Quipt Home Medical Announces National Insurance Contract with a Top 5 Largest Health Insurer in the United States
April 26 2022 - 7:30AM
Quipt Home Medical Corp. (“
Quipt” or the
“
Company”) (NASDAQ:QIPT; TSXV:QIPT), a U.S. based
leader in the home medical equipment industry, focused on
end-to-end respiratory care, is very pleased to announce the
execution of a national insurance contract with a top five health
insurer in the United States1.
Management
Commentary
“The execution of this national insurance
contract with the largest commercial payer in the United States is
a major milestone for Quipt and serves as a further accelerant to
our ambitious long term growth plans. The national contract is
expected to be meaningful as we continue to expand into new states,
broadening our operating footprint over a much wider geography.
When we make an acquisition, we will be able to immediately
leverage the national contract, which is extremely powerful in
terms of capturing as many eligible patients as possible,” said
Greg Crawford, Chairman and CEO of Quipt. “Moreover, we feel
there's still a lot of opportunity for us to go after more national
contracts, which would provide the opportunity to add additional
payers, and we will continue to work with other large commercial
payers to help them better understand our strong patient centric
model and the benefits to patients and payors alike. The new
national insurance contract, extremely favorable demographics, and
our robust operating platform, put us in an industry leading
position to provide high touch at home clinical respiratory
services throughout the country.”
ABOUT QUIPT
HOME MEDICAL
CORP.
The Company provides in-home monitoring and
disease management services including end-to-end respiratory
solutions for patients in the United States healthcare market. It
seeks to continue to expand its offerings to include the management
of several chronic disease states focusing on patients with heart
or pulmonary disease, sleep disorders, reduced mobility, and other
chronic health conditions. The primary business objective of the
Company is to create shareholder value by offering a broader range
of services to patients in need of in-home monitoring and chronic
disease management. The Company’s organic growth strategy is to
increase annual revenue per patient by offering multiple services
to the same patient, consolidating the patient’s services, and
making life easier for the patient.
Reader Advisories
There can be no assurance that any of the
potential acquisitions in the Company’s pipeline or in negotiations
will be completed as proposed or at all and no definitive
agreements have been executed. Completion of any transaction will
be subject to applicable director, shareholder, and regulatory
approvals.
Unless otherwise specified, all dollar amounts
in this press release are expressed in U.S. dollars.
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"may", "would", "could", "should", "potential", "will", "seek",
"intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect",
"outlook", and similar expressions as they relate to the Company,
including: the national contract being meaningful as Quipt expands
into new states, and broadens its operating footprint; Quipt
expanding into new states and broadening its operating footprint
over a much wider geography; and Quipt completing additional
acquisitions; are intended to identify forward-looking
information. All statements other than statements of historical
fact may be forward-looking information. Such statements reflect
the Company's current views and intentions with respect to future
events, and current information available to the Company, and are
subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Many
factors could cause the actual results, performance or
achievements that may be expressed or implied by such
forward-looking information to vary from those described herein
should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize.
Examples of such risk factors include, without limitation: credit;
market (including equity, commodity, foreign exchange and
interest rate); liquidity; operational (including technology and
infrastructure); reputational; insurance; strategic; regulatory;
legal; environmental; capital adequacy; the general business and
economic conditions in the regions in which the Company operates;
the ability of the Company to execute on key priorities, including
the successful completion of acquisitions, business retention, and
strategic plans and to attract, develop and retain key executives;
difficulty integrating newly acquired businesses; the ability to
implement business strategies and pursue business opportunities;
low profit market segments; disruptions in or attacks (including
cyber-attacks) on the Company's information technology, internet,
network access or other voice or data communications systems or
services; the evolution of various types of fraud or other
criminal behavior to which the Company is exposed; the failure of
third parties to comply with their obligations to the Company or
its affiliates; the impact of new and changes to, or application
of, current laws and regulations; decline of reimbursement rates;
dependence on few payors; possible new drug discoveries; a novel
business model; dependence on key suppliers; granting of permits
and licenses in a highly regulated business; the overall difficult
litigation environment, including in the U.S.; increased
competition; changes in foreign currency rates; increased funding
costs and market volatility due to market illiquidity and
competition for funding; the availability of funds and resources
to pursue operations; critical accounting estimates and changes to
accounting standards, policies, and methods used by the Company;
the occurrence of natural and unnatural catastrophic events and
claims resulting from such events; and risks related to COVID-19
including various recommendations, orders and measures of
governmental authorities to try to limit the pandemic, including
travel restrictions, border closures, non-essential business
closures, quarantines, self-isolations, shelters-in-place and
social distancing, disruptions to markets, economic activity,
financing, supply chains and sales channels, and a deterioration of
general economic conditions including a possible national or
global recession; as well as those risk factors discussed or
referred to in the Company’s disclosure documents filed with
United States Securities and Exchange Commission and available at
www.sec.gov, and with the securities regulatory authorities in
certain provinces of Canada and available at www.sedar.com.
Should any factor affect the Company in an unexpected manner, or
should assumptions underlying the forward-looking information
prove incorrect, the actual results or events may differ
materially from the results or events predicted. Any such
forward-looking information is expressly qualified in its
entirety by this cautionary statement. Moreover, the Company does
not assume responsibility for the accuracy or completeness of
such forward-looking information. The forward-looking information
included in this press release is made as of the date of this
press release and the Company undertakes no obligation to publicly
update or revise any forward-looking information, other than as
required by applicable law.
For further information please visit our website at
www.Quipthomemedical.com, or contact:
Cole StevensVP of Corporate Development Quipt Home Medical
Corp.859-300-6455cole.stevens@myquipt.com
Gregory CrawfordChief Executive OfficerQuipt Home Medical
Corp.859-300-6455investorinfo@myquipt.com
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