NUTEX HEALTH, INC. – 10-Q – Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations should be read in conjunction with the unaudited consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto included in Part I, Item 1, "Financial Statements" of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Explanatory Note OnApril 1, 2022 (the "Merger Date"),Nutex Health Holdco LLC andClinigence Holdings, Inc. ("Clinigence") completed the merger (the "Merger") contemplated by the Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "Merger Agreement") dated as ofNovember 23, 2021 between Clinigence,Nutex Acquisition LLC , aDelaware limited liability company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Clinigence, Nutex,Micro Hospital Holding LLC (solely for the purposes of certain sections of the Merger Agreement),Nutex Health Holdco LLC andThomas Vo , M.D., solely in his capacity as the representative of the equity holders of Nutex. Immediately following the completion of the Merger, Clinigence amended its certificate of incorporation and bylaws to change its name to "Nutex Health Inc. " In connection with the Merger, each outstanding equity interest ofNutex Health Holdco LLC was exchanged for 3.571428575 shares of Clinigence common stock. The Merger was accounted for as a reverse business combination underU.S. GAAP. Therefore,Nutex Health Holdco LLC was treated as the accounting acquirer in the Merger. Our financial statements presented for periods prior to the Merger Date are those ofNutex Health Holdco, LLC , as the Company's predecessor entity. Beginning with the second quarter of 2022, our financial statements are presented on a consolidated basis and include Clinigence. Except where the context indicates otherwise, (i) references to "we," "us," "our," or the "Company" refer, for periods prior to the completion of the Merger, toNutex Health Holdco LLC and its subsidiaries, (ii) references the "Nutex Health " for periods following the completion of the Merger, refer toNutex Health Inc. and its subsidiaries and (ii) references to "Clinigence" refer toClinigence Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries prior to the completion of the Merger. OverviewNutex Health Inc. is a physician-led, healthcare services and operations company with 21 hospital facilities in eight states (hospital division), and a primary care-centric, risk-bearing population health management division. Our hospital division implements and operates different innovative health care models, including micro-hospitals, specialty hospitals and hospital outpatient departments ("HOPDs"). The population health management division owns and operates provider networks such as independent physician associations ("IPAs") and offers a cloud-based proprietary technology platform to IPAs which aggregates clinical and claims data across multiple settings, information systems and sources to create a holistic view of patients and providers.
We employ approximately 942 full time employees and partner with over 800
physicians. Our corporate headquarters is based in
incorporated on
Our financial statements present the Company's consolidated financial condition and results of operations including those of majority-owned subsidiaries and variable interest entities ("VIEs") for which we are the primary beneficiary. The hospital division includes our healthcare billing and collections organization and hospital entities. In addition, we have financial and operating relationships with multiple professional entities (the "Physician LLCs") and real estate entities (the "Real Estate Entities"). The Physician LLCs employ the doctors who work in our hospitals. These entities are consolidated by the Company as VIEs because they do not have significant equity at risk, and we have historically provided support to the Physician LLCs in the event of cash shortages and received the benefit of their cash surpluses. The Real Estate Entities own the land and hospital buildings which are leased to our hospital entities. The Real Estate Entities have mortgage loans payable to third parties which are collateralized by the land and buildings. We consolidate the Real Estate Entities as VIEs in instances where our hospital entities are guarantors or co-borrowers under their outstanding mortgage loans. During the second quarter of 2022, we deconsolidated 17 Real Estate Entities after the third-party lenders released our guarantees of associated mortgage loans. 31 The Company has no direct or indirect ownership interest in the Physician LLCs or Real Estate Entities, so 100% of the equity for these entities is shown as noncontrolling interest in the consolidated balance sheets and statements of operations. The population health management division includes our management services organizations and a healthcare information technology company providing a cloud-based platform for healthcare organizations. In addition, AHISP, IPA, a physician-affiliated entity that is not owned by us-is consolidated as a VIE of our wholly-owned subsidiary AHP since we are the primary beneficiary of their operations under AHP's management services contracts with them. Sources of revenue. Our hospital division recognizes net patient service revenue for contracts with patients and in most cases a third-party payor (commercial insurance, workers compensation insurance or, in limited cases, Medicare/Medicaid). We receive payment for facility services rendered by us from federal agencies, private insurance carriers, and patients. The Physician LLCs receive payment for doctor services from these same sources. On average, greater than 90% of our net patient service revenue are paid by insurers, federal agencies, and other non-patient third parties. The remaining revenues are paid by our patients in the form of copays, deductibles, and self-payment. The following tables present the allocation of the estimated transaction price with the patient between the primary patient classification of insurance coverage: Three months endedSeptember 30
