UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

Form 10-Q

(Mark One)

QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the quarterly period ended September 30, 2017

March 31, 2022

OR

TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Commission file number: 001-37918

iRhythm Technologies, Inc.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

_______________________________________________________________________

Delaware

20-8149544

Delaware20-8149544
(State or Other Jurisdiction of


Incorporation or Organization)

(I.R.S. Employer


Identification No.)

650 Townsend

699 8th Street Suite 500,

San Francisco, California

600

94103

San Francisco,California94103
(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

(Zip Code)

(415) 632-5700

(Registrant’s Telephone Number, Including Area Code)

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant: (1) has filed all reports required to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing requirements for the past 90 days.    Yes      No  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate Web site, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T (§ 232.405 of this chapter) during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).    Yes      No  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer”,filer,” “smaller reporting company”company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

Large accelerated filer

Accelerated filer

Non-accelerated filer

(Do not check if a smaller reporting company)

Smaller reporting company

Emerging growth company

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If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a shell company (as defined in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act).    Yes      No 

As of October 31, 2017,April 29, 2022, the number of outstanding shares of the registrant’s common stock, par value $0.001 per share, was 22,981,467.

29,790,161.

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each classTrading SymbolName of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, Par Value $.001 Per ShareIRTCThe Nasdaq Stock Market




IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contains forward-looking statements concerning our business, operations and financial performance and condition, as well as our plans, objectives and expectations for our business, operations and financial performance and condition. Any statements contained herein that are not statements of historical facts may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terminology such as “anticipate,” “assume,” “believe,” “contemplate,” “continue,” “could,” “due,” “estimate,” “expect,” “goal,” “intend,” “may,” “objective,” “plan,” “predict,” “potential,” “positioned,” “seek,���seek,” “should,” “target,” “will,” “would” and other similar expressions that are predictions of or indicate future events and future trends, or the negative of these terms or other comparable terminology. These forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, statements about:

the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and financial results;

the impact of supply chain disruptions on our operations and financial results;

the impact of inflationary costs on our operations and financial results;
plans to conduct further clinical studies

studies;

our plans to modify our current products, or develop new products, to address additional indications

indications;

the expected growth of our business and our organization

organization;

our expectations regarding government and third partythird-party payor coverage and reimbursement

reimbursement;

our expectations regarding the size of our sales organization and expansion of our sales and marketing efforts in international geographies

geographies;

our expectations regarding revenue, cost of revenue, cost of service per device, operating expenses, including research and development expense, sales and marketing expense and general and administrative expenses

expenses;

our ability to retain and recruit key personnel, including the continued development of a sales and marketing infrastructure

infrastructure;

our ability to obtain and maintain intellectual property protection for our products

products;

our estimates of our expenses, ongoing losses, future revenue, capital requirements and our needs for, or ability to obtain, additional financing

financing;

our expectations regarding the time during which we will be an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act

our ability to identify and develop new and planned products and acquire new products

products;
our ability to remediate our material weaknesses over financial reporting;

our financial performance

performance; and

developments and projections relating to our competitors or our industry

industry.

We believe that it is important to communicate our future expectations to our investors. However, there may be events in the future that we are not able to accurately predict or control and that may cause our actual results to differ materially from the expectations we describe in our forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about our business and the industry in which we operate and management’s beliefs and assumptions and are not guarantees of future performance or development and involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that are in some cases beyond our control. As a result, any or all of our forward-looking statements in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q may turn out to be inaccurate. Factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from current expectations include, among other things, those listed under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. Potential investors are urged to consider these factors carefully in evaluating the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. We assume no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements for any reason, even if new information becomes available in the future.

You should not rely upon forward-looking statements as predictions of future events. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot guarantee that the future results, levels of activity, performance or events and circumstances reflected in the forward-looking statements will be achieved or occur. We undertake no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason after the date of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q to conform these statements to actual results or to changes in our expectations.

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You should read this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and the documents that we reference in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and have filed with the SEC as exhibits to the Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q with the understanding that our actual future results, levels of activity, performance and events and circumstances may be materially different from what we expect.

ii

iii


PART I. FINANCIALFINANCIAL INFORMATION

ITEM 1.

ITEM 1.    FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share and per share data)

March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021
Assets
Current assets:
Cash and cash equivalents$94,786 $127,562 
Short-term investments113,998 111,569 
Accounts receivable, net55,286 46,430 
Inventory12,446 10,268 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets9,838 9,693 
Total current assets286,354 305,522 
Property and equipment, net57,135 55,944 
Operating lease right-of-use assets65,256 84,587 
Goodwill862 862 
Other assets19,110 16,052 
Total assets$428,717 $462,967 
Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity
Current liabilities:
Accounts payable$5,413 $10,509 
Accrued liabilities41,935 51,486 
Deferred revenue2,933 3,049 
Debt, current portion— 11,667 
Operating lease liabilities, current portion11,501 11,142 
Total current liabilities61,782 87,853 
Debt, noncurrent portion34,917 9,690 
Other noncurrent liabilities832 697 
Operating lease liabilities, noncurrent portion86,344 85,212 
Total liabilities183,875 183,452 
Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)00
Stockholders’ equity:
    Preferred stock, $0.001 par value; 5,000,000 shares authorized; none issued and outstanding at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021— — 
Common stock, $0.001 par value; 100,000,000 shares authorized; 29,768,718 shares at March 31, 2022 and 29,493,726 at December 31, 2021 issued and outstanding27 27 
Additional paid-in capital701,822 685,594 
Accumulated other comprehensive income(353)(61)
Accumulated deficit(456,654)(406,045)
Total stockholders’ equity244,842 279,515 
Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity$428,717 $462,967 

 

 

September 30,

2017

 

 

December 31,

2016

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current assets:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

 

$

20,429

 

 

$

51,643

 

Investments, short-term

 

 

87,017

 

 

 

54,407

 

Accounts receivable, net

 

 

12,039

 

 

 

9,406

 

Inventory

 

 

1,314

 

 

 

1,390

 

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

 

1,989

 

 

 

1,671

 

Restricted cash

 

 

 

 

 

91

 

Total current assets

 

 

122,788

 

 

 

118,608

 

Investments, long-term

 

 

 

 

 

10,981

 

Property and equipment, net

 

 

6,207

 

 

 

4,653

 

Goodwill

 

 

862

 

 

 

862

 

Other assets

 

 

3,798

 

 

 

3,052

 

Total assets

 

$

133,655

 

 

$

138,156

 

Liabilities and Stockholders’ Equity

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Current liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts payable

 

$

2,076

 

 

$

2,103

 

Accrued liabilities

 

 

11,436

 

 

 

10,165

 

Deferred revenue

 

 

904

 

 

 

947

 

Accrued interest, current portion

 

 

149

 

 

 

 

Debt, current portion

 

 

1,479

 

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

 

 

16,044

 

 

 

13,215

 

Debt

 

 

32,053

 

 

 

32,227

 

Deferred rent, noncurrent portion

 

 

169

 

 

 

26

 

Accrued interest, net of current portion

 

 

 

 

 

126

 

Total liabilities

 

 

48,266

 

 

 

45,594

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 7)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stockholders’ equity:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Preferred stock, $0.001 par value – 5,000,000 authorized at September 30, 2017 and

   December 31, 2016, respectively; and none issued and outstanding at September 30,

   2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively

 

 

 

 

 

 

Common stock, $0.001 par value – 100,000,000 shares authorized at September 30,

   2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively; 22,978,954 and 22,139,346 shares

   issued and outstanding at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively

 

 

28

 

 

 

22

 

Additional paid-in capital

 

 

230,831

 

 

 

219,718

 

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

 

 

(30

)

 

 

(9

)

Accumulated deficit

 

 

(145,440

)

 

 

(127,169

)

Total stockholders’ equity

 

 

85,389

 

 

 

92,562

 

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

 

$

133,655

 

 

$

138,156

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Operations

(Unaudited)

(In thousands, except share and per share data)

Three Months Ended
March 31,
20222021
Revenue, net$92,378 $74,311 
Cost of revenue30,619 23,458 
Gross profit61,759 50,853 
Operating expenses:
Research and development10,542 8,510 
Selling, general and administrative73,158 69,813 
Impairment and restructuring charges26,608 — 
Total operating expenses110,308 78,323 
Loss from operations(48,549)(27,470)
Interest expense(2,029)(335)
Other income, net16 124 
Loss before income taxes(50,562)(27,681)
Income tax provision47 98 
Net loss$(50,609)$(27,779)
Net loss per common share, basic and diluted$(1.71)$(0.95)
Weighted-average shares, basic and diluted29,596,325 29,164,430 

 

 

Three Months Ended

September 30,

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Revenue

 

$

25,035

 

 

$

16,780

 

 

$

70,327

 

 

$

45,368

 

Cost of revenue

 

 

6,920

 

 

 

5,282

 

 

 

20,002

 

 

 

15,097

 

Gross profit

 

 

18,115

 

 

 

11,498

 

 

 

50,325

 

 

 

30,271

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

 

3,790

 

 

 

1,635

 

 

 

9,187

 

 

 

4,847

 

Selling, general and administrative

 

 

20,308

 

 

 

12,529

 

 

 

57,787

 

 

 

36,658

 

Total operating expenses

 

 

24,098

 

 

 

14,164

 

 

 

66,974

 

 

 

41,505

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(5,983

)

 

 

(2,666

)

 

 

(16,649

)

 

 

(11,234

)

Interest expense

 

 

(862

)

 

 

(807

)

 

 

(2,522

)

 

 

(2,388

)

Other income (expense), net

 

 

321

 

 

 

(602

)

 

 

900

 

 

 

(1,015

)

Net loss

 

$

(6,524

)

 

$

(4,075

)

 

$

(18,271

)

 

$

(14,637

)

Net loss per common share, basic and diluted

 

$

(0.29

)

 

$

(2.80

)

 

$

(0.81

)

 

$

(10.20

)

Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per common

   share, basic and diluted

 

 

22,811,907

 

 

 

1,454,307

 

 

 

22,446,399

 

 

 

1,434,583

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Loss

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

Three Months Ended
March 31,
20222021
Net loss$(50,609)$(27,779)
Other comprehensive income:
Net change in unrealized gains on available-for-sale securities(292)
Comprehensive loss$(50,901)$(27,778)

 

 

Three Months Ended

September 30,

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Net Loss

 

$

(6,524

)

 

$

(4,075

)

 

$

(18,271

)

 

$

(14,637

)

Other comprehensive loss:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in unrealized loss on available-for-sale securities

 

 

21

 

 

 

 

 

 

(19

)

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

 

$

(6,503

)

 

$

(4,075

)

 

$

(18,290

)

 

$

(14,637

)


The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

3



IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

(Unaudited)

(In thousands)

Three Months Ended March 31,
20222021
Cash flows from operating activities
Net loss$(50,609)$(27,779)
Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:
Depreciation and amortization3,143 2,036 
Stock-based compensation13,903 20,230 
Accretion of discounts on investments, net and other432 498 
Provision for doubtful accounts and contractual allowances14,022 9,768 
Amortization of operating lease right-of-use assets6,547 1,555 
Impairment charges23,164 — 
Changes in operating assets and liabilities:
Accounts receivable(22,878)(39,818)
Inventory(2,377)(1,608)
Prepaid expenses and other current assets(146)387 
Other assets(3,058)(775)
Accounts payable(5,308)673 
Accrued liabilities(9,429)(6,140)
Deferred revenue(116)495 
Operating lease liabilities(6,175)(1,364)
Net cash used in operating activities(38,885)(41,842)
Cash flows from investing activities
Purchases of property and equipment(5,572)(4,211)
Purchases of available-for-sale investments(45,974)(30,054)
Sales of available-for-sale investments15,019 — 
Maturities of available-for-sale investments28,000 151,300 
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities(8,527)117,035 
Cash flows from financing activities
Payment of long-term debt(21,389)(2,917)
Proceeds from term loan35,000 — 
Proceeds from issuance of common stock in connection with employee equity incentive plans1,076 1,576 
Tax withholding upon vesting of restricted stock awards— (25,105)
Payments of issuance costs for long term debt(51)— 
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities14,636 (26,446)
Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents(32,776)48,747 
Cash and cash equivalents beginning of period127,562 88,628 
Cash and cash equivalents end of period$94,786 $137,375 
Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information
Interest paid$1,967 $331 
Non-cash investing and financing activities
Property and equipment costs included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities$225 $115 
Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for operating lease liabilities$7,666 $5,757 
Capitalized stock-based compensation$1,250 $911 

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Cash flows from operating activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net loss

 

$

(18,271

)

 

$

(14,637

)

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

1,103

 

 

 

646

 

Stock-based compensation

 

 

7,024

 

 

 

1,251

 

Amortization of debt discount and issuance costs

 

 

197

 

 

 

284

 

Amortization of premiums (accretion of discounts) on investments, net

 

 

(207

)

 

 

 

Non-cash interest expense

 

 

1,152

 

 

 

1,099

 

Provision for bad debt and contractual allowance

 

 

5,927

 

 

 

3,384

 

Change in fair value of preferred stock warrant liabilities

 

 

 

 

 

996

 

Changes in operating assets and liabilities:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Accounts receivable

 

 

(8,560

)

 

 

(7,115

)

Inventory

 

 

76

 

 

 

(527

)

Prepaid expenses and other current assets

 

 

(197

)

 

 

(301

)

Other assets

 

 

(793

)

 

 

(842

)

Accounts payable

 

 

(33

)

 

 

69

 

Accrued liabilities

 

 

1,294

 

 

 

(363

)

Deferred revenue

 

 

(43

)

 

 

344

 

Deferred rent

 

 

143

 

 

 

(1

)

Net cash used in operating activities

 

 

(11,188

)

 

 

(15,713

)

Cash flows from investing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change in restricted cash

 

91

 

 

 

 

Purchases of property and equipment

 

 

(2,651

)

 

 

(1,821

)

Purchases of available-for-sale investments

 

 

(90,243

)

 

 

 

Maturities of available-for-sale investments

 

 

68,682

 

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

 

 

(24,121

)

 

 

(1,821

)

Cash flows from financing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net proceeds from employee stock transactions

 

 

4,095

 

 

 

82

 

Payments of deferred issuance costs

 

 

 

 

 

(1,995

)

Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities

 

 

4,095

 

 

 

(1,913

)

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

 

 

(31,214

)

 

 

(19,447

)

Cash and cash equivalents, beginning of period

 

 

51,643

 

 

 

25,208

 

Cash and cash equivalents, end of period

 

$

20,429

 

 

$

5,761

 

Supplemental disclosures of cash flow information

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interest paid

 

$

1,152

 

 

$

1,213

 

Non-cash investing and financing activities

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Deferred offering costs included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities

 

$

 

 

$

637

 

Property, plant and equipment costs included in accounts payable

 

$

6

 

 

$

152

 


The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.

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IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Condensed Consolidated Statement of Stockholders’ Equity
(Unaudited)
(In thousands, except share data)
Common StockAccumulated OtherTotal
SharesAmountAdditional Paid-In CapitalAccumulated DeficitComprehensive IncomeStockholders' Equity
Balances at December 31, 202029,019,350 $27 $646,258 $(304,684)$11 $341,612 
Issuance of common stock in connection with employee equity incentive plans, net268,399  1,576 — — 1,576 
Tax withholding upon vesting of restricted stock awards—  (25,105)— — (25,105)
Stock-based compensation expense—  19,267 — — 19,267 
Net loss—  — (27,779)— (27,779)
Net change in unrealized gain on investments—  — — 
Balances at March 31, 202129,287,749 $27 $641,996 $(332,463)$12 $309,572 

Common StockAccumulated OtherTotal
SharesAmountAdditional Paid-In CapitalAccumulated DeficitComprehensive IncomeStockholders' Equity
Balances at December 31, 202129,493,726 $27 $685,594 $(406,045)$(61)$279,515 
Issuance of common stock in connection with employee equity incentive plans, net274,982  1,076 — — 1,076 
Tax withholding upon vesting of restricted stock awards—  — — — — 
Stock-based compensation expense—  15,152 — — 15,152 
Net loss—  — (50,609)— (50,609)
Net change in unrealized gain on investments—  — — (292)(292)
Balances at March 31, 202229,768,708 $27 $701,822 $(456,654)$(353)$244,842 


The accompanying notes are an integral part of these condensed consolidated financial statements.




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IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements



1. Organization and Description of Business

iRhythm Technologies, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in the state of Delaware in September 2006. The Company is a digital healthcare company redefining the way cardiac arrhythmias are clinically diagnosed by combining wearable biosensing technology with cloud-based data analytics and machine-learningdeep-learning capabilities. The Company commencedbegan commercial introduction of its productsoperations in the United States in 20092008 following clearance by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.


The Company’s headquarters are basedCompany is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and thewhich also serves as a clinical center. The Company has manufacturing facilities in Cypress, California, andadditional clinical centers in Lincolnshire, Illinois and Houston, Texas.Texas and a manufacturing facility in Cypress, California. In March 2016, the Company formed a wholly-owned subsidiary in the United Kingdom. Additionally, in June 2021, the Company formed a wholly-owned subsidiary in Singapore. The Company manages its operations as a single operating segment. Substantially all of the Company’s assets are maintained in the United States. The Company derives substantially all of its revenue from salesthe provision of services to customers in the United States, based upon the billing address of the customer.

States.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Basis of Presentation

The accompanying financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America or (“U.S. GAAP,GAAP”) and applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC,(the "SEC") regarding interim financial reporting. As permitted under those rules, certain footnotes or other financial information that are normally required by GAAP have been condensed or omitted, and accordingly the balance sheet as of December 31, 2016 has2021, and related disclosures, have been derived from the audited consolidated financial statements at that date but doesdo not include all of the information required by GAAP for complete consolidated financial statements. These unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared on the same basis as the Company’s annual consolidated financial statements and, in the opinion of management, reflect all adjustments (consisting only of normal recurring adjustments) that are necessary for the fair statement of the Company’s condensed consolidated financial information. The results of operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022, are not necessarily indicative of the results to be expected for the year ending December 31, 20172022, or for any other interim period or for any other future year.

The accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements and related financial information should be read in conjunction with the audited financial statements and the related notes thereto for the year ended December 31, 20162021, included in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K, filed with the SEC on February 28, 2022.

Risks and Uncertainties

COVID-19

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Company has experienced significant business disruptions, restrictions on its ability to travel, reduction in access to customers due to diverted resources at hospitals, slower response times from payors who are also facing business interruptions, and shortened business hours as governments instituted prolonged shelter-in-place and/or self-quarantine mandates.

Government mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted, and are expected to continue to impact, Company personnel and personnel at third-party manufacturing facilities in the United States and other countries, and the availability or cost of materials, which could disrupt our supply chain and reduce margins. While the Company has continued to deliver its Zio service by operating with remote employees and essential employees on site, an extended implementation of these government mandates could further impact the Company's ability to provide its Zio service effectively, and could impede the progress of all ongoing initiatives. Appropriate social distancing techniques and other measures at the Company's facilities have been implemented for employees who are required by job scope or who have chosen to return to the Company’s facilities.

Government mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted our claims and appeals and are expected to continue to impact payor processing times. This increase in response times may be due, in part, to staffing shortages at the payors.

The Company's remote work arrangements resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent decision to pursue a sublease for its San Francisco headquarters resulted in an impairment of its right of use asset and related leasehold
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improvements and furniture, and the Company expects additional impairment charges related to real property lease agreements may be incurred.

The Company is continuously reviewing its liquidity and anticipated capital requirements in light of the significant uncertainty created by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Company believes it will have adequate liquidity over the next 12 months to operate its business and to meet its cash requirements. As of March 31, 2017.

Principles2022, the Company is in compliance with its debt covenants.


The ultimate impact of Consolidation

the COVID-19 pandemic is highly uncertain and subject to change. This impact is having a material, adverse impact on liquidity, capital resources, supply chain, operations and business and those of the third parties on which the Company relies, and could worsen over time. The accompanying interim unaudited condensed consolidatedextent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts the Company’s results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and the actions to contain the COVID-19 pandemic or treat its impact, among others. The full extent of potential delays or impacts on the business, financial statements are consolidatedcondition, cash flows and results of operations remains unknown.


Reimbursement

Government payors may change their coverage and reimbursement policies, and payment amounts, in a way that would prevent or limit reimbursement for the nine months ended September 30, 2017Zio service, which would significantly harm the Company. Government and 2016 and includeother third-party payors require the accounts of iRhythm Technologies, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiary, iRhythm Technologies Ltd.Company to report the service for which it is seeking reimbursement by using a Current Procedural Terminology (“CPT”), established in March 2016. The financial statements of iRhythm Technologies Ltd. usea code-set maintained by the U.S. dollar as the functional currencyAmerican Medical Association (“AMA”). For all non-functional currency balances,Zio XT, the remeasurementCompany had historically utilized temporary CPT codes (or Category III CPT codes) used for newly introduced technologies and specific to our category of such balancesdiagnostic monitoring. The process to functional currency resultsconvert Category III CPT codes to Category I CPT codes is governed by the AMA and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (“CMS”). On October 25, 2019, the AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel established two new Category I CPT codes that are applicable to the Zio service and took effect on January 1, 2021. In November 2021, CMS published the Calendar Year 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (the “2022 Final Rule”). In the Final Rule, CMS did not issue national pricing and continued carrier pricing for the calendar year 2022 on Category I CPT codes 93241, 93243, 93245 and 93247 for extended external ECG monitoring, the relevant codes for the Company’s Zio XT service. CMS designated these codes for contractor pricing in calendar 2022, which means that prices will be determined regionally by each Medicare Administrative Contractor (“MAC” or “MACs”).

Determinations of which products or services will be reimbursed under Medicare can be developed at the national level through a foreign exchange transaction gainnational coverage determination (“NCD”) by CMS or loss,at the local level through a local coverage determination (“LCD”), by one or more of the regional Medicare Administrative Contractors (“MACs”) who are private contractors that process and pay claims on behalf of CMS for different regions. In the absence of a specific NCD, as is the case with Zio XT historically and for Calendar Year 2022 following the Final Rule, the MAC with jurisdiction over a specific geographic region will have the discretion to make an LCD. The Company is seeking to establish LCD pricing with one or more MACs for 2022 and will be subject to LCD pricing until CMS establishes a NCD.

In January 2022, Novitas Solutions, the MAC which covers the region where our Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (“IDTF”) in Houston, Texas is recordedlocated, updated reimbursement rates for CPT codes 93243 and 93247 for the Houston jurisdiction to $223 and $233, respectively. These updated rates are retroactive to January 1, 2022. These rates were higher than the rates posted by Novitas in 2021 but continue to be significantly below our historical Medicare rates for our Zio XT service. In April 2022, National Government Services ("NGS"), the MAC which covers the region where our IDTF in Lincolnshire, Illinois is located, updated reimbursement rates for CPT codes 93243 and 93247 for the Suburban Chicago jurisdiction to $334 and $347, respectively. These updated rates are retroactive to April 1, 2022 and are higher than our historical Medicare rates for our Zio XT service.We are continuing to negotiate with MACs to establish higher pricing for the Category I CPT Codes but can offer no assurances as to the timing or outcome of those discussions.

Further, a reduction in coverage by Medicare could cause some commercial third-party payors to implement similar reductions in their coverage or level of reimbursement of the Zio service. Given the evolving nature of the healthcare industry and on-going healthcare cost reforms, the Company will continue to be subject to changes in the consolidated statementslevel of Medicare coverage for its products, and unfavorable coverage determinations at the national or local level could adversely affect its results of operations.

Although a large majority of commercial customers have re-contracted the Zio XT service since the establishment of the Category I codes on January 1, 2021, matching pre-existing rates, if the Company is unsuccessful in improving the Medicare rates, the Company believes that commercial rates may begin to be more negatively impacted next year.

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If the Company is unable to achieve a level of revenues adequate to support its cost structure or is unable to reduce its overall cost structure, this could raise substantial doubts about the Company's ability to continue as a going concern.

Supply Chain Constraints

Economies worldwide have also seen other indirect COVID-19 pandemic related disruptions, including supply chain impacts, material inflation, and labor constraints in certain markets and geographies. Such economic disruption has had an adverse effect on the Company's business environment as increased lead times and component shortages have resulted in higher inventory costs. While the Company has increased inventory safety stock levels to help mitigate the delays and disruptions in supply, the Company cannot be certain that any prolonged, intensified, or worsened effect from the COVID-19 pandemic would not further impact its supply chain.

Use of Estimates


The preparation of the condensed consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. On an ongoing basis, management evaluates its estimates, including those related to revenue recognition, contractual allowances, for revenue, allowance for doubtful accounts, the useful lives of property and equipment, the recoverability of long-lived assets including the estimated usage of the printed circuit board assemblies (“PCBAs”), the valuationincremental borrowing rate for operating leases, accounting for income taxes, impairment of deferred taxright-of-use assets the fair value("ROU assets"), and various inputs used in estimating stock-based compensation. Certain of the Company’s preferred and common stockthese estimates are impacted by uncertainties surrounding COVID-19 such as revenue recognition, contractual allowances for revenue, allowance for doubtful accounts, and stock-based compensation. The Company bases these estimates on historical and anticipated results, trends, and various other assumptions that the Companymanagement believes are reasonable under the circumstances, including assumptions as to future events. Actual results may differ from those estimates.

Fair Value of Financial Instruments

The carrying amounts of certain of the Company’s financial instruments, which include cash equivalents, short-term investments, accounts receivable, accounts payable and accrued liabilities, approximate fair value due to their short maturities.

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Cash Equivalents

Cash equivalents consist of short-term, highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less from the date of purchase.

Investments

Short-term investments consist of debt securities classified as available-for-sale and have maturities greater than 90 days, but less than 365 days from the date of acquisition. Long-term investments have maturities greater than 365 days as of the balance sheet date. All investments are carried at fair value based upon quoted market prices. Unrealized gains and losses


For further details on available-for-sale securities are excluded from earnings and are reported as a component of accumulated other comprehensive loss. The cost of available-for-sale securities sold is based on the specific-identification method. Realized gains and losses are included in earnings, and are derived for specific-identification method for determining the costs of investments sold.

Restricted Cash

Restricted cash consists of certificates of deposit held with a financial institution as security deposits for building leases and is included in short-term assets on the Company's condensed consolidated balance sheets.

Accounts Receivable, Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Contractual Allowance

Accounts receivable consists of amounts due to the Company from institutions, government payors and third-party commercial payors as a result of the Company's normal business activities. Accounts receivable is reported on the condensed consolidated balance sheets net of an estimated allowance for doubtful accounts and contractual allowance.

The Company establishes an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated uncollectible receivables based on its historical experience, and recognizes the provision as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses. The Company establishes a contractual allowance, which is a reduction in revenue, for estimated uncollectible amounts from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) and contracted third-party commercial payors.

The following table presents the changes in the allowance for doubtful accounts:

 

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

1,792

 

 

$

1,125

 

Add: provision for doubtful accounts

 

 

1,855

 

 

 

1,960

 

Less: write-offs, net of recoveries and other adjustments

 

 

(852

)

 

 

(1,293

)

Balance, end of period

 

$

2,795

 

 

$

1,792

 

The following table presents the changes in the contractual allowance:

 

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Balance, beginning of period

 

$

2,340

 

 

$

338

 

Add: contractual allowances

 

 

4,072

 

 

 

2,726

 

Less: write-offs, net of recoveries and other adjustments

 

 

(678

)

 

 

(724

)

Balance, end of period

 

$

5,734

 

 

$

2,340

 

Management reviews and updates its estimates for the allowances for doubtful accounts and contractual allowance periodically to reflect its experience regarding historical collections. If management were to make different judgments or utilize different estimates in the allowances for doubtful accounts and contractual allowance, differences in the amount of reported selling, general and administrative expenses and revenue could result, respectively.

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Concentrations of Risk

Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, investments and accounts receivable. Cash, cash equivalents, and investments are deposited in financial institutions which, at times, may be in excess of federally insured limits. Cash equivalents are invested in highly rated money market funds. The Company invests in a variety of financial instruments, such as, but not limited to, United States Government securities, corporate notes, commercial paper and, by policy, limits the amount of credit exposure with any one financial institution or commercial issuer. The Company has not experienced any material losses on its deposits of cash and cash equivalents or investments.

Concentrations of credit risk with respect to accounts receivable are limited due to the large number of customers comprising the Company’s customer base and their dispersion across many geographies. The Company does not require collateral. The Company records an allowance for doubtful accounts when it becomes probable that a receivable will not be collected. Government agencies, including CMS and the Veterans Administration, accounted for approximately 39%, 38%, 38% and 40% of the Company’s revenue for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016 respectively. Accounts receivable related to government agencies accounted for 26% and 27% at September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively.

Supply Risk

While the Company has not experienced manufacturing supply disruptions to date, the Company relies on single-source vendors for the supply of its disposable housings, instruments and other materials used to manufacturecalculate the ZIO Patch and the adhesive that binds the ZIO Patch to a patient’s body. These components and materials are critical, and there could be a considerable delay in finding alternative sources of supply.

Inventory

Inventory is stated at the lower of cost or net realizable value, cost being determined on a standard cost basis for material costs and on actual cost basis for labor and overhead, which approximates actual cost on a first in, first out  (“FIFO)” basis, and market being determined as the lower of cost or net realizable value. The Company records write-downs of inventory that is obsolete or in excess of anticipated demand or market value based on consideration of product lifecycle stage, technology trends, product development plans and assumptions about future demand and market conditions. Actual demand may differ from forecasted demand and such differences may have a material effect on recorded inventory values. Inventory write-downs are charged to cost of revenue and establish a new cost basis for the inventory.

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are stated at cost less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets, ranging from three to five years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of the lease term or the estimated useful lives of the assets. Maintenance and repairs are charged to expense as incurred and improvements and betterments are capitalized.

Internal-Use Software

The Company capitalizes costs related to internal-use software during the application development stage. Costs related to planning and post implementation activities are expensed as incurred. Capitalized internal-use software is amortized, and recognized as cost of revenue, on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful life, which is up to five years. The Company evaluates the useful lives of these assets on an annual basis and tests for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances occur that could impact the recoverability of these assets. Capitalized internal-use software costs are classified as a component of property and equipment.

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Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of the purchase price paid over the fair value of tangible and identifiable intangible net assets acquired in business combinations. Goodwill is tested for impairment on an annual basisROU assets, see Note 6. Impairment and at any other time if events occur or circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of goodwill may not be recoverable. Such events or circumstances may include significant adverse changes in the general business climate, among other things. The impairment test is performed by determining the enterprise fair value of the Company, which is primarily based on the Company’s market capitalization. If the Company’s carrying value, as a one reporting unit entity, is less than its fair value, then the fair value is allocated to all of its assets and liabilities (including any unrecognized intangible assets) as if the fair value was the purchase price to acquire the Company. The excess of the fair value over the amounts assigned to the Company’s assets and liabilities is the implied fair value of the goodwill. If the carrying amount of goodwill exceeds the implied fair value of that goodwill, an impairment loss is recognized in an amount equal to that excess. The Company performs its annual evaluation of goodwill during the fourth quarter of each fiscal year. The Company did not record any charges related to goodwill impairment in any of the periods presented in these condensed consolidated financial statements.

Restructuring Charges.


Impairment of Long-Lived Assets

The Company annually reviews long-lived assets for impairment or whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of an asset may not be recoverable. Recoverability is measured by comparison ofcomparing the carrying amount to the future net cash flows whichthat the assets are expected to generate. If such assets are considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured as the amount by which the carrying amount of the assets exceeds the projected discounted future net cash flows arising from the asset. To date there have been no

Any impairments to right of use assets, leasehold improvements, or other assets as a result of a sublease or other similar action are initially recognized when a decision to take such impairmentsaction is made and recorded as an operating expense. Similar to other long-lived assets, management tests ROU assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances occur that could impact the recoverability of these assets. For ROU assets, such circumstances may include subleases that do not fully recover the costs of the associated leases or commitments to sublease a property. For the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company recorded $23.2 million of long-lived assets.

Other Assets

Includedasset impairment charges in the other assets are PCBAs totaling $3.5 millionconsolidated statement of operations. See Note 6. Impairment and $2.8 million asRestructuring Charges.


Accounts Receivable, Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Contractual Allowances

Accounts receivable includes amounts due to the Company from healthcare institutions, third-party payors, and government payors and their related patients, due to the Company's normal business activities. Accounts receivable is reported on the consolidated balance sheets net of September 30, 2017an estimated allowance for doubtful accounts and December 31, 2016, respectively. contractual allowances.

The Company uses a PCBA in each wearable device and it is used numerous times and has a useful life beyond one year. Each time the PCBA is used in a wearable device, a portionestablishes an allowance for doubtful accounts for estimated uncollectible receivables based on its assessment of the costcollectability of customer accounts and recognizes the provision as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses. The Company records a provision for contractual allowances based on the estimated differences between contracted amounts and expected collection rates. Such provisions are based on the Company's historical experience and are reported as a reduction of revenue.

The Company regularly reviews the allowances by considering factors such as historical experience, credit quality, the age of the PCBA is recorded asaccounts receivable balances, and current economic conditions that may affect a cost of revenue. The Company has based its estimates of how many times a PCBA can be used on testing in research and development, loss rates, product obsolescence, and the amount of time it takes the devicecustomer’s ability to go through the manufacturing, shipping, customer shelf and patient wear time and upload process. The Company periodically evaluates the use estimate.

Comprehensive Loss

Comprehensive loss represents all changes in stockholders' equity except those resulting from and distributions to stockholders. The Company’s unrealized gains and losses on available-for-sale securities represent the only component of other comprehensive loss that are excluded from the reported net loss and that are presented in the condensed consolidated statements of comprehensive loss.

Revenue Recognition

The Company’s devices, cardiac rhythm monitors, have a wear period for up to 14 days for the ZIO Service or 30 days for the ZIO Event Card. The Company's services, consisting of the delivery of reports containing analysis of data captured by the physical device to the prescribing physician, are generally billable at the start of the wear period or when reports are issued to physicians, depending on the service provided. For the ZIO Event Card, the Company recognizes revenue on a straight-line basis over the applicable wear period, as the event monitoring results are delivered to physicians. For the ZIO Service, the Company recognizes the revenue at the time that a report is delivered to a physician. For all services performed, the Company considers whether or not the following revenue recognition criteria are met: persuasive evidence of an arrangement exists and delivery has occurred or services have been rendered. For services performed for customers the Company invoices directly, additional revenue recognition criteria include that the price is fixed and determinable and collectability is reasonably assured; for customers in which the Company submits claims to third-party commercial and governmental payors for reimbursement, it recognizes revenue only when a reasonable estimate of reimbursement can be made.

pay.


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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)


The Company submitted the majority of Zio XT claims from the first and second quarter of 2021 on a delayed basis due to the CPT code transition and uncertainty over reimbursement rates. Claims were being held due to a combination of negotiations with payors and administrative delays in processing payments. Most of the held claims were released and submitted by the end of the second quarter of 2021. As of March 31, 2022, uncollected claims as a result of the CPT code transition were $12.9 million. For the contracted portfolio, once submitted, the number of claims from the first half of 2021 which contained differences between the submitted price and reimbursement rate and overall denials increased significantly compared to our historical experience as a result of CPT code transition issues with the payors. The Company continues to work with the payors to collect on these claims, and the collection cycle for these claims is significantly longer than usual. This makes the timing of the Company's collections more difficult to predict. While the Company believes it has properly estimated the impact to our contractual allowances and allowance for doubtful accounts, inherent uncertainty caused by the longer-collection cycle and claims adjudication process could result in additional provisions for contractual allowances and doubtful accounts which would negatively impact the Company's results of operations in future periods.

The following table presents the changes in the allowance for doubtful accounts (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended December 31,
2021
Three Months Ended March 31, 2021
Balance, beginning of period$14,012 $12,711 $12,711 
Add: provision for doubtful accounts4,413 9,615 3,095 
Less: write-offs, net of recoveries and other adjustments(60)(8,314)(3,046)
Balance, end of period$18,365 $14,012 $12,760 
The following table presents the changes in the contractual allowance (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022Year Ended December 31,
2021
Three Months Ended March 31, 2021
Balance, beginning of period$31,274 $21,281 $21,281 
Add: provision for contractual allowances9,609 27,459 6,673 
Less: realized contractual adjustments(26)(17,466)(3,185)
Balance, end of period$40,857 $31,274 $24,769 
Concentrations of Risk
Credit Risk
Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to a concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents, investments and accounts receivable. Cash balances are deposited in financial institutions which, at times may be in excess of federally insured limits. Cash equivalents are invested in highly-rated money market funds. The Company invests in a variety of financial instruments, such as but not limited to, U.S. government securities, corporate notes, commercial paper and, by policy, limits the amount of credit exposure with any one financial institution or commercial issuer. The Company has not experienced any material losses on its deposits of cash and cash equivalents or investments.

