Commitments and Contingencies:

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2024

Commitments and Contingencies Disclosure [Abstract]

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Commitments and Contingencies

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, we are involved in various legal proceedings, most of which are routine litigation, in the normal course of business. Our management does not believe that the resolution of the unsettled legal proceedings that we are involved with will have a material adverse impact on our financial position or results of operations.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

    In the normal course of business, we have agreed to indemnify our officers and directors to the maximum extent permitted under Delaware law and to indemnify customers as to certain intellectual property matters or other matters related to sales of our products. There is no maximum limit on the indemnification that may be required under these agreements. 

Although we can provide no assurances, we have never incurred, nor do we expect to incur, any material liability for indemnification.

Contingencies

In January 2022, we acquired Smiths Medical. Total consideration for the acquisition included a potential earn-out payment of $100.0 million in cash contingent on our common stock achieving the Price Targets from the closing date to either the third or fourth anniversary of closing and provided Smiths beneficially owned at least 50.0% of the shares of common stock issued at closing at the time the Price Target is achieved. As of June 30, 2024, the estimated fair value of the contingent earn-out was $3.9 million (see Note 8: Fair Value Measurements). During July 2024, Smiths sold 1.2 million common shares of ICU Medical, Inc. It was issued as partial consideration for the 2022 acquisition of Smiths Medical. The sale of shares when combined with other sales in prior periods renders Smiths unable to achieve the contingent consideration based on certain price targets during the third and fourth anniversary of closing as Smiths no longer meets the required minimum beneficial ownership percentage. Accordingly, the third quarter 2024 valuation of the contingent earn-out will reduce the contingent earn-out's fair market value to zero.

Prior to being acquired, during 2021, Smiths Medical received a Warning Letter from the FDA following an inspection of Smiths Medical’s Oakdale, Minnesota Facility. The Warning Letter cited, among other things, failures to comply with FDA's medical device reporting requirements and failures to comply with applicable portions of the Quality System Regulation. A provision for the estimated costs related to the field service corrective actions identified as of the closing date of the acquisition was recorded on the opening acquired balance sheet of Smiths Medical in the amount of $55.1 million. The initial estimate recorded was based on a probability-weighted estimate of the costs required to settle the obligation related to known field corrective actions. The actual costs to be incurred are dependent upon the scope of the work necessary to achieve regulatory clearance, including potential additional field corrective actions, and could differ from the original estimate. For the three and six months ended June 30, 2024, we recorded a net reversal to the provision of $6.8 million and $6.6 million, respectively, to

adjust the estimated cost to complete the field corrective actions to the amounts expected to be incurred based on historical experience. As of June 30, 2024, approximately $43.4 million of the $50.5 million of accrued field service corrective action recorded was related to Smiths Medical.

In November 2021, we acquired a small foreign infusion systems supplier. Total consideration for the acquisition included a potential earn-out payment of up to $2.5 million, consisting of (i) a cash payment of $1.0 million contingent on the achievement of certain revenue targets for the annual period ended December 31, 2022 and, separately, (ii) a cash payment of $1.5 million contingent upon obtaining certain product-related regulatory certifications. As of December 31, 2022, the measurement period related to (i) above ended and based on the actual revenue achieved during the measurement period we determined that the fair value of the contingent earn-out was zero as the minimum threshold for earning the earn-out was not met. As of June 30, 2024, the estimated fair value of the contingent earn-out related to certain product-related regulatory certification was estimated to be $1.5 million (see Note 8: Fair Value Measurements).

In August 2021, we entered into an agreement with one of our international distributors whereby that distributor would not compete with us in a specific territory for a three-year period that ends September 2024. The terms of the agreement included a contingent earn-out payment. The contingent earn-out could not exceed $6.0 million, and was to be earned based on certain revenue targets over a twelve-month measurement period determined by the highest four consecutive quarters commencing over a two-year period starting on the closing date of the agreement and provided that the distributor is in compliance with its obligations under the agreement. As of December 31, 2023, the fair value of the contingent earn-out was determined to be $3.4 million and was paid out during the three months ended March 31, 2024 (see Note 8: Fair Value Measurements).

Commitments

    We have non-cancelable operating lease agreements where we are contractually obligated to pay certain lease payment amounts (see Note 5: Leases).