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See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and the risks of our businesses described elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10‑K.
−Removed: Risk Factor Summary
−Removed: Our business is subject to a number of risks, including risks that may adversely affect our business, results of operations, cash flows, and prospects.
−Removed: These risks are discussed more fully below and include, but are not limited to, risks related to:
Risks Related to Our Portfolio of Commercial Products
−Removed: • Our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms in the face of segment competition from other echocardiography ultrasound enhancing agents and potential generic competition as a result of patent and regulatory exclusivity expirations.
−Removed: • Our dependence upon third parties for the manufacture and supply of a substantial portion of our products, raw materials and components, including DEFINITY at JHS and DEFINITY RT at SBL.
−Removed: • The instability of the global Mo-99 supply, including periodic supply outages and limitations at the NTP Radioisotopes (“NTP”) processing facility in South Africa and the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation’s (“ANSTO”) processing facility in Australia, in each case resulting in our inability to fill some or all of the demand for our TechneLite generators on certain manufacturing days during the outage or limitation periods.
−Removed: • Our ability to successfully launch PYLARIFY as a commercial product, including (A) our ability to obtain FDA approval for additional PMFs that could manufacture PYLARIFY, (B) the ability of those PMFs to supply PYLARIFY to customers, (C) our ability to sell PYLARIFY to customers, and (D) our ability to obtain and maintain adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY.
−Removed: • Our ability to successfully launch PYLARIFY AI as a commercial product.
−Removed: • Risks related to RELISTOR, commercialized by Bausch, and that the revenues generated for us thereby may not meet expectations.
−Removed: • Risks related to the commercialization of AZEDRA, including in connection with market acceptance and reimbursement, that may cause the product not to meet revenue or operating income expectations.
−Removed: • Risks associated with our DEFINITY RT formulation, approved by the FDA in November 2020, including our ability to gain post-approval market acceptance and adequate coding, coverage and payment.
−Removed: Risks Related to Reimbursement and Regulation
−Removed: • The dependence of many of our customers upon third party healthcare payors and the uncertainty of third party coverage and reimbursement rates.
−Removed: • Uncertainties regarding the impact of U.S.
−Removed: and state healthcare reform measures and proposals on our business, including measures and proposals related to reimbursement for our current and potential future products, controls over drug pricing, drug pricing transparency and generic drug competition.
−Removed: • Our being subject to extensive government regulation and oversight, our ability to comply with those regulations and the costs of compliance.
−Removed: Risks Related to our Business Operations and Financial Results
−Removed: • The impact of the ongoing global COVID-19 pandemic on our business, financial condition or prospects, including:
−Removed: a decline in the volume of procedures and treatments using our products;
−Removed: potential delays and disruptions to global supply chains, manufacturing activities, logistics, operations, and clinical development programs;
−Removed: the business activities of our suppliers, distributors, customers and other business partners;
−Removed: the difficulty in recruiting and retaining employees and contractors;
−Removed: and the effects on worldwide economies, financial markets, social institutions, labor markets and healthcare systems.
−Removed: • Our ability to hire or retain the number of qualified personnel, particularly scientific, medical and sales personnel, required for our business.
−Removed: • Our ability to introduce new products and adapt to an evolving technology and medical practice landscape.
−Removed: • Risks associated with our investment in and operation of our specialized manufacturing facility at our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Portfolio of Clinical Development Candidates
−Removed: • Risks associated with flurpiridaz F 18, which we out-licensed to GE Healthcare in 2017, including GE Healthcare’s ability to (A) successfully complete the Phase 3 development program, including delays in enrollment that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic, (B) obtain FDA approval, and (C) gain post-approval market acceptance and adequate coding, coverage and payment.
−Removed: • Risks associated with 1095, including delays in enrollment that have resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic and our ability to successfully complete the Phase 2 study in mCRPC.
−Removed: • Risks associated with our clinical development candidate LMI 1195
−Removed: Risks Related to our Capital Structure
−Removed: • Risks related to our outstanding indebtedness and our ability to satisfy those obligations.
−Removed: • Risks related to the ownership of our common stock.
−Removed: • The contractual contingent value rights (“CVRs”) we issued as part of the Progenics Acquisition may result in substantial future payments to holders of the CVRs.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Portfolio of Commercial Products
−Removed: The near-term growth of our business is substantially dependent on our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms in the face of increased segment competition from other existing echocardiography agents and potential generic competitors.
−Removed: The growth of our business is substantially dependent on our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms.
−Removed: DEFINITY currently competes with Optison, a GE Healthcare product, Lumason, a Bracco product, as well as echocardiography without ultrasound enhancing agents and other non-echocardiography agents.
+Added: Our ability to continue to grow PYLARIFY as a commercial product is dependent on (A) the ability of PMFs to manufacture PYLARIFY to meet product demand, (B) our ability to sell PYLARIFY to customers, (C) our ability to obtain and maintain adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY, (D) our ability to maintain PYLARIFY as the leading PSMA PET imaging agent in a competitive environment in which other PSMA PET imaging agents have been approved and additional ones are in development, and (E) our ability to obtain FDA approval for additional PMFs to manufacture PYLARIFY.
+Added: The commercial launch of PYLARIFY was complex.
+Added: To manufacture PYLARIFY, we assembled and qualified a nationwide network of PMFs with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons that make F 18, which has a 110-minute half-life, so PYLARIFY is
+Added: manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
+Added: Because each of the PMFs manufacturing these products is deemed by the FDA to be a separate manufacturing site, each has to be separately approved by the FDA.
+Added: Although PYLARIFY is broadly available across the U.S., we continue to seek qualification for additional PMFs in 2023 and can give no assurance that the FDA will continue to approve PMFs in accordance with our planned roll-out schedule.
+Added: If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn, our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
+Added: PYLARIFY is sold in the U.S.
+Added: to hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities and sales are generated through a PYLARIFY direct sales team as well as a sales team at some of our PMF partners.
+Added: We generally do not use group purchasing arrangements to sell PYLARIFY and require each customer to enter into a contract directly with us or our PMFs.
+Added: Our ability to continue to successfully grow PYLARIFY depends, in part, on our ability to continue to enter into arrangements directly with the hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities that we serve.
+Added: Any delay or inability to enter into these arrangements could have an adverse impact on our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Obtaining adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY is critical, including not only coverage from Medicare, Medicaid and other government payors, as well as private payors, but also appropriate payment levels to adequately cover our customers’ costs of using PYLARIFY in PET/CT imaging procedures.
+Added: We received notification that our HCPCS code, which enables streamlined billing, went into effect as of January 1, 2022.
+Added: In addition, effective January 1, 2022, CMS granted TPT Status for PYLARIFY, enabling traditional Medicare to provide an incremental payment for PET/CT scans performed with PYLARIFY in the hospital outpatient setting.
+Added: TPT Status for PYLARIFY is expected to expire on December 31, 2024.
+Added: After TPT Status expires, under current Medicare rules, PYLARIFY, similar to other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, would not be separately reimbursed in the hospital outpatient setting but rather would be bundled into the facility payment a hospital receives for a PET/CT imaging procedure, and the facility payment may not always adequately cover the total cost of the procedure.
+Added: We can give no assurance that any CMS reimbursement in the hospital outpatient setting that follows the expiration of TPT Status will be adequate to cover the cost of a PYLARIFY PET/CT imaging procedure.
+Added: In addition, if other government payors or private payors do not provide adequate reimbursement for the use of PYLARIFY, our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
+Added: We plan to continue our advocacy efforts with CMS and private insurers so that PYLARIFY customers will have appropriate and adequate reimbursement following the expiration of pass-through status and we are also supporting trade associations in their efforts to have Congress pass the Facilitating Innovative Nuclear Diagnostics (FIND) Act, which would allow for separate payment for certain diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, including PYLARIFY, similar to the way Medicare OPPS currently pays for other drugs, biologics, and therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals instead of under the current TPT structure of a separate payment that is limited to three years, however, we can give no assurances that we will be successful in those efforts.
+Added: The successful growth of PYLARIFY is also dependent on our ability to maintain PYLARIFY as the leading PSMA PET imaging agent in a competitive environment in which other PSMA PET imaging agents have been approved and additional ones are in development.
+Added: PYLARIFY currently competes with two commercially available Ga-68-based PSMA PET imaging agents from Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and Novartis AG, as well as other non-PSMA PET imaging agents.
+Added: We also face potential competition from an F 18 PSMA PET imaging agent for which Bracco is currently seeking FDA approval, which we believe could be granted by the FDA in 2023.
+Added: To the extent we lose market share to existing or future competitors (including during any period of time in which our TPT Status has expired but TPT Status for a later-approved competitive product still exists), such loss of market share could have an adverse impact on our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Moreover, because we are still early in the commercialization of PYLARIFY, we can give no assurance as to how clinical practice may evolve or our ultimate market penetration or market share.
+Added: Our success in growing PYLARIFY also depends, in part, on our successfully establishing the use of PYLARIFY for approved indications and potentially for additional indications, including for patient selection for PSMA-targeted therapeutics.
+Added: For example, we believe the approval of PLUVICTO for the treatment of adult patients with PSMA-positive mCRPC who have already been treated with other anticancer treatments (androgen receptor pathway inhibition and taxane-based chemotherapy) created a new addressable market for the use of PSMA PET imaging in patient selection for PSMA-targeted therapy that increases the total addressable market in the U.S.
+Added: by an additional 30,000 new scans per year for patients with mCRPC.
+Added: However, the prescribing information for PLUVICTO specifies that a PSMA-11 based PSMA PET imaging agent be used for patient selection, and PYLARIFY is not a PSMA-11 based imaging agent.
+Added: In March 2022, we announced a strategic collaboration with Novartis to include PYLARIFY in prostate cancer trials with PLUVICTO.
+Added: While we note that FDA-approved labels for F 18 based and PSMA-11 based PSMA PET imaging agents have generally been treated as a class of drugs, including by the National Comprehensive Cancer Center in its guidelines and the Society for Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging in its appropriate use criteria, we can give no assurances that the Novartis prostate cancer trials using PYLARIFY will be successful, that the PLUVICTO prescribing information will be expanded to incorporate F 18 based PSMA PET imaging agents like PYLARIFY, or how clinical practice may evolve.
+Added: To the extent we are unsuccessful in establishing the use of PYLARIFY for approved or new indications, such lack of success could have an adverse impact on our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: In addition to the 30,000 new scans per year for patients with mCRPC, we believe the market potential for PSMA PET imaging agents in the U.S.
+Added: could also include up to 125,000 scans for patients with intermediate, unfavorable or high/very high risk of suspected metastases of prostate cancer and 195,000 scans for patients with suspected recurrence of prostate cancer.
+Added: However, we can give no assurance as to how clinical practice may continue to evolve or our ultimate market penetration.