Nine months ended
2022 2021 2022 2021 Insurance 91 % 95 % 94 % 96 % Self pay 7 % 4 % 5 % 3 % Workers compensation 1 % 1 % 1 % 1 % Medicare/Medicaid 1 % 0 % 0 % 0 % Total 100 % 100 % 100 % 100 %
The population health management division recognizes revenue for capitation and management fees for services to IPAs and physician groups and for the licensing, training, and consulting related to our cloud-based proprietary technology. Capitation revenue consists primarily of capitated fees for medical services provided by physician-owned entities we consolidate as VIEs. Capitated arrangements made directly with various managed care providers including HMOs. Capitation revenues are typically prepaid monthly to us based on the number of enrollees selecting us as their healthcare provider. Capitation is a fixed payment amount per patient per unit of time paid in advance for the delivery of health care services, whereby the service providers are generally liable for excess medical costs. We receive management fees that are received based on gross capitation revenues of the IPAs or physician groups we manage. Our growth plans. We plan to expand our operations by entering new market areas either through development of new hospitals, formation of new IPAs or by making acquisitions. We identify new market areas for hospitals based on the area's need for access to emergency health services and growth expectations. We identify and partner with local physicians who will operate and manage the new location. When developing new hospitals, we have a turn-key process for location selection, real estate acquisition, design, ?and development of the facility including staffing, training and operations. We extend our existing comprehensive suite of ?centralized services to operating hospitals, including executive management, billing, collections, recruiting ?and marketing. 32 COVID-19 Pandemic A novel strain of coronavirus causing the disease known as COVID-19 was first identified inDecember 2019 , and has spread throughout the world. While vaccines and booster shots for the COVID-19 virus became widely available inthe United States during 2021, COVID-19 continued to result in a significant number of hospitalizations. As a provider of healthcare services, we were significantly affected by the public health and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. Our hospitals, medical personnel, and employees have been actively caring for COVID-19 patients. We implemented considerable safety measures for treatment of COVID-19 patients and have incurred, and may continue to incur, certain increased expenses arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, including additional labor, supply chain, capital and other expenditures. Moreover, in recent months, the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in general inflationary pressures and significant disruptions to global supply networks. In this regard, we have experienced disruptions in connection with the provision of equipment, construction services, as well as inflationary pressures in connection with labor, supply chain, capital and other expenditures. We also experienced a delay in billing and collection of patient claims during this period. The COVID-19 pandemic affected, and may continue to affect, our service mix, revenue mix, payor mix and/or patient volumes, as well as our ability to collect outstanding receivables. Pandemic-related factors may continue to adversely affect demand for our services, as well as the ability of patients and other payors to pay for services rendered. While we are not able to fully quantify the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on our future financial results, we expect developments related to COVID-19 to continue to affect our financial performance. Moreover, the COVID-19 pandemic may otherwise have material adverse effects on our results of operations, financial position, and/or our cash flows if economic and/or public health conditions inthe United States deteriorate.
Overview of Legislative Developments
The U.S. Congress and many state legislatures have introduced and passed a large number of proposals and legislation designed to make major changes in the healthcare system, including changes that have impacted access to health insurance. The most prominent of these efforts, the Affordable Care Act, affects how healthcare services are covered, delivered and reimbursed. The Affordable Care Act increased health insurance coverage through a combination of public program expansion and private sector health insurance reforms. There is uncertainty regarding the ongoing net effect of the Affordable Care Act due to the potential for continued changes to the law's implementation and its interpretation by government agencies and courts. There is also uncertainty regarding the potential impact of other health reform efforts at the federal and state levels. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal and state governments passed legislation, promulgated regulations, and have taken other administrative actions intended to assist healthcare providers in providing care to COVID-19 and other patients during the public health emergency and to provide financial relief. Among these, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act ("CARES Act") had the most impact on our business. The CARES Act included a waiver of insurance copayments, coinsurance, and annual deductibles for laboratory tests to diagnose COVID-19 and visits to diagnose COVID-19 at an emergency department of a hospital. These provisions of the CARES Act expired onJune 30, 2021 . While these provisions were effective, we experienced higher levels of revenue due to a shift of payor mix. The larger number and acuity of patient claims for COVID-19 also resulted in higher revenue.
