Item 1. Business
Overview
Healthways, Inc. provides network delivered solutions and population health management services that are uniquely designed to help people improve their well-being, thereby improving their health and productivity and reducing their health-related costs. Our solutions and services are designed to improve some or all of a population's well-being elements: physical, financial, social, community and sense of purpose. In some cases we engage entire populations, including health plan memberships, workforces and communities, while in other cases we engage targeted populations such as members at high-risk, cohorts of cardiac rehabilitation patients or hospital discharge patients. In the U.S., we operate in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Our customers include health plans, both commercial and Medicare Advantage, large self-insured employers including state and municipal government entities, and providers of healthcare, including integrated healthcare systems, and hospitals. In addition to our U.S. operations, we also provide services to commercial healthcare businesses and/or government entities in Australia, Brazil, and France.
Our Network Solutions Business contains, among others, three large programs including the SilverSneakers® senior fitness program, the Prime fitness program and the Physical Medicine access program. The SilverSneakers® senior fitness program is offered to members of Medicare Advantage, Medicare Supplement, and Group Retirees. Our networks encompass approximately 16,000 U.S. fitness center locations and more than 1,000 alternative locations providing classes only. We utilize the fitness center national network to also offer the Prime Fitness program through commercial health plans, employers and insurance exchanges. We also offer a Physical Medicine network of over 88,000 complementary, alternative and physical medicine practitioners to serve individuals through health plans and employers who seek health services such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, chiropractic care, acupuncture and more.
Our Population Health Business, whose largest customers are commercial health plans and self-insured employers, takes a systematic approach to keeping healthy people healthy, eliminating or reducing lifestyle risks and optimizing care for persistent or chronic conditions. Our population health technology platform uses our proprietary analytics and predictive models to enable us to stratify the population, develop individualized well-being improvement plans and deliver targeted action-based solutions to improve individual and organizational performance. Many of our intervention services are delivered from our domestic and international well-being improvement call centers staffed with a range of health care professionals. The professionals include, but are not limited to, nurses, dieticians, pharmacists, health coaches, exercise specialists and nutritional counselors. Our interventions are delivered using a range of other methods, including venue-based face-to-face interactions; print; phone; mobile and remote devices with unique applications; on-line web-based portals , including social networks; and any combination of these methods.
Founded and incorporated in Delaware in 1981, Healthways, Inc. is headquartered at 701 Cool Springs Boulevard, Franklin, TN 37067.
Customer Contracts
Our fees are generally billed on a per member per month ("PMPM") basis or upon member participation, such as the SilverSneakers® fitness solution. For PMPM fees, we generally determine our contract fees by multiplying the contractually negotiated PMPM rate by the number of members eligible for or receiving our services during the month. PMPM rates are established during contract negotiations with customers, often based on the value we expect our programs to create and a sharing of that value between the customer and the Company.
Our contracts with health plans and integrated healthcare systems generally range from three to five years with several comprehensive strategic agreements extending up to ten years in length. Contracts with self-insured employers typically have two to four-year terms. Some of our contracts allow the customer to terminate early.
Some of our contracts place a portion of our fees at risk based on achieving certain performance metrics such as cost savings, and/or clinical outcomes improvements ("performance-based"). Approximately 7% of revenues recorded during the twelve months ended December 31, 2015 were performance-based and 2% of revenues were subject to final reconciliation as of December 31, 2015.
Backlog
Backlog represents the estimated average annualized revenue at target performance over the term of the contract for business awarded but not yet started. We do not consider backlog at December 31 to be a meaningful predictor of our future revenues as a significant majority of our new revenues come from a combination of expanding revenue from existing customers and new customers with contracts that are signed and started on a non-calendar year basis. Annualized revenue in backlog as of December 31, 2015 and 2014 was as follows:
Business Strategy
Our business strategy and value proposition reflect our fundamental belief that people with higher well-being have lower overall health-related costs, improved workforce engagement and improved productivity. These outcomes create value for our customers, which include health plans, governments, employers, integrated healthcare systems and communities.
We believe the entire healthcare market is shifting to payment for outcomes, not simply volume of services or time, and that solutions focused on population health management are the most effective model within this pay-for-value reimbursement market. We believe this model is better aligned with macro healthcare trends and their impact on payors, providers and consumers.
As part of our reorganization and cost rationalization plan developed in 2015 (the "2015 Restructuring Plan"), we are moving from an organization focused on five customer end markets to a structure centered on two primary businesses - Network Solutions and Population Health Services. The Network Solutions business creates interventions that are delivered through the networks that we manage, including our SilverSneakers® Fitness program and our national network of complementary and alternative medicine providers. The Population Health Services business unit delivers interventions directly to members of sponsored populations. These interventions are designed to improve people's health and well-being and drive improved performance and lower health-related costs by keeping healthy people healthy, eliminating or reducing lifestyle risks that lead to disease and optimizing care for people with persistent conditions or chronic disease.
Strategic partnerships with leading health and well-being solutions providers are an important part of our business strategy. For example, we collaborate with Blue Zones, LLC to deliver a scaled well-being improvement solution to improve the well-being of entire community populations, and we have an exclusive partnership with Dr. Dean Ornish that is expanding access to the Dr. Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease™.
Delivery Model
The degree of our engagement and model of support is based on our customers' needs and preferences. Within our Network Solutions Business, we have approximately 16,000 U.S. fitness center locations and more than 1,000 alternative locations providing classes only. We utilize the fitness center national network to deliver the SilverSneakers ® Fitness proprietary curriculum and also offer the Prime Fitness program. Within our Population Health Services, behavior change techniques and predictive modeling are incorporated in our technology to identify an individual's readiness to change. We then provide personalized support through appropriate interactions using a range of methods desired by an individual, including self-directed modalities of mobile, web and integrated devices including social networks; venue-based face-to-face, print, phone and others.
Modalities used and intensity of service must deliver the expected result - healthier people who cost less and perform better. We expect to invest where appropriate in technology to refine our proprietary clinical, data management and reporting systems to continue to meet the requirements of our customers to deliver measureable outcomes.
Measurement of Outcomes
Through our exclusive, 25-year relationship with Gallup which began in 2008, we have created a definitive measure and empiric database of changes in the well-being of the U.S. population based on over two million completed surveys to date, known as the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index®. This database supports our understanding of the causes and effects of well-being for a population. The Gallup-Healthways individual well-being assessment tools, known collectively as the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being 5TM , provide employers, health providers, insurers and other interested parties with a validated capability to assess, measure and report on changes in the well-being of their employees, patients, members and customers.
Growth Strategy
We are engaged in a comprehensive review of the Healthways organization: our business structure, costs, product offerings and delivery. We are focused on listening to and understanding our customers' requirements and how best to meet their needs. Our objective is to be a leader in the markets in which we compete while providing a level of financial performance commensurate with that leadership position.
The outcome of our strategic review, which we expect to continue through the first half of 2016, might include the addition or subtraction of capabilities and technologies through internal development, strategic alliances with other entities and/or selective acquisitions, divestitures or investments.
Segment and Major Customer Information
During 2015, we had two operating segments (domestic and international) that we have aggregated into one reportable segment, well-being improvement services. During 2015, Humana, Inc. ("Humana") comprised approximately 13.1% of our revenues. Our primary contract with Humana continues through 2020. No other customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenues in 2015.
As part of the 2015 Restructuring Plan, which is planned to be completed in 2016, management is evaluating the internal structural and reporting changes necessary to begin managing our operations as two primary businesses, Network Solutions and Population Health Services. The outcome of this evaluation could impact how we report our segments in the future for financial reporting purposes. In addition, a change in segment reporting could also result in a change in our reporting units for goodwill impairment measurement purposes.
Competition
The healthcare industry is highly competitive and subject to continual change in the manner in which services are provided. Other entities, whose financial, research, staff, and marketing resources may exceed our resources, are marketing a variety of population health management services and other services or have announced an intention to offer such services to health plans, both commercial and Medicare Advantage; large self-insured employers, including state and municipal government entities; and providers of healthcare, including integrated healthcare systems, hospitals, and physician groups. These entities include health and wellness companies, retail drug stores, major pharmaceutical companies, health plans, healthcare web-based and/or print content companies, home healthcare organizations, providers, pharmacy benefit management companies, medical device and diagnostic companies, healthcare information technology companies, Internet-based medical content companies, revenue cycle management companies, consulting firms and other entities.
We believe we have certain advantages over our competitors because of the breadth and depth of our well-being improvement capabilities, including the scope of our strategic relationships; the brand recognition of certain programs such as SilverSneakers®; state-of-the-art proprietary information technology; predictive modeling and data integration capabilities; behavior-change techniques; the comprehensive recruitment and training of our clinical colleagues; our experienced management team; the comprehensive clinical nature and evidence-based scientific foundation of our product offerings; our established reputation for providing well-being improvement services to members wishing to maintain health, who possess health risk factors or are diagnosed with chronic diseases; and the proven financial and clinical results delivered by our programs as evidenced through a library of published peer-reviewed outcomes studies. However, we cannot assure you that we can compete effectively with other entities such as those noted above.
Industry Integration and Consolidation
Consolidation remains an important factor in all aspects of the healthcare industry, including the well-being and health management sector. While we believe the size of our membership base provides us with the economies of scale to compete even in a consolidating market, we cannot assure you that we can effectively compete with companies formed as a result of industry consolidation or that we can retain existing customers if they are acquired by other entities which already have or contract for programs similar to ours or are not interested in our programs.
Consolidation may be driven, in part, by the increasing adoption of alternative payment models. For example, Accountable Care Organizations ("ACOs") promote accountability and coordination of care among providers by allowing providers, including hospitals, physicians, and other designated professionals, to voluntarily work together to invest in infrastructure and redesign delivery processes to achieve high-quality and efficient delivery of services. Medicare-approved ACOs that achieve quality performance standards established by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services ("HHS") may be eligible to share in a portion of the amounts saved by the Medicare program. We provide support and services for multiple ACOs that serve Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries through our partnerships with integrated health systems. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (collectively, the "PPACA") also required HHS to establish voluntary national bundled payment programs under which participating groups of providers receive a single payment for certain medical conditions or episodes of care. Further, HHS has established a mandatory bundled payment program for certain hospitals participating in Medicare that perform hip and knee replacements, beginning in April 2016. While ACOs and bundled payments are Medicare programs, commercial insurers and private managed care health plans may increasingly shift to ACO and bundled payment models as well. We expect these and other changes resulting from PPACA to further encourage integration and increase consolidation in the healthcare industry.
Governmental Regulation
Governmental regulation impacts us in a number of ways in addition to those regulatory risks presented under Item 1A.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
In the execution of our business strategy, our operations and financial condition are subject to certain risks. A summary of certain material risks is provided below, and you should take such risks into account in evaluating any investment decision involving the Company. This section does not describe all risks applicable to us and is intended only as a summary of certain material factors that could impact our operations in the industry in which we operate. Other sections of this Annual Report on Form 10-K (this "Report") contain additional information concerning these and other risks.
We depend on payments from customers, and cost reduction pressure on our customers may adversely affect our business and results of operations.
The healthcare industry currently faces significant cost reduction pressures as a result of increased competition, increased consolidation among healthcare industry participants, constrained revenues from governmental and private sources, increasing underlying medical care costs, the laws and regulations relating to reimbursement and pricing generally and general economic conditions. Further, consolidation among our customers, particularly our health plan customers that are part of larger healthcare enterprises, could give these organizations even greater bargaining power, which may lead to further pressure on the prices for our products and services. We believe that these pressures, which may cause our customers to purchase fewer of our products and services, reduce the prices that they are willing to pay for our products and services or reduce the amounts of reimbursement available for our products and services from governmental agencies or third-party payors, will continue and possibly intensify.
We believe that our solutions, which are geared to foster well-being improvement by engaging people in health improvement programs, specifically assist our customers in controlling the costs of healthcare; however, the pressures to reduce costs in the short term may negatively affect our ability to sign and/or retain contracts under existing terms or to restructure these contracts on terms that would not have a material negative impact on our results of operations. These financial pressures could have a negative impact on our results of operations.
A significant percentage of our revenues is derived from health plan customers.
A significant percentage of our revenues is derived from health plan customers. The health plan industry continues to consolidate, and we cannot assure you that we will be able to retain health plan customers, or continue to provide our products and services to such health plan customers on terms at least as favorable to us as currently provided, if they are acquired by other health plans that already participate in competing programs or are not interested in our programs. In addition, a reduction in the number of covered lives enrolled with our health plan customers or a decision by our health plan customers to take programs in-house could adversely affect our results of operations. Our health plan customers are subject to increased obligations under PPACA, including benefit mandates, limitations on exclusions and factors used for rate setting, requirements for MLRs, and increased taxes. In determining how to meet these requirements, current or prospective customers may seek reduced fees or choose to reduce or delay the purchase of our services.
In addition, PPACA required that each state establish or participate in an American Health Benefit Exchange ("Exchange") where individuals may compare and purchase health insurance. Health plans participating in an Exchange must offer a set of minimum benefits, known as "essential health benefits," and may elect to offer additional benefits. Chronic disease management is one of the ten essential health benefits. The parameters of the chronic disease management benefit may vary based upon each state's specific benchmark plan, which sets the standard for each market. It is possible that our services will not qualify under these standards in some or all states, particularly if these standards are changed. We cannot predict whether individuals who are currently receiving our services will switch to health plans offered through the Exchanges that do not include our services. If we are unable to provide services to health plans participating in Exchanges, if health plans in the Exchanges that engage our services are not successful, or if the Exchanges otherwise reduce the number of members receiving our services or the payments we receive, our results of operations could be negatively impacted.
We currently derive a significant percentage of our revenues from one customer.
Because of the size of its membership, Humana comprised approximately 13.1% of our revenues in 2015. No other customer accounted for 10% or more of our revenues in 2015. Our primary contract with Humana was renewed in fiscal 2015 and continues through 2020. The loss or restructuring of a contract with, Humana or other large customers could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.
Our strategic review may cause uncertainty regarding the future of our business, divert management's attention, impact employee hiring and retention, increase the volatility in our stock price, and adversely impact our revenue, operating results and financial condition.
As disclosed under Item 1. "Business - Business Strategy," we are engaged in a comprehensive review of our organization, including its business structure, costs, product offerings and how we deliver those, as well as listening to and understanding our customers' requirements and how best to meet their needs. The outcome of our strategic review is uncertain and might include the addition or subtraction of capabilities and technologies through internal development, strategic alliances with other entities and/or selective acquisitions, divestitures or investments. The strategic review process is complex and may require the expenditure of significant time and resources by us and may divert management's time and attention. Additionally, our strategic review may cause or result in:
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disruption of our business or distraction of our employees and management;
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difficulty in recruiting, hiring, motivating and retaining talented and skilled personnel;
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increased stock price volatility; and
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difficulty in negotiating, maintaining or consummating business or strategic relationships or transactions.
If we are unable to mitigate these or other potential risks related to the uncertainty caused by the strategic review, it may disrupt our business or adversely impact our revenue, operating results and financial condition.
Our reorganization and cost rationalization plans may be disruptive and could harm our operations.
In October 2015, we announced a restructuring plan which is intended to improve efficiency and deliver greater value to our customers as well as to create cost savings. As part of the restructuring plan, the Company has been moving from an organization focused on five customer end markets to a structure centered on two primary businesses - Population Health Services and Network Solutions. Additionally, we announced a cost rationalization plan focusing in part on our business technology architecture and in part on the cost-effective deployment of human capital and optimization of facilities infrastructure.
We cannot assure you that we will be able to successfully implement our restructuring and cost rationalization plans. Further, our ability to achieve the anticipated benefits, including the anticipated levels of cost savings and efficiency, of such plans within expected timeframes is subject to many estimates and assumptions, which are, in turn, subject to significant economic, market, competitive or other uncertainties, some of which are beyond our control. Restructuring and cost rationalization can require a significant amount of management and other employees' time and focus, which may divert attention from operating and growing our business. Further restructuring or reorganization activities may also be required in the future beyond what is currently planned, which could further enhance the risks associated with these activities. There is no assurance that we will successfully implement, or fully realize the anticipated positive impact of, our restructuring and cost rationalization plans, in the timeframes we desire or at all.
Our business strategy is dependent in part on developing new and additional products and services to complement our existing products and services, as well as seeking relationships which are effective in expanding distribution channels and enhancing our products and services.
Our strategy focuses on helping people adopt and/or maintain healthy behaviors, reducing health-related risk factors, and optimizing care for identified health conditions. While we have considerable experience in solutions for a broad range of health conditions, any new or modified programs will involve inherent risks of execution, such as our ability to implement our programs within expected timelines or cost estimates; our ability to obtain adequate financing to provide the capital that may be necessary to support our operations and to support or guarantee our performance under new contracts; and our ability to deliver outcomes on any new products or services. In addition, as part of our business strategy, we may enter into relationships to establish additional distribution channels and/or to facilitate product development. As we collaborate with third-parties to develop products potentially offered through new or alternative distribution channels, we may face difficulties, such as potential customer overlap and misalignment on objectives which may adversely affect our business.
Our business strategy relating to the development and introduction of new products and services exposes us to risks such as limited customer acceptance and additional expenditures that may not result in additional net revenue.
An important component of our business strategy is to focus on new products and services that enable us to provide immediate value to our customers, such as Dr. Dean Ornish's Lifestyle Management Programs. Customer acceptance of these new products and services cannot be predicted with certainty, and if we fail to execute properly on this strategy or to adapt this strategy as market conditions evolve, our ability to grow revenue and our results of operations may be adversely affected.
If we fail to successfully implement our business strategy, our financial performance and our growth could be materially and adversely affected.
Our future financial performance and success are dependent in large part upon our ability to implement our business strategy successfully. Implementation of our strategy will require effective management of our operational, financial and human resources and will place significant demands on those resources. See Item 1. "Business - Business Strategy" for more information regarding our business strategy. There are risks involved in pursuing our strategy, including the following:
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We may not be able to hire or retain the personnel necessary to manage our strategy effectively.
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We may be unsuccessful in implementing improvements to operational efficiency and such efforts may not yield the intended result.
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Execution of our strategy may cause us to incur substantial implementation costs, make substantial investments in technology and/or incur additional indebtedness, which may divert capital away from our traditional business operations.
In addition to the risks set forth above, implementation of our business strategy could be affected by a number of factors beyond our control, such as increased competition, legal developments, government regulation, general economic conditions, increased operating costs or expenses, and changes in industry trends. We may decide to alter or discontinue certain aspects of our business strategy at any time. If we are not able to implement our business strategy successfully, our long-term growth and profitability may be adversely affected. Even if we are able to implement some or all of the initiatives of our business strategy successfully, our operating results may not improve to the extent we anticipate, or at all.
Our inability to renew and/or maintain contracts with our customers could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
If our customers choose not to renew their contracts with us, our business and results of operations could be materially adversely affected.
Failure to successfully execute on the terms of our contracts could result in significant harm to our business.
