Good afternoon. My name is Ian and I will be your conference operator today. At this time I would like to welcome everyone to the Addus Q1 2013 Earnings Conference Call. (Operator Instructions) Thank you. Dennis Meulemans, Chief Financial Officer, you may begin your conference sir.

Thank you, Ian. Good afternoon, this is Dennis Meulemans and thanks for joining us. Before we begin, I’ll briefly read the Safe Harbor statement. This presentation will contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the federal securities laws. Statements regarding future events and developments, the company’s future performance, as well as management’s expectations, beliefs, intentions, plans, estimates or projections relating to the future are forward-looking statements within the meaning of these laws. These forward-looking statements are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties including factors outlined from time-to-time in our most recent Form 10-K or Form 10-Q, our earnings announcements and other reports we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. These are available at www.sec.gov. The company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statement whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. With that complete, I’d like to now turn the call over to Mark Heaney, our CEO.

Thank you, Dennis. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining Addus HomeCare’s investor call to review our 2013 first quarter results. I‘m joined today by Dennis whom you heard, our CFO; and Darby Anderson, our Senior Vice President. For our listeners information we ask our senior leadership from around the country to listen in on this call so they can hear first-hand from our investors and so they can hear what we are communicating. I thought we had a solid quarter. Revenues were $63 million compared to $58.9 million. Income was $1.23 per share which includes the gain on the sale of our Home Health business with earnings from continuing operations at $0.25 per share. These results tell me that we have the right goals and objectives are focused on them and that we have the right folks on the team executing on the plan. We are not done, we are not halfway done and no one is taking the rest of the year on. There are headwinds out there. Change is upon our segment and we think for the good overall, the choice is to run ahead of it or get run over by it. Our balance sheet is as strong as it has been in memory. Darby and Dennis will reference the State of Illinois payment performance but it continues to be steady and predictable as is been the case with our other payers. Here is what our company is focused on. First, increased census in every office. Personal care is the fastest growing segment of HomeCare and HomeCare is the fastest growing segment of healthcare. And frankly there was more personal care being provided in our markets right now than when this call started. Every one of our locations is expected to generate consistent census growth.…

Thank you, Darby and good afternoon. Just a reminder consistent with our year end recording we have changed our reporting for all years to include all revenues and expenses for our your home and community business as continuing operation and the revenues and expenses related to the sold Home Health business as this continued operation. Mark and Darby both described our performance as solid. Let me summarize. Census was up, revenues were up; income was up, cash was up, (AR) was down, our debt was down and most importantly the internal enthusiasm for the company and moral is up. Highlights for our first quarter were net revenues from continuing operations for the quarter increase 7% to $63 million compared to $58.9 million for the same period in 2012. Net income from continuing operations was $2.7 or $0.25 per diluted share an increase of 56% when compared to the reported net income from continuing operation of $1.7 million or 16% per diluted share for 2012. Net income including discontinued operations and the gain on the sale of the Home Health business was $13.3 million or $1.23 per diluted share compared to the 2012 results of $630,000 or $0.06 per diluted share. As we have stated in our press release our quarterly comparables are influenced by two one-time events. Our first quarter of 2013 results were positively affected by one-time $520,000 credit for Workers Opportunity Tax Credits earned in 2012 but realized in the first quarter of 2013 with the passage of the America Taxpayer Relief Act in early 2013. This treatment of these credits substantially reduced income tax expense for the quarter. Our effective tax rates for future quarters will not include this benefit and accordingly our effective tax rate will be approximately 39% the calculated rate as if this benefit…

Thank you, Dennis. I said in our last call that we are excited about the opportunity before us. The clarity and the focus that has come to our company since the sale of the Home Health business is palpable and this should be increasingly evident in our performance. We should serve more people, we should scale the business, we should configure our system of care to meet the new demands of the emerging market. We think the coordinated managed care is the right public policy for serving our population. We accept that providers have to and can do more, better with the same. We think the providers who embrace the challenge of the opportunity will provider better care, we’ll be better stewards of the limited human and financial healthcare resources that need to be spread more efficiently to a growing at risk population that these providers will generate better health outcomes and in return these organizations will grow consistently and profitably. We’re very proud of our team and they‘re each excited about the opportunity before us unlike all of us they very much appreciate the support of our investors and our partners. With that Ian, let us open the call up for questions and comments from our listeners.

