BTSG 10-K & 10-Q changes, risk factors and insider trading
BrightSpring Health Services, Inc. (also BTSGU) · Nasdaq · Services-Home Health Care Services · CIK 1865782 · All filings on SEC.gov
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What changed in the latest 10-K
Risk Factors
Removed heading “We are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the rules of Nasdaq and the rules of the SEC and, as a result, qualify for, and rely on, exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements. You do not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of other companies that are subject to such requirements.”
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Regulatory agencies may initiate administrative proceedings alleging violations of statutes and regulations arising from our services, or reimbursement of those services, and seek to impose monetary penalties on us. We could be required to pay substantial amounts to respond to and defend against regulatory investigations, and if we do not prevail, damages or penalties arising from these administrative proceedings. We are subject to lawsuits, civil investigative demands, and subpoenas under the False Claims Act, the Controlled Substances Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and other federal and state statutes designed to combat fraud and abuse in our industries, as well as civil investigative demands, subpoenas and other inquiries related to our operations, including several ongoing qui tam actions and the Silver matter, as discussed under Item 3 “Legal Proceedings” and Notesee in full comparison1415 “Commitments and Contingencies” to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Additionally, there can be no assurance that we will not be subject to claims or litigation related to the authorization or denial of claims for payment of benefits, or to allegations that we have engaged in fee splitting, which may be prohibited under state laws, or to allegations that we engage in the corporate practice of medicine or the delivery of medical services, where prohibited.Moreover, we could also be subject to potential litigation associated with compliance with various laws and governmental regulations at the federal or state levels, such as those relating to the protection of older adults and persons with disabilities or those related to employment, health, safety, security, and other regulations under which we operate. We are currently subject to class actions, employee-related claims, and other lawsuits and proceedings in connection with our operations, including, but not limited to, those related to alleged violations of federal and state wage and hour laws, wrongful discharge, retaliation, and illegal discrimination. We are also named as a defendant, along with a number of drug manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies, in civil litigation instituted by certain Maryland municipalities, which allege claims generally concerning the impacts of widespread opioid abuse in their municipalities. We cannot predict with certainty the outcome of this litigation or how our role, including as a closed door long-term care pharmacy, may be viewed as compared to the role of a manufacturer, distributor or retail pharmacy. The litigation may remain unresolved for several years, and we could incur significant expense in order to resolve the matter, including through settlement agreements. These claims, lawsuits, and proceedings are in various stages of adjudication or investigation and involve a wide variety of claims and potential outcomes.
“Moreover, we could also be subject to potential litigation associated with compliance with various laws and governmental regulations at the federal or state levels, such as those relating to the protection of older adults and persons with disabilities or those related to employment, health, safety, security, and other regulations under which we operate. …”see in full comparison
“We are a “controlled company” within the meaning of the rules of Nasdaq and the rules of the SEC and, as a result, qualify for, and rely on, exemptions from certain corporate governance requirements. You do not have the same protections afforded to stockholders of other companies that are subject to such requirements.”see in full comparison
Our systems and those of our third-party service providers and business partners may be vulnerable to, and have experienced, data or security breaches, cyberattacks (including ransomware), acts of vandalism, computer viruses, misplaced or lost data, human errors, or other similar events. While we have safeguards in place designed to defend our systems against intrusions and attacks and to protect our data, we cannot be certain that these measures are sufficient to counter all current and emerging technologysee in full comparisonthreats.threats, including those that adopt evolving AI technologies. Emerging technologies may increase our operational, privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property risks, including errors, bias, data leakage, and claims related to training data and generated outputs, and may increase expenses. We may also be dependent on third-party AI models and vendors, whose availability, reliability, performance, or terms of use may change. If unauthorized parties gain access to our networks or data, or those of our employees, third-party service providers or business partners, they may be able to access, steal, publish, delete, use in an unauthorized manner or modify confidential and sensitive information, including personal information, PHI, trade secrets or other confidential information, intellectual property, and proprietary business information. In addition, employees may intentionally or inadvertently cause data or security breaches that result in destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to such information. Further, the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently and are often difficult to detect. Threats to our systems and associated third-party systems can originate from human error, fraud, or malice on the part of employees or third parties or simply from accidental technological failure. Computer viruses and other malware can be distributed and could infiltrate our systems or those of associated third parties. Because the techniques used to circumvent security systems can be highly sophisticated, change frequently, are often not detected until launched against a target and may originate from less regulated and remote areas around the world, we, and our third-party service providers, may be unable to effectively detect or proactively address all possible techniques, implement adequate preventive measures for all situations or respond to any breach or security incident. The administrative, physical, and technological safeguards we or our third-party service providers implement to address these risks may not address applicable laws and regulations or address situations that could lead to increased privacy or security risks. The businesses we have acquired, or may acquire in the future, may not have in place all of the required safeguards and may have experienced breaches or security incidents. It may take significant time and expense to integrate such businesses to our policies and procedures. To the extent we terminate contracts with our third-party service providers, we may not be able to ensure that the relevant personal information of our patients and employees is maintained in compliance with the required safeguards. In the normal course of business, we are and have been the target of malicious cyberattack attempts and have experienced ransomware attacks and other security incidents that have disrupted our operations.ForWeexample,have previously experienced, and may inMarchthe2023,futurewe experienced aexperience, ransomwareattackattacks thatresultedcould result in a breach ofmore than 6 million individuals’individuals' personal information (including PHI).,Whilewhichwehas,doandnotincurrentlytheexpectfuture,thiscouldincidentrequire us tohave a material impact on our business, we notifiednotify the impacted individuals and applicable regulators andare currentlycould subject us to a HHS Office for Civil Rights investigation, various state regulatory investigations,andorvariousotherlawsuitslegalin connection with this incident.proceedings. There can be no assurance that any present or future cyberattacks will not be material or significant.
“Our company is increasingly integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies into our operations to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and customer experience. While AI offers significant benefits, it also introduces new risks, including potential biases in decision-making, data privacy concerns, and reliance on complex algorithms. We are committed to mitigating these risks through rigorous testing, continuous monitoring, and adherence to ethical guidelines. However, any failure to manage these risks effectively could adversely impact on our business operations and reputation.”see in full comparison
Our variable rate indebtedness subjects us to interest rate risk, which could cause our debt service obligations to increase significantly.see in full comparisonIn addition, the phase-out of LIBOR and transition to SOFR as a benchmark interest rate will have uncertain and possibly adverse effects.
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The U.S. healthcare industry in which we operate is highly competitive. We compete with a broad and diverse set of services spanning both pharmacy and provider services. In our Pharmacy Solutions segment, the competition for the distribution of pharmaceuticals to patients and also to healthcare facilities is intense. In our Provider Services segment, we compete with local, regional, and national providers of home health, hospice, rehab therapy, personal, primary care and behavioral health services in each of the geographical areas in which we operate. In each geographic market, there are national, regional, and local facility-basedpharmacies pharmaciesand providers that provide services comparable to those offered by our pharmacies.Pharmacy InSolutions addition,and Provider Services segments. For example, owners of skilled nursing facilities are also entering the facility-based pharmacy market, particularly in areas of their geographic concentration. We also compete in the large and highly fragmented hospice, infusion, and specialty pharmacy markets. Failure to compete effectively could have a material adverse effect on our market share, business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We compete based on the availability of personnel, the quality of services, expertise of clinicians, caregivers, pharmacists, and pharmacy professionals, and in certain instances, on the price of our services. Some of our competitors may have greater financial, technical, and marketing resources, name recognition, or a larger number of patients and payors than we do. Often our contracts with payors are not exclusive, and local competitors may develop strategic relationships with referral sources and payors, limiting our ability to retain referrals and payors in local markets. Some of our competitors may negotiate exclusivity provisions with managed care plans or otherwise interfere with the ability of managed care companies to contract with us. We may experience increased competition for managed care contracts due to state regulation and limitations. These competitive advantages could result in pricing pressures, loss of, or failure to gain market share, or loss of patients or payors, any of which could harm our business. In addition, our competitors may offer more services than we do in the markets in which we operate, introduce new or enhanced services that we do not provide, or be viewed by consumers as a more desirable local alternative. This, in combination with industry consolidation and the development of strategic relationships by our competitors (including mergers of competitors with each other and with insurers), could cause a decline in revenue, loss of market acceptance of our services or a negative impact on our results of operations. In addition, some of our competitors have vertically integrated business models with commercial payors, or are under common control with, or owned by, pharmaceutical wholesalers and distributors, Managed Care Organizations, or MCOs, Pharmacy Benefit managers, or PBMs, or retail pharmacy chains and may be better positioned with respect to the cost-effective distribution of pharmaceuticals. In addition, some of our competitors may have secured long-term supply or distribution arrangements for prescription pharmaceuticals necessary to treat certain chronic disease states on price terms substantially more favorable than the terms currently available to us. Consequently, we may be less price competitive than some of these competitors with respect to certain pharmaceutical products.
In our Pharmacy Solutions segment, we must maintain good working relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors. Any loss of a supplier relationship or other changes to these relationships could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Additionally, access to limited distribution pharmaceuticals provides us with significant competitive advantages in developing relationships with payors and healthcare providers, and our failure to continue obtaining access to new limited distribution pharmaceuticals or the loss of our current access could have a material and adverse impact on our business. We also provide a significant amount of services to pharmaceutical manufacturers in exchange for a service fee related to patient access to specialty pharmaceuticals, and our failure to provide services at optimal levels could result in losing access to existing and future products. If pharmaceutical manufarcturersmanufacturers require significant additional services and products to obtain access to their products without a corresponding increase in service fees, our profitability could be adversely impacted.
Our success is heavily dependent on referrals from physicians, hospitals, long-term care facilities, other institutional healthcare providers, and other sources in the communities we serve, such as case managers and placement agencies, and on our ability to maintain good relationships with these referral sources. Our referral sources are not, and cannot be, obligated to refer patients to us and may refer their patients to other providers. Our growth and profitability depend, in part, on our ability to establish and maintain close working relationships with these patient referral sources, comply with applicable laws with respect to such relationships, and to increase awareness and acceptance of the benefits of our home and community health provider services and pharmaceutical solutions by our referral sources and their patients. Many of our referral sources are becoming increasingly focused on finding quality services. If we should fail to attain our goals regarding acute care hospitalization readmission rates and other quality metrics,goals, we expect our ability to generate referrals would be adversely impacted. Our ability to attract and retain referral sources could also be adversely affected if we fail to provide or maintain a reputation for providing cost-effective care as compared to other providers in the same geographic area or if our reputation is affected by negative publicity, including adverse media related to staffing shortages, the quality of care, the failure to provide care, inadequate training, incidents at our facilities, employee misconduct, and inadequate conditions at our facilities. If we lose, or fail to maintain, existing relationships or fail to develop new referral relationships or if we are perceived by our referral sources for any reason as not providing high quality or cost-effective patient care and solutions, our patient volumes and the quality of our patient mix could suffer, and our revenue and profitability could decline.
We derive substantial revenue from government healthcare programs, primarily Medicare and Medicaid. Payments received from Medicare are subject to changes made through federal legislation and regulation. Payments received from Medicaid may vary from state to state. These payments are subject to statutory and regulatory changes, administrative rulings, interpretations, and determinations concerning patient eligibility requirements, funding levels, and the method of calculating payments or reimbursements. Changes in government healthcare programs may decrease the reimbursement we receive or limit access to, or utilization of, our services, and in turn, could cause our revenues and profitability to decline. When such changes are implemented, we must also modify our internal billing processes and procedures accordingly, which can require significant time and expense. As federal healthcare expenditures continue to increase and state governments may face budgetary shortfalls, federal and state governments have made, and may continue to make, significant changes to the Medicare and Medicaid programs and reimbursement received for services rendered to beneficiaries of such programs. The U.S. federal budget is subject to change, including reductions in federal spending, and the Medicare program is frequently mentioned as a target for spending cuts. Within the Medicare program, the hospice benefit is often specifically targeted for cuts. The full impact on our business of any future cuts in Medicare or other programs is uncertain. Changes that may occur at the federal or state level include:
Additionally, regulators are increasing scrutiny of claims, which may require additional resources to respond to audits, and which may cause additional delays or denials in receiving payments. Medicare currently provides for an annual adjustment of the various payment rates based upon the increase or decrease of the medical care expenditure, which may be less than actual inflation, and if we do not manage the cost of providing services, such an annual adjustment may adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. This adjustment could be eliminated or reduced in any given year. Congress also passed legislation that resulted in aggregate reductions to Medicare payments to providers of 2% per fiscal year, which went into effect on April 1, 2013. Due to subsequent legislative amendments to the statute, the 2% aggregated reductions will remain in effect through 2032. Further, Medicare routinely reclassifies home health resource groups and long-term care diagnosis-related groups, and as a result, we could receive lower reimbursement rates depending on the case mix of the patients we service. If our cost of providing services increases by more than the annual Medicare price adjustment, or if these reclassifications result in lower reimbursement rates, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely impacted. Certain of these measures have been implemented by, or are proposed in, states in which we operate.
