Net lease expense for the six months ended June 30, 2005 was $31.0 million, which includes lease payments of $34.0 million, plus accruals for future lease escalators of $2.9 million, net of the amortization of the deferred gain from prior sale-leasebacks of $5.9 million.
The following table provides a summary of operating lease obligations at June 30, 2006 by lessor:
The Company is subject to various legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of its business. In the opinion of management, the ultimate liability with respect to those proceedings and claims will not materially affect the financial position, operations, or liquidity of the Company. The Company maintains commercial insurance on a claims-made basis for medical malpractice and professional liabilities.
The delivery of personal and health care services entails an inherent risk of liability. Participants in the senior living and health care services industry have become subject to an increasing number
of lawsuits alleging negligence or related legal theories, many of which involve large claims and result in the incurrence of significant exposure and defense costs. The Company currently maintains general and professional medical malpractice insurance policies for the Company's owned, leased and certain of its managed communities under a master insurance program. Premiums and deductibles for this insurance coverage have risen dramatically in recent years. In response to these conditions, the Company has significantly increased the staff and resources involved in quality assurance, compliance and risk management during the past several years, and has also modified its insurance programs.
Beginning January 2006, the Company formed a wholly-owned ‘‘captive’’ insurance company for the purpose of insuring certain portions of its risk retention under its general and professional liability insurance programs. The captive insurance company is subject to applicable reserve requirements and regulations. The Company currently maintains single incident and aggregate liability protection in the amount of $25.0 million for general liability and $15.0 million for professional liability, with self-insured retentions of $1.0 million and $5.0 million, respectively.
The Company operates under a self-insured workers’ compensation program, with excess loss coverage provided by third party carriers. As of June 30, 2006, the Company’s coverage for workers’ compensation and related programs, excluding Texas, included excess loss in an aggregate amount of $6.3 million, with a deductible amount of $350,000 per claim prior to January 1, 2006 and $500,000 thereafter. For work-related injuries in Texas, the Company is a non-subscriber under Texas state law, meaning that work-related losses are covered under a defined benefit program outside of the Texas Workers' Compensation system. The Company carries excess loss coverage of $1.0 million per individual, with a deductible of $250,000 per individual under its non-subscriber program.
The Company maintains a self-insurance program for employee medical coverage, with stop-loss insurance coverage of amounts in excess of $250,000 per associate prior to January 1, 2006 and $275,000 thereafter. Estimated costs related to this self-insurance program are accrued based on known claims and projected settlements of unasserted claims incurred but not yet reported to the Company. Subsequent changes in actual experience (including claim costs, claim frequency, and other factors) could result in additional costs to the Company.
During the six months ended June 30, 2006 and 2005, the Company expensed $9.7 million and $8.5 million, respectively, related to premiums, claims and costs for general liability and professional medical malpractice, workers’ compensation, and employee medical insurance related to multiple insurance years.
Management Agreements
The Company’s management agreements are generally for terms of three to 20 years, but certain of the agreements may be canceled by the owner of the community, without cause, on three to six months’ notice. Certain of these management agreements provide the Company with long-term renewal options. Pursuant to the management agreements, the Company is generally responsible for providing management personnel, marketing, nursing, resident care and dietary services, accounting and data processing services, and other services for these communities at the owner’s expense and receives a monthly fee for its services based on either a contractually fixed amount, a percentage of revenues or income, or cash flows in excess of operating expenses and certain cash flows of the community. The Company’s existing management agreements expire at various times through December 2021.
In connection with these management agreements, the Company has guaranteed mortgage debt of $8.2 million related to a joint venture which the Company manages.
Regulatory Requirements
Federal and state governments regulate various aspects of the Company's business. The development and operation of health care facilities and the provision of health care services are
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subject to federal, state, and local licensure, certification, and inspection laws that regulate, among other matters, the number of licensed beds, the provision of services, the distribution of pharmaceuticals, billing practices and policies, equipment, staffing (including professional licensing), operating policies and procedures, fire prevention measures, environmental matters, and compliance with building and safety codes. Failure to comply with these laws and regulations could result in the denial of reimbursement, the imposition of fines, temporary suspension of admission of new patients, suspension or decertification from the Medicare programs, restrictions on the ability to acquire new communities or expand existing communities, and, in extreme cases, the revocation of a community's license or closure of a community. Management believes the Company was in compliance with such federal and state regulations at June 30, 2006.
Other
A portion of the Company’s skilled nursing revenues and the majority of the Company’s therapy services revenues are attributable to reimbursements under Medicare. Certain per person annual limits on therapy services, which were temporarily effective beginning in September 2003 before being deferred, became effective again as of January 2006. Administrative procedures regarding automatic exceptions to these limits and approval processes for other exceptions by individual have been implemented by Medicare representatives. While the Company expects that these limits will reduce its therapy revenues from certain residents, it does not expect them to have a significant impact on its overall business. There continue to be various federal and state legislative and regulatory proposals to implement cost containment measures that would limit payments to healthcare providers in the future. Changes in the reimbursement policies of the Medicare program could have an adverse effect on the Company’s results of operations and cash flow.
