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| Due to this development, we are seeing some volatility in the domestic business-to-business channel, but we also see the potential opportunity to capitalize in our market leadership, differentiated product offering and brand recognition |
| How durable should we expect this environment to be? Kevin Smith We see good upside within the B2B channel |
| We have a great team and a great product portfolio |
| Our products are trusted and reliable, our innovation pipeline is robust and we have a particularly exciting opportunity to increase our ability to impact patients' lives with the recent addition of Physio Assist to our portfolio |
| From my conversations with our leaders, I have immense confidence in the opportunity ahead of the company and our capability to make improvements across the business |
| I remain optimistic for the future and I'm excited to welcome the new additions to our management team |
| And when we look at the Simeox and PhysioAssist coming in, what I will say is we're very happy with the progress that we've made |
| Greg's experience will help improve Inogen's products, commercial strategy and customer experience |
| We have a good team in place, an existing product that is top of the line, but we do see a lot of room for improvement within our sales strategy |
| We believe that we have a leadership position in the market and that is also giving us an advantage to be able to step in and help fill that void market |
| We do also see upside within this that we're working to position ourselves to be able to accelerate the growth as we go forward |
| PhysioAssist represents an exciting opportunity to expand our portfolio increasing our ability to impact the lives of existing and new patients |
| We believe that there's going to be opportunities for us and we're putting ourselves in positions to be able to take advantage as they present themselves |
| Inogen devices are known for their superior patient compliance, monitoring and diagnostic capabilities and we know that continued investment in our platforms to improve their ease of use and cost effectiveness can take us even further with our business-to-business partners further establishing patient and provider preference and loyalty |
| So that for us is creating opportunity for growth |
| In tandem with all of these efforts, Inogen will continue to bring best in class POCs to the market, evaluate our sales strategies and strengthen our relationships with distributors and stakeholders in new and existing markets |
| I am confident that both their additions are step towards achieving Inogen's full potential |
| We see opportunities there to continue to improve |
| We remain dedicated to delivering the highest quality, most dependable and most advanced respiratory therapies to patients around the globe |
| We expect a modestly higher gross margin in the first quarter of 2024 relative to the fourth quarter of 2023, driven by labor efficiency and lower impact from premium price components |
| We also see some near-term opportunities within our B2B channel |
| Sales revenue gross margin was 32.8%, an increase of 350 basis points, driven primarily by lower component and labor cost |
| At Inogen, we take pride in the mobility our devices offer patients |
| Reducing COGS and controlling spend is another key focus for us going forward to improve our pathway to profitability and also approval of the PhysioAssist and expansion of our digital health portfolio |
| And so we see opportunities to be able to minimize that friction, to be able to maximize number of patients on an Inogen POC, regardless of what that patient's preference is, insurance status and so forth |
| We remain optimistic about our ability to achieve clearance and we'll be providing updates as they're available |
| There's overlay with the patients that will benefit from a PhysioAssist device, Simeox device as well as a POC that will help us even deeper relationships, especially with commissions, as well as the B2B channel we see down the road |
| Lower risks of hospitalizations and ER visits and consequently lower healthcare resource utilization costs than patients using POCs with shorter duration of autonomy |
| But we do believe that we have a strong balance sheet and capital position to fund our upcoming initiatives, and we don't anticipate going out for a raise |
| His presence has been an immense benefit to myself and the company during this time |
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| Domestic business and business revenue decreased 33.6 percent to $18.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2023, compared with $27.2 million in the comparable period, driven by competitive pricing pressure, increased cost of capital and HME expense management |
| Rental revenue gross margin was 52.7%, a decline of 120 basis points, primarily due to decreased reimbursement rates relating to insurance coverage mix, as well as higher servicing costs |
| Looking at fourth quarter revenue on a more detailed basis, direct to consumer sales decreased to 21.6% to $19.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2023 from $25.3 million in the prior period, driven primarily by fewer representatives, partially offset by higher rep productivity |
| Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023 was $75.9 million a decrease of 13.8% versus the prior year period |
| Adjusted EBITDA was a negative $37.8 million compared to a negative $13.5 million for the full year 2022 |
| Total revenue for the full year of 2023 was $315.7 million a decrease of 16.3% versus the prior year period |
| And then I guess the real question is around first quarter sales guidance, maybe a little bit lower than we were expecting, and other than 2023, I'm not sure that I've ever seen it down sequential Q1 for Inogen in my time covering the company |
| For the fourth quarter, foreign exchange had a negative 50 basis point impact on total revenue and a negative 140 basis point impact on international revenue |
| For the full year, foreign exchange had a negative 10 basis point impact on total revenue and a negative 40 basis point impact on international revenue |
| And then when we think about the guidance, it seems as though you're expecting that to stay relatively weak |
| The decrease was driven by declines in direct-to-consumer sales as well as domestic and international business-to-business sales, partially offset by higher rental revenue |
| The decline was primarily driven by a decrease in domestic business to business sales and direct to consumer sales, partially offset by higher rental revenue |
| So I'm sorry, in the first quarter, you would just assume every business segment is down sequentially even with the way that you guys had presented the guidance on a total company basis |
| In the fourth quarter of 2023, we reported a GAAP net loss of $26.6 million and a loss per diluted share of $1.14 On an adjusted basis, we reported a net loss of $19.4 million and an adjusted loss per diluted share of $0.83 Adjusted EBITDA was a loss of $17.3 million |
| B2B business, and how durable you expect the HME expense management to be from here? You talked about revenues being down in the fourth quarter and possibly expecting that to continue in the first quarter |
| Total operating expense was $236.1 million compared to $238.8 million for the full year 2022, representing a decrease of 1.1% |
| We expect that there may be a void in the market and if so we will be ready to step in and fill it |
| Before I turn the call over to Mike, I'd like to address the news of a recent competitor exiting the market |
| We were down in our domestic B2B and I think that would be the way I would think about the trends I think going forward for the near term |
| Moving on to operating expense, in the fourth quarter total operating expense decreased $57.1 million compared to $88 million in the prior period, representing a decrease of 35% |
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