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How CON rewrote its risk factors

10-K ITEM 1A · FY2024 → FY2025
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  • Summary of Risk Factors The following is a summary of the principal factors that make an investment in Concentra speculative or risky: Risks Related to Our Business, Industry and Operations • If the frequency of work-related injuries and illnesses decline, including if employment trends in the United States shift to industries that are less prone to workplace injuries and illness, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be negatively affected. • If we have adverse changes to our relationships with our significant employer customers, third-party payors, workers’ compensation provider networks or employer services networks, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected. • We conduct business in a heavily regulated industry and changes to regulations, new interpretations of existing regulations, or violations of regulations may result in increased costs or sanctions that reduce our revenue and profitability. • Cost containment initiatives or state fee schedule changes undertaken by state workers’ compensation boards or commissions and other third-party payors may adversely affect our revenue, profitability, and financial condition. • The nature of the markets that we serve may constrain our ability to realize reimbursement increases at rates sufficient to keep pace with the inflation of our costs. • Labor shortages, increased employee turnover, increases in employee-related costs, and union activity could have adverse effects including significant increases in our operating costs and a reduction in profitability. • If we fail to compete effectively with other occupational health centers, onsite health clinics at employer worksites, and healthcare providers in the local areas we serve, our revenue and profitability may decline. • A failure or security breach of our, or our third-party vendors’, information technology systems, such as a cyber-attack, may compromise our facilities, confidential data or critical data systems, result in harm to patients, subject us to potential legal and reputational harm and otherwise have an adverse impact on our operations and business. • We may be adversely affected by negative publicity which can result in increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny and possibly adverse regulatory changes. • Significant legal actions could subject us to substantial uninsured liabilities. • We are subject to a variety of litigation, investigations and audits and other legal and regulatory proceedings and payor audits in the course of our business that could adversely affect our business and financial statements. • Current and future acquisitions may use significant resources, may be unsuccessful, and could expose us to unforeseen liabilities. • In conducting our business, we are required to comply with applicable laws regarding the corporate practice of medicine and therapy and professional fee-splitting. • We are dependent on our relationships with affiliated professional entities that we do not own to provide healthcare services, and our business would be harmed if those relationships were disrupted or if our arrangements with these entities become subject to legal challenges. • We are subject to extensive federal and state laws and regulations relating to the privacy of personal information, including protected health information, and any actual or perceived failure to comply could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • Risks Related to Financial and Economic Market Condition • We are currently operating in a period of economic uncertainty and capital markets disruption, which has been significantly impacted by geopolitical instability due to the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East, Russia and Ukraine, and other international tensions.
  • Our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected by any negative impact on the global economy, capital markets and supply chains resulting from such instability.
  • Table of C ontents Risks Related to Our Indebtedness • Our substantial indebtedness may limit the amount of cash flow available to invest in the ongoing needs of our business. • Our Credit Facilities require us to comply with certain covenants and obligations, the default of which may result in the acceleration of certain of our Credit Facilities.
  • Risks Related to the Separation and the Distribution • We have a limited history of operating as a standalone public company, and our historical financial information may not fully reflect the results that we would have achieved as a standalone public company or what our results may be in the future. • We may not achieve all of the expected benefits of the Separation and the Separation could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • In addition to the other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, you should consider carefully the factors set forth below.
  • If known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected, potentially in a material way, which could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline.
  • Our ability to maintain those relationships and obtain, retain or renew our agreements with them depends on several factors including our quality of service and reputation.
  • Our results may decline if we Table of C ontents lose our significant employer customers, payor relationships, or our ability to participate in workers’ compensation or employer services networks.
  • Rather, the government may evaluate such arrangements on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all facts and circumstances, including the parties’ intent and the arrangement’s potential for abuse, and may be subject to greater scrutiny by enforcement agencies; Table of C ontents • the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), that, subject to limited exceptions, prohibits physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to an entity for the provision of certain designated health services if the physician or a member of such physician’s immediate family has a direct or indirect financial relationship (including an ownership interest or a compensation arrangement) with the entity, and prohibit the entity from billing Medicare or Medicaid for such designated health services.
