Michael Bourque
Analyst · Anderson Schock with B. Riley Securities
Anderson, this is Mike. Yes, you're right. When you talk about gross margin in total, as we talked about, we continue to grow the business in B2B, so we're selling a lot more units, right? If you look at units sales, I think they're up 20% on a year-to-date basis, units that we put out into the market. So that is the main driver and we look at the total gross margin being slightly lower. But in terms of your specific question on the rental, I think if you look at Q3, you probably see more likely good comparators on the rental gross margin. But I'll talk a little bit about the -- I'm talking on a year-to-date basis. When we look at Q3 by itself, I think it's a 470 basis point lower gross margin than we had last year. The main driver of that was a true-up adjustment we had logistic related that we posted in the quarter. That represents, I'm going to say, roughly 350 of those 427 basis points. But the remainder of that is really what we've been talking about with the rental business, some of the headwind we've had there that we actually are seeing those headwinds stabilize a little bit and those are being -- when we look at total patient service and the percent of those patients that are on Medicare, that continues to go down, Medicare having a higher reimbursement rate. So that's impacting not only the top line, it's impacting gross margin as well. And the second item that's been a headwind that we've been talking about, again, that as well is stabilizing a bit is when we look at capped patients. So for example, Medicare patients capped at 36 months, we continue to service those patients for the next 24 months until we can start billing again. That has also started to level off a little bit. So if you're looking at the total gross margin, say, from a rental perspective, most of the Q3 basis point reduction is related to that trough adjustment we booked in the quarter, onetime adjustment and the rest of that is really related to those headwinds that we've been talking about for the last few quarters.