+Added: The near-term growth of our business is also dependent on our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms in the face of competition from other existing echocardiography agents and potential generic competitors.
+Added: The growth of our business is also dependent on our ability to continue to grow the appropriate use of DEFINITY in suboptimal echocardiograms.
+Added: DEFINITY currently competes with ultrasound enhancing agents produced by GE Healthcare and Bracco Diagnostics, Inc.
+Added: (“Bracco”), as well as echocardiography without ultrasound enhancing agents and other non-echocardiography agents.
We launched DEFINITY in 2001, and we continue to actively pursue additional patents in connection with DEFINITY and DEFINITY RT, both in the U.S.
and internationally.
−Removed: for DEFINITY we have four Orange Book-listed method of use patents, one of which expires in 2035 and three of which expire in 2037, as well as additional manufacturing patents that are not Orange Book-listed expiring in 2021, 2023 and 2037.
−Removed: for DEFINITY RT, which became commercially available in the fourth quarter of 2021, we have five Orange Book-listed patents, including a composition of matter patent which expires in 2035.
+Added: for DEFINITY we have six Orange Book-listed method of use patents, one of which expires in 2035 and five of which expire in 2037, as well as additional manufacturing patents that are not Orange Book-listed expiring in 2023 and 2037.
+Added: for DEFINITY RT, we have eight Orange Book-listed patents, including two composition of matter patents that expire in 2035.
Outside of the U.S., we are currently pursuing additional DEFINITY and DEFINITY RT patents to obtain similar patent protection as in the U.S.
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Because our Orange Book-listed composition of matter patent expired in June 2019, we may face generic DEFINITY challengers in the near to intermediate term.
−Removed: Under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the FDA can approve ANDAs for generic versions of drugs before the expiration of an Orange Book-listed patent covering the innovator product if the ANDA applicant demonstrates,
−Removed: among other things, that (i) its generic candidate is the same as the innovator product by establishing bioequivalence and providing relevant chemistry, manufacturing and product data, and (ii) either the marketing of that generic candidate does not infringe the Orange Book-listed patent(s) or the Orange Book-listed patent(s) is invalid.
+Added: Under the Hatch-Waxman Act, the FDA can approve ANDAs for generic versions of drugs before the expiration of an Orange Book-listed patent covering the innovator product if the ANDA applicant demonstrates, among other things, that (i) its generic candidate is the same as the innovator product by establishing bioequivalence and providing relevant chemistry, manufacturing and product data, and (ii) either the marketing of that generic candidate does not infringe the Orange Book-listed patent(s) or the Orange Book-listed patent(s) is invalid.
Similarly, the FDA can approve a Section 505(b)(2) NDA from an applicant that relies on some of the information required for marketing approval to come from studies which the applicant does not own or have a legal right of reference.
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We can give no assurance that we would have grounds to file a patent infringement suit, that we would obtain the full 30 month stay, that we would be successful on the merits asserting that an Applicant infringes our Orange Book-listed patent, or that we would be successful defending the validity of our Orange Book-listed patent in court or in a USPTO adversarial proceeding.
−Removed: In addition, as discussed in our risk factor “Our business and industry are subject to complex and costly regulations.
−Removed: If government regulations are interpreted or enforced in a manner adverse to us or our business, we may be subject to enforcement actions, penalties, exclusion and other material limitations on our operations.” set forth below, if the FDA reclassified one or more of our imaging agents, such as DEFINITY, as a “device” rather than a “drug”, we do not know when such reclassification would become effective, how any transition rules would be formulated or applied, and whether or not the legal framework provided by the Hatch-Waxman Act would be preserved for some time after such reclassification.
−Removed: As part of our microbubble franchise strategy, (i) we have developed and received FDA approval for DEFINITY RT, a modified formulation of DEFINITY, (ii) we look for other opportunities to expand our microbubble franchise, including new applications beyond echocardiography and ultrasound enhancing agent imaging generally such as our strategic arrangements with Cerevast, CarThera, Insightec and AHN, and (iii) we have constructed a specialized in-house manufacturing facility at our North Billerica campus for purposes of producing DEFINITY and, potentially, other sterile vial products.
−Removed: On February 22, 2022, we received FDA approval of our sNDA, authorizing commerical manufacturing of DEFINITY at our new facility.
+Added: As part of our microbubble franchise strategy, (i) we have developed and received FDA approval for DEFINITY RT, a modified formulation of DEFINITY, (ii) we look for other opportunities to expand our microbubble franchise, including new applications beyond echocardiography and ultrasound enhancing agent imaging generally such as our strategic arrangements with Cerevast, CarThera, Insightec, AHN and SonoThera, and (iii) we have constructed a specialized in-house manufacturing facility at our North Billerica campus for purposes of producing DEFINITY and, potentially, other sterile vial products.
+Added: On February 22, 2022, we received FDA approval of our sNDA, authorizing commercial manufacturing of DEFINITY at our new facility.
However, we can give no assurance that our microbubble franchise strategy will be successful or that the modified formulation, new applications or new manufacturing capabilities will grow our microbubble franchise.
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echocardiography ultrasound enhancing agent market, or (ii) be successful with our microbubble franchise strategy, we may not be able to continue to grow the revenue and cash flow of our business, which could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Our dependence upon third parties for the manufacture and supply of a substantial portion of our products and certain key components and raw materials could prevent us from delivering our products to our customers in the required quantities, within the required timeframes, or at all, which could result in order cancellations and decreased revenues.
+Added: Our dependence upon third parties for the manufacture and supply of a substantial portion of our products and certain key components and raw materials and upon our in-house manufacturing for DEFINITY could prevent us from delivering our products to our customers in the required quantities, within the required timeframes, or at all, which could result in order cancellations and decreased revenues.
We obtain a substantial portion of our products from third party manufacturers and suppliers.
−Removed: We rely on JHS as a substantial supplier of DEFINITY, as well as our sole source manufacturer of NEUROLITE, Cardiolite and evacuation vials.
−Removed: We rely on SBL as our sole source manufacturer of DEFINITY RT.
−Removed: We rely on various other sole source suppliers for some of our key components and raw materials.
−Removed: Based on our current estimates, we believe that we will have sufficient supply of DEFINITY, NEUROLITE, Cardiolite and evacuation vials from JHS (together with DEFINITY from our in-house manufacturing facility), and sufficient supply of saline from our sole manufacturer, to meet expected demand.
−Removed: However, we can give no assurances that JHS or our other manufacturing partner will be able to manufacture and distribute our products in a high quality and timely manner and in sufficient quantities to allow us to avoid product stock-outs and shortfalls.
PYLARIFY is manufactured by a nationwide network of PMFs with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons.
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If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn or our PMF sites experience manufacturing issues, our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Xenon is captured as a by-product of the Mo-99 production process.
−Removed: We receive bulk unprocessed Xenon from IRE resulting from highly-enriched uranium (“HEU”) Mo-99 production, which we process and finish for our customers.
−Removed: We do not yet receive Xenon resulting from low-enriched uranium (“LEU”) Mo-99 production at IRE and can give no assurances as to the timing of the availability of LEU Xenon.
−Removed: We believe we will have a sufficient supply of Xenon to meet our customers’ needs.
−Removed: However, until IRE converts to LEU Xenon production or we can qualify an additional source of bulk unprocessed Xenon, we will rely on IRE as a sole source provider of HEU Xenon.
−Removed: 1095 is currently manufactured only at the CPDC in Ontario, Canada.
−Removed: Until December 2019, the CPDC was subject to an Import Alert by the FDA, which restricted the CPDC’s ability to ship products to the U.S.
−Removed: Although the CPDC has since been cleared by the FDA to ship products to the U.S., there can be no guarantee that the CPDC, or any other ex-U.S.
−Removed: third party manufacturer that we may partner with in the future, will not be subject to similar restrictions in the future.
−Removed: In addition to the products described above, for reasons of quality assurance or cost-effectiveness, we purchase certain components and raw materials from sole suppliers (including, for example, the lipid blend material and perflutren gas used in the manufacturing of DEFINITY, the specially designed chemistry synthesis boxes and consumables used in the manufacturing of PYLARIFY and the lead casing for our TechneLite generators).
+Added: We rely on JHS as a substantial supplier of DEFINITY, as well as our sole source manufacturer of NEUROLITE, CARDIOLITE and evacuation vials.
+Added: We rely on SBL as our sole source manufacturer of DEFINITY RT.
+Added: We rely on various other sole source suppliers for some of our key components and raw materials.
+Added: Based on our current estimates, we believe that we will have sufficient supply of DEFINITY, NEUROLITE, CARDIOLITE and evacuation vials from JHS (together with DEFINITY from our in-house manufacturing facility), and sufficient supply of saline from our sole manufacturer, to meet expected demand.
+Added: However, we can give no assurances that JHS or our other manufacturing partner will be able to manufacture and distribute our products in a high quality and timely manner and in sufficient quantities to allow us to avoid product stock-outs and shortfalls.
+Added: In addition to the products described above, for reasons of quality assurance or cost-effectiveness, we purchase certain components and raw materials from sole suppliers (including, for example, the specially designed chemistry synthesis boxes and consumables used in the manufacturing of PYLARIFY, the lipid blend material and perflutren gas used in the manufacturing of DEFINITY and the lead casing for our TechneLite generators).
Because we do not control the actual production of many of the products we sell and many of the raw materials and components that make up the products we sell, we may be subject to delays caused by interruption in production based on events and conditions outside of our control.
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In addition to our existing manufacturing relationships, we are also pursuing new manufacturing relationships to establish and secure additional or alternative suppliers for our commercial products.
−Removed: We have also constructed a specialized in-house manufacturing facility at our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus for purposes of producing DEFINITY and, potentially, other sterile vial products.
+Added: We also constructed a specialized in-house manufacturing facility at our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus for purposes of producing DEFINITY and, potentially, other sterile vial products.
On February 22, 2022, we received FDA approval of our sNDA, authorizing commercial manufacturing of DEFINITY at our new facility.
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These processing sites provide us Mo-99 from five of the six main Mo-99-producing reactors in the world, namely BR2 in Belgium, LVR-15 in the Czech Republic, HFR in The Netherlands, SAFARI in South Africa and OPAL in Australia.
−Removed: Our agreement with NTP, acting for itself and on behalf of its subcontractor ANSTO, expires on March 31, 2022.
−Removed: We are actively negotiating a new supply agreement with NTP, although we can give no assurance that we will be able to reach an agreement on mutually acceptable terms or at all.
−Removed: In the event we are not able to enter into an agreement on mutually acceptable terms or at all,
−Removed: we would expect to attempt to increase our purchases of Mo-99 from IRE and enter into a direct arrangement with ANSTO, but we can give no assurance that we would be able to increase our purchases from IRE or directly purchase from ANSTO or that there would be no disruption in our ability to fill some or all of the demand for our TechneLite generators on certain manufacturing days.
