Description of Business and Merger

6 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2011

Description of Business and Merger

1. Description of Business and Merger

Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (“Apollo” or the “Company”) is a leading provider of hospitalist services in the Greater Los Angeles, California area. Hospitalist medicine is organized around the admission and care of patients in an inpatient facility such as a hospital or skilled nursing facility and is focused on providing, managing and coordinating the care of hospitalized patients. Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. operates as a medical management holding company that focuses on managing the provision of hospital-based medicine through a wholly owned subsidiary-management company, Apollo Medical Management, Inc. (“AMM”). Through AMM, the Company manages affiliated medical groups, which primarily consists of ApolloMed Hospitalists (“AMH”). AMM operates as a Physician Practice Management Company (PPM) and is in the business of providing management services to Physician Practice Companies (PPC) under Management Service Agreements.

On February 15, 2011, the Company completed a merger ("Merger"), whereby Aligned Healthcare Group, Inc. became a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. The Merger was effected pursuant to Stock Purchase Agreement, dated February 15, 2011, by and among Aligned Healthcare Group – California, Inc., Raouf Khalil, Jamie McReynolds, M.D. BJ Reese and BJ Reese & Associates, LLC, under which the Company acquired all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock (the “Acquisition”) of Aligned Healthcare, Inc., a California corporation (“AHI”), from AHI’s shareholders.  AHI is engaged in the business of operating 24-hour physician call centers and provides specialized care management services (See Note 18).