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As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on August 10, 2006.

Registration No. 333-            

 


SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 


FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 


Virtual Radiologic Corporation

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   8090   27-0074530
(State or other jurisdiction of
incorporation or organization)
  (Primary Standard Industrial
Classification Code Number)
  (I.R.S. Employer
Identification No.)

5995 Opus Parkway, Suite 200

Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343

(952) 392-1100

(Address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of registrant’s principal executive offices)

Sean Casey, M.D.

President and Chief Executive Officer

Virtual Radiologic Corporation

5995 Opus Parkway, Suite 200

Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343

(952) 392-1100

(Name, address, including zip code, and telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

 


Copies to:

 

Daniel D. Rubino, Esq.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

787 Seventh Avenue

New York, New York 10019

(212) 728-8000

 

Richard J. Sandler, Esq.

Davis Polk & Wardwell

450 Lexington Avenue

New York, New York 10017

(212) 450-4000

 


Approximate date of commencement of proposed sale to the public:

As soon as practicable after this Registration Statement becomes effective.

 


If any of the securities being registered on this Form are to be offered on a delayed or continuous basis pursuant to Rule 415 under the Securities Act, check the following box.  ¨

If this Form is filed to register additional securities for an offering pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(c) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

If this Form is a post-effective amendment filed pursuant to Rule 462(d) under the Securities Act, check the following box and list the Securities Act registration statement number of the earlier effective registration statement for the same offering.  ¨

 


CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 
Title of Securities
to be Registered
  Proposed Maximum
Aggregate Offering
Price (1)(2)
  Amount of
Registration Fee

Common Stock, par value $0.001

  $75,000,000   $8,025
 
(1) Estimated solely for purposes of determining the registration fee in accordance with Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
(2) Includes shares of common stock that the underwriters have an option to purchase solely to cover over-allotments.

 


The Registrant hereby amends this Registration Statement on such date or dates as may be necessary to delay its effective date until the Registrant shall file a further amendment which specifically states that this Registration Statement shall thereafter become effective in accordance with Section 8(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or until this Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 



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The information in this prospectus is not complete and may be changed. We may not sell these securities until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This prospectus is not an offer to sell these securities and is not soliciting an offer to buy these securities in any state where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Subject to Completion. Dated                     , 2006.

 

                Shares

Virtual Radiologic Corporation

Common Stock

 


This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock of Virtual Radiologic Corporation. All of the shares of common stock are being sold by the Company.

Prior to this offering, there has been no public market for the common stock. It is currently estimated that the initial public offering price per share will be between $             and $            . We intend to apply to have our common stock approved for quotation on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “VRAD.”

 


See “ Risk Factors” on page 10 to read about factors you should consider before buying shares of the common stock.

 


Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any other regulatory body has approved or disapproved of these securities or passed upon the accuracy or adequacy of this prospectus. Any representation to the contrary is a criminal offense.

 


 

     Per Share    Total

Initial public offering price

   $                 $             

Underwriting discount

   $      $  

Proceeds, before expenses, to Virtual Radiologic Corporation

   $      $  

To the extent that the underwriters sell more than              shares of common stock, the underwriters have the option to purchase up to an additional              shares from Virtual Radiologic Corporation at the initial public offering price less the underwriting discount.

 


The underwriters expect to deliver the shares against payment in New York, New York on                     , 2006.

Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Merrill Lynch & Co.

William Blair & Company

 


Prospectus dated                     , 2006.


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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

The following prospectus summary does not contain all information that may be important to you and is qualified in its entirety by, and should be read in conjunction with, the more detailed information and our financial statements and the related notes appearing elsewhere in this prospectus. Virtual Radiologic Professionals of California, P.A., Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, S.C., Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.C., Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Minnesota, P.A., Virtual Radiologic Professionals of New York, P.A. and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Texas, P.A. are collectively referred to as the “Professional Corporations.” Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC and the Professional Corporations are collectively referred to as the “Affiliated Medical Practices.” The terms “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” as used in this prospectus refer to Virtual Radiologic Corporation and our Affiliated Medical Practices.

Our Business

We are a leading provider of remote diagnostic image interpretation, or teleradiology, services in the United States. We serve our customers—radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers—by providing diagnostic image interpretations, or reads, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Our unique distributed operating model provides our qualified team of American Board of Radiology-certified radiologists with the flexibility to choose the location from which they work, primarily in the United States, and allows us to serve customers located throughout the country. We provide these services through a robust, highly scalable communications network incorporating encrypted broadband internet connections and proprietary workflow management software. Since our founding in 2001, we have developed a strong customer base and experienced significant revenue growth from approximately $1.0 million in 2002 to $5.9 million in 2003, $12.9 million in 2004 and $27.0 million in 2005. In addition, our first-quarter revenues grew from approximately $5.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, to approximately $9.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

In recent years, the United States healthcare industry has experienced increasing demand for diagnostic imaging services. The increase in diagnostic imaging procedures is driven by an aging population, advances in diagnostic imaging technologies and the growing availability of imaging equipment in hospitals and clinics, as well as by more frequent physician referrals for diagnostic imaging warranted by additional medical indications. According to Frost & Sullivan, digital diagnostic image procedure volume is expected to continue to grow 15% annually to over 500 million procedures by 2009. Additionally, advances in digital technology now allow for the transmission of images in a high quality, standardized, cost-effective and encrypted format, allowing radiologists to read remotely.

The number of radiologists in practice is expected to increase by less than 2% annually despite the expected growth in digital diagnostic image procedure volume. This relatively slow growth in radiologists, which is due, in part, to the retirement of existing radiologists and the limited number of positions in accredited radiology residency programs, is expected to exacerbate the radiologist shortage that currently exists. The shortage of radiologists and the growing imaging procedure volume are further compounded by the fact that contracted radiology practices are required to provide their hospital customers with services 24 hours a day, seven days a week in order to accommodate the growing number of off-hour procedures. Consequently, radiology practices and hospitals have begun to seek supplemental services to assist their own radiology staffs with both day and night coverage.

We address this industry need by providing radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers an attractive way to improve service levels, streamline underlying practice economics

 

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and enhance physician efficiency, without sacrificing the quality of work. We assist our customers by providing them with access to subspecialty-trained radiologists to perform reads, day or night, thereby improving the quality of patient care. Our services include both preliminary reads, which are performed for emergent care purposes, and final reads, which are performed for both emergent and non-emergent care purposes. Our ability to provide coverage 24 hours a day supports our customers when their workloads increase during the day and relieves the burden of performing reads overnight, and during holidays, weekends and other difficult-to-staff times. We believe this allows our customers to provide seamless patient care and to better attract and retain radiologists in their practices.

Our unique distributed operating model and proprietary workflow management software provide our affiliated radiologists with a flexible choice of location, predictable schedule and competitive compensation. Our affiliated radiologists, substantially all of whom are located in the United States, are certified by the American Board of Radiology, licensed by the states in which they practice and credentialed by the hospitals for which they perform reads. We believe we have the largest number of United States-based affiliated radiologists dedicated to the practice of teleradiology. Our affiliated radiologists collectively hold licenses in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. As of July 31, 2006, we had 60 radiologists providing services for us and had contracted with an additional 12 radiologists who had not yet begun servicing our customers.

Our primary customers are local radiology practices that have already contracted with hospitals and clinics and require diagnostic image interpretation services for a range of imaging modalities, including computed tomography, or CT, magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI, and ultrasound. We are compensated by our customers and do not directly depend on reimbursement from patients or third party payers. As of March 31, 2006, our affiliated radiologists provided services to 265 customers serving 490 medical facilities, which includes 470 hospitals, representing approximately 8% of hospitals in the United States. This represented an increase of 78% of medical facilities served and an increase of 77% in customers under contract since March 31, 2005. Since our inception, approximately 99% of our customer contracts up for renewal have been renewed.

Our Solution

We are a leading provider of teleradiology services to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers throughout the United States. Our services and technology enable our customers to provide the highest quality of medical care to their patients. We serve our customers by providing reads 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Utilizing our proprietary workflow management software and secure broadband internet connections, we connect our customers and our affiliated radiologists through an easy-to-use, robust and scalable communications network. We believe that the following are our key competitive advantages:

Leading Presence in Attractive Market

Our established presence, comprehensive service offering and technology allow us to create a critical solution for medical care providers faced with shortages in radiology resources. We focus on quality patient care and industry-leading service levels. Our solid brand name, reputation and quality results drive customer relationships and retention, in turn attracting the best radiology talent and performance. Since our inception, we have played an integral role in the development of the teleradiology services market and we maintain a dedicated and growing customer base with recurring revenue, which is reflected in our 114% compound annual revenue growth rate over the last three years.

 

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Improved Quality of Patient Care

We provide our customers with an attractive and economical way to improve service levels, increase the effectiveness of their work environment and enhance the quality of patient care. We enable our customers to provide patient care with 24 hour access to critical radiology services needed to effectively diagnose and treat patients. Since a majority of fellowship-trained specialists have traditionally located in metropolitan areas, patient access to required expertise is often limited in rural areas. Patient access to subspecialists is also limited in urban areas during off-hour, or emergency care, coverage periods when such subspecialists may not be locally available. We believe our services appropriately address this need, thereby improving the quality of patient care.

Our ability to rapidly assign reads to appropriately credentialed and trained specialists permits us to deliver high quality and specialized radiology services, including subspecialty services, to our customers. Our affiliated radiologists include subspecialty fellowship-trained radiologists in areas such as neuroradiology, abdominal imaging, musculoskeletal radiology, pediatric radiology, thoracic imaging and ultrasound, enabling us to match the appropriately skilled radiologist with the patient images we receive. We believe that the broad access and quality of the radiology services we provide to our customers have allowed us to achieve a high customer retention rate to date.

Largest Group of U.S.-Based Radiologists Within Teleradiology

We believe that we currently have the largest group of United States-based radiologists dedicated to the practice of teleradiology. While our technology platform allows radiologists to be situated in any part of the world with high-speed internet access, we believe the United States presence of our affiliated radiologists affords us advantages in recruiting and retaining American Board of Radiology- certified physicians. Without requiring these physicians to relocate either domestically or internationally, we provide our affiliated radiologists with a flexible choice of location, predictable schedule and competitive compensation. In addition, the location of our affiliated radiologists allows us to respond to opportunities in the market for final reads, which must be performed by United States domiciled radiologists to comply with Medicare reimbursement rules. Finally, our group of affiliated radiologists enables us to serve customers who prefer utilizing radiologists practicing within the United States to perform their reads. To date, we have experienced a very high radiologist retention rate. As of July 31, 2006, we had 60 radiologists providing services for us, and had contracted with an additional 12 radiologists who had not yet begun servicing our customers.

Unique Distributed Operating Model

Our operating model provides radiologists with digital access to images and allows instant delivery of their reports and direct communication with attending physicians, when required. We employ our proprietary Radiology Information System, or RIS, workflow management software, and operations center to maximize the efficiency of our affiliated radiologists while maintaining a high standard of quality, service and response time. Our systems efficiently:

 

  Ÿ   prioritize and distribute orders and images to radiologists;

 

  Ÿ   facilitate the review and interpretation of images and the preparation of written study reports;

 

  Ÿ   provide for rapid exchange of information between the radiologist and attending physician, if necessary;

 

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  Ÿ   permit rapid consultations among our affiliated radiologists in a computer work environment known as our “virtual reading room”; and

 

  Ÿ   provide our customers with immediate electronic access to a radiologist’s written report and an immediate follow-on report in hard copy.

Our proprietary workflow software manages our radiology caseload by matching the patient’s need with a properly licensed and credentialed radiologist with expertise to most adequately provide patient care. Our software optimizes the assignment of cases across our affiliated radiologists to minimize read turnaround times. Finally, our centralized administrative and operations support functions allow our affiliated radiologists to focus solely on providing reads without the distraction of administrative duties.

Scalable Technology Platform

Our substantial investment in designing, developing and installing our distributed network, proprietary workflow management software and radiologist reading tools has allowed us to complement rapid customer growth with new radiologist hires to meet growing customer demand. In addition to developing our proprietary RIS system, we have integrated additional technological solutions—such as a 3-D capable viewer and a voice recognition system—and ergonomically advanced reading stations, to maximize radiologist efficiency. We have also developed automation tools for all workflow processes for radiologist recruitment and deployment, licensing and credentialing, scheduling, finance and management reporting. We believe that we have one of the largest wide area networks in teleradiology, which efficiently connects our customers’ facilities to our distributed group of affiliated radiologists. Our robust and highly reliable technological infrastructure is designed to manage volume levels several times our current size with modest additional capital investment.

Experienced Management Team

Our management team includes founding members who have built the infrastructure and platform necessary to deliver significant growth and execute our business plan. Dr. Sean Casey, a founder of our Company, has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company and its predecessor since May 2001. Dr. Casey was formerly a clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota and has published numerous professional journal articles on radiology. An American Board of Radiology-certified radiologist and neuroradiologist, Dr. Casey is a pioneer in the clinical use of cerebral CT angiography and venography. In addition to Dr. Casey’s extensive medical expertise, he is primarily responsible for the development of our service offerings and business model. Our Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer and General Counsel have extensive experience working together in technology-focused companies. Our management team has over 50 years of combined corporate management experience.

Our Strategy

Our goal is to broaden our position as a leading teleradiology services provider by continuing to offer comprehensive services to our customers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. We intend to build upon our industry-leading service levels, innovative and scalable technology and highly regarded team of affiliated radiologists to expand our footprint. Our focus will remain on improving patient care while providing a compelling value proposition to both our customers and our affiliated radiologists. In order to achieve our objectives, we plan to:

 

  Ÿ   increase our sales and marketing efforts to further expand our customer base;

 

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  Ÿ   advance our recruitment and deployment of U.S.-based qualified radiologists to meet increased demand for both preliminary and final reads;

 

  Ÿ   expand services and increase utilization by our existing customer base, including final reads;

 

  Ÿ   develop additional applications that permit expanded use of our technology platform by customers and hospitals; and

 

  Ÿ   pursue acquisitions opportunistically.

Business Risks

Investing in our common stock involves substantial risk. You should carefully consider all of the information set forth in this prospectus and, in particular, should evaluate the specific factors set forth under “Risk Factors” in deciding whether to invest in our common stock.

Corporate History and Information

Virtual Radiologic Corporation, or VRC, was formed through a merger between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., a Minnesota corporation, and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., a Delaware corporation, that was consummated on May 2, 2005. On January 1, 2006, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., a Delaware corporation and the surviving entity in the merger, changed its name to Virtual Radiologic Corporation.

Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, or VRP, a Delaware limited liability company, is the successor by merger to Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC, a Minnesota professional limited liability company, which was the successor to Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company organized in 2001 to engage in the provision of teleradiology. VRP is the physician-owned practice that contracts with our affiliated radiologists for the provision of their services to fulfill customer contracts held by VRC or our other Affiliated Medical Practices. See “Our Corporate Structure and Affiliated Radiologists.”

Our executive offices are located at 5995 Opus Parkway, Suite 200, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343 and our telephone number is (952) 392-1100. Our website address is http://www.virtualrad.com. Our website and the information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website are not part of this prospectus.

 

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The Offering

 

Common stock offered

                shares

Over-allotment option

                shares

Common stock to be outstanding after this offering

  

             shares

Use of proceeds

   We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds we receive from this offering for general corporate purposes, including further development and expansion of our service offerings, the recruitment of additional radiologists, improvement of our infrastructure, increased sales and marketing initiatives, and possible acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets. See “Use of Proceeds.”

Listing

   We intend to apply to have our common stock approved for quotation on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “VRAD.”

 


The number of shares of our common stock to be outstanding after this offering excludes:

 

  Ÿ   3,474,090 shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of options outstanding as of March 31, 2006, at a weighted average exercise price of $2.05 per share; and

 

  Ÿ                shares of common stock reserved for future grants under our stock option and incentive plans.

Except as otherwise noted, all information in this prospectus:

 

  Ÿ   assumes an initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus;

 

  Ÿ   assumes no exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option;

 

  Ÿ   gives effect to the conversion of the outstanding shares of our preferred stock and assumes the 3,626,667 outstanding shares of our preferred stock will convert into 3,626,667 shares of our common stock;

 

  Ÿ   gives effect to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws, which will be effective immediately prior to the completion of this offering; and

 

  Ÿ   gives effect to the              for              stock split of our common stock that we expect to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering.

 

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Summary Consolidated Financial Data and Operating Data

The following tables summarize historical consolidated financial data and certain operating data regarding our business and should be read together with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and related footnotes included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated statement of operations data for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of March 31, 2006, as set forth below are derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. We have prepared the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and related unaudited financial information in the footnotes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP, and the rules and regulations of the SEC for interim financial statements. These interim financial statements reflect all adjustments consisting of normal recurring accruals, which, in the opinion of management, are necessary to present fairly our consolidated financial position and the results of our operations for the interim periods. The consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005 are derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The financial data presented below as of and for the year ended December 31, 2003 reflects the results of operations of Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC (previously known as Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC). The financial data presented below as of and for the years ended December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2005, and as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2005, reflects the consolidated operations of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., our predecessor corporation, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC. The financial data presented below as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2006 reflects the consolidated operations of Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC. The historical results presented below are not necessarily indicative of financial results to be achieved in future periods.

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2003     2004
(Restated)(1)
    2005     2005     2006  
     (in thousands, except per share data)  

Consolidated Statement of Operations Data:

          

Revenue

   $ 5,872     $ 12,899     $ 26,991     $ 4,969     $ 9,674  

Operating costs and expenses

     4,996       14,142       30,192       5,563       11,245  
                                        

Operating income (loss)

     876       (1,243 )     (3,201 )     (594 )     (1,571 )

Other (expense) income

          

Interest expense

     (14 )     (95 )     (131 )     (60 )     (9 )

Interest income

                 187             60  
                                        

Other (expense) income

     (14 )     (95 )     56       (60 )     51  
                                        

Income (loss) before non-controlling interest and income tax expense

     862       (1,338 )     (3,145 )     (654 )     (1,520 )

Non-controlling interest

           62       (1,362 )     (404 )      

Income tax expense

                 58              
                                        

Net income (loss)

     862       (1,400 )     (1,841 )     (250 )     (1,520 )

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock accretion

                 (28,181 )           (9,768 )
                                        

Net income (loss) available to common stockholders

   $ 862     $ (1,400 )   $ (30,022 )   $ (250 )   $ (11,288 )
                                        

Earnings (loss) per common share:

          

Basic and Diluted

   $ 4.23     $ (.41 )   $ (4.80 )   $ (.04 )   $ (1.71 )

Weighted average common shares outstanding:

          

Basic and Diluted(2)(3)

     204       3,414       6,254       5,660       6,604  

 

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     As of December 31,    As of March 31,
     2003    2004    2005    2005    2006

Selected Operating Data:

              

Affiliated radiologists providing services

   14    34    53    39    53

Customers

   59    123    238    149    265

Hospitals and other medical facilities served

   117    216    446    276    490

 

     As of December 31,     As of
March 31,
 
     2003    2004
(Restated)(1)
    2005     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Consolidated Balance Sheet Data:

         

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 75    $ 484     $ 3,088     $ 2,698  

Short-term investment

                5,092       5,132  

Restricted cash

                300       300  

Working capital(4)

     662      (927 )     10,319       10,306  

Total current assets

     1,682      2,955       13,949       14,300  

Total long-term capital lease obligations (less current portion)

          104       20       3  

Total liabilities

     1,144      4,078       3,850       4,205  

Non-controlling interest

          1,362              

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

                40,090       49,858  

Total stockholders’ deficiency(5)

     1,081      (1,089 )     (26,385 )     (35,789 )

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2003     2004
(Restated)(1)
    2005     2005     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Cash Flow Data:

          

Net cash provided by (used in):

          

Operating activities

   $ 303     $ 203     $ (1,794 )   $ (415 )   $ 259  

Investing activities

     (290 )     (360 )     (7,754 )     (20 )     (480 )

Financing activities

     (61 )     566       12,151       577       (169 )
     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2003     2004
(Restated)(1)
    2005     2005     2006  
     (in thousands)  

Other Financial Data:

          

Adjusted EBITDA(6)

     948       (859 )     (244 )     (337 )     480  

(1) See note 3 to the consolidated financial statements contained elsewhere herein.

 

(2) The weighted average common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2003 is based on the assumed conversion of the members’ equity interests in Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC into common stock of VRC utilizing the conversion ratio established when the Company was incorporated during 2004.

 

(3) The weighted average common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2005 and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, excludes the assumed conversion of the shares of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock into shares of common stock on May 2, 2005, because those shares are anti-dilutive.

 

(4) Working capital is defined as current assets minus current liabilities.

 

(5) For the year ended December 31, 2003, this item refers to members’ equity for Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC.

 

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(6) Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to measure operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) plus non-controlling interest, net interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization, excluding the effects of physician and employee non-cash stock-based compensation expense. Management believes that it is useful to eliminate these items because it allows management to focus on what it deems to be a more reliable indicator of ongoing consolidated operating performance. Management is unable to predict or control the fair value of its common stock, which is the underlying factor in the determination of both employee and physician stock-based compensation. Non-controlling interest reflects income or (loss) absorbed by the Affiliated Medical Practices that is consolidated with VRC under Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, Interpretation Number 46R, or FIN 46R: Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities, an interpretation of Accounting Principles Board, or APB, No. 51. Our management includes this income or loss in its calculation of adjusted EBITDA in order to reflect the consolidated operations of VRC and the Affiliated Medical Practices without regard to ownership or capital structure. Internal management reports used during monthly operating reviews feature the adjusted EBITDA metric. However, management uses this metric in conjunction with traditional GAAP operating performance measures as part of its overall assessment of Company performance and therefore does not place undue reliance on this measure as its only measure of operating performance.

 

  Adjusted EBITDA is not a recognized term under GAAP and does not purport to be an alternative to net income or any other GAAP measure as an indicator of operating performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, this presentation of adjusted EBITDA is not comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies.

 

  All of the items included in the reconciliation from net income to adjusted EBITDA are either (i) non-cash items (e.g., depreciation and amortization, physician stock-based compensation expense and employee stock-based compensation expense) or (ii) items that management does not consider to be useful in assessing our ongoing operating performance (e.g., non-controlling interest, net interest income or expense and income taxes).

 

  Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to be a measure of free cash flow for management’s discretionary use since it does not consider certain cash requirements, such as interest payments, tax payments, non-controlling interest, debt service requirements and capital expenditures.

 

  The following is a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss):

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
         2003        2004
(Restated)(1)
    2005         2005             2006      
     (in thousands)  
        

Net income (loss)

   $ 862    $ (1,400 )   $ (1,841 )   $ (250 )   $ (1,520 )

Non-controlling interest

          62       (1,362 )     (404 )      

Interest expense (income), net

     14      95       (56 )     60       (51 )

Income tax expense

                58              

Depreciation and amortization

     72      230       586       94       268  
                                       

EBITDA

     948      (1,013 )     (2,615 )     (500 )     (1,303 )

Employee stock-based compensation expense

                            9  

Physician stock-based compensation expense

          154       2,371       163       1,774  
                                       

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ 948    $ (859 )   $ (244 )   $ (337 )   $ 480  
                                       

 

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RISK FACTORS

An investment in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the following information about these risks, together with the other information in this prospectus, prior to making a decision to purchase shares of our common stock. This prospectus contains, in addition to historical information, forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties. Our actual results could differ materially from those discussed herein. If any of the following risks occur, our business, results of operations or financial condition could be materially adversely affected.

Risks Related to Our Business

We have incurred operating losses in the past and may incur operating losses in the future. If we fail to increase our revenues to offset our expenses, we may not become profitable.

We have incurred operating losses since our inception and we may incur additional operating losses in the future. We incurred operating losses of approximately $1.2 million in 2004, $3.2 million in 2005 and $1.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006. In addition, we expect our operating expenses to increase in the future as we expand our sales and marketing activities, increase our technology development efforts, hire additional personnel and comply with the requirements related to being a public company. If we cannot increase our revenues enough to offset these expected increased expenses, or the increase in expenses exceeds our expectations, we may never become profitable.

The industry in which we operate is highly competitive, and we expect competition to increase in the future, which will make it more difficult for us to sell our services and may result in pricing pressure, reduced revenue and reduced market share.

The market for teleradiology is new, rapidly evolving and intensely competitive. We expect competition may intensify in the future, since barriers to entry for any licensed radiologist are not significant and the necessary technology is reasonably accessible. Certain of our competitors are larger, more established and better financed than we are, and may have stronger brand recognition in the marketplace. Some of our principal competitors may offer their services at a lower price, which may result in pricing pressure. If we are unable to maintain our current pricing, our operating results could be negatively impacted. Moreover, pricing pressures and increased competition could result in reduced revenue and reduced profits.

In addition, if one or more of our competitors were to merge or partner with another of our competitors or if companies larger than we are enter the market through internal expansion or acquisition of one of our competitors, the change in the competitive landscape could adversely affect our ability to compete effectively. These competitors could have established customer relationships and greater financial, technical, sales, marketing and other resources than we have, and could be able to respond more quickly to new or emerging technologies or devote greater resources to the development, promotion and sale of their services. This competition could harm our ability to sell our services, which could lead to lower prices, reduced revenue and, ultimately, reduced market share.

We have a limited operating history, and the industry in which we operate continues to develop.

We have a limited operating history in an emerging industry. As a result, our current business and future prospects are difficult to evaluate. You should consider us a company that is in the development stage, and subject to all of the ordinary risks associated with a new company in a rapidly evolving market. These risks include our need to:

 

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  Ÿ   continue to provide high levels of service quality to customers as we expand our business;

 

  Ÿ   quickly engage and integrate new radiologists and other key personnel;

 

  Ÿ   manage rapid growth in personnel and operations;

 

  Ÿ   respond to changing technologies and customer preferences;

 

  Ÿ   effectively manage our medical liability risk; and

 

  Ÿ   develop new services that complement our existing business.

We may not be able to successfully address these risks. Failure to adequately do so would harm our business and cause our operating results to be negatively impacted. Furthermore, our limited operating history has resulted in revenue growth rates that we may not be able to sustain, and therefore may not be indicative of our future results of operations. As a result, the price of our common stock may be volatile.

Our inability to effectively manage our growth could adversely affect our business and our operating results.

We are currently experiencing a period of rapid growth in our headcount and operations, which has placed, and will continue to place, a significant strain on our management, administrative, operational and financial infrastructure. We also anticipate that further growth will be required to address increases in the scope of our operations and size of our customer base. Our success will depend in part upon the ability of our current senior management team to effectively manage this growth, as well as to effectively manage the transition to being a publicly traded company. Our management will be required to devote considerable time to this process, which will reduce the time our management will have to implement our business and expansion plans.

To effectively manage our business and planned growth, we must continue to improve our operational, financial and management processes and controls and our reporting systems and procedures. Furthermore, the additional headcount we are adding will increase our costs, which will make it more difficult for us to offset any future revenue shortfalls by offsetting expense reductions in the short term. If we are unable to effectively manage our growth, our expenses may increase more than expected, our revenues could decline or grow more slowly than expected and we may be unable to implement our business strategy.

If we are unable to recruit and retain a sufficient number of qualified radiologists, our future growth would be limited and our business and operating results would be harmed.

Our success is highly dependent upon our continuing ability to recruit and retain qualified radiologists through VRP or similar affiliated practices to perform radiological services for us at a time of chronic shortage of radiologists in the medical profession. We face competition for radiologists from other healthcare providers, including radiology practices, research and academic institutions, government entities and other organizations. An inability to recruit and retain radiologists would have a material adverse effect on our ability to grow and would adversely affect our results of operations.

If we are unable to obtain proper physician licenses or hospital credentials on behalf of our affiliated radiologists, or if our affiliated radiologists lose those licenses or credentials, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be negatively impacted.

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regulations, each of our affiliated radiologists must hold a license in good standing to practice medicine in the state in which the hospital is located and in the state in which the doctor is located. The requirements for obtaining and maintaining hospital credentials and state medical licenses vary significantly among hospitals and states. If a hospital or state restricts or impedes the ability of physicians located outside that particular state to obtain credentials or a license to practice medicine at that hospital or in that state, the market for our services could be reduced. For the three months ended March 31, 2006, approximately 51.3% of our revenues were generated from customers located in Massachusetts, New York, Missouri, Texas, Illinois and Florida. Thus, any change in the requirements for obtaining and maintaining physician licenses and hospital credentials in those states in particular could have an adverse effect on our results of operations. While we maintain a staff of specially trained employees to process the necessary applications to obtain these licenses and credentials, any delay in obtaining new licenses or credentials could create a shortage of affiliated radiologists available to perform reads for a particular customer. In addition, any loss of existing credentials or medical licenses held by our affiliated radiologists could impair our ability to serve our existing customers and could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Our affiliated radiologists must also comply with certain requirements in order for our customers to receive reimbursement for the services provided by those radiologists under Medicare, Medicaid and most third party payer contracts. The failure of our affiliated radiologists to meet these requirements could result in a significant loss of revenue and would have a significant adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

If our affiliated radiologists are characterized as employees, we would be subject to employment and withholding liabilities.

Through our Affiliated Medical Practices, we structure our relationships with our affiliated radiologists in a manner that we believe results in independent contractor relationships, not employee relationships. An independent contractor is generally distinguished from an employee by his or her degree of autonomy and independence in providing services. A high degree of autonomy and independence is generally indicative of a contractor relationship, while a high degree of control is generally indicative of an employment relationship. If tax or regulatory authorities or state or federal courts were to determine that our affiliated radiologists are employees, and not independent contractors, we would be required to withhold income taxes, to withhold and pay social security, Medicare and similar taxes and to pay unemployment and other related payroll taxes. We would also be liable for unpaid past taxes and subject to penalties. As a result, any determination that our affiliated radiologists are our employees would materially harm our business and operating results.

We may be unable to enforce non-compete agreements with our affiliated radiologists.

The independent contractor agreements with our affiliated radiologists typically provide that the radiologists may not engage in the teleradiology business, subject to certain exceptions, for a period of time, typically one year, after the agreements terminate. These covenants not to compete are enforceable to varying degrees from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. In most jurisdictions, a covenant not to compete will be enforced only to the extent that it is necessary to protect the legitimate business interest of the party seeking enforcement, that it does not unreasonably restrain the party against whom enforcement is sought and that it is not contrary to the public interest. This determination is made based upon all of the facts and circumstances of the specific case at the time enforcement is sought. It is unclear whether our interests will be viewed by courts as the type of protected business interest that would permit us to enforce non-competition covenants against our affiliated radiologists. Because our success depends in substantial part on our ability to preserve the services of our affiliated radiologists, a determination that these provisions are not enforceable could have a material adverse effect on us.

 

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We are dependent upon certain key employees and the loss of their services may prevent us from implementing our business plan in a timely manner.

Our success depends largely upon the continued services of Sean Casey, M.D., our President, Chief Executive Officer, Chairman of the Board of Directors and founder. The loss of Dr. Casey could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We are also dependent, to a lesser extent, on the services of our other executives and employees, the loss of whose services may also have such effects. In addition, the search for replacements could be time consuming and could distract our management team from the day-to-day operations of our business.

If we are unable to implement and maintain an effective system of internal controls, our ability to report our financial results on a timely and accurate basis, and to comply with Sections 302 and 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, may be adversely affected.

Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting. Our internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.

In connection with their audit of our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, and the restatement described in footnote three to our consolidated financial statements, our independent registered public accounting firm determined control deficiencies exist in our internal control over financial reporting because we lacked a sufficient complement of accounting personnel with an appropriate level of knowledge to account for certain complex, non-routine transactions. Specifically, we did not appropriately apply generally accepted accounting principles in our accounting for: (i) non-employee stock-based compensation; (ii) variable interests; and (iii) preferred stock financing transactions. These control deficiencies resulted in the restatement of our 2004 consolidated financial statements and audit adjustments to our 2005 consolidated financial statements. These control deficiencies could also result in a misstatement of significant accounts and disclosures in addition to those described above that could result in additional material misstatements to our consolidated financial statements which would not be prevented or detected. Accordingly, it was determined by our independent registered public accounting firm, and confirmed by our board of directors, that each of these control deficiencies and the lack of a sufficient complement of resources constitute material weaknesses. If we are unable to remedy these material weaknesses, they could adversely affect the results of the periodic management evaluations that will be required when the SEC’s rules under Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 become applicable to us beginning with our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2007. If we fail to comply with the requirements of Section 404 or if we or our independent registered public accounting firm identifies and reports a material weakness, the reliability of our internal control over financial reporting may be impacted.

We have experienced significant growth over the past several years, and as a private company, we have had limited accounting personnel and other resources with which to design and implement our internal controls and procedures. Our management has taken steps to address these material weaknesses and improve our internal control over financial reporting, including the hiring and training of additional experienced financial personnel. In March 2006, we hired a controller, and in May 2006, we hired a financial reporting manager. Our plan includes a continuing assessment of our internal control over financial reporting and related staffing requirements, as well as the hiring and training of additional financial staff, to seek to provide assurance that, among other things, transactions are identified and recorded in an accurate and timely manner, and in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. We cannot be certain that these measures will remedy the material weaknesses and we cannot be certain that additional material weaknesses will not be discovered in the future.

 

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Interruptions or delays in our or our customers’ information systems or in network or related services provided by third party suppliers could impair the delivery of our services and harm our business.

Our operations depend on the uninterrupted performance of our information systems, which are substantially dependent on systems provided by third parties over which we have little control. Failure to maintain reliable information systems, or the occurrence of disruptions in our information systems, could cause delays in our business operations that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We have infrequently experienced downtime due to disruptions in services provided by a third party or associated with implementation of improvements to our system. Although our systems have been designed around industry-standard architecture to reduce downtime in the event of outages or catastrophic occurrences, they remain vulnerable to risks such as internet service denial attacks, security breaches, natural catastrophes affecting the geographic availability of internet access, unreliable internet performance due to increased traffic over the internet, or changes in internet protocols that render the technologies we rely on inefficient. Despite any precautions that we may take, the occurrence of such risks or other unanticipated problems could result in lengthy interruptions in our services. Frequent or persistent interruptions in our services could cause permanent harm to our reputation and brand and could cause customers to believe that our systems are unreliable, leading them to switch to our competitors. In addition, if any of our customers experience any problems with respect to their own internal information technology infrastructure, this could lead to a decrease in the number of reads they ask us to perform on their behalf. Because our customers use our services for critical healthcare needs, any system failures could result in damage to our customers’ businesses and reputations. These customers could seek significant compensation from us for their losses. Any claim for compensation, even if unsuccessful, would likely be time consuming and costly for us to resolve.

If our security measures are breached and unauthorized access is obtained to patient or customer data, we may face liabilities and our system may be perceived as not being secure, causing customers to curtail or stop using our services, which could lead to a decline in revenues.

We are required to implement administrative, physical and technological safeguards to ensure the security of the patient data that we create, process or store. These safeguards may fail to ensure the security of patient or customer data, thereby subjecting us to liability, including civil monetary penalties and possible criminal penalties. If our security measures are breached, whether as a result of third party action, employee error, malfeasance or otherwise, and, as a result, someone obtains unauthorized access to patient or customer data, our reputation will be damaged, our business may suffer and we could incur significant liability. Because techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to systems change frequently and generally are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or to implement adequate preventive measures.

Any failure to protect our intellectual property rights in our workflow technology could impair its value and our competitive advantage.

We rely heavily on our proprietary workflow software to distribute radiological images to the appropriately licensed and credentialed radiologist who is best able to provide the necessary clinical insight in the least amount of turnaround time. If we fail to adequately protect our intellectual property rights, our competition may gain access to our technology and our business may be harmed. We currently do not hold any patents with respect to our technology. We have filed seven provisional patent applications and one utility patent application covering certain aspects of our business processes and proprietary workflow software and we may file additional applications in the future. However, we may be unable to obtain patent protection for this technology. We copyright all of our

 

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proprietary software programs and may file to register these copyrights in the future. However, many of our intellectual property rights, including licenses for certain software and systems, are not exclusive or proprietary and may be imitated or purchased by competitors.

Our ability to update our workflow technology may be limited because we are dependent upon a third party to make corresponding enhancements to its software.

We license certain image management software from Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A., or Fujifilm. We do not own the source code for the software that we license from Fujifilm. Therefore, when we make certain updates or enhancements to our workflow system, we are dependent upon Fujifilm to provide similar enhancements to the licensed software in order to accommodate the enhancements to our system. Our dependence on Fujifilm to make enhancements to the licensed software could limit our ability to effectively update and enhance our workflow system. Fujifilm is a minority stockholder of VRC.

We may in the future become subject to intellectual property rights claims, which could harm our business and operating results.

The information technology industry is characterized by the existence of a large number of patents, trademarks and copyrights and by frequent litigation based on allegations of infringement or other violations of intellectual property rights. If a third party asserts that our technology violates that party’s proprietary rights or if a court holds that our technology violates such rights, we may be required to re-engineer our technology, obtain licenses from third parties to continue using our technology without substantial re-engineering, or remove the infringing functionality or feature. In addition, we may incur substantial costs defending against any such claim. We may also become subject to damage awards, which could cause us to incur additional losses and hurt our financial position.

In addition, we license software and systems from third parties under agreements that typically provide that the licensor will indemnify us against infringement claims by third parties. Notwithstanding such indemnification, if we become involved in intellectual property litigation it will be expensive and time consuming and could divert management’s attention away from running our business.

Monitoring potential infringement of, and defending or asserting, our intellectual property rights may entail significant expense. We may initiate claims or litigation against third parties for infringement of our proprietary rights or to establish the validity of our proprietary rights. Any litigation, whether or not it is resolved in our favor, could result in significant expense to us and divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel.

If our arrangements with our affiliated radiologists or our customers are found to violate state laws prohibiting the practice of medicine by general business corporations or fee splitting, our business, financial condition and ability to operate in those states could be adversely affected.

The laws of many states, including states in which our affiliated radiologists perform medical services, prohibit us from exercising control over the medical judgments or decisions of physicians and from engaging in certain financial arrangements, such as splitting professional fees with physicians. These laws and their interpretations vary from state to state and are enforced by state courts and regulatory authorities, each with broad discretion. We enter into agreements with our affiliated radiologists pursuant to which they render professional medical services. In addition, we enter into agreements with our customers to deliver professional radiology interpretation services in exchange for a service fee. We structure our relationships with our affiliated radiologists and our customers in a manner that we believe is in compliance with prohibitions against the corporate practice of medicine and fee splitting. While we have not received notification from any state regulatory or similar authorities

 

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asserting that we are engaged in the corporate practice of medicine or that the payment of service fees to us by our customers constitutes fee splitting, if such a claim were successful we could be subject to substantial civil and criminal penalties and could be required to restructure or terminate the applicable contractual arrangements and our contractual arrangements may be unenforceable in that particular state. A determination that our arrangements with our affiliated radiologists and our customers violate state statutes, or our inability to successfully restructure these arrangements to comply with these statutes, could eliminate customers located in certain states from the market for our services, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operations.

As a result of our corporate structure, we are entirely dependent upon our Affiliated Medical Practices, which we do not own.

Our services are provided to our customers by VRC and our Affiliated Medical Practices. See “Our Structure and Affiliated Radiologists.”

We provide our services through contracts between our customers and VRC, and through contracts between our customers and one of our Affiliated Medical Practices. However, we do not own our Affiliated Medical Practices. VRP is owned by Dr. Sean Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. Gary Weiss and Dr. David Hunter. In addition, each of the Professional Corporations is wholly owned by Dr. Casey. While the ownership of our Affiliated Medical Practices is subject to certain restrictions contained in management agreements between VRC and each of them, any change in our relationship, whether resulting from a dispute between the entities, a change in government regulation, or otherwise, with our Affiliated Medical Practices could have a material adverse affect on our business, financial condition and operations.

Because many states prohibit the practice of medicine by a general business corporation, we have structured our operations and our relationship with our Affiliated Medical Practices such that approximately 35% of our revenue is generated from our Professional Corporations that perform services in such states. Additionally, all of the medical services provided on behalf of us and the Professional Corporations are performed by independent contractor physicians under contract to VRP, and all compensation paid to such radiologists in consideration of those services is paid by VRP. Any disruption of the arrangement between us and VRP or our other Affiliated Medical Practices, whether resulting from a dispute between the entities, a change in government regulation, or otherwise, could have a material adverse affect on our business, financial condition and operations.

Enforcement of federal and state anti-kickback laws could affect our business, operations or financial condition.