Concentrations of credit risk with respect to accounts receivable are limited due to the large number of customers comprising the Company’s customer base and their dispersion across many geographies. The Company does not require collateral. The Company records an allowance for doubtful accounts based on the assessment of whetherthe collectability of customer accounts, considering factors such as historical experience, credit quality, the age of the accounts receivable balances, and current economic conditions that may affect a reasonable estimatecustomer’s ability to pay. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”), accounted for approximately 22% and 14% of reimbursement canthe Company's revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. CMS accounted for 16% and 8% of accounts receivable at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.
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Revenue Recognition

The Company’s revenue is generated primarily from the provision of its ambulatory cardiac rhythm monitoring service, the Zio XT service. The Zio XT is an ambulatory cardiac rhythm monitoring service that has a patient wear period of up to 14 days and is billable when the monitoring reports are delivered to the healthcare provider, which is also when the service is complete, and the Company recognizes revenue. The time from when the patient has the Zio XT device applied to the time the report is posted is generally around 25 days. The Company has concluded that the Zio XT service is one performance obligation on the basis that the customer cannot benefit from each component of the service on its own or together with other resources that are readily available to the customer.

The Zio AT mobile cardiac telemetry monitor, a wearable patch-based biosensor, offers what the Zio XT offers plus the additional capability of transmissions during the wear period to assist physicians in diagnosing and treating patients that require more timely action. During the wear period, physicians will receive notifications if there are significant events that meet predetermined arrhythmia detection criteria. The Zio AT service revenue is recognized over the prescription period and delivery of an electronic Zio report with two performance obligations.

The Company recognizes as revenue the amount of consideration to which it expects to be made requiresentitled in exchange for performing the Zio service. The consideration the Company is entitled to varies by portfolio, as further defined below, and includes estimates that require significant judgment by management. Where management's judgment indicatesA unique aspect of healthcare is multiple parties' involvement in the service transaction. In addition to the patient, often a reasonable estimate of reimbursement can be made, revenue is recognized upon deliverythird-party, for example, a commercial or governmental payor or healthcare institution, will pay the Company for some or all of the service on the patient’s behalf. Separate contractual arrangements exist between the Company and third-party payors that establish amounts the third-party payor will pay on behalf of a patient report for covered services rendered.

A small portion of the ZIO ServiceCompany’s transactions are covered by third-party payors with whom there is neither a contractual agreement nor an established amount that the third-party payor will pay. In determining the collectability and straight-linetransaction price for its service, the ZIO Event Card. Some patients haveCompany considers factors such as insurance claims which are adjudicated as allowable under the applicable policy and payment history from both payors and patient out-of-pocket costs, for amounts not covered by their insurance carrier,payor coverage, whether there is a contract between the payor or healthcare institution and the Company, may billhistorical amount received for the service, and any current developments or changes that could impact reimbursement and healthcare institution payments. Certain of these factors are forms of variable consideration which are only included in the transaction price to the extent it is probable that a significant reversal of cumulative revenue will not occur when the uncertainty associated with the variable consideration is subsequently resolved.
A summary of the payment arrangements with third-party payors and healthcare institutions is as follows:
Contracted third-party payors – The Company has contracts with negotiated prices for services provided to patients with commercial healthcare insurance coverage.
CMS – The Company has received independent diagnostic testing facility approval from regional Medicare Administrative Contractors and will receive reimbursement per the relevant CPT code rates for the services rendered to the patient directlycovered by CMS.
Non-contracted third-party payors – Non-contracted commercial and government payors often reimburse out-of-network rates provided under the relevant CPT codes on a case-by-case basis. The transaction price used for these amounts in the form of co-payments and co-insurance in accordance with their insurance carrier and health plans. Some payors may not cover the Company's service as ordered by the prescribing physician under their reimbursement policies. In the absence ofdetermining revenue recognition is based on factors including an agreement with the patient or other clearly enforceable legal right to demand payment from the patient, the related revenue is recognized upon the earlier of notificationaverage of the payor benefits allowedCompany’s historical collection experience for its non-contracted services. This rate is reviewed at least quarterly.
Healthcare institutions – Healthcare institutions are typically hospitals or when payment is received, untilphysician practices in which the Company has negotiated amounts for its monitoring services, including certain governmental agencies such as the ability to make a reasonable estimate.  Once a reasonable estimate can be made,Veterans Administration and Department of Defense.
The Company is utilizing the portfolio approach practical expedient under ASC 606 for revenue is recognized upon deliveryrecognition whereby services provided under each of the service. During 2017,above payor types form a separate portfolio. The Company accounts for the contracts within each portfolio as a collective group rather than individual contracts. Based on history with these portfolios and the similar nature and characteristics of the patients within each portfolio, the Company recognizedhas concluded that the financial statement effects are not materially different than if accounting for revenue from certain non-contracted payors ason a reasonable estimate was able to be made, primarily based oncontract-by-contract basis.

For contracted and CMS portfolios, the consistency of historical payments.

The Company recognizes revenue, related to billings for CMS and commercial payors on an accrual basis, net of contractual allowances, whenand recognizes an allowance for doubtful accounts for uncollectible patient accounts receivable. The transaction price is determined based on

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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

negotiated rates, and the Company has historical experience of collecting substantially all of these contracted rates. These contracts also impose a reasonablenumber of obligations regarding billing and other matters, and the Company’s noncompliance with a material term of such contracts may result in a denial of the claim. The Company accounts for denied claims as a form of variable consideration that is included as a reduction to the transaction price recognized as revenue. The Company estimates the denied claims, which require management judgment. The estimated denied claims are based on historical information, and judgment includes the historical period utilized. The Company monitors the estimated denied claims against the latest available information, and subsequent changes to the estimated denied claims are recorded as an adjustment to revenue in the periods during which such changes occur. Delays in claims submissions could lead to an increase in denials if the Company misses the payors’ filing deadlines and could result in a reduction in the Company’s receipt of payments. Historical cash collection indicates that it is probable that substantially all of the transaction price, less the estimate of reimbursement candenied claims, will be made. These contractual allowances representreceived. Contracted payors may require that the difference betweenCompany bill patient co-payments and deductibles and from time to time the list price (the billing rate) and the reimbursement rate for each payor. Upon ultimate collection from CMS and commercial payors, the amount is compared to the previous estimates and the contractual allowance is adjusted accordingly. Until a contract has been negotiated with a commercial payor, the Company’s services may orCompany may not be covered by these entities' existing reimbursement policies. In addition, patients do not enter into direct agreements withable to collect such amounts due to credit risk. The Company provides for estimates of uncollectible patient accounts receivable, based upon historical experience where judgment includes the Company that commit them to pay any portion ofhistorical period utilized, at the cost of the service in the event that their insurance declines to reimburse the Company. In the absence of an agreement with the patient or other clearly enforceable legal right to demand payment from the patient, the relatedtime revenue is recognized, uponwith such provisions presented as bad debt expense within the earlier of notificationselling, general and administrative line item of the consolidated statement of operations. Adjustments to these estimates for actual experience are also recorded as an adjustment to bad debt expense.
As discussed in the Accounts Receivable, Allowance for Doubtful Accounts and Contractual Allowances section above, the inherent uncertainty caused by longer-collection cycle and claims adjudication process related to delays in submission because of the CPT code transition in 2021 could result in additional provisions for contractual allowances and doubtful accounts which would negatively impact the Company's results of operations in future periods.    
For non-contracted portfolios, the Company is providing an implicit price concession due to the lack of a contracted rate with the underlying payor, benefits allowed or when paymentthe result of which requires the Company to estimate the transaction price based on historical cash collections utilizing the expected value method. All subsequent adjustments to the transaction price are recorded as an adjustment to revenue.
    For healthcare institutions, the transaction price is received, untildetermined based on negotiated rates, and the Company has historical experience collecting substantially all of these contracted rates. Historical cash collection indicates that it is probable that substantially all of the abilitytransaction price will be received. As such, the Company is not providing an implicit price concession but, rather, has chosen to make a reasonable estimate. Contractedaccept the risk of default, and any subsequent uncollected amounts are recorded as bad debt expense.

Disaggregation of Revenue
The Company disaggregates revenue recognized on an accrual basis was $22.5 million, $13.3 million, $62.1 millionfrom contracts with customers by payor type. The Company believes these categories aggregate the payor types by nature, amount, timing and $37.6 millionuncertainty of its revenue streams. Disaggregated revenue by payor type and major service line for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and 2016, respectively. Revenue relatedMarch 31, 2021 were as follows (in thousands):
Three Months Ended March 31,
20222021
Contracted third-party payors$51,751 $46,592 
Non-contracted third-party payors5,487 5,278 
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid20,062 10,177 
Healthcare Institutions15,078 12,264 
Total$92,378 $74,311 
Contract Liabilities
ASC 606 requires an entity to non-contracted claims was $2.5 million, $3.5 million, $8.2 millionpresent a revenue contract as a contract liability when the Company has an obligation to transfer goods or services to a customer for which the Company has received consideration from the customer, or an amount of consideration from the customer is due and $7.8 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

unconditional (whichever is earlier).


Certain of the Company’s customers pay the Company directly for the ZIO ServiceZio XT service upon shipment of devices. Such advance payments are contract liabilities and are recorded as deferred revenue on the condensed consolidated balance sheetsCondensed Balance Sheets and revenue is recognized when reports are delivered to physicians.

Cost of Revenue

Cost of revenue is expensed as incurred and includes direct labor, material costs, equipment and infrastructure expenses, amortization of internal-use software, allocated overhead, and shipping and handling. Material costs include both the disposable costs ofhealthcare provider. During the device and amortization of the PCBAs. Each time the PCBA is used in a wearable device, a portion of the cost of the PCBA is recorded as a cost of revenue.

Research and Development

The Company’s research and development costs are expensed as incurred. Research and development costs include, but are not limited to, payroll and personnel-related expenses, laboratory supplies, consulting costs and overhead charges.

Income Taxes

The Company uses the asset and liability method to account for income taxes in accordance with the authoritative guidance for income taxes. Under this method, deferred tax assets and liabilities are determined based on future tax consequences attributable to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts of existing assets and liabilities and their respective tax bases, and tax loss and credit carryforwards. Deferred tax assets and liabilities are measured using enacted tax rates applied to taxable income in the years in which those temporary differences are expected to be recovered or settled. The effect on deferred tax assets and liabilities of a change in tax rates is recognized in income in the period that includes the enactment date. A valuation allowance is established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

The Company recognizes the effect of income tax positions only if those positions are more likely than not of being sustained. Recognized income tax positions are measured at the largest amount that is greater than 50% likely of being realized. Changes in recognition or measurement are reflected in the period in which the change in judgment occurs. The Company records interest and penalties related to unrecognized tax benefits in income tax expense. To date, there have been no interest or penalties charged in relation to the unrecognized tax benefits.

9

three months ended March 31, 2022, $2.7 million
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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)


relating to the contract liability balance at the beginning of 2022 was recognized as revenue. During the three months ended March 31, 2021, $0.9 million included in the contract liability balance at the beginning of 2021 was recognized as revenue.
Contract Costs
Under ASC 340, the incremental costs of obtaining a contract with a customer are recognized as an asset. Incremental costs of obtaining a contract are those costs that an entity incurs to obtain a contract with a customer that it would not have incurred if the contract had not been obtained.
The Company’s current commission programs are considered incremental. However, as a practical expedient, ASC 340 permits the Company to immediately expense contract acquisition costs, as the asset that would have resulted from capitalizing these costs will be amortized in one year or less.
Stock-based Compensation

The Company measures its stock-based awards made to employees based on the estimated fair values of the awards as of the grant date. The fair value of market condition awards is determined using the Monte-Carlo option pricing model and the fair value of stock options areis determined using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. Stock-based compensation expense is recognized over the requisite service period using the straight-line method and is based on the value of the portion of stock-based payment awards that is ultimately expected to vest. As such, the Company’s stock-based compensation is reduced for the estimated forfeitures at the date of grant and revised, if necessary, in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. For restricted stock, the compensation cost for these awards is based on the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant, and recognized as compensation expense on a straight-line basis over the requisite service period.

The Company recognizes compensation expense related to the Employee Stock Purchase ProgramPlan (“ESPP”) based on the estimated fair value of the options on the date of grant, net of estimated forfeitures. The Company estimates the grant date fair value, and the resulting stock-based compensation expense, using the Black-Scholes option pricing model for each purchase period. The grant date fair value is expensed on a straight-line basis over the offering period.

Net Loss per Common Share

Basic net loss per common share is calculated by dividing the net loss by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding during the period, without consideration of potentially dilutive securities. Diluted net loss per common share is the same as basic net loss per common share for all periods presented since the effect of potentially dilutive securities are anti-dilutive.

Reclassification of Prior Year Presentation

Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified for consistency with the current period presentation. These reclassifications had no effect on the Company’s results of operations, net loss or cash flows.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). Areas of revenue recognition that will be affected include, but are not limited to, transfer of control, variable consideration, allocation of transfer pricing, licenses, time value of money, contract costs and disclosures. The core principle of ASU 2014-09 is to recognize revenues when promised goods or services are transferred to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration that is expected to be received for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 defines a five-step process to achieve this core principle and, in doing so, it is possible more judgment and estimates may be required within the revenue recognition process than are required under existing GAAP. In addition, Topic 606 requires more detailed disclosures to enable users of financial statements to understand the nature, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from a review of historical accounting policies and practices to identify potential differences in applying Topic 606.

The Company plans to adopt this standard on January 1, 2018 and will use the modified retrospective approach recognizing the cumulative effect of adopting this guidance as an adjustment to its opening accumulated deficit balance, which will have no effect on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations or cash flows for the quarter or year ended December 31, 2017.  Prior periods will not be retrospectively adjusted.  While the evaluation of the new standard is ongoing, the Company believes the adoption will result in a change to net revenue primarily due to the recognition of bad debt expense related to the patient responsibility of both contracted and non-contracted claims, which was $1.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, as a reduction of gross revenue rather than as a component of selling, general and administrative and, to a lesser extent, due to timing differences in its recognition of revenue related to non-contracted third-party payor claims as a result of changing from recognition based on the earlier of notification of the payor benefits allowed or when payment is received to the accrual basis based on historical experience.

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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718). This ASU was issued as part of the FASB’s simplification initiative and affects all entities that issue share-based payment awards to their employees. This standard covers accounting for income taxes, forfeitures, and statutory tax withholding requirements, as well as classification in the statement of cash flows. As a result of adopting ASU No. 2016‑09 on January 1, 2017, the Company has made an accounting policy election to continue to estimate forfeitures. The adoption of ASU No. 2016‑09 also requires excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recorded in the income statement as opposed to additional paid‑in capital when the awards vest or are settled, and has been applied on a prospective basis with no impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended September 30, 2017. As a result of the adoption, the Company increased its total NOLs by $0.1 million on January 1, 2017 related to deferred tax assets that arose directly from tax deductions related to equity compensation greater than compensation recognized for financial reporting purposes. This amount is fully offset by the valuation allowance.

On May 10, 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Scope of Modification Accounting, which amends the scope of modification accounting for share-based payment arrangements, provides guidance on the types of changes to the terms or conditions of share-based payment awards to which an entity would be required to apply modification accounting under ASC 718. This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods, including interim periods within those annual reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance.


3. Cash Equivalents and Investments

The fair value of securities, not including cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments at September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2016,2021, were as follows (in thousands):

 

September 30, 2017

 

 

Amortized

 

 

Gross Unrealized

 

 

Estimated

 

 

Cost

 

 

Gains

 

 

Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

Money market funds

 

$

5,722

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

5,722

 

U.S. government securities

 

 

35,942

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

(26

)

 

 

35,917

 

Corporate notes

 

 

15,669

 

 

 

1

 

 

 

(4

)

 

 

15,666

 

Commercial paper

 

 

48,130

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

48,130

 

Total available-for-sale securities

 

$

105,463

 

 

$

2

 

 

$

(30

)

 

$

105,435

 

Classified as:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cash equivalents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

18,418

 

Short-term investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

87,017

 

Total cash equivalents and investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

105,435

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

December 31, 2016

 

March 31, 2022

 

Amortized

 

 

Gross Unrealized

 

 

Estimated

 

Amortized
Cost
Gross UnrealizedEstimated
Fair Value

 

Cost

 

 

Gains

 

 

Losses

 

 

Fair Value

 

GainsLosses

Money market funds

 

$

45,937

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

45,937

 

Money market funds$42,589 $— $— $42,589 

U.S. government securities

 

 

16,479

 

 

 

11

 

 

 

 

 

 

16,490

 

U.S. government securities88,328 (322)88,011 

Corporate notes

 

 

23,947

 

 

 

 

 

 

(20

)

 

 

23,927

 

Corporate notes13,039 — (36)13,003 

Commercial paper

 

 

24,971

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

24,971

 

Commercial paper12,984 — — 12,984 

Total available-for-sale securities

 

$

111,334

 

 

$

11

 

 

$

(20

)

 

$

111,325

 

Total cash equivalents and available-for-sale investmentsTotal cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments$156,940 $$(358)$156,587 

Classified as:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Classified as:

Cash equivalents

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

45,937

 

Cash equivalents$42,589 

Short-term investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

54,407

 

Short-term investments113,998 

Long-term investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10,981

 

Total cash equivalents and investments

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

$

111,325

 

Total cash equivalents and available-for-sale investmentsTotal cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments$156,587 
December 31, 2021
Amortized
Cost
Gross UnrealizedEstimated
Fair Value
GainsLosses
Money market fundsMoney market funds$110,137 $— $— $110,137 
U.S. government securitiesU.S. government securities50,490 — (46)50,444 
Corporate notesCorporate notes31,158 — (15)31,143 
Commercial paperCommercial paper29,982 — — 29,982 
Total cash equivalents and available-for-sale investmentsTotal cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments$221,767 $— $(61)$221,706 
Classified as:Classified as:
Cash equivalentsCash equivalents$110,137 
Short-term investmentsShort-term investments111,569 
Total cash equivalents and available-for-sale investmentsTotal cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments$221,706 

Available-for-sale securities held as of September 30, 2017 had a weighted average days to maturity of 122 days. There have been no material realized gains or realized losses on available-for-sale securities for the periods presented.

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Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

As the carrying value approximates the fair value for the Company’s cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investments shown in the tables above, the

The following table summarizes the fair value of the Company’s cash equivalents, short-term and long-term investmentsmarketable securities classified by maturity (in thousands):

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021

Due within one year

 

$

105,435

 

 

$

100,344

 

Due within one year$156,587 $221,706 

Due after one year through three years

 

 

 

 

 

10,981

 

Due after one year through three years— — 

Total available-for-sale marketable debt

securities

 

$

105,435

 

 

$

111,325

 

Total cash equivalents and available-for-sale investmentsTotal cash equivalents and available-for-sale investments$156,587 $221,706 

There were no available-for-sale securities that were in an unrealized loss position for more than twelve months as of March 31, 2022. Unrealized losses as of March 31, 2022, and December 31, 2021, were not material. Available-for-sale securities held as of March 31, 2022, had a weighted average maturity of 111 days. At March 31, 2022, 11 investments were in an unrealized loss position and no investments have been in an unrealized loss position for more than one year.
4. Fair Value Measurements

The Company discloses and recognizes the fair value of its assets and liabilities using a hierarchy that prioritizes the inputs to valuation techniques used to measure fair value. Fair value is defined as the price that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in an orderly transaction between market participants at the reporting date. The hierarchy gives the highest priority to valuations based upon unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities (Level 1 measurements) and the lowest priority to valuations based upon unobservable inputs that are significant to the valuation (Level 3 measurements). The guidance establishes three levels of the fair value hierarchy as follows:

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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

Level 1- Inputs are unadjusted quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities at the measurement date.

Level 2- Inputs (other than quoted market prices included in Level 1) are either directly or indirectly observable for the asset or liability through correlation with market data at the measurement date and for the duration of the instrument’s anticipated life.

Level 3- Inputs reflect management’s best estimate of what market participants would use in pricing the asset or liability at the measurement date. Consideration is given to the risk inherent in the valuation technique and the risk inherent in the inputs to the model. 

Assets and liabilities measured at fair value are classified in their entirety based on the lowest level of input that is significant to the fair value measurement. The Company’s assessment of the significance of a particular input to the fair value measurement in its entirety requires management to make judgments and consider factors specific to the asset or liability. The corporate notes, commercial paper and government bondssecurities are classified as Level 2 as they were valued based upon quoted market prices for similar instruments in active markets, quoted prices for identical or similar instruments in markets that are not active and model-based valuation techniques for which all significant inputs are observable in the market or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets.

Based on Level 2 inputs and the borrowing rates currently available to the Company for loans with similar terms and maturities, the carrying

The fair value of the Company’s debt approximatesoutstanding interest-bearing obligations is estimated using the net present value of the future payments, discounted at an interest rate that is consistent with market interest rates, which is a Level 2 input. The carrying amount and the estimated fair value of the Company’s outstanding interest-bearing obligations at March 31, 2022, were $34.9 million and $36.5 million, respectively. The carrying amount and the estimated fair value of the Company’s outstanding interest-bearing obligations at December 31, 2021, were $21.4 million and $21.7 million, respectively.
The Company had no transfers between levels of the fair value hierarchy of its assets measured at fair value.

The following table presentstables present the fair value of the Company’s financial assets and liabilities determined using the inputs defined above (amounts in(in thousands).

 

September 30, 2017

 

March 31, 2022

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Level 1Level 2Level 3Total

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Assets

Money market funds

 

$

5,722

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

5,722

 

Money market funds$42,589 $— $— $42,589 

U.S. government securities

 

 

 

 

 

35,917

 

 

 

 

 

 

35,917

 

U.S. government securities— 88,011 — 88,011 

Corporate notes

 

 

 

 

 

15,666

 

 

 

 

 

 

15,666

 

Corporate notes— 13,003 — 13,003 

Commercial paper

 

 

 

 

 

48,130

 

 

 

 

 

 

48,130

 

Commercial paper— 12,984 — 12,984 

Total

 

$

5,722

 

 

$

99,713

 

 

$

 

 

$

105,435

 

Total$42,589 $113,998 $— $156,587 

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December 31, 2021
Level 1Level 2Level 3Total
Assets
Money market funds$110,137 $— $— $110,137 
U.S. government securities— 50,444 — 50,444 
Corporate notes— 31,143 — 31,143 
Commercial paper— 29,982 — 29,982 
Total$110,137 $111,569 $— $221,706 

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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

 

 

December 31, 2016

 

 

 

Level 1

 

 

Level 2

 

 

Level 3

 

 

Total

 

Assets

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Money market funds

 

$

45,937

 

 

$

 

 

$

 

 

$

45,937

 

U.S. government securities

 

 

 

 

 

16,490

 

 

 

 

 

 

16,490

 

Corporate notes

 

 

 

 

 

23,927

 

 

 

 

 

 

23,927

 

Commercial paper

 

 

 

 

 

24,971

 

 

 

 

 

 

24,971

 

Total

 

$

45,937

 

 

$

65,388

 

 

$

 

 

$

111,325

 


The following table sets forth a summary of the changes in the fair value of the preferred stock warrants which is classified as Level 3 in the fair value hierarchy. There were no transfers into or out of Level 3 during the periods (in thousands):

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30,

2017

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30,

2016

 

Beginning balance

 

$

 

 

$

2,949

 

Total change in fair value recorded as other expense, net

 

 

 

 

 

996

 

Ending balance

 

$

 

 

$

3,945

 

The valuation of the preferred stock warrant liabilities is discussed in Note 11.

5. Balance Sheet Components

Inventory and PCBAs

Other Assets

Inventory and PCBAs consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

September 30,

2017

 

 

December 31,

2016

 

March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021

Raw materials

 

$

737

 

 

$

839

 

Raw materials$6,946 $5,101 

Finished goods

 

 

4,119

 

 

 

3,324

 

Finished goods5,500 5,167 

Total

 

$

4,856

 

 

$

4,163

 

Total$12,446 $10,268 

Reported on the consolidated balance sheet as:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inventory

 

$

1,314

 

 

$

1,390

 

Other assets

 

 

3,542

 

 

 

2,773

 

Total

 

$

4,856

 

 

$

4,163

 

Amounts reported

    The Company uses PCBAs in each wearable Zio XT and Zio AT monitor as well as in the wireless gateway used in conjunction with the Zio AT monitor. The PCBAs are used numerous times and have useful lives beyond one year. Each time a PCBA is used in a wearable Zio XT monitor or Zio AT monitor, a portion of the cost of the PCBA is recorded as a cost of revenue. Each time a wireless gateway is used with a Zio AT monitor, a portion of the gateway is recorded as a cost of revenue. PCBAs, which are recorded as other assets, are comprisedwere $16.4 million and $13.9 million as of the PCBA costs that are included in both raw materialsMarch 31, 2022, and finished goods totals above.

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Notes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

December 31, 2021, respectively.


Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021

Laboratory and manufacturing equipment

 

$

2,028

 

 

$

1,509

 

Laboratory and manufacturing equipment$5,365 $5,029 

Computer equipment and software

 

 

916

 

 

 

736

 

Computer equipment and software2,417 2,353 

Furniture and fixtures

 

 

928

 

 

 

657

 

Furniture and fixtures3,678 4,174 

Leasehold improvements

 

 

703

 

 

 

502

 

Leasehold improvements18,631 20,431 

Internal-use software

 

 

4,387

 

 

 

2,900

 

Internal-use software52,890 46,661 

Total property and equipment, gross

 

 

8,962

 

 

 

6,304

 

Total property and equipment, gross82,981 78,648 

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization

 

 

(2,755

)

 

 

(1,651

)

Less: accumulated depreciation and amortization(25,846)(22,704)

Total property and equipment, net

 

$

6,207

 

 

$

4,653

 

Total property and equipment, net$57,135 $55,944 


Depreciation and amortization expense was $3.1 million and $2.0 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022, and 2016 was2021, respectively. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company recorded $2.2 million and $0.5 million $0.2 million, $1.1 millionin impairment charges to leasehold improvements and $0.6 million, respectively.

furniture and fixtures disclosed above, respectively in connection with its decision to sublease its San Francisco headquarters. See Note 6. Impairment and Restructuring.

Accrued Liabilities

Accrued liabilities consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021

Accrued vacation

 

$

1,923

 

 

$

1,642

 

Accrued vacation$8,371 $7,431 

Accrued payroll and related expenses

 

 

5,627

 

 

 

6,179

 

Accrued payroll and related expenses18,871 34,484 

Accrued ESPP contributions

 

 

1,029

 

 

 

417

 

Accrued ESPP contributionAccrued ESPP contribution2,748 1,002 

Accrued professional services fees

 

 

555

 

 

 

636

 

Accrued professional services fees1,794 1,724 
Accrued interestAccrued interest47 78 
Claims payableClaims payable2,770 2,988 
Restructuring liabilityRestructuring liability2,902 — 

Other

 

 

2,302

 

 

 

1,291

 

Other4,432 3,779 

Total accrued liabilities

 

$

11,436

 

 

$

10,165

 

Total accrued liabilities$41,935 $51,486 


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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

6. Related-Party Transactions

Kaiser PermanenteImpairment and Restructuring Charges


Restructuring

On February 15, 2022, the Company's Board of Directors (the “Board”) approved a restructuring plan (“Kaiser”Q1 2022 Restructuring Plan”) is a common stockholder ofto allow the Company representing 6.1% ownershipto effectively and efficiently scale its business. The Q1 2022 Restructuring Plan resulted in severance and other employment related costs. The Company completed required notifications under the Q1 2022 Restructuring Plan in March 2022 and has recorded $3.4 million of restructuring charges for the total outstanding sharesthree month period ended March 31, 2022.

Restructuring liabilities are reported within accrued liabilities in the Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheets. The following table provides a summary of changes in the restructuring liabilities associated with the Q1 2022 Restructuring Plan (in thousands):


December 31,
2021
ChargesCash PaymentsMarch 31,
2022
Employee severance$—  $3,444  $(542) $2,902 
Total$— $3,444 $(542)$2,902 

Impairment

On October 4, 2018, the Company as of December 31, 2016. For the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the Company recognized revenue of $1.0 million, $0.4 million, $2.8 million and $1.8 million, respectively, for transactionsentered into a lease arrangement (“San Francisco Lease”) in connection with Kaiser.its headquarters in San Francisco, California. The amounts receivable from transactions with Kaiser were $0.7 million and $0.4 million as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016, respectively. Kaiser performs services related to clinical trialsSan Francisco Lease commenced on May 13, 2019, and the Company utilizes Kaiserbegan using the premises as its corporate headquarters. The San Francisco lease expires in August 2031.

In an effort to reduce the Company's footprint and as a result of remote work arrangements, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) agreed to pursue a sublease for employee healthcare anda portion of the Company’s Headquarters in San Francisco, CA in February 2022 in order to reduce the total expensenumber of leased square footage by approximately 50%.

The sublease market for commercial office space is currently very challenging in the San Francisco area due to lower demand for leased office space as most companies have adjusted to allowing their employees to work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic that has persisted throughout 2020 and 2021. The Company expects that it will only be able to sublease a portion of its existing office space at a rate below the amount that it is currently paying. The Company has engaged a leasing broker and has formalized a marketing plan for the San Francisco office market.

Significant judgment and estimates are required in assessing impairment of ROU assets, including identifying whether events or changes in circumstances require an impairment assessment, estimating future cash flows, and determining appropriate discount rates. The Company's fair value estimates are based on assumptions management believes to be reasonable, but which are inherently uncertain and unpredictable and, as a result, actual results may differ from estimates.

The following table presents impairment charges recorded was $0.3 million, $0.1 million, $0.5 million, and $0.5 million as ofduring the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022:

ROU Asset$20,451 
Furniture and Fixtures2,211 
Leasehold Improvements502 
Total$23,164 

For further details on the Company's leases, refer to Note. 7. Commitments and 2016, respectively. The amounts outstanding and included in accounts payable and accrued liabilities were $0.3 million and $0.2 million as of September 30, 2017, and December 31, 2016 respectively.

Contingencies.

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7. Commitments and Contingencies

Lease Arrangements


The Company leases office, manufacturing, and manufacturing spaceclinical centers under non-cancelable operating leases which expire on various dates through 2027.2031. These leases generally contain scheduled rent increases or escalation clauses and renewal options. Operating lease right-of-use assets and lease liabilities are recognized based on the present value of the future minimum lease payments over the lease term at the commencement date. The operating lease right-of-use assets also include any lease payments made to the lessor at or before the commencement date as well as variable lease payments which are based on a consumer price index. The Company is also subject to variable lease payments related to janitorial services and electricity which are not included in the operating lease right-of-use asset as they are based on actual usage. The Company recognizes rentoperating lease expense on a straight-line basis over the lease period.

In The total operating lease cost recognized during the three months ended March 31, 2022 was $3.4 million, which primarily consisted of lease payments and common area maintenance costs. Cash paid for operating leases during the three months ended March 31, 2022, was $3.2 million.


On October 4, 2018, the Company entered into the San Francisco Lease to rent approximately 117,560 rentable square feet in San Francisco, California, which became the Company’s new headquarters in October 2019. The term of the San Francisco Lease began on May 2017,13, 2019, and expires on August 31, 2031. The Company is entitled to 1 option to extend the San Francisco Lease for a five-year term, subject to certain requirements.

On October 29, 2009, the Company entered into a commercial building lease agreement for a clinic (“Lincolnshire Lease”) to rent approximately 41,500 rentable square feet in Lincolnshire, Illinois, which became the Company’s clinical operational facilities. The term of the Lincolnshire Lease began on November 1, 2009, and expires on July 31, 2022.

On March 18, 2021, the Company entered into an office/industrial lease (“Cypress Lease”) to rent approximately 68,933 rentable square feet in Cypress, California, which became the Company’s new office and warehouse facilities. The term of the Cypress Lease began on October 25, 2021, and expires on April 30, 2032. The Company is entitled to 1 option to extend the Cypress Lease for a five-year term, subject to certain requirements.

In December 2021, the Company entered into a lease for 44,616 rentable square feet in Deerfield, Illinois (“Deerfield Lease”). The effective term of the Deerfield Lease began on January 2, 2022 and will expire on June 1, 2033. The Company is entitled to 1 option to extend the Deerfield Lease for a five-year term, subject to certain requirements.

On February 14, 2022, the Company entered into a lease for 3,238 rentable square feet in Encinitas, California (“Encinitas Lease”). The term of the Encinitas Lease began on March 1, 2022, and expires on February 28, 2024.

On February 15, 2022, the Board agreed to pursue a sublease of the majority of space on one floor (approximately 50%) of the San Francisco Lease. The Company recorded $20.5 million in impairment charges on its clinical center in Houston, Texas which expires in September 2027.

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ROU asset during the three months ended March 31, 2022. See Note 6. Impairment and Restructuring for further details.

As of March 31, 2022, maturities of operating lease liabilities were as follows (in thousands):
Period Ended March 31:
2022$6,550 
202313,995 
202414,265 
202514,681 
202615,108 
Thereafter75,390 
Total lease payments139,989 
Less: imputed interest(42,144)
Total lease liabilities$97,845 
The weighted average remaining lease term of the Company's operating leases as of March 31, 2022, was 9.56 years. The weighted average discount rate of the Company's operating leases was 7.28% as of March 31, 2022.

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The following table summarizes the Company’s future minimum lease payments as of September 30, 2017 (in thousands):

Period Ending December 31:

 

 

 

 

2017 (remainder of year)

 

$

1,263

 

2018

 

 

5,089

 

2019

 

 

5,108

 

2020

 

 

1,178

 

2021

 

 

406

 

Thereafter

 

 

2,541

 

Total

 

$

15,585

 


The Company’s rent expense was $1.3 million, $0.6 million, $3.8 million and $1.6 million for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively.

Legal Proceedings

From time to time, the Company may becomeis involved in claims and legal proceedings arising fromor investigations that arise in the ordinary course of business. Such matters could have an adverse impact on the Company's reputation, business, and financial condition and divert the attention of its management from the operation of its business. Management is currentlyThese matters are subject to many uncertainties and outcomes that are not awarepredictable.

On February 1, 2021, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of any mattersCalifornia alleging that could havethe Company and its former Chief Executive Officer, Kevin M. King, violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder (“Securities Class Action Lawsuit”). On August 2, 2021, the lead plaintiff filed an amended complaint, and filed a material adverse effectfurther amended complaint on September 24, 2021. The amended complaint names as defendants, in addition to the Company and Mr. King, the Company's former Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Coyle, and current Chief Financial Officer, Douglas J. Devine. The purported class in the amended complaint includes all persons who purchased or acquired the Company's common stock between August 4, 2020 and July 13, 2021, and seeks unspecified damages purportedly sustained by the class. On October 27, 2021, the Company filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint. The motion to dismiss was fully briefed and the Court held a hearing on the financial position, results of operations or cash flowsmotion on February 4, 2022, after which the Court took the matter under submission. On March 31, 2022, the Court issued an order granting the Company’s motion to dismiss the Securities Class Action Lawsuit, without allowing plaintiff further leave to amend, and entered judgment in favor of the Company.

Company and the other defendants. Plaintiff has filed a notice to appeal and the Company believes the class action to be without merit and plans to vigorously defend itself.


On March 26, 2021, the Company received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California requesting information related to communications with the Food and Drug Administration and the Company’s products. On October 14, 2021, the Company received a second subpoena requesting additional information. The Company is cooperating fully and is providing the requested information.
Development Agreement
On September 3, 2019, the Company entered into a Development Collaboration Agreement (the “Development Agreement”) with Verily Life Sciences LLC (“Verily”). The Development Agreement, which is over a 24-month term, involves joint development and production of intellectual property between the Company and Verily. Each participant has primary responsibility for certain aspects of development and approval, with all processes to be performed at each respective party’s own cost. Costs incurred by the Company in connection with the Development Agreement will be expensed as research and development expense in accordance with ASC 730, Research and Development.