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12. | Recent Accounting Pronouncements |
In June 2005, the EITF reached consensus in EITF 04-5, Determining Whether a General Partner, or the General Partners as a Group, Controls a Limited Partnership or Similar Entity When the Limited Partners Have Certain Rights, to provide guidance on how general partners in a limited partnership should determine whether they control a limited partnership and therefore should consolidate it. The EITF provides that the presumption of general partner control would be overcome only when the limited partners have either of two types of rights. The first type, referred to as kick-out rights, is the right to dissolve or liquidate the partnership or otherwise remove the general partner without cause. The second type, referred to as participating rights, is the right to effectively participate in significant decisions made in the ordinary course of the partnership’s business. The kick-out rights and the participating rights must be substantive in order to overcome the presumption of general partner control. The consensus is effective for general partners of all new limited partnerships formed and for existing limited partnerships for which the partnership agreements are modified subsequent to the date of FASB ratification (June 29, 2005). For existing limited partnerships that have not been modified, the guidance in EITF 04-5 is effective no later than the beginning of the first reporting period in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. The January 1, 2006 adoption of EITF 04-5 did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows for the period, however, the accounting related to future acquisition activity could be affected by the provisions of this consensus.
On October 6, 2005, the Financial Accounting Standards Board (‘‘FASB’’) released FASB Staff Position (‘‘FSP’’) FAS 13-1, Accounting for Rental Costs Incurred during a Construction Period. This FSP affects companies that are engaged in construction activities on buildings or grounds, which are accounted for as operating leases. The FSP requires companies to expense rental costs associated with these leases starting on the date that the tenant is given control of the premises. As a result, companies must cease capitalizing rental costs during construction periods. The FSP is effective for the first reporting period beginning after December 15, 2005. Retrospective application is permitted but not required. The January 1, 2006 adoption of this FSP did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows for the period, however, the accounting related to future acquisition activity could be affected by the provisions of this statement.
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In May 2005, the FASB issued SFAS No. 154, ‘‘Accounting Changes and Error Corrections’’, a replacement to APB Opinion No. 20, ‘‘Accounting Changes’’ and SFAS No. 3, ‘‘Reporting Accounting Changes in Interim Financial Statements.’’ SFAS No. 154 changes the requirements for the accounting for and reporting of a change in accounting principle. SFAS No. 154 requires retrospective application to prior periods financial statements for changes in accounting principle, unless it is impracticable to determine either the period-specific effects or the cumulative effect of the change. This statement also requires that a change in depreciation, amortization, or depletion method for long-lived, nonfinancial assets be accounted for as a change in accounting estimate effected by a change in accounting principle. Additionally, SFAS No. 154 carries forward the guidance in APB Opinion No. 20 for reporting the correction of an error, a change in accounting estimate and requires justification of a change in accounting principle. This pronouncement is effective for accounting changes and corrections of errors made in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. The adoption of SFAS No. 154 did not have a material effect on the Company’s financial position, results of operations or cash flows.
In February 2006, the FASB issued Staff Position (‘‘FSP’’) FAS No. 123(R)-4, ‘‘Classification of Options and Similar Instruments Issued as Employee Compensation that Allow for Cash Settlement upon the Occurrence of a Contingent Event.’’ FSP FAS No. 123(R)-4 addresses the classification of options and similar instruments issued as employee compensation that allow for cash settlement upon the occurrence of a contingent event. FSP FAS No. 123(R)-4 provides that cash settlement features that can be exercised only upon the occurrence of a contingent event that is outside the employee’s control does not require classifying the option or similar instrument as a liability until it becomes probable that the event will occur. In the event the probability standard is met, the cost of shares underlying unsettled awards are required to be remeasured and accounted for as a modification to the original award. The Company adopted the provisions of FSP FAS No. 123(R)-4 during the first quarter of 2006, which will have a future material effect on our financial position and results of operations. See Note 13.
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13. | Subsequent Events |
On July 19, 2006, the Company’s shareholders approved the Company's acquisition by Brookdale Senior Living Inc. at a special meeting of shareholders for $33.00 cash per outstanding share. The Company closed the transaction on July 25, 2006 and concurrently filed Form 15 with the Securities and Exchange Commission terminating its registration under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. For the six months ended June 30, 2006, the Company incurred approximately $2.3 million of costs related to the transaction which are included in general and administrative expenses in the Consolidated Statements of Operations.
As a result of certain corporate reorganization acceleration provisions governing the Company’s 1997 Stock Incentive Plan and shareholder approval of the merger with Brookdale Senior Living Inc., the Company reclassified its outstanding and unsettled share-based payments to comply with the liability accounting model required by FAS No. 123(R) and FSP FAS 123(R)-4 on July 19, 2006. The resulting fair value remeasurement resulted in an aggregate pre-tax charge of $60.2 million for the period ended July 25, 2006.
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