No Surprises Act
The No Surprises Act ("NSA") is a federal law that took effectJanuary 1, 2022 , to protect consumers from most instances of "surprise" balance billing. The legislation was included in the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which was passed byCongress and signed into law byPresident Trump onDecember 27, 2020 . With respect to the Company, ?theNSA limits the amount an insured patient will pay for emergency services furnished by an out-of-network ?provider. TheNSA addresses the payment of these out-of-network providers by group health plans or health ?insurance issuers (collectively, "insurers"). In particular, theNSA requires insurers to reimburse out-of-network ?providers at a statutorily calculated "out-of-network rate." In states without an all-payor model agreement or ?specified state law, the out-of-network rate is either the amount agreed to by the insurer and the out-of-network ?provider or an amount determined through an independent dispute resolution ("IDR") process. 33 Under theNSA , insurers must issue an initial payment or notice of denial of payment to a provider within ?thirty days after the provider submits a bill for an out-of-network service. If the provider disagrees with the ?insurer's determination, the provider may initiate a thirty-day period of open negotiation with the insurer over the ?claim. If the parties cannot resolve the dispute through negotiation, the parties may then proceed to IDR ?arbitration. ? Independent Dispute Resolution. The provider and insurer each submits a proposed payment amount and ?explanation to the arbitrator. The arbitrator must select one of the two proposed payment amounts taking into ?account the "qualifying payment amount" and additional circumstances including among other things the level of training, outcomes ?measurements of the facility, the acuity of the individual treated, and the case mix and scope of services of the ?facility providing the service. TheNSA prohibits the arbitrator from considering the provider's usual and ?customary charges for an item or service, or the amount the provider would have billed for the item or service in ?the absence of theNSA . ? Qualifying Payment Amount. The "qualifying payment amount" is generally "the median of the contracted ?rates recognized by the plan or issuer…under such plans or coverage, respectively, onJanuary 31, 2019 , for the ?same or a similar item or service that is provided by a provider in the same or similar specialty and provided in the ?geographic region in which the items or service is furnished," with annual increases based on the consumer price ?index. In other words, the qualifying payment amount is typically the median rate the insurer would have paid for ?the service if provided by an in-network provider or facility.? HHS Final Rule. As required by theNSA , theUnited States Department of Health and Human ?Services ("HHS") has established an IDR process under which a certified IDR ?entity determines the ultimate amount of payment. The HHS' final rule became effectiveOctober 25, 2022 . The final rule eliminated the rebuttable presumption that the qualified payment amount is the correct price and also abandoned the requirement that the certified IDR entity must select the offer closest to the qualifying payment amount. These key provisions were initially part of the interim rule issued in 2021 and were challenged by several court cases. Under the final rule, the certified IDR entity must instead select the offer that best reflects the value of the item or service provided, by first considering the QPA and then considering "additional information" that is relevant to the dispute. Since theNSA became effectiveJanuary 1, 2022 , our average payment by insurers of patient claims for emergency services has declined by approximately 30%. In our experience, insurers often initially pay amounts lower than the QPA without regard for other information relevant to the claim. This requires us to make more appeals using the IDR process. While we are working within the established processes for IDR, we have had varying successes at achieving collections higher than the established QPA. For these reasons, we have reduced our estimate of the ultimate amounts of accounts receivable we will collect for prior periods. This change in estimate reduced revenue for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 by approximately$29.0 million . Similar changes in estimates made in the first half of 2022 reduced accounts receivable and revenue by approximately$9.6 million .
We have undertaken several strategic actions designed to improve our collections
results. These include
• maximizing our claims coding efficiency, • increasing efforts to collect co-pays and co-insurance,
• adding additional administrative staff to handle the increased administrative
IDR burden
• having a dedicated IDR team to accelerate resubmission of claims under the IDR
process,
• making appeals for additional payment of claims for periods before and after
the
• making efforts to sign favorable contracts with insurers, and
working with both
• local and national legislatures to enforce the
Insurers, 34 The final rule is already the subject of legal challenges. TheTexas Medical Association (TMA) in September of 2022 filed motions for summary judgment seeking to invalidate the IDR related provisions of the final rule, arguing that the QPA does not represent the fair value of the services rendered by the physicians and providers and that the final rule illegally favors the QPA over the fair value of the provider services in contravention of the statutory language of theNSA . OnOctober 19, 2022 , and in addition to amicus briefs by several other national medical associations, theAmerican Society of Anesthesiologists , theAmerican College of Emergency Physicians , and theAmerican College of Radiology , professional associations representing an aggregate of approximately 136,000 physicians, filed an Amicus brief supporting the TMA Motion. As ofNovember 11, 2022 , the court in theEastern District ofTexas has not yet ruled on the motions. We are supportive of industry efforts seeking to amend theNSA final rule. Our experience, like that of many other healthcare providers, is that the final rule continues to unfairly favor insurers in the determination of the QPA we receive for our healthcare services. It is difficult to predict the outcome of efforts to challenge or amend the final rule. As well, there can be no assurance that third-party payors will not attempt to further reduce the rates they pay for our services or that additional rules issued under theNSA will not have adverse consequences to our business. Results of Operations We report the results of our operations as three segments in our consolidated financial statements: (i) the hospital division, (ii) the population health management division and (ii) the real estate division. Activity within our business segments is significantly impacted by demand for healthcare services we provide, competition for these services in each of the market areas we serve, and the legislative changes discussed above. Three months endedSeptember 30