    The Company and Verily will develop certain next-generation atrial fibrillation (“AF”) screening, detection, or monitoring products pursuant to the Development Agreement, which products will involve combining Verily and the Company’s technology platforms and capabilities. Under the terms of the Development Agreement, the Company paid Verily an upfront fee of $5.0 million in 2019. In addition, the Company has agreed to make additional cash payments to Verily up to an aggregate of $12.75 million in milestone payments upon achievement of various development and regulatory milestones over the 24 months of the Development Agreement.

We have achieved milestones tied to payments totaling $11.0 million to date and we have agreed to make additional payments over the term of the Development Agreement up to an aggregate of $1.75 million, subject to the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones including provisioning of the Zio Watch and completion of market evaluation scheduled to begin in the first half of 2023.

No payment-triggering milestones were achieved during the three months ended March 31, 2022.

    The Development Agreement provides each party with licenses to use certain intellectual property of the other party for development activities in the field of AF screening, detection, or monitoring. Ownership of developed intellectual property will be allocated to the Company or Verily depending on the subject matter of the underlying developed intellectual property, and, for certain subject matter, shall be jointly owned.
Indemnifications

In the ordinary course of business, the Company enters into agreements that may include indemnification provisions.pursuant to which it agrees to indemnify customers, vendors, lessors, business partners, and other parties with respect to certain matters, including losses arising out of the breach of such agreements, services to be provided by the Company, or from intellectual property infringement claims made
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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

by third parties. Pursuant to such agreements, the Company may indemnify, hold harmless and defend an indemnified party for losses suffered or incurred by the indemnified party. Some of the provisions will limit losses to those arising from third-party actions. In some cases, the indemnification will continue after the termination of the agreement. The maximum potential amount of future payments the Company could be required to make under these provisions is not determinable. The Company has also entered into indemnification agreements with its directors and officers that may require the Company to indemnify its directors and officers against liabilities that may arise by reason of their status or service as directors or officers to the fullest extent permitted by California corporateapplicable law. The Company currently has directors’ and officers’ insurance. The Company has never incurred material costs to defend lawsuits or settle claims related to these indemnification provisions, and believes that the estimated fair value of these indemnification obligations is not material and it has not accrued any amounts for these obligations.

8. Debt

Pharmakon Loan Agreement

Bank Debt
In December 2015,October 2018, the Company entered into the Loan Agreement with Biopharma Secured Investments III Holdings Cayman LP, or Pharmakon (the “Pharmakon Loan Agreement”). The Pharmakon Loan Agreement provides for up to $55.0 million in term loans split into two tranches as follows: (i) the Tranche A Loans are $30.0 million in term loans, and (ii) the Tranche B Loans are up to $25.0 million in term loans. The Tranche A Loans were drawn on December 4, 2015. The Tranche B Loans were available to be drawn prior to December 4, 2016. No additional draw was made.

During the first full eight quarters, payments are interest only and for the first two years, 50% of the interest will be “paid-in-kind.” The Company is subject to a financial covenant related to minimum trailing revenue targets that begins in June 2017, and is tested on a semi-annual basis. The minimum net revenue covenant ranges from $44.7 million for the period ended June 30, 2017 to $102.6 million for the period ended December 31, 2021. To date all minimum revenue targets have been achieved. The minimum net revenues financial covenant has a 45-day equity cure period following required delivery date of the financial statements. Pursuant to this equity cure provision, the Company may cure a revenue covenant default by raising additional funds from the sale of equity. The Company was in compliance with loan covenants as of September 30, 2017. The loan matures December 2021.

The Tranche A Loans bear interest at a fixed rate equal to 9.50% per annum that is due and payable quarterly in arrears. During the first eight calendar quarters, 50% of the interest due and payable shall be added to the then outstanding principal.

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The Pharmakon Loan Agreement requires the Company to maintain a minimum consolidated liquidity and minimum net revenue during the term of the loan facility and contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and event of default provisions that could result in the acceleration of the repayment obligations under the loan facility. Upon a change in control of the Company, Pharmakon has the option to demand payment in full of the outstanding loans together with any prepayment premium.

The obligations under the Pharmakon Loan Agreement are secured by a security interest in substantially all of the Company’s assets pursuant to the Pharmakon Guaranty and Security Agreement and this security interest is governed by an intercreditor agreement between Pharmakon and Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”).

In December 2015, the Company used the proceeds from the Pharmakon Loan Agreement to repay $4.9 million of bank debt to SVB. The issuance costs and debt discount have been netted against the borrowed funds on the balance sheet. The debt balance as of September 30, 2017 and December 31, 2016 was $32.1 million and $30.8 million, respectively.

Bank Debt

In June 2014, the Company refinanced its debt with SVB by entering into the Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Loan Security Agreement (“Second Amendment”). Under this amendment, the Company borrowed $4.9 million with an additional advance of $5.0 million available. All the borrowings under the Second Amended Loan Agreement were collateralized by all of the Company’s assets, excluding intellectual property. In connection with entering into the Amended Loan Agreement, the Company issued warrants to purchase 20,136 shares of Series D at $7.31 per share that expire in June 2024 (See Note 11).

In December 2015, the Company used the proceeds from the Pharmakon Loan Agreement to repay $4.9 million of bank debt to SVB and entered into a SecondThird Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement with SVB or the (“SVB Loan Agreement.Agreement”). Under the SVB Loan Agreement, the Company had borrowed $35.0 million and had made repayments through March 2022, at which time the outstanding balance was $18.5 million.


On March 28, 2022, the Company entered into a Second Amendment (“2022 Amendment”) to its SVB Loan Agreement which provided for a term loan facility in the aggregate principal amount of up to $75.0 million (the “2022 Term Loans”), of which $35.0 million aggregate principal amount of 2022 Term Loans were borrowed at closing and a portion of the proceeds of which were used to pay in full the outstanding balance of $18.5 million under the SVB Loan Agreement. The remaining $40.0 million of 2022 Term Loans may borrow, repaybe borrowed from time to time at the Company’s option, in increments of at least $10.0 million, through December 31, 2023. The Company shall pay interest only on the 2022 Term Loans until April 1, 2025, when it shall commence repaying the 2022 Term Loans in 24 equal consecutive monthly installments, with all obligations under the 2022 Term Loans maturing on March 1, 2027. Interest charged on the 2022 Term Loans shall accrue at a floating per annum rate equal to the greater of: (A) the Prime Rate plus 0.25%; and reborrow under(B) 3.50%. The Company is also required to pay fees on any prepayment of the 2022 Term Loans, ranging from 3.0% to 1.0% depending on the date of prepayment, and a final payment equal to 5.0% of the principal amount of the 2022 Term Loans drawn. Once repaid or prepaid, the 2022 Term Loans may not be reborrowed.

The 2022 Amendment also amended the terms of the revolving credit line but not in excess ofunder the maximum loanSVB Loan Agreement which provided for an aggregate principal amount of $25.0 million to: (i) extend the maturity date from August 1, 2023 to March 1, 2027, (ii) increase the letters of credit sublimit to $15.0 million until December 4, 2018, when all outstanding principal and accrued interest becomes due and payable. Any(iii) increase the cash management services sublimit to $15.0 million. Interest charged on the principal amount outstanding under the SVB revolving credit line shall bear interestaccrue at a floating rate per annum rate equal to the rate published by The Wall Street Journal asgreater of (A) the “Prime Rate”Prime Rate plus 0.25%, are tied to the Company’s trailing six-month revenue and subject to certain revenue targets.(B) 3.50%. The Company may borrow upis required to 80%pay an annual fee equal to 0.15% of its eligible accounts receivable, up to the maximum of $15.0 million.

In August 2016, the Company obtained a $3.1 million standby letter of credit pursuant to the SVB revolving credit facility in connection with a lease for the San Francisco office.line. As of September 30, 2017 and DecemberMarch 31, 2016, the Company was eligible to borrow up to $7.7 million and $2.5 million, respectively,2022, no loans were outstanding under the SVB revolving credit line.


The SVB Loan Agreement requires the Company to maintain a minimum consolidated liquidity and minimum net sales during the term of the loan facility. In addition,2022 Amendment also amended the SVB Loan Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and eventsto require the Company to comply, as of default.the last day of each fiscal quarter, with a quick ratio of at least 1.15 to 1.0 or minimum adjusted EBITDA of at least $15.0 million. The Company was in compliance with its loan covenants as of September 30, 2017. The obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement are collaterialized by substantially all assets of the Company and this security interest is governed by an intercreditor agreement between Pharmakon and SVB.

California HealthCare Foundation Note

In November 2012, the Company entered into a Note Purchase Agreement and Promissory Note with the California HealthCare Foundation, or the CHCF Note, through which the Company borrowed $1.5 million. The CHCF Note accrues simple interest of 2.0%. The accrued interest and the principal was to mature in November 2016. In partial consideration for the issuance of the CHCF Note, the Company issued warrants to purchase 22,807 shares of the Company’s Series D convertible preferred stock.

In June 2015, the Company amended the CHCF Note to extend the maturity date to May 2018. In partial consideration for the amendment, the Company issued 8,552 warrants at $6.58 exercise price per share of the Company’s Series D convertible preferred stock. The CHCF note is subordinate to other debt. The debt balance, net of debt discount, as of September 30, 2017 and DecemberMarch 31, 2016 was $1.6 million and $1.5 million, respectively.

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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)


Future minimum payments

Future minimum payments under the Amendment to the SVB Loan Agreement at March 31, 2022, are as follows (in thousands):

Year Ending December 31,
2022$893 
20231,331 
20241,334 
202514,289 
202618,026 
Thereafter4,403 
Total40,276 
Less: Amount representing interest(5,276)
Less: Debt Issuance Costs(83)
Total Carrying Value$34,917 
Reported as:
Short-term debt$— 
Long-term debt34,917 
Total$34,917 
9. Income Taxes


The Company did not recordrecorded a tax provision or benefit for incomerelated to its U.S. state taxes and the U.K. subsidiary during the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022, and 2016, respectively, as it reported losses in each period which are not more likely than not to be realized.March 31, 2021. Due to the uncertainties surrounding the realization of the U.S. deferred tax assets through future taxable income, the Company has provided a full valuation allowance and, therefore, no benefit has been recognized for the U.S. net operating loss carryforwards and other deferred tax assets.

At December 31, 2016, the Company had $0.6 million of unrecognized tax benefit, none of which, if recognized, would affect the effective tax rate as most of the unrecognized tax benefit is deferred tax assets currently offset by a valuation allowance.

A number of years may elapse before an uncertain tax position is audited and finally resolved.  While it is often difficult to predict the final outcome or the timing of resolution of any particular uncertain tax position, the Company believes that its reserves for income taxes reflect the most likely outcome.  The Company adjusts these reserves in light of changing facts and circumstances.  Settlement of any particular position could require the use of cash.  As of September 30, 2017, changes to the Company’s uncertain tax positions in the next twelve months that are reasonably probable are not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s financial position or results of operations.

10. Stockholders’ Equity

Common stock

As of September 30, 2017, the

The Company’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation dated October 25, 2016, authorizedas amended, authorizes the Company to issue 100,000,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $0.001 per share and 5,000,000 shares of preferred stock with a par value of $0.001 per share. The holders of common stock are entitled to receive dividends whenever funds and assets are legally available and when declared by the board of directors.directors, subject to the prior rights of holders of all series of convertible preferred stock outstanding. No dividends were declared through September 30, 2017.

March 31, 2022.

The Company had reserved shares of common stock for issuance as follows:

 

September 30,

 

 

December 31,

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

March 31,
2022
December 31,
2021

Options issued and outstanding

 

 

2,765,902

 

 

 

2,977,218

 

Options issued and outstanding480,764 504,106 

Unvested restricted stock units

 

 

453,063

 

 

 

105,529

 

Unvested restricted stock units1,717,220 1,649,561 

Common stock warrants issued and outstanding

 

 

127,918

 

 

 

217,245

 

Shares available for grant under future stock plans

 

 

4,774,565

 

 

 

4,226,068

 

Shares available for grant under future stock plans10,607,873 9,011,213 

 

 

8,121,448

 

 

 

7,526,060

 

Shares available for future issuanceShares available for future issuance12,805,857 11,164,880 

11. Preferred Stock Warrant Liabilities

In November 2012, in connection with borrowings under a convertible note, the Company issued warrants to purchase shares of Series C or New Preferred. The warrants were only exercisable if the Convertible Notes were converted into Series C or New Preferred. The warrants’ exercise price is $0.001 per share and they have a seven year term. On March 27, 2013 the Company closed the Series D financing. The warrants were converted into warrants to purchase 207,177 shares of Series D convertible preferred stock. The Company recognized a charge of $0.5 million and $0.7 million related to the change in the fair value of the warrants for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016. Upon the IPO, the Series D preferred stock warrants converted into common stock warrants and were reclassified to additional paid-in-capital in the Company's balance sheet. As a result, the warrants are no longer subject to fair value remeasurement. As of September 30, 2017, 127,918 warrants were outstanding.

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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

In June 2014, in connection with borrowings under the Second Amendment (Note 8), the Company issued warrants to purchase 20,136 shares of Series D Preferred Stock at $7.31 per share that expire June 2024. The fair value of the warrants was determined by using an option pricing model prepared by a third-party based on an allocation of the Company’s aggregate value to the outstanding equity instruments, applying a 30% discount to the warrant value for lack of marketability. The fair value of the warrant, $0.1 million, was recorded as a debt discount and is being amortized over the loan repayment period to interest expense. The Company recognized a charge of $15,000 and income of $41,000 related to change in the fair value of the warrants for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2016. The warrants were converted into warrants to purchase common stock upon the completion of the IPO in 2016, and were reclassified to additional paid-in-capital in the Company's balance sheet. One of the warrants for 10,068 shares was exercised through a cashless exercise on October 26, 2016 resulting in the issuance of a net 7,310 shares of the Company's common stock, and the other warrant for 10,068 was exercised through a cashless exercise on May 2, 2017 resulting in the issuance of a net 8,077 shares.

12. Stock


11. Equity Incentive Plans

2006 Plan

In October 2006, the Company adopted the 2006 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended, (the “2006 Plan”). The Plan provided for the granting of stock options to employees and non-employees of the Company. Options granted under the Plan were either incentive stock options or nonqualified stock options. Incentive stock options (“ISO”) were granted only to employees (including officers and directors who are also employees). Nonqualified stock options (“NSO”) were granted to employees and non-employees. The board of directors had the authority to determine to whom options will be granted, the number of options, the term and the exercise price.

Options under the Plan were granted for periods of up to ten years and at the fair value of the shares on the date of grant as determined by the board of directors. In general, options were exercisable at a rate of 25% after the first anniversary of the grant and then monthly vesting for an additional three years from date of grant. The term for options is no longer than five years for ISOs for which the grantee owns greater than 10% of the voting power of all classes of stock and no longer than ten years for all other options. The Company issues new shares upon the exercise of options.

2016 Plan

In October 2016, the Company adopted the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan, (the “2016 Plan”). The 2016 Plan was subsequently approved by the Company’s stockholders and became effective on October 19, 2016, immediately before the effective date of the IPO. Following the effectiveness of the 2016 Plan, no additional options were granted under the 2006 Plan. In addition, to the extent that any awards outstanding or subject to vesting restrictions under the 2006 Plan are subsequently forfeited or terminated for any reason before being exercised or settled, the shares of common stock reserved for issuance pursuant to such awards as of the closing of the IPO will become available for issuance under the 2016 Plan. The remaining shares available for grant under the 2006 Plan became available for issuance under the 2016 Plan upon the closing of the IPO. On the first day of each year beginning with 2017, the 2016 Plan authorizes an annual increase of the least of 3,865,000 shares, 5% of outstanding common stock on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year or an amount as determined by the Company's Board of Directors. As of September 30, 2017, the Company has reserved 4,971,966 shares of common stock for issuance under the 2016 Stock Incentive Plan.

Pursuant to the 2016 Plan, stock options, restricted shares, stock units, including restricted stock units and stock appreciation rights, may be granted to employees, consultants, and outside directors of the Company. Options granted may be either ISOs or NSOs.

Stock options are governed by stock option agreements between the Company and recipients of stock options. ISOs and NSOs may be granted under the 2016 Plan at an exercise price of not less than 100% of the fair market value of the common stock on the date of grant, determined by the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. Options become exercisable and expire as determined by the Compensation Committee, provided that the term of ISOs may not exceed ten years from the date of grant.

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Employee Stock Purchase Program (“ESPP”)

In October 2016, the Company’s Board of Directors and stockholders approved the Employee Stock Purchase Plan (the “ESPP”). Under the ESPP, the Company initially reserved 483,031 shares of common stock for issuance as of its effective date of October 19, 2016. On the first day of each calendar year, beginning in 2017, the number of shares in the reserve will increase by the lesser of 966,062 shares, 1.5% of the shares of the Company’s common stock outstanding on the last day of the immediately preceding fiscal year, or an amount as determined by the Company’s Board of Directors. The ESPP allows eligible employees to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at a discount through payroll deductions of up to 15% of their eligible compensation, subject to any plan limitations. The ESPP provides for twelve-month offering periods that each contain two six-month purchase periods. At the end of each purchase period, employees are able to purchase shares at 85% of the lower of the fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the first trading day of the offering period or on the last day of the purchase period.

As of September 30, 2017, 105,128 shares of common stock have been issued to employees participating in the ESPP and 709,993 shares were available for issuance under the ESPP.

Equity Incentive Plan Activity

A summary of share-based awards available for grant under the 2016 Equity Incentive Plan is as follows:

Options

Available for

Grant

Awards Available for Grant
Balance at December 31, 2015

2020

6,505,390

331,938

Additional optionsawards authorized

1,450,967 

3,865,000

OptionsAwards granted

(1,289,567)

(466,914

)

OptionsAwards forfeited

356,999 

13,013

Awards withheld for tax purposes

135,886 
Balance at December 31, 2016

2021

7,159,675

3,743,037

Additional optionsawards authorized

1,474,686 

1,106,966

OptionsAwards granted

(377,339)

(800,846

)

OptionsAwards forfeited

56,908 

15,415

Awards withheld for tax purposes

— 
Balance at September 30, 2017

March 31, 2022

8,313,930

4,064,572

During the three months ended March 31, 2022, 129 restricted stock units (“RSUs”) were granted, 206,006 RSUs vested, and 55,860 RSUs were forfeited.
The following table summarizes stock option activity under the 2006 and 2016 Plans, including grants to non-employees:

Equity Incentive Plans:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options Outstanding

 

 

 

Options

Outstanding

 

 

Weighted-

Average

Exercise

Price Per

Share

 

 

Weighted-

Average

Remaining

Contractual

Life (years)

 

 

Aggregate

Intrinsic Value

(in thousands)

 

Balances at December 31, 2015

 

 

2,685,913

 

 

$

4.81

 

 

 

7.63

 

 

$

11,589

 

Options granted

 

 

361,385

 

 

 

15.65

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options exercised

 

 

(57,067

)

 

 

2.33

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options forfeited

 

 

(13,013

)

 

 

6.92

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balances at December 31, 2016

 

 

2,977,218

 

 

 

6.16

 

 

 

6.93

 

 

$

70,979

 

Options granted

 

 

449,556

 

 

 

36.24

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options exercised

 

 

(649,213

)

 

 

3.97

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Options forfeited

 

 

(11,659

)

 

 

15.72

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Balances at September 30, 2017

 

 

2,765,902

 

 

$

11.52

 

 

 

7.29

 

 

$

111,634

 

Options exercisable – September 30, 2017

 

 

1,656,418

 

 

$

5.43

 

 

 

6.36

 

 

$

76,940

 

Options vested and expected to vest – September 30, 2017

 

 

2,698,510

 

 

$

11.21

 

 

 

7.25

 

 

$

109,750

 

Options Outstanding
Options
Outstanding
Weighted-
Average
Exercise
Price Per
Share
Weighted-
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life (years)
Aggregate
Intrinsic Value
(in thousands)
Balance at December 31, 2020609,881 $40.18 6.24$120,163 
Options exercised(90,939)$31.15 
Options forfeited(14,836)$68.81 
Balance at December 31, 2021504,106 $40.97 5.20$38,675 
Options exercised(22,114)$48.63 
Options forfeited(1,228)$84.54 
Balances at March 31, 2022480,764 $40.51 4.02$56,232 
Options exercisable – March 31, 2022475,910 $40.06 3.99$55,876 
Options vested and expected to vest – March 31, 2022480,687 $40.50 4.02$56,227 

The aggregate intrinsic values of options outstanding, exercisable, vested and expected to vest were calculated as the difference between the exercise price of the options and the closing price of the Company’s common stock.

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The Company did not grant any options during the three months ended March 31, 2022, and 2021.
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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

During the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, the estimated weighted-average grant-date fair value of common stock underlying options granted was $18.50 and $5.78 per share, respectively.

13.



12. Stock-Based Compensation

Employee Stock Options


Market-based RSU Valuation

The fair value of employee and director stock optionsmarket based RSUs was estimated at the date of grant using a Black-Scholesthe Monte-Carlo option valuationpricing model with the weighted average assumptions below.

Additional details on the Company's market based RSUs are included below.

 

 

Three Months Ended

September 30

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Expected term (in years)

 

 

6.1

 

 

 

6.1

 

 

 

6.1

 

 

 

6.1

 

Expected volatility

 

 

46.9

%

 

 

60.0

%

 

 

52.1

%

 

 

60.0

%

Risk-free interest rate

 

 

1.94

%

 

 

1.28

%

 

 

2.07

%

 

 

1.45

%

Dividend yield

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

 

 

0.0

%

Three Months Ended
March 31,
2022
Expected term (in years)2.88
Expected volatility81.2 %
Risk-free interest rate1.72 %
Dividend yield— %


Stock-Based Compensation

The following table summarizes the total stock-based compensation expense included in the statements of operations and comprehensive loss for all periods presented (in thousands):

 

Three Months Ended

September 30

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30

 

Three Months Ended
March 31,

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

20222021

Cost of revenue

 

$

36

 

 

$

3

 

 

$

112

 

 

$

8

 

Cost of revenue$386 $423 

Research and development

 

 

446

 

 

 

34

 

 

 

1,198

 

 

 

103

 

Research and development1,495 1,659 

Selling, general and administrative

 

 

2,249

 

 

 

364

 

 

 

5,714

 

 

 

1,140

 

Selling, general and administrative12,022 18,148 

Total stock-based compensation expense

 

$

2,731

 

 

$

401

 

 

$

7,024

 

 

$

1,251

 

Total stock-based compensation expense$13,903 $20,230 

As September 30, 2017,of March 31, 2022, there was total unamortized compensation costs of $10.1$0.3 million, net of estimated forfeitures, related to unvested stock options which the Company expects to recognize over a period of approximately 2.50.6 years, $12.4$139.4 million, net of estimated forfeitures, related to unrecognized restricted stock unit (“RSU”)RSU expense, which the Company expects to recognize over a period of 2.72.6 years, and $0.4$1.5 million unrecognized ESPP expense, which the Company will recognize over 0.7 years.

Non-Employee Stock-Based Compensation

Stock-based compensation expense related

Performance-based RSUs (“PRSU”) and Market-based RSUs
The Company grants PRSUs to stock optionskey executives of the Company. PRSUs can be earned in accordance with the performance equity program for each respective grant.

February 2020 Awards
In February 2020, the company granted PRSUs (“February 2020 awards”) for fiscal year 2022's annual unit volume CAGR compared to non-employees is recognized as the stock options are earned. The measurementfiscal year 2019's annual unit volume CAGR, measuring a minimum performance threshold of stock-based compensation for non-employees is subject19.7% to periodic adjustment as the underlying equity instruments vest,earn 50% of target, and the related compensation expense is based on the estimateda maximum threshold of 29% achieved to earn 200% of target. A total of 133,834 PRSU shares were granted with grant date fair value of $11.0 million. The 2020 awards also include a service-based component.
Compensation cost in connection with the equity instruments using the Black-Scholes option pricing model. The Company believesprobable number of shares that the estimated fair value of the stock options is more readily measurable than the fair value of the services received. Such expense was not material forwill vest will be recognized ratably through March 31, 2023. During the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and 2016.

20

2021, the Company recognized $0.1 million and $1.4 million of compensation cost, respectively, in connection with the February 2020 awards.
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Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

14.


January 2021 Awards
In January 2021, the Company granted PRSUs (“January 2021 awards”) for fiscal year 2021's annual consolidated revenue compared to fiscal year 2020's annual consolidated revenue, measuring a performance threshold of 10.0% to earn 100% of target. A total of 53,862 PRSU shares were granted with a grant date fair value of $13.9 million. The January 2021 awards also include a service-based component.
Compensation cost in connection with the probable number of shares that will vest will be recognized ratably through March 31, 2022. During the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, the Company determined that it was probable that the January 2021 Awards would vest and recognized $2.2 million of compensation cost for each of the three months ended March 31, 2022, and 2021 in connection with the January 2021 awards.
February 2021 Awards
In February 2021, the Company granted PRSU's (“February 2021 awards”) for fiscal year 2023's annual unit volume CAGR compared to fiscal year 2020's annual unit volume CAGR, measuring a minimum performance threshold of 19.7% to earn 50% of target, and a maximum threshold of 29% achieved to earn 200% of target. A total of 112,872 PRSU shares were granted with grant date fair value of $17.3 million. The February 2021 awards also include a service-based component.
Compensation cost in connection with the probable number of shares that will vest will be recognized ratably through March 31, 2024. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company determined that it was probable that the February 2021 Awards would vest and recognized $0.9 million and $0.4 million of compensation cost for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively, in connection with the February 2021 awards.
2022 Awards
In February 2022, the Company granted PRSU's (“2022 awards”) for fiscal year 2024's annual unit volume CAGR compared to fiscal year 2021's annual unit volume CAGR, measuring a minimum performance threshold of 13.0% to earn 50% of target, and a maximum threshold of 23.0% achieved to earn 200% of target. A total of 170,997 PRSU shares were granted with grant date fair value of $21.8 million. The 2022 awards also include a service-based component.
Compensation cost in connection with the probable number of shares that will vest will be recognized ratably through March 31, 2025. During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Company determined that it was probable that the 2022 Awards would vest and recognized $0.7 million of compensation cost for the three months ended March 31, 2022, in connection with the 2022 awards.
The Company's Chief Executive Officer's 2022 awards included a multiplier based on total shareholder return (“TSR”). The number of RSUs that vest, determined in accordance with the performance metrics above, will be adjusted for certain levels of achievement of TSR by the Company, as compared to the TSR achieved by the companies comprising the Index.

Non-employee Stock-Based Compensation
On January 12, 2021, the Company's former Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) resigned and entered into a Consulting Professional Services Agreement ("CPSA") with the Company. Pursuant to the original terms of the awards, the former CEO will continue to vest in outstanding awards as long as services are provided to the Company under the CPSA as a non-employee consultant or a member of the Company's Board of Directors. In accordance with ASC 718, the Company recognized expense related to all awards expected to vest over the duration of the CPSA in the three months ended March 31, 2021, as an equity-based severance cost as the consulting services are not substantive.

Total expense related to non-employee stock-based compensation recognized for the three months ended March 31, 2021 was $5.0 million.

In March 2022, the former CEO retired from the Board and as a non-employee consultant. Vesting for all outstanding awards was accelerated upon his retirement. The Company recognized expense of $0.9 million related to the retirement of the former CEO during the three months ended March 31, 2022.
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IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

13. Net Loss Per Common Share

As the Company hadhas net losses for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022, and 2016,2021, all potential common shares were determineddeemed to be anti-dilutive. The following table sets forth the computation of the basic and diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders (in thousands, except share and per share data):

 

Three Months Ended

September 30,

 

 

Nine Months Ended

September 30,

 

Three Months Ended
March 31,

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

20222021

Numerator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Numerator:

Net loss

 

$

(6,524

)

 

$

(4,075

)

 

$

(18,271

)

 

$

(14,637

)

Net loss$(50,609)$(27,779)

Denominator:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Denominator:

Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per

common share, basic and diluted

 

 

22,811,907

 

 

 

1,454,307

 

 

 

22,446,399

 

 

 

1,434,583

 

Weighted-average shares used to compute net loss per common share, basic and diluted29,596,325 29,164,430 

Net loss per common share, basic and diluted

 

$

(0.29

)

 

$

(2.80

)

 

$

(0.81

)

 

$

(10.20

)

Net loss per common share, basic and diluted$(1.71)$(0.95)


The following outstanding shares of potentially dilutive securities have been excluded from diluted net loss per common share for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and 2016,2021, because their inclusion would be anti-dilutive:

 

 

As of September 30,

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Convertible preferred stock on an as-if converted basis

 

 

 

 

 

13,343,981

 

Options to purchase common stock

 

 

2,765,902

 

 

 

2,732,538

 

RSUs issued and unvested

 

 

453,063

 

 

 

 

Warrants to purchase convertible preferred stock on an

   as-if converted basis

 

 

 

 

 

328,114

 

Warrants to purchase common stock

 

 

127,918

 

 

 

 

Total

 

 

3,346,883

 

 

 

16,404,633

 


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Three Months Ended
March 31,
20222021
Options to purchase common stock480,764 553,064 
PRSUs and RSUs unvested1,717,220 1,212,423 
Total2,197,984 1,765,487 
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ITEM 2.

MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

IRHYTHM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

Notes to the Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements (Continued)

ITEM 2.    MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations together with the unaudited financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q. This discussion and other parts of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q contain forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, such as statements of our plans, objectives, expectations and intentions. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause or contribute to such differences include, but are not limited to, those discussed in the section of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q entitled “Risk Factors.”

Factors".

Overview

We are a digital healthcare company redefining the way cardiac arrhythmias are clinically diagnosed by combining our wearable biosensing technology with cloud-based data analytics and machine-learningdeep-learning capabilities. Our goal is to be the leading provider of first-line ambulatory electrocardiogram or ECG,(“ECG”) monitoring for patients at risk for arrhythmias. We have created a full portfolio of ambulatory cardiac monitoring services on a unique platform, called the ZIO Service,Zio service, which combines an easy-to-wear and unobtrusive biosensor that can be worn for up to 14 consecutive days called the ZIO Patch, with powerful proprietary algorithms whichthat distill data from millions of heartbeats into clinically actionable information. The ZIO ServiceZio service consists of:

the wearable ZIO Patch biosensor,patch-based biosensors, Zio XT and Zio AT monitors, which continuously recordsrecord and storesstore ECG data from every patientpatient's heartbeat for up to 14 days

consecutive days; Zio AT offers the option of timely, detection based transmission of data during the prescribed wear period;

a cloud-based analysis of the recorded cardiac rhythms using our proprietary, machine-learned algorithms

deep-learned algorithms;

a final quality assessment review of the data by our certified cardiac technicians

cardiographic technicians; and

thean easy-to-read ZIO Report,Zio report, a curated summary of findings that includes high quality and clinically-actionable information which is sent directly to a patient’s physician through ZioSuite and can be integrated into a patient’s electronic health record

record.

We receive revenue for the ZIO ServiceZio service primarily from two sources: third-party payors, and institutions. Third-party payors, which accounted for approximately 81% and 73% of our revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, respectively, consist ofinclude commercial payors and government agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, Veterans Administration, and the Veterans Administration,military. In addition, a small percentage of institutions, which are typically hospitals or private physician practices, purchase the VA. A significant portion of ourZio service from us directly. Our revenue in the third-party commercial payor category is primarily contracted, which means we have entered into pricing contracts with these payors. Third-party contracted payors accounted for approximately 56% and 63% of our revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. Approximately 38%22% and 40% 14% of our total revenue for the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and 2016,2021, respectively, is received from federal government agenciesCenters for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS"), which is under established reimbursement codes. A small portion of this revenue is received from patients in accordance with their insurance co-payments and deductibles. Institutions,Healthcare institutions, which are typically hospitals clinics, or private physician practices accounted for approximately 19% 16% and 26%17% of our revenue for each of the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and 2016,2021, respectively. We bill these organizations directlyNon-contracted third party payors and self-pay accounted for 6% and 7% of our servicestotal revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and they are responsible for paying those invoices and seeking reimbursement from third-party payors where applicable. In addition, a small percentage of patients whose physicians prescribe the ZIO Service pay us directly. Typically, we bill institutional customers andMarch 31, 2021, respectively. We rely on a third-party billing partner, XIFIN, Inc., to submit patient claims and collect from commercial andpayors, certain government agencies.

agencies, and patients.

Since our ZIO ServiceZio service was cleared by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration or FDA, in 2009,(“FDA”), we have provided the ZIO ServiceZio service to over 700,000four million patients and have collected over 200 millionone billion hours of curated heartbeat data. We believe the ZIO ServiceZio service is well-positioned to disruptpenetrate an already-established $1.4approximately $2.0 billion U.S. ambulatory cardiac monitoring market by offering a user-friendly device to patients, actionable information to physicians and value to payors.

We market our ZIO Serviceambulatory cardiac monitoring solution in the United States to physicians, hospitals and clinics through a direct sales organization comprised of sales management, field billing specialists, and quota-carrying sales representatives.representatives, and a customer service team. Our sales representatives focus on initial introduction into new customers, penetration across a sales region, driving adoption within existing accounts and conveying our message of clinical and economic value to service line managers and hospital administrators and other clinical departments. We expect to continue to increase the size of our U.S. sales organization to expand the current customer account base and increase utilization of our monitoring solution. In addition, we will continue to explore new opportunities to expand ourexploring sales and marketing effortsexpansion opportunities in international geographies using both directgeographies.

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COVID-19 Impact

Beginning in mid-March 2020, we experienced decreasing levels in the Zio service patient registrations which impacted our revenues during the years ended December 31, 2021 and distribution channels.

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2020. This decrease in revenue is due to a variety of challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, including, among others:


a reduction in physician prescriptions for our Zio service due to:
a reduction in diagnostic testing outside of those tests related to severe respiratory distress;
reduction in the hours of most physicians’ offices;
physicians and hospitals prioritizing the treatment of critically ill patients; and
patient reluctance to visit physicians or hospitals for fear of contracting COVID-19;

cancellation and reduction of physician attendance at professional medical society meetings and trade shows and our decision not to attend them;

travel restrictions and changing hospital policies that have limited access of our sales professionals to hospitals where the Zio services are prescribed and where patients have historically been enrolled;

delays in receiving Zio XT back from patients with some patients not returning the device at all; and

patients who have lost jobs, been furloughed, have reduced work hours or are worried about the continuation of medical insurance being unable to afford the Zio service.

As of March 31, 2022, we re-opened our offices for use and certain groups of employees have begun returning to work in our offices across the United States. Appropriate social distancing techniques and other measures at our facilities have been implemented for the employees who have returned to work.

While hospital systems and healthcare facilities shift their focus and resources to treating COVID-19 patients and combating the spread of the coronavirus, we have adapted our service to meet the immediate needs of physicians, customers, and patients and significantly increased the utilization of our home enrollment service which allows patients to receive and wear the single-use Zio device without going to a healthcare facility.

Our remote work arrangements resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent decision to pursue a sublease for our San Francisco headquarters caused us to recognize an impairment on our right of use asset and related leasehold improvements and furniture and fixtures and we believe we may incur additional impairment charges related to our real property lease agreements.
Components of Results of Operations

Revenue

Substantially all

The majority of our revenue is derived from salesprovision of our ZIO ServiceZio service to customers in the United States. We earn revenue from the provision of our ZIO ServiceZio service primarily from two sources,contracted third-party payors, CMS and institutions; however,healthcare institutions. In addition, a small percentage of our revenue is derivedinstitutions, which are typically hospitals or private physician practices, purchase the Zio service from us directly, from patient payments. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, we recognized approximately 88% and 83%, respectively,a very small percentage of ourcommercial non-contracted payors.
We recognize revenue on an accrual basis based on estimates of the amount that will ultimately be realized, which is the difference between the amount submitted for instances wherepayment and the amount received. These estimates require significant judgment by management. In determining the amount to accrue for a delivered report, and Zio service provided, we have a predictableconsider factors such as claim payment history of collections, contractedfrom both payors and institutions. We recognize revenue based on the billing rate less contractual and other adjustments to arrive at the amount we expect to collect from third-party payors with an established billing rate. We determine the amount we expect to collect based on a per-payor or agreement basis, after analyzing payment history. When we do not havepatient out-of-pocket costs, payor coverage, whether there is a contract or agreement, or have an insufficient or unpredictable history of collections, we recognize revenue only upon the earlier of notification ofbetween the payor benefits allowed or when payment is received. We expect our revenue to increase as we increasehealthcare institution and the number of coveredCompany, historical amount received for the service, and contracted lives for our ZIO Service, expand our salesany current developments or changes that could impact reimbursement and marketing infrastructure, increase awareness of our product offerings, expand the range of indications for our ZIO Service and develop new products and services. healthcare institution payments.
We are subject to seasonality similar to other companies in our field, as vacations by physicians and patients tend to affect enrollment in the ZIO ServiceZio service more during the summer months and during the end of calendar year holidays compared to other times of the year. To date, the effect of these seasonal fluctuations on our quarterly results has been obscuredRevenue may be impacted by the growthoutcome of adjudications with contracted and non-contracted payors, as well as changes in the CMS reimbursement rates. Clinical capacity limitations may also restrict our business.

ability to complete the performance obligations to achieve revenue recognition.