Our ability to grow and expand our business is contingent upon our ability to achieve desired performance metrics, cost savings, and/or clinical outcomes improvements under our existing contracts and to favorably resolve contract billing and interpretation issues with our customers. Some of our contracts place a portion of our fees at risk or provide for gain share opportunity based on achieving such metrics, savings, and/or improvements. We cannot guarantee that we will achieve and reach mutual agreement with customers with respect to contractually required performance metrics, cost savings and/or clinical outcomes improvements under our contracts within the expected time frames. Unusual and unforeseen patterns of healthcare utilization by individuals with diseases or conditions for which we provide services could adversely affect our ability to achieve desired performance metrics, cost savings, and clinical outcomes. Our inability to meet or exceed the targets under our customer contracts could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. Also, our ability to provide financial guidance with respect to performance-based contracts is contingent upon our ability to accurately forecast variables that affect performance and the timing of revenue recognition under the terms of our contracts ahead of data collection and reconciliation.
In addition, certain of our contracts are increasing in complexity, requiring integration of data, systems, people, programs and services, the execution of sophisticated business activities, and the delivery of a broad array of services to large numbers of people who may be geographically dispersed. The failure to successfully manage and execute the terms of these agreements could result in the loss of fees and/or contracts and could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We depend on the timely receipt of accurate data from our customers and our accurate analysis of such data.
Identifying which members may benefit from receiving our services and measuring our performance under our contracts are highly dependent upon the timely receipt of accurate data from our customers and our accurate analysis of such data. Data acquisition, data quality control and data analysis are complex processes that carry a risk of untimely, incomplete or inaccurate data from our customers or flawed analysis of such data, which could have a material adverse effect on our ability to recognize revenues.
Changes in macroeconomic conditions may adversely affect our business.
Economic difficulties and other macroeconomic conditions could reduce the demand and/or the timing of purchases for certain of our services from customers and potential customers. Loss of a significant customer or a reduction in a customer's enrolled lives could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations. In addition, changes in economic conditions could create liquidity and credit constraints. We cannot assure you that we would be able to secure additional financing if needed and, if such funds were available, that the terms and conditions would be acceptable to us.
The continued expansion of our services into international markets subjects us to additional business, regulatory and financial risks.
We provide health improvement programs and services in Brazil, Australia, and France. Our success in the international markets will depend in part on our ability to anticipate the rate of market acceptance of our solutions and the individual market dynamics and regulatory requirements in potential international markets. Because the international market for our services is still developing and also involves many new solutions, there is no guarantee that we will be able to achieve the necessary cost savings and clinical outcomes improvements under our contracts with international customers within the expected time frames and reach mutual agreement with customers with respect to those outcomes. The failure to accurately forecast the costs of implementing our strategy of establishing a presence in these markets could have a material adverse effect on our business.
In addition, as a result of doing business in foreign markets, we are subject to a variety of additional risks that are different from the risks we face within the United States. Our future operating results in these countries or in other countries or regions throughout the world could be negatively affected by a variety of factors that are beyond our control. These factors include political conditions, economic conditions, legal and regulatory constraints, currency regulations, and other matters in any of the countries or regions in which we operate, now or in the future. In addition, foreign currency exchange rates and fluctuations may have an impact on our future costs or on future cash flows from our international operations, and could adversely affect our financial performance. Other factors that may impact our international operations include foreign trade, monetary and fiscal policies both of the United States and of other countries, laws, regulations, and other activities of foreign governments, agencies, and similar organizations. Additional risks inherent in our international operations generally include, among others, the costs and difficulties of managing international operations, adverse tax consequences and greater difficulty in enforcing intellectual property rights in countries other than the United States.
Furthermore, because of our international operations, we could be adversely affected by violations of the FCPA and similar anti-bribery laws of other countries in which we provide services. The FCPA and similar anti-bribery laws generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from making improper payments to government officials or other third parties for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. While our policies mandate compliance with these anti-bribery laws, we cannot provide assurance that our internal control policies and procedures will always protect us from reckless or criminal acts committed by our employees, contractors or agents. Violations of these laws, or allegations of such violations, could disrupt our business and adversely affect our results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.
We may experience difficulties associated with the implementation and/or integration of new businesses, services (including outsourced services), technologies, solutions, or products.
We may face substantial difficulties, costs, and delays in effectively implementing and/or integrating acquired businesses, services (including outsourced services), or technologies into our platform. Implementing internally-developed solutions and/or integrating newly acquired businesses, services (including outsourced services), and technologies could be costly and time-consuming and may strain our resources. Consequently, we may not be successful in implementing and/or integrating these new businesses, services, or technologies and may not achieve anticipated revenue and cost benefits.
The performance of our business and the level of our indebtedness could prevent us from meeting the obligations under our credit agreement or the cash convertible senior notes or have an adverse effect on our future financial condition, our ability to raise additional capital, or our ability to react to changes in the economy or our industry.
On June 8, 2012, we entered into the Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement (as amended, the "Fifth Amended Credit Agreement"). On July 16, 2013, we completed the issuance of $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of cash convertible senior notes due 2018 (the "Cash Convertible Notes"), and on October 1, 2013, we entered into an Investment Agreement (the "Investment Agreement") with CareFirst Holdings, LLC ("CareFirst"). Pursuant to the Investment Agreement, we issued to CareFirst a convertible subordinated promissory note in an aggregate original principal amount of $20 million (the "CareFirst Convertible Note"). As of December 31, 2015, our long-term debt under these arrangements, including the current portion but excluding the debt discount, was $250.0 million.
Our ability to service our indebtedness (including the debt outstanding under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, the Cash Convertible Notes and the CareFirst Convertible Note) will depend on our ability to generate cash in the future. We cannot assure you that our business will generate sufficient cash flow from operations or that future borrowings will be available in an amount sufficient to enable us to service our indebtedness or to fund other liquidity needs.
The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement contains various financial covenants, restricts the payment of dividends, and limits the amount of repurchases of our common stock. A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, in which all amounts outstanding under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement may become immediately due and payable, and all commitments under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement to extend further credit may be terminated. In addition, a payment default, including an acceleration following an event of default, under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement or under our indenture for the Cash Convertible Notes, could each trigger an event of default under the other debt instrument, which could result in the principal of and the accrued and unpaid interest on such debt becoming due and payable.
Our indebtedness could adversely affect our future financial condition or our ability to react to changes in the economy or industry by, among other things:
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increasing our vulnerability to a downturn in general economic conditions, loss of revenue and/or profit margins in our business, or to increases in interest rates, particularly with respect to the portion of our outstanding debt that is subject to variable interest rates;
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potentially limiting our ability to obtain additional financing or to obtain such financing on favorable terms;
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causing us to dedicate a portion of future cash flow from operations to service or pay down our debt, which reduces the cash available for other purposes, such as operations, capital expenditures, and future business opportunities; and
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possibly limiting our ability to adjust to changing market conditions and placing us at a competitive disadvantage compared to our competitors who may be less leveraged.
The conditional cash conversion feature of the Cash Convertible Notes, if triggered, may adversely affect our financial condition and operating results.
The conditional cash conversion feature of the Cash Convertible Notes (the "Cash Conversion Derivative") requires bifurcation from the Cash Convertible Notes in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standards Codification ("ASC") Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging. In the event the Cash Conversion Derivative is triggered, holders of Cash Convertible Notes will be entitled to convert the Cash Convertible Notes at any time during specified periods at their option. If one or more holders elect to convert their Cash Convertible Notes, we would be required to pay cash to settle any such conversion, which could adversely affect our liquidity. In addition, even if holders do not elect to convert their Cash Convertible Notes, we could be required under applicable accounting rules to reclassify all or a portion of the outstanding principal of the Cash Convertible Notes as a current rather than long-term liability, which could result in a material reduction of our net working capital.
The accounting for the Cash Convertible Notes and related cash convertible notes hedge transactions may result in volatility to our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).
The Cash Conversion Derivative that is part of the Cash Convertible Notes is accounted for as a derivative liability pursuant to ASC Topic 470, Debt, relating to derivative instruments and hedging activities. In general, the initial valuation of the conversion option was bifurcated from the debt component of the Cash Convertible Notes and is measured at fair value each reporting period. For each financial statement period after issuance of the Cash Convertible Notes, a hedge gain (or loss) will be reported in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) to the extent the valuation of the Cash Conversion Derivative changes from the previous period. In connection with the issuance of the Cash Convertible Notes, we entered into privately negotiated convertible note hedge transactions (the "Cash Convertible Notes Hedges"), which are cash-settled, recorded and carried at fair value as a derivative asset and intended to offset the gain (or loss) associated with changes to the valuation of the Cash Conversion Derivative. Although we do not expect there to be a material net impact to our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) as a result of our issuing the Cash Convertible Notes and entering into the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, we cannot assure you these transactions will be completely offset, which may result in volatility to our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).
We are subject to counterparty risk with respect to the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges.
The counterparties to the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges (the "Counterparties") are financial institutions or affiliates of financial institutions, and we will be subject to the risk that these Counterparties may default or otherwise fail to perform, or may exercise certain rights to terminate their obligations, under the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges. Our exposure to the credit risk of the Counterparties will not be secured by any collateral. If one or more of the Counterparties to one or more of the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges becomes subject to insolvency proceedings, we will become an unsecured creditor in those proceedings with a claim equal to our exposure at the time under those transactions. Our exposure will depend on many factors but, generally, the increase in our exposure will be correlated to the increase in the market price of our common stock and in volatility of our common stock. In addition, upon a default or other failure to perform, or a termination of obligations, by one of the Counterparties, we may suffer adverse tax consequences and dilution with respect to our common stock. We can provide no assurances as to the financial stability or viability of any of the Counterparties.
We have a significant amount of goodwill and intangible assets, the value of which could become impaired.
We have recorded significant portions of the purchase price of certain acquisitions as goodwill and/or intangible assets. At December 31, 2015, we had approximately $337.0 million and $61.3 million of goodwill and intangible assets, respectively. We review goodwill and intangible assets not subject to amortization for impairment on an annual basis (during the fourth quarter) or more frequently whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. If we determine that the carrying values of our goodwill and/or intangible assets are impaired, we may incur a non-cash charge to earnings, which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations for the period in which the impairment occurs.
A failure of our information systems could adversely affect our business.
Our ability to deliver our services depends on effectively using information technology. We expect to continually invest in updating and expanding our information technology capabilities. In some cases, we may have to make systems investments before we generate revenues from contracts with new customers. In addition, these system requirements expose us to technology obsolescence risks.
We rely upon our information systems for operating and monitoring all major aspects of our business. These systems and, therefore, our operations could be damaged or interrupted by natural disasters, power loss, network failure, improper operation by our employees, data privacy or security breaches, computer viruses, computer hacking, network penetration or other illegal intrusions or other unexpected events. Any disruption in the operation of our information systems, regardless of the cause, could adversely impact our operations, which may adversely affect our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.
A cybersecurity incident could result in the loss of confidential data, give rise to remediation and other expenses, expose us to liability under HIPAA, consumer protection laws, or common law theories, subject us to litigation and federal and state governmental inquiries, damage our reputation, and otherwise be disruptive to our business.
The nature of our business involves the receipt and storage of a significant amount of health information about the participants in our programs. The secure maintenance of this confidential information is critical to our business operations. To protect our information systems from attack, damage and unauthorized use, we have implemented multiple layers of security, including technical safeguards, processes, and our people. Our defenses are monitored and routinely tested internally and by external parties. Despite these efforts, threats from malicious persons and groups, new vulnerabilities, and advanced attacks against information systems create risk of cybersecurity incidents. There can be no assurance that we will not be subject to cybersecurity incidents that bypass our security measures, result in loss of personal health information or other data subject to privacy laws or disrupt our information systems or business. As a result, cybersecurity and the continued development and enhancement of our controls, processes and practices remain a priority for us. We may be required to expend significant additional resources in our efforts to modify or enhance our protective measures against evolving threats or to investigate and remediate any cybersecurity vulnerabilities. The occurrence of a breach in security of our systems or those of our third-party vendors and other service providers could result in interruptions, delays, the loss, access, misappropriation, disclosure or corruption of data, liability under privacy, security and consumer protection laws or litigation under these or other laws, including common law theories, and subject us to federal and state governmental inquiries, any of which could have a material, adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations and harm our business reputation.
In order to be successful, we must attract, engage, retain and integrate key employees and have adequate succession plans in place, and failure to do so could have an adverse effect on our ability to manage our business.
Our success depends, in large part, on our ability to attract, engage, retain and integrate qualified executives and other key employees throughout all areas of our business. Identifying, developing internally or hiring externally, training and retaining highly-skilled managerial and other personnel are critical to our future, and competition for experienced employees can be intense. Failure to successfully hire executives and key employees or the loss of any executives and key employees could have a significant impact on our operations. The loss of services of any key personnel, the inability to retain and attract qualified personnel in the future or delays in hiring may harm our business and results of operations.
We recently have experienced significant changes in our senior management team, including the recent appointments of Donato Tramuto as our Chief Executive Officer; Sid Stolz as President, Network Solutions; Sean Slovenski, as President, Population Health Services; and Steve Schwartz, as Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development. Failure to ensure effective transfer of knowledge and smooth transitions involving the foregoing members of senior management and other key employees could interfere with our ability to manage and grow our business. Further, changes in our management team may be disruptive to our business, and any failure to successfully integrate key new hires could adversely affect our business and results of operations.
We face competition for staffing, which may increase our labor costs and reduce profitability.
We compete with other healthcare and services providers in recruiting qualified management, including executives with the required skills and experience to operate and grow our business, and staff personnel for the day-to-day operations of our business and well-being improvement call centers, including nurses, health coaches, and other healthcare professionals. In some markets, the scarcity of nurses, experienced health coaches, and other medical support personnel has become a significant operating issue to healthcare businesses. These challenges may require us to enhance wages and benefits to recruit and retain qualified management and other professionals. Difficulties in attracting and retaining qualified management, nurses, health coaches, and other healthcare professionals, or in controlling labor costs, could have a material adverse effect on our profitability.
Our industry is a rapidly evolving and highly competitive segment of the healthcare industry.
We operate is an evolving segment of the overall healthcare industry with many entities marketing or announcing an intention to offer a variety of population health improvement services and other services to health plans, integrated healthcare systems, self-insured employers, and government entities. The financial, research, staff, and marketing resources of these entities may exceed our resources.
We believe we have advantages over our competitors because of the breadth and depth of our well-being improvement capabilities, including our scope of strategic relationships, state-of-the-art proprietary information technology, predictive modeling capabilities, behavior-change techniques, the comprehensive recruitment and training of our clinical colleagues, our experienced management team, the comprehensive clinical nature of our product offerings, our established reputation for providing well-being improvement services to members with health risk factors or chronic diseases, and the proven financial and clinical outcomes of our programs. However, we cannot assure you that we can compete effectively with other companies.
We are party to litigation that could force us to pay significant damages and/or harm our reputation.
We are subject to certain legal proceedings, which potentially involve large claims and significant defense costs (see Item 3. "Legal Proceedings"). These legal proceedings and any other claims that we may face, whether with or without merit, could result in costly litigation, and divert the time, attention, and resources of our management. Although we currently maintain various types of liability insurance, there can be no assurance that the coverage limits of such insurance policies will be adequate or that all such claims will be covered by insurance. Although we believe that we have conducted our operations in full compliance with applicable statutory and contractual requirements and that we have meritorious defenses to outstanding claims, it is possible that resolution of these legal matters could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. In addition, legal expenses associated with the defense of these matters may be material to our results of operations in a particular financial reporting period.
Compliance with federal and state legislative and regulatory initiatives could adversely affect our results of operations or may require us to spend substantial amounts acquiring and implementing new information systems or modifying existing systems.
Our customers are subject to considerable state and federal government regulation. Many of these regulations are vaguely written and subject to differing interpretations that may, in certain cases, result in unintended consequences that could impact our ability to effectively deliver services.
We believe that federal requirements governing the confidentiality of individually-identifiable health information permit us to obtain individually-identifiable health information for well-being improvement purposes from a covered entity; however, state laws or regulations could impose additional and more restrictive privacy and security restrictions. We are required to comply with most requirements of the HIPAA privacy and security laws and regulations and may be subject to criminal or civil penalties for violations of these regulations. In addition, impermissible uses and disclosures of unsecured individually identifiable health information are presumed to be breaches for which notice must be provided by us or our customers to affected individuals and, in some cases, the media, unless it can be demonstrated that there is a low probability that the information has been compromised.
We continually monitor the extent to which federal and state legislation and regulations govern our operations. New federal or state legislation or regulations that restrict our ability to obtain and handle individually-identifiable health information or that otherwise restrict our operations could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
Government regulators may interpret current regulations or adopt new legislation governing our operations in a manner that subjects us to penalties or negatively impacts our ability to provide services.
Broadly written Medicare fraud and abuse laws and regulations may be subject to varying interpretations, which may expose us to potential civil and criminal litigation regarding the structure of current and past contracts entered into with our customers. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015 requires civil monetary penalties, including penalties for some of the Medicare fraud and abuse laws, to increase by up to 150% by August 1, 2016, and to increase annually thereafter.
Expanding the well-being and health management industry to Medicare beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans could lead to increased direct regulation of well-being and health management services. Further, providing services to Medicare Advantage beneficiaries may result in our being subject directly to various federal laws and regulations, including the federal False Claims Act, billing and reimbursement requirements and other provisions related to fraud and abuse.
In addition, certain of our services, including health utilization management and certain claims payment functions, require licensure by government agencies. We are subject to a variety of legal requirements in order to obtain and maintain such licenses, but little guidance is available to determine the scope of some of these requirements. Failure to obtain and maintain any required licenses or failure to comply with other laws and regulations applicable to our business could have a material negative impact on our operations.
Certain of our professional healthcare employees, such as nurses, must comply with individual licensing requirements.
All of our healthcare professionals who are subject to licensing requirements, such as the professionals located at well-being improvement call centers, are licensed in the state in which they are physically present. Multiple state licensing requirements for healthcare professionals who provide services telephonically over state lines may require us to license some of our healthcare professionals in more than one state. We continually monitor legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments in telemedicine; however, new agency interpretations, federal or state legislation or regulations, or judicial decisions could increase the requirement for multi-state licensing of all well-being improvement call center health professionals, which could increase our costs of services and could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.
Healthcare legislation may result in a reduction to our revenues from government health programs and private insurance companies.
Among other things, PPACA decreases the number of uninsured individuals and expands coverage through the expansion of public programs, increased access to private sector health insurance and a number of health insurance market reforms. PPACA also encourages utilization of preventive services and wellness programs, such as those provided by the Company. However, PPACA also directly affects our customers or prospective customers and may increase their costs and/or reduce their revenues. For example, PPACA prohibits commercial health plans from using gender, health status, family history, or occupation to set premium rates, eliminates pre-existing condition exclusions, and bans annual benefit limits. In addition, PPACA mandates minimum MLRs for health plans such that the percentage of health coverage premium revenue spent on healthcare medical costs and quality improvement expenses must be at least 80% for individual and small group health plans and 85% for large group coverage and Medicare Advantage plans, with policyholders receiving rebates, and CMS receiving refunds in the case of Medicare Advantage plans, if the actual loss ratios fall below these minimums. PPACA provides for reductions in funding to Medicare Advantage programs, which may cause some Medicare Advantage plans to raise beneficiary premiums or limit benefits.
