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Revenue Recognition
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2011
Revenue Recognition [Abstract]  
Revenue Recognition [Text Block]
Revenue Recognition


The Company recognizes revenue on the services that it provides, which includes (i) providing payor clients with a comprehensive network of ancillary healthcare providers, (ii) providing claims management, reporting, processing and payment services, (iii) providing network/need analysis to assess the benefits to payor clients of adding what additional/different service providers to the client-specific provider networks and (iv) providing credentialing of network services providers for inclusion in the client payor-specific provider networks.  Revenue is recognized when services are delivered, which occurs after processed claims are billed to the client payors and collections are reasonably assured.  The Company estimates revenues and costs of revenues using average historical collection rates and average historical margins earned on claims.  Periodically, revenues are adjusted to reflect actual cash collections so that revenues recognized accurately reflect cash collected.


The Company determines whether it is acting as a principal or agent in the fulfillment of the services rendered.  After careful evaluation of the key gross and net revenue recognition indicators, the Company acknowledges that while the determination of gross versus net reporting is highly judgmental in nature, the Company has concluded that its circumstances are most consistent with those key indicators that support gross revenue reporting.


Following are the key indicators that support the Company’s conclusion that it acts as a principal when settling claims for service providers through its contracted service provider network:


The Company is the primary obligor in the arrangement.  The Company has assessed its role as primary obligor as a strong indicator of gross reporting.  The Company believes that it is the primary obligor in its transactions because it is responsible for providing the services desired by its client payors.  The Company has distinct, separately negotiated contractual relationships with its client payors and with the ancillary health care providers in its networks.  The Company does not negotiate “on behalf of” its client payors and does not hold itself out as the agent of the client payors when negotiating the terms of the Company’s ancillary healthcare service provider agreements.  The Company’s agreements contractually prohibit client payors and service providers to enter into direct contractual relationships with one another.  The client payors have no control over the terms of the Company’s agreements with the service providers.  In executing transactions, the Company assumes key performance-related risks.  The client payors hold the Company responsible for fulfillment, as the provider, of all of the services the client payors are entitled to under their contracts; client payors do not look to the service providers for fulfillment.  In addition, the Company bears the pricing/margin risk as the principal in the transactions.  Because the contracts with the client payors and service providers are separately negotiated, the Company has complete discretion in negotiating both the prices it charges its client payors and the financial terms of its agreements with the service providers.  Since the Company’s profit is the spread between the amounts received from the client payors and the amount paid to the service providers, it bears significant pricing/margin risk.  There is no guaranteed mark-up payable to the Company on the amount the Company has contracted.  Thus, the Company bears the risk that amounts paid to the service provider will be greater than the amounts received from the client payors, resulting in a loss or negative claim.


The Company has latitude in establishing pricing.  As stated above, the Company has complete latitude in negotiating the price to be paid to the Company by each client payor and the price to be paid to each contracted service provider.  This type of pricing latitude indicates that the Company has the risks and rewards normally attributed to a principal in the transactions.


The Company changes the product or performs part of the services.  The Company provides the benefits associated with the relationships it builds with the client payors and the services providers.  While the parties could deal with each other directly, the client payors would not have the benefit of the Company’s experience and expertise in assembling a comprehensive network of service providers, in claims management, reporting and processing and payment services, in performing network/needs analysis to assess the benefits to client payors of adding additional/different service providers to the client payor-specific provider networks, and in credentialing network service providers.


The Company has complete discretion in supplier selection.  One of the key factors considered by client payors who engage the Company is to have the Company undertake the responsibility for identifying, qualifying, contracting with and managing the relationships with the ancillary healthcare service providers.  As part of the contractual arrangement between the Company and its client payors, the payors identify their obligations to their respective covered persons and then work with the Company to determine the types of ancillary healthcare services required in order for the payors to meet their obligations.  The Company may select the providers and contract with them to provide services at its discretion.


The Company is involved in the determination of product or service specifications.  The Company works with its client payors to determine the types of ancillary healthcare services required in order for the payors to meet their obligations to their respective covered persons.  In some respects, the Company is customizing the product through its efforts and ability to assemble a comprehensive network of providers for its payors that is tailored to each payor’s specific needs.  In addition, as part of its claims processing and payment services, the Company works with the client payors, on the one hand, and the providers, on the other, to set claims review, management and payment specifications.


The supplier (and not the Company) has credit risk.  The Company believes it has some level of credit risk, but that risk is mitigated because the Company does not remit payment to providers unless and until it has received payment from the relevant client payors following the Company’s processing of a claim.


The amount that the Company earns is not fixed.  The Company does not earn a fixed amount per transaction nor does it realize a per-person per-month charge for its services.
     
The Company has evaluated the other indicators of gross and net revenue recognition, including whether or not the Company has general inventory risk.  The Company does not have any general inventory risk, as its business is not related to the manufacture, purchase or delivery of goods and it does not purchase in advance any of the services to be provided by the ancillary healthcare service providers.  While the absence of this risk would be one indicator in support of net revenue reporting, as described in detail above, the Company has carefully evaluated all of the key gross and net revenue recognition indicators and has concluded that its circumstances are most consistent with those key indicators that support gross revenue reporting.


If the Company were to report its revenues net of provider payments rather than on a gross reporting basis, for the three and six months ended June 30, 2011, its net revenues would have been approximately $2.5 million and $5.8 million, respectively. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2010, its net revenues would have been approximately $4.3 million and $8.2 million, respectively.
 
The Company records a provision for refunds on a periodic basis. Refunds are paid to payors for overpayments on claims, claims paid in error, and claims paid for non-covered services. In some instances, we will recoup payments made to the ancillary service provider if the claim has been fully resolved. The evaluation is performed periodically and is based on historical data. We present revenue net of the provision for refunds on the consolidated statement of operations.


During the three and six months ended June 30, 2011 and 2010, two of the Company’s clients comprised a significant portion of the Company’s revenues.  The following is a summary of the approximate amounts of the Company’s revenue and accounts receivable contributed by each of those clients as of the dates and for the periods presented (amounts in thousands):


 
 
 
Periods ended June 30, 2011
 
 
 
Periods ended June 30, 2010
 
As of
June 30, 2011
 
Three months
 
Six months
 
As of
June 30, 2010
 
Three months
 
Six months
 
Accounts Receivable
 
Net Revenue
 
% of Total Revenue
 
Net Revenue
 
% of Total Revenue
 
Accounts Receivable
 
Net Revenue
 
% of Total Revenue
 
Net Revenue
 
% of Total Revenue
Client A
$
1,864


 
$
3,071


 
27
 %
 
$
8,178


 
33
 %
 
$
3,197


 
$
8,551


 
53
%
 
$
15,557


 
51
 %
Client B
1,067


 
2,455


 
22


 
5,259


 
22


 
1,877


 
4,334


 
27


 
9,300


 
31


All Others
2,531


 
5,850


 
52


 
11,252


 
46


 
1,759


 
3,133


 
20


 
5,592


 
18


Allowance for Uncollectable Receivables/Provision for refunds
(165
)
 
(68
)
 
(1
)
 
(304
)
 
(1
)
 
(271
)
 
(60
)
 


 
(120
)
 


 
$
5,297


 
$
11,308


 
100
 %
 
$
24,385


 
100
 %
 
$
6,562


 
$
15,958


 
100
%
 
30,329


 
100
 %