Organization

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Organization

Organization

Vericel Corporation, a Michigan corporation (together with its consolidated subsidiaries referred to herein as the Company, Vericel, we, us or our), was incorporated in March 1989 and began employee-based operations in 1991. The Company is a fully-integrated, commercial-stage biopharmaceutical company and is a leader in advanced therapies for the sports medicine and severe burn care markets. Vericel currently markets two cell therapy products in the United States, MACI® and Epicel®. Vericel obtained both products in May 2014, as part of the acquisition of certain assets and the assumption of certain liabilities of Sanofi, a French société anonyme (Sanofi).

MACI® (autologous cultured chondrocytes on porcine collagen membrane) is an autologous cellularized scaffold product indicated for the repair of symptomatic, single or multiple full-thickness cartilage defects of the knee with or without bone involvement in adults. Epicel® (cultured epidermal autografts) is a permanent skin replacement for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients with deep-dermal or full-thickness burns comprising greater than or equal to 30 percent of total body surface area (TBSA). The Company also holds an exclusive license from MediWound Ltd. (MediWound) for North American rights to NexoBrid®, a registration-stage biological orphan product for debridement of severe thermal burns. The Company operates its business primarily in the U.S. in one reportable segment — the research, product development, manufacture and distribution of biopharmaceuticals for use in the treatment of specific diseases.

COVID-19

The pandemic caused by the spread of a novel strain of coronavirus (COVID-19) has created significant volatility, uncertainty, and economic disruption in both domestic and international markets. The virus was first reported in China and rapidly spread globally. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a pandemic on March 11, 2020, and the President of the United States declared a national health emergency immediately thereafter. Following the President’s declaration, state governments, including those in Massachusetts and Michigan where the Company’s operations are located, began issuing orders requiring businesses that do not conduct essential services to temporarily close their physical workplaces to employees and customers. The status and application of those orders have varied on a state-by-state basis. Because Vericel is deemed an essential business, the Company continues to be exempt from such state orders in their current forms.

Notwithstanding being an essential business, the Company’s business and operations have been adversely impacted by the effects of COVID-19. In mid-March, the American College of Surgeons and United States Surgeon General recommended that each hospital, health system, and surgeon minimize, postpone, or cancel electively scheduled surgeries. These recommendations were followed by numerous state level executive orders either restricting or partially restricting elective surgeries. Because MACI is an elective surgical procedure, as a result of these restrictions, beginning in mid-March 2020, the Company began to experience a significant increase in cancellations of scheduled MACI procedures as well as a slowdown in new MACI orders. By early April 2020, 45 states, representing over 95% of total U.S. surgical capacity had issued either mandates or recommendations and guidelines suspending elective surgical procedures. The widespread suspension of elective procedures impacted the Company’s business and operations during the first and second quarters of 2020. These restrictions began to ease in May and, by the end of September 2020, there were no state orders in place that directly impacted a surgeon's or patient's ability to move forward with a MACI surgery. Because Epicel is used almost exclusively in the emergent setting by burn centers and surgeons throughout the country, Epicel revenue and procedure volumes have been less affected by the pandemic. Although hospitals are now better prepared for a subsequent surge in COVID-19 patients, the risk remains that regional or local restrictions could again be placed on the performance of elective surgical procedures if the number of COVID-19 infections in the United States continues to rise.

In March 2020, the Company put in place a comprehensive workplace protection plan, which institutes protective measures in response to COVID-19. These measures include mandatory employee training on social distancing and hygiene protocols, conducting daily health screenings of all employees, vendors and visitors entering our facilities, canceling all international business travel, limiting domestic business travel to essential purposes, requesting that employees limit non-essential personal travel, enhancing our facilities’ janitorial and sanitary procedures, making certain physical modifications and enhancements to our facilities to enable effective social distancing among employees, providing certain personal protective equipment to employees working in our offices, encouraging employees to work from home to the extent their job function enables them to do so, limiting third-party access to our facilities, encouraging the use of virtual employee meetings, modifying the manner and schedule of on-site production activities, and providing guidance to our field-based commercial teams concerning their

communications and contact with customers and healthcare professionals. The Company is reviewing these measures regularly as the pandemic evolves and may take additional actions to the extent required.

Going Concern

The accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on a basis which assumes that the Company will continue as a going concern and contemplates the realization of assets and the satisfaction of liabilities and commitments in the normal course of business. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2020, the Company had net income of $3.6 million and a net loss of $9.4 million, respectively, and had an accumulated deficit of $388.0 million as of September 30, 2020. The Company had cash and cash equivalents of $43.5 million and investments of $42.0 million as of September 30, 2020. The Company expects that existing cash, cash equivalents and investments will be sufficient to support the Company’s current operations through at least 12 months from the issuance of these financial statements. However, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic continue to evolve and may result in irrecoverable losses of customers and significantly impact long-term liquidity requiring the Company to engage in layoffs, furloughs and/or reductions in salaries. To the extent the United States experiences a resurgence in COVID-19 infections and elective surgery restrictions are reinstated on a widespread basis and significantly impact the Company’s business, the Company may need to access additional capital; however, the Company may not be able to obtain financing on acceptable terms or at all, particularly in light of the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and financial markets. The terms of any financing may adversely affect the holdings or the rights of the Company’s shareholders.