While we believe that our programs and services specifically assist our customers in controlling their costs and improving their competitiveness, it is possible that the reforms imposed by PPACA will adversely affect the profitability of our customers and cause our customers or prospective customers to reduce or delay the purchase of our services or to demand reduced fees. Further, demand for our programs could be reduced if Medicare Advantage plans respond to PPACA funding reductions or other changes by eliminating our programs or by limiting or changing benefits in a manner that causes some Medicare Advantage beneficiaries to terminate their Medicare Advantage coverage.
Because of PPACA's complexity, lack of implementing regulations or interpretive guidance, gradual and potentially delayed implementation, remaining or new court challenges, and possible amendment or repeal, we are unable to predict all of the ways in which PPACA could impact the Company. We could also be impacted by future healthcare reform legislative initiatives and/or government regulation.
Item 1B.
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments
Not applicable.
Item 2.
Item 2.
Properties
We lease approximately 264,000 square feet of office space in Franklin, Tennessee, which contains our corporate headquarters, our Population Health Business headquarters and one of our well-being improvement call centers, pursuant to an agreement that expires in February 2023. We also lease approximately 92,000 square feet of office space in Chandler, Arizona which contains our Network Solutions Business and one of our well-being improvement call centers.
In addition, we lease office space for our five other well-being improvement call center locations for an aggregate of approximately 110,000 square feet of space with lease terms expiring on various dates from 2016 to 2020. Our operations support and training offices contain approximately 39,000 square feet in aggregate and have lease terms expiring from 2016 to 2020.
Item 3.
Item 3.
Legal Proceedings
Junk Fax Prevention Act Lawsuits
On September 16, 2014, Healthways and its wholly owned subsidiary, Healthways Wholehealth Networks, Inc ("HWHN"), were named in a putative class action lawsuit filed by Edward Simon, DC in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, seeking damages and other relief relating to alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"), as amended by the Junk Fax Prevention Act ("JFPA"), in connection with faxes allegedly transmitted to members of HWHN's network of complementary and alternative care practitioners. The JFPA prohibits sending an "unsolicited advertisement" to a fax machine and requires the sender to provide a notice to allow a recipient to "opt out" of future fax transmissions (including, pursuant to rules promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), those sent with the prior express invitation or permission of the recipient). The complaint seeks damages in excess of $5 million. The case has been removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Eastern Division ("California Matter").
On December 22, 2014, HWHN was also named in a putative class action lawsuit filed by Affiliated Health Care Associates, P.C. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division ("Illinois Matter"), seeking damages and other relief relating to alleged violations of the TCPA, the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, and Illinois common law in connection with faxes allegedly sent to members of HWHN's network of complementary and alternative care practitioners. The complaint seeks damages in an unstated amount. On May 29, 2015, the plaintiff in the Illinois Matter voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit without prejudice; that plaintiff has been joined as a party in the California Matter.
In connection with these actions, on March 2, 2015, Healthways and HWHN filed with the FCC a Petition for Retroactive Waiver ("Waiver Petition") of the FCC's regulation that requires advertising faxes sent with the prior express invitation or permission of the recipient to include an "opt-out" notice. On August 28, 2015, the FCC granted the Company relief requested in the Waiver Petition. We cannot predict the impact on the California Matter of the FCC's grant of relief pursuant to the Waiver Petition.
On December 17, 2015, the court in the California Matter denied a class certification motion by the plaintiff and on February 1, 2016, denied the plaintiff's motion to stay proceedings. The litigation in the California Matter continues, and we intend to vigorously defend the allegations.
Performance Award Lawsuit
On September 4, 2012, Milton Pfeiffer, claiming to be a stockholder of the Company ("Plaintiff"), filed a putative derivative action against the Company and the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") in Delaware Chancery Court alleging that the Compensation Committee of the Board and the Board breached their fiduciary duties and violated the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") by granting Ben R. Leedle, Jr., then Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company, discretionary performance awards under the Plan in the form of options to purchase an aggregate of 500,000 shares of the Company's common stock, which consisted of a performance award in November 2011 granting Mr. Leedle the right to purchase 365,000 shares and a performance award in February 2012 granting Mr. Leedle the right to purchase 135,000 shares (collectively, the "Performance Awards"). Plaintiff alleges that the Performance Awards exceeded what is authorized by the Plan and that the Company's 2012 proxy statement, in which the Performance Awards are disclosed, is false and misleading. Plaintiff also alleges that Mr. Leedle breached his fiduciary duties and was unjustly enriched by receiving the Performance Awards. Plaintiff is seeking, among other things, the rescission or disgorgement of all alleged "excess" awards granted to Mr. Leedle under the Performance Awards, to recover any incidental damages to the Company, and an award of attorneys' fees and expenses. On November 2, 2012, the Company and the Board filed a Motion to Dismiss because Plaintiff failed to make a demand upon the Board as required by Delaware law. On November 8, 2013, the Court denied the Company's Motion to Dismiss. On February 21, 2014, the Company filed its answer. On May 15, 2015, in connection with the termination of Mr. Leedle's employment, the Board ratified the awards to Mr. Leedle pursuant to Section 204 of the Delaware General Corporate Law and subsequently sent notice of the ratification to shareholders. No shareholder filed a timely objection to the ratification. Upon the expiration of the time period for shareholders to object to the ratification, the Company took the position that the ratification rendered the Plaintiff's claims moot. The parties then agreed to submit a stipulation of dismissal of the case to the Court. On October 30, 2015, the Court entered an Order that dismissed the case with prejudice with respect to Plaintiff Milton Pfeiffer as moot but without prejudice to the proposed class. No compensation in any form passed to the Plaintiff or to Plaintiff's attorneys. The Order preserves the right of counsel for Milton Pfeiffer to petition the Court for an award of attorneys' fees.
Summary
We are also subject to other contractual disputes, claims and legal proceedings that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of our business. While we are unable to estimate a range of potential losses, we do not believe that any of the legal proceedings pending against us as of the date of this report, some of which are expected to be covered by insurance policies, will have a material adverse effect on our financial condition but may have an adverse effect on our financial results for a particular period. As these matters are subject to inherent uncertainties, our view of these matters may change in the future.
Item 4.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
Not applicable.
Executive Officers of the Registrant
The following table sets forth certain information regarding our executive officers as of March 4, 2016. Executive officers of the Company serve at the pleasure of the Board.
Officer
Age
Position
Donato Tramuto
Chief Executive Officer of the Company since November 2015. Chairman of the Board of Aptus Health (formerly known as Physicians Interactive) since November 2015. Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Physicians Interactive Holdings from July 2013 to October 2015. Chief Executive Officer, Founder and Vice Chairman of Physicians Interactive Holdings from October 2008 to July 2013. Chief Executive Officer of i3 from 2004 to 2006. Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Constella Health Strategies from 1998 to 2003.
Alfred Lumsdaine
Chief Financial Officer of the Company since January 2011. Interim Chief Executive Officer of the Company from May 2015 to November 2015. Chief Accounting Officer of the Company from February 2002 until January 2011.
Sidney Stolz
President, Network Solutions since October 2015. President of Chip Rewards, Inc. from May 2012 to October 2015. Chief Growth Officer of New Century Health from August 2010 to September 2011. Executive Vice President of Healthcare Solutions, Inc. from March 2008 to September 2009.
Sean Slovenski
President, Population Health since February 2016. Chief Executive Officer of Care Innovations from October 2013 to February 2016. Vice President of Innovation at Humana from April 2013 to September 2013. Segment Vice President of Health and Productivity Solutions at Humana from October 2011 to April 2013. Chief Executive Officer of HumanaVitality from December 2010 to October 2011. Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Hummingbird Coaching Services from March 2003 to January 2011.
Glenn Hargreaves
Chief Accounting Officer of the Company since July 2012 and Controller since January 2011. Director of Tax of the Company from April 2005 until January 2011.
Mary Flipse
General Counsel of the Company since July 2012. Director, Corporate Counsel of the Company from February 2012 to July 2012. Operations Counsel of the Company from August 2011 until February 2012. Assistant General Counsel of King Pharmaceuticals from May 2005 to July 2011.
PART II
Item 5.
Item 5. Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
Market Information
Our common stock is traded on The NASDAQ Stock Market ("NASDAQ") under the symbol "HWAY".
The following table sets forth the high and low sales prices per share of our common stock as reported by NASDAQ for the relevant periods.
Performance Graph
The following graph compares the total stockholder return of $100 invested on December 31, 2010 in (a) the Company, (b) the NASDAQ U.S. Stocks Benchmark index and (c) the NASDAQ Health Care Providers index, assuming the reinvestment of all dividends.
12/31/2010
12/31/2011
12/31/2012
12/31/2013
12/31/2014
12/31/2015
HWAY
100.0
61.5
95.9
137.5
178.1
115.3
NASDAQ U.S. Stocks Benchmark
100.0
100.3
116.8
155.9
175.3
176.2
NASDAQ Health Care Providers
100.0
109.9
124.4
171.8
221.9
240.3
The stock price performance shown on this graph is not necessarily indicative of future price performance.
Notes:
A. The lines represent annual index levels derived from compounded daily returns that include all dividends.
B. The indexes are reweighted daily, using the market capitalization on the previous trading day.
C. If the annual interval, based on the fiscal year end, is not a trading day, the preceding trading day is used.
D. The index level for all series was set to $100.00 on December 31, 2010.
Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities
As described further below in "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources", CareFirst has an opportunity to earn warrants based on achievement of certain quarterly thresholds for revenue. On December 11, 2015, we issued to CareFirst warrants to purchase 158,622 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $11.51 per share. The issuance of these warrants was exempt from registration under Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, because it was a transaction not involving a public offering.
Holders
At February 17, 2016, there were approximately 8,150 holders of our common stock, including 217 stockholders of record.
Dividends
We have never declared or paid a cash dividend on our common stock. We intend to retain any earnings to finance the growth and development of our business and do not expect to declare or pay any cash dividends in the foreseeable future. Our Board will review our dividend policy from time to time and may declare dividends at its discretion; however, our Fifth Amended Credit Agreement places restrictions on the payment of dividends. For further discussion of the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, see Item 7. "Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operation - Liquidity and Capital Resources."
Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans
See Part III, Item 12. "Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters," for information regarding securities authorized for issuance under our equity compensation plans, which is incorporated by reference herein.
Related Stockholder Matter
A copy of the Healthways, Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K for 2015 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is available on the Company's website, www.healthways.com. It is also available from the Company (without exhibits) at no charge. These requests should be directed to Chip Wochomurka, Vice President - Investor Relations, at the Company's corporate office.
Item 6.
Item 6. Selected Financial Data
The following table represents selected financial data. The table should be read in conjunction with Item 7.
Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Please read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included under Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Trends in Our Business
The following trends have contributed to the results of our consolidated operations, and we anticipate that they will continue to impact our future results:
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In the third quarter of 2015, we began implementing the 2015 Restructuring Plan that the Company committed to in October 2015, which is intended to improve efficiency and deliver greater value to our customers.
The 2015 Restructuring Plan, which we expect to improve efficiency and deliver greater value to our customers, is expected to be complete in 2016. In 2015 in connection with the 2015 Restructuring Plan, we incurred severance and benefit costs, consulting costs, lease termination costs, and fixed asset retirements. In addition, in August 2015 we closed one office, which resulted in employee severance and lease costs.
We expect to incur a total of approximately $25 million in restructuring charges related to the 2015 Restructuring Plan, substantially all of which are expected to result in cash expenditures. We expect that the total charges will consist of approximately $10.5 million to $11.5 million of severance and other employee-related costs; approximately $8 million to $9 million of lease termination costs; and approximately $5.5 million to $6 million in consulting and other costs.
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We are moving from an organization focused on five customer end-markets to a structure centered on two primary businesses - Network Solutions and Population Health Services.
We believe that a decentralized structure allows a strengthened leadership team to create a strong customer focus in each business.
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As a part of our 2015 Restructuring Plan, we are undertaking a cost rationalization in our Population Health Services business seeking to align our cost structure, allocation of capital and innovation cycle with the evolving dynamics of a proven customer market.
The cost rationalization work includes a comprehensive portfolio review of solutions and services and should be complete in 2016.
Executive Overview of Results
The key financial results for the year ended December 31, 2015 are:
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revenues of $771.0 million for 2015, up 3.8% from $742.2 million for 2014;
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net loss of $30.9 million for 2015 compared to a net loss of $5.6 million for 2014;
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restructuring charges of $15.1 million in 2015 associated with our 2015 Restructuring Plan;
• an impairment of our investment in a joint venture with Gallup and a loss on the remaining investment commitment aggregating $19.6 million;
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CEO transition-related expenses were incurred totaling $4.7 million associated with the termination in May 2015 of our former President and Chief Executive Officer and transition to the newly appointed Chief Executive Officer;
• an increase in our valuation allowance for our deferred tax assets was recorded of $9.8 million due to management's judgment that it is more likely than not that a portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized; and
• the sale of Navvis Healthcare, LLC ("Navvis") in November 2015 resulted in a gain of $1.9 million.
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth the components of the statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 expressed as a percentage of revenues.
Revenues
Revenues for 2015 increased $28.4 million, or 3.8%, over 2014, primarily due to:
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an increase in the number of members eligible to participate in our fitness solutions, primarily due to increased enrollment in Medicare Advantage as well as growth in our customers' membership;
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an increase in average participation per member in our fitness solutions, primarily due to our initiatives to drive higher participation; and
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the commencement of contracts with new customers and ramping revenues under existing contracts.
These increases were in excess of the impact of contract terminations in 2014 and 2015, including four health plan contracts in 2014 for our disease management solution (the "four terminated contracts"), and the completion of short-term consulting engagements with certain customers during 2014.
Revenues for 2014 increased $78.9 million, or 11.9%, over 2013, primarily due to:
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the commencement of contracts with new customers and growth with existing customers; and
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an increase in participation in our fitness solutions, as well as in the number of members eligible to participate in such solutions.
These increases were somewhat offset by terminations of contracts with certain customers.
Cost of Services
Cost of services (excluding depreciation and amortization) as a percentage of revenues for 2015 increased to 82.5% compared to 80.6% for 2014, primarily due to the following:
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the impact of the four terminated contracts and the completion of certain short-term consulting engagements that were in effect during 2014 and carried a lower than average cost of services as a percentage of revenues; and
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three customer contract renewals that changed certain contract terms and structure, resulting in lower contract margins in 2015, but that provide us an opportunity to grow revenue and expand margins over the term of the contracts.
These increases are partially offset by:
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improved operating leverage and efficiency gains; and
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a decrease in support costs related to our technology platform, partially offset by recoupment of fees in 2014 related to certain supplier service level agreements.
Cost of services (excluding depreciation and amortization) as a percentage of revenues for 2014 decreased to 80.6% compared to 82.5% for 2013, primarily due to the following:
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economies of scale resulting from certain types of costs that remain relatively fixed or do not increase at the same rate as revenues; and
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a decrease in support costs primarily related to our technology platform.
These decreases were somewhat offset by:
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an increase in royalty expense related to certain strategic relationships and agreements; and
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an increase in the level of short-term and long-term incentive compensation expense based on the Company's actual and projected financial performance against established targets.
Selling, General and Administrative Expenses
Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenues remained consistent at 8.8% for 2015 and 2014, with a decrease in expenses related to proxy contest defense costs, which were incurred in 2014 and did not recur in 2015, offset by increased expenses associated with the termination in May 2015 of our former President and Chief Executive Officer and consulting expenses incurred as a result of the 2015 Restructuring Plan.
Selling, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of revenues for 2014 decreased to 8.8% compared to 9.2% for 2013 primarily due to our ability to more effectively leverage our selling, general and administrative expenses as a result of growth in our operations, partially offset by expenses incurred in 2014 in connection with proxy contest defense costs.
Depreciation and Amortization
Depreciation and amortization expense decreased 6.6% for 2015 compared to 2014, primarily due to certain intangible assets becoming fully amortized during 2014.
Depreciation and amortization expense increased 1.0% for 2014 compared to 2013, primarily due to increased depreciation expense related to our technology platform, partially offset by decreased amortization expense due to certain intangible assets becoming fully amortized during 2013 and 2014.
Restructuring and Related Charges
In connection with the 2015 Restructuring Plan, we incurred charges of $15.1 million, which primarily consisted of one-time termination benefits, third-party consulting charges and asset retirements incurred in connection with the 2015 Restructuring Plan.
Gain on Sale of Business
On November 1, 2015, we sold Navvis, a provider of healthcare consulting and advisory services, which resulted in a gain of $1.9 million.
Legal Settlement Charges
During 2014, we incurred charges of approximately $9.4 million in connection with the Company's settlement of a legal matter included in the results of operations in the first quarter of 2014 as well as $8.3 million related to two additional legal settlements, which were reflected in our results of operations in the fourth quarter of 2014.
Interest Expense
Interest expense remained relatively consistent for 2015 compared to 2014.
Interest expense increased $1.5 million for 2014 compared to 2013, primarily due to a full year of amortization of the debt discount related to the Cash Convertible Notes, which began in July 2013. This increase was partially offset by a decrease in interest expense due to the expiration of certain interest rate swap agreements that had a higher fixed interest rate than our current interest rate swap agreements.
Equity in Loss from Joint Ventures
In connection with our joint venture agreement with Gallup (the "Gallup Joint Venture"), in 2015 we incurred an impairment charge of $12.2 million based on the estimated fair value of our equity method investment in the Gallup Joint Venture being less than our carrying value as well as a loss of $7.3 million associated with the forward option to acquire additional membership interest in the Gallup Joint Venture entity (the "Gallup Derivative").
Income Tax Expense
Our effective tax benefit rate for 2015 was 10.7%. The difference in our effective tax rates for 2015 and 2014 was primarily due to recording a $9.6 million valuation allowance against our U.S. deferred tax assets due to management's judgment that is more likely than not that a portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized.
Our effective tax benefit rate for 2014 was 45.2% and included a net benefit of $0.7 million relating to tax credits available to offset future state income taxes, which had a favorable impact on the effective tax benefit rate in light of the relatively small base of pretax loss for 2014.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
We believe that our cash flows from operating activities, our available cash of $1.9 million, and our anticipated available credit under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement will continue to enable us to meet our contractual obligations and fund our current operations for the foreseeable future. We cannot assure you that we would always be able to secure additional financing if needed and, if such funds were available, whether the terms or conditions would be acceptable to us.
Operating activities during 2015 provided cash of $61.0 million compared to $52.1 million during 2014. The increase in operating cash flow resulted primarily from the following:
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a decrease in day sales outstanding in accounts receivable from 58 days at December 31, 2014 to 53 days at December 31, 2015; and
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the timing of several significant vendor payments.
Investing activities during 2015 used $37.4 million in cash, as compared to $51.2 million during 2014, which, in each case, primarily consisted of capital expenditures associated with our technology platform.
Financing activities during 2015 used $21.9 million in cash primarily due to net payments under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement partially offset by proceeds from non-controlling interest and the exercise of stock options. Financing activities during 2014 used $0.2 million in cash primarily due to net payments under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement partially offset by the change in our cash overdraft position.
