Healthways Inc. Reports Operating Results (10-Q)

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Aug 06, 2010
Healthways Inc. (HWAY, Financial) filed Quarterly Report for the period ended 2010-06-30.

Healthways Inc. has a market cap of $500.4 million; its shares were traded at around $14.67 with a P/E ratio of 14.1 and P/S ratio of 0.7. Healthways Inc. had an annual average earning growth of 39% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated Healthways Inc. the business predictability rank of 3.5-star.HWAY is in the portfolios of Jean-Marie Eveillard of First Eagle Investment Management, LLC, Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC.

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In 2005, we began participating in two Medicare Health Support pilots, which concluded in January 2008 and July 2008, respectively. Substantially all of the fees under these pilots were performance-based. Our original cooperative agreements required that, by the end of the third year, we achieve a cumulative net savings (total savings for the intervention population as compared to the control group less fees received from CMS) of 5.0%. Under an amendment to our agreement for our stand-alone Medicare Health Support pilot in Maryland and the District of Columbia, we began serving a “refresh population” of approximately 4,500 beneficiaries on August 1, 2006, which was measured as a separate cohort for two years, by the end of which the program was required to achieve a 2.5% cumulative net savings when compared to a new control cohort. In April 2008, we signed an amendment to our Medicare Health Support protocol with CMS, which changed the financial performance target for both the initial and the refresh populations to budget neutrality. In late April 2009, we received the final reconciliation report from CMS independent financial reconciliation contractor. Based upon this final reconciliation report as well as our performance over the term of the pilots, we have recognized $9.5 million of cumulative performance-based fees related to these pilots and $12.2 million of fixed fees. At June 30, 2010, approximately $57.8 million of performance-based fees related to these pilots was recorded in contract billings in excess of earned revenue, $50.3 million of which related to fees collected, and the remaining $7.5 million of which related to fees billed but not collected due to CMS withholding payment of these fees. We submitted our objections to the final reconciliation report and engaged in discussions with CMS regarding our objections. We, along with several other participating organizations in the Medicare Health Support pilots, have submitted a proposal to CMS to resolve the issues related to the reconciliation; however, such proposal remains subject to approval by the United States government.

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