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Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin


Cost of revenue is expensed as incurred and includes direct labor, material costs, equipment and infrastructure expenses, device scrap and loss, amortization of internal-use software, allocated overhead, and shipping and handling. Direct labor includes personnelpayroll and personnel-related costs including stock-based compensation involved in manufacturing, clinical data curation, and data analysis.customer service. Material costs include both the disposable materials costs of the ZIO PatchZio monitors and amortization of the re-usablereusable printed circuit board assemblies or PCBAs.(“PCBAs”). Each ZIO PatchZio XT monitor includes a PCBA, and each Zio AT monitor includes a PCBA and gateway board, the cost of which is amortized over the anticipated number of uses of the board. We expect the cost of revenue to increase in absolute dollars to the extentas our revenue grows.

increases due to increased direct labor, direct materials, and variable spending, partially offset by economies of scale in relation to fixed costs such as overhead, depreciation and amortization, and facilities costs.


We calculate gross margin as gross profit divided by revenue. Our gross margin has been and will continue to be affected by a variety of factors, including increased contracting with third-party payors and institutional providers. Historically, we have increased our average selling price by entering into contracts with third-party commercial payors at rates that were higher than amounts typically collected from payors without contracts or from institutional customers. We have in the past been able to increase our pricing as third-party payors become more familiar with the benefits of the ZIO ServiceZio service and move to contracted pricing arrangements. We believe we will be able to continue to achieve pricing increases as more payors contract with us due to the benefits the ZIO Service provides compared to other available products. We expect to continue to decrease the cost of servicerevenue per device by obtaining volume purchase discounts for our material costs, implementing scan-time algorithm and implementing scan time algorithmprocess improvements, automating manufacturing assembly and packaging, and software-driven and other workflow enhancements to reduce labor costs. We expect furtherThese decreases have been offset by increases to materials and electronics components pricing, labor rates, shipping rates, depreciation and amortization of investments, and increases in the costgeneral level of service as we spread the fixed portioninflation.

Although a large majority of our manufacturing overhead costs overcommercial customers have renewed their contracts for the Zio XT service since the establishment of the Category I codes on January 1, 2021 matching to pre-existing rates, if we are unsuccessful in improving the Medicare rates, we believe that commercial rates may begin to be more negatively impacted, which would have a larger number of units produced, which will result in a decrease innegative impact on our per unit manufacturing costs.

gross margins.

Research and Development Expenses

We expense research and development costs as they are incurred. Research and development expenses include payroll and personnel-related costs, including stock-based compensation, consulting services, clinical studies, laboratory supplies and an allocation ofallocated facility overhead costs. We expect our research and development costs to increase in absolute dollars as we hire additional personnel to develop new product and service offerings, product enhancements and product enhancements.

clinical evidence.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Our sales and marketing expenses consist of payroll and personnel-related costs, including stock-based compensation, sales commissions, travel expenses, consulting, public relations costs, direct marketing, tradeshow and promotional expenses and allocated facility overhead costs. We expect our sales and marketing expenses to increase in absolute dollars as we hire additional sales personnel and increase our sales support infrastructure in order to further penetrate the U.S. market and expand into international markets.

Our general and administrative expenses consist primarily of compensationpayroll and personnel-related costs for executive, finance, legal and administrative personnel, including stock-based compensation. Other significant expenses include professional fees for legal and accounting services, consulting fees, recruiting fees, bad debt expense, third-party patient claims processing fees and travel expenses.

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We expect to incur additional general

Impairment and administrativeRestructuring Expenses
Our impairment and restructuring expenses as a resultconsist of operating as a public company, including expenses related to complianceimpairment charges on our San Francisco right-of-use asset and severance charges in connection with the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and those of any national securities exchange on which our securities are traded, additional insurance expenses, investor relations activities and other administrative and professional services.

2022 restructuring plan.

Interest Expense

Interest expense consists of cash and non-cash components. The cash component of interest expense is attributable to borrowings under our loan agreements and amounts owed under the promissory note issued to California HealthCare Foundation. The non-cash component consists of interest expense recognized from the amortization of debt discounts derived from the issuance of warrants and debt issuance costs capitalizedagreements. See Note 8. Debt, for further information on our balance sheets, and “paid-in-kind” interest when debt payments are interest only and are added back to the debt balance.

loan agreements.

Other Expense,Income, Net

Other expense,income, net consists primarily of the change in fair value of our convertible preferred stock warrant liabilities and interest income. Our convertible preferred stock warrants were exercisable for shares that were contingently redeemable and as such, were classified as a liability on our balance sheets at their estimated fair value. Upon completion of our IPO, all convertible preferred stock warrants converted into warrants to purchase common stock. Interest income which consists primarily of interest received on our cash cash equivalents and investments balances.

investments.

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Results of Operations

Comparison of the Three Months Ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 and 2016

2021
 Three Months Ended March 31,  
 20222021$ Change% Change
Revenue$92,378 $74,311 $18,067 24 %
Cost of revenue30,619 23,458 7,161 31 %
Gross profit61,759 50,853 10,906 21 %
Gross margin67 %68 %  
Operating expenses:    
Research and development10,542 8,510 2,032 24 %
Selling, general and administrative73,158 69,813 3,345 %
Impairment and restructuring charges26,608 — 26,608 — 
Total operating expenses110,308 78,323 31,985 41 %
Loss from operations(48,549)(27,470)(21,079)77 %
Interest expense(2,029)(335)(1,694)506 %
Other income, net16 124 (108)(87)%
Loss before income taxes(50,562)(27,681)(22,881)83 %
Income tax provision47 98 (51)(52)%
Net loss$(50,609)$(27,779)$(22,830)82 %

 

 

Three Months

Ended September 30,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

$ Change

 

 

% Change

 

Revenue

 

$

25,035

 

 

$

16,780

 

 

$

8,255

 

 

 

49%

 

Cost of revenue

 

 

6,920

 

 

 

5,282

 

 

 

1,638

 

 

 

31%

 

Gross profit

 

 

18,115

 

 

 

11,498

 

 

 

6,617

 

 

 

58%

 

Gross margin

 

 

72

%

 

 

69

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

 

3,790

 

 

 

1,635

 

 

 

2,155

 

 

 

132%

 

Selling, general and

   administrative

 

 

20,308

 

 

 

12,529

 

 

 

7,779

 

 

 

62%

 

Total operating expenses

 

 

24,098

 

 

 

14,164

 

 

 

9,934

 

 

 

70%

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(5,983

)

 

 

(2,666

)

 

 

(3,317

)

 

 

124%

 

Interest expense

 

 

(862

)

 

 

(807

)

 

 

(55

)

 

 

7%

 

Other income (expense), net

 

 

321

 

 

 

(602

)

 

 

923

 

 

 

153%

 

Net loss and comprehensive loss

 

$

(6,524

)

 

$

(4,075

)

 

$

(2,449

)

 

 

60%

 

Revenue

Revenue

Revenue increased $8.3$18.1 million, or 49%24%, to $25.0 $92.4 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 from $16.8 $74.3 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016. RevenueMarch 31, 2021. The increase in revenue was primarily attributable to the period primarily benefitted fromincrease in volume increases of the ZIO Service performed,Zio services as well as an improvementa result of increased demand from our customers and in the averageimproved CMS reimbursement rates. Revenue was also impacted by improvements in adjudication performance with contracted rate.

and non-contracted payors.

Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin

Cost of revenue increased $1.6 $7.2 million, or 31%31%, to $6.9 $30.6 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 from $5.3 $23.5 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016.March 31, 2021. The increase in cost of revenue was primarily due to increased ZIO Service volume. ThisZio service volume, and an increase was partially offset by the reduction in costs to provide the ZIO Service, which was achieved primarily through manufacturing efficiencies in the production of our device and material cost reductions, and to a lesser extent by fixed costs absorption and reduced labor costs per device of our service through our algorithm improvements and software-driven workflow enhancements.

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resulting from capacity limitations associated with clinical operations.


Gross margin for the three months ended September 30, 2017 increased to 72%March 31, 2022 was 67%, compared to 69%68% for the three months ended September 30, 2016.March 31, 2021. The increase wasdecrease in gross margin is primarily due to the revenue mix shift driven by the successincreased costs associated with capacity constraints, with limited impact of our contracting efforts, secondarily by the reduction in the cost of the ZIO Service due to our continued efforts to lower manufacturing costs,higher Zio AT volumes and to a lesser extent by fixed costs absorption and reducedCOVID-related labor costs, per device of our service through our algorithm improvementsoffset by volume benefit and software-driven workflow enhancements.

increase in average selling price.


Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses increased $2.2$2.0 million, or 132%24%, to $3.8$10.5 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 from $1.6$8.5 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016.March 31, 2021. The increase was primarily attributable to a $1.5$3.4 million increase in payroll and personnel-related expenses ascompensation expense, partially offset by a result$1.4 million reduction of increased headcount, $0.4 millionexpense due to an increase in allocated facility-related expenses, and $0.2 million for clinical trials and other expenses.

costs capitalized to internal use software.


Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $7.8$3.3 million, or 62%5%, to $20.3 $73.2 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 from $12.5$69.8 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016.March 31, 2021. The increase was primarily attributabledue to a $4.0$8.0 million increase in payroll and personnel-related expenses, including $1.9 million for non-cash stock-based compensation as a result of increased headcount to support the growth in our operations, $1.6 million increase in professional services expenses, primarily as a result of an increase in accounting and finance costs $1.0 million increase in commissions due to sales team expansion, a $0.5 million increase in allocated facility-related expenses and $0.5 million increase related to travel expenses.

Interest Expense

Interest expense increased $0.1 million, or 7%, to $0.9 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017 from $0.8 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016 and is due to our debt financing entered into in December 2015.

Other Income (Expense), Net

Other income (expense), net increased $0.9 million, or 153%, to income of $0.3 million during the three months ended September 30, 2017 from expense of $0.6 million during the three months ended September 30, 2016. The increase was primarily related to $0.6 million of expense related to the revaluation of warrants in 2016 and an increase of $0.3 million increase of interest income from our investments in 2017.

Comparison of the Nine Months Ended September 30, 2017 and 2016

 

 

Nine Months

Ended September 30,

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

 

$ Change

 

 

% Change

 

Revenue

 

$

70,327

 

 

$

45,368

 

 

$

24,959

 

 

 

55%

 

Cost of revenue

 

 

20,002

 

 

 

15,097

 

 

 

4,905

 

 

 

32%

 

Gross profit

 

 

50,325

 

 

 

30,271

 

 

 

20,054

 

 

 

66%

 

Gross margin

 

 

72

%

 

 

67

%

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Operating expenses:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Research and development

 

 

9,187

 

 

 

4,847

 

 

 

4,340

 

 

 

90%

 

Selling, general and

   administrative

 

 

57,787

 

 

 

36,658

 

 

 

21,129

 

 

 

58%

 

Total operating expenses

 

 

66,974

 

 

 

41,505

 

 

 

25,469

 

 

 

61%

 

Loss from operations

 

 

(16,649

)

 

 

(11,234

)

 

 

(5,415

)

 

 

48%

 

Interest expense

 

 

(2,522

)

 

 

(2,388

)

 

 

(134

)

 

 

6%

 

Other income (expense), net

 

 

900

 

 

 

(1,015

)

 

 

1,915

 

 

 

-189%

 

Net loss and comprehensive loss

 

$

(18,271

)

 

$

(14,637

)

 

$

(3,634

)

 

 

25%

 

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Revenue

Revenue increased $25.0 million, or 55%, to $70.3 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 from $45.4 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. Revenue in the period primarily benefitted from volume increases of the ZIO Service performed, as well as improvements in the overall contracted rate.

Cost of Revenue and Gross Margin

Cost of revenue increased $4.9 million, or 32%, to $20.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 from $15.1 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The increase in cost of revenue was primarily due to increased ZIO Service volume. This increase was partially offset by the reduction in costs to provide the ZIO Service, which was achieved primarily through manufacturing efficiencies in the production of our device and material cost reductions, and to a lesser extent by fixed costs absorption and reduced labor costs per device through our algorithm improvements and software-driven workflow enhancements.

Gross margin for the nine months ended September 30, 2017 increased to 72%, compared to 67% for the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The increase was primarily due to the revenue mix shift driven by the success of our contracting efforts, secondarily by the reduction in the cost of the ZIO Service due to our continued efforts to lower manufacturing costs, and to a lesser extent by fixed costs absorption and reduced labor costs per device of our service through our algorithm improvements and software-driven workflow enhancements.

Research and Development Expenses

Research and development expenses increased $4.3 million, or 90%, to $9.2 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 from $4.8 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The increase was primarily attributable to a $2.8 million increase in payroll and personnel-related expenses as a result of increased headcount and a $1.2 million increase in allocated facility-related expenses.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $21.1 million, or 58%, to $57.8 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 from $36.7 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The increase was primarily attributable to a $10.2 million increase in payroll and personnel-related expenses, including $4.6 million for non-cash stock-based compensation, as a result of increased headcount to support the growth in our operations, a $4.9 million increase in professional services expenses, primarily as a result ofcorporate bonus, an increase in consulting, accounting, legal, claims processing and recruiting services expenses, a $1.9 million increase in allocated facility and other-related expenses, a $1.4 million increase related to travel expenses, $1.2 million increase in commissions due to sales team expansion, $0.5 million increase in insurance and a $0.4 million increase in bad debt expense of $1.3 million, partially offset by a $6.0 million decrease in stock based compensation expense.

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Impairment and Restructuring Charges

In February 2022, our board of directors (the “Board”) approved reducing our leased space for our headquarters in San Francisco, California. As a result, we recognized impairment of our right of use asset and related leasehold improvements and furniture and fixtures in the amount of $23.2 million.

In February 2022, the board approved a restructuring plan to allow the Company to effectively and efficiently scale its business. The 2022 Restructuring Plan resulted in severance and other employment related costs. We recorded $3.4 million in charges under the 2022 Restructuring plan during the three months ended March 31, 2022.
Interest Expense

Interest expense increased $0.1was $2.0 million or 6%,for the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared to $2.5$0.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2021. The increase was due to additional financing fees of $1.75 million related to our term loan paid in the three months ended March 31, 2022, compared with the three months ended March 31, 2021.
Other Income, Net
Other income, net was immaterial for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021. There were no significant changes in other income, net during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017 asMarch 31, 2022, compared towith the ninethree months ended September 30, 2016 due to the increased principal balance of our December 2015 debt financing as a result of paid-in-kind interest.

Other Income (Expense), Net

Other income (expense), net increased $1.9 million to income of $0.9 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2017 from expense of $1.0 million during the nine months ended September 30, 2016. The change was primarily related to an increase of $0.8 million of interest income from our investments and $1.0 million decrease from the fair value re-measurement of preferred warrant liabilities at each balance sheet date, which concluded upon the conversion to common warrants upon the IPO in October 2016.

March 31, 2021.

Liquidity and Capital Expenditures

Overview

We are continuously reviewing our liquidity and anticipated capital requirements in light of the significant uncertainty created by the COVID-19 global pandemic. We believe we will have adequate liquidity over the next twelve months to operate our business and to meet our cash requirements.
As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2022, we had cash and cash equivalents of $20.4$94.8 million, and short-term investments of $87.0$114.0 million, and an accumulated deficit of $145.4$456.7 million. In connection with our IPO that closed in October 2016,addition, we received net cash proceedshave term loan facilities of $110.7$40.0 million netand a revolving credit line of underwriters’ discounts and commissions and expenses paid by us. Prior to the IPO, we financed our operations primarily through sales of our private securities, sales of our products and services and debt financings.

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$25.0 million available.

Our expected future capital requirements may depend on many factors including expanding our customer base, the expansion of our salesforce, and the timing and extent of spending on the development of our technology to increase our product offerings. We expect the next Verily milestone to be met in 2023. Additionally, we will complete the build out of our new manufacturing facility and our new Deerfield Illinois facility in the first half of 2022.
If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our stockholders may experience dilution. Any future debt financing into which we enter may impose upon us additional covenants that restrict our operations, including limitations on our ability to incur liens or additional debt, pay dividends, repurchase our common stock, make certain investments and engage in certain merger, consolidation or asset sale transactions. Any debt financing or additional equity that we raise may contain terms that are not favorable to us or our stockholders.


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Cash Flows

The following table summarizes our cash flows for the periods indicated (in thousands):

 

Nine Months Ended September 30,

 

(in thousands)

 

2017

 

 

2016

 

Three months ended March 31,
20222021

Net cash (used in) provided by:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Net cash (used in) provided by:  

Operating activities

 

$

(11,188

)

 

$

(15,617

)

Operating activities$(38,885)$(41,842)

Investing activities

 

 

(24,121

)

 

 

(1,821

)

Investing activities(8,527)117,035 

Financing activities

 

 

4,095

 

 

 

(2,009

)

Financing activities14,636 (26,446)

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents

 

$

(31,214

)

 

$

(19,447

)

Net increase in cash and cash equivalentsNet increase in cash and cash equivalents$(32,776)$48,747 

Cash Used in Operating Activities

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2022, cash used in operating activities was $11.2$38.9 million, which consisted of a net loss of $18.3$50.6 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $15.2$61.2 million and a net change of $8.1$49.5 million in our net operating assets and liabilities. The non-cash charges arewere primarily comprised of a change in stock based-basedimpairment charges of $23.2 million, stock-based compensation expense of $7.0$13.9 million, in allowance for doubtful accounts and contractual allowanceallowances of $5.9$14.0 million, non-cash interest expense of $1.2 million and depreciation and amortization of $1.1 million. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to a decrease of $8.6$3.1 million in accounts receivable as a result of increased revenues.

During the nine months ended September 30, 2016, cash used in operating activities was $15.6 million, which consisted of a net loss of $14.6 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $7.7 million and a net change of $8.7 million in our net operating assets and liabilities. The non-cash charges are primarily comprised of a change in allowance for doubtful accounts and contractual allowance of $3.4 million, change in value of warrant liability of $1.0 million, stock based-based compensation of $1.3 million and depreciation and amortization of $0.6right of use assets of $6.5 million. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to an increase of $7.1$22.9 million in accounts receivable, an increase of $2.4 million in inventory, a decrease of $9.4 million in accrued liabilities, an increase of $5.3 million in accounts payable and a decrease of $6.2 million in operating lease liability.

The number of claims from the first half of 2021 which contained differences between the submitted price and reimbursement and overall denials increased significantly compared to our historical experience as a result of CPT code transition issues with the payors. We continue to work with the payors to collect on these claims and the collection cycle for these claims is significantly longer than usual. While we believe we have properly estimated the impact to our contractual allowances and allowance for doubtful accounts, the inherent uncertainty caused by longer collection cycle and claims adjudication process could result in additional provisions for contractual allowances and doubtful accounts which would negatively impact our results of operations in future periods. As of March 31, 2022, uncollected claims as a result of the CPT code transition were $12.9 million. We believe we have adequate balance sheet liquidity to manage through these delays
During the three months ended March 31, 2021, cash used in operating activities was $41.8 million, which consisted of a net loss of $27.8 million, adjusted by non-cash charges of $34.1 million and a net change of $48.2 million in our net operating assets and liabilities. The non-cash charges were primarily comprised of a change in stock-based compensation of $20.2 million, allowance for doubtful accounts and contractual allowances of $9.8 million, depreciation and amortization of $2.0 million and amortization of right of use assets of $1.6 million. The change in our net operating assets and liabilities was primarily due to an increase of $39.8 million in revenueaccounts receivable, a decrease of $6.1 million in accrued liabilities, a decrease of $0.7 million in accounts payable and a decrease of $0.4$1.4 million in accrued liabilities, primarily related to payments made on accrued payroll and related compensation accruals. This change was partially offsetoperating lease liability.
Cash Provided by a $0.1 million increase in accounts payable due to timing of vendor payments, a $0.5 million increase in inventory to support the growth in our business and a $0.8 million increase in other assets primarily related to the purchase of ZIO Patch PCBAs to support the growth in volume of ZIO Service performed.

Cash Used in Investing Activities

Cash used in investing activities during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017March 31, 2022 was $24.1$8.5 million, which primarily consisted primarily of $90.2$46.0 million in purchases of available for sale investments $2.7and $5.6 million of capital expenditures, to purchase property and equipment, which were partially offset by $68.7 million ofcash received from the maturities of investments.

available for sale investments of $28.0 million, and sales of available for sale investments of $15.0 million.

Cash used inprovided by investing activities during the ninethree months ended September 30, 2016March 31, 2021 was $1.8$117.0 million, which consisted of cash received from the maturities of available for sale investments of $151.3 million, partially offset by $30.1 million in purchases of available for sale investments and $4.2 million of capital expenditures to purchase property and equipment

expenditures.

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Cash Provided byUsed in Financing Activities

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2022, cash provided by financing activities was $4.1$14.6 million, primarily due $35.0 million in proceeds received from the proceedsclosing of employee option exercises and ESPP stock purchases.

our Second Amendment to our SVB Loan Agreement, partially offset by $21.4 million of repayment of the outstanding balance under the existing SVB term loan.

During the ninethree months ended September 30, 2016,March 31, 2021, cash used in financing activities was $2.0$26.4 million, primarily consistingdue to $25.1 million in tax withholding upon the vesting of paymentsRSUs. This practice has been updated to require employees to sell shares to cover tax liabilities. In addition, cash used in financing activities was due to repayment of deferreddebt of $2.9 million, partially offset by $1.6 million in proceeds from the issuance costs related to the IPO.

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Indebtedness

Pharmakon Loan Agreement

of common stock in connection with employee options exercises and our Employee Stock Purchase Plan.

Bank Debt
In December 2015,October 2018, we entered into the Loan Agreement with Pharmakon. The Pharmakon Loan Agreement provides for up to $55.0 million in term loans split into two tranches as follows: (i) Tranche A Loans of $30.0 million in term loans, and (ii) Tranche B Loans are up to $25.0 million in term loans. The Tranche A Loans were drawn on December 4, 2015. The Tranche B Loans were available to be drawn prior to December 4, 2016. No additional draw was taken.

During the first four years, payments are interest only, and for the first two years, 50% of the interest will be “paid-in-kind.” We are subject to a financial covenant related to minimum trailing revenue targets that begins in June 2017, and is tested on a semi-annual basis. The minimum net revenue covenant ranges from $44.7 million for the period ended June 30, 2017 to $102.6 million for the period ended December 31, 2021, which was achieved as of June 30, 2017. The minimum net revenue financial covenant has a 45-day equity cure period following required delivery date of the financial statements. Pursuant to this equity cure provision, we may cure a revenue covenant default by raising additional funds from the sale of equity. The loan matures in December 2021. As of September 30, 2017, $32.7 million in principal and interest was outstanding under the Pharmakon Loan Agreement.

The Tranche A Loans bear interest at a fixed rate equal to 9.50% per annum, which is due and payable quarterly in arrears. During the first eight calendar quarters, 50% of the interest due and payable shall be added to the then-outstanding principal.

The Pharmakon Loan Agreement requires us to maintain a minimum liquidity and minimum net sales during the term of the loan facility and contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and event of default provisions that could result in the acceleration of the repayment obligations under the loan facility. Upon a change in control of the company, Pharmakon has the option to demand payment in full of the outstanding loans together with the prepayment premium. The obligations under the Pharmakon Loan Agreement are secured by a security interest in substantially all of our assets pursuant to the Pharmakon Guaranty and Security Agreement, and this security interest is governed by an intercreditor agreement between Pharmakon and Silicon Valley Bank, or SVB.

SVB Loan and Security Agreement

In June 2014, we refinanced our debt with SVB by entering into a Second Amendment to the Amended and Restated Loan Security Agreement, or Second Amendment. Under the Second Amendment, we borrowed $4.9 million.

In December 2015, we used the proceeds from the Pharmakon Loan Agreement to repay $4.9 million of bank debt to SVB and entered into a SecondThird Amended and Restated Loan and Security Agreement with SVB or the (“SVB Loan Agreement.Agreement”). Under the SVB Loan Agreement, we had borrowed $35.0 million and had made repayments through March 2022 at which time the outstanding balance was $18.5 million.


On March 28, 2022, we entered into a Second Amendment (“2022 Amendment”) to the SVB Loan Agreement which provided for a term loan facility in the aggregate principal amount of up to $75.0 million (the “2022 Term Loans”), of which $35.0 million aggregate principal amount was borrowed at closing and a portion of the proceeds of which were used to pay in full the outstanding balance of $18.5 million of the SVB Loan Agreement. The remaining $40.0 million of 2022 Term Loans may borrow, repaybe borrowed from time to time at our option, in increments of at least $10.0 million, through December 31, 2023. We will pay interest only on the 2022 Term Loans until April 1, 2025, when we shall commence repaying the 2022 Term Loans in 24 equal consecutive monthly installments, with all obligations under the 2022 Term Loans maturing on March 1, 2027. Interest charged on the 2022 Term Loans accrues at a floating per annum rate equal to the greater of (A) the Prime Rate plus 0.25% and reborrow under(B) 3.50%. We are also required to pay fees on any prepayment of the 2022 Term Loans, ranging from 3.0% to 1.0% depending on the date of prepayment, and a final payment equal to 5.0% of the principal amount of the 2022 Term Loans made. Once repaid or prepaid, the 2022 Term Loans may not be reborrowed.

The 2022 Amendment also amended the terms of the revolving credit line but not in excess ofunder the maximum loanSVB Loan Agreement, which provided for an aggregate principal amount of $25.0 million, to (i) extend the maturity date from August 1, 2023 to March 1, 2027, (ii) increase the letters of credit sublimit to $15.0 million until December 4, 2018, when all outstanding principal and accrued interest becomes due and payable. Any(iii) increase the cash management services sublimit to $15.0 million. Interest charged on the principal amount outstanding under the SVB revolving credit line bears interestshall accrue at a floating rate per annum rate equal to the rate published by The Wall Street Journal  asgreater of (A) the “Prime Rate”Prime Rate plus 0.25% and (B) 3.50%. The credit line is subjectWe are required to financial covenants tiedpay an annual fee equal to our trailing twelve-month net sales. We may borrow up to 80%0.15% of our eligible accounts receivable, up to the maximum of $15.0 million. In August 2016, we obtained a $3.1 million letter of credit pursuant to the SVB revolving credit facility in connection with a new lease.line. As of September 30, 2017, weMarch 31, 2022, no loans were eligible to borrow up to approximately $7.7 million and no amount was outstanding under the SVB revolving credit line.

The SVB Loan Agreement requires us to maintain a minimum consolidated liquidity and minimum net sales during the term of the loan facility. In addition, the SVB Loan Agreement contains customary affirmative and negative covenants and events of default. The obligations under the SVB Loan Agreement are secured by a security interest in substantially all of our assets, and this security interest is governed by an intercreditor agreement between Pharmakon and SVB.

CHCF Note

In November 2012, we entered into a Note Purchase Agreement and Promissory Note with the California HealthCare Foundation, or the CHCF Note, through which we borrowed $1.5 million. The CHCF Note accrues simple interest of 2.0%. The accrued interest and the principal was set to mature in November 2016. In June 2015, we amended the CHCF Note to extend the maturity date to May 2018. The CHCF Note is subordinate to other debt.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We have not entered into any off-balance sheet arrangements and do not have any holdings in variable interest entities.

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Contractual Obligations

Our contractual obligations as of December 31, 20162021 are presented in our Form 10-K filed with the SEC on March 31, 2017. With the exception of the following, thereFebruary 28, 2022. There have been no material changes:

On May 1, 2017, the Company entered intochanges.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
For a commercial building lease agreement. The lease will expire in September 2027 and provides for the leasecomplete description of 20,276 square feet of office space in Houston, Texas. With the exception of the first four months, which are at a discount, the base annual rent is approximately $31,000 per month and escalates 2.5% per year. The total base rent payable over the lease period is approximately $4.3 million.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”), issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606). Areas of revenue recognition that will be affected include, but are not limited to, transfer of control, variable consideration, allocation of transfer pricing, licenses, time value of money, contract costs and disclosures. The core principle of ASU 2014-09 is to recognize revenues when promised goods or services are transferred to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration that is expectedwhat we believe to be received for those goods or services. ASU 2014-09 defines a five-step process to achieve this core principle and, in doing so, it is possible more judgment and estimates may be required within the revenue recognition process than are required under existing GAAP. In addition, Topic 606 requires more detailed disclosures to enable users of financial statements to understand the nature, timing and uncertainty of revenue and cash flows arising from a review of historicalcritical accounting policies and practicesestimates used in the preparation of our Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, refer to identify potential differences in applying Topic 606.

The Company plans to adopt this standardour Annual Report on January 1, 2018 and will use the modified retrospective approach recognizing the cumulative effect of adopting this guidance as an adjustment to its opening accumulated deficit balance, which will have no effect on the Company’s consolidated statements of operations or cash flowsForm 10-K for the quarter or year ended December 31, 2017.  Prior periods will not be retrospectively adjusted.  While the evaluation2021 (“Annual Report”). Refer to Note 2. Summary of the new standard is ongoing, the Company believes the adoption will result in a change to net revenue primarily due to the recognition of bad debt expense related to the patient responsibility of both contracted and non-contracted claims, which was $1.7 million for the nine months ended September 30, 2017, as a reduction of gross revenue rather than as a component of selling, general and administrative and, to a lesser extent, due to timing differences in its recognition of revenue related to non-contracted third-party payor claims as a result of changing from recognition based on the earlier of notification of the payor benefits allowed or when payment is received to the accrual basis based on historical experience.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU No. 2016-09, Compensation—Stock Compensation (Topic 718). This ASU was issued as part of the FASB’s simplification initiative and affects all entities that issue share-based payment awards to their employees. This standard covers accounting for income taxes, forfeitures, and statutory tax withholding requirements, as well as classificationSignificant Accounting Policies, in the statementNotes to Unaudited Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in Item 1 of cash flows. As a resultPart I of adopting ASU No. 2016‑09this Quarterly Report on January 1, 2017, the Company has made anForm 10-Q, for all significant accounting policy election to continue to estimate forfeitures. The adoption of ASU No. 2016‑09 also requires excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies be recorded in the income statement as opposed to additional paid‑in capital when the awards vest or are settled, and haspolicies. There have been applied on a prospective basis with no impact on the condensed consolidated financial statements as of and for the three months ended September 30, 2017. As a result of the adoption, the Company increased its total NOLs by $0.1 million on January 1, 2017 related to deferred tax assets that arose directly from tax deductions related to equity compensation greater than compensation recognized for financial reporting purposes. This amount is fully offset by the valuation allowance.

On May 10, 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-09, Scope of Modification Accounting, which amends the scope of modification accounting for share-based payment arrangements, provides guidance on the types ofsignificant changes to the terms or conditions of share-based payment awards to which an entity would be required to apply modificationour critical accounting under ASC 718. This ASU is effective for annual reporting periods, including interim periods within those annual reporting periods, beginning after December 15, 2017, with early adoption permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of this new guidance.

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policies as described in our Annual Report.

ITEM 3.

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK

ITEM 3.    QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
We are exposed to market risks in the ordinary course of our business. These risks primarily include risk related to interest rate sensitivities and foreign currency exchange rate sensitivity.

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Interest Rate Sensitivity

We had cash, cash equivalents and investments of $107.4$208.8 million as of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2022, which consisted of bank deposits, money market funds, U.S. government securities, corporate notes, and commercial paper. Such interest-earning instruments carry a degree of interest rate risk; however, historical fluctuations in interest income have not been significant.

We do not enter into investments for trading or speculative purposes and have not used any derivative financial instruments to manage our interest rate risk exposure. We have not been exposed nor do we anticipate being exposed to material risks due to changes in interest rates. A hypothetical 10% change in interest rates during any of the periods presented would not have had a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

We had total outstanding debt of $33.5$34.9 million, which is net of debt discount and debt issuance costs, as of September 30, 2017.March 31, 2022. The Third Amended and Restated SVB Loan Agreement Note carries a variable interest ratesrate based on our outstanding debt carry fixed interest rates.the “Prime Rate” published by The Wall Street Journal. A hypothetical 10% change in interest rates during any of the periods presented would not have had a material impact on our condensed consolidated financial statements.

Foreign Currency Exchange Rate Sensitivity

We face foreign exchange risk as a result of entering into transactions denominated in currencies other than U.S. dollars, particularly in British Pound Sterling. As of March 31, 2022 we do not consider this risk to be material. We do not utilize any forward foreign exchange contracts. All foreign transactions settle on the applicable spot exchange basis at the time such payments are made.


ITEM 4.

ITEM 4.    CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES


Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures

Our management, with the participation of our President and Chief Executive Officer and our Chief Financial Officer, have evaluated our


We maintain disclosure controls and procedures (as definedthat are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e)reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) prioramended (the “Exchange Act”) is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms, and that such information is accumulated and communicated to the filing of this quarterly report. Based on that evaluation, our President andmanagement, including our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) (principal executive officer) and our Chief Financial Officer have concluded that,(“CFO”) (principal financial officer), as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective at the reasonable assurance level.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There were no changes in our internal control over financial reporting that occurred during our most recently completed fiscal quarter that materially affected, or are reasonably likelyappropriate to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls and Procedures

allow for timely decisions regarding required disclosure. In designing and evaluating the disclosure controls and procedures, management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving the desired control objectives. In addition, the design of disclosure controlsobjectives, and procedures must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints and that management is required to apply its judgment in evaluating the benefitscost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures.


As required by Rule 13a-15(b) under the Exchange Act, our management, including our CEO and CFO, has evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures relative(as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act) as of the end of the period covered by this report. Based on that evaluation, our CEO and our CFO have concluded that as of the end of the period covered by this quarterly report, our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2022, at the reasonable assurance level because of the material weakness in internal controls which was disclosed in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and continues to their costs.

exist as of March 31, 2022. Notwithstanding the material weakness, our management, including our CEO and CFO, has concluded that our consolidated financial statements, included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, and in the Form 10-Q for the three months ending March 31, 2022, fairly present, in all material respects, our financial condition, results of operations and cash flows for the periods presented in conformity with generally accepted accounting principles.


Material Weakness Related to the Control Environment

We did not design or maintain an effective control environment commensurate with our financial reporting requirements. Given the rapid growth in the size and complexity of the business, we failed to maintain a sufficient number of professionals with an appropriate level of accounting and internal control knowledge, training and experience to appropriately analyze, record and disclose accounting matters timely and accurately. This material weakness contributed to the misstatement of our revenues, revenue reserves, bad debt expense, property and equipment, research and development expense and related financial disclosures, and in the revision of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2017, December 31, 2018, and each interim period therein as well as the quarters ended March 31, 2019, June 30,

2019, and September 30, 2019. Additionally, this material weakness could result in a misstatement of account balances or disclosures that
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would result in a material misstatement to the annual or interim consolidated financial statements that would not be prevented or detected. Based on this assessment and because of this material weakness, we concluded that the Company's internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of March 31, 2022.

Remediation Plan Activities

As previously disclosed in Part II, Item 9A of the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the years ended December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019, December 31, 2020, and December 31, 2021 we commenced a remediation plan with the goal of remediating the material weakness as of December 31, 2022. In executing our remediation plan, management performed the following actions related to the material weakness noted above:

Increased the depth and experience of our Finance organization by increasing the number of management and staff members, expanding our technical experience in accounting, auditing and reporting matters, and performing internal controls training for management and staff members.
Hired two Internal Audit Directors (one with broad finance experience and one with relevant control experience over information technology environments). These individuals are focused on the development, maintenance and monitoring of our overall control environment and system of key internal controls over financial reporting.
Hired a Chief Risk Officer to lead our ongoing healthcare compliance, internal audit and enterprise risk management efforts.

We remain committed to the continued hiring and on-boarding of additional members of the organization supporting the internal control over financial reporting. As of March 31, 2022, we have filled key positions within the Finance organization and will continue to add skilled talent as complexities grow and needs arise.