Credit Facility
On June 8, 2012, we entered into the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement. The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement provides us with a $125.0 million revolving credit facility that expires on June 8, 2017 and includes a swingline sub facility of $20.0 million and a $75.0 million sub facility for letters of credit. The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement also provides a $200.0 million term loan facility that matures on June 8, 2017, $80.0 million of which remained outstanding at December 31, 2015, and an uncommitted incremental accordion facility of $100.0 million.
Borrowings under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement generally bear interest at variable rates based on a margin or spread in excess of either (1) the one-month, two-month, three-month or six-month rate (or with the approval of affected lenders, nine-month or twelve-month rate) for Eurodollar deposits ("LIBOR") or (2) the greatest of (a) the SunTrust Bank prime lending rate, (b) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, and (c) one-month LIBOR plus 1.00% (the "Base Rate"), as selected by the Company. The LIBOR margin varies between 1.75% and 3.00%, and the Base Rate margin varies between 0.75% and 2.00%, depending on our leverage ratio. The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement also provides for an annual fee ranging between 0.30% and 0.50% of the unused commitments under the revolving credit facility. Extensions of credit under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement are secured by guarantees from all of the Company's active domestic subsidiaries and by security interests in substantially all of the Company's and such subsidiaries' assets.
On October 27, 2015, we entered into a Seventh Amendment to the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement (the "Seventh Amendment"), which provides that the expense incurred by us in the following matters will be excluded from the calculation of consolidated EBITDA for purposes of the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement: (1) operational improvement and restructuring charges incurred from July 1, 2015 through March 31, 2017, not to exceed $27.5 million in the aggregate; (2) cash severance charges in connection with the departure of our former Chief Executive Officer during the quarter ended June 30, 2015 not to exceed $2.2 million in the aggregate; and (3) expense incurred in connection with the grant of certain cash inducement awards to our new chief executive officer in an aggregate amount not to exceed approximately $1.3 million. The Seventh Amendment also reduced the amount available for borrowing under the revolving credit facility from $200.0 million to $125.0 million. As of December 31, 2015, availability under the revolving credit facility totaled $68.3 million as calculated under the most restrictive covenant.
We are required to repay outstanding revolving loans under the revolving credit facility in full on June 8, 2017. We are required to repay term loans in quarterly principal installments aggregating (1) 1.875% of the original aggregate principal amount of the term loans during each of the four quarters beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2014, and (2) 2.500% of the original aggregate principal amount of the term loans during each of the remaining quarters prior to maturity on June 8, 2017, at which time the entire unpaid principal balance of the term loans is due and payable. We plan to refinance the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement in 2016.
The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement contains financial covenants that require us to maintain, as defined, specified ratios or levels of (1) total funded debt to EBITDA and (2) fixed charge coverage.
The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement contains various other affirmative and negative covenants that are typical for financings of this type. Among other things, the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement limits repurchases of our common stock and the amount of dividends that we can pay to holders of our common stock. A breach of any of these covenants could result in a default under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, in which event all amounts outstanding under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement may become immediately due and payable and all commitments under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement to extend further credit may be terminated. In addition, a payment default, including as a result of an acceleration following an event of default, under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement or under our indenture for the Cash Convertible Notes, could each trigger an event of default under the other debt instrument, which could result in the principal of and the accrued and unpaid interest on such debt becoming due and payable.
In order to reduce our exposure to interest rate fluctuations on our floating rate debt obligations, we maintain interest rate swap agreements that effectively modify our exposure to interest rate risk by converting a portion of our floating rate debt to fixed obligations, thus reducing the impact of interest rate changes on future interest expense. Under these agreements, we receive a variable rate of interest based on LIBOR, and we pay a fixed rate of interest with an interest rate of 1.480% plus a spread (see Note 6 to the consolidated financial statements). We maintain an interest rate swap agreement with a current notional amount of $50.0 million and a termination date of December 2016. We have designated the interest rate swap agreement as a qualifying cash flow hedge. We currently meet the hedge accounting criteria under U.S. GAAP in accounting for these interest rate swap agreements.
1.50% Cash Convertible Senior Notes Due 2018
On July 16, 2013, we completed the issuance of $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Cash Convertible Notes, which bear interest at a rate of 1.50% per year, payable semiannually in arrears on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2014. The Cash Convertible Notes will mature on July 1, 2018, unless earlier repurchased or converted into cash in accordance with their terms prior to such date. At the option of the holders, the Cash Convertible Notes are convertible into cash based on the conversion rate set forth below only upon occurrence of certain triggering events as defined in the Indenture dated as of July 8, 2013 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, none of which had occurred as of December 31, 2015. Accordingly, we have classified the Cash Convertible Notes as long-term debt at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014. The Cash Convertible Notes are not convertible into our common stock or any other securities under any circumstances. The initial cash conversion rate is approximately 51.38 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Cash Convertible Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $19.46 per share of common stock). The Cash Convertible Notes are our senior unsecured obligations and rank senior in right of payment to any of our indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Cash Convertible Notes.
In connection with the issuance of the Cash Convertible Notes, we entered into Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, which are cash-settled and are intended to reduce our exposure to potential cash payments that we would be required to make if holders elect to convert the Cash Convertible Notes at a time when our stock price exceeds the conversion price. The Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, which are recorded and carried at fair value as a derivative asset, are intended to offset the gain (or loss) associated with changes to the valuation of the Cash Conversion Derivative. We also entered into separate privately negotiated warrant transactions (the "Warrants") initially relating, in the aggregate, to a notional number of shares of our common stock underlying the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges. The warrant transactions could have a dilutive effect to the extent that the market price per share of our common stock (as measured under the terms of the warrant transactions) exceeds the applicable strike price of the Warrants. The initial strike price of the Warrants is approximately $25.95 per share, which effectively increases the conversion price of the Cash Convertible Notes to a 60% premium to our stock price on July 1, 2013.
The net proceeds from the sale of the Cash Convertible Notes were approximately $145.3 million, after deducting the initial purchasers' discounts and commissions and the placement expenses. We used $21.6 million of the net proceeds from the sale of the Cash Convertible Notes to pay the cost of the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges (after such cost was partially offset by the proceeds to the Company from the sale of the Warrants), and we used the remainder of the net proceeds from the sale of the Cash Convertible Notes to reduce the outstanding indebtedness under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement.
Aside from the initial premium paid, we will not be required to make any cash payments under the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and will be entitled to receive an amount of cash from the option counterparties generally equal to the amount by which the market price per share of common stock exceeds the strike price of the Cash Convertible Note Hedges upon exercise of the conversion option. The strike price under the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges is initially equal to the conversion price of the Cash Convertible Notes. Additionally, if the market price per share of our common stock exceeds the strike price of the Warrants on any warrant exercise date we will be obligated to issue to the option counterparties a number of shares based on the amount by which the then-current market price per share of our common stock exceeds the then-effective strike price of each Warrant. We will not receive any additional proceeds if the Warrants are exercised.
CareFirst Convertible Note
On October 1, 2013, we entered into an Investment Agreement with CareFirst, which is in addition to certain existing commercial agreements between us and CareFirst relating to, among other things, disease management and care coordination services (the "Commercial Agreements"). Pursuant to the Investment Agreement, we issued the CareFirst Convertible Note in the aggregate original principal amount of $20 million to CareFirst for a purchase price of $20 million. The CareFirst Convertible Note bears interest at a rate of 4.75% per year, payable quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each calendar year, beginning on December 31, 2013. The CareFirst Convertible Note may be prepaid only under limited circumstances and upon the terms and conditions specified therein. If the CareFirst Convertible Note has not been fully converted or redeemed in accordance with its terms, it will mature on October 1, 2019. The CareFirst Convertible Note is subordinate in right of payment to the prior payment in full of (a) all indebtedness of the Company under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, and (b) any other senior debt of the Company, which currently includes only the Cash Convertible Notes.
The CareFirst Convertible Note is convertible into shares of our common stock at the conversion rate determined by dividing (a) the sum of the portion of the principal to be converted and accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such principal by (b) the conversion price equal to $22.41 per share of our common stock. The conversion price is subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations, reorganizations, reclassifications and similar events.
CareFirst has an opportunity to earn CareFirst Warrants based on achievement of certain quarterly thresholds (the "Revenue Thresholds") for revenue derived from both the Commercial Agreements and from new business to us from third parties as a result of an introduction or referral to us by CareFirst (collectively, the "Quarterly Revenue"). If the Quarterly Revenue is greater than or equal to the applicable Revenue Threshold for any quarter ending on or prior to September 30, 2017, then we will issue to CareFirst a certain number of warrants exercisable for the number of CareFirst Warrant Shares determined in accordance with the terms of the Investment Agreement unless (i) CareFirst elects to receive a cash payment in accordance with the terms of the Investment Agreement or (ii) there is a change of control. The aggregate number of CareFirst Warrant Shares in any single 12-month period beginning on October 1, 2013 cannot exceed 400,000, and the aggregate number of CareFirst Warrant Shares issuable pursuant to the Investment Agreement cannot exceed 1,600,000. As of December 31, 2015, we issued CareFirst Warrants totaling 590,683 at a weighted average exercise price of $15.83, 400,000 of which were issued in 2015. These CareFirst Warrants may have a dilutive effect on net income per share, and the "treasury stock" method is used in calculating the dilutive effect on earnings per share.
If contract development accelerates or acquisition opportunities arise, we may need to issue additional debt or equity securities to provide the funding for these increased growth opportunities. We may also issue debt or equity securities in connection with future acquisitions or strategic alliances. We cannot assure you that we would be able to issue additional debt or equity securities on terms that would be acceptable to us.
Any material commitments for capital expenditures are included in the "Contractual Obligations" table below.
Contractual Obligations
The following schedule summarizes our contractual cash obligations as of December 31, 2015:
(1) Consists of payments under a non-qualified deferred compensation plan and long-term incentive cash awards.
(2) Consists of scheduled principal payments and estimated interest payments on outstanding borrowings under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement. Also includes payments in respect of the Cash Convertible Notes and CareFirst Convertible Note and payments of cash interest thereon. Total estimated interest payments are $6.6 million for 2016, $6.4 million for 2017 and 2018 combined, and $0.7 million for 2019 and 2020 combined.
(3) Consists of scheduled principal payments and estimated interest payments on capital lease obligations. Estimated interest payments are immaterial.
(4) Outsourcing obligations consist of a ten-year applications and technology services outsourcing agreement with HP Enterprise Services, LLC entered into in May 2011 that contains minimum fee requirements. Total payments over the remaining term, including an estimate for future contractual cost of living adjustments, must equal or exceed a minimum level of approximately $96.8 million; however, based on current required service and equipment level assumptions, we estimate that the remaining payments will be approximately $201.5 million. The agreement allows us to terminate all or a portion of the services provided we pay certain termination fees, which could be material to the Company.
(5) Other contractual cash obligations include a 25-year strategic relationship agreement with Gallup that we entered into in January 2008 and a 5-year global joint venture agreement with Gallup that we entered into in October 2012. We have minimum remaining contractual cash obligations of $27.0 million related to these agreements, $6.0 million of which will occur during each of 2016 and 2017 and the remaining $15.0 million of which will occur ratably over the following 15 years. The majority of the remaining other contractual cash obligations consists of royalty and license fees related to certain programs or product offerings.
Forward-Looking Statements
This Report contains forward-looking statements, which are based upon current knowledge, assumptions, beliefs, estimates and expectations, involve a number of risks and uncertainties, and are subject to the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements include all statements that are not historical statements of fact and those regarding the intent, belief, or expectations of the Company, including, without limitation, all statements regarding the Company's future earnings and results of operations, and can be identified by the use of words like "may," "believe," "will," "can," "expect," "project," "estimate," "anticipate," "plan," or "continue" and similar expressions. Readers are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve significant risks and uncertainties, and that actual results may vary from those in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including, but not limited to:
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our ability to estimate the costs associated with, and to implement and realize the anticipated benefits of, the 2015 Restructuring Plan;
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the effectiveness of management's strategies and decisions, including on-going strategic review;
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the risks associated with recent changes to our senior management team;
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our ability to sign and implement new contracts for our solutions;
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our ability to accurately forecast the costs required to successfully implement new contracts;
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our ability to renew and/or maintain contracts with our customers under existing terms or restructure these contracts on terms that would not have a material negative impact on our results of operations;
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our ability to effectively compete against other entities, whose financial, research, staff, and marketing resources may exceed our resources;
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our ability to accurately forecast our revenues, margins, earnings and net income, as well as any potential charges that we may incur as a result of changes in our business and leadership;
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our ability to accurately forecast performance and the timing of revenue recognition under the terms of our customer contracts ahead of data collection and reconciliation;
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the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, on our operations and/or the demand for our services;
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our ability to anticipate change and respond to emerging trends in the domestic and international markets for healthcare and the impact of the same on demand for our services;
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the risks associated with deriving a significant concentration of our revenues from a limited number of customers;
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the risks associated with foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations and our ability to hedge against such fluctuations;
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our ability to achieve and reach mutual agreement with customers with respect to the contractually required performance metrics, cost savings and clinical outcomes improvements, or to achieve such metrics, savings and improvements within the timeframes contemplated by us;
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our ability to achieve estimated annualized revenue in backlog in the manner and within the timeframe we expect, which is based on certain estimates regarding the implementation of our services;
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our ability and/or the ability of our customers to enroll participants and to accurately forecast their level of enrollment and participation in our programs in a manner and within the timeframe anticipated by us;
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the ability of our customers to provide timely and accurate data that is essential to the operation and measurement of our performance under the terms of our contracts;
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our ability to favorably resolve contract billing and interpretation issues with our customers;
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our ability to service our debt, make principal and interest payments as those payments become due, and remain in compliance with our debt covenants;
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the risks associated with changes in macroeconomic conditions, which may reduce the demand and/or the timing of purchases for our services from customers or potential customers, reduce the number of covered lives of our existing customers, or restrict our ability to obtain additional financing;
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counterparty risk associated with the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, interest rate swap agreements, and foreign currency exchange contracts;
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the risks associated with valuation of the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and the Cash Conversion Derivative, which may result in volatility to our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) if these transactions do not completely offset one another;
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the risks associated with certain derivatives carried at fair value, which may result in volatility to our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss);
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our ability to integrate new or acquired businesses, services (including outsourced services), or technologies into our business and to accurately forecast the related costs;
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our ability to anticipate and respond to strategic changes, opportunities, and emerging trends in our industry and/or business and to accurately forecast the related impact on our revenues and earnings;
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the impact of any impairment of our goodwill, intangible assets, or other long-term assets;
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our ability to develop new products and deliver and report outcomes on those products;
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our ability to implement our integrated data and technology solutions platform within the required timeframe and expected cost estimates and to develop and enhance this platform and/or other technologies to meet evolving customer and market needs;
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our ability to obtain adequate financing to provide the capital that may be necessary to support our operations and to support or guarantee our performance under new contracts;
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unusual and unforeseen patterns of healthcare utilization by individuals with diseases or conditions for which we provide services;
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the ability of our customers to maintain the number of covered lives enrolled in the plans during the terms of our agreements;
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the risks associated with data privacy or security breaches, computer hacking, network penetration and other illegal intrusions of our information systems or those of third-party vendors or other service providers, which may result in unauthorized access by third parties to customer, employee or our information or patient health information and lead to enforcement actions, fines and other litigation against us;
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the impact of any new or proposed legislation, regulations and interpretations relating to Medicare or Medicare Advantage;
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the impact of future state, federal, and international legislation and regulations applicable to our business, including PPACA, on our ability to deliver our services and on the financial health of our customers and their willingness to purchase our services;
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current geopolitical turmoil, the continuing threat of domestic or international terrorism, and the potential emergence of a health pandemic or infectious disease outbreak;
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the impact of legal proceedings involving us and/or our subsidiaries;
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other risks detailed in this Report, including those set forth in Item 1A. "Risk Factors."
We undertake no obligation to update or revise any such forward-looking statements.
Critical Accounting Policies
We describe our significant accounting policies in Note 1 to the consolidated financial statements. We prepare the consolidated financial statements in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("U.S. GAAP"), which requires us to make estimates and judgments that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and related disclosures at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results may differ from those estimates.
We believe the following accounting policies are the most critical in understanding the estimates and judgments that are involved in preparing our financial statements and the uncertainties that could impact our results of operations, financial condition and cash flows.
Revenue Recognition
We recognize revenue as services are performed when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, collectability is reasonably assured, and amounts are fixed or determinable.
Our fees are generally billed on a PMPM basis or upon member participation, such as the Healthways® SilverSneakers® fitness solution. For PMPM fees, we generally determine our contract fees by multiplying the contractually negotiated PMPM rate by the number of members eligible for or receiving our services during the month. PMPM rates are established during contract negotiations with customers, often based on the value we expect our programs to create and a sharing of that value between the customer and the Company. Some of our contracts are performance-based and place a portion of our fees at risk based on achieving certain performance metrics, cost savings, and/or clinical outcomes improvements. Approximately 7% of revenues recorded during the year ended December 31, 2015 were performance-based of which 2% were subject to final reconciliation as of December 31, 2015.
We generally bill our customers each month for the entire amount of the fees contractually due for the prior month's enrollment, which typically includes the amount, if any, that is performance-based and may be subject to refund should we not meet performance targets. Fees for participation are typically billed in the month after the services are provided. Deferred revenues arise from contracts that permit upfront billing and collection of fees covering the entire contractual service period, generally 12 months. A limited number of our contracts provide for certain performance-based fees that cannot be billed until after they are reconciled with the customer.
We recognize revenue as follows: (1) we recognize the fixed portion of PMPM fees and fees for service as revenue during the period we perform our services; and (2) we recognize performance-based revenue based on the most recent assessment of our performance, which represents the amount that the customer would legally be obligated to pay if the contract were terminated as of the latest balance sheet date.
We generally assess our level of performance for our performance-based contracts based on medical claims and other data that the customer is contractually required to supply, interim assessments of achievement against performance targets, or metrics available from our operating platforms. A minimum of four to nine months' data is typically required for us to measure performance. In assessing our performance, we may include estimates such as medical claims incurred but not reported. In addition, we may also provide reserves for contractual allowances (such as data reconciliation differences) as appropriate.
If data is insufficient or incomplete to measure performance, or interim performance measures indicate that we are not meeting performance targets, we do not recognize performance-based fees subject to refund as revenues but instead record them in a current liability account entitled "contract billings in excess of earned revenue." Only in the event we do not meet performance levels by the end of the measurement period, typically one year, are we contractually obligated to refund some or all of the performance-based fees. We would only reverse revenues that we had already recognized if performance to date in the measurement period, previously above targeted levels, subsequently dropped below targeted levels.
During the settlement process under a contract, which generally occurs six to eight months after the end of a contract year, we settle any performance-based fees and reconcile healthcare claims and clinical data. As of December 31, 2015, cumulative performance-based revenues that have not yet been settled with our customers but that have been recognized in the current and prior years totaled approximately $29.1 million, all of which were based on actual data. Data reconciliation differences, for which we provide contractual allowances until we reach agreement with respect to identified issues, can arise between the customer and us due to customer data deficiencies, omissions, and/or data discrepancies.