Nine months ended
2022 2021 2022 2021 Revenue: Hospital division$ 21,244,305 $ 117,971,732 $ 151,976,226 $ 268,129,646 Population health management division 7,150,753 - 13,594,007 - Total revenue 28,395,058 117,971,732 165,570,233 268,129,646 Segment operating income (loss): Hospital division (26,498,148 ) 76,008,468 13,149,358 159,795,643 Population health management division 29,702 - (227,300 ) - Total segment operating income (loss) (26,468,446 ) 76,008,468 12,922,058 159,795,643 Corporate and other costs: Acquisition costs - - 3,885,666 - Impairment of goodwill 408,466,575 - 408,466,575 - General and administrative expenses 4,077,255 1,545,685 11,721,597 5,067,725
Total corporate and other costs 412,543,830 1,545,685
424,073,838 5,067,725 Interest expense 3,402,606 1,260,187 9,628,189 4,251,277 Other expense (income) (630,450 ) (1,745,277 ) 346,873 (5,666,633 ) Income before taxes (441,784,432 ) 74,947,873 (421,126,842 ) 156,143,274
Income tax expense (benefit) (8,543,880 ) 453,621
11,285,729 1,091,975 Net income (loss) (433,240,552 ) 74,494,252 (432,412,571 ) 155,051,299 Less: net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests (10,722,749 ) 20,700,975 (12,052,765 ) 36,436,485 Net income (loss) attributable to Nutex Health Inc.$ (422,517,803 ) $ 53,793,277 $ (420,359,806 ) $ 118,614,814 Adjusted EBITDA$ (15,703,878 ) $ 55,720,823 $ 18,456,057 $ 125,469,515 35
Three Months Ended
30, 2021
We reported a net loss attributable toNutex Health Inc. of$422.5 million , or a loss of$0.65 per share, for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 as compared with net income attributable toNutex Health Inc. of$53.8 million , or$0.09 per diluted share, for same period of 2021. Our 2022 results were principally affected by:
• A non-cash impairment charge of
goodwill for the population health management division reporting unit acquired
in the reverse business combination;
• Decrease in revenue caused by legislative changes reducing the amounts we are
able to collect for patient services to median in-network rates and the
resulting change in estimate for collection of accounts receivable and revenue
for prior periods totaling approximately
• Start-up costs associated with five new facilities opened since
which are experiencing favorable market acceptance but not yet fully achieving
break-even profitability;
• Higher overall cost of employees and independent contractors.
Adjusted EBITDA for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 was a loss of$15.7 million as compared to income of$55.7 million for the comparable period of 2021. Refer to Non-GAAP Financial Measures discussed below for a definition and reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA. The items affecting revenue and start-up costs contributed significantly to the decline in Adjusted EBITDA in the 2022 period.
A discussion of our segment results is included below.
Hospital Division. Our revenue for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 totaled$21.2 million as compared to$118.0 million for the same period of 2021, a decrease of 82% caused by a reduction in both collection amounts and the number of patient visits. The following table shows the number of patient visits during the periods:
Three months ended September 30 2022 2021 Patient visits: Hospital . 36,500 59,990
Total patient visits decreased 39% during the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 as compared with the same period of 2021. Patient visits in the 2021 period included significant volumes of COVID-19 related cases. The average acuity or severity of patient cases in the 2022 period was slightly higher than the same period of 2021 but only minimally offset the impact of the lower number of total patient visits. The average payment by insurers for patient claims for emergency services has declined by approximately 30% in 2022 because of theNSA compared to prior periods. We have also experienced a decrease in collection for the remaining amounts of account receivable for periods before 2022. We believe this decline is caused, in part, by insurers underpaying these claims in the same way we are experiencing claim payments since theNSA became effective. In the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , we accordingly reduced our estimate of the ultimate amounts of accounts receivable we expect to collect for prior periods. This change in estimate reduced revenue for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 by approximately$29 million . The hospital division's operating loss was$26.5 million during the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , down as compared with income of$76.0 million in the same period of 2021. Our operating income for the third quarter of 2022 was adversely affected by the reduction in net revenue discussed above. Further, start-up costs for newer facilities contributed to reduced segment operating results. We have opened five new facilities sinceApril 2021 . Start-up costs include complete staffing for 24/7 operations, lease costs, in-market advertising and other operating expenses. These costs often exceed our revenue at these facilities until they achieve sustaining volumes of patient visits. In general, we expect new facilities to reach profitability within 12 months. In this time, we also added additional staff to manage higher volumes of medical claims billing and collection administration. 36Population Health Management Division . We acquired the population health management division inApril 2022 upon completion of the reverse business combination with Clinigence. Our total revenue for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 was$7.2 million consisting of capitation revenue of$4.9 million , management fees of$1.7 million and SaaS revenue of$561 thousand . Capitation revenue is recognized by our consolidated VIE, AHISP. We do not have an equity interest in this VIE but consolidate it since we are the primary beneficiary of its operations under our management services contract with them. We also earn management fees under our management services contracts with other IPAs and MSOs which are reported as revenue. The population health management division had$30 thousand of operating income for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 . Strategically, we are focused on the growth of this division principally through the addition of new independent physician associations and have staffed our organization to manage larger numbers of such organizations.
