+Added: Risk Factors.
Our business involves a high degree of risk.
−Removed: You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
+Added: You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this Form 10-K.
The occurrence of any of the events described below could harm our business, operating results, financial condition, liquidity, or prospects.
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Our management has performed an analysis of our ability to continue as a going concern and has identified substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we had $17.5 million in cash available to fund future operations.
+Added: Without additional funding, management believes that our existing cash resources are not sufficient to support planned operations for at least the next year from the issuance of this Form 10-K.
Based on their assessment, our management has raised concerns about our ability to continue as a going concern.
−Removed: This evaluation of our cash resources available over the next twelve months from the date of this filing does not take into consideration the potential mitigating effect of management’s plans that have not been fully implemented or the many factors that determine the Company’s capital requirements, including the pace of our growth, ability to manage medical costs, the maturity of our members, and our ability to raise capital.
As substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern exists, our ability to finance our operations through the sale and issuance of debt or equity securities or through bank or other financing could be impaired.
−Removed: Management continues to explore raising additional capital through a combination of debt financing, other non-dilutive financing, and/or equity financing to supplement the Company’s capitalization and liquidity, but there can be no assurance that such financing will be available on terms commercially acceptable to the Company.
Our ability to continue as a going concern may depend on our ability to obtain additional capital.
−Removed: If we raise funds by issuing debt securities or preferred stock, or by incurring loans, these forms of financing would have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of holders of our Common Stock.
−Removed: If adequate capital is not available to us when, or in the amounts needed, we could be required to terminate, or significantly curtail our operations and prospects.
−Removed: Our financial consolidated results of operations could be materially adversely affected by these decisions and these decisions could materially impact future investment in the Company.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Limited Operating History and Early Stage of Growth
+Added: Management continues to explore raising additional capital through a combination of debt financing, other non-dilutive financing, and/or equity financing to supplement the Company’s capitalization and liquidity.
+Added: Our ability to obtain financing on reasonable terms is subject to factors beyond the Company’s control, including general economic, political, and financial market conditions.
+Added: The capital markets have in the past experienced, are currently experiencing, and may in the future experience, periods of upheaval that could impact the availability and cost of equity and debt financing and there can be no assurance that such financing will be available on terms commercially acceptable to the Company.
+Added: If we are unable to raise additional capital or generate cash flows necessary to fund our operations, we may not be able to compete successfully and may need to scale back, discontinue, or cease certain operations, which would harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
+Added: Risks Related to Our Operating History and Early Stage of Growth
We have a history of net losses.
We expect to continue to incur losses for the foreseeable future and we may never achieve or maintain profitability.
−Removed: We have incurred significant losses since inception.
−Removed: For the Successor Period ended December 31, 2021, the Predecessor Period ended December 2, 2021 and the Predecessor year ended December 31, 2020, we incurred net losses of $57.9 million, $146.4 million and $31.4 million, respectively.
+Added: For the year ended December 31, 2022, the Successor Period of 2021, and the Predecessor Period of 2021, we incurred net losses of $1,561.6 million, $57.9 million, and $146.4 million, respectively.
As of December 31, 2022, we had an accumulated deficit of $309.5 million.
We expect that our operating expenses will continue to increase as we grow our business, build relationships with physician partners and payors, develop new services and comply with the requirements associated with being a public company.
−Removed: Since our inception, we have financed our operations primarily through private placements of equity securities, payments received from various payors and borrowings under our credit facilities.
+Added: Since our inception, we have financed our operations primarily through cash we obtained as a result of the Business Combinations, private placements of equity securities, issuances of promissory notes, payments received from various payors and borrowings under our credit facilities.
We may not succeed in sufficiently increasing our revenue to offset these expenses.
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We may never be able to generate sufficient revenue to achieve or sustain profitability and our recent and historical growth should not be considered indicative of our future performance.
+Added: We may need to raise additional capital to fund our existing operations or develop and commercialize new services or expand our operations.
+Added: We may need to spend significant amounts to expand our existing operations, including expansion into new geographies, to improve our platform and to develop new services.
+Added: Based upon management’s assessment of the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern as described above in the risk factor entitled “ Our management has performed an analysis of our ability to continue as a going concern and has identified substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern ,” we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash may not be sufficient to fund our operating and capital needs for at least the next 12 months.
+Added: We maintain the majority of our cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash in accounts with major U.S.
+Added: financial institutions, and our deposits at these institutions, at times, may exceed insured limits.
+Added: Market conditions can impact the viability of these institutions.
+Added: the event of failure of any of the financial institutions where we maintain our cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash, there can be no assurance that we would be able to access uninsured funds in a timely manner or at all.
+Added: Any inability to access or delay in accessing these funds could adversely affect our business and financial position.
+Added: Our expectation regarding the sufficiency of funds is based on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could use our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect.
+Added: Until such time, if ever, as we can generate sufficient revenue, we may finance our cash needs through a combination of equity offerings and debt financings or other sources.
+Added: In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe that we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
+Added: Our present and future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including:
+Added: ● our ability to achieve revenue growth;
+Added: ● our ability to effectively manage medical expense amounts;
+Added: ● the cost of expanding our operations, including our geographic scope, and our offerings, including our marketing efforts;
+Added: ● our rate of progress in launching, commercializing and establishing adoption of our services;
+Added: ● the effect of competing technological and market developments.
+Added: To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, your ownership interest will be diluted, and the terms of these securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a securityholder.
+Added: For example, on December 13, 2022, in connection with our issuance of an unsecured promissory note (the “VGS Promissory Note”) to VBC Growth SPV LLC (“VGS”), we entered into a Warrant Agreement with VGS (the “VGS Warrant Agreement”) pursuant to which P3 LLC issued warrants to purchase 429,180 shares of our Class A common stock at an exercise price of $4.26 per share (the “VGS Warrants”) to VGS.
+Added: In addition, debt financing and preferred equity financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends and these forms of financing may have rights, preferences, and privileges senior to those of holders of our common stock.
+Added: If we raise additional funds through collaborations, strategic alliances or marketing, distribution or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may be required to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, intellectual property, or future revenue streams or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us.
+Added: Furthermore, any capital raising efforts may divert our management from their day-to-day activities, which may adversely affect our ability to advance development activities.
+Added: If we are unable to raise additional funds when needed, we may be required to delay, limit, reduce or terminate development efforts.
Our business and the markets in which we operate are new and rapidly evolving, which makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the risks and challenges we may encounter.
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If the risks and uncertainties that we plan for when operating our business are incorrect or change, or if we fail to manage these risks successfully, our results of operations could differ materially from our expectations and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Our limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the risks and challenges we may encounter.
+Added: Our relatively limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the risks and challenges we may encounter.
We were established in 2017 and we are continuing to grow our marketing and management capabilities.
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If our growth strategy is not successful, we may not be able to continue to grow our revenue or operations.
−Removed: Our limited operating history, evolving business and rapid growth make it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the risks and challenges we may encounter, and we may not continue to grow at or near historical rates.
+Added: Our relatively limited operating history, evolving business and rapid growth make it difficult to evaluate our future prospects and the risks and challenges we may encounter, and we may not continue to grow at or near historical rates.
In addition, as a business with a limited operating history, we may encounter unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other known and unknown challenges.
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We may not be successful in such a transition and, as a result, our business may be adversely affected.
−Removed: We may need to raise additional capital to fund our existing operations or develop and commercialize new services or expand our operations.
−Removed: We may need to spend significant amounts to expand our existing operations, including expansion into new geographies, to improve our platform and to develop new services.
−Removed: Based upon management’s assessment of the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern as described above, we believe that our existing cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash may not be sufficient to fund our operating and capital needs for at least the next 12 months.
−Removed: Our expectation regarding the sufficiency of funds is based on assumptions that may prove to be wrong, and we could use our available capital resources sooner than we currently expect.
−Removed: Until such time, if ever, as we can generate sufficient revenues, we may finance our cash needs through a combination of equity offerings and debt financings or other sources.
−Removed: In addition, we may seek additional capital due to favorable market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe that we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans.
−Removed: Our present and future funding requirements will depend on many factors, including:
−Removed: ● our ability to achieve revenue growth;
−Removed: ● our ability to effectively manage medical expense amounts;
−Removed: ● the cost of expanding our operations, including our geographic scope, and our offerings, including our marketing efforts;
−Removed: ● our rate of progress in launching, commercializing and establishing adoption of our services;
−Removed: ● the effect of competing technological and market developments.
−Removed: To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity or convertible debt securities, your ownership interest will be diluted, and the terms of these securities may include liquidation or other preferences that adversely affect your rights as a securityholder.
−Removed: In addition, debt financing and preferred equity financing, if available, may involve agreements that include covenants limiting or restricting our ability to take specific actions, such as incurring additional debt, making capital expenditures or declaring dividends.
−Removed: If we raise additional funds through collaborations, strategic alliances or marketing, distribution or licensing arrangements with third parties, we may be required to relinquish valuable rights to our technologies, intellectual property, or future revenue streams or grant licenses on terms that may not be favorable to us.
−Removed: Furthermore, any capital raising efforts may divert our management from their day-to-day activities, which may adversely affect our ability to advance development activities.
−Removed: If we are unable to raise additional funds when needed, we may be required to delay, limit, reduce or terminate development efforts.
We may not be able to maintain compliance with our debt covenants in the future which could result in an event of default.
−Removed: Our Facility contains customary affirmative and negative covenants which, among other things, require us to maintain minimum liquidity and annual minimum revenue levels that increase over time.
−Removed: If we breach these or other financial covenants and fail to secure a waiver or forbearance from the lender, LTD-D, such breach or failure could result in an event of default and accelerate the repayment of the outstanding borrowings under the Facility or the exercise of other rights or remedies that LTD-D may have under applicable law.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the Company was not in compliance with its Term Loan covenants related to issuance of the 2021 financial statements with an audit opinion free of a “going concern” qualification or timely filing of the 2021 financial statements.
−Removed: LTD-D has granted (i) a waiver of the covenant under the Facility related to the existence of a “going concern” qualification in the audit opinion for our audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and (ii) a consent to extend the deadline to provide audited financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2021 to October 21, 2022.
−Removed: We were in compliance with all other covenants under the Facility as of December 31, 2021.
+Added: Our Term Loan Facility (as defined herein) with CRG Partners (the “Lender”) and the VGS Promissory Note contain affirmative and negative covenants which, among other things, require us to maintain minimum liquidity and annual minimum revenue levels that increase over time and restrict P3 LLC’s ability and the ability of its subsidiaries from, among other things, incurring certain indebtedness and liens, and making certain restricted payments.
+Added: If we breach these or other financial covenants and fail to secure a waiver or forbearance from the lenders, such breach or failure could result in an event of default and accelerate the repayment of the outstanding or the exercise of other rights or remedies that our lenders may have under applicable law.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the Company was not in compliance with the Term Loan Facility or VGS Promissory Note covenants related to issuance of the 2022 financial statements with an audit opinion free of a “going concern” qualification.
+Added: The lenders have granted a waiver of the covenant under the debt agreements related to the existence of a “going concern” qualification in the audit opinion for our audited financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: We were in compliance with all other covenants under the debt agreements as of December 31, 2022.
However, there can be no assurance that we will be able to maintain compliance with these covenants in the future or that the lenders under the Facility or the lenders of any future indebtedness we may incur will grant us any such waiver or forbearance in the future.
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We may not recognize the anticipated benefits of recent and future acquisitions and any such acquisitions could disrupt our operations and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: The anticipated benefits of the Company’s Business Combinations, other recent acquisitions and any future acquisitions may not be realized fully, or at all, and may take longer to realize than expected.
+Added: The anticipated benefits of the Company’s Business Combinations, other recent acquisitions, including the Medcore Acquisition in December 2021, and any future acquisitions may not be realized fully, or at all, and may take longer to realize than expected.
Anticipated benefits of any acquisition may be affected by, among other things, competition and our ability to grow and manage growth profitably.
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We cannot ensure that any acquisition we make will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: A significant portion of our assets consists of goodwill and other intangible assets, the value of which may be reduced if we determine that those assets are impaired.