Various federal and state laws govern financial arrangements among healthcare providers. The federal anti-kickback law prohibits the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any form of remuneration in return for, or with the purpose to induce, the referral of Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare program patients, or in return for, or with the purpose to induce, the purchase, lease or order of items or services that are covered by Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs. Similarly, many state laws prohibit the solicitation, payment or receipt of remuneration in return for, or to induce, the referral of patients in private as well as government programs. There is a risk that an investment in our shares by our affiliated radiologists, including the distribution of any profits to our affiliated radiologists, the use of our equipment by physicians who own our securities, any assistance from healthcare providers in acquiring, maintaining or operating digital diagnostic imaging equipment, the marketing of our affiliated radiologists’ services or our compensation arrangements with our affiliated radiologists may be considered a violation of these laws. Violation of these anti-kickback laws may result in substantial civil or criminal penalties for individuals or entities and/or exclusion from participating in federal or state healthcare programs. If we are excluded from federal or state

 

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healthcare programs, our customers who participate in those programs would not be permitted to continue doing business with us. We believe that we are operating in compliance with applicable law and believe that our arrangements with providers would not be found to violate the anti-kickback laws. However, these laws could be interpreted in a manner inconsistent with our operations.

Federal or state self-referral regulations could impact our arrangements with our affiliated radiologists.

The federal physician self-referral statute, known as the “Stark” statute, prohibits a physician from making a referral for certain designated health services, including radiology services, to any entity with which the physician has a financial relationship, unless there is an exception in the statute that allows the referral. The entity that receives a prohibited referral from a physician may not submit a bill to Medicare for that service. Many state laws prohibit physician referrals to entities in which the physician has a financial interest, or require that the physician provide the patient notice of the physician’s financial relationship before making the referral. There is a risk that an investment in our shares by our affiliated radiologists, including the distribution of any profits to our affiliated radiologists, the use of our equipment by physicians who own our securities, any assistance from healthcare providers in acquiring, maintaining or operating digital diagnostic imaging equipment, the marketing of our affiliated radiologists’ services or our compensation arrangements with our affiliated radiologists, could be interpreted as a violation of the federal Stark statute or similar state laws, if we were to accept referrals from our affiliated radiologists. Violation of the Stark statute can result in substantial civil penalties for both the referring physician and any entity that submits a claim for a healthcare service made pursuant to a prohibited referral. In addition, federal courts have ruled that violations of the Stark statute can be the basis for a legal claim under the Federal False Claims Act. We believe that all of our customer arrangements are in compliance with the Stark statute. However, these laws could be interpreted in a manner inconsistent with our operations.

Because our customers submit claims to the Medicare program based on the services we provide, it is possible that a lawsuit could be brought against us or our customers under the Federal False Claims Act, and the outcome of any such lawsuit could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

The Federal False Claims Act provides, in part, that the federal government may bring a lawsuit against any person whom it believes has knowingly presented, or caused to be presented, a false or fraudulent request for payment from the federal government, or who has made a false statement or used a false record to have a claim approved. Federal courts have ruled that a violation of the anti-kickback provision of the Stark statute can serve as the basis for the Federal False Claims Act suit. The Federal False Claims Act further provides that a lawsuit brought under that act may be initiated in the name of the United States by an individual who was the original source of the allegations, known as the relator. Actions brought under the Federal False Claims Act are sealed by the court at the time of filing. The only parties privy to the information contained in the complaint are the relator, the federal government and the court. Therefore, it is possible that lawsuits have been filed against us that we are unaware of or which we have been ordered by the court not to discuss until the court lifts the seal from the case. Penalties include fines ranging from $5,500 to $11,000 for each false claim, plus three times the amount of damages that the federal government sustained because of the act of the violator.

We believe that we are operating in compliance with the Medicare rules and regulations and, thus, the Federal False Claims Act. However, if we were found to have violated certain rules and regulations and, as a result, submitted or caused our customers to submit allegedly false claims, any sanctions imposed under the Federal False Claims Act could result in substantial fines and penalties or exclusion from participation in federal and state healthcare programs, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition. If we are excluded from participation in federal or state healthcare programs, our customers who participate in those programs could not do business with us.

 

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Federal regulatory and law enforcement authorities have recently increased enforcement activities with respect to Medicare and Medicaid fraud and abuse regulations and other reimbursement laws and regulations, including laws and regulations that govern our activities and the activities of teleradiologists. These increased enforcement activities may have a direct or indirect adverse affect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

Additionally, some state statutes contain prohibitions similar to and possibly even more restrictive than the Federal False Claims Act. These state laws may also empower state administrators to adopt regulations restricting financial relationships or payment arrangements involving healthcare providers under which a person benefits financially by referring a patient to another person. We believe that we are operating in compliance with these laws. However, if we are found to have violated such laws, our business, results of operations and financial condition would be harmed.

Future changes in healthcare regulation are difficult to predict and may constrain or require us to restructure our operations, which could negatively impact our business and operating results.

The healthcare industry is heavily regulated and subject to frequent changes in governing laws and regulations as well as to evolving administrative interpretations. Our business could be adversely affected by regulatory changes at the federal or state level that impose new requirements for licensing, new restrictions on reimbursement for medical services by government programs, new pretreatment certification requirements for patients seeking radiology procedures, or new limitations on services that can be performed by us. In addition, federal, state and local legislative bodies have adopted and continue to consider medical cost-containment legislation and regulations that have restricted or may restrict reimbursement to entities providing services in the healthcare industry and referrals by physicians to entities in which the physicians have a direct or indirect financial interest or other relationship. For example, Medicare recently adopted a regulation that limits the technical component of the reimbursement for multiple diagnostic tests performed during a single session at medical facilities other than hospitals. Any of these or future reimbursement regulations or policies could limit the number of diagnostic tests our customers order and could have a material adverse effect on our business.

Although we monitor legal and regulatory developments and modify our operations from time to time as the regulatory environment changes, we may not be able to adapt our operations to address every new regulation, and such regulations may adversely affect our business. In addition, although we believe that we are operating in compliance with applicable federal and state laws, our business operations have not been scrutinized or assessed by judicial or regulatory agencies. 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 operations or that the healthcare regulatory environment will not change in a way that will restrict our operations.

Enforcement of state and federal regulations concerning the privacy and security of patient information may adversely affect our business, financial condition or operations.

The use and disclosure of certain healthcare information by healthcare providers and their business associates have come under increasing public scrutiny. Recent federal standards under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, establish rules concerning how individually identifiable health information may be used, disclosed and protected. Historically, state law has governed confidentiality issues and HIPAA preserves these laws to the extent they are more protective of a patient’s privacy or provide the patient with more access to his or her health information. As a result of the implementation of the HIPAA regulations, many states are considering revisions to their existing laws and regulations that may or may not be more stringent or burdensome than the

 

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federal HIPAA provisions. We must operate our business in a manner that complies with all applicable laws, both federal and state, and which does not jeopardize the ability of our customers to comply with all applicable laws to which they are subject. We believe that our operations are consistent with these legal standards. Nevertheless, these laws and regulations present risks for healthcare providers and their business associates that provide services to patients in multiple states. Because these laws and regulations are recent and few have been interpreted by government regulators or courts, our interpretations and activities may be challenged. If a challenge to our activities is successful, it could have an adverse effect on our operations, may require us to forgo relationships with customers in certain states, and may restrict the territory available to us to expand our business. In addition, even if our interpretations of HIPAA and other federal and state laws and regulations are correct, we could be held liable for unauthorized uses or disclosures of patient information as a result of inadequate systems and controls to protect this information or due to the theft of information by unauthorized computer programmers who penetrate our network security.

Medicare and Medicaid rules governing reassignment of payments could affect our customers’ ability to collect fees for services provided by our affiliated radiologists and our ability to market our services to our customers.

The majority of our customers are radiology practices. These customers, and not us, bill and receive payments from Medicare and/or Medicaid for the professional services provided by our affiliated radiologists. Medicare and Medicaid payments may comprise a significant portion of the total payments received by our customers for the services of our affiliated radiologists. Medicare and Medicaid generally prohibit a physician who performs a covered medical service from “reassigning” to anyone else (including to other physicians) the performing physician’s right to receive payment directly from Medicare or Medicaid, except in certain circumstances. We believe we satisfy one or more of the exceptions to this prohibition, but the various Medicare carriers and state Medicaid authorities may interpret these exceptions differently than we do. Our customers could be prohibited from billing Medicare and/or Medicaid for the services of our affiliated radiologists if it were determined that we do not qualify for an exception, and this would cause a material adverse effect on our ability to market our services and on our business and results of operations. Future laws or regulations, moreover, may require that we bill Medicare or Medicaid directly for services we provide to certain prospective customers. Should this occur, we would either be required to forgo business with such customers or be required to design, develop and implement an appropriate recordkeeping and billing system to bill Medicare and Medicaid.

Medicare reimbursement rules currently provide that the proper Medicare carrier to pay physician claims is the Medicare carrier for the region in which the physician or practice providing the service is located rather than the Medicare carrier for the region in which the patient receiving the services is located. Many of our affiliated radiologists are located in a Medicare region that is different from the Medicare region in which the patient and treating hospital are located. Since it is incumbent on our customers to file with the proper Medicare carrier in order to receive payment, it may be necessary for our customers to enroll with additional Medicare carriers in order to properly submit claims for reimbursement. To the extent that our customers are unwilling or unable to do so, they may be unwilling to use our services unless we were to submit the claims. Under such circumstances, we would continue to be paid by our customers, but would remit to them any funds that we received from Medicare. The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services, or CMS, recently proposed amending the reimbursement rules to provide for reimbursement by the Medicare carrier for the region in which the patient and hospital are located regardless of the location of the physician. If adopted, the amended reimbursement rules would eliminate the need for our customers to enroll with additional Medicare carriers.

 

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Changes in the rules and regulations governing Medicare and Medicaid’s payment for medical services could affect our revenues, particularly with respect to final reads.

Although most reads we provide are preliminary reads rather than final reads, we are providing an increasing number of final reads. Cost-containment pressures on Medicare and Medicaid could result in a reduction in the amount that the government will pay for a final read, which could cause pricing pressure on our services. Should that occur, we could be required to lower our prices, or our customers could elect to provide the final reads themselves or obtain such services from one of our competitors, and not utilize the services of our affiliated radiologists, which would have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

Our business could be materially affected if a U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General study results in a recommendation that Medicare only pay for reads performed contemporaneously in an emergency room setting.

In its Fiscal Year 2004 Work Plan, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Office of Inspector General, or HHS-OIG, indicated that it would conduct a study and issue a report assessing the appropriateness of Medicare billings for diagnostic tests performed in hospital emergency rooms. Part of the assessment will include a determination as to whether the tests were read contemporaneously with the patient’s treatment. It is possible that, in the final report, the HHS-OIG could recommend to CMS that it change its reimbursement rules to clearly indicate that CMS will only pay for reads performed contemporaneously with a patient’s treatment by a physician located within the United States. If CMS were to adopt this recommendation, final reads would no longer be eligible for reimbursement if performed by a physician other than the one who performed the preliminary read. In turn, if our customers were no longer able to be reimbursed for certain final reads, our customers may seek alternative arrangements for the performance of their preliminary reads, which could adversely impact our business.

Changes in the healthcare industry or litigation reform could reduce the number of diagnostic radiology procedures ordered by physicians, which could result in a decline in the demand for our services, pricing pressure and decreased revenue.

Changes in the healthcare industry directed at controlling healthcare costs and reducing perceived over-utilization of diagnostic radiology procedures could reduce the volume of radiological procedures performed. For example, in an effort to contain increasing imaging costs, some managed care organizations and private insurers are instituting pre-authorization policies that require physicians to pre-clear orders for diagnostic radiology procedures before those procedures can be performed. If pre-clearance protocols are broadly instituted throughout the healthcare industry, the volume of radiological procedures could decrease, resulting in pricing pressure and declining demand for our services. In addition, it is often alleged that many physicians order diagnostic procedures, even when the procedures may have limited clinical utility, in large part to establish a record for defense in the event of a medical liability claim. Litigation reform could lead to a reduction in the number of radiological procedures ordered for this purpose and therefore reduce the total number of radiological procedures performed each year, which could harm our operating results.

Although we maintain medical liability insurance covering all of our affiliated radiologists, our Affiliated Medical Practices and our Company, we are subject to medical malpractice claims and other harmful lawsuits that may require us to pay significant damages if not covered by insurance.

Our business entails an inherent risk of claims of medical malpractice against our affiliated radiologists and us, and we may also be subject to other lawsuits that may involve large claims and significant defense costs. We may also be liable to our customers for certain medical malpractice

 

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claims. Although we currently maintain liability insurance coverage intended to cover professional liability and other claims, there can be no assurance that such insurance coverage will be adequate to cover liabilities arising out of claims asserted against us where the outcomes of such claims are unfavorable. In addition, this insurance coverage generally must be renewed annually and may not continue to be available to us in future years at acceptable costs and on favorable terms. Liabilities in excess of insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. Moreover, any adverse claims may negatively affect our reputation.

If we are unable to retain our customers because they terminate their contracts with us or allow those contracts to lapse, our operating results and financial condition may be adversely affected.

The contracts we have signed with our radiology practice, hospital, clinic and digital imaging center customers generally provide for an initial term of one year and automatically renew for successive terms unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the contract. Many of the customer contracts also provide that either party may terminate the agreement without cause upon 90 days’ notice to the other party. Our customers may elect not to renew their contracts with us, they may seek to renegotiate the terms of their contracts or they may choose to reduce or eliminate our services in the future. If our arrangements with our customers are canceled, or are not renewed or replaced with other arrangements having at least as favorable terms, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected. In addition, to the extent that our radiology practice customers’ agreements with the hospitals that they serve are terminated, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.

We may be subject to less favorable levels of payment based upon third party payer fee schedules.

Many patients are covered by some form of private or government health insurance or other third party payment program. Third party payers generally establish fee schedules or other payment authorization methods for various procedures that govern which procedures will be reimbursed by the third party payers and the amount of reimbursement. In most cases, we are indirectly rather than directly impacted by such fee schedules, to the extent that such schedules impact the rates at which third party payers are willing to pay the healthcare providers with whom we contract to provide imaging services. However, if we were to negotiate direct payment arrangements with third party payers in the future, we would be directly impacted by such schedules. In addition, there is no guarantee that Medicare, state Medicaid programs, or commercial third party payers will continue to cover teleradiology services. Any reduction or elimination in coverage for our services could substantially impact our business.

If we acquire any companies or technologies in the future, they could prove difficult to integrate, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value and adversely affect our operating results.

An element of our strategy is to pursue strategic acquisitions or investments that are complementary to our business or offer us other strategic benefits. Any acquisitions or investments in which we may engage involve numerous risks, including:

 

  Ÿ   difficulties in integrating operations, technologies, services and personnel;

 

  Ÿ   diversion of financial and management resources from existing operations;

 

  Ÿ   risk of entering new markets;

 

  Ÿ   potential write-offs of acquired assets;

 

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  Ÿ   potential loss of key employees; and

 

  Ÿ   inability to generate sufficient revenue to offset acquisition costs.

We may experience these difficulties as we integrate the operations of companies that we acquire with our current operations.

In addition, if we finance acquisitions by issuing convertible debt or equity securities, the shares owned by existing stockholders may be diluted, which could affect the market price of our stock. We have not made any acquisitions to date, and our management has limited experience in completing acquisitions and integrating acquired businesses into our operations. If we fail to properly evaluate and execute acquisitions, our business and prospects may be harmed.

Our operating results may be subject to seasonal fluctuations, which makes our results difficult to predict and could cause our performance to fall short of quarterly expectations.

We have historically experienced increased demand for our services and higher revenue growth during the second and third quarters of each year. We believe that these increases are a result of increased outdoor and transportation activities during summer months, which leads to more hospital visits, as well as more frequent vacation time taken by our customers’ radiologists. During the first and fourth quarters of each year, when weather conditions are colder for a large portion of the United States, we have historically experienced lower revenue growth than that experienced during the second and third quarters. We may continue to experience this or other seasonality in the future. These seasonal factors may lead to unpredictable variations in our quarterly operating results and cause the trading price of our common stock to decline. Additionally, our ability to schedule adequate radiologist coverage during the seasonal period of increased demand for our services may affect our ability to provide faster turnaround times in our services to clients.

Risks Related to the Offering

There is currently no public market for shares of our common stock, and if a public market does not develop, you will not be able to sell your stock.

Prior to this initial public offering, there has not been a public market for shares of our common stock. We cannot predict the extent to which investor interest in us will lead to an active trading market, and if such a market does not develop, it will be difficult or impossible for you to sell the shares of common stock you acquire in this offering. Additionally, the initial public offering price for shares of our common stock may not be indicative of the prices that will prevail in the open market following completion of this initial public offering.

The following factors, in addition to the other risks described in this prospectus, may have a significant impact on the market price of our common stock:

 

  Ÿ   variations in our operating results;

 

  Ÿ   announcements of new services, new customers, strategic alliances or acquisitions by us or by our competitors;

 

  Ÿ   regulatory developments;

 

  Ÿ   market conditions in our industry and the industries of our customers;

 

  Ÿ   the loss of any of our key personnel;

 

  Ÿ   changes in financial estimates or recommendations by securities analysts;

 

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  Ÿ   sales of large blocks of our common stock; and

 

  Ÿ   sales of our common stock by our executive officers, directors and significant stockholders.

In addition, if the market for healthcare stocks or healthcare services or the stock market in general experiences loss of investor confidence, the trading price of our common stock could decline for reasons unrelated to our business, operating results or financial condition.

If we are not the subject of securities analyst reports or if any securities analyst downgrades our common stock or our sector, the price of our common stock could be negatively affected.

Securities analysts may publish reports about us or our industry containing information about us that may affect the trading price of our common stock. There are many publicly-traded companies active in the healthcare industry, which may mean it will be less likely that we receive analysts’ coverage, which in turn could affect the price of our common stock. In addition, if a securities or industry analyst downgrades the outlook for our stock or one of our competitors’ stocks, the trading price of our common stock may also be negatively affected.

Future sales of our common stock by our existing stockholders may negatively impact the trading price of our common stock.

If a substantial number of our existing stockholders decide to sell shares of their common stock in the public market following the completion of this offering, the price at which our common stock trades could decline. Additionally, the public market’s perception that such sales might occur may also depress the price of our common stock. Our directors, executive officers, and certain of our other existing stockholders have agreed to enter into lock-up agreements pursuant to which they have agreed not to sell shares of our common stock in the public market for a period of 180 days following the completion of this initial public offering. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will authorize us to issue up to              shares of common stock, of which              shares will be outstanding and              shares will be issuable upon the exercise of outstanding vested stock options. Of the              shares outstanding upon the completion of this initial public offering,              shares will be freely tradeable without restriction and              shares will be freely tradeable following the expiration of the 180-day lock-up period. Following the completion of this initial public offering, we also anticipate filing a registration statement to register those authorized but unissued shares of common stock reserved for issuance under our equity incentive plan and our stock purchase plan. In addition, some of our stockholders have the right to require us to register common stock for resale in certain circumstances. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Investor Rights Agreement.”

We will have broad discretion in how we use the proceeds of this offering and we may not use them effectively, which could affect our results of operations and cause our stock price to decline, or we may use the proceeds in ways with which you disagree.

We will have considerable discretion in applying the net proceeds of this offering. We currently have no specific plans for the use of the net proceeds of this offering. We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds we receive from this offering for general corporate purposes, including further development and expansion of our service offerings, the recruitment of additional radiologists, improvement of our infrastructure, increased sales and marketing initiatives, and possible acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets. Because of the number and variability of factors that determine our use of proceeds from this offering, our actual uses for the proceeds of this offering may vary substantially from our currently planned uses. Stockholders may not deem such uses desirable. In particular, in order to avoid regulation as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and pending the use of the proceeds in the development and

 

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expansion of our business, we will be limited as to the ability to invest a substantial amount of our proceeds in assets other than cash items, such as cash, coins, paper currency, demand deposits with banks, cashiers checks, certified checks, bank drafts, money orders, traveler’s checks, letters of credit, and shares of money market funds, Government securities, securities issued by employees’ securities companies, securities issued by certain majority-owned subsidiaries, and certain certificates of deposit. Our use of proceeds in this manner may not yield a significant return for our stockholders.

You will experience immediate dilution in the book value of the shares of common stock you purchase in this offering.

After giving effect to the shares of common stock to be sold in this offering, the price per share that you pay will be higher than the book value of that share. Assuming an offering price of $             per share of common stock sold pursuant to this prospectus (the midpoint of the initial public offering price range indicated on the cover of this prospectus), you will incur immediate dilution in net tangible book value per share of $            . For a description of how dilution is calculated, see “Dilution” in this prospectus.

We do not intend to pay dividends on shares of our common stock for the foreseeable future.

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on shares of our common stock. We intend to use earnings in the future to fund and develop our business and do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock. Your potential gain from your investment in our common stock, therefore, will be solely the capital appreciation, if any, of our common stock.

Our executive officers, directors and principal stockholders own a significant percentage of our Company and could exert significant influence over matters requiring stockholder approval.

We anticipate that our executive officers, directors and principal stockholders will together beneficially own approximately     % of our common stock outstanding after this offering, or approximately     % if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full. Accordingly, our executive officers, directors, principal stockholders and affiliated entities, acting as a group, will have control over most matters that require approval by our stockholders, including the election of directors and approval of significant corporate transactions. Corporate action may be taken even if other stockholders, including those who purchase shares in this offering, oppose such action. This concentration of ownership might also have the effect of delaying or preventing a change of control of our Company that other stockholders may view as beneficial.

Certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, amended and restated bylaws and Delaware law may have the effect of delaying or preventing an acquisition by a third party.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will contain several provisions that may make it more difficult for a third party to acquire control of our Company, even if such acquisition would be financially beneficial to our stockholders. These provisions also may delay, prevent or deter a merger, acquisition, tender offer, proxy contest or other transaction that might otherwise result in our stockholders receiving a premium over the then-current trading price of our common stock. For example, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will authorize our Board of Directors to issue up to shares of “blank check” preferred stock. Without stockholder approval, the Board of Directors will have the authority to attach special rights, including voting and dividend rights, to this preferred stock. With these rights, preferred stockholders could make it more difficult for a third party to acquire us. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will provide for a staggered Board of Directors, whereby directors serve for three-year terms, with

 

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approximately one-third of the directors coming up for re-election each year. Having a staggered board will make it more difficult for a third party to obtain control of our Board of Directors through a proxy contest, which may be a necessary step in an acquisition of us that is not favored by our Board of Directors. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will also provide that the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of our issued and outstanding capital stock, voting together as a single class, is required for the alteration, amendment or repeal of certain provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, including the provisions authorizing a staggered board, and certain provisions of our amended and restated bylaws, including the provisions relating to our stockholders’ ability to call special meetings, notice provisions for stockholder business to be conducted at an annual meeting, requests for stockholder lists and corporate records, nomination and removal of directors, and filling of vacancies on our Board of Directors.

In addition, we are subject to the anti-takeover provisions of Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or DGCL. Under these provisions, if anyone becomes an “interested stockholder,” we may not enter into a “business combination” with that person for three years without special approval, which could discourage a third party from making a takeover offer and could delay or prevent a change of control. For the purposes of Section 203, “interested stockholder” means, generally, someone owning 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock or an affiliate of ours that owned 15% or more of our outstanding voting stock during the past three years, subject to certain exceptions as described in Section 203.

 

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SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements are contained primarily in the sections entitled “Prospectus Summary,” “Risk Factors,” “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and “Business.” These statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performances or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms including “anticipates,” “believes,” “could,” “estimates,” “expects,” “intends,” “may,” “plans,” “potential,” “predicts,” “projects,” “should,” “will,” “would” and similar expressions intended to identify forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements reflect our current views with respect to future events and are based on assumptions and subject to risks and uncertainties.

Factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to:

 

  Ÿ   the competition in the teleradiology market, including the possibility of pricing pressure resulting from that competition;

 

  Ÿ   our ability to recruit and retain qualified radiologists;

 

  Ÿ   our ability to effectively manage our growth and development;

 

  Ÿ   the loss of key members of management and personnel;

 

  Ÿ   our ability to obtain proper physician licenses and hospital credentials on behalf of our affiliated radiologists;

 

  Ÿ   the regulation of the corporate practice of medicine;

 

  Ÿ   our dependence on our Affiliated Medical Practices, which we do not own;

 

  Ÿ   our ability to enforce the non-competition agreements with our affiliated radiologists;

 

  Ÿ   new technologies;

 

  Ÿ   the breach of our security measures that safeguard patient and customer data;

 

  Ÿ   the performance of our information systems, which are dependent on systems provided by third parties; and

 

  Ÿ   our ability to comply with government regulations.

We discuss many of the foregoing risks in this prospectus in greater detail under the heading “Risk Factors.” Given these uncertainties, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. Also, forward-looking statements represent our estimates and assumptions as of the date of this prospectus. You should read this prospectus and the documents that we reference in this prospectus and have filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. Except as required by law, we assume no obligation to update these forward-looking statements publicly, or to update the reasons actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements, even if new information becomes available in the future.

 

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INDUSTRY AND MARKET DATA

Industry data and other statistical information used throughout this prospectus are based on independent industry publications, reports by market research firms or other published independent sources, such as Frost & Sullivan, the American College of Radiology and the American Journal of Roentgenology. Some data is also derived from our review of internal surveys, as well as from the independent sources listed above. We have not independently verified the data obtained from outside sources, and we cannot assure you of the accuracy or completeness of the data.

 

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OUR CORPORATE STRUCTURE AND AFFILIATED RADIOLOGISTS

Generally, laws regarding the corporate practice of medicine prohibit anyone but a duly licensed physician from exercising control over the medical judgments or decisions rendered by another physician. In certain states, only licensed physicians may own an interest in a professional corporation or association that provides medical services. Our corporate structure and contractual relationships with our affiliated radiologists and Affiliated Medical Practices have been designed to facilitate compliance with the various corporate practice of medicine laws in each jurisdiction in which we do business. These contractual relationships are also governed by federal law that requires that the prices we pay to, or receive from, our Affiliated Medical Practices must be based on fair market value and remain fixed for at least one year. We believe that we are in compliance with the corporate practice of medicine laws in each state in which our Affiliated Medical Practices and affiliated radiologists provide medical services. A more detailed description of our structure and relationships with our affiliates is set forth below.

Our services are provided to our customers by VRC and our Affiliated Medical Practices. VRC owns and operates the technical infrastructure over which our business is conducted. VRC contracts with our customers for the provision of our services in those jurisdictions in which we believe that it is lawful for a business corporation to contract for the provision of medical services, including providing reads. The services we provided directly through contracts between VRC and our customers represented $6.3 million, or 65% of our revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2006. In those states in which only a physician-owned professional corporation may contract to provide medical services, the Professional Corporations contract with our customers to provide teleradiology services in those jurisdictions. The Professional Corporations collectively hold customer contracts that represented $3.4 million, or 35% of our revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

VRP is VRC’s affiliated medical practice that provides all radiologist services necessary to fulfill customer contracts held by VRC and the Professional Corporations. VRP is owned by Dr. Sean Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. Gary Weiss and Dr. David Hunter. Dr. Casey is currently the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of VRC, and Dr. Michel is currently the Medical Director of VRC and is a member of the Board of Directors of VRC. Dr. Weiss and Dr. Hunter are each stockholders of VRC.

In order to comply with applicable healthcare laws that require any agreement by a healthcare provider, such as VRP, and a management company or customer, such as VRC, to be in writing, to specifically identify the services being purchased or provided and to have a minimum term of one year, we have entered into a professional and management services agreement and license with VRP. Pursuant to this agreement and license, VRC provides all of the management services necessary for the operations of VRP and licenses VRC’s technology infrastructure to VRP for use by our affiliated radiologists. VRP provides physician services to fulfill VRC’s customer contracts. VRC pays VRP a fixed per-service fee for each read performed, which is intended to cover the cost of physician compensation paid to our affiliated radiologists and a portion of the costs of malpractice insurance. The fee rate is established by agreement between VRC’s Board of Directors and VRP with consideration for the fair market value of VRP’s use of VRC’s systems, technology infrastructure and management services. Dr. Casey and Dr. Michel will recuse themselves from participation in the determination of this fee by VRC’s Board of Directors.

Under the professional and management services agreement and license, VRC has a right of first refusal with respect to the sale of any ownership interests in VRP and, in the event of a termination of the professional and management services agreement and license, is entitled to acquire or designate a buyer to acquire the ownership interests. The professional and management services agreement and license remains in effect until terminated and is terminable by VRP only in the event of gross negligence, fraud or other illegal acts by VRC. The professional and management services agreement and license may be terminated by VRC with or without cause upon 60 days’ prior written notice.

 

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The Professional Corporations are professional corporations wholly owned by Dr. Casey. Each of the Professional Corporations is incorporated or qualified to do business in a state where only a physician-owned professional corporation may contract to provide medical services, including providing reads. Pursuant to management services agreements between VRC and each of the Professional Corporations, VRC provides all of the management services necessary for the operations of each of the Professional Corporations and licenses VRC’s technology infrastructure to each of the Professional Corporations. Each of the Professional Corporations pays VRC a management and license fee for each read performed on its behalf over VRC’s teleradiology systems. In addition, each of the Professional Corporations has contracted with VRP for the provision of physician services to fulfill customer contracts held by the Professional Corporation and pays VRP a fixed fee per read performed, which is established annually by the Board of Directors of VRC and the Professional Corporations and is intended to cover the cost of physician compensation paid to our affiliated radiologists and a portion of the costs of malpractice insurance. Dr. Casey and Dr. Michel will recuse themselves from participation in the determination of this fee by VRC’s Board of Directors.

Pursuant to the agreement between VRC and each of the Professional Corporations, VRC is entitled to nominate successors in the event of a stockholder’s death or disqualification. The management services agreements remain in effect until terminated and are terminable by the Professional Corporations only in the event of gross negligence, fraud or other illegal acts by VRC. Each Agreement may be terminated by VRC with or without cause upon 60 days’ prior written notice.

If, on an annual basis, the aggregate per-read fees received by VRP under the agreements with VRC and the Professional Corporations exceed the costs incurred by VRP in providing the services to VRC and the Professional Corporations, VRP will recognize a profit that will inure to its owners and not to VRC. Similarly, should the cost of providing the services exceed the aggregate of fees received by VRP, VRP will incur a loss that will also inure to its owners and not to VRC. Likewise, should the aggregate of the amounts paid by a Professional Corporation to VRC and VRP be less than the revenue received from customer contracts held by that Professional Corporation, the resulting profit will inure to the benefit of the owner of the Professional Corporation and not to VRC, as will any loss in case the amounts paid exceed revenues received. The Company and its Affiliated Medical Practices annually review and renegotiate fees payable under these agreements in light of the prior year’s results and expected results for the current year.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from the sale of shares of our common stock in this offering of approximately $             million, based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover of this prospectus, and after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $             per share would increase (decrease) the net proceeds to us from this offering by $             million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

The purposes of this offering are to create a public market for our common stock, to facilitate future access to the public equity markets and to obtain additional capital. We currently have no specific plans for the use of the net proceeds of this offering. We anticipate that we will use the net proceeds received by us from this offering for general corporate purposes, including further development and expansion of our service offerings, the recruitment of additional radiologists, improvement of our infrastructure, increased sales and marketing initiatives, and possible acquisitions of complementary businesses, technologies or other assets. We may invest a substantial portion of our proceeds in cash items, such as cash, coins, paper currency, demand deposits with banks, cashiers checks, certified checks, bank drafts, money orders, traveler’s checks, letters of credit, and shares of money market funds, Government securities, securities issued by employees’ securities companies, securities issued by certain majority-owned subsidiaries, and certain certificates of deposit, pending the use of the funds in the development and expansion of our business. We expect that the amount of proceeds held in these assets will decrease over time as our business expands.

DIVIDEND POLICY

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our common stock. Any payment of cash dividends on our common stock in the future will be at the discretion of our Board of Directors and will depend upon our results of operations, earnings, capital requirements, financial condition, future prospects, contractual restrictions and other factors deemed relevant by our Board of Directors. We currently intend to retain any future earnings to fund the operation, development and expansion of our business, and therefore we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends in the foreseeable future.

 

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our capitalization as of March 31, 2006:

 

  Ÿ   on an actual basis;

 

  Ÿ   pro forma to reflect the following events as if they had occurred on March 31, 2006:

 

  (i) the conversion of the 3,626,667 outstanding shares of our preferred stock into 3,626,667 shares of our common stock (see “Description of Capital Stock” and “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement”); and

 

  (ii) the              for              stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering.

 

  Ÿ   pro forma as adjusted to reflect the following events as if they had occurred on March 31, 2006:

 

  (i) the pro forma adjustments discussed above; and

 

  (ii) the issuance and sale of              shares of our common stock by us in this offering, at the initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover of this prospectus, less estimated underwriting discounts and offering expenses payable by us.

You should read the information below in conjunction with the financial statements and the related notes thereto and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

     As of March 31, 2006
     Actual     Pro Forma     Pro Forma
As
Adjusted
    

(in thousands,

except per share data)

Capital lease obligations (including current portion)

   $ 218     $ 218     $             

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

     49,858          

Stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

      

Common stock, $.001 par value 21,500,000 shares authorized, 6,603,810 shares issued and outstanding, actual; 21,500,000 shares authorized, 10,230,477 shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; and              shares authorized,              shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     7       10    

Additional paid-in capital

     (30,936 )     18,919    

Common stock subscription receivable

     (100 )     (100 )  

Accumulated deficit

     (4,760 )     (4,760 )  
                      

Total stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

     (35,789 )     14,069    
                      

Total capitalization

   $ 14,287     $ 14,287     $  
                      

 

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DILUTION

Our net tangible book value as of March 31, 2006 was $             million, or $             per share of common stock. Net tangible book value per share represents the amount of our total tangible assets less the amount of our total liabilities, divided by the number of shares of common stock outstanding at March 31, 2006, prior to this offering. Dilution in net tangible book value per share represents the difference between the amount per share paid by investors in this offering and the pro forma, as adjusted, net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after this offering.

After giving effect to the              for              stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering and the sale of the              shares of common stock offered by us in this offering (after deducting the underwriting discounts, commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us), based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover of this prospectus, our pro forma net tangible book value as of March 31, 2006 would have been approximately $             million, or $             per share of common stock. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma net tangible book value to our existing stockholders of $             per share and an immediate dilution to net investors in this offering of $             per share. The following table illustrates this per share dilution to new investors:

 

Assumed initial public offering price per share

   $             

Net tangible book value per share as of March 31, 2006

   $  

Increase per share attributable to Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock conversion

   $  

Increase per share attributable to new investors

   $  

Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of March 31, 2006

   $  

Dilution in net tangible book value per share to new investors

   $  

A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $             per share would increase (decrease) our pro forma net tangible book value by $             million, the pro forma net tangible book value per share after this offering by $             per share, and the dilution per share to new investors by $             per share, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same and after deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

The following table summarizes, as of March 31, 2006, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to the conversion of all outstanding shares of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock and the              for              stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering, the differences between our existing stockholders and new investors in this offering with respect to the total number of shares of common stock purchased from us, the aggregate cash consideration paid or deemed paid to us, and the average price per share paid or deemed paid. The calculation below is based on an assumed initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover of this prospectus, before deducting estimated underwriting and offering expenses payable by us.

 

     Shares Purchased    Total Consideration    Average Price
Per Share
     Number    Percent    Amount    Percent   

Existing stockholders

         $                   $            

New investors

              

Total

         $                   $            

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $             per share would increase (decrease) total consideration paid by new investors and total consideration paid by all

 

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stockholders by $             million, assuming the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and before deducting the underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

As of March 31, 2006, and without giving effect to the              for              stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering, there were options outstanding to purchase 3,474,090 shares of our common stock, with exercise prices ranging from $1.00 to $12.00 per share and a weighted average exercise price of $2.05 per share. The tables and calculations above assume that those options have not been exercised. To the extent outstanding options are exercised, you would experience further dilution if the exercise price is less than our net tangible book value per share. In addition, if we grant options, warrants, preferred stock, or other convertible securities or rights to purchase our common stock in the future with exercise prices below the initial public offering price, new investors will incur additional dilution upon exercise of such securities or rights.

 

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SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

The following selected consolidated financial data should be read in conjunction with “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005 were derived from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. The consolidated statements of operations data for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006 and the consolidated balance sheet data as of March 31, 2006 were derived from our unaudited consolidated financial statements. The unaudited consolidated financial statements were, in the opinion of management, prepared on a basis consistent with our audited consolidated financial statements, and include, in the opinion of management, all adjustments necessary for the fair presentation of the financial information contained in those statements. The financial data presented below as of and for the year ended December 31, 2003 reflects the results of operations of Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC (previously known as Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC). The financial data presented below as of and for the years ended December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2005, and as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2005, reflects the consolidated operations of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., our predecessor corporation, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC. The financial data presented below as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2006 reflects the consolidated operations of Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC. The historical results presented below are not necessarily indicative of financial results to be expected in future periods.

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
 
     2003    

2004

(Restated)(1)

    2005     2005     2006  
     (in thousands, except per share data)  

Consolidated Statements of Operations Data:

          

Revenue

   $ 5,872     $ 12,899     $ 26,991     $ 4,969     $ 9,674  
                                        

Operating costs and expenses(2)

          

Professional services

     2,786       7,013       16,792       3,104       6,684  

Sales, general and administrative

     2,138       6,899       12,814       2,365       4,293  

Depreciation and amortization

     72       230       586       94       268  
                                        

Total operating costs and expenses

     4,996       14,142       30,192       5,563       11,245  
                                        

Operating income (loss)

     876       (1,243 )     (3,201 )     (594 )     (1,571 )

Other (expense) income

          

Interest expense

     (14 )     (95 )     (131 )     (60 )     (9 )

Interest income

                 187             60  
                                        

Total other (expense) income

     (14 )     (95 )     56       (60 )     51  
                                        

Income (loss) before non-controlling interest and income tax expense

     862       (1,338 )     (3,145 )     (654 )     (1,520 )

Non-controlling interest

           62       (1,362 )     (404 )      
                                        

Income (loss) before income tax expense

     862       (1,400 )     (1,783 )     (250 )     (1,520 )

Income tax expense

                 58              
                                        

Net income (loss)

     862       (1,400 )     (1,841 )     (250 )     (1,520 )

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock accretion

                 (28,181 )           (9,768 )
                                        

Net income (loss) available to common stockholders

   $ 862     $ (1,400 )   $ (30,022 )   $ (250 )   $ (11,288 )
                                        

Earnings (loss) per common share, basic and diluted(3)

   $ 4.23     $ (.41 )   $ (4.80 )   $ (.04 )   $ (1.71 )
                                        

Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted(3)(4)

     204       3,414       6,254       5,660       6,604  

 

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     As of December 31,    

As of March 31,

2006

 
     2003   

2004

(Restated)(1)

    2005    
     (in thousands)  

Consolidated Balance Sheet data:

         

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 75    $ 484     $ 3,088     $ 2,698  

Short-term investment

                5,092       5,132  

Restricted cash

                300       300  

Working capital(5)

     662      (927 )     10,319       10,306  

Total current assets

     1,682      2,955       13,949       14,300  

Total long-term capital lease obligations (less current portion)

          104       20       3  

Total liabilities

     1,144      4,078       3,850       4,205  

Non-controlling interest

          1,362              

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

                40,090       49,858  

Total stockholders’ deficiency(6)

     1,081      (1,089 )     (26,385 )     (35,789 )

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2003    

2004

(Restated)(1)

    2005         2005             2006      
     (in thousands)  

Cash Flow Data:

          

Net cash provided by (used in):

          

Operating activities

   $ 303     $ 203     $ (1,794 )   $ (415 )   $ 259  

Investing activities

     (290 )     (360 )     (7,754 )     (20 )     (480 )

Financing activities

     (61 )     566       12,151       577       (169 )
     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2003    

2004

(Restated)(1)

    2005         2005             2006      
     (in thousands)  

Other Financial Data:

          

Adjusted EBITDA(7)

     948       (859 )     (244 )     (337 )     480  

(1) See note 3 to the consolidated financial statements contained elsewhere herein.

 

(2) Includes the non-cash stock-based compensation charges set forth in the following table.

 

    Year Ended December 31,   Three Months Ended
March 31,
        2003      

    2004    

(Restated)(1)

      2005           2005           2006    
    (in thousands)

Professional services

         

Non-cash stock-based compensation

  $   $ 154   $ 2,371   $ 163   $ 1,774

Sales, general and administrative

         

Non-cash stock-based compensation

                    9
                             

Total non-cash stock-based compensation

  $   $ 154   $ 2,371   $ 163   $ 1,783
                             

 

(3) The weighted average common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2003 is based on the assumed conversion price of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC, into common stock utilizing the conversion ratio established when the Company was incorporated during 2004.