−Removed: The NTP processing facility had periodic outages in 2017, 2018 and 2019.
−Removed: When NTP was not producing, we relied on Mo-99 supply from both IRE and ANSTO to limit the impact of the NTP outages.
−Removed: In 2019 and 2020, ANSTO experienced multiple facility issues that resulted in ANSTO outages and volume limitations, during which time we relied on IRE and NTP to limit the impact of those outages and limitations.
−Removed: Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, we experienced challenges receiving regularly scheduled orders of Mo-99 from our global suppliers, particularly in the second quarter of 2020.
−Removed: We continue to manage these various supply chain challenges, but depending on reactor and processor schedules and operations, at times we have not been able to fill some or all of the demand for our TechneLite generators on certain manufacturing days.
+Added: Our agreement with NTP, acting for itself and on behalf of its subcontractor ANSTO, expires on December 31, 2024.
+Added: Although we have a globally diverse Mo-99 supply with IRE in Belgium, NTP in South Africa, and ANSTO in Australia, we still face supplier and logistical challenges in our Mo-99 supply chain.
+Added: When one supplier experiences outages, we generally rely on Mo-99 supply from the other suppliers to limit the impact of the outages.
+Added: We believe we effectively manage these various supply chain challenges, but depending on reactor and processor schedules and operations, at times we have not been able to fill some or all of the demand for our TechneLite generators on certain manufacturing days.
A prolonged disruption of service from one of our three Mo-99 processing sites or one of their main Mo-99-producing reactors could have a substantial negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
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The term of this arrangement provides for three years of supply of Mo-99.
−Removed: However, we cannot assure you that our arrangement with SHINE will result in commercial quantities of Mo-99 for our business, or that SHINE together with our current suppliers will be able to deliver a sufficient quantity of Mo-99 to meet our needs.
+Added: However, we cannot assure you that SHINE will be able to produce commercial quantities of Mo-99 for our business, or that SHINE, together with our current suppliers, will be able to deliver a sufficient quantity of Mo-99 to meet our needs.
U.S., Canadian and international governments have encouraged the development of a number of alternative Mo-99 production projects with existing reactors and technologies as well as new technologies.
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Absent a new supplier, a supply disruption relating to uranium targets or fuel could have a substantial negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: Our ability to successfully launch PYLARIFY as a commercial product is dependent on (A) our ability to obtain FDA approval for additional PMFs that could manufacture PYLARIFY, (B) the ability of those PMFs to supply PYLARIFY to customers, (C) our ability to sell PYLARIFY to customers, and (D) our ability to obtain and maintain adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY.
−Removed: The commercial launch of PYLARIFY is complex and expensive.
−Removed: To manufacture PYLARIFY, we assembled and qualified a nationwide network of PMFs with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons that make F 18, which has a 110-minute half-life, so PYLARIFY is manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
−Removed: Because each of the PMFs manufacturing these products is deemed by the FDA to be a separate manufacturing site, each has to be separately approved by the FDA.
−Removed: Although we successfully qualified 21 PMFs in 2021 and continue to qualify additional PMFs in 2022, such that PYLARIFY is broadly available across the U.S.
−Removed: (including through our efforts to fly doses to certain markets ahead of PMF activation), we can give no assurance that the FDA will continue to approve PMFs in accordance with our planned roll-out schedule.
−Removed: If FDA approval of manufacturing sites is delayed or withdrawn, our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
−Removed: PYLARIFY is sold in the U.S.
−Removed: to hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities and are generated through a PYLARIFY direct sales team and a sales team at some of our PMF partners.
−Removed: We generally do not use group purchasing arrangements to sell PYLARIFY and require contracts to be entered into directly with each customer.
−Removed: During 2021, we hired additional employees to assist us with this commercialization of PYLARIFY.
−Removed: Our ability to continue to successfully launch PYLARIFY depends, in part, on our ability to continue to enter into arrangements directly with the hospitals, independent imaging centers and government facilities that we serve.
−Removed: Any delay or inability to enter into these arrangements could have an adverse impact on our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: In addition, obtaining adequate coding, coverage and payment for PYLARIFY is critical, including not only coverage from Medicare, Medicaid and other government payors, as well as private payors, but also appropriate payment levels to adequately cover our customers’ costs of using PYLARIFY in PET/CT imaging procedures.
−Removed: We received notification that our HCPCS code, which enables streamlined billing, went into effect as of January 1, 2022.
−Removed: In addition, effective January 1, 2022, CMS granted Transitional Pass-Through Payment Status for PYLARIFY, enabling traditional Medicare to provide an incremental payment for PET/CT scans performed with PYLARIFY in the hospital outpatient setting.
−Removed: If other government payors or private payors do not provide adequate
−Removed: reimbursement for the use of PYLARIFY, our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
−Removed: The successful launch of PYLARIFY is also dependent on our ability to establish PYLARIFY as a leading PET diagnostic for men with prostate cancer in the approved indications.
−Removed: PYLARIFY currently competes with Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited’s recently-approved Illuccix (gallium-68 PSMA-11 injection) and Bracco’s Axumin (fluciclovine F 18).
−Removed: We also face potential competition from Novartis AG, which has a gallium-68 PSMA-11 kit for PET imaging currently under review with the FDA, and Bracco, which has an F 18 PSMA PET imaging agent in late stage clinical development.
−Removed: We believe that one or both of the Novartis and Bracco PSMA agents could be approved by the FDA for commercialization later in 2022 or in 2023.
−Removed: To the extent we are unsuccessful in establishing the use of PYLARIFY for approved indications or we lose market share to existing or future competitors, such lack of success or loss of market share could have an adverse impact on our future business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: In addition, because we are in the process of launching this imaging agent, we can give no assurance as to how clinical practice may evolve or what our ultimate market penetration may be.
We may not be able to successfully launch PYLARIFY AI as a commercial product.
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• a network or data security incident that allows unauthorized access to our network or data or our customers’ data.
−Removed: Although we believe that PYLARIFY AI when used with PYLARIFY will provide us an important competitive advantage in what we expect will be a highly competitive PET PSMA diagnostic imaging agent market, we can give no assurances to that effect.
+Added: Although we believe that PYLARIFY AI when used with PYLARIFY will provide us an important competitive advantage in a highly competitive PET PSMA diagnostic imaging agent market, we can give no assurances to that effect.
We rely on Bausch to develop and commercialize RELISTOR, exposing us to significant risks.
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The revenue derived from royalty and milestone payments from our RELISTOR collaboration with Bausch can fluctuate significantly from period to period, and our past revenue is therefore not necessarily indicative of our future revenue.
−Removed: We are and will be dependent upon Bausch and any other business partners with which we may collaborate in the future to perform and fund development, including clinical testing of RELISTOR, making related regulatory filings and manufacturing and marketing products, including for new indications and in new formulations, in their respective territories.
+Added: We are and will be dependent upon Bausch and any other business partners with which we may collaborate in the future to perform and fund development, including clinical testing of RELISTOR, making related regulatory filings and manufacturing and marketing products,
+Added: including for new indications and in new formulations, in their respective territories.
Revenue from the sale of RELISTOR depends entirely upon the efforts of Bausch and its sublicensees, which have significant discretion in determining the efforts and resources they apply to sales of RELISTOR.
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After increased experience administering AZEDRA, clinicians may conclude that the complexity of administration and/or safety concerns with using a highly radioactive therapeutic agent may not justify AZEDRA’s perceived clinical benefits.
−Removed: AZEDRA became eligible for new technology add-on payments (NTAP) under the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) effective October 1, 2019.
−Removed: As required by statute, NTAP eligibility under the IPPS can continue for a period of at least two years, but not more than three years.
−Removed: Under the fiscal year 2022 IPPS Final Rule, published in September 2021, CMS finalized continuation of AZEDRA’s NTAP for fiscal year 2022—i.e., from October 1, 2021 through September 30, 2022.
−Removed: AZEDRA’s NTAP will most likely expire September 30, 2022.
−Removed: If post-pass-through payment levels impact market acceptance for AZEDRA, the drug may not generate enough revenue to make it economically viable.
+Added: AZEDRA’s eligibility for new technology add-on payments (NTAP) under the Medicare Hospital Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) expired September 30, 2022.
+Added: pass-through payment levels impact market acceptance for AZEDRA, the drug may not generate enough revenue to make it economically viable.
In addition, the market may react negatively to the high cost of AZEDRA, which could result in negative publicity and potentially reputational harm to us.
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In the United States, Orphan Drug designation entitles a party to financial incentives such as opportunities for grant funding towards clinical trial costs, tax advantages and user-fee waivers.
−Removed: In addition, if a product that has Orphan Drug designation
−Removed: subsequently receives the first FDA approval for the disease for which it has such designation, the product is entitled to Orphan Drug exclusivity, which means the FDA may not approve any other application to market the same drug for the same indication for a period of seven years, except in limited circumstances, such as a showing of clinical superiority over the product with orphan exclusivity or where the manufacturer is unable to assure sufficient product quantity.
+Added: In addition, if a product that has Orphan Drug designation subsequently receives the first FDA approval for the disease for which it has such designation, the product is entitled to Orphan Drug exclusivity, which means the FDA may not approve any other application to market the same drug for the same indication for a period of seven years, except in limited circumstances, such as a showing of clinical superiority over the product with orphan exclusivity or where the manufacturer is unable to assure sufficient product quantity.
We may not be able to maintain Orphan Drug exclusivity for AZEDRA.
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Our just-in-time manufacturing of radiopharmaceutical products relies on the reliability of our equipment and processes and the timely receipt of radioactive raw materials and the timely shipment of finished goods, and any disruption of our supply or distribution networks could have a negative effect on our business.
−Removed: At our North Billerica, Massachusetts facility, we manufacture TechneLite on a highly automated production line, as well as Thallium and Gallium using our older cyclotron technology and Xenon on a hot cell line.
−Removed: At our Somerset, New Jersey facility, we manufacture AZEDRA on a hot cell line.
+Added: At the facility on our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus, we manufacture TechneLite on a highly automated production line.
+Added: At the facility on our Somerset, New Jersey site, we manufacture AZEDRA on a hot cell line.
As with all manufacturing facilities, equipment and infrastructure age and become subject to increasing maintenance and repair.
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Due to the stringent regulations and requirements of the governing regulatory authorities regarding the manufacture of our products, we may not be able to quickly restart manufacturing at our facilities or establish additional or replacement sources for certain products, components or materials.
−Removed: In addition, because a number of our radiopharmaceutical products, including our TechneLite generators, PYLARIFY and AZEDRA, rely on radioisotopes with limited half-lives, we or our partners must manufacture, finish and distribute these products on a just-in-time basis, because the underlying radioisotope is in a constant state of decay.
