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| Our ability to earn Care Management fees and Shared Savings that are incremental to our highly-predictable fee-for-service administrative fees offers a very unique value proposition to our medical groups in the commercial book of business |
| This positions our business as one of the broadest and most balanced value-based care platforms in the industry |
| Privia Health closed 2023 with another quarter of strong performance |
| As we look out into the future, Privia is exceptionally well positioned to enter new capitation arrangements when the market conditions become more favorable and present the right opportunities for Privia and our provider partners |
| 2023 was another outstanding year of growth for Privia Health |
| I am extremely proud of our employees and provider partners, whose contributions drove results that met or exceeded our updated guidance across all key metrics |
| We had a record year of new and same-store provider sales as we continued to build one of the largest ambulatory provider networks in the nation |
| Our business model continues to generate very strong cash flow and we ended the year with no debt and a cash balance of approximately $390 million |
| The ongoing success of our model is underlined by our gross provider retention of over 98% in 2023 |
| Platform costs and SG&A expenses grew slower than our topline, and this operating leverage helped drive adjusted EBITDA up 21.1% over Q4 last year to $17.3 million as we continue to grow in more mature and newer markets |
| Looking back at the past couple of years, we believe our thoughtful approach to managing risk arrangements has served our providers and shareholders well in delivering consistent, predictable EBITDA growth |
| Privia’s strong 2023 performance, business momentum, and diversified book of business has positioned us well heading into this year |
| Our ability to work with the payers and make sure we do the right thing by providers that are actually undertaking total cost of care management and helping the payers lower total cost across different books of business, including commercial, is very differentiated |
| I do think that differentiates ourselves and we're able to get pretty good unit economics on the same life if we can process both fee-for-service and value-based care payments |
| That just speaks to the strength of the model and the momentum that we have |
| Privia Health’s strong operational execution and financial performance continued through the fourth quarter of 2023 |
| As we’ve consistently noted, core to our long-term strategy is to thoughtfully move lives into increased risk arrangements when we are confident it will provide significant opportunities for EBITDA and free cash flow growth |
| We expect to benefit from these changes as we continue to grow adjusted EBITDA year-over-year in a sustainable manner, while limiting downside risk in this environment in the near-term |
| Approximately 76% of the 192,000 attributed lives participating in MSSP are in the Enhanced Track with significant upside opportunity as well as the greatest downside risk CMS offers in the program |
| With improved economic terms, we expect to benefit on a Care Margin basis from restructuring the contracts |
| A combination of accelerated implementations from organic sales, strong fee-for-service and value-based care performance, and new market launches contributed to actual Practice Collections ending the year near the high end of guidance |
| It's performing really well, and we are seeing a lot of momentum in the state with community providers implementing a full-scale model at the back of the ACO or the IPA entity that we bought |
| Growth in our more mature markets drove meaningful outperformance in Platform Contribution above the high end of guidance, due to the operating leverage embedded in our model, validating our strong unit economics |
| The improved economic terms are expected to benefit our Care Margin |
| The marginal provider that joins and the life that joins is highly accretive, and the beauty of the business is we've already proven the unit economics and operating leverage today |
| We still have three or four markets that are negative EBITDA that we entered recently, and despite that we are able to generate operating leverage and grow EBITDA 20%-plus at the midpoint of the guidance |
| Care Margin was up 17.5%, and adjusted EBITDA grew 18.7% to reach $72.2 million despite absorbing new market entry costs |
| So, I think it speaks to our strength of the business model and how we can work with the payers and the long-term nature of the contract |
| We remain extremely well positioned to reaccelerate our move to downside-risk arrangements when the appropriate MA market conditions present themselves in future years |
| Expansion into our newer markets is picking up pace, as our multi-specialty provider partnership model across all patients and all reimbursements is a key differentiator for Privia |
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| Over recent months, we have heard commentary from payers anticipating top line and margin pressure stemming from several factors, including V28, a continuation of strong inpatient and outpatient utilization, and an expected reduction in the number of four and five-star rated health plans |
| This ACO comprised approximately 12,000 attributed lives in MSSP and, given utilization trends in that market, was expected to generate a negative contribution margin for the foreseeable future |
| In addition, we are starting to see some disruption in the provider space due to the challenging environment |
| Some of those are still EBITDA negative, and we would expect to breakeven over the next couple of years |
| The payers are going through a pretty challenging phase |
| However, we've exited the ACO, and that prevents a negative care margin and EBITDA impact that we would have faced had we not shut down the ACO |
| You're seeing significant earnings revisions and business models that are single-line focused, facing some headwinds in this market environment, both public companies as well as privately held companies |
| To be clear, we are still taking pretty substantial risk in these contracts, 50% or higher |
| As of January 1st, 75% of the 172,000 attributed lives in Medicare Advantage are in upside-only payer contracts, 16% are in upside/downside arrangements, the remaining 9%, or approximately 16,000 lives, are expected to be in capitation arrangements, down from 35,900 at the end of 2023 due to our actions to limit downside risk exposure |
| As we stated earlier this year, we believe that the environment today does not support overextension into downside risk or capitation arrangements |
| It's impacting their book |
| And my other quick one was on the capitated book, prior development swung to a positive $3.3 million in the fourth quarter |
| Our Practice Collections guidance includes a reduction of approximately $198 million from 2023 given lower risk exposure from the MA capitation agreements we are renegotiating |
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