Additionally, CMS changed the Home Health Prospective Payment System case-mix adjustment methodology through the use of a new Patient-Driven Groupings Model, or PDGM, for home health payments. This change was implemented on January 1, 2020, and also includes a change in the unit of payment from a 60-day payment period to a 30-day payment period and eliminates the use of therapy visits in the determination of payments. While the changes were intended to be implemented in a budget-neutral manner to the industry, the ultimate impact varied by provider based on factors including patient mix and admission source. Additionally, in arriving at the rate that is budget-neutral, CMS made assumptions about behavioral changes that resulted in a 4.36% reduction to reimbursement. Additionally, in the Calendar Year 2023 Home Health Final Rule, CMS finalized a 3.5% permanent reductionreductions in reimbursement based on the difference between assumed and actuala behavioral changes resulting from the implementationlack of PDGM.clarity in methodology application.
During the past several years, third-partyThird-party healthcare payors, such as federal and state governments, insurance companies and employers, have undertakenundertaken, and will likely continue to undertake, cost containment initiatives. As part of the efforts, such payors are increasingly demanding discounted fee structures or the assumption by healthcare providers of all or a portion of the financial risk relating to paying for care provided, often in exchange for exclusive or preferred participation in their benefit plans. We expect efforts to impose greater discounts and more stringent cost controls by government and other third-party payors to continue, potentially reducing the payments we receive for our services. For example, the Medicaid Integrity Program is increasing its scrutiny of Medicaid providers and reimbursements received through the program, which could result in recoupments of alleged overpayments. Similarly, private third-party payors also engage in post-payment audits which can result in recoupments. Additionally, private third-party payors may be successful in negotiating reduced reimbursement schedules for our services. Fixed fee schedules, capitation payment arrangements, exclusion from participation in or inability to reach agreements with private insurance organizations or government funded programs, reduction, or elimination of payments or an increase in the payments at a rate that is less than the increase in our costs, or other factors affecting payments for healthcare services over which we have no control, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations, and prospects. Further, we cannot assure you that our services will be considered cost-effective by third-party payors, that third-party payor reimbursement will continue to be available or that changes to third-party payor reimbursement policies will not have a material adverse effect on our ability to provide our services on a profitable basis, if at all.
In addition, certain third parties, known as conveners, offer patient placement and care transition services to managed care companies, Medicare Advantage plans, bundled payment participants, Accountable Care Organizations, or ACOs, and other healthcare providers as part of an effort to manage costs. Given their focus on perceived financial savings, conveners customarily suggest that patients avoid higher cost settings altogether or move as soon as practicable to lower-cost settings. However, conveners are not healthcare providers and may suggest a setting or duration of care that may not be appropriate from a clinical perspective. Efforts by conveners to avoid our care settings or suggest shorter lengths of stay in our care settings could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Many government and commercial payors are transitioning providers to alternative payment models that are designed to promote cost-efficiency, quality, and coordination of care. For example, ACOs, incentivize hospitals, physician groups, and other providers to organize and coordinate patient care while reducing unnecessary costs. Conceptually, ACOs receive a portion of any savings generated above a certain threshold from care coordination as long as benchmarks for the quality of care are maintained. Providers are then paid based on the overall value and quality (as determined by outcomes) of the services they provide to a patient rather than the number of services they provide. Pursuant to the ACA, CMS has established several separate ACO programs, the largest of which is the Medicare Shared Savings Program, or MSSP, for care provided to Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries. The ACO rules adopted by CMS are extremely complex and remain subject to further refinement by CMS. For example, the ACO REACH program has meaningful changes for performance year 2026 then is being transitioned to a new program at the end of 2026. Other value-based models by CMS have been terminated early. Several states have implemented, or plan to implement, accountable care models for their Medicaid populations. Eligible providers, hospitals, and suppliers may participate by creating, participating in or contracting with an ACO. If we are not included in these programs, or if ACOs establish programs that overlap with our services, we are at risk for losing market share, including a loss of our current business.
Failure to report quality data or poor performance may negatively impact the amount of reimbursement received. We rely on third parties with whom we contract to pass along the savings to us, which can be the subject of dispute or financial ability of our contract partner to make payment, among others. We may incur additional expenses in an effort to comply with additional and changing quality reporting requirements. The first performance year of the value-based purchasing program affecting home health providers began on January 1, 2023, and the model has been expanded to all 50 states. Under the expanded program, home health agencies receive payment bonuses or penalties based on their achievement of specified performance measures, relative to their peers’ performance. Performance on these quality measures in a specified year (performance year) impacts payment adjustments in a later year. Additionally, commercial payors have expressed intent to shift toward value-based reimbursement arrangements. Government and commercial payors’ implementation of value-based purchasing requirements could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
The ACA resulted in the establishment of various demonstration projects and Medicaid programs under which states may apply to test new or existing approaches to payment and delivery of Medicaid benefits. For example, CMS launched a home health agency pre-claim review demonstration project that runs through 2029 called the Review Choice Demonstration, or RCD, for Home Health Services. RCD is intended to assist in developing improved procedures to identify and prevent fraud and is limited to home health agencies in fivesix states: Illinois, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Oklahoma and Texas. Home health agencies in these states have three options for initial review: pre-claim review of all claims, post-payment review of all claims, or minimal post-payment review with a 25% payment reduction for all home health services. Home health agencies that maintain pre-claim review affirmation rate or postpaymentpost-payment review approval rate of 90% or greater will be eligible for additional, less burdensome options for subsequent review. Compliance with this process has resulted in increased administrative costs and delays in reimbursement for home health services in the states subject to the demonstration. These delays could materially adversely affect our working capital and negatively affect our operations in these states.
OtherWhile alternativeparticipation payment models,in such asAPMs, bundledincluding paymentACOs, arrangements,has historically been voluntary, CMS and certain other payers have indicated that participation in future programs may be presentedrequired, and any changes to or elimination of VBC arrangements by theCMS governmentor other payers could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, financial condition and commercialcash payorsflows. While we believe we are well-positioned to controlcompete costsin thata subjectvalue-based ourreimbursement Companyenvironment and facilitate the transition from FFS models to financialVBC risk.arrangements, Weit is unclear whether VBC arrangements will ultimately achieve their aims and whether they will decrease aggregate reimbursement. As such, we cannot predict at this time what effect alternative payment models may have on our Company. If we perform at a level below the outcomes demonstrated by our competitors, fail to satisfy quality data reporting requirements, are unable to meet or exceed quality performance standards under any applicable value-based purchasing program, or otherwise fail to effectively provide or coordinate the efficient delivery of quality healthcare services, our reputation in the industry may be negatively impacted, we may receive reduced reimbursement amounts and we may owe repayments to payors, which could materially adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Additionally, our reputation may be affected by negative press, including adverse media related to staffing shortages, the quality of care, the failure to provide care, inadequate training, incidents at our facilities, and inadequate conditions at our facilities, which could materially adversely impact our business.
We may be similarly impacted by increased enrollment of Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries in managed care plans, shifting away from traditional fee-for-service models. Under a managed Medicare plan, also known as Medicare Advantage, the federal government contracts with private health insurers to provide Medicare benefits and the insurers may choose to offer supplemental benefits. More than half of all Medicare beneficiaries were enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan as of January 2023,2025, a figure that continues to grow. CMS allows Medicare Advantage plans to offer certain personal care services as a supplemental benefit. Enrollment in managed Medicaid plans is also growing, as states are increasingly relying on Managed Care Organizations, or MCOs to deliver Medicaid program services as a strategy to control costs and manage resources. Managed care contracts typically permit the payor to terminate the contract without cause, on very short notice, typically 60 days, which can provide payors leverage to reduce volume or obtain favorable pricing. We cannot assure you that we will be successful in our efforts to be included in managed plan networks, that we will be able to secure or maintain favorable contracts with all or some of the MCOs, that our reimbursement under these programs will remain at current levels, that the authorizations for services will remain at current levels or that our profitability will remain at levels consistent with past performance. In addition, operational processes may not be well-defined as a state transitions Medicaid recipients to managed care. For example, membership, new referrals, and the related authorization for services to be provided may be delayed, which may result in delays in service delivery to consumers or in payment for services rendered. Difficulties with operational processes associated with new managed care contracts may negatively affect our revenue, cash flow, and profitability for services provided.
In addition, increased utilization of generic drugs has resulted in pressure to decrease reimbursement payments to facility-based, hospice, retail, and specialty pharmacies for generic drugs, causing a reduction in our margins on sales of generic drugs. Contracts and fee schedules in the prescription drug industry, including our contracts with various payors and fee schedules under state Medicaid programs, generally use certain published benchmarks, including Average Wholesale Price, or AWP, or Wholesale Acquisition Cost, or WAC, to establish pricing for prescription drugs. Future changes to the use of AWP, WAC or to other published pricing benchmarks used to establish drug pricing, including changes in the basis for calculating reimbursement by federal and state healthcare programs and/or other payors, could impact the reimbursement we receive from Medicare and Medicaid programs, the reimbursement we receive from our PBM,PBMs, clients, and other payors, and/or our ability to negotiate rebates and/or discounts with drug manufacturers and wholesalers. Numerous proposals at the federal level propose capping drug costs which could impact our business. A failure or inability to fully offset any increased prices or costs or to modify our operations to mitigate the impact of such increases could have a material adverse effect on our operating results. Additionally, any future changes in drug prices could be significantly different than our projections. We cannot predict the effect of these possible changes on our businesses.
Furthermore, Medicare Part D has resulted in increased utilization of prescription medications and puts pressure on our gross margin rates in our Pharmacy Solutions segment due to regulatory and competitive pressures. As a result of the ACA and changes to the retiree drug subsidy rules, clients of our PBM business could decide to discontinue providing prescription drug benefits to their Medicare-eligible members. To the extent this occurs, the adverse effects of increasing customer migration into Medicare Part D may outweigh the benefits we realize from growth of our Medicare Part D products. For example, in October 2020, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or the HHS, released a final rule requiring health insurers to disclose drug pricing and cost-sharing information. The public disclosure of insurer- or PBM-negotiated price concessions may result in drug manufacturers lowering discounts or rebates, impacting the ability to negotiate drug prices. In November 2020, the HHS released the Rebate Rule, which eliminates the regulatory safe harbor from prosecution under the Anti-Kickback Statute for rebates from pharmaceutical companies to PBMs in Medicare Part D and in Medicaid MCOs, replacing it with two farmore narrowernarrow safe harbors designed to directly benefit patients with high out-of-pocket costs and to change the way PBMs are compensated. The newrule safehas harborsexperienced areseveral (i)delays forin rebatesimplementation, which are passed on towith the patientInflation atReduction theAct pointmost ofrecently saledelaying and (ii) for flat service fee payments made to PBMs which cannot be tied to the list prices of drugs. The Pharmaceutical Care Management Association which represents PBMs, has filed a suit in an effort to block the Rebate Rule, claiming that the Rebate Rule would lead to higher premiums in Medicare Part D and was adopted in an unlawful manner. The Biden Administration has delayed the effective date of portionsimplementation of the Rebaterule Rule tountil January 1, 2027, which would delay implementation until 2032. It is unclear whether the Rebate Rule will be modified by the current Administration, whether pharmaceutical companies will respond by reducing list prices, whether list prices in the private market may also be reduced, and what the resulting impact will be to PBMs or us.
There has also been increasing legislative and enforcement interest in the United States with respect to drug pricing practices. Specifically, there has been heightened governmental scrutiny over the manner in which manufacturers set prices for their marketed products, which has resulted in several congressional inquiries and proposed and enacted federal and state legislation designed to, among other things, bring more transparency to drug pricing, reduce the cost of prescription drugs under Medicare, and review the relationship between pricing and manufacturers’ patient assistance programs. The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, or IRA, includes several provisions that may impact our business to varying degrees, including provisions that reduce the out-of-pocket spending cap for Medicare Part D beneficiaries from $7,050 to $2,000 starting in 2025, thereby effectively eliminating the coverage gap; impose new manufacturer financial liability on certain drugs under Medicare Part D, allow the U.S. government to negotiate Medicare Part B and Part D price caps for certain high-cost drugs and biologics without generic or biosimilar competition; require companies to pay rebates to Medicare for certain drug prices that increase faster than inflation; and delay until January 1, 2032, the implementation of the HHS Rebate Rule that would have limited the fees that pharmacy benefit managers can charge. ThePrice implementationcaps on an initial 10 Part D drugs went into effect on January 1, 2026 and it is too soon to know the full impacts of the IRA is currently subject to ongoing litigation challenging the constitutionality of the IRA’s Medicare drug price negotiation program. The effects of the IRA on our business and the healthcare industry in general are not yet known.IRA. See “—Risks Related to Our Regulatory Framework—If we are unable to effectively adapt to changes in the healthcare industry, including changes to laws and regulations regarding or affecting U.S. healthcare reform, our business may be harmed.”
We have contractual relationships with pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, and distributors to purchase the pharmaceuticals that we dispense. In order to have access to these pharmaceuticals, and to be able to participate in the launch of new pharmaceuticals, we must maintain a good working relationship with these suppliers. Most of the manufacturers we contract directly with have the right to cancel their supply contracts with us without cause and after giving only minimal notice. In addition, these agreements may allow the manufacturers to distribute through channels other than us. Certain of these agreements also allow pricing and other terms to be adjusted periodically for changing market conditions or required service levels. We may be unable to renew contracts with our suppliers on favorable terms or at all. Any changes to these relationships, including, but not limited to, the loss of a supplier relationship or changes in (or inability to change) pricing, could have an adverse effect on our business and financial results. Many products dispensed by our pharmacies are manufactured with ingredients that are susceptible to supply shortages. Our suppliers are independent entities subject to their own operational and financial risks that are outside our control. If our current suppliers were to stop selling drugs to us or delay delivery, including as a result of supply shortages, production disruptions, quality issues, closing, or bankruptcies of our suppliers, or for other reasons, we may be unable to procure alternatives from other suppliers in a timely and efficient manner and on acceptable terms, or at all. Should a supply disruption result in the inability to obtain pharmaceutical solutions necessary for patient care, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be negatively impacted.