−Removed: For example, if we receive Mo-99 in the morning of a manufacturing day for TechneLite generators, then we will generally ship finished generators to customers by the end of that same business day.
−Removed: Shipment of generators may be by next day delivery services or by either ground or air custom logistics.
−Removed: Similarly, the radioisotope used in PYLARIFY is F 18, which has a 110 minute half-life, requiring that this product be manufactured and distributed within the same day to end-users.
+Added: In addition, because a number of our radiopharmaceutical products, including PYLARIFY, our TechneLite generators, and AZEDRA, rely on radioisotopes with limited half-lives, we or our partners must manufacture, finish and distribute these products on a just-in-time basis, because the underlying radioisotope is in a constant state of decay.
+Added: For example, the radioisotope used in PYLARIFY is F 18, which has a 110 minute half-life, requiring that this product be manufactured and distributed within the same day to end-users.
After being made on a cyclotron at a PMF, the F 18 is then combined with certain chemical ingredients in specially designed chemistry synthesis boxes to manufacture PYLARIFY.
The finished PYLARIFY is then quality control tested and transferred to a radiopharmacist who prepares and dispenses patient-specific doses from the final product.
+Added: Similarly, with respect to our TechneLite generators, if we receive Mo-99 in the morning of a manufacturing day for TechneLite generators, then we will generally ship finished generators to customers by the end of that same business day.
+Added: Shipment of generators may be by next day delivery services or by either ground or air custom logistics.
Any delay in us receiving radioisotopes from suppliers or being able to have finished products delivered to customers because of weather or other unforeseen transportation issues could have a negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: In the U.S., we are heavily dependent on a few large customers to generate a majority of our revenues for our nuclear medical imaging products in our precision diagnostic product category.
+Added: In the U.S., we are heavily dependent on a few large customers to generate a majority of our revenues for our single-photon emission computerized tomography (SPECT) nuclear medical imaging products in our Precision Diagnostic product category.
+Added: For PYLARIFY, we depend in part on some of our PMF partners to generate sales and collect revenue.
Outside of the U.S., we rely primarily on distributors to generate a substantial portion of our revenue.
−Removed: In the U.S., we have historically relied on a limited number of radiopharmacy customers, primarily Cardinal, Jubilant Radiopharma, PharmaLogic, RLS and UPPI, to purchase our current largest volume nuclear imaging products.
+Added: In the U.S., we have historically relied on a limited number of radiopharmacy customers, primarily Cardinal, RLS, UPPI, PharmaLogic and Jubilant Radiopharma, to purchase our nuclear imaging products in our Precision Diagnostic product category.
Among the existing radiopharmacies in the U.S., continued consolidations, divestitures and reorganizations may have a negative effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Our contractual arrangements with these radiopharmacy customers generally specify pricing levels and requirements to purchase minimum percentages of certain products during certain periods.
−Removed: The agreements generally are multi-year arrangements that may be terminated upon the occurrence of specified events, including a material breach by the other party and certain force majeure events.
+Added: The agreements generally may be terminated upon the occurrence of specified events, including a material breach by the other party and certain force majeure events.
If these contracts are terminated prior to the expiration of their term, or are not renewed, or are renewed on terms that are less favorable to us, then such an event could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: For all of our medical imaging products, we continue to experience significant pricing pressures from our competitors, large customers and group purchasing organizations, and any significant, additional pricing pressures could lead to a reduction in revenue which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: For PYLARIFY, we depend in part on some of our PMF partners to generate sales and collect revenue.
+Added: To the extent our PMF partners are unsuccessful in generating sales or in collecting revenue, such an event could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: We also continue to experience significant pricing pressures from our competitors, large customers and group purchasing organizations, and any significant, additional pricing pressures could lead to a reduction in revenue which could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: In Canada, we maintain our own direct sales force to generate sales of DEFINITY.
Outside of the U.S.
and Canada, we have no sales force and, consequently, rely on third party distributors, either on a country-by-country basis or on a multi-country, regional basis, to market, sell and distribute our products.
−Removed: In Canada, we maintain our own direct sales force to generate sales of DEFINITY.
In certain circumstances, distributors may also sell competing products to our own or products for competing diagnostic modalities and may have incentives to shift sales towards those competing products.
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Our principal competitors for our current commercial products and leading clinical development candidates include large, global companies that are more diversified than we are and that have substantial financial, manufacturing, sales and marketing, distribution and other resources:
+Added: • For PYLARIFY, our competitors currently include approved imaging agents from Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and Novartis AG, and may in the future include an F 18 PSMA PET imaging agent that Bracco has in late stage clinical development, which we believe could be approved by the FDA for commercialization later in 2023.
+Added: In addition, the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Los Angeles have approved NDAs for a Ga-68 PSMA-11 injection for PSMA PET imaging, which we believe will primarily be used within their hospital systems.
• For DEFINITY, our competitors currently include GE Healthcare and Bracco.
−Removed: • For a number of our radiopharmaceutical commercial products, our competitors currently include Curium, GE Healthcare, Bracco and Jubilant Life Sciences, an affiliate of JHS and Jubilant Radiopharma, as well as other competitors, including NorthStar and potentially BWXT Medical.
−Removed: • For PYLARIFY, our competitors currently include Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited and Bracco, and may in the future include Novartis AG, which has a gallium-68 PSMA-11 kit for PET imaging currently under review with the FDA, and Bracco, which has an F 18 PSMA PET imaging agent in late stage clinical development;
−Removed: we believe that one or both of the Novartis and Bracco PSMA agents could be approved by the FDA for commercialization later in 2022 or in 2023.
−Removed: In addition, the University of California, San Francisco and the University of California, Los Angeles have approved NDAs for a gallium-68 PSMA-11 injection for PSMA PET imaging, which we believe will primarily be used within their hospital systems.
−Removed: • For RELISTOR, our principal competitors include Nektar Therapeutics, in collaboration with AstraZeneca PLC;
+Added: • For a number of our radiopharmaceutical commercial products, our competitors currently include Curium, GE Healthcare, Bracco and Jubilant Life Sciences, an affiliate of JHS and Jubilant Radiopharma, as well as other competitors, including NorthStar Medical Radioisotopes, LLC and potentially BWXT Medical Ltd.
+Added: • For RELISTOR, our principal competitors include RedHill Biopharma Inc., in collaboration with AstraZeneca PLC;
Cubist Pharmaceuticals, a subsidiary of Merck & Co., Inc.;
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together with other prescription, as well as over-the-counter, laxatives used as first line therapy for OIC.
−Removed: • For AZEDRA, there are currently no approved anticancer treatments in the U.S.
−Removed: for malignant, recurrent, and/or unresectable pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma.
−Removed: • For 1095, our principal competitors in the field of radiopharmaceutical therapeutics for mCRPC may include Novartis AG;
−Removed: POINT Biopharma;
+Added: • For AZEDRA, there are currently no FDA approved anticancer treatments in the U.S.
+Added: for malignant, recurrent, and/or unresectable pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, our competitors include developers of anticancer treatments currently used, but not specifically FDA approved for treatment of malignant, recurrent, and/or unresectable pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma.
+Added: • For PNT2002 and 1095, our principal competitors in the field of radiopharmaceutical therapeutics for mCRPC may include Novartis AG;
Telix Pharmaceuticals Limited;
−Removed: and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., each of which have product candidates in development.
−Removed: • For LMI 1195, our principal competitors may include GE Healthcare’s iobenguane 123 injection.
+Added: Curium and Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals Inc., each of which have product candidates in development.
+Added: • For PNT2003, our principal competitor may include Novartis AG.
• For flurpiridaz, our principal competitors may include rubidium generators from Bracco and Jubilant Radiopharma.
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DEFINITY is an ultrasound enhancing agent based on perflutren lipid microspheres.
−Removed: In 2007, the FDA received reports of deaths and serious cardiopulmonary reactions following the administration of ultrasound micro-bubble enhancing agents used in echocardiography.
+Added: In 2007, the FDA received reports of deaths and serious cardiopulmonary reactions following the administration of ultrasound enhancing agents used in echocardiography.
Four of the 11 reported deaths were caused by cardiac arrest occurring either during or within 30 minutes following the administration of the ultrasound enhancing agent;
most of the serious but non-fatal reactions also occurred in this time frame.
−Removed: As a result, in October 2007, the FDA requested that we and GE Healthcare, which distributes Optison, a competitor to DEFINITY, add a boxed warning to these products emphasizing the risk for serious cardiopulmonary reactions and that the use of these products was
−Removed: contraindicated in certain patients.
+Added: As a result, in October 2007, the FDA requested that we and GE Healthcare, which distributes Optison, a competitor to DEFINITY, add a boxed warning to these products emphasizing the risk for serious cardiopulmonary reactions and that the use of these products was contraindicated in certain patients.
In a strong reaction by the cardiology community to the FDA’s new position, a letter was sent to the FDA, signed by 161 doctors, stating that the benefit of these ultrasound enhancing agents outweighed the risks and urging that the boxed warning be removed.
In May 2008, the FDA substantially modified the boxed warning.
−Removed: On May 2, 2011, the FDA held an advisory committee meeting to consider the status of ultrasound micro-bubble contrast agents and the boxed warning.
+Added: On May 2, 2011, the FDA held an advisory committee meeting to consider the status of ultrasound enhancing agents and the boxed warning.
In October 2011, we received FDA approval of further modifications to the DEFINITY label, including:
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TPT Status for PYLARIFY is expected to expire December 31, 2024.
−Removed: After TPT Status expires, under current Medicare rules, PYLARIFY, similar to other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, would not be separately reimbursed in the hospital outpatient setting but rather would be included as part of the facility fee a hospital otherwise receives for a PET/CT imaging procedure, and the facility fee does not always cover the cost of a drug used in the procedure.
−Removed: The Company can give no assurance that any CMS reimbursement in the hospital outpatient setting that follows the expiration of TPT Status will be adequate to cover the cost of PYLARIFY used in a PET/CT imaging procedure.
+Added: After TPT Status expires, under current Medicare rules, PYLARIFY, similar to other diagnostic radiopharmaceuticals, would not be separately reimbursed in the hospital outpatient setting but rather would be bundled into the facility payment a hospital receives for a PET/CT imaging procedure, and the facility payment may not always cover the total cost of the procedure.
+Added: The Company can give no assurance that any CMS reimbursement in the hospital outpatient setting that follows the expiration of TPT Status will be adequate to cover a PYLARIFY PET/CT imaging procedure.
Over the past several years, Medicare has implemented numerous changes to payment policies for imaging procedures in both the hospital setting and non-hospital settings (which include physician offices and freestanding imaging facilities).