−Removed: We have substantial goodwill as a result of recent business combinations and acquisitions.
−Removed: As of December 31, 2021, the net carrying value of goodwill and other intangible assets represented $2.1 billion, or 91% of our total assets.
−Removed: Goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets totaling $1.3 billion are evaluated for impairment annually, or more frequently if circumstances indicate impairment may have occurred.
−Removed: Definite-lived intangible assets totaling $0.8 billion are amortized over 10 years.
−Removed: Due to the decrease in the share price over the second quarter of 2022, the Company will record a significant goodwill impairment of $851.5 million as of June 30, 2022.
−Removed: If future operating performance were to fall below current projections or if there are material changes to management’s assumptions, we could be required to recognize additional non-cash charges to operating earnings for goodwill and/or other intangible asset impairment, which could be significant.
+Added: A significant portion of our assets consists of other intangible assets, the value of which may be reduced if we determine that those assets are impaired.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, the net carrying value of other intangible assets represented $751.1 million, or 86% of our total assets.
+Added: Indefinite-lived intangible assets are evaluated for impairment annually, or more frequently if circumstances indicate impairment may have occurred.
+Added: Definite-lived intangible assets totaling $750.4 million are amortized over 10 years.
+Added: Due to the decrease in the share price over the second and fourth quarters of 2022, the Company recorded a significant goodwill impairment charge of $1,315.0 million during the year ended December 31, 2022.
+Added: If future operating performance were to fall below current projections or if there are material changes to management’s assumptions, we could be required to recognize additional non-cash charges to operating earnings for other intangible asset impairment, which could be significant.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted, and may, along with future pandemics or epidemics, continue to impact, our operations and may materially and adversely affect our business and financial results.
−Removed: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 a global pandemic.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread globally, including to Nevada, where our primary office is located.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic is evolving, and has led to the implementation of various responses, including government-imposed, shelter-in-place orders, quarantines, travel restrictions and other public health safety measures.
−Removed: In response to the spread of COVID-19, and in accordance with direction from state and local government authorities, we have restricted access to our facilities mostly to personnel and third parties who must perform critical activities that must be completed on-site, limited the number of such personnel that can be present at our facilities at any one time, and requested that most of our personnel work remotely.
−Removed: Governmental and non-governmental organizations may not effectively combat the spread and severity of COVID-19, increasing the potential for harm for our enrolled members.
−Removed: The COVID-19 virus disproportionately impacts older adults, especially those with chronic illnesses, which describes many of our members.
−Removed: If the spread of COVID-19 is not contained, the capitated revenue we receive may prove to be insufficient to cover the cost of healthcare services delivered to our enrolled members, which could increase significantly as a result of higher utilization rates of medical facilities and services and other increases in associated medical claims and related costs.
−Removed: Patients have been and may continue to be reluctant to seek necessary care given the risks of the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: This could have the effect of deterring healthcare costs to later periods and may also affect the health of patients who defer treatment, which may cause our costs to increase in the future.
−Removed: In addition, the clinical disease burdens of our members may increase over time to the extent that members have received reduced preventative care to manage their existing clinical conditions, and the amount of medical care which has been deferred during the pandemic may exceed our expectations.
−Removed: Numerous state and local jurisdictions, including all markets where we operate, have imposed, and others in the future may impose, “shelter-in-place” orders, quarantines, executive orders and similar government orders and restrictions for their residents to control the spread of COVID-19.
−Removed: Such orders or restrictions have resulted in periods of remote operations at our headquarters and medical centers, work stoppages among some vendors and suppliers, slowdowns and delays, travel restrictions and cancellation of events and have restricted the ability of our front-line outreach teams to host and attend community events, among other effects, thereby negatively impacting our operations.
−Removed: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, we created a COVID-19 Task Force that is supported by team members from across the organization to ensure a coordinated response.
−Removed: We quickly made operational changes to the staffing and operations of our medical centers to minimize potential exposure to COVID-19, in accordance with local and state guidelines.
−Removed: Our company owned clinics remained open to those members with urgent needs, and we successfully pivoted our company owned clinics to a telemedicine offering for routine care in order to protect and better serve our patients, providers, care teams and community.
−Removed: We provided support to our affiliate physicians to implement similar telemedicine offers to ensure safe patient access.
−Removed: We implemented daily temperature monitoring of our employees and implemented mandatory face masks allowing our administrative offices to remain open to support our medical centers and affiliated physicians.
−Removed: We also established a work-from-home policy, encouraged employees to work remotely when necessary to reduce risk to potential exposure and provided access to free vaccinations.
−Removed: Deeply committed to our employees, we made a conscious decision not to furlough any of our employees, even if their function was disrupted by COVID-19.
−Removed: If the COVID-19 pandemic worsens, especially in regions where we have offices or medical centers, our business activities originating from affected areas could be adversely affected.
−Removed: Disruptive activities could include business closures in impacted areas, further restrictions on our employees’ and service providers’ ability to travel, impacts to productivity if our employees or their family members experience health issues, and potential delays in hiring and onboarding of new employees.
−Removed: We may take further actions that alter our business operations as may be required by local, state, or federal authorities or that we determine are in the best interests of our employees.
−Removed: Such measures could negatively affect our member growth, membership retention or employee productivity, any of which could harm our financial condition and business operations.
−Removed: Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, we may not be able to document the health conditions of our members as completely as we have in the past.
+Added: COVID-19 continues to impact the United States and the rest of the world and the pandemic has led to significant economic disruption.
+Added: The impact of COVID-19 on the economy and the healthcare industry is ongoing.
+Added: We continue to monitor the impact of COVID-19 on our business.
+Added: The extent to which COVID-19 or a new pandemic, epidemic, or outbreak of an infectious disease may directly or indirectly impact our operations and results of operations will depend on multiple factors, including, but not limited to the ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration and scope of the outbreak, the emergence of variants, the availability and efficacy of vaccines, and government, social, business and other actions that are taken in response to the pandemic or outbreak.
+Added: We may be unable to properly anticipate or prepare for these events and, as a result, our business may be materially adversely impacted.
+Added: Due to COVID-19 or another pandemic or public health emergency, we may not be able to document the health conditions of our members as completely as we have in the past.
Medicare pays capitation using a “risk adjustment model,” which compensates providers based on the health status (acuity) of each individual member.
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Historically, this documentation was required to be completed during an in-person visit with a patient.
−Removed: As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or CARES Act, Medicare is allowing documentation for conditions identified during video visits with patients.
−Removed: However, given the disruption caused by COVID-19, it is unclear whether we will be able to document the health conditions of our members as comprehensively as we did in 2019, which may adversely impact our revenue in future periods.
−Removed: The COVID-19 pandemic could also cause our third-party data center hosting facilities and cloud computing platform providers, which are critical to our infrastructure, to shut down their business, experience security incidents that impact our business, delay or disrupt performance or delivery of services, or experience interference with the supply chain of hardware required by their systems and services, any of which could materially adversely affect our business.
−Removed: Further, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in our employees and those of many of our vendors working from home and conducting work via the internet, and if the network and infrastructure of internet providers becomes overburdened by increased usage or is otherwise unreliable or unavailable, our employees’, and our customers’ and vendors’ employees’, access to the internet to conduct business could be negatively impacted.
−Removed: Limitations on access or disruptions to services or goods provided by or to some of our suppliers and vendors upon which our platform and business operations relies, could interrupt our ability to provide our platform, decrease the productivity of our workforce, and significantly harm our business operations, financial condition, and results of operations.
−Removed: Our platform and the other systems or networks used in our business may experience an increase in attempted cyber-attacks, targeted intrusion, ransomware, and phishing campaigns seeking to take advantage of shifts to employees working remotely using their household or personal internet networks and to leverage fears promulgated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
−Removed: The success of any of these unauthorized attempts could substantially impact our platform, the proprietary and other confidential data contained therein or otherwise stored or processed in our operations, and ultimately our business.
−Removed: Any actual or perceived security incident also may cause us to incur increased expenses to improve our security controls and to remediate security vulnerabilities.
−Removed: Any of these factors could severely impact our development activities and business operations.
−Removed: These and other factors arising from the COVID-19 pandemic could worsen in countries that are already afflicted with COVID-19, could continue to spread to additional countries, or could return to countries where the pandemic has been partially contained, and could further adversely impact our ability to conduct our business generally and have a material adverse impact on our operations and financial condition and results.
−Removed: Due to our recurring contracted revenue model, the COVID-19 pandemic did not have a material impact on our revenues during 2020 and 2021.
−Removed: Nearly 97% of our total revenues are recurring, consisting of fixed per member per month capitation payments received from Medicare Advantage health plans.
−Removed: Based upon claims paid to date, our direct costs related to COVID-19 claims were approximately $67.4 million for the period from March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2021.
+Added: As part of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (“CARES Act”), Medicare is allowing documentation for conditions identified during video visits with patients.
+Added: However, given the disruption caused by COVID-19, it is unclear whether we will be able to document the health conditions of our members as comprehensively as we did before COVID-19, which may adversely impact our revenue in future periods.
+Added: Due to our recurring contracted revenue model, the COVID-19 pandemic did not have a material impact on our revenue during 2021 and 2022.
+Added: Nearly 99% of our total revenue in 2022 and 98% of our total revenue in 2021 is recurring, consisting of fixed per member per month capitation payments received from MA health plans.
+Added: Based upon claims paid to date, our direct costs in medical claims expense related to COVID-19 claims were approximately $95.5 million for the period from March 1, 2020 through December 31, 2022.
We expect to incur additional COVID-19 related costs given the volume of positive cases and “breakthrough” cases (positive cases in vaccinated patients) present in our markets.
Because of the nature of capitation arrangements, the full impact of the COVID-19 pandemic may not be fully reflected in our results of operations and overall financial condition until future periods.
−Removed: The extent to which the COVID-19 outbreak, or another pandemic, epidemic, or outbreak of an infectious disease may directly or indirectly impact our operations and results of operations will depend on multiple factors.
−Removed: Such factors include, but are not limited to, the ultimate geographic spread of the disease, the duration of the outbreak, the emergence of variants, the availability and efficacy of a vaccine, additional or modified government actions, new information that emerges concerning the severity and impact of COVID-19 and actions to contain the outbreak or treat its impact, such as social distancing, quarantines, lock-downs or business closures.
−Removed: We may be unable to properly anticipate or prepare for these events and, as a result, our business may be materially adversely impacted.
+Added: To the extent the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affects our business and financial results, it may also have the effect of heightening many of the other risks described in this “Risk Factors” section, including but not limited to the fact that our platform and the other systems or networks used in our business may experience an increase in attempted cyberattacks or targeted intrusion, ransomware, and phishing campaigns seeking to take advantage of shifts to employees working remotely using their household or personal internet networks.
+Added: The success of any of these unauthorized attempts could substantially impact our platform, the proprietary and other confidential data contained therein or otherwise stored or processed in our operations, and ultimately our business, including but not limited to increased expenses incurred to improve our security controls and to remediate security vulnerabilities.
We rely on our management team and key employees and our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations could be harmed if we are unable to retain qualified personnel.
−Removed: Our success depends largely upon the continued services of key members of senior management.
−Removed: Most members of senior management are at-will employees and therefore they may terminate employment with us at any time with no advance notice.
+Added: Our success depends largely upon the continued services of key members of senior management and other key employees.
+Added: Most key employees are at-will employees and therefore they may terminate employment with us at any time with no advance notice.
We also rely on our leadership team in the areas of managed care, operations and general and administrative functions.
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The replacement of one or more of our executive officers or other key employees would likely involve significant time and costs and may significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our business objectives.
−Removed: Our business would also be adversely affected if we fail to adequately plan for succession of our executives and senior management;
−Removed: or if we fail to effectively recruit, integrate, retain and develop key talent and/or align our talent with our business needs, in light of the current rapidly changing environment.
−Removed: While we have succession plans in place and we have employment arrangements with a limited number of key executives, these do not guarantee that the services of these or suitable successor executives will continue to be available to us.
−Removed: Competition for qualified personnel in our field is intense due to the limited number of individuals who possess the skills and experience required by our industry.