 

(4) The weighted average common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, excludes the assumed conversion of the shares of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock into shares of common stock on May 2, 2005, because those shares are anti-dilutive.

 

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(6) For the year ended December 31, 2003, this item refers to members’ equity for Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC.

 

(7) Adjusted EBITDA is used by management to measure operating performance. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) plus non-controlling interest, net interest, taxes and depreciation and amortization, excluding the effects of physician and employee non-cash stock-based compensation expense. Management believes that it is useful to eliminate these items because it allows management to focus on what it deems to be a more reliable indicator of ongoing consolidated operating performance. Management is unable to predict or control the fair value of its common stock, which is the underlying factor in the determination of both employee and physician stock-based compensation. Non-controlling interest reflects income or (loss) absorbed by the Affiliated Medical Practices that is consolidated with VRC under FIN 46R. Our management includes this income or loss in its calculation of adjusted EBITDA in order to reflect the consolidated operations of VRC and the Affiliated Medical Practices without regard to ownership or capital structure. Internal management reports used during monthly operating reviews feature the adjusted EBITDA metric. However, management uses this metric in conjunction with traditional GAAP operating performance measures as part of its overall assessment of Company performance and therefore does not place undue reliance on this measure as its only measure of operating performance.

 

  Adjusted EBITDA is not a recognized term under GAAP and does not purport to be an alternative to net income or any other GAAP measure as an indicator of operating performance. Because not all companies use identical calculations, this presentation of adjusted EBITDA is not comparable to other similarly titled measures of other companies.

 

  All of the items included in the reconciliation from net income to adjusted EBITDA are either (i) non-cash items (e.g., depreciation and amortization, physician stock-based compensation expense and employee stock-based compensation expense) or (ii) items that management does not consider to be useful in assessing our ongoing operating performance (e.g., non-controlling interest, net interest income or expense and income taxes).

 

  Adjusted EBITDA is not intended to be a measure of free cash flow for management’s discretionary use since it does not consider certain cash requirements, such as interest payments, tax payments, non-controlling interest, debt service requirements and capital expenditures.

 

  The following is a reconciliation of adjusted EBITDA to net income (loss):

 

    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
    2003  

2004

(Restated)(1)

    2005         2005             2006      
    (in thousands)  
       

Net income (loss)

  $ 862   $ (1,400 )   $ (1,841 )   $ (250 )   $ (1,520 )

Non-controlling interest

        62       (1,362 )     (404 )      

Interest expense (income), net

    14     95       (56 )     60       (51 )

Income tax expense

              58              

Depreciation and amortization

    72     230       586       94       268  
                                     

EBITDA

    948     (1,013 )     (2,615 )     (500 )     (1,303 )

Employee stock-based compensation expense

                          9  

Physician stock-based compensation expense

        154       2,371       163       1,774  
                                     

Adjusted EBITDA

  $ 948   $ (859 )   $ (244 )   $ (337 )   $ 480  
                                     

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF

FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with our audited and unaudited consolidated financial statements that appear elsewhere in this prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements reflecting our current expectations that involve risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ materially from those discussed in these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors, including those set forth in the section entitled “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus.

Overview

We are a leading provider of teleradiology services in the United States. We serve our customers—radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers—by providing diagnostic image interpretations, or reads, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Our unique distributed operating model provides our qualified team of American Board of Radiology- certified radiologists with the flexibility to choose the location from which they work, primarily in the United States, and allows us to serve customers located throughout the country. Our services include both preliminary reads, which are performed for emergent care purposes, and final reads, which are performed for both emergent and non-emergent care. We provide these services through a robust, highly scalable communications network incorporating encrypted broadband internet connections and proprietary workflow management software. Since our founding in 2001, we have developed a strong customer base and experienced significant revenue growth from approximately $1.0 million in 2002 to $5.9 million in 2003, $12.9 million in 2004 and $27.0 million in 2005. In addition, our first-quarter revenues grew from approximately $5.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, to approximately $9.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

Basis of Presentation

We consolidate our financial results under the principles of FIN 46R, which requires the consolidation of variable interest entities, or VIEs, in which an enterprise funds a majority of the entity’s expected losses, receives a majority of the entity’s expected residual returns, or both, as a result of ownership, contractual or other financial interest in the entity. Our Affiliated Medical Practices are consolidated VIEs that were formed as our business expanded to facilitate compliance with the corporate practice of medicine laws in the various states in which VRC operates. As a result of the management agreements that exist between us and the Affiliated Medical Practices, VRC effectively funds all of the Affiliated Medical Practices’ losses and effectively receives all of their residual returns up to the amount of previously recognized losses. In addition, the management of VRC was involved significantly in the design and creation of the Affiliated Medical Practices and, with the exception of rendering medical judgments, holds significant influence over their continuing operations. We have therefore determined that the Affiliated Medical Practices are VIEs and that VRC is their primary beneficiary as defined by FIN 46R. As a result, although VRC holds no legal ownership in the Affiliated Medical Practices, we have concluded that VRC is required to consolidate the Affiliated Medical Practices. Through consolidation, we recognize all net losses of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of the equity of the Affiliated Medical Practices. We recognize net earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices only to the extent we are recovering losses previously recognized by us. Earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of losses previously recognized by us are excluded from our earnings and are attributed to equity owners of the Affiliated Medical Practices by recording such earnings as non-controlling interest on our consolidated financial statements. During the year ended December 31, 2005 and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Affiliated Medical Practices individually experienced net losses that changed the Affiliated Medical Practices’ equity position to a net deficit. As a result, we no longer have a non-controlling interest obligation as of December 31, 2005 or March 31, 2006.

 

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Factors Affecting Our Results of Operations

Revenue

We generate substantially all of our revenue from the radiology services that we provide our customers. We provide these services pursuant to contracts that typically have a one-year term and automatically renew for successive one-year terms unless terminated by the customer or by us. The amount that we charge for our radiology services varies by customer and is based upon a number of factors, including the hours of coverage, the number of reads, whether the reads are preliminary reads or final reads, and the technical and administrative services provided. We recognize revenue when a read has been completed and we determine that payment for the read is reasonably assured. We typically bill our customers at the beginning of the month following the month in which the services were provided. Because we contract directly with our customers and are paid directly by our customers, we do not currently depend upon payment by third party payers such as Medicare, Medicaid, private insurance or patients.

We have experienced significant revenue growth from $5.9 million in 2003 to $12.9 million in 2004, $27.0 million in 2005 and $9.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006. This growth in revenue resulted from:

 

  Ÿ   an increase in our customer base;

 

  Ÿ   an increase in our affiliated radiologist base;

 

  Ÿ   an increase in utilization of our services by our customers;

 

  Ÿ   an expansion of our service hours;

 

  Ÿ   an increase in provision of higher-priced final reads; and

 

  Ÿ   high customer and affiliated radiologist retention rates.

As of March 31, 2006, our affiliated radiologists provided services to 265 customers serving 490 medical facilities, which includes 470 hospitals representing approximately 8% of hospitals in the United States. In addition to the current customers described above, as of March 31, 2006, we had contractual arrangements with 19 customers for which we expect to begin to provide services upon completion of the credentialing, independent physician licensing and other implementation procedures. These additional implementation procedures ordinarily require up to 90 days to complete, at which time we begin providing services to the customer. Since our inception, approximately 99% of our customer contracts up for renewal have been renewed.

Operating Expenses

Our operating expenses consist of professional services expense and sales, general and administrative expense.

Professional Services Expense.    Professional services expense is our most significant expense as a percentage of revenue. Our professional services expense consists of the fees we pay to our affiliated radiologists for their services, physician stock-based compensation and medical liability expense, which consists of medical liability insurance premiums expense and medical liability loss contingency expense.

Physician Cash Compensation Expense.    We structure our relationships with our affiliated radiologists such that they generally have control over their schedule and the location from which they work. We compensate our affiliated radiologists using a formula that includes a base level of compensation and additional amounts with regard to the number of hours worked and the number and type of reads performed. We recognize physician cash compensation

 

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expense in the month in which our affiliated radiologists perform the reads for our customers. Physician cash compensation expense is the result of engaging independent radiologists to provide reads for our customers. Each of our affiliated radiologists provides and is compensated for reads in accordance with his or her independent physician agreement. Physician cash compensation also includes amounts paid for quality assurance services.

Physician Stock-Based Compensation Expense.    We record stock-based compensation expense in connection with any award of stock options or other compensatory issuance of shares of our common stock to our affiliated radiologists and include the expense in our consolidated statement of income as part of our professional services expense. We calculate the stock-based compensation expense associated with these awards in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force, or EITF, Issue No. 96-18, Accounting for Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with Selling, Goods or Services, by determining the fair value using a Black-Scholes model. EITF Issue No. 96-18 requires that the cost of equity instruments issued to these affiliated radiologists be initially measured at their fair value at the date the equity instruments were issued and adjusted over the service period, until vested or forfeited, to their then-current fair value in every subsequent reporting period. Accordingly, if the value of our common stock increases over a given period, this accounting treatment will generally result in physician stock-based compensation expense that exceeds the expense we would have recorded if these individuals were employees. See “—Critical Accounting Policies.”

Medical Liability Expense.    Medical liability expense relates to the procurement of medical malpractice insurance coverage, medical liability loss contingency expense, as well as payments of deductibles. We amortize medical liability insurance premiums over the term of the policy to which they relate and expense medical liability loss contingency expense in the month in which we deem such liability to be probable.

Sales, General and Administrative Expense.    Sales, general and administrative expense is our second most significant expense as a percentage of revenue. Sales, general and administrative expense consists of employee compensation expense, sales and marketing expense, information technology expense, the costs associated with licensing and credentialing our affiliated radiologists and costs associated with maintaining our facilities.

Other (Expense) Income

Other (expense) income consists of non-operating expenses and income, such as interest expense incurred from borrowings on our revolving credit facility and from equipment financing, and interest income earned on cash balances and investments in short-term government securities.

Redeemable Preferred Stock Accretion

On May 2, 2005, we issued our Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, or Series A Preferred Stock, which is redeemable on or after March 31, 2010, at the greater of the Redemption Price, as defined in our Certificate of Incorporation, or the fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock. As a result, we accrete the value of the Series A Preferred Stock to its fair value at each reporting date. Upon the completion of this offering, all outstanding shares of our Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into shares of our common stock and the rights of the holders of Series A Preferred Stock to exercise redemption rights will terminate. Therefore, the accretion relating to our Series A Preferred Stock will terminate and we will not record future charges to our earnings per share related to the Series A Preferred Stock.

 

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Trends in Our Business and Results of Operations

Revenue

Our business has grown rapidly since inception. This growth has been driven by an increase in the demand for our services and a corresponding increase in our customer base. We have also experienced an increase in the utilization of our services by our existing customers, through expansion of our service hours, the provision of final reads, a high customer retention rate and the growth in the use of diagnostic imaging technologies and procedures in the healthcare market. Our revenue growth has resulted primarily from increased volumes across a growing customer base and favorable read mix.

We expect that our customers will continue to contract with us for additional services, including performance of final reads, as well as to contract for additional hours of service coverage. Our revenues are affected by seasonality. While our revenues have continued to grow each year, we typically experience increased demand for our services and higher revenue growth during the second and third quarters of each year. We believe that these increases are a result of increased outdoor and transportation activities during summer months, which leads to more hospital visits, as well as more frequent vacation time taken by our customers’ radiologists. During the first and fourth quarters of each year, when weather conditions are colder for a large portion of the United States, we have historically experienced lower revenue growth than that experienced during the second and third quarters. We expect this seasonality with respect to our revenues to continue. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Our operating results may be subject to seasonal fluctuations, which makes our results difficult to predict and could cause our performance to fall short of quarterly expectations.”

Physician Cash Compensation Expense

Since our inception, our physician cash compensation expense has increased each year as we have added more affiliated radiologists to fulfill the increased demand for our services as our business and customer base has grown. However, physician cash compensation expense as a percentage of revenue has decreased due to the increased productivity of our affiliated radiologists. The increases in productivity by the existing affiliated radiologists have been, and may continue to be, offset, in part, by significant increases in newly engaged affiliated radiologists and the costs associated with the typical 90- to 180-day period during which newly engaged affiliated radiologists obtain necessary state licenses and hospital credentials, and thereafter become accustomed to our workflow technology. We expect that our physician cash compensation expense will continue to increase, but will decrease as a percentage of revenues as our expanding base of independent radiologists continues to grow.

Physician Stock-Based Compensation Expense

Physician stock-based compensation expense is a non-cash expense that fluctuates based upon the fair value of our common stock underlying the awards at the close of each reporting period. Furthermore, our physician stock-based compensation expense may increase in future periods if the price of our common stock increases over such periods or if we issue additional options and other stock-based awards to our affiliated radiologists. However, the amount of expense for any period attributable to physician stock-based compensation fluctuates and is difficult to predict. EITF Issue No. 96-18 requires that the fair value of the award be adjusted at each reporting period to reflect increases or decreases in the value of the award. Since the value of an award is based on the underlying common stock, we may record additional expense or income based on fluctuations in value of the underlying common stock. In the future we anticipate that the primary method we will utilize to offer our physicians an opportunity to participate in equity ownership of the Company will be through a stock purchase program rather than through the issuance of additional stock options.

 

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Medical Liability Expense

Our medical liability expense has increased each year since inception due to the increases in our medical liability insurance premiums primarily associated with the increased volume of reads our affiliated radiologists performed, as well as for payment of deductibles.

Sales, General and Administrative Expense

Our sales, general and administrative expense has increased each year since our inception as a result of increased employee compensation expenses in connection with the management, operations, development and maintenance of our expanded business. In addition to increased employee compensation expense, we expect that our general and administrative expense will increase due to increases in expenses relating to information technology, facilities, licensing and credentialing, sales and marketing and other general and administrative expense. We expect sales, general and administrative expense to continue to increase in future periods as a result of expenses related to being a public company, including legal and accounting fees and costs incurred in complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Critical Accounting Policies

The discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations are based on our consolidated financial statements, which have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America, or GAAP. The preparation of these financial statements in accordance with GAAP requires us to utilize accounting policies and make certain estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities, the disclosure of contingencies as of the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during a fiscal period. The SEC considers an accounting policy to be critical if it is important to a company’s financial condition and results of operations, and if it requires the exercise of significant judgment and the use of estimates on the part of management in its application. We believe the following to be our critical accounting policies because they are important to the portrayal of our financial condition and results of operations, and require critical management judgment and estimates about matters that are uncertain:

 

  Ÿ   principles of consolidation;

 

  Ÿ   revenue recognition and allowance for doubtful accounts;

 

  Ÿ   accounting for stock-based compensation;

 

  Ÿ   accounting for redeemable preferred stock; and

 

  Ÿ   income taxes.

If actual results or events differ materially from those contemplated by us in making these estimates, our reported financial condition and results of operations for future periods could be materially affected. See “Risk Factors” for certain matters that may affect our future results of operations or financial condition.

Principles of Consolidation

Effective July 1, 2004, in accordance with FIN 46R, which requires the consolidation of VIEs, the Company consolidates its financial results. Although VRC holds no legal ownership in the Affiliated Medical Practices, as a result of the management agreements that exist between the entities, VRC effectively funds all of the losses of the Affiliated Medical Practices and receives effectively all of their residual returns up to the amount of previously recognized losses. In addition, the management of VRC was involved significantly in the design and creation of the Affiliated Medical Practices and, with the exception of rendering medical judgments, holds

 

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significant influence over their continuing operations. For the purposes of applying FIN 46R, we have determined that VRC is the primary beneficiary of the Affiliated Medical Practices, as defined by FIN 46R. As a result, we have concluded that VRC is required to consolidate the Affiliated Medical Practices. Through consolidation, we recognize all net losses of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of the equity of the Affiliated Medical Practices. We recognize net earnings of these Affiliated Medical Practices only to the extent we are recovering losses previously recognized. Earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of our losses are excluded from our earnings and are attributed to equity owners of the Affiliated Medical Practices by recording such earnings as non-controlling interest on our consolidated financial statements. During the year ended December 31, 2005 and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Affiliated Medical Practices individually experienced net losses that changed the Affiliated Medical Practices’ equity position to a net deficit. As a result, we no longer have a non-controlling interest obligation as of December 31, 2005 or March 31, 2006.

The following tables show the unaudited condensed consolidating balance sheets for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005 and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, and the unaudited condensed consolidating statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005 and for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006. The amounts reflected in the eliminations columns of the condensed consolidating financial statements represent affiliated party management and professional fees and non-controlling interest. The following tables should be read together with our consolidated financial statements and related footnotes included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Condensed Consolidating Balance Sheets

 

     As of December 31, 2004  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
   Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ (340 )   $ 824    $     $ 484  

Other current assets

     807       2,561      (897 )     2,471  

Non-current assets

     1,396                  1,396  
                               

Total assets

   $ 1,863     $ 3,385    $ (897 )   $ 4,351  
                               

Current liabilities

   $ 2,756     $ 2,023    $ (897 )   $ 3,882  

Non-current liabilities

     196                  196  
                               

Total liabilities

     2,952       2,023      (897 )     4,078  

Non-controlling interest

                1,362       1,362  

Total stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

     (1,089 )     1,362      (1,362 )     (1,089 )
                               

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 1,863     $ 3,385    $ (897 )   $ 4,351  
                               

 

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     As of December 31, 2005  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
    Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 1,758     $ 1,330     $     $ 3,088  

Short-term investments

     5,092                   5,092  

Other current assets

     5,334       5,319       (4,884 )     5,769  

Non-current assets

     3,606                   3,606  
                                

Total assets

   $ 15,790     $ 6,649     $ (4,884 )   $ 17,555  
                                

Current liabilities

   $ 1,865     $ 10,111     $ (8,346 )   $ 3,630  

Non-current liabilities

     220                   220  
                                

Total liabilities

     2,085       10,111       (8,346 )     3,850  

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

     40,090                   40,090  

Total stockholders’ deficiency

     (26,385 )     (3,462 )     3,462       (26,385 )
                                

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 15,790     $ 6,649     $ (4,884 )   $ 17,555  
                                
     As of March 31, 2006  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
    Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 2,440     $ 258     $     $ 2,698  

Short-term investments

     5,132                   5,132  

Other current assets

     4,452       2,569       (551 )     6,470  

Non-current assets

     3,974                   3,974  
                                

Total assets

   $ 15,998     $ 2,827     $ (551 )   $ 18,274  
                                

Current liabilities

   $ 1,718     $ 6,456     $ (4,180 )   $ 3,994  

Non-current liabilities

     211                   211  
                                

Total liabilities

     1,929       6,456       (4,180 )     4,205  

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

     49,858                   49,858  

Total stockholders’ deficiency

     (35,789 )     (3,629 )     3,629       (35,789 )
                                

Total liabilities and stockholders’ equity

   $ 15,998     $ 2,827     $ (551 )   $ 18,274  
                                

 

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Condensed Consolidating Statements of Operations

 

     Year Ended December 31, 2004  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
    Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Revenue

   $ 3,656     $ 12,899     $ (3,656 )   $ 12,899  

Operating costs and expenses

     5,004       12,794       (3,656 )     14,142  
                                

Operating (loss) income

     (1,348 )     105             (1,243 )

Other expense

     (52 )     (43 )           (95 )
                                

(Loss) income before non-controlling interest

     (1,400 )     62         (1,338 )

Non-controlling interest

                 62       62  
                                

Net (loss) income

   $ (1,400 )   $ 62     $ (62 )   $ (1,400 )
                                
     Year Ended December 31, 2005  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
    Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Revenue

   $ 15,050     $ 26,991     $ (15,050 )   $ 26,991  

Operating costs and expenses

     13,458       31,784       (15,050 )     30,192  
                                

Operating income (loss)

     1,592       (4,793 )           (3,201 )

Other income (expense)

     87       (31 )           56  
                                

Income (loss) before non-controlling interest and income taxes

     1,679       (4,824 )           (3,145 )

Non-controlling interest

     3,462       (3,462 )     (1,362 )     (1,362 )

Income tax expense

     58                   58  
                                

Net loss

   $ (1,841 )   $ (1,362 )   $ 1,362     $ (1,841 )
                                
     Three Months Ended March 31, 2005  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
    Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Revenue

   $ 2,269     $ 4,969     $ (2,269 )   $ 4,969  

Operating costs and expenses

     2,480       5,352       (2,269 )     5,563  
                                

Operating loss

     (211 )     (383 )           (594 )

Other expense

     (39 )     (21 )           (60 )
                                

Loss before non-controlling interest

     (250 )     (404 )           (654 )

Non-controlling interest

                 (404 )     (404 )
                                

Net loss

   $ (250 )   $ (404 )   $ 404     $ (250 )
                                
     Three Months Ended March 31, 2006  
     VRC     Affiliated
Medical
Practices
    Eliminations     Consolidated  
     (in thousands)  

Revenue

   $ 7,863     $ 9,877     $ (8,066 )   $ 9,674  

Operating costs and expenses

     9,267       10,044       (8,066 )     11,245  
                                

Operating loss

     (1,404 )     (167 )           (1,571 )

Other income

     51                   51  
                                

Loss before non-controlling interest

     (1,353 )     (167 )           (1,520 )

Non-controlling interest

     167       (167 )            
                                

Net loss

   $ (1,520 )   $     $     $ (1,520 )
                                

 

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Revenue Recognition and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts

We sell our services to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers, and recognize revenue when a read has been completed and we determine that payment for the read is reasonably assured. Accounts receivable are recorded at the invoiced amount and generally do not bear interest.

We maintain an allowance for doubtful accounts at a level that our management estimates to be sufficient to absorb future losses due to accounts that are potentially uncollectible. The allowance is based on our historical experience, the current aging of past due accounts, the financial condition of the customer and the general economic conditions of each customer’s market place. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates resulting in an increase in the allowance for doubtful accounts and the corresponding provision for bad debt expense in future periods.

Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation

Physician Stock-Based Compensation.    We record stock-based compensation expense in connection with any equity instrument awarded to our affiliated radiologists in accordance with EITF Issue No. 96-18. We calculate the stock-based compensation expense related to such issuance by determining the then current fair value of the award using a Black-Scholes model at the date of grant and at the end of each subsequent financial reporting period thereafter. Physician stock-based compensation expense is included in professional services expense.

Employee Stock-Based Compensation.    We also record stock-based compensation expense in connection with any award of stock options to employees and directors. We calculate the stock-based compensation expense associated with such awards to our employees and directors granted prior to January 1, 2006, in accordance with APB No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees, using the intrinsic value method and in accordance with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 123R, Accounting for Stock Based Compensation, or SFAS 123R, for awards granted on or after January 1, 2006, by determining the fair value using a Black-Scholes model. We calculate the stock-based compensation expense related to awards to our employees and directors based on the fair value of awards on the date granted. Stock-based compensation expense to employees is included in sales, general and administrative expense.

Determination of Fair Value of Our Stock Options.    As indicated above, we record stock-based compensation expense associated with our awards in accordance with SFAS No. 123R, and EITF Issue No. 96-18, as applicable, which require us to calculate the expense associated with such awards by determining their fair value. To determine the fair value, we use a Black-Scholes model that takes into account the exercise price of the award, the fair value and volatility of the common stock underlying the award, the risk-free interest rate and the contractual life of the award as determined at the date of grant.

To establish the exercise price of our stock options at various grant dates, our Board of Directors considered a number of relevant factors, including arm’s length equity transactions, the current developments and financial prospects of the Company and our Board’s independent judgment.

 

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Upon its review and analysis of these factors, our Board of Directors established the exercise price for the options being granted. The following table shows the fair value of one share of our common stock on each of the stock option grant dates between January 1, 2004 and March 31, 2006.

 

Grant Date

   Fair Value of One
Share of
Common Stock

January 2, 2004

   $ 1.00

May 15, 2004

   $ 1.00

July 7, 2004

   $ 1.00

October 20, 2004

   $ 2.00

November 23, 2004

   $ 2.00

June 22, 2005

   $ 3.75

June 30, 2005

   $ 3.75

October 12, 2005

   $ 4.50

October 21, 2005

   $ 4.50

March 30, 2006

   $ 11.02

In connection with the preparation of our financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2005, and the three months ended March 31, 2006, we engaged an independent valuation specialist to assist us in our determination of the fair value of our Series A Preferred Stock, and our common stock, as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006. The independent valuation specialist applied a number of different valuation methodologies to assist us in our determination of fair value.

The methodologies employed were (i) an “income approach,” which estimates the present fair value of our common stock based upon a projection of our future cash flows, and (ii) a “market approach,” which estimates the fair value of our common stock based upon comparisons to publicly held companies whose stocks are actively traded and an analysis of the multiples at which those stocks are trading in the market (including revenue, EBITDA and earnings multiples). These values were then analyzed and given the appropriate weight to determine a value for each share of our Series A Preferred Stock, and our common stock, assuming free marketability. In order to establish the fair value of our stock as a privately held company, an appropriate discount factor was then applied to account for the lack of liquidity of our stock. The discount factor applied at each date was determined through an analysis of (i) the restrictions on the transferability of the shares of our stock, (ii) the generally accepted range for such discount factors for privately held companies considering an initial public offering, (iii) our progress toward completing our initial public offering and (iv) the inherent risk that our offering would not be consummated. Based on these analyses, our Board of Directors applied a discount factor of 15% at December 31, 2005 and a factor of 10% at March 31, 2006.

Each of the methodologies employed relies upon estimations that can evolve over a period of time. For example, the “income approach” relies upon projections of future cash flows and estimations of appropriate discount rates to determine present value. During 2005, our revenue and profitability projections evolved as the results of our operations increased over this period. Similarly, the “market approach” relies on fluctuations in the market and how the market is valuing companies deemed to be appropriately comparable to ours. In other words, as the trading multiples increase in the market, the fair value of our common stock using the “market approach” would also increase. The valuation of our Series A Preferred Stock and our common stock as of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, as determined by the independent valuation specialist, is consistent with the values established by our Board of Directors. Since January 2004, when we first began to grant stock options, the fair value of our common stock has increased. As described above, the increase in our fair value reflects a number of factors, including increases in our actual and projected revenue and cash flow growth and decreases in the discount factor for a lack of liquidity of our common stock.

 

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The increase in the fair value of our common stock from March 31, 2006, to our current estimated offering price of $             per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) has resulted from (i) continued growth of our revenues and adjusted EBITDA, (ii) increases in the market performances of certain companies deemed to be comparable to us and the resulting increase in fair value resulting from the “market approach,” and (iii) a removal of any discount for lack of liquidity in the formulation of our estimated offering price.

Accounting for Series A Preferred Stock

On May 2, 2005, we issued 3,626,667 shares of Series A Preferred Stock for total consideration of approximately $13.6 million. Each share of Series A Preferred Stock is convertible, at the option of the holder, into one share of common stock. In September 2005, we began evaluating the current estimated fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock on a quarterly basis, based primarily on an independent third party’s valuation of the Series A Preferred Stock’s value. This valuation is performed based on our performance relative to our competitors, the stock volatility of comparable companies in our industry and general economic trends. Changes in the current fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock are recorded in the consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ equity (deficiency) as additional paid-in capital, and in the consolidated statements of operations as preferred stock accretion.

Upon completion of this offering, all outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into common stock and the rights of the holders of our Series A Preferred Stock to exercise redemption rights will terminate. As a result, the amount reported as fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock at that time will be converted into paid-in capital in the consolidated statement of changes in stockholders’ equity. Furthermore, upon completion of this offering, the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock will have no right to receive dividends in respect thereof unless a dividend is previously declared by the Board of Directors.

Income Taxes

VRC recognizes income taxes under the asset and liability method. As such, deferred taxes are based on the temporary differences, if any, between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts. The deferred taxes are determined using the enacted tax rates that are expected to apply when the temporary differences reverse. Income tax expense is the tax payable for the period plus the change during the period in deferred income taxes. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

Developing a provision for income taxes, including the effective tax rate and the analysis of potential tax exposure items, if any, requires significant judgment and expertise in federal and state income tax laws, regulations and strategies, including the determination of deferred tax assets. Our judgment and tax strategies are subject to audit by various taxing authorities. While we believe we have provided adequately for our income tax liabilities in the consolidated financial statements, adverse determinations by these taxing authorities could have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and/or cash flows.

As previously noted, we consolidate our financial results under the provisions of FIN 46R. For income tax purposes, however, we are not considered a consolidated entity. As a result, income generated by the Affiliated Medical Practices, as well as any losses they are able to fund, are excluded from VRC’s calculation of income tax liability. In addition, losses generated by the Affiliated Medical Practices that are funded by VRC result in temporary differences between VRC’s book and tax bases of accounting. These temporary differences will reverse in future periods to the extent those losses are able to be recovered by VRC.

 

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Results of Operations

The following table sets forth selected consolidated statements of operations data for each of the periods indicated as a percentage of revenue.

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
     2003    

2004

(Restated)

    2005     2005     2006  

Revenue

   100.0 %   100.0 %   100.0 %   100.0 %   100.0 %
                              

Operating costs and expenses:

          

Professional services

   47.4 %   54.4 %   62.2 %   62.5 %   69.1 %

Physician cash compensation

   45.9 %   50.6 %   50.6 %   55.7 %   48.4 %

Physician stock-based compensation

       1.2 %   8.8 %   3.3 %   18.3 %

Medical liability expense

   1.5 %   2.6 %   2.8 %   3.5 %   2.4 %

Sales, general and administrative

   36.4 %   53.5 %   47.5 %   47.6 %   44.4 %

Depreciation and amortization

   1.3 %   1.7 %   2.2 %   1.9 %   2.7 %
                              

Total operating costs and expenses

   85.1 %   109.6 %   111.9 %   112.0 %   116.2 %
                              

Operating income (loss)

   14.9 %   (9.6 )%   (11.9 )%   (12.0 )%   (16.2 )%

Interest (expense) income, net

   (0.2 )%   (0.8 )%   0.3 %   (1.1 )%   0.5 %

Non-controlling interest(1)

       0.5 %   (5.0 )%   (8.1 )%    

Income tax expense

           0.2 %        
                              

Net income (loss)

   14.7 %   (10.9 )%   (6.8 )%   (5.0 )%   (15.7 )%
                              

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock accretion

           (104.4 )%       (101.0 )%
                              

Net income (loss) available to common stockholders

   14.7 %   (10.9 )%   (111.2 )%   (5.0 )%   (116.7 )%
                              

(1) Reflects income or (loss) absorbed by the Affiliated Medical Practices, which are consolidated with VRC under FIN 46R.

Comparison of Three Months Ended March 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006

Revenue

 

     Three Months Ended
March 31,
   Change  
     2005    2006    In Dollars    Percentage  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Revenue from reads

   $ 4,929    $ 9,622    $ 4,693    95.2 %

Other revenue

     40      52      12    30.0 %
                   

Total revenue

   $ 4,969    $ 9,674      4,705    94.7 %

The 94.7% increase in revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2006, as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2005, resulted primarily from an increase in the number of customers to whom we provided services and an increased number of higher-priced final reads, as well as an increase in utilization across our customer base resulting from increased sales and marketing activities. The number of customers to whom we provided services increased to 265 as of March 31, 2006, from 149 as of March 31, 2005. The number of medical facilities to whom we provided services increased to 490 as of March 31, 2006, from 276 as of March 31, 2005. Same site volume increased 21% for the three months ended March 31, 2006, as compared to the three months ended March 31, 2005. Same site volume measures the number of reads generated by a facility that has been under contract for at least 15 months. Other revenue, primarily representing revenue from technical support services to our customers, grew with the addition of new customers.

 

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Operating Costs and Expenses

Professional Services

 

   

Three Months
Ended

March 31,
2005

  Percentage
of Revenue
   

Three Months
Ended

March 31,
2006

  Percentage
of Revenue
    Change  
            In Dollars   Percentage  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Physician cash compensation expense

  $ 2,768   55.7 %   $ 4,682   48.4 %   $ 1,914   69.1 %

Physician stock-based compensation expense

    163   3.3 %     1,774   18.3 %     1,611   988.3 %

Medical liability expense

    173   3.5 %     228   2.4 %     55   31.8 %
                   

Professional Services

  $ 3,104   62.5 %   $ 6,684   69.1 %     3,580   115.3 %

The 115.3% increase in professional service expense for the three months ended March 31, 2006, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2005, resulted from increases in physician cash and non-cash compensation expense associated with our increased number of radiologists and a significant increase in the number of reads performed by radiologists together with additional medical liability insurance premiums. The increase in the non-cash component of professional service expense resulted from physician stock-based compensation related primarily to the increased fair value of our common stock. For the three months ended March 31, 2006, the number of physicians performing reads increased 35.9%, from 39 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to 53 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. The decrease in physician cash compensation expense as a percentage of revenue from 55.7% for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to 48.4% for the three months ended March 31, 2006 primarily resulted from our rapid engagement of physicians in the first quarter of 2005 in anticipation of significant sales growth and seasonal demand, and our better matching of capacity with demand for the first quarter of 2006.

Sales, General and Administrative

 

   

Three Months
Ended
March 31,
2005

 

Percentage
of Revenue

   

Three Months
Ended
March 31,
2006

 

Percentage
of Revenue

    Change  
            In Dollars   Percentage  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Sales, general and administrative

  $ 2,365   47.6 %   $ 4,293   44.4 %   $ 1,928   81.5 %

The 81.5% increase in sales, general and administrative expense for the three months ended March 31, 2006, compared to the three months ended March 31, 2005, resulted from increased expenses for employee compensation, information technology, facilities, licensing and credentialing, sales and marketing and other general administrative expense.

 

  Ÿ   Employee Compensation.    Our employee compensation increased from $1.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to $2.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006. The 118.2% increase resulted primarily from the hiring of additional administrative and operations personnel to manage, operate and maintain our growing business, and to performance-based bonus compensation. As of March 31, 2006, the number of administrative and operations personnel increased 81.3%, from 75 as of March 31, 2005 to 136 as of March 31, 2006.

 

  Ÿ  

Sales and Marketing.    Our sales and marketing expenses increased from $270,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to $523,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

 

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The 93.7% increase resulted from an increase in the number of our sales and marketing personnel and expanded efforts in sales and marketing activities and programs. As of March 31, 2006, the number of sales and marketing personnel increased 188.9%, from 9 as of March 31, 2005 to 26 as of March 31, 2006.

 

  Ÿ   Information Technology.    Our information technology expense increased from $267,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to $460,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. The 72.3% increase resulted from increased provisioning costs for communications bandwidth and additional radiologist network connections together with increases in software transactional costs associated with increased volumes, partially offset by a decrease in software transactional costs resulting from our implementation of our own RIS in February 2006.

 

  Ÿ   Licensing and Credentialing.    Our licensing and credentialing related expenses decreased from $249,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to $184,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. The 26.1% decrease relates primarily to the amount and timing of initial and renewal license applications and to the comparatively lower costs of renewal applications.

 

  Ÿ   Other General and Administrative.    Our other general administrative expenses increased from $447,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to $732,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. The 63.8% increase resulted from an increase in facilities expense, outside professional expense as well as other general operating expense commensurate to our increased activities.

We believe that sales, general and administrative expenses, including the costs associated with becoming a publicly held company, will increase as we continue to grow, but will decrease as a percentage of revenue.

Depreciation and Amortization Expense.    Depreciation and amortization expense increased from $94,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to $268,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. This 185.1% increase was primarily due to the increase in depreciation of additional capital equipment purchased for our operations. We believe that depreciation and amortization expense will increase as we continue to grow, but will decrease as a percentage of revenue.

Interest (Expense) Income, Net.    Interest (expense) income, net, increased from expense of $60,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 to income of $51,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. This 185.0% increase resulted from interest income earned on the net proceeds of our sale of Series A Preferred Stock in May 2005, net of interest expense on our revolving line of credit repaid from the proceeds of that sale.

Preferred Stock Accretion.    Preferred stock accretion was $9.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006. This accretion relates to our Series A Preferred Stock, which was issued on May 2, 2005, and is calculated based on the difference between the estimated fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock as of the consolidated balance sheet date compared to the fair value of the stock on the date it was issued.

Non-controlling Interest.    Through consolidation, we recognize all net losses of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of the equity of the Affiliated Medical Practices. For the period ended March 31, 2005 the non-controlling interest was a loss of $404,000, which reflects the loss incurred by the Affiliated Medical Practices for the period then ended. During the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Affiliated Medical Practices individually continued to experience net losses that had exceeded their equity position. As a result, we no longer have a non-controlling interest obligation.

 

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Comparison of Years Ended December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2005

Revenue

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
   Change  
     2004    2005    In Dollars    Percentage  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Revenue from reads

   $ 12,808    $ 26,813    $ 14,005    109.3 %

Other revenue

     91      178      87    95.6 %
                   

Total revenue

   $ 12,899    $ 26,991      14,092    109.2 %

The 109.2% increase in revenue for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2004, resulted primarily from an increase in the average number of customers to whom we provided services, as well as from the provision of higher-priced final reads beginning in December 2004, and an increase in utilization across our existing customer base resulting from increased sales and marketing activities. The number of customers to whom we provided services increased to 238 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from 123 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The number of medical facilities to whom we provided services increased to 446 for the year ended December 31, 2005 from 216 for the year ended December 31, 2004. Same site volume increased 27% for the year ended December 31, 2005, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2004. Same site volume measures the number of reads generated by a facility that has been under contract for at least 15 months. Other revenue, primarily representing revenue from technical support services to our customers, grew with the addition of new customers.

Operating Costs and Expenses

Professional Services

 

    Year Ended
December 31,
2004
  Percentage
of Revenue
    Year Ended
December 31,
2005
  Percentage
of Revenue
    Change  
            In Dollars   Percentage  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Physician cash compensation expense

  $ 6,523   50.6 %   $ 13,670   50.6 %   $ 7,147   109.6 %

Physician stock-based compensation expense

    154   1.2 %     2,371   8.8 %     2,217   1,439.6 %

Medical liability expense

    336   2.6 %     751   2.8 %     415   123.5 %
                   

Professional Services

  $ 7,013   54.4 %   $ 16,792   62.2 %     9,779   139.4 %

The 139.4% increase in professional service expense for the year ended December 31, 2005, compared to the year ended December 31, 2004, resulted from increases in physician cash and non-cash compensation expense associated with our increased number of radiologists and the initiation of day coverage and final reads, as well as increased services performed by radiologists. The increase in professional service expense also includes additional medical liability insurance premiums. The increase in the non-cash component of professional service expense resulted from physician stock-based compensation related primarily to the increased fair value of our common stock. For the year ended December 31, 2005, the number of physicians performing reads increased 55.9%, from 34 for the year ended December 31, 2004 to 53 for the year ended December 31, 2005.

 

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Sales, General and Administrative

 

    Year Ended
December 31,
2004
 

Percentage
of Revenue

    Year Ended
December 31,
2005
  Percentage
of Revenue
    Change  
            In Dollars   Percentage  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Sales, general and administrative

  $ 6,899   53.5 %   $ 12,814   47.5 %   $ 5,915   85.7 %

The 85.7% increase in sales, general and administrative expense for the year ended December 31, 2005 compared to the year ended December 31, 2004 resulted from increased expenses for employee compensation, information technology, facilities, licensing and credentialing, sales and marketing and other general administrative expense.

 

  Ÿ   Employee Compensation.    Our employee compensation increased from $3.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2004 to $6.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. The 106.1% increase resulted primarily from the hiring of additional administrative and operations personnel to manage, operate and maintain our growing business, and to performance-based bonus compensation. As of December 31, 2005, the number of administrative and operations personnel increased 111.5%, from 61 as of December 31, 2004 to 129 as of December 31, 2005.

 

  Ÿ   Sales and Marketing.    Our sales and marketing expenses increased from $815,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004 to $1.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. The 84.0% increase resulted from an increase in the number of our sales and marketing personnel and expanded efforts in sales and marketing activities and programs. As of December 31, 2005, the number of sales and marketing personnel increased 214.3%, from seven as of December 31, 2004 to 22 as of December 31, 2005.

 

  Ÿ   Information Technology.    Our information technology expenses increased from $764,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004 to $1.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. The 70.2% increase resulted from increased provisioning costs for communications bandwidth and additional radiologist network connections together with increases in software transactional costs associated with increased read volumes.

 

  Ÿ   Licensing and Credentialing.    Our licensing and credentialing expenses increased from $669,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004 to $886,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005. The 32.4% increase relates primarily to the amount and timing of initial and renewal license applications.

 

  Ÿ   Other General and Administrative.    Our other general administrative expenses increased from $1.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2004 to $2.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. The 76.9% increase primarily resulted from increased facility expenses incurred, increased professional fees as well as other general operating expense commensurate with our increased operating activities.