Thank you sir. (Operator Instructions) Now the question comes through from the line of Whit Mayo at Robert Baird. Please go ahead.

Okay, thanks. Sounds like a brand new company now.

I'm not even going to say any word, thank you.

May be just start with Detroit and San Diego aside from the large number of duals in those two markets you’ve got a number of providers are involved in the lot of Medicare ACOs as well just may be talk strategically about those two markets why those two was it just a function or the pace of the conversion of duals in those states or was there anything else perhaps driving it?

Yeah, well, this is Darby with regard to San Diego first we operate in Southern California had for a long time Riverside, San Bernardino Counties we do have some experience in San Diego opportunity came along to bid on more traditional feed-for-service contracting and we took that opportunity and we’re awarded so opened the office there lots of health plans San Diego is one of the more unique in California with five I think designated health plans there so felt like the time was right to take advantage of that contract, open the location, start services so we can speak to the health plans more directly about what we can provide there. With regard to Michigan, it is a state we’ve been looking at for a long time it’s a good solid HomeCare state, Detroit I think is on the rise in terms of its rebirth as a major metropolitan city in the United States again sort of combined with the move to managed care it was and a very ease of entry they prompted us to bite the bullet and start that operation now in advance of managed care.

Was that an acquisition in Detroit or?

No.

No, okay. And on the fee-for-service contract that you won in San Diego how different is that than what you’re doing in Riverside County?

It’s very similar in terms of the nature of the services provided it’s just a slightly different funding stream it’s not the Medicaid Personal Care, IHSS program but Older Americans Act Funding and some I believe San Diego County Funding.

Okay. And may be for Mark just a general update on the status of the various conversations you’re having day-to-day with the health plans and at what point do you think you can come back to the market and potentially communicate some milestones or contract wins is relates to the duals?

Sure. This is of course the duals projects come over, come online as they come online. Darby mentioned in his comments that California begins to face in its duals project in the fall September, October. And we would hope that has this very large population of shifts into managed care to the extent that their consumers who need agency directed care rather than self directed care that we will be a preferred provider so we would hope to see things in the third and fourth quarter. Illinois comes along in the beginning of the New Year although readiness is underway. With one of the things that we expect to come out of this is we just believe that the demand for service will remain high and increase because we are getting older, but the demands put upon the providers by managed care will thin the herd and it will be harder for the small providers got to love them to sustain and meet the challenge. Darby mentioned New Jersey we with New Jersey has been managed care and we haven’t gotten our fair share and we expect to see we put some people in place there we should be increasing there also and these initiatives that Darby has initiated. We see those as beginning to show green shoot that was the third quarter or fourth quarter start.

Okay. And may be one more and I’ll hop in the queue if there is anyone else that’s questions but I was curious about the telephony mandate and Illinois with the Department of Aging I think you said that everyone has been compliance by July if I heard that correctly just curious what the cost to achieve that will be for you and whether or not you think all providers for Illinois and the Department of Aging will be able to comply with that?

Whit this Darby again. In terms of our cost now there is the pluses and the minuses out of the (EVV) technology we do see some cost reductions and efficiencies those are kind of baked into our care system and it’s kind of a sort of pay-as-you-go technology where we don’t have a lot, there is no CapEx expenditures or anything like that it’s a per visit charge that we’re incurring and then some of the efficiencies offset that. So I couldn’t give you any kind of a number on our cost implementation at this point. To your second question it’s a question I founded a lot I absolutely believe that there are providers that either won’t be able to comply or frankly will choose not to without a existing IT infrastructure you don’t gain those efficiencies that I described from the (EVV) technology so I’d be concerned about those providers continuing. We do expect to see consolidation and providers exiting the program to what extent it’s very difficult to predict at this point.

But, this is Mark Heaney I agree with Darby completely but in some I would tell you that it’s easier for us because we’re so far down the line already we’ve already done so much investment in (EVV) frankly beyond what the State of Illinois is requiring by far. And second there are providers that upon there are providers who with this notice have informed the department that they’re done already so then it’s just starting here.

Okay. Well great guys thanks.

Thank you, Whit.

Thank you. And we another question for you, this comes from the line of (Alexander Renker). Please go ahead Alexander.