Some pharmaceutical manufacturers, wholesalers, and/or distributors attempt to limit the number of preferred pharmacies that may market certain of their products. We cannot provide assurance that we will be selected and retained as a preferred pharmacy or can remain a preferred pharmacy to market these products. We cannot provide assurance that we will be able to compete effectively with other providers to dispense each of our core products. Consolidation within the drug manufacturing industry and other external factors may enhance the ability of suppliers to sustain or increase pricing of drugs and diminish our ability to negotiate reduced drug acquisition costs. Any inability to offset increased brand name or generic drug acquisition costs or to modify our activities to lessen the financial impact of such increased costs could have a significant adverse effect on our operating results. We receive certain discounts, rebates, and other price concessions from suppliers. For example, we have agreements with certain affiliates of Walgreen Stockholder pursuant to which we purchase both generic and non-generic pharmaceutical products and services at favorable prices and other payment terms. If one or both of such agreements were to terminate or if we were to otherwise lose our right to participate in such agreements, we may not be able to replace such arrangements to purchase pharmaceutical products and services at similarly favorable prices or at all. There can be no assurance that any changes in legislation or regulations, or the interpretation or application of current law, that would eliminate or significantly reduce the discounts, rebates, and other price concessions that we receive from suppliers or that would otherwise impact payment available for drugs under federal or state healthcare programs will not have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
The pipeline of new drugs includes many products that over the long term may replace older, more expensive therapies. As a result of such older drugs losing patent protection and being replaced by generic substitutes, new and less expensive delivery methods or additional products may be added to a therapeutic class, thereby increasing price competition in that therapeutic category.
The pipeline of new drugs includes many products that over the long term may replace older, more expensive therapies. As a result of such older drugs losing patent protection and being replaced by generic substitutes, new and less expensive delivery methods (such as when an infusion or injectable drug is replaced with an oral drug) or additional products may be added to a therapeutic class, thereby increasing price competition in that therapeutic category. Much of the branded and generic drug product that we dispense is manufactured in whole or in substantial part outside of the United States and imported by our suppliers. As a result, significant changes in tax or trade policies, tariffs, or trade relations between the United States and other countries, such as the imposition of unilateral tariffs on imported products, could result in significant increases in our costs, restrict our access to suppliers, depress economic activity, and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, other countries may change their business and trade policies and such changes, as well as any negative sentiments towards the United States in response to increased import tariffs and other changes in U.S. trade regulations, could adversely affect our businesses.
Our financial condition and results of operations and other key metrics have fluctuated on a quarterly basis in the past and may continue to fluctuate in the future due to a variety of factors, including census, script volume, reimbursement rates, drug purchasing costs, labor availability and pricing, volume fluctuations in broader healthcare and provider markets that are upstream of our care settings and the potential timing of delayed or leading payor reimbursement rate changes based on budget seasons, as well as purchasing cost fluctuations depending on when core contracts renew or escalate. In addition, we have experienced and expect to continue to experience fluctuations in our quarterly results of operations due to the seasonal nature of our business. As a result, historical period-to-period comparisons of our results of operations are not necessarily indicative of future period-to-period results, impacting comparability of our quarterly results year-over-year.
We are subject to a risk of work stoppages and other labor relations matters because our hourly workforce in some states is highly unionized. We have numerous agreements with various different unions, and we have a national partnership agreement with the SEIU, which are renegotiated from time to time. We may also negotiate Memoranda of Understanding to amend these collective bargaining agreements when we receive increases in our rates from various state agencies. Upon expiration of these collective bargaining agreements, we may not be able to negotiate labor agreements on satisfactory terms with these labor unions. A strike, work stoppage or other slowdown could result in a disruption of our operations and/or higher ongoing labor costs, which could adversely affect our business.
We receive fixed payments at predetermined reimbursement rates established through federal and state legislation from Medicare and Medicaid, our most significant payors, for our services. Consequently, our profitability largely depends upon our ability to manage the costs of providing these services. We cannot be assured that reimbursement payments under Medicare and Medicaid will be sufficient to cover the costs allocable to patients eligible for reimbursement pursuant to these programs. Commercial payors such as managed care organizations and private health insurance programs generally reimburse us for the services rendered to insured patients based upon contractually determined rates. Additionally, private payor rates are difficult for us to negotiate as such payors are under pressure to reduce their own costs. In addition, our profitability may be adversely affected by any efforts of our suppliers to shift healthcare costs by increasing the net prices on the products we obtain from them. Increases in operating costs, such as labor and supply costs, without a compensating increase in reimbursement rates, could have a material adverse effect on our business. In addition, cost pressures resulting from the use of more expensive forms of palliative care, including drugs and drug delivery systems, could negatively impact our profitability. As a result, we have sought to manage our costs in order to achieve a desired level of profitability including, but not limited to, centralization of various processes, the use of technology, and management of the number of employees utilized. If we are not able to continue to streamline our processes and reduce our costs, our business, financial condition, and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
Our growth strategy is partially dependent upon our ability to identify and successfully complete acquisitions, joint ventures, and other strategic initiatives.initiatives, including the pending sale of our Community Living business, as well as organic growth. Any failure by us to manage or integrate acquisitions, divestitures, and other significant transactions successfullysuccessfully, or to organically grow our business, may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Acquisitions are a key strategic advantage and value creation driver for us. We regularly evaluate opportunities to acquire other companies and have undertaken, and may in the future undertake, strategic, and accretive acquisitions. We face competition for acquisition and joint venture candidates, which may limit the number of acquisition and joint venture opportunities available to us or lead to the payment of higher prices for our acquisitions and joint ventures. In addition, federal and state laws or regulations (such as antitrust laws) as well as changes in federal and state laws or regulations may materially adversely impact our ability to acquire businesses. For example, CMS has adopted a regulation known as the “36 Month Rule” that is applicable to home health agency acquisitions, which subject to certain exceptions, prohibits buyers of home health agencies that either enrolled in Medicare or underwent a change in ownership fewer than 36 months prior to the acquisition date, from assuming the Medicare billing privileges of the acquired home health agency. Instead, the acquired home health agencies must enroll as new providers with Medicare which may cause significant Medicare billing delays. As a result, the 36 Month Rule may further increase competition for acquisition targets that are not subject to the rule. We cannot assure you that we will successfully identify suitable acquisition candidates, obtain financing for such acquisitions, if necessary, consummate such potential acquisitions or efficiently integrate any acquired entities or successfully expand into new markets as a result of our acquisitions. If we are unable to successfully execute on such a strategy in the future, our future growth could be limited.
Upon consummation of an acquisition, the integration process could divert the attention of management, and any difficulties or problems encountered in the transition process could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. In particular, the integration process may temporarily redirect resources previously focused on reducing cost of services, resulting in lower gross profits in relation to revenues. The process of combining companies could cause the interruption of, or a loss of momentum in, the activities of the respective businesses, which could have an adverse effect on their combined operations. Additionally, in some acquisitions, we may have to renegotiate, or risk losing, one or more third-party payor contracts. We may also be unable to immediately collect the accounts receivable of an acquired entity while we align the payors’ payment systems and accounts with our own systems, and may have difficulties in recouping partial episode payments and other types of misdirected payments for services from previous owners. Certain transactions can require licensure and/or Medicare and Medicaid enrollment changes which, in turn, may result in disruptions in payment for services, and in some cases an inability to bill and generate revenue for post-acquisition services for a period of time.
Additionally, in some acquisitions, we may have to renegotiate, or risk losing, one or more third-party payor contracts. We may also be unable to immediately collect the accounts receivable of an acquired entity while we align the payors’ payment systems and accounts with our own systems, and may have difficulties in recouping partial episode payments and other types of misdirected payments for services from previous owners. Certain transactions can require licensure changes which, in turn, result in disruptions in payment for services.
In addition to our acquisition growth strategy, we seek opportunities for increasing revenue from our existing operations through organic growth, such as applying for certificates of need, or CONs, in certain jurisdictions in our home health and hospice businesses which is a hyper-competitive process and can be difficult to obtain. We may not be able to successfully execute our organic growth strategies. Certain of our organic growth strategies may involve risks and uncertainties similar to those for our acquisition strategy. See above. In addition, we may not be able to expand the services into the new location, we may not be able to attract referrals to that new location, we may not be able to execute new contractual arrangements with patients and referral sources, and we may not accurately project organic growth performance, including projections of revenue, operating expenses, and margins.
As previously disclosed, on January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc.Inc., or Sevita, to divest the Company's Community Living business for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. The Company expects the divestiture to close in 2025.the first fiscal quarter of 2026. The sale is subject to customary closing conditions, including the expiration or termination of the waiting periods under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, and certain other antitrust laws.laws and other laws (such as the State of California Office of Healthcare Affordability requiring a cost and market impact review). On January 30, 2026 the Federal Trade Commission issued a press release that describes the proposed agreed upon order where the parties agreed to divest certain facilities in exchange for FTC approval (which is currently in the public comment period).. The Company may not receive the required approval and other clearances for the transaction, or they may not be received in a timely manner. If such approvals are received, they may impose terms, conditions or restrictions that may cause a failure of the closing conditions set forth in the purchase agreement or that could have a detrimental impact on the Company following completion of the transaction. A substantial delay in obtaining the required authorizations, approvals or consents or the imposition of unfavorable terms, conditions or restrictions could prevent the completion of the sale, and government authorities could seek to block or challenge the transaction as they deem necessary or desirable in the public interest.
While we believe the sale will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payerpayor mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment, no assurances can be made that these impacts will occur. If the transaction fails to close, the Company’s business and financial condition may be adversely affected and we may continue to be responsible for any transaction costs incurred.
Many of our service users have complex medical conditions or special needs, are vulnerable, and often require a substantial level of care and supervision. There is a risk that one or more service users could be harmed by one or more of our employees, workforce members, or other service users, either intentionally, by accident, or through negligence, neglect, error, poor performance, mistreatment, failure to provide proper care or medication or carry out physician’s orders, failure to properly document or monitor or report information, failure to address risks to service users’ health or safety, failure to maintain appropriate staffing, failure to implement appropriate interventions or other actions or inaction. Employees and workforce members have engaged in conduct (including failing to take action) that has impacted, and may in the future engage in conduct that impacts, our service users or their health, safety, welfare, or clinical treatment. Further, individuals cared for by us have in the past engaged, and may in the future engage, in behavior that results in harm to themselves, our employees or workforce members or to one or more other individuals, including members of the public and other service users. In addition, we have experienced staff shortages and if we experience staff shortages, or are unable to meet any applicable regulatory staffing requirements, it could impact our quality of care. In the past, regulators have taken measures against certain of our facilities and locations as a result of non-compliance with applicable laws and regulations.regulations For(for example, admissions bans) and may do so in July 2020, the West Virginia Department for Health and Human Resources issued a statewide admissions ban for all ResCare facilities that applied to new admissions and readmissions, and the state later issued separate admissions ban orders for other state operations.future. In addition, our facilities and locations have been subject to other regulatory inquiries and matters, such as recoupments as a result of alleged insufficient documentation, overpayments, audits, removals of clients as a result of staffing and incidents identified during a monitoring visit, contract terminations, suspensions or revocations of licenses, home closures, vendor holds, which may occur as a result of our failure to submit an acceptable report under state law, and administrative penalties issued as a result of staffing issues and incidents found during monitoring visits.
If one or more of our facilities experiences an adverse patient incident or is found to have failed to provide appropriate patient care (including as a result of a staffing shortages or the actions or inactions of our employees or workforce members), governmental or regulatory authorities may take action against us or our employees or workforce members, including an admissions ban, admissions hold, reduction in census, loss of accreditation, license revocation, application denial period, administrative or other order, other adverse regulatory action, a settlement or other agreement requiring corrective actions or requiring us or a specific facility to demonstrate substantial compliance with licensure or other requirements, and the imposition of certain requirements, including requirements to transfer our service users, to provide reports or other documentation or to undergo revisit surveys or inspections. If such an action or a closure of a facility were to occur and result in the improper termination of patient care, we or our employees or workforce members may be exposed to governmental or regulatory inquiries, investigations, liability, and litigation, including claims of patient abandonment. Certain of our individual locations have been, and may continue to be, subject to findings of quality of care deficiencies or practices, incidents of patient abuse or neglect, and claims regarding services rendered that do not meet the standard of care, which have resulted, and in the future may result, in civil or criminal penalties; fines; the suspension, modification, termination, or revocation of a license of Medicare or Medicaid participation; the suspension of the operations of a facility; the suspension or denial of admissions of service users; a reduction in census; the removal of service users from properties; the denial of payments in full or in part; administrative orders; the implementation of state oversight, temporary management or receivership; and other actions. If an admissions hold, loss of accreditation, license revocation, or other action such as a closure of a facility occurs, states may interpret such an interruption to be “patient abandonment,” which may lead to additional action by regulatory authorities or patients. In many states, patient abandonment includes abandoning or neglecting a patient needing professional care without making reasonable arrangements for the continuation of care. In addition to actions by state boards, patients may also pursue a private right of action claiming abandonment.