  • Similar to the AKS, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation; • similar state law anti-kickback, self-referral, and false claims laws, some of which may apply to items or services reimbursed by any payor, including patients, state workers’ compensation programs, and commercial insurers and include “whistleblower” provisions; • federal and state laws as well as coverage and reimbursement requirements that prohibit providers from billing and receiving payments for therapy services and other healthcare services, unless the services are medically necessary, adequately and accurately documented, and billed using codes that accurately reflect the type and level of service rendered and otherwise meet complex billing requirements, including, among others, individual, group and concurrent therapy services; • the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, which prohibits the offering or giving of remuneration, including free services or discounts, and waivers of beneficiary cost sharing, to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries that is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular provider or supplier; • state corporate practice prohibitions and fee-splitting laws; • laws related to the development and use of artificial intelligence (“AI”); • federal, state and local laws and policies that require clinical facilities and providers to maintain licensure, certification, or accreditation; and • federal and state laws pertaining to non-physician practitioners, such as nurse practitioners physician assistants, and therapy assistants, including scope of practice limitations and requirements for supervision of such practitioners and reimbursement-related requirements.
  • To enforce compliance, the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) and the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) recently have increased its scrutiny of interactions between healthcare companies and healthcare providers, which has led to several investigations, prosecutions, convictions and settlements in the healthcare industry.
  • Table of C ontents Failure to comply with these laws and other laws can result in civil and criminal penalties such as fines, damages, overpayment, recoupment, imprisonment, loss of licensure, enrollment status and exclusion from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, imposition of a corporate integrity agreement, consent decree or similar agreements that impose ongoing compliance obligations.
  • Disputes with payors pertaining to cost control efforts have resulted, and may continue to result in an increase in reimbursement denials and delays, which may increase our operational and administrative costs and decrease the reimbursement we receive.
  • Currently, we offer occupational health centers or telemedicine services in 38 states and the District of Columbia which have fee schedules pursuant to which all healthcare providers are uniformly reimbursed for workers’ compensation services.
  • Table of C ontents We are highly dependent upon the ability of our affiliated professional medical groups to recruit and retain qualified physicians and other licensed providers to provide services to our existing occupational health centers and onsite health clinics and to expand our business.
  • Moreover, changes in immigration or visa policies could reduce the availability of international medical graduates and other professionals.
  • Our Managed PCs supplement their clinical personnel with a staffing agency, which can increase our costs and lower our margins.
  • A failure or security breach of our, or our third-party vendors’, information technology systems, such as a cyber-attack, may compromise our facilities, confidential data or critical data systems, result in harm to patients, subject us to potential legal and reputational harm, and otherwise have an adverse impact on our operations and business.
  • Table of C ontents Our information technology systems and those of our vendors that process, maintain, and transmit personal information are subject to various cybersecurity risks that threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information technology systems and personal information.
  • Many of these Table of C ontents involve large claims and significant defense costs and if successful, could result in significant liabilities that may exceed our insurance coverage and the financial ability of our affiliated professional medical groups to indemnify us.
  • Legal Proceedings.” and Note 18—“Commitments and Contingencies,” to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
  • The Company currently maintains insurance coverages under a combination of policies with an annual per claim aggregate limit of $29.0 million and an annual aggregate limit of $30.0 million for professional malpractice liability insurance and general liability insurance.
  • Even an unsuccessful challenge or investigation into our practices could cause adverse publicity and require us to incur significant costs Table of C ontents and could result in a material adverse effect to our reputation and business.
  • Transactions involving multi-state organizations with hundreds of health care providers across the country can now be subject to state reviews because one or more providers derive revenue from Table of C ontents patients within the state.
  • Corporate practice restrictions are generally designed to prohibit a non-professional entity or individual from owning a practice, employing providers or controlling or unduly influencing the professional practice and clinical decision making of the licensed Table of C ontents professional.