We believe that sales, general and administrative expenses, including the costs associated with becoming a public company, will increase in dollars as we continue to grow, but will decrease as a percentage of revenue.

Depreciation and Amortization Expense.    Depreciation and amortization increased from $230,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004, to $586,000 for the year ended December 31, 2005. This 154.8% increase was primarily due to the increase in depreciation of additional capital equipment purchased for our operations.

 

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Interest (Expense) Income, Net.    Interest (expense) income, net, increased from expense of $95,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004, to income of $56,000 for year ended December 31, 2005. This 158.9% increase resulted from interest income earned on the net proceeds of our sale of Series A Preferred Stock in May 2005, net of interest expense on our revolving line of credit repaid from the proceeds of that sale.

Preferred Stock Accretion.    Preferred stock accretion was $28.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. This accretion relates to our Series A Preferred Stock, which was issued on May 2, 2005, and is calculated based on the difference between the estimated fair value of the Series A Preferred Stock as of the consolidated balance sheet date compared to the fair value of the stock on the date it was issued.

Non-controlling Interest.    Through consolidation, we recognize all net losses of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of the equity of the Affiliated Medical Practices. We recognize net earnings of these Affiliated Medical Practices only to the extent we are recovering losses previously recognized. Earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of our losses are excluded from our earnings and are attributed to equity owners of the Affiliated Medical Practices by recording such earnings as non-controlling interest on our consolidated financial statements. During the year ended December 31, 2004, earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices exceed losses previously recognized by us resulting in non-controlling interest income of $62,000. During the year ended December 31, 2005, the Affiliated Medical Practices individually experienced net losses that changed the Affiliated Medical Practices’ equity position to a net deficit. As a result, we no longer have a non-controlling interest obligation as of December 31, 2005.

Comparison of Years Ended December 31, 2003 and December 31, 2004

Revenue

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
   Change  
     2003    2004    In Dollars    Percentage  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Revenue from reads

   $ 5,815    $ 12,808    $ 6,993    120.3 %

Other revenue

     57      91      34    59.6 %
                   

Total revenue

   $ 5,872    $ 12,899      7,027    119.7 %

The 119.7% increase in revenue for the year ended December 31, 2004, as compared to the year ended December 31, 2003, resulted primarily from an increase in the number of customers to whom we provided services, as well as an increase in utilization across our existing customer base resulting from increased sales and marketing activities. The number of customers to whom we provided services increased to 123 for the year ending December 31, 2004 from 59 for the year ending December 31, 2003. The number of facilities to whom we provided services increased to 216 for the year ending December 31, 2004 from 117 for the year ending December 31, 2003. Other revenue, primarily representing revenue from technical support services to our customers, grew with the addition of new customers.

 

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Operating Costs and Expenses

Professional Services

 

    Year Ended
December 31,
2003
  Percentage
of Revenue
    Year Ended
December 31,
2004
  Percentage
of Revenue
    Change  
            In Dollars   Percentage  
    (dollars in thousands)  

Physician cash compensation expense

  $ 2,696   45.9 %   $ 6,523   50.6 %   $ 3,827   142.0 %

Physician stock-based compensation expense

    —     —   %     154   1.2 %     154   —   %

Medical liability expense

    90   1.5 %     336   2.6 %     246   273.3 %
                   

Professional Services

  $ 2,786   47.4 %   $ 7,013   54.4 %     4,227   151.7 %

The 151.7% increase in professional service expense for the year ended December 31, 2004, compared to the year ended December 31, 2003, resulted from increases in physician cash and non-cash compensation expense associated with our increased number of radiologists as well as increased services performed by radiologists associated with expanded coverage hours. The increase in professional service expense also includes additional medical liability insurance premiums and the payment of deductible first dollar defense costs under a prior policy. The increase in the non-cash component of professional service expense resulted from physician stock-based compensation related primarily to the increased value of our common stock and equity awards to our affiliated radiologists. For the year ended December 31, 2004, the number of physicians performing reads increased 142.9%, from 14 for the year ended December 31, 2003 to 34 for the year ended December 31, 2004.

Sales, General and Administrative Expense

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
2003
   Percentage
of Revenue
    Year Ended
December 31,
2004
   Percentage
of Revenue
    Change  
               In Dollars    Percentage  
     (dollars in thousands)  

Sales, general and administrative

   $ 2,138    36.4 %   $ 6,899    53.5 %   $ 4,761    222.7 %

The 222.7% increase in sales, general and administrative expense for the year ended December 31, 2004 compared to the year ended December 31, 2003 resulted from increased expenses for employee compensation, information technology, facilities, licensing and credentialing, sales and marketing and other general administrative expense.

 

  Ÿ   Employee Compensation.    Our employee compensation increased from $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2003 to $3.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2004. The 200.0% increase resulted primarily from the hiring of additional administrative and operations personnel to manage, operate and maintain our growing business, and to performance-based bonus compensation. As of December 31, 2004, the number of administrative and operations personnel increased 96.8%, from 31 as of December 31, 2003 to 61 as of December 31, 2004.

 

  Ÿ   Sales and Marketing.    Our sales and marketing expenses increased from $105,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003 to $815,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The 676.2% increase resulted from an increase in the number of our sales and marketing personnel and expanded efforts in sales and marketing activities and programs. As of December 31, 2004, the number of sales and marketing personnel increased 133.3%, from three as of December 31, 2003 to seven as of December 31, 2004.

 

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  Ÿ   Information Technology.    Our information technology related expenses increased from $383,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003 to $764,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The 99.5% increase resulted from increased provisioning costs for communications bandwidth and additional radiologist network connections together with increases in software transactional costs associated with increased read volume.

 

  Ÿ   Licensing and Credentialing.    Our licensing and credentialing expenses increased from $189,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003 to $669,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004. The 254% increase resulted from an increase in the number of our affiliated radiologists and the amount and timing of initial and renewal license applications.

 

  Ÿ   Other General and Administrative.    Our other general and administrative expenses increased from $394,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003 to $1.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2004. The 229.9% increase primarily resulted from increased facility fees and increased professional fees as well as other general operating expense commensurate with our increased activities.

Depreciation and Amortization Expense.    Depreciation and amortization expense increased to $230,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004, from $72,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003. This 219.4% increase was due to the increase in depreciation of additional capital equipment purchased for our operations and additional amortization of certain intangible assets.

Interest (Expense) Income, Net.    Interest (expense) income, net, increased to expense of $95,000 for the year ended December 31, 2004, compared to expense of $14,000 for the year ended December 31, 2003. This 578.6% increase was the result of increased borrowings on our revolving credit facility. We also incurred interest expense under capital leases used to finance the purchase of physician and administrative equipment.

Non-controlling Interest.    Earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices in excess of our losses are excluded from our earnings and are attributed to equity owners of the Affiliated Medical Practices by recording such earnings as non-controlling interest on our consolidated financial statements. During the year ended December 31, 2004, earnings of the Affiliated Medical Practices exceed our losses resulting in non-controlling interest income of $62,000.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Cash, Cash Equivalents and Short-Term Investments

Our financial position includes cash and cash equivalents and short-term investments of $8.2 million and $7.8 million at December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, respectively.

We have historically funded our operations from cash flows generated by our operating activities, proceeds from the sale of our Series A Preferred Stock and common stock, and borrowings under our revolving credit facility. The reported changes in cash and cash equivalents for the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004, and 2005 and the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, are summarized below:

 

     Year Ended December 31,     Three Months
Ended March 31,
 
     2003     2004     2005       2005         2006    
     (in thousands)  
        

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

   $ 303     $ 203     $ (1,794 )   $ (415 )   $ 259  

Net cash used in investing activities

     (290 )     (360 )     (7,754 )     (20 )     (480 )

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

     (61 )     566       12,151       577       (169 )
                                        

(Decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

   $ (48 )   $ 409     $ 2,603     $ 142     $ (390 )

 

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Cash Flows from Operating Activities

For the three months ended March 31, 2006, we generated $259,000 of net cash from operating activities from a net loss of $1.5 million. Our net cash from operations during this period included an increase in our receivables of $829,000, which resulted primarily from the growth in our business. The average number of days our sales are outstanding remained stable at approximately 47 days for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006. The net cash from operating activities included an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $469,000, which related primarily to an increase in accrued compensation expense for both employees and independent contractor physicians. In addition, the net cash from operating activities included a decrease in prepaid expenses of $107,000, which resulted primarily from the timing of payments for medical malpractice insurance.

For the year ended December 31, 2005, we used $1.8 million of net cash in operating activities from a net loss of $1.8 million. Our net cash used in operations during this period included an increase in our receivables of $2.5 million and an increase in accounts payable and accrued expenses of $1.4 million, which can be attributed primarily to the growth in our business. Partially offsetting the increase in accounts receivable was a decrease in the average number of days our sales were outstanding, from approximately 50 days for the year ended December 31, 2004 compared to approximately 46 days for the year ended December 31, 2005. The increase in accounts payable and other accrued expenses related primarily to an increase in accrued compensation expenses for both employees and independent contractor physicians. In addition, net cash used in operating activities included an increase in prepaid expenses and other assets of $465,000, which resulted primarily from an increase in the costs associated with medical malpractice insurance and the timing of those payments.

Cash Flows from Investing Activities

Net cash used in investing activities was $480,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006, which was comprised primarily of capital expenditures associated with purchases of equipment and continued investment in our information technology infrastructure.

Net cash used in investing activities was $7.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. These expenditures were comprised of a purchase of a $5.0 million short-term investment with a portion of the proceeds from our Series A Preferred Stock offering on May 2, 2005; $2.3 million in capital expenditures associated with purchases of equipment; and continued investment in our information technology infrastructure.

Cash Flows from Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities was $169,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2006. During this period, the net cash provided by financing activities included payment on a related party payable of $75,000 relating to the concurrent receipt of the same amount from one of our affiliated radiologists in connection with the concurrent redemption and resale of shares of the Company’s common stock. In addition, net cash used in financing activities for the three month period also included $95,000 of payments on capital leases.

Net cash provided by financing activities was $12.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2005. During this period, the net cash provided by financing activities included $13.6 million in gross proceeds from the sale of our Series A Preferred Stock, $218,000 of which was allocated to the warrants to purchase common stock issued in conjunction with that sale, and $1.5 million of which was allocated to pay the costs associated with the offering. Also included in the net cash provided by financing activities was $974,000 in cash proceeds from the sale of our common stock. Partially offsetting these amounts were net payments on our revolving line of credit totaling $475,000 and $400,000 in payment on capital lease obligations.

 

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Future Liquidity Requirements

We believe that our cash balances and the expected cash flow from operations, along with the anticipated proceeds from this offering, will be sufficient to fund our operating activities, working capital and capital expenditure requirements for the next eighteen months. We expect our long-term liquidity needs to consist primarily of working capital and capital expenditure requirements. We intend to fund these long-term liquidity needs from cash generated from operations along with cash generated by potential future financing transactions. However, our ability to generate cash is subject to our performance, general economic conditions, industry trends and other factors. Many of these factors are beyond our control and cannot be anticipated at this time. To the extent that funds generated by this public offering, together with existing cash and securities and cash from operations, are insufficient to fund our future activities, we may need to raise additional funds through public or private equity or debt financing. If additional funds are obtained by issuing equity securities, substantial dilution to existing stockholders may result. We are not currently a party to any agreement or letter of intent with respect to potential investments in, or acquisitions of, complementary businesses, services or technologies, although we may enter into these types of arrangements in the future, which could also require us to seek additional equity or debt financing. Additional funds may not be available on terms favorable to us or at all.

Contractual Obligations and Commitments

The following table presents a summary of our contractual obligations and commitments as of March 31, 2006, excluding our Series A Preferred Stock. Upon the completion of this offering, all outstanding shares of our Series A Preferred Stock will convert into shares of our common stock and the rights of the holders of our Series A Preferred Stock to receive accreted dividends will terminate. The professional services agreements that we entered into with our affiliated radiologists are not included in the following table because those contracts, subject to certain notice provisions, may be terminated by either party.

 

     Total    Less Than
1 Year
   1-3
Years
   3-5
Years
   More than
5 Years
     (in thousands)

Operating Lease Commitments(1)

   $ 1,563    $ 273    $ 1,227    $ 63    $

Capital Lease Commitments(2)

   $ 218    $ 215    $ 3    $    $

(1) Operating lease commitments primarily consist of leases for our office facilities in Minnetonka, Minnesota and Maui, Hawaii.

 

(2) Capital lease commitments consist of leases of certain technology equipment.

Revolving Credit Facility

We have a revolving credit facility available to us up to $2.0 million not to exceed 85% of outstanding accounts receivable. Our obligations under the credit facility are secured by a pledge of our accounts receivable and a security interest in our other property, and the members of VRP and the owners of the Professional Corporations have pledged their ownership interest as collateral. We are not subject to any penalties or fees in the event that we voluntarily prepay any amounts outstanding under the credit facility. Any amounts outstanding under the credit facility incur interest at a rate of the prime rate plus 2% per annum. We are required to pay a non-use fee for any unborrowed amounts under the credit facility at a rate of 0.50% per annum. Under the terms of the credit facility, we are subject to, among other things, customary restrictions on incurring additional debt, liens and encumbrances, and making certain investments and capital expenditures. Our Affiliated Medical Practices have guaranteed our obligations under the credit facility. The credit facility terminates in July 2007.

 

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Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

Foreign Currency Exchange Risk

We currently do not have significant exposure to foreign currency exchange rates as all of our transactions are denominated in U.S. dollars.

Interest Rate Market Risk

Our cash is invested in bank deposits and money market funds denominated in U.S. dollars. The carrying value of our cash, restricted cash, accounts receivable, other current assets, trade accounts payable, accrued expenses and customer deposits, borrowings under the credit facility, and current portion of long-term capital lease obligations approximate fair value because of the short period of time to maturity. At March 31, 2006, the carrying value of capital lease obligations approximate fair value as their contractual interest rates approximate market yields for similar debt instruments.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2005, the FASB issued SFAS No. 154, Accounting for Changes and Error Corrections—a replacement of APB Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3. SFAS No. 154 changes the requirements for the accounting for and reporting of a change in accounting principle. SFAS No. 154 applies to all voluntary changes in accounting principles. It also applies to changes required by an accounting pronouncement in the unusual instance that the pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions. When a pronouncement includes specific transition provisions, those provisions should be followed. The provisions of SFAS No. 154 are effective for years beginning after December 15, 2005. Our adoption of SFAS No. 154 did not have a material impact on our results of operations or financial position.

 

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BUSINESS

Overview

We are a leading provider of teleradiology services in the United States. We serve our customers—radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers—by providing reads 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Our unique distributed operating model provides our qualified team of American Board of Radiology-certified radiologists with the flexibility to choose the location from which they work, primarily in the United States, and allows us to serve customers located throughout the country. We provide these services through a robust, highly scalable communications network incorporating encrypted broadband internet connections and proprietary workflow management software. Since our founding in 2001, we have developed a strong customer base and experienced significant revenue growth from approximately $1.0 million in 2002 to $5.9 million in 2003, $12.9 million in 2004 and $27.0 million in 2005. In addition, our first-quarter revenues grew from approximately $5.0 million for the three months ended March 31, 2005, to approximately $9.7 million for the three months ended March 31, 2006.

In recent years, the United States healthcare industry has experienced increasing demand for diagnostic imaging services. The increase in diagnostic imaging procedures is driven by an aging population, advances in diagnostic imaging technologies and the growing availability of imaging equipment in hospitals and clinics, as well as by more frequent physician referrals for diagnostic imaging warranted by additional medical indications. According to Frost & Sullivan, digital diagnostic image procedure volume is expected to continue to grow 15% annually to over 500 million procedures by 2009. Additionally, advances in digital technology now allow for the transmission of images in a high quality, standardized, cost-effective and encrypted format, allowing radiologists to read remotely.

The number of radiologists in practice is expected to increase by less than 2% annually despite the expected growth in digital diagnostic image procedure volume. This relatively slow growth in radiologists, which is due, in part, to the retirement of existing radiologists and the limited number of positions in accredited radiology residency programs, is expected to exacerbate the radiologist shortage that currently exists. The shortage of radiologists and the growing imaging procedure volume are further compounded by the fact that contracted radiology practices are required to provide their hospital customers with services 24 hours a day, seven days a week in order to accommodate the growing number of off-hour procedures. Consequently, radiology practices and hospitals have begun to seek supplemental services to assist their own radiology staffs with both day and night coverage.

We address this industry need by providing radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers an attractive way to improve service levels, streamline underlying practice economics and enhance physician efficiency, without sacrificing the quality of work. We assist our customers by providing them with access to subspecialty-trained radiologists to perform reads, day or night, thereby improving the quality of patient care. Our services include both preliminary reads, which are performed for emergent care purposes, and final reads, which are performed for both emergent and non-emergent care purposes. Our ability to provide coverage 24 hours a day supports our customers when their workloads increase during the day and relieves the burden of performing reads overnight, and during holidays, weekends and other difficult-to-staff times. We believe this allows our customers to provide seamless patient care and to better attract and retain radiologists in their practices.

Our unique distributed operating model and proprietary workflow management software provide our affiliated radiologists with a flexible choice of location, predictable schedule and competitive compensation. Our affiliated radiologists, substantially all of whom are located in the United States, are certified by the American Board of Radiology, licensed by the states in which they practice and credentialed by the hospitals for which they perform reads. We believe we have the largest number of

 

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United States-based affiliated radiologists dedicated to the practice of teleradiology. Our affiliated radiologists collectively hold licenses in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. As of July 31, 2006, we had 60 radiologists providing services for us and had contracted with an additional 12 radiologists who had not yet begun servicing our customers.

Our primary customers are local radiology practices that have already contracted with hospitals and clinics and require diagnostic image interpretation services for a range of imaging modalities including CT, MRI and ultrasound. We are compensated by our customers and do not directly depend on reimbursement from patients or third party payers. As of March 31, 2006, our affiliated radiologists provided services to 265 customers serving 490 medical facilities, which includes 470 hospitals, representing approximately 8% of hospitals in the United States. This represented an increase of 78% of medical facilities served and an increase of 77% in customers under contract since March 31, 2005. Since our inception, approximately 99% of our customer contracts up for renewal have been renewed.

Industry Overview

Teleradiology is the practice of transmitting digital diagnostic images to a location, remote from the site of image origination, for interpretation by a radiologist. Due to recent advances in technology, images can be transmitted from the point of origination to the location of the radiologist in a reliable, standardized, cost-effective and encrypted manner. This process differs from traditional radiology services in which radiologists typically live near the hospitals or clinics with which they are employed or affiliated, and must travel to those locations to read the images, resulting in significant inefficiencies. Teleradiology therefore removes the physical constraint for radiologists to perform reads at the point of image origination and permits a remotely located radiologist to perform reads. Common examples of digital diagnostic images include CT, MRI and ultrasound images.

The teleradiology services industry has developed rapidly within the last few years, and we expect it will continue to develop due to an increasing volume of diagnostic imaging procedures, significant shortages in the number of radiologists, advances in digital diagnostic imaging technologies, advances in communications technologies and a wider acceptance of teleradiology services in hospital and clinical settings. In addition, teleradiology contributes to improved patient care through increased efficiency, accessibility of subspecialty expertise and optimized timing between the request for a radiographic image read and its interpretation.

Increasing Volume of Diagnostic Imaging Procedures

According to Frost & Sullivan, digital diagnostic imaging procedure volume is expected to continue to grow at a rate of 15% per year from approximately 300 million images in 2004 to over 500 million images in 2009. The increase in diagnostic imaging procedures is driven by an aging population, advances in diagnostic imaging technologies, the growing availability of imaging equipment in hospitals and clinics, and more frequent physician referrals for diagnostic imaging warranted by additional medical indications.

Significant Shortages in the Number of Radiologists

According to studies published by the American College of Radiology, there is a nationwide shortage of radiologists when measured against the number of advertised positions and the increasing number of radiology studies performed. The American College of Radiology’s April 2004 study reported that the number of physicians in radiology residency programs decreased by 11% from 1996 to 2004. The number of radiologists in practice was estimated to be 25,557 in 2001 and is expected to increase to 29,174 in 2010, implying an annual growth rate of only 1.5%. Further, a 2002 American Journal of

 

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Roentgenology study estimated that, assuming traditional practice and education models, the shortage of radiologists necessary to fulfill projected demand for radiology services could increase as much as 50% to a shortage of approximately 15,000 radiologists by the year 2020.

Compounding the radiologist shortage, approximately 50% of radiologists are now over the age of 50 and are now beginning, as they approach retirement age, to cut their hours and/or demand more time off. For new radiologists, the overall shortage has put them in a position to demand better working hours, fewer nights and increased compensation and has given them the ability to be more selective in choosing a practice location. We believe that radiologist practices are overburdened due to understaffing and the increasing volume of reads. We also believe that the shortages are particularly acute outside major metropolitan areas.

Advances in Digital Diagnostic Imaging and Communication Technologies

Advances in digital diagnostic imaging and broadband communication technologies, capable of rapidly transmitting and storing digital images without degradation, have permitted a more timely and more efficient review of radiology images by remotely located radiologists. The industry wide acceptance of standardized transmission protocols known as DICOM, or Digital Imaging and Communications in Medicine, allows for the interoperability of various image acquisition modalities, such as CT or MRI, with image storage, management and viewing systems, such as Picture Archival Communications Systems, or PACS, thereby permitting the exchange of data among hospitals and providers. The advances in broadband communication technologies now permit reliable, secure, encrypted and cost effective transmission of image data files. Moreover, as a result of government mandated upgrades to electronic patient data systems and the relative affordability of these technology advances, hospitals and other health care facilities are upgrading their legacy computer systems to new equipment capable of generating and transmitting the digital images necessary for teleradiology. The convergence of these trends allows for efficiencies in the provision of radiology services by permitting the aggregation of radiology requirements from a number of hospitals, which results in cost saving and increased accessibility to more highly-trained and qualified radiologists.

Wider Acceptance in Hospital and Clinical Settings

As a result of advances in digital technology and improvements in standards of quality and reliability, teleradiology services have gained wider acceptance in hospitals and clinics. Historically, medical care has been administered by local providers and clinicians. Localization of care was driven by the need to maintain a patient’s medical history, perform physical examinations, apply complex procedures and share the information quickly. However, in recent years, advances in technology have facilitated a reliable alternative for gathering information and providing patient diagnoses. Initially, this type of remote care occurred among local physicians during off-hours as a matter of convenience. However, this solution implemented by individual practices and physicians has not solved the broader workload allocation issues associated with shortages of trained radiologists. As the practice of teleradiology has become more common and the results comparable to on-site care, local radiology practices and hospitals are increasingly turning to contracted teleradiology services to provide radiological services for emergency care and to supplement their physician coverage. Furthermore, this helps local radiology practices compete for the hiring of radiologists because of the ability to provide their own radiologists with more favorable working conditions.

Our Solution

We are a leading provider of teleradiology services to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers throughout the United States. Our services and technology enable

 

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our customers to provide the highest quality of medical care to their patients. We serve our customers by providing reads 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Utilizing our proprietary workflow management software and secure broadband internet connections, we connect our customers and our affiliated radiologists through an easy-to-use, robust and scalable communications network. We believe that the following are our key competitive advantages:

Leading Presence in Attractive Market

Our established presence, comprehensive service offering and technology allow us to create a critical solution for medical care providers faced with shortages in radiology resources. We focus on quality patient care and industry-leading service levels. Our solid brand name, reputation and quality results drive customer relationships and retention, in turn attracting the best radiology talent and performance. Since our inception, we have played an integral role in the development of the teleradiology services market and we maintain a dedicated and growing customer base with recurring revenue, which is reflected in our 114% compound annual revenue growth rate over the last three years from $5.9 million in 2003 to $27.0 million in 2005. We serve over 490 medical facilities, which includes 470 hospitals representing approximately 8% of U.S. hospitals, with what we believe to be the largest group of United States-based radiologists dedicated to the practice of teleradiology.

Improved Quality of Patient Care

We provide our customers with an attractive and economical way to improve service levels, increase the effectiveness of their work environment and enhance the quality of patient care. We enable our customers to provide patient care with 24 hour access to critical radiology services needed to effectively diagnose and treat patients. Since a majority of fellowship-trained specialists have traditionally located in metropolitan areas, patient access to required expertise is often limited in rural areas. Patient access to subspecialists is also limited in urban areas during off-hour, or emergency care, coverage periods when such subspecialists may not be locally available. We believe our services appropriately address this need, thereby improving the quality of patient care.

Our ability to rapidly assign reads to appropriately credentialed and trained specialists permits us to deliver high quality and specialized radiology services, including subspecialty services, to our customers. Our affiliated radiologists include subspecialty fellowship-trained radiologists in areas such as neuroradiology, abdominal imaging, musculoskeletal radiology, pediatric radiology, thoracic imaging and ultrasound, enabling us to match the appropriately skilled radiologist with the patient images we receive. We believe that the broad access and quality of the radiology services we provide to our customers have allowed us to achieve a high customer retention rate to date.

Largest Group of U.S.-Based Radiologists Within Teleradiology

We believe that we currently have the largest group of United States-based radiologists dedicated to the practice of teleradiology. While our technology platform allows radiologists to be situated in any part of the world with high-speed internet access, we believe the United States presence of our affiliated radiologists affords us advantages in recruiting and retaining American Board of Radiology- certified physicians. Without requiring these physicians to relocate either domestically or internationally, we provide our affiliated radiologists with a flexible choice of location, predictable schedule and competitive compensation. In addition, the location of our affiliated radiologists allows us to respond to opportunities in the market for final reads, which must be performed by United States domiciled radiologists to comply with Medicare reimbursement rules. Finally, our group of affiliated radiologists enables us to serve customers who prefer utilizing radiologists practicing within the United States to perform their reads. To date, we have experienced a very high radiologist retention rate. As of July 31, 2006, we had 60 radiologists providing services for us, and had contracted with an additional 12 radiologists who had not yet begun servicing our customers.

 

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Unique Distributed Operating Model

Our operating model provides radiologists with digital access to images and allows instant delivery of their reports and direct communication with attending physicians, when required. We employ our RIS, workflow management software, and operations center to maximize the efficiency of our affiliated radiologists while maintaining a high standard of quality, service and response time. Our systems efficiently:

 

  Ÿ   prioritize and distribute orders and images to radiologists;

 

  Ÿ   facilitate the review and interpretation of images and the preparation of written study reports;

 

  Ÿ   provide for rapid exchange of information between the radiologist and attending physician, if necessary;

 

  Ÿ   permit rapid consultations among our affiliated radiologists in a computer work environment known as our “virtual reading room”; and

 

  Ÿ   provide our customers with immediate electronic access to a radiologist’s written report and an immediate follow-on report in hard copy.

Our proprietary workflow software manages our radiology caseload by matching the patient’s need with a properly licensed and credentialed radiologist with expertise to most adequately provide patient care. Our software optimizes the assignment of cases across our affiliated radiologists to minimize read turnaround times. Finally, our centralized administrative and operations support functions allow our affiliated radiologists to focus solely on providing reads without the distraction of administrative duties.

Scalable Technology Platform

Our substantial investment in designing, developing and installing our distributed network, proprietary workflow management software and radiologist reading tools has allowed us to complement rapid customer growth with new radiologist hires to meet growing customer demand. In addition to developing our proprietary RIS system, we have integrated additional technological solutions—such as a 3-D capable viewer and a voice recognition system—and ergonomically advanced reading stations, to maximize radiologist efficiency. We have also developed automation tools for all workflow processes for radiologist recruitment and deployment, licensing and credentialing, scheduling, finance and management reporting. We believe that we have one of the largest wide area networks in teleradiology, which efficiently connects our customers’ facilities to our distributed group of affiliated radiologists. Our robust and highly reliable technological infrastructure is designed to manage volume levels several times our current size with modest additional capital investment.

Experienced Management Team

Our management team includes founding members who have built the infrastructure and platform necessary to deliver significant growth and execute our business plan. Dr. Sean Casey, a founder of our Company, has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of the Company and its predecessor since May 2001. Dr. Casey was formerly a clinical associate professor at the University of Minnesota and has published numerous professional journal articles on radiology. An American Board of Radiology-certified radiologist and neuroradiologist, Dr. Casey is a pioneer in the clinical use of cerebral CT angiography and venography. In addition to Dr. Casey’s extensive medical expertise, he is primarily responsible for the development of our service offerings and business model. Our Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Technology Officer and General Counsel have extensive experience working together in technology-focused companies. Our management team has over 50 years of combined corporate management experience.

 

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Our Strategy

Our goal is to broaden our position as a leading teleradiology services provider by continuing to offer comprehensive services to our customers, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. We intend to build upon our industry-leading service levels, innovative and scalable technology and highly-regarded team of affiliated radiologists to expand our footprint. Our focus will remain on improving patient care while providing a compelling value proposition to both our customers and our affiliated radiologists.

In order to achieve our objectives, we plan to:

 

  Ÿ   Increase our sales and marketing efforts to further expand our customer base.    We intend to increase our customer base through a combination of sales and marketing initiatives, continued focus on customer service, and the provision of services and technologies that meet our customers’ needs.

 

  Ÿ   Advance our recruitment and deployment of U.S.-based qualified radiologists to meet increased demand for both preliminary and final reads.    As we add new customers and continue to increase the utilization of our services by our current customers, we intend to accelerate our recruitment of American Board of Radiology-certified radiologists in order to meet this anticipated growth.

 

  Ÿ   Expand services and increase utilization by our existing customer base, including final reads.    We believe that there are significant opportunities to expand our service offerings to our installed customer base. We intend to maintain our industry-leading service levels and 24 hour full-service coverage by leveraging our unique distributed operating model to address our customers’ needs, including, but not limited to, offering them the option of final reads and advanced subspecialty radiology coverage.

 

  Ÿ   Develop additional applications that permit expanded use of our technology platform by customers and hospitals.    We believe that there may be an opportunity to market our proprietary workflow management technology and encrypted communications network to radiology practices and hospitals. We provide a managed radiology workflow system, including our RIS that permits our affiliated radiologists and several thousand hospital technologists to routinely, reliably and securely send and receive diagnostic images and patient data over a technology-neutral wide area encrypted communications network.

 

  Ÿ   Pursue acquisitions opportunistically.    We intend to selectively pursue strategic acquisitions of businesses, technologies or other assets that are complementary to our business or offer us other strategic benefits, such as broadening our service offerings or strengthening our market position.

Our Service Offerings

We serve our customers—radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers—by providing reads 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. We provide both preliminary and final reads for a broad range of digital diagnostic imaging modalities, including CT, MRI and ultrasound. We generally contract with radiology practices to provide coverage for the hospitals that are their customers; although, in some instances, we contract directly with hospitals. Our affiliated radiologists typically perform the reads from their home offices using a high-speed encrypted internet connection that connects them to our network. Occasionally, our affiliated radiologists read from our two reading room facilities located in Maui, Hawaii and Minnetonka, Minnesota.

Diagnostic Imaging Modalities

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expertise, including subspecialty fellowship training, necessary to permit us to read all diagnostic imaging modalities, including CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine, Positron Emission Tomography, or PET, and X-ray technologies. Currently, almost all of the reads performed by our affiliated radiologists are CT, MRI, ultrasound, nuclear medicine and X-ray technologies.

 

  Ÿ   Computed Tomography (CT).    CT scans utilize a computer to direct the movement of an X-ray tube to produce high-resolution, three-dimensional, cross-sectional images of organs and tissue, and are typically used to detect tumors and other conditions affecting bones and internal organs.

 

  Ÿ   Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).    MRI utilizes a strong magnetic field in conjunction with low energy electromagnetic waves that are processed by a computer to produce high- resolution, three-dimensional, cross-sectional images of body tissue, including the brain, spine, abdomen, heart and extremities.

 

  Ÿ   Ultrasound.    Ultrasound imaging utilizes high-frequency sound waves to produce images of internal organs, fetuses and the vascular system.

 

  Ÿ   Digital/Computed Radiography.     Digital/computed radiography uses computer image creation and processing technology to capture x-ray images as digital images.

As of March 31, 2006, 83.9% of the reads we performed were CT scans.

Off-Hours and Daytime Services

We provide coverage to our customers 24 hours per day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. We offer daytime service typically between the hours of 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., local time, Monday through Friday, and off-hours service between the hours of 5 p.m. to 8 a.m., local time, Monday through Friday, and 24 hours a day service on weekends and holidays. A majority of the services that we provide are preliminary reads performed during off-hours for hospital emergency rooms during evenings, nights and weekends. Off-hours coverage typically consists of preliminary reads of diagnostic images, which are performed in order to immediately treat a patient’s condition in an emergency setting. We also provide our customers with emergent final reads in lieu of or ancillary to preliminary reads, as well as final reads performed for routine daytime coverage for non-emergent purposes. We assist our customers’ own radiology practices by providing them with additional capacity to meet their patient demand and additional coverage for periods when their own radiologists may be on vacation or otherwise unavailable due to illness or emergency. Our affiliated radiologists also provide subspecialty capabilities that may not otherwise be available to our customers.

Preliminary and Final Reads; Report Delivery

A preliminary read is intended primarily to address an emergent condition, i.e. those requiring prompt medical attention. Preliminary reads may be less detailed than final reads, since they are intended to address emergent symptoms and must be available in a short period of time in order to provide proper patient care in emergency situations. A final read is a definitive read relating to any abnormality appearing in the radiographic image and requires a more thorough review of a patient’s clinical history and comparison of the current radiographic images with any earlier images, if available. A final read report typically contains detailed findings, including an analysis of the images with measurements of each abnormality found and a diagnosis of the condition evidenced by the images. Final reads are not typically delivered for emergency treatment and, therefore, the traditional industry turnaround time between receipt of the patient images and delivery of a final report is ordinarily not as critical to patient care.

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generally able to provide preliminary reads more closely resembling the contents of a final read. We typically provide preliminary and final reads in emergent care settings within approximately 20 minutes from receipt of order. We typically provide final reads in non-emergent cases within 24 hours from receipt of patient images. Final reads, unlike preliminary reads, may be reimbursed by Medicare and other third party payers and, therefore, in order to comply with Medicare rules, must be performed by U.S.-based radiologists.

Our Operations

Our Affiliated Radiologists

As of July 31, 2006, we had 60 affiliated radiologists who were providing services for us, and an additional 12 radiologists who had entered into contracts with VRP but had not yet begun serving our customers. We structure our relationships with our affiliated radiologists in a manner that we believe results in an independent contractor relationship, and VRC has no control over the reads rendered by the radiologists or their independent judgment concerning the practice of medicine. In addition, we do not prescribe a location from which our affiliated radiologists must work and do not limit the other professional activities of our affiliated radiologists, other than prohibiting them from working for a competitor engaged in teleradiology. Although we believe that we are their principal engagement for the practice of radiology, several of our affiliated radiologists hold part-time academic appointments with teaching institutions or provide local radiology services. We typically enter into a one-year professional services contracts with our affiliated radiologists that automatically renew unless terminated by either party pursuant to the terms of the agreement. The contracts generally provide for an agreed upon work schedule, typically between approximately 1,600 to 2,200 hours per year. Our affiliated radiologists are able to exchange schedules among themselves, provided that they notify us within a reasonable time in advance of their scheduled shift and that they have the appropriate licenses and hospital credentials to ensure that we have adequate coverage for all of our customers at all times.

Our compensation policies target the average radiologist compensation at traditional private radiology practices and are designed to accommodate varying levels of productivity. We offer our affiliated radiologists what we believe to be a desirable and unique benefit of being able to live where they choose within the United States, to work from home or, in certain instances, a local office. In addition, we offer them the ability to obtain real-time consultations from their colleagues while working on-line, and to earn performance-based compensation competitive with private practice compensation without the interruption or distraction ordinarily associated with a hospital-based practice. We also offer our affiliated radiologists the opportunity to obtain equity ownership in VRC via our stock purchase plan.

Our affiliated radiologists have received residency training at some of the most prestigious institutions in the country, including Harvard Medical School, The Johns Hopkins University, Duke University School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Stanford University School of Medicine. Specifically, 10 of our 60 affiliated radiologists held the position of chief resident during their residency. In addition, 46 of our 60 affiliated radiologists received subspecialty fellowship training, including training at, among others, the following institutions: Harvard Medical School, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, New York University School of Medicine, Duke University School of Medicine and The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Three of our affiliated radiologists also hold part-time academic appointments at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School, The George Washington School of Medicine and Health Services and University of Arizona College of Medicine.

We endeavor, through written and frequent personal communications, to maintain a sense of collegiality and cohesiveness in order to offset their physical distance. Our “virtual reading room” model permits our affiliated radiologists the consultative support associated with central reading facilities without the disruptions involved in physically moving around an office to obtain a consultation. We

 

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provide technical support to our affiliated radiologists, including training, trouble shooting, system maintenance and upgrades. In addition, our physician relations department maintains regular contact with our affiliated radiologists in order to provide them with non-technical support. We believe that our high rate of retention for our affiliated radiologists is due in part to our unique relationship with our affiliated radiologists.

Recruitment of Radiologists

Our goal is to recruit highly qualified radiologists who are certified by the American Board of Radiology and offer them the opportunity to work from locations of their choice within the United States.

Our affiliated radiologists undergo an extensive screening process that involves personal interviews with several of our staff members at our headquarters and a review of the candidate’s credentials and prior experience, including whether the candidate has been subject to malpractice claims. In addition, candidates are assigned to a licensing and credentialing specialist, who obtains the necessary documentation in order to admit the candidate to practice with VRP and to apply for state medical licenses and hospital credentials. We schedule our recruitment of radiologists to match our anticipated case study volumes, and assist our new radiologists in obtaining the required state medical licenses and hospital credentials.

We believe that our affiliated radiologists consider the flexibility of our model an attractive and unique aspect of their relationship with us. We also believe that our affiliated radiologists prefer the work environment and business opportunities that we provide. As such, we have experienced a very high retention rate of our affiliated radiologists. We believe that the benefits we offer and our screening process allow us to recruit highly qualified radiologists with subspecialty training.

Licensing and Credentialing

Our affiliated radiologists are required to hold a current license in good standing to practice medicine from each of the states in which they read and from which they receive radiological images. In addition, our affiliated radiologists are required to have credentials at each hospital from which those images originate. Due to these requirements, and because we were serving more than 490 medical facilities as of March 31, 2006, our affiliated radiologists are each licensed to practice medicine in an average of 34 states and each have been granted credentials at an average of 200 hospitals.

Licensing procedures and requirements vary according to each state’s laws and regulations governing the issuance of medical licenses. These procedures typically include an extensive application process that covers significant aspects of the applicant’s professional and personal life. In addition, to maintain a license to practice medicine in a given state, the state will often require the physician to undergo continuing education and training, and to maintain minimum thresholds of medical liability insurance.

To comply with these requirements, we obtain primary source verification documentation for each of our affiliated radiologists that is necessary for them to obtain state medical licenses and hospital credentials in the states and for the hospitals where they will be providing services. Our affiliated radiologists are required to provide copies of their birth certificates and documentation regarding their educational and work history, including diplomas, transcripts, employment verifications and references. We use that information to obtain direct, or primary, verification from each institution or other source identified to us by the applicant. When we have obtained the necessary verification, we use the verified information to prepare state medical license application forms and hospital credential application forms. We also monitor state license renewal due dates and particular state continuing medical education, or CME, requirements. Our licensing and credentialing personnel monitor medical liability insurance coverage matters particular to each state and other ongoing licensing-related obligations.

 

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The credentialing requirements of hospitals may vary significantly. However, hospitals that are accredited by JCAHO are permitted to rely upon the information and procedures from other JCAHO-accredited institutions. We have been a JCAHO-accredited entity since 2004. As a result, JCAHO-accredited hospitals can accept our verified credentialing information and procedures without duplicating our verification processes, thus significantly reducing the expense and period of time before we can begin providing reads for those hospitals.

Network and Workflow Overview

We deliver our services to our customers through a workflow process that utilizes public network infrastructures, virtual private networks, our web-based RIS and proprietary workflow technologies. Our network has been designed to be secure, scalable, efficient and reliable. The following is a description of our workflow process:

 

  Ÿ   Requisition of Reads.    When a radiological procedure is performed, the radiology technologist at the hospital transmits the patient images to us. A corresponding order is created within our web-based RIS that is accessible on the technologist’s computer screen at the hospital. The technologist supplies any necessary information, including procedural information and relevant clinical data, and verifies the order. The order is then automatically tracked and monitored by, and its status is available to, the hospital technologist at all times.