Performance-related adjustments (including any amounts recorded as revenue that were ultimately refunded), changes in estimates, or data reconciliation differences may cause us to recognize or reverse revenue in a current year that pertains to services provided during a prior year. During 2015, 2014 and 2013, we recognized a net increase in revenue of $11.8 million, $7.9 million, and $8.2 million that related to services provided prior to each respective year.
We are currently evaluating the impact that the adoption of ASU No. 2014-09, (as discussed below) will have on our revenue recognition policies and procedures, financial position, result of operations, cash flows, financial disclosures and control framework.
Impairment of Intangible Assets and Goodwill
We review goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level (operating segment or one level below an operating segment) on an annual basis (during the fourth quarter of our fiscal year) or more frequently whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. We may elect to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. If we conclude during the qualitative assessment that this is the case or if we elect not to perform a qualitative assessment, we perform a quantitative review as described below.
During a quantitative review of goodwill, we estimate the fair value of each reporting unit using a combination of a discounted cash flow model and a market-based approach, and we reconcile the aggregate fair value of our reporting units to our consolidated market capitalization. Estimating fair value requires significant judgments, including management's estimate of future cash flows, which is dependent on internal forecasts, estimation of the long-term growth rate for our business, the useful life over which cash flows will occur, and determination of our weighted average cost of capital, as well as relevant comparable company earnings multiples for the market-based approach. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the estimate of fair value and potential goodwill impairment for each reporting unit.
If we determine that the carrying value of goodwill is impaired based upon an impairment review, we calculate any impairment using a fair-value-based goodwill impairment test as required by U.S. GAAP. The fair value of a reporting unit is the price that would be received upon a sale of the unit as a whole in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date.
Except for a trade name that has an indefinite life and is not subject to amortization, we amortize identifiable intangible assets, such as acquired technologies and customer contracts, over their estimated useful lives using the straight-line method. We assess the potential impairment of intangible assets subject to amortization whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying values may not be recoverable. If we determine that the carrying value of other identifiable intangible assets may not be recoverable, we calculate any impairment using an estimate of the asset's fair value based on the estimated price that would be received to sell the asset in an orderly transaction between market participants.
We review intangible assets not subject to amortization, which consist of a trade name, on an annual basis or more frequently whenever events or circumstances indicate that the assets might be impaired. We estimate the fair value of the trade name using a present value technique, which requires management's estimate of future revenues attributable to this trade name, estimation of the long-term growth rate for these revenues, and determination of our weighted average cost of capital. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the estimate of fair value for the trade name.
Future events could cause us to conclude that impairment indicators exist and that goodwill and/or other intangible assets are impaired. Any resulting impairment loss could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition and results of operations.
Income Taxes
The objectives of accounting for income taxes are to recognize the amount of taxes payable or refundable for the current year and deferred tax liabilities and assets for the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in an entity's financial statements or tax returns. Accounting for income taxes requires significant judgment in evaluating tax positions and in determining income tax provisions, including determination of deferred tax assets, deferred tax liabilities, and any valuation allowances that might be required against deferred tax assets.
Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized. When we determine that it is more likely than not that we will be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future, an adjustment to the deferred tax asset would be made and reflected in income. This determination will be made by considering various factors, including the reversal and timing of existing temporary differences, tax planning strategies and estimates of future taxable income exclusive of the reversal of temporary differences.
We recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position should be measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement. U.S. GAAP also provides guidance on derecognition of income tax assets and liabilities, classification of current and deferred income tax assets and liabilities, accounting for interest and penalties associated with tax positions, and income tax disclosures. Judgment is required in assessing the future tax consequences of events that have been recognized in our financial statements or tax returns. Variations in the actual outcome of these future tax consequences could materially impact our consolidated financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.
Share-Based Compensation
We measure and recognize compensation expense for all share-based payment awards over the required vesting period based on estimated fair values at the date of grant. Determining the fair value of stock options at the grant date requires judgment in developing assumptions, which involve a number of variables. These variables include, but are not limited to, the expected stock price volatility over the term of the awards and expected stock option exercise behavior. In addition, we also use judgment in estimating the number of share-based awards that are expected to be forfeited. These assumptions and judgments are further described in Note 12 to the consolidated financial statements.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements as of December 31, 2015.
Recently Issued Accounting Standards
In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU No. 2014-9, which creates FASB ASC Topic 606, "Revenue from Contracts with Customers" ("ASC Topic 606") and supersedes ASC Topic 605, "Revenue Recognition." The provisions of ASC Topic 606 provide for a single comprehensive principles-based standard for the recognition of revenue across all industries and expanded disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue, as well as certain additional quantitative and qualitative disclosures. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those years. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting ASC Topic 606.
In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-03, "Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs" ("ASU 2015-03"), which requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the related debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-15, "Presentation and Subsequent Measurement of Debt Issuance Costs Associated with Line-of-Credit Arrangements - Amendments to Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Paragraphs Pursuant to Staff Announcement at June 18, 2015 EITF Meeting (SEC Update)" ("ASU 2015-15"), which incorporates into the ASC an SEC staff announcement that the SEC staff will not object to an entity presenting the cost of securing a revolving line of credit as an asset, regardless of whether a balance is outstanding. These ASUs are effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, including interim periods within those years, and should be applied on a retrospective basis to all periods presented. The adoption of these standards is not expected to have a material impact on our results of operations or cash flows but will result in debt issuance costs being presented as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the related debt liability, except those debt issuance costs associated with our revolving credit facility.
In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU No. 2015-17, “Income Taxes: Balance Sheet Classification of Deferred Taxes” ("ASU 2015-17"), which simplifies the presentation of deferred income taxes by eliminating the separate classification of deferred income tax liabilities and assets into current and noncurrent amounts in the consolidated balance sheet. The amendments in ASU 2015-17 require that all deferred tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in the consolidated balance sheet. This ASU is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those years and may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively to all periods presented. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting ASU 2015-17.
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, "Leases" ("ASU 2016-02"), which requires that lessees recognize assets and liabilities for leases with lease terms greater than twelve months in the statement of financial position. ASU 2016-02 also requires improved disclosures to help users of financial statements better understand the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim reporting periods within those years. We are currently evaluating the impact the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
Item 7A.
Item 7A.
Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
Interest Rate Risk
We are subject to market risk related to interest rate changes, primarily as a result of the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement. Borrowings under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement generally bear interest at variable rates based on a margin or spread in excess of either (1) one-month, two-month, three-month or six-month (or with the approval of affected lenders, nine-month or twelve-month) LIBOR or (2) the greatest of (a) the SunTrust Bank prime lending rate, (b) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, and (c) the Base Rate (as previously defined), as selected by the Company. The LIBOR margin varies between 1.75% and 3.00%, and the Base Rate margin varies between 0.75% and 2.00%, depending on our leverage ratio.
In order to reduce our interest rate exposure under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, we have entered into interest rate swap agreements effectively converting a portion of our floating rate debt to fixed obligations with an interest rate of 1.480% plus a spread.
We estimate that a one-point interest rate change in our floating rate debt would have resulted in a change in interest expense of approximately $0.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2015.
Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Risk
As a result of our investment in international initiatives, we are also exposed to foreign currency exchange rate risks. Because a significant portion of these risks is economically hedged with currency options and forwards contracts and because our international initiatives are not yet material to our consolidated results of operations, a 10% change in foreign currency exchange rates would not have had a material impact on our consolidated results of operations, financial position, or cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2015. We do not execute transactions or hold derivative financial instruments for trading purposes.
Item 8.
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of Healthways, Inc.
In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheets and the related consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders' equity and cash flows present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Healthways, Inc. and its subsidiaries at December 31, 2015 and 2014, and the results of their operations and their cash flows for the years then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. Also in our opinion, the Company maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2015, based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO). The Company's management is responsible for these financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting appearing under Item 9A. Our responsibility is to express opinions on these financial statements and on the Company's internal control over financial reporting based on our integrated audits. We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects. Our audits of the financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk. Our audits also included performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.
A company's internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company's internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (i) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (ii) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (iii) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company's assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
Nashville, Tennessee
March 4, 2016
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
The Board of Directors and Stockholders of Healthways, Inc.
We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), changes in stockholders' equity and cash flows of Healthways, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2013. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
In our opinion, the financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated results of the operations of Healthways, Inc. and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2013, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Nashville, Tennessee
March 14, 2014
HEALTHWAYS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands)
ASSETS
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
HEALTHWAYS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(In thousands, except share and per share data)
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
HEALTHWAYS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(In thousands, except earnings per share data)
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
(1) The impact of potentially dilutive securities for the years ended December 31, 2015, December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 was not considered because the impact would be anti-dilutive.
HEALTHWAYS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME (LOSS)
(In thousands)
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
HEALTHWAYS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
(In thousands)
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(in thousands)
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Years Ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013
1. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies
Founded and incorporated in Delaware in 1981, Healthways, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries provides network delivered solutions and population health management services that are uniquely designed to help people improve their well-being, thereby improving their health and productivity and reducing their health-related costs.
As used throughout these notes to the consolidated financial statements, unless the context otherwise indicates, the terms "we," "us," "our," or the "Company" refer collectively to Healthways, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries.
a. Principles of Consolidation - The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its subsidiaries, all of which are wholly owned by the Company, except for a joint venture, Healthways Brasil Servicos De Consultoria LTDA ("Healthways Brazil"), formed on March 11, 2015 with SulAmérica, one of the largest independent insurers in Brazil, to sell population health services to the Brazilian market. With its contribution, SulAmérica acquired a 49% interest in the joint venture. We have determined that our interest in Healthways Brazil represents a controlling financial interest and, therefore, have consolidated the financial statements of Healthways Brazil and have presented a noncontrolling interest for the portion owned by SulAmérica. We have eliminated all intercompany profits, transactions and balances.
b. Cash and Cash Equivalents - Cash and cash equivalents primarily include cash, tax-exempt debt instruments, commercial paper, and other short-term investments with original maturities of less than three months.
c. Accounts Receivable, net - Accounts receivable includes billed and unbilled amounts. Billed receivables represent fees that are contractually due for services performed, net of contractual allowances (reflected as a reduction of revenue) and allowances for doubtful accounts (reflected as selling, general and administrative expenses). These combined allowances totaled $2.5 million and $2.6 million at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, respectively. Unbilled receivables primarily represent fees recognized for monthly member utilization of fitness facilities under our SilverSneakers® fitness solution, billed one month in arrears, and certain performance-based fees that cannot be billed until after they are reconciled with the customer. Historically, we have experienced minimal instances of customer non-payment and therefore consider our accounts receivable to be collectible; however, we provide reserves, when appropriate, for doubtful accounts and for contractual allowances (such as data reconciliation differences) on a specific identification basis.
d. Property and Equipment - Property and equipment is carried at cost and includes expenditures that increase value or extend useful lives. We recognize depreciation using the straight-line method over useful lives of three to seven years for computer software and hardware and four to seven years for furniture and other office equipment. Leasehold improvements are depreciated over the shorter of the estimated life of the asset or the life of the lease, which ranges from two to fifteen years. Depreciation expense for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013 was $43.1 million, $42.2 million, and $40.1 million, respectively, including depreciation of assets recorded under capital leases.
Net computer software at December 31, 2015 and 2014 was $114.8 million and $98.0 million, respectively. The portion of total depreciation expense related to computer software for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013 was $33.5 million, $29.9 million, and $26.5 million, respectively.
e. Other Assets - Other assets consist primarily of cash convertible notes hedges, long-term investments, long-term customer incentives, and deferred loan costs net of accumulated amortization.
f. Intangible Assets - Intangible assets subject to amortization include customer contracts, acquired technology, patents, distributor and provider networks, a perpetual license, and other intangible assets which we amortize on a straight-line basis over estimated useful lives ranging from three to 25 years. We assess the potential impairment of intangible assets subject to amortization whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying values may not be recoverable.
Intangible assets not subject to amortization at December 31, 2015 and 2014 consist of a trade name of $29.0 million. We review intangible assets not subject to amortization on an annual basis or more frequently whenever events or circumstances indicate that the assets might be impaired. See Note 4 for further information on intangible assets.
g. Goodwill - We recognize goodwill for the excess of the purchase price over the fair value of tangible and identifiable intangible net assets of businesses that we acquire.
We review goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level (operating segment or one level below an operating segment) on an annual basis (during the fourth quarter the fiscal year) or more frequently whenever events or circumstances indicate that the carrying value may not be recoverable. We allocate goodwill to reporting units based on the reporting unit expected to benefit from the combination.
We estimate the fair value of each reporting unit using a combination of a discounted cash flow model and a market-based approach, and we reconcile the aggregate fair value of our reporting units to our consolidated market capitalization.
h. Contract Billings in Excess of Earned Revenue - Contract billings in excess of earned revenue primarily represent performance-based fees subject to refund that we have not recognized as revenues because either (1) data from the customer is insufficient or incomplete to measure performance; or (2) interim performance measures indicate that we are not currently meeting performance targets.
i. Accounts Payable - Accounts payable consists of short-term trade obligations and includes cash overdrafts attributable to disbursements not yet cleared by the bank.
j. Income Taxes - We file a consolidated federal income tax return that includes all of our domestic wholly-owned subsidiaries. U.S. GAAP generally require that we record deferred income taxes for the tax effect of differences between the book and tax bases of our assets and liabilities. We recognize the tax benefit from an uncertain tax position only if it is more likely than not that the tax position will be sustained on examination by the taxing authorities, based on the technical merits of the position. The tax benefits recognized in the financial statements from such a position are measured based on the largest benefit that has a greater than 50% likelihood of being realized upon ultimate settlement.
Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amounts that are expected to be realized. When we determine that it is more likely than not that we will be able to realize our deferred tax assets in the future, an adjustment to the deferred tax asset is made and reflected in income.
k. Revenue Recognition - We recognize revenue as services are performed when persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists, collectability is reasonably assured, and amounts are fixed or determinable.
Our fees are generally billed on a per member per month ("PMPM") basis or upon member participation, such as the Healthways® SilverSneakers® fitness solution. For PMPM fees, we generally determine our contract fees by multiplying the contractually negotiated PMPM rate by the number of members eligible for or receiving our services during the month. PMPM rates are established during contract negotiations with customers, often based on the value we expect our programs to create and a sharing of that value between the customer and the Company. Some of our contracts place a portion of our fees at risk based on achieving certain performance metrics, cost savings, and/or clinical outcomes improvements ("performance-based"). Approximately 7% of revenues recorded during the year ended December 31, 2015 were performance-based of which 2% were subject to final reconciliation as of December 31, 2015.
We generally bill our customers each month for the entire amount of the fees contractually due for the prior month's enrollment, which typically includes the amount, if any, that is performance-based and may be subject to refund should we not meet performance targets. Fees for participation are typically billed in the month after the services are provided. Deferred revenues arise from contracts that permit upfront billing and collection of fees covering the entire contractual service period, generally 12 months. A limited number of our contracts provide for certain performance-based fees that cannot be billed until after they are reconciled with the customer.
We recognize revenue as follows: (1) we recognize the fixed portion of PMPM fees and fees for service as revenue during the period we perform our services; and (2) we recognize performance-based revenue based on the most recent assessment of our performance, which represents the amount that the customer would legally be obligated to pay if the contract were terminated as of the latest balance sheet date.
We generally assess our level of performance for our contracts based on medical claims and other data that the customer is contractually required to supply, interim assessments of achievement against performance targets, or metrics available from our operating platforms. A minimum of four to nine months' data is typically required for us to measure performance. In assessing our performance, we may include estimates such as medical claims incurred but not reported. In addition, we may also provide reserves for contractual allowances (such as data reconciliation differences) as appropriate.
If data is insufficient or incomplete to measure performance, or interim performance measures indicate that we are not meeting performance targets, we do not recognize performance-based fees subject to refund as revenues but instead record them in a current liability account entitled "contract billings in excess of earned revenue." Only in the event we do not meet performance levels by the end of the measurement period, typically one year, are we contractually obligated to refund some or all of the performance-based fees. We would only reverse revenues that we had already recognized if performance to date in the measurement period, previously above targeted levels, subsequently dropped below targeted levels.
During the settlement process under a contract, which generally occurs six to eight months after the end of a contract year, we settle any performance-based fees and reconcile healthcare claims and clinical data. As of December 31, 2015, cumulative performance-based revenues that have not yet been settled with our customers but that have been recognized in the current and prior years totaled approximately $29.1 million, all of which were based on actual data. Data reconciliation differences, for which we provide contractual allowances until we reach agreement with respect to identified issues, can arise between the customer and us due to customer data deficiencies, omissions, and/or data discrepancies.
Performance-related adjustments (including any amounts recorded as revenue that were ultimately refunded), changes in estimates, or data reconciliation differences may cause us to recognize or reverse revenue in a current year that pertains to services provided during a prior year. During 2015, 2014 and 2013, we recognized a net increase in revenue of $11.8 million, $7.9 million, and $8.2 million that related to services provided prior to each respective year.
l. Earnings (Loss) Per Share - We calculate basic earnings (loss) per share using weighted average common shares outstanding during the period. We calculate diluted earnings (loss) per share using weighted average common shares outstanding during the period plus the effect of all dilutive potential common shares outstanding during the period unless the impact would be anti-dilutive. See Note 14 for a reconciliation of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share.
m. Share-Based Compensation - We recognize all share-based payments to employees in the consolidated statements of operations over the required vesting period based on estimated fair values at the date of grant. See Note 12 for further information on share-based compensation.
n. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities - We use derivative instruments to manage risks related to interest expense, foreign currencies, and the cash convertible senior notes (as discussed in Note 6). We account for derivatives in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") Accounting Standard Codification ("ASC") Topic 815, which establishes accounting and reporting standards requiring that certain derivative instruments be recorded on the balance sheet as either an asset or liability measured at fair value. Additionally, changes in the derivative's fair value will be recognized currently in earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met. As permitted under our master netting arrangements, the fair value amounts of our interest rate swaps and foreign currency options and/or forward contracts are presented on a net basis by counterparty in the consolidated balance sheets. See Note 9 for further information on derivative instruments and hedging activities.
o. Management Estimates - In preparing our consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP, management must make estimates and assumptions that affect: (1) the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements; and (2) the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ from those estimates.
2.
Recent Accounting Standards
In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standard Update ("ASU") 2014-9, which creates ASC Topic 606 and supersedes ASC Topic 605, "Revenue Recognition." The provisions of ASC Topic 606 provide for a single comprehensive principles-based standard for the recognition of revenue across all industries and expanded disclosure about the nature, amount, timing and uncertainty of revenue, as well as certain additional quantitative and qualitative disclosures. The standard is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2017, including interim periods within those years. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting ASC Topic 606.
In April 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-03, which requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the related debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. In August 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-15, which incorporates into the ASC an SEC staff announcement that the SEC staff will not object to an entity presenting the cost of securing a revolving line of credit as an asset, regardless of whether a balance is outstanding. These ASUs are effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2015, including interim periods within those years, and should be applied on a retrospective basis to all periods presented. The adoption of these standards is not expected to have a material impact on our results of operations or cash flows but will result in debt issuance costs being presented as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of the related debt liability, except those debt issuance costs associated with our revolving credit facility.