  • If a successful legal challenge or an adverse change in relevant laws were to occur, and we were Table of C ontents unable to adapt our business model accordingly, our operations in affected jurisdictions would be disrupted, which could harm our business.
  • Table of C ontents Even when HIPAA does not apply, according to the FTC, violating consumers’ privacy rights or failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure may constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
  • State Departments of Health or other state regulatory agencies may require us to obtain licenses, permits, registrations, accreditations and/or certifications in the various states in which we have our occupational health centers and onsite health clinics at employer worksites and in connection with our pharmacy distribution, utilization review and third-party administrator Table of C ontents services.
  • Table of C ontents If third parties claim that we infringe upon their intellectual property rights, our operations could be adversely affected.
  • Our business may be adversely impacted by changes and uncertainty in the healthcare industry, including healthcare public policy developments and other changes to laws and regulations.
  • The healthcare industry is subject to changing political, regulatory, and other influences and is heavily regulated.
  • Federal and state agencies oversee, regulate and otherwise affect many aspects of our business, including through reimbursement policies and enforcement, interpretation of fraud and abuse laws, and OSHA safety standards.
  • The outcome of the 2024 federal election increased regulatory uncertainty and the potential for significant policy changes.
  • For example, the current presidential administration has issued several executive orders that impact or may impact the healthcare industry, including orders focused on price transparency and the imposition of tariffs.
  • Regulatory uncertainty has also increased as a result of recent decisions issued by the U.S.
  • Supreme Court that affect review of federal agency actions, including by increasing judicial scrutiny of agency authority, shifting greater responsibility for statutory interpretation to courts and expanding the timeline in which a plaintiff can sue regulators.
  • These decisions may increase legal challenges to healthcare regulations and agency guidance and decisions and may also result in inconsistent judicial interpretations and delays in and other impacts to agency rulemaking and legislative processes.
  • Impacts of the recent Supreme Court decisions could require us or our Managed PCs to make changes to operations and adversely affect our business.
  • The healthcare industry has been and continues to be impacted by healthcare reform efforts at the federal and state levels, and other industry participants, such as private payors and large employer groups and their affiliates, may also introduce financial or delivery system reforms.

and 63 more.

Gone since FY2024

  • Summary of Risk Factors The following is a summary of the principal factors that make an investment in Concentra speculative or risky: Risks Related to Our Business, Industry and Operations • If the frequency of work-related injuries and illnesses decline, including if employment trends in the United States shift to industries that are less prone to workplace injuries and illness, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be negatively affected. • If we have adverse changes to our relationships with our significant employer customers, third-party payors, workers’ compensation provider networks or employer services networks, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected. • We conduct business in a heavily regulated industry and changes to regulations, new interpretations of existing regulations, or violations of regulations may result in increased costs or sanctions that reduce our revenue and profitability. • Cost containment initiatives or state fee schedule changes undertaken by state workers’ compensation boards or commissions and other third-party payors may adversely affect our revenue, profitability, and financial condition. • The nature of the markets that we serve may constrain our ability to realize reimbursement increases at rates sufficient to keep pace with the inflation of our costs. • Labor shortages, increased employee turnover, increases in employee-related costs, and union activity could have adverse effects including significant increases in our operating costs and a reduction in profitability. • If we fail to compete effectively with other occupational health centers, onsite health clinics at employer worksites, and healthcare providers in the local areas we serve, our revenue and profitability may decline. • We may be adversely affected by a failure or security breach of our, or our third-party vendors’, information technology systems, such as a cyber attack, which may subject us to potential legal and reputational harm and have an adverse impact on our business. • We may be adversely affected by negative publicity which can result in increased governmental and regulatory scrutiny and possibly adverse regulatory changes. • Significant legal actions could subject us to substantial uninsured liabilities. • We are subject to a variety of litigation, investigations and audits and other legal and regulatory proceedings and payor audits in the course of our business that could adversely affect our business and financial statements. • Current and future acquisitions may use significant resources, may be unsuccessful, and could expose us to unforeseen liabilities. • In conducting our business, we are required to comply with applicable laws regarding the corporate practice of medicine and therapy and professional fee-splitting. • We are dependent on our relationships with affiliated professional entities that we do not own to provide healthcare services, and our business would be harmed if those relationships were disrupted or if our arrangements with these entities become subject to legal challenges. • We are subject to extensive federal and state laws and regulations relating to the privacy of personal information, including protected health information, and any actual or perceived failure to comply could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • Risks Related to Financial and Economic Market Condition • We are currently operating in a period of economic uncertainty and capital markets disruption, which has been significantly impacted by geopolitical instability due to the ongoing Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine military conflicts.