 

  Ÿ   Image Transmission and Assignment.    Radiological images and related data initially access the internet via the hospital’s internet service provider and traverse the internet by encrypted transmission through public network infrastructure to our central servers. The images and data are directed via encrypted transmission to an affiliated radiologist that is properly licensed in the relevant state and credentialed at the applicable hospital, and has the appropriate subspecialty training for the particular read, if required. Our operations center and our systems constantly monitor radiologist case loads and the status of orders, and oversee assignment of additional subspecialty radiologists to the order at predetermined intervals in order to shorten turnaround times.

 

  Ÿ   Reports and Delivery.    Our affiliated radiologist selects from among the orders on his work list based on aging, examines the images and uses the voice recognition dictation system integrated with our RIS to dictate a detailed report including findings, impressions and diagnosis. If a consultation, or consult, is required, the radiologist may use our secure instant messaging system to request a consult from any colleague with the appropriate subspecialty training who is then also online, and may include the text of the proposed report with the consult request. When the report has been completed, the radiologist electronically signs the report and activates the “send” function, which immediately posts the report on the hospital computer’s RIS screen for viewing and simultaneously faxes the report to the proper destinations at the hospital. In some cases, the information contained within the report is also directly entered into the patient’s file residing on the hospital’s own internal information system through an integration interface between our RIS and the hospital’s own system. The customer may also print a copy on demand from our RIS.

 

  Ÿ   Quality Assurance Processes.    We have a standing Quality Assurance, or QA, Committee composed entirely of radiologists who are responsible for overseeing the quality of services performed by our affiliated radiologists. When a customer’s radiologist who performs the final read notes discrepancies with the preliminary read performed by our affiliated radiologists, those discrepancies are reported to the QA Committee. The QA Committee reviews each discrepancy report to determine whether the discrepancy is significant to patient treatment, and may recommend remedial steps, including appropriate CME courses. The QA Committee also performs sample reviews of final reads for our affiliated radiologists whose final reads are not typically over-read by our customer’s radiologist.

 

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  Ÿ   Technical Infrastructure.    We have designed, implemented and maintained our technical infrastructure to be robust, reliable, secure and scalable. We operate our production infrastructure from a data center in a Minneapolis facility utilizing redundant fail-safe connections. We also use fully redundant fail-safe network hardware and redundant load-balanced fail-safe servers. We have designed our technical infrastructure and network architecture to permit significant capacity expansion by the addition of standard equipment modules, such as servers and routers, without having to redesign or reconfigure our systems. We employ a staff of network engineers and systems engineers to provide coverage of our systems 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. This staff monitors operations of all systems, including connections to each hospital and to each of our affiliated radiologists.

 

  Ÿ   HIPAA Compliance/Disaster Recovery.    Our network architecture and technical infrastructure are designed to comply with the requirements of HIPAA, and we have recently undergone a HIPAA Risk Assessment and Audit conducted by an independent third party. The results of the audit concluded that we were in full compliance with all applicable HIPAA requirements. In accordance with HIPAA requirements, we also maintain a disaster recovery program in case of disaster or extended electrical outage at our headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota, where our operations center is located. This program allows our non-medical office functions to be marginally functional within one hour, reasonably functional within six hours and fully functional in temporary quarters within 48 hours. Due to the geographical dispersion of our affiliated radiologists, the occurrence of a local disaster or extended electrical outage in any other geographic area is not likely to directly impact our medial service delivery functions.

 

  Ÿ   Operations Center.    We maintain a staffed operations center, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year. Our operations center performs and manages all non-physician functions, including receiving orders and images, monitoring the status of orders and turnaround times, confirming consistency between the number of images identified in the order and the number of images actually received, confirming report delivery and providing help-desk services. Our operations center also facilitates all direct communication between our affiliated radiologists and hospital staff which may be necessary regarding image sequence protocols or in the event of a significant finding that affects immediate patient care. In cases of image sequence protocols, the hospital technologist may request the operations center to establish a telephone conference concerning the proper protocol, or our radiologist may request the telephone conference to correct a protocol in case the images received by our operations center do not permit a proper study to be performed. In case of significant finding, our affiliated radiologist initiates the request for direct communication and alerts the operations center to call the hospital, locate the attending physician and establish a direct telephone connection between the attending physician and our affiliated radiologist. These centralized administrative and support functions allow our affiliated radiologists to focus solely on providing reads, without the distraction of administrative duties.

 

  Ÿ   Site Implementation.    After we enter into a contract with a new customer, our site-implementation engineers work with the technology personnel of the radiology practice or hospital to establish firewall permissions for customer access to our web-based RIS and to configure a VPN circuit to transfer DICOM-compliant images. Upon successful testing of the image transfers and order entry functions, the customer may begin to use our services. Typically, we also conduct a telephonic training session to educate our customer’s personnel about this process.

 

  Ÿ   Systems and Network Administration.    We employ information technology professionals to maintain our systems and network and to provide technical support to our customers. Our customers may contact us for technical support, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year.

 

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Software Development

We focus our research and development efforts in the following six general areas in order to improve and enhance our existing workflow solutions, as well as to develop new solutions that will enable us to more efficiently and effectively deliver our services to our customers. These efforts focus on:

 

  Ÿ   integrating our RIS with hospital information systems so that final reads can be delivered directly into the hospital’s patient record without the need to manually reenter data;

 

  Ÿ   increasing our ability to integrate our systems with those of our customers, regardless of their internal network systems;

 

  Ÿ   enhancing our management of real time workflows to match hospital demands with the subspecialty capabilities of our affiliated radiologists;

 

  Ÿ   refining our ability to manage our scheduling and report delivery time requirements;

 

  Ÿ   enhancing the efficiency of our affiliated radiologists through refined workflow techniques; and

 

  Ÿ   improving our administrative data management and workflow tools.

Our proprietary software and workflow solutions are subject to pending patent applications and were developed by our software engineers located in our headquarters and in their home offices, which are located in several states. During the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005, we expended an aggregate of approximately $842,000 on research and development activities.

Customers and Customer Service

As of March 31, 2006, we provided services to 265 radiology practices serving 490 medical facilities. Since our inception, approximately 99% of our customer contracts up for renewal have been renewed. We believe that our customer retention rate confirms the benefits that our services provide to our customers. None of our customers represents more than 5% of our annual revenue.

Our customer contracts typically have a one- or two-year term and automatically renew for successive terms unless earlier terminated pursuant to the terms of the contract. Our customer contracts specify the agreed upon coverage periods and whether preliminary and/or final reads will be provided. We charge an agreed upon per-read fee that, subject to certain conditions, may be changed by us by providing advance notice to the customer prior to the beginning of a new term. Invoices sent by us to our customers must be paid within 30 days of receipt. Subject to certain exceptions, our customer contracts provide that we are their exclusive provider of teleradiology services during the agreed upon hours of coverage. Our customers generally may not independently solicit our affiliated radiologists during the term of their customer contract and for a specified period of time thereafter. Our customer contracts generally provide for indemnification for claims arising out of negligence or material breach of the contract.

After we sign a contract with a customer, we assign one of our dedicated customer account service representatives to cover that customer. Our account service representatives serve as the primary contact with the customer during our service installation phase. Following installation, our account service representatives serve as our primary liaison with our customers for all service issues and for adding additional sites, coverage hours or other expanded services.

Our Competition

The market for teleradiology is highly competitive, rapidly evolving and fragmented, and is subject to changing technology and market dynamics. We compete directly with both large- and small-scale service providers who offer local, regional and national operations. We believe that the principal competitive factors in our market include:

 

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  Ÿ   reliability of coverage and quality of services provided;

 

  Ÿ   qualifications, experience and subspecialty training of the affiliated radiologists providing the services;

 

  Ÿ   ability to furnish both preliminary and final reads;

 

  Ÿ   number of affiliated radiologists licensed in relevant states;

 

  Ÿ   price of services;

 

  Ÿ   turnaround times required to complete and return reads;

 

  Ÿ   quality of customer support;

 

  Ÿ   level of detail provided in preliminary reads;

 

  Ÿ   quality and reliability of service-provider technology and workflow infrastructure;

 

  Ÿ   technological innovation;

 

  Ÿ   sales and marketing capabilities of the service provider; and

 

  Ÿ   financial stability of the service provider.

We believe that our solution provides us with advantages over our competitors in both recruitment of radiologists and provision of services. However, we cannot assure you that our competitors will not develop services that are more attractive than ours or that our competitors will not achieve greater market acceptance for their services than we are able to achieve for ours. See “Risk Factors—The industry in which we operate is highly competitive, and we expect competition to increase in the future, which will make it more difficult for us to sell our services and may result in pricing pressure, reduced revenue and reduced market share.”

Sales and Marketing

Sales

Our direct sales force is our primary means of selling our services. We employ 12 telesales and field sales professionals who are organized by geographic regions in the United States. Our sales professionals focus their efforts on radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers. In addition, we have acquired, and we expect to continue to acquire, new customers as a result of referrals from our existing customers. In compliance with applicable federal and state anti-kickback legislation, we do not compensate our customers or others for referrals.

Marketing

Through our marketing efforts, we seek to reach the following objectives: (i) build customer awareness of our brand, service offerings and value propositions; (ii) generate qualified sales leads; (iii) retain beneficial relationships with customers, our affiliated radiologists and employees; (iv) attract and recruit top industry talent to become our affiliated radiologists and our employees; and (v) raise overall awareness of our Company’s name as a leading provider of teleradiology to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers across the United States.

In order to reach our marketing objectives, we are actively utilizing:

 

  Ÿ   lead generation programs, including search engine marketing campaigns, advertising in leading industry trade publications, paid placement advertising on select industry web sites, and targeted direct mail campaigns to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers;

 

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  Ÿ   brand awareness building activities, including a quarterly Company-mailed newsletter to more than 3000 industry professionals and ongoing public relations announcements;

 

  Ÿ   participation in, and sponsorship of, numerous radiology conferences, educational events and industry trade shows; and

 

  Ÿ   our external web site as a primary lead generation tool, recruiting tool and centralized source of information about our Company and our services.

Governmental Regulation and Oversight

The healthcare industry is highly regulated. Our ability to operate profitably will depend in part upon the ability of us, our affiliated radiologists and our customers to obtain and maintain all necessary licenses and other approvals to comply with applicable healthcare regulations. We believe that healthcare regulations will continue to change. Therefore, we monitor developments in healthcare law, and we are likely to be required to modify our operations from time to time as the business and regulatory environment changes. Although we believe that we are operating in compliance with applicable federal and state laws, neither our current nor anticipated business operations have been the subject of judicial or regulatory interpretation. We cannot assure you that a review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities will not result in a determination that could adversely affect our operations or that the healthcare regulatory environment will not change in a way that restricts our operations. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Future changes in healthcare regulation are difficult to predict and may constrain or require us to restructure our operations, which could negatively impact our business and operating results.”

Physician Licensure Laws

The practice of medicine, including the practice of radiology and teleradiology, is subject to state licensure laws, regulations and approvals. Physicians located in one state who provide professional medical services to a patient located in another state via a telemedicine system must ordinarily hold a valid license to practice medicine in both the state where the physician is located and the state in which the patient is located. We have established a system for ensuring that our affiliated radiologists are appropriately licensed under applicable state law. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—If we are unable to obtain proper physician licenses or hospital credentials on behalf of our affiliated radiologists, or if our affiliated radiologists lose those licenses or credentials, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be negatively impacted.

Corporate Practice of Medicine

Generally, corporate practice of medicine laws prohibit anyone but a duly licensed physician from exercising control over the medical judgments or decisions rendered by another physician. Given that general prohibition, some states permit a business corporation to hold, directly or indirectly, customer contracts for the provision of medical services, including radiology and teleradiology, and to own a medical practice that provides such services, provided that only physicians exercise control over the medical judgments or decisions of other physicians. Other states, including more populous states such as New York, Illinois, Texas, California and certain others, have more specific and stringent prohibitions. In such states, not only must the individual physician be licensed, but the medical practice by whom the physician is employed or engaged as an independent contractor must itself be licensed or otherwise qualified to do business. Moreover, the laws of such states prohibit anyone but a physician who is duly licensed in such state from owning any interest in a medical practice that is incorporated or doing business in such state or the state of incorporation. Failure to comply with these laws could have material and adverse consequences, including the judicially sanctioned refusal of third party payers to pay for services rendered, the absolute right of customers to immediately repudiate the contract for

 

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services, malpractice claims against the provider, and possibly the hospital, based upon violation of a statute designed to protect the public, as well as civil or criminal penalties.

We believe that we are in compliance with the corporate practice of medicine laws in each state in which our Affiliated Medical Practices and affiliated radiologists provide medical services. Each of our Affiliated Medical Practices is duly licensed or qualified as a medical practice or foreign corporation in the states where such license or qualification is required. Each of our Affiliated Medical Practices is wholly owned by physicians who are properly licensed in the state where such license is required. We do not exercise control over the medical judgments or decisions of our affiliated radiologists. VRP’s QA Committee consists entirely of licensed medical practitioners. While we believe we are in compliance with the requirements of the corporate practice of medicine laws in each state where our Affiliated Medical Practices and our affiliated radiologists provide services, these laws and their interpretations are continually evolving and may change in the future. Moreover, these laws and their interpretations are generally enforced by state courts and regulatory agencies that have broad discretion in their enforcement. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—If our arrangements with our affiliated radiologists or our customers are found to violate state laws prohibiting the practice of medicine by general business corporations or fee splitting, our business, financial condition and ability to operate in those states could be adversely affected.”

Fee Splitting

Many states have also enacted laws prohibiting a physician from splitting fees derived from the practice of medicine with anyone else. We believe that the management, administrative, technical and other non-medical services we provide to each of our Affiliated Medical Practices for a service fee does not constitute fee splitting. Our belief notwithstanding, these laws and their interpretations also vary from state to state and are also enforced by state courts and regulatory authorities that have broad discretion in their enforcement. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—If our arrangements with our affiliated radiologists or our customers are found to violate state laws prohibiting the practice of medicine by general business corporations or fee splitting, our business, financial condition and ability to operate in those states could be adversely affected.”

Medicare and Medicaid Reimbursement Programs

While most of our affiliated radiologists are located within the United States, and are therefore generally eligible to submit to Medicare and state Medicaid programs for reimbursement for services performed, a minority of them are located outside of the United States. Professional radiology interpretation services performed from a location outside of the United States are generally not reimbursable by the Medicare program and certain state Medicaid programs. Since Medicare and state Medicaid programs will only reimburse for a final read, none of the preliminary reads that are provided by our affiliated radiologists are reimbursable. Instead, we derive our revenue from the service fees paid to us or our Affiliated Medical Practices by our customers and from the management fees paid to us by our Affiliated Medical Practices. Where our affiliated radiologists provide final reads that are reimbursable under these programs, we are still paid by our customer who accepts reassignment and bears the risk of loss of reimbursement. As a result, our service fees do not fluctuate or change based solely on changes in Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement levels.

Medicare reimbursement rules currently provide that the proper Medicare carrier to pay physician claims is the regional Medicare carrier in which the physician or practice providing the service is located rather than the Medicare carrier of the region in which the patient receiving the services is located. Many of our affiliated radiologists are located in a Medicare region that is different from the Medicare region in which the patient and treating hospital are located. When our customers pay us for our final read services and we reassign our right to reimbursement to our customers, it is incumbent on

 

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our customers to file with the proper Medicare carrier. If our customers are unable to do that for any reason, we may agree to submit such claims. Under these circumstances, our customer would continue to pay us directly, we would not incur the risk of payment denial, and we would transmit any funds received from Medicare to our customer. However, in the event that we directly submit our claims to Medicare, we will incur additional administrative expense in making such submissions and payments. We anticipate that we may be able to offset all such administrative expenses by charging our customers competitive fees for claims processing. CMS recently proposed amending the reimbursement rules to provide for reimbursement by the Medicare carrier for the region in which the patient and hospital are located regardless of the location of the physician. If adopted, the amended reimbursement rules would eliminate the need for us to file with Medicare on behalf of our customers.

Federal and State Anti-kickback Prohibitions

Various federal and state laws govern financial arrangements among healthcare providers. The federal anti-kickback law prohibits the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any form of remuneration in return for, or with the purpose to induce, the referral of Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare program patients, or in return for, or with the purpose to induce, the purchase, lease or order of items or services that are covered by Medicare, Medicaid or other federal healthcare programs. Similarly, many state laws prohibit the solicitation, payment or receipt of remuneration in return for, or to induce, the referral of patients to private as well as government programs. Violation of these anti-kickback laws may result in substantial civil or criminal penalties for individuals or entities and/or exclusion from participating in federal or state healthcare programs. We believe that we are operating in compliance with applicable federal and state anti-kickback laws and that our contractual arrangements with our customers are structured in a manner that is compliant with such laws. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Enforcement of federal and state anti-kickback laws could affect our business, operations or financial condition.”

Physician Self-Referral Prohibitions

The federal physician self-referral statute, known as the “Stark” statute, prohibits a physician from making a referral for certain designated health services, including radiology services, to any entity with which the physician has a financial relationship, unless there is an exception in the statute that allows the referral. The entity that receives a prohibited referral from a physician may not submit a bill to Medicare for that service. Many state laws prohibit physician referrals to entities with which the physician has a financial interest, or require that the physician provide the patient notice of the physician’s financial relationship before making the referral. There is a risk that an investment in our shares by our affiliated radiologists, including the distribution of any profits to our affiliated radiologists, the use of our equipment by physicians who own our securities, any assistance from healthcare providers in acquiring, maintaining or operating digital diagnostic imaging equipment, the marketing of our affiliated radiologists’ services or our compensation arrangements with our affiliated radiologists, could be interpreted as a violation of the federal Stark statute or similar state laws, if we were to accept referrals from our affiliated radiologists. Violation of the Stark statute can result in substantial civil penalties for both the referring physician and any entity that submits a claim for a healthcare service made pursuant to a prohibited referral. We believe that all of our customer arrangements are in compliance with the Stark statute. However, these laws could be interpreted in a manner inconsistent with our operations. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Federal or state self-referral regulation could impact our arrangements with certain customers.”

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Medicaid programs. We perform background checks on our affiliated radiologists and we do not believe that we engage or contract with any excluded individuals or entities. However, a finding that we have violated this provision of HIPAA could have a material adverse effect on our business and financial condition.

HIPAA also establishes several separate criminal penalties for making false or fraudulent claims to insurance companies and other non-governmental payers of healthcare services. These provisions are intended to punish some of the same conduct in the submission of claims to private payers as the Federal False Claims Act covers in connection with governmental health programs. We believe that our services have not historically been provided in a way that would place either our clients or ourselves at risk of violating the HIPAA anti-fraud statutes, including those in which we may be considered to receive an indirect reimbursement because of the reassignment by us to our customers of the right to collect for final reads. We have recently entered into an agreement with a hospital that is subject to an integrity order by the HHS-OIG that requires the hospital to ensure that each subcontractor to the hospital fully complies with HIPAA and the terms of the integrity order, including written policies and procedures assuring compliance, and subjects each subcontractor to audit at the determination of the HHS-OIG. We could be vulnerable to prosecution under these statutes if any of our customers deliberately or recklessly submits claims that contain false, misleading or incomplete information.

In addition, the administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA require the promulgation of regulations establishing national standards for, among other things, certain electronic healthcare transactions, the use and disclosure of certain individually identifiable patient health information and the security of the electronic systems maintaining this information. These are commonly known as the HIPAA transaction and code set standards, privacy standards, and security standards, respectively.

The administrative provisions of HIPAA direct the federal government to adopt national electronic standards for automated transfer of certain healthcare data among healthcare payers, plans and providers. HIPAA is designed to enable the entire healthcare industry to communicate electronic data using a single set of standards. We are a “covered entity” under HIPAA and, as such, we must operate in compliance with the electronic transaction code standards, privacy standards and security standards. We are also a “business associate” under HIPAA because we perform services for or on behalf of other covered entities. We have developed policies, procedures and systems for handling patient health information that we believe are in compliance with the requirements of HIPAA. We also have recently undergone a HIPAA Risk Assessment and Audit conducted by an independent third party. The results of the audit showed us to be in full compliance with all applicable HIPAA requirements. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—Enforcement of state and federal regulations concerning the privacy and security of patient information may adversely affect our business, financial condition or operations.”

Our Intellectual Property

Our principal intellectual property assets include our brand, our proprietary business processes and our proprietary software technology. We rely on trade secret and unfair competition laws in the United States and other jurisdictions, as well as confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions, to protect these assets. We currently do not hold any patents with respect to our technology. We have filed seven provisional patent applications and one utility patent application covering certain aspects of our business processes and proprietary workflow software, and one foreign patent application, and we may file additional applications in the future. We copyright all of our proprietary software programs and we may file to register these copyrights in the future.

 

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We enter into confidentiality and proprietary rights agreements with our employees, affiliated radiologists, consultants and other third parties, and we control access to our software, documentation and other proprietary information.

We currently hold a non-exclusive, non-transferable license for certain image management software that we use in our workflow from Fujifilm, a minority stockholder in our Company. Under the terms of the licensing agreement, Fujifilm agrees to provide maintenance, support and updates for the licensed software. When we update or enhance certain features of our workflow system, we are dependent upon Fujifilm to make corresponding enhancements to the licensed software in order to accommodate our enhancements. In the event that Fujifilm fails to make, or allow us to make, any such enhancements, the enhancements in our workflow systems may not be effective. The license agreement provides for an initial term of two years and automatically renews for additional one year terms, unless earlier terminated. Under the terms of the licensing agreement, either party may terminate the agreement for cause upon 30 days’ written notice and opportunity to cure.

If a claim is asserted that we have infringed the intellectual property of a third party, we may be required to seek licenses to that technology. In addition, we license third party technologies that are incorporated into some elements of our services. Licenses for third party technologies may not continue to be available to us at a reasonable cost, or at all. Additionally, the steps we have taken to protect our intellectual property rights may not be adequate. Third parties may infringe or misappropriate our proprietary rights. Competitors may also independently develop technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to the technologies we employ in our services. If we fail to protect our proprietary rights adequately, our competitors could offer similar services, which may significantly harm our competitive position and decrease our revenues. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business—We may in the future become subject to intellectual property rights claims, which could harm our business and operating results.”

Legal Proceedings

We are from time to time subject to, and are presently involved in, litigation or other legal proceedings arising out of the ordinary course of business, including medical malpractice claims. Neither we, nor, to our knowledge, any of our affiliated radiologists, are presently a party to any litigation, the outcome of which could have a material adverse effect on us.

Our business entails the inherent risk of claims of medical malpractice against our affiliated radiologists and us, and we may also be subject to other lawsuits that may involve large claims and significant defense costs. We currently maintain professional liability insurance coverage in amounts that we believe are appropriate based upon our experience and the nature and risks of our business, subject to deductibles, exclusions and other restrictions in accordance with standard industry practice. However, there can be no assurance that such insurance coverage will be adequate to cover liabilities arising out of claims asserted against us where the outcomes of such claims are unfavorable. In addition, this insurance coverage generally must be renewed annually and may not continue to be available to us in future years at acceptable costs and on favorable terms. Any liabilities in excess of insurance coverage could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition or results of operations.

Employees and Independent Contractors

As of July 31, 2006, we had 178 employees. None of our employees are covered by labor agreements or affiliated with labor unions. As of July 31, 2006, we had 60 affiliated radiologists providing services to our customers, each of whom is an independent contractor with our affiliated medical practice. We consider our relationships with our employees and independent contractors to be satisfactory.

 

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Our Facilities

Our corporate headquarters and operations center occupy approximately 30,000 square feet in an office building in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The lease for this facility expires in June 2010. Pursuant to an agreement for the provision of data services, our servers, network hardware and primary internet connections are located in a data center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. This agreement expires in November 2009.

Our present headquarters facilities will be adequate to sustain our operations and anticipated growth requirements for approximately the next 12 months. We believe that suitable, alternate space and facilities would be available to us at commercial rates should the need arise.

We also lease approximately 2,200 square feet of newly constructed office space in Maui, Hawaii, which serves as a reading room for our affiliated radiologists who are located in or visit Maui. The lease expires in March 2011. However, we have an option to renew the lease for an additional 5-year term.

 

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MANAGEMENT

Executive Officers and Directors

The following table sets forth information about our directors and executive officers as of July 31, 2006.

 

Name

   Age   

Position(s)

Sean Casey, M.D.  

   41    President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board

Lorna J. Lusic

   48    Chief Operating Officer

Brent J. Backhaus

   39    Chief Technology Officer and Security Officer

Mark Marlow

   42    Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer

George H. Frisch

   63    General Counsel and Secretary

Eduard Michel, M.D., Ph.D.  

   44    Director

Domingo R. Gallardo

   43    Director

Mark E. Jennings

   44    Director

Andrew P. Hertzmark

   30    Director

Sean Casey, M.D. has served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company, or the equivalent, since co-founding our predecessor in May 2001. An American Board of Radiology-certified radiologist, Dr. Casey is a pioneer in the clinical use of cerebral CT angiography and venography, as well as other three-dimensional post-processing applications. He has received numerous awards from the Radiological Society of North America, the American Society of Neuroradiology and the American Roentgen Ray Society and has published numerous professional articles on radiology. Prior to co-founding Virtual Radiologic, Dr. Casey was an associate professor, director of Head and Neck Radiology and director of the neuroradiology fellowship training program at the University of Minnesota. Since 1998, Dr. Casey has served on the medical advisory board of Vital Images Inc., a provider of 3-D visualization applications. Dr. Casey received his undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins University, and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. He served his radiology residency at Long Island Jewish Medical Center in New York and completed a Neuroradiology fellowship at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center in Denver. Dr. Casey holds a Certificate of Added Qualification in neuroradiology from the American Board of Radiology and is currently licensed to practice medicine in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Lorna J. Lusic has served as the Chief Operating Officer of the Company since 2004 and as the Executive Director of its predecessor from 2002 to 2004. Ms. Lusic manages all aspects of the company’s operational environment including sales, marketing, services and business operations, as well as Virtual Radiologic’s innovative customer Operations Center. Prior to joining Virtual Radiologic, Ms. Lusic was the Executive Director of Strategic Alliance Sales for WAM!NET, Inc., a global provider of networking and workflow management services for the media and advertising industries and through its subsidiary, Netco Government Services, Inc., for the United States Navy. Ms. Lusic has also held senior sales and managerial positions with Honeywell Industrial Automation & Control and Silicon Graphics Inc. Ms. Lusic is a member of the JCAHO Ambulatory Care Advisory Council, the Medical Group Management Association (MGMA) and the Association for Benchmarking Healthcare.

Brent J. Backhaus has served as the Chief Technology Officer of the Company since 2002. Mr. Backhaus also serves as the Company’s Security Officer responsible for data privacy in accordance with HIPAA and JCAHO requirements. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Backhaus served as the Chief Technology Officer of OffRoad Only, an automotive technology after-market provider and as Assistant Chief Technology Officer at WAM!NET, Inc., a global provider of networking and workflow management services for the media and advertising industries and through its subsidiary, Netco Government Services, Inc., for the United States Navy. Mr. Backhaus has also held senior

 

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positions at Silicon Graphics Inc., a provider of high-speed visualization systems. Mr. Backhaus earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Mark Marlow has served as Chief Financial Officer of the Company since August 1, 2003. From 1995 to 2003, Mr. Marlow served as Vice President of Finance of WAM!NET, Inc., a company he helped found in 1995, and which became a global provider of networking and workflow management services for the media and advertising industry and through its subsidiary, Netco Government Services, Inc., for the United States Navy. Prior to 1995, Mr. Marlow worked for MJK, a private Minneapolis based investment banking firm where he held a general securities license. He also served as Financial Director for Falcon Group, LLC, from 2001 to 2003. Mr. Marlow earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management.

George H. Frisch, J.D. has served as the General Counsel and Secretary of the Company since October 2004. Prior to joining us, Mr. Frisch served as Senior Counsel of WAM!NET, Inc., a global provider of networking and workflow management services for the media and advertising industries and through its subsidiary, Netco Government Services, Inc., for the United States Navy. Prior to his employment with WAM!NET, Inc., Mr. Frisch engaged in the private practice of corporate and securities law. Mr. Frisch attended the University of Minnesota, and received a Bachelor of Science and a Juris Doctor, cum laude, from the William Mitchell College of Law.

Eduard Michel, M.D., Ph.D. has been a director of the Company since co-founding our predecessor in May 2001. Since July 1, 2006, Dr. Michel has served as our Medical Director. Prior to this time, Dr. Michel was engaged in the private practice of neuroradiology in Minneapolis and also held appointment as a clinical assistant professor of radiology at the University of Minnesota. Dr. Michel has a Certificate of Added Qualification in neuroradiology from the American Board of Radiology and has published numerous professional articles on radiology. He received his Bachelor of Science, Doctor of Medicine and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Minnesota, where he completed training in diagnostic radiology and neuroradiology.

Domingo R. Gallardo, J.D. has been a director of the Company since 2005. Mr. Gallardo has been a partner of the law firm Catalano Gallardo & Petropoulos, LLP since co-founding the firm in 2003, and he concentrates in the areas of professional liability defense, defense of healthcare institutions and practices, products liability, construction and labor law, and commercial litigation. Prior to founding Catalano Gallardo & Petropoulos, LLP, Mr. Gallardo was a member of the law firm L’Abbate, Balkan, Colavita & Contini, LLP and was previously an Assistant District Attorney for the Bronx County, New York District Attorney. Mr. Gallardo received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Fordham University and a Juris Doctor degree from the Hofstra University School of Law.

Mark E. Jennings has served as a director of the Company since 2005 and is an appointee of the holders of our Series A Preferred Stock. Since 1996, Mr. Jennings has been the Managing Partner and co-founder of Generation Partners, a private investment firm that acquires and provides growth capital to companies primarily in the healthcare, business and information services, and media and entertainment sectors. Prior to founding Generation Partners, Mr. Jennings was a Partner at Centre Partners, a private equity firm affiliated with Lazard Freres, and prior to that, he was employed at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Through Generation Partners and predecessor firms, he has invested in more than 50 companies and has served on the Board of Directors of 23 companies, including inVentiv Health, Six Flags, Inc. Johnny Rockets, MedVance Institute, Agility Recovery Solutions and Sterling Infosystems. Mr. Jennings also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Post University and serves on the Board of the Spiritual Cinema Circle. Mr. Jennings earned a Bachelor of Science from the University of Texas and received his Master of Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business.

 

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Andrew P. Hertzmark has served as a director of the Company since 2006 and is an appointee of the holders of our Series A Preferred Stock. Since 2004, Mr. Hertzmark has been a Vice President of Generation Partners, a private investment firm that acquires and provides growth capital to companies primarily in the healthcare, business and information services, and media and entertainment sectors. Prior to joining Generation Partners, Mr. Hertzmark was an Associate at Galen Associates, a private investment firm focused on the healthcare industry. Mr. Hertzmark also was an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division of UBS AG. Mr. Hertzmark currently serves on the Board of Directors of Post Education, Inc. and is a Trustee of Post University. Mr. Hertzmark earned a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and received his Master of Business Administration from The Wharton School of Business.

Board Composition

Term of Directors and Composition of Board of Directors

Immediately prior to this offering, our Board of Directors will be divided into three staggered classes of directors of the same or nearly the same number. At each annual meeting of stockholders, a class of directors will be elected for a three-year term to succeed the directors of the same class whose terms are then expiring. The terms of the directors will expire upon election and qualification of successor directors at the Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be held during the years 2007 for the Class I directors, 2008 for the Class II directors and 2009 for the Class III directors.

 

  Ÿ   Our Class I directors will be              and             ;

 

  Ÿ   Our Class II directors will be              and             ; and

 

  Ÿ   Our Class III director will be             .

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will provide that the number of our directors shall be fixed from time to time by a resolution of the majority of our Board of Directors. Any additional directorships resulting from an increase in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class shall consist of one-third of the directors. The division of our Board of Directors into three classes with staggered three-year terms may delay or prevent a change of our management or a change in control.

In accordance with the applicable transition rules for newly public issuers, we intend to have a majority of independent directors on our Board of Directors within one year after the completion of this offering.

Term of Executive Officers

Each executive officer serves at the discretion of the Board of Directors and holds office until his or her successor is elected and qualified or until his or her earlier resignation or removal. There are no family relationships among any of our directors or executive officers.

Committees of the Board

As of the completion of this offering, our Board of Directors will have an audit committee, a compensation committee and a nominating and corporate governance committee, each of which has or will have the composition and responsibilities described below.

Audit Committee

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our Board of Directors in monitoring the integrity of our financial statements, our compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, our independent auditor’s qualifications and independence, and the performance of our internal audit function and independent auditors; (ii) assume direct responsibility for the appointment, compensation, retention and oversight of the work of any independent registered public accounting firm engaged for the purpose of performing any audit, review or attest services and for dealing directly with any such accounting firm; (iii) provide a medium for consideration of matters relating to any audit issues; and (iv) prepare the audit committee report that the SEC rules require be included in our annual proxy statement or annual report on Form 10-K.

Upon the completion of this offering, our audit committee will consist of                      (Chair),                      and                     . We believe that the composition of our audit committee will comply with all applicable rules of the SEC and the NASDAQ Global Market, including the requirement that at least one member of the audit committee is an “audit committee financial expert” as defined in the SEC rules and satisfies the financial sophistication requirements of the NASDAQ Global Market.                      is independent as such term is defined in Rule 10A-3(b)(1) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules of the NASDAQ Global Market. In accordance with the applicable rules of the SEC and NASDAQ Global Market, we plan to appoint a second independent director to our audit committee within 90 days after the completion of this offering and another independent director to our audit committee within 12 months after the completion of this offering.

Our Board of Directors will adopt a written charter for the audit committee, which will be available on our website upon the completion of this offering.

Compensation Committee

Our compensation committee will review and recommend policy relating to compensation and benefits of our officers and employees, including reviewing and approving corporate goals and objectives relevant to the compensation of our Chief Executive Officer and other senior officers, evaluating the performance of these officers in light of those goals and objectives, and setting compensation of these officers based on such evaluations. The compensation committee will review and evaluate, at least annually, the performance of the compensation committee and its members, including compliance of the compensation committee with its charter. Our compensation committee will have sole discretion concerning the administration of our stock option plans, including the selection of individuals to receive awards and the time at which awards will be granted.

Upon the completion of this offering, our compensation committee will consist of                      (Chair),                      and                     . In accordance with the applicable rules of the NASDAQ Global Market, our compensation committee will be comprised of a majority of independent directors within 90 days after the completion of this offering and of entirely independent directors within 12 months after the completion of this offering.

Our Board of Directors will adopt a written charter for the compensation committee, which will be available on our website upon the completion of this offering.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

The nominating and corporate governance committee will oversee and assist our Board of Directors in identifying, reviewing and recommending nominees for election as directors; evaluate our Board of Directors and our management; develop, review and recommend corporate governance guidelines and a corporate code of business conduct and ethics; and generally advise our Board of Directors on corporate governance and related matters.

 

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Upon the completion of this offering, our nominating and corporate governance committee will consist of                      (Chair),                      and                     . In accordance with the applicable rules of the NASDAQ Global Market, our nominating and corporate governance committee will be comprised of a majority of independent directors within 90 days after the completion of this offering and of entirely independent directors within 12 months after the completion of this offering.

Our Board of Directors will adopt a written charter for the nominating and corporate governance committee, which will be available on our website upon the completion of this offering.

Our Board of Directors may from time to time establish other committees.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

None of the members of our compensation committee is an officer or employee of our Company. None of our executive officers currently serves, or in the past year has served, as a member of the Board of Directors or compensation committee of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving on our Board of Directors or compensation committee.

Director Compensation

In June 2005, Domingo Gallardo, one of our non-employee directors, received a grant of 10,000 options to purchase shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $4.75 per share as compensation for serving on our Board of Directors. Our other non-employee directors, Mark E. Jennings and Andrew P. Hertzmark, are appointed by the holders of our Series A Preferred Stock pursuant to the terms of the stockholders’ agreement and have not received compensation for serving on our Board of Directors. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Stockholders’ Agreement.” Other than Domingo Gallardo, we have not historically compensated our directors for serving on our Board of Directors or any of its committees.

Following the completion of this offering, we intend to pay our non-employee directors an annual stipend, plus a fee for each meeting of the Board of Directors that they attend. We also may from time to time issue shares of restricted common stock to our non-employee directors or grant our non-employee directors options to purchase shares of our common stock, in each case, in amounts and upon terms to be determined by our Board of Directors or a committee thereof. Other than non-employee directors, we do not intend to compensate directors for serving on our Board of Directors or any of its committees. We do, however, intend to reimburse each member of our Board of Directors for out-of-pocket expenses incurred by each director in connection with attending meetings of the Board of Directors and its committees.

 

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Executive Compensation

The following table sets forth the aggregate compensation paid by us for services rendered during the years ended December 31, 2005, 2004 and 2003 to our Chief Executive Officer and each of our four other most highly paid executive officers, referred to herein collectively as the named executive officers.

Summary Compensation Table

 

     Annual Compensation  

Name and Principal Position

   Fiscal
Year
   Salary    Bonus    Long-Term Compensation  
            Restricted
Stock
Awards
   Securities
Underlying
Options
   All Other
Compensation
 

Sean Casey, M.D.  

President and Chief Executive Officer

   2005
2004
2003
   $
$
$
335,385
543,317
493,334
   $
$
$
92,960

  

  
1,441,210
    
 
 


(1)
 
 

Mark Marlow

Chief Financial Officer

   2005
2004
2003
   $
$
$
151,105
129,302
42,685
   $
$
$
110,140
58,427
  

  
175,000
    
 
 


 
 
 

Lorna J. Lusic

Chief Operating Officer

   2005
2004
2003
   $
$
$
144,943
159,632
94,866
   $
$
$
115,300
44,737
  

  
175,000
    
 
 


 
 
 

Brent J. Backhaus

Chief Technology Officer and Security Officer

   2005
2004
2003
   $
$
$
144,943
147,658
106,007
   $
$
$
87,688
87,704
  

  
175,000
    
 
$


17,308
 
 
(2)

George H. Frisch(3)

General Counsel and Secretary

   2005
2004
2003
   $
$
$
145,346
31,015
   $
$
$
51,572

  

  
100,000
    
 
 


 
 
 

(1) Pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement, we are required to pay the cost of purchasing disability insurance for Dr. Casey and life insurance for the benefit of Dr. Casey’s beneficiaries. We have not yet purchased such policies.

 

(2) Prior to the commencement of his employment with us, Mr. Backhaus worked as an independent contractor for us and was paid $17,308 by us for his services.

 

(3) Mr. Frisch’s employment with us commenced on October 4, 2004.

Stock Option Grants

We did not grant any stock options to our named executive officers during the year ended December 31, 2005, or the three months ended March 31, 2006.

 

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Aggregated Option Exercises in Last Fiscal Year and Fiscal Year-End Option Values

The following table sets forth the number and value of unexercised options held by each named executive officer as of December 31, 2005. Because there was no public trading market for our common stock as of December 31, 2005, the value of unexercised in-the-money options at year end has been calculated using the assumed initial public offering price of $             per share, the midpoint of the range of the estimated initial public offering prices set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, minus the applicable per share exercise price.

 

Name

   Shares
Acquired
on
Exercise
   Value
Realized
   Number of Shares
Underlying
Unexercised Options at
Fiscal Year End
  

Value of Unexercised
In-the-Money

Options at
Fiscal Year End

Sean Casey, M.D.  

President and Chief Executive Officer

   —      —      Exercisable
Unexercisable
   999,145
442,065
  

Mark Marlow

Chief Financial Officer

   —      —      Exercisable
Unexercisable
   175,000
—  
  

Lorna J. Lusic

Chief Operating Officer

   —      —      Exercisable
Unexercisable
   138,155
36,845
  

Brent J. Backhaus

Chief Technology Officer and Security Officer

   —      —      Exercisable
Unexercisable
   138,155
36,845
  

George H. Frisch

General Counsel and Secretary

   —      —      Exercisable
Unexercisable
   —  
100,000
  

Employment Agreements

We have entered into employment agreements with the following executive officers: Sean Casey, Eduard Michel, Mark Marlow, Lorna J. Lusic, Brent J. Backhaus and George H. Frisch.

Employment Agreement with Sean Casey, M.D.

