InfuSystem Holdings, Inc. Reports Fourth Quarter And Year End 2016 Financial Results

MADISON HEIGHTS, Mich., March 22, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- InfuSystem Holdings, Inc. (NYSE MKT: INFU), a leading national provider of infusion pumps and related services for the healthcare industry in the United States and Canada, reported financial results today for the fourth quarter and full year ended December 31, 2016.

Full Year 2016 Overview:

• Held rental revenues of $62.2 million and net collected revenues of $64.9 million nearly flat despite the negative pricing impact of the SE1609 announcement by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”);
• Increased product sales by 9% to $8.3 million;
• Increased third-party payor networks from 340 to 450, or 32%;
• Net revenues remained consistent at $70.5 million on increased volume, which offset the pricing impact of SE1609;
• Net income decreased from $2.8 million, $0.12 per diluted share, in 2015 to a net loss of ($0.2) million, or ($0.01) per diluted share, in 2016.
• EBITDA was $11.7 million compared to $13.9 million in the prior year; AEBITDA was $13.0 million compared to $17.2 million in the prior year decreases largely attributable to the negative pricing impact of the SE1609;
• EBITDA margin (EBITDA divided by Net Revenues) was 16.6% compared to 19.8% in the same prior year period; AEBITDA (AEBITDA divided by Net Revenues) margin was 18.5% compared to 24.4% in the prior year;
• Transitioned more than 1,700 outpatient infusion clinic customers from third party pay model to direct pay model for their Medicare patients, while rolling out the new Express IT computer system; and
• Increased gross billings by 9%, largest market share held in company history.

Fourth Quarter Overview:

• Net revenues totaled $16.9 million, a decrease of 10% versus fourth quarter 2015 net revenues (pre-SE1609) of $18.7 million;
• Product sales decreased 23% to $2.0 million over last year’s comparable quarter due to a large opportunistic sale in the prior year period;
• Bad debt increased 19% for the quarter compared to the prior year period, largely due to the implementation of SE1609;
• Net loss of $473,000, or ($0.02) per diluted share, compared to fourth quarter 2015 net income of $1.5 million, or $0.07 per diluted share;
• EBITDA was $2.4 million, or a decrease of 52% compared to the prior year period, with a margin of 14.0% (EBITDA divided by Net Revenues); AEBITDA decreased 44% to $2.9 million with a margin of 17.3% (AEBITDA divided by Net Revenues) versus the fourth quarter of 2015;
• Net Collected Revenues decreased 13% over last year’s comparable quarter; and
• Net Collected Rental Revenues decreased 11% over last year’s comparable quarter.

Management Discussion

Eric K. Steen, chief executive officer of InfuSystem, said, “In 2016 we were faced with a number of significant challenges that impacted our top- and bottom-lines for the full year. In late April 2016, CMS issued ruling SE1609, announcing that ambulatory infusion pumps would no longer be reimbursed for Medicare patients leaving an outpatient clinic or physician office. Due to this material change, we quickly reengineered our entire business process with Medicare patients and we successfully transitioned 1,700 of our outpatient infusion clinic customers to a new fee schedule, our direct pay method for their Medicare patients. We accomplished this transition while rolling out our new EXPRESS IT computer system. As a result of our actions, we believe we are strategically positioned to gain market share going forward.”

“Fourth quarter financial results and their comparison to prior year reflects the impact of the transition from billing CMS to billing the outpatient infusion clinic providers directly. However, due to market share gains, fourth quarter oncology and pain management revenue was up 3% compared to the third quarter on a sequential basis. We can more clearly see the results of our market share gain in fourth quarter by the 8% year over year increase in our oncology monthly pump rental volume.”

“Our non-opioid post-surgical pain management service continues to grow,” continued Mr. Steen. “At year end, this business was on a run-rate to serve 5,000 patients annually and generate approximately $1 million dollars in net revenue. Several new clients have already implemented in 2017 and these numbers are moving up and to the right. We will soon be launching our previously developed Block Pain Dashboard Application for mobile phones. We expect this feature to further accelerate the growth of this business in the coming years.”