Our business is highly dependent on maintaining effective and secure information systems, including those maintained by us and those maintained and provided by third-party service providers (for example, “software-as-a-service” and cloud solutions), as well as the integrity and timeliness of the data we use to serve our patients, support employees and operate our business. Our operations rely significantly on the Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system provided by our vendor. This dependency is critical for maintaining the integrity, accessibility, and security of patient data. Any disruption, termination, or failure of the vendor to provide timely updates and support could adversely affect our ability to deliver healthcare services efficiently. Our business also supports the use of electronic visit verification, or EVV, to collect visit submission information such as service type, visit start time and end time, and care plan tasks for our home and community-based care services. We use mobile devices to capture time in and time out, mileage and travel time, as well as the completed care plan tasks with client verification. Our ability to effectively manage our business and coordinate the provision and billing of our services and prompt, accurate documentation of the care and services we provide depends significantly on the reliability and capacity of these systems. We rely on these providers to provide continual operation, as well as maintenance, enhancements, and security of any protected and/or confidential data (including personal information). To the extent that our EVV and other vendors fail to support these processes, our internal operations could be negatively affected. Our systems, and those of our third-party service providers, are vulnerable to damages, failures, malfunctions, outages or other interruptions which could be caused by a number of factors such as power outages or damages, telecommunications problems, data corruption, software errors, human error, computer viruses, defects and other errors, physical or electronic break-ins, theft, design defects, network failures, security breaches, cyberattacks, acts of war or terrorist attacks, fire, flood, and natural disasters. A system failure, outage or other interruption may also cause the corruption or loss of important, confidential, and/or protected data (including personal information). See “—Risks Related to Our Regulatory Framework—If we are found to have violated HIPAA, or any other applicable privacy and security laws and regulations, as well as contractual obligations, we could be subject to sanctions, fines, damages, and other additional civil or criminal penalties, which could increase our liabilities, harm our reputation, and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operation.operations.” Furthermore, our third-party providers’ existing safety systems, data backup, access protection, user management, information technology emergency planning, and other security measures may not be sufficient to prevent data loss or long-term network outages.
Our company is increasingly integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies into our operations to enhance efficiency, decision-making, and customer experience. While AI offers significant benefits, it also introduces new risks, including potential biases in decision-making, data privacy concerns, and reliance on complex algorithms. We are committed to mitigating these risks through rigorous testing, continuous monitoring, and adherence to ethical guidelines. However, any failure to manage these risks effectively could adversely impact on our business operations and reputation.
In addition, we may have to upgrade our existing information technology systemssystems, including with AI technology, from time to time in order for such systems to withstand the increasing needs of our expanding business. We rely on certain hardware, telecommunications, and software vendors to maintain and periodically upgrade many of these systems so that we can continue to support our business. Costs and potential problems and interruptions associated with the implementation of new or upgraded systems and technology or with maintenance or adequate support of existing systems could disrupt or reduce the efficiency of our operations. Further, upgrading and expanding our information technology infrastructure could require significant investment of additional resources and capital, which may not always be available or available on favorable terms. We also depend on our information technology staff. If we cannot meet our staffing needs in this area, we may not be able to fulfill our technology initiatives while continuing to provide maintenance on existing systems. Any material disruption, outage or slowdown of our systems or those of our third-party providers, including those caused by our or their failure to successfully upgrade our or their systems, and our or their inability to convert to alternate systems in an efficient and timely manner could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
In the ordinary course of our business, we collect, process, use, transmit, share, disclose, create, receive, maintain, transmit, and store, or collectively, Process, personal information (which may also be referred to as personal data, personally identifiable information, and/or non-public personal information), including protected health information, or PHI, relating to our patients, employees, referral sources, payors, and others. We also Process, and contract with third-party service providers to Process, other sensitive, confidential, and/or proprietary information. Our third-party service providers may also rely on their own sub-processors to Process, creating additional layers of risk we do not directly control. Concentration in certain services, such as payment processing, hosting, cybersecurity tooling, or digital ordering, could increase the potential impact of outages, security incidents, or adverse changes in terms or pricing. We use third-party service providers for important aspects of the Processing of personal information and other confidential and sensitive data and information, and therefore rely on third parties to manage functions that have material cybersecurity risks. Because of the sensitivity of such personal information and other sensitive data and information that we and our service providers Process, the security of our technology platform and other aspects of our services, including those provided or facilitated by our third-party service providers, are critical to our operations and business strategy. Our patients, employees, payors, and referral sources have a high expectation that we will adequately protect their information, including personal information, from cyberattacks or other security breaches, and may have claims against us if we are unable to do so. We may also have exposure to regulatory investigations and other compliance risks in the event of a cyberattack or other security breach. We have been, and are currently, subject to HHS investigations with respect to data privacy and security incidents involving PHI. There can be no assurance that we will not be subject to such HHS investigations or investigations by other governmental or regulatory authorities in the future, including those that may have a material impact on our business. Any delay in identifying such breaches or incidents or in providing timely reports or notification of such incidents may lead to increased harm and increased penalties or other actions, such as measures required as part of any resolution or settlement agreement. Our patients, employees, payors, and referral sources may have contractual rights of indemnification against us in the event that their personal or proprietary business information is accessed, acquired, disclosed, lost, used or compromised as a result of a breach of our information systems. In such an event, these parties may also seek to terminate our contracts with them.
Our systems and those of our third-party service providers and business partners may be vulnerable to, and have experienced, data or security breaches, cyberattacks (including ransomware), acts of vandalism, computer viruses, misplaced or lost data, human errors, or other similar events. While we have safeguards in place designed to defend our systems against intrusions and attacks and to protect our data, we cannot be certain that these measures are sufficient to counter all current and emerging technology threats.threats, including those that adopt evolving AI technologies. Emerging technologies may increase our operational, privacy, cybersecurity, and intellectual property risks, including errors, bias, data leakage, and claims related to training data and generated outputs, and may increase expenses. We may also be dependent on third-party AI models and vendors, whose availability, reliability, performance, or terms of use may change. If unauthorized parties gain access to our networks or data, or those of our employees, third-party service providers or business partners, they may be able to access, steal, publish, delete, use in an unauthorized manner or modify confidential and sensitive information, including personal information, PHI, trade secrets or other confidential information, intellectual property, and proprietary business information. In addition, employees may intentionally or inadvertently cause data or security breaches that result in destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to such information. Further, the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access, disable or degrade service, or sabotage systems change frequently and are often difficult to detect. Threats to our systems and associated third-party systems can originate from human error, fraud, or malice on the part of employees or third parties or simply from accidental technological failure. Computer viruses and other malware can be distributed and could infiltrate our systems or those of associated third parties. Because the techniques used to circumvent security systems can be highly sophisticated, change frequently, are often not detected until launched against a target and may originate from less regulated and remote areas around the world, we, and our third-party service providers, may be unable to effectively detect or proactively address all possible techniques, implement adequate preventive measures for all situations or respond to any breach or security incident. The administrative, physical, and technological safeguards we or our third-party service providers implement to address these risks may not address applicable laws and regulations or address situations that could lead to increased privacy or security risks. The businesses we have acquired, or may acquire in the future, may not have in place all of the required safeguards and may have experienced breaches or security incidents. It may take significant time and expense to integrate such businesses to our policies and procedures. To the extent we terminate contracts with our third-party service providers, we may not be able to ensure that the relevant personal information of our patients and employees is maintained in compliance with the required safeguards. In the normal course of business, we are and have been the target of malicious cyberattack attempts and have experienced ransomware attacks and other security incidents that have disrupted our operations. ForWe example,have previously experienced, and may in Marchthe 2023,future we experienced aexperience, ransomware attackattacks that resultedcould result in a breach of more than 6 million individuals’individuals' personal information (including PHI)., Whilewhich wehas, doand notin currentlythe expectfuture, thiscould incidentrequire us to have a material impact on our business, we notifiednotify the impacted individuals and applicable regulators and are currentlycould subject us to a HHS Office for Civil Rights investigation, various state regulatory investigations, andor variousother lawsuitslegal in connection with this incident.proceedings. There can be no assurance that any present or future cyberattacks will not be material or significant.
The nature of our business subjects us to inherent risk of wrongful death, personal injury, product liability, professional malpractice and other potential claims, liabilities, and substantial damage awards. In addition, the pharmaceutical products we dispense could become subject to contamination, product tampering, mislabeling, recall or other damage. In addition, errors in the compounding, dispensing, and packaging of drugs and consuming drugs in a manner that is not prescribed could lead to serious injury or death. Healthcare providers have become subject to an increasing number of legal actions alleging malpractice or related legal theories in recent years, many of which involve large monetary claims and significant defense costs. In general, we coordinate care for high-need, medically complex individuals through employed clinicians, caregivers, and pharmacists, including physicians, registered nurses, limited practice nurses, licensed therapists, certified nursing assistants, home health aides, therapy assistants, direct care staff, and other similar professionals. From time to time, we are subject to claims alleging that we did not properly treat or care for a patient, that we failed to follow internal or external procedures that resulted in death or harm to a patient or that our employees mistreated our consumers, resulting in death or harm. We are also subject to claims arising out of accidents involving vehicle collisions brought by patients whom we are transporting, from employees driving to or from home visits or other affected individuals. We cannot be certain that a provider will not incur tort liability in treating one of our patients. The clinicians, caregivers, and other healthcare professionals we employ could be considered our agents and, as a result, we could be held liable for their acts, omissions, malpractice, and/or negligence and may be subject to mass tort actions and/or class actions. We cannot predict the effect that any claims of this nature, regardless of their ultimate outcome, could have on our business or reputation or on our ability to attract and retain patients and employees. We are self-insured for a substantial portion of our general and professional liability, automobile liability, workers’ compensation risks, and (subject to certain stop loss coverage at a high level of losses) health benefits. Any claims against us in excess of insurance limits, or multiple claims requiring us to pay deductibles or self-insured retention amounts, as well as the potential impact on our brand or reputation as a result of being involved in any legal proceedings, could have a material adverse impact on our business, results of operations and financial condition.
Regulatory agencies may initiate administrative proceedings alleging violations of statutes and regulations arising from our services, or reimbursement of those services, and seek to impose monetary penalties on us. We could be required to pay substantial amounts to respond to and defend against regulatory investigations, and if we do not prevail, damages or penalties arising from these administrative proceedings. We are subject to lawsuits, civil investigative demands, and subpoenas under the False Claims Act, the Controlled Substances Act, the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and other federal and state statutes designed to combat fraud and abuse in our industries, as well as civil investigative demands, subpoenas and other inquiries related to our operations, including several ongoing qui tam actions and the Silver matter, as discussed under Item 3 “Legal Proceedings” and Note 1415 “Commitments and Contingencies” to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Additionally, there can be no assurance that we will not be subject to claims or litigation related to the authorization or denial of claims for payment of benefits, or to allegations that we have engaged in fee splitting, which may be prohibited under state laws, or to allegations that we engage in the corporate practice of medicine or the delivery of medical services, where prohibited. Moreover, we could also be subject to potential litigation associated with compliance with various laws and governmental regulations at the federal or state levels, such as those relating to the protection of older adults and persons with disabilities or those related to employment, health, safety, security, and other regulations under which we operate. We are currently subject to class actions, employee-related claims, and other lawsuits and proceedings in connection with our operations, including, but not limited to, those related to alleged violations of federal and state wage and hour laws, wrongful discharge, retaliation, and illegal discrimination. We are also named as a defendant, along with a number of drug manufacturers, distributors, and pharmacies, in civil litigation instituted by certain Maryland municipalities, which allege claims generally concerning the impacts of widespread opioid abuse in their municipalities. We cannot predict with certainty the outcome of this litigation or how our role, including as a closed door long-term care pharmacy, may be viewed as compared to the role of a manufacturer, distributor or retail pharmacy. The litigation may remain unresolved for several years, and we could incur significant expense in order to resolve the matter, including through settlement agreements. These claims, lawsuits, and proceedings are in various stages of adjudication or investigation and involve a wide variety of claims and potential outcomes.
Moreover, we could also be subject to potential litigation associated with compliance with various laws and governmental regulations at the federal or state levels, such as those relating to the protection of older adults and persons with disabilities or those related to employment, health, safety, security, and other regulations under which we operate. We are currently subject to class actions, employee-related claims, and other lawsuits and proceedings in connection with our operations, including, but not limited to, those related to alleged violations of federal and state wage and hour laws, wrongful discharge, retaliation, and illegal discrimination.
We maintain general liability insurance to provide coverage to us and our subsidiaries against certain of these non-governmental litigation claims and potential litigation risks. However, we cannot assure you claims will not be made in the future in excess of the limits of our insurance, nor can we assure you that any such claims, if successful and in excess of such limits, will not have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations. We cannot assure you that the insurance we maintain will cover or satisfy claims made against us or that insurance coverage will continue to be available to us at commercially reasonable rates, in adequate amounts or on satisfactory terms, if at all.
