OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS INC 10-Q

Item 1A – Risk Factors In addition to the risk factors previously disclosed in Item 1A contained in Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, investors should carefully consider the following additional risk factor, which should be read in conjunction with the risk factors set forth in such Form 10-K and the other information contained in this report and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. 51 Table of Contents Inflation could adversely impact our operators and our results of operations. Inflation, both real or anticipated, as well as any resulting governmental policies, could adversely affect the economy and the costs of labor, goods and services to our operators or borrowers. Our long-term leases and loans typically contain provisions such as rent and interest escalators that are designed to mitigate the adverse impact of inflation on Omega’s results of operations. However, these provisions may have limited effectiveness at mitigating the risk of high levels of inflation due to contractual limits on escalation that exist in substantially all of our escalation provisions. Our leases are triple-net and typically require the operator to pay all property operating expenses, and therefore, increases in property-level expenses at our leased properties generally do not directly affect us. However, increased operating costs resulting from inflation could have an adverse impact on our operators and borrowers if increases in their operating expenses exceed increases in their revenue, which may adversely affect our operators’ or borrowers’ ability to pay rent or other obligations owed to us. An increase in our operators’ expenses and a failure of their revenues to increase at least with inflation could adversely impact our operators’ and our financial condition and our results of operations.