Real Estate Division. This division reports the operations of consolidated Real
Estate Entities where we provide guarantees of their indebtedness or are
co-borrowers. During the second quarter of 2022, we deconsolidated 17 Real
Estate Entities after the third-party lenders released our guarantees of
associated mortgage loans.
Revenue and operating expenses of consolidated Real Estate Entities are not significant since the extent of these entities' operations is to own facilities leased to our hospital division entities which are financed by a combination of contributed equity by related parties and third-party mortgage indebtedness. Such leases are typically on a triple net basis where our hospital division is responsible for all operating costs, repairs and taxes on the facilities. Finance lease income is recognized outside of segment operating income as other income by the Real Estate Entities. However, these amounts are largely eliminated in the consolidation of these entities into our financial statements. AtSeptember 30, 2022 , three Real Estate Entities continue to be consolidated in our financial statements. We expect that hospitals we open in the future may be leased from new Real Estate Entities which may be owned in whole or part by related parties. Third-party lenders to these entities may require that we provide a guarantee or become co-borrowers under mortgage indebtedness financings for such facilities. In such instances, we may be required to consolidate these new Real Estate Entities in our financial statements as VIEs. Corporate and other costs. Corporate and other costs in the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 included general and administrative expenses totaling$4.1 million and a non-cash impairment charge reducing goodwill totaling$408.5 million . Our corporate costs for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2021 totaled$1.5 million and consisted of general and administrative expenses. General and administrative costs include our executive management, accounting, human resources, corporate technology, insurance and professional fees. We have incurred higher levels of professional fees as a public company. In 2022, we have made staffing additions commensurate with our operational growth and made key additions to our executive management team. As a public company, we must comply with new laws, regulations and requirements, certain corporate governance provisions of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, related regulations of theSEC and the continued listing requirements of the NASDAQ, with which we were not required to comply with as a private company. We expect to incur additional annual expenses related to these matters and, among other things, additional directors' and officers' liability insurance, director fees, reporting requirements of theSEC , transfer agent fees, hiring additional accounting, legal and administrative personnel, increased auditing and legal fees and similar expenses. During the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , we recognized a non-cash impairment charge of$408.5 million to reduce the carrying amount of goodwill for the population health management division reporting unit acquired in the reverse business combination. This impairment was determined as part of our annual test for impairment of goodwill. This test is made by comparing the estimated fair values of our reporting units to their respective carrying values. We use an income method to estimate the fair value of these assets, which is based on forecasts of the expected future cash flows attributable to the respective assets and is subject to significant estimates and assumptions. In performing this test, we determined that the estimated fair value of our population health management division reporting unit was less than its carrying value recorded in the reverse business combination. Therefore, we conducted a second step of the goodwill impairment test to determine the implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill. The non-cash impairment charge reduced the excess carrying amount of goodwill for the population health management division that were greater than its residual fair value. 37 Nonoperating items
Interest expense. Interest expense totaled$3.4 million in the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 as compared with$1.3 million for the same period of 2021. This includes interest expense associated with the mortgage indebtedness of consolidated Real Estate Entities, interest expense on outstanding term notes and lines of credit for financing operating equipment and working capital needs, interest expense for financing leases and the accretion costs related to the conversion of notes from the Clinigence transaction. Interest expense is expected to decline in future periods as a result of the deconsolidation of 17 Real Estate Entities and their associated mortgage indebtedness during the second quarter of 2022 as well as due to the elimination of accretion costs related to the conversion of notes payable from the Clinigence transaction.
Income tax expense. Income tax provisions for interim quarterly periods are
generally based on an estimated annual effective income tax rate calculated
separately from the effect of significant, infrequent or unusual items related
specifically to interim periods. The income tax impact of discrete items is
recognized in the period these occur.
Our effective tax rate for the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , excluding the non-deductible goodwill impairment expense, was approximately 26%. The primary difference from the federal statutory rate of 21% is related to state taxes, income of noncontrolling interests in flow-through entities and permanent differences for non-deductible expenses.
Nine Months Ended
2021
We reported a net loss attributable toNutex Health Inc. of$420.4 million , or$0.67 per share, for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 as compared with net income attributable toNutex Health Inc. of$118.6 million , or$0.20 per diluted share, for same period of 2021. Our 2022 results were principally affected by:
• A non-cash impairment charge of
goodwill for the population health management division reporting unit acquired
in the reverse business combination;
• Decrease in revenue caused by legislative changes reducing the amounts we are
able to collect for patient services to median in-network rates and the
resulting change in estimate for collection of accounts receivable and revenue
for prior periods totaling approximately
• Start-up costs associated with five new facilities opened since
which are experiencing favorable market acceptance but not yet fully achieving
break-even profitability;
• Significant, non-cash income tax expense totaling
one-time change in our tax status and release of the acquired valuation
allowance of Clinigence;
• Acquisition-related costs related to the Clinigence merger transaction and
higher levels of general and administrative expenses related to our operations
as a public company; and
• Higher overall cost of employees and independent contractors.