Although our insurance coverage reflects deductibles, self-insured retentions, limits of liability, and similar provisions that we believe are reasonable based on our operations, the coverage under our insurance programs may not be adequate to protect us in all circumstances. Given the matters not covered by insurance, and with respect to those covered by insurance, the policy limits and high deductibles and/or self-insured retentions on many of the Company’s insurance programs, the vast majority of claims may not be paid by third-party insurance. Our insurance policies contain exclusions and conditions that could have a materially adverse impact on our ability to receive indemnification thereunder, as well as customary sub-limits for particular types of losses. Additionally, insurance companies that currently insure companies in our industries may cease to do so, may change the coverage provided, or may substantially increase premiums in the future. Changes in our annual insurance costs and self-insured retention limits depend in large part on the insurance market, and insurance coverage may not continue to be available to us at commercially reasonable rates, in adequate amounts or on satisfactory terms, if at all. We self-insure for a substantial portion of our general and professional liability, automobile liability, workers’ compensation risks, and (subject to certain stop loss coverage at a high level of losses) health benefits. We self-insure for various risks, including employment class actions, False Claims Act actions, adverse regulatory actions, commercial contractual or commercial tort actions, and intellectual property actions. The incurrences of losses and liabilities that exceed our available coverage, therefore, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
Inclement weather, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, riots, civil insurrection or social unrest, looting, protests, strikes, or street demonstrationsdemonstrations, or pandemics may impact our ability to provide services.
Inclement weather, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, riots, civil insurrection, social unrest or other acts of violence, looting, protests, strikes, or street demonstrationsdemonstrations, or pandemics, may prevent or hinder our employees from providing authorized goods and services and our patients and customers from receiving those goods and services. We are not paid for authorized goods and services that are not delivered due to these events. Furthermore, prolonged disruptions as a result of such events in the markets in which we operate, could disrupt our relationships with patients, caregivers and employees, and referral sources located in affected areas and, in the case of our corporate office, our ability to provide administrative support services, including billing and collection services. Future inclement weather, natural disasters, acts of terrorism, riots, civil insurrection, social unrest or other acts of violence, looting, protests, strikes or street demonstrationsdemonstrations, or pandemics, may adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition, and results of operations.
We rely on a combination of intellectual property laws, internal procedures, and nondisclosure agreements to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights. We believe our trademarks are valuable assets.assets, some of which are federally registered and some are not. However, our intellectual property rights may not be sufficient to distinguish our services from those of our competitors and to provide us with a competitive advantage. For example, from time to time, third parties may use names, logos, and slogans similar to ours, may apply to register trademarks or domain names similar to ours, and may infringe or otherwise violate our intellectual property rights.rights and may challenge our use of our trademarks. Our intellectual property rights may not be successfully asserted against such third parties or may be invalidated, circumvented, or challenged. Asserting or defending our intellectual property rights could be time consuming and costly and could distract management’s attention and resources. For example, we are a defendant in litigation regarding the use of our BrightSpring mark, which if adversely determined could result in monetary damages as well as the cessation of the use of our BrightSpring mark. If we are unable to prevent our competitors from using names, logos, slogans, and domain names similar to ours, or if we are prevented by our competitors from using certain names, logos, slogans and domain names, consumer confusion could result, the perception of our brands and services could be negatively affected, and our revenue and profitability could suffer as a result. Failure to protect our intellectual property and proprietary rights could have an adverse effect on our business.
KKR Stockholder controlsowns usa significant portion of our stock, and its interests may conflict with yours in the future.
KKR Stockholder beneficially owns approximately 54.2%32.2% of the voting power of our common stock. As a result, KKR Stockholder is able to controlinfluence the election and removal of our directors and thereby determine our corporate and management policies, including potential mergers or acquisitions, payment of dividends, asset sales, amendment of our certificate of incorporation or bylaws and other significant corporate transactions for so long as KKR Stockholder and its affiliates retain significant ownership of us. KKR Stockholder and its affiliates may also direct us to make significant changes to our business operations and strategy, including with respect to, among other things, new service offerings, employee headcount levels, and initiatives to reduce costs and expenses. This concentration of our ownership may delay or deter possible changes in control of the Company, which may reduce the value of an investment in our common stock. So long as KKR Stockholder and its affiliates continue to own, directly or indirectly, a significant amount of our voting power, even if such amount is less than 50%, it is able to strongly influence or effectively control our decisions, and KKR Stockholder has the right to nominate individuals to our board of directors under the existing stockholders agreement.
In addition, KKR Stockholder and its affiliates are able to determine the outcome of all matters requiring stockholder approval and are able to cause or prevent a change of control of the Company or a change in the composition of our board of directors and could preclude any acquisition of the Company. This concentration of voting control could deprive you of an opportunity to receive a premium for your shares of common stock as part of a sale of the Company and ultimately might affect the market price of our common stock.
The federal government and the states in which we operate regulate our industries extensively. The laws and regulations governing our operations, along with the conditions of participation and conditions of payment, in various government programs, impose certain requirements on the way in which we do business, the services we offer, and our interactions with providers and consumers. The extensive federal and state regulations affecting the healthcare industry include, but are not limited to, regulations relating to licensure, certification and enrollment, billing and coding, eligibility for, necessity of, and provision of services, conduct of operations, allowable costs, prices for services, adequacy and quality of services, facility staffing requirements, facility accreditation, qualifications and licensure of staff, environmental and occupational health and safety, and the confidentiality and security of health-related information. In particular, various fraud and abuse laws, including the Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and the False Claims Act, prohibit certain business practices and relationships that might affect the provision and cost of healthcare services reimbursable under Medicare and Medicaid, including the payment or receipt of remuneration for the referral of patients whose care will be paid for by Medicare or other governmental programs. Additionally, in some states, our contractual relationships with physicians and professional corporations, which we do not own, may implicate certain state laws that generally prohibit non-professional entities, such as us, from practicing medicine, employing physicians to practice medicine, providing licensed medical services and exercising control over medical decisions by licensed physicians or other healthcare professionals (such activities are generally referred to as the corporate practice of medicine). Other states in which we may operate in the future may also prohibit the corporate practice of medicine. Our contractual relationships with physicians and professional corporations may be challenged by governmental and regulatory authorities, state boards of medicine, state attorneys general and other parties that assert or determine that our relationships with professional corporations violate state corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, and/or kickback prohibitions. We are also subject to laws requiring the registration and regulation of pharmacies; laws governing the dispensing of pharmaceuticals and controlled substances; laws regulating the protection of the environment and health and safety matters, including those governing exposure to, and the management and disposal of, hazardous substances; laws regarding food and drug safety, including those of the Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, and the Drug Enforcement Administration, or DEA. We are required to hold valid DEA and state-level licenses, meet various security and operating standards, and comply with the federal and various state controlled substance acts and related regulations governing the sale, dispensing, disposal, holding and distribution of controlled substances. Compliance with these regulations is expensive, and these costs may increase in the future.
Federal and state governments continue to pursue intensive enforcement policies resulting in a significant number of investigations, inspections, audits, citations of regulatory deficiencies, and other regulatory sanctions, including demands for refund of alleged overpayments, terminations from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, bans on Medicare and Medicaid payments for new admissions, admission moratoriums, and civil monetary penalties or criminal penalties. We expect audits under the CMS Recovery Audit Contractor, or RAC, program, the CMS Targeted Probe and Educate, or TPE, program, the Unified Program Integrity Contractors, or UPIC, program and other federal and state audits evaluating the medical necessity of services to further intensify the regulatory environment surrounding the healthcare industry, as third-party firms engaged by CMS and others conduct extensive pre and post-payment audits of claims data as well as medical and other records in order to identify improper payments to healthcare providers under the Medicare and Medicaid programs. The DEA, FDA, and state regulatory authorities have broad enforcement powers, including the ability to seize or recall products. If we fail to comply with the extensive laws, regulations, and prohibitions applicable to our businesses, we could become ineligible or disqualified to provide services or receive government program reimbursement, suffer suspension or revocation of our licenses, cancellation of our agreements, civil or criminal penalties, litigation, and/or damage to our reputation, lose billing privileges, be barred from re-enrollment in governmental payor programs, or be required to repay amounts received or to make significant changes to our operations. We may also become subject to corporate integrity agreement(s) or monitoring by regulatory agencies. In addition, we could be forced to expend considerable resources responding to investigations, audits, or other enforcement actions related to these laws, regulations, or prohibitions. Failure of our staff to satisfy applicable licensure requirements, or of our home and community health services and pharmacy services operations or our service providers to satisfy applicable licensure and certification requirements, could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
The U.S. healthcare industry is heavily regulated and closely scrutinized by federal, state, and local governments. Comprehensive statutes and regulations govern our relationships with physicians and other healthcare providers, the manner in we provide and bill for services and collect reimbursement from governmental programs and private payors, our relationships with drug manufacturers, our marketing activities, and other aspects of our operations. Of particular importance are:
the federal physician self-referral law, commonly referred to as 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” 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 prohibitprohibits the entity from billing Medicare or Medicaid for such designated health services;
the False Claims Act, which imposes civil and criminal liability on individuals or entities that knowingly submit false or fraudulent claims for payment to the government or knowingly making,make, or causingcause 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 False Claims Act. The government has used the False Claims Act to prosecute Medicare and other government healthcare program fraud such as coding errors, billing for services not provided, and providing care that is not medically necessary or that is substandard in quality. In addition, the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the Anti-Kickback Statute or the Stark Law constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the False Claims Act;
Many states have CONCertificate of Need, or CON, laws or other regulatory provisions that may adversely impact our ability to expand into new markets and thereby limit our ability to grow and increase revenue.
Many states, including Alabama, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas, and Maryland,states have enacted CON laws that require prior state approval to offer new or expanded healthcare services or open new healthcare facilities or expand services at existing facilities. In such states, expansion by existing providers or entry into the market by new providers is permitted only where a given amount of unmet need exists, resulting from population increases, a reduction in competing providers, or a lack of providers. These states ration the entry of new providers or services and the expansion of existing providers or services in their markets through a CON process, which is periodically evaluated and updated as required by applicable state law. The process is intended to promote comprehensive healthcare planning, assist in providing high-quality healthcare at the lowest possible cost and avoid unnecessary duplication by ensuring that only those healthcare facilities, services, and operations that are needed will be built and opened or expanded.
CMS and state Medicaid agencies may, for a period of time, impose a moratorium against additional Medicaid enrollment for a particular type of service, upon a determination that a moratorium is necessary to prevent fraud, waste, or abuse, or to limit an over-abundance of a type of Medicaid provider within a state. In addition, states may impose moratoriums relating to state Medicaid program, licensure, and other matters, such as number of beds. A moratorium in any state in which we seek to, or currently, operate may prevent us from introducing, acquiring or disposing of, operations in that state, respectively, which may impair our future expansion, acquisition, or divestiture opportunities in some states. For example, Mississippi has imposed a moratorium on new home health and hospital licenses, and other states perform assessments to determine if there is a need for additional facilities or beds. As another example, West Virginia has imposed a moratorium on new intermediate care facilities, with limited exceptions, and has also imposed a moratorium on healthcare facilities’ additions of intermediate care or skilled nursing beds to current licensed beds and the addition of beds in intermediate care facilities for individuals with intellectual disabilities. The imposition of additional CON laws may delay or otherwise affect our ability to accomplish our business objectives.
Moreover, healthcare reform initiatives have also resulted in changes to, or the adoption of, federal and state laws and regulations relating to the regulation of PBMs, drug pricing or purchasing, and purchase discount and rebate arrangements with drug manufacturers, which could reduce discounts or rebates and affect our relationships with drug manufacturers. In addition to the rules promulgated by HHS, there have also been judicial decisions impacting the pharmacies and PBMs. For example, in December 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld an Arkansas law that, among other things, mandates a particular pricing methodology, establishes an appeals process for a pharmacy when the reimbursement is below the pharmacy’s acquisition cost, permits a pharmacy to reverse and rebill if they cannot procure the drug from its wholesaler at a price equal to or less than the reimbursement rate, prohibits a PBM from reimbursing a pharmacy less than the amount it reimburses an affiliate on a per unit basis, and permits a pharmacy to decline to dispense if the reimbursement is lower than the pharmacy’s acquisition cost. More recently, in June 2022, the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, announced an inquiry regarding the role of PBMs and stated its intent to closely scrutinize the impact of PBM rebates and fees on patients and payers.payers, the FTC issued an interim report in June 2024. Several states have proposed separate PBM bills, and at least 18 states have adopted PBM oversight laws. A number of these proposed laws would require PBMs to submit annual transparency reports or otherwise disclose contractual arrangements with health benefit plans or health insurance issuers and would enable regulators to conduct audits of PBM operations. CongressFederal hasPBM alsoreforms consideredthat legislation to reform PBMsmirror and addressexpand on new state PBM consolidationinitiatives andbecame power with respect to drug pricing. For example,law in JulyFebruary 2023, the Senate Finance Committee voted to advance the Modernizing and Ensuring PBM Accountability Act.2026. It is unclear how these laws, inquiries, rules, and decisions will impact pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, and PBMs. In addition, CMS has indicated that it intends to increase flexibility in state Medicaid programs, including by expanding the scope of waivers under which states may implement Medicaid expansion provisions, impose different eligibility or enrollment restrictions, or otherwise implement programs that vary from federal standards. CMS administrators have also signaled interest in changing Medicaid payment models. Other industry participants, such as private payors, may also introduce financial or delivery system reforms. We are unable to predict the nature and success of such initiatives. We cannot predict with certainty what impact any federal and state healthcare reforms will have on us, but such changes could impose new and/or more stringent regulatory requirements on our activities, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations.
If we are found to have violated HIPAA, or any other applicable privacy and security laws and regulations, as well as contractual obligations, we could be subject to sanctions, fines, damages and other additional civil or criminal penalties, which could increase our liabilities, harm our reputation and have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operation.operations.