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Examples of these changes include:
−Removed: • Limiting payments for imaging services in physician offices and free-standing imaging facility settings based upon rates paid to hospital outpatient departments;
• Reducing payments for certain imaging procedures when performed together with other imaging procedures in the same family of procedures on the same patient on the same day in the physician office and free-standing imaging facility setting;
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In the physician office and free-standing imaging facility setting, services provided using our products are reimbursed under the Medicare physician fee schedule.
−Removed: Payment rates under the Medicare physician fee schedule are regularly subject to updates to effectuate various policy goals.
−Removed: For example, since 2019, fee schedule payments have been adjusted for certain physicians based on their performance under a consolidated measurement system (that measures performance with respect to quality, resource utilization, meaningful use of certified electronic health records technology, and clinical practice improvement activities).
+Added: Payment rates under the Medicare physician fee schedule are regularly subject to updates to effectuate various policy goals of CMS and Congress.
+Added: For example, in 2022, CMS reduced Medicare fee schedule payments rates in the agency’s final rulemaking, while a larger cut was put forth in the proposed rulemaking earlier that year.
+Added: For 2023, CMS had finalized a reduction in the Medicare fee schedule payments rates, which was revised by Congress, pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, to a lesser reduction.
+Added: Additionally, since 2019, fee schedule payments have been adjusted for certain physicians based on their performance under a consolidated measurement system (that measures performance with respect to quality, resource utilization, meaningful use of certified electronic health records technology, and clinical practice improvement activities).
From 2019 through payment year 2024, physicians may be eligible for a bonus based on the use of certain alternative payment models designated as “advanced” by CMS.
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Medicare claims for such services must include information indicating whether services ordered would adhere to specified applicable AUC.
−Removed: Denial of claims for failure to include AUC consultation information on the claim form was set to begin on January 1, 2022.
+Added: Denial of claims for failure to include AUC consultation information on the claim form was set to begin on January 1, 2022, but was not implemented by CMS.
In the CY 2022 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule, CMS delayed the start of these claims denials until the later of January 1, 2023, or the January 1st that follows the declared end of the Public Health Emergency for COVID–19.
+Added: In 2022, CMS published on its website that it was unable to forecast when the payment penalty phase would begin, and CMS did not address the AUC delay in the CY 2023 Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule.
To the extent that these types of changes have the effect of reducing the aggregate number of diagnostic medical imaging procedures performed in the U.S., our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows would be adversely affected.
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These provisions have resulted in the imposition of 2% reductions in Medicare payments to providers, which went into effect on April 1, 2013 and will remain in effect through fiscal year 2030.
−Removed: The CARES Act temporarily suspended the 2% payment adjustment for dates of service from May 1 through December 31, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2021 subsequently extended this suspension until March 31, 2021, and Congress further extended the suspension through March 31, 2022.
+Added: The imposition of the 2% payment adjustment had been suspended through March 31, 2022 and went into effect as of April 1, 2022.
Any significant spending reductions affecting Medicare, Medicaid or other publicly funded or subsidized health programs that may be implemented and/or any significant taxes or fees that may be imposed on us, as part of any broader deficit reduction effort or legislative replacement to the Budget Control Act, could have an adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
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• Withdrawals or suspensions of our current products from the market.
−Removed: Regulations are subject to change as a result of legislative, administrative or judicial action, which may also increase our costs or reduce sales or otherwise adversely impact our products.
−Removed: For example, on April 16, 2021 in the case Genus Medical Technologies LLC v.
−Removed: Food and Drug Administration, the U.S.
−Removed: Court of Appeals for the D.C.
−Removed: Circuit held that a product (other than a combination product) that meets the definitions of both “drug” and “device” in the FDCA must be regulated as a device.
−Removed: On August 9, 2021, the FDA announced that, as part of its implementation of this court decision, the FDA intended to regulate products that meet both the device and drug definition as devices, except where Congress intended a different classification.
−Removed: The FDA further indicated that it intended to bring previously classified products into line with the court decision and would reexamine whether individual imaging agents meet the device definition.
−Removed: In connection with its announcement, the FDA requested comments from the industry on five topics:
−Removed: categories of products implicated by the court decision;
−Removed: the transition process;
−Removed: the transition timing;
−Removed: user fee transitions;
−Removed: and determining drug or device status.
−Removed: We submitted comments to the FDA in response to its request for comments.
−Removed: While we question whether the FDA has authority to make this change, we believe that pre-existing law already establishes that a broad spectrum of imaging agents have already been established by Congress to be “drugs”, and do not believe that any of our imaging agents meets the definition of a “device” under the FDCA.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that the FDA will agree with our position.
−Removed: In addition, if the FDA determines that one or more of our imaging agents meet the definition of a “device”, we do not know when such reclassification would be effective, how any transition rules would be formulated or applied, and whether or not the legal framework provided by the Hatch-Waxman Act would be preserved for some time after such reclassification.
−Removed: A reclassification of one or more of our imaging agents as a “device” could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Our marketing and sales practices may contain risks that could result in significant liability, require us to change our business practices, and restrict our operations in the future.
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Risks Related to Our Business Operations and Financial Results
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and could continue to have, a material impact on our business, results of operation and financial condition, operating results, cash flows and prospects.
−Removed: Towards the end of the first quarter of 2020 we began to experience, and through the date of this filing we are continuing to experience, impacts to our business and operations related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including the impact of hospital staffing challenges, vaccination mandates, employee absences due to illness, and a decline in the volume of procedures and treatments using our products.
−Removed: In response to the pandemic, healthcare providers have, and may need to further, reallocate resources, such as physicians, staff and facilities, as they prioritize limited resources and personnel capacity to focus on the treatment of patients with COVID-19 and implement limitations on access to hospitals and other medical institutions due to concerns about the potential spread of COVID-19 in such settings.
−Removed: Vaccination mandates may also create additional personnel and capacity constraints.
−Removed: For example, we believe that during the fourth quarter of 2021 sales of DEFINITY were impacted by hospital nursing and sonographer shortages, and sales of AZEDRA were impacted by treatment capacity constraints in hospitals, treatment deferrals and cancellations by patients, and access restrictions by hospitals.
−Removed: There has also been a reduction in pulmonary ventilation studies in which our Xenon is used because of institutional concerns and professional society guidelines relating to the possible spread of COVID-19 to technicians and other patients, given that Xenon is both inhaled and exhaled by the patient.
−Removed: As a result, Xenon sales have decreased.
−Removed: We expect Xenon sales to continue to be at reduced levels so long as COVID-19 precautions remain in place.
−Removed: Similarly, with respect to AZEDRA, the resurgence of COVID-19 infection rates impacted sales by creating treatment capacity constraints in hospitals, treatment deferrals and cancellations by patients and access restrictions by hospitals.
−Removed: These actions have significantly delayed the provision of other medical care including procedures involving our products, having an adverse effect on our revenue.
−Removed: These measures and challenges may continue for the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, and such duration is uncertain and may significantly reduce our revenue and cash flows while the pandemic continues and thereafter until we and our customers are able to resume normal business operations.
−Removed: We cannot predict the magnitude or duration of the pandemic’s impact on our business.
+Added: We may not be able to hire or retain the number of qualified personnel, particularly scientific, medical and sales personnel, required for our business, which would harm the development and sales of our products and limit our ability to grow.
+Added: Competition in our industry for highly skilled scientific, healthcare and sales personnel is intense.
+Added: In connection with the launch and continued growth of PYLARIFY, we hired additional employees to assist us with the commercialization of PYLARIFY, including in sales, marketing, reimbursement, quality and medical affairs.
+Added: Although we were successful in hiring and onboarding those employees and we have not had any material difficulty in the past in hiring or retaining qualified personnel, if we are unable to retain our existing personnel, or attract and train additional qualified personnel, either because of competition in our industry for these personnel, prolonged remote working conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, or insufficient financial resources, then our growth may be limited and it could have a material adverse effect on our business.
+Added: The COVID-19 pandemic had, and could continue to have, a material impact on our business, results of operation and financial condition, operating results, cash flows and prospects.
+Added: The global COVID-19 pandemic had, and could still have, a future negative impact on our business, particularly if there are additional resurgences as a result of new variants of the virus that further increase its communicability or its impact on certain populations, geographic regions and the healthcare system, including elective procedures and hospital access.
+Added: In addition, our business has been impacted by hospital staffing challenges and a decline in the volume of certain procedures and treatments using our products.
In connection with the COVID-19 pandemic, the following risks could have a material effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects:
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• The inability of our distributors, radiopharmacy customers, PET manufacturing partners, hospitals, clinics and other customers to conduct their normal operations, including supplying or conducting procedures in which our products are used, because of their COVID-19 response efforts, or the reduced capacity or productivity of their employees and contractors as a result of possible illness, quarantine or other inability to work, thereby reducing sales of our products for an unknown period of time;
−Removed: • The financial challenges experienced by certain of our customers due to the COVID-19 pandemic resulting in increased pressure from those customers on the pricing of our commercial products;
• The inability of global suppliers of raw materials or components used in the manufacture of our products, or contract manufacturers of our products, to supply and/or transport those raw materials, components and products to us in a timely and cost effective manner due to shutdowns, interruptions or delays, limiting and potentially precluding the production of our finished products, impacting our ability to supply customers, reducing our sales, increasing our costs of goods sold, and reducing our absorption of overhead;
−Removed: • The partial or complete delay or cancellation of international or domestic flights by our airfreight carriers, resulting in our inability to receive raw materials, components and products from our global suppliers or to ship and deliver our finished products to our domestic and international customers in a timely or cost effective manner, thereby potentially increasing our freight costs as we seek alternate, potentially more expensive, methods to ship raw materials, components or products, and negatively impacting our sales;
• The reduced capacity or productivity of our complex, on-campus operations as a result of possible illness, quarantine or other inability of our employees and contractors to work, despite all of the preventative measures we continue to undertake to protect the health and safety of our workforce;
−Removed: • The illiquidity or insolvency of our suppliers, contract manufacturers (including our PET manufacturing partners) or freight carriers whose business activities could be shut down, interrupted or delayed;
• The illiquidity or insolvency of our distributors or customers, or their inability to pay our invoices in full or in a timely manner, due to the reduction in their revenues caused by the cancellation or delay of procedures and other factors, which could potentially reduce our cash flow, reduce our liquidity and increase our bad debt reserves;
• A portion of our raw materials or finished product inventory may expire due to reduced demand for our drugs;
−Removed: • Delays in our ability, and the ability of our contract research organizations and development partners to conduct, enroll and complete clinical development programs such as our ARROW Phase 2 study in mCRPC or the flurpiridaz F 18 Phase 3 clinical development program currently being conducted by GE Healthcare;
+Added: • Delays in our ability, and the ability of our contract research organizations and development partners to conduct, enroll and complete clinical development programs;
• Delays of regulatory reviews and approvals, including with respect to our product candidates and manufacturing facilities, by the FDA or other health or regulatory authorities;
• Decreased sales of those of our products that are promotionally sensitive, like DEFINITY and AZEDRA, due to the reduction of in-person sales and marketing activities and training caused by travel restrictions, quarantines, other similar social distancing measures and more restrictive hospital access policies;
−Removed: • Our ability to maintain employee morale and motivate and retain management personnel and other key employees as a result of our previous work week and salary reductions;
−Removed: • A disruption in the operation of our new on-site manufacturing facility, which would delay implementation of our supply diversification strategy for DEFINITY and impact our ability to benefit from a lower cost of goods for that product;
• A reduction in revenue with continued incurrence of high fixed costs relating to our already-existing, complex and expensive radiopharmaceutical manufacturing facility could adversely affect our cash flows, liquidity and ability to comply with the financial covenants in our 2022 Facility;
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The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts our business and our results of operations and financial condition will depend on future developments that are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information that may emerge in connection with the severity of the virus, the ability to treat and ultimately prevent it with vaccines, its potential recurrence or transformation into new or more contagious or virulent strains, and further actions that federal, state, local, or foreign governments may take to contain its impact.