Adjusted EBITDA for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 was$18.45 million as compared with$125.5 million for the same period of 2021 with the special items affecting revenue and start-up costs causing the decline during the 2022 period.
A discussion of our segment results is included below.
Hospital Division. Revenue totaling$152.0 million for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 decreased 43% from$268.1 million for the same period of 2021. This decrease was caused by reductions in the number of patient visits and reduced amounts collected for patient claims in the 2022 period. As previously noted, our revenue has been adversely impacted in the 2022 period because of theNSA and changes in our estimate of the ultimate amounts of accounts receivable we will collect for prior periods. During the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , these changes in estimates reduced our accounts receivable and revenue by$38.6 million . 38
The following table shows the number of patient visits during the periods:
Nine months ended September 30 2022 2021 Patient visits: Hospital 121,414 137,041 Total patient visits during the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 decreased 11% as compared with the same period of 2021. Five newly opened facilities, most opened in the second half of 2021, helped offset reductions in patient visits for COVID-19 related needs. Typically, we experience some seasonality in the number of patient visits and revenue during the year usually corresponding with the late-fall and winter months when flu and other seasonal infirmities peak. As an emergency care provider, we are not able to predict the number of patient visits or the severity of patient healthcare needs. We operate our facilities 24 hours daily to be responsive to our communities' needs. The hospital division's segment operating income was$13.1 million for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , down 92% from the same period of 2021. Our operating income for the 2022 period was adversely affected by the reduction in net revenue as well as the changes in estimate of the ultimate collections of accounts receivable discussed above. As mentioned above, we have opened five new facilities sinceApril 2021 . Start-up costs at newly facilities often exceed our revenue at these facilities for the first 12 to 15 months after their opening. In addition, in late-2021 and through the third quarter of 2022, we made several staffing additions to manage higher volumes of medical claims billing and collection administration.Population Health Management Division . The population health management division was started inApril 2022 upon completion of the merger with Clinigence. Our results of operations for this division include periods sinceApril 1, 2022 .
Total revenue for the nine months ended
consisting of capitation revenue of
million
The population health management division had an operating loss of
for the nine months ended
Real Estate Division. This division reports the operations of consolidated Real Estate Entities which are partially owned by related parties. As noted, we have no equity interest in these entities but consolidate these as VIEs when Nutex is a co-borrower or provides a guarantee of the Real Estate Entities mortgage indebtedness. In the second quarter of 2022, we deconsolidated 17 Real Estate Entities. Revenue and operating expenses for the real estate division are not significant since finance lease income is recognized outside of segment operating income as other income by the Real Estate Entities. Such amounts are generally eliminated in the consolidation of these entities into our financial statements. Corporate and other costs. Corporate and other costs in the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 included general and administrative expenses of$11.7 million , acquisition-related costs associated with the merger with Clinigence totaling$3.9 million and a non-cash impairment charge to reduce goodwill totaling$408.5 million . Corporate costs for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2021 totaled$5.1 million and consisted of general and administrative expenses. In the 2022 period, we incurred higher levels of professional fees as we prepared for our public listing, made staffing additions commensurate with our operational growth and made key additions to our executive management team. As discussed above, we recognized a non-cash impairment charge of$408.5 million in the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 to reduce the carrying amount of goodwill resulting from the reverse business combination with Clinigence. 39 Nonoperating items
Interest expense. Interest expense for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 totaled$9.6 million as compared with$4.3 million for the same period of 2021. This increase in interest expense was principally a result of higher mortgage indebtedness of consolidated Real Estate Entities, interest expense on outstanding term notes and lines of credit for financing operating equipment and working capital needs, interest expense for financing lease obligations and accretion costs related to the conversion of notes payable from the Clinigence transaction.
Other expense (income). Other expense (income) for the nine months ended
Protection Program loans we obtained.
Income tax expense. As discussed above, our tax status changed as a result of the merger with Clinigence. Previously,Nutex Health Holdco LLC and the Nutex Subsidiaries were pass-through entities treated as partnerships forU.S. federal income tax purposes. No provision for federal income taxes was provided for these periods as federal taxes were obligations of these companies' members. We recognized a non-cash charge of$20.8 million to income tax expense during the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 for this change in tax status. Secondly, we recorded an offsetting non-cash benefit during the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 of$2.4 million to income tax expense to remove the acquired valuation allowance Clinigence had against its deferred tax assets. Each of the discrete items above, as well as the non-deductible goodwill impairment expense recognized in the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , are one-time, non-cash items. Our effective tax rate for the nine months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , excluding the discrete items above, was approximately 26%. The primary difference from the federal statutory rate of 21% is related to state taxes, income of noncontrolling interests in flow-through entities and permanent differences for non-deductible expenses.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
As of
to
Significant sources and uses of cash during the first nine months of 2022.