Numerous federal, state, and foreign laws, rules, and regulations, as well as contractual obligations, govern the Processingprocessing of confidential, sensitive, and personal information, including certain patient health information, such as patient records. Existing laws and regulations are constantly evolving, and new laws and regulations that apply to our business are being introduced at every level of government in the United States.States, as well as in foreign jurisdictions where we currently operate or may in the future operate. In many cases, these laws and regulations apply not only to third-party transactions, but also to transfers of information between or among us, our affiliates, and other parties with whom we conduct business. These laws and regulations may be interpreted and applied differently over time and from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, and it is possible that they will be interpreted and applied in ways that may have a material adverse effect on our business. The regulatory framework for data privacy and security worldwide is continuously evolving and developing and, as a result, interpretation and implementation standards and enforcement practices are likely to remain uncertain for the foreseeable future.
Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
New heading “Discontinued Operations”
New heading “Completed two underwritten secondary offerings of our common stock by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and certain members of management, which were completed in June 2025 and October 2025. As a result of these offerings, we are no longer a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq”
New heading “Repurchased 1,500,000 shares of common stock in connection with the October 2025 secondary offering”
New heading “Net income increased by $173.7 million from a net loss of $68.9 million to net income of $104.8 million”
New heading “Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA grew by $148.8 million, or 37.7%, to $543.5 million”
New heading “Provider Services segment EBITDA grew by $27.4 million, or 13.3%, to $232.7 million”
New heading “Diluted income per share increased by $0.82 from diluted loss per share of $(0.34) to diluted income per share of $0.48”
New heading “Discontinued Operations”
New heading “Goodwill Impairment Analyses”
Removed heading “Completion of our Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) on January 30, 2024”
Removed heading “Extinguishment of our Second Lien Facility”
Removed heading “Paydown and modification of our First Lien Facility, including interest rate refinancings that resulted in interest savings”
Removed heading “$63.3 million of equity awards granted to management and certain other full-time employees at the time of our IPO”
Removed heading “7.7 million restricted stock units granted to certain full-time employees in the second fiscal quarter of 2024, as disclosed in connection with our IPO”
Removed heading “Net loss decreased by $136.3 million from $156.8 million to $20.5 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million quality incentive payment (“QIP”) received in 2023, net loss decreased by $166.5 million”
Removed heading “Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased by $50.3 million, or 9.3%, to $588.1 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Adjusted EBITDA increased by $80.5 million or 15.9%”
Removed heading “Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA grew by $23.7 million, or 6.4%, to $394.7 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA increased by $53.9 million or 15.8%”
Removed heading “Loss per share decreased by $1.22 from $(1.31) to $(0.09)”
Removed heading “Initial Public Offering”
Removed heading “New Equity Awards”
Removed heading “Quality Incentive Payment”
Removed heading “Update on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic”
Removed heading “2023 and 2022 Goodwill Impairment Analyses”
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“2023 and 2022 Goodwill Impairment Analyses”see in full comparison
“Notwithstanding our belief that the assumptions we used for WACC and long-term growth rates in our impairment testing were reasonable, we performed sensitivity analyses for the Home Infusion, Home Health and Therapies and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units. …”see in full comparison
“Paydown and modification of our First Lien Facility, including interest rate refinancings that resulted in interest savings”see in full comparison
“Our 2022 goodwill impairment analysis concluded that the fair value of the Home Health and Therapies, Behavioral Health, Institutional Pharmacy, Specialty Pharmacy and Home Infusion reporting units were each substantially in excess of carrying value. Our Hospice Pharmacy and Workforce Solutions reporting units had carrying amounts that exceeded their respective fair values, and an aggregate carrying amount of $332.1 million. …”see in full comparison
“Our 2023 goodwill impairment analysis concluded that the fair value of the Behavioral Health, Specialty Solutions, Hospice Pharmacy, and Home Infusion reporting units were each substantially in excess of carrying value. Our Home Health and Therapies and Institutional Pharmacy reporting units had fair values that exceeded their carrying amounts by less than 10%, carrying amounts of $1.6 billion and $1.2 billion, and goodwill balances of $1.4 billion, and $447.0 million, respectively.”see in full comparison
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The following discussion analyzes our financial condition and results of operations and should be read in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. See “Forward-Looking Statements.” When reviewing the discussion below, you should keep in mind the substantial risks and uncertainties that characterize our business. Known material factors that could affect our financial performance and actual results, and could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements included in this discussion or otherwise made by our management, are described in “Risk Factors.” Factors that could cause or contribute to such difference are not limited to those identified in “Risk Factors.”
Discontinued Operations
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc. to divest our community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. We expect the divestiture to close in the first fiscal quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. This transaction provides for continuity of important intellectual and developmental disability services while the Company focuses on a concentrated group of customers, patients and stakeholders in the future. We believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payor mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment our expected Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require the Company's needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, rehab, primary care, and hospice.
The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and therefore met the criteria for classification as discontinued operations. As a result, the financial results of the Community Living business, which were previously reported as part of our Provider Services segment, have been classified as discontinued operations in the audited consolidated statements of operations, and its assets and liabilities have been classified as held for sale for all periods presented. Unless otherwise noted, amounts and disclosures throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis relate to our continuing operations. Refer to Part II, Item 8. Note 2 for additional information regarding discontinued operations.
Completion of our Initial Public Offering (“IPO”) on January 30, 2024
Extinguishment of our Second Lien Facility
Paydown and modification of our First Lien Facility, including interest rate refinancings that resulted in interest savings
$63.3 million of equity awards granted to management and certain other full-time employees at the time of our IPO
7.7 million restricted stock units granted to certain full-time employees in the second fiscal quarter of 2024, as disclosed in connection with our IPO
Completed eightthree acquisitions within our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segmentssegment
AnnouncementAnnounced ofdefinitive agreement to divest the pending divestiture of our Community Living business on January 20, 2025
Completed two underwritten secondary offerings of our common stock by affiliates of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and certain members of management, which were completed in June 2025 and October 2025. As a result of these offerings, we are no longer a “controlled company” within the meaning of the corporate governance standards of Nasdaq
Repurchased 1,500,000 shares of common stock in connection with the October 2025 secondary offering
Net income increased by $173.7 million from a net loss of $68.9 million to net income of $104.8 million
Net loss decreased by $136.3 million from $156.8 million to $20.5 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million quality incentive payment (“QIP”) received in 2023, net loss decreased by $166.5 million
Adjusted EBITDA(1) increased by $50.3 million, or 9.3%, to $588.1 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Adjusted EBITDA increased by $80.5 million or 15.9%
Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA grew by $23.7 million, or 6.4%, to $394.7 million; when excluding the approximately $30 million QIP received in 2023, Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA increased by $53.9 million or 15.8%
Provider Services segmentAdjusted EBITDA(1) grewincreased by $53.9$157.4 million, or 17.6%,34.2%, to $360.6$617.6 million
Pharmacy Solutions segment EBITDA grew by $148.8 million, or 37.7%, to $543.5 million
Provider Services segment EBITDA grew by $27.4 million, or 13.3%, to $232.7 million
Diluted income per share increased by $0.82 from diluted loss per share of $(0.34) to diluted income per share of $0.48
Loss per share decreased by $1.22 from $(1.31) to $(0.09)
We opportunistically provide pharmacy services when and where demanded and as required to customers and patients in their homes and communities, often in coordination with our provider services. The Company filled over 4143 million prescriptions in 20242025 from over 180175 pharmacies across all 50 states, with services delivered to approximately 7,1006,600 customer locations, moreapproximately than 60,00073,000 individual or group homes, and over 400,000410,000 patients, all through over 4,7004,500 unique customer and payor contracts. Our leading pharmacy support across customer and patient settings is achieved through a focus on medication availability and reliability, cost containment, customer staff and patient support programs, clinical and regulatory education and support, and leading customer service. Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy prescriptions and Home and Community Pharmacy prescriptions have grown at more than 22%27% and 11%,3%, respectively, from December 20232024 to December 2024.2025. We have a unique opportunity to increasingly provide more pharmacy services in the future to provider patients and patients transitioning across settings of care. Almost every one of the Company’s patients who receive provider services from us have a significant medication support need given their polypharmacy profile, which we have the opportunity to further address.
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc.Subsequent to divest the Company's community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. The Company expects the divestiture to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. This transaction provides for continuity of important intellectual and developmental disability services while BrightSpring focuses on a concentrated group of customers, patients and stakeholders in the future.Community WeLiving business, we believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payer mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment the Company’s expected Revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require BrightSpring’sthe Company's needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, rehab, primary care, and hospice. The Company expectshas todetermined accountthe for this sale as a strategic shift in fiscal year 2025. Asdivestiture of December 31, 2024, the Community Living business didrepresents nota meetstrategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and therefore met the definition of heldcriteria for saleclassification oras discontinued operations. The results of operations of Community Living are consolidatedexcluded from continuing operations in the Company’sCompany's results of operations for the years ended December 31, 20232025 and 2024.
Our Community and Rehab Care services provide both client- andhighly-skilled patient-centric clinical care and supportive care to Senior and Specialty clients and patients living with age-related acute or chronic conditions, living with life-long indications (including I/DD and autism), or recovering from a catastrophic neuro event (ABI/TBI or stroke) requiring intensive therapy. These services support individuals of all ages who need various forms of expert clinical care and therapytherapy, inincluding additionABA to assistance with daily skill building and living. The majority of these clients and patients receive daily pharmacy support, delivered through our pharmacy business, along with ongoing behavioral therapy consults and primary care medical care, which is increasingly being delivered through our home-based primary care practice.therapies.
We provide specialized, highly-skilled, and custom-designed rehabilitation services, including physical, speech and occupational therapy and ABA, for clients and patients of all ages with a range of injuries and conditions, including brain and spinal cord injuries, stroke, pediatric neuro conditions, and autism. We also offer a variety of programs for individuals with I/DD through our community living services, including group homes, supported living and family living models (host homes), behavioral therapy, vocational therapy, and case management. Our programs are principally administered in individuals’ homes and are predominantly based on individual support and clinical care plans designed to encourage greater independence and manage medical conditions, as the majority of I/DD individuals have multiple chronic conditions and require eight or more medications.conditions.
Our Personal Care services provide home care support that assist with activities of daily living. These services allow Seniors who require long-term care and assistance with activities of daily living to maintain their independence at home with their families. These supportive care activities address social determinants of health, including dietary and nutrition management and cognitive and social engagement, among others, and we offer these daily or weekly services.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions, and will represent a strategic shift in fiscal year 2025.
We are headquartered in Louisville, Kentucky with operations in all 50 states, Puerto Rico,states and Canada. We deliver a higher proportion of services in select regions with favorable demographics and regulatory environments.
We are characterized by payor diversification across our platform. Our payors are principally federal, state, and local governmental agencies, commercial insurance, private, and other payors. No payor represents more than 30%35% of our revenue in the aggregate for the years ended December 31, 20242025 and 2023.2024. Additionally, our Medicaid payors can be further broken down across each individual state with our top 10 Medicaid states representing 12% and 14%6% of total Company revenue for the yearyears ended December 31, 20242025 and 2023, respectively.2024. The federal, state, and local programs under which we operate are subject to legislative and budgetary changes that can influence reimbursement rates.
The following tables set forth revenue by payor type for the years ended December 31, 2025 and 2024 (in millions):
We provide our services across all 50 states, Puerto Ricostates and Canada, with our top 10 states of operations comprising 47%53% and 49%47% of total Company revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024,2025, and 20232024 respectively.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in 2025,the first fiscal quarter of 2026, subject to customary closing conditions. The sale of this business will represent a strategic shift, in fiscal year 2025,shift from our services to Behavioral populations. After closing, our focus will be primarily on Seniors and Specialty patients receiving neuro rehab.
We have observed relatively stable reimbursement rates from government and commercial payors in our pharmacy and provider services over a number of years, particularly for services provided to high-need, medically complex populations. Due to the medical necessity of our services, which are lower cost than healthcare services provided in other settings and reduce ER, hospital and institutional facility utilization, we have a history of reimbursement stability characterized by low-to-mid single digit rate increases across our lines of business from 2014 to 2022. Our average reimbursement rate increases based on revenue during this time period included 4.2% for personal care services associated with activity of daily living services for Seniors, 4.5% for Behavioral services, 2.2% for hospice services, and 1.6% associated with long term care pharmacy services.business.
Quality and compliance are central to our strategies and mission. We have demonstrated leading and excellent service and customer/patient/family satisfaction scores across the organization, as referenced in prior and other sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. In addition to quality and compliance resources and programs in field operations, we invest over $200 million a year in people, training, auditing, signature programs, accreditations, advocacy, and technologies to support quality, compliance, and safety as part of our “Quality First” framework. We have demonstrated consistently high and often leading marks for service levels, satisfaction scores, and quality metrics in our industries.
Since January 1, 2018, we have opened 164150 de novo offices (branches/agencies) and clinics in new locations across our pharmacy and provider services.services (not including offices divested as a part of the sale of the Community Living business). In 2024,2025, we opened 217 de novo offices. We typically identify and open new locations within proximity of an existing location as we leverage existing market knowledge and presence to expand in target markets, regions, and states. Our internal support resources in real estate, purchasing, IT, credentialing, payor contracting, HR, and sales and marketing, along with our PMO, help to support and manage de novos from start to opening. We expect to continue to selectively and strategically expand our footprint within the United States and extend our service offerings to our patients and for customers, referral sources, and payors, and we believe de novo investments facilitate more integrated care capability and are a meaningful organic growth driver for the Company.
