Matt Chambless
Analyst · Stuart Goldberg with Lightspeed Capital. Your line is open. Please go ahead with your question
Thanks Boyd. Good afternoon everyone. As Boyd alluded to, and as we mentioned in the earnings release a healthy Thrive implementation schedule working in tandem with TruBridge momentum, resulted in our first period of sequential revenue growth since the Healthland acquisition which translated in to growth in non-GAAP EPS and adjusted EBITDA despite a heavy dose of operating expenses during the second quarter. However, as impressive as these two indicators were during the second quarter we weren't able to fully overcome the headwinds created by the past 12 months' work down of Healthland migration opportunities resulting in revenues, non-GAAP EPS and adjusted EBITDA all coming in below prior year results. In addition to the healthy Thrive implementation schedule, and impressive TruBridge revenue growth a few other things were noticeable in this quarter's performance. First this proved to be a heavy quarter for operating expenses. This is most apparent in our general and administrative expenses for the quarter which included the lion's share of the costs associated with our one-time voluntary early retirement program that we have announced on last quarter's call and substantially all of the annual expense associated with our first combined national client conference for our family of companies which was held in May this year. Secondly, some noise in our balance sheet made us wade prominently into our cash flows as a high volume of finance system sales purchases led to a sequential expansion in financing receivables of more $4 million and combined payables and accrued liabilities expanded $6 million due to the timing of payroll and vendor payments. All told cash performance was sufficient to allow for a $1.5 million advanced payment against our revolving credit facility at the end of the quarter. Lastly, bookings came in at record $33.7 million beating the previous high mark set in the fourth quarter of 2016 by 10%. It's particularly exciting for TruBridge and provides a clear and enviable path for future growth of our already significant recurring revenue base, a base which currently accounts for 81% of our year-to-date revenues. Of the $25 million in system sales and support bookings, roughly $1.1 million is included in our second quarter revenues. $20.7 million represents non-subscription sales that should trickle into revenue over the next 12 months, with an average lag between booking and install of five to six months. $3.2 million represents EHR subscription revenue to be recorded over our weighted average period of five years with the start date in the next 12 months and similar to our non-subscription sales an average lag between booking and install of five to six months. Our $8.7 million of bookings from TruBridge are mostly made up of recurring revenues to be recorded over a one year period starting in the next four to six months. For some added depth on our healthy implementation schedule, 10 customer sites went live with our Thrive financial and patient accounting systems compared to three in the first quarter. As for licensing mix, one of this quarter's ten go lives went to our cloud or subscription model compared one out of three during the first quarter. At this time, we expect 10 new client facilities to go live with our Thrive financial and patient accounting systems in the third quarter of 2017 only one of which is expected to go live in a cloud environment. On the Healthland front, we have one migration from Classic to Centriq during the second quarter with none expected in the third quarter. As we pointed out on prior quarters, discerning reliable pattern regarding our license mix is a difficult task as we remain agnostic towards licensing model, not only give our customers the choice to select the model that best suits their unique needs. Our year-to-date implementation suggests a heavy dose of perpetual licenses, which is perhaps influenced by our continued willingness to work with our customers by providing long-term financing of our solutions. Naturally license mix can inject variability into our quarterly revenues and profits while financing decisions can inject variability into our periodic cash flows as I mentioned previously. We plan to continue offering such choices to our customers while effectively managing the resulting impact on our earnings and cash flows. Our employee headcount as of June 30 was roughly 2019, an increase of 61 from the end of the first quarter. That's mostly related to expanding TruBridge capacity to accommodate anticipated volumes resulting from our recent strong bookings performance. Moving on to the income statement for the quarter, system sales and support revenues posted a nice incremental increase from the first quarter behind a healthy implementation schedule for evidence Thrive product, despite a bit of drag created by Healthland as the first quarter received the benefit of a net new Centriq implementation with no such activity in the second quarter. The end result was an increase in Evident revenues of $3.1 million, partially offset by $1 million decline in revenues from the Healthland entities for total net sequential growth of $2.1 