In November 2015, the FASB issued ASU 2015-17, which simplifies the presentation of deferred income taxes by eliminating the separate classification of deferred income tax liabilities and assets into current and noncurrent amounts in the consolidated balance sheet. The amendments in ASU 2015-17 require that all deferred tax liabilities and assets be classified as noncurrent in the consolidated balance sheet. This ASU is effective for reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2016, including interim periods within those years and may be applied either prospectively or retrospectively to all periods presented. We are currently evaluating the impact of adopting ASU 2015-17.
In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-02, which requires that lessees recognize assets and liabilities for leases with lease terms greater than twelve months in the statement of financial position. ASU 2016-02 also requires improved disclosures to help users of financial statements better understand the amount, timing and uncertainty of cash flows arising from leases. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, including interim reporting periods within those years. We are currently evaluating the impact the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have our financial position, results of operations and cash flows.
3.
Goodwill
The change in carrying amount of goodwill during the years ended December 31, 2013, 2014, and 2015 is shown below:
On November 1, 2015, we sold Navvis Healthcare, LLC, a provider of healthcare consulting and advisory services, for $4.4 million in cash, which resulted in a gain of $1.9 million.
As of December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, the gross amount of goodwill totaled $519.3 million and $521.1 million, respectively, and we had accumulated impairment losses of $182.4 million.
4. Intangible Assets
Intangible assets subject to amortization at December 31, 2015 consisted of the following:
Intangible assets subject to amortization at December 31, 2014 consisted of the following:
Intangible assets subject to amortization are being amortized over estimated useful lives ranging from three to 25 years. Total amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, was $6.7 million, $11.2 million and $12.7 million, respectively. The following table summarizes the estimated amortization expense for each of the next five years and thereafter:
Intangible assets not subject to amortization at December 31, 2015 and 2014 consist of a trade name of $29.0 million.
5. Income Taxes
Income tax expense is comprised of the following:
Our foreign income before income taxes was $3.8 million, $5.2 million, and $4.5 million for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
Deferred income taxes reflect the net tax effects of temporary differences between the carrying amounts of assets and liabilities for financial reporting purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. The following table sets forth the significant components of our net deferred tax liability as of December 31, 2015 and 2014:
At December 31, 2015, we have provided a valuation allowance on certain deferred tax assets associated with our international operating loss carryforwards. For the year ended December 31, 2015, we determined that a valuation allowance for U.S. deferred tax assets was required due to management's judgment that it is more likely than not that a portion of the deferred tax assets will not be realized. As a result, in total we recorded an increase in our valuation allowance of $9.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2015 which was recorded within the provision for income taxes in the statement of operations in the fourth quarter of 2015. Our valuation allowance as of December 31, 2015 is $13.6 million.
At December 31, 2015, we had international net operating loss carryforwards totaling approximately $14.6 million with an indefinite carryforward period, approximately $70.1 million of federal loss carryforwards, and approximately $80.6 million of state loss carryforwards. $6.9 million of the federal loss carryforwards originating from acquired entities are subject to an annual limitation under Internal Revenue Code Section 382 and expire in 2021, if not utilized. The remainder of the federal loss carryforwards will expire in 2035. The state loss carryforwards expire from 2017 through 2035.
We are tracking the portion of our net operating losses attributable to stock option benefits in a separate memo account pursuant to FASB ASC Topic 718-740, Stock Compensation. Therefore, the tax benefit related to these amounts are not included in our gross or net deferred tax assets. Pursuant to ASC 718-740-25-10, in 2015 the tax benefits related to net operating losses of approximately $4.0 million will only be recorded to additional paid-in capital when they reduce cash taxes payable. For 2014 and 2013, the tax benefit of share-based compensation, excluding the tax benefit related to the deferred tax asset for share-based payments, was recorded as additional paid-in capital.
We recorded a tax effect of $1,000, $44,000 and $1.0 million in 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively, related to our interest rate swap agreements (see Note 9) to stockholders' equity as a component of accumulated other comprehensive income (loss).
Undistributed earnings of the Company's foreign subsidiaries amounted to approximately $18.2 million as of December 31, 2015. Those earnings are considered to be indefinitely reinvested and, accordingly, no U.S. federal or state income taxes have been recorded thereon. Upon distribution of those earnings in the form of dividends or otherwise, the Company would be subject to both U.S. income taxes (subject to an adjustment for foreign tax credits) and potential withholding taxes payable to the various foreign countries. The estimated amount of unrecognized deferred U.S. income tax liability related to the undistributed earnings is $0.8 million.
The difference between income tax expense computed using the statutory federal income tax rate and the effective rate is as follows:
Uncertain Tax Positions
During 2015, we recorded a $0.3 million reduction to an unrecognized tax benefit due to the settlement of a tax audit related to the 2008 tax year. As of December 31, 2015, we had no unrecognized tax benefits that would affect our effective tax rate. Our policy is to include interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. During 2015, we included an immaterial amount of net interest related to uncertain tax positions as a component of income tax expense. During 2014 and 2013, there were no interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits recorded as income tax expense.
The aggregate changes in the balance of unrecognized tax benefits, exclusive of interest, were as follows:
We file income tax returns in the U.S. Federal jurisdiction and in various state and foreign jurisdictions. Tax years remaining subject to examination in the U.S. Federal jurisdiction include 2012 to present.
6.
Long-Term Debt
The Company's long-term debt consists of the following at December 31, 2015 and 2014:
1.50% Cash Convertible Senior Notes Due 2018
On July 16, 2013, we completed the issuance of $150.0 million aggregate principal amount of cash convertible senior notes due 2018 (the "Cash Convertible Notes"), which bear interest at a rate of 1.50% per year, payable semiannually in arrears on January 1 and July 1 of each year, beginning on January 1, 2014. The Cash Convertible Notes will mature on July 1, 2018, unless earlier repurchased or converted into cash in accordance with their terms prior to such date. At the option of the holders, the Cash Convertible Notes are convertible into cash based on the conversion rate set forth below only upon occurrence of certain triggering events as defined in the Indenture dated as of July 8, 2013 by and between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, none of which had occurred as of December 31, 2015. Accordingly, we have classified the Cash Convertible Notes as long-term debt at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014. The Cash Convertible Notes are not convertible into our common stock or any other securities under any circumstances. The initial cash conversion rate is approximately 51.38 shares of our common stock per $1,000 principal amount of Cash Convertible Notes (equivalent to an initial conversion price of approximately $19.46 per share of common stock). The Cash Convertible Notes are our senior unsecured obligations and rank senior in right of payment to any of our indebtedness that is expressly subordinated in right of payment to the Cash Convertible Notes. As a result of this transaction, we recognized deferred loan costs of approximately $3.9 million, which are being amortized over the term of the Cash Convertible Notes using the effective interest method.
The cash conversion feature of the Cash Convertible Notes (the "Cash Conversion Derivative") requires bifurcation from the Cash Convertible Notes in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and is recorded in other long-term liabilities as a derivative liability and carried at fair value. The fair value of the Cash Conversion Derivative at the time of issuance of the Cash Convertible Notes was $36.8 million, which was recorded as a debt discount for purposes of accounting for the debt component of the Cash Convertible Notes. The debt discount is being amortized over the term of the Cash Convertible Notes using the effective interest method. For the year ended December 31, 2015, we recorded $7.1 million of interest expense related to the amortization of the debt discount based upon an effective interest rate of 5.7%. The net carrying amount of the Cash Convertible Notes at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014 was $130.3 million and $123.1 million, respectively, net of the unamortized discount of $19.7 million and $26.9 million, respectively.
In connection with the issuance of the Cash Convertible Notes, we entered into privately negotiated convertible note hedge transactions (the "Cash Convertible Notes Hedges"), which are cash-settled and are intended to reduce our exposure to potential cash payments that we would be required to make if holders elect to convert the Cash Convertible Notes at a time when our stock price exceeds the conversion price. The initial cost of the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges was $36.8 million. The Cash Convertible Notes Hedges are recorded in other assets as a derivative asset under FASB ASC Topic 815 and are carried at fair value. See Note 8 for additional information regarding the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and the Cash Conversion Derivative and their fair values as of December 31, 2015.
In July 2013, we also sold separate privately negotiated warrants (the "Warrants") initially relating, in the aggregate, to a notional number of shares of our common stock underlying the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges. The Warrants have an initial strike price of approximately $25.95 per share, which effectively increases the conversion price of the Cash Convertible Notes to a 60% premium to our stock price on July 1, 2013. The Warrants will be net share settled by issuing a number of shares of our common stock per Warrant corresponding to the excess of the market price per share of our common stock (as measured on each warrant exercise date under the terms of the Warrants) over the applicable strike price of the Warrants. The Warrants meet the definition of derivatives under the guidance in ASC Topic 815; however, because these instruments have been determined to be indexed to our own stock and meet the criteria for equity classification under ASC Topic 815-40, the Warrants have been accounted for as an adjustment to our additional paid-in-capital.
If the market value per share of our common stock exceeds the strike price of the Warrants, the Warrants will have a dilutive effect on net income per share, and the "treasury stock" method will be used in calculating the dilutive effect on earnings per share.
CareFirst Convertible Note
On October 1, 2013, we entered into an Investment Agreement (the "Investment Agreement") with CareFirst Holdings, LLC ("CareFirst"), which is in addition to certain existing commercial agreements between us and CareFirst relating to, among other things, disease management and care coordination services (the "Commercial Agreements"). Pursuant to the Investment Agreement, we issued to CareFirst a convertible subordinated promissory note in the aggregate original principal amount of $20 million (the "CareFirst Convertible Note") for a purchase price of $20 million. The CareFirst Convertible Note bears interest at a rate of 4.75% per year, payable quarterly in arrears on March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31 of each calendar year, beginning on December 31, 2013. The CareFirst Convertible Note may be prepaid only under limited circumstances and upon the terms and conditions specified therein. If the CareFirst Convertible Note has not been fully converted or redeemed in accordance with its terms, it will mature on October 1, 2019. The CareFirst Convertible Note is subordinate in right of payment to the prior payment in full of (a) all of our indebtedness under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement (as defined below), and (b) any other of our senior debt, which currently includes only the Cash Convertible Notes.
The CareFirst Convertible Note is convertible into shares of our common stock at the conversion rate determined by dividing (a) the sum of the portion of the principal to be converted and accrued and unpaid interest with respect to such principal by (b) the conversion price equal to $22.41 per share of our common stock. The conversion price is subject to adjustment for stock splits, stock dividends, recapitalizations, reorganizations, reclassifications and similar events.
CareFirst has an opportunity to earn warrants to purchase shares of our common stock ("CareFirst Warrants") based on achievement of certain quarterly thresholds (the "Revenue Thresholds") for revenue derived from both the Commercial Agreements and from new business to us from third parties as a result of an introduction or referral to us by CareFirst (collectively, the "Quarterly Revenue"). If the Quarterly Revenue is greater than or equal to the applicable Revenue Threshold for any quarter ending on or prior to September 30, 2017, then we will issue to CareFirst a certain number of warrants exercisable for the number of shares of our common stock ("CareFirst Warrant Shares") determined in accordance with the terms of the Investment Agreement unless (i) CareFirst elects to receive a cash payment in accordance with the terms of the Investment Agreement or (ii) there is a change of control. The aggregate number of CareFirst Warrant Shares in any single 12-month period beginning on October 1, 2013 cannot exceed 400,000, and the aggregate number of CareFirst Warrant Shares issuable pursuant to the Investment Agreement cannot exceed 1,600,000. As of December 31, 2015, we had issued CareFirst Warrant Shares totaling 590,683 at a weighted average exercise price of $15.83, of which 400,000 were issued in 2015. These CareFirst Warrants may have a dilutive effect on net income per share, and the "treasury stock" method is used in calculating the dilutive effect on earnings per share.
Also on October 1, 2013, in connection with the execution of the Investment Agreement, we entered into a Registration Rights Agreement with CareFirst, pursuant to which we agreed to use commercially reasonable efforts to cause any registration statement covering an underwritten offering of our common stock for our own account or for the account of any holder of our common stock (other than a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S-8 or any successor thereto) to include those registrable common shares that any holder of such registrable common shares has requested to be registered.
The term of the Investment Agreement expires on the earlier of (a) December 31, 2017 and (b) the first date on which no Commercial Agreement is in effect.
Credit Facility
On June 8, 2012, we entered into the Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement (as amended, the "Fifth Amended Credit Agreement"). As amended in October 2015 and further described below, the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement provides us with a $125.0 million revolving credit facility that expires on June 8, 2017 and includes a swingline sub facility of $20.0 million and a $75.0 million sub facility for letters of credit. The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement also provides a $200.0 million term loan facility that matures on June 8, 2017, $80.0 million of which remained outstanding at December 31, 2015, and an uncommitted incremental accordion facility of $100.0 million.
Borrowings under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement generally bear interest at variable rates based on a margin or spread in excess of either (1) the one-month, two-month, three-month or six-month rate (or with the approval of affected lenders, nine-month or twelve-month rate) for Eurodollar deposits ("LIBOR") or (2) the greatest of (a) the SunTrust Bank prime lending rate, (b) the federal funds rate plus 0.50%, and (c) one-month LIBOR plus 1.00% (the "Base Rate"), as selected by the Company. The LIBOR margin varies between 1.75% and 3.00%, and the Base Rate margin varies between 0.75% and 2.00%, depending on our leverage ratio. The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement also provides for an annual fee ranging between 0.30% and 0.50% of the unused commitments under the revolving credit facility. Extensions of credit under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement are secured by guarantees from all of the Company's active domestic subsidiaries and by security interests in substantially all of the Company's and such subsidiaries' assets.
On July 1, 2013, we entered into an amendment to the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, which provided for, among other things, the amendment of certain negative covenants to permit the issuance of and payments related to the Cash Convertible Notes described above as well as increases in the maximum required levels of total funded debt to EBITDA beginning with the quarter ended June 30, 2013. On April 14, 2014 and December 29, 2014, we entered into additional amendments to the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, which, among other things, (1) amended the calculation of consolidated EBITDA to exclude the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Minnesota legal settlement in 2014 and, for any period that includes a fiscal quarter ending on or before December 31, 2015, up to $5 million in the aggregate of accounting charges attributable to the settlement or other satisfaction of litigation liabilities and the incurrence of related expenses, (2) reduced the amount of the accordion facility from $200 million to $100 million, (3) provided that the net cash proceeds of an asset sale or recovery event be deposited with the administrative agent pending reinvestment or application to the payment of loans, and (4) limited the aggregate consideration payable in respect of acquisitions consummated after December 29, 2014 to $150 million.
On October 27, 2015, we entered into a Seventh Amendment to the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement (the "Seventh Amendment"), which provides that the expense incurred by us in the following matters will be excluded from the calculation of consolidated EBITDA for purposes of the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement: (1) operational improvement and restructuring charges incurred from July 1, 2015 through March 31, 2017, not to exceed $27.5 million in the aggregate; (2) cash severance charges in connection with the departure of our former Chief Executive Officer during the quarter ended June 30, 2015 not to exceed $2.2 million in the aggregate; and (3) expense incurred in connection with the grant of certain cash inducement awards to our new Chief Executive Officer in an aggregate amount not to exceed approximately $1.3 million. The Seventh Amendment also reduced the amount available for borrowing under the revolving credit facility from $200.0 million to $125.0 million. As of December 31, 2015, availability under the revolving credit facility totaled $68.3 million as calculated under the most restrictive covenant.
We are required to repay outstanding revolving loans under the revolving credit facility in full on June 8, 2017. We are required to repay term loans in quarterly principal installments aggregating (1) 1.875% of the original aggregate principal amount of the term loans during each of the four quarters beginning with the quarter ending September 30, 2014, and (2) 2.500% of the original aggregate principal amount of the term loans during each of the remaining quarters prior to maturity on June 8, 2017, at which time the entire unpaid principal balance of the term loans is due and payable.
The following table summarizes the minimum annual principal payments and repayments of the revolving advances under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, the Cash Convertible Notes, and the CareFirst Convertible Note for each of the next five years and thereafter:
The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement contains financial covenants that require us to maintain, as defined, specified ratios or levels of (1) total funded debt to EBITDA and (2) fixed charge coverage.
The Fifth Amended Credit Agreement contains various other affirmative and negative covenants that are typical for financings of this type. Among other things, the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement limits repurchases of our common stock and the amount of dividends that we can pay to holders of our common stock.
7. Commitments and Contingencies
Junk Fax Prevention Act Lawsuits
On September 16, 2014, Healthways and its wholly owned subsidiary, Healthways Wholehealth Networks, Inc ("HWHN"), were named in a putative class action lawsuit filed by Edward Simon, DC in the Superior Court of California, County of Los Angeles, seeking damages and other relief relating to alleged violations of the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ("TCPA"), as amended by the Junk Fax Prevention Act ("JFPA"), in connection with faxes allegedly transmitted to members of HWHN's network of complementary and alternative care practitioners. The JFPA prohibits sending an "unsolicited advertisement" to a fax machine and requires the sender to provide a notice to allow a recipient to "opt out" of future fax transmissions (including, pursuant to rules promulgated by the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"), those sent with the prior express invitation or permission of the recipient). The complaint seeks damages in excess of $5 million. The case has been removed to the United States District Court for the Central District of California, Eastern Division ("California Matter").
On December 22, 2014, HWHN was also named in a putative class action lawsuit filed by Affiliated Health Care Associates, P.C. in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division ("Illinois Matter"), seeking damages and other relief relating to alleged violations of the TCPA, the Illinois Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act, and Illinois common law in connection with faxes allegedly sent to members of HWHN's network of complementary and alternative care practitioners. The complaint seeks damages in an unstated amount. On May 29, 2015, the plaintiff in the Illinois Matter voluntarily dismissed its lawsuit without prejudice; that plaintiff has been joined as a party in the California Matter.
In connection with these actions, on March 2, 2015, Healthways and HWHN filed with the FCC a Petition for Retroactive Waiver ("Waiver Petition") of the FCC's regulation that requires advertising faxes sent with the prior express invitation or permission of the recipient to include an "opt-out" notice. On August 28, 2015, the FCC granted the Company relief requested in the Waiver Petition. We cannot predict the impact on the California Matter of the FCC's grant of relief pursuant to the Waiver Petition.
On December 17, 2015, the court in the California Matter denied a class certification motion by the plaintiff and on February 1, 2016, denied the plaintiff's motion to stay proceedings. The litigation in the California Matter continues, and we intend to vigorously defend the allegations.
