Matt Chambless
Analyst · William Blair & Company
Thanks Boyd and good afternoon everyone. On today's call I'll cover some high level themes for the quarter that we want to be sure to highlight, including some additional color around our acquisition of Get Real, or GRH, followed by some additional detail on bookings performance, major nonfinancial metrics and a walk through the period's financial results.As we shared on the conference call last quarter, our first quarter bookings performance and the timing of our National Client Conference made for a challenging second quarter as expected. And while this slow pace of decision making has continued, we remain excited about our future growth prospects based on the strength of our pipeline as Boyd has pointed out.In the meantime, we've made strides towards improved profitability by identifying $10 million of cost savings during 2018 and $3 million during 2019. All $13 million have been decisioned and are flowing through our income statement, which has allowed CPSI to not only preserve but to increase profitability in the face of revenue fluctuations.Expense categories included in our measure of adjusting EBITDA have decreased $4 million or 7% compared to the second quarter of 2018 and are down $5.6 million or 5% on a year-to-date basis. Despite a nearly 3% decrease in revenues from the second quarter of 2018, adjusted EBITDA has increased 28%, while non-GAAP net income has increased 48%.From a year-to-date perspective, revenues are similarly down 3%, while adjusted EBITDA has increased 10% and non-GAAP net income has increased 21%. This higher profitability coupled with abating headwinds from financing receivables, has led to significant improvements in our cash flow, with financing receivables contributing a net $2.5 million tailwind to cash flow.The second quarter of 2019 saw operating cash flows of $9.6 million, marking our second highest level since the acquisition of Healthland in January of 2016, and more than doubling the $4.7 million in operating cash flows during the second quarter of 2018.On a trailing 12-month basis, we now boast roughly $33.6 million of operating cash flows compared to $15.6 million on a trailing 12-month basis at this time last year. This improved strength in cash flows has allowed us to reduce our bank debt by over $9 million from June 30th, 2018, despite funding the $11 million purchase price for GRH from this facility.Speaking of GRH, we're excited about the opportunities the acquisition has created. GRH's products, technologies and relationships and the growing patient engagement market contribute directly to three of CPSI's strategic focuses; strengthening the EHR platform, expanding TruBridge's capabilities, and opening international markets, particularly Canada.Financially, GRH pre-acquisition was a small and frankly, subscale business with a mix of revenues from licenses, subscriptions and services, with approximately 40% recurring, that makes for lumpy results. We expect that to continue while we integrate the business and build its technologies into new products like TruBridge's Chronic Care Management Service.Since the date of acquisition, GRH contributed an adjusted EBITDA loss of $600,000 to our second quarter results on revenues of $200,000, which were effectively cut in half by the application of ASC 606, the new accounting standard for revenue recognition.Inclusive of pre-acquisition results, GRH year-to-date has produced revenues of $1.8 million and an EBITDA loss of $0.5 million prior to any adjustments related to ASC 606. Because of the lumpy non-recurring revenues, the range of potential outcomes for GRH in 2019 is fairly wide, with some large deals in the pipeline that could fall into the fourth quarter of 2019 or the first quarter of 2020. 2018 revenues were $4.5 million, and depending on deal timing, we could see 2019 amounts that range from something similar to easily double that number.As a result, GRH's EBITDA contribution for the full year could reasonably be slightly negative to moderately positive. That said, we currently expect GRH to contribute positive adjusted EBITDA before synergies for the full fiscal 2019 with opportunities to significantly increase that contribution depending on the timing and performance of the existing pipeline.We continue to look for tuck-in acquisitions like GRH and other opportunities, such as the partnership with Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre announced in May that advanced our strategic initiatives.Turning to bookings performance, total bookings of $14.7 million rebounded slightly from the first quarter's results, posting an overall 5% sequential increase but below the $23.5 million of total bookings in the second quarter 2018.The software side of our business saw a 19% sequential increase, due mostly to improved deal flow for new acute care EHR business and strong bookings from our post-acute segment.That said, extended decision time frames and lack of urgency, mentioned earlier by Boyd, continue to apply pressure to our system sales in support bookings resulting in a 32% decrease from the second quarter of 2018 with new acute care EHR business serving as the primary culprit.TruBridge bookings continue to feel a pinch from the hurdles that Boyd mentioned, resulting in declines of 27%, sequentially, and 51% year-over-year. GRH, which joined our family of companies on May 3rd, contributed $200,000 of bookings for the quarter, which are included in our reported TruBridge bookings.Of the $11.6 million in system sales and support bookings, roughly $1 million is included in our second quarter revenues, $9.3 million represents non-subscription sales that should trickle into revenues over the next 12 month, with an average lag between booking and install of five to six months. $1.3 million represents EHR subscription revenue to be reported over a 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 $3.1 million of bookings from TruBridge are nearly all comprised of recurring revenues to be recorded over a one-year period, starting in the next four to six months.As per key non-financial metrics, six customer sites went live with our Thrive acute care product