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| Importantly, despite our increased investments, we expect to deliver solid adjusted EBITDA and operating cash flow in 2024 which will help us continue to enhance our balance sheet and financial condition |
| And we remain confident in the long-term opportunity for Organogenesis and we expect to remain a leader in the space with highly innovative efficacious products that deliver on our mission to provide integrated healing solutions that substantially improve outcomes while lowering the overall cost of care |
| While the environment remains challenging, we're pleased to see the business trends show improvement in early 2024 and our commercial team continues to see progress in their efforts to reengage with our customers |
| And we had our national sales meeting at the end of January and relaunched our strategy and that's been very effective sales since our national sales meeting, has been really strong |
| So we think it's a real opportunity for us to continue to identify opportunities out there that really kind of add to our bag and then leverage the broad commercial infrastructure that we have and the leadership position that we have in Advanced Wound Care |
| In 2021, ReNu received the FDA's Regenerative Medicine Advanced Therapy, or RMAT designation for osteoarthritis of the knee which underscores the strength of our existing clinical evidence and its potential to address a largely unmet medical need |
| We are also pleased with the progress we're seeing in our second Phase III clinical trial for ReNu |
| Additionally, the higher end of our guidance range assumed improvement in the operating environment as we move through Q4 which ultimately did not materialize |
| And it's a pretty exciting time, that's an inflection point within the ReNu program |
| We believe our proactive efforts to optimize our cost structure was a key contributor to our ability to deliver positive adjusted net income and adjusted EBITDA, both of which exceeded the low end of our guidance ranges in Q4 |
| So we feel quite good about the opportunity set that we've got in front of us |
| And '24 I think, is going to be a good year and we see a lot of opportunity for us going forward as well |
| We're encouraged by the evidence that our commercial support programs we implemented to enhance existing customer relationships and to regain lost accounts are proving effective and we are proud of the team's continued commitment to our mission |
| As a reminder, the first half of 2023 exceeded our expectations and the strong business momentum continued into the early part of the third quarter, ahead of the final LCD announcement in early August |
| We're encouraged by the evidence that the commercial support programs we implemented to enhance existing customer relationships and to regain lost accounts are proving effective |
| David Francisco Ryan, the only thing I'd add too is recognize too that the first quarter of 2023 was quite strong at 11% growth |
| Despite the challenging quarter, we are pleased to see the positive momentum in the business trends we experienced towards the end of December continue into early 2024 and our commercial team continues to see progress in their broad-based efforts to reengage with our customers to bring our products back to the healing algorithms and formularies |
| We view this license agreement as a great example of our effort to identify growth in margin accretive, high-return opportunities to leverage our valuable commercial infrastructure and leading market position in Advanced Wound Care |
| We are adding new products to our commercial team solution offerings which we expect will enhance our share of voice while providing value to customers by broadening our portfolio of differentiated treatment solutions |
| Our guidance reflects a return to revenue growth for 2024, fueled by new product launches across both Advanced Wound Care and surgical sports medicine markets, including contributions from a new license agreement with Vivex Biologics |
| So we're encouraged with the accounts that we're bringing back with the productivity of the reps |
| So we think things will continue to get better in the second half of the quarter |
| We have the right leadership |
| The last 2 weeks, we really started to see improvement |
| So it's a great partnership |
| And net revenue from Surgical & Sports Medicine products between $30 million and $35 million, representing a year-over-year increase in the range of 9% to 27% |
| And so -- from our standpoint, I think Gary mentioned it, it's growth accretive, it's GM accretive and profit EBITDA accretive |
| We're excited about it and look forward to continuing to report out on the progress that we make there |
| GAAP operating expenses will increase approximately 10% to 12% year-over-year and total non-GAAP operating expenses will increase approximately 13% to 14% year-over-year |
| As you know, we've been in kind of repositioning mode for some time since the FDA upregulation of both ReNu and NuCel but we're really now in a position to drive growth in our view |
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| Our sales results came in at the low end of our guidance range outlined on our third quarter conference call and reflects the expected challenging operating environment as a result of the local coverage determinations having been announced and subsequently withdrawn last fall |
| Net revenue for the fourth quarter was $99.7 million, down 14% |
| Our Advanced Wound Care net revenue for the fourth quarter was $93.2 million, also down 14% |
| More specifically, our fourth quarter guidance range has assumed continued significant business disruption driven by customer confusion and uncertainty |
| Net revenue from Surgical & Sports Medicine products for the fourth quarter was $6.5 million, down 3% |
| Net revenue was $433.1 million compared to $450.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2022, a decrease of $17.8 million or 4%, of which approximately 90% of the year-over-year decline occurred in the fourth quarter |
| So it's a comp issue as well |
| And also how to think about the margin cadence here, Dave, because -- when you look at the gross margin in the fourth quarter, it was down materially from third quarter |
| Adjusted net income for the fourth quarter was $1.9 million compared to $8.9 million last year, a decrease of $7 million |
| As we talked about recently, we are seeing some pressure on there from a price standpoint |
| We made these difficult strategic decisions to further mitigate the impact to profitability from the lower fourth quarter revenue results |
| The decrease in gross profit and margin resulted primarily from shifts in product mix compared to the prior year period and a decrease in the pricing for certain of our products |
| Operating loss for the fourth quarter was $1.3 million compared to operating income of $8.7 million last year, a decrease of $10 million |
| Net loss for the fourth quarter was $0.6 million compared to net income of $7.5 million last year, a decrease of $8.1 million |
| And as you kind of see those throughout the year and the fourth quarter, there's a fairly significant drop off in the associates |
| As outlined on our last quarter's earnings call, we expected our sales reps to be spending more time servicing existing customers and regaining lost customers versus cultivating new customer adoption thus impacting our year-over-year growth trends in the quarter |
| The decrease in net revenue was driven by a decrease of $16.7 million or 4% in net revenue of Advanced Wound Care products and a decrease of $1 million or 4% in net revenue of Surgical & Sports Medicine products |
| Adjusted EBITDA was $42.6 million or 9.8% of net revenue compared to adjusted EBITDA of $49.3 million or 10.9% of net revenue for the year ended December 31, 2022, a decrease of $6.7 million or 14%, all of which occurred in the fourth quarter |
| So they're very cautious in coming back and testing reimbursement |
| Excluding these items, a non-cash intangible amortization of $1.2 million in both periods, non-GAAP operating expenses for the fourth quarter decreased $7.8 million or 10% year-over-year |
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