The scale and depth of our complimentarycomplementary platform of diverse yet related customer and patient services – that complex patients require – positions us at the forefront with governmental and commercial payors who are increasingly seeking ways to expand value-based reimbursement models. Our high-quality services that are delivered in home and community-based and patient and family-preferred settings at lower comparable costs are well-positioned for the long-term, and we continue to add wraparound care management capabilities and offerings to our core services. In addition to our large Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary populations, we have a large number of non-governmental payor contracts across the organization today, which both diversifies our payor mix, and provides for additional value-based opportunities and partnerships.
Initial Public Offering
On January 30, 2024, we completed our IPO of 53,333,334 shares of common stock at a price of $13.00 per share and a concurrent offering of 8,000,000 6.75% tangible equity units (“TEUs”) with a stated amount of $50.00 per Unit (collectively, the “IPO Offerings”). The net proceeds from the IPO Offerings amounted to $656.5 million and $389.0 million for the common stock and TEUs, respectively, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions, and offering-related expenses. The shares of common stock and TEUs began trading on the Nasdaq Global Select Market on January 26, 2024 under the ticker symbols “BTSG” and “BTSGU,” respectively.
We used a portion of the net proceeds received from the IPO Offerings to (i) repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Second Lien Facility, (ii) repay all indebtedness outstanding under the Revolving Credit Facility, (iii) repay $343.3 million outstanding aggregate amount under the First Lien Facility, and (iv) pay certain expenses in the offering. We retained the remaining proceeds for general corporate purposes. Additionally, we paid $22.7 million of termination fees in connection with the termination of our monitoring agreement with Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (“KKR”) and Walgreens Boots Alliance, Inc. (together with KKR, the “Managers”) (the “Monitoring Agreement”).
New Equity Awards
We granted approximately $63.3 million in non-cash share-based compensation with equity awards to our management and certain other full-time employees in January 2024 at the time of the IPO Offerings. Additionally, as previously disclosed in connection with the IPO, we granted approximately $100.0 million in non-cash share-based compensation equity awards, which equates to approximately 7.7 million restricted stock units, to certain full-time employees in the second quarter of fiscal year 2024.
Acquisitions and Divestitures
In addition to organic growth, we have grown through acquisitions that have deepened and expanded our presence in current markets and facilitated entry into attractive adjacent markets.
During the years ended December 31, 20232024 and 2024,2025, we completed fiveeight and eightthree acquisitions,acquisitions respectively,for within the Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. Aggregateaggregate consideration, net of cash acquired, for these acquisitions wasof approximately $73.1$110.6 million and $110.9$247.0 million, respectively.
Discontinued Operations
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a definitive agreement to sell its Community Living business to National Mentor Holdings, Inc., for $835.0 million in cash upon closing, subject to certain post-closing adjustments. We entered into the transaction in order to streamline our service offerings and further focus on the senior and specialty populations. The transaction is currently expected to close in the first fiscal quarter of 2026, subject to receipt of customary regulatory approvals and satisfaction of other closing conditions.
The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and has concluded the criteria for classification as discontinued operations were met during the first fiscal quarter of 2025. Accordingly, the Community Living business is reported as discontinued operations in accordance with Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 205-20, Discontinued Operations. The related assets and liabilities of the Community Living business are classified as assets and liabilities held for sale in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets, and the results of operations from the Community Living business are classified as discontinued operations in the consolidated statements of operations. Applicable amounts in prior years have been recast to conform to this discontinued operations presentation. The Community Living business was historically presented as a part of the Provider Services reportable segment.
See Note 2 “Discontinued Operations” within the consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
As noted earlier, the Company announced the entry into a purchase agreement in January 2025 with respect to the expected sale of our Community Living business, which is expected to close in 2025, subject to customary closing conditions. The Company's Community Living business was not accounted for as held for sale or discontinued operations as of December 31, 2023 or 2024. Thus, the Community Living business' results of operations are consolidated in the Company’s results of operations. We intend to use the proceeds from the sale to reduce debt resulting in accelerated deleveraging while also increasing capital availability. We believe the divestiture will result in enhanced operational efficiency across the organization by optimizing resource allocation to further strengthen our position in our service offerings within the Pharmacy Solutions and remaining Provider Services segments by focusing on seniors and specialty populations with similar business and delivery models.
Quality Incentive Payment
As discussed under Part I, Item 1. “Business”, the Company was eligible to receive incentive payments in connection with a payor contract based on the Company's Net Promoter Score (“NPS”) achieved from surveys performed directly by the payor. During the second fiscal quarter of 2023, our Infusion and Specialty Pharmacy services earned a quality incentive payment (“QIP”) of approximately $30 million. The Company did not receive a QIP during the year ended December 31, 2024. The QIP program has reached its conclusion.
In November 2023, the Company agreed to settle the Silver matter without admitting liability, as discussed under Part I, Item 3. “Legal Proceedings”.liability. On May 29, 2024, the parties entered into a final settlement agreement, which was approved by both the United States Department of Justice and the District Court. The total financial impact of the settlement iswas $120.0 million; $115.0 million of which was recorded during the year ended December 31, 2023 as an estimate, and an incremental $5.0 million was recorded in the year ended December 31, 2024 once the settlement agreement was finalized. We paid $110.0 million of the settlement was paid in 2024, and the remainderremaining will$10.0 bemillion was paid in 2025.The2025. The District Court entered an order dismissing the Silver action in its entirety, with prejudice, on July 3, 2024. See Note 1415 “Commitments and Contingencies” within the audited consolidated financial statements and related notes, included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Update on the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
On May 11, 2023, the Department of Health and Human Services declared the COVID-19 pandemic is no longer a public health emergency. New variants could affect our operations for an extended period; however, at this time we cannot confidently forecast the duration or the ultimate financial impact on our operations, should such an impact occur. In the year ended December 31, 2024, the Company received no funds from the Provider Relief Fund (“PRF”) and recognized no income related to the program. The Company received and recognized into income $18.8 million from the PRF for the year ended December 31, 2023. The income recognized was offset directly by the expenses incurred within selling, general, and administrative expenses in our audited consolidated statement of operations, which resulted in no net financial impact to the Company.
Interest Expense, net. Interest expense, net includes interest paid on and debt service costs associated with our various debt instruments, including our First Lien Facilities and Second Lien Facility,Facilities, and the amortization of related deferred financing fees, which are amortized over the term of the respective credit agreement. Interest expense, net also includes the portion of the gain or loss on our interest rate swap agreements that is reclassified into earnings.
Income Tax Benefit.Expense (Benefit). Our provision for income taxes is based on permanent book/tax differences and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining the provision for income taxes.
This section of this Annual Report on Form 10-K generally discusses the years ended December 31, 20242025 and 20232024 and year-over-year comparisons between the years ended December 31, 20242025 and 2023.2024. For information ofregarding our results of operations for the year ended December 31, 20232024 compared to the year ended December 31, 2022,2023, refer to Exhibit 99.1 of our Current Report on Form 8-K, filed with the SEC on June 10, 2025, which contains retrospective revisions for the changes resulting from the discontinued operations, where applicable, to Item 7. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations in our previously filed Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Revenues were $11,266.5$12,910.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2025, as compared with $10,072.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $8,826.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023, an increase of $2,440.3$2,838.4 million or 27.6%.28.2%. The increase resulted from growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below. Revenues for the Company's Community Living business were $1,194.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2024, as compared with $1,135.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2023. When excluding the Community Living business revenues, consolidated revenues increased by $2,381.2 million or 31.0%.
an increase of $66.4$74.0 million, or 5.2% growth6.4%, on consolidated 20232024 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below;
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Risk Factors
There have been no material changes to the risk factors affecting our business, financial condition, or results of operations from those set forth under the heading “Summary Risk Factors” or in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2025. Additional risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently deem to be immaterial may also materially adversely affect our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
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Management's Discussion & Analysis (MD&A)
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“On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc. to divest our community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. The divestiture closed on March 30, 2026. …”see in full comparison
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We are a leading home and community-based healthcare services platform, focused on delivering complementary pharmacy and provider services to medically complex patients. We have a differentiated approach to care delivery, with an integrated and scaled model that addresses critical services that the highest-need and highest-cost patients require. With a focus on Senior and Specialty patients, our platform provides pharmacy and provider services (both clinical and supportive care in nature) in lower-cost home and community settings largely to Medicare, Medicaid, and commercially-insured populations. We are an essential part of our nation’s health delivery network as a front-line provider of high-quality and cost-effective care to a large and growing number of people, who increasingly require a combination of specialized solutions to enable holistic health care management. Our presence spans all 50 states; we serve over 475,000485,000 patients daily through our approximately 12,40012,700 clinical providers and pharmacists; and our services make a profound impact in the lives and communities of the people we serve.
FirstSecond Quarter of 2026 Key Highlights
$300.0 million paydown and concurrent modification of our First Lien Facility, including interest rate refinancings that resulted in interest savings
Completed the divestiture of the Community Living business on March 30, 2026
Completed an underwritten secondary offering of our common stock by affiliates Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. and certain members of management in MarchJune 2026
Repurchased 1,464,8071,026,465 shares of common stock in connection with the MarchJune 2026 secondary offering
Company leverage of 2.27x2.15x at MarchJune 31,30, 2026
Financial Performance Highlights: FirstSecond Quarter of 2026 Compared to FirstSecond Quarter of 2025
On May 28, 2026, the company used proceeds from the Community Living divestiture to repay $300.0 million of Tranche B-5 and established a new Tranche B-6 Term Loan of $2,214.9 million to refinance the remaining Tranche B-5 balance at SOFR plus 2.00% (or ABR plus 1.00%), maturing February 21, 2031. Additionally, borrowings of the Revolver bear interest at a rate equal to SOFR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 2.00% for the Revolving Credit Loans or ABR (with a floor of 0.00%) plus 1.00% for the Swingline Loans.
On January 17, 2025, the Company entered into a purchase agreement with National Mentor Holding, Inc. to divest our community living services, home and community based waiver programs, and intermediate care facilities (the “Community Living business”), for $835 million, subject to typical adjustments for working capital and other customary items. The divestiture closed on March 30, 2026. The Company has determined the divestiture of the Community Living business represents a strategic shift that will have a major effect on its business and therefore met the criteria for classification as discontinued operations in the first fiscal quarter of 2025. This transaction provides for continuity of important intellectual and developmental disability services while BrightSpring focuses on a concentrated group of customers, patients and stakeholders in the future. We believe the Company’s streamlined service offerings will result in increased strategic focus, operational efficiencies, a refined payer mix, and greater clinical integration and business synergy across the Provider Services segment. The divestiture will also augment our expected revenue and Adjusted EBITDA growth rates and maximize exposure to target growth markets that require BrightSpring’s needed and valuable solutions, such as home health, hospice, rehab, and primary care. Unless otherwise noted, amounts and disclosures throughout this Management’s Discussion and Analysis relate to our continuing operations. Refer to “PART I - Item 1. Note 2” of our Form 10-K for additional information regarding discontinued operations.
On MarchJune 4,6, 2026, KKR Stockholder and certain management selling stockholders completed a registered secondary public offering of 20,000,00014,999,771 shares of the Company’s common stock (the “MarchJune 2026 Offering”). The Company did not sell any shares of common stock that were offered in the MarchJune 2026 Offering. Also, the Company did not receive any proceeds from the MarchJune 2026 Offering, other than proceeds received in connection with the cash exercise of stock options by the management selling stockholders in connection with the MarchJune 2026 Offering.
In connection with the MarchJune 2026 Offering, the Company concurrently purchased from the underwriter, out of the aggregate of 20,000,00014,999,771 shares of common stock that were the subject of the MarchJune 2026 Offering, 1,464,8071,026,465 shares of common stock at a price of $40.96$58.453 per share, for a total purchase price of $60.0 million. The purchase price reflected a discount to the closing market price on the date of purchase. The repurchase was reviewed and approved by the Audit Committee of our Board of Directors.
We are characterized by payor diversification across our platform. Our payors are principally federal, state, and local governmental agencies, commercial insurance, private, and other payors. Additionally, our Medicaid payors can be further broken down across each individual state with our top 10 Medicaid states representing 7% and 6% of total Company revenue for the three and six months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025.2025, respectively.
We provide our services across all 50 states, Puerto Rico and Canada, with our top 10 states of operations comprising 52%53% and 53%52% of total Company revenues for the three and six months ended MarchJune 31,30, 20262026, respectively, compared to 53% for the three and 2025,six respectively.months ended June 30, 2025. The federal, state, and local programs under which we operate are subject to legislative and budgetary changes that can influence reimbursement rates.
See Note 3 of the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related notes in this Form 10-Q for more information regarding revenue by payor type for each reportable segment for the three and six months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 and 2025.
The scale and depth of our complimentary platform of diverse yet related customer and patient services – that complex patients require – positions us at the forefront with governmental and commercial payors who are increasingly seeking ways to expand value-based reimbursement models. Our high-quality services that are delivered in home and community-based and patient and family-preferred settings at lower comparable costs are well-positioned for the long-term,long term, and we continue to add wraparound care management capabilities and offerings to our core services. In addition to our large Medicare and Medicaid beneficiary populations, we have a large number of non-governmental payor contracts across the organization today, which both diversifies our payor mix, and provides for additional value-based opportunities and partnerships. The Company’s focused build out of its (i) Home-Based Primary Care, transitional care programs, and in-home medication therapy management, and (ii) Clinical (Nursing) Hub, are key enablers to coordinate base pharmacy and provider services and drive improved quality and lower costs for value-based care constructs. In addition to numerous payor contracts that feature reimbursement incentives, in the past year the Company has entered into several accountable care organization (“ACO”) arrangements to participate in shared savings from its attributed primary care patients and other ACO partnerships and contract as a preferred provider.