Mr. Steen concluded, “We enter 2017 with the largest market share in the history of InfuSystem. We recently completed a reengineering and streamlining of our internal operations to increase efficiencies and reduce our annual payroll by more than $1 million. Our plan for 2017 is to focus on leveraging the investments made in the growing the infusion market; limit our capital expenditures; and pay down debt to strengthen our balance sheet. Our information technology, suite of electronic connectivity solutions, and infusion pump fleet have us well positioned to compete in 2017 and beyond.”

Full Year 2016 Results

Net Revenue for the full year ended December 31, 2016 and 2015 was $70.5 million. Although net revenue was consistent with the prior year, we did experience an increase of 9% in Product Sales offset by a decrease of 1% in rentals, largely due to the Company’s implementation of SE1609 from CMS, which resulted in our rental revenues being reduced by approximately $2.6 million for the second half of 2016.

Gross profit decreased $4.9 million, or 10%, compared to the prior year, largely attributable to the increase in cost of revenues product, service and supply costs of $2.4 million, broken down as supplies and material costs of $0.8 million, service costs of $0.8 million, disposable costs of $0.6 million and freight of $0.2 million, while the increase in cost of revenues - pump depreciation, sales and disposals of $2.4 million was due to $1.5 million of additional pump depreciation as a result of the record number of pump deployments in 2016 and the remaining $0.9 million due to the increased costs of pumps sold during 2016 with lower margin. Gross profit as a percentage of net revenues decreased to 63% compared to the prior year at 70%.

Net Collected Rental Revenue was $56.6 million, a decrease of 2%, compared to last year’s $57.7 million. Bad debt increased $0.4 million compared to the prior year from 8% of Rental Revenue to 9% of Rental Revenue in 2016. This change is largely due to the Company’s implementation of SE1609 from CMS, which was implemented July 1, 2016. As a result of this change to a portion of our billing procedures, we reserved for potential bad debt, resulting in additional expense of approximately $0.7 million.

Year-to-date selling and marketing expenses decreased to $9.7 million, or 7%, compared to December 31, 2015 and decreased as a percentage of net revenues to 14% compared to the prior year at 15%. The decrease of $0.8 million was largely due to a reduction for salaries and benefits of $0.5 million and travel expenses of $0.2 million.

General and administrative (“G&A”) expenses year-to-date were $24.6 million, an increase of 4% from $23.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2015. The increase in G&A expenses versus the same prior year period was mainly attributable to increases in spending on Information Technology (“IT”) and pain management initiatives of $1.7 million offset by decreases in compensation and employee personnel of $0.9 million. G&A expenses during 2016 and 2015 consisted primarily of accounting, administrative, third-party payor billing and contract services, customer service, nurses on staff, new product services, and service center personnel salaries, fringe benefits and other payroll related items, professional fees, legal fees, stock-based compensation, insurance and other miscellaneous items.

Net income for the year decreased from $2.8 million, or $0.12 per diluted share, to a loss of ($0.2) million, or ($0.01) per diluted share, in the current year. Adjusted net income for the year, adding back integration costs associated with the Ciscura acquisition, costs associated with our restatement and other income and expenses, was $0.3 million, or $0.01 per diluted share, compared to $4.4 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, in the same prior year period. A reconciliation table for Adjusted net income, a non-GAAP measure, to net income can be found in the appendix.

For the twelve months ended December 31, 2016, Adjusted EBITDA decreased $4.2 million, or 24% to $13.0 million, compared to $17.2 million in the same prior year period largely due to costs associated with the implementation of SE1609 and the net impact of our restatement. The Company utilizes Adjusted EBITDA as a means to measure its operating performance. A reconciliation table for Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, to EBITDA can be found in the appendix.