−Removed: As a result, as we continue to grow and enter new geographies, it may be difficult for us to hire additional qualified personnel with the necessary skills.
−Removed: If our hiring efforts in new or existing geographies are not successful, our business will be harmed.
−Removed: In addition, we experienced labor shortages in 2021, which were pronounced as a result of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
+Added: Our business would also be adversely affected if we fail to adequately plan for succession of our leadership or if we fail to effectively recruit, integrate, retain and develop key talent and/or align our talent with our business needs, in light of the current rapidly changing environment.
+Added: Competition for qualified personnel in our industry is intense due to the limited number of individuals who possess the required skills and experience.
+Added: In particular, we face substantial competition for physicians and other healthcare providers.
+Added: As a result, as we continue to grow and enter new geographies, it may be difficult for us to hire additional qualified personnel with the necessary
+Added: We continued to experience labor shortages in 2022, in part due to the ongoing effects of COVID-19.
A number of factors have and may in the future adversely affect the labor force available to us or increase labor costs, including high employment levels, federal unemployment subsidies, increased wages offered by other employers, vaccine mandates and other government regulations.
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If our retention efforts are not successful or our employee turnover rate increases in the future, our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations will be harmed.
−Removed: In addition, in making employment decisions, job candidates often consider the value of the stock options or other equity instruments they are to receive in connection with their employment.
−Removed: Volatility in the price of our stock may, therefore, adversely affect our ability to attract or retain highly skilled personnel.
+Added: Finally, as job candidates often consider the value of the stock options or other equity instruments they are to receive in connection with their employment, the volatility in the price of our stock may adversely affect our ability to attract or retain highly skilled personnel.
Further, the requirement to expense stock options and other equity instruments may discourage us from granting the size or type of stock option or equity awards that job candidates require to join our company.
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Integration and other risks can be more pronounced for larger and more complicated relationships or relationships outside of our core business space, or if multiple relationships are pursued simultaneously.
−Removed: Additionally, new geographies may be characterized by stakeholder preferences for, and experience with, rates of Medicare Advantage enrollment, Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates, payor concentration and rates of unnecessary variability in and utilization of medical care that differ from those in the geographies where our existing operations are located.
+Added: Additionally, new geographies may be characterized by stakeholder preferences for, and experience with, rates of MA enrollment, MA reimbursement rates, payor concentration and rates of unnecessary variability in and utilization of medical care that differ from those in the geographies where our existing operations are located.
Likewise, new geographies into which we seek to expand may have laws and regulations that differ from those applicable to our current operations.
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If growth in the number of patients and physician partners on our platform decreases, or the number of services that we are able to provide to physician partners and members decreases, due to legal, economic or business developments, our business, financial condition and results of operations will be harmed.
−Removed: Substantially all of our total revenues relate to federal government healthcare programs.
+Added: Substantially all of our total revenue relates to federal government healthcare programs.
The policies and decisions made by the federal government regarding these programs have a substantial impact on our profitability.
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As a result, our market opportunity estimates and financial forecasts developed as we enter into a new geography, are subject to significant uncertainty, and are based on assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate.
−Removed: The estimates and forecasts in this Annual Report on Form 10-K relating to the size and expected growth of the market for our services and the estimates of our market opportunity may prove to be inaccurate.
−Removed: Principal assumptions relating to our market opportunity include estimates of the total number and average length of relationships between Medicare Advantage patients and their physicians, historical Medicare Advantage patient growth rates, amount of revenue and medical expenses associated with Medicare Advantage members expected to be attributed to our affiliated professional entities and other physician partners and historical experience that such physician partners have with a similar platform.
+Added: The estimates and forecasts in this Form 10-K relating to the size and expected growth of the market for our services and the estimates of our market opportunity may prove to be inaccurate.
+Added: Principal assumptions relating to our market opportunity include estimates of the total number and average length of relationships between MA patients and their physicians, historical MA patient growth rates, amount of revenue and medical expenses associated with MA members expected to be attributed to our affiliated professional entities and other physician partners and historical experience that such physician partners have with a similar platform.
Our opportunity is based on the assumption that our platform, partnership and network model will be more attractive to potential physician partners than competing options.
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Additionally, the medical expenses of patients may be outside of our affiliated providers’ control in the event that patients take certain actions that increase such expenses, such as unnecessary hospital visits.
−Removed: If we underestimate or do not correctly predict the cost of the care our affiliated providers furnish to patients, we might be underpaid for the care that must be provided to patients, which could have a negative impact on our results of operations and financial condition.
+Added: underestimate or do not correctly predict the cost of the care our affiliated providers furnish to patients, we might be underpaid for the care that must be provided to patients, which could have a negative impact on our results of operations and financial condition.
We primarily depend on reimbursement by third-party payors, as well as payments by individuals, which could lead to delays, uncertainties and disagreements regarding the timing and process of reimbursement, including any changes or reductions in Medicare reimbursement rates or rules.
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We have determined it is probable that resolution of this discrepancy will result in an additional payment to the health plan of approximately $10.6 million.
−Removed: This contingent liability is reflected in the Company’s financial statements presented in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
−Removed: See Note 26 “Commitments and Contingencies” for additional information on the impact of this discrepancy.
+Added: This contingent liability is recorded in health plan settlements payable in the Company’s consolidated balance sheets presented in this Form 10-K.
+Added: See Note 21 “Commitments and Contingencies” to the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K for additional information on the impact of this discrepancy.
In addition, certain of our patients are covered under health plans that require the patient to cover a portion of their own healthcare expenses through the payment of copayments or deductibles.
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Any increase in cost shifting from third-party payors to individual patients, including as a result of high deductible plans for patients, increases our collection costs and reduces overall collections, which we may not be able to offset with sufficient revenue.
−Removed: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicare program, made several changes in the manner in which Medicare will pay for telehealth visits, many of which relax previous requirements, including site requirements for both the providers and patients, telehealth modality requirements and others.
+Added: In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CMS, the federal agency responsible for administering the Medicare program, made several changes in the manner in which Medicare will pay for telehealth visits, many of which relax previous requirements, including site requirements for both the providers and patients, telehealth modality requirements and others.
State law applicable to telehealth, particularly licensure requirements, has also been relaxed in many jurisdictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The termination or non-renewal of the Medicare Advantage contracts held by the health plans with which we contract, or the termination or nonrenewal of our contracts with those plans, could have a material adverse effect on our revenue and operations.
−Removed: We contract with health plans to provide capitated care services with respect to certain of their Medicare Advantage members.
+Added: We contract with health plans to provide capitated care services with respect to certain of their MA members.
Our operations are dependent on a concentrated number of payors with whom we contract to provide services to members.
−Removed: Our contracts with two health plans to provide capitated care services for their members collectively accounted for approximately 53% and 46% of our capitated revenue for the year ended December 31, 2020 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
−Removed: If a plan with which we contract for these services loses its Medicare Advantage contracts with CMS, receives reduced or insufficient government reimbursement under the Medicare Advantage program, decides to discontinue its Medicare Advantage and/or commercial plans, decides to contract with another company to provide capitated care services to its members, or decides to directly provide care, our contract with that plan could be at risk and we could lose revenue.
−Removed: In addition, certain of our contracts with health plans are terminable without cause.
−Removed: If any of these contracts were terminated, certain patients covered by such plans may choose to shift to another primary care physician (“PCP”) within their health plan’s network.
−Removed: Moreover, our inability to maintain our agreements with health plans, in particular with key payors such as Centene Corporation, Atrio Health Plans, United Healthcare and Aetna, with respect to their Medicare Advantage members or to negotiate favorable terms for those agreements in the future, could result in the loss of patients and could have a material adverse effect on our profitability and business.
+Added: Our contracts with four health plans to provide capitated care services for their members collectively accounted for approximately 79% and 67% of our capitated revenue for the years ended December 31, 2021 and 2022, respectively.
+Added: If a plan with which we contract for these services loses its MA contracts with CMS, receives reduced or insufficient government reimbursement under the MA program, decides to discontinue its MA and/or commercial plans, decides to contract with another company to provide capitated care services to its members, or decides to directly provide care, our contract with that plan could be at risk and we could lose revenue.
+Added: certain of our contracts with health plans are terminable without cause.
+Added: If any of these contracts were terminated, certain patients covered by such plans may choose to shift to another PCP within their health plan’s network.
+Added: Moreover, our inability to maintain our agreements with health plans, in particular with key payors such as Centene Corporation, Atrio Health Plans, United Healthcare and Aetna, with respect to their MA members or to negotiate favorable terms for those agreements in the future, could result in the loss of patients and could have a material adverse effect on our profitability and business.
The healthcare industry has also experienced a trend of consolidation, resulting in fewer but larger payors that have significant bargaining power, given their market share.
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Any of these consequences could adversely impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
−Removed: We could also experience significant losses if the expenses incurred to deliver healthcare services to our attributed members exceed revenues we receive from payors in respect of our attributed members.
−Removed: Under a capitation contract, a payor typically prospectively pays periodic capitation payments representing a prospective budget from which its physician partnerships manage healthcare expenses on behalf of the population enrolled with that physician partnership.
+Added: We could also experience significant losses if the expenses incurred to deliver healthcare services to our attributed members exceed revenue we receive from payors in respect of our attributed members.
+Added: Under a capitation contract, a payor typically prospectively pays periodic capitation payments representing a prospective budget from which its physician partnerships manage
+Added: healthcare expenses on behalf of the population enrolled with that physician partnership.
To manage total medical services expense, we rely on our affiliated professional entities’ and other physician partners’ ability to improve clinical outcomes, implement clinical initiatives to provide a better healthcare experience for our members and accurately and sufficiently document the risk profile of our members.
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Reductions in the quality ratings of the health plans we serve could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
−Removed: As a result of the Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act, or the ACA, the level of reimbursement each health plan receives from CMS is dependent, in part, upon the quality rating of the Medicare Advantage plan.
+Added: As a result of the Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (the “ACA”), the level of reimbursement each health plan receives from CMS is dependent, in part, upon the quality rating of the MA plan.
Such ratings impact the percentage of any cost savings rebate and any bonuses earned by such health plan.
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Given each health plan’s control of its plans and the many other providers that serve such plans, we believe that we will have limited ability to influence the overall quality rating of any such plan.
−Removed: The Bipartisan Budget Act, passed in February 2018, implemented certain changes to prevent artificial inflation of star ratings for Medicare Advantage plans offered by the same organization.
−Removed: In addition, CMS has terminated plans that have had a rating of less than three stars for three consecutive years, whereas Medicare Advantage plans with five stars are permitted to conduct enrollment throughout almost the entire year.
+Added: The Bipartisan Budget Act, passed in February 2018, implemented certain changes to prevent artificial inflation of star ratings for MA plans offered by the same organization.
+Added: In addition, CMS has terminated plans that have had a rating of less than three stars for three consecutive years, whereas MA plans with five stars are permitted to conduct enrollment throughout almost the entire year.
Because low quality ratings can potentially lead to the termination of a plan that we serve, we may not be able to prevent the potential termination of a contracting plan or a shift of patients to other plans based upon quality issues which could, in turn, have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
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Competition from hospitals, managed service organizations and provider networks and data analysis consultants, payors and other parties could result in payors changing the benefit structure that is offered to our members, which could negatively impact our profitability and market share.
−Removed: Our primary competitors include Oak Street Health, Cano Health and Agilon Health, in addition to numerous local provider networks, hospitals and health systems.
+Added: Our primary competitors include Oak Street Health, Inc., Cano Health, Inc.
+Added: and agilon health, inc., in addition to numerous local provider networks, hospitals and health systems.
Moreover, large, well-financed payors have in some cases developed their own managed services tools and may provide these services to their physicians and patients at discounted prices, or may seek to expand their relationships with additional competing physicians or physician networks, including in geographic areas we serve.
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In addition, current and potential competitors have established, and may in the future establish, cooperative relationships with providers of complementary services, technologies or services to increase the attractiveness of their services.
−Removed: Accordingly, new competitors or alliances may emerge that have greater market share, a larger customer base, better data aggregation systems, greater marketing expertise, greater financial resources and larger marketing teams than we have, which could put us at a competitive disadvantage.
