed to have notice of and consented to the provisions of our certificate of incorporation described above;
+Added: however, our shareholders will not be deemed to have waived our compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder.
The forum selection provisions in our certificate of incorporation may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against us or our directors and officers and may limit our shareholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us.
1 unchanged sentence
While we currently have no basis to expect any such challenge would be successful, if a court were to find our forum selection provision to be inapplicable or unenforceable, we may incur additional costs associated with having to litigate in other jurisdictions, which could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and result in a diversion of the time and resources of our employees, management and Board.
−Removed: Our operating results and stock price may be volatile.
−Removed: Our quarterly operating results are likely to fluctuate in the future.
+Added: Our operating results and stock price are volatile.
+Added: The price of our common stock has significantly fluctuated since our IPO and our quarterly operating results are likely to fluctuate in the future.
In addition, securities markets worldwide have experienced, and are likely to continue to experience, significant price and volume fluctuations.
1 unchanged sentence
Our operating results and the trading price of our shares may fluctuate in response to various factors, including:
+Added: ● developments and results of current audits, sanctions, investigations and litigation;
● market conditions in our industry or the broader stock market;
8 unchanged sentences
● investors’ perception of us and our prospects;
−Removed: ● events beyond our control such as weather, public health events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and war;
+Added: ● events beyond our control such as inflationary pressures, increased interest rates, weather, public health events, such as the COVID-19 pandemic and Monkeypox, and war, including uncertainties surrounding the Russia and Ukraine conflict;
● any default on our indebtedness.
2 unchanged sentences
In addition, in the past, when the market price of a stock has been volatile, holders of that stock have sometimes instituted securities class action litigation against the company that issued the stock.
−Removed: If any of our shareholders brought a lawsuit against us, we could incur substantial costs defending the lawsuit.
−Removed: Such a lawsuit could also divert the time and attention of our management from our business, which could significantly harm our profitability and reputation.
+Added: Such a lawsuit was filed against the Company on October 14, 2021 and amended on June 21, 2022.
+Added: The outcome of this lawsuit is unknown.
+Added: This and future lawsuits brought against us could incur substantial costs defending the lawsuit.
+Added: Such lawsuits also divert the time and attention of our management from our business, which could significantly harm our profitability and reputation.
A significant portion of our total outstanding shares may be sold into the market in the near future.
5 unchanged sentences
In addition, we have registered shares of common stock that we may issue under our equity compensation plans.
−Removed: Such shares can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to vesting, the lock-up agreements and Rule 144 and Rule 701 under the Securities Act.
−Removed: As restrictions on resale end, the market price of our stock could decline if the holders of currently restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them.
−Removed: Additionally, in connection with our IPO, we entered into a registration rights agreement with our Principal Shareholders, which requires us to effect the registration of the Principal Shareholders’ shares in certain circumstances.
+Added: Such shares can be freely sold in the public market upon issuance, subject to vesting, and Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
+Added: The market price of our stock could decline if the holders of currently restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them.
+Added: Additionally, we are party to a registration rights agreement with TCO Group Holdings, L.P., the investment vehicle through which the Principal Shareholders hold their investment, which requires us to effect the registration of the Principal Shareholders’ shares in certain circumstances.
The Principal Shareholders are also entitled to participate in certain of our registered offerings, subject to the restrictions in the registration rights agreement.
11 unchanged sentences
If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of us or fail to publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our stock price or trading volume to decline.
−Removed: Moreover, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our stock, or if our results of operations do not meet their expectations, our stock price could decline.
+Added: Moreover, analysts have in the past downgraded, and may in the future downgrade our stock, or if our results of operations do not meet their expectations, our stock price could decline.
We may issue shares of preferred stock in the future, which could make it difficult for another company to acquire us or could otherwise adversely affect holders of our common stock, which could depress the price of our common stock.
10 unchanged sentences
Preferred shares, if issued, could have a preference with respect to liquidating distributions or a preference with respect to dividend payments that could limit our ability to pay dividends to the holders of our common stock.
−Removed: Our decision to issue securities in any future offering will depend on market conditions and other factors beyond our control, which may adversely affect the amount, timing or nature of our future offerings.
+Added: Our decision to issue securities in any future offering will depend on market conditions and other factors beyond our control, which may adversely affect the amount, timing or nature of our future
Thus, holders of our common stock bear the risk that our future offerings may reduce the market price of our common stock and dilute their stockholdings in us.
6 unchanged sentences
If we cannot stop third parties from using trademarks confusingly similar to ours, patients and others could be confused and our reputation could be harmed.
−Removed: In addition, any factor that diminishes our reputation or that of our management, including failing to meet the expectations of or provide quality medical care for our participants, adverse cyber or data security events, or any adverse publicity or litigation involving or surrounding us, one of our centers or our management, could harm our brand and make it substantially more difficult for us to attract new participants.
+Added: In addition, factors such as failing to meet the expectations of or provide quality medical care for our participants, adverse cyber or data security events, adverse publicity or litigation involving or surrounding us, one of our centers or our management, such as news articles and market rumors with respect to our ongoing audits, litigation and other processes described above, have and may in the future diminish our reputation or that of our management and harmed our brand, making it substantially more difficult for us to attract new participants.
Similarly, because our existing participants and their families often act as references for us with prospective new participants, any existing participant or family member of a participant that questions the quality of our care could impair our ability to secure additional new participants.