These investments in resources have significantly improved the stability of our accounting organization. While significant progress has been made in response to the material weakness in the control environment, key remediation plan activities include additional training programs and hiring of additional resources in support of certain control activities. Additionally, time is needed to demonstrate sustainability as it relates to our internal control over financial reporting and improvements made to our complement of resources, including demonstrating sustained operating effectiveness of our internal controls.

Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting

There have been no changes in internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2022 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.

Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls

Internal control over financial reporting has inherent limitations. Internal control over financial reporting is a process that involves human diligence and compliance and is subject to lapses in judgment and breakdowns resulting from human failures. Internal control over financial reporting can also be circumvented by collusion or improper management override of the controls. Projections of any evaluation of controls effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or deterioration in the degree of compliance with policies or procedures.

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PART II – OTHERII. OTHER INFORMATION

ITEM 1

ITEM 1.    LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

Legal Proceedings

We are not currently a party to any material legal proceedings.

From time to time, we may beare involved in claims and legal proceedings or investigations, by governmental agencies. For example, we could become involvedthat arise in litigation related to advertising, unfair competition or intellectual property litigation with our competitors. The defensethe ordinary course of these and otherbusiness. Such matters can be time consuming, costly to defend in litigation, divert management’s attention and resources, damage our reputation and brand and cause us to incur significant expenses or make substantial payments to satisfy judgments or settle claims, all of which could have an adverse impact on our resultsreputation, business and financial condition and divert the attention of operations, financial positionour management from the operation of our business. These matters are subject to many uncertainties and outcomes that are not predictable.
On February 1, 2021, a putative class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that we and our former Chief Executive Officer, Kevin M. King, violated Sections 10(b) and 20(a) of the Exchange Act and SEC Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder (“Securities Class Action Lawsuit”). On August 2, 2021, the lead plaintiff filed an amended complaint, and filed a further amended complaint on September 24, 2021. The amended complaint names as defendants, in addition to us and Mr. King, our former Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Coyle, and current Chief Financial Officer, Douglas J. Devine. The purported class in the amended complaint includes all persons who purchased or cash flows.

acquired our common stock between August 4, 2020 and July 13, 2021, and seeks unspecified damages purportedly sustained by the class. On October 27, 2021, we filed a motion to dismiss the amended complaint. The motion to dismiss was fully briefed and the Court held a hearing on the motion on February 4, 2022, after which the Court took the matter under submission. On March 31, 2022, the Court issued an order granting the Company’s motion to dismiss the Securities Class Action Lawsuit, without allowing plaintiff further leave to amend, and entered judgment in favor of the Company and the other defendants. Plaintiff has filed a notice of appeal and we believe the class action to be without merit and plan to vigorously defend ourselves.

ITEM 1A

RISK FACTORS


On March 26, 2021, we received a grand jury subpoena from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California requesting information related to communications with the Food and Drug Administration and our products. On September 14, 2021, we received a second subpoena requesting additional information. We are cooperating fully and are providing the requested information.

ITEM 1A.RISK FACTORS
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information contained in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including our financial statements and the related notes thereto, before making a decision to invest in our common stock. The realization of any of the following risks could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, operating results and prospects. In that event, the price of our common stock could decline, and you could lose part or all of your investment.

investment


Summary of Risk Factors

Our business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties that you should consider before investing in our company, as more fully described below. The principal factors and uncertainties that make investing in our company risky include, among others:

changes in public health insurance coverage and CMS reimbursement rates for the Zio service could affect the adoption and profitability of our Zio service;

if third-party commercial payors do not provide any or adequate reimbursement, rescind or modify their reimbursement policies or delay payments for our products, including as a result of the CMS and Medicare Administrative Contractor (“MAC”) reimbursement rates, including Novitas Solutions reimbursement rates for our Zio XT service, or if we are unable to successfully negotiate reimbursement contracts, our commercial success could be compromised;

the COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to reduce its spread have adversely impacted, and is expected to continue to materially and adversely impact, our business and operations;

we have a history of net losses, which we expect to continue, and we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability in the future;

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our business is dependent upon physicians adopting our Zio service and if we fail to obtain broad adoption, our business would be adversely affected;

we plan to introduce new products and services and our business will be harmed if we are not successful in selling these new products and services to our existing customers and new customers;

the market for ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions is highly competitive. If our competitors are able to develop or market monitoring products and services that are more effective, or gain greater acceptance in the marketplace, than any products and services we develop, our commercial opportunities will be reduced or eliminated;

we have recently experienced management turnover, which creates uncertainties and could harm our business;

we may become a party to intellectual property litigation or administrative proceedings that could be costly and could interfere with our ability to provide the Zio service; and

changes in the regulatory environment may constrain or require us to restructure our operations, which may harm our revenue and operating results.
Risks Related to Our Business


The COVID-19 pandemic and efforts to reduce its spread have adversely impacted, and is expected to continue to materially and adversely impact, our business and operations.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had, and is expected to continue to have, an adverse impact on our operations, particularly as a result of preventive and precautionary measures that we, other businesses, and governments are taking. The spread of COVID-19 in the United States has resulted in travel restrictions impacting all areas of our business, most notably our sales representatives. Many hospitals also have limited access for non-patients, including our sales professionals, which has negatively impacted our access to physicians and their patients. New hospital sanitization and social distancing protocols, as well as increased competition for resources within hospitals that have dedicated certain resources to COVID patients, have impacted and may continue to impact our business and operations. We have also noted staffing shortage at providers in certain regions in the United States and we believe that the status of provider capacity and resource prioritization, vaccination levels and other pandemic-related effects could materially impact our revenue in future periods.
Additionally, an increase in the unemployment rate due to the impact of COVID-19 would decrease the number of potential patients with access to health insurance, which may result in fewer diagnostic procedures. As hospitals cancel and defer diagnostic and elective procedures, it reduces their revenue and impacts their financial results, which could result in pricing pressure on our services as they seek cost savings. Prolonged restrictions relating to COVID-19 could adversely affect our revenue, results of operations, cash flows, and financial position.

Although we saw recovery of patient registrations for the Zio service in 2021, we expect these challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic to continue to impact the volume of Zio services provided for the duration of the pandemic, but its extent cannot be quantified at this time. Our customers’ patients are also experiencing the economic impact of the current pandemic. Even an important diagnostic procedure like the Zio service may be less of a priority than other items for those patients who have lost their jobs, are furloughed, have reduced work hours or are worried about the continuation of their medical insurance. Such economic effects on patients may delay or disrupt our ability to both provision our service and collect co-payments or out-of-pocket costs, which would have an adverse effect on our revenue and cash flow. Patients may also be reluctant to visit their physicians or hospitals due to fear of contracting COVID-19. Physicians are not performing as many diagnostic tests for their patients and the facilities where these tests are performed may not be open, adequately staffed or open the entire day. Even where physicians continue to treat symptomatic patients, treatment of asymptomatic patients is being deferred in many cases. The reduction in diagnostic testing and physician visits, the increase in deferred treatment, and changes in patient behaviors are translating into fewer Zio services being prescribed.

Government mandates related to the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted, and are expected to continue to impact, our personnel and personnel at third-party manufacturing facilities in the United States and other countries, and the availability or cost of materials, which could disrupt our supply chain and reduce margins. For instance, on or about March 16, 2020, the Health Officers for the counties of San Francisco (where the Company's headquarters is located), Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Contra Costa and Alameda, where many employees are located, issued mandatory shelter-in-place orders and all employees transitioned to a remote work environment. We are also subject to orders in Southern California that temporarily shut down our manufacturing and distribution facilities in Cypress, California. While we have continued to deliver the Zio service by operating with remote employees and essential employees on site, an extended implementation of these government mandates could
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further impact our ability to effectively provide the Zio service, and could impede progress of all ongoing initiatives. Appropriate social distancing techniques and other measures at our facilities have been implemented for employees who are required by job scope or who have chosen to return to our facilities.

Our ongoing operations may be impacted as a result of employees assuming additional roles and responsibilities within our organization and we would have fewer resources available to run our operations, which could negatively impact our business operations and revenue as a result. We may also encounter voluntary departures of key employees due to any of the foregoing actions that we undertake. If key personnel or large groups of our employees contract the virus, that may also impact our business and operations. For example, an outbreak in our manufacturing facility could cause us to have to shut down our manufacturing operations, which would in turn present risk to the ongoing supply of devices required to continue our business operations. In the meantime, we have taken steps to support our employees, including providing the ability for the majority of employees to work remotely and implementing policies to enhance employee safety, including appropriate social distancing techniques, for those employees required or choosing to work in our facilities. We are also assessing our business continuity plans in the context of this pandemic.

Additionally, due to COVID-19, we have experienced delays in receiving Zio XT monitors back from patients, with some patients not returning the device at all. As a result, the increased prevalence of COVID-19 could result in negative changes to historical expectations around device return timelines and loss rates, both of which would negatively impact our finances. Finally, we anticipate that the COVID-19 pandemic may impact clinical and regulatory matters. COVID-19 is delaying enrollment in new clinical trials across the medical device industry and may affect any new trials we decide to pursue. Regulatory clearances may take extended duration of time as agencies focus on COVID-related priorities which, in turn, would delay our introduction of new products and services.

The COVID-19 pandemic has also created global supply chain shortages and delays, particularly for some electronic components, such as those contained in our PCBAs. We have experienced longer lead times, sometimes in excess of 52 weeks, and increased broker fees during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has increased our cost of revenue. We have also had to increase our inventory levels as a result of these potential shortages. If we are unable to secure our typical supply of components on a timely basis, it may affect our ability to provide the Zio service on a timely basis, which would affect our cash flows and ability to operate on a timely basis.

Any of these occurrences may significantly harm our business, financial condition, cash flows and prospects. The ultimate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is highly uncertain and subject to change. This impact is having a material, adverse impact on our liquidity, capital resources, operations and business and those of the third parties on which we rely, and could worsen over time. The extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic impacts our results will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted, including new information which may emerge concerning the severity of COVID-19 and the actions to contain COVID-19 or treat its impact, among others. We do not yet know the full extent of potential delays or impacts on our business, financial condition, cash flows and results of operations.

Unfavorable global economic conditions could adversely affect our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Our results of operations could be adversely affected by general conditions in the global economy and in the global financial markets. The COVID-19 pandemic has caused extreme volatility and disruptions in the global capital and credit markets. A severe or prolonged economic downturn, could result in a variety of risks to our business, including driving hospitals to tighten budgets and curtail spending, which would negatively impact our sales and business. In addition, higher unemployment or reductions in employer-provided benefits plans could result in fewer commercially insured patients, which could negatively impact our revenue and business as a result. A weak or declining economy could also strain our third party manufacturers or suppliers, possibly resulting in supply disruptions, or cause our customers to delay making payments for our Zio service. Any of the foregoing could harm our business and we cannot anticipate all of the ways in which the economic climate and financial market conditions could adversely affect our business.
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We have a history of net losses, which we expect to continue, and we may not be able to achieve or sustain profitability in the future

future.

We have incurred net losses since our inception in September 2006. For the nine months ended September 30, 2017 and 2016, we had a net loss of $18.3 million and $14.6 million, respectively, and we expect to continue to incur additional losses. As of September 30, 2017, we had an accumulated deficit of $145.4 million. The losses and accumulated deficit were primarily due to the substantial investments we made to develop and improve our technology and products and improve our business and the ZIO ServiceZio service through research and development efforts and infrastructure improvements. Over the next several years, we expect to continue to devote substantially all of our resources to increase the adoption of and reimbursement for our ZIO ServiceZio service, which includes Zio XT and Zio AT, and to develop additional arrhythmicarrhythmia detection and management products and services. These efforts may prove more expensive than we currently anticipate and we may not succeed in increasing our revenue sufficiently to offset these higher expenses or at all. In addition, as a public company, we will continue to incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. Accordingly, we cannot assure you that we will achieve profitability in the future or that, if we do become profitable, we will sustain profitability. Our failure to achieve and sustain profitability in the future could cause the market price of our common stock to decline.

Our business is dependent upon physicians adopting our ZIO ServiceZio service and if we fail to obtain broad adoption, our business would be adversely affected.

Our success will depend on our ability to bring awareness to the Zio brand and educate physicians regarding the benefits of our ZIO ServiceZio service over existing products and services, such as Holter monitors and event monitors, and to persuade them to prescribe the ZIO ServiceZio service as a first-linethe diagnostic product for their patients. We do not know if the ZIO ServiceZio service will be successful over the long term and market acceptance may be hindered if physicians are not presented with compelling data demonstrating the efficacy of our service compared to alternative technologies. Any studies we, or third parties which we sponsor, may conduct comparing our ZIO ServiceZio service with alternative technologies will be expensive, time consuming and may not yield positive results. Additionally, adoption will be directly influenced by a number of financial factors, including the ability of providers to obtain sufficient reimbursement from third-party commercial payors, and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services or CMS,(“CMS”), for the professional services they provide in applying the ZIO PatchZio monitor and analyzing the ZIO Report.Zio report. The efficacy, safety, performance and cost-effectiveness of our ZIO Service,Zio service, on a stand-alone basis and relative to competing services, will determine the availability and level of reimbursement received by us and providers. Some payors do not have pricing contracts with us setting forth the ZIO ServiceZio service reimbursement rates for us and providers. Physicians may be reluctant to prescribe the ZIO ServiceZio service to patients covered by such non-contracted insurance policies because of the uncertainty surrounding reimbursement rates and the administrative burden of interfacing with patients to answer their questions and support their efforts to obtain adequate reimbursement for the ZIO Service.Zio service. If physicians do not adopt and prescribe our ZIO Service,Zio service, our revenue will not increase and our financial condition will suffer as a result.

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If we are unable to keep up with demand for the Zio service, our revenue could be impaired, market acceptance for the Zio service could be harmed and physicians may instead prescribe our competitors’ products and services.
As demand for the Zio service increases, we may encounter production or service delays or shortfalls. Such production or service delays or shortfalls may be caused by many factors, including the following:

while we intend to continue to expand our manufacturing capacity, our production processes may have to change to accommodate this growth, potentially involving significant capital expenditures;
key components of the Zio monitors are provided by a single supplier or limited number of suppliers, and we do not maintain large inventory levels of these components; if we experience a shortage or quality issues in any of these components, we would need to identify and qualify new supply sources, which could increase our expenses and result in manufacturing delays;
global demand and supply factors concerning commodity components common to all electronic circuits, including Zio monitors, could result in shortages that manifest as extended lead times for circuit boards, which could limit our ability to sustain and/or grow our business;
shelter-in-place orders in effect in California and elsewhere due to the COVID-19 outbreak;
we may experience a delay in completing validation and verification testing for new production processes and/or equipment at our manufacturing facilities;
we are subject to state, federal and international regulations, including the FDA’s Quality System Regulation (“QSR”), the EU’s Medical Device Directive (“MDD”) and, as of May 2021, the EU’s Medical Device Regulation (“MDR”), and the developing regulations by Medicines & Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) post Brexit in the United Kingdom for both the manufacture of the Zio monitor and the provision of the Zio service, noncompliance with which could cause an interruption in our manufacturing and services;
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to increase our manufacturing output significantly and scale our services, we will have to attract and retain qualified employees for our operations; and
in response to unexpectedly rapid growth of our business, clinical operations capacity may not meet demand while new resources are being recruited and trained, which would delay the return of diagnostic reports to our customers.
Our inability to successfully manufacture our Zio monitors in sufficient quantities, or provide the Zio service in a timely manner, would materially harm our business.

Our manufacturing facilities and processes and those of our third-party suppliers are subject to unannounced FDA, state and Notified Body regulatory inspections for compliance with the QSR, MDD, MDR, UK MDR requirements. Developing and maintaining a compliant quality system is time consuming and investment intensive. Failure to maintain compliance with, or not fully complying with the requirements of the FDA and state regulators could result in enforcement actions against us or our third-party suppliers, which could include the issuance of warning letters, adverse publicity, seizures, prohibitions on product sales, recalls and civil and criminal penalties, any one of which could significantly impact our manufacturing supply and provision of services and impair our financial results. Failure to maintain compliance with, or not fully complying with the requirements of MDD, MDR, and UK MDR could result in similar disruptions in these markets.
We depend on third-party vendors to manufacture some of our components, which could make us vulnerable to supply shortages and price fluctuations that could harm our business.

We rely on third-party vendors for components and sub-assemblies used in our Zio monitors. Our reliance on third-party vendors subjects us to a number of risks, including:
inability to obtain adequate supply in a timely manner or on commercially reasonable terms;
interruption of supply resulting from modifications to, or discontinuation of, a supplier’s operations, including those caused by pandemics such as COVID-19;
production delays related to the evaluation and testing of products from alternative suppliers and corresponding regulatory qualifications;
inability of the manufacturer or supplier to comply with the QSR, state regulatory authorities, and, in some cases, the Notified Body audits;
miscommunication of design specifications due to errors/omissions by either the vendor or our company, resulting delayed delivery of acceptable product;
delays in product shipments resulting from uncorrected defects, reliability issues, or a supplier’s failure to consistently produce quality components;
an outbreak of disease or similar public health threat, such as the existing threat of coronavirus, particularly as it may impact our supply chain;
price fluctuations due to a lack of long-term supply arrangements with our suppliers for key components;
inability to control the quality of products manufactured by third parties;
delays in delivery by our suppliers due to changes in demand from us or their other customers; and
delays in obtaining required materials and components that are in short supply within the time frames we require, at an affordable cost, or at all.
Any significant delay or interruption in the supply of components or sub-assemblies, or our inability to obtain substitute components, sub-assemblies or materials from alternate sources at acceptable prices and in a timely manner could impair our ability to meet the demand for our Zio service and harm our business.
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Our revenue relies substantially on the ZIO Service,our Zio service, which is currently our only product offering. If the ZIO ServiceZio service or future product offerings fail to gain, or lose, market acceptance, our business will suffer.

Our current revenue is dependent on prescriptions of the ZIO Service,Zio service, and we expect that sales of the ZIO ServiceZio service will account for substantially all of our revenue through at least 2017.for the foreseeable future. We are in various stages of research and development for other diagnostic screening solutions and new indications for our technology and the ZIO Service;Zio service; however, there can be no assurance that we will be able to successfully develop and commercialize any new products or services. Any new products may not be accepted by physicians or may merely replace revenue generated by our ZIO ServiceZio service and not generate additional revenue. If we have difficulty launching new products, our reputation may be harmed and our financial results adversely affected. In order to substantially increase our revenue, we will need to target physicians other than cardiologists, such as emergency room doctors, primary care physicians and other physicians with whom we have had little contact and may require a different type of selling effort. If we are unable to increase prescriptions of the ZIO Service,Zio service, expand reimbursement for the ZIO Service,Zio service, or successfully develop and commercialize new products and services, our revenue and our ability to achieve and sustain profitability would be impaired.

Our limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our current business and future prospects

We first commercialized the ZIO Service in the first quarter of 2011 and do not have a long history operating as a commercial company. As a result, our operating results are not predictable. Since 2011, our revenue has been derived, and we expect it to continue to be derived, substantially from sales of the ZIO Service and its predecessor products. Because of its recent commercial introduction, the ZIO Service has limited product and brand recognition. In addition, demand for our services may decline or may not increase as quickly as we expect. Failure of the ZIO Service to significantly penetrate current or new markets would harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our quarterly and annual results may fluctuate significantly and may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business.

Our quarterly and annual results of operations, including our revenue, profitability and cash flow, may vary significantly in the future and period-to-period comparisons of our operating results may not be meaningful. Accordingly, the results of any one quarter or period should not be relied upon as an indication of future performance. Our quarterly and annual financial results may fluctuate as a result of a variety of factors, many of which are outside our control and, as a result, may not fully reflect the underlying performance of our business. Fluctuation in quarterly and annual results may decrease the value of our common stock. Factors that may cause fluctuations in our quarterly and annual results include, without limitation:

market awareness and acceptance of the ZIO Service

Zio service;

our ability to get payors under contract at acceptable reimbursement rates

rates;

the availability of reimbursement for the ZIO ServiceZio service at acceptable rates through government programs

programs;

our ability to attract new customers and improve our business with existing customers

customers;

results of our clinical trials and publication of studies by us, competitors or third parties

parties;

the timing and success of new product introductions by us or our competitors or any other change in the competitive dynamics of our industry, including consolidation among competitors, customers or strategic partners

partners;

our revenue recognition policy, which generally provides that we recognize revenue only upon the earlier of notification of the payor benefits allowed or when payment is received

the amount and timing of costs and expenses related to the maintenance and expansion of our business and operations

operations;

changes in our pricing policies or those of our competitors

competitors;

general economic, industry and market conditions

conditions;
the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations and financial results;

the regulatory environment

environment;

expenses or loss of sales associated with unforeseen product quality issues

issues;

timing of physician prescriptions and demand for our ZIO Service

Zio service;
seasonality factors, such as patient and physician vacation schedules, severe weather conditions and insurance deductibles, that hamper or otherwise restrict when a patient seeking diagnostic services such as the Zio service visits the prescribing physician;

the hiring, training and retention of key employees, including our ability to expand our sales team

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litigation or other claims filed against us or by us for intellectual property infringement or otherwise

and clinical operations team;
litigation or other claims against us for intellectual property infringement or otherwise;

our ability to obtain additional financing as necessary

necessary; and

advances and trends in new technologies and industry standards

standards.
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Because our quarterly results may fluctuate, period-to-period comparisons may not be the best indication of the underlying results of our business and should only be relied upon as one factor in determining how our business is performing.

We have noticed seasonality in the use of our ZIO ServiceZio service which, along with other factors such as severe weather, may cause quarterly fluctuations in our revenue.

During the summer months and the holiday season, we have observed that the use of our ZIO ServiceZio service decreases, which reduces our revenue during those periods. We believe that the decrease in demand may result from physicians or their patients taking vacation.vacations. Severe weather conditions or natural disasters also may hamper or otherwise restrict when patients seeking diagnostic services, such as the ZIO ServiceZio service, visit prescribing physicians. Similarly, we generally experience some effects of seasonality due to the renewal of insurance deductibles at the beginning of the calendar year. These factors may cause our results of operations to vary from quarter to quarter

quarter.

Reimbursement by CMS is highly regulated and subject to change; our failure to comply with applicable regulations could result in decreased revenue and may subject us to penalties or have an adverse impact on our business.

For the ninethree months ended September 30, 2017,March 31, 2022, we received approximately 28%22% of our revenue from reimbursement for our ZIO ServiceZio service by CMS. Under CMS guidelines for participation in the Medicare program CMS designates us as an independent diagnostic treatment facility (“IDTF”). CMS imposes extensive and detailed requirements on manufacturers of medical devices and providers of medical services,IDTFs, including but not limited to, rules that govern how we structure our relationships with physicians, how and when we submit reimbursement claims, how we operate our monitoring facilities and how and where we provide our monitoring solutions. Our failure to comply with applicable CMS rules could result in a discontinuation of our reimbursement under the CMS payment programs, our being required to return funds already paid to us, civil monetary penalties, criminal penalties and/or exclusion from the CMS programs. In addition, regional Medicare Administrative Contractors, or MACs, change from time to time, which may result in changes to our reimbursement rates, increased administrative burden and reimbursement delay.

Changes in public health insurance coverage and CMS reimbursement rates for the ZIO ServiceZio service could affect the adoption and profitability of the ZIO Service and our future revenue.

Zio service.


Government payors may change their coverage and reimbursement policies, as well as payment amounts, in a way that would prevent or limit reimbursement for our ZIO Service,Zio service, which would significantly harm our business. For example, governmentGovernment and other third-party payors require us to identifyreport the service for which we are seeking reimbursement by using a Current Procedural Terminology or CPT, code set(“CPT”) code-set maintained by the American Medical Association. We have securedAssociation (“AMA”). For Zio XT, we had historically utilized temporary CPT codes (or Category III CPT codes), used for newly introduced technologies specific to our category of diagnostic monitoring through 2022, but these codes are not exclusivemonitoring. The process to the ZIO Service and our competitors’ products and services may also qualify for reimbursement under these codes.  To the extent one of our competitors or a future competitor produces a product or service at a less expensive price, it may cause the reimbursement under theseconvert Category III CPT codes to decrease. Category I CPT codes is governed by the AMA and CMS. On October 25, 2019, the AMA’s CPT Editorial Panel established two new Category I CPT codes which are applicable to the Zio service and took effect on January 1, 2021.

In addition, third-party payors often reimburse basedNovember 2021, CMS published its Calendar Year 2022 Medicare Physician Fee Schedule Final Rule (the “2022 Final Rule”). In the Final Rule, CMS did not issue national pricing and continued carrier pricing for calendar year 2022 on Category I CPT codes 93241, 93243, 93245 and 93247 for extended external ECG monitoring, the relevant codes for our Zio XT service. These codes were designated by CMS reimbursement rates. To the extent CMS reduces its reimbursement rates for the ZIO Service, third-party payors may reduce the rates atcontractor pricing in calendar 2022, which they reimburse the ZIO Service, which could adversely affect our revenue.

means that prices will be determined regionally by each Medicare Administrative Contractor (“MAC” or “MACs”).


Determinations of which products or services will be reimbursed under Medicare can be developed at the national level through a national coverage determination or an NCD,(“NCD”) by CMS, or at the local level through a local coverage determination or an LCD,(“LCD”), by one or more of the regional Medicare Administrative Contractors, or MACs whichwho are private contractors that process and pay claims on behalf of CMS for different regions. In the absence of ana specific NCD, as is the case with Zio XT historically and for Calendar Year 2022 following the ZIO Service,Final Rule, the MAC with jurisdiction over a specific geographic region will have the discretion to make an LCD. The Company is seeking to establish LCD pricing with one or more MACs to establish pricing for 2022 and determinewill be subject to LCD pricing until such time CMS establishes a NCD.

In January 2022, Novitas Solutions, the fee schedule and reimbursement rate withinMAC which covers the region where our Independent Diagnostic Testing Facility (“IDTF”) in Houston, Texas is located and regional LCDs may not always be consistent in their determinations. We have in the past been, and in the future may be, required to respond to potential changes inwhere almost all of our Medicare services for Zio XT are processed, updated reimbursement rates for CPT codes 93243 and 93247 for the Houston jurisdiction to $223 and $233, respectively. These updated rates are retroactive to January 1, 2022. These rates were higher than the rates posted by Novitas in 2021, but continue to be significantly below our products. Reductionshistorical Medicare rates for our Zio XT service. In April 2022, National Government Services or NGS, the MAC which covers the region where our IDTF in Lincolnshire, Illinois is located, updated reimbursement rates if enacted, could have a material adverse effect onfor
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CPT codes 93243 and 93247 for the Suburban Chicago jurisdiction to $334 and $347, respectively.These updated rates are retroactive to April 1, 2022.These rates are higher than our business. Further, a reduction in coverage byhistorical Medicare could cause some commercial third-party payers to implement similar reductions in their coverage or level of reimbursementrates for out Zio XT service.

We remain engaged with all of the ZIO Service. MACs and are working with other industry participants to submit additional cost data on long-term continuous electrocardiogram (“ECG”) monitoring for consideration to establish appropriate local rates. We cannot provide certainty at this time on the potential outcome of the discussions with the MACs or on the timing of any action to be taken.

Determinations of which products or services will be reimbursed under Medicare can be developed at the national level through a national coverage determination (“NCD”) by CMS, or at the local level through a local coverage determination (“LCD”), by one or more of the regional MACs who are private contractors who establish and write LCD policies and process and pay claims on behalf of CMS for different regions. In the absence of a specific NCD, the MAC with jurisdiction over a specific geographic region will have the discretion to make an LCD. If Novitas Solutions were to change, limit or cease to cover the Zio service by altering the existing LCD, it would negatively impact our revenue from CMS.

Given the evolving nature of the healthcare industry and on-goingongoing healthcare cost reforms, we are and will continue to be subject to changes in the level of Medicare coverage for our products, and unfavorable coverage determinations at the national or local level could adversely affect our business and results of operations.

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Further, a reduction in coverage by Medicare could cause some commercial third-party payors to implement similar reductions in their coverage or level of reimbursement of the Zio service. Given the evolving nature of the healthcare industry and ongoing healthcare cost reforms, we will continue to be subject to changes in the level of Medicare coverage for its products, and unfavorable coverage determinations at the national or local level could adversely affect its results of operations. Although a large majority of commercial customers have re-contracted the Zio XT service at pre-existing rates since the establishment of the Category I codes on January 1, 2021, if we are unsuccessful in improving the Medicare rates, we believe that commercial rates may begin to be more negatively impacted.

As a result of the CPT code changes that took effect January 1, 2021, the number of claims from the first half of 2021 which contained differences between the submitted price and reimbursement rate and overall denials increased significantly compared to our historical experience as a result of CPT code transition issues with the payors. We continue to work with the payors to collect on these claims and the collection cycle for these claims is significantly longer than usual and may lead to higher write-offs of doubtful accounts for those periods and negatively impact our results of operations.

If we are unable to achieve a level of revenues adequate to support our cost structure, or is unable to reduce our overall cost structure, this would raise substantial doubts about our ability to continue as a going concern.

Controls imposed by CMS and commercial third-party payors designed to reduce costs, commonly referred to as “utilization review”, may affect our operations. Federal law contains numerous provisions designed to ensure that services rendered to CMS patients meet professionally recognized standards and are medicallymedically necessary, appropriate for the specific patient and cost-effective.cost-effective. These provisions include a requirement that a sampling of CMS patients must be reviewed by quality improvement organizations, which review the appropriateness of product prescriptions, the quality of care provided, and the appropriateness of reimbursement costs. Quality improvement organizations may deny payment for services or assess fines and also have the authority to recommend to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or DHHS, that a provider which is in substantial noncompliance with the standards of the quality improvement organization be excluded from participation in the Medicare program. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Affordability Reconciliation Act or Affordable(the “Affordable Care Act,Act”), potentially expands the use of prepayment review by Medicare contractors by eliminating statutory restrictions on their use, and, as a result, efforts to impose more stringent cost controls are expected to continue. Utilization review is also a requirement of most non-governmental managed care organizations and other third-party payors. To date these controls have not had a significant effect on our operations, but significant limits on the scope of services reimbursed and on reimbursement rates and fees could have a material, adverse effect on our business, financial position and results of operations in the future.


Each state’s Medicaid program has its own coverage determinations related to our services, and some state Medicaid programs do not provide their recipients with coverage for our Zio service. Even if our Zio service is covered by a state Medicaid program, we must be recognized as a Medicaid provider by the state in which the Medicaid recipient receiving the services resides in order for us to be reimbursed by a state’s Medicaid program. Even if we are recognized as a provider in a state, Medicare’s rate for our Zio service may be low, and the Medicaid reimbursement amounts are sometimes as low, or lower, than
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the Medicare reimbursement rate. In addition, and as noted above, each state’s Medicaid program has its own coverage determinations related to our Zio service, and many state Medicaid programs do not provide their recipients with coverage for our Zio service. As a result of all of these factors, our Zio service is not reimbursed or only reimbursed at a very low dollar amount by many state Medicaid programs. In some cases, a state Medicaid program’s reimbursement rate for our Zio service might be zero dollars. Additionally, certain states may require Medicaid recipients to pay for part of the Zio Service, and since the recipients of Medicaid are low income individuals, we are often unable to collect any amounts directly from individual recipients of the Zio service covered by Medicaid. Low or zero dollar Medicaid reimbursement rates for our Zio service would have an adverse effect on our business, gross margins and revenues. Most of the Zio services we provide are reimbursed through Medicare or private third party payors and not Medicaid, but if that were to change in the future, or the percentage of Zio services provided to Medicaid recipients were to increase, our gross margins would be adversely affected as a result.

Also, healthcare reform legislation or regulation may be proposed or enacted in the future that may adversely affect such policies and amounts. Changes in the healthcare industry directed at controlling healthcare costs or perceived over-utilization of ambulatory cardiac monitoring products and services could reduce the volume of ZIO ServicesZio services prescribed by physicians. If more healthcare cost controls are broadly instituted throughout the healthcare industry, the volume of cardiac monitoring solutions prescribed could decrease, resulting in pricing pressure and declining demand for our ZIO Service.Zio service. We cannot predict whether and to what extent existing coverage and reimbursement will continue to be available. If physicians, hospitals and clinics are unable to obtain adequate coverage and government reimbursement of the ZIO Service,Zio service, they are significantly less likely to use the ZIO ServiceZio service and our business and operating results would be harmed.

The current presidential administration and Congress are expected to attempt to make sweeping changes to the current health care laws.  It is uncertain how modification or repeal of


In addition, any of the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, including as a result of current and future executive orders and legislative actions, will impact us and the medical device industry as a whole.  Any changes to, or repeal of, the Affordable Care Act or its implementing regulations may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. We cannot predict what other health carehealthcare programs and regulations will ultimately be implemented at the federal or state level or the effect of any future legislation or regulation in the United States may have on our business.

If third-party commercial payors do not provide any or adequate reimbursement, including as a result of the CMS and MAC reimbursement rates for our Zio XT service, rescind or modify their reimbursement policies or delay payments for our products, including the ZIO Service,Zio service, or if we are unable to successfully negotiate reimbursement contracts, our commercial success could be compromised.

We receive a substantial portion of our revenue from third-party private commercial payors, such as medical insurance companies. These commercial payors may reimburse our products, including the ZIO Service,Zio service, at inadequate rates, suspend or discontinue reimbursement at any time, impose requirements that may result in a greater number of denied claims, or require or increase co-payments from patients. The recent actions taken by CMS and MACs to reduce the reimbursement rates for use of the Zio XT service by Medicare patients could influence the price that commercial payors are willing to pay for our Zio service. Contracts with commercial payors, which set forth the Zio XT service reimbursement rates for us and prescribing physicians could be terminated or payors could seek to renegotiate them at any time to try to obtain pricing at reduced amounts at or near the Novitas Solutions reimbursement rates. Some payors do not have contracts with us and others that are already in the process of negotiating contracts may look to negotiate lower reimbursement rates for the Zio XT service in response to actions taken by Novitas Solutions. Any such actions could have a negativesignificant and adverse effect on our revenue and the revenue of providers prescribingphysicians who prescribe our products.Zio service. Physicians may not prescribe our productsZio service unless payors reimburse a substantial portion of the submitted costs, including the physician’s, hospital’s or clinic’s charges related to the application of certain products, including the ZIO PatchZio monitor and the interpretation of results which may inform a diagnosis. Additionally, certain payors may require that physicians prescribe a Holter monitor asanother arrhythmia diagnostic monitoring option prior to prescribing the first-line monitoring option.Zio service. There is significant uncertainty concerning third-party reimbursement of any new product or service until a contracted rate is established. Reimbursement by a commercial payor may depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to, a payor’s determination that the prescribed service is:

not experimental or investigational

investigational;

appropriate for the specific patient

patient;

cost effective

effective;

supported by peer-reviewed publications

publications; and

advocatedaccepted and used by key opinion leaders

physicians within their provider network.

Since each payor makes its own decision as to whether to establish a policy concerning reimbursement or enter into a contract with us to set the price of reimbursement, seeking reimbursement on a payor-by-payor basis is a time consuming and costly process to which we dedicate substantial resources. If we do not dedicate sufficient resources to establishing contracts with
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third-party commercial payors, or continue to validate the clinical value of Zio services through studies and physician adoption, the amount that we are reimbursed for our products may decline, our revenue may become less predictable, and we will need to expend more efforts on a claim-by-claim basis to obtain reimbursement for our products.

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A substantial portion of our revenue is derived from third-party commercial payors who have pricing contracts with us, which means that the payor has agreed to a defined reimbursement rate for our products.services. These contracts provide a high degree of certainty to us, physicians, clinics and hospitals and clinics with respect to the rate at which our productsservices will be reimbursed. These contracts also impose a number of obligations regarding billing and other matters, and our noncompliance with a material term of such contracts may result in termination of the contract and loss of any associated revenue. We expect to continue to dedicate resources to maintaining compliance with these contracted payors, to ensure payors acknowledge and are aware of the clinical and economic value of our services and the interest on the part of physicians, clinics and hospitals who use our services and participate in their provider networks; however, we can provide no assurance that we will retain any given contractual payor relationship. A loss of these pricing contracts can increase the uncertainty of reimbursement of claims from third-party payors.
A portion of our revenue is derived from third-party commercial payors without such contracts in place. Without a contracted rate, reimbursement claims for our products are often denied upon submission, and we or our billing partner, XIFIN, Inc. (“XIFIN”), or XIFIN, must appeal the denial. The appeals process is time-consuming and expensive, and may not result in full or any payment. In cases where there is no contracted rate for reimbursement it may be more difficult for us to acquire new accounts with physicians, hospitalsclinics and clinics.hospitals. In addition, in the absence of a contracted rate, there is typically a greater out-of-network, co-insurance or co-payment requirement which may result in payment delays or decreased likelihood of full collection. In some cases involving non-contracted insurance companies, we may not be able to collect any amount or only a portion of the invoiced amount for our products.

services.

