BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Policies)

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2015

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

These Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements, including the notes thereto, and other information included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of BioScrip, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (the “Company”) for the year ended December 31, 2014 (the “Annual Report”) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information, and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements.

The information furnished in these Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements reflects all adjustments, including normal recurring adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented. Operating results for the three months and six months ended June 30, 2015 require management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes and are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2015. The accounting policies followed for interim financial reporting are the same as those disclosed in Note 2 of the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Annual Report.

Consolidation

The Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Change in Estimate of the Collectability of Accounts Receivable

During 2014, the Company experienced deterioration in the aging of certain accounts receivable primarily due to delays and disruptions related to the integration of its acquisitions in 2013. The disruption to billing and collection processes was attributable in part to the following:


•	Re-licensure and new managed care credentialing was required in connection with the CarePoint Business;


•	Medicare claims were not filed until retraining and review of eligibility was performed;


•	Merged facilities and work teams in seven large markets and related employee turnover;


•	Conversion to a single version of our dispensing and billing system while still managing accounts receivable run-off on five other legacy versions; and


•	Cash posting challenges that delayed secondary and patient billings and patient statement issuance.

The Company outsourced collections to third party agency partners and hired and trained billing and collection personnel to mitigate the effects of the disruption, however, the Company experienced more difficulty collecting the aged balances than it originally estimated. The Company provided incremental allowances in each quarter during 2014 to address the developing deterioration, and as such the Company materially changed its estimates based on actual collection experience during and after the acquisition disruption period.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In April 2015, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) issued ASU 2015-03 “Interest - Imputation of Interest (subtopic 835-20): Simplifying the Presentation of Debt Issuance Costs” (“ASU 2015-03”). ASU 2015-03 requires that debt issuance costs related to a recognized debt liability be presented in the balance sheet as a direct deduction from the carrying amount of that debt liability, consistent with debt discounts. ASU 2015-03 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. Early adoption is permitted and will be applied on a retrospective basis. As of June 30, 2015 we have $2.9 million and $13.0 million of deferred financing costs that would be reclassified from a current and a long-term asset, respectively, to a reduction in the carrying amount of our debt.

In November 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-16 “Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Determining Whether the Host Contract in a Hybrid Financial Instrument Issued in the Form of a Share Is More Akin to Debt or to Equity” (“ASU 2014-16”). ASU 2014-16 requires an entity to determine the nature of the host contract by considering the economic characteristics and risks of the entire hybrid financial instrument issued in the form of a share, including the embedded derivative feature that is being evaluated for separate accounting from the host contract when evaluating whether the host contract is more akin to debt or equity. ASU 2014-16 is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2015, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016 and is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.