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| Wound Care revenue is up materially, coming in at $3.9 million in 2023, beating our expectations for the year and providing a nice ramp for the larger contributions we expect to see moving forward |
| These integrations tie back into some much older systems we run internally, systems that we are developing plans to upgrade to modern standards, which will, of course, provide significant efficiency benefits to our internal processes |
| Because of these factors, we continue to be positioned well to fund continued net revenue growth within the growing cash flow from operations backed by significant liquidity reserves available from our revolving line of credit and manageable leverage and debt service requirements |
| It was our fifth consecutive year of record revenue and easily beat our guidance |
| The sustained momentum reflects our ability to focus and successfully execute on our strategic priorities, while providing our patients and partners with the highest levels of service |
| With our 2023 results, I believe we validated both the continuing strength of our core businesses and the potential of the two big growth initiatives we announced or launched in 2022 |
| First, in our core business, oncology had another record year in 2023 with the success coming from market share gains and continued improvements in our revenue cycle execution |
| Our focus right now is on advancing these existing opportunities by improving the profitability of the work we are doing under the GE MSA and by growing our wound care revenue via the steady expansion of activities under the JV with Sanara |
| In 2024, we expect to see our core businesses, oncology and traditional DME sales and rentals, contributing low single digit revenue growth and continued steady earnings and cash flow |
| These improvements will reap benefits for years to come, not just in oncology but in all areas of third party billing we do, whether for products we introduce ourselves or for those where we partner with others such as wound care under our JV with Sanara |
| We delivered strong organic growth of more than 14%, finishing the year with revenue of $125.8 million |
| GE has allowed us to build a national biomedical services network, and this, together with a reference account, should elevate the opportunities we see |
| The solid strong performance and cash flows from our two core businesses support continued execution against our current two major growth initiatives, which are Biomed and Wound Care |
| So, obviously its great news for the market, it's great news for patients and families right |
| If they hit everything in their forecast, that'll help us grow the business faster |
| We finished the year strong with net revenues for the fourth quarter of 2023, totalling $31.8 million and representing a $2.9 million or 10% increase from the prior year |
| So it's good news |
| With our unwavering commitment to help people live longer and healthier lives, we will successfully enhance our market share within acute care and wound care, while remaining focused on operational excellence, which will lead to execution and expanded adjusted EBITDA margins, both leading to solid long-term returns to our shareholders |
| These systems improve efficiencies, reduce costs and increase the stickiness of our services |
| So last year was, I would almost call it an exceptional year for that business, right? It was a good, perfect storm |
| I wouldn't expect it every year, but it's obviously nice when every percent in that business is a big contributor for the company, obviously |
| Turning to a few points on our financial position and capital reserves; as we indicated during our previous couple quarterly calls, our operating cash flow for the fourth quarter totalling $4.7 million increased sequentially for the third straight quarter and was slightly better than the prior year fourth quarter |
| However, we have been working consistently on this and our years of investment and effort are really paying off, making a material difference during 2023 both to revenue and improved profitability in our oncology business |
| Pain we didn't really mention on the call, but they're going to add a good amount of growth this year, probably solid double digits |
| In 2023, we continued investing and also experienced the surge of revenue growth as our Biomed teams onboarded facilities and pumps and in 2024, we expect to be focused on harvesting the value of the new business |
| The JV is a win for both partners |
| 2023 was a great year for InfuSystem |
| There's always ebbs and flows of the team, but we're in pretty good shape |
| Our core equipment rental business continues to do what it has always been good at doing, while beginning to take advantage of new opportunities emerging for us in acute care |
| So that's all great news |
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| In biomedical services, after a strong year of growth, the focus will be on harvesting and preparing the new national network for its next round of growth, which might start in the second half, but is more likely to have impact next year and in wound care, we expect a slow and steady build of products distributed into the third party channel |
| The year-over-year decrease was mainly due to the higher proportion of biomedical services revenue, which has a lower average gross margin and the related additional start-up costs for the GE Healthcare biomedical services contract |
| Well, that makes sense and then going back to the guidance, candidly, it has been a choppy last couple of years, and the guidance has obviously been a variety of factors that have led to that |
| Lower equipment sales of $800,000, which was mainly due to an especially strong prior year comparison, partially offset the oncology and GE increases |
| Recall that it was Cardinal that approached us |
| I think that the challenge will be the comps last year, kind of in wound care, specifically had the leases in last year, right, which was almost $4 million just south of $404 million |
| This was due to a slower amount of growth in our working capital levels |
| We're not going to make that mistake again |
| While the amount of start-up costs has been higher than we originally planned, we expect these elevated amounts to dissipate over the next several quarters and that our margin will approach our original estimates once we reach full ramp and circle past the first year of coverage for the onboarded devices |
| This was mainly driven by the higher sales, but it's partially offset by a lower gross margin percentage, which was 52.6% during the fourth quarter of 2023 down from 53.9% from the prior year |
| This business is different than our other businesses in some important ways, including having a lower gross margin than the average of our other businesses, which is more than mitigated by a much lower amount of SG&A expenses |
| I guess that shouldn't be too much of a surprise, but it still seems like there's a fair amount of growth still left in that business |
| I think, whether it's oncology or our core business is in oncology or device sales and rentals or even the new businesses, we're not looking down into the future in the next few quarters and saying, okay, we think that's going to happen |
| Most of the revenue in Wound Care to date has been related to our negative pressure device leases, but in the second half of the last year, we started distributing, albeit a very small amount, Sanara's advanced Wound Care products into the market |
| While Cardinal's plan did not achieve the level of success that they needed, it was our work with them that led directly to the current opportunity with Sanara and again, it was Sanara that came to us |
| Prior to increase in dollar amount, the ratio of selling, general and administrative expenses to net revenue was 1.6% lower during 2023 as compared to the fourth quarter of 2022 |
| Whereas our core business in ecology and pump rental are quite capital intensive, biomed is very capital light |
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