We expect to continue to dedicate significant resources to establishing pricing contracts with non-contracted insurance companies; however, we can provide no assurance that we will be successful in obtaining such pricing contracts or that such pricing contracts will contain reimbursement for our productsservices at rates that are favorable to us. If we fail to establish these contracts, we will be able to recognize revenue only upon the earlier of notification of payor benefits allowed or when payment is received.based on an estimated average collection rate per historical cash collections. In addition, XIFIN may need to expend significant resources obtaining reimbursement on a claim-by-claim basis and in adjudicating claims which are denied altogether or not reimbursed at acceptable rates. We currently pay XIFIN a percentage of the amounts it collects on our behalf and this percentage may increase in the future if it needs to expend more resources in adjudicating such claims. We sometimes informally engage physicians, hospitals and clinics to help establish contracts with third-party payors who insure their patients. We cannot provide any assurance that such physicians, hospitals and clinics will continue to help us establish contracts in the future. If we fail to establish contracts with more third-party payors it may adversely affect our ability to increase our revenue. In addition, a failure to enter into contracts could affect a physician’s willingness to prescribe our productsservices because of the administrative work involved in interacting with patients to answer their questions and help them obtain reimbursement for our products.services. If physicians are unwilling to prescribe our productsservices due to the lack of certainty and administrative work involved with patients covered by non-contracted insurance companies, or patients covered by non-contracted insurance companies are unwilling to risk that their insurance may charge additional out-of-pocket fees, our revenue could decline or fail to increase.

Our continued rapid growth could strain our personnel resources and infrastructure, and if we are unable to manage the anticipated growth of our business, our future revenue and operating results may be harmed.


We have experienced rapid growth in our headcount and in our operations. Any growth that we experience in the future will provide challenges to our organization, requiring us to expand our sales personnel, manufacturing, clinical, customer care and manufacturingbilling operations and general and administrative infrastructure. In addition to the need to scale our clinical operationsoperational and service capacity, future growth will impose significant added responsibilities on management, including the need to identify, recruit, train and integrate additional employees. Rapid expansion in personnel could mean that less experienced people manufacture our ZIO Patch,Zio monitors, market, sell and sellsupport our ZIO ServiceZio service, and analyze the data to produce ZIO Reports,Zio reports, which could result in inefficiencies and unanticipated costs, reduced quality in either our ZIO ReportsZio reports or manufactured devices, and disruptions to our service operations. Additionally, rapid expansion could require us to rely on overtime to increase capacity that could, in turn, result in greater employee attrition and/or a loss in productivity during the process of recruiting and training additional resources and add to our operating expenses.

As we seek to gain greater efficiency, we may expand the automated portion of our ZIO ServiceZio service and require productivity improvements from our certified cardiaccardiographic technicians. Such improvements could compromise the quality of our ZIO Reports.Zio reports. In addition, rapid and significant growth may strain our administrative and operational infrastructure. Our ability to manage our business and growth will require us to continue to improve our operational, financial and management controls,
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reporting systems and procedures. We recently installed a new Enterprise Resource Planning, or ERP, platform, which is critical to our ability to track our claims processing and the delivery of our ZIO Reports to physicians, as well as to support our financial reporting systems. The time and resources required to optimize these systems are uncertain, and failure to complete optimization in a timely and efficient manner could adversely affect our operations. If we are unable to manage our growth effectively, it may be difficult for us to execute our business strategy and our business could be harmed.

If we are unable to support demand for the ZIO ServiceZio service or any of our future products or services, our business could suffer.

As demand for the ZIO ServiceZio service or any of our future products or services increases, we will need to continue to scale our manufacturing capacity and algorithm processing technology, expand customer service, billing and systems processes and enhance our internal quality assurance program. We will also need additional certified cardiaccardiographic technicians and other personnel to process higher volumes of data. We cannot assure you that, with any increases in scale, relatedrequired improvements andwill be successfully implemented, quality assurance will be successfully implementedmaintained, or that appropriate personnel will be available to facilitate growth of our business. Failure to implement necessary procedures, transition to new processes or hire the necessary personnel could result in higher costs of processing data or inability to meet increased demand. There can be no assurance that we will be able to perform our data analysis on a timely basis at a level consistent with demand, quality standards and physician expectations. If we encounter difficulty meeting market demand, quality standards or physician expectations, our reputation could be harmed and our future prospects and business could suffer.

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We plan to introduce new products and services and our business will be harmed if we are not successful in selling these new products and services to our existing customers and new customers

We recentlyhave received FDA clearance for our ZIOZio AT ECG Monitoring System, (“Zio AT”), which is designed to provide timely transmission of data during the wear period. We refer to both the ZIO AT ECG Monitoring System, or ZIO AT Patch, and ZIO XT Patch as the ZIO Patch in this Quarterly Report on 10-Q, unless otherwise specified. WeHowever, we do not yet know whether the ZIOZio AT ECG Monitoring System or any other new products and services will be well received and broadly adopted by physicians and their patients or whether sales will be sufficient for us to offset the costs of development, implementation, support, operation, sales and marketing. Although we have performed extensive testing of our new products and services, their broad-based implementation may require more support than we anticipate, which would further increase our expenses. Additionally, new products and services may subject us to additional risks of product performance, customer complaints and litigation. If sales of our new products and services are lower than we expect, or if we expend additional resources to fix unforeseen problems and develop modifications, our operating margins are likely to decrease.

We have limited experience manufacturing the ZIO Patch in commercial quantities and providing services on a broad scale, which could harm our business.

Because we have only limited experience in manufacturing the ZIO Patch in commercial quantities and providing services on a broad scale, we may encounter production or service delays or shortfalls. Such production or service delays or shortfalls may be caused by many factors, including the following:

we intend to continue to expand our manufacturing capacity, and our production processes may have to change to accommodate this growth

key components of the ZIO Patch are provided by a single supplier or limited number of suppliers, and we do not maintain large inventory levels of these components; if we experience a shortage or quality issues in any of these components, we would need to identify and qualify new supply sources, which could increase our expenses and result in manufacturing delays

we may experience a delay in completing validation and verification testing for new controlled environment rooms at our manufacturing facilities

we are subject to state and federal regulations, including the FDA’s Quality System Regulation, or the QSR, and the European Union’s, or EU’s, Medical Device Directive, or MDD, for both the manufacture of the ZIO Patch and the provision of the ZIO Service, noncompliance with which could cause an interruption in our manufacturing, distribution and services

to increase our manufacturing output significantly and scale our services, we will have to attract and retain qualified employees for our operations

If we are unable to keep up with demand for the ZIO Service, our revenue could be impaired, market acceptance for the ZIO Service could be harmed and physicians may instead prescribe our competitors’ products and services. Our inability to successfully manufacture the ZIO Patch in sufficient quantities, or provide the ZIO Service in a timely manner, would materially harm our business.

Our manufacturing facilities and processes and those of our third-party suppliers are subject to unannounced FDA, state , and Notified Body regulatory inspections for compliance with the QSR and MDD requirements. Developing and maintaining a compliant quality system is time consuming and expensive. Failure to maintain compliance with, or not fully complying with the requirements of the FDA and state regulators could result in enforcement actions against us or our third-party suppliers, which could include the issuance of warning letters, adverse publicity, seizures, prohibitions on product sales, recalls and civil and criminal penalties, any one of which could significantly impact our manufacturing supply and provision of services and impair our financial results.

We depend on third-party vendors to manufacture some of our components, which could make us vulnerable to supply shortages and price fluctuations that could harm our business.

We rely on third-party vendors for components used in our ZIO Patch. Our reliance on third-party vendors subjects us to a number of risks, including:

inability to obtain adequate supply in a timely manner or on commercially reasonable terms

interruption of supply resulting from modifications to, or discontinuation of, a supplier’s operations

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production delays related to the evaluation and testing of products from alternative suppliers and corresponding regulatory qualifications

inability of the manufacturer or supplier to comply with the QSR, MDD and state regulatory authorities

delays in product shipments resulting from uncorrected defects, reliability issues, or a supplier’s failure to consistently produce quality components

price fluctuations due to a lack of long-term supply arrangements with our suppliers for key components

inability to control the quality of products manufactured by third parties

delays in delivery by our suppliers due to changes in demand from us or their other customers

Any significant delay or interruption in the supply of components or sub-assemblies, or our inability to obtain substitute components, sub-assemblies or materials from alternate sources at acceptable prices and in a timely manner could impair our ability to meet the demand for our ZIO Service and harm our business.

We rely on single suppliers for some of the materials used in our products, and if any of those suppliers are unable or unwilling to produce these materials or supply them in the quantities that we need at the quality we require, we may not be able to find replacements or transition to alternative suppliers before our business is materially impacted.

We rely on single suppliers for the supply of our adhesive substrate,sub-assembly, disposable plastic housings, instruments and other materials that we use to manufacture and label our ZIO Patch.Zio monitors. These components and materials are critical and, in some cases, there are relatively few alternative sources of supply. We have not qualified additional suppliers for some of these components and materials and we do not carry a significant inventory of these items. While we believe that alternative sources of supply may be available, we cannot be certain whether they will be available if and when we need them and that any alternative suppliers would be able to provide the quantity and quality of components and materials that we would need to manufacture our ZIO PatchZio monitors if our existing suppliers were unable to satisfy our supply requirements. To utilize other supply sources, we would need to identify and qualify new suppliers to our quality standards, which could result in manufacturing delays and increase our expenses. Any supply interruption, such as those that we have experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic, could limit our ability to manufacture our products and could therefore harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. If our current suppliers and any alternative suppliers do not provide us with the materials we need to manufacture our products or perform our services, if the materials do not meet our quality specifications, or if we cannot obtain acceptable substitute materials, an interruption in our ZIO ServiceZio service could occur. Any such interruption may significantly affect our future revenue and harm our relations and reputation with physicians, hospitals, clinics and patients.

If our manufacturing facility becomes damaged or inoperable, or if we are required to vacate athe facility, we may be unable to manufacture the ZIO Patchand ship our Zio monitors, or we may experience delays in production or an increase in costs which could adversely affect our results of operations.

We currently manufacture and assemble the ZIO PatchZio monitors in only one location. Our products are comprised of components sourced from a variety of contract manufacturers, with final assembly completed at our facility in Cypress, California. Our facility and equipment, or those of our suppliers, could be harmed or rendered inoperable by natural or man-made disasters, including fire, earthquake, terrorism, pandemic outbreaks, flooding and power outages. Any of these may render it difficult or impossible for us to manufacture new products, ship assembled products, and/or receive returned units for some period of time. If our Cypress facility is inoperable for even a short period of time, the inability to manufacture, the ZIO Patch,ship and receive our Zio monitors, and the interruption in research and development of any future products, may result in harm to our reputation,
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increased costs, the loss of orders and lower revenue. Furthermore, it could be costly and time consuming to repair or replace our facilities and the equipment we use to perform our research and development work and manufacture our products.

If we fail to increase our sales and marketing capabilities and develop broad brand awareness in a cost effective manner, our growth will be impeded and our business may suffer.

We plan to continue to expand and optimize our sales and marketing infrastructure in order to increase our prescribing physician base and our business. Identifying and recruiting qualified personnel and training them in the application of the ZIO Service,Zio service, on applicable federal and state laws and regulations and on our internal policies and procedures requires significant time, expense and attention. It often takes several months or more before a sales representative is fully trained and productive. Our business may be harmed if our efforts to expand and train our sales force do not generate a corresponding increase in revenue. In particular, if we are unable to hire, develop and retain talented sales personnel or if new sales personnel are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time, we may not be able to realize the expected benefits of this investment or increase our revenue.

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Our ability to increase our customer base and achieve broader market acceptance of our products will depend, to a significant extent, on our ability to expand our marketing efforts. We plan to dedicate significant resources to our marketing programs. Our business may be harmed if our marketing efforts and expenditures do not generate a corresponding increase in revenue.

In addition, we believe that developing and maintaining broad awareness of our brand in a cost effective manner is critical to achieving broad acceptance of the ZIO ServiceZio service and penetrating new accounts. Brand promotion activities may not generate patient or physician awareness or increase revenue, and even if they do, any increase in revenue may not offset the costs and expenses we incur in building our brand. If we fail to successfully promote, maintain and protect our brand, we may fail to attract or retain the physician acceptance necessary to realize a sufficient return on our brand building efforts, or to achieve the level of brand awareness that is critical for broad adoption of the ZIO Service.

Zio service.

Billing for our ZIO ServiceZio service is complex, and we must dedicate substantial time and resources to the billing process.

Billing for independent diagnostic testing facility, or IDTF services is complex, time consuming and expensive. Depending on the billing arrangement and applicable law, we bill several types of payors, including CMS, third-party commercial payors, institutions and patients, which may have different billing requirements procedures or expectations. We also must bill patient co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles. We face risk in our collection efforts, including potential write-offs of doubtful accounts and long collection cycles, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Several factors make the billing and collection process uncertain, including:

differences between the submitted price for our ZIO ServiceZio service and the reimbursement rates of payors

payors;

compliance with complex federal and state regulations related to billing CMS

CMS;

differences in coverage among payors and the effect of patient co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles

deductibles;

differences in information and billing requirements among payors

payors; and

incorrect or missing patient history, indications or billing information

information.
As a result of the CPT code changes that took effect January 1, 2021, the number of claims from the first half of 2021 which contained differences between the submitted price and reimbursement and overall denials increased significantly compared to our historical experience as a result of CPT code transition issues with the payors. We continue to work with the payors to collect on these claims and the collection cycle for these claims is significantly longer than usual and may lead to higher write-offs of doubtful accounts for those periods and negatively impact our results of operations.

Additionally, our billing activities require us to implement compliance procedures and oversight, train and monitor our employees and undertake internal review procedures to evaluate compliance with applicable laws, regulations and internal policies. Payors also conduct audits to evaluate claims, which may add further cost and uncertainty to the billing process. These billing complexities, and the related uncertainty in obtaining payment for our ZIO Service,Zio service, could negatively affect our revenue and cash flow, our ability to achieve profitability, and the consistency and comparability of our results of operations.

The operation of our call centers and monitoring facilities is subject to rules and regulations governing IDTFs; failure to comply with these rules could prevent us from receiving reimbursement from CMS and some commercial payors.

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In order to getbe a participating provider in the Medicare program, and to be reimbursed by CMS under the program, we must establishestablished an IDTF. IDTFs areindependent diagnostic treatment facility (or “IDTF”). An IDTF is a “provider-type” designation under Medicare, defined by CMS as entitiesan entity(ies) independent of a hospital or physician’s office in which diagnostic tests are performed by licensed or certified nonphysician personnel under appropriate physician supervision. Our IDTFs are staffed by certified cardiaccardiographic technicians, who are overseen by a medical director who reviews the accuracy of the data we curate and from which we prepare reports. The existence of an IDTF allows us to bill a government payor for the ZIO ServiceZio service through one or more MACs, such as Novitas Solutions, Noridian Healthcare Solutions and Palmetto GBA. MACs are companies that operate on behalf of the federal government to process Medicare claims for reimbursement and allow us to obtain reimbursement for our ZIO ServiceZio service at CMS defined rates. Certification as an IDTF requires that we follow strict regulations governing how the center operates, such as requirements regarding the experience and certifications of the certified cardiaccardiographic technicians. In addition, many commercial payors require our IDTFs to maintain accreditation and certification with the Joint Commission of American Hospitals. To do so we must demonstrate a specified quality standard and are subject to routine inspection and audits. These rules and regulations vary from location to location and are subject to change. If they change, we may have to change the operating procedures at our IDTFs, which could increase our costs significantly. If we fail to obtain and maintain IDTF certification, our ZIO ServiceZio service may no longer be reimbursed by CMS and some commercial payors, which would have a material adverse impact on our business.

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In 2017,

During the first quarter of 2022, we have recognized approximately twelvesix percent of our revenue from non-contracted third-party payors, and as a result, our quarterly operating results are difficult to predict.

If we do not have a contracted rate with a payor, or have an insufficient or unpredictable history of collections, we recognize revenue only upon the earlier of notification of the payor benefits allowed or when payment is received.

We have limited visibility as to when we will receive payment for our ZIO ServiceZio service with non-contracted payors and we or XIFIN must appeal any negative payment decisions, which often delay collections further. Additionally, a portion of the revenue from non-contracted payors is received from patient co-pays, which we may not receive for several months following delivery of service or at all. There is currently no predictable payment history for direct-billedFor revenue related to non-contracted payors, and thus because a reasonablewe estimate of reimbursement cannot be made, we recognize revenue from such accounts only when wean average collection rate based on factors including historical cash collections. Subsequent adjustments, if applicable, are notified of payment or it is received.recorded as an adjustment to revenue. Fluctuations in revenue may make it difficult for us, research analysts and investors to accurately forecast our revenue and operating results or to assess our actual performance. When management’s judgement indicates a reasonable estimate of reimbursement can be made we will begin recognizing the revenue on an accrual basis upon delivery. If our revenue or operating results fall below expectations, the price of our common stock would likely decline.

We rely on a third-party billing company, XIFIN, to transmit and pursue claims with payors. A delay in transmitting or pursuing claims could have an adverse effect on our revenue.

While we manage the overall processing of claims, we rely on XIFIN Inc. to transmit substantially all of our claims to payors, and pursue most claim denials. If claims for our ZIO ServiceZio service are not submitted to payors on a timely basis, not properly adjudicated upon a denial, or if we are required to switch to a different claims processor, we may experience delays in our ability to process receipt of payments from payors, which would have an adverse effect on our revenue and our business.

The market for ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions is highly competitive. If our competitors are able to develop or market monitoring products and services that are more effective, or gain greater acceptance in the marketplace, than any products and services we develop, our commercial opportunities will be reduced or eliminated.

The market for ambulatory cardiac monitoring products and services is evolving rapidly and becoming increasingly competitive. Our ZIO ServiceZio service competes with a variety of products and services that provide alternatives for ambulatory cardiac monitoring, including Holter monitors and mobile cardiac telemetry monitors. Our industry is highly fragmented and characterized by a small number of large manufacturers and a large number of smaller regional service providers. These third parties compete with us in marketing to payors and prescribing physicians, recruiting and retaining qualified personnel, acquiring technology and developing products and services that compete with the ZIO Service.Zio service. Our ability to compete effectively depends on our ability to distinguish our company and the ZIO ServiceZio service from our competitors and their products, and includes such factors as:

safety and efficacy

efficacy;

acute and long term outcomes

outcomes;

ease of use

use;

price

price;

physician, hospital and clinic acceptance

acceptance; and
third-party reimbursement.

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Our industry is subject to rapid change and significantly affected by new product introductions, results of clinical research, corporate combinations and other factors. Large competitors in the ambulatory cardiac market include companies that sell standard Holter monitor equipment such asmonitors including GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Mortara Instrument, Inc., Spacelabs Healthcare Inc. and Welch Allyn Holdings, Inc., which was acquired(acquired by Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc.). Additional competitors, whosuch as BioTelemetry, Inc. (acquired by Royal Philips), Preventice Solutions, Inc., (acquired by Boston Scientific, Inc.) and Bardy Diagnostics, Inc., (acquired by Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc. which was recently acquired by Baxter International, Inc.) offer Holter and event monitors,ambulatory cardiac monitoring services and also function as service providers, include BioTelemetry, Inc. and Medtronic plc.providers. These companies have also developed other patch-based mobile cardiac monitors that have recently received FDA and foreign regulatory clearances. For example, LifeWatch AG, which was subsequently acquired by BioTelemetry in July 2017, received FDA clearance and CE mark for its mobile cardiac telemetry monitoring patch in January 2016 and December 2015, respectively. In addition, in July 2016, BioTelemetry, Inc. announced FDA clearance for its own patch-based mobile cardiac telemetry monitor. There are also several small start-up companies trying to compete in the patch-based cardiac monitoring space, as well as several entering the patch-based cardiac monitoring market. Large medical device companies may continue to acquire or form alliances with these smaller companies in order to diversify their product offering and participate in the digital health space.

We have seen a trend in the market for large medical device companies to acquire, invest in or form alliances with these smaller companies in order to diversify their product offerings and participate in the digital health space. Two examples of this are Medtronic plc’s 2014 acquisition of Corventis, Inc. and Boston Scientific Corporation’s 2015 equity investment and sales cooperation agreement with Preventice Solutions, Inc., which was formerly named eCardio Diagnostics, LLC. Future competition could come from makers of wearable fitness products or large information technology companies focused on improving healthcare. For example, Apple Inc. has added capabilities on its watch platform to measure non-continuous ECG and to alert users to the potential presence of irregular heartbeats suggestive of asymptomatic AF. These competitors and potential competitors may introduce new products and services that more directly compete with our ZIO Service.Zio service. Recently, there has been increased acquisition activity and consolidation in our industry. Many of our competitors and potential competitors have significantly greater financial and other resources than we do and have well-established reputations, broader product offerings, and worldwide distribution channels that are significantly larger and more effective than ours. If our competitors and potential competitors are better able to develop new ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions than us, or develop more effective or less expensive cardiac monitoring solutions, they may render our current ZIO ServiceZio service obsolete or non-competitive. Competitors may also be able to deploy larger or more effective sales and marketing resources than we currently have. Competition with these companies could result in price cutting, reduced profit margins and loss of market share, any of which would harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our ability to compete depends on our ability to innovate successfully.

The market for medical devices, including the ambulatory cardiac monitoring segment, is competitive, dynamic, and marked by rapid and substantial technological development and product innovation. ThereWhile there are few barriers that would preventchallenge new entrants or existing competitors from developing products that compete directly with ours.ours, these barriers can be overcome. Demand for the ZIO ServiceZio service and future related products or services could be diminished by equivalent or superior products and technologies offered by competitors. If we are unable to innovate successfully, our products and services could become obsolete and our revenue would decline as our customers purchase our competitors’ products and services.

In order to remain competitive, we must continue to develop new product offerings and enhancements to the ZIO Service.Zio service. We can provide no assurance that we will be successful in monetizingfully recognizing the strategic value of our electrocardiogram, or ECG database, expanding the indications for our ZIO Service,Zio service, developing new products or commercializing them in ways that achieve market acceptance. In addition, if we develop new products, sales of those products may reduce revenue generated from our existing products. Maintaining adequate research and development personnel and resources to meet the demands of the market is essential. If we are unable to develop new products, applications or features or improve our algorithms due to constraints, such as insufficient cash resources, high employee turnover, inability to hire personnel with sufficient technical skills or a lack of other research and development resources, we may not be able to maintain our competitive position compared to other companies. Furthermore, many of our competitors devote a considerably greater amount of funds to their research and development programs than we do, and those that do not may be acquired by larger companies that would allocate greater resources to research and development programs. Our failure or inability to devote adequate research and development resources or compete effectively with the research and development programs of our competitors could harm our business.

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We have entered into a development agreement with a third party that may not result in the development of commercially viable products or the generation of significant future revenues.

We have entered into a development agreement with Verily Life Sciences LLC (an Alphabet Company, referred to as “Verily”) to develop certain next-generation AF screening, detection, or monitoring products, which involve combining Verily and our technology platforms and capabilities (the “Development Agreement”). As part of the Development Agreement, we paid Verily an up-front fee of $5.0 million in cash, and $4.0 million in milestone payments during the year ended December 31, 2020 with an additional $4.0 million in milestone payments made in January of 2021. Through March 31, 2022, we have achieved milestones and related payment obligations totaling $11.0 million. We have agreed to make additional payments over the term of the Development Agreement up to an aggregate of $1.75 million, subject to the achievement of certain development and regulatory milestones. The success of our collaboration with Verily is highly dependent on the efforts provided to the collaboration by Verily and us and the skill sets of our respective employees. Support of these development efforts requires significant resources, including research and development, manufacturing, quality assurance, and clinical and regulatory personnel. Even if our development and clinical trial efforts succeed, the FDA may not clear the developed products or may require additional product testing and clinical trials before clearing the developed products, which would result in product launch delays and additional expense. If cleared by the FDA, the developed products may not be accepted in the marketplace, and there is no assurance that adequate reimbursement will be available, or that an alternative payment model can be developed.

After the initial term and scope of the Development Agreement, and in order to commercialize any developed products with Verily, we will need to enter into a commercialization agreement. There is no guarantee that we will be able to enter into such an agreement on commercially reasonable terms or at all. If we are unable to reach agreement with Verily on terms, the up-front fee and regulatory and development milestone payments and our internal development costs would not be recovered and the licenses to use Verily’s technology will expire.

This collaboration may not result in the development of products that achieve commercial success and could be terminated prior to developing any products. In the event of any termination or expiration of the Development Agreement, we may be required to devote additional resources to product development and we may face increased competition, including from Verily. Verily may use the experience and insights it develops in the course of the collaboration with us to initiate or accelerate their development of products that compete with our products, which may create competitive disadvantages for us. Accordingly, we cannot provide assurance that our collaboration with Verily or any other third party will result in the successful development of commercially viable products or result in significant additional future revenues for our company.
The continuing clinical acceptance of the ZIO ServiceZio service depends upon maintaining strong working relationships with physicians.

The development, marketing, and sale of the ZIO ServiceZio service depends upon our ability to maintain strong working relationships with physicians and other key opinion leaders. We rely on these professionals’ knowledge and experience for the development, marketing and sale of our products. Among other things, physicians assist us in clinical trials and product development matters and provide public presentations at trade conferences regarding the ZIO Service.Zio service. If we cannot maintain our strong working relationships with these professionals and continue to receive their advice and input, the development and marketing of the ZIO ServiceZio service could suffer, which could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The medical device industry’s relationship with physicians is under increasing scrutiny by the Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General, or OIG,(“OIG”), the Department of Justice or DOJ,(“DOJ”), state attorneys general, and other foreign and domestic government agencies. Our failure to comply with laws, rules and regulations governing our relationships with physicians, or an investigation into our compliance by the OIG, DOJ, state attorneys general or other government agencies, could significantly harm our business.

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We have a significant amount of debt, which may affect our ability to operate our business and secure additional financing in the future.

As of September 30, 2017,March 31, 2022, we had $34.4$34.9 million in principal and interest outstanding under our credit facilities consistingterm loan provided by of our loan agreementsagreement with Pharmakon and SVB and a promissory note issued to California HealthCare Foundation.Silicon Valley Bank (“SVB”). We must make significant annual debt payments under the loan agreements and the promissory note,agreement which will divert resources from other activities. Our debt with Pharmakon and SVB is collateralized by substantially all of our assets and contains customary financial and operating covenants limiting our ability to, among other things, dispose of assets, undergo a change in control, merge or consolidate, enter into certain transactions with affiliates, make acquisitions, incur debt, incur liens, pay dividends, repurchase stock and make investments, in each case subject to certain exceptions. The covenants in thesethe loan agreements, the promissory note and the note purchase agreement, pursuant to which the promissory note was issued, as well as in any future financing agreements into which we may enter, may restrict our ability to finance our operations and engage in, expand
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or otherwise pursue our business activities and strategies. Our ability to comply with these covenants may be affected by events beyond our control and future breaches of any of these covenants could result in a default under the loan agreements, the promissory note and the note purchase agreement. If not waived, future defaults could cause all of the outstanding indebtedness under the loan agreements and the promissory noteagreement to become immediately due and payable and terminate commitments to extend further credit. If we do not have or are unable to generate sufficient cash available to repay our debt obligations when they become due and payable, either upon maturity or in the event of a default, we may not be able to obtain additional debt or equity financing on favorable terms, if at all, which may negatively impact our ability to operate and continue our business as a going concern.


We are also exposed to the risk that our earnings and cash flows could be adversely impacted by fluctuations in interest rates. Our policy is to manage interest costs using the mix of fixed- and floating-rate debt, which we cannot guarantee will mitigate the risk of interest rate fluctuation.
We may experience inflationary pressures, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic or as a result of general macroeconomic factors, which could increase our manufacturing costs and operating expenses and have a material adverse impact on our results of operations.

We continuously monitor the effects of inflationary factors, such as increases in our cost of goods sold and selling and operating expenses, which may adversely affect our results of operations. Specifically, we may experience inflationary pressure affecting the cost of the components for our Zio service and in the wages that we pay our employees due to challenging labor market conditions. Competitive and regulatory conditions may restrict our ability to fully recover these costs through price increases. As a result, it may be difficult to fully offset the impact of persistent inflation. Our inability or failure to do so could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations or cause us to need to obtain additional capital in future earlier than anticipated.
We have recently experienced management turnover, which creates uncertainties and could harm our business.

We have recently experienced significant changes in our executive leadership. In September 2021, we announced the appointment of Quentin S. Blackford, as our President and Chief Executive Officer, effective October 4, 2021. In June 2021, our former Chief Executive Officer, Michael J. Coyle, announced he was resigning and our Chief Financial Officer, Douglas J. Devine, assumed the position of Interim Chief Executive Officer. In December 2020, our prior Chief Executive Officer, Kevin M. King, announced his retirement as our Chief Executive Officer. In June 2020, our Chief Financial Officer, Matthew C. Garrett, announced that he was resigning for personal reasons and in March 2020, our Chief Operating Officer, Karim Karti, resigned.

Changes to strategic or operating goals, which can often times occur with the appointment of new executives, can create uncertainty, may negatively impact our ability to execute quickly and effectively, and may ultimately be unsuccessful. In addition, executive leadership transition periods are often difficult as the new executives gain detailed knowledge of our operations, and friction can result from changes in strategy and management style. Management turnover inherently causes some loss of institutional knowledge, which can negatively affect strategy and execution. If we do not integrate new executives successfully, we may be unable to manage and grow our business, and our financial condition and profitability may suffer as a result. In addition, to the extent we experience additional management turnover, competition for top management is high and it may take months to find a candidate that meets our requirements. If we are unable to attract and retain qualified management personnel, our business could suffer.
We depend on our senior management team and the loss of one or more key employees or an inability to attract and retain highly skilled employees could harm our business.


Our success depends largely on the continued services of key members of our executive management team and others in key management positions. For example, the services of Kevin M. King,Quentin S. Blackford, our President and Chief Executive Officer, and Matthew C. Garrett,Douglas J. Devine, our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, are essential to formulating and executing on corporate strategy and to ensuring the continued operations and integrity of financial reporting within our company. In addition, the services provided by David A. Vort, our Executive Vice President of Sales,Chief Commercial Officer, are critical to the growth that we have experienced in the sales of our ZIO Service.Zio service. The services of Patrick Murphy, our Chief Legal Counsel, are critical for managing our legal and compliance functions. The services of Mark Day, our Chief Technology Officer are critical for managing our research and development programs. Our employees may terminate their employment with us at any time. If we lose one or more key employees, we may experience difficulties in competing effectively, developing our technologies and implementing our business strategy. We do not currently maintain key person life insurance policies on these or any of our employees.

In addition, our research and development programs and clinical operations depend on our ability to attract and retain highly skilled engineers and certified cardiaccardiographic technicians. We may not be able to attract or retain qualified engineers and
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certified cardiaccardiographic technicians in the future due to the competition for qualified personnel. We have from time to time experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, difficulty in hiring and retaining employees with appropriate qualifications. Many of the companies with which we compete for experienced personnel have greater resources than us. If we hire employees from competitors or other companies, their former employers may attempt to assert that these employees or we have breached legal obligations, resulting in a diversion of our time and resources and, potentially, damages. In addition, job candidates and existing employees, particularly in the San Francisco Bay Area, often consider the value of the stock awards they receive in connection with their employment. If the perceived value of our stock awards declines, either because we are a public company or otherwise, it may harm our ability to recruit and retain highly skilled employees. If we fail to attract new personnel or fail to retain and motivate our current personnel, our business and future growth prospects would be harmed.

We added two new directors to our board of directors in July 2017, which may lead to changes in our operations.

Two new directors were elected to our board of directors on July 17, 2017. One of these directors, Bruce G. Bodaken, served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of a payor, and the other director, Dr. Ralph Snyderman, served as founding Chief Executive Officer and President of a provider. Another of our directors has served on our board of directors for less than 18 months. Because of these recent additions, our board of directors has not worked together as a group for an extended period of time. This change in the composition of our board of directors from directors affiliated with financial investors to directors with industry experience may lead to changes in our operations as these new directors analyze our business and contribute to the formulation of business strategies and objectives. If our board of directors does not align on the business strategies and objectives of our company, our operating results could be adversely affected.

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International expansion of our business exposes us to market, regulatory, political, operational, financial and economic risks associated with doing business outside of the United States.

Our business strategy includes international expansion. Doing business internationally involves a number of risks, including:

multiple, conflicting and changing laws and regulations such as tax laws, privacy laws, export and import restrictions, employment laws, regulatory requirements and other governmental approvals, permits and licenses

licenses;

obtaining and sustaining regulatory approvals, certifications, and regulatory compliance where required for the sale of our products and services in various countries

countries;

requirements to maintain data and the processing of that data on servers located within such countries

countries;

complexities associated with managing multiple payor reimbursement regimes, government payors or patient self-pay systems

systems;

logistics and regulations associated with shipping and returning ZIO Patchesour Zio monitors following use

use;

limits on our ability to penetrate international markets if we are required to process the ZIO Service locally

Zio service locally;

financial risks, such as longer payment cycles, difficulty collecting accounts receivable, the effect of local and regional financial pressures on demand and payment for our products and services and exposure to foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations

fluctuations;

natural disasters, political and economic instability, including wars, terrorism, political unrest, outbreak of disease, boycotts, curtailment of trade and other market restrictions

restrictions;

regulatory and compliance risks that relate to maintaining accurate information and control over activities subject to regulation under the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 or FCPA,(“FCPA”), U.K. Bribery Act of 2010 and comparable laws and regulations in other countries

countries; and
compliance risks associated with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (including as it applies in the United Kingdom by virtue of the Data Protection Act 2018), enacted to protect the privacy of all individuals in the European Union and the United Kingdom, and places certain restrictions on the export of personally identifiable data outside of the European Union or the United Kingdom, as applicable.

Any of these factors could significantly harm our future international expansion and operations and, consequently, our revenue and results of operations.

Our relationships with business partners in new international markets may subject us to an increased risk of litigation.

As we expand our business internationally, if we cannot successfully manage the unique challenges presented by international markets and our relationships with new business partners within those markets, our expansion activities may be adversely affected and we may become subject to an increased risk of litigation.

We may become involved in disputes relating to our products, contracts and business relationships. Such disputes include litigation against persons whom we believe have infringed on our intellectual property, infringement litigation filed against us, litigation against a competitor or litigation filed against us by distributors or service providers resulting from a breach of contract or other claim. Any of these disputes may result in substantial costs to us, judgments, settlements and diversion of our management’s attention, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition or operating results. There is also a risk of adverse judgments, as the outcome of litigation in foreign jurisdictions can be inherently uncertain.

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We could be adversely affected by violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, or FCPA, and similar worldwide anti-bribery laws and the ongoing investigation, and outcome of the investigation, by government agencies of possible violations by us of the FCPAwhich could have a material adverse effect on our business.

The FCPA and similar worldwide anti-bribery laws generally prohibit companies and their intermediaries from corruptly providing any benefits to government officials for the purpose of obtaining or retaining business. We are in the process of designing and implementing policies and procedures intended to help ensure compliance with these laws. In the future, we may operate in parts of the world that have experienced governmental corruption to some degree. We cannot assure you that our internal control policies and procedures will protect us from improper acts committed by our employees or agents. Violations of these laws, or allegations of such violations, could disrupt our business and have a material adverse effect on our business and operations.

In addition, the DOJ or other governmental agencies could impose a broad range of civil and criminal sanctions under the FCPA and other laws and regulations including, but not limited to, injunctive relief, disgorgement, fines, penalties, modifications to business practices including the termination or modification of existing business relationships, the imposition of compliance programs and the retention of a monitor to oversee compliance with the FCPA. The imposition of any of these sanctions or remedial measures could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.

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Our proprietary data analytics engine may not operate properly, which could damage our reputation, give rise to claims against us or divert application of our resources from other purposes, any of which could harm our business and operating results.