Sources of cash:
• Cash from operating activities was
from the primary components of our working capital (receivables, inventories,
accounts payable and expenses).
• Clinigence's balance sheet at the merger date included
• We received net proceeds of
and lines of credit.
• We received net proceeds of
warrants and options. Uses of cash:
• Capital expenditures were
• We made distributions to our owners related to operations prior to the merger
with Clinigence and to noncontrolling interest owners totaling
• Cash associated with the 17 deconsolidated Real Estate Entities totaled
million.
Future sources and uses of cash. Our operating activities are financed with cash on hand which is generated from revenues. Most of our hospital facilities are leased from various lessors including related parties. These leases are presented in our consolidated balance sheets unless the lease is from a consolidated Real Estate Entity. Our growth plans include the development of new hospital locations. We expect that in many of these locations we will lease facilities from newly established entities partially owned by related parties. 40 We routinely enter into equipment lease agreements to procure new or replacement equipment and may also finance these purchases with term debt?. We have smaller lines of credits available for working capital purposes and are presently working to supplement or replace these with larger financing commitments. These larger financing commitments are subject to market conditions and we may not be able to obtain such larger financing commitments at favorable economic terms or at all. Indebtedness. The Company's indebtedness atSeptember 30, 2022 is presented in Item I, "Financial Statements - Note 8 - Debt" and our lease obligations are presented in Item I, "Financial Statements-Note 9 - Leases."
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
As of
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
Adjusted EBITDA. Adjusted EBITDA is used as a supplemental non-GAAP financial measure by management and external users of our financial statements, such as industry analysts, investors, lenders and rating agencies. We believe Adjusted EBITDA is useful because it allows us to more effectively evaluate our operating performance. We define Adjusted EBITDA as net income (loss) attributable toNutex Health Inc. plus net interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, further adjusted for stock-based compensation, any acquisition related costs and impairments. A reconciliation of net income to Adjusted EBITDA is included below. Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to serve as an alternative toU.S. GAAP measures of performance and may not be comparable to similarly-titled measures presented by other companies. Three months endedSeptember 30
Nine months ended
2022 2021 2022 2021 Reconciliation of net income (loss) attributable toNutex Health Inc. to Adjusted EBITDA: Net income (loss) attributable to Nutex Health Inc.$ (422,517,803 ) $ 53,793,277 $ (420,359,806 ) $ 118,614,814 Depreciation and amortization 4,330,167 1,871,799 9,859,513 5,873,439 Interest expense, net 3,402,606 1,260,187 9,628,189 4,251,277 Income tax expense (benefit) (8,543,880 ) 453,621 11,285,729 1,091,975 Allocation to noncontrolling interests (922,792 ) (1,658,061 ) (4,445,224 ) (4,361,990 ) EBITDA (424,251,702 ) 55,720,823 (394,031,599 ) 125,469,515 Stock-based compensation expense 81,249 -
135,415 - Impairment of goodwill 408,466,575 - 408,466,575 - Acquisition costs - - 3,885,666 - Adjusted EBITDA$ (15,703,878 ) $ 55,720,823 $ 18,456,057 $ 125,469,515
Significant Accounting Policies
Revenue recognition.
Hospital division - Our hospital division recognizes net patient service revenue for contracts with patients and in most cases a third-party payor (commercial insurance, workers compensation insurance or, in limited cases, Medicare/Medicaid). The Company's performance obligations are to provide emergency health care services primarily on an outpatient basis. Net patient service revenues are recorded at the amount that reflects the consideration to which the Company expects to be entitled in exchange for providing patient care. These amounts are net of appropriate discounts giving recognition to differences between the Company's charges and reimbursement rates from third party payors. 41 Patient service net revenues earned by the Company are recognized at a point in time when the services are provided, net of adjustments and discounts. Because all the Company's performance obligations relate to contracts with a duration of less than one-year, certain disclosures are limited. The transaction price is determined based on gross charges for services provided, reduced by contractual adjustments provided to third-party payors, discounts and implicit price concessions provided primarily to uninsured patients in accordance with the Company's policy. For uninsured patients, the Company recognizes revenue based on established rates, subject to certain discounts and implicit price concessions. The Company is reimbursed from third party payors under various methodologies based on the level of care provided. We are considered "out-of-network" with commercial health plans. As there are no contractual rates established with insurance entities, revenues are estimated based on the "usual and customary" charges allowed by insurance payors using historical collection experience, historical trends of refunds and payor payment adjustments (retractions). Revenue from the Medicare program is based on reimbursement rates set by governmental authorities. Patients who have health care insurance may also have discounts applied related to their copayment or deductible. Estimates of contractual adjustments and discounts are determined by major payor classes for outpatient revenues based on historical experience. The Company estimates implicit price concessions based on its historical collection experience with these classes of patients using a portfolio approach. The portfolios consist of major payor classes for outpatient revenue. Based on historical collection trends and other analyses, the Company concluded that revenue for a given portfolio would not be materially different than if accounting for revenue on a contract-by-contract basis. Customer payments are due upon receipt of an explanation of benefits for insured patients or it is due upon receipt of the bill from the Company for uninsured payments. There is no financing component associated with payments due from insurers or patients.