  • Risks Related to Our Indebtedness • Our substantial indebtedness may limit the amount of cash flow available to invest in the ongoing needs of our business. • Our Credit Facilities require us to comply with certain covenants and obligations, the default of which may result in the acceleration of certain of our indebtedness.
  • Risks Related to the Separation and the Distribution • We have a limited history of operating as a standalone public company, and our historical financial information may not necessarily reflect the results that we would have achieved as a standalone public company or what our results may be in the future. • We may not achieve all of the expected benefits of the Separation and the Separation could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
  • An investment in shares of our common stock involves risks and uncertainties.
  • In addition to the other information in this annual report on Form 10-K , you should consider carefully the factors set forth below before making an investment decision to purchase shares of our common stock.
  • If known or unknown risks or uncertainties materialize, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected, potentially in a material way, which could result in a partial or complete loss of your investment.
  • Increases in employer-sponsored wellness and health promotion programs have led to fitter and healthier employees who may be less likely to injure themselves on the job.
  • Our results may decline if we lose our significant employer customers, payor relationships, or our ability to participate in workers’ compensation or employer services networks.
  • Rather, the government may evaluate such arrangements on a case-by-case basis, taking into account all facts and circumstances, including the parties’ intent and the arrangement’s potential for abuse, and may be subject to greater scrutiny by enforcement agencies; • the federal physician self-referral law (the “Stark Law”), that, subject to limited exceptions, prohibits physicians from referring Medicare or Medicaid patients to an entity for the provision of certain designated health services if the physician or a member of such physician’s immediate family has a direct or indirect financial relationship (including an ownership interest or a compensation arrangement) with the entity, and prohibit the entity from billing Medicare or Medicaid for such designated health services.
  • Similar to the AKS, a person or entity does not need to have actual knowledge of the statute or specific intent to violate it to have committed a violation; • similar state law anti-kickback, self-referral, and false claims laws, some of which may apply to items or services reimbursed by any payor, including patients, state workers’ compensation programs, and commercial insurers and include “whistleblower” provisions; • federal and state laws as well as coverage and reimbursement requirements that prohibit providers from billing and receiving payments for therapy services and other healthcare services, unless the services are medically necessary, adequately and accurately documented, and billed using codes that accurately reflect the type and level of service rendered and otherwise meet complex billing requirements, including, among others, individual, group and concurrent therapy services; • the Civil Monetary Penalties Law, which prohibits the offering or giving of remuneration, including free services or discounts, and waivers of beneficiary cost sharing, to Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries that is likely to influence the beneficiary’s selection of a particular provider or supplier; • state corporate practice prohibitions and fee-splitting laws; • federal, state and local laws and policies that require clinical facilities and providers to maintain licensure, certification, or accreditation; and • federal and state laws pertaining to non-physician practitioners, such as nurse practitioners physician assistants, and therapy assistants, including scope of practice limitations and requirements for supervision of such practitioners and reimbursement-related requirements.
  • To enforce compliance, the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) and the DOJ recently have increased its scrutiny of interactions between healthcare companies and healthcare providers, which has led to several investigations, prosecutions, convictions and settlements in the healthcare industry.
  • Failure to comply with these laws and other laws can result in civil and criminal penalties such as fines, damages, overpayment, recoupment, imprisonment, loss of licensure, enrollment status and exclusion from the Medicare and Medicaid programs, imposition of a corporate integrity agreement, consent decree or similar agreements that impose ongoing compliance obligations.
