Item 4.02 | Non-Reliance on Previously Issued Financial Statements or a Related Audit Report or Completed Interim Review. |
Immediately prior to the scheduled filing of R1 RCM Inc.’s (the “Company”) Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023, the Company identified errors related to the accounting for certain acquiree compensation costs incurred in connection with acquisitions in 2022, 2021 and 2020 that the Company was required to recognize as a Company expense immediately upon the closing of the transactions. These costs should have been recorded as Other expenses within the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive income in the applicable period and were instead recorded within the purchase price allocation and ultimately recorded as goodwill in the consolidated balance sheets in previously issued financial statements.
As a result, on November 12, 2023, the Audit Committee (the “Audit Committee”) of the Board of Directors of the Company concluded, after considering the recommendations of management and discussing with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP (“EY”), that (i) the Company’s audited consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021, included in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC; (ii) the Company’s unaudited consolidated financial statements as of and for each of the quarters within 2022 and 2021, included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC; and (iii) even though the errors do not materially impact the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements for the quarters ended June 30, 2023 and March 31, 2023 included in the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q filed with the SEC, such financial statements (collectively, the “Non-Reliance Periods”) should not be relied upon due to the errors described above and need to be restated. In addition to the restatement errors described above, the Company expects to correct certain items that were previously identified and concluded as immaterial, individually and in the aggregate, to the financial statements for the Non-Reliance Periods.
In connection with the restatements, as a result of the accounting errors, the Company’s management has identified a material weakness in its internal control over financial reporting relating to the design and operating effectiveness of controls over business combinations impacting the accounting for acquiree compensation arrangements during the periods covered by such reports and has determined that its disclosure controls and procedures also were not effective as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 and all interim and subsequent periods.
Accordingly, the Audit Committee concluded that management’s report on internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022 and 2021 should no longer be relied upon. In addition, the opinion of EY on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2022, as well as its opinion on consolidated financial statements as of and for years ended December 31, 2022 and 2021 should no longer be relied upon. As a result of these errors in the Company’s financial statements, investors also should no longer rely upon the consolidated financial statements in the Company’s earnings releases for the Non-Reliance Periods or other communications relating to these periods.
The errors in the consolidated financial statements for each of the Non-Reliance Periods will be corrected in restated financial statements for each such period in amendments to the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended June 30, 2023 and March 31, 2023. The Company is diligently pursuing completion of the restatements.
At this time, the Company does not expect that the accounting errors will materially impact the statements of operations or the non-GAAP measures for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2023 provided in the press release furnished to the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) in the Current Report on Form 8-K on November 2, 2023.
The Company’s management and the Audit Committee have discussed the matters disclosed in this Item 4.02 with the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP.
Item 7.01 Regulation | FD Disclosure |
On November 13, 2023, the Company issued a press release regarding the matters disclosed in this Current Report on Form 8-K. A copy of the press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1.