Population health management division - The population health management
division recognizes revenue for capitation and management fees for services to
IPAs and physician groups and for the licensing, training, and consulting
related to our cloud-based proprietary technology.
Capitation revenue consists primarily of capitated fees for medical services provided by physician-owned entities we consolidate as VIEs. Capitated arrangements made directly with various managed care providers including HMOs. Capitation revenues are typically prepaid monthly to us based on the number of enrollees selecting us as their healthcare provider. Capitation is a fixed payment amount per patient per unit of time paid in advance for the delivery of health care services, whereby the service providers are generally liable for excess medical costs. We receive management fees that are received based on gross capitation revenues of the IPAs or physician groups we manage. Revenue is recognized and received monthly for our services. In addition, we provide consultant services that are charged as a flat fixed rate and recognized as revenue when the service is performed. Consultant services revenues represent a small portion of our total revenue. Software licenses are provided as SaaS-based subscriptions that grants access to proprietary online databases and data management solutions. Training and consulting are project based and billable to customers on a monthly-basis or task-basis. Revenue from training and consulting are generally recognized upon delivery of training or completion of the consulting project. The duration of training and consulting projects are typically a few weeks or months and last no longer than 12 months. SaaS-based subscriptions are generally marketed under multi-year agreements with annual, semi-annual, quarterly, or month-to-month renewals and revenue is recognized ratably over the renewal period with the unearned amounts received recorded as deferred revenue. For multiple-element arrangements accounted for in accordance with specific software accounting guidance, multiple deliverables are segregated into units of accounting which are delivered items that have value to a customer on a standalone basis. 42 Cash payments for SaaS-based subscriptions received in advance of the satisfaction of our performance obligations as deferred revenue and recognized as revenue over the period in which the performance obligations are satisfied. The Company completes its contractual performance obligations through providing its customers access to specified data through subscriptions for a service period, and training on consulting associated with the subscriptions. We primarily invoice our customers on a monthly basis and do not provide any refunds, rights of return, or warranties. Construction in Progress. The Company regularly is in the process of constructing new facilities. Generally, our ER Entities are responsible for the leasehold buildout and equipment while the associated Real Estate Entity procures the land, if any, and constructs a new or remodeled facility. Costs incurred to construct assets which will ultimately be classified as fixed assets are capitalized and classified in our financial statements as construction in progress until construction is completed and the asset is available for use. Once the asset is available for use, it is reclassified as another category of fixed assets and depreciated across its useful life.? Goodwill Impairment. We test goodwill for impairment at least annually by comparing the estimated fair values of our reporting units to their respective carrying values. We use an income method to estimate the fair value of these assets, which is based on forecasts of the expected future cash flows attributable to the respective assets. Significant estimates and assumptions inherent in the valuations reflect a consideration of other marketplace participants, and include the amount and timing of future cash flows (including expected growth rates and profitability). Estimates utilized in the projected cash flows include consideration of macroeconomic conditions, overall category growth rates, competitive activities, Company business plans and the discount rate applied to the cash flows. Unanticipated market or macroeconomic events and circumstances may occur, which could affect the accuracy or validity of the estimates and assumptions. During the three months endedSeptember 30, 2022 , we determined that the estimated fair value of our population health management division reporting unit which was acquired in the reverse business combination with Clinigence was less than its' carrying value. Therefore, we conducted a second step of the goodwill impairment test to determine the implied fair value of the reporting unit's goodwill. In this analysis, we allocated the fair value of the reporting unit to identifiable assets and liabilities of the reporting unit. The residual fair value after this allocation was compared to the goodwill balance with the excess goodwill charged to expense. Based on this analysis, we recognized a non-cash impairment charge of$408.5 million to reduce the carrying amount of goodwill for the population health management division reporting unit. We believe the estimates and assumptions utilized in our impairment testing are reasonable and are comparable to those that would be used by other marketplace participants. However, actual events and results could differ substantially from those used in our valuations. To the extent such factors result in a failure to achieve the level of projected cash flows used to estimate fair value for purposes of establishing or subsequently impairing the carrying amount of goodwill and intangible assets, we may need to record additional noncash impairment charges in the future.
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