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Commitments and Contingencies
9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2022
Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]  
Commitments and Contingencies

NOTE 9. Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, the Company is a party to, or has a significant relationship to, legal proceedings, lawsuits, and other claims. The Company is not aware of any legal proceedings or claims that it believes may have, individually or taken together, a material adverse effect on the Company’s financial condition, results of operations or cash flows. The Company’s policy is to expense legal costs as they are incurred.

COVID-19

The Company continues to monitor and assess the estimated operating and financial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has not subsided. As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves, the Company continues to process, assemble, and assess member utilization information and the ultimate impact on the Company's business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows remains uncertain. During 2021 and the first nine months of 2022, overall care activity continued to increase, including a mix of temporary deferral of care activity and COVID-19 related care costs. These costs may be incurred at future points in time, and it is possible that the deferral of healthcare services, or the impact of the Company’s members (who are seniors typically with chronic conditions) being diagnosed with COVID-19, could cause additional health problems in its existing members, which could increase costs in the future. In future periods, care patterns may moderately exceed normal baselines as previously deferred care is obtained and acuity temporarily rises due to missed regular care. From time to time, health system capacity may be subject to possible increased volatility due to the pandemic. The Company cannot accurately estimate the net ultimate impact, positive or negative, to medical services expense at this time.

Given the disruption caused by COVID-19, it is unclear whether the Company’s contracted physicians will be able to document the health conditions of members as comprehensively as they did in historical periods. Because risk adjustment factors in the current period are based on the preceding year’s diagnosed disease conditions, the Company’s revenue in future periods may be adversely impacted.

As the COVID-19 pandemic has not yet fully subsided, the ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Company’s operations is unknown and will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted with confidence, including the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, new information that may emerge concerning the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic, and any additional preventative and protective actions that governments, or the Company, may direct, which may result in an extended period of continued business disruption. The ultimate impact of these matters to the Company and its financial condition cannot be reasonably estimated at this time.

The Company believes that its cash resources, funds from the IPO in April 2021, borrowing capacity available under the Secured Revolving Facility, and cash flow generated from operations will continue to be sufficient to withstand the financial impact of the pandemic and will enable the Company to continue to support its operations, regulatory requirements, debt repayment obligations, and geography expansion for the foreseeable future.

Regulatory Matters

The healthcare industry is subject to numerous laws and regulations of federal, state, and local governments. Violations of these laws and regulations could result in expulsion from government healthcare programs, together with the imposition of significant fines and penalties. Compliance with such laws and regulations can be subject to future government review and interpretation, as well as regulatory actions unknown or unasserted at this time.

The healthcare regulatory landscape is constantly changing. It is difficult to predict which final rules may be adopted and implemented by federal and state authorities, and if such final rules would result in any material adverse effect on the Company’s business, consolidated financial condition, results of operations, or cash flows. Management is unable to determine how any future government spending cuts will affect Medicare reimbursement. There likely will continue to be legislative and regulatory proposals at the federal and state levels directed at containing or lowering the cost of healthcare that, if adopted, could have a material adverse effect on the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements.

Contractual Obligations

The Company’s capital commitments to physician partners to support physician partner expansion and related purposes increased by $79.9 million, to $136.7 million at September 30, 2022 when compared to December 31, 2021. There have been no other material changes, outside of the ordinary course of business and indebtedness (see Note 8), to the Company’s commitments during the nine months ended September 30, 2022.