−Removed: We may not be able to hire or retain the number of qualified personnel, particularly scientific, medical and sales personnel, required for our business, which would harm the development and sales of our products and limit our ability to grow.
−Removed: Competition in our industry for highly skilled scientific, healthcare and sales personnel is intense.
−Removed: During 2021, we hired additional employees to assist us with the commercialization of PYLARIFY, including in sales, marketing, reimbursement, quality and medical affairs.
−Removed: Although we were successful in hiring and onboarding those employees and we have not had any material difficulty in the past in hiring or retaining qualified personnel, if we are unable to retain our existing personnel, or attract and train additional qualified personnel, either because of competition in our industry for these personnel, prolonged remote working conditions due to the COVID-19 pandemic, or insufficient financial resources, then our growth may be limited and it could have a material adverse effect on our business.
If we lose the services of our key personnel, our business could be adversely affected.
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Our future growth may depend on our ability to identify and acquire or in-license additional products, businesses or technologies, and if we do not successfully do so, or otherwise fail to integrate any new products, lines of business or technologies into our operations, we may have limited growth opportunities and it could result in significant impairment charges or other adverse financial consequences.
−Removed: Even after giving effect to the Progenics Acquisition, we are continuing to seek to acquire or in-license products, businesses or technologies that we believe are a strategic fit with our business strategy.
+Added: Even after giving effect to the POINT License Agreements (as defined below), we are continuing to seek to acquire or in-license products, businesses or technologies that we believe are a strategic fit with our business strategy.
Future acquisitions or in-licenses, however, may entail numerous operational and financial risks, including:
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We generally contract with third parties for the disposal of wastes generated by our operations.
−Removed: Prior to disposal, we store any low level radioactive waste at our facilities to decay until the materials are no longer considered radioactive.
+Added: We store low level radioactive waste at our facility and dispose of the materials in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
+Added: A majority of our low level radioactive waste is held to
+Added: decay until materials are no longer considered radioactive.
Although we believe we have complied in all material respects with all applicable environmental, health and safety laws and regulations, we cannot assure you that we have been or will be in compliance with all such laws at all times.
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In addition, in the event of accidental contamination or injury from these materials, we could be held liable for any damages that result and any such liability could exceed our resources.
−Removed: We previously leased a small portion of our North Billerica, Massachusetts facility to PerkinElmer for the manufacturing, finishing and packaging of certain radioisotopes, including Strontium-90, which has physical characteristics that make it more challenging to work with and dispose of than our own commercial radioisotopes, including a much longer half-life.
+Added: We previously leased a small portion of our North Billerica, Massachusetts campus to PerkinElmer for the manufacturing, finishing and packaging of certain radioisotopes, including Strontium-90, which has physical characteristics that make it more challenging to work with and dispose of than our own commercial radioisotopes, including a much longer half-life.
PerkinElmer decommissioned its space and vacated the premises as of December 30, 2021.
We are fully indemnified by PerkinElmer under our lease for any property damage or personal injury resulting from their activities in our facility.
−Removed: If any release or excursion of radioactive materials took place from their leased space that resulted in property damage or personal injury, the indemnification obligations were
−Removed: not honored, and we were forced to cover any related remediation, clean-up or other expenses, depending on the magnitude, the cost of such remediation, clean-up or other expenses could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: If any release or excursion of radioactive materials took place from their leased space that resulted in property damage or personal injury, the indemnification obligations were not honored, and we were forced to cover any related remediation, clean-up or other expenses, depending on the magnitude, the cost of such remediation, clean-up or other expenses could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
While we have budgeted for current and future capital and operating expenditures to maintain compliance with these laws and regulations, we cannot assure you that our costs of complying with current or future environmental, health and safety laws and regulations will not exceed our estimates or adversely affect our results of operations and financial condition.
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If we are not able to enforce and defend the patents of our technologies and products, then we will not be able to exclude competitors from marketing products that directly compete with our products, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: For DEFINITY, we continue to actively pursue patents in both the U.S.
−Removed: and internationally.
−Removed: for DEFINITY we have four Orange Book-listed method of use patents, one of which expires in 2035 and three of which expire in 2037, as well as additional manufacturing patents that are not Orange Book-listed expiring in 2023 and 2037.
−Removed: for DEFINITY RT, we have five Orange Book-listed patents, including a composition of matter patent which expires in 2035.
−Removed: Outside of the U.S., we are currently pursuing additional DEFINITY and DEFINITY RT patents to obtain similar patent protection as in the U.S.
−Removed: The Orange Book-listed patents include a patent on the use of VIALMIX RFID, which expires in 2037;
−Removed: additional VIALMIX RFID patent applications have been submitted in major markets throughout the world.
We also rely on trade secrets and other know-how and proprietary information to protect our technology, especially where we do not believe patent protection is appropriate or obtainable.
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It is possible that a competitor will make use of that information, and that our competitive position will be compromised, in spite of any legal action we might take against persons making those unauthorized disclosures, which could have a material and adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: We rely on our trademarks, trade names and brand names to distinguish our products from the products of our competitors, and have registered or applied to register many of these trademarks, including, among others, AZEDRA ® , AZEDRA Service Connection ® , Cardiolite ® , DEFINITY ® , DEFINITY RT TM , EXINI ® , Find, Fight and Follow ® , Find > Fight > Follow TM , Lantheus ® , Lantheus Medical Imaging ® , LUMINITY ® , Molecular Insight ® , NEUROLITE ® , Progenics ® , Progenics Pharmaceuticals ® , PYLARIFY ® , TechneLite ® , VIALMIX ® , and VIALMIX RFID ® .
+Added: We rely on our trademarks, trade names and brand names to distinguish our products from the products of our competitors, and have registered or applied to register many of these trademarks.
We cannot assure you that any pending trademark applications will be approved.
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We may be adversely affected by prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors beyond our control.
−Removed: Our ability to attract and retain customers, invest in and grow our business and meet our financial obligations depends on our operating and financial performance, which, in turn, is subject to numerous factors, including the prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors beyond our control, such as the rate of unemployment, the number of uninsured persons in the U.S.
−Removed: and inflationary pressures.
+Added: Our ability to attract and retain customers, invest in and grow our business, maintain our desired levels of costs of goods sold and operating expenses and meet our financial obligations depends on our operating and financial performance, which, in turn, is subject to numerous factors, including the prevailing economic conditions and financial, business and other factors beyond our control, such as the rate of unemployment, the number of uninsured persons in the U.S.
+Added: and inflationary pressures, including escalating energy prices.
We cannot anticipate all the ways in which the current or future economic climate and financial market conditions could adversely impact our business.
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To the extent prevailing economic conditions result in fewer procedures being performed, our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be adversely affected.
+Added: Similarly, we would expect our costs of goods sold and other operating expenses to change in the future in line with periodic inflationary changes in price levels.
+Added: Because we intend to retain and continue to use our property and equipment, we believe that the incremental inflation related to the replacement costs of those items will not materially affect our operations.
+Added: However, the rate of inflation affects our expenses, such as those for employee compensation, contract services, and transportation costs, which could increase our level of expenses and the rate at which we use our resources.
+Added: While we generally believe that we will be able to offset the effect of price-level changes by adjusting our product prices and implementing operating efficiencies, any material unfavorable changes in price levels could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
Our business is subject to international economic, political and other risks that could negatively affect our results of operations or financial position.
−Removed: For the year ended December 31, 2021, we derived approximately 10% of our revenues and expended approximately 25% of our costs of goods sold outside of the fifty United States.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, we derived approximately 3.6% of our revenues and sourced approximately 17.5% of our costs of goods sold outside of the fifty United States.
Accordingly, our business is subject to risks associated with doing business internationally, including:
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A successful antitrust claim by a private party or government entity against us could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations and could cause the market value of our common stock to decline.
−Removed: Risks Related to our Portfolio of Clinical Development Candidates
+Added: Risks Related to our and our Strategic Partners’ Portfolios of Clinical Development Candidates
+Added: We may not, or may take longer to, realize the expected benefits and opportunities related to, the POINT License Agreements.
+Added: On December 20, 2022, we announced the closing of a set of strategic collaborations with an affiliate of POINT, in which we were granted a license to exclusive worldwide rights (excluding Japan, South Korea, China (including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan), Singapore and Indonesia) to co-develop and commercialize POINT’s PNT2002 and PNT2003 product candidates (the “POINT License Agreements”).
+Added: The expected benefits and opportunities related to the POINT License Agreements may not be realized or may take longer to realize than expected due to, for example, challenges and uncertainties inherent in product research, development, manufacturing, regulatory approval, marketing and competition.
+Added: In particular, activities under the POINT License Agreements may not result in viable products suitable for commercialization in a timely manner or at all, due to a variety of reasons, including any inability of the relevant parties to perform their commitments and obligations under the POINT License Agreements.
+Added: The POINT License Agreements impose various development, regulatory filing, commercialization and other obligations on us, and require us to meet development timelines or to exercise commercially reasonable efforts to develop and commercialize licensed products.
+Added: We, along with our counterparty in the POINT License Agreements, may not be able to meet expected or planned regulatory milestones and timelines due to a number of factors, including, with respect to PNT2003, potential litigation under the Hatch-Waxman Act that could impose a stay on FDA approval of up to 30 months.
+Added: Even if the licensed products are suitable for commercialization in a timely manner, we may not achieve the expected revenues from the sale of such products, and our revenue, ability to achieve profitability and return on investment may be adversely affected.
+Added: In addition, we are dependent on POINT to fund and complete its Phase 3 clinical trial, with respect to PNT2002, and to facilitate completion of its ongoing study, with respect to PNT2003.
