Jason Gorevic
Analyst · Piper Jaffray. Your line is open
Thanks Adam. Welcome everyone on the call and thank you for joining us this afternoon to review our third quarter 2016 results. This is another strong quarter for Teladoc where we saw continued momentum in the business with revenue of $32.4 million, an increase of 62% compared to a year ago, partially reflecting the acquisition of HealthiestYou, which as a reminder closed on July 1st. Membership of 17.1 million members, an increase of 35% and visits of over 202,000 visits this quarter, an increase of 73%, and finally adjusted EBIT a loss of $9.3 million compared to a loss of $10.4 million in the same period last year. Our offerings including behavioral health showed solid results in the quarter, with small business markets, health plans, large employers, as well as the provider market, all meeting or exceeding our expectations. During our call today, I'd like to focus on four primary areas; one, a progress report on the integration of HealthiestYou; two, an update on our success in the provider market; three, a discussion of our exciting new collaboration with AARP; and four, an update on the selling season. The third quarter represents our first full quarter with HealthiestYou, so I want to start by discussing our integration progress and the contributions we're seeing so far. Each of our four previous acquisitions strengthened our position in different segments of the emerging telemedicine market and HealthiestYou was no exception. The acquisition of HealthiestYou broadened our exposure and deepened our relationships within the small business market, which as we mentioned on our previous calls is the fastest growing market in terms of telemedicine adoption. This represents another significant opportunity for us with approximately 50% of U.S. employees falling into the small business category. As of today, we have successfully integrated HealthiestYou into the Teladoc platform and their existing customers have been very supportive of the change, which I believe is a testament to our experience, scale, and breadth of offering. Our go-to-market strategy is in place as an integrated platform and during September, we completed cross-training of the entire salesforce and have merged the two organizations into a single integrated team. Already, we've made notable progress with United Healthcare as a result of this transaction. And we now have an established a relationship with them through their small employer offering and their ASO customers. In fact, over 200,000 of our new members during the quarter came from this newly expanded relationship with United. Specifically, this growth was focused on their student health market. In summary, I'm even more excited about the HealthiestYou acquisition than I was when we did the deal. Moving to the provider market, I want to start with an endorsement that we're very proud of. After a competitive process, Teladoc has been selected by the American Hospital Association as the exclusively endorsed telemedicine platform. This selection followed a rigorous process that included an RFP interviews, product, demonstration, and client reference checks, and we're very excited to work with the AHA to bring telemedicine capabilities to its members. In addition to the AHA endorsement, I'm pleased to announce two prestigious new hospital clients. After very thorough reviews, Teladoc has been selected by both Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, which will be adding the Teladoc platform to its telemedicine program and by the Parkview Hospital System in Indiana. With its 11 hospitals, Parkview is the largest system in that region. And our roster of provider clients now stands at over 80 hospitals utilizing our platform. As a reminder, our provider clients licensed Teladoc services. Providers needs continue to evolve and they are now focused on better managing their risk as they move to becoming ACOs, improving provider employer physician productivity, expanding their brand into local markets, and decreasing their post discharge readmission rates. Our platform is designed to first defer to the provider's doctors and then move to Teladoc School of Physicians if the provider's doctors are unavailable. This is just another example of how flexible our telemedicine platform can be in order to address the different segments of the market. Next, I'd like to move to a discussion of our new relationship with AARP Services. I'm very happy to report that Teladoc is the exclusive provider of telehealth services for care connection, AARP's groundbreaking initiative focused on the caregiver market. Under the program, Teladoc enables a three-way medical visit that includes a Teladoc physician, an adult caregiver, and an aging parent. Teladoc handles all the technology, logistics, and legal permissions, leaving the physician, patient, and caregiver to focus on high-quality care and peace of mind. This program will be initially marketed through two primary channels; one, AARP is launching a bundle of services aimed to meet the needs of caregivers; and the Teladoc telehealth product will be a cornerstone of this offering. And two, Teladoc will be marketing this capability to our employer and Medicare advantage clients. While we expect the ramp on this product to be gradual, I'm very excited about the long-term prospects given the aging population and its unique needs. As promised, I want to now turn to a discussion of the current selling season. As I mentioned earlier, we're seeing strong results from the integration of our teams in the under 1,000 employer market. Our relationships with our brokers continue to deepen and we're seeing good growth on a weekly basis. As we review the pipeline of sold and high probability accounts, we continue to track above where we were at this time last year and I'm very pleased with the team's progress. Similarly, our account retention looks very strong as we close in on the end of the year returning to our historical levels of over 95% retention. Specifically, I'm happy to list just a handful of our new accounts that will go live in the New Year, including Abbott Labs, Fannie Mae, Fox Entertainment, L3 Communications, Phillips 66, ADP, Thermo Fisher Scientific, Avis Budget Group, and Memorial Sloan-Kettering, just to name a few. Finally, I'm very pleased with the progress we're making with our behavioral health products and some of our largest accounts have adopted this important product as part of their 2017 benefits. At this point, we have over 80% visibility into the streets range for our 2017 revenue. Lastly, I want to provide an update on our discussion on last quarter's call about our direct-to-consumer behavioral health advertising strategy. Over the past quarter, we've seen online advertising pricing remain at the same elevated levels we saw in the second quarter. As we mentioned a few months ago, we have modified our advertising and marketing strategy to diversify our online presence and reduce our exposure to price increases from certain online advertisers. Our revised strategy is bearing fruit by improving our yield and maintaining our customer acquisition costs at previously budgeted levels that keeps us on track to meet our guidance for year-end. Behavioral health is a significant addressable market and a meaningful growth opportunity for us. We believe this segment will generate over $11 million for Teladoc in 2016. Before I turn the call over to Mark to review our quarterly results in detail and the outlook for the rest of 2016, I'd like to congratulate him on his appointment to the newly created role of Chief Operating Officer while continuing to serve as Chief Financial Officer. In his expanded role, he will broaden his impact on our financial and strategic objectives as we continue our exciting growth trajectory.