Income Tax Expense (Benefit).Expense. Our provision for income taxes is based on permanent book/tax differences and statutory tax rates in the various jurisdictions in which we operate. Significant estimates and judgments are required in determining the provision for income taxes.
Three Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 Compared to Three Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025
Revenues were $3,613.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2026, as compared with $2,878.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025, an increase of $735.6 million or 25.6%. The increase resulted from growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of Goods
CostRevenues ofwere goods was $2,870.6$3,873.1 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $2,328.2$3,147.7 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $542.4$725.4 million or 23.3%.23.0%. The increase resulted from an increasegrowth in our Pharmacy Solutions costand ofProvider goods.Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of Services
Cost of servicesgoods was $260.9$3,109.0 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $211.5$2,556.4 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $49.4$552.6 million or 23.3%.21.6%. The increase resulted from an increase in ProviderPharmacy ServicesSolutions cost of services.goods. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Selling, General, and Administrative Expenses
Selling,Cost general,of andservices administrativewas expenses were $360.8$271.4 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $287.6$216.4 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $73.1$55.0 million or 25.4%. The increase primarily resulted from thean followingincrease segmentin activityProvider andServices factors:cost of services. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $362.4 million for the three months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $326.3 million for the three months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $36.1 million or 11.1%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
an increase of $73.6$44.2 million, or 25.6%,13.5%, on consolidated second quarter of 2025 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by, a decrease of $0.5 million, or 0.2%, in consolidated first quarter of 2025 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of a decrease in other operational expenses year-over-year.
an increase of $5.1 million, or 1.6%, on consolidated second quarter of 2025 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of an increase in other operational expenses year-over-year; offset by, a decrease of $13.2 million, or 4.0%, on consolidated second quarter of 2025 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of a decrease in acquisition, integration, and transaction-related costs year-over-year.
Interest expense, net was $38.6$36.9 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $41.8$38.8 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, a decrease of $3.1$1.9 million or 7.5%.4.9%. The decrease primarily resulted from a decrease in both the variable-rate and applicable margin for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 as compared to the prior period and lower outstanding term debt as compared to the prior period, and was partially offset by a $3.9$4.0 million decrease in interest income received related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk.
Income Tax Expense (Benefit)
Income tax expense was $8.6$6.9 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with an income tax benefit of $0.2$1.2 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The $8.8$5.7 million increase in the income tax expense is primarily driven by the increase in pre-tax book income for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 as compared to the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, andwhich anwas increasepartially inoffset theby a lower effective tax rate for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 of 10.3%7.4% compared to (2.7)%12.7% for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The increase in thelower effective tax rate iswas primarily attributabledriven toby thehigher comparatively favorable impact of year-to-date discreteexcess tax benefits recognized on pre-taxshare-based incomecompensation inawards eachduring respective2026. period.These favorable impacts were partially offset by limitations on the deductibility of certain executive compensation.
Net income was $74.3$86.6 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $9.2$8.5 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $65.1$78.1 million. The increase in net income is primarily attributable to the increase in gross profit and the aforementioned decrease in interest expense, net, partially offset by an increase in selling, general, and administrative expenses and income tax expense.
Adjusted EBITDA (1)
Adjusted EBITDA was $189.8$205.5 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $131.1$142.5 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $58.7$63.0 million or 44.8%.44.2%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
an increase of $68.2$73.8 million, or 52.0%,51.8%, on consolidated firstsecond quarter of 2025 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by a decrease of $9.5$10.8 million, or 7.2%,7.6%, on consolidated firstsecond quarter of 2025 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of increases in certain public company costs incurred, investments in information technology, and positions to support growth within the business.
(1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided below under the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”
Six Months Ended June 30, 2026 Compared to Six Months Ended June 30, 2025
The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, our consolidated results of operations.
* n.m.: not meaningful (1) Reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results is provided below under the section entitled “Non-GAAP Financial Measures.”
The following discussion of our results of operations should be read in conjunction with the foregoing table summarizing our consolidated results of operations.
Revenues were $7,486.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $6,025.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $1,461.0 million or 24.2%. The increase resulted from growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of goods was $5,979.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $4,884.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $1,095.0 million or 22.4%. The increase resulted from an increase in Pharmacy Solutions cost of goods. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Cost of services was $532.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $428.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $104.3 million or 24.4%. The increase resulted from an increase in Provider Services cost of services. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below.
Selling, general, and administrative expenses were $723.1 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $613.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $109.2 million or 17.8%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
an increase of $117.8 million, or 19.2%, on consolidated 2025 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by, a decrease of $8.6 million, or 1.4%, on consolidated 2025 selling, general, and administrative expenses, as a result of a decrease in other operational expenses year-over-year.
Interest Expense, net
Interest expense, net was $75.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $80.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, a decrease of $5.0 million or 6.3%. The decrease primarily resulted from a decrease in both the variable-rate and applicable margin for the six months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to the prior period and lower outstanding term debt as compared to the prior period, and was partially offset by a $7.8 million decrease in interest income received related to cash flow hedges of interest rate risk.
Income Tax Expense
Income tax expense was $15.5 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $1.0 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The $14.5 million increase in the income tax expense is primarily driven by the increase in pre-tax book income for the six months ended June 30, 2026 as compared to the six months ended June 30, 2025, and an increase in the effective tax rate for the six months ended June 30, 2026 of 8.8% compared to 5.3% for the six months ended June 30, 2025. The increase in the effective tax rate is primarily attributable to the comparatively favorable impact of year-to-date discrete tax benefits on pre-tax income in each respective period. These favorable impacts were partially offset by limitations on the deductibility of certain executive compensation.
Excess tax benefits associated with share-based compensation are recorded as discrete tax items in the period in which the related awards vest or are exercised. Accordingly, the amount of such benefits may fluctuate significantly from period to period based on the Company’s stock price and employee vesting and exercise activity.
Net Income
Net income was $160.9 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $17.8 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $143.1 million. The increase in net income is primarily attributable to the increase in gross profit and the aforementioned decrease in interest expense, net, partially offset by an increase in selling, general, and administrative expenses and income tax expense.
Adjusted EBITDA was $395.3 million for the six months ended June 30, 2026, as compared with $273.6 million for the six months ended June 30, 2025, an increase of $121.7 million or 44.5%. The increase primarily resulted from the following segment activity and factors:
an increase of $142.0 million, or 51.9%, on consolidated 2025 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of growth in our Pharmacy Solutions and Provider Services segments. See additional discussion in “—Segment Results of Operations” below; offset by a decrease of $20.3 million, or 7.4%, on consolidated 2025 Adjusted EBITDA, as a result of increases in certain public company costs incurred, investments in information technology, and positions to support growth within the business.
Three Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 Compared to Three Months Ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025
Revenues were $3,171.3$3,407.1 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $2,532.2$2,790.1 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $639.2$617.1 million or 25.2%.22.1%. The increase primarily resulted from volume growth in prescriptions dispensed within InfusionSpecialty and SpecialtyInfusion Pharmacy partially offset by a decline in prescriptions dispensed within Home and Community Pharmacy. Revenues attributable to InfusionSpecialty and SpecialtyInfusion Pharmacy were $2,644.2$2,867.5 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $1,951.5$2,203.4 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $692.7$664.1 million or 35.5%30.1% attributable to an increase in prescriptions dispensed on certain specialty branded drugs. Revenues attributable to Home and Community Pharmacy were $527.1$539.6 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $580.7$586.7 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, a decrease of $53.6$47.1 million or 9.2%,8.0%, primarily attributable to impacts from the Inflation Reduction ActAct, which,which has resulted in significant reductions in federal healthcare spending, including through mandatory Medicare drug price negotiations and rebates, and statutory caps on negotiated prices.
Cost of Goods
Cost of goods was $2,870.6$3,109.0 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $2,328.2$2,556.4 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $542.4$552.6 million or 23.3%.21.6%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period as well as an increase in cost per prescription dispensed as a result of mix shift.
Gross profit was $300.8$298.2 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026, as compared with $204.0$233.7 million for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025, an increase of $96.8$64.5 million or 47.5%.27.6%. The increase primarily resulted from the aforementioned revenue growth in the period, primarily the result of outsized volume growth as well as mix in certain specialty branded drugs, which have lower margins.
Gross profit margin for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2026 was 9.5%8.8% compared to 8.1%8.4% for the three months ended MarchJune 31,30, 2025. The increase in gross profit margin is due to mix shift in the Pharmacy Solutions segment with greater relative volume growth in InfusionSpecialty and SpecialtyInfusion Pharmacy, along with product-level mix shifts and rate changes, partially offset by an increase in the fulfillment cost per script in Home and Community Pharmacy.
BTSG insider buying and selling (Form 4)
Since 2026-04-11, insiders reported open-market purchases in 0 Form 4 filings and open-market sales in 6 filings (6 insiders, 2 trade dates, 29,684,641 shares, about $1.7B; 1 of these filings say the sales were made under a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan). Net open-market shares: -29,684,641 (purchases minus sales); net value about -$1.7B.Totals add up every open-market (code P and S) line in those filings, using the prices reported in the filings. Awards, option exercises, tax withholding and gifts are listed below but not counted.
| Trade date | Insider | Transaction | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-09-14 | Greenwell Scott A. |
Open-market sale |
15,099 | $57.91 | $874.4K |
| 2026-09-14 | Greenwell Scott A. |
Option exercise |
11,973 | $22.27 | $266.6K |
| 2026-07-25 | Rousseau Jon B |
Shares withheld for tax | 56,319 | $72.91 | $4.1M |
| 2026-06-20 | Greenwell Scott A. |
Shares withheld for tax | 2,487 | $66.25 | $164.8K |
| 2026-06-11 | Shah Nigam H. |
Grant/award | 4,013 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Kravis Henry R |
Other | 324,608 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Kravis Henry R |
Gift | 36,927 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Kravis Henry R |
Open-market sale | 14,669,771 | $58.45 | $857.4M |
| 2026-06-05 | Kravis Henry R |
Gift | 23,263 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Kkr Associates Americas Xii L.p. |
Open-market sale | 14,669,771 | $58.45 | $857.4M |
| 2026-06-05 | Kkr Associates Americas Xii L.p. |
Other | 324,608 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Kkr Associates Americas Xii L.p. |
Gift | 36,927 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Kkr Associates Americas Xii L.p. |
Gift | 23,263 | — | — |
| 2026-06-05 | Rousseau Jon B |
Option exercise | 130,000 | $6.37 | $828.1K |
| 2026-06-05 | Rousseau Jon B |
Open-market sale | 130,000 | $58.75 | $7.6M |
| 2026-06-05 | Rousseau Jon B |
Option exercise | 130,000 | $6.37 | $828.1K |
| 2026-06-05 | Rousseau Jon B |
Open-market sale | 130,000 | $58.75 | $7.6M |
| 2026-06-05 | Nalley Lisa A |
Option exercise | 35,000 | $6.37 | $222.9K |
| 2026-06-05 | Nalley Lisa A |
Open-market sale | 35,000 | $58.75 | $2.1M |
| 2026-06-05 | Phipps Jennifer A |
Option exercise | 35,000 | $6.37 | $222.9K |
| 2026-06-05 | Phipps Jennifer A |
Open-market sale | 35,000 | $58.75 | $2.1M |
| 2026-05-05 | Miller Steven B |
Grant/award | 4,983 | — | — |
| 2026-05-05 | Kirtley Olivia F |
Grant/award | 4,983 | — | — |
| 2026-05-05 | Wicks Timothy A |
Grant/award | 4,983 | — | — |
| 2026-04-25 | Rousseau Jon B |
Shares withheld for tax | 16,222 | $48.16 | $781.3K |
Well-known investors holding BTSG (13F)
| Investor | Quarter | Shares | Reported value | % of their 13F | Change vs prior quarter |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viking Global Investors (Andreas Halvorsen) | 2026-06-30 | 1,618,237 | $112.9M | 0.32% | New position |
| Renaissance Technologies | 2026-06-30 | 760,801 | $53.1M | 0.07% | New position |
| Citadel Advisors (Ken Griffin) | 2026-06-30 | 517,146 | $36.1M | 0.02% | Reduced 83% |
| Millennium Management (Israel Englander) | 2026-06-30 | 237,030 | $16.5M | 0.01% | Reduced 82% |
| Point72 Asset Management (Steve Cohen) | 2026-06-30 | 192,145 | $13.4M | 0.02% | Reduced 60% |
| Point72 Asset Management (Steve Cohen) | 2026-06-30 | 51,150 | $11.8M | 0.02% | No change |
| Gotham Asset Management (Joel Greenblatt) | 2026-06-30 | 137,718 | $9.6M | 0.02% | New position |
| Two Sigma Investments | 2026-06-30 | 113,140 | $7.9M | 0.01% | Reduced 27% |
| AQR Capital Management (Cliff Asness) | 2026-06-30 | 86,254 | $6.0M | 0.0% | Reduced 8% |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | 2026-06-30 | 29,909 | $2.1M | 0.0% | Reduced 61% |