+Added: Accordingly, new competitors or alliances may emerge that have greater market share, a larger customer base, better data aggregation systems, greater marketing expertise, greater financial resources and larger marketing teams than we have, which could
+Added: put us at a competitive disadvantage.
Our competitors could also be better positioned to serve certain segments of the healthcare delivery industry, which could create additional pressure on the premiums that our payors are able to charge.
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If we or our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners fail to comply with applicable data interoperability and information blocking rules, our consolidated results of operations could be adversely affected.
−Removed: The 21st Century Cures Act, or the Cures Act, which was passed and signed into law in December 2016, includes provisions related to data interoperability, information blocking and patient access.
−Removed: In March 2020, the U.S.
−Removed: Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, (“ONC”), and CMS finalized and issued complementary rules that are intended to clarify provisions of the Cures Act regarding interoperability and information blocking, and include, among other things, requirements surrounding information blocking, changes to ONC’s health IT certification program and requirements that CMS regulated payors make relevant claims/care data and provider directory information available through standardized patient access and provider directory application programming interfaces that connect to provider electronic health record systems.
−Removed: The companion rules will transform the way in which healthcare providers, health IT developers, health information exchanges/health information networks, or HIEs/HINs, and health plans share patient information, and create significant new requirements for healthcare industry participants.
−Removed: For example, the ONC rule, which went into effect on April 5, 2021, prohibits healthcare providers, health IT developers of certified health IT, and HIEs/HINs from engaging in practices that are likely to interfere with, prevent, materially discourage, or otherwise inhibit the access, exchange or use of electronic health information, or EHI, also known as “information blocking.” To further support access and exchange of EHI, the ONC rule identifies eight “reasonable and necessary activities” as exceptions to information blocking activities, as long as specific conditions are met.
+Added: The 21st Century Cures Act (the “Cures Act”), which was passed and signed into law in December 2016, includes provisions related to data interoperability, information blocking and patient access.
+Added: In March 2020, the HHS, Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, (“ONC”), and CMS finalized and issued complementary rules that are intended to clarify provisions of the Cures Act regarding interoperability and information blocking, and include, among other things, requirements surrounding information blocking, changes to ONC’s health IT certification program and requirements that CMS regulated payors make relevant claims/care data and provider directory information available through standardized patient access and provider directory application programming interfaces that connect to provider electronic health record systems.
+Added: The companion rules will transform the way in which healthcare providers, health IT developers, health information exchanges/health information networks (“HIEs/HINs”), and health plans share patient information, and create significant new requirements for healthcare industry participants.
+Added: For example, the ONC rule, which went into effect on April 5, 2021, prohibits healthcare providers, health IT developers of certified health IT, and HIEs/HINs from engaging in practices that are likely to interfere with, prevent, materially discourage, or otherwise inhibit the access, exchange or use of electronic health information (“EHI”), also known as “information blocking.” To further support access and exchange of EHI, the ONC rule identifies eight “reasonable and necessary activities” as exceptions to information blocking activities, as long as specific conditions are met.
Any failure to comply with these rules could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
−Removed: Our business and operations would suffer in the event of information technology system failures, security breaches, or other deficiencies in cybersecurity.
+Added: Our business and operations would suffer in the event of information technology system failures, security breaches, cyberattacks or other deficiencies in cybersecurity.
Our information technology systems facilitate our ability to conduct our business.
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In addition, in the event that a significant number of our management personnel were unavailable in the event of a disaster, our ability to effectively conduct business could be adversely affected.
−Removed: In the ordinary course of our business, we, our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners collect and store sensitive data, including personally identifiable information, protected health information, or PHI, intellectual property and proprietary business information owned or controlled by us or our employees, members and other parties.
+Added: In the ordinary course of our business, we, our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners collect and store sensitive data, including personally identifiable information, protected health information (“PHI”), intellectual property and proprietary business information owned or controlled by us or our employees, members and other parties.
We manage and maintain our applications and data utilizing a combination of on-site systems and cloud-based data centers.
−Removed: We utilize external security and infrastructure vendors to provide and manage parts of our information technology systems, including our data centers.
+Added: We utilize external security and
+Added: infrastructure vendors to provide and manage parts of our information technology systems, including our data centers.
These applications and data encompass a wide variety of business-critical information, including research and development information, customer information, commercial information and business and financial information.
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This risk extends to the third-party vendors and subcontractors we use to manage this sensitive data or otherwise process it on our behalf.
−Removed: A breach or failure of our or our third-party vendors’ or subcontractors’ network, hosted service providers or vendor systems could result from a variety of circumstances and events, including third-party action, employee negligence or error, malfeasance, computer viruses, cyber-attacks by computer hackers such as denial-of-service and phishing attacks, failures during the process of upgrading or replacing software and databases, power outages, hardware failures, telecommunication failures, user errors, or catastrophic events.
+Added: A breach or failure of our or our third-party vendors’ or subcontractors’ network, hosted service providers or vendor systems could result from a variety of circumstances and events, including third-party action, employee negligence or error, malfeasance, malware (e.g., ransomware), computer viruses, cyberattacks by computer hackers such as denial-of-service and phishing attacks, failures during the process of upgrading or replacing software and databases, power outages, hardware failures, telecommunication failures, user errors, or catastrophic events.
If these third-party vendors or subcontractors fail to protect their information technology systems and our confidential and proprietary information, we may be vulnerable to disruptions in service and unauthorized access to our confidential or proprietary information and we could incur liability and reputational damage.
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Further, attacks upon information technology systems are increasing in their frequency, levels of persistence, sophistication and intensity, and are being conducted by sophisticated and organized groups and individuals with a wide range of motives and expertise.
−Removed: As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we may also face increased cybersecurity risks due to our reliance on internet technology and the number of our employees who are working remotely, which may create additional opportunities for cybercriminals to exploit vulnerabilities.
Furthermore, because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to, or to sabotage, systems change frequently and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative measures.
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In addition to remediating newly identified vulnerabilities, previously identified vulnerabilities must also be continuously addressed.
−Removed: Accordingly, we are at risk that cyber-attackers exploit these known vulnerabilities before they have been addressed.
−Removed: Any access, breach, or other loss of information could result in legal claims or proceedings, and liability under federal or state laws that protect the privacy of personal information, and corresponding regulatory penalties.
+Added: Accordingly, we are at risk that cyberattackers exploit these known vulnerabilities before they have been addressed.
+Added: We and certain of our service providers are from time to time subject to cyberattacks and security incidents.
+Added: While we do not believe that we have experienced any significant system failure, accident or security breach to date, if such an event were to occur and cause interruptions in our operations, it could result in legal claims or proceedings, and liability under federal or state laws that protect the privacy of personal information, and corresponding regulatory penalties.
In addition, we could face criminal liability, damages for contract breach and incur significant costs for remedial measures to prevent future occurrences and mitigate past violations.
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Numerous state and federal laws, regulations, standards and other legal obligations, including consumer protection laws and regulations, which govern the collection, dissemination, use, access to, confidentiality, security and processing of personal information, including health-related information, could apply to our operations or the operations of our partners.
−Removed: For example, HIPAA, imposes privacy, security and breach notification obligations on certain healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses, known as covered entities, as well as their business associates that perform certain services that involve creating, receiving, maintaining or transmitting individually identifiable health information for or on behalf of such covered entities, and their covered subcontractors.
+Added: For example, HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, and regulations implemented thereunder (collectively, “HIPAA”), imposes privacy, security and breach notification obligations on certain healthcare providers, health plans, and healthcare clearinghouses, known as covered entities, as well as their business associates that perform certain services that involve creating, receiving, maintaining or transmitting individually identifiable health information for or on
+Added: behalf of such covered entities, and their covered subcontractors.
HIPAA requires covered entities, such as the affiliated professional entities or other physician partners, and business associates, such as us, to develop and maintain policies with respect to the protection of, use and disclosure of PHI, including the adoption of administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect such information, and certain notification requirements in the event of a breach of unsecured PHI.
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While HIPAA does not create a private right of action allowing individuals to sue us in civil court for violations of HIPAA, its standards have been used as the basis for duty of care in state civil suits such as those for negligence or recklessness in the misuse or breach of PHI.
−Removed: Even when HIPAA does not apply, according to the Federal Trade Commission, or the FTC, violating consumers’ privacy rights or failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure may constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
+Added: Even when HIPAA does not apply, according to the Federal Trade Commission (the “FTC”), violating consumers’ privacy rights or failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure may constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
The FTC expects a company’s data security measures to be reasonable and appropriate in light of the sensitivity and volume of consumer information it holds, the size and complexity of its business, and the cost of available tools to improve security and reduce vulnerabilities.
−Removed: Further, certain states have also adopted comparable privacy and security laws and regulations, some of which may be more stringent than HIPAA.
+Added: Further, certain states have also adopted comparable privacy and security laws and regulations which govern the privacy, processing and protection of health-related and other personal information.
Such laws and regulations will be subject to interpretation by various courts and other governmental authorities, thus creating potentially complex compliance issues for us and our future customers and strategic partners.
For example, the state of Nevada enacted a law that went into force on October 1, 2019 and requires companies to honor consumers’ requests to no longer sell their data.
−Removed: In addition, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, or the CCPA, went into effect on January 1, 2020.
+Added: In addition, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (the “CCPA”) went into effect on January 1, 2020.
The CCPA creates individual privacy rights for California consumers and increases the privacy and security obligations of entities handling certain personal information.
−Removed: The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that is expected to increase data breach litigation.
−Removed: The CCPA may increase our compliance costs and potential liability, and many similar laws have been proposed at the federal level and in other states.
−Removed: Further, the California Privacy Rights Act, or the CPRA, recently passed in California.
−Removed: The CPRA will impose additional data protection obligations on covered businesses, including additional consumer rights processes, limitations on data uses, new audit requirements for higher risk data, and opt outs for certain uses of sensitive data.
−Removed: It will also create a new California data protection agency authorized to issue substantive regulations and could result in increased privacy and information security enforcement.
−Removed: The majority of the provisions will go into effect on January 1, 2023, and additional compliance investment and potential business process changes may be required.
−Removed: In addition, California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, or the CMIA, places restrictions on the use and disclosure of health information, including PHI, and other personally identifying information, and can impose a significant compliance obligation.
+Added: The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that has increased the likelihood of, and risks associated with, data breach litigation.
+Added: The CCPA has increased our compliance costs and potential liability, and similar laws have passed in Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut and Utah and have been proposed at the federal level and in other states, reflecting a trend toward more stringent privacy legislation in the United States.
+Added: The enactment of such laws could have potentially conflicting requirements that would make compliance challenging.
+Added: Further, the California Privacy Rights Act (the “CPRA”) generally went into effect on January 1, 2023, and significantly amends the CCPA.
+Added: The CPRA imposes additional data protection obligations on covered businesses, including additional consumer rights processes, limitations on data uses, new audit requirements for higher risk data, and opt outs for certain uses of sensitive data.
+Added: It also created a new California data protection agency authorized to issue substantive regulations and could result in increased privacy and information security enforcement.
+Added: Additional compliance investment and potential business process changes may also be required.
+Added: In addition, California’s Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (the “CMIA”) places restrictions on the use and disclosure of health information, including PHI, and other personally identifying information, and can impose a significant compliance obligation.
Violations of the CMIA can result in criminal, civil and administrative sanctions, and the CMIA also provides individuals a private right of action with respect to disclosures of their health information that violate CMIA.
−Removed: In the event that we are subject to these domestic privacy and data protection laws, any liability from failure to comply with the requirements of these laws could adversely affect our financial condition.
+Added: In the event that we are subject to or affected by HIPAA, the CCPA, the CPRA or other domestic privacy and data protection laws, any liability from failure to comply with the requirements of these laws could adversely affect our financial condition.
Although we work to comply with applicable laws, regulations and standards, our contractual obligations and other legal obligations, these requirements are evolving and may be modified, interpreted and applied in an inconsistent manner from one jurisdiction to another, and may conflict with one another or other legal obligations with which we must comply.