Dr. Casey’s employment agreement provides that he will serve as our Chief Executive Officer and President. Unless earlier terminated by us or Dr. Casey, the term of this agreement expires on September 30, 2007, provided that in the event of a change in control in VRC, as defined in his employment agreement, the term of the agreement will not expire until the later of (i) September 30, 2007 or (ii) the date that is 12 months following the change in control. Pursuant to the terms of his employment agreement, Dr. Casey is entitled to receive an annual base salary of $360,000, which is subject to merit increases as determined by our Board of Directors. In addition, Dr. Casey is eligible to receive a performance-based bonus for each fiscal quarter that is equal to 2.5% of the increase in our gross revenues for such fiscal quarter as compared to our gross revenues for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter. On January 2, 2004, we granted Dr. Casey an option to purchase 800,000 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $1.00 per share with 21,055 shares vesting and becoming exercisable on the last day of each month for 37 months commencing in August 2004 and 20,965 shares vesting and becoming exercisable on September 30, 2007. If Dr. Casey is employed by us during the occurrence of a change in control, all of Dr. Casey’s options will vest and become exercisable. Additionally, on January 2, 2004, we granted Dr. Casey a fully vested option to purchase 641,210 shares of our common stock with an exercise price of $1.00 per share. This offering will not constitute a change in control or otherwise trigger any payments to Dr. Casey under the terms of his employment agreement.

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duration of any long-term disability and (ii) a $1 million life insurance policy for the benefit of Dr. Casey’s beneficiaries. In the event that Dr. Casey’s employment agreement is not renewed upon expiration, we are required to continue to pay his base salary plus an additional monthly amount of $15,583 for a period of six months following the expiration. If we terminate Dr. Casey’s employment without cause or if Dr. Casey terminates his employment for good reason, each as defined in his employment agreement, he will continue to be entitled to his most recent base salary plus an additional monthly amount of $15,583 for a period of not less than 12 months and no more than 18 months. If we terminate Dr. Casey’s employment with cause, we are not required to pay any compensation other than what has been accrued. During the term of his employment agreement and for the applicable severance period or, in the event of a termination by us for cause or by Dr. Casey without good reason, for a period of 12 months, Dr. Casey is prohibited from engaging in any business that is competitive with any line of business which we have entered or internally announced that we will enter. In addition, during the term of his employment agreement and for a period of 18 months following termination of his employment for any reason, Dr. Casey is prohibited from soliciting our employees or customers.

Physician Agreement with Sean Casey, M.D.

VRP has entered into a physician agreement with Dr. Casey pursuant to which Dr. Casey serves as the President of VRP and also provides some radiological services on a limited and backup basis. The term of the physician agreement continues to automatically renew for successive one year periods unless terminated by either VRP or Dr. Casey. Pursuant to the physician agreement, Dr. Casey is entitled to a base compensation of $67,000 annually. Additionally, VRP pays Dr. Casey bonus compensation equal to 60% of all gross revenues collected on studies billed to Dr. Casey up to a gross revenue amount of $60,000 per quarter. Under the physician agreement, VRP bills for, collects and owns all of the fees and patient records that are charged for Dr. Casey’s radiological services. Additionally, VRP is required to maintain medical malpractice insurance covering conduct that occurred based on radiological services during the term with minimum coverage of $1 million per claim and $3 million in the aggregate annually for the benefit of Dr. Casey, which covers Dr. Casey during the term of his employment and for a period of at least seven years after termination of his employment.

Employment Agreement with Eduard Michel, M.D., Ph.D.

Dr. Eduard Michel’s employment agreement provides that he will serve as our Medical Director. Dr. Michel has responsibility and authority to assure the quality of medical services provided by us and will serve as the Chair of our Quality Assurance Committee. Dr. Michel’s agreement has a term of three years; provided, that, in the event of a change in control (as defined in the agreement), Dr. Michel will remain employed by us until the later of (i) the date which is 24 months after the effective date of the agreement or (ii) the date that is 12 months following the change in control. Dr. Michel’s initial annual salary is $120,000, subject to adjustment at the end of each year of the term. Additionally, Dr. Michel is eligible for an annual, performance-based bonus of up to 50% of his annual salary. Dr. Michel was also granted 25,000 stock options at a price reasonably related to the fair value at the grant date that will vest in three equal increments on the next three anniversary dates of the effective date of the employment agreement. In the event that Dr. Michel’s employment is terminated (i) upon the expiration of the term of employment (or any extension thereto) or (ii) by Dr. Michel for cause (as defined in his employment agreement), and if he complies with the restrictive covenants contained in his agreement, Dr. Michel will be entitled to continue to receive his base salary and benefits for a period of 12 months following such termination. Following a change in control and provided that Dr. Michel complies with the terms of his restrictive covenants, if Dr. Michel’s employment is terminated by us within 24 months of the effective date of his agreement or during the 12 months following the change in control, he will be entitled to severance in an amount equal to between 12 and 18 months’ base salary, payable over the 24 months following such termination, and all of his stock options will vest and become exercisable. During the term and for 24 months thereafter, Dr. Michel is prohibited

 

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from engaging in any business that is competitive with any line of business which we have entered or internally announced that we will enter. In addition, Dr. Michel is prohibited from soliciting our customers and employees during the term of the agreement and for 24 months thereafter.

Physician Agreement with Eduard Michel, M.D., Ph.D.

VRP has entered into a physician agreement with Dr. Michel effective as of July 1, 2006, pursuant to which Dr. Michel provides radiology interpretation and consultation services. The initial term of the physician agreement expires in April 2008; however, the agreement automatically renews for successive one year periods unless earlier terminated by either VRP or Dr. Michel. During the year ended December 31, 2005, VRP paid Dr. Michel $7,601 for radiology interpretation services under a prior agreement.

VRP also paid Dr. Michel $12,001 for his assistance in customer sales efforts, physician recruiting efforts and quality assurance activities during the three months prior to July 1, 2006.

Employment Agreements with Certain Executive Officers

We have also entered into employment agreements with the following executive officers: (i) Mark Marlow, our Chief Financial Officer, (ii) Lorna J. Lusic, our Chief Operating Officer, (iii) Brent J. Backhaus, our Chief Technology Officer and Security Officer, and (iv) George H. Frisch, our General Counsel and Secretary. Each agreement has a term of 38 months, except for Mr. Frisch’s agreement, which has a term of 36 months. However, in the event of a change in control of VRC (as defined in each agreement), the term of the agreement will not expire until the later of (i) the date that is 38 months, or 36 months in the case of Mr. Frisch, after the effective date of the agreement, or (ii) the date that is 24 months following the change in control. This offering will not constitute a change in control or otherwise trigger any payments to any of the executives named above under the terms of their respective employment agreements.

As of March 31, 2006, the following executive officers received annual base salaries, subject to increase by our Board of Directors, in the amount of:

 

Name

   Annual Base Salary

Mark Marlow, Chief Financial Officer

   $ 154,453

Lorna J. Lusic, Chief Operating Officer

   $ 154,453

Brent J. Backhaus, Chief Technology Officer and Security Officer

   $ 154,453

George H. Frisch, General Counsel and Secretary

   $ 150,480

Each of the executives is eligible to receive performance-based bonuses for each of our fiscal quarters equal to 2.5%, or 1.25% in the case of Mr. Frisch, of the increase in our gross revenues for such fiscal quarter as compared to the gross revenues for the immediately preceding fiscal quarter.

Pursuant to their employment agreements, we granted each of Mr. Marlow, Ms. Lusic and Mr. Backhaus options to purchase 175,000 shares of our common stock. Additionally, we granted Mr. Frisch an option to purchase 100,000 shares of our common stock. Pursuant to the terms of their employment agreements, in the event of a change in control of VRC, all of the options held by such executives will immediately vest. Each of these executives is also entitled to severance benefits equaling one year’s salary, to be paid over 12 months, in the event that we terminate that executive (i) without cause or (ii) without cause in conjunction with a change in control. The executive is also entitled to severance benefits equaling one year’s salary, to be paid over 12 months, if the executive

 

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terminates employment with us in conjunction with a change in control for good reason, as that term defined in the executive’s employment agreement. No severance benefit is payable upon death or disability.

During the term of their respective employment agreements and for a period of 12 months thereafter, each executive is prohibited from engaging in any business that is competitive with any line of business which we have entered or internally announced that we will enter. In addition, during the term of the executives’ respective employment agreements and for a period of 12 months following a termination of employment for any reason, each executive is prohibited from soliciting our employees or customers.

Stock Incentive and Other Compensation Plans

Virtual Radiologic Corporation Equity Incentive Plan

Our Equity Incentive Plan, or the VRC Incentive Plan, effective January 2, 2004, was established for the benefit of a selected group of our officers, employees and contractors, as well as the officers, employees and contractors of our Affiliated Medical Practices. The VRC Incentive Plan provides for the grant of incentive stock options, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights and restricted stock, but incentive stock options may only be granted to employees. We have currently reserved 4,000,000 shares of our common stock (without giving effect to the              for              stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering) for issuance under the VRC Incentive Plan. As of March 31, 2006, and without giving effect to the              for             stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering, there were options to purchase 3,474,090 shares of our common stock outstanding, with exercise prices ranging from $1.00 to $12.00, and a weighted average exercise price of $2.05 per share. A maximum of 525,910 shares of our common stock remain reserved for issuance under the VRC Incentive Plan.

Administration.    The VRC Incentive Plan is administered by our Board of Directors which may in turn delegate the authority to administer the VRC Incentive Plan to one of its committees. The Board of Directors or the committee, as applicable, has the authority to, among other things, construe and interpret the VRC Incentive Plan and establish, amend or waive rules for its administration.

Change of Control.    The committee has the discretion to provide in any award agreement that the award may become vested and immediately exercisable upon a change in control of VRC.

Additional Provisions.     All stock options and stock appreciation rights granted under the VRC Incentive Plan will expire no later than the tenth anniversary of the applicable date of grant of such awards, and the exercise price of such awards will not be less than the fair value of our common stock on the applicable date of grant.

In connection with the receipt of any awards under the VRC Incentive Plan, any physician contractor who provides radiology or radiology-related services on our behalf or on behalf of an affiliated company is prohibited from competing with us, or soliciting our customers or employees, for a period of two years following the termination or expiration of his or her agreement to provide physician services.

Prior to the completion of this offering, we plan to amend the VRC Incentive Plan to allow certain of our officers, employees, contractors and Affiliated Medical Practices the opportunity to purchase shares of our common stock at fair value. Following the amendment of the VRC Incentive Plan, the Board of Directors, or a committee thereof, will have the authority to enter into stock purchase agreements with certain of our officers, employees, contractors and Affiliated Medical Practices to designate: (i) the number of shares of our common stock that will be sold and purchased, (ii) the total

 

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purchase price, (iii) the purchase price per share, (iv) the duration of time over which the total purchase price will be paid and (v) the payment schedule. In making its decision, the Board or committee will consider a broad range of factors including the amount, if any, of non-cash compensation expense resulting from the sale of our common stock under the Plan. Upon receipt of payment of the entire purchase price, we will deliver the total number of shares of our common stock to the applicable officers, employees, contractors or Affiliated Medical Practices.

Virtual Radiologic Corporation Stock Purchase Plan

Our Stock Purchase Plan, effective January 2, 2004, was established for the benefit of a selected group of our officers, employees and contractors, as well as the officers, employees and contractors of our Affiliated Medical Practices. Our Stock Purchase Plan allows for the purchase of shares of our common stock at fair value on the date provided in the applicable agreement. We have currently reserved 4,000,000 shares of our common stock (without giving effect to the              for              stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering) for sale under the Stock Purchase Plan. As of March 31, 2006, and without giving effect to the             for              stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering, we have sold 568,340 shares of our common stock and 3,431,660 shares of our common stock remain available for purchase pursuant to the Stock Purchase Plan.

Administration.    The Stock Purchase Plan is administered by our Board of Directors which may in turn delegate the authority to administer the Stock Purchase Plan to one of its committees. The Board of Directors or the committee, as applicable, has the authority to enter into stock purchase agreements with certain officers, employees, contractors and affiliated companies which designate (i) the number of shares of our common stock which will be sold and purchased, (ii) the total purchase price, (iii) the purchase price per share, (iv) the duration of time over which the total purchase price will be paid and (v) a payment schedule. After the total purchase price has been paid, we will deliver the shares of our common stock to the applicable officers, employees, or contractors.

Additional Provisions.    In connection with the right to purchase shares pursuant to the Stock Purchase Plan, any participant in the Stock Purchase Plan is prohibited from competing with us, or soliciting our customers or employees, for a period of two years following termination or expiration of the agreement that established eligibility to purchase stock under the Stock Purchase Plan.

Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC Equity Incentive Plan

The VRP Equity Incentive Plan, or the VRP Incentive Plan, effective as of March 10, 2004, was established for the benefit of a selected group of officers, employees and contractors of VRP. The VRP Incentive Plan provides for the grant of nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights and restricted stock. The maximum number of shares of our common stock that may be granted pursuant to the VRP Incentive Plan is equal to the number of shares granted to VRP under the VRC Incentive Plan.

Administration.    The VRP Incentive Plan is administered by a committee comprised of at least one of VRP’s members and the committee has authority to, among other things, construe and interpret the VRP Incentive Plan and establish, amend or waive rules for its administration.

Change of Control.    The committee has the discretion to provide in any award agreement that the award may become vested and immediately exercisable upon a change in control.

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awards. The stock options and stock appreciation rights granted under the VRP Incentive Plan may have an exercise price that is lower than fair value.

In connection with the receipt of any awards under the VRP Incentive Plan, any physician contractor who provides radiology or radiology-related services on behalf of VRP is prohibited from competing with us, or soliciting our customers or employees, for a period of two years following the termination or expiration of his or her consulting relationship.

 

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

Management, License and Service Agreements

VRP is VRC’s affiliated medical practice that provides all radiologist services necessary to fulfill customer contracts held by VRC and by the Professional Corporations. VRP is owned by Dr. Sean Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. Gary Weiss and Dr. David Hunter. Dr. Casey is currently the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of VRC, and Dr. Michel is currently the Medical Director of VRC and is a member of the Board of Directors of VRC. Dr. Weiss and Dr. Hunter are each stockholders of VRC. In order to comply with applicable healthcare laws that require any agreement by a healthcare provider, such as VRP, and a management company or customer, such as VRC, to be in writing, to specifically identify the services being purchased or provided and to have a minimum term of one year, we have entered into a professional and management services agreement and license with VRP. Pursuant to this agreement and license, VRC provides all of the management services necessary for the operations of VRP and licenses VRC’s technology infrastructure to VRP for use by our affiliated radiologists. VRP provides physician services to fulfill VRC’s customer contracts. VRC pays VRP a fixed per-service fee for each read performed, which is intended to cover the cost of physician compensation paid to our affiliated radiologists and a portion of the costs of malpractice insurance. The fee rate is established by agreement between VRC’s Board of Directors and VRP with consideration for the fair market value of VRP’s use of VRC’s systems, technology infrastructure and management services. Dr. Casey and Dr. Michel will recuse themselves from participation in the determination of this fee by VRC’s Board of Directors.

The Professional Corporations are our other Affiliated Medical Practices and hold customer contracts representing approximately 35% of our revenue. The Professional Corporations are professional corporations wholly owned by Dr. Casey. Each of the Professional Corporations is incorporated or qualified to do business in a state where only a physician-owned professional corporation may contract to provide medical services, including providing reads. Pursuant to management services agreements between VRC and each of the Professional Corporations, VRC provides all of the management services necessary for the operations of each of the Professional Corporations and licenses VRC’s technology infrastructure to each of the Professional Corporations. Each of the Professional Corporations pays VRC a management and license fee for each read performed on its behalf over VRC’s teleradiology systems. In addition, each of the Professional Corporations has contracted with VRP for the provision of physician services to fulfill customer contracts held by the Professional Corporation and pays VRP a fixed fee per read performed, which is established annually by the Board of Directors of VRC and the Professional Corporations and is intended to cover the cost of physician compensation paid to our affiliated radiologists and a portion of the costs of malpractice insurance. Dr. Casey and Dr. Michel will recuse themselves from participation in the determination of this fee by VRC’s Board of Directors.

If, on an annual basis, the aggregate per-read fees received by VRP under the agreements with VRC and the Professional Corporations exceed the costs incurred by VRP in providing the services to VRC and the Professional Corporations, VRP will recognize a profit which will inure to its owners and not to VRC. Similarly, should the cost of providing the services exceed the aggregate of fees received by VRP, VRP will incur a loss that will also inure to its owners and not to VRC. Likewise, should the aggregate of the amounts paid by a Professional Corporation to VRC and VRP be less than the revenue received from customer contracts held by that Professional Corporation, the resulting profit will inure to the benefit of the owner of the Professional Corporation and not to VRC, as will any loss in case the amounts paid exceed revenues received. The Company and its Affiliated Medical Practices annually review and renegotiate fees payable under these agreements in light of the prior year’s results and expected results for the current year. See “Our Corporate Structure and Affiliated Radiologists.”

 

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Series A Preferred Stock Purchase Agreement

Pursuant to the terms of a purchase agreement, on May 2, 2005, we issued 3,626,667 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock to a total of seven investors, including Generation Partners, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $13.6 million. Upon the completion of this offering, all of the outstanding shares of our Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into shares of our common stock.

Stockholders’ Agreement

In connection with the issuance of our Series A Preferred Stock, we entered into a stockholders’ agreement with our stockholders. Pursuant to the terms of the stockholders’ agreement, the holders of our Series A Preferred Stock are entitled to elect two directors to our Board of Directors for so long as they hold shares of Series A Preferred Stock. Mark E. Jennings and Andrew P. Hertzmark are currently serving on our Board of Directors as the appointees of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock. Upon completion of this offering, substantially all of the operative provisions of the stockholders’ agreement will terminate. However, under the terms of the stockholders’ agreement and subject to certain conditions, we may restrict the sale or distribution of our stock by certain of our stockholders for a period of up to 180 days following effectiveness of our registration statement.

Investor Rights Agreement

We are a party to an investor rights agreement with each of the holders of the Series A Preferred Stock and the holder of a warrant to purchase shares of our common stock, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. Under the terms of the investor rights agreement, we have, among other things:

 

  Ÿ   agreed to effect up to two registered offerings upon request from the holders of at least 50% of the registrable stock then outstanding;

 

  Ÿ   agreed to effect up to one registered offering on Form S-3 per six-month period upon request from the holders of at least 50% of the registrable stock; and

 

  Ÿ   granted incidental or “piggyback” registration rights with respect to any registrable securities held by any party to the investor rights agreement.

Our obligation to effect any demand for registration by the other parties to the investor rights agreement is subject to certain conditions, including that the registrable securities to be included in any such registration have an anticipated aggregate offering price in excess of $2.5 million in the case of any demand for registration on Form S-1 and $500,000 in the case of any demand for registration on Form S-3. In connection with any registration effected pursuant to the terms of the investor rights agreement, we will be required to pay for all of the fees and expenses incurred in connection with such registration, including registration fees, filing fees and printing expenses as well as expenses relating to the marketing and promotional efforts for the offering as requested by the managing underwriter. However, the underwriting discounts and commissions payable in respect of registrable securities will not be borne by us. We have also agreed to indemnify stockholders, including the holders of registrable securities, in any registration effected pursuant to the terms of the investor rights agreement and certain other persons associated with any such registration, in each case on the terms specified in the investor rights agreement and which include an indemnity against certain liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. Under the terms of the investor rights agreement, we may, subject to certain conditions, restrict the sale or distribution of our common stock by our stockholders for a period of up to 180 days following effectiveness of this registration statement. In addition, for 180 days after the effective date of any underwritten registration requested by the holders, we are prohibited from causing any other underwritten registration of our securities. Substantially all of the other operative provisions of the investor rights agreement will terminate upon the completion of this offering.

 

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Warrant Held by William Blair & Company, L.L.C.

William Blair & Company, L.L.C., one of the underwriters in this offering, acted as our agent in connection with our sale of Series A Preferred Stock in May 2005. As compensation for its services in that transaction, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. received a cash payment of $855,450, including reimbursement of expenses, and a warrant to purchase 72,533 shares of our common stock (without giving effect to the                  for                  stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to completion of this offering), subject to adjustment in certain instances. The warrant is exercisable at the price of one cent ($0.01) per share at any time prior to May 2, 2010 and is subject to the rights, privileges and obligations of the investor rights agreement described above, including, in respect of the common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant, the registration rights granted therein. Kelly Martin, a principal of William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and Richard Conklin, an employee of William Blair & Company, L.L.C. each individually purchased 13,333 shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the price of $3.75 per share.

Cross Purchase Agreement

Dr. Sean Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. Gary Weiss and Dr. David Hunter, each of whom is an owner of VRP and a stockholder of VRC, are party to a cross purchase agreement, which contains certain restrictions on the sale and transfer of the shares of our common stock held by them. Upon completion of this offering, the cross purchase agreement will terminate.

Amended Subscription and Settlement Agreement with an Affiliated Radiologist

In February 2005, one of our affiliated radiologists, subscribed to purchase 35,000 shares of our common stock at a price of $3.00 per share under our Stock Purchase Plan. In order to settle a disagreement between us and the radiologist with respect to the total number of shares he could have purchased, Dr. Sean Casey and Dr. Eduard Michel agreed to sell the radiologist an additional 85,000 shares from the shares that Dr. Casey and Dr. Michel own personally. Upon the unanimous approval of our other directors, we agreed to redeem into our Stock Purchase Plan 56,950 shares from Dr. Casey and 28,050 shares from Dr. Michel at a price of $3.00 per share and to sell an equivalent number of shares from the Stock Purchase Plan to the radiologist at a price of $3.00 per share. As a result of the agreement, Dr. Casey and Dr. Michel transferred an aggregate of 85,000 shares to us for an aggregate amount of $225,000 and in July 2006, we issued a total of 120,000 shares to the affiliated radiologist for an aggregate amount of $360,000.

Consulting Services Provided by Assess IT

We retain the services of Assess IT, a consulting firm that is owned by Rick Jennings, to assist with the development and management of our information technology systems. Rick Jennings is the brother of Mark E. Jennings, one of our directors. During the period January 1, 2005 to March 31, 2006, we paid Assess IT $48,025 for its consulting services. We continue to use Assess IT’s services on an as-needed basis. We believe the cost of the services provided by Assess IT are fair and at least as favorable as those which could be obtained through arm’s length negotiation between unrelated parties.

10% Convertible Subordinated Promissory Notes

In December 2004, we sold an aggregate of $1 million in 10% convertible subordinated promissory notes due November 30, 2005, to Dr. Sean Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. Gary Weiss and Dr. David Hunter, and Dr. Casey’s father, Francis Casey and his father’s wife, Sharon Casey. Each note was convertible into shares of our common stock at the rate of $2.00 per share. Subsequently, all of the notes were converted into common stock, except for $50,000 that was repaid in full with interest in May 2005.

 

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Vital Images, Inc. Medical Advisory Board

Dr. Sean Casey, our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors, serves on the medical advisory board of Vital Images, Inc., a provider of 3-D visualization applications. In connection with his service, Dr. Casey was granted stock options and a stipend for attending the annual meeting of the medical advisory board. In September 2004, VRC purchased software programs from Vital Images, Inc. for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $101,000.

Agreements with Directors and Officers

Employment Agreements

Information regarding employment agreements with several of our executive officers is set forth under “Management—Employment Agreements.”

Indemnification Agreements

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that will be in effect upon completion of this offering will provide for indemnification of our directors and officers in most circumstances, to the extent permitted by the DGCL. In addition, we have entered into or plan to enter into indemnification agreements with each of our directors, pursuant to which we have agreed to indemnify our directors to the fullest extent permitted by law. See “Description of Capital Stock—Limitation on Liability and Indemnification of Directors and Officers.”

Participation in Directed Share Program

We expect that our directors, officers, employees and other individuals associated with us, and members of their respective families and friends, will purchase an aggregate of up to              shares in the directed share program. Please see “Underwriting” for more information regarding the directed share program.

 

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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

The following table indicates information regarding the beneficial ownership of our common stock before and after the completion of this offering by:

 

  Ÿ   each person, or group of affiliated persons, who is known by us to own beneficially 5% or more of our common stock;

 

  Ÿ   each member of our Board of Directors upon completion of this offering;

 

  Ÿ   each of our named executive officers; and

 

  Ÿ   all of our directors and executive officers as a group.

The number of shares owned and percentage of ownership in the following table is based on (1) 6,638,810 shares of common stock outstanding on the date of this prospectus (without giving effect to the          for              stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering), (2) the conversion of the 3,626,667 outstanding shares of our preferred stock into 3,626,667 shares of common stock (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering), and (3) the issuance of              shares by the Company in this offering.

Each individual or entity shown on the table has furnished information with respect to beneficial ownership. Except as otherwise indicated below, the address of each officer and director listed below is c/o Virtual Radiologic Corporation, 5995 Opus Parkway, Suite 200, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343.

We have determined beneficial ownership in accordance with the rules of the SEC. These rules generally attribute beneficial ownership of securities to persons who possess sole or shared voting power or investment power with respect to those securities. In addition, these rules include shares of common stock issuable pursuant to the exercise of stock options or warrants or conversion of convertible notes that are either immediately exercisable or convertible or exercisable or convertible within 60 days of July 31, 2006. These shares are deemed to be outstanding and beneficially owned by the person holding those options or warrants for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of that person, but they are not treated as outstanding for the purpose of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. Unless otherwise indicated, the persons or entities identified in this table have sole voting and dispositive authority with respect to all shares shown as beneficially owned by them.

 

          Shares Beneficially Owned After This Offering
   

Beneficial Ownership

Prior to Offering

   

Assuming the

Underwriters’

Over-Allotment

Option Is Not Exercised

 

Assuming the

Underwriters’

Over-Allotment

Option Is Exercised in
Full

Name and Address of

Beneficial Owner(1)

  Number(2)   Percentage(2)     Number(2)   Percentage(2)   Number(2)   Percentage(2)

Directors

           

Sean Casey(3)

  5,001,898   43.7 %        

Domingo R. Gallardo(4)

  3,334   *          

Andrew P. Hertzmark(5)

c/o Generation Partners

One Greenwich Office Park

Greenwich, CT 06831

  2,800,000   27.3 %        

 

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          Shares Beneficially Owned After This Offering
   

Beneficial Ownership

Prior to Offering

   

Assuming the

Underwriters’

Over-Allotment

Option Is Not Exercised

 

Assuming the

Underwriters’

Over-Allotment

Option Is Exercised in
Full

Name and Address of

Beneficial Owner(1)

  Number(2)   Percentage(2)     Number(2)   Percentage(2)   Number(2)   Percentage(2)

Mark E. Jennings(6)

c/o Generation Partners

One Greenwich Office Park

Greenwich, CT 06831

  2,800,000   27.3 %        

Eduard Michel(7)

  1,335,859   13.0 %        

Named Executive Officers

           

Brent J. Backhaus(8)

  190,790   1.8 %        

George H. Frisch

             

Lorna J. Lusic(9)

  165,790   1.6 %        

Mark Marlow(10)

  175,000   1.7 %        

Stockholders

           

Generation Funds(11)

  2,800,000   27.3 %        

All directors and executive officers as a group (9 persons)(12)

  9,672,671   80.8 %        

 * Less than one percent.

 

(1) Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each listed is person is c/o Virtual Radiologic Corporation, 5995 Opus Parkway, Suite 200, Minnetonka, Minnesota 55343.

 

(2) Includes shares that the listed beneficial owner is deemed to have the right to acquire beneficial ownership of under Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, including shares which the listed beneficial owner has the right to acquire within 60 days of July 31, 2006, and excludes shares issuable upon the exercise of options or warrants held by others.

 

(3) Includes 300,000 shares that are held by a grantor retained annuity trust for the benefit of Dr. Casey’s children and options to purchase 1,188,640 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

(4) Includes options to purchase 3,334 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

(5) Represents shares that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by Generation Capital Partners II LP and Generation Members’ Fund II LP (collectively, the “Generation Funds”). Mr. Hertzmark is a Vice President of Generation Partners. All shares indicated as beneficially owned by Mr. Hertzmark are included because of his affiliation with Generation Partners. Mr. Hertzmark disclaims beneficial ownership of all shares that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the Generation Funds, except to the extent of any pecuniary interest therein.

 

(6)

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Partners. Mr. Jennings disclaims beneficial ownership of all shares that may be deemed to be beneficially owned by the Generation Funds, except to the extent of any pecuniary interest therein.

 

(7) Includes options to purchase 4,340 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

(8) Includes options to purchase 165,790 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

(9) Includes options to purchase 165,790 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

(10) Includes options to purchase 175,000 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

(11) Amounts shown reflect the aggregate interests held by the Generation Funds. Generation Capital Partners II LP and Generation Members’ Fund II LP hold 2,708,686 and 91,314 shares, respectively, of our Series A Preferred Stock (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering). Upon the completion of this offering, all of the outstanding shares of our Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into shares of our common stock.

 

  The general partner of the Generation Funds is Generation Partners II LLC. The address of each of the Generation Funds is One Greenwich Office Park, Greenwich, CT 06831.

 

(12) Includes all shares of our common stock that may be deemed to be beneficially owned (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) by the directors and executive officers, including options to purchase 1,702,894 shares (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering) exercisable within 60 days of July 31, 2006.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

General

The following summary describes the material terms of our capital stock. However, you should refer to the actual terms of the capital stock contained in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and applicable law. We intend to amend and restate our certificate of incorporation and bylaws prior to completion of this offering. A copy of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will be filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part. The descriptions of the common stock and preferred stock reflect changes to our capital structure that will occur upon the completion of this offering.

Upon the completion of this offering, our authorized capital stock will consist of              shares of common stock, par value $0.001 per share, and              shares of preferred stock, par value $0.001 per share, all of which preferred stock will remain undesignated.

As of July 31, 2006, we had issued and outstanding (without giving effect to the              for              stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering):

 

  Ÿ   6,638,810 shares of common stock, held by 39 stockholders of record; and

 

  Ÿ   3,626,667 shares of Series A Preferred Stock, held by seven stockholders of record.

Upon completion of this offering, all of the outstanding shares of our Series A Preferred Stock will automatically convert into a total of 3,626,667 shares of our common stock (without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect immediately prior to the completion of this offering).

Common Stock

The holders of common stock are entitled to one vote per share in all matters to be voted on by our stockholders and are not entitled to cumulative voting rights. Accordingly, holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of common stock entitled to vote in any election of directors may elect all of the directors standing for election. Subject to the rights of the holders of any preferred stock that may from time to time be outstanding, holders of common stock are entitled to receive ratably such dividends, if any, as may be declared from time to time by our Board of Directors out of funds legally available therefor. In the event of our liquidation, dissolution or winding up, holders of common stock are entitled to share ratably in all assets remaining after payment of our liabilities and the liquidation preference, if any, of any outstanding preferred stock. Holders of shares of common stock have no preemptive, subscription or conversion rights. There are no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock. All of the outstanding shares of common stock are fully paid and non-assessable. The rights, preferences and privileges of holders of common stock are subject to, and may be adversely affected by, the rights of the holders of shares of any series of preferred stock which we may designate and issue in the future.

Preferred Stock

Under our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that will be in effect upon completion of this offering, our Board of Directors has the authority, without action by our stockholders, to designate and issue any authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock in one or more series and to designate the rights, preferences and privileges of each series, any or all of which may be greater than the rights of our common stock. It is not possible to state the actual effect of the issuance of any shares of preferred stock upon the rights of holders of our common stock until our Board of Directors determines the specific rights of the holders of preferred stock. However, the effects might include,

 

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among other things, restricting dividends on the common stock, diluting the voting power of the common stock, impairing the liquidation rights of the common stock and delaying or preventing a change in control without further action by our stockholders. We have no current plans to issue any shares of preferred stock.

Options

As of March 31, 2006, and without giving effect to the          for          stock split that we intend to effect prior to the completion of this offering, we will have outstanding under our stock option plans options to purchase an aggregate of 3,474,090 shares of common stock, with exercise prices ranging from $1.00 to $12.00, and a weighted average exercise price of $2.05 per share.

Registration Rights

Pursuant to an investor rights agreement, certain of our stockholders have the right to require us to register shares of our common stock held by them, or that can be acquired by them, among other things, upon conversion of shares of our Series A Preferred Stock. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Investor Rights Agreement.”

Stockholders’ Agreement

Some of our stockholders are party to a stockholders’ agreement. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Stockholders’ Agreement.”

Anti-Takeover Provisions of Delaware Law

We are subject to Section 203 of the DGCL. In general, Section 203 of the DGCL prohibits a publicly held Delaware corporation from engaging in a business combination with an interested stockholder for a period of three years following the date the person became an interested stockholder, unless the business combination or the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder is approved in a prescribed manner. Generally, a business combination includes a merger, asset or stock sale, or other transaction resulting in a financial benefit to the interested stockholder. Generally, an interested stockholder is a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns or, in the case of affiliates or associates of the corporation, within three years prior to the determination of interested stockholder status, owned 15% or more of a corporation’s voting stock. The existence of this provision could have anti-takeover effects with respect to transactions not approved in advance by our Board of Directors, such as discouraging takeover attempts that might result in a premium over the market price of our common stock.

Charter and Bylaws Anti-Takeover Provisions

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that will be in effect upon the completion of this offering provides that our Board of Directors will be divided into three classes of directors, with the number of directors in each class to be as nearly equal as possible. Our classified board staggers terms of the three classes and will be implemented through one-, two- and three-year terms for the initial three classes, followed in each case by full three-year terms. With a classified board, only one-third of the members of our Board of Directors will be elected each year. This classification of directors will have the effect of making it more difficult for stockholders to change the composition of our Board of Directors. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will provide that the number of directors will be fixed from time to time exclusively pursuant to a resolution adopted by our Board of Directors, but must consist of not less than three directors. This provision will prevent stockholders from circumventing the provisions of our classified

 

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board. In addition, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provides that our directors may be removed only for cause by the affirmative vote of at least a majority in voting power of the outstanding shares of our capital stock entitled to vote generally in the election of directors.

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that will be in effect upon the completion of this offering provides that the affirmative vote of the holders of at least 75% of the voting power of our issued and outstanding capital stock, voting together as a single class, is required for the following:

 

  Ÿ   alteration, amendment or repeal of the staggered Board of Directors provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation; and

 

  Ÿ   alteration, amendment or repeal of certain provisions of our amended and restated bylaws, including the provisions relating to our stockholders’ ability to call special meetings, notice provisions for stockholder business to be conducted at an annual meeting, requests for stockholder lists and corporate records, nomination and removal of directors and filling of vacancies on our Board of Directors.

Our amended and restated bylaws that will be in effect upon the completion of this offering establish an advance notice procedure for stockholders to bring matters before special stockholder meetings, including proposed nominations of persons for election to our Board of Directors. These procedures specify the information stockholders must include in their notice and the time frame in which they must give us notice. At a special stockholder meeting, stockholders may only consider nominations or proposals specified in the notice of meeting. A special stockholder meeting for any purpose may only be called by our Board of Directors, our Chairman or our Chief Executive Officer, and will be called by our Chief Executive Officer at the request of the holders of a majority of our outstanding shares of capital stock.

Our amended and restated bylaws that will be in effect upon the completion of this offering do not give the Board of Directors the power to approve or disapprove stockholder nominations of candidates or proposals regarding other business to be conducted at a meeting. However, our amended and restated bylaws may have the effect of precluding the conduct of that item of business at a meeting if the proper procedures are not followed. These provisions may discourage or deter a potential third party from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect its own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of our Company.

The foregoing provisions of our amended and restated certificate of incorporation, our amended and restated bylaws and the DGCL may have the effect of deterring or discouraging hostile takeovers or delaying changes in control.

Limitations on Liability and Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will limit our directors’ and officers’ liability to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL. Specifically, our directors and officers will not be liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by a director or officer, except for liability:

 

  Ÿ   for any breach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;

 

  Ÿ   for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

 

  Ÿ   under Section 174 of the DGCL; or

 

  Ÿ   for any transaction from which a director or officer derives an improper personal benefit.

 

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If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors or officers, then the liability of a director or officer of the Company shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.

The provision regarding indemnification of our directors and officers in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will generally not limit liability under state or federal securities laws.

Delaware law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that will be in effect upon the completion of this offering provide that we will, in certain situations, indemnify any person made or threatened to be made a party to a proceeding by reason of that person’s former or present official capacity with the Company against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses including reasonable attorneys’ fees. Any person is also entitled, subject to certain limitations, to payment or reimbursement of reasonable expenses in advance of the final disposition of the proceeding. In addition, the employment agreements to which we are a party provide for the indemnification of our employees who are party thereto.

The limitation of liability and indemnification provisions in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation that will be in effect upon the completion of this offering may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions may also have the effect of reducing the likelihood of derivative litigation against directors and officers, even though such an action, if successful, might otherwise benefit us and our stockholders. In addition, your investment may be adversely affected to the extent that, in a class action or direct suit, we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers pursuant to these indemnification provisions.

In addition, we have entered into or plan to enter into indemnification agreements with each of our directors, pursuant to which we have agreed to indemnify our directors to the fullest extent permitted by law. The directors are entitled to reimbursement for certain claims against them if they acted in good faith and in a manner that such director reasonably believed was in, or not opposed to, our best interests. We are also required to advance certain expenses incurred by our directors in connection with certain proceedings or claims against them arising from their serving us or otherwise providing service at our request. We are required to maintain certain director and officer liability insurance policies and indemnify the directors as described above for as long as the directors serve in such capacity and thereafter for as long as such director may be subject to claims because of such service to us.

NASDAQ Trading

We intend to apply to have our common stock approved for quotation on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “VRAD.”

Transfer Agent and Registrar

Our transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is Wells Fargo Shareowner Services.

 

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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

Prior to this offering, there has not been any public market for our common stock, and we cannot predict what effect, if any, market sales of shares of common stock or the availability of shares of common stock for sale will have on the market price of our common stock. Nevertheless, sales of substantial amounts of common stock, including shares issued upon the exercise of outstanding options, in the public market, or the perception that such sales could occur, could materially and adversely affect the market price of our common stock and could impair our future ability to raise capital through the sale of our equity or equity-related securities at a time and price that we deem appropriate.

Upon the completion of this offering, we will have outstanding an aggregate of approximately              shares of our common stock, assuming no outstanding options or warrants are exercised. Of the outstanding shares, the shares sold in this offering, including any shares sold in this offering in connection with the exercise by the underwriters of their over-allotment option, will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, except that any shares purchased in this offering by our “affiliates,” as that term is defined under Rule 144 of the Securities Act, may be sold only in compliance with the limitations described below. The remaining outstanding shares of common stock that are not sold in this offering will be deemed “restricted securities” as that term is defined under Rule 144. Restricted securities may be sold in the public market only if registered or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under the Securities Act, such as under Rule 144 or 144(k) under the Securities Act, which are summarized below.

Taking into account the lock-up agreements described below, and assuming that the underwriters do not release any parties from these agreements, that there is no extension of the lock-up period, that no stockholders that hold the registration rights described below exercise those rights, and that the underwriters do not exercise their over-allotment option (after giving effect to the conversion of all outstanding shares of preferred stock upon the completion of this offering):

 

  Ÿ   an aggregate of              shares of our common stock will be available for sale 180 days after the date of this prospectus; and

 

  Ÿ                shares will be available for sale on the first anniversary of the date of this prospectus.

Rule 144

In general, under Rule 144 as currently in effect, a person (or persons whose shares are required to be aggregated), including an affiliate, who has beneficially owned shares of our common stock for at least one year is entitled to sell in any three-month period a number of shares that does not exceed the greater of:

 

  Ÿ   1% of the then-outstanding shares of common stock; and

 

  Ÿ   the average weekly reported volume of trading in the common stock on the NASDAQ Global Market during the four calendar weeks preceding the date on which notice of sale on Form 144 is filed, subject to restrictions.

Sales under Rule 144 are also subject to manner-of-sale provisions and notice requirements and to the availability of current public information about us.

Rule 144(k)

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two years, would be entitled to sell those shares under Rule 144(k) without regard to the manner of sale, public information, volume limitation or notice requirements of Rule 144. To the extent that our affiliates sell their shares, other than pursuant to Rule 144 or a registration statement, the purchaser’s holding period for the purpose of effecting a sale under Rule 144 commences on the date of transfer from the affiliate.

Stock Option and Incentive Plans

We intend to file one or more registration statements on Form S-8 under the Securities Act following this offering to register the common stock that is issuable upon exercise of stock options outstanding or issuable under our stock option and incentive plans. These registration statements are expected to become effective upon filing. Shares covered by these registration statements will then be eligible for sale in the public markets, subject to any applicable lock-up agreements and to Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates.

In general, under Rule 701 of the Securities Act as currently in effect, each of our employees, consultants or advisors who purchases shares from us in connection with a compensatory stock plan or other written agreement is eligible to resell such shares 90 days after the effective date of this offering in reliance on Rule 144, but without compliance with certain restrictions, including the holding period contained in Rule 144.