+Added: We are also dependent on POINT to develop commercial product capacity and manufacture clinical and commercial supply for both PNT2002 and PNT2003.
+Added: Disagreements with the counterparty in the POINT License Agreements over proprietary rights, contract interpretation or the preferred course of product research, development or marketing, might cause delays in performance of the POINT License Agreements or termination of the POINT License Agreements, or might result in litigation or arbitration, which could be time-consuming and expensive.
+Added: In spite of our efforts, if we fail to comply with our obligations under the POINT License Agreements, the counterparty in the POINT License Agreements may conclude that we have materially breached and may terminate one or both of the POINT License Agreements, in which event we may lose our rights to develop and market PNT2002 and PNT2003 or incur liability for damages.
+Added: Any of the foregoing risks could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations and prospects and the trading price of our common stock.
The process of developing new drugs and obtaining regulatory approval is complex, time-consuming and costly, and the outcome is not certain.
−Removed: We currently have two clinical development programs in the U.S.
−Removed: – 1095 and LMI 1195, and are exploring additional lifecycle management opportunities for some of our current products, including AZEDRA.
+Added: We currently have clinical development programs in the U.S., including those related to PNT2002 and PNT2003, and are exploring additional lifecycle management opportunities for some of our current products.
We also have a number of strategic partnerships relating to obtaining additional indications for existing commercial products or regulatory approval for clinical development candidates.
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In addition, it may take longer than we project to achieve study endpoints and complete data analysis for a clinical trial or we may decide to slow down the enrollment in a trial in order to conserve financial resources.
−Removed: Our products in development are also subject to the risks of failure inherent in drug development and testing.
+Added: Our products in development are also subject to the risks of failure inherent in drug development, drug testing and regulatory approval.
The results of preliminary studies do not necessarily predict clinical success, and larger and later stage clinical trials may not produce the same results as earlier stage trials.
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Regulatory authorities may require us or our partners to conduct additional clinical testing, in which case we would have to expend additional time and resources.
+Added: Depending on the regulatory pathway selected for drug approval, such as by filing an ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA that requires sending notice to the innovator of a drug, regulatory approval may also be delayed by litigation brought under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
The approval process may also be delayed by changes in government regulation, future legislation or administrative action or changes in regulatory policy that occur prior to or during regulatory review.
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If a product is approved, the FDA may limit the indications for which the product may be marketed, require extensive warnings on the product labeling, impose restricted distribution programs, require expedited reporting of certain adverse events, or require costly ongoing requirements for post-marketing clinical studies and surveillance or other risk management measures to monitor the safety or efficacy of the product.
+Added: In some instances, products in development may also be approved by filing an ANDA or Section 505(b)(2) NDA with the FDA (as further described in Part I, Item 1.
+Added: “Business—Regulatory Matters—Hatch-Waxman Act.”);
+Added: provided, however, that seeking regulatory approval under such pathways may subject the product candidate to delays caused by litigation brought by an innovator of similar drugs under the Hatch-Waxman Act.
Markets outside of the U.S.
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Approvals might not be granted on a timely basis, if at all.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that GE Healthcare will be successful with the further clinical development of flurpiridaz F 18.
−Removed: In May 2015, we announced complete results from the first of two planned Phase 3 clinical trials for flurpiridaz F 18.
−Removed: Although the development candidate appeared to be well-tolerated from a safety perspective and outperformed SPECT in a highly statistically significant manner in the co-primary endpoint of sensitivity and in the secondary endpoints of image quality and diagnostic certainty, flurpiridaz F 18 did not meet its other co-primary endpoint of non-inferiority for identifying subjects without disease.
−Removed: In April 2017,
−Removed: we entered into the License Agreement with GE Healthcare for the continued Phase 3 development and worldwide commercialization of flurpiridaz F 18.
−Removed: Under the License Agreement, GE Healthcare will, among other things, complete the worldwide development of flurpiridaz F 18 by conducting a second Phase 3 trial and pursue worldwide regulatory approvals.
−Removed: We cannot assure any particular outcome from GE Healthcare’s continued Phase 3 development of the agent or from regulatory review of either our or their Phase 3 study of the agent, that any of the data generated in either our or their sponsored Phase 3 study will be sufficient to support an NDA approval, that GE Healthcare will only have to conduct the one additional Phase 3 clinical study prior to filing an NDA, or that flurpiridaz F 18 will ever be approved as a PET MPI imaging agent by the FDA.
−Removed: Any failure or significant delay in completing clinical trials for our product candidates or in receiving regulatory approval for the sale of our product candidates may harm our business and delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future revenue from product sales.
+Added: We can give no assurance that Curium will be successful with approval and commercialization of piflufolastat F 18 in Europe.
+Added: We have licensed exclusive rights to Curium to develop and commercialize piflufolastat F 18 in Europe.
+Added: Under the terms of the collaboration, Curium is responsible for the development, regulatory approvals and commercialization of piflufolastat F 18 in Europe, and we are entitled to double-digit royalties on net sales of piflufolastat F 18.
+Added: In June 2022, Curium announced that it had submitted its marketing authorization application to the EMA seeking approval for piflufolastat F 18 in Europe.
+Added: We cannot assure that the EMA will approve piflufolastat F 18 in Europe or that Curium will be successful in commercializing it in Europe.
+Added: Any failure or significant delay in receiving regulatory approval for the sale of piflufolastat F 18 in Europe may harm our business and delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future royalty revenue from product sales.
+Added: We can give no assurance that GE Healthcare will be successful with the further clinical development of flurpiridaz.
+Added: In May 2015, we announced complete results from the first of two planned Phase 3 clinical trials for flurpiridaz.
+Added: Although the development candidate appeared to be well-tolerated from a safety perspective and outperformed SPECT in a highly statistically significant manner in the co-primary endpoint of sensitivity and in the secondary endpoints of image quality and diagnostic certainty, flurpiridaz did not meet its other co-primary endpoint of non-inferiority for identifying subjects without disease.
+Added: In April 2017, we entered into the License Agreement with GE Healthcare for the continued Phase 3 development and worldwide commercialization of flurpiridaz.
+Added: Under the License Agreement, GE Healthcare agreed, among other things, to complete the worldwide development of flurpiridaz by conducting a second Phase 3 trial and pursue worldwide regulatory approvals.
+Added: In September 2022, we announced with GE Healthcare that the second Phase 3 clinical trial had met its co-primary endpoints of exceeding a 60% threshold for both sensitivity and specificity for detecting CAD.
+Added: The findings, shared at an American Society of Nuclear Cardiology conference, also demonstrated that cardiac PET imaging with flurpiridaz had higher diagnostic efficacy and image quality in patients with suspected CAD, compared with SPECT MPI, the predominant procedure currently used in nuclear cardiology.
+Added: Notwithstanding these findings, we cannot assure that any of the data generated in either our or GE Healthcare’s sponsored Phase 3 study will be sufficient to support an NDA approval, that GE Healthcare will only have to conduct the one additional Phase 3 clinical study prior to filing an NDA, or that flurpiridaz will
+Added: ever be approved as a PET MPI imaging agent by the FDA.
+Added: Any failure or significant delay in completing additional clinical trials for flurpiridaz or in receiving regulatory approval for the sale of flurpiridaz may harm our business and delay or prevent us from being able to generate additional future royalty revenue from product sales.
Even if clinical development candidates receive regulatory approval, we can give no assurance that they can be successfully commercialized.
Even if our clinical development candidates proceed through their clinical trials and ultimately receive regulatory approval, there is no guarantee that an approved product can be manufactured in commercial quantities at a reasonable cost or that such a product will be successfully marketed or distributed.
−Removed: For example, the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of a radiopharmaceutical like flurpiridaz F 18 will require the creation of a field-based network of specialized PET manufacturing facilities, or PMFs, with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons, similar to what we created for PYLARIFY, and will need to be manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
+Added: For example, the manufacturing, marketing and distribution of a radiopharmaceutical like flurpiridaz will require the creation of a field-based network of specialized PET manufacturing facilities, or PMFs, with radioisotope-producing cyclotrons, similar to what we created for PYLARIFY, and will need to be manufactured and distributed rapidly to end-users.
In addition, obtaining adequate coding, coverage and payment at appropriate payment levels for any clinical development candidate will be critical, including not only coverage from Medicare, Medicaid, and other government payors, but also from private payors.
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In connection with our ongoing development activities, we currently depend, and expect to continue to depend, on numerous collaborators.
−Removed: For example, in addition to our collaboration with GE Healthcare on flurpiridaz F 18, we have collaborations with Bayer to develop and commercialize products using our PSMA antibody technology, with Curium for the development and commercialization of PYLARIFY in Europe, and with ROTOP for the development and commercialization of 1404 in Europe.
+Added: For example, in addition to our collaboration with Curium on piflufolastat F 18 in Europe, GE Healthcare on flurpiridaz and POINT on PNT2002 and PNT2003, we have other collaborations to develop and commercialize products.
In addition, certain clinical trials for our product candidates may be conducted by government-sponsored agencies, and consequently will be dependent on governmental participation and funding.
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If we fail to achieve milestone requirements or to satisfy other conditions, we may lose those rights under those license agreements, and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Many of our products or product candidates incorporate rights licensed by third parties -- for example, we license patent rights on PYLARIFY from JHU and on RELISTOR from Wyeth LLC.
+Added: Many of our products or product candidates incorporate rights licensed by third parties -- for example, we license patent rights on PYLARIFY from JHU and on PNT2002 and PNT2003 from POINT.
We could lose the rights to develop or commercialize these products and product candidates if the related license agreement is terminated due to a breach by us or otherwise.
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Risks Related to Our Capital Structure
+Added: The conditional conversion feature of the 2.625% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027, if triggered, may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
+Added: On December 8, 2022, we issued $575.0 million in aggregate principal amount of 2.625% Convertible Senior Notes due 2027 (the “Notes”), which included $75.0 million in aggregate principal amount of Notes sold pursuant to the full exercise of the initial purchasers’ option to purchase additional Notes.
+Added: The Notes were issued under an indenture, dated as of December 8, 2022 (the
+Added: “Indenture”), among Holdings, LMI, and U.S.
+Added: Bank Trust Company, National Association (“U.S.
+Added: Bank”), as Trustee.
+Added: Prior to the close of business on the business day immediately preceding September 15, 2027, the Notes may be converted at the option of the holders upon occurrence of specified events and during certain periods, and thereafter until the close of business on the business day immediately preceding the maturity date, the Notes may be converted at any time.
+Added: If one or more holders elect to convert their Notes, we would be required to settle any converted principal amount of such Notes through the payment of cash and by paying or delivering, at our election, cash, shares of our common stock, or a combination of cash and shares, with respect to the remainder of our conversion obligation in excess of the aggregate principal amount of the Notes being converted, which could adversely affect our liquidity.
