Jason Gorevic
Analyst · William Blair
Thanks Adam. Welcome everyone on the call and thank you for joining us this afternoon to review our second quarter 2016 results. The second quarter saw continued strong year-over-year momentum in our business, with revenue of $26.5 million, an increase of 45%; membership of 15.4 million members, an increase of 34%, and visits of over 199,000 visits this quarter, an increase of 59%. Adjusted EBITDA loss was $10.5 million, an improvement of approximately 27% year-over-year and 12% sequentially. Doing a little bit of Mark's banter [ph] I'd like to start with our adjusted EBITDA for the quarter. We have said consistently that this would be the quarter in which our bottom line results begin to improve, and that we expect this trend to continue for the next six quarters, en route to EBITDA breakeven in the fourth quarter of 2017. Consistent with this, our second quarter losses were reduced by $1.4 million versus the first quarter of this year, as we have begun to realize leverage from the scale of our operations. Next, I'd like to highlight yet another strong quarter with respect to visit volume. With visits increasing at nearly twice the rate of membership growth, we continue to deliver more value for our clients every quarter. As we have discussed before, seasonality causes our visit volume to be lower in the second and third calendar quarters, and higher in the first and fourth quarters. In spite of being in the seasonal low, we delivered nearly 200,000 visits, making good on our promise of industry leading consumer engagement. During the second quarter, we also saw continued new client momentum, with wins across multiple market segments. Teladoc has been selected by Tenet Healthcare to be the telehealth solution for the Valley Baptist Hospital in Texas. We have also been selected by Silver Cross Hospital in the Chicago market. In addition to these new hospital clients, I am happy to report that we have launched a partnership with CareCentrix in the home care space. Under this model, we will work with CareCentrix to provide telehealth services for their homeSTAR readmission avoidance program, targeted at patients who are post-acute or recently discharged from a skilled nursing facility. Turning to other market segments; we continue to see strong adoption by employers, with new sales including companies like Progressive Insurance, the National Rural Electric Cooperative, Greyhound Lines, and New Era. Further, the Teladoc solution continues to be embraced by state and local governments, with the North Carolina league of municipalities and the county of San Bernardino, California employees, which are scheduled to go live during this year, and the 50,000 employees in the state of Alabama account, scheduled to go alive on 1-1-2017. And growth in our health plan segment continues as well, with new accounts, San Francisco Health Plan and Healthfirst in New York scheduled to go live on 1-1-2017 as well. Equally encouraging, we are seeing tremendous traction in some of our recently implemented clients. One of our Fortune 500 companies went live with about 40,000 employees on July 1st, with multiple Teladoc solutions and we are already seeing great utilization trends across the entire product suite, that is well ahead of our expectations. In addition to strong engagement with our general and medical product, their employees perform nearly 50 behavioral health and dermatology visits in their very first month with Teladoc. While the second quarter saw strength in terms of new client wins and positive trends in utilization, revenue was below our expectations. The primary reason for the revenue shortfall, was the cost of advertising in our direct-to-consumer behavioral health business. This advertising was more expensive in the second quarter on a per unit basis or a per ad basis, and because we have fixed advertising spend in any given quarter, we placed fewer ads than in past quarters. Ultimately, this led to lower yields per dollar spent. We have adjusted our advertising strategies and diversified our consumer engagement efforts, in order to address this issue going forward. While I am disappointed that our revenue came in below our guidance, I am still very pleased with our accomplishments in the quarter, and the adaptations that we have made, in order to address this issue. Turning to a couple of other key topics, as most of you know, on July 1, we closed on our acquisition of HealthiestYou, the leading telehealth consumer engagement technology platform for the small to mid-sized employer market. We have now had HealthiestYou under our belt for about five weeks, and things are right on track with our plan. We have had excellent response from the market, including existing HealthiestYou customers, brokers and prospects, as well as Teladoc customers and distribution channels, who are anxious to have access to the expanded capabilities that the combined entity will offer. As you may recall, HealthiestYou had previously [indiscernible] the delivery of their telehealth visits to one of our competitors. Following our close, we successfully transitioned the entire HealthiestYou volume to the Teladoc platform. Because of the scalable Teladoc infrastructure, we were able to absorb this additional 8% in visit volume and 10% in call volume, without adding any personnel or infrastructure. This is a true testament to the leverage that we get at this scale. I want to share a bit of insight into our client summit, which we hosted in May. At this event, we had 12 large Teladoc clients gather to provide feedback, preview our product roadmap and provide commentary on how Teladoc can provide those clients with more value. Client satisfaction remains a priority for us, and it was very encouraging to hear directly from our clients, that they really like what we do and they are happy to be able to offer our solutions to their members. Based on the strong positive feedback from these and other clients regarding our behavioral health product in particular, we have decided to further invest our resources in behavioral health and in the HealthiestYou product integration, rather than expanding into additional specialties such as diabetes, for the remainder of this year. We think that this strategic allocation of resources will maximize the value for our customers and the return for our investors. Overall, this was a good quarter for Teladoc, with continued demand and momentum in our business. Before I turn the call over to Mark to review the second quarter financials in more detail, I would like to provide some color on customer retention and the selling season for Q1 2017 business. As we have discussed before, we saw abnormally high customer churn in 2015, due to a confluence of events. I am happy to report, that for the first half of 2016, we have returned to our historical customer retention rates of over 95%. This gives us confidence in our ability to deliver on our growth expectations for 2017, since we don't expect to have the magnitude of churn to overcome that we did entering January of 2016. We are now right in the middle of our selling season, and the pipeline is shaping up very nicely, with more closed business now than we had at this stage last year. As you know, the selling seasons really comes to a head in the fourth quarter. But given the current strength of the pipeline, I feel very good about our prospects. Specifically, we have client commitments for approximately 2 million new members between July 1, 2016 and January 1, 2017. With that, I will turn the call over to Mark Hirschhorn, our Chief Financial Officer. Mark?