−Removed: Any failure or perceived failure by us or our employees, representatives, contractors, consultants, collaborators, or other third parties to comply with such requirements or adequately address privacy and security concerns, even if unfounded, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
+Added: Any failure or perceived failure by us or our employees, representatives, contractors, consultants, collaborators, or other third parties to comply with
+Added: such requirements or adequately address privacy and security concerns, even if unfounded, could result in additional cost and liability to us, damage our reputation, and adversely affect our business and results of operations.
Legal proceedings in connection with the Business Combinations, the outcome of which is uncertain, could draw the attention of our management team away from the operation of our business.
−Removed: Prior to execution of the definitive agreements for the Business Combinations, Hudson Vegas Investment SPV, LLC, (“Hudson”), one of our existing equity holders, asserted that it had an option to purchase additional equity interests in P3 Health Group Holdings, LLC (“Legacy P3”) in connection with the pending transaction with Foresight, or the Purchase Option.
+Added: Prior to execution of the definitive agreements for the Business Combinations, Hudson Vegas Investment SPV, LLC, (“Hudson”), one of our existing equity holders, asserted that it had an option to purchase additional equity interests in P3 Health Group Holdings, LLC (“Legacy P3”) in connection with the pending transaction with Foresight (the “Purchase Option”).
We do not agree that the Purchase Option applies to the Business Combinations.
−Removed: On June 11, 2021, Hudson filed an action in the Delaware Court of Chancery, or the Hudson Action, in which it challenged the Business Combinations.
−Removed: Specifically, Hudson purports to assert claims against Legacy P3, the members of the Legacy P3 Board of Managers, certain of the Legacy P3 officers and Chicago Pacific Founders Fund, L.P., or CPF, for breach of the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Legacy P3, dated as of April 16, 2020 (the “Legacy P3 LLC Agreement”), (against Legacy P3 and CPF), breach of fiduciary duty (against certain of Legacy P3’s officers) and breach of alleged contractual standards of conduct (against the Legacy P3 Board of Managers) in connection with the process leading up to, and approval of, the Business Combinations.
+Added: On June 11, 2021, Hudson filed an action in the Delaware Court of Chancery (the “Hudson Action”), in which it challenged the Business Combinations.
+Added: Specifically, Hudson purports to assert claims against Legacy P3, the members of the Legacy P3 Board of Managers, certain of the Legacy P3 officers and Chicago Pacific Founders Fund, L.P.
+Added: (“CPF”), for breach of the Third Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of Legacy P3, dated as of April 16, 2020 (the “Legacy P3 LLC Agreement”), (against Legacy P3 and CPF), breach of fiduciary duty (against certain of Legacy P3’s officers) and breach of alleged contractual standards of conduct (against the Legacy P3 Board of Managers) in connection with the process leading up to, and approval of, the Business Combinations.
In the Hudson Action, Hudson sought to enjoin the consummation of the Business Combinations, and seeks a declaration that the Business Combinations violate its rights under the Legacy P3 LLC Agreement, a declaration that the members of the Legacy P3 Board of Managers and certain of Legacy P3’s officers breached their fiduciary duties, and money damages including attorneys’ fees.
−Removed: On September 9, 2021, the Court of Chancery held a hearing on Hudson’s motion for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the consummation of the Business Combinations.
−Removed: On September 14, 2021, the Court of Chancery issued an oral ruling denying Hudson’s motion for a preliminary injunction due to the lack of probability of success on the merits or, with respect to the Purchase Option only, lack of a showing of irreparable harm based on the condition that the escrow described below be created.
−Removed: In its ruling, the Court of Chancery held that Hudson had not demonstrated a reasonable probability of success on its claims, with the exception of its claim relating to the Purchase Option.
−Removed: With respect to the Purchase Option claim, the Court declined to address the merits and instead denied Hudson’s motion on the basis of no irreparable harm subject to the condition that the defendants memorialize their commitment to escrow, pending final resolution of the action, the consideration Hudson would be entitled to receive if it is determined that the Purchase Option can be validly exercised, in a stipulation filed with the Court of Chancery.
−Removed: On September 17, 2021, the defendants filed a stipulation and proposed order regarding escrow which confirmed their commitment to do so, and to cause the Payment Spreadsheet (as defined in Section 2.01(f) of the Merger Agreement) to provide that such consideration will be directed to such escrow.
−Removed: The Court of Chancery granted and entered the stipulation and proposed order on September 17, 2021.
−Removed: The former members of P3 (other than Hudson) have agreed to indemnify the Company and P3 LLC following the Closing, for any damages, including reasonable attorney’s fees, arising out of matters relating to the dispute with Hudson.
−Removed: On December 27, 2021, Hudson filed a Motion for Leave to Amend the Verified Complaint.
−Removed: The proposed Amended Complaint contains certain of Hudson’s original claims and also adds additional claims, including bad faith breach of contract claims against certain of the former P3 Managers, an additional contractual claim against P3, and a tortious interference with contract claim against Foresight Acquisition Corp., Foresight Acquisition Corp.
−Removed: II, P3 Partners Inc., Sameer Mathur, and Greg Wasson.
−Removed: Defendants informed Hudson that they did not oppose the Motion for Leave to Amend the Verified Complaint, and on February 4, 2022, Hudson filed its Verified Amended Complaint.
−Removed: On March 9, 2022, all Defendants moved to dismiss the Verified Amended Complaint.
−Removed: The Briefing on Defendant’s Motion to Dismiss was completed on May 17, 2022.
−Removed: On March 25, 2022, Hudson served its Second Request for the Production of Documents directed to Defendants, and on April 14, 2022, Defendants filed a Motion to Stay Discovery and for Protective Order Pending Resolution of Motions to Dismiss (the “Motion to Stay”).
−Removed: Defendants served formal responses and objections to the Second Request for the Production of Documents on April 25, 2022.
−Removed: On July 13, 2022, the Court heard argument on both the Motions to Dismiss and the Motion to Stay and took the matters under advisement.
−Removed: On September 12, 2022, the Court issued an opinion which concluded that the Court could exercise personal jurisdiction over Ms.
−Removed: Puathasnanon, an officer defendant in the action.
−Removed: The Court has not addressed any of the other arguments in the Motions to Dismiss, including Ms.
−Removed: Puathasnanon’s other defenses.
−Removed: On October 14, 2022, the Court issued an opinion which concluded that the Court could exercise personal jurisdiction over Mr.
−Removed: The Court has not addressed any of the other arguments in the Motions to Dismiss, including Mr.
−Removed: Wasson’s other defenses.
+Added: Legal Proceedings” for a description of the Hudson Class D Dispute proceedings.
Defending or settling this lawsuit could draw the attention of our management team away from the operation of our business and while we are indemnified by the P3 Equityholders for costs in connection with this lawsuit, it is possible that we could nonetheless incur financial losses if disputes arise with respect to the extent of the indemnification obligations.
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Tax laws, regulations, and administrative practices in various jurisdictions may be subject to significant change, with or without notice, due to economic, political, and other conditions, and significant judgment is required in evaluating and estimating these taxes.
+Added: For example, legislation commonly known as the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”), was signed into law on August 16, 2022.
+Added: Among other things, the IRA includes a 1% excise tax on corporate stock repurchases, applicable to repurchases after December 31, 2022.
+Added: We are in the process of evaluating the potential impacts of the IRA to us.
Our effective tax rates could be affected by numerous factors, such as entry into new businesses and geographies, changes to our existing business and operations, acquisitions and investments and how they are financed, changes in our stock price, changes in our deferred tax assets and liabilities and their valuation, and changes in the relevant tax, accounting, and other laws, regulations, administrative practices, principles and interpretations.
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We have no direct operations and no significant assets other than the ownership of a minority of the economic interests in P3 LLC.
−Removed: As of the closing of the Business Combinations, we owned approximately 17.1% of the economic interests in P3 LLC.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, we owned approximately 17.1% of the economic interests in P3 LLC.
We depend on P3 LLC and its subsidiaries for distributions, loans and other payments to generate the funds necessary to meet our financial obligations, including to satisfy our obligations under the Tax Receivable Agreement, or to pay any dividends with respect to our Class A Common Stock.
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P3 LLC will be classified as a partnership for U.S.
−Removed: federal income tax purposes and, as such, will generally not be subject to entity level U.S.
+Added: federal income tax purposes and,
+Added: as such, will generally not be subject to entity level U.S.
federal income tax.
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To the extent that we require funds and P3 LLC or its subsidiaries are restricted from making distributions under applicable law or regulation or under the terms of their financing arrangements, or are otherwise unable to provide such funds, it could materially adversely affect our liquidity and financial condition, including our ability to pay our income taxes when due.
−Removed: Our management has limited experience in operating a public company.
−Removed: Our executive officers and certain directors have limited experience in the management of a publicly traded company.
−Removed: Our management team may not successfully or effectively manage the transition to a public company subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under federal securities laws.
−Removed: Their limited experience in dealing with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies could be a significant disadvantage in that it is likely that an increasing amount of our management’s time may be devoted to these activities which will result in less time being devoted to the management and growth of the company.
−Removed: It is possible that we will be required to expand our employee base and hire additional employees to support our operations as a public company, which will increase our operating costs in future periods.
Risks Related to Our Legal and Regulatory Environment
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Of particular importance are:
−Removed: ● the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, or the AKS, which prohibits the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any bribe, kickback, rebate or other remuneration for referring an individual, in return for ordering, leasing, purchasing or recommending or arranging for or to induce the referral of an individual or the ordering, purchasing or leasing of items or services covered, in whole or in part, by any federal healthcare program, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
+Added: ● the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (the “AKS”), which prohibits the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any bribe, kickback, rebate or other remuneration for referring an individual, in return for ordering, leasing, purchasing or recommending or arranging for or to induce the referral of an individual or the ordering, purchasing or leasing of items or services covered, in whole or in part, by any federal healthcare program, such as Medicare and Medicaid.
Although there are several statutory exceptions and regulatory safe harbors protecting certain common activities from prosecution, the exceptions and safe harbors are drawn narrowly.
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Further, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation;
−Removed: ● the federal physician self-referral law, or the Stark Law, which, subject to limited exceptions, prohibits physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to an entity for the provision of certain designated health services, or DHS, if the physician or a member of such physician’s immediate family has a direct or indirect financial relationship (including an ownership interest or a compensation arrangement) with the entity, and prohibits the entity from billing Medicare or Medicaid for such DHS;
−Removed: ● the federal False Claims Act, or the FCA, which imposes civil and criminal liability on individuals or entities that knowingly submit false or fraudulent claims for payment to the government or knowingly make, or cause to be made, a false statement in order to have a false claim paid, including qui tam or whistleblower suits.
+Added: ● the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), which, subject to limited exceptions, prohibits physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to an entity for the provision of certain designated health services (“DHS”), if the physician or a member of such physician’s immediate family has a direct or indirect financial relationship (including an ownership interest or a compensation arrangement) with the entity, and prohibits the entity from billing Medicare or Medicaid for such DHS.
+Added: Unlike the AKS, the Stark Law is violated if the financial arrangement does not meet an applicable exception, regardless of any intent by the parties to induce or reward referrals or the reasons for the financial relationship and the referral;
+Added: ● the federal False Claims Act (the “FCA”), which imposes civil and criminal liability on individuals or entities that knowingly submit false or fraudulent claims for payment to the government or knowingly make, or cause to be made, a false statement in order to have a false claim paid, including qui tam or whistleblower suits.
There are many potential bases for liability under the FCA.
The government has used the FCA to prosecute Medicare and other government healthcare program fraud;
−Removed: ● such as coding errors, billing for services not provided, and providing care that is not medically necessary or that is substandard in quality.
+Added: including alleged upcoding or improper coding of diagnosis codes under the risk-adjustment methodology, billing for services not provided, and providing care that is not medically necessary or that is substandard in quality.
In addition, we could be held liable under the FCA if we are deemed to “cause” the submission of false or fraudulent claims by, for example, providing inaccurate billing, coding or risk adjustment information to our affiliated professional entities and other physician partners through Provider Portal and Analytic Management Tools, respectively.
