MultiPlan Reports First Quarter 2024 Results

– Q1 2024 Revenues of $234.5 million, Net Loss of $539.7 million (including a $519.1 million impairment of goodwill and indefinite-lived intangible assets), and Adjusted EBITDA of $146.8 million

– Identified potential medical cost savings of approximately $5.7 billion in Q1 2024, up 3% from Q1 2023 and down 3% from Q4 2023

– Repurchased or repaid $24.4 million of face value of debt, including $21.1 million of 6.0% Senior Convertible PIK Notes

MultiPlan Corporation (“MultiPlan” or the “Company”) (NYSE: MPLN), a leading value-added provider of data analytics and technology-enabled end-to-end cost management, payment and revenue integrity solutions to the U.S. healthcare industry, today reported financial results for the first quarter ended March 31, 2024.

“As you heard me say a just few months ago, I joined as CEO because I saw an incredible opportunity to help us follow through on our transformation to a world class public company that is fit to deliver sustainable growth and to fulfill our important mission to bend the cost curve in healthcare,” said Travis Dalton, CEO.

“After engaging with countless employees and clients over the last two months, I have even greater admiration for our exceptional talent, appreciation of our strong customer relationships and our hard-earned reputation for providing world class service, and confidence that we will leverage our unique data and technology assets to innovate products for our existing clients and new market segments.”

“At the same time,” continued Mr. Dalton, “we have work to do to enhance our foundation so that we can execute our strategy with discipline and speed. Among the many steps we are taking, we recently added our Chief Operating Officer, Jerry Hogge, who is focused on enhancing our operating and product development capabilities and intensifying our sales engagement, all of which will help us go to market more efficiently and maximize our potential.”

“Our first quarter was affected by a cybersecurity incident at a major medical claims clearinghouse, which disrupted claims flows across the healthcare industry and ultimately downstream to our platform,” said Mr. Dalton. “Despite this disruption, our first quarter results were just below the low end of our guidance ranges for revenues and Adjusted EBITDA. Excluding an estimated $5 to 6 million revenue impact from this disruption, our results would have landed within our guidance ranges.”

“We did not allow the disruption to distract us, and I am proud of the progress the team made during the quarter,” said Mr. Dalton. “We remained focused on delivering on our growth initiatives and product roadmap. And moreover, we remained steadfast in the pursuit of our mission to drive down the costs of healthcare for consumers and our clients, while fulfilling our purpose to make healthcare transparent, fair, and affordable for all.”

Business and Financial Highlights

• Revenues of $234.5 million for Q1 2024, a decrease of 0.9%, compared to revenues of $236.6 million for Q1 2023.
• Net loss of $539.7 million for Q1 2024, compared to net income of $0.2 million for Q1 2023. The net loss was principally due to an impairment charge of $519.1 million for goodwill and indefinite-lived intangibles.
• Adjusted EBITDA of $146.8 million for Q1 2024, compared to Adjusted EBITDA of $156.3 million for Q1 2023.
• Net cash provided by operating activities of $49.7 million for Q1 2024, compared to net cash provided by operating activities of $64.2 million for Q1 2023.
• Free Cash Flow of $19.2 million for Q1 2024, compared to Free Cash Flow of $41.1 million for Q1 2023.
• In Q1 2024, the Company used $18.2 million of cash to repurchase or repay $24.4 million face value of its debt, including $21.1 million of its 6.0% Senior Convertible PIK Notes, and also used $10.4 million of cash to repurchase shares of its common stock in the open market. The Company ended Q1 2024 with $58.7 million of unrestricted cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet.
• The Company processed approximately $41.5 billion in claim charges during Q1 2024, identifying potential medical cost savings of approximately $5.7 billion.
• Based on the results of an impairment test as of March 31, 2024, the estimated fair values of our goodwill and indefinite-lived assets were less than their carrying values and as a result impairment charges of $516.4 million for our goodwill and $2.7 million for our indefinite-lived intangibles were recorded.

2024 Financial Guidance¹

The Company is maintaining its Full Year 2024 guidance, as detailed in the table below.

The Company anticipates Q2 2024 revenues between $235 million and $250 million and Adjusted EBITDA¹ between $145 million to $160 million.

¹ We have not reconciled the forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA guidance included above to the most directly comparable GAAP measure because this cannot be done without unreasonable effort due to the variability and low visibility with respect to certain costs, the most significant of which are incentive compensation (including stock-based compensation), transaction-related expenses, and certain fair value measurements, which are potential adjustments to future earnings. We expect the variability of these items to have a potentially unpredictable, and a potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.

Conference Call Information

The Company will host a conference call today, Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss its financial results. Investors and analysts are encouraged to pre-register for the conference call by using the link below. Participants who pre-register will receive access details via email. Pre-registration may be completed at any time up to and following the call start time.

To pre-register, go to: https://www.netroadshow.com/events/login?show=0ebae0ec&confId=63320

A live webcast of the conference call can be accessed through the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at investors.multiplan.com/events-and-presentations. Participants should join the webcast ten minutes prior to the start of the conference call. This earnings press release and a supplemental slide deck will also be available on this section of the Company’s website.

For those unable to listen to the live conference call, a replay will be available approximately two hours after the call through the archived webcast on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website. For those requiring operator assistance, please dial (833) 470-1428 or (404) 975-4839. The access code is 298805.