Hi guys, congrats, great quarter.

Thank you.

I just got a quick question regarding the trends on in state nursing spending relative to HomeCare is this something that Illinois on a state level that ahead or behind the curve on and what are you seeing in other states?

Alexander, I am sorry we didn’t hear you real loud could you just try that one more time louder.

Sure.

There you go.

Hang on let me switch to my handset here.

That’s even better.

Okay, great. So regarding nursing homes spending to HomeCare you mentioned that this is something that’s seem to well underway in Illinois where are they relative to other states with this trend?

Alexander, there is the Department on Aging actually commission the study a number of years back that I can send to you and we can make available on our website, but it does demonstrate the community care program and the number of seniors that resided nursing homes and alluring of that spending I was careful of my comments to talk about the department and this data shifting proportionately spending less for seniors in nursing homes and we went out and looked at the actual nursing home expenditures you wouldn’t necessarily find that line going down, because other populations are filling those beds, but.

Right.

The study I was talking about is specific to seniors and I’d be happy to show that with you.

Yes, that is a tough question for what other I would tell you just as because we do a fair amount of public policy work I think that the mega trend that states that are investing and have done investing in home community based services as in a day is flattening of nursing home placement against an increasing that’s elderly population that’s clearly the trend.

Okay, excellent, that’s helpful. Thank you.

Thank you, thanks for the question.

Thank you for your question. And we have further question from Whit Mayo of Robert Baird. Please go ahead Whit.

Hey thanks. Dennis can you talk a little bit about the Sarb-Ox compliance costs at what point do you begin to incur those costs and can you help may be frame up the size for us?

With the technical process is that we measure the value of the non-control shares as of June 30 and if that extra value if the market value of those shares exceeds $75 million. We are obligated to test and remediate all internal controls and the auditors are required to audit those results. The – you can look at our proxy and do the math but I’ll help you on it but the price is approximately $13 a share. So we’re at that price on June 30th we would have to have the results of our internal controls out of it for the year ending 12/31/13. We are in the process of exploring the additional cost and to estimate what the impact would be. I’ve heard from others that have gone through this process that it could be $0.5 million to $700,000 in additional cost.

Okay. But to be clear that’s not a cost that you would likely incur until after you close the books on 2013, correct?

It would be a cost we would incur in 2013.

Okay. So after June 30th that’s when you would have to begin to bulk-up for Starbucks?

That’s correct.

Got it. Okay. And any other cost to be mindful obviously we look at our model for the next couple of quarters just as you invest in some of your care system just anything to be maybe highlight to help us out to get the sequence of quarters maybe inline.

Whit I know I’ve looked at your model and I think the trend you have for the remainder of the year is reasonable but we don’t as Mark indicated we’re trying to manage within our cost structure all of the additional cost for moving our technology forward.

Okay. So outside of the 500,000 that’s an annual number so outside of the incremental Starbucks compliance cost, there is nothing that major to think to think about.

Well I would point out as we did in the earnings release there is change in reimbursement from the State of Illinois.

Yeah, that’s fair, that’s fair.

That’s the number that you need to cognizant off.

Got it, okay. And maybe one last one here is Mark you mentioned acquisitions coming back to the forefront of the strategy or I guess you’re getting to see some opportunities out there, just curious what’s your looking at what markets kind of how you think about evaluating some of these opportunities? Thanks.

Well I want to emphasize that our job one is organic census growth, two is staying dead-eye focused on revamping our care system to configure for Managed Care because that is flat out where the opportunity is for the organization. We have availability and there are opportunities. The opportunities that we would want to look at we’d have to make sense in terms of footprint in opportunity post acquisition reduce risk relative to change. And second would be that which would give us diversification in scale. With – there are 12,000 HomeCare companies out there and there is some really good ones. And we will look at the opportunities that they’re presented to us.

Okay. Alright. Thanks a lot guys.

Thank you, Whit.

Thanks.

Thank you. There are no further questions at this time.

Ian, thank you very much. I’d like to thank everybody for participating in the call, good questions and we look forward to speaking with you in 90 days. Thank you all so much.

Thank you ladies and gentlemen. That concludes your conference call. You may now disconnect. Thank you for joining us. Enjoy the rest of your day today.