The ECG data that is gathered through the ZIO Patchour Zio monitors is curated by algorithms that are part of our ZIO ServiceZio service and a ZIO ReportZio report is delivered to the prescribing physician for diagnosis. The continuous development, maintenance and operation of our machine-learneddeep-learned backend data analytics engine is expensive and complex, and may involve unforeseen difficulties including material performance problems, undetected defects or errors. We may encounter technical obstacles, and it is possible that we may discover additional problems that prevent our proprietary algorithms from operating properly. We may also attempt to develop new capabilities and incorporate new technologies, including artificial intelligence, which could impact our data analytics platform’s performance. If our data analytics platform does not function reliably or fails to meet physician or payor expectations in terms of performance, physicians may stop prescribing the ZIO ServiceZio service and payors could attempt to cancel their contracts with us.

Any unforeseen difficulties we encounter in our existing or new software, cloud-based applications, telecommunication service providers, and analytics services, and any failure by us to identify and address them could result in loss of revenue or market share, diversion of development resources, injury to our reputation and increased service and maintenance costs. Correction of defects or errors could prove to be impossible or impracticable. The costs incurred in correcting any defects or errors may be substantial and could adversely affect our operating results.

Provision of the ZIO ServiceZio service is dependent upon third-party vendors who are subject to disruptions, which could directly or indirectly harm our business and operating results.

The analysis we perform to create the diagnostic report for the ZIO XT Service and the final report for the ZIO AT ServiceZio service is dependent upon a recording made by each device, which requires the physical return of the ZIO PatchZio monitor to one of our clinical centers. We predominantly rely on the U.S. Postal Service or USPS,(“USPS”) to perform this delivery service. Delivery of the ZIO PatchZio monitor to one of our clinical centers may be subject to disruption by natural disasters such as earthquake or flooding, labor disagreements or errors on behalf of USPS staff, operational and funding reductions negatively impacting USPS service capabilities, structural issues timely processing in some geographies, or other disruption to the USPS delivery infrastructure. Further, for the ZIOZio AT Service,monitor, we rely on the provision of cellular communication services for the timely transmission of patient information and reportable events. TheseOnce received, all data from both Zio XT and AT monitors is processed, curated and reported on through cloud-computing resources. The reliability of these communication and cloud services areis also subject to natural disasters, labor disruptions, human error, and infrastructure failure.

Any of these disruptions may render it difficult or temporarily impossible for us to provide some or all of the ZIO Service,Zio service, adversely affecting our operating results, causing significant distraction for management, and negatively impacting our business reputation.

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Security breaches, loss of data and other disruptions could compromise sensitive information related to our business or patients, or prevent us from accessing critical information and expose us to liability, which could adversely affect our business and our reputation.

In the ordinary course of our business, we and our third-party billing and collections provider, XIFIN, collect, process, and store sensitive data, including legally-protected personally identifiable health information about patients in the United States and in the United Kingdom. This personally identifiable information may include, among other information, names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, insurance account information, age, gender, and heart rhythm data. We also process and store, and use additional third parties to process and store, sensitive intellectual property and other proprietary business information, including that of our customers, payors and collaborative partners. Our patient information is encrypted but not de-identified. We manage and maintain our applications and data utilizing a combination of on-site systems, managed data center systems and cloud-based computing center systems. These applications and data encompass a wide variety of business critical information, including research and development information, commercial information and business and financial information.


We are highly dependent on information technology networks and systems, including the internet and services hosted by Amazon Web Services and other third party service providers, to securely process, transmit and store this critical information. Security breaches of this infrastructure, including physical or electronic break-ins, computer viruses, attacks by hackers and similar breaches, can create system disruptions, shutdowns, or unauthorized disclosure or modifications of confidential information involving patient health information to become publicly available. The secure processing, storage, maintenance and transmission of this critical information are vital to our operations and business strategy, and we devote significant resources to protecting such information.information, including executing Business Associates Agreements (HIPAA) and Data Processing Agreements (UK GDPR) with applicable vendors. Although we take measures to protect sensitive information from unauthorized access or disclosure, cyber-attacks are becoming more sophisticated and frequent, and our information technology and infrastructure, and that of XIFIN and other third parties we utilize to process or store data, may be vulnerable to viruses and worms, phishing attacks, denial-of-service attacks, physical or electronic break-ins, attacks by hackers, or viruses or breaches due to employee error, malfeasance, or other disruptions.misuse, or similar disruptions from unauthorized tampering. We have in the past been subject to cyber-attacks and data breaches and expect that we will be subject to additional cyber-attacks in the future and may experience future data breaches. While we have implemented data privacy and security measures that we believe are compliant with applicable privacy laws and regulations, some confidential and protected health information, or PHI, is transmitted to us by third parties, who may not implement adequate security and privacy measures.

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Further, if third party service providers that process or store data on our behalf experience security breaches or violate applicable laws, agreements, or our policies, such events may also put our information at risk and could in turn have an adverse effect on our business.

A security breach or privacy violation that leads to disclosure or modification of, or prevents access to, patient information, including protected health information, could harm our reputation, compel us to comply with disparate state breach notification laws, require us to verify the correctness of database contents and otherwise subject us to liability under laws that protect personal data, resulting in increased costs or loss of revenue. If we are unable to prevent such security breaches or privacy violations or implement satisfactory remedial measures in a timely manner, the market perception of the effectiveness of our security measures could be harmed, our operations could be disrupted, our brand could be adversely affected, demand for our products and services may decrease, we may be unable to provide the ZIO ServiceZio service, we may lose sales and customers, and we may suffer loss of reputation, financial loss and other regulatory penalties because of lost or misappropriated information, including sensitive patient data. We may be required to expend significant capital and financial resources to invest in security measures, protect against such threats or to alleviate problems caused by breaches in security. In addition, these breaches and other inappropriate or unauthorized access can be difficult to detect, and any delay in identifying them may lead to increased harm.

harm to individuals. Although we have invested in our systems and the protection of our data to reduce the risk of an intrusion or interruption, and we monitor our systems on an ongoing basis for any current or potential threats, we can give no assurances that these measures and efforts will prevent all intrusions, interruptions, or breakdowns.

Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access or to sabotage systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventive measures.
In the event that patients or physicians authorize or enable third parties to access their data on our systems, we cannot ensure the complete integrity or security of such data in our systems as we would not control that access. Third parties may also attempt to fraudulently induce our employees, or patients or physicians who use our technology, into disclosing sensitive information such as user names, passwords or other information. Third parties may also otherwise compromise our security measures in order to gain unauthorized access to the information we store. This could result in significant legal and financial exposure, a loss in confidence in the security of our service, interruptions or malfunctions in our service, and, ultimately, harm to our future business prospects and revenue.

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Any such breach or interruption of our systems, or those of XIFIN or any of our third-partythird party information technology partners, could compromise our networks or data security processes and sensitive information could be inaccessible or could be accessed by unauthorized parties, publicly disclosed, lost or stolen. Any such interruption in access, improper access, disclosure or other loss of information could result in legal claims or proceedings, liability under laws that protect the privacy of patient information, such as the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA,("HIPAA"), the General Data Protection Regulation, and the European UnionUK Data Protection Directive,Act 2018. Regardless of the merits of any such claim or proceeding, defending it could be costly and regulatory penalties.divert management’s attention from leading our business. Unauthorized access, loss or dissemination could also disrupt our operations, including our ability to perform our services, bill payors or patients, process claims and appeals, provide customer assistance services, conduct research and development activities, collect, process and prepare company financial information, provide information about our current and future solutions and engage in other patient and clinician education and outreach efforts. Any such breach could also result in the compromise of our trade secrets and other proprietary information, which could adversely affect our business and competitive position.


Depending on the nature of the information compromised, in the event of a data breach or other unauthorized access to or acquisition of our customer, employee and patient data, we may also have obligations to notify users about the incident and we may need to provide some form of remedy for the individuals affected by the incident. A growing number of legislative and regulatory bodies have adopted consumer notification requirements in the event of unauthorized access to or acquisition of certain types of personal data. Such breach notification laws continue to evolve and may be inconsistent from one jurisdiction to another. Complying with these obligations could cause us to incur substantial costs and could increase negative publicity surrounding any incident that compromises personal data within our control (such as that of customers, patients and employees). In addition, the interpretation and application of consumer, health-related and data protection laws, rules and regulations in the United States, Europethe UK, European Union and elsewhere are often uncertain, contradictory and in flux. It is possible that these laws, rules and regulations may be interpreted and applied in a manner that is inconsistent with our practices or those of our distributors and partners. If we or these third parties are found to have violated such laws, rules or regulations, it could result in government-imposed fines, orders requiring that we or these third parties change our or their practices, or criminal charges, which could adversely affect our business. Complying with these various laws could cause us to incur substantial costs or require us to change our business practices, systems and compliance procedures in a manner adverse to our business.

In addition, California has enacted the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which became effective on January 1, 2020, and requires, among other things, disclosures to California consumers and afford such consumers abilities to opt out of certain sales of their personal information by us. It remains unclear how various provisions of the CCPA will be interpreted and enforced. The effects of the CCPA are potentially significant and may require us to modify our data processing practices and policies and to incur substantial costs and expenses in an effort to comply with this legislation.

The use, misuse or off-label use of the ZIO ServiceZio service may result in injuries that lead to product liability suits, which could be costly to our business.

The use, misuse or off-label use of the ZIO ServiceZio service may in the future result in outcomes and complications potentially leading to product liability claims. For example, we are aware that physicians have prescribed the ZIO PatchZio service off-label for pediatric patients. We have also received and may in the future receive product liability or other claims with respect to the ZIO Service,Zio service, including claims related to skin irritation and alleged burns. In addition, if the ZIO PatchZio monitor is defectively designed, manufactured or labeled, contains defective components or is misused, we may become subject to costly litigation initiated by physicians, or the hospitals and clinics where physicians prescribing our ZIO ServiceZio service work, or their patients. Product liability claims are especially prevalent in the medical device industry and could harm our reputation, divert management’s attention from our core business, be expensive to defend and may result in sizable damage awards against us.

Although we maintain product liability insurance, we may not have sufficient insurance coverage for future product liability claims. We may not be able to obtain insurance in amounts or scope sufficient to provide us with adequate coverage against all potential liabilities. Any product liability claims brought against us, with or without merit, could increase our product liability insurance rates or prevent us from securing continuing coverage, harm our reputation, significantly increase our expenses, and reduce product sales. Product liability claims in excess of our insurance coverage would be paid out of cash reserves, harming our financial condition and operating results.

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Our forecasts of market growth may prove to be inaccurate, and even if the markets in which we compete achieve the forecasted growth, our business may not increase at similar rates, if at all.

Growth forecasts are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate. Our forecasts relating to, among other things, the expected growth in the ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions market may prove to be inaccurate.

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Our growth is subject to many factors, including whether the market for first-line ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions continues to improve, the rate of market acceptance of the ZIO ServiceZio service as compared to the products of our competitors and our success in implementing our business strategies, each of which is subject to many risks and uncertainties. If our ZIO ServiceZio service works as anticipated to provide a correct first-line diagnosis, it may lead to a decrease in the amount of ambulatory cardiac monitoring prescriptions each year in the United States. This outcome would result if our ZIO ServiceZio service is proven to produce the right diagnosis the first time, thereby reducing the need for additional testing. Accordingly, our forecasts of market opportunity should not be taken as indicative of our future growth.

We may acquire other companies or technologies, or enter into joint ventures or other strategic alliances, which could divert our management’s attention, result in additional dilution to our stockholders and otherwise disrupt our operations and harm our operating results.

We may in the future seek to acquire or invest in businesses, applications or technologies that we believe could complement or expand our ambulatory cardiac monitoring solutions portfolio, enhance our technical capabilities or otherwise offer growth opportunities. The pursuit of potential acquisitions may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur various costs and expenses in identifying, investigating and pursuing suitable acquisitions, whether or not they are consummated. We may not be able to identify desirable acquisition targets or be successful in entering into an agreement with any particular target or obtain the expected benefits of any acquisition or investment.

In addition, any of these transactions could be material to our financial condition and operating results and expose us to many risks, including:

disruption in our relationships with existing strategic partners or suppliers as a result of such a transaction;
unanticipated liabilities related to acquired companies;
difficulties integrating acquired personnel, technologies and operations into our existing business;
retention of key employees;
diversion of management time and focus from operating our business to management of strategic alliances or joint ventures or acquisition integration challenges;
increases in our expenses and reductions in our cash available for operations and other uses;
possible write-offs or impairment charges relating to acquired businesses; and
possible compliance, regulatory, or product issues.
To date, the growth of our operations has been largely organic, and we have limited experience in acquiring other businesses or technologies. We may not be able to successfully integrate acquired personnel, operations and technologies or effectively manage the combined business following an acquisition.entering into joint ventures or strategic alliances. Acquisitions, joint ventures or strategic alliances could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities, the use of our available cash, or the incurrence of debt, which could harm our operating results. In addition, if an acquired business, joint venture or strategic alliance fails to materialize or fails to meet our expectations, our operating results, business and financial condition may suffer.

Consolidation of commercial payors could result in payors eliminating coverage or reducing reimbursement rates for our ZIO Service.

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When payors combine their operations, the combined company may elect to reimburse our ZIO ServiceZio service at the lowest rate paid by any of the participants in the consolidation or use its increased size to negotiate reduced rates. If one of the payors participating in the consolidation does not reimburse for the ZIO ServiceZio service at all, the combined company may elect not to reimburse for the ZIO Service,Zio service, which would adversely impact our operating results. While recent attempts by Aetna Inc. to acquire Humana Inc. and Anthem Inc. to acquire Cigna Corp. have been largely abandoned due to antitrust challenges by the DOJ, it is possible that these or other payor consolidations may occur in the future.

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Our ability to utilize our net operating loss carryovers may be limited.

As of December 31, 2016,2021, we had federal and state net operating loss carryforwards or NOLs,(“NOLs”) of $104.6$464.3 million and $58.6$279.1 million, respectively, which if not utilized will begin to expire in 2027 for federal purposes and 2017have begun expiring for state purposes. We may use these NOLs to offset against taxable income for U.S. federal and state income tax purposes. However, Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code, of 1986, as amended, may limit the NOLs we may use in any year for U.S. federal income tax purposes in the event of certain changes in ownership of our company. A Section 382 “ownership change” generally occurs if one or more stockholders or groups of stockholders who own at least 5% of a company’s stock increase their ownership by more than 50 percentage points (by value) over their lowest ownership percentage within a rolling three year period. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws. Future issuances or sales of our stock, including certain transactions involving our stock that are outside of our control, could cause an “ownership change.” If an “ownership change” has occurred in the past or occurs in the future, Section 382 would impose an annual limit on the amount of pre-ownership change NOLs and other tax attributes we can use to reduce our taxable income, potentially increasing and accelerating our liability for income taxes, and also potentially causing those tax attributes to expire unused. Any limitation on using NOLs could, depending on the extent of such limitation and the NOLs previously used, result in our retaining less cash after payment of U.S. federal and state income taxes during any year in which we have taxable income, rather than losses, than we would be entitled to retain if such NOLs were available as an offset against such income for U.S. federal and state income tax reporting purposes, which could adversely impact our operating results.

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If we are unable to implement and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting in the future, investors may lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial reports and the market price of our common stock may decrease.

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we assess the effectiveness of our internal controls over financial reporting annually and the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures quarterly. Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404, requires us to perform system and process evaluation and testing of our internal control over financial reporting to allow management to report on, and our independent registered public accounting firm potentially to attest to, the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. As an “emerging growth company,” we avail ourselves of the exemption from the requirement that our independent registered public accounting firm attest to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting under Section 404.

We will no longer be able to take advantage of this exemption beginning on December 31, 2017, when we will be deemedhave identified a large accelerated filer and, as a result, cease to be an “emerging growth company.” When our independent registered public accounting firm is required to undertake an assessment of our internal control over financial reporting, the cost of our compliance with Section 404 will correspondingly increase. Our compliance with applicable provisions of Section 404 will require that we incur substantial accounting expense and expend significant management time on compliance-related issues as we implement additional corporate governance practices and comply with reporting requirements.

Section 404 also requires that we evaluate and determine the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting and, beginning with our annual report for the year ending December 31, 2017, provide a management report on our internal control over financial reporting along with auditor attestation. If we have material weaknessesweakness in our internal control over financial reporting which could, if not remediated, result in material misstatements in our financial statements.


We are responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over our financial reporting, as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Securities Exchange Act. As disclosed in Item 9A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on February 28, 2022, we mayidentified a material weakness in our internal control over financial reporting. A material weakness is defined as a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements will not detect errorsbe prevented or detected on a timely basisbasis. As a result of this material weakness, we concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective based on criteria set forth by the Committee of Sponsoring Organization of the Treadway Commission in Internal Control-An Integrated Framework (2013).

To implement remedial measures as disclosed in Item 9A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, filed with the SEC on February 28, 2022, we committed additional resources, hired additional staff, and provided additional management oversight. If our financial statements may be materially misstated. Weremedial measures are implementinginsufficient to address the process and documentation necessary to perform the evaluation needed to comply with Section 404, but we may not be able to complete our evaluation, testing and any required remediation in a timely fashion.

During the evaluation and testing process, if we identify one or more material weaknesses, or if additional material weaknesses or significant deficiencies in our internal control over financial reporting are discovered or occur in the future, our management will be unable to conclude that our internal control overconsolidated financial reporting is effective. Moreover, whenstatements may contain material misstatements, and we are no longer an emerging growth company, our independent registered public accounting firm willcould be required to issue an attestation report on the effectiveness ofrestate our internal control over financial reporting. Even if our management concludes that our internal control over financial reporting is effective, our independent registered public accounting firm may conclude that there are material weaknesses with respect to our internal controls or the level at which our internal controls are documented, designed, implemented or reviewed.

If we identify material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting,results. In addition, if we are unable to comply withsuccessfully remediate the requirements of Section 404 in a timely manner,material weakness that continues to exist and if we are unable to conclude thatproduce accurate and timely financial statements, our internal control over financial reporting is effective, or when we are no longer an emerging growth company if our auditors were to express an adverse opinion on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting because we had one or more material weaknesses, investors could lose confidence in the accuracy and completeness of our financial disclosures, which could cause thestock price of our common stock to decline. Internal control deficiencies could also result in a restatement of our financial results in the future. We could also become subject to stockholder or other third-party litigation as well as investigations by the stock exchange on which our securities are listed, the Securities and Exchange Commission, or other regulatory authorities, which could require additional financial and management resources and could result in fines, trading suspensions or other remedies.

may be adversely affected.

Risks Related to Our Intellectual Property

We may become a party to intellectual property litigation or administrative proceedings that could be costly and could interfere with our ability to provide the ZIO Service.

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The medical device industry has been characterized by extensive litigation regarding patents, trademarks, trade secrets, and other intellectual property rights, and companies in the industry have used intellectual property litigation to gain a competitive advantage. It is possible that U.S. and foreign patents and pending patent applications or trademarks controlled by third parties, especially those held by our competitors, may be alleged to cover our products or services, or that we may be accused of misappropriating third parties’ trade secrets. Additionally, our products include hardware and software components that we purchase from vendors, and may include design components that are outside of our direct control. Our competitors, many of which have substantially greater resources and have made substantial investments in patent portfolios, trade secrets, trademarks, and competing technologies, may have applied for or obtained, or may in the future apply for or obtain, patents or trademarks that will prevent, limit or otherwise interfere with our ability to make, use, sell and/or export our products and services or to use product names. Moreover, in recent years, individuals and groups that are non-practicing entities, commonly referred to as “patent trolls,” have purchased patents andor otherwise obtained rights to other intellectual property assets for the purpose of making claims of infringement in order to extract settlements. From time to time, we may receive threatening letters, notices or “invitations to license,” or may be the subject of claims that our products and business operations infringe or violate the intellectual property rights of others. The defense of these matters can be time consuming,time-consuming, costly to defend in litigation, divert management’s attention and resources, damage our reputation and brand, and cause us to incur significant expenses or make
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substantial payments to satisfy judgments or settle claims. Vendors from whomwhich we purchase hardware or software may not indemnify or defend us in the event that such hardware or software is accused of infringing a third-party’s patent or trademark or of misappropriating a third-party’s trade secret.

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Further, if such patents, trademarks, or trade secrets are successfully asserted against us, this may harm our business and result in injunctions preventing us from selling our products, license fees, damages and the payment of attorneyattorney’s fees and court costs. In addition, if we are found to have willfully infringeinfringed third-party patents or trademarks or to have misappropriated trade secrets, we could be required to pay treble damages in addition to other penalties. Although patent, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property disputes in the medical device and services area have often been settled through licensing or similar arrangements, costs associated with such arrangements may be substantial and could include ongoing royalties. We may be unable to obtain necessary licenses on satisfactory terms, if at all. If we do not obtain necessary licenses, we may not be able to redesign our ZIO PatchZio monitors or our ZIO ServiceZio service to avoid infringement and our product development efforts may be negatively affected as a result.

Similarly, interference or derivation proceedings provoked by third parties or brought by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office or USPTO,(“USPTO”) may be necessary to determine priority with respect to our patents, patent applications, trademarks or trademark applications. We may also become involved in other proceedings, such as reexamination, inter partes review, derivation or opposition proceedings before the USPTO or other jurisdictional body relating to our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others. Adverse determinations in a judicial or administrative proceeding or failure to obtain necessary licenses could prevent us from manufacturing the ZIO PatchZio monitors and selling the ZIO ServiceZio service or using product names, which would have a significant adverse impact on our business.


Additionally, we may need to commence proceedings against others to enforce our patents or trademarks, to protect our trade secrets or know how, or to determine the enforceability, scope and validity of the proprietary rights of others. These proceedings would result in substantial expense to us and significant diversion of effort by our technical and management personnel. We may not prevail in any lawsuits that we initiate, a scenario that could also result in the invalidation of our asserted patents, and the damages or other remedies awarded, if any, may not be commercially meaningful. We may not be able to stop a competitor from marketing and selling products that are the same or similar to our products and services or from using product or service names that are the same or similar to ours, and our business may be harmed as a result.

We use certain open source software in the ZIO Service. Weinfrastructure supporting the Zio service. Licensees of open source software may be required to make public and use certain source code, to license proprietary software for free or to make certain derivative works available to others. As a result, we may face claims from companies that incorporate open source software into their products or from open source licensors, claiming ownership of, or demanding release of, the source code, the open source software or derivative works that were developed using such software, or otherwise seeking to enforce the terms of the applicable open source license. These claims could result in litigation and could require us to cease offering the ZIO ServiceZio service unless and until we can re-engineer it to avoid infringement. This re-engineering process could require significant additional research and development resources, and we may not be able to complete it successfully. While we monitor and control the use of open source software in the Zio service and in any third party software that is incorporated into the Zio service, and we try to ensure that no open source software is used in such a way as to require us to disclose the source code underlying the Zio service, there can be no guarantee that such use could not inadvertently occur. These risks could be difficult to eliminate or manage, and, if not addressed, could harm our business, intellectual property protection, financial condition and operating results.

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Intellectual property rights may not provide adequate protection, which may permit third parties to compete against us more effectively.


In order to remain competitive, we must develop and maintain protection of the proprietary aspects of our technologies. We rely on a combination of patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secret laws and confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with employees and third parties to protect our intellectual property rights. As of September 30, 2017,December 31, 2021, we owned, or retained exclusive license to, ninetwenty-three issued U.S. patents, the earliest of which will expire in 2028. As of September 30, 2017,December 31, 2021, we also owned, or retained an exclusive license to, eight issued patents from the Japanese Patent Office, two issued patents from the Australian Patent Office, four issued patents from the Canadian Patent Office, five issued patents from the European Patent Office, three issued patents in Japan, two in each of Canada and Australia,from the Korean Patent Office, and one in each ofissued patent from the European Union and Korea.Chinese Patent Office. The earliest expiration date of these international patents is 2027. As of September 30, 2017,December 31, 2021, we had twentytwenty-six pending patent applications globally, including fourtwelve in the United States, one in Australia, two in Canada, one in China, fivethree in the European Union, one in India,Patent Office, four in Japan, three Patent Cooperation Treaty (“PCT”) international applications, and twoone in Korea.each of Australia, Korea, China and India. Our patents and patent applications include claimsare directed to covering key aspects of the design, manufacture and use of the ZIO PatchZio monitor and the ZIO Service.

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We rely, in part, on our ability to obtain and maintain patent protection for our proprietary products and processes. The process of applying for and obtaining a patent is expensive, time consumingtime-consuming and complex, and we may not be able to file, prosecute, maintain, enforce or license all necessary or desirable patent applications at a reasonable cost, in a timely manner, or in all jurisdictions where protection may be commercially advantageous, or we may not be able to protect our proprietary rights at all. Despite our efforts to protect our proprietary rights, unauthorized parties may be able to obtain and use information that we regard as proprietary. In addition, the issuance of a patent does not ensure that it is valid or enforceable, so even if we obtain patents, they may not be valid or enforceable against third parties. Our patent applications may not result in issued patents and our patents may not be sufficiently broad to protect our technology. Issued international patents may carry a requirement to “work” a patent in the applicable geography; failure to do so could lead to loss of the patent or the requirement to accept licensing terms, both of which would be favorable to our competitors. Furthermore, the issuance of a patent does not give us the right to practice the patented invention. Third parties may have blocking patents that could prevent us from marketing our own products and practicing our own technology. Alternatively, third parties may seek approval to market their own products similar to or otherwise competitive with our products. In these circumstances, we may need to defend and/or assert our patents, including by filing lawsuits alleging patent infringement. In any of these types of proceedings, a court or agency with jurisdiction may find our patents invalid or unenforceable; competitors may then be able to market products and use manufacturing and analytical processes that are substantially similar to ours. Even if we have valid and enforceable patents, these patents still may not provide protection against competing products or processes sufficient to achieve our business objectives.

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Litigation is time-consuming and expensive and would divert our resources.

If we are unable to protect the confidentiality of our trade secrets and other proprietary information, our business and competitive position may be harmed.

We rely heavily on trade secrets as well as invention assignment and confidentiality provisions that we have in contracts with our employees, consultants, collaborators and others to protect our algorithms and other aspects of our ZIO Service.Zio service. We may not be able to prevent the unauthorized disclosure or use of our technical knowledge or other trade secrets by consultants, vendors or former or current employees, despite the existence generally of these confidentiality agreements and other contractual restrictions. These agreements may not provide meaningful protection for our trade secrets, know-how, or other proprietary information in the event of any unauthorized use, misappropriation, or disclosure of such trade secrets, know-how, or other proprietary information. There can be no assurance that employees, consultants, vendors and clients have executed such agreements or have not breached or will not breach their agreements with us, that we will have adequate remedies for any breach, or that our trade secrets will not otherwise become known or independently developed by competitors. Despite the protections we do place on our intellectual property, monitoring unauthorized use and disclosure of our intellectual property is difficult, and we do not know whether the steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property will be adequate. In addition, the laws of many foreign countries will not protect our intellectual property rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States. Consequently, we may be unable to prevent our proprietary technology from being exploited abroad, which could affect our ability to expand to international markets or require costly efforts to protect our technology.

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We may also employ individuals who were previously or are concurrently employed at research institutions or other medical device companies, including our competitors or potential competitors. We may be subject to claims that these employees, or we, have inadvertently or otherwise used or disclosed trade secrets or other proprietary information of their former or concurrent employers, or that patents and applications we have filed to protect inventions of these employees, even those related to one or more of our products, are rightfully owned by their former or concurrent employer. Litigation may be necessary to defend against these claims. Even if we are successful in defending against these claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.

To the extent our intellectual property protection is incomplete, we are exposed to a greater risk of direct competition. A third party could, without authorization, copy or otherwise obtain and use our products or technology, or develop similar technology. Our competitors could purchase our products and attempt to replicate some or all of the competitive advantages we derive from our development efforts or design around our protected technology. Our failure to secure, protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could substantially harm the value of our ZIO Service,Zio service, brand and business. The theft or unauthorized use or publication of our trade secrets and other confidential business information could reduce the differentiation of our products and harm our business, the value of our investment in development or business acquisitions could be reduced and third parties might make claims against us related to losses of their confidential or proprietary information. Any of the foregoing could materially and adversely affect our business.

Further, it is possible that others will independently develop the same or similar technology or otherwise obtain access to our unpatented technology, and in such cases we could not assert any trade secret rights against such parties. Costly and time-consuming litigation could be necessary to enforce and determine the scope of our trade secret rights and related confidentiality and nondisclosure provisions. If we fail to obtain or maintain trade secret protection, or if our competitors obtain our trade secrets or independently develop technology similar to ours or competing technologies, our competitive market position could be materially and adversely affected. In addition, some courts inside and outside the United States are less willing or unwilling to protect trade secrets, and agreement terms that address non-competition are difficult to enforce in many jurisdictions, and might not be enforceable in certain cases.

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If our trademarks and tradenames are not adequately protected, then we may not be able to build name recognition in our markets and our business may be adversely affected.

We rely on trademarks, service marks, tradenamestrade names and brand names, such as our registered trademark “ZIO,” to distinguish our products from the products of our competitors, and have registered or applied to register these trademarks. We cannot assure you that our trademark applications will be approved. During trademark registration proceedings, we may receive rejections. Although we are given an opportunity to respond to those rejections, we may be unable to overcome such rejections. In addition, in proceedings before the USPTO and in proceedings before comparable agencies in many foreign jurisdictions, third parties are given an opportunity to oppose pending trademark applications and to seek to cancel registered trademarks. Opposition or cancellation proceedings may be filed against our trademarks, and our trademarks may not survive such proceedings. In the event that our trademarks are successfully challenged, we could be forced to rebrand our products, which could result in loss of brand recognition and could require us to devote resources towards advertising and marketing new brands. Further, we cannot assure you that competitors will not infringe our trademarks or that we will have adequate resources to enforce our trademarks. Additionally, we do not own any registered trademarks for the mark “IRHYTHM” and we are aware of at least one third-partythird party that has registered the “IRHYTHM” mark in the United States, the European Union and Taiwan in connection with computer software for controlling and managing patient medical information, heart rate monitors, and heart rate monitors to be worn during moderate exercise, among other uses. We and the third party are involved in adversary proceedings before the Trademark OfficesOffice in the United States and the European Union, and those proceedings could impact our ability to registerobtain a European Union trade mark registration for the “IRHYTHM” mark, although we already own many national registrations for IRHYTHM in those jurisdictions. It is possible that the third-party could bring suit against us claiming infringement of the “IRHYTHM” mark, and if it did so and if there were a court determination against us, we might then be obligated to pay monetary damages, enter into a license agreement, or cease use of the “IRHYTHM” name and mark, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

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Changes in patent law could diminish the value of patents in general, thereby impairing our ability to protect our existing and future products.

Recent patent reform legislation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of patent applications and the enforcement or defense of issued patents. In 2011, the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act or the (“Leahy-Smith Act,Act”) was signed into law. The Leahy-Smith Act includes a number of significant changes to U.S. patent law. These include provisions that affect the way patent applications are prosecuted and also may affect patent litigation. These also include provisions that switched the United States from a “first-to-invent” system to a “first-to-file” system, allow third-party submission of prior art to the USPTO during patent prosecution and set forth additional procedures to attack the validity of a patent by the USPTO, administered post grant proceedings. Under a first-to-file system, assuming the other requirements for patentability are met, the first inventor to file a patent application generally will be entitled to the patent on an invention regardless of whether another inventor had made the invention earlier. The USPTO recently developed new regulations and procedures to govern administration of the Leahy-Smith Act, and many of the substantive changes to patent law associated with the Leahy-Smith Act, and in particular, the first to file provisions, only became effective in 2013. Under the new post grant provisions of the Leahy-Smith Act, the USPTO introduced procedures that provide additional administrative pathways for third parties to challenge issued patents. Inter partes review or IPR,(“IPR”) is one of these procedures. The number of IPR challenges filed is increasing, and in many cases, the USPTO is canceling or significantly narrowing issued patent claims. Accordingly, even if a patent is granted by the USPTO, there is risk that it may not withstand an IPR challenge. Accordingly, it is not clear what, if any, impact the Leahy-Smith Act will have on the operation of our business. The Leahy-Smith Act and its implementation could increase the uncertainties and costs surrounding the prosecution of our patent applications and the enforcement or defense of our issued patents, all of which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and prospects.

In addition, patent reform legislation may pass in the future that could lead to additional uncertainties and increased costs surrounding the prosecution, enforcement and defense of our patents and applications. Furthermore, the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit have made, and will likely continue to make, changes in how the patent laws of the United States are interpreted. Recent case law has increased uncertainty regarding the availability of patent protection for certain technologies and the costs associated with obtaining patent protection for those technologies. For example, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on several patent cases in recent years, either narrowing the scope of patent protection available in certain circumstances or weakening the rights of patent owners in certain situations. In particular, the 2014 decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank International has increased the difficultlydifficulty of obtaining new software patents and enforcing existing software patents. Similarly, foreign courts have made, and will likely continue to make, changes in how the patent laws in their respective jurisdictions are interpreted. We cannot predict future changes in the interpretation of patent laws or changes to patent laws that might be enacted into law by U.S. and foreign legislative bodies. Those changes may materially affect our patents or patent applications and our ability to obtain additional patent protection in the future.

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Risks Related to Government Regulation

Changes in the regulatory environment may constrain or require us to restructure our operations, which may harm our revenue and operating results.

Healthcare laws and regulations change frequently and may change significantly in the future. We may not be able to adapt our operations to address every new regulation, and new regulations may adversely affect our business. We cannot assure you that a review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities would not result in a determination that adversely affects our revenue and operating results, or that the healthcare regulatory environment will not change in a way that restricts our operations. In addition, there is risk that the U.S. Congress may implement changes in laws and regulations governing healthcare service providers, including measures to control costs, or reductions in reimbursement levels, which may adversely affect our business and results of operations.

Government payors, such as CMS, as well as insurers, have increased their efforts to control the cost, utilization and delivery of healthcare services. From time to time, the U.S. Congress has considered and implemented changes in the CMS fee schedules in conjunction with budgetary legislation. Further reductions of reimbursement by CMS for services or changes in policy regarding coverage of tests or other requirements for payment, such as prior authorization or a physician or qualified practitioner’s signature on test requisitions, may be implemented from time to time. Reductions in the reimbursement rates and changes in payment policies of other third-party payors may occur as well. Similar changes in the past have resulted in reduced payments as well as added costs and have added more complex regulatory and administrative requirements. For example, on January 29, 2021, Novitas Solutions, a MAC that we, physicians and hospitals rely on to process Medicare reimbursement claims related to our Zio service recently published reimbursement rates that were considerably lower than those than expected. On January 10, 2022, Novitas Solutions published rates for 2022 that were retroactive to January 1, 2022 and replaced the rates that it had published in 2021. These revised rates were higher than the rates posted in 2021, but continue to be significantly below the historical Medicare rates for our Zio XT service. Further changes in federal, state, local and third-party payor regulations or policies may have a material adverse impact on our business. Actions by agencies regulating insurance or changes in other laws, regulations, or policies may also have a material adverse effect on our business.

If we fail to comply with healthcare and other governmental regulations, we could face substantial penalties and our business, results of operations and financial condition could be adversely affected.

