Item 2. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the audited consolidated financial statements, including the notes thereto, and Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations, included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2003 (the "Form 10-K") of MIM Corporation ("MIM") and subsidiaries (collectively with MIM, the "Company") filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"), as well as the Company's unaudited consolidated interim financial statements and the related notes thereto included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2004 (this "Report").
This Report contains statements not purely historical and which may be considered forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), including statements regarding the Company's expectations, hopes, beliefs, intentions or strategies regarding the future. These forward looking statements may include statements relating to the Company's business development activities, sales and marketing efforts, the status of material contractual arrangements, including the negotiation or re-negotiation of such arrangements, future capital expenditures, the effects of regulation and competition on the Company's business, future operating performance of the Company and the results, benefits and risks associated with integration of acquired companies. Investors are cautioned that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, that actual results may differ materially from those possible results discussed in the forward-looking statements as a result of various factors. These factors include, among other things, increased government regulation related to the health care and insurance industries in general and more specifically, pharmacy benefit management and specialty pharmaceutical distribution organizations, the existence of complex laws and regulations relating to the Company's business, increased competition from the Company's competitors, including competitors with greater financial, technical, marketing and other resources. This Report contains information regarding important factors that could cause such differences. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any obligation to supplement these forward-looking statements to reflect any future events and circumstances.
Business Overview
MIM is a pharmaceutical healthcare organization, which delivers innovative pharmacy benefit management, specialty pharmaceutical management and delivery services and other pharmacy-related healthcare solutions. We combine clinical management expertise, sophisticated data management and therapeutic fulfillment capabilities to serve the particular needs of our customers. We provide a broad array of pharmacy benefits, and pharmacy and pharmacy-related products and services, to individual patients (or enrollees) ("Members") receiving health benefits, principally through health insurers, including HMO's, indemnity plans and PPO's, managed care organizations, other insurance companies, and, to a lesser extent, labor unions, self-funded employer groups, government agencies, and other self-funded plan sponsors (collectively, "Plan Sponsors"). These services are organized under two reportable operating segments: pharmacy benefit management and mail services (collectively, "PBM Services") and specialty pharmacy distribution and clinical management services ("Specialty Management and Delivery Services").
Our Specialty Management and Delivery Services programs are primarily offered to Members who are chronically ill, genetically impaired, or afflicted with potentially life threatening diseases. These services include the distribution of biotech and other injectable and infusion prescription medications and the provision of pharmacy-related clinical management services, product administration and disease state programs. Specialty services are also offered to physicians (in group practice and hospital settings) on behalf of their patients. These physicians typically have network affiliations with Plan Sponsors, which in turn have a relationship with us.
We offer Plan Sponsors a broad range of PBM Services designed to promote the cost-effective delivery of clinically appropriate PBM Services through our network of retail pharmacies and our own dedicated mail service distribution facility.
As part of our PBM and Specialty Management and Delivery Services, we offer our customers a wide selection of clinical services including pharmacy case management, therapy assessment, compliance monitoring, health risk assessment, patient education and interaction evaluation, pharmacy claims processing, mail service and related prescription distribution, benefit design consultation, drug utilization review, formulary management and consultation, drug data analysis, drug interaction management, program management and pharmaceutical rebate administration. |