About MultiPlan

MultiPlan is committed to bending the cost curve in healthcare by delivering transparency, fairness, and affordability to the US healthcare system. Our focus is on identifying medical savings, helping to lower out-of-pocket costs, and reducing or eliminating balance billing for healthcare consumers. Leveraging sophisticated technology, data analytics, and a team rich with industry experience, MultiPlan interprets customers’ needs and customizes innovative solutions that combine its payment and revenue integrity, network-based, data and decision science, and analytics-based services. MultiPlan delivers value to more than 700 healthcare payors, over 100,000 employers, 60 million consumers, and 1.4 million contracted providers. For more information, visit multiplan.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This press release includes statements that express our management’s opinions, expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, or projections regarding future events or future results and therefore are, or may be deemed to be, “forward-looking statements”. These forward-looking statements can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms “believes,” “estimates,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “seeks,” “projects,” “forecasts,” “intends,” “plans,” “may,” “will,” or “should” or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include all matters that are not historical facts. They appear in a number of places throughout this press release, including the discussion of 2024 outlook and guidance, plans to expand or enhance the Company’s products and service lines, capital allocation strategies, and the long-term prospects of the Company. Such forward-looking statements are based on available current market information and management’s expectations, beliefs and forecasts concerning future events impacting the business. Although we believe that these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions at the time they are made, you should be aware that these forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include: loss of our customers, particularly our largest customers; interruptions or security breaches of our information technology systems and other cybersecurity attacks; the impact of reduced claims volumes resulting from a nationwide outage by a vendor used by our customers; the ability to achieve the goals of our strategic plans and recognize the anticipated strategic, operational, growth and efficiency benefits when expected; our ability to enter new lines of business and broaden the scope of our services; the loss of key members of management team or inability to maintain sufficient qualified personnel; our ability to continue to attract, motivate and retain a large number of skilled employees, and adapt to the effects of inflationary pressure on wages; trends in the U.S. healthcare system, including recent trends of unknown duration of reduced healthcare utilization and increased patient financial responsibility for services; effects of competition; effects of pricing pressure; our ability to identify, complete and successfully integrate acquisitions; the inability of our customers to pay for our services; changes in our industry and industry standards and technology; our ability to protect proprietary information, processes and applications; our ability to maintain the licenses or right of use for the software we use; our inability to expand our network infrastructure; our ability to obtain additional financing; our ability to pay interest and principal on our notes and other indebtedness; lowering or withdrawal of our credit ratings; adverse outcomes related to litigation or governmental proceedings; inability to preserve or increase our market share or the size of our PPO networks; decreases in discounts from providers; pressure to limit access to preferred provider networks; the loss of our existing relationships with providers; changes in our regulatory environment, including healthcare law and regulations; the expansion of privacy and security laws; heightened enforcement activity by government agencies; the possibility that we may be adversely affected by other political economic, business and/or competitive factors; changes in accounting principles or the incurrence of impairment charges our ability to remediate any material weaknesses or maintain effective internal controls over financial reporting; other factors disclosed in our Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) filings from time to time, including, without limitation, those factors described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023; and other factors beyond our control. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.

There can be no assurance that future developments affecting our business will be those that we have anticipated. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date made.

We do not undertake any obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”), this press release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures, including EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Free Cash Flow, Unlevered Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Cash Conversion Ratio. A non-GAAP financial measure is generally defined as a numerical measure of a company’s financial or operating performance that excludes or includes amounts so as to be different than the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, Free Cash Flow, Unlevered Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Cash Conversion Ratio are supplemental measures of MultiPlan’s performance that are not required by or presented in accordance with GAAP. These measures are not measurements of our financial or operating performance under GAAP, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to net income, cash flows or any other measures of performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.

EBITDA represents net income before interest expense, interest income, income tax provision, depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, and non-income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA is EBITDA as further adjusted by certain items as described in the table below.

In addition, in evaluating EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA you should be aware that, in the future, we may incur expenses similar to the adjustments in the presentation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. The presentation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. The calculations of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Based on our industry and debt financing experience, we believe that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are customarily used by investors, analysts and other interested parties to provide useful information regarding a company’s ability to service and/or incur indebtedness.

We also believe that Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors and analysts in assessing our operating performance during the periods these charges were incurred on a consistent basis with the periods during which these charges were not incurred. Both EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider either in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of the limitations are:

• EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect changes in, or cash requirements for, our working capital needs;
• EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments on our debt;
• EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect our tax expense or the cash requirements to pay our taxes; and
• Although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the tangible assets being depreciated will often have to be replaced in the future, and EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA do not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements.

MultiPlan’s presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results and financial position will be unaffected by unusual items.

Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, all as disclosed in the Statements of Cash Flows. Unlevered Free Cash Flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, plus cash interest paid, all as disclosed in the Statements of Cash Flows. Free Cash Flow and Unlevered Free Cash Flow are measures of our operational performance used by management to evaluate our business after purchases of property and equipment and, in the case of Unlevered Free Cash Flow, prior to the impact of our capital structure. Free Cash Flow and Unlevered Free Cash Flow should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, consolidated net income as a measure of our performance and net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our liquidity. Additionally, MultiPlan’s definitions of Free Cash Flow and Unlevered Free Cash Flow are limited, in that they do not represent residual cash flows available for discretionary expenditures, due to the fact that the measures do not deduct the payments required for debt service, in the case of Unlevered Free Cash Flow, and other contractual obligations or payments made for business acquisitions.

Adjusted Cash Conversion Ratio is defined as Unlevered Free Cash Flow divided by Adjusted EBITDA. MultiPlan believes that the presentation of the Adjusted Cash Conversion Ratio provides useful information to investors because it is a financial performance measure that shows how much of its Adjusted EBITDA MultiPlan converts into Unlevered Free Cash Flow.

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