million. Year-over-year revenues declined $2.2 million despite a doubling of Thrive go lives from five in the second quarter of 2016 with none in the cloud environment to 10 in the second quarter of 2017 with only one in the cloud environment. This overall decline is due to the previously mentioned work down of Healthland migration opportunities over the past 12 months resulting in a $3.5 million year-over-year decrease in revenues from the Healthland entities. The strengthening new implementation schedule for Evident was also met with an approximately $1 million softening in add on sales as recent MU3 bookings have yet to convert to revenue for a net increase in Evident system sales and support revenues of $1.3 million. On the cost side, this quarter's gross margin on system sales and support were the highest we've seen since the acquisition of Healthland. Cost of system sales and support showed a slight increase from the first quarter mostly due to increased travel associated with the heavier Thrive installation schedule, with the majority of our cost structure relatively fixed, increased revenues in the second quarter led to margins improving to 58.5% from 57% in the first quarter. Second quarter 2017's 58.5% gross margin also outpaced the second quarter of 2016's gross margin of 54.1%. Despite the decline in year-over-year revenues as incremental synergies and other cost containment measures saw cost savings outpaced the aforementioned year-over-year revenue decline. We mentioned on last earnings call, that TruBridge had finally turned the corner after the disappointing finish to 2016, and that story continues to materialize as the solid bookings performance in late 2016 and to-date in 2017 are making their effects known in our top line. Once again our combined accounts receivable management and private pay services versus have been our largest net gainers in both sequential and year-over-year revenue growth, followed closely by the impressive growth we have seen with the Rycan RCM products, with the end result being 7.5% sequential revenue growth and 7.3% growth year-over-year. Similar to system sales and support, this quarter's gross margins on TruBridge revenues were the highest we have seen since the acquisition of Healthland. Due to ramp up efforts in prior periods we were able to achieve this impressive revenue growth numbers while keeping our costs relatively flat sequentially and increasing only 2.7% year-over-year resulting in a gross margin of 46.3% in the second quarter of 2017 compared to 42.6% in the first quarter and 43.9% in the second quarter of last year. Our product development costs increased roughly $400,000 or 4.2% sequentially and are up $1.1 million or 13.8% year-over-year. This focused investment supports the continued expansion of our consolidated development team. Leveraging our unique position in the market is our priority as we remain committed to improving provider adoption and clinical workflow and increasing the integration of our post to Q EHR products. Sales and marketing costs are up sequentially in year-over-year, due to commission timing and continued increase costs associated with our ongoing initiative to build brand awareness around the now larger CPSI and our family of companies that are focused on improving community healthcare. General and administrative costs increased 10.8% from the first quarter primarily driven by a $1.3 million increase in severance expense associated with that voluntary early retirement program that we announce on last earnings call. Although this program began in the first quarter, it was concluded in the second quarter with the majority of employee decisions being made in the second quarter. Adding to this increased severance expense was a $1.1 million increase in costs associated with the national client conference of our family of companies in May and partially offset by decreased legal and accounting costs. The 6.5% year-over-year increase in G&A costs was similarly impacted by the conclusion of the voluntary early retirement program in the second quarter of 2017 and similarly offset by decreased legal and accounting costs. And it's worth noting that the year-over-year increase related to our national client conference was only $400,000. During 2016, we held three separate user events spanning the second and third quarters targeting both our acute and post-acute customers. In 2017 we essentially combined those three events in one large client event in the second quarter. Combining these three events into a single event should allow us to scale and achieve overall efficiency in our annual spend in this area. Interest expense increased both sequentially and year-over-year as market conditions have led to increases in the underwriting rates paid in our variable rate debt. And the quarters effective tax rate of 38.5% marked a significant reduction from the first quarters' 83.6% as the second quarter held less expense impact from short falls associated with stock based compensation. The rate also improved also improves from last year's 45.9% as the second quarter of 2016 were significantly impacted by non-deductible transaction costs and state rate adjustments. And with that I'll now turn the things over to Chris Fowler, our Chief Operating Officer.