  • Currently, we offer occupational health centers or offer telemedicine services in 38 states and the District of Columbia which have fee schedules pursuant to which all healthcare providers are uniformly reimbursed for workers’ compensation services.
  • We are highly dependent upon the ability of our affiliated professional medical groups to recruit and retain qualified physicians and other licensed providers to provide services to our existing occupational health centers and onsite health clinics and to expand our business.
  • Our affiliated professional medical groups supplement their clinical personnel with a staffing agency, which can increase our costs and lower our margins.
  • While we have historically experienced some level of ordinary course employee turnover, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and resulting actions have exacerbated labor shortages and increased employee turnover.
  • We may be adversely affected by a failure or security breach of our, or our third-party vendors’, information technology systems, such as a cyber attack, which may subject us to potential legal and reputational harm and have an adverse impact on our business.
  • Our information technology systems and those of our vendors that process, maintain, and transmit personal information are subject to various cybersecurity risks that threaten the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information technology systems and personal information.
  • Many of these involve large claims and significant defense costs and if successful, could result in significant liabilities that may exceed our insurance coverage and the financial ability of our affiliated professional medical groups to indemnify us.
  • Legal Proceedings.” and Note 17—“ Commitments and Contingencies ,” to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this annual report on Form 10-K .
  • The Company currently maintains insurance coverages under a combination of policies with a total annual per claim aggregate limit of $29.0 million for professional malpractice liability insurance and general liability insurance.
  • Even an unsuccessful challenge or investigation into our practices could cause adverse publicity and require us to incur significant costs and could result in a material adverse effect to our reputation and business.
  • Transactions involving multi-state organizations with hundreds of health care providers across the country can now be subject to state reviews because one or more providers derive revenue from patients within the state.
  • Corporate practice restrictions are generally designed to prohibit a non-professional entity or individual from owning a practice, employing providers or controlling or unduly influencing the professional practice and clinical decision making of the licensed professional.
  • If a successful legal challenge or an adverse change in relevant laws were to occur, and we were unable to adapt our business model accordingly, our operations in affected jurisdictions would be disrupted, which could harm our business.
  • Even when HIPAA does not apply, according to the FTC, violating consumers’ privacy rights or failing to take appropriate steps to keep consumers’ personal information secure may constitute unfair and/or deceptive acts or practices in violation of Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act.
  • State Departments of Health or other state regulatory agencies may require us to obtain licenses, permits, registrations, accreditations and/or certifications in the various states in which we have our occupational health centers and onsite health clinics at employer worksites and in connection with our pharmacy distribution, utilization review and third-party administrator services.
  • If third parties claim that we infringe upon their intellectual property rights, our operations could be adversely affected.
  • A continued economic downturn or recession, or slowing or stalled recovery therefrom, may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, as it could negatively impact our current and prospective customers, adversely affect the financial ability of payors to pay claims, adversely impact our ability to pay our expenses and limit our ability to obtain financing for our operations.
  • Approximately 61% of our revenue was generated from the treatment of workers’ compensation claims in 2024.
  • In the current inflationary environment, we have and may continue to experience increases in labor costs, supply chain costs, capital expenditures and other costs of doing business.
  • For instance, during the recovery period following the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak in early 2020, we experienced significant staffing shortages.
  • These shortages were driven primarily by higher than historical turnover and lower replacement candidate levels.
  • In 2020, and the subsequent years of 2021 and 2022, we initiated compensation strategies to combat the higher turnover and attract new colleagues.
  • These strategies resulted in salary inflation pressure that was in excess of our normal annual merit increase percentages.
  • We also predominantly lease our occupational health center locations.
  • Since the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, we have experienced, and continue to experience, higher than normal facility lease renewal increases.
  • Relatedly, construction costs have continued to increase since the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in longer payback period on our capital investments.
  • To help mitigate the inflationary pressures on our business, we have implemented compensation strategies, selective price increases in certain markets, supply chain optimization initiatives and carefully monitor labor costs in our day-to-day operations.

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