Transactions

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2020

Business Combinations [Abstract]

Transactions

Transactions

Equity Investments

Passport

On December 30, 2019, Passport, Passport Health Solutions, LLC, a Kentucky nonprofit limited liability company and subsidiary of Passport (“PHS I”), the Company and Justify Holdings, Inc., a Kentucky corporation and a previous subsidiary of the Company (the “Passport Buyer”), closed a transaction whereby Passport Buyer acquired substantially all of the assets and assumed substantially all of the liabilities of Passport and PHS I for $70.0 million in cash and issued a 30% equity interest in the Passport Buyer to the following provider sponsors of Passport: the University of Louisville, the University of Louisville Physicians, the University Medical Center, the

Jewish Heritage Fund for Excellence, Norton Healthcare, Inc. and the Louisville/Jefferson County Primary Care Association (collectively, the “Sponsors”). As of December 30, 2019, Justify Holdings, Inc. became Passport Health Plan, Inc. $16.2 million of the cash consideration was placed in escrow until such time as PHS I delivers to the Passport Buyer certain owned real property and improvements. If the Passport Buyer does not meet certain statutory capital thresholds as a result of the owned real property and improvements not being transferred, the Passport Buyer can require the $16.2 million be released from escrow and returned to the Passport Buyer. If the transfer of owned real property and improvements does not occur by December 31, 2020, then Passport Buyer and PHS I will mutually agree to dispose and/or transfer the owned real property and improvements.

On June 18, 2019, we contributed the Passport Note under an agreement with Passport. The Passport Note carries a fixed interest rate of 6.5% per annum and is required to be repaid, plus accrued interest, in a single payment on July 1, 2025, the maturity date, or earlier, subject to regulatory approval. The Passport Note is required to be repaid out of surplus in excess of Passport’s obligations to its policyholders, claimant and beneficiary claims and all other creditors. Additionally, on June 6, 2019, the Company and Passport entered into an Indemnity Agreement (the “Indemnity Agreement”), with an insurance company (the “Surety”). The Surety issued a performance bond in the amount of $25.0 million to secure Passport’s performance under its Medicaid contract with the Kentucky Cabinet of Health and Family Services (“CHFS”). Pursuant to the Indemnity Agreement, the Company and Passport are jointly and severally liable to the Surety in the maximum amount of the bond, plus certain costs of the Surety, in the event of losses arising under the bond. The bond’s expiry date is June 30, 2020. In connection with the consummation of the transactions, the Sponsors, the Passport Buyer and a subsidiary of the Company entered into a shareholders’ agreement that provides for the governance of the Passport Buyer following the closing, and certain other rights between the parties thereto. The shareholders agreement provides that written consent of majority holders is required for certain significant governance and operational matters, including the appointment, removal or replacement of the Passport Buyer’s chief executive officer, the approval of the annual budget, and other significant matters.

In March 2019, Evolent Health LLC and Passport entered into an amendment to the prior management services agreement to expand the services provided thereunder to include additional administrative functions, as well as the oncology and cardiovascular services of New Century Health.

Passport is currently one of five Medicaid-managed care organizations serving the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Passport’s current contract to provide managed care for Medicaid expires on December 31, 2020. Passport recently submitted a proposal to continue providing managed care for Medicaid in the Commonwealth of Kentucky through December 31, 2024 in response to the ongoing “request for proposal” process (the “RFP”) of the CHFS. While Passport was not initially awarded a Kentucky managed Medicaid contract for the next contract period, the bidding process was reopened, and a revised proposal was submitted during the first quarter of 2020. Although we cannot guarantee the timing or outcome of the RFP, we expect CHFS to announce results of the RFP in the second quarter of 2020. Contracts awarded under the new RFP process are expected to begin January 1, 2021 and continue through December 31, 2024. We expect the outcome of the final RFP to have a material impact on our revenue from our management services agreement with Passport Buyer and the value of our investment in Passport beyond the current contract period. If Passport is not awarded a contract under the RFP, we expect that we will not receive any material revenue under our management services agreement from Passport Buyer subsequent to December 31, 2020 and the value of our investment in Passport will be negatively impacted.

If Passport is awarded a new Medicaid contract, the Sponsors have a put option to sell their 30% ownership in Passport Buyer to the Company for $60.0 million. Similarly, if Passport is awarded a new Medicaid contract, the Company has a call option to acquire the Sponsors’ 30% ownership interest in Passport Buyer for $60.0 million. The put option and the call option are exercisable at any time during the 60-day period following the “go-live date” (expected to be January 1, 2021) of Passport’s potential new Medicaid contract with CHFS. If Passport is not awarded a new Medicaid contract with CHFS, the Company is required to acquire the Sponsors’ 30% ownership interest in Passport Buyer for $20.0 million within twelve months following the expiration of Passport’s current Medicaid contract.

In January 2020, the Company agreed to provide any financial support, if required, for Passport to exceed certain risk-based capital levels under its current Medicaid Management Contract with the Commonwealth of Kentucky and qualify to obtain a new Medicaid Managed Care Contract from the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

The Company accounts for its investment in Passport under the equity method of accounting because while it has significant influence over Passport, it shares control over the activities of Passport that most significantly impact Passport’s economic performance. These activities include approval of the annual budget, material provider network additions or deletions and the development of Passport’s amended proposal in the rebid process to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. The annual budget drives the operating decisions of Passport and primarily relates to managing the Kentucky Medicaid contract. The Kentucky Medicaid contract is critical to the success of Passport. Accordingly, the approval of the final budget of Passport for a fiscal year significantly impacts Passport’s economic performance. In addition, we analyzed the Passport transaction to determine if the Company is the primary beneficiary of a variable interest entity (a “VIE”). We considered both the power to direct the activities that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIE and a variable interest that could potentially be significant to the VIE. The Company determined that its interest in this entity meets the definition of a variable interest, however, the Company is not the primary beneficiary since it does not have the power to direct activities, therefore, the Company did not consolidate the VIE.

Loss on Disposal of Assets

During 2019, the Company, through a consolidated subsidiary, entered into an agreement with an unrelated party to provide services and support to providers, independent physician associations, and other provider groups.  During the first quarter of 2020, the Company sold its interest in the subsidiary and recorded a loss on disposal of assets of $6.4 million. The Company did not have any continuing involvement with the subsidiary after the consummation of this transaction.