Fourth Quarter Results

Net Revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016 was $16.9 million, a decrease of $1.9 million, or 10%, compared to the same quarter ended December 31, 2015. During the period, net revenue from rentals was $14.8 million, a decrease of $1.3 million, or 8%, compared to the same prior year period. As discussed in previously, the implementation of SE1609 impacted our results for the fourth quarter of 2016 by a decrease of approximately $1.3 million. Product sales during the quarter totaled $2.0 million, a decrease of $0.6 million, or 23.0%, compared to $2.6 million in the fourth quarter of 2015.

Selling and marketing expenses were $2.0 million, a decrease of 14%, compared to $2.3 million for the three months ended December 31, 2015. As a percentage of revenue, selling and marketing expenses declined from 13% to 12% compared to the same prior year period. The decrease was largely due to a reduction in salaries and benefits.

G&A expenses were $6.3 million, an increase of 3%, compared to $6.1 million for the quarter ended December 31, 2015. The increase in G&A expenses versus the same prior year period was mainly attributable to increases in spending on Information Technology (“IT”) of $0.2 million and outside services of $0.4 million, which represents costs as a result of our restatement, offset by decreases in stock compensation of $0.1 million, compensation and employee personnel of $0.2 million and service and repair of $0.1 million. As a percentage of revenue, G&A expenses increased slightly as a percentage of revenue from 33% to 37% in the fourth quarter of 2016, largely attributable to the decline in revenue on the pricing impact of SE1609.

Net income in the fourth quarter decreased to a loss of ($0.5) million, or ($0.02) per diluted share, compared to net income of $1.5 million, or $0.07 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of last year.

For the fourth quarter, Adjusted EBITDA decreased $2.3 million, or 44% to $2.9 million, compared to $5.2 million in the same prior year period. The Company utilizes Adjusted EBITDA as a means to measure its operating performance. A reconciliation table for Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure, from net income can be found in the appendix of this press release.

Financial Condition

Net cash provided by operations for the full year ended December 31, 2016 was $7.9 million compared to net cash provided by operations of $7.1 million for the prior year period.

As of December 31, 2016, the Company had cash and cash equivalents of $3.4 million and $9.9 million of availability on its revolving line-of-credit compared to $0.8 million of cash and cash equivalents and $9.9 million of availability on its revolving line-of-credit as of December 31, 2015. Total debt less cash on hand (“Net Debt”) as of December 31, 2016 was $34.1 million compared to the previous fiscal year of $34.2 million.

Conference Call

The Company will conduct a conference call for investors on Wednesday, March 22, 2017 at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time to discuss fourth quarter and year end performance and results. Eric K. Steen, chief executive officer, Jan Skonieczny, chief operating officer, Christopher Downs, interim chief financial officer, and Trent Smith, chief accounting officer will discuss the Company’s financial performance and answer questions from the financial community. To participate in this call, please dial in toll-free 800-446-2782 and use the confirmation number 44520213. The release will be available on most financial websites. Additionally, a Web replay will be available on the Company’s website for 30 days.

Non-GAAP Measure

This press release contains information prepared in conformity with GAAP as well as non-GAAP information. It is management’s intent to provide non-GAAP financial information in order to enhance readers’ understanding of its consolidated financial information as prepared in accordance with GAAP. This non-GAAP information should be considered by the reader in addition to, but not instead of, the financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP. Each non-GAAP financial measure and the corresponding GAAP financial measures are presented so as to not imply that more emphasis should be placed on the non-GAAP measure. The non-GAAP financial information presented may be determined or calculated differently by other companies. Additional information about non-GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of those measures to the most directly comparable GAAP measures are included later in this release.

InfuSystem Holdings, Inc. is a leading provider of infusion pumps and related services to hospitals, oncology practices and other alternate site healthcare providers. Headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, the Company delivers local, field-based customer support and also operates Centers of Excellence in Michigan, Kansas, California, Texas, Georgia and Ontario, Canada. The Company’s stock is traded on the NYSE MKT under the symbol INFU.

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