The products and services we offer are highly regulated, and there can be no assurance that the regulatory environment in which we operate will not change significantly and adversely in the future. Our arrangements with physicians, hospitals and clinics may expose us to broadly applicable fraud and abuse and other laws and regulations that may restrict the financial arrangements and relationships through which we market, sell and distribute our products and services. Our employees, consultants, and commercial partners may engage in misconduct or other improper activities, including non-compliance with regulatory standards and requirements. Federal and state healthcare laws and regulations that may affect our ability to conduct business, include, without limitation:

federal and state laws and regulations regarding billing and claims payment applicable to our ZIO ServiceZio service and regulatory agencies enforcing those laws and regulations

regulations;

the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, which prohibits, among other things, any person from knowingly and willfully offering, soliciting, receiving or providing remuneration, directly or indirectly, in exchange for or to induce either the referral of an individual for, or the purchase, order or recommendation of, any good or service for which payment may be made under federal healthcare programs, such as the CMS programs

programs;

the federal False Claims Act, which prohibits, among other things, individuals or entities from knowingly presenting, or causing to be presented, false claims, or knowingly using false statements, to obtain payment from the federal government

government;

federal criminal laws that prohibit executing a scheme to defraud any healthcare benefit program or making false statements relating to healthcare matters

matters;

the FCPA, the U.K. Bribery Act of 2010, and other local anti-corruption laws that apply to our international activities

activities;

the federal Physician Payment Sunshine Act, or Open Payments, created under the Affordable Care Act, and its implementing regulations, which requires manufacturers of drugs, medical devices, biologicals and medical supplies for which payment is available under Medicare, Medicaid, or the Children’s Health Insurance Program to report annually to the DHHS,U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, information related to payments or other transfers of value made to licensed physicians and teaching hospitals, as well as ownership and investment interests held by physicians and their immediate family members

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HIPAA, as amended by the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, and its implementing regulations, which impose certain requirements relating to the privacy, security and transmission of individually identifiable health information; HIPAA also created criminal liability for knowingly and willfully falsifying or concealing a material fact or making a materially false statement in connection with the delivery of or payment for healthcare benefits, items or services

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the federal physician self-referral prohibition, commonly known as the Stark Law

services;
The E.U. General Data Protection Regulation and the U.K. Data Protection Act 2018, which each provide legal requirements for the handling and disclosure (including across borders) of personal data collected in the European Union and the United Kingdom, respectively;

the federal physician self-referral prohibition, commonly known as the Stark Law;

the FDA’s Code of Federal Regulations, including but not limited to, 21 CFR Parts 820, 803, 806, and 801 that outlines requirements for medical device design, manufacturing, labeling, distribution, and post-market surveillance requirements;
the European Union’s Medical Device Directives and Medical Device Regulations (“EU MDR”) that outline requirements for medical device CE marking;
the United Kingdom’s Medical Device Regulations which, post the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union, replaces the CE marking requirement for medical devices sold in the United Kingdom with a UK Conformity Assessment (UKCA) mark; and
state law equivalents of each of the above U.S. federal laws, such as anti-kickback and false claims laws which may apply to items or services reimbursed by any third-party payor, including commercial insurers, and state and foreign laws governing the privacy and security of health information in certain circumstances, many of which differ from each other in significant ways and often are not preempted by HIPAA, thus complicating compliance efforts

efforts.

The Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010. The Affordable Care Act, among other things, amends the intent requirement of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute and criminal healthcare fraud statutes. A person or entity no longer needs to have actual knowledge of this statute or specific intent to violate it. In addition, the Affordable Care Act provides that the government may assert that a claim including items or services resulting from a violation of the federal Anti-Kickback Statute constitutes a false or fraudulent claim for purposes of the False Claims Act.

Because of the breadth of these laws and the narrowness of available statutory and regulatory exemptions, it is possible that some of our activities could be subject to challenge under one or more of such laws. Any action brought against us for violations of these laws or regulations, even successfully defended, could cause us to incur significant legal expenses and divert our management’s attention from the operation of our business. We may be subject to private “qui tam” actions brought by individual whistleblowers on behalf of the federal or state governments, with potential liability under the federal False Claims Act including mandatory treble damages and significant per-claim penalties, currently set at $10,957which were increased to $21,916$11,665 to $23,331 per false claim.

claim in 2020.

Although we have adopted policies and procedures designed to comply with these laws and regulations and conduct internal reviews of our compliance with these laws, our compliance is also subject to governmental review. The growth of our business and sales organization and our expansion outside of the United States may increase the potential of violating these laws or our internal policies and procedures. The risk of our being found in violation of these or other laws and regulations is further increased by the fact that many have not been fully interpreted by the regulatory authorities or the courts, and their provisions are open to a variety of interpretations. Any action brought against us for violation of these or other laws or regulations, even if we successfully defend against it, could cause us to incur significant legal expenses and divert our management’s attention from the operation of our business. If our operations are found to be in violation of any of the federal, state and foreign laws described above or any other current or future fraud and abuse or other healthcare laws and regulations that apply to us, we may be subject to penalties, including significant criminal, civil, and administrative penalties, damages, fines, imprisonment, for individuals, exclusion from participation in government programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid, and we could be required to curtail or cease our operations. Any of the foregoing consequences could seriously harm our business and our financial results.

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If we fail to obtain and maintain necessary regulatory clearances or approvals for the ZIO PatchZio monitors and ZIO Service,Zio service, or if clearances or approvals for future products and indications are delayed or not issued, our commercial operations would be harmed.

The ZIO PatchZio monitors, including the associated software and ZIO Servicealgorithm, and the Zio service are subject to extensive regulation by the FDA in the United States, and by our Notified Bodythe Competent Authorities in the EU. GovernmentEuropean Union and the United Kingdom. Such regulations specific to medical devices are wide ranging and govern, among other things:

product design, development, manufacture, and manufacture

release;

laboratory, preclinical and clinical testing, labeling, packaging, storage and distribution

distribution;

premarketing clearance or approval

approval;
service operations

record keeping

keeping;

product marketing, promotion and advertising, sales and distribution

distribution; and

post-marketingpost-market surveillance, including reporting of deaths or serious injuries and recalls andcertain categories of field correction and removals

removals.

Before a new medical device or service, or a new intended use for an existing product or service, can be marketed in the United States, a company must first submit and receive either 510(k) clearance or premarketing approval from the FDA, unless an exemption applies. Either process can be expensive, lengthy and unpredictable. We may not be able to obtain the necessary clearances or approvals or may be unduly delayed in doing so, which could harm our business. Furthermore, even if we are granted regulatory clearances or approvals, they may include significant limitations on the indicated uses for the product, which may limit the market for the product. Although we have obtained 510(k) clearance to market the ZIO PatchZio monitors and ZIO Service,the Zio service (Software as a Medical Device elements), our clearance can be revoked if safety, efficacy, or efficacysignificant regulatory compliance problems develop.

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In addition, we are required to file various reports with the FDA, and E.U. or U.K. regulators, including reports required by the medical device reporting regulations, or MDRs,Medical Device Reporting Regulations (“MDRs”) that require that we report to the regulatory authorities if our ZIO ServiceZio service may have caused or contributed to a death or serious injury or malfunctioned in a way that would likely cause or contribute to a death or serious injury if the malfunction were to recur. If these reports are not filed in a timely manner, regulators may impose sanctions and we may be subject to product liability or regulatory enforcement actions, all of which could harm our business.

If we initiate a correction or removal for our ZIO ServiceZio service to reduce a risk to health posed by the ZIO Service,Zio service, we would be required to submit a publicly available Correction and Removal report to the FDA and, in many cases, similar reports to other regulatory agencies. This report could be classified by the FDA as a device recall which could lead to increased scrutiny by the FDA, other international regulatory agencies and our customers regarding the quality and safety of our ZIO Service.Zio service. Furthermore, the submission of these reports are public and could be used by competitors against us and cause physicians to delay or cancel prescriptions, which could harm our reputation.

If we assess a potential quality issue or complaint as not requiring either field action or notification, respectively, regulators may review documentation of that decision during a subsequent audit. If regulators disagree with our decision, or take issue with either our investigation process or the resulting documentation, regulatory agencies may impose sanctions and we may be subject to regulatory enforcement actions, including warning letters, all of which could harm our business.
The FDA and the Federal Trade Commission or FTC,(“FTC”) also regulate the advertising and promotion of our products and services to ensure that the claims we make are consistent with our regulatory clearances, that there is adequate and reasonable data to substantiate the claims and that our promotional labeling and advertising is neither false nor misleading. If the FDA or FTC determines that any of our advertising or promotional claims are misleading, not substantiated or not permissible, we may be subject to enforcement actions, including warning letters, and we may be required to revise our promotional claims and make other corrections or restitutions.

Similar to the FDA and FTC, the European Union under the EU Medical Device Regulations and the United Kingdom under the UK Medical Device Regulations have similar requirements and enforcement action regarding promotional material.

The FDA and state and international authorities have broad enforcement powers. Our failure to comply with applicable regulatory requirements could result in enforcement action by the FDA or state agencies,any such agency, which may include any of the following sanctions:

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adverse publicity, warning letters, fines, injunctions, consent decrees and civil penalties

penalties;

repair, replacement, refunds, recall or seizure of our products

products;

operating restrictions, partial suspension or total shutdown of either production,

distribution or service operation;

denial of our requests for 510(k)regulatory clearance or premarket approval of new products or services, new intended uses or modifications to existing products or services

services;

withdrawal of 510(k)regulatory clearance or premarket approvals that have already been granted

granted; and

criminal prosecution

prosecution.

If any of these events were to occur, our business and financial condition could be harmed.

Material modifications to the ZIO Patch, labellingZio monitors, labeling of the ZIO Patch,Zio monitors, or ZIO ServiceZio service may require new 510(k) clearances, CE MarksMark, UKCA Mark or other premarket approvals or may require us to recall or cease marketing our products and services until clearances are obtained.

Material modifications to the intended use or technological characteristics of the ZIO PatchZio monitors or ZIO ServiceZio service will require new 510(k) clearances, premarket approvals or CE Mark grants,certification (E.U.) or UKCA Mark certification (U.K.), or require us to recall or cease marketing the modified devices until these clearances or approvals are obtained. Based on FDA published guidelines, the FDA requires device manufacturers to initially make and document a determination of whether or not a modification requires a new approval, supplementclearance or clearance;approval; however, the FDA can review a manufacturer’s decision. Any modification to an FDA cleared device or service that would significantly affect its safety or efficacy or that would constitute a major change in its intended use would require a new 510(k) clearance or possibly a premarket approval. We may not be able to obtain additional 510(k) clearances or premarket approvals for new products or for modifications to, or additional indications for, the ZIO PatchZio monitors or ZIO ServiceZio service in a timely fashion, or at all. Delays in obtaining required future clearances would harm our ability to introduce new or enhanced products in a timely manner, which in turn would harm our future growth. We have made modifications to the ZIO PatchZio monitors and ZIO ServiceZio service in the past that we believe do not require additional clearances or approvals, and we may make additional modifications in the future. If the FDA or an EUa Notified Body disagrees and requires new clearances or approvals for any of these modifications, we may be required to recall and to stop selling or marketing the ZIO PatchZio monitors and ZIO ServiceZio service as modified, which could harm our operating results and require us to redesign our products or services. In these circumstances, we may be subject to significant enforcement actions.

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If we or our suppliers fail to comply with the FDA’s QSR or the European Union’s Medical Device Directive and Medical Device Regulations, or United Kingdom's Medical Device Regulations, our manufacturing or distribution operations could be delayed or shut down and our revenue could suffer.

Our manufacturing and design processes and those of our third-party suppliers are required to comply with the FDA’s Quality System Regulation or QSR(“QSR”) and the EU’s Medical Device Directive or MDD, both(“MDD”), through May 2021, after which time compliance with the MDR transitional provisions will be required until full transition to MDR compliance is achieved. Additionally, the UK will require the UKCA marking per new policies released by MHRA. All of whichthese regulations cover procedures and documentation ofrequirements for the design, testing, production, control, quality assurance, labeling, packaging, storage, shipping, and shippingpost-market surveillance of ZIO Patches.Zio monitors and associated software. We are also subject to similar state requirements and licenses, and to ongoing ISO 1348513485:2016 compliance in all operations including design, manufacturing, and service, to maintain our CE Mark. In addition, we must engage in extensive recordkeeping and reporting and must make available our facilities and records for periodic unannounced inspections by governmental agencies, including the FDA, state authorities, EU Notified Bodies and comparable agencies in other countries. If we failperform poorly in a regulatory inspection, our operations could be disrupted and our manufacturing interrupted. Failure to take adequate corrective action in response to an adverse regulatory inspection could result in, among other things, a shutdown of our manufacturing or product distribution operations, significant fines, suspension of marketing clearances and approvals, seizures or recalls of our device, operating restrictions, warning letters, and criminal prosecutions, any of which would cause our business to suffer. Furthermore, our key component suppliers may not currently be or may not continue to be in compliance with applicable regulatory requirements, which may result in manufacturing delays for our product and cause our revenue to decline.


We are registered with the FDA as a medical device specifications developer and manufacturer. The FDA has broad post-market and regulatory enforcement powers. We are subject to announced or unannounced inspections by the FDA and the Food and Drug Branch of the California Department of Public Health or CDPH,(“CDPH”) to determine our compliance with the QSR and other regulations at both our design and manufacturing facilities, and these inspections may include the manufacturing facilities
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of our suppliers. OurThe most recent FDA inspection of our manufacturing facility occurred in October 2021 and no FDA Form 483 observations were issued. The FDA also performed a Remote Regulatory Assessment (“RRA”) of our design facilities in San Francisco, California, were most recently audited bywhich concluded in May 2021. Unlike on-site inspections, the FDA in June 2016 and nodoes not issue formal 483 observations resulted. For our manufacturing facility in Cypress, California,at the most recent FDA audit occurred in August 2017 and no formal observations resulted. We believe that we are in substantial compliance with the QSR.

conclusion of RRAs.

We are also registered with the EU as a medical device developer, manufacturer, distributor, and service operator through the National Standard Authority of Ireland or NSAI,(“NSAI”) our European Notified Body. Most recently, the NSAI conductedcompleted an ISO 13485 recertificationsurveillance audit of our design, manufacturing and service operations in March, AprilMay 2021 and June 2017.

a renewal of our ISO 13485 certification was issued in August 2021.

We can provide no assurance that we will continue to remain in compliance with the QSR or MDD.MDD, MDR, or UK MDR. If the FDA, CDPH, NSAI, or NSAIother EU or UK Notified Bodies inspect any of our facilities and discover compliance problems, we may have to cease manufacturing and product distribution until we can take the appropriate remedial steps to correct the audit findings. Taking corrective action may be expensive, time consuming and a distraction for management and if we experience a delay at our manufacturing facility we may be unable to produce ZIO Patches,Zio monitors, which would harm our business.

ZIO Patches

Zio monitors may in the future be subject to product recalls that could harm our reputation.

The FDA and similar governmental authorities in other countries have the authority to require the recall of commercialized products in the event of material regulatory deficiencies or defects in design or manufacture.device defects. A government mandated or voluntary recall by us could occur as a result of component failures, manufacturing errors, design issues, labeling issues, or design or labeling defects.various regulatory compliance topics. Recalls of ZIO PatchesZio monitors and associated software would divert managerial attention, be expensive, harm our reputation with customers and harm our financial condition and results of operations. A recall announcement would also negatively affect our stock price.

Healthcare reform measures could hinder or prevent the ZIO Service’sZio service’s commercial success.

In the United States, there have been, and we expect there will continue to be, a number of legislative and regulatory changes to the healthcare system in ways that could harm our future revenuerevenues and profitability.profitability and the demand for the Zio service. Federal and state lawmakers regularly propose and, at times, enact legislation that would result in significant changes to the healthcare system, some of which are intended to contain or reduce the costs of medical products and services. For example, theThe Affordable Care Act contains a number of provisions, including those governing enrollment in federal healthcare programs, reimbursement changes and fraud and abuse measures, all of which will impact existing government healthcare programs and will result in the development of new programs. The Affordable Care Act, among other things, imposes an excise taxWe face uncertainties that might result from modifications or repeal of 2.3% onany of the saleprovisions of most medical devices, including ours. Although this excise tax has temporarily been suspended for two years beginning on January 1, 2016, any failure to pay this amount if it becomes due in the future could result in an injunction on the sale of our products, fines and penalties.

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We cannot assure you that the Affordable Care Act, including as a result of current and future executive orders and legislative actions. The impact of those changes on us and potential effect on the medical device industry as a whole is currently enacted or as amended, repealed or replaced inunknown. Any changes to the future, will not harmAffordable Care Act are likely to have an impact on our businessresults of operations, and financialmay have a material adverse effect on our results and weof operations. We cannot predict how futurewhat other health care programs and regulations will ultimately be implemented at the federal or state legislativelevel or administrative changes relating to healthcare reform will affect our business. There likely will continue to be legislative and regulatory proposals at the federal and state levels directed at containingeffect of any future legislation or lowering the cost of healthcare. We cannot predict the initiatives that may be adoptedregulation in the future or their full impact. United States may have on our business.

The continuing efforts of the government, insurance companies, managed care organizations and other payors of healthcare services to contain or reduce costs of healthcare may harm:

our ability to set a price that we believe is fair for our ZIO Service

Zio service;

our ability to generate revenue and achieve or maintain profitability

profitability; and

the availability of capital

capital.
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Compliance with environmental laws and regulations could be expensive, and failure to comply with these laws and regulations could subject us to significant liability.

Our research and development and manufacturing operations may involve the use of hazardous substances and are subject to a variety of federal, state, local and foreign environmental laws and regulations relating to the storage, use, discharge, disposal, remediation of, and human exposure to, hazardous substances and the sale, labeling, collection, recycling, treatment and disposal of products containing hazardous substances. Liability under environmental laws and regulations can be joint and several and without regard to fault or negligence. Compliance with environmental laws and regulations may be expensive and noncompliance could result in substantial liabilities, fines and penalties, personal injury and third-party property damage claims and substantial investigation and remediation costs. Environmental laws and regulations could become more stringent over time, imposing greater compliance costs and increasing risks and penalties associated with violations. We cannot assure you that violations of these laws and regulations will not occur in the future or have not occurred in the past as a result of human error, accidents, equipment failure or other causes. The expense associated with environmental regulation and remediation could harm our financial condition and operating results.


Exposure to United Kingdom political developments, including the outcome of its withdrawal from membership in the
European Union, could be costly and difficult to comply with and could seriously harm our business.

We have based a significant portion of our non-U.S. operations in the United Kingdom. In June 2016, a referendum was held in the U.K. which resulted in a majority voting in favor of the U.K. withdrawing from the E.U. (commonly referred to as "Brexit"). Pursuant to legislation approved by the U.K. Parliament and the E.U. Parliament in January 2020, the U.K. withdrew from the E.U. with effect from 11 p.m. (GMT) on January 31, 2020 on the terms of a withdrawal agreement agreed between the U.K. and the E.U. in October 2019. On December 24, 2020, the U.K. and E.U. agreed to a trade deal (the “Trade and Cooperation Agreement”) which was ratified by the U.K. on December 30, 2020. The Trade and Cooperation Agreement is subject to formal approval by the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union before it comes into effect and has been applied provisionally since January 1, 2021. There are still a number of areas of uncertainty in connection with the future of the U.K. and its relationship with the E.U. and the application and interpretation of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement, and Brexit related matters may take several years to be clarified and resolved.For example, because a significant proportion of the regulatory framework in the U.K. is currently derived from E.U. directives and regulations, Brexit could result in material changes to the regulatory regime applicable to many of our current operations. Although the Trade and Cooperation Agreement offers U.K. and E.U. companies preferential access to each other’s markets, ensuring imported goods will be free of tariffs and quotas, economic relations between the U.K. and the E.U. will now be on more restricted terms than existed previously. Therefore, at this time, we cannot predict the impact that the Trade and Cooperation Agreement and any future agreements contemplated under the terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement will have on our future business efforts to commercialize our Zio service in the U.K. and E.U. Accordingly, it is possible that new terms of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement may adversely affect our operations and financial results. We are currently in the process of evaluating our own risks and uncertainties to ascertain what financial, trade, regulatory and legal implications the Trade and Cooperation Agreement could have on our operations in the U.K. and otherwise. Finally, uncertainty surrounding Brexit has contributed to recent fluctuations in the U.K. economy as a whole which could experience future disruptions. As a result, Brexit could cause financial and capital markets within and outside the U.K. or the E.U. to constrict, thereby negatively impacting our ability to finance our U. K. operations which could also have an adverse effect on our results of operations and financial condition.
Risks Related to Our Common Stock

Future sales and issuances of securities could negatively affect our stock price and dilute the ownership interest of our existing investors.
Our expected future capital requirements may depend on many factors, including expanding our customer base, the expansion of our salesforce, and the timing and extent of spending on the development of our technology to increase our product offerings. If we raise additional funds by issuing equity securities, our stockholders may experience dilution. Additionally, new investors could gain rights, preferences and privileges senior to those of existing holders of our common stock. Any future debt financing into which we enter may impose upon us additional covenants that restrict our operations, including limitations on our ability to incur liens or additional debt, pay dividends, repurchase our common stock, has only recently become publicly traded,make certain investments and engage in certain merger, consolidation or asset sale transactions. Any debt financing or additional equity that we expectraise may contain terms that are not favorable to us or our stockholders.
Sales or issuances of a substantial amount of securities, or the perception that such sales could occur, may cause a decline in the price of our common stock will fluctuate substantially.

Our common stock has only recently become publicly traded, and we cannot be certain that an active trading market forstock. Future resales of our common stock will be sustained.by our existing stockholders could cause the market price of our common stock to decline. In addition, the shares of common stock subject to outstanding options and restricted stock units under our 2016 Equity Incentive Plan and our 2016 Employee Stock Purchase Plan and the shares reserved for future issuance

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under both such plans may become eligible for sale in the public markets in the future, subject to certain legal and control limitations.
We may sell shares or other securities in any offering at a price per share that is less than the price per share paid by existing investors, and investors purchasing shares or other securities in the future could have rights superior to existing stockholders. The lack of an active market may impair the valueprice per share at which we sell additional shares of our common stock, or your ability to sell your shares at the time you wish to sell themsecurities convertible or at a price that you consider reasonable. An inactive market may also impair our ability to raise capital to continue to fund operations by sellingexchangeable into common stock, andin future transactions may impair our ability to acquire other companiesbe higher or products by using our common stock as consideration. Although our common stock is listed on the NASDAQ Global Market, if we fail to satisfy the continued listing standards of the NASDAQ Global Market, we could be de-listed, which would negatively impactlower than the price of our common stock.

per share paid by existing investors.

The market price of our common stock is likelymay fluctuate substantially, and you could lose all or part of your investment.
The market price of our common stock may continue to be highly volatile and may fluctuate substantially in response to, among other things, the risk factors described in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and other factors, many of which are beyond our control, including:

changes in analysts’ estimates, investors’ perceptions, recommendations by securities analysts or our failure to achieve analysts’ estimates

estimates;

quarterly variations in our or our competitors’ results of operations

operations;
the impact or anticipated impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on us;

periodic fluctuations in our revenue, due in part to the way in which we recognize revenue

revenue;

the financial projections we may provide to the public, any changes in these projections or our failure to meet these projections

projections;

general market conditions and other factors unrelated to our operating performance or the operating performance of our competitors,

including deteriorating market conditions due to investor concerns regarding inflation and continuing hostilities between Russia and Ukraine, which could lead to volatility in foreign currency and capital markets;

market valuations (for example, valuations based upon multiples of revenue and earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of
comparable companies and changes in market valuations

decreases in our market valuations on an absolute basis or relative to comparable companies

changes in reimbursement coverage and rates by current or potential payors

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changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in the medical device industry in particular

payors;
changes in CPT codes or the establishment of new CPT codes applicable to the Zio service;

changes in operating performance and stock market valuations of other technology companies generally, or those in the medical device industry in particular;

actual or anticipated changes in regulatory oversight of our products

products;

the results of our clinical trials

trials;

the loss of key personnel, including changes in our board of directors and management

management;

legislation or regulation ofaffecting our market

market;

lawsuits threatened or filed against us

us;

the announcement of new products or product enhancements by us or our competitors

competitors;

announced or completed acquisitions of businesses or technologies by us or our competitors

competitors;

announcements related to patents issued to us or our competitors and to litigation

litigation; and

developments in our industry

industry.

In addition, the market prices of the stock of many new issuers in the medical device industry and of other companies with smaller market capitalizations like us have been volatile and from time to time have experienced significant share price and trading volume changes unrelated or disproportionate to the operating performance of those companies.

Fluctuations in our stock price, volume of shares traded, and changes in our market valuations may make our stock less attractive to certain investors. In the past, stockholders have filedStockholders may file securities class action litigation following periods of market volatility. IfSecurities litigation, like the current action we wereare subject to become involved in securities litigation, itthe District Court for the Northern District of California, could subject us to substantial costs, divert resources and the attention of management from our business, and adversely affect our business, results of operations, financial condition, reputation and cash flows. These factors may materially and adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

If securities or industry analysts do not publish research or reports about our business, or publish negative reports aboutif they issue adverse or misleading opinions regarding our business,stock, our sharestock price and trading volume could decline.


The trading market for our common stock depends in part onwill be influenced by the research and reports that securitiesindustry or industrysecurities analysts publish about us or our business, our market and our competitors. We do not havebusiness. If any control over these analysts. If one or more of the analysts who cover us downgrade our sharesissue an adverse or change theirmisleading opinion ofregarding us, our business model, our shareintellectual property or our stock performance, or if our target studies and operating results fail to meet the expectations of analysts, our stock price would likely decline. If one or more of these analysts cease coverage of our companyus or fail to regularly
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publish reports on us regularly, we could lose visibility in the financial markets, which in turn could cause our sharestock price or trading volume to decline.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market, including by our existing stockholders, could cause our stock price to fall.

Sales of a substantial number of shares of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that these sales might occur, could depress the market price of our common stock and could impair our ability to raise capital through the sale of additional equity securities. We are unable to predict the effect that these sales and others may have on the prevailing market price of our common stock.

In addition, certain of our stockholders can require us to register shares of our capital stock owned by them for public sale in the United States. We have also filed a registration statement to register shares of our common stock reserved for future issuance under our equity compensation plans. Subject to the satisfaction of applicable exercise periods and applicable volume and restrictions that apply to affiliates, the shares of our common stock issued upon exercise of outstanding options will become available for immediate resale in the public market upon issuance.

Future sales of our common stock may make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate. These sales also could cause the market price of our common stock to decline and make it more difficult for you to sell shares of our common stock.

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The requirements of being a public company may strain our resources, divert management’s attention and affect our ability to attract and retain executive management and qualified board members.

As a public company, we are subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd Frank Act, the listing requirements of The NASDAQ Stock Market and other applicable securities laws, rules and regulations. Compliance with these laws, rules and regulations will increase our legal and financial compliance costs, make some activities more difficult, time consuming or costly and increase demand on our systems and resources, particularly after we no longer qualify as an “emerging growth company,” under the JOBS Act.resources. The Exchange Act requires, among other things, that we file annual, quarterly and current reports with respect to our business and operating results. The Sarbanes-Oxley Act requires, among other things, that we maintain effective disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting. In order to maintain and, if required, improve our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting to meet this standard, significant resources and management oversight may be required. As a result, our management and other personnel divert attention from operational and other business matters to devote substantial time to these public company requirements. In particular, we will incur significant expenses and devote substantial management effort toward ensuring compliance with the requirements of Section 404, which has increased now that we will no longer be an emerging growth company under the JOBS Act starting with our next fiscal year.404. We continue to hire additional accounting and financial staff with appropriate public company experience and technical accounting knowledge. We cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we will incur in order to remain compliant with our public company reporting requirements or the timing of such costs. Additional compensation costs and any future equity awards will increase our compensation expense, which will increase our general and administrative expense and could adversely affect our profitability.

In addition, changing laws, regulations and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure are creating uncertainty for public companies, increasing legal and financial compliance costs and making some activities more time consuming. These laws, regulations and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. We intend to invest resources to comply with evolving laws, regulations and standards, and this investment may result in increased general and administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue generating activities to compliance activities. If our efforts to comply with new laws, regulations and standards differ from the activities intended by regulatory or governing bodies due to ambiguities related to their application and practice, regulatory authorities may initiate legal proceedings against us and our business may be harmed.

We will incur additional compensation costs in the event that we decide to pay our executive officers cash compensation closer to that of executive officers of other public medical device companies, which would increase our general and administrative expense and could harm our profitability. Any future equity awards will also increase our compensation expense. We also expect that being

As a public company, and compliance with applicable rules and regulations will make it is more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced coverage or incur substantially higher costs to obtain coverage. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified executive officers and members of our board of directors, particularly to serve on our audit committee and compensation committee.

In addition, compliance with applicable rules and regulations for public companies is generally more expensive than it is for private companies.

As a result of disclosure of information in this filing and in other filings required of a public company, our business and financial condition is more visible, which could be advantageous to our competitors and other third parties and could result in threatened or actual litigation. If such claims are successful, our business and operating results could be harmed, and even if the claims are resolved in our favor, these claims, and the time and resources necessary to resolve them, could divert the resources of our management and harm our business and operating results.

We are an emerging growth company and we cannot be certain if the reduced disclosure requirements applicable to emerging growth companies will make our common stock less attractive to investors.

We currently qualify as an “emerging growth company” under the JOBS Act. For as long as we continue to be an emerging growth company, we may take advantage of certain exemptions from reporting requirements that are applicable to other public companies including, but not limited to, not being required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404, reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements, and exemptions from the requirements of holding a nonbinding advisory vote on executive compensation and stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved. We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive to the extent we rely on available exemptions. If some investors do find our common stock less attractive, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile or may decline.

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Based on our market capitalization as of June 30, 2017, our status as an emerging growth company will cease on December 31, 2017 and we will be required to comply with, among other requirements, the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404 for our next annual report.

Anti-takeover provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws, and Delaware law, could discourage a change in control of our company or a change in our management.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws contain provisions that might enable our management to resist a takeover. These provisions include:

a classified board of directors

directors;

advance notice requirements applicable to stockholders for matters to be brought before a meeting of stockholders and requirements as to the form and content of a stockholders’ notice

notice;

a supermajority stockholder vote requirement for amending certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and bylaws

bylaws;
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the right to issue preferred stock without stockholder approval, which could be used to dilute the stock ownership of a potential hostile acquirer

acquirer;

allowing stockholders to remove directors only for cause

cause;

a requirement that the authorized number of directors may be changed only by resolution of the board of directors

directors;

allowing all vacancies, including newly created directorships, to be filled by the affirmative vote of a majority of directors then in office, even if less than a quorum, except as otherwise required by law

law;

a requirement that our stockholders may only take action at annual or special meetings of our stockholders and not by written consent

consent;

limiting the forum to Delaware for certain litigation against us

us; and

limiting the persons that can call special meetings of our stockholders to our board of directors, the chairperson of our board of directors, the chief executive officer or the president (in the absence of a chief executive officer)

.

These provisions might discourage, delay or prevent a change in control of our company or a change in our management. The existence of these provisions could adversely affect the voting power of holders of common stock and limit the price that investors might be willing to pay in the future for shares of our common stock. In addition, because we are incorporated in Delaware, we are governed by the provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, which generally prohibits a Delaware corporation from engaging in any of a broad range of business combinations with any “interested” stockholder for a period of three years following the date on which the stockholder became an “interested” stockholder.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation providesand bylaws provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, another State court in Delaware or the federal district court for the District of Delaware) will be the sole and exclusive forum for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, which could limit our stockholders’ abilities to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers or employees.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation providesand bylaws provide that, unless we consent to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware (or, if the Court of Chancery does not have jurisdiction, another State court in Delaware or the federal district court for the District of Delaware) is the sole and exclusive forum for (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to us or to our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against the company or any director or officer of the company arising pursuant to the Delaware General Corporation Law, or our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws, (iv) any action to interpret, apply, enforce or determine the validity of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws, or (v) any action asserting a claim against us governed by the internal affairs doctrine.doctrine, in each such case subject to said Court of Chancery having personal jurisdiction over the indispensable parties named as defendants therein. This provision would not apply to suits brought to enforce a duty or liability created by the Exchange Act or any other claim for which the U.S. federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Our investors cannot waive compliance with the federal securities laws and the rules and regulations thereunder. Our bylaws further provide that the federal district courts of the United States will be the exclusive forum for resolving any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act. The enforceability of similar exclusive federal forum provisions in other companies’ organizational documents has been challenged in legal proceedings, and while the Delaware Supreme Court has ruled that this type of exclusive federal forum provision is facially valid under Delaware law, there is uncertainty as to whether other courts would enforce such provisions. The choice of forum provision may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers and other employees. Alternatively, if a court were to find the choice of forum provision contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could harm our business, financial condition and operating results.

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We have not paid dividends in the past and do not expect to pay dividends in the future, and, as a result, any return on investment may be limited to the value of our stock.


We have never paid cash dividends and do not anticipate paying cash dividends in the foreseeable future. The payment of dividends will depend on our earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, prospects and other factors our board of directors may deem relevant. In addition, our loan agreements limitagreement with Silicon Valley Bank limits our ability to, among other things, pay dividends or make other distributions or payments on account of our common stock, in each case subject to certain exceptions. If we do not pay dividends, our stock may be less valuable because a return on your investment will only occur if our stock price appreciates and you sell our common stock after our stock price appreciates.

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thereafter.

ITEM 2

UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS

Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities

ITEM 2.UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
None.

Use of Proceeds

Our initial public offering of 7,238,235 shares of common stock was effected through a registration statement on Form S-1 (Registration Nos. 333-213773 and 333-214179), which was declared effective on October 19, 2016. Our initial public offering closed on October 25, 2016 and resulted in net proceeds of approximately $110.9 million, after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions of approximately $8.6 million and other expenses of approximately $3.5 million. No payments for such expenses were made directly or indirectly to any of our officers or directors.

J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC, Canaccord Genuity Inc. and BTIG, LLC acted as the underwriters. There has been no material change in the planned use of proceeds from our initial public offering as described in our final prospectus filed with the SEC on October 20, 2016.

ITEM 3.DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES
Not applicable.

ITEM 3.

DEFAULTS UPON SENIOR SECURITIES.

ITEM 4.    MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES

Not applicable.

ITEM 4.

MINE SAFETY DISCLOSURES.

Not applicable.

ITEM 5.    OTHER INFORMATION

We were incorporated in Delaware on September 14, 2006. Our principal executive offices are now located at 699 8th Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94103, and our telephone number is (415) 632-5700. Our website address is www.iRhythmTech.com.  Investors and others should note that we announce material financial information to our investors using SEC filings, press releases, our investor relations website, public conference calls and webcasts. We use these channels as well as social media to communicate with investors, customers and the public about our company, our products and other issues. It is possible that information we post on social media channels could be deemed to be material information. We encourage investors, our customers and others interested in our company to review the information we post on our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/iRhythmTechnologies/) and Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/iRhythmTech). The information on, or that may be accessed through, our website and social media channels is not incorporated by reference into this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and should not be considered a part of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
ITEM 6.    EXHIBITS
The exhibits listed in the accompanying exhibit index are filed as part of, and incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.
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EXHIBIT INDEX
Incorporated by Reference
Exhibit
Number
DescriptionFormDateNumberFiled Herewith
3.18-K10/25/163.1
3.28-K6/23/203.1
3.38-K10/25/163.2
3.48-K8/14/203.1
31.1X
31.2X
32.1*X
101.INSXBRL Instance Document- the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL documentX
101.SCHXBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema DocumentX
101.CALXBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase DocumentX
101.DEFXBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase DocumentX
101.LABXBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase DocumentX
101.PREXBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase DocumentX
104Cover Page Interactive Data File (formatted as Inline XBRL and contained in Exhibit 101)X
* The certifications filed as Exhibits 32.1 are not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, whether made before or after the date hereof irrespective of any general incorporation by reference language contained in any such filing, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.



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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

ITEM 5.

OTHER INFORMATION

iRhythm Technologies, Inc.
Date: May 6, 2022By:/s/ Quentin S. Blackford
Quentin S. Blackford
President and Chief Executive Officer
 
(Principal Executive Officer)

Not applicable.

Date: May 6, 2022By:/s/ Douglas J. Devine
Douglas J. Devine
Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer
 
(Principal Financial Officer)
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ITEM 6.

EXHIBITS

The exhibits listed in the accompanying exhibit index are filed as part of, and incorporated by reference into, this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q.

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit

Number

Description

  10.29

Form of Change of Control and Severance Agreement.

  31.1

Certification of Principal Executive Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

  31.2

Certification of Principal Financial Officer pursuant to Securities Exchange Act Rules 13a-14(a) and 15d-14(a), as adopted pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002

  32.1*

Certification of Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to 18 U.S.C. Section 1350, as adopted pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

101.INS

XBRL Instance Document

101.SCH

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document

101.CAL

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document

101.DEF

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document

101.LAB

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document

101.PRE

XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document

* The certifications filed as Exhibits 32.1 are not deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and are not to be incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Exchange Act of 1933 or the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, whether made before or after the date hereof irrespective of any general incorporation by reference language contained in any such filing, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.

iRhythm Technologies, Inc.

Date: November 14, 2017

By:

/s/ Kevin M. King                 

Kevin M. King

President and Chief Executive Officer

(Principal Executive Officer)

Date:  November 14, 2017

By:

/s/ Matthew C. Garrett           

Matthew C. Garrett

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer)

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