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The operations of our owned and managed clinics through affiliated professional entities and other physician partners are subject to extensive federal, state and local regulation relating to, among other things, the adequacy of medical care, equipment, personnel, operating policies and procedures and proof of financial ability to operate.
−Removed: Our owned and managed clinics and affiliated professional entities and other physician partners are also subject to extensive laws and regulation relating to facility and professional licensure, conduct of operations, including financial relationships among healthcare providers, Medicare, Medicaid and state fraud and abuse and physician self-referrals, and maintaining updates to our and our affiliated professional entities’ and other physician partners’ enrollment in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including addition of new clinic locations, providers and other enrollment information.
+Added: Our owned and managed clinics and affiliated professional entities and other physician partners are also subject to extensive laws and regulation relating to facility and professional
+Added: licensure, conduct of operations, including financial relationships among healthcare providers, Medicare, Medicaid and state fraud and abuse and physician self-referrals, and maintaining updates to our and our affiliated professional entities’ and other physician partners’ enrollment in the Medicare and Medicaid programs, including addition of new clinic locations, providers and other enrollment information.
Our owned and managed clinics are subject to periodic inspection by licensing authorities to assure their continued compliance with these various standards.
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● criminal penalties;
−Removed: ● a corporate integrity agreement with HHS’ Office of Inspector General;
+Added: ● a corporate integrity agreement with HHS’s Office of Inspector General;
● loss of certain rights under, or termination of, our contracts with payors.
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Furthermore, the legal, document production and other costs associated with complying with these inspections, reviews, audits or investigations could be significant.
+Added: Our records and submissions to a health plan may contain inaccurate or unsupportable information regarding risk adjustment scores of members, which could cause us to overstate or understate our revenue and subject us to various penalties.
+Added: The claims and encounter records that we submit to health plans may impact data that support the Medicare Risk Adjustment Factor (“RAF”) scores attributable to members.
+Added: These RAF scores determine, in part, the revenue to which the health plans and, in turn, we or our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners are entitled for the provision of medical care to such members.
+Added: The data submitted to CMS by each health plan is based, in part, on medical charts and diagnosis codes that we prepare and submit to the health plans.
+Added: Each health plan generally relies on us and our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners to appropriately document and support such RAF data in our medical records.
+Added: Each health plan also relies on us and our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners to appropriately code claims for medical services provided to members.
+Added: Erroneous claims and erroneous encounter records and submissions could result in inaccurate revenue and risk adjustment payments, which may be subject to correction or retroactive adjustment in later periods.
+Added: This corrected or adjusted information may be reflected in financial statements for periods subsequent to the period in which the revenue was recorded.
+Added: We might also need to refund a portion of the revenue that we received, which refund, depending on its magnitude, could damage our relationship with the applicable health plan and could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
+Added: Additionally, CMS audits MA plans for documentation to support RAF-related payments for members chosen at random.
+Added: The MA plans ask providers to submit the underlying documentation for members that they serve.
+Added: It is possible that claims associated with members with higher RAF scores could be subject to more scrutiny in a CMS or plan audit.
+Added: There is a possibility that an MA plan may seek repayment from us should CMS make any payment adjustments to the MA plan as a result of its audits.
+Added: The plans also may hold us liable for any penalties owed to CMS for inaccurate or unsupportable RAF scores provided by us or our affiliated professional entities or other physician partners.
+Added: In addition, we could be liable for penalties to the government under the federal FCA, that include a monetary penalty adjusted for inflation on an annual basis for each false claim, plus up to three times the amount of damages caused by each false claim, which can be as much as the amounts received directly or indirectly from the government for each such false claim.
+Added: CMS has indicated that payment adjustments will not be limited to RAF scores for the specific MA enrollees for which errors are found but may also be extrapolated to the entire MA plan subject to a particular CMS contract.
+Added: Based on a recent final rule issued by CMS in January 2023, although 2011 to 2017 plan years are still subject to audit, overpayments to MA plans that are identified as a result of a Risk Adjustment Data Validation (“RADV”), audit will only be subject to extrapolation for plan year 2018 and any subsequent plan year.
+Added: In addition, CMS will not apply an adjustment factor, known as a FFS Adjuster, in RADV audits to account for potential differences in diagnostic coding between the MA program and Medicare FFS program.
+Added: We are continuing to assess the potential impact this final rule may have on our business and operations.
+Added: There can be no assurance that a health plan will not be randomly selected or targeted for review by CMS or that the outcome of such a review will not result in a material adjustment in our revenue and profitability, even if the information we submitted to the plan is accurate and supportable.
The impact on us of recent healthcare legislation and other changes in the healthcare industry and in healthcare spending is currently unknown, but may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
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The executive order also instructed certain governmental agencies to review and reconsider their existing policies and rules that limit access to healthcare.
−Removed: It is unclear how other healthcare reform measures enacted by Congress or implemented by the Biden administration or other challenges to the ACA, if any, will impact the ACA or our business.
Other legislative changes have been proposed and adopted since the ACA was enacted.
−Removed: These changes include aggregate reductions to Medicare payments to providers of 2% per fiscal year, which began in 2013 and will remain in effect through 2030, with the exception of a temporary suspension from May 1, 2020 through March, 2022 and a 1% reduction from April 1, 2022 through June 30, 2022, unless additional Congressional action is taken.
+Added: These changes include aggregate reductions to Medicare payments to providers, which began in 2013 and will remain in effect through 2032, with the exception of a temporary suspension from May 1, 2020 through March 30, 2022, unless additional Congressional action is taken.
In January 2013, the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 was signed into law, which, among other things, further reduced Medicare payments to several types of providers, including hospitals, imaging centers and cancer treatment centers, and increased the statute of limitations period for the government to recover overpayments to providers from three to five years.
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Further, state regulatory stances regarding downstream risk-sharing arrangements can change rapidly and codified provisions may not keep pace with evolving risk-sharing mechanisms and other new value-based reimbursement models.
−Removed: Certain of the states where we currently operate or may choose to operate in the future regulate the operations and financial condition of risk bearing organizations like us and our affiliated providers.
+Added: Certain of the states where we currently operate or may choose to
+Added: operate in the future regulate the operations and financial condition of risk bearing organizations like us and our affiliated providers.
These regulations can include capital requirements, licensing or certification, governance controls and other similar matters.
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The implementation of cost containment measures or other healthcare reforms may prevent us from being able to generate revenue or attain growth, any of which could have a material impact on our business.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Class A Common Stock
+Added: Risks Related to Ownership of Our Common Stock
We have identified material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: If our internal control over financial reporting is not effective, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or file our periodic reports in a timely manner, which may cause adverse effects on our business and may cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information and may lead to a decline in the price of our Class A Common Stock.
+Added: If we fail to establish and maintain effective internal controls in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results or file our periodic reports in a timely manner, which may cause adverse effects on our business and may cause investors to lose confidence in our reported financial information and may lead to a decline in the price of our Class A common stock.
+Added: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (the “Sarbanes-Oxley Act”) requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: We are required to furnish a report by management on, among other things, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in our annual reports.
+Added: This assessment must include disclosure of any material weaknesses identified by our management in our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: Additionally, once we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company,” we will be required to have our independent registered public accounting firm provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: An adverse report may be issued in the event our independent registered public accounting firm is not satisfied with the level at which our controls are documented, designed or operating.
Effective internal control over financial reporting is necessary for us to provide reliable financial reports in a timely manner.
−Removed: In connection with the audits of our financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and the restatement of our financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we concluded that there were material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting.
+Added: When evaluating our internal control over financial reporting, we have identified, and we may identify additional, material weaknesses that we may not be able to remediate in time to meet the applicable deadline imposed upon us for compliance with the requirements of Section 404.
+Added: In connection with the audits of our consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2019, 2020 and 2021, and the restatement of our consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2020 and 2019, we concluded that there were material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting, which continued to exist as of December 31, 2022.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis.
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(ii) we did not design and implement a sufficient risk assessment process to identify and assess risks impacting control over financial reporting;
−Removed: (iii) We had ineffective evaluation and determination as to whether the components of internal control were present and functioning.
+Added: and (iii) we had ineffective evaluation and determination as to whether the components of internal control were present and functioning.
As a consequence of these entity-level material weaknesses, we did not design, implement, and maintain effective control activities within certain business processes and the information technology environment to mitigate the risk of material misstatement in financial reporting.
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(iii) we did not design and maintain effective controls at a sufficient level of precision over the estimation of claims expense and payable including controls over the review of historical claims data, including the completeness and accuracy of data used to determine the financial statement amounts;
−Removed: (iv) We did not design and maintain effective controls over accounting for complex transactions, including the inaccurate attribution of net income or loss to the controlling and non-controlling interest pursuant to ASC 810 for subsidiaries that are variable interest entities, the improper classification of the Class A Units as permanent equity instead of temporary equity, and the improper accounting of preferred returns in equity and interest expense, as no recognition is necessary until legally declared.
−Removed: This material weakness resulted in the restatement discussed in Note 2 to the financial statements included herein.
+Added: and (iv) we did not design and maintain effective controls over accounting for complex transactions, including the inaccurate attribution of net income or loss to the controlling and non-controlling interest for subsidiaries that are variable interest entities, the improper classification of the Class A Units as permanent equity instead of temporary equity, and the improper accounting of preferred returns in equity and interest expense, as no recognition is necessary until legally declared.
We have taken and are taking steps to remediate these material weaknesses through (i) hiring qualified accounting, financial reporting, IT, and other key management personnel with public company experience, (ii) engaging an external advisor to assist with the risk assessment process, documenting internal controls, including enhancing controls to ensure proper communication of critical information, review and approvals;
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We have identified other deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting that have not risen to the level of a material weakness, which we are in the process of remediating.
−Removed: If we are unable to successfully remediate the material weaknesses or identify any future significant deficiencies or material weaknesses, the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting may be adversely affected, a material misstatement in our financial statements could occur, and we may be unable to maintain compliance with securities law requirements regarding timely filing of periodic reports, which may adversely affect our business and the price of our Class A Common Stock may decline as a result.
+Added: If we are unable to successfully remediate the material weaknesses or identify any future significant deficiencies or material weaknesses, are unable to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or assert that our internal control over financial reporting is ineffective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, the accuracy and timing of our financial reporting may be adversely affected, a material misstatement in our financial statements could occur, and we may be unable to maintain compliance with securities law requirements regarding timely filing of periodic reports, which may adversely affect our business and the price of our Class A common stock may decline as a result.
+Added: Investors may also lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our Class A common stock and warrants could be negatively affected, and we could become subject to investigations by Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”), the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.
In addition, even if we remediate the material weaknesses, we will be required to expend significant time and resources to further improve our internal controls over financial reporting, including by further expanding our finance and accounting staff to meet the demands placed upon us as a public company, including the requirements of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.
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We are an “emerging growth company” and we have elected to comply with reduced public company reporting requirements, which could make our Class A common stock less attractive to investors.
−Removed: We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act.
+Added: We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (“JOBS Act”).
For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we are eligible for certain exemptions from various public company reporting requirements.
These exemptions include, but are not limited to, (i) not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, (ii) reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports, proxy statements and registration statements, (iii) exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and shareholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved, (iv) not being required to provide audited financial statements for certain periods and (v) an extended transition period to comply with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies.
−Removed: We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (a) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenues of $1.235 billion or more;
+Added: We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (a) the last day of the fiscal year in which we have total annual gross revenue of $1.235 billion or more;
(b) the last day of the fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the date of the completion of the initial public offering of Foresight;
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or (d) the date on which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer under the rules of the SEC, which means the market value of our Class A common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700 million as of the last business day of our second fiscal quarter.
−Removed: We have made certain elections with regard to the reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and may elect to take advantage of other reduced disclosure obligations in future filings.
In addition, we have chosen to take advantage of the extended transition period to comply with new or revised accounting standards applicable to public companies.
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If some investors find our Class A common stock less attractive as a result of our reduced disclosure, there may be a less active trading market for our Class A common stock and the market price for the Class A common stock may be more volatile.
