Cross Country Healthcare Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-K)

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Mar 12, 2012
Cross Country Healthcare Inc. (CCRN, Financial) filed Annual Report for the period ended 2011-12-31.

Cross Country has a market cap of $147.1 million; its shares were traded at around $4.74 with a P/E ratio of 33.6 and P/S ratio of 0.3.

Highlight of Business Operations:

Revenue from our physician staffing business decreased $2.8 million, or 2.3% to $118.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, compared to $121.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2010. The revenue decline reflects lower volume and a less favorable mix of specialties. Physician staffing days filled decreased 4.5% to 85,416 in the year ended December 31, 2011, compared to 89,421 in the year ended December 31, 2010. Revenue per day filled for the year ended December 31, 2011 was $1,391, a 2.3% decrease from the year ended December 31, 2010, reflecting an unfavorable change in the mix of specialties.

Included in selling, general and administrative expenses is unallocated corporate overhead of $22.7 million for year ended December 31, 2011, compared to $21.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2010. Included in unallocated corporate overhead are $2.9 million and $2.7 million of share-based compensation expenses for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. As a percentage of consolidated revenue, unallocated corporate overhead was 4.5% for the year ended December 31, 2011, and 4.6% for the year ended December 31, 2010.

Contribution income from our physician staffing segment for the year ended December 31, 2011, decreased $1.7 million or 13.3% to $11.3 million compared to $13.1 million in the year ended December 31, 2010. As a percentage of physician staffing revenue, contribution income was 9.5% for the year ended December 31, 2011 and 10.7% for the year ended December 31, 2010. This decrease was primarily due to a change in specialty mix resulting in higher physician expense as a percentage of revenue, an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses related to a portion of the aforementioned increase in our accrual for sales and other state non-income taxes, and lower permanent placement revenue. Partially offsetting these decreases were lower professional liability expenses as a percentage of revenue in this segment in the year ended December 31, 2011 as compared to the year ended December 31, 2010, based on better than expected loss development.

Included in selling, general and administrative expenses is unallocated corporate overhead of $21.6 million for year ended December 31, 2010, compared to $21.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2009. Included in unallocated corporate overhead are $2.7 million and $2.0 million of share-based compensation expenses for the years ended December 31, 2010 and 2009, respectively. As a percentage of consolidated revenue, unallocated corporate overhead was 4.6% for the year ended December 31, 2010, and 3.7% for the year ended December 31, 2009.

Contribution income from our physician staffing segment for the year ended December 31, 2010, decreased $2.1 million or 13.9% to $13.1 million compared to $15.2 million in the year ended December 31, 2009. As a percentage of physician staffing revenue, contribution income was 10.7% for the year ended December 31, 2010 and 10.0% for the year ended December 31, 2009. The improvement in contribution income as a percentage of revenue is primarily due to lower professional liability expense in the year ended December 31, 2010 compared to the year ended December 31, 2009, reflecting better than expected loss development as well as a change in mix to lower risk specialties.

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