Registration Rights

Pursuant to an investor rights agreement, certain of our stockholders have the right to require us to register shares of our common stock held by them, or that can be acquired by them, among other things, upon conversion of shares of our Series A Preferred Stock. See “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Investor Rights Agreement.”

Lock-up Agreements

In connection with this offering, the Company, its directors, executive officers and certain of its other existing stockholders have agreed with the underwriters, subject to certain exceptions, not to dispose of or hedge any of their common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock during the period from the date of this prospectus continuing through the date 180 days after the date of this prospectus, except with the prior written consent of the representative. This agreement does not apply to any existing employee benefit plans.

The 180-day restricted period described in the preceding paragraph will be automatically extended if:

 

  Ÿ   during the last 17 days of the 180-day restricted period the Company issues an earnings release or announces material news or a material event; or

 

  Ÿ   prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the 180-day period,

in which case the restrictions described in this paragraph will continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the announcement of the material news or material event.

 

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MATERIAL UNITED STATES TAX CONSEQUENCES TO NON-UNITED STATES HOLDERS

The following is a general discussion of the material U.S. federal income tax consequences of the ownership and disposition of our common stock to a non-U.S. holder, but is not a complete analysis of all of the potential tax consequences relating thereto. For the purposes of this discussion, a non-U.S. holder is any beneficial owner of our common stock that for U.S. federal income tax purposes is (i) not a “U.S. person” and (ii) does not own, and has not owned, actually or constructively, more than 5% of our common stock. For purposes of this discussion, the term U.S. person means:

 

  Ÿ   an individual citizen or resident of the United States;

 

  Ÿ   a corporation or a partnership (or other entity taxable as a corporation or a partnership) created or organized in the United States or under the laws of the United States or any political subdivision thereof;

 

  Ÿ   an estate whose income is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of its source; or

 

  Ÿ   a trust (x) if a court within the U.S. is able to exercise primary supervision over the administration of the trust and one or more U.S. persons have the authority to control all substantial decisions of the trust or (y) which has made a valid election under applicable U.S. Treasury Regulations to be treated as a U.S. person.

A non-U.S. holder also does not include an individual who is present in the United States for 183 days or more in the taxable year of disposition. If a partnership holds our common stock, the tax treatment of a partner will generally depend on the status of the partner and upon the activities of the partnership. Accordingly, partnerships that hold our common stock and partners in such partnerships should consult their tax advisors.

This discussion does not address all aspects of U.S. federal income taxation that may be relevant in light of a non-U.S. holder’s special tax status or special circumstances. U.S. expatriates, insurance companies, tax-exempt organizations, dealers in securities, banks or other financial institutions, “controlled foreign corporations,” “passive foreign investment companies,” corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax and investors that hold our common stock as part of a hedge, straddle or conversion transaction are among those categories of potential investors that may be subject to special rules not covered in this discussion.

This discussion does not address any tax consequences arising under the laws of any state, local or non-U.S. taxing jurisdiction. Furthermore, the following discussion is based on current provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and Treasury Regulations and administrative and judicial interpretations thereof, all as in effect on the date hereof, and all of which are subject to change, possibly with retroactive effect. Accordingly, each non-U.S. holder should consult its tax advisors regarding the U.S. federal, state, local and non-U.S. income and other tax consequences of acquiring, holding and disposing of shares of our common stock.

Dividends

Payments on our common stock will constitute dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes to the extent paid from our current or accumulated earnings and profits, as determined under U.S. federal income tax principles. Amounts not treated as dividends for U.S. federal income tax purposes will constitute a return of capital and will first be applied against and reduce a holder’s adjusted basis in the common stock, but not below zero, and then the excess, if any, will be treated as gain from the sale of the common stock.

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lower rate as may be specified by an applicable tax treaty. In order to receive a reduced treaty rate, a non-U.S. holder must provide a valid Internal Revenue Service, or IRS, Form W-8BEN or other successor form properly certifying qualification for the reduced rate under a treaty.

Dividends received by a non-U.S. holder that are effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business conducted by the non-U.S. holder are exempt from such withholding tax. In order to obtain this exemption, a non-U.S. holder must provide a valid IRS Form W-8ECI or other successor form properly certifying such exemption. Such effectively connected dividends, although not subject to withholding tax, are generally taxed at the same graduated rates applicable to U.S. persons, net of allowable deductions and credits.

In addition to the graduated tax described above, dividends received by a corporate non-U.S. holder that are effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of such holder may also be subject to a branch profits tax at a rate of 30% or such lower rate as may be determined under an applicable tax treaty.

A non-U.S. holder may obtain a refund of any excess amounts currently withheld if an appropriate claim for refund is timely filed with the IRS. If a non-U.S. holder holds our common stock through a foreign partnership or a foreign intermediary, the foreign partnership or foreign intermediary will also be required to comply with additional certification requirements.

Gain on Disposition of Common Stock

A non-U.S. holder generally will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain realized upon the sale or other disposition of our common stock unless:

 

  Ÿ   the gain is effectively connected with a U.S. trade or business of the non-U.S. holder and, if a tax treaty applies, attributable to a U.S. permanent establishment maintained by such non-U.S. holder; or

 

  Ÿ   (subject to the exception below) our common stock constitutes a U.S. real property interest by reason of our status as a “U.S. real property holding corporation,” or USRPHC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes at any time within the shorter of the five-year period preceding the disposition or the holder’s holding period for our common stock.

We believe that we are not currently and will not become a USRPHC. However, because the determination of whether we are a USRPHC depends on the fair market value of our U.S. real property interests relative to the fair market value of our other business assets, there can be no assurance that we will not become a USRPHC in the future. Even if we become a USRPHC, as long as our common stock is regularly traded on an established securities market, however, such common stock will be treated as U.S. real property interests only if the non-U.S. holder actually or constructively held more than 5% of such regularly traded common stock.

Unless an applicable treaty provides otherwise, gain described in the first bullet point above will be subject to the U.S. federal income tax imposed on net income on the same basis that applies to U.S. persons generally and, for corporate holders under certain circumstances, the branch profits tax, but will generally not be subject to withholding, provided any certification requirements are met. Non-U.S. holders should consult any applicable income tax treaties that may provide for different rules.

Backup Withholding and Information Reporting

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with certification procedures to establish that it is not a U.S. person in order to avoid information reporting and backup withholding tax requirements. The certification procedures required to claim a reduced rate of withholding under a treaty will satisfy the certification requirements necessary to avoid the backup withholding tax as well. The amount of any backup withholding from a payment to a non-U.S. holder will be allowed as a credit against the holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability and may entitle the holder to a refund, provided that the required information is furnished to the IRS.

Federal Estate Tax

Individual non-U.S. holders and entities the property of which is potentially includible in such an individual’s gross estate for U.S. federal estate tax purposes (for example, a trust find by such an individual and with respect to which the individual has retained certain interests or powers), should note that, absent an applicable treaty benefit, the common stock will be treated as U.S. situs property subject to U.S. federal estate tax.

 

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UNDERWRITING

The Company and the underwriters named below have entered into an underwriting agreement with respect to the shares being offered. Subject to certain conditions, each underwriter has severally agreed to purchase the number of shares indicated in the following table. Goldman, Sachs & Co. is the representative of the underwriters.

 

Underwriters    Number of Shares

Goldman, Sachs & Co.  

  

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith

Incorporated

  

William Blair & Company, L.L.C. 

  
    

Total

  
    

The underwriters are committed to take and pay for all of the shares being offered, if any are taken, other than the shares covered by the option described below unless and until this option is exercised.

If the underwriters sell more shares than the total number set forth in the table above, the underwriters have an option to buy up to an additional              shares from the Company to cover such sales. They may exercise that option for 30 days. If any shares are purchased pursuant to this option, the underwriters will severally purchase shares in approximately the same proportion as set forth in the table above.

The following table shows the per share and total underwriting discounts and commissions to be paid to the underwriters by the Company. Such amounts are shown assuming both no exercise and full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase          additional shares.

 

     No Exercise    Full Exercise

Per Share

   $                 $             

Total

   $      $  

Shares sold by the underwriters to the public will initially be offered at the initial public offering price set forth on the cover of this prospectus. Any shares sold by the underwriters to securities dealers may be sold at a discount of up to $             per share from the initial public offering price. If all of the shares are not sold at the initial public offering price, the representative may change the offering price and the other selling terms.

In connection with this offering, the Company, its directors, executive officers and certain of its other existing stockholders have agreed with the underwriters, subject to certain exceptions, not to dispose of or hedge any of their common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock during the period from the date of this prospectus continuing through the date 180 days after the date of this prospectus, except with the prior written consent of the representative. This agreement does not apply to any existing employee benefit plans. See “Shares Eligible for Future Sale” for a discussion of certain transfer restrictions.

The 180-day restricted period described in the preceding paragraph will be automatically extended if: (1) during the last 17 days of the 180-day restricted period the Company issues an earnings release or announces material news or a material event; or (2) prior to the expiration of the 180-day restricted period, the Company announces that it will release earnings results during the 15-day period following the last day of the 180-day period, in which case the restrictions described in the preceding paragraph will continue to apply until the expiration of the 18-day period beginning on the issuance of the earnings release or the announcement of the material news or material event.

 

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Prior to the offering, there has been no public market for the shares. The initial public offering price will be negotiated between the Company and the representative. Among the factors to be considered in determining the initial public offering price of the shares, in addition to prevailing market conditions, were the Company’s historical performance, estimates of the business potential and earnings prospects of the Company, an assessment of the Company’s management and the consideration of the above factors in relation to market valuation of companies in related businesses.

We intend to apply to have our common stock approved for quotation on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “VRAD.”

In connection with the offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell shares of common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, stabilizing transactions and purchases to cover positions created by short sales. Shorts sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in the offering. “Covered” short sales are sales made in an amount not greater than the underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares from the Company in the offering. The underwriters may close out any covered short position by either exercising their option to purchase additional shares or purchasing shares in the open market. In determining the source of shares to close out the covered short position, the underwriters will consider, among other things, the price of shares available for purchase in the open market as compared to the price at which they may purchase additional shares pursuant to the option granted to them. “Naked” short sales are any sales in excess of such option. The underwriters must close out any naked short position by purchasing shares in the open market. A naked short position is more likely to be created if the underwriters are concerned that there may be downward pressure on the price of the common stock in the open market after pricing that could adversely affect investors who purchase in the offering. Stabilizing transactions consist of various bids for or purchases of common stock made by the underwriters in the open market prior to the completion of the offering.

The underwriters may also impose a penalty bid. This occurs when a particular underwriter repays to the underwriters a portion of the underwriting discount received by it because the representative has repurchased shares sold by or for the account of such underwriter in stabilizing or short-covering transactions.

Purchases to cover a short position and stabilizing transactions, as well as other purchases by the underwriters for their own accounts, may have the effect of preventing or retarding a decline in the market price of the Company’s stock and, together with the imposition of the penalty bid, may stabilize, maintain or otherwise affect the market price of the common stock. As a result, the price of the common stock may be higher than the price that otherwise might exist in the open market. If these activities are commenced, they may be discontinued at any time. These transactions may be effected on the NASDAQ, in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

Each of the underwriters has represented and agreed that:

(a) it has not made or will not make an offer of shares to the public in the United Kingdom within the meaning of section 102B of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (as amended), or FMSA, except to legal entities that are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities or otherwise in circumstances which do not require the publication by the Company of a prospectus pursuant to the Prospectus Rules of the Financial Services Authority, or FSA;

(b) it has only communicated or caused to be communicated and will only communicate or cause to be communicated an invitation or inducement to engage in investment activity (within the meaning of section 21 of FSMA) to persons who have professional experience in matters relating

 

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to investments falling within Article 19(5) of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order 2005 or in circumstances in which section 21 of FSMA does not apply to the Company; and

(c) it has complied with, and will comply with all applicable provisions of FSMA with respect to anything done by it in relation to the shares in, from or otherwise involving the United Kingdom.

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area that has implemented the Prospectus Directive, referenced to as a Relevant Member State, each underwriter has represented and agreed that with effect from and including the date on which the Prospectus Directive is implemented in that Relevant Member State, or the Relevant Implementation Date, it has not made and will not make an offer of shares to the public in that Relevant Member State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the shares that has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant Member State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant Member State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant Member State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Directive, except that it may, with effect from and including the Relevant Implementation Date, make an offer of Shares to the public in that Relevant Member State at any time:

(a) to legal entities that are authorized or regulated to operate in the financial markets or, if not so authorized or regulated, whose corporate purpose is solely to invest in securities;

(b) to any legal entity that has two or more of (1) an average of at least 250 employees during the last financial year; (2) a total balance sheet of more than 43,000,000 and (3) an annual net turnover of more than 50,000,000, as shown in its last annual or consolidated accounts; or

(c) in any other circumstances that do not require the publication by the Issuer of a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Directive.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of shares to the public” in relation to any shares in any Relevant Member State means the communication in any form and by any means of sufficient information on the terms of the offer and the shares to be offered so as to enable an investor to decide to purchase or subscribe the shares, as the same may be varied in that Relevant Member State by any measure implementing the Prospectus Directive in that Relevant Member State and the expression Prospectus Directive means Directive 2003/71/EC and includes any relevant implementing measure in each Relevant Member State.

The shares may not be offered or sold by means of any document other than (i) in circumstances which do not constitute an offer to the public within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong), or (ii) to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a “prospectus” within the meaning of the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32, Laws of Hong Kong), and no advertisement, invitation or document relating to the shares may be issued or may be in the possession of any person for the purpose of issue (in each case whether in Hong Kong or elsewhere), which is directed at, or the contents of which are likely to be accessed or read by, the public in Hong Kong (except if permitted to do so under the laws of Hong Kong) other than with respect to shares which are or are intended to be disposed of only to persons outside Hong Kong or only to “professional investors” within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571, Laws of Hong Kong) and any rules made thereunder.

This prospectus has not been registered as a prospectus with the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Accordingly, this prospectus and any other document or material in connection with the offer or sale, or invitation for subscription or purchase, of the shares may not be circulated or distributed, nor may the shares be offered or sold, or be made the subject of an invitation for subscription or purchase, whether directly or indirectly, to persons in Singapore other than (i) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore, or the SFA, (ii) to a relevant person, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A), and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA or (iii) otherwise pursuant to, and in accordance with the conditions of, any other applicable provision of the SFA.

 

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Where the shares are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 of the SFA by a relevant person which is: (a) a corporation (which is not an accredited investor) the sole business of which is to hold investments and the entire share capital of which is owned by one or more individuals, each of whom is an accredited investor; or (b) a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary is an accredited investor, shares, debentures and units of shares and debentures of that corporation or the beneficiaries’ rights and interest in that trust shall not be transferable for 6 months after that corporation or that trust has acquired the shares under Section 275 except: (1) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the SFA or to a relevant person, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A) of the SFA, and in accordance with the conditions, specified in Section 275 of the SFA; (2) where no consideration is given for the transfer; or (3) by operation of law.

The securities have not been and will not be registered under the Securities and Exchange Law of Japan, or the Securities and Exchange Law, and each underwriter has agreed that it will not offer or sell any securities, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to, or for the benefit of, any resident of Japan (which term as used herein means any person resident in Japan, including any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan), or to others for re-offering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to a resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of, and otherwise in compliance with, the Securities and Exchange Law and any other applicable laws, regulations and ministerial guidelines of Japan.

At the Company’s request, the underwriters have reserved up to         % of the shares for sale at the initial public offering price to certain persons associated with the Company through a directed share program. The number of shares available for sale to the general public will be reduced by the number of directed shares purchased by participants in the program. Any directed shares not purchased will be offered by the underwriters to the general public on the same basis as all other shares offered. The Company has agreed to indemnify the underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933, in connection with the sales of the directed shares.

The underwriters do not expect sales to discretionary accounts to exceed five percent of the total number of shares offered.

The Company estimates that its share of the total expenses of the offering, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $            .

The Company has agreed to indemnify the several underwriters against certain liabilities, including liabilities under the Securities Act of 1933.

Certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates have, from time to time, performed, and may in the future perform, various financial advisory and investment banking services for the Company, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses. William Blair & Company, L.L.C., one of the underwriters in this offering, acted as our agent in connection with our sale of Series A Preferred Stock in May 2005. As compensation for its services in that transaction, William Blair & Company, L.L.C. received a cash payment of $855,450, including reimbursement of expenses, and a warrant to purchase 72,533 shares of our common stock (without giving effect to the              for              stock split that we expect to effect immediately prior to completion of this offering), subject to adjustment in certain instances. The warrant is exercisable at the price of one cent ($0.01) per share at any time prior to May 2, 2010 and is subject to the rights, privileges and obligations of the investor rights agreement described under “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions,” including, in respect of the common stock issuable upon exercise of the warrant, the registration rights granted therein. Kelly Martin, a principal of William Blair & Company, L.L.C. and Richard Conklin, an employee of William Blair & Company, L.L.C. each individually purchased 13,333 shares of Series A Preferred Stock at the price of $3.75 per share.

 

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VALIDITY OF THE COMMON STOCK

The validity of the shares of our common stock offered by this prospectus will be passed upon for us by Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, New York, New York. Certain legal matters will be passed upon for the underwriters by Davis Polk & Wardwell, New York, New York.

EXPERTS

The financial statements as of December 31, 2005 and for the year ended December 31, 2005 included in this prospectus have been audited by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, an independent registered public accounting firm, given on the authority of said firm as experts in auditing and accounting.

The financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 included in this prospectus have been audited by Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd., an independent registered public accounting firm, as set forth in their report thereon appearing elsewhere herein, and are included in reliance upon such report given on the authority of such firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

CHANGES IN CERTIFYING ACCOUNTANTS

On September 20, 2005, we, with approval of our audit committee and our Board of Directors, dismissed our independent auditors. The reports of Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd., our former independent auditors, on the financial statements of and for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003 contained no adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion and were not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principle. During the two years ending December 31, 2004, and through September 20, 2005, there have been no disagreements with Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd. on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure, or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreements if not resolved to the satisfaction of Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd. would have caused them to make reference thereto in their reports on the financial statements for such years. During the two years ending December 31, 2004, and through September 20, 2005, there were no reportable events (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K). We have requested that Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd. furnish us with a letter addressed to the SEC stating whether it agrees with the above statements. A copy of such letter is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part.

We engaged PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP as our new independent registered public accounting firm as of December 1, 2005. During the two years ending December 31, 2004, and through December 1, 2005, we have not consulted with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP regarding either (i) the application of accounting principles to a specified transaction, either completed or proposed; or the type of audit opinion that might be rendered on our financial statements, and neither a written report was provided to us or oral advice was provided that PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP concluded was an important factor considered by us in reaching a decision as to the accounting, auditing or financial reporting issue; or (ii) any matter that was either the subject of a disagreement, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions to Item 304 of Regulation S-K, or a reportable event, as that term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K.

 

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WHERE YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION

We have filed with the SEC a registration statement on Form S-1 under the Securities Act relating to the shares of our common stock being offered by this prospectus. This prospectus, which constitutes part of that registration statement, does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement or the exhibits and schedules which are part of the registration statement. For further information about us and the common stock offered, see the registration statement and the exhibits and schedules thereto. Statements contained in this prospectus regarding the contents of any contract or any other document to which reference is made are not necessarily complete, and, in each instance where a copy of a contract or other document has been filed as an exhibit to the registration statement, reference is made to the copy so filed, each of those statements being qualified in all respects by the reference.

A copy of the registration statement, the exhibits and schedules thereto and any other document we file may be inspected without charge at the public reference facilities maintained by the SEC at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549 and copies of all or any part of the registration statement may be obtained from this office upon the payment of the fees prescribed by the SEC. The public may obtain information on the operation of the public reference facilities in Washington, D.C. by calling the SEC at 1-800-732-0330. Our filings with the SEC are available to the public from the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov.

Prior to this offering we were not required to file reports with the SEC. Upon completion of this offering, we will become subject to the information and periodic reporting requirements of the Exchange Act and, accordingly, will file annual reports containing our financial statements audited by an independent public accounting firm, quarterly reports containing our unaudited financial data, current reports, proxy statements and other information with the SEC. You will be able to inspect and copy such periodic reports, proxy statements and other information at the SEC’s public reference room and the website of the SEC referred to above. In addition, we intend to make these filings available on our website at www.virtualrad.com once the offering is completed. Information presented on, or accessible through, this website is not a part of, and is not incorporated into, this prospectus. We will also provide copies of our filings free of charge to our stockholders upon request.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

INDEX TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

     Page

Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm and Independent Auditor

   F-2

Consolidated Balance Sheets

   F-4

Consolidated Statements of Operations

   F-5

Consolidated Statements of Changes in Stockholders’ (Deficiency) Equity

   F-6

Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows

   F-7

Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements

   F-9

 

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and Stockholders of

Virtual Radiologic Corporation

In our opinion, the accompanying consolidated balance sheet and the related statements of operations, of changes in stockholders’ (deficiency) equity and of cash flow present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of Virtual Radiologic Corporation (the “Company”) (previously known as Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc.) at December 31, 2005, and its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America. These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these financial statements based on our audit. We conducted our audit of these statements in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States). Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

Minneapolis, Minnesota

May 12, 2006, except for Note 14 for which

    the date is July 10, 2006

 

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INDEPENDENT AUDITOR’S REPORT

 

Board of Directors

Virtual Radiologic Corporation (previously known as

Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc.) and

Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC (previously known as

Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC)

Minnetonka, Minnesota

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Virtual Radiologic Corporation (previously known as Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc.) and Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC (previously known as Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC) as of December 31, 2004, and the related consolidated and combined statements of operations, stockholders’ (deficiency) equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003. These consolidated and combined financial statements are the responsibility of the Companies’ management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated and combined financial statements based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement. An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. An audit also includes assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated and combined financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated balance sheet of Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC as of December 31, 2004, and the related consolidated and combined results of operations, stockholders’ (deficiency) equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2003, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

As discussed in Note 3 to the financial statements, the financial statements for 2004 have been restated.

 

 

/s/    Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd

March 8, 2005, (except for Note 3

for which the date is May 12, 2006)

 

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CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS

 

    December 31,    

March 31,

2006

   

Proforma
March 31,

2006

 
    2004     2005      
         
   
 
(Restated
see Note 3)
 
 
      (Unaudited)      
 
(Unaudited
see Note 2)
 
 

Assets

       

Current assets

       

Cash and cash equivalents

  $ 484,489     $ 3,087,962     $ 2,697,560     $ 2,697,560  

Short-term investment

          5,092,254       5,131,666       5,131,666  

Restricted cash

          300,000       300,000       300,000  

Accounts receivable, net

    2,208,516       4,578,825       5,387,806       5,387,806  

Prepaid expenses

    262,160       889,588       782,958       782,958  
                               

Total current assets

    2,955,165       13,948,629       14,299,990       14,299,990  

Property, plant and equipment, net

    1,121,515       3,349,544       3,716,598       3,716,598  

Intangible assets, net

    52,067       196,263       196,662       196,662  

Other assets

    222,587       60,408       60,408       60,408  
                               

Total assets

  $ 4,351,334     $ 17,554,844     $ 18,273,658     $ 18,273,658  
                               

Liabilities and Stockholders’ (Deficiency) Equity

       

Current liabilities

       

Line of credit

  $ 474,898     $     $     $  

Related party notes payable

    1,000,000       200,000       125,000       125,000  

Current portion of capital lease obligations

    348,343       292,211       215,068       215,068  

Accounts payable

    536,470       144,129       148,734       148,734  

Accrued professional services compensation expense

    702,507       1,759,206       2,245,538       2,245,538  

Accrued sales, general, and administrative compensation expense

    324,098       615,434       591,269       591,269  

Other accrued expenses

    496,084       618,701       668,352       668,352  
                               

Total current liabilities

    3,882,400       3,629,681       3,993,961       3,993,961  

Capital lease obligations, less current portion

    104,290       20,438       3,006       3,006  

Deferred rent

    91,603       199,985       208,445       208,445  

Non-controlling interest

    1,362,446                    

Commitments and contingencies (Note 10)

       

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock, $.001 par value; 3,630,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006 (unaudited); 3,626,667 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006 (unaudited) liquidation value $15,074,358 and $15,628,420 at December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006 (unaudited), respectively

          40,090,080       49,857,600        

Stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

       

Common stock, $.001 par value; 21,500,000 shares authorized; 5,659,500, 6,603,810 and 6,603,810 shares issued and outstanding at December 31, 2004 and 2005, and March 31, 2006 (unaudited), respectively

    56,595       6,604       6,604       10,231  

Additional paid-in capital

    253,627       (22,951,735 )     (30,935,694 )     18,918,279  

Common stock subscription receivable

          (200,000 )     (100,000 )     (100,000 )

Accumulated deficit

    (1,399,627 )     (3,240,209 )     (4,760,264 )     (4,760,264 )
                               

Total stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

    (1,089,405 )     (26,385,340 )     (35,789,354 )     14,068,246  
                               

Total liabilities and stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

  $ 4,351,334     $ 17,554,844     $ 18,273,658     $ 18,273,658  
                               

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

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS

 

    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
    2003     2004     2005     2005     2006  
         

(Restated

see Note 3)

          (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  

Revenue

  $ 5,872,507     $ 12,899,297     $ 26,991,148     $ 4,969,463     $ 9,674,225  
                                       

Operating costs and expenses

         

Professional services

    2,786,437       7,012,777       16,792,126       3,104,384       6,684,444  

Sales, general and administrative

    2,137,835       6,898,930       12,813,711       2,365,401       4,291,867  

Depreciation and amortization

    71,973       230,124       586,172       93,695       268,399  
                                       

Total operating costs and expenses

    4,996,245       14,141,831       30,192,009       5,563,480       11,244,710  
                                       

Operating income (loss)

    876,262       (1,242,534 )     (3,200,861 )     (594,017 )     (1,570,485 )

Other (expense) income

         

Interest expense

    (13,769 )     (94,933 )     (130,783 )     (59,933 )     (9,250 )

Interest income

                186,800             59,680  
                                       

Total other (expense) income

    (13,769 )     (94,933 )     56,017       (59,933 )     50,430  
                                       

Income (loss) before non-controlling interest and income tax expense

    862,493       (1,337,467 )     (3,144,844 )     (653,950 )     (1,520,055 )

Non-controlling interest

          62,160       (1,362,446 )     (403,892 )      
                                       

Income (loss) before income tax expense

    862,493       (1,399,627 )     (1,782,398 )     (250,058 )     (1,520,055 )

Income tax expense

                58,184              
                                       

Net income (loss)

    862,493       (1,399,627 )     (1,840,582 )     (250,058 )     (1,520,055 )

Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock accretion

                (28,181,078 )           (9,767,520 )
                                       

Net income (loss) available to common stockholders

  $ 862,493     $ (1,399,627 )   $ (30,021,660 )   $ (250,058 )   $ (11,287,575 )
                                       

Earnings (loss) per common share, basic and diluted

  $ 4.23     $ (.41 )   $ (4.80 )   $ (.04 )   $ (1.71 )

Weighted average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

    204,000       3,414,307       6,254,207       5,659,500       6,603,810  

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

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN STOCKHOLDERS’ (DEFICIENCY) EQUITY

 

    Common Stock     Additional
Paid-In Capital
   

Common

Stock
Subscription
Receivable

    Accumulated
Deficit
   

Total

Stockholders’
(Deficiency)
Equity

 
    Number of
Shares
    Amount          
               

(Restated

see Note 3)

         

(Restated

see Note 3)

   

(Restated

see Note 3)

 

Balances at December 31, 2003

      $     $     $     $     $  

Initial sale of common stock to founders

  1,095,000       1,000                         1,000  

Professional services expense converted to common stock

  31,900       319       129,681                   130,000  

Issuance of common stock for sales, general, and administrative compensation expense

  5,000       50       24,950                   25,000  

Five for one common stock split on July 1, 2004

  4,527,600       55,226       (55,226 )                  

Equity based compensation for independent contractor physicians (restated)

              154,222                   154,222  

Net loss (restated)

                          (1,399,627 )     (1,399,627 )
                                             

Balances at December 31, 2004 (restated)

  5,659,500       56,595       253,627             (1,399,627 )     (1,089,405 )

Conversion of related party notes payable to common stock

  495,970       496       991,448                   991,944  

Sale of common stock to independent contractor physicians

  448,340       448       1,344,575                   1,345,023  

Warrants issued in conjunction with sale of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

              217,600                   217,600  

Accretion of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

              (28,181,078 )                 (28,181,078 )

Equity based compensation for independent contractor physicians

              2,371,158                   2,371,158  

Common stock to be re-purchased

  (85,000 )     (85 )     (254,915 )                 (255,000 )

Common stock to be issued

  85,000       85       254,915       (200,000 )           55,000  

Change in par-value of common stock from $.01 to $.001 due to re-incorporation

        (50,935 )     50,935                    

Net loss

                          (1,840,582 )     (1,840,582 )
                                             

Balances at December 31, 2005

  6,603,810       6,604       (22,951,735 )     (200,000 )     (3,240,209 )     (26,385,340 )

Accretion of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock

              (9,767,520 )                 (9,767,520 )

Equity based compensation for independent contractor physicians

              1,774,122                   1,774,122  

Equity based compensation for employees

              9,439                   9,439  

Stock subscription receivable payment

                    100,000             100,000  

Net loss

                          (1,520,055 )     (1,520,055 )
                                             

Balances at March 31, 2006 (unaudited)

  6,603,810     $ 6,604     $ (30,935,694 )   $ (100,000 )   $ (4,760,264 )   $ (35,789,354 )
                                             

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

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS

 

    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
    2003     2004     2005     2005     2006  
          (Restated
see Note 3)
          (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  

Cash flows from operating activities

         

Net income (loss)

  $ 862,493     $ (1,399,627 )   $ (1,840,582 )   $ (250,058 )   $ (1,520,055 )

Adjustments to reconcile net income (loss) to net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

         

Non-controlling interest

          62,160       (1,362,446 )     (403,892 )      

Provision for doubtful accounts

    61,576       138,424       90,073       50,000       19,813  

Depreciation and amortization

    71,973       230,124       586,172       93,695       268,399  

Interest and discount amortization on short-term investment

                (124,019 )           (39,412 )

Equity based compensation for independent contractor physicians

          154,222       2,371,158       162,510       1,774,122  

Equity based compensation for employees

                            9,439  

Changes in operating assets and liabilities

         

Accounts receivable

    (1,365,364 )     (842,558 )     (2,460,382 )     (514,207 )     (828,794 )

Prepaid expenses

    (92,271 )     (159,752 )     (627,428 )     (18,210 )     106,630  

Other assets

          (67,426 )     162,179       (183,787 )      

Accounts payable

    83,979       448,188       (426,570 )     (93,530 )     (70,395 )

Accrued expenses and other accrued expenses

    680,303       1,548,046       1,729,924       699,671       530,656  

Deferred rent

          91,603       108,382       42,591       8,460  
                                       

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities

    302,689       203,404       (1,793,539 )     (415,217 )     258,863  
                                       

Cash flows from investing activities

         

Purchase of property, plant, and equipment

    (290,194 )     (360,068 )     (2,306,772 )     (20,284 )     (468,034 )

Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment

                649              

Payments to acquire patents

                (180,141 )           (11,656 )

Purchase of short-term investment

                (4,968,235 )            

Restricted cash

                (300,000 )            
                                       

Net cash used in investing activities

    (290,194 )     (360,068 )     (7,754,499 )     (20,284 )     (479,690 )
                                       

Cash flows from financing activities

         

Loan payments to members

    (18,189 )                        

Proceeds from issuance of related party notes payable

          483,000                    

Payments on related party notes payable

                (105,000 )           (75,000 )

Borrowings from revolving line of credit

          2,742,000       2,200,000       1,400,000        

Repayments on revolving line of credit

    (30,000 )     (2,267,102 )     (2,674,898 )     (1,565,981 )      

Payments on capital leases

    (12,698 )     (202,452 )     (399,526 )     (56,267 )     (94,575 )

Proceeds from issuance of Series A Preferred Stock

                13,382,400              

Payment of offering costs

                (1,473,398 )            

Issuance of common stock warrants

                217,600              

Payment of deferred financing costs

          (190,062 )              

Proceeds from issuance of common stock subscription and common stock

          294       974,333       799,333        

Proceeds from repayment of common stock subscription receivable

                30,000              
                                       

Net cash (used in) provided by financing activities

    (60,887 )     565,678       12,151,511       577,085       (169,575 )
                                       

Net (decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents

    (48,392 )     409,014       2,603,473       141,584       (390,402 )

Cash and cash equivalents

         

Beginning of period

    123,867       75,475       484,489       484,489       3,087,962  
                                       

End of period

  $ 75,475     $ 484,489     $ 3,087,962     $ 626,073     $ 2,697,560  
                                       

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS—(CONTINUED)

 

    Year Ended December 31,   Three Months Ended
March 31,
    2003   2004   2005   2005   2006
        (Restated
see Note 3)
      (Unaudited)   (Unaudited)

Supplemental disclosure of cash flow information

         

Cash paid for interest

  $ 13,769   $ 84,052   $ 97,689   $ 36,410   $ 10,546

Significant non-cash transactions

         

Property, plant and equipment acquired through capital leases

    203,039     435,424     259,542     161,800    

Property, plant and equipment included in accounts payable

            34,229     9,985     75,000

Property, plant and equipment included in accrued expenses

            178,362         81,162

Professional services compensation converted to common stock

        350,706            

Professional services compensation converted to notes payable

        486,132            

Professional services compensation converted to payment of common stock subscription receivable

            395,690     370,690     100,000

Sales, general and administrative compensation converted to common stock

        25,000            

Related party receivable received for payment of note payable

        30,868            

Common stock subscription receivable

            255,000     1,345,023    

Accrued interest converted to common stock

            41,944        

Related party notes converted to common stock

            950,000        

Change in par value of common stock due to re-incorporation

            50,935        

Accretion of Series A Preferred Stock

            28,181,078         9,767,520

Related party common stock to be repurchased

            255,000        

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

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

1. Business Overview

Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC (“VRC, LLC”) was formed by three physician owners on May 25, 2001. During 2004, VRC, LLC merged into a newly formed entity owned by two of the initial physician owners and two additional physician owners, Virtual Radiologic Professionals PLC, and subsequently merged into Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, (“VRP”). These four physician owners of VRP provide or have provided teleradiology services to VRC, LLC and VRP. VRP provides, and VRC, LLC provided, teleradiology services (“reads”) to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers throughout the United States.

Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation) (“VRC”) was formed on October 24, 2003, by the same four physician owners of VRP and began operations on July 1, 2004, as a Minnesota corporation. On May 2, 2005, VRC re-incorporated in Delaware under the same name. On January 1, 2006, VRC changed its name to Virtual Radiologic Corporation. Two of the physician owners of VRP are also officers and directors of VRC.

VRC entered into a management agreement with VRP on July 1, 2004, to provide non-medical services, staffing and facilities to VRP and to the licensed radiologists who contract with VRP. In exchange, VRC received a management fee in accordance with a management agreement between VRC and VRP. The management agreement’s initial term expired on June 30, 2014, with an option by both parties to renew through June 30, 2019. The above structure and related agreements were established to facilitate compliance with the corporate practice of medicine laws of the various states in which the Company (as defined below) operates.

On January 1, 2006, six new entities were formed including Virtual Radiologic Professionals of California, P.A.; Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, P.A. (subsequently merged into the Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, S.C.); Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.A. (subsequently merged into Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.C.); Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Minnesota, P. A.; Virtual Radiologic Professionals of New York, P. A.; and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Texas, P.A. (referred to collectively as “Professional Corporations”). Each of these entities is a professional corporation with one shareholder, who is also an officer and a director of VRC, and an owner of VRP. The Professional Corporations were formed as the Company’s business expanded to facilitate compliance with the corporate practice of medicine laws in the states in which they conduct business. VRP and the Professional Corporations are referred to collectively as the “Affiliated Medical Practices.” Also on January 1, 2006, the terms of the management agreement were amended as a result of VRP no longer holding customer contracts but continuing to contract with licensed radiologists. VRP incurs all independent contractor compensation expense for the licensed radiologists with whom it contracts. In addition, VRP incurs all expense related to the professional malpractice insurance it purchases on behalf of these independent contractors. As a result of assignments effective January 1, 2006, the Professional Corporations hold the customer contracts to provide teleradiology services to customers in the states in which a general business corporation cannot contract for medical services. All other customer contracts were transferred from VRP to VRC, an entity under common control. The terms of the management agreements, as amended, provide that VRC and the Professional Corporations reimburse VRP for their share of independent contractor compensation expense and professional malpractice insurance expense. In addition, the management contracts stipulate that the Affiliated Medical Practices are charged a management fee by VRC for providing non-medical services, staffing, and facilities to the Affiliated Medical Practices. On an annual basis, VRC and the Affiliated Medical Practices review and renegotiate fees payable under these management agreements.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

VRC and the Affiliated Medical Practices are collectively referred to herein as the “Company.”

In accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Interpretation No. 46R, Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities (“FIN 46R”), VRC has consolidated the balance sheets, statements of operations and statements of cash flows of certain variable interest entities. Accordingly, as of and for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2005, the financial statements of VRC have been presented on a consolidated basis to include its variable interest in VRP. As of and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the financial statements of VRC have been presented on a consolidated basis to include its variable interests in the Affiliated Medical Practices. See Note 2 for further discussion.

The Company is involved in the application of various convergent technologies that allow radiologists to remotely diagnose patients and enhance the overall productivity of the radiology profession through a distributed diagnostic network that has been developed by the Company and is integrated into its nationwide virtual private network.

2. Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

Principles of Consolidation and Basis of Presentation

The Company consolidates its financial results under the principles of FIN 46R, which require the consolidation of variable interest entities. The Affiliated Medical Practices are variable interest entities (“VIEs”) that were created as the Company’s business expanded for the purpose of facilitating compliance with corporate practice of medicine laws in the various states in which VRC operates. Although VRC holds no legal ownership in the VIEs, as a result of the management agreements that exist between the entities, VRC effectively funds all of the losses of the VIEs and receives effectively all of their residual returns up to the amount of previously recognized losses. In addition, the management of VRC was involved significantly in the design and creation of the VIEs and, with the exception of rendering medical judgments, holds significant influence over their continuing operations. For purposes of applying this standard the Company has determined that VRC is the primary beneficiary of the VIEs, as defined by FIN 46R. As a result, the Company has concluded that VRC is required to consolidate the VIEs.

The effect of the VIEs’ consolidation on the Company’s consolidated balance sheet at December 31, 2004, was an increase in the Company’s assets and liabilities of approximately $2,148,000 and $786,000, respectively. At December 31, 2005, as a result of consolidating the VIEs, the Company’s assets and liabilities each increased by approximately $1,765,000. At March 31, 2006, as a result of consolidating the VIEs, the Company’s assets and liabilities each increased by approximately $2,276,000. The liabilities of the VIEs consolidated by the Company do not represent additional claims on the Company’s general assets; rather they represent claims against the specific assets of the VIEs. Likewise, the assets of the VIEs consolidated by the Company do not represent additional assets available to satisfy claims against the Company’s general assets. For the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, the revenue of the VIEs represented 100% of the consolidated revenue of the Company. For the three months ended March 31, 2006, the revenue of the VIEs represented only approximately 35%, or $3,400,000, of the consolidated revenue of the Company due to certain client contracts now being directly held by VRC. Through consolidation, the Company recognizes all net losses of the VIEs in excess of the equity of the VIEs. The Company recognizes net earnings of these VIEs only to the extent it is recovering losses previously recognized. Earnings of the

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

VIEs in excess of the Company’s losses are eliminated from the Company’s earnings and are attributed to the equity owners of the VIEs by recording such earnings as non-controlling interest on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. During the year ended December 31, 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the VIEs experienced individual net losses that decreased the VIEs’ equity position to a net deficit. As a result, the Company no longer has a non-controlling interest obligation as of December 31, 2005 or March 31, 2006.

The statement of operations, statement of changes in members’ equity (deficiency), statement of cash flows, and the related footnote information presented as of and for the year ended December 31, 2003, reflects the operations of VRC, LLC. Consolidated financial statements and the related footnote information presented as of and for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2005, represent the consolidated operations of VRC and VRP. The consolidated financial statements and the related footnote information presented as of and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, represent the consolidated operations of the Company.

All significant intercompany balances and transactions, which are principally management fees, have been eliminated in consolidation. All dollar amounts are presented as pre-tax amounts unless otherwise noted.

