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| And so we’re very, very excited about it |
| These represent excellent opportunities to prove our value proposition and grow these geographies over time, much like we have done so successfully in the northeast |
| During the quarter, we experienced significant growth and strong operational execution as we made considerable progress with our core strategic objectives in all three key customer verticals, insurance partners, hospital systems and our government population health programs |
| I’m endlessly grateful for your extraordinary efforts, and I’m proud, I’m proud to be leading a company that’s helping transform how healthcare is being delivered for the good |
| In the Transportation segment, gross margin continued to expand, increasing to 37.4% in Q4 of 2023, up from 31.7% in the third quarter and 29.4% in Q4 of 2022 |
| As revenues increased over the second half of 2023, we saw SG&A decline as a percentage of total revenues, leading to operating margin expansion |
| We think that the gains in gross margin that we saw in Q4 compared to Q3 will be sustained |
| This puts us in a strong position to achieve improved adjusted EBITDA margins and cash flow as we progress through 2024 |
| DocGo is confident in our cash position, we are confident in our cash collections, we are confident in our access to capital, and we are confident in our strong business fundamentals |
| We experienced another year of strong growth across each of our key customer verticals in 2023 |
| As these projects hit their stride, through the first two months of 2024, we have seen further improvements in these areas and believe that we should see some sequential gross margin improvements in Q1 of 2024 |
| By leveraging our mobile capabilities and meeting patients where they are, by bringing care to their homes, we are validating to these customers that we can improve patient compliance rates materially |
| So we’re really optimistic about all three to answer your question directly I think the first two will be continue to be the primary drivers of growth in 2024, but we’re really laying a really great foundation and you’ll see the growth play out in 2024 and beyond with our insurance partners |
| So as we drive down total cost and as we participate in helping improve health outcomes, then we’re rewarded for that, which we’re also very excited, because we think we have a really strong opportunity to do that |
| And as you mentioned, our value-based arrangements is something we’re particularly very excited about, because we really feel like our tech platform that helps us optimize the right clinician in the right vehicle, with the right tools, with the right tech in the home of a patient |
| We continue to see a significant opportunity in our monitoring efforts, both on a standalone basis and as part of our HEDIS quality score improvement and value-based service offerings |
| Second, with our Medical Transportation segment, which is largely hospital systems, we closed out the year with another strong performance |
| We announced a number of meaningful RFP wins in the second half of 2023, both domestically and in the UK, which we expect will continue to help drive strong growth in 2024 |
| And we’re really seeing great early success with that |
| We have a wonderful, wonderful team, hardworking team, really smart team, people with different points of experience, and really helping us build out the programs |
| But I can tell you we’re really proud of the work that we’re doing at an enormous scale that we are able to provide it at |
| The access that we bring has really helped those underserved communities, and we continue to see success with those projects, and they’ll continue |
| But we’re really laying a really great foundation with our insurance partners, where we’re able to drive results for our patients with them, to help close care gaps, to really bring care to patients that haven’t seen a doctor in over a year |
| Transportation gross margin has now expanded for six consecutive quarters, alongside the sequential revenue increases I mentioned earlier, as we’ve benefited from scale, improved utilization and easing of wage and fuel price pressures, and a higher value mix of trips, along with a continued shift toward higher-margin leased hour programs |
| And then I’m also very optimistic and very excited about our work with our insurance partners |
| And making the care way more accessible, we think will really drive improved health outcomes and we’re seeing that play out |
| During the fourth quarter, while we were able to maintain third quarter revenue levels and, in fact, increase them further, we were able to improve margins by bringing overtime costs and subcontracted labor expenses closer in line with their projected levels |
| I’m also always optimistic about our work in the municipal space |
| We have really strong pipeline with our hospital systems, both in Medical Transportation and with other Mobile Health opportunities, and I think those will continue to drive growth for us with hospital systems |
| Our record Q4 and full year results are proof that this vision is taking shape, and I look forward to continuing to build on this momentum in 2024 and beyond |
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| But as Norm mentioned, we have models that have the migrant revenue declining in the back half of the year |
| So as the quarters go through 2024, the asylum seeker revenue will moderate and decline as the year progresses |
| Like I said, if you stepped down for HPD, you would probably be less than feared |
| And a couple of things happened that maybe had us see some outlier margins |
| Maybe a couple of points lower than some of our other projects, but not materially different one way or the other |
| The year-over-year drop in net income is explained by two line items, non-cash stock compensation expense and income tax expense |
| We do definitely as Lee pointed out, we definitely expect it to back up a little bit |
| Norm, looking at your cash flow guidance, and it looks like the cash flow from operations guidance is like $10 million to $15 million lower than adjusted EBITDA may just be a definition, but I was just trying to understand that dynamic, given what appears to be a fairly material working capital tailwind that you should get from the HPD contract this year |
| It’s kind of been a little bit of a resource drag, if you will |
| I guess the investor questions I keep getting is around sort of ‘25, worst case scenario, HPD is not there |
| But as the year goes on, as we get closer to the end of the contract, we feel that the drop off will not be as abrupt as maybe we might have thought in the past |
| We did take a conservative approach towards the back half of the year, as we’ve been talking about, but there’s no indication right now at all that there’s some cliff or there’s a reason to think that everything is abating towards the back half of the year |
| And it seems like you’re on the right path, from what I could tell, a little more clarity there would be great |
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