+Added: We cannot predict the impact our dual-class structure may have on the stock price of our Class A common stock.
+Added: We cannot predict whether our dual-class structure will result in a lower or more volatile market price of our Class A common stock or in adverse publicity or other adverse consequences.
+Added: For example, certain index providers have policies that restrict or prohibit the inclusion of companies with multiple-class share structures in certain of their indices, including the Russell 2000 and the S&P 500, S&P MidCap 400 and S&P SmallCap 600, which together make up the S&P Composite 1500.
+Added: Beginning in 2017, MSCI, a leading stock index provider, opened public consultations on their treatment of no-vote and multi-class structures and temporarily barred new multi-class listings from certain of its indices;
+Added: however, in October 2018, MSCI announced its decision to include equity securities “with unequal voting structures” in its indices and to launch a new index that specifically includes voting rights in its eligibility criteria.
+Added: Under the announced policies, our dual-class capital structure will make us ineligible for inclusion in certain indices, and as a result, mutual funds, exchange-traded funds and other investment vehicles that attempt to passively track those indices will not be investing in our stock.
+Added: It is possible that these policies may depress the valuations of publicly traded companies that are excluded from the indices compared to those of other similar companies that are included.
+Added: Because of our dual-class structure, we will likely be excluded from certain of these indices and we cannot assure you that other stock indices will not take similar actions.
+Added: Given the sustained flow of investment funds into passive strategies that seek to track certain indices, exclusion from stock indices would likely preclude investment by many of these funds and could make shares of our Class A common stock less attractive to other investors.
+Added: As a result, the market price of shares of our Class A common stock could be adversely affected.
Delaware law and our certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain certain provisions, including anti-takeover provisions that limit the ability of stockholders to take certain actions and could delay or discourage takeover attempts that stockholders may consider favorable.
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The Sponsor and the Chicago Pacific Founders funds, which are significant stockholders in our company, and their respective affiliates and representatives, non-employee directors and other non-employee stockholders will not be limited in their ability to compete with us, and the corporate opportunity provisions in our certificate of incorporation could enable such persons to benefit from corporate opportunities that might otherwise be available to us, which presents potential conflicts of interest.
−Removed: Our certificate of incorporation provides that subject to certain exceptions, the Sponsor and the Chicago Pacific Founders funds and their respective affiliates and any of their respective principals, members, directors, partners, stockholders, officers, employees or other representatives, or any director or stockholder who is not employed by us or our subsidiaries, would not be restricted from owning assets or engaging in businesses that compete directly or indirectly with us or any of our subsidiaries.
+Added: Our certificate of incorporation provides that subject to certain exceptions, the Sponsor and the Chicago Pacific Founders funds and their respective affiliates and any of their respective principals, members, directors, partners, stockholders, officers, employees or other representatives, or any director or stockholder who is not employed by us or our subsidiaries, would not be
+Added: restricted from owning assets or engaging in businesses that compete directly or indirectly with us or any of our subsidiaries.
In particular, subject to the limitations of applicable law and the certificate of incorporation, these persons may among other things:
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There may be sales of a substantial amount of our Class A common stock in future by our stockholders, and these sales could cause the price of our Class A common stock to fall.
−Removed: As of December 31,2021, there were approximately 41.6 million shares of Class A Common Stock outstanding, including 8.7 million shares of Class A Common Stock held by the Sponsor and FA Co-Investment LLC (together with the Sponsor, the “Sponsors”) and certain former directors of Foresight (collectively with the Sponsors, the “Founder Holders”), other than the Sponsor, all of which are subject to certain lock-up arrangements, and an additional approximately 202.0 million shares of Class V common stock, which are exchangeable, together with P3 LLC units, for an equivalent number of shares of Class A Common Stock.
−Removed: Our issued and outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock are freely transferable, except for any shares held by our “affiliates,” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act, and shares subject to lock-up arrangements.
−Removed: As of the closing of the Business Combinations, approximately 61.2% of the outstanding shares of Class A Common Stock (on an as-converted and as-exchanged basis) were held by entities affiliated with us and our executive officers and directors.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, there were approximately 41.6 million shares of Class A common stock outstanding and an additional approximately 201.6 million shares of Class V common stock, which are exchangeable, together with P3 LLC units, for an equivalent number of shares of Class A common stock.
+Added: Our issued and outstanding shares of Class A common stock are freely transferable, except for any shares held by our “affiliates,” as that term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act.
+Added: As of December 31, 2022, approximately 62.2% of the outstanding shares of Class A common stock (on an as-converted and as-exchanged basis) were held by entities affiliated with us and our executive officers and directors.
In addition, pursuant to the Amended and Restated Registration Rights and Lock-Up Agreement that we entered into with certain of our stockholders, we are obligated to register the resale of shares of Class A common stock held by such stockholders and issuable upon the exercise or exchange of securities held by such stockholders.
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● a decreased ability to issue additional securities or obtain additional financing in the future.
−Removed: On May 18, 2022, the Company received a notification from the listing qualifications department of Nasdaq indicating that as a result of the Company’s untimely filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 (the “2021 Form 10-K”) and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022, we were not in compliance with the requirements for continued listing under Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) (the “Listing Rule”), which requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic financial reports with the SEC.
−Removed: On July 19, 2022, Nasdaq granted us a grace period of up to 180 calendar days from the due date of the 2021 Form 10-K, or until September 27, 2022, in which to regain compliance with the Listing Rule.
−Removed: On August 17, 2022, we received a deficiency notice from Nasdaq as a result of the delay in filing its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2022 (the “Second Quarter Form 10-Q”), indicating that any additional Nasdaq exception to allow the Company to regain compliance with all delinquent filings, including the Second Quarter Form 10-Q, would be limited to September 27, 2022.
−Removed: Because the Company did not file the 2021 Form 10-K, the First Quarter Form 10-Q and the Second Quarter Form 10-Q with the SEC before September 27, 2022, Nasdaq notified the Company on September 28, 2022, that the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department has initiated a process to delist the Company’s securities from Nasdaq as a result of the Company not being in compliance with the Listing Rule.
−Removed: On October 5, 2022, the Company appealed Nasdaq’s delisting determination by requesting a hearing before the Nasdaq Hearing Panel (the “Panel”), which request automatically stays the suspension of the Company’s securities for a period of 15 days from the date of the request.
−Removed: The Nasdaq Staff granted the Company’s request for a hearing, which is scheduled for November 3, 2022, and the Company’s request to extend the stay of any trading suspension pending the hearing and the issuance of a final Panel decision.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that our appeal will be successful.
+Added: On May 18, 2022, we received a notification from the listing qualifications department of Nasdaq indicating that as a result of our delinquency in the filing of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021 and our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2022, we were not in compliance with the requirements for continued listing under Listing Rule 5250(c)(1) (the “Listing Rule”), which requires listed companies to timely file all required periodic financial reports with the SEC.
+Added: On August 17, 2022, we received a second deficiency notice from Nasdaq as a result of the delay in filing our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2022 (the “Second Quarter Form 10-Q”), indicating that any additional Nasdaq exception to allow the Company to regain compliance with all delinquent filings, including the Second Quarter Form 10-Q, would be limited to September 27, 2022.
+Added: On September 28, 2022, because we did not file the delinquent periodic reports prior to the expiration of the compliance period, the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Department initiated a process to delist our securities from Nasdaq.
+Added: We subsequently appealed Nasdaq’s delisting determination by requesting a hearing before the Nasdaq Hearing Panel (the “Panel”), which was granted by the Nasdaq Staff.
+Added: Prior to the scheduled Panel hearing, we regained compliance
+Added: with the Listing Rule following the filing of our three delinquent periodic reports with the SEC on October 21, 2022.
+Added: We received a letter from the Nasdaq Staff informing us that our filing delinquency had been cured and we were in compliance with all applicable listing standards and accordingly, that the scheduled hearing before the Panel had been determined to be moot and had been cancelled, and that our securities would continue to be listed and traded on Nasdaq.
+Added: While we have regained compliance with the Nasdaq listing standards, there is no assurance that we will remain in compliance with the listing requirements of Nasdaq in the future.
+Added: We cannot guarantee that any actions we take to prevent future non-compliance or to regain compliance with Nasdaq’s listing requirements in the future will be successful.
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Our warrants may have an adverse effect on the market price of our Class A common stock.
Foresight issued 10,819,105 warrants to purchase shares of our Class A common stock (the “Public Warrants”) as part of the units offered in its initial public offering and, simultaneously with the closing of its initial public offering, Foresight issued in a private placement an aggregate of 832,500 units, including (i) an aggregate of 277,500 private placement warrants, each exercisable to purchase one share of Class A common stock at $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment (the “Private Placement Warrants”), and (ii) an aggregate of 832,500 shares of Class A common stock.
+Added: In addition, on December 13, 2022, in connection with our issuance of the VGS Promissory Note (see Note 12 “Debt” to the consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K), we issued to VGS warrants to purchase 429,180 shares of Class A common stock.
To the extent such warrants are exercised, additional shares of our Class A common stock will be issued, which will result in dilution to our stockholders and increase the number of shares of Class A common stock eligible for resale in the public market.
Sales of substantial numbers of such shares in the public market or the fact that such warrants may be exercised could adversely affect the market price of our Class A common stock.
−Removed: Risks Related to Our Warrants
We may redeem your unexpired Public Warrants prior to their exercise at a time that is disadvantageous to you, thereby making your Public Warrants worthless.
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If and when the Public Warrants become redeemable by us, we may exercise our redemption right even if we are unable to register or qualify the underlying securities for sale under all applicable state securities laws.
−Removed: Redemption of the outstanding Public Warrants could force you (i) to exercise your Public Warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so, (ii) to sell your Public Warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your Public Warrants or (iii) to accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the
−Removed: outstanding Public Warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially less than the market value of your Public Warrants.
+Added: Redemption of the outstanding Public Warrants could force you (i) to exercise your Public Warrants and pay the exercise price therefor at a time when it may be disadvantageous for you to do so, (ii) to sell your Public Warrants at the then-current market price when you might otherwise wish to hold your Public Warrants or (iii) to accept the nominal redemption price which, at the time the outstanding Public Warrants are called for redemption, is likely to be substantially less than the market value of your Public Warrants.
In addition, we may redeem your Public Warrants commencing 90 days after they become exercisable and prior to their expiration, at a price of $0.10 per Public Warrant if, among other things, the last reported sale price of our Class A common stock equals or exceeds $10.00 per share (as adjusted for stock splits, stock dividends, reorganizations, recapitalizations and the like) on the trading day prior to the date on which we send the notice of redemption to the Public Warrant holders.
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None of the Private Placement Warrants will be redeemable by us so long as they are held by the Sponsor or its permitted transferees.
−Removed: Our warrants are accounted for as liabilities and the changes in value of our warrants could have a material effect on our financial results.
−Removed: On April 12, 2021, the Acting Chief Accountant and Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC published a statement on the SEC’s website indicating that the terms of the public and private warrants issued by many special purpose acquisition companies may need to be accounted for as liabilities, rather than as equity, or the SEC Warrant Accounting Statement.
−Removed: As a result of the SEC Warrant Accounting Statement, Foresight, along with many other current and former special purpose acquisition companies, concluded that the warrants should be presented as liabilities with subsequent fair value remeasurement and engaged a valuation firm to determine the fair market value of its warrants.
+Added: Certain of our warrants are accounted for as liabilities and the changes in value of these warrants could have a material effect on our financial results.
+Added: On April 12, 2021, the Acting Chief Accountant and Acting Director of the Division of Corporation Finance of the SEC published a statement on the SEC’s website indicating that the terms of the public and private warrants issued by many special purpose acquisition companies may need to be accounted for as liabilities, rather than as equity (the “SEC Warrant Accounting Statement”).
+Added: As a result of the SEC Warrant Accounting Statement, Foresight, along with many other current and former special purpose acquisition companies, concluded that certain warrants should be presented as liabilities with subsequent fair value remeasurement and engaged a valuation firm to determine the fair market value of its warrants.