−Removed: In addition, negative publicity resulting from any adverse government payor audit could injure our brand and reputation.
−Removed: If we do not successfully maintain and enhance our reputation and brand recognition, our business may not grow and we could lose our relationships with participants, which would harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: We are likely to experience increased expenditures in the future.
−Removed: We expect to make significant investments in growing our business and increasing our participant base, expanding our operations, hiring additional employees and operating as a public company.
+Added: In addition, negative publicity resulting from any adverse government payor audit could further injure our brand and reputation.
+Added: If we do not successfully enhance our reputation and brand recognition, our business may not grow and we could lose our relationships with participants, which would harm our business, results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: We have and expect to continue experiencing increased expenditures in the future.
+Added: We have and expect to continue making significant investments in growing our business and increasing our participant base, expanding our operations, hiring additional employees and operating as a public company.
As a result of these increased expenditures, we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently to maintain our current profit margins.
To date, we have financed our operations principally from the sale of our equity, revenue from our participant services and the incurrence of indebtedness.
−Removed: We may not continue to generate positive cash flow from
−Removed: operations, access sufficient capital or sustain our current levels of profitability in any given period, and our limited operating history as a for-profit company may make it difficult for you to rely on our historical results as indicative of future performance
+Added: We may not continue to generate positive cash flow from operations, access sufficient capital or sustain our current levels of profitability in any given period, and our limited operating history as a for-profit company may make it difficult for you to rely on our historical results as indicative of future performance.
We have encountered and will continue to encounter risks and difficulties frequently experienced by growing companies in rapidly changing and highly regulated industries, including increasing expenses as we continue to grow our business.
−Removed: We expect our operating expenses to increase over the next several years as we continue to hire additional personnel, expand our operations and infrastructure, and continue to expand to reach more participants.
+Added: Our operating expenses have and we expect them to continue to increase over the next several years as we continue to hire additional personnel, expand our operations and infrastructure, and continue to provide services to an increasing number of participants.
In addition to the expected costs to grow our business, we also are incurring and expect to incur additional legal, accounting and other expenses as a newly public company.
15 unchanged sentences
The updated standard requires the recognition of a liability for lease obligations and a corresponding right-of-use asset on the balance sheet, and disclosures of certain information regarding leasing arrangements.
−Removed: We are currently in the process of evaluating the impact this pronouncement will have on our consolidated financial statements.
−Removed: We depend on our senior management team and other key employees, and the loss of one or more of these employees or an inability to attract and retain other highly skilled employees could harm our business.
−Removed: Our success depends largely upon the continued services of our senior management team and other key employees.
−Removed: We rely on our leadership team in the areas of operations, provision of medical services, information technology and security, marketing, and general and administrative functions.
−Removed: From time to time, there may be changes in our executive management team resulting from the hiring or departure of executives, which could disrupt our business.
−Removed: Our employment agreements with our executive officers and other key personnel do not require them to continue to work for us for any specified period and, therefore, they could terminate their employment with us at any time.
−Removed: The loss, whether as a result of voluntary termination or illness, of one or more of the members of our senior management team, or other key employees, could harm our business.
−Removed: In particular, the loss of the services of our President and Chief Executive Officer, Maureen Hewitt, could significantly delay or prevent the achievement of
−Removed: our strategic objectives.
−Removed: Changes in our executive management team may also cause disruptions in, and harm to, our business.
−Removed: We must attract, retain and contract with highly qualified personnel in order to execute our growth plan.
−Removed: Competition for highly qualified personnel is intense, especially for physicians and other medical professionals who are experienced in providing care services to older adults.
−Removed: We have, from time to time, experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications or contracting with physicians to provide care for our participants.
−Removed: Many of the companies and healthcare providers with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than we have.
−Removed: If we hire employees from competitors or other companies or healthcare providers, their former employees may attempt to assert that these employees or we have breached certain legal obligations, potentially resulting in time-consuming and expensive litigation.
−Removed: If we fail to attract new personnel, fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, or fail to contract with qualified physicians, our business and future growth prospects could be harmed.
+Added: In June 2020, FASB issued ASU 2020-05, Revenue from contracts with customers (Topic 606) and leases (Topic 842)-Effective dates for certain entities, which deferred the new lease standard effective date for the Company to December 15, 2022, with early adoption permitted.
+Added: The Company will adopt this ASU in the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2022 and has not yet determined the effect of the standard on its ongoing financial reporting.
+Added: Negative publicity regarding the managed healthcare industry generally could adversely affect our results of operations or business.
+Added: Negative publicity regarding the managed healthcare industry generally, or the PACE program in particular, may result in increased regulation and legislative review of industry practices that further increase our costs of doing business and adversely affect our results of operations or business by:
+Added: ● requiring us to change our integrated healthcare services model;
+Added: ● increasing the regulatory, including compliance, burdens under which we operate, which, in turn, may negatively impact the manner in which we provide services and increase our costs of providing services;
+Added: ● adversely affecting our ability to market our products or services through the imposition of further regulatory restrictions or guidelines regarding the manner in which plans and providers market to PACE enrollees;
+Added: ● adversely affecting our ability to attract and retain participants.
UNRESOLVED STAFF COMMENTS
1 unchanged sentence
Compared sentence by sentence after normalising whitespace, quotation marks, case and digits, so re-formatting and restated figures do not read as changed language. Wording changes appear as one removal and one addition. The current filing and the prior one are authoritative.