Performance Award Lawsuit
On September 4, 2012, Milton Pfeiffer, claiming to be a stockholder of the Company ("Plaintiff), filed a putative derivative action against the Company and the Company's Board of Directors (the "Board") in Delaware Chancery Court alleging that the Compensation Committee of the Board and the Board breached their fiduciary duties and violated the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan (the "Plan") by granting Ben R. Leedle, Jr., then Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company, discretionary performance awards under the Plan in the form of options to purchase an aggregate of 500,000 shares of the Company's common stock, which consisted of a performance award in November 2011 granting Mr. Leedle the right to purchase 365,000 shares and a performance award in February 2012 granting Mr. Leedle the right to purchase 135,000 shares (collectively, the "Performance Awards"). Plaintiff alleges that the Performance Awards exceeded what is authorized by the Plan and that the Company's 2012 proxy statement, in which the Performance Awards are disclosed, is false and misleading. Plaintiff also alleges that Mr. Leedle breached his fiduciary duties and was unjustly enriched by receiving the Performance Awards. Plaintiff is seeking, among other things, the rescission or disgorgement of all alleged "excess" awards granted to Mr. Leedle under the Performance Awards, to recover any incidental damages to the Company, and an award of attorneys' fees and expenses. On November 2, 2012, the Company and the Board filed a Motion to Dismiss because Plaintiff failed to make a demand upon the Board as required by Delaware law. On November 8, 2013, the Court denied the Company's Motion to Dismiss. On February 21, 2014, the Company filed its answer. On May 15, 2015, in connection with the termination of Mr. Leedle's employment, the Board ratified the awards to Mr. Leedle pursuant to Section 204 of the Delaware General Corporate Law and subsequently sent notice of the ratification to shareholders. No shareholder filed a timely objection to the ratification. Upon the expiration of the time period for shareholders to object to the ratification, the Company took the position that the ratification rendered the Plaintiff's claims moot. The parties then agreed to submit a stipulation of dismissal of the case to the Court. On October 30, 2015, the Court entered an Order that dismissed the case with prejudice with respect to Plaintiff Milton Pfeiffer as moot but without prejudice to the proposed class. No compensation in any form passed to the Plaintiff or to Plaintiff's attorneys. The Order preserves the right of counsel for Milton Pfeiffer to petition the Court for an award of attorneys' fees.
Summary
We are also subject to other contractual disputes, claims and legal proceedings that arise from time to time in the ordinary course of our business. While we are unable to estimate a range of potential losses, we do not believe that any of the legal proceedings pending against us as of the date of this report, some of which are expected to be covered by insurance policies, will have a material adverse effect on our financial statements. As these matters are subject to inherent uncertainties, our view of these matters may change in the future.
Contractual Commitments
In January 2008, we entered into a 25-year strategic relationship agreement with Gallup, and in October 2012 we entered into a joint venture agreement with Gallup (the "Gallup Joint Venture") that requires us to make payments over a 5-year period beginning January 2013. As of December 31, 2015, we have minimum remaining contractual cash obligations of $27.0 million related to these agreements.
In May 2011, we entered into a ten-year applications and technology services outsourcing agreement with HP Enterprise Services, LLC that contains minimum fee requirements. Total payments over the remaining term, including an estimate for future contractual cost of living adjustments, must equal or exceed a minimum level of approximately $96.8 million; however, based on current required service and equipment level assumptions, we estimate that the remaining payments will be approximately $201.5 million. The agreement allows us to terminate all or a portion of the services provided we pay certain termination fees, which could be material to the Company.
8. Fair Value Measurements
We account for certain assets and liabilities at fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received upon sale of an asset or paid upon transfer of a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date, assuming the transaction occurs in the principal or most advantageous market for that asset or liability.
Fair Value Hierarchy
The hierarchy below lists three levels of fair value based on the extent to which inputs used in measuring fair value are observable in the market. We categorize each of our fair value measurements in one of these three levels based on the lowest level input that is significant to the fair value measurement in its entirety. These levels are:
Level 1:
Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities;
Level 2:
Quoted prices for similar instruments in active markets; quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active; and model-based valuation techniques in which all significant assumptions are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities; and
Level 3:
Unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and typically reflect management's estimates of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability.
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Non-Recurring Basis
We account for our investment in the Gallup Joint Venture using the equity method under ASC Topic 323. In the third quarter of 2015, we observed factors causing a decline in future revenue projections of the Gallup Joint Venture as an indicator of an other than temporary impairment of the investment. Accordingly, we estimated the fair value of our investment using a discounted cash flow model. Estimating fair value requires significant judgments, including management's estimate of future cash flows, which is dependent on internal forecasts, estimation of the long-term growth rate for the joint venture, the useful life over which cash flows will occur, and determination of the weighted average cost of capital. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the estimate of fair value.
Based on our estimate of fair value, we determined that the carrying value of the investment of $17.0 million was impaired and recorded an impairment charge of $12.2 million as equity in loss from joint ventures in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss).
In addition, we determined that the present value of our remaining estimated contractual cash obligations to acquire shares in the Gallup Joint Venture exceeded the estimated fair value of the shares to be acquired, resulting in the recognition of a loss of $7.3 million associated with the forward option to acquire additional membership interest in the Gallup Joint Venture entity (the "Gallup Derivative") at December 31, 2015. The Gallup Derivative was recorded as a derivative liability at December 31, 2015 in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 815 and will be carried at fair value.
Further, we measure certain assets at fair value on a nonrecurring basis in the fourth quarter of the year, including the following:
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reporting units measured at fair value in the first step of a goodwill impairment test; and
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indefinite-lived intangible assets measured at fair value for impairment assessment.
Each of these assets above is classified as Level 3 within the fair value hierarchy.
During the fourth quarter of 2015, we reviewed goodwill for impairment at the reporting unit level (operating segment or one level below an operating segment). We have two reporting units, domestic and international. The fair value of a reporting unit is the price that would be received to sell the unit as a whole in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. We may elect to perform a qualitative assessment to determine whether it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying value. However, we elected not to perform a qualitative assessment, instead proceeding to the quantitative review described below.
We estimated the fair value of each reporting unit using a combination of a discounted cash flow model and a market-based approach, and we reconciled the aggregate fair value of our reporting units to our consolidated market capitalization. Estimating fair value requires significant judgments, including management's estimate of future cash flows, which is dependent on internal forecasts, estimation of the long-term growth rate for our business, the useful life over which cash flows will occur, and determination of our weighted average cost of capital, as well as relevant comparable company earnings multiples for the market-based approach. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the estimate of fair value and goodwill impairment for each reporting unit. We determined that the carrying value of goodwill was not impaired based upon the impairment review.
Also during the fourth quarter of 2015, we estimated the fair value of our indefinite-lived intangible asset, a trade name, using a present value technique, which required management's estimate of future revenues attributable to this trade name, estimation of the long-term growth rate and royalty rate for this revenue, and determination of our weighted average cost of capital. Changes in these estimates and assumptions could materially affect the estimate of fair value for the trade name. We determined that the carrying value of the trade name was not impaired based upon the impairment review.
Assets and Liabilities Measured at Fair Value on a Recurring Basis
The following tables present our assets and liabilities measured at fair value on a recurring basis at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014:
(1) This column reflects the impact of netting derivative assets and liabilities by counterparty when a legally enforceable master netting agreement exists.
The fair values of forward foreign currency exchange contracts are valued using broker quotations of similar assets or liabilities in active markets. The fair values of interest rate swap agreements are primarily determined based on the present value of future cash flows using internal models and third-party pricing services with observable inputs, including interest rates, yield curves and applicable credit spreads. The fair values of the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, the Cash Conversion Derivative and the Gallup Derivative are measured using Level 3 inputs because these instruments are not actively traded. The Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and the Cash Conversion Derivative are valued using an option pricing model that uses observable and unobservable market data for inputs, such as expected time to maturity of the derivative instruments, the risk-free interest rate, the expected volatility of our common stock and other factors. The Gallup Derivative is valued as the difference in the present value of our remaining cash commitments and the fair value of such commitments. The Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and the Cash Conversion Derivative were designed such that changes in their fair values would offset one another, with minimal impact to the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Therefore, the sensitivity of changes in the unobservable inputs to the option pricing model for such instruments is mitigated.
The following table presents our financial instruments measured at fair value on a recurring basis using unobservable inputs (Level 3):
The gains and losses included in earnings noted above represent the change in the fair value of these financial instruments and are recorded each period in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). The gains and losses on the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and Cash Conversion Derivative are recorded as selling, general and administrative expenses, and the loss on the Gallup Derivative is recorded as equity in loss on joint ventures.
Fair Value of Other Financial Instruments
In addition to foreign currency exchange contracts, interest rate swap agreements, the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, the Cash Conversion Derivative, and the Gallup Derivative, the estimated fair values of which are disclosed above, the estimated fair value of each class of financial instruments at December 31, 2015 was as follows:
Cash and cash equivalents - The carrying amount of $1.9 million approximates fair value because of the short maturity of those instruments (less than three months).
Long-term debt - The estimated fair value of outstanding borrowings under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement, which includes a revolving credit facility and a term loan facility, the Cash Convertible Notes and the CareFirst Convertible Note (see Note 6) are determined based on the fair value hierarchy as discussed above. The revolving credit facility and the term loan facility are not actively traded and therefore are classified as Level 2 valuations based on the market for similar instruments. The estimated fair value is based on the average of the prices set by the issuing bank given current market conditions and is not necessarily indicative of the amount we could realize in a current market exchange. The estimated fair value and carrying amount of outstanding borrowings under the Fifth Amended Credit Agreement at December 31, 2015 are $79.4 million and $80.0 million, respectively.
The Cash Convertible Notes are actively traded and therefore are classified as Level 1 valuations. The estimated fair value at December 31, 2015 was $140.2 million, which is based on the last quoted price of the Cash Convertible Notes through December 31, 2015, and the par value was $150.0 million. The carrying amount of the Cash Convertible Notes at December 31, 2015 was $130.3 million, which is net of the debt discount discussed in Note 6.
The CareFirst Convertible Note was issued at its fair value of $20.0 million on October 1, 2013. It is not actively traded and is not based upon either an observable market, other than the market for our stock, or on an observable index and is therefore classified as a Level 3 valuation. At December 31, 2015, the carrying amount of the CareFirst Convertible Note of $20.0 million approximates fair value because there were no factors present that would materially impact the fair value since its issuance on October 1, 2013.
9. Derivative Instruments and Hedging Activities
We use derivative instruments to manage risks related to interest, foreign currencies, the Cash Convertible Notes, and the fair value of the Gallup Derivative. We account for derivatives in accordance with FASB ASC Topic 815, which establishes accounting and reporting standards requiring that certain derivative instruments be recorded on the balance sheet as either an asset or liability measured at fair value. Additionally, changes in the derivative's fair value will be recognized currently in earnings unless specific hedge accounting criteria are met. As permitted under our master netting arrangements, the fair value amounts of our interest rate swaps and foreign currency options and/or forward contracts are presented on a net basis by counterparty in the consolidated balance sheets.
Derivative Instruments Designated as Hedging Instruments
Cash Flow Hedges
Derivative instruments that are designated and qualify as cash flow hedges are recorded at estimated fair value in the consolidated balance sheets, with the effective portion of the gains and losses being reported in accumulated other comprehensive income or loss ("accumulated OCI"). Cash flow hedges for all periods presented consist solely of interest rate swap agreements, which effectively modify our exposure to interest rate risk by converting a portion of our floating rate debt to fixed rate obligations, thus reducing the impact of interest rate changes on future interest expense. Under these agreements, we receive a variable rate of interest based on LIBOR (as defined in Note 6), and we pay a fixed rate of interest with an interest rate of 1.480% plus a spread (see Note 6). We maintain an interest rate swap agreement with a current notional amount of $50.0 million and a termination date of December 2016. Gains and losses on these interest rate swap agreements are reclassified to interest expense in the same period during which the hedged transaction affects earnings or the period in which all or a portion of the hedge becomes ineffective. As of December 31, 2015, we expected to reclassify $0.2 million of net losses on interest rate swap agreements from accumulated OCI to interest expense within the next twelve months due to the scheduled payment of interest associated with our debt.
The following table shows the effect of our cash flow hedges on the consolidated balance sheets during the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014:
Gains and losses representing either hedge ineffectiveness or hedge components excluded from the assessment of effectiveness are recognized in current earnings. During the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014, there were no gains or losses on cash flow hedges recognized in our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) resulting from hedge ineffectiveness.
Derivative Instruments Not Designated as Hedging Instruments
Our Cash Conversion Derivative, Cash Convertible Notes Hedges, Gallup Derivative and foreign currency options and/or forward contracts do not qualify for hedge accounting treatment under U.S. GAAP and are measured at fair value with gains and losses recognized immediately in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss). Other than the Gallup Derivative described in Note 8, these derivative instruments not designated as hedging instruments did not have a material impact on our consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) for the years ended December 31, 2015 and 2014.
Cash Conversion Derivative and Cash Convertible Notes Hedges
The Cash Conversion Derivative is accounted for as a derivative liability and carried at fair value. In order to offset the risk associated with the Cash Conversion Derivative, we entered into Cash Convertible Notes Hedges which are cash-settled and are intended to reduce our exposure to potential cash payments that we would be required to make if holders elect to convert the Cash Convertible Notes at a time when our stock price exceeds the conversion price. The Cash Convertible Notes Hedges are accounted for as a derivative asset and carried at fair value.
Gallup Derivative
The Gallup Derivative is accounted for as a derivative liability and carried at fair value.
The gains and losses resulting from a change in fair values of the Cash Conversion Derivative, the Cash Convertible Notes Hedges and the Gallup Derivative are reported in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) as follows:
Foreign Currency Exchange Contracts
We also enter into foreign currency options and/or forward contracts in order to minimize our earnings exposure to fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. Our foreign currency exchange contracts require current period mark-to-market accounting, with any change in fair value being recorded each period in the consolidated statements of comprehensive income (loss) in selling, general and administrative expenses. At December 31, 2015, we had forward contracts with notional amounts of $35.2 million to exchange foreign currencies, primarily the Australian dollar and Euro, that were entered into to hedge forecasted foreign net income (loss) and intercompany debt. We routinely monitor our foreign currency exposures to maximize the overall effectiveness of our foreign currency hedge positions. We do not execute transactions or hold derivative financial instruments for trading or other purposes.
The estimated gross fair values of derivative instruments at December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014, excluding the impact of netting derivative assets and liabilities when a legally enforceable master netting agreement exists, were as follows:
10. Other Long-Term Liabilities
Other long-term liabilities consist primarily of the Cash Conversion Derivative (see Notes 8 and 9), deferred rent (see Note 11), a deferred compensation plan, and accrued performance cash (if pre-established performance metrics are met).
We have a non-qualified deferred compensation plan under which certain employees may defer a portion of their salaries and receive a Company matching contribution plus a discretionary contribution based on the Company's performance against targets. Company contributions vest equally over four years. We do not fund the plan and carry it as an unsecured obligation. Participants in the plan elect payout dates for their account balances, which can be no earlier than four years from the beginning of the plan year.
As of December 31, 2015 and 2014, other long-term liabilities included vested amounts under the non-qualified deferred compensation plan of $4.4 million and $7.4 million, respectively, net of the current portions of $4.1 million and $0.5 million, respectively. For the next five years ending December 31, 2020 we must make estimated plan payments of $4.1 million, $0.9 million, $0.3 million, $0.1 million, and $0.1 million, respectively.
In addition, under our stock incentive plan, we issue performance-based cash awards to certain employees based on pre-established performance metrics. Based on achievement of the performance metrics, the awards vest on the fourth anniversary of the grant date and are paid shortly thereafter.
As of December 31, 2015 and 2014, accrued performance cash awards totaled $0 and $0.9 million, respectively.
11. Leases
We maintain operating lease agreements principally for our corporate office space, our well-being improvement call centers, and our operations support and training offices. We lease approximately 264,000 square feet of office space in Franklin, Tennessee, which contains our corporate headquarters, our Population Health Business headquarters and one of our well-being improvement call centers. This lease commenced in March 2008 and expires in February 2023. We also lease approximately 92,000 square feet of office space in Chandler, Arizona which contains our Network Solutions Business and one of our well-being improvement call centers. In addition, we lease office space for our five other well-being improvement call center locations for an aggregate of approximately 110,000 square feet of space with lease terms expiring on various dates from 2016 to 2020. Our operations support and training offices contain approximately 39,000 square feet in aggregate and have lease terms expiring from 2016 to 2020.
Our corporate office lease agreement contains escalation clauses and provides for two renewal options of five years each at then prevailing market rates. The base rent for the initial 15-year term ranges from $4.3 million to $6.6 million per year over the term of the lease. The landlord provided a tenant improvement allowance equal to approximately $10.7 million. We record leasehold improvement incentives as deferred rent and amortize them as reductions to rent expense over the lease term.
Most of our operating leases include escalation clauses, some of which are fixed amounts, and some of which reflect changes in price indices. We recognize rent expense on a straight-line basis over the lease term. Certain operating leases contain renewal options to extend the lease for additional periods. For the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014, and 2013, rent expense under lease agreements was approximately $12.7 million, $13.2 million, and $12.9 million, respectively. Our capital lease obligations, which primarily include computer equipment leases, are included in long-term debt and the current portion of long-term debt.
The following table summarizes our future minimum lease payments under all capital leases and non-cancelable operating leases for each of the next five years and thereafter:
12. Share-Based Compensation
We have several stockholder-approved stock incentive plans for our employees and directors. During the twelve months ended December 31, 2015, we had five types of share-based awards outstanding under these plans: stock options, restricted stock units, restricted stock, performance-based stock units and market stock units. We believe that our share-based awards align the interests of our employees and directors with those of our stockholders.
We grant options under these plans at market value on the date of grant, except in the case of certain performance awards which may be granted at a price above market value. The options generally vest over four years based on service conditions and expire ten years from the date of grant. Restricted stock units and restricted stock awards generally vest over four years. Performance-based stock units had a multi-year performance period that ended on December 31, 2015 and vest four years from the grant date. Market stock units granted during the year ended December 31, 2015 have a multi-year performance period ending in 2018 and will vest at the end of the applicable performance period based on total shareholder return. We recognize share-based compensation expense for options, restricted stock units, and restricted stock awards on a straight-line basis over the vesting period. We recognize compensation expense for performance-based stock units over the requisite service period if it is probable that the performance target will be achieved. At the end of each reporting period, we estimate the number of performance-based stock units expected to vest based on the probability that the related performance objectives will be met. The performance metrics were not met on the performance-based stock units granted in 2014, and therefore, all performance-based stock units were forfeited as of December 31, 2015. We recognize share-based compensation expense for the market stock units if the requisite service period is rendered, even if the market condition is never satisfied. All awards generally provide for accelerated vesting upon a change in control or normal or early retirement (as defined in the applicable stock incentive plan). At December 31, 2015, we had reserved approximately 1.5 million shares for future equity grants under our stock incentive plan.
Following are certain amounts recognized in the consolidated statements of operations for share-based compensation arrangements for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013. We did not capitalize any share-based compensation costs during these periods.
(1) Includes the acceleration of vesting in May 2015 of all unexercisable stock options and unvested time-based restricted stock units held by our former president and chief executive officer at the time of the termination of his employment.
As of December 31, 2015, there was $19.3 million of total unrecognized compensation cost related to nonvested share-based compensation arrangements granted under the stock incentive plans. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.0 years.