Accordingly, Foresight reevaluated the accounting treatment of the Public Warrants to purchase 10,819,105 shares of Class A common stock and Private Placement Warrants to purchase 277,500 shares of Class A common stock, and determined to classify all of the warrants as derivative liabilities measured at fair value, with changes in fair value each period reported in earnings.
−Removed: As a result, included on our balance sheet as of December 31, 2021 contained elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are derivative liabilities related to embedded features contained within the warrants.
+Added: As a result, included on our consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2022 contained elsewhere in this Form 10-K are derivative liabilities related to embedded features contained within the warrants.
Accounting Standards Codification 815, Derivatives and Hedging, provides for the remeasurement of the fair value of such derivatives at each balance sheet date, with a resulting non-cash gain or loss related to the change in the fair value being recognized in earnings in the statements of operations.
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There can be no assurance that P3 LLC and its subsidiaries will generate sufficient cash flow to distribute funds to us, or that applicable state law and contractual restrictions, including negative covenants in any debt agreements of P3 LLC or its subsidiaries, will permit such distributions.
−Removed: agreement governing P3 LLC’s credit facilities restrict its ability to make distributions to the Company, and future debt instruments or other agreements may restrict the ability of P3 LLC to make distributions to the Company or of P3 LLC’s subsidiaries to make distributions to P3 LLC.
+Added: The credit agreement governing P3 LLC’s credit facilities restrict its ability to make distributions to the Company, and future debt instruments or other agreements may restrict the ability of P3 LLC to make distributions to the Company or of P3 LLC’s subsidiaries to make distributions to P3 LLC.
P3 LLC will continue to be treated as a partnership for U.S.
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To the extent that we are unable to make timely payments under the Tax Receivable Agreement for any reason, the unpaid amounts will be deferred and will accrue interest until paid.
−Removed: Our failure to make any payment required under the Tax Receivable Agreement (including any accrued and unpaid interest) within 90 calendar days of the date on which the payment is required to be made will constitute a material breach of a material obligation under the Tax Receivable Agreement, which will terminate the Tax Receivable Agreement and accelerate future payments thereunder, unless the applicable payment is not made because (i) P3 LLC is prohibited from making such payment under the terms of the Tax Receivable Agreement or the terms governing certain of its indebtedness or (ii) P3 LLC does not have, and despite using commercially reasonable efforts cannot obtain, sufficient funds to make such payment.
+Added: Our failure to make any payment required under the Tax Receivable Agreement (including any
+Added: accrued and unpaid interest) within 90 calendar days of the date on which the payment is required to be made will constitute a material breach of a material obligation under the Tax Receivable Agreement, which will terminate the Tax Receivable Agreement and accelerate future payments thereunder, unless the applicable payment is not made because (i) P3 LLC is prohibited from making such payment under the terms of the Tax Receivable Agreement or the terms governing certain of its indebtedness or (ii) P3 LLC does not have, and despite using commercially reasonable efforts cannot obtain, sufficient funds to make such payment.
In addition, if P3 LLC does not have sufficient funds to make distributions, its ability to declare and pay cash dividends will also be restricted or impaired.
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The market price of our securities may be volatile and, in the past, companies that have experienced volatility in the market price of their securities have been subject to securities class action litigation.
−Removed: We may be the target of this type of litigation in the future.
+Added: We may be the target of this type of litigation in the
Securities litigation against us could result in substantial costs and divert management’s attention from other business concerns, which could seriously harm its business.
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The market price and trading volume of our Class A common stock and Public Warrants may be volatile and could decline significantly.
−Removed: Securities markets worldwide experience significant price and volume fluctuations.
−Removed: This market volatility, as well as general economic, market, or political conditions, could reduce the market price of our Class A Common Stock and Public Warrants in spite of our operating performance, which may limit or prevent investors from readily selling their Class A Common Stock or Public Warrants and may otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of the Class A Common Stock or Public Warrants.
−Removed: There can be no assurance that the market price of Class A Common Stock and Public Warrants will not fluctuate widely or decline significantly in the future in response to a number of factors, including, among others, the following:
+Added: The trading price of our securities may fluctuate substantially and may be lower than the price at which you purchase such securities.
+Added: There can be no assurance that the market price of Class A common stock and Public Warrants will not fluctuate widely or decline significantly in the future in response to a number of factors, including those described in this “Risk Factors” section, many of which are beyond our control and may not be related to our operating performance, and which may limit or prevent investors from readily selling their Class A common stock or Public Warrants and may otherwise negatively affect the liquidity of the Class A common stock or Public Warrants.
+Added: These fluctuations could cause you to lose all or part of your investment.
+Added: Factors affecting the trading price of our securities may include:
● actual or anticipated fluctuations in our quarterly financial results or the quarterly financial results of companies perceived to be similar to us;
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● sales of substantial amounts of Class A common stock by our directors, executive officers or significant stockholders or the perception that such sales could occur;
−Removed: ● general economic and political conditions such as recessions, interest rates, fuel prices, international currency fluctuations and acts of war or terrorism.
−Removed: The stock market in general, and Nasdaq in particular, have experienced price and volume fluctuations that have often been unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of the particular companies affected.
−Removed: The trading prices and valuations of these stocks, and of our securities, may not be predictable.
+Added: ● general economic and political conditions such as recessions, interest rates, fuel prices, international currency fluctuations, public health crises, and acts of war or terrorism.
A loss of investor confidence in the market for retail stocks or the stocks of other companies which investors perceive to be similar to us could depress our stock price regardless of our business, prospects, financial condition or results of operations.
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The trading market for our securities depends in part on the research and reports that securities or industry analysts publish about us or our business.
−Removed: We will not control these analysts, and the analysts who publish information about us may have relatively little experience with us or our industry, which could affect their ability to accurately forecast our results and could make it more likely that we fail to meet their estimates.
+Added: We do not control these analysts, and the analysts who publish information about us may have relatively little experience with us or our industry, which could affect their ability to accurately forecast our results and could make it more likely that we fail to meet their estimates.
If few or no securities or industry analysts cover us, the trading price for our securities would be negatively impacted.
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This could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified people to serve on our board of directors, board committees or as executive officers.
−Removed: Failure to establish and maintain effective internal controls in accordance with Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could have a material adverse effect on our business and stock price.
−Removed: We are required to comply with the SEC’s rules implementing Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which require management to certify financial and other information in our quarterly and annual reports and provide an annual management report on the effectiveness of controls over financial reporting.
−Removed: Additionally, once we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company,” we will be required to have our independent registered public accounting firm provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting.
−Removed: An adverse report may be issued in the event our independent registered public accounting firm is not satisfied with the level at which our controls are documented, designed or operating.
−Removed: A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal controls, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the entity’s financial statements will not be prevented, or detected and corrected on a timely basis.
−Removed: A significant deficiency is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal controls that is less severe than a material weakness, yet important enough to merit attention by those charged with governance.
−Removed: When evaluating our internal control over financial reporting, we have identified, and we may identify additional, material weaknesses that we may not be able to remediate in time to meet the applicable deadline imposed upon us for compliance with the requirements of Section 404.
−Removed: If we identify any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting or are unable to comply with the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner or assert that our internal control over financial reporting is ineffective, or if our independent registered public accounting firm is unable to express an opinion as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we could fail to meet our reporting obligations or be required to restate our financial statements for prior periods.
−Removed: Investors may also lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports, the market price of our Class A common stock and warrants could be negatively affected, and we could become subject to investigations by Nasdaq, the SEC or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.
−Removed: For additional discussion of material weakness identified in our internal control over financial reporting, see Item 1A Risk Factors “Risks Related to Our Class A Common Stock”.
−Removed: The increasing focus on environmental sustainability and social initiatives could increase our costs, harm our reputation and adversely impact our financial results.
−Removed: There has been increasing public focus by investors, customers, environmental activists, the media and governmental and nongovernmental organizations on a variety of environmental, social and other sustainability matters.
−Removed: We experience pressure to make commitments relating to sustainability matters that affect us, including the design and implementation of specific risk mitigation strategic initiatives relating to sustainability.
−Removed: If we are not effective in addressing environmental, social and other sustainability matters affecting our business, or setting and meeting relevant sustainability goals, our reputation and financial results may suffer.
−Removed: We may experience increased costs in order to execute upon our sustainability goals and measure achievement of those goals, which could have an adverse impact on our business and financial condition.
−Removed: In addition, this emphasis on environmental, social and other sustainability matters has resulted and may result in the adoption of new laws and regulations, including new reporting requirements.
−Removed: If we fail to comply with new laws, regulations or reporting requirements, our reputation and business could be adversely impacted.
+Added: Our results of operations and financial condition are subject to management’s accounting judgments and estimates, as well as changes in accounting policies.
+Added: The preparation of our financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions affecting the reported amounts of our assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses.
+Added: If these estimates or assumptions are incorrect, it could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations or financial condition.
+Added: Generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S.
+Added: are subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the SEC, and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles.
+Added: A change in these principles or interpretations could have a significant effect on our reported financial results, and could affect the reporting of transactions completed before the announcement of a change.
+Added: Increased scrutiny of, and evolving expectations for, sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (“ESG”) initiatives could increase our costs, harm our reputation and adversely impact our financial results.
+Added: We, as with other companies, are facing increasing scrutiny related to our ESG practices and disclosures from certain investors, capital providers, shareholder advocacy groups, other market participants, customers, and other stakeholder groups.
+Added: For example, certain institutional and individual investors have requested various ESG-related information and disclosures as they increasingly incorporate ESG criteria in making investment and voting decisions.
+Added: With this increased focus, public reporting regarding ESG practices is becoming more broadly expected.
+Added: Such increased scrutiny may result in increased costs, changes in demands for certain products, enhanced compliance or disclosure obligations, or other adverse impacts on our business, financial condition or results of operations.
+Added: While we may at times engage in voluntary initiatives (such as voluntary disclosures, certifications, or goals, among others), such initiatives may be costly and may not have the desired effect.
+Added: For example, expectations around company’s management of ESG matters continues to evolve rapidly, in many instances due to factors that are out of our control.
+Added: In addition, we may commit to certain initiatives or goals and we may not ultimately be able to achieve such commitments or goals due to cost, technological constraints, or other factors that are within or outside of our control.
+Added: Moreover, actions or statements that we may take based on expectations, assumptions, or third-party information that we currently believe to be reasonable may subsequently be determined to be erroneous or be subject to misinterpretation.
+Added: Even if this is not the case, our current actions may subsequently be determined to be insufficient by various stakeholders.
+Added: If our ESG practices and reporting do not meet investor, consumer, employee, or other stakeholder expectations, which continue to evolve, our brand, reputation and customer retention may be negatively impacted, and we may be subject to investor or regulator engagement regarding such matters, even if they are currently voluntary.
+Added: Certain market participants, including major institutional investors, use third-party benchmarks or scores to measure our ESG practices in making investment and voting decisions.
+Added: As ESG best practices, reporting standards and disclosure requirements continue to develop, we may incur increasing costs related to ESG monitoring and reporting.
+Added: In addition, new sustainability rules and regulations have been adopted and may continue to be introduced in various states and other jurisdictions.
+Added: Operating in more than one jurisdiction is likely to make our compliance with ESG and sustainability-related rules more complex and expensive, and potentially expose us to greater levels of legal risks associated with our compliance.
+Added: Our failure to comply with any applicable rules or regulations could lead to penalties and adversely impact our reputation, customer attraction and retention, access to capital and employee retention.
+Added: Such ESG matters may also impact our suppliers and customers, which may augment or cause additional impacts on our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
+Added: Our management has limited experience in operating a public company.
+Added: Our executive officers and certain directors have limited experience in the management of a publicly traded company.
+Added: Our management team may not successfully or effectively manage the transition to a public company subject to significant regulatory oversight and reporting obligations under federal securities laws.
+Added: Their limited experience in dealing with the increasingly complex laws pertaining to public companies could be a significant disadvantage in that it is likely that an increasing amount of our management’s time may be devoted to these activities which will result in less time being devoted to the management and growth of the company.
+Added: It is possible that we will be required to expand our employee base and hire additional employees to support our operations as a public company, which will increase our operating costs in future periods.
Unresolved Staff Comments.
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