+Added: In addition, even if holders do not elect to convert their Notes, we could be required under applicable accounting rules to reclassify all or a portion of the outstanding principal of the Notes as a current rather than long-term liability, which would result in a material reduction of our net working capital.
+Added: The issuance or sale of shares of our common stock, or rights to acquire shares of our common stock, could depress the trading price of our common stock.
+Added: We may conduct future offerings of our common stock, preferred stock or other securities that are convertible into or exercisable for our common stock to finance our operations or fund acquisitions, or for other purposes.
+Added: In addition, we expect to continue to grant equity awards to directors, officers and employees under our equity incentive plans.
+Added: If we issue additional shares of our common stock or rights to acquire shares of our common stock, if any of our existing stockholders sells a substantial amount of our common stock, or if the market perceives that such issuances or sales may occur, then the trading price of our common stock may significantly decrease.
+Added: In addition, our issuance of additional shares of common stock will dilute the ownership interests of our existing common stockholders.
+Added: Repurchases by us of our common stock may affect the value of our common stock.
+Added: In December 2022, our Board of Directors authorized the repurchase of up to $150.0 million in aggregate amount of our common stock under certain circumstances.
+Added: We used approximately $75.0 million of the net proceeds from Notes to repurchase shares of our common stock from purchasers of Notes in privately negotiated transactions effected with or through one of the initial purchasers or its affiliate.
+Added: The purchase price per share of the common stock repurchased in such transactions was equal to the closing sale price per share of our common stock on December 5, 2022, which was $56.01 per share.
+Added: Following this initial repurchase, we may from time to time repurchase additional shares of our common stock.
+Added: Such repurchases could increase, or prevent a decrease in, the market price of our common stock.
We have indebtedness which may limit our financial and operating activities and may adversely affect our ability to incur additional debt to fund future needs.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, we had approximately $175.0 million of total principal indebtedness remaining under our five‑year secured term loan facility, which matures on June 30, 2024 (the “2019 Term Facility” and the loans thereunder, the “2019 Term Loans”) and availability of $200.0 million under our five-year revolving credit facility (the “2019 Revolving Facility” and, together with the 2019 Term Facility, the “2019 Facility”).
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we had approximately $575.0 million of total principal indebtedness remaining under the Notes and availability of $350.0 million under our five-year revolving credit facility (the “2022 Revolving Facility”).
Our indebtedness and any future indebtedness we incur could:
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• Place us at a competitive disadvantage to competitors that have relatively less debt than we have.
−Removed: In addition, our substantial level of indebtedness could limit our ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms, or at all, for working capital, capital expenditures and general corporate purposes.
+Added: In addition, our level of indebtedness could limit our ability to obtain additional financing on acceptable terms, or at all, for working capital, capital expenditures and general corporate purposes.
Our liquidity needs could vary significantly and may be affected by general economic conditions, industry trends, performance and many other factors outside our control.
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Despite our indebtedness, we may incur more debt, which could exacerbate the risks described above.
−Removed: We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantial additional indebtedness in the future subject to the limitations contained in the agreements governing our debt, including the 2019 Facility.
+Added: We and our subsidiaries may be able to incur substantial additional indebtedness in the future subject to the limitations contained in the agreements governing our debt, including the 2022 Revolving Facility.
Although these agreements restrict us and our restricted subsidiaries from incurring additional indebtedness, these restrictions are subject to important exceptions and qualifications.
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If we or our subsidiaries incur additional debt, the risks that we and they now face as a result of our leverage could intensify.
−Removed: In addition, the 2019 Facility will not prevent us from incurring obligations that do not constitute indebtedness under the agreements.
−Removed: Our 2019 Facility contains restrictions that will limit our flexibility in operating our business.
−Removed: Our 2019 Facility contains various covenants that limit our ability to engage in specified types of transactions.
+Added: In addition, the 2022 Revolving Facility will not prevent us from incurring obligations that do not constitute indebtedness under the agreements.
+Added: Our 2022 Revolving Facility contains restrictions that will limit our flexibility in operating our business.
+Added: Our 2022 Revolving Facility contains various covenants that limit our ability to engage in specified types of transactions.
These covenants limit our and our restricted subsidiaries’ ability to, among other things:
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• Merge, consolidate or transfer all or substantially all of our assets.
−Removed: A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default under the 2019 Facility.
+Added: A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default under the 2022 Revolving Facility.
We may also be unable to take advantage of business opportunities that arise because of the limitations imposed on us by the restrictive covenants under our indebtedness.
−Removed: As LIBOR is phased out, as anticipated, we will need to agree to a replacement index rate to be used under our 2019 Facility, which may have an adverse effect on our financial condition.
−Removed: The use of LIBOR, as it relates to the Company’s 2019 Term Facility, is expected to be phased out by the end of June 2023.
−Removed: The 2019 Facility does not specify a particular “hard-wired” replacement index rate (or related margin) when LIBOR becomes unavailable, but relies on the administrative agent and the Company reaching agreement on such a replacement rate (and related margin) that gives due consideration to the then prevailing market convention for determining rates of interest for syndicated loans denominated in U.S.
−Removed: dollars in the United States.
−Removed: We expect to amend our credit facilities to provide a market-based replacement index rate and margin prior to the time when LIBOR is no longer available.
−Removed: Any replacement rate will be based on a negotiation between us and the administrative agent and could result in an increase in our interest expense.
credit markets may impact our ability to obtain financing or increase the cost of future financing, including interest rate fluctuations based on macroeconomic conditions that are beyond our control.
−Removed: During periods of volatility and disruption in the U.S., European, or global credit markets, obtaining additional or replacement financing may be more difficult and the cost of issuing new debt or replacing our 2019 Facility could be higher than under our current 2019 Facility.
+Added: During periods of volatility and disruption in the U.S., European, or global credit markets, obtaining additional or replacement financing may be more difficult and the cost of issuing new debt or replacing or repaying our 2022 Facility could be higher than under our current 2022 Facility.
Higher cost of new debt may limit our ability to have cash on hand for working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions on terms that are acceptable to us.
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If interest rates increase, our interest expense could increase, affecting earnings and reducing cash flows available for working capital, capital expenditures and acquisitions.
−Removed: The CVRs we issued as part of the Progenics Acquisition may result in substantial future payments to the holders of the CVRs;
−Removed: in addition, the actual payments made in connection with the CVRs, if any, may not be consistent with the estimated fair value of the CVRs that we are required to prepare for accounting purposes.
−Removed: As part of the consideration for the Progenics Acquisition, we issued CVRs to the stockholders of Progenics and holders of in-the-money Progenics equity awards entitling them to future cash payments of 40% of PYLARIFY net sales over $100.0 million in 2022 and over $150.0 million in 2023, subject to an aggregate cap.
−Removed: These payments could be substantial.
−Removed: In addition, we are obligated to exercise a level of effort, expertise and resources consistent with those normally used in a medical diagnostics business similar to our size and resources with respect to commercializing a product of similar market potential at a similar stage in its product life to PYLARIFY.
−Removed: We are also required to produce net sales statements for PYLARIFY that may be reviewed and challenged by CVR holders, with any disagreement to be resolved by an independent accountant.
−Removed: Because the CVRs are considered contingent consideration liabilities, for accounting purposes we are required by accounting principles generally accepted in the U.S.
−Removed: to estimate their fair value on a recurring basis.
−Removed: Adjustments in the estimated fair value of the CVRs can impact our consolidated financial statements on a quarterly or annual basis.
−Removed: The estimated fair value of the CVRs is determined based on a Monte Carlo simulation model that includes significant estimates and assumptions pertaining to commercialization events, sales targets, market conditions and discount rates.
−Removed: These estimates and assumptions are subject to the judgment of our management team and are not prepared with a view towards public disclosure of projected sales.
−Removed: Our sales targets are also subject to significant economic, competitive, industry and other uncertainties and contingencies, which are difficult to predict and in many cases are beyond our control.
−Removed: We can give no assurance that the actual amounts paid, if any, in connection with the CVRs will be consistent with any recurring fair value estimate for such CVRs.
Our stock price could fluctuate significantly, which could cause the value of your investment to decline, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above your purchase price.
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This market volatility, as well as general economic, market or political conditions, could reduce the market price of our common stock regardless of our operating performance.
+Added: The high and low closing sales prices of our common stock during the twelve months ended December 31, 2022 were $86.60 and $24.28, respectively.
The trading price of our common stock is likely to be volatile and subject to wide price fluctuations in response to various factors, including:
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−Removed: • Acquisitions or introductions of new products or services by us or our competitors, including our ongoing commercial launch of PYLARIFY;
+Added: • Acquisitions or introductions of new products or services by us or our competitors;
• Positive or negative results from our clinical development programs;
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Moreover, if one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrades our stock, or if our results of operations do not meet their expectations, our stock price could also decline.
−Removed: We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future.
+Added: We do not anticipate paying any cash dividends for the foreseeable future, and accordingly, stockholders must rely on stock appreciation for any return on their investment.
+Added: We have never declared or paid cash dividends on our capital stock.
We currently intend to retain our future earnings, if any, for the foreseeable future, to repay indebtedness and to fund the development and growth of our business.
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As a result, capital appreciation in the price of our common stock, if any, will be your only source of gain on an investment in our common stock.
+Added: Anti-takeover provisions in our charter documents and Delaware law and certain provisions in the Notes and Indenture may make an acquisition of us more difficult.
+Added: Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws, as amended and restated, contain provisions that delay, defer or discourage transactions involving an actual or potential change in control of us or change in our management.
+Added: These provisions may also discourage bids for our common stock at a premium over market price or adversely affect the market price of, and the voting and other rights of the holders of, our common stock.
+Added: These provisions could also discourage proxy contests and make it more difficult for stockholders to elect directors other than the candidates nominated by our board of directors.
+Added: In addition, we are incorporated in
+Added: Delaware and subject to the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which may prohibit large stockholders from consummating a merger with, or acquisition of, us.
+Added: These provisions may deter an acquisition of us that might otherwise be attractive to stockholders.
+Added: Certain provisions in the Notes and the Indenture could make it more difficult or more expensive for a third party to acquire us.
+Added: For example, if a takeover would constitute a fundamental change, holders of the Notes will have the right to require us to repurchase their Notes in cash.
+Added: In addition, if a takeover constitutes a make-whole fundamental change, we may be required to increase the conversion rate for holders who convert their Notes in connection with such takeover.
+Added: In either case, and in other cases, our obligations under the Notes and the Indenture could increase the cost of acquiring us or otherwise discourage a third party from acquiring us or removing incumbent management, including in a transaction that holders of our common stock may view as favorable.
Unresolved Staff Comments
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