Stock Options
We use a lattice-based binomial option valuation model ("lattice binomial model") to estimate the fair values of stock options. We base expected volatility on historical volatility due to the low volume of traded options on our stock. The expected term of options granted is derived from the output of the lattice binomial model and represents the period of time that options granted are expected to be outstanding. We used historical data to estimate expected option exercise and post-vesting employment termination behavior within the lattice binomial model. No stock options were granted during the twelve months ended December 31, 2015.
The following table sets forth the weighted average grant-date fair values of options and the weighted average assumptions we used to develop the fair value estimates under each of the option valuation models for the years ended December 31, 2014 and 2013:
A summary of option activity as of December 31, 2015 and the changes during the year then ended is presented below:
The total intrinsic value, which represents the difference between the market price of the underlying common stock and the option's exercise price, of options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 was $5.3 million, $1.1 million and $3.2 million, respectively.
Cash received from option exercises under all share-based payment arrangements during 2015 was $2.5 million. No actual tax benefit was realized during 2015 for the tax deductions from option exercises. We issue new shares of common stock upon exercise of stock options.
Nonvested Shares
The fair value of restricted stock and restricted stock units is determined based on the closing bid price of the Company's common stock on the grant date. The weighted average grant-date fair value of restricted stock and restricted stock units granted during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, was $11.97, $16.72 and $13.12, respectively. The fair value of market stock units is determined based on the closing bid price of the Company's common stock on the grant date, except that the Monte Carlo simulation valuation model is used to determine the fair value of market stock units with a market condition. The weighted average grant-date fair value of all market stock units granted during the year ended December 31, 2015 was $6.53. No performance-based stock units were granted during the year ended December 31, 2015.
The two tables below set forth a summary of our nonvested shares as of December 31, 2015 as well as activity during the year then ended. The total grant-date fair value of shares vested during the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013 was $5.2 million, $2.5 million and $3.1 million, respectively.
The following table shows a summary of our restricted stock and restricted stock units as of December 31, 2015, as well as activity during the twelve months then ended:
The following table shows a summary of our performance-based stock units and market stock units as of December 31, 2015, as well as activity during the twelve months then ended:
13.
Share Repurchases
In accordance with the terms of a Separation and Release Agreement entered into with our former President and Chief Executive Officer, Ben R. Leedle, Jr., whose employment was terminated on May 15, 2015 (the "Separation Date"), Mr. Leedle elected to net exercise (net of the applicable exercise price and tax withholding) on the Separation Date certain performance awards granted to Mr. Leedle in the form of options to purchase 434,436 shares of common stock of the Company at an exercise price of $9.96 per share. The Company repurchased from Mr. Leedle 106,408 shares of common stock resulting from this net exercise at $17.23 per share, which was the per share purchase price equal to the closing price of the common stock on the Separation Date as reported on The NASDAQ Global Select Market.
14. Earnings (Loss) Per Share
The following is a reconciliation of the numerator and denominator of basic and diluted earnings (loss) per share for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013:
(1) The impact of potentially dilutive securities for the years ended December 31, 2015, December 31, 2014 and December 31, 2013 was not considered because the impact would be anti-dilutive.
15. Accumulated OCI
The following tables summarize the changes in accumulated OCI, net of tax, for the twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014:
The following table provides details about reclassifications out of accumulated OCI for the twelve months ended December 31, 2015 and 2014:
See Note 9 for further discussion of our interest rate swaps.
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Restructuring and Related Charges
In the third quarter of 2015, we began developing our reorganization and cost restructuring plan (the "2015 Restructuring Plan") that the Company committed to in October 2015, which is intended to improve efficiency and deliver greater value to our customers. The 2015 Restructuring Plan is expected to be complete in 2016.
We expect to incur a total of approximately $25 million in restructuring charges related to the 2015 Restructuring Plan, substantially all of which are expected to result in cash expenditures. We expect that the total charges will consist of approximately $10.5 million to $11.5 million of severance and other employee-related costs; approximately $8 million to $9 million of lease termination costs; and approximately $5.5 million to $6 million in consulting and other costs.
The following table shows the costs incurred for the year ended December 31, 2015 directly related to our 2015 Restructuring Plan and other restructuring costs:
17. Employee Benefits
We have a 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan (the "401(k) Plan") available to substantially all of our employees. Employees can contribute up to a certain percentage of their base compensation as defined in the 401(k) Plan. The Company matching contributions are subject to vesting requirements. Company contributions under the 401(k) Plan totaled $3.3 million, $3.3 million and $3.1 million for the years ended December 31, 2015, 2014 and 2013, respectively.
18. Segment Disclosures
We have two operating segments (domestic and international) that we have aggregated into one reportable segment, well-being improvement services. Our integrated well-being improvement services include health coaching and wellness and prevention programs. Further, we report revenues from our external customers on a consolidated basis since well-being improvement is the only service that we provide. Long-lived assets and revenue from external customers attributable to our operations in the United States accounted for more than 95% of our consolidated long-lived assets and revenues as of and for the years ended December 31, 2015 and December 31, 2014.
During 2015 and 2014, we derived approximately 13.1% and 11.6%, respectively, of our revenues from one customer, with no other customer comprising 10% or more of our revenues.
As part of the 2015 Restructuring Plan, which is planned to be completed in 2016, management is evaluating the internal structural and reporting changes necessary to begin managing our operations as two primary businesses, Network Solutions and Population Health Services. The outcome of this evaluation could impact how we report our segments in the future for financial reporting purposes. In addition, a change in segment reporting could also result in a change in our reporting units for goodwill impairment measurement purposes.
19. Quarterly Financial Information (unaudited)
(1) The assumed exercise of share-based compensation awards for this period was not considered in the calculation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because the impact would have been anti-dilutive.
(2) We calculated earnings per share for each of the quarters based on the weighted average number of shares and dilutive securities outstanding for each period. Accordingly, the sum of the quarters may not necessarily be equal to the full year income per share.
Item 9.
Item 9. Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure
Not applicable.
Item 9A.
Item 9A.
Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company's principal executive officer and principal financial officer have reviewed and evaluated the effectiveness of the Company's disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) promulgated under the Exchange Act) as of December 31, 2015. Based on that evaluation, the principal executive officer and principal financial officer have concluded that the Company's disclosure controls and procedures are effective. They are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized, and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC's rules and forms and to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the Company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the Company's management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Management's Annual Report on Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Management, including the principal executive officer and principal financial officer, is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies and procedures may deteriorate.
Management has performed an assessment of the effectiveness of the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2015 based on criteria established in Internal Control - Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (the "COSO framework"), and believes that the COSO framework is a suitable framework for such an evaluation. Based on this assessment, management has concluded that the Company's internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2015.
PricewaterhouseCoopers, the independent registered public accounting firm that audited the Company's consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2015, has issued an attestation report on the Company's internal control over financial reporting which is included in this Report.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There have been no changes in the Company's internal controls over financial reporting during the quarter ended December 31, 2015 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, the Company's internal control over financial reporting.
Item 9B.
Item 9B. Other Information
Not applicable.
PART III
Item 10.
Item 10.
Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance
Information concerning our directors, director nomination procedures, audit committee, audit committee financial experts, code of ethics, and compliance with Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act will be included under the headings "Election of Directors," "Code of Conduct," "Corporate Governance," and "Section 16(a) Beneficial Reporting Compliance" in our Proxy Statement for the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 26, 2016 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Pursuant to General Instruction G(3) of Form 10-K, information concerning our executive officers is included in Part I of this Report, under the caption "Executive Officers of the Registrant."
Item 11.
Item 11.
Executive Compensation
Information required by this item will be included under the headings "Executive Compensation" and "Director Compensation" in our Proxy Statement for the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 26, 2016 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 12.
Item 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management and Related Stockholder Matters
Information required by this item will be included under the headings "Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management" in our Proxy Statement for the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 26, 2016 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Equity Compensation Plan Information
The following table summarizes, as of December 31, 2015, certain information concerning the Company's equity compensation plans under which equity securities of the Company are currently authorized for issuance.
(1)
Represents 2,122,000 stock options, 1,549,000 restricted stock units and shares of restricted stock, and 373,000 market stock units.
(2)
The weighted average exercise price does not take into account the shares issuable upon vesting of outstanding unvested restricted stock units and market stock units, which have no exercise price. The weighted average remaining contractual term of the outstanding stock options is 5.5 years.
(3)
Consists of the following one-time inducement awards made to Sidney Stolz upon his hire by the Company: an award of 68,531 restricted stock units that vest in three equal annual installments beginning on the first anniversary of the gate date and an award of market stock units that vest on the third anniversary of the grant date. Pursuant to the terms of the market stock units, Mr. Stolz will be entitled to receive 101,330 shares of the Company's common stock upon achievement of a 3-year annualized total shareholder return target and may receive up to a maximum of 182,394 shares of the Company's common stock if the target is exceeded. These awards were issued to Mr. Stolz outside of the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan as inducement awards in accordance with NASDAQ Stock Market Rule 5635(c)(4).
Item 13.
Item 13.
Certain Relationships and Related Transactions, and Director Independence
Information required by this item will be included under the heading "Corporate Governance" in our Proxy Statement for the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 26, 2016 and is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 14.
Item 14.
Principal Accounting Fees and Services
Information required by this item will be included under the heading "Ratification of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm" in our Proxy Statement for the 2016 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held on May 26, 2016 and is incorporated herein by reference.
PART IV
Item 15.
Item 15.
Exhibits, Financial Statement Schedules
(a)
The following documents are filed as part of this Report:
1. The financial statements filed as part of this Report are included in Part II, Item 8 of this Report.
2. We have omitted all Financial Statement Schedules because they are not required under the instructions to the applicable accounting regulations of the SEC or the information to be set forth therein is included in the financial statements or in the notes thereto.
3. Exhibits
2.1
Stock Purchase Agreement dated October 11, 2006 among Healthways, Inc., Axia Health Management, Inc., and Axia Health Management LLC [incorporated herein by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 1, 2006, File No. 000-19364]
3.1
Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended February 29, 2008, File No. 000-19364]
3.2
Certificate of Amendment to Restated Certificate of Incorporation, as amended, dated as of October 10, 2013 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
3.3
Amended and Restated Bylaws [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended February 29, 2004, File No. 000-19364]
3.4
Amendment to Amended and Restated Bylaws [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated November 15, 2007, File No. 000-19364]
3.5
Amendment No. 2 to Amended and Restated Bylaws [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 3, 2008, File No. 000-19364]
3.6
Amendment No. 3 to Amended and Restated Bylaws [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 3.4 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
4.1
Article IV of the Company's Restated Certificate of Incorporation (included in Exhibit 3.1)
4.2
Indenture dated as of July 8, 2013 between the Company and U.S. Bank National Association [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 4.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 8, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
4.3
Form of 1.50% Cash Convertible Senior Note due 2018 (included in Exhibit 4.2)
10.1
Office Lease dated as of May 4, 2006 between the Company and Highwoods/Tennessee Holdings, L.P. [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated May 5, 2006, File No. 000-19364]
10.2
Master Services Agreement dated May 25, 2011 between the Company and HP Enterprise Services, LLC [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011, File No. 000-19364]*
10.3
Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated June 8, 2012 between the Company and SunTrust Bank as Administrative Agent, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.as Documentation Agent, and U.S. Bank National Association and Fifth Third Bank as Co-Syndication Agents [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 11, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.4
First Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated February 5, 2013 between the Company and SunTrust Bank as Administrative Agent [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated February 7, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.5
Second Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated March 15, 2013 between the Company and SunTrust Bank as Administrative Agent [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.6
Third Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement and First Amendment to Second Amended and Restated Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 1, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.7
Fourth Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated April 14, 2014 between the Company and SunTrust Bank as Administrative Agent [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.8
Fifth Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated December 29, 2014 between the Company and SunTrust Bank as Administrative Agent [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated December 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.9
Sixth Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.10
Seventh Amendment to Fifth Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 29, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.11
Call Option Transaction Confirmation dated as of July 1, 2013 between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, London Branch [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 8, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.12
Amendment to Call Option Transaction Confirmation dated as of July 11, 2013 between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, London Branch [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 16, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.13
Call Option Transaction Confirmation dated as of July 1, 2013 between the Company and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 8, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.14
Amendment to Call Option Transaction Confirmation dated as of July 11, 2013 between the Company and Morgan Stanley & Co. Internal plc [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 16, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.15
Base Warrants Confirmation dated as of July 1, 2013 between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, London Branch [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 8, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.16
Additional Warrants Confirmation dated as of July 11, 2013 between the Company and JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, London Branch [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 16, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.17
Base Warrants Confirmation dated as of July 1, 2013 between the Company and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 8, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.18
Additional Warrants Confirmation dated as of July 11, 2013 between the Company and Morgan Stanley & Co. International plc [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 16, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.19
Investment Agreement dated October 1, 2013 between the Company and CareFirst Holdings, LLC [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 2, 2013, File No. 000-19364]*
10.20
Convertible Senior Subordinated Note dated October 1, 2013 issued by the Company to CareFirst Holdings, LLC [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 2, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.21
Form of Common Stock Purchase Warrant [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 2, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.22
Registration Rights Agreement dated October 1, 2013 between the Company and CareFirst Holdings, LLC [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated October 2, 2013, File No. 000-19364]
10.23
Nomination and Standstill Agreement dated June 2, 2014 among the Company, North Tide Capital Master, LP, North Tide Capital, LLC and Conan J. Laughlin [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated June 3, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.28
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated November 30, 2012 between the Company and Alfred Lumsdaine [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.29
Amended and Restated Employment Agreement dated September 2, 2014 between the Company and Michael R. Farris [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.30
Separation Agreement, dated November 1, 2015, between the Company and Michael R. Farris [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.31
Employment Agreement dated January 1, 2012 between the Company and Peter Choueiri [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.32
Amendment to Employment Agreement dated September 2, 2014 between the Company and Peter Choueiri [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.33
Employment Agreement dated July 29, 2012 between the Company and Glenn Hargreaves [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.34
Employment Agreement dated July 29, 2012 between the Company and Mary Flipse [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.35
Employment Agreement dated January 15, 2013 between the Company and Matthew Michela [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.36
Amended and Restated Corporate and Subsidiary Capital Accumulation Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011, File No. 000-19364]
10.37
Form of Indemnification Agreement by and among the Company and the Company's directors [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.15 to Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 33-41119)]
10.38
2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 dated June 25, 2014, Registration No. 333-197025]
10.39
2007 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.16 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.40
1996 Stock Incentive Plan, as amended [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.20 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended August 31, 2006, File No. 000-19364]
10.41
Amended and Restated 2001 Stock Option Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.21 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended August 31, 2006, File No. 000-19364]
10.42
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.24 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended August 31, 2007, File No. 000-19364]
10.43
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.25 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended August 31, 2007, File No. 000-19364]
10.44
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement (for Directors) under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2010, File No. 000-19364]
10.45
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Directors) under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2010, File No. 000-19364]
10.46
2007 Stock Incentive Plan Performance Cash Award Agreement dated March 3, 2009 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated March 4, 2009, File No. 000-19364]
10.47
2007 Stock Incentive Plan Performance Cash Award Agreement dated May 25, 2011 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2011, File No. 000-19364]
10.48
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.49
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.50
2007 Stock Incentive Plan Performance Cash Award Agreement dated January 18, 2012 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.51
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.28 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.52
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under the Company's 2007 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.29 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.53
2007 Stock Incentive Plan Performance Cash Award Agreement dated February 28, 2013 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.30 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.54
2007 Stock Incentive Plan Performance Cash Award Agreement for Peter Choueiri dated February 28, 2013 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.31 to Form 10-K of the Company's fiscal year ended December 31, 2012, File No. 000-19364]
10.55
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Award Agreement (for Executive Officers) under the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.56
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Executive Officers) under the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.5 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.57
Form of Performance Share Unit Award Agreement (for Executive Officers) under the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.6 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.58
Form of Performance Cash Award Agreement (for Executive Officers) under the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.59
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Award Agreement (for Directors) under the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.8 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.60
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Directors) under the Company's 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.9 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
10.61
RSU Award Agreement for Matthew Michela, dated September 2, 2014 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.62
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Directors) under the Company's Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.63
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Executive Officers) 1-Year Cliff Vesting under the Company's Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.64
Healthways, Inc. Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 99.1 to the Company's Registration Statement on Form S-8 dated May 19, 2015, Registration No. 333-204313]
10.65
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Executive Officers) for July 1, 2015 under the Company's Amended and Restated 2014 Stock Incentive Plan [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to Form 10-Q of the Company's fiscal quarter ended September 30, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.66
Employment Agreement, dated August 3, 2015, between Healthways, Inc. and Donato Tramuto [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 7, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.67
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Mr. Tramuto [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 7, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.68
Form of Market Stock Unit Award Agreement for Mr. Tramuto [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated August 7, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.69
Form of Market Stock Unit Award Agreement for September 24, 2015 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 28, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.70
Revised Form of Market Stock Unit Award Agreement for September 24, 2015
10.71
Form of Market Stock Unit Award Agreement for Mr. Stolz
10.72
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Executive Officers and Other Senior Officers) for September 24, 2015 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 28, 2015, File No. 000-19364]
10.73
Revised Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement (for Executive Officers and Other Senior Officers) for September 24, 2015
10.74
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement for Mr. Stolz
16.1
Letter from Ernst & Young LLP to the Securities and Exchange Commission, dated July 2, 2014 [incorporated by reference to Exhibit 16.1 to the Company's Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 2, 2014, File No. 000-19364]
Subsidiary List
23.1
Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
23.2
Consent of Ernst & Young LLP
31.1
Certification pursuant to section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 made by Donato Tramuto, Chief Executive Officer
31.2
Certification pursuant to section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 made by Alfred Lumsdaine, Chief Financial Officer
Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C section 1350 as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 made by Donato Tramuto, Chief Executive Officer, and Alfred Lumsdaine, Chief Financial Officer
*Portions of this Exhibit have been omitted and filed separately with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as part of an application for confidential treatment pursuant to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
(b)
Exhibits
Refer to Item 15(a)(3) above.
(c)
Not applicable
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this Report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized.
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
Signature
Title
Date
/s/ Donato Tramuto
Chief Executive Officer and Director (Principal
March 4, 2016
Donato Tramuto
Executive Officer)
/s/ Alfred Lumsdaine
Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)
March 4, 2016
Alfred Lumsdaine
/s/ Glenn Hargreaves
Controller and Chief Accounting Officer (Principal Accounting Officer)
March 4, 2016
Glenn Hargreaves
/s/ Kevin G. Wills
Chairman of the Board and Director
March 4, 2016
Kevin G. Wills
/s/ Mary Jane England, M.D.
Director
March 4, 2016
Mary Jane England, M.D.
/s/ Robert Greczyn
Director
March 4, 2016
Robert Greczyn
/s/ Bradley S. Karro
Director
March 4, 2016
Bradley S. Karro
/s/ Paul H. Keckley
Director
March 4, 2016
Paul H. Keckley
/s/ Conan J. Laughlin
Director
March 4, 2016
Conan J. Laughlin
/s/ William D. Novelli
Director
March 4, 2016
William D. Novelli
/s/ Lee Shapiro
Director
March 4, 2016
Lee Shapiro
/s/ Alison Taunton-Rigby, Ph.D.
Director
March 4, 2016
Alison Taunton-Rigby, Ph.D.