compared to four in the previous quarter and three in the second quarter of 2018. As for licensing mix, three of this period's go lives were under a cloud or subscription model compared to one each in the first quarter of 2019 and the second quarter of 2018.The six Thrive go lives during the second quarter marked 1 less than we had anticipated as a startup facility previously scheduled for the second quarter was shifted to the third quarter of 2019.At this time, we expect six new client facilities to go live with our Thrive solution in the third quarter, with 1 expected to go live in a cloud environment. Our employee headcount, as of June 30, is roughly 1,951, a roughly 3% decrease from March 31st.Turning to the financial results for the period, TruBridge posted results that were up 2% sequentially and 5% over the second quarter of 2018. Strong volumes by our accounts receivable management service drove the sequential increase with GRH contributing $200,000 of TruBridge revenues during the quarter.Compared to the second quarter of 2018, our accounts receivable management services increased $600,000 or 7%, while the strong bookings performance throughout the trailing 12 months for our TruBridge RCM solution resulted in another strong showing by our insurance services division with revenues increasing $400,000 or 5%. And continued demand for our hosting services drove IT managed services revenues to a $300,000 or 10% increase.As we noted last quarter, the trailing 12 months have seen some operational decisions made by a few of our larger customers that decreased their related patient volumes and consequently had a negative impact on TruBridge revenues for the quarter.These operational decisions were primarily related to the curtailment of lab services and the closure of certain underperforming locations, creating $1 million of headwinds against TruBridge revenue growth for the quarter, particularly for our accounts receivable management in medical coding services.Without these headwinds, TruBridge would have posted 9% organic growth for the second quarter of 2018. These customer decisions and the related volume declines aren't expected to fully anniversary until the fourth quarter, so we expect these headwinds against prior year results to continue next quarter.Sequentially, TruBridge gross margins remained flat at 45% -- 47%, while margins improved moderately from the 46% reported for the second quarter of 2018. As a side note, GRH contributed $100,000 to TruBridge cost of sales for the period.Next, system sales and support revenues decreased $3.6 million, sequentially, as MU3-related revenues decreased $1.5 million from $2.4 million in the first quarter to $900,000 in the second quarter.Non-MU3 add-ons decreased $2.4 million as the first quarter was an exceptionally strong quarter posting $7 million in additional revenue -- in add-on revenues compared to a $5 million average over the previous eight quarters.Year-over-year, quarterly revenues were down $3.1 million, mostly as MU3-related revenues decreased $2.7 million, as we naturally work down this nonrecurring opportunity.Our cost of system sales and support were down $700,000 or 4%, sequentially, as cost of saving -- as cost-saving initiatives coupled with lowered incentive compensation expense resulted in improved payroll costs while improved sales mix resulted in lower hardware costs. Year-over-year cost decreased $1.9 million or 9.5% as the aforementioned cost savings initiatives have yielded improvements in payroll and third-party software costs.Gross margins for the second quarter of 2019 were 55% compared to 58% in the first quarter as revenue declined outpaced cost improvements while year-over-year margins improved from 54% to 55%, despite the decrease in revenues.Product development costs were essentially flat sequentially and year-over-year. GRH product development costs of $300,000 were largely offset by decreased incentive compensation expense in this area.Sales and marketing costs decreased $500,000 sequentially and year-over-year as decreased commission, marketing program costs and payroll costs more than offset the $200,000 increase in sales and marketing from GRH. General and administrative costs increased $300,000 sequentially, with GRH making up only $100,000 of the quarter's expenses.As Boyd mentioned previously, in May, we hosted our annual National Client Conference in San Antonio, which resulted in a $900,000 sequential increase in related costs. Our National Client Conference is held each year and therefore, was a planned expense.As a note, we anticipate hosting our 2020 National Client Conference in the second quarter of 2020. Offsets to these increases were a $700,000 decrease in legal and accounting fees.Year-over-year costs have decreased $1.1 million, despite a $1.2 million increase in severance and other nonrecurring charges as employee health costs decreased $2.1 million or 53% due to planned design changes intended to drive down costs while still providing competitive benefits to our employees.Lastly, on the income statement, our effective tax rate during the first quarter was -- during the second quarter was 22.2%, relatively in line with the 23.3% effective tax rate during the first quarter of 2019.Discrete items, such as state tax -- state notices from prior years, tax shortfalls from stock-based compensation and non-deductible costs associated with the GRH acquisition increased the effective rate by 8% collectively, while R&D tax credit estimates benefited the effective tax rate by 12% during the quarter.In closing, we obviously have some work to do in this slow decision-making environment to reach our long-term growth targets. Nonetheless, we feel optimistic about our pipeline, particularly for cross-sell opportunities within our loyal and sticky customer base and about the progress we've made in the quarter towards increased profitability and cash flows and stronger, more diverse topline growth prospects.We continue to focus on leveraging the stability of our core business, taking advantage of our growth opportunities and helping our clients and their communities thrive.And with that, we'd like to open the lineup for questions.