Interim Financial Statements

The Company has prepared the unaudited interim consolidated financial statements and related unaudited financial information in the footnotes in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”) and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission for interim financial statements. These interim financial statements reflect all adjustments consisting of normal recurring accruals, which, in the opinion of management, are necessary to present fairly the Company’s consolidated financial position, the results of its operations and its cash flows for the interim periods. These consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and the notes thereto contained herein. The nature of the Company’s business is such that the results of any interim period may not be indicative of the results to be expected for the entire year.

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and the disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the consolidated financial statements. Estimates also affect the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates.

Cash and Cash Equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents are highly liquid investments with original maturities of three months or less at the time of acquisition.

Restricted Cash

Under the terms of its malpractice insurance policy, the Company is required to maintain, on deposit with a bank, and restricted as to use, $300,000 in the event multiple malpractice claims are filed.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Short-Term Investment

The Company classifies its investment in readily marketable debt as “held-to-maturity” at the time of purchase. Held-to-maturity securities, which are carried at amortized cost, include only those securities the Company has the positive intent and ability to hold to maturity. Premiums and interest are amortized or accreted into earnings over the life of the investment.

Property, Plant and Equipment

Property, plant and equipment are carried at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Depreciation and amortization of property and equipment are computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful life of the asset. Useful lives range from three to 15 years. Leasehold improvements are amortized over the shorter of the asset life or the lease term. Expenditures for maintenance, repairs, and minor renewals and betterments that do not improve or extend the life of the respective assets are expensed as incurred. All other expenditures for renewals and betterments are capitalized and depreciated over the estimated useful life of the asset. The assets and related depreciation accounts are adjusted for property retirements and disposals with any resulting gain or loss included in current period operations. The Company capitalizes internally developed software costs in accordance with the Statement of Position 98-1, Accounting for the Costs of Computing Software Development or Obtained for Internal Use (“SOP 98-1”). SOP 98-1 requires that costs incurred during the application development stage be capitalized and amortized over the useful life once the assets are placed in service. These costs primarily include compensation costs for employees who are involved in the application development stage and direct costs of materials utilized during application development. Generally, the Company amortizes these costs over three years unless a shorter life is deemed appropriate based on the remaining useful life of the asset. When the Company enters the development stage for a new application, management reviews the remaining useful life of previously developed applications to determine if an adjustment to the amortization period is warranted.

Intangible Assets and Other Long-Lived Assets

Intangible assets include patents and deferred financing costs. Patent application costs are being amortized on a straight-line basis over 15 years, which approximates their respective economic lives. The Company believes the straight-line method of amortization for patent application costs allocates the cost to earnings in proportion to the amount of economic benefit. Deferred financing costs are being amortized over two years using the effective interest method.

The Company regularly evaluates the carrying value of long-lived assets for events or changes in circumstances that indicate that the carrying amount may not be recoverable or that the remaining estimated useful life should be changed. An impairment loss is recognized when the carrying amount of an asset exceeds the anticipated future undiscounted cash flows expected to result from the use of the asset and its eventual disposition. The amount of the impairment loss to be recorded, if any, is calculated by the excess of the asset’s carrying value over its fair value.

Operating Leases

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

over the terms of the leases. Rent expense that is recognized but not yet paid is included in other accrued expenses on the consolidated balance sheets.

Revenue Recognition and Trade Accounts Receivable

The Company sells its teleradiology services to radiology practices, hospitals, clinics and diagnostic imaging centers. Revenue is recognized in the period when a diagnostic reading or service has been completed and when collection is reasonably assured. No future performance obligations exist once the diagnostic reading has been completed. The prices related to these teleradiology services are fixed or determinable prior to the performance of the service. Trade accounts receivable do not bear interest.

The Company records an allowance for doubtful accounts management estimates to be sufficient to absorb future losses due to accounts that are potentially uncollectible. The allowance is based on the Company’s historical experience, the current aging of past due accounts, the financial condition of the customer, and the general economic conditions of its marketplace. Actual results could differ materially from these estimates resulting in an increase in the allowance for doubtful accounts and the corresponding provision for bad debt expense in future periods.

Income Taxes

VRC and the Professional Corporations, as sole owner professional liability corporations, recognize income taxes under the asset and liability method. As such, deferred taxes are based on the temporary differences, if any, between the financial statement and tax bases of assets and liabilities that will result in future taxable or deductible amounts. The deferred taxes are determined using the enacted tax rates that are expected to apply when the temporary differences reverse. Income tax expense is the tax payable for the period plus the change during the period in deferred income taxes. Valuation allowances are established when necessary to reduce deferred tax assets to the amount expected to be realized.

VRP is a limited liability company, and as such is not subject to federal income taxes. Rather, the members are subject to federal income taxation based on their respective allocation of VRP’s net taxable income or loss on a cash basis. VRP does not record any current or deferred assets, liabilities, or expenses related to income taxes.

As previously noted, the Company consolidates its financial results under the provisions of FIN 46R. For income tax purposes, however, the Company is not considered a consolidated entity. As a result, income generated by the Affiliated Medical Practices, as well as any losses the Affiliated Medical Practices are able to fund, are excluded from VRC’s calculation of income tax liability. In addition, losses generated by the Affiliated Medical Practices that are funded by VRC result in temporary differences between VRC’s book and tax bases of accounting. These temporary differences will reverse in future periods to the extent those losses are able to be recovered by VRC.

Developing a provision for income taxes, including the effective tax rate and the analysis of potential tax exposure items, if any, requires significant judgment and expertise in federal and state income tax laws, regulations and strategies, including the determination of deferred tax assets. The Company’s judgment and tax strategies are subject to audit by various taxing authorities. While the

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Company believes it has provided adequately for its income tax liabilities in the consolidated financial statements, adverse determinations by these taxing authorities could have a material adverse effect on the consolidated financial condition, results of operations, and/or cash flows of the Company.

Professional Services Expense

Professional services expense consists primarily of the fees the Company pays to its independent contractor physicians and non-cash stock-based compensation expense related to those independent contractor physicians. The Company’s physicians are independent contractors and it compensates them using a formula that includes a base level of compensation and additional bonus compensation, which is generally based on the number of hours worked and the number and types of reads performed. The Company recognizes professional services expense in the month in which the services were performed. The Company also includes expenses related to medical liability insurance in professional services expense, which are expensed over the life of the insurance policy on a straight-line basis.

Total non-cash stock-based compensation related to independent contractor physicians, which is included in professional services expense, was $154,222 and $2,371,158 for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively, and $162,510 and $1,774,122 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively.

Sales, General and Administrative Expenses

Sales, general and administrative expenses are generally comprised of employee compensation expenses associated with the Company’s distributed diagnostic network, promotional and advertising expenses, and other operating expenses. The Company recognizes these expenses when incurred.

Advertising expense for VRC, LLC was $20,414 for the year ended December 31,2003. Advertising expense for the Company was $47,447, $143,721, $36,809 and $62,771 for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively.

Stock-Based Compensation

On January 1, 2006 the Company adopted the provisions of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards (“SFAS”) No. 123 (Revised 2004), Share-Based Payment (“SFAS No. 123R”), using the prospective application method, to account for stock-based compensation expense associated with the issuance of stock options to employees and directors on or after January 1, 2006. The unvested compensation costs at January 1, 2006, which relate to grants of options that occurred prior to the date of adoption of SFAS No. 123R, will continue to be accounted for under Accounting Principles Board (“APB”) No. 25, Accounting for Stock Issued to Employees. SFAS No. 123R requires all entities to recognize compensation expense in an amount equal to the fair value of share-based payments computed at the date of grant. The fair value of all employee and director stock option awards is expensed in the consolidated statements of operations over the related vesting period of the options. The Company calculated the fair value on the date of grant using a Black-Scholes model. For the three months ended March 31, 2006, stock-based compensation expense related to employees was $9,439, and is included in sales, general, and administrative expenses.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

For all options issued prior to January 1, 2006, in accordance with the provisions of APB No. 25, compensation costs for stock options granted to employees were measured at the excess, if any, of the value of the Company’s stock at the date of the grant over the amount an employee paid to acquire the stock. The table which follows provides the pro-forma disclosures required in accordance with the disclosure provisions of SFAS No. 123, Accounting for Stock-Based Compensation, as if the fair value method had been applied in the periods presented. The Company calculated the fair value using a Black-Scholes model using the minimum value method. If the Company had adopted the fair value based accounting method to account for the cost of stock option grants occurring prior to January 1, 2006, and charged compensation cost against income over the vesting period based on the fair value of options at the date of grant, the Company’s net loss in the periods presented would have been increased as follows:

 

    Year Ended December 31,     Three Months Ended
March 31,
 
    2003   2004     2005     2005     2006  
       

(Restated

see Note 3)

          (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  

Reported net income (loss)

  $ 862,493   $ (1,399,627 )   $ (30,021,660 )   $ (250,058 )   $ (11,287,575 )

Deduct: Total stock-based employee compensation expense determined under the fair value-based method, net of related tax effects

        147,839       75,419       18,222       19,381  
                                     

Pro-forma net income (loss)

  $ 862,493   $ (1,547,466 )   $ (30,097,079 )   $ (268,280 )   $ (11,306,956 )
                                     

Pro-forma income (loss) per share

         

As reported

  $ 4.23   $ (.41 )   $ (4.80 )   $ (.04 )   $ (1.71 )

Pro-forma

    4.23     (.45 )     (4.81 )     (.05 )     (1.71 )

The Company also records stock-based compensation expense in connection with any grant of stock options to independent contractor physicians. The Company calculates the stock-based compensation expense associated with these grants in accordance with Emerging Issues Task Force (“EITF”) Issue No. 96-18, Accounting for Equity Instruments That Are Issued to Other Than Employees for Acquiring, or in Conjunction with Selling, Good or Services, by determining the fair value using a Black-Scholes model. EITF Issue No. 96-18 requires that stock instruments issued to these independent contractor physicians be recorded at their fair value at the date the stock instruments were issued and adjusted to their then current fair value in every subsequent reporting period thereafter until the stock instruments are fully vested or forfeited. Total non-cash equity-based compensation for independent contractor physicians, which is included in professional services expense, was $154,222 and $2,371,158 for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively, and $162,510 and $1,774,122 for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, respectively.

Concentration of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially expose the Company to concentration of credit risk consist primarily of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. The Company maintains its cash and cash equivalents with high quality credit institutions. At times, such amounts may be in excess of insured amounts.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Credit risk related to accounts receivable is largely mitigated by the Company’s credit evaluation process and the reasonably short collection terms of its receivables. Management makes judgments as to its ability to collect outstanding receivables based upon the Company’s historical collections experience, the current aging of past due accounts, the financial condition of its customers and the general economic conditions of its marketplace, and has established an allowance for doubtful accounts based on that judgment.

Fair Value Financial Instruments

The Company’s financial instruments consist of cash and cash equivalents and short-term trade receivables and payables for which current carrying amounts approximate fair market value. Additionally, the borrowing rates currently available to the Company approximate the fair market value for debt agreements with similar terms and average maturities.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2005, the FASB issued SFAS No. 154, Accounting for Changes and Error Corrections—a replacement of APB Opinion No. 20 and FASB Statement No. 3. SFAS No. 154 changes the requirements for the accounting for and reporting of a change in accounting principle. SFAS No. 154 applies to all voluntary changes in accounting principles. It also applies to changes required by an accounting pronouncement in the unusual instance that the pronouncement does not include specific transition provisions. When a pronouncement includes specific transition provisions, those provisions should be followed. The provisions of SFAS No. 154 are effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2005. The Company’s adoption of SFAS No. 154 did not have a material impact on its results of operations or financial position.

Pro Forma Balance Sheet Data (Unaudited)

The Board of Directors has authorized the Company to file a Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission permitting the Company to sell shares of common stock in an initial public offering (“IPO”). If the IPO is consummated as presently anticipated, each share of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock will automatically convert into one share of common stock upon completion of the IPO. The unaudited pro forma balance sheet reflects the subsequent conversion of the convertible participating preferred shares into common stock at a 1-for-1 conversion ratio as if such conversion occurred at March 31, 2006, and does not include any adjustments for potential stock splits.

3. Restatement of 2004 Financial Statements

The Company has restated its financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2004, to consolidate its variable interest in VRP, as the Company is the primary beneficiary of the variable interest entity VRP. In addition, the Company also restated its financial statements for stock options granted to certain independent contractor physicians for which compensation expense is recorded over the vesting period of the options and adjusted to their fair value at each subsequent reporting period thereafter.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Summarized below are the significant effects of the restatement.

 

     Balance Sheet  
     December 31, 2004  
     Previously
Reported
    Adjustment     Restated  

Non-controlling interest

   $     $ 1,362,446     $ 1,362,446  

Members’ equity(1)

     1,516,668       (1,516,668 )      

Common stock, $.01 par value; 21,500,000 shares authorized and 5,659,500 shares issued and outstanding

     1,369       55,226       56,595  

Additional paid-in capital

     154,631       98,996       253,627  

Total stockholders’ (deficiency) equity

     (1,243,627 )     154,222       (1,089,405 )

(1) At December 31, 2004, the previously reported balance sheet was prepared on a combined basis and included members’ equity whereas the restated balance sheet was prepared on a consolidated basis and such balances are included in non-controlling interest.

 

     Statement of Operations  
     Year Ended December 31, 2004  
     Previously
Reported
    Adjustment     Restated  

Professional services expense

   $ 6,858,555     $ 154,222     $ 7,012,777  

Operating loss

     (1,088,312 )     (154,222 )     (1,242,534 )

Non-controlling interest

           62,160       62,160  

Net loss

     (1,183,245 )     (216,382 )     (1,399,627 )

Loss per common share, basic and diluted

     (.35 )     (.06 )     (.41 )
     Consolidated Statement of Changes in
Stockholders’ Equity (Deficiency)
 
     Year Ended December 31, 2004  
     Previously
Reported
    Adjustment     Restated  

Common stock

   $ 1,369     $ 55,226     $ 56,595  

Additional paid-in capital

     154,631       98,996       253,627  

Accumulated deficit

     (1,399,627 )           (1,399,627 )

Members’ equity

     1,516,668       (1,516,668 )      

Total stockholders’ equity (deficiency)

     273,041       (1,362,446 )     (1,089,405 )
     Statement of Cash Flows  
     Year Ended December 31, 2004  
     Previously
Reported
    Adjustment     Restated  

Cash flows from operating activities

      

Net loss

   $ (1,183,245 )   $ (216,382 )   $ (1,399,627 )

Non-controlling interest

           62,160       62,160  

Equity-based compensation for independent contractor physicians

           154,222       154,222  

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

4. Selected Consolidated Financial Statement Information

Accounts Receivable, Net

 

     December 31,   

March 31,

2006

     2004    2005   
               (Unaudited)

Accounts receivable

   $ 2,408,516    $ 4,857,307    $ 5,667,919

Less: Allowance for doubtful accounts

     200,000      278,482      280,113
                    
   $ 2,208,516    $ 4,578,825    $ 5,387,806
                    

Property, Plant and Equipment, Net

 

     December 31,   

March 31,

2006

     2004    2005   
               (Unaudited)

Equipment

   $ 911,955    $ 2,957,891    $ 3,234,138

Software

     356,591      898,115      1,071,403

Furniture and fixtures

     107,253      245,479      259,300

Leasehold improvements

     41,609      94,179      255,019
                    

Total property, plant and equipment

     1,417,408      4,195,664      4,819,860

Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization

     295,893      846,120      1,103,262
                    

Property, plant and equipment, net

   $ 1,121,515    $ 3,349,544    $ 3,716,598
                    

Depreciation expense related to the property, plant and equipment of VRC, LLC for the year ended December 31, 2003, was $71,973. Depreciation expense related to the property, plant and equipment of the Company for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, was $216,422 and $550,227, respectively, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, was $257,142.

Intangible Assets, Net

 

     December 31, 2004    December 31, 2005
     Carrying
Amount
   Accumulated
Amortization
   Net    Carrying
Amount
   Accumulated
Amortization
   Net

Patent application costs

   $    $    $    $ 180,141    $ 3,060    $ 177,081

Deferred financing costs

     65,769      13,702      52,067      65,769      46,587      19,182
                                         
   $ 65,769    $ 13,702    $ 52,067    $ 245,910    $ 49,647    $ 196,263
                                         
                    March 31, 2006 (Unaudited)
                    Carrying
Amount
   Accumulated
Amortization
   Net

Patent application costs

   $ 191,797    $ 6,097    $ 185,700

Deferred financing costs

     65,769      54,807      10,962
                             
            $ 257,566    $ 60,904    $ 196,662
                             

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Total amortization expense related to intangible assets for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, was $13,702, $35,945 and $11,257, respectively.

At March 31, 2006, future estimated amortization expense related to intangible assets will be (unaudited):

 

Nine months ending December 31, 2006

   $ 20,639

2007

     12,903

2008

     12,903

2009

     12,903

2010

     12,903

Thereafter

     124,411
      
   $ 196,662
      

This future amortization expense is an estimate. Actual amounts may change these estimated amounts due to additional intangible asset acquisitions, potential impairment, accelerated amortization or other events.

Other Accrued Expenses

 

     December 31,   

March 31,

2006

     2004    2005   
               (Unaudited)

Accrued professional fees

   $ 181,971    $ 164,646    $ 94,077

Accrued fixed assets

          178,362      81,162

Accrued stock subscription payable

          105,000      105,000

Accrued licensing fees

     150,519      46,344      274,616

Other

     163,594      124,349      113,497
                    
   $ 496,084    $ 618,701    $ 668,352
                    

5. Financing Arrangements

In August 2004, the Company entered into a revolving credit agreement, which provides a revolving loan of up to $2,000,000, limited to 85% of the Company’s outstanding accounts receivable. Any amounts outstanding under the revolving credit agreement are due in July 2006. The revolving credit agreement bears interest at the prime rate (7.75% at March 31, 2006) plus 2.00% and is collateralized by substantially all of the Company’s assets. At March 31, 2006, the Company did not have an outstanding balance under the revolving credit agreement.

6. Stockholders’ (Deficiency) Equity

On May 2, 2005, the par value of the common stock was changed from $.01 to $.001 when the Company was re-incorporated in the State of Delaware.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

7. Preferred Stock

On May 2, 2005, the Company closed on a sale of Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock. Total proceeds from the sale were $13,600,000, including $217,600 assigned to the fair value of warrants to purchase common stock, and excluding $1,473,398 in issuance costs related to the sale.

Significant terms of this preferred stock are as follows:

 

  Ÿ   Each share has the same voting rights as the number of common shares into which it is convertible;

 

  Ÿ   The holders of the preferred stock have the right but not the obligation to participate proportionately in certain types of future financings;

 

  Ÿ   Dividends accumulate on a daily basis at the rate of 8.0% per annum beginning on the date of issuance but are not required to be accrued unless declared by the Board of Directors. As of December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, $747,036 and $1,032,824, respectively, of dividends had accumulated but have not yet been declared by the Company’s Board of Directors, or paid by the Company;

 

  Ÿ   Upon any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, the preferred stockholders are entitled to a liquidation preference payment equal to (i) the sum of the liquidation value ($3.75 per share) plus all declared and unpaid dividends, and (ii) 8.0% of the original issue price accrued annually from the date of issuance, less any dividends declared and paid. At December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, the liquidation value was $15,074,358 and $15,628,420, respectively;

 

  Ÿ   Each share is convertible, at the option of the holder, into one share of common stock (subject to adjustments for events of dilution);

 

  Ÿ   Each preferred share shall be automatically converted, without any Company action, thereby providing conversion of all preferred shares, upon the approval of a majority of the preferred stockholders or upon the completion of a qualified public offering of common shares, as defined in the preferred stock sale agreement. At such time as a qualified public offering is completed, each share of the preferred stock shall be converted into one share of common stock (subject to adjustment as defined in the preferred stock sale agreement), dividends will no longer accumulate, and previously accumulated, undeclared and unpaid dividends will not be payable by the Company; and

 

  Ÿ   At any time subsequent to March 31, 2010, the holders of a majority of the preferred shares may require the Company to redeem all or any portion of the preferred shares in cash. The price paid by the Company to redeem the shares would be the greater of (i) the sum of the liquidation value ($3.75 per share) plus all declared but unpaid dividends, and 8.0% of the original issue price accrued annually from the date of issuance, less any dividends paid, or (ii) the fair market value of the preferred stock.

On a quarterly basis the Company evaluates the current estimated fair market value of the preferred stock based primarily on an independent third party valuation of the preferred stock’s market value. This valuation is performed based on the performance of the Company relative to its competitors, the stock volatility of comparable companies in its industry and general economic trends.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Changes in the current market value of the Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock are recorded in the consolidated statements of changes in stockholders’ equity (deficiency) as additional paid-in capital and in the consolidated statements of operations as Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock accretion.

Warrants

In conjunction with the Series A Cumulative Redeemable Convertible Preferred Stock sale, warrants to purchase 72,533 shares of common stock (equal to 2% of the total preferred stock shares sold) were issued to the placement agent. The warrants have a five year life, expiring on May 2, 2010, and allow the holder to purchase common stock of the Company at a $0.01 per share upon exercise of the warrants. The fair value of the warrants was determined by the Company using the Black-Scholes model.

8. Stock Purchase Plan and Stock Option Plan

In January 2004, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted the Stock Purchase Plan. The Stock Purchase Plan allows certain officers, employees and affiliated independent contractor physicians the opportunity to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at fair market value. Also, in January 2004, the Company’s Board of Directors adopted the Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”). The Plan provides for the issuance of incentive stock options to selected officers, employees and affiliated independent contractor physicians of the Company. The total number of options to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock authorized and reserved for issuance under the Plan is 4,000,000. The option exercise price is not less than the estimated fair market value of the Company’s common stock on the date of grant as determined by the Company’s Board of Directors. Options granted under the Plan have a maximum duration of ten years and vest in a manner as the Board of Directors in each instance approves, typically over five years with 60% vesting in the third year, 80% vesting in the fourth year and 100% vesting in the fifth year. As of March 31, 2006, there were 3,474,090 options outstanding.

Stock option activity during the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, was as follows:

 

     Options    

Weighted
Average

Exercise Price
Per Share

  

Exercise Prices

Per Share
Ranging From

     Available
for Grant
    Outstanding       

Balance at January 1, 2004

             

Plan adoption

   4,000,000           

Granted

   (3,019,950 )   3,019,950     $ 1.31    $ 1.00 – $2.00

Forfeited

                 
                 

Balance at December 31, 2004

   980,050     3,019,950       1.31   
                 

Balance at January 1, 2005

   980,050     3,019,950     $ 1.31   

Granted

   (393,250 )   393,250       5.13    $ 3.75 – $5.50

Forfeited

   29,910     (29,910 )     2.46      2.00 – 5.50
                 

Balance at December 31, 2005

   616,710     3,383,290       1.74   
                 

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

     Options    

Weighted
Average

Exercise Price
Per Share

  

Exercise
Prices

Per Share
Ranging From

     Available
for Grant
    Outstanding       

Balance at January 1, 2006

   616,710     3,383,290     $ 1.74   

Granted (unaudited)

   (106,000 )   106,000       12.00    $12.00

Forfeited (unaudited)

   15,200     (15,200 )     3.01    2.00 – 5.50
                 

Balance at March 31, 2006 (unaudited)

   525,910     3,474,090       2.05   
                 

The following table summarizes information about stock options granted during the year ended December 31, 2005:

 

Grant Date

   Number of
Shares
Subject to
Options
   Exercise
Price
   Estimated
Fair Value
of Common
Stock

June 22, 2005

   25,000    $ 3.75    $ 3.75

June 30, 2005

   135,350      4.75      3.75

October 12, 2005

   80,400      5.50      4.50

October 21, 2005

   152,500      5.50      4.50

The Company estimated the fair value of its common stock based on actual equity transactions, management judgment and conclusions of the Company’s Board of Directors.

The exercise prices of all options were determined by the Company’s Board of Directors, based on the estimated fair value of the common stock on the date of grant.

The following table summarizes information about stock options outstanding as of December 31, 2005:

 

     Options Outstanding    Options Exercisable

Range of
Exercise Prices

   Number
Outstanding
   Weighted
Average
Remaining
Contractual
Life
(in Years)
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
   Number
Exercisable
   Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price

$1.00 - $2.00

   2,994,240    8.2    $ 1.30    1,454,755    $ 1.00

$3.75 - $5.50

   389,050    6.7      5.13        
                  
   3,383,290    8.1      1.74    1,454,755      1.00
                  

Stock-Based Compensation—Employees

For options granted during the three months ended March 31, 2006, the valuation methodology used was the Black-Scholes option-pricing model, which is an acceptable model to estimate the fair value of stock options in accordance with SFAS No. 123R. The Black-Scholes model requires the use of a number of assumptions including volatility of the stock price, the weighted average risk-free interest rate, and the weighted average expected life of the options. The Company has not paid dividends, therefore the dividend rate variable in the Black-Scholes model is zero.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

The risk-free interest rate assumption is based upon observed interest rates on zero coupon U.S. Treasury bonds whose maturity period is appropriate for the term of the Company’s stock options and is calculated by using average monthly yield for the twelve months preceding the grant date.

The volatility assumption was calculated using volatility rates of companies in the Company’s industry sector.

The expected life of options granted to employees and directors represents the weighted average that those options are expected to remain outstanding based on the best estimates of the Company.

Share-based compensation expense for employees and directors recognized in the Company’s consolidated statement of operations for the quarter ended March 31, 2006 is based on options granted during the three months ended March 31, 2006, that are ultimately expected to vest and has been reduced for estimated forfeitures. SFAS No. 123R requires forfeitures to be estimated at the time of grant and revised in subsequent periods if actual forfeitures differ from those estimates. The Company’s forfeiture rates were estimated based on its historical experience. Prior to adoption of SFAS No. 123R, the Company accounted for forfeitures as they occurred for the purposes of its pro-forma disclosures required under SFAS No. 123, as disclosed in Note 2.

The weighted average fair value of options granted and the assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, are set forth in the table below. There were no options issued to employees or directors during the three months ended March 31, 2005.

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
   

Three Months
Ended
March 31,

2006

 
     2004     2005    
                 (Unaudited)  

Weighted average fair value of options granted

   $ 0.16     $ 0.18     $ 4.94  

Dividend yield

     None       None       None  

Weighted average risk-free interest rate

     4.25 %     4.13 %     4.87 %

Weighted average expected volatility

                 47.13 %

Weighted average expected life of options (in years)

     3.3       5.0       5.0  

SFAS No. 123R requires that the cash retained as a result of the tax deductibility of employee and director share-based awards be presented as a component of cash flows from financing activities in the consolidated statement of cash flows. There has not been any cash received from stock option exercises as no options have been exercised during the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 or 2005, or during the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006.

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

The following is a summary of the employee and director stock option activity for the three months ended March 31, 2006 (unaudited):

 

    Options     Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
 

Weighted
Average
Remaining
Term

(in Years)

  Aggregate
Intrinsic Value

Outstanding, beginning of period

  2,473,480     $ 1.35    

Granted

  75,000       12.00    

Forfeited/cancelled

  (15,200 )     3.01    
           

Outstanding, end of period

  2,533,280       1.66   7.8   $ 23,722,148
           

Options vested and expected to vest, end of period

  2,500,808       1.66   7.8     23,418,072
           

Options exercisable, end of period

  1,508,693       1.00   7.7     15,117,100
           

The aggregate intrinsic value in the table above represents the difference between the estimated fair value of common stock at March 31, 2006, and the exercise price, multiplied by the number of in-the-money options that would have been received by the option holders had all option holders exercised their options on March 31, 2006. There were not any options exercised during the three months ended March 31, 2006.

As of March 31, 2006, unrecognized share-based compensation related to unvested employee options granted on or after January 1, 2006, was approximately $347,000, net of estimated forfeitures. These costs are to be recognized over a weighted average period of 60 months. Outstanding options to purchase shares granted during the three months ended March 31, 2006, expire in 2013. No options expired during the first quarter of 2006.

Stock-Based Compensation—Physicians

For the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Company issued 641,060, 268,750 and 31,000 options, respectively, to our affiliated radiologists who are independent contractor physicians. The Company recorded $154,222 and $1,789,158 for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, respectively, in stock-based compensation expense related to these independent contractor physicians’ options. For the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, the Company recorded $162,510 and $1,393,722, respectively, in stock-based compensation expense related to these independent contractor physicians’ options. There was no stock-based compensation expense related to independent contractor physicians for the year ended December 31, 2003.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

The following table represents the assumptions used in the independent contractor physician option valuation for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006. There were no options issued to independent contractor physicians during the three months ended March 31, 2005.

 

     Year Ended December 31,    

Three Months Ended
March 31,

2006

 
         2004             2005        
                 (Unaudited)  

Weighted average risk-free interest rate

   3.68 %   4.40 %   4.87 %

Dividend yield

   None     None     None  

Weighted average expected volatility

   44.28 %   37.28 %   47.13 %

Weighted average expected life of options (in years)

   4.05     3.37     3.18  

During 2005, the Company also agreed to sell 120,000 shares of the Company’s common stock at $3.00 per share to an independent contractor physician. Under the terms of the agreement, the shares of common stock will not be issued to the independent contractor physician until the shares are fully paid for in July 2006 (Note 14). For the year ended December 31, 2005, and the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Company has recorded independent contractor physician stock-based compensation related to these shares totaling $582,000 and $380,400, respectively.

9. Income Taxes

As previously noted, the Company consolidates its financial results under the provisions of FIN 46R. For income tax purposes, however, the Company is not considered a consolidated entity.

Deferred tax assets and liabilities for the periods presented consist of the following:

 

     December 31,  
     2004     2005  

Deferred tax assets

    

Non-controlling interest

   $     $ 1,244,552  

Accrued compensation and employee benefits

     35,332       58,432  

Other, net

     37,157       74,063  

Net operating loss carryforwards

     577,286       2,339  
                

Total deferred tax assets

     649,775       1,379,386  

Deferred tax liabilities

    

Accelerated depreciation and amortization

     125,183       176,599  

Other, net

     30,806       32,173  
                

Total deferred tax liabilities

     155,989       208,772  
                

Net deferred tax assets (liabilities)

     493,786       1,170,614  

Valuation allowance

     (493,786 )     (1,170,614 )
                

Deferred tax assets (liabilities), net of valuation allowance

   $     $  
                

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

The following table shows components of income tax expense for the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005.

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
         2004            2005    

Current

     

Federal

   $    $ 25,867

State

          32,317
             

Total current

          58,184
             

Deferred

     

Federal

         

State

         
             

Total deferred

         
             
   $    $ 58,184
             

A reconciliation of the Company’s effective income tax rate compared to the statutory federal income tax rate for the periods presented is as follows:

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
 
         2004             2005      

Statutory, federal income tax rate

   34.0 %   34.0 %

State income taxes, net of federal benefit

       (0.6 )

Valuation allowance

   (33.8 )   (35.9 )

Other, net

   (0.2 )   (0.7 )
            

Effective income tax rate

   %   (3.2 )%
            

At December 31, 2005, the Company had utilized all of its federal and state net operating loss carryforwards.

10. Commitments and Contingencies

The Company leases office space and equipment under noncancellable operating leases with lease terms ranging from two to seven years through February 2011. Total rent expense for VRC, LLC for the year ended December 31, 2003, was $66,889. For the years ended December 31, 2004 and 2005, total rent expense for the Company was $172,572 and $607,263, respectively. Total rent expense for the Company for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, was $128,432 and $182,232, respectively.

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

Future minimum lease commitments applicable to operating leases in effect as of March 31, 2006, are as follows (unaudited):

 

Nine months ending December 31, 2006

   $ 272,880

2007

     401,371

2008

     432,417

2009

     393,311

2010

     53,756

Thereafter

     9,003
      
   $ 1,562,738
      

The Company also leases equipment under capital leases that expire on various dates through July 2007. Future minimum lease payments under these capital leases, together with the present value of minimum lease payments, as of March 31, 2006, consist of the following (unaudited):

 

2006

   $ 208,375  

2007

     20,967  
        
     229,342  

Less: Amount representing interest

     (11,268 )
        

Present value of minimum lease payments

     218,074  

Less: Current portion

     (215,068 )
        

Capital lease obligations, less current portion

   $ 3,006  
        

Litigation

The Company is involved in litigation in the normal course of business. After consultation with legal counsel, management estimates that as of December 31, 2004 and 2005, and as of March 31, 2006, these matters could be resolved without material adverse effect on the Company’s consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Professional Malpractice Liability Insurance

The Company is exposed to various risks of loss related to litigation that may arise related to professional malpractice and maintains insurance for professional malpractice liabilities for coverage considered adequate by Company management. The Company’s claims-made policy provides coverage up to $2,000,000 per incident, $4,000,000 per physician and $20,000,000 in total for claims filed within the period of the policy term, subject to a $100,000 deductible. Coverage for affiliated independent contractor physicians is initiated when they begin providing services on behalf of the Company. The professional malpractice policy expires in October 2006.

11. Employee Benefit Plans

The Company has a 401(k) profit sharing plan (the “401(k) Plan”) covering employees who have completed two months of service and have attained the age of 21. The 401(k) Plan allows each

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

participant to contribute between 1% and 75% of their compensation, subject to current Internal Revenue Service limitations. During October 2005, the Company began matching a portion of the employee’s contribution, as defined by the 401(k) Plan. Participants are fully vested in matching contributions after two years of service. For the year ended December 31, 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Company contributed $7,772 and $11,867, respectively, to the 401(k) plan.

12. Related Party Transactions

The Company retains the services of an information technology consulting firm to assist with the development and management of its information technology systems. This firm is owned by the brother of one of VRC’s directors. During the year ended December 31, 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2006, the Company paid this consulting firm $41,975 and $6,050, respectively, for consulting services. The Company continues to use this consulting firm on an as needed basis. The Company believes the costs of the services provided by this consulting firm are fair and at least as favorable as those that could be obtained through arm’s length negotiation between unrelated parties.

The Company has entered into a non-exclusive, non-transferable license agreement for the use of certain image management software from a minority shareholder of the Company. For the years ended December 31, 2003, 2004 and 2005, and for the three months ended March 31, 2005 and 2006, the Company incurred licensing fees under this contract of $121,740, $366,092, $572,683, $136,514 and $228,272, respectively.

The following table illustrates the revenues, expenses and cash flows that result from the management service agreements between the related parties described in Note 1.

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
   Three Months Ended
March 31,
     2004    2005    2005    2006
               (Unaudited)    (Unaudited)

VRC management fee revenue from VRP

   $ 3,655,829    $ 15,050,067    $ 2,269,346    $

VRP management fee expense to VRC

     3,655,829      15,050,067      2,269,346     

VRP professional services revenue from VRC

                    4,667,096

VRC professional services expense to VRP

                    4,667,096

VRP professional services revenue from the Professional Corporations

                    1,792,047

Professional Corporations professional services expense to VRP

                    1,792,047

VRC management fee revenue from the Professional Corporations

                    1,606,618

Professional Corporations management fee expense to VRC

                    1,606,618

Cash paid for management fees by VRP to VRC

     3,096,652      9,144,094      2,828,523     

Cash paid for professional services by VRC to VRP

                    4,667,096

Cash paid for professional services by the Professional Corporations to VRP

                    100,693

 

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VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS—(CONTINUED)

(Information Presented as of and for the Three Months Ended

March 31, 2006 and 2005, is Unaudited)

 

13. Earnings Per Share

The following table presents a reconciliation of the numerators and denominators used in the basic and diluted earnings per common share computations:

 

    Year Ended December 31,    

Three Months Ended

March 31,

 
    2003     2004     2005     2005     2006  
          (Restated
see Note 3)
          (Unaudited)     (Unaudited)  

Numerator

         

Net income (loss) available in basic calculation

  $ 862,493     $ (1,399,627 )   $ (30,021,660 )   $ (250,058 )   $ (11,287,575 )

Plus: Income impact of assumed conversions of preferred stock dividends

    —         —         —   (a)     —         —   (a)
                                       

Income (loss) available to common stockholders plus assumed conversions

  $ 862,493     $ (1,399,627 )   $ (30,021,660 )   $ (250,058 )   $ (11,287,575 )
                                       

Denominator

         

Weighted average common shares—basic

    204,000 (b)     3,414,307       6,254,207 (c)     5,659,500       6,603,810 (c)

Effect of dilutive stock options

    —         —   (d)     —   (d)     —         —   (d)

Effect of convertible preferred stock

    —         —         —   (a)     —   (d)     —   (a)
                                       

Weighted average common shares outstanding—diluted

    204,000       3,414,307       6,254,207       5,659,500       6,603,810  
                                       

Earnings (loss) per common share—basic and diluted

  $ 4.23     $ (.41 )   $ (4.80 )   $ (.04 )   $ (1.71 )
                                       

(a) The income impact of assumed conversions of the Series A Preferred Stock in the denominator is anti-dilutive.

 

(b) The weighted average common shares outstanding for the year ended December 31, 2003, is based on the assumed conversion of VRC, LLC into common stock of VRC utilizing the conversion ratio established when the Company was incorporated during 2004.

 

(c) At December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, 72,533 warrants were outstanding. The effect of the shares that would be issued upon exercise of these options has been excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because those shares are anti-dilutive.

 

(d) At December 31, 2004 and 2005, 3,019,950 and 3,383,290 stock options, respectively, were outstanding. At March 31, 2005 and 2006, 3,009,810 and 3,474,090 stock options, respectively, were outstanding. The effect of the shares that would be issued upon exercise of these options has been excluded from the calculation of diluted earnings (loss) per share because those shares are anti-dilutive.

14. Subsequent Event

On July 10, 2006, the Company completed its repurchase of 85,000 shares from two of its officers and concurrently completed the sale of these shares to an independent contractor physician. In addition, the Company simultaneously completed the sale of an additional 35,000 shares to the same independent contractor physician.

 

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No dealer, salesperson or other person is authorized to give any information or to represent anything not contained in this prospectus. You must not rely on any unauthorized information or representations. This prospectus is an offer to sell only the shares offered hereby, but only under circumstances and in jurisdictions where it is lawful to do so. The information contained in this prospectus is current only as of its date.

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

     Page

Prospectus Summary

   1

Risk Factors

   10

Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

   26

Industry and Market Data

   27

Our Corporate Structure and Affiliated Radiologists

   28

Use of Proceeds

   30

Dividend Policy

   30

Capitalization

   31

Dilution

   32

Selected Consolidated Financial Data

   34

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

   37

Business

   59

Management

   78

Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions

   90

Principal Stockholders

   94

Description of Capital Stock

   97

Shares Eligible for Future Sale

   101

Material United States Tax Consequences to Non-United States Holders

   103

Underwriting

   106

Validity of the Common Stock

   110

Experts

   110

Changes in Certifying Accountants

   110

Where You Can Find More Information

   111

Index to Financial Statements

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Through and including                      , 2006 (the 25th day after the date of this prospectus), all dealers effecting transactions in these securities, whether or not participating in this offering, may be required to deliver a prospectus. This is in addition to a dealer’s obligation to deliver a prospectus when acting as an underwriter and with respect to an unsold allotment or subscription.

 



             Shares

Virtual Radiologic Corporation

Common Stock

 


PROSPECTUS

 


Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Merrill Lynch & Co.

William Blair & Company

 




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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN PROSPECTUS

 

Item 13. Other Expenses of Issuance and Distribution

The following table sets forth the costs and expenses, other than the underwriting discounts and commissions, payable by us in connection with the sale of common stock being registered. All amounts shown are estimates, except the SEC registration fee, the NASD filing fee and the NASDAQ Global Market application fee.

 

Item

   Amount to Be Paid  

SEC Registration Fee

   $ 8,025  

NASD Filing Fee

     8,000  

NASDAQ Global Market Fee

       *

Federal Taxes

                *

State Taxes

                *

Blue Sky Fees and Expenses

                *

Legal Fees and Expenses

                *

Accounting Fees and Expenses

                *

Printing Expenses

                *

Transfer Agent and Registrar Fees

                *

Miscellaneous

                *
        

Total

   $                              *

* To be filed by amendment.

 

Item 14. Indemnification of Directors and Officers

Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will limit our directors’ and officers’ liability to the fullest extent permitted under the DGCL. Specifically, our directors and officers will not be liable to us or our stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty by a director or officer, except for liability:

 

  Ÿ   for any breach of the director’s or officer’s duty of loyalty to us or our stockholders;

 

  Ÿ   for acts or omissions not in good faith or which involve intentional misconduct or a knowing violation of law;

 

  Ÿ   under Section 174 of the DGCL; or

 

  Ÿ   for any transaction from which a director or officer derives an improper personal benefit.

If the DGCL is amended to authorize corporate action further eliminating or limiting the personal liability of directors or officers, then the liability of our directors and officers shall be eliminated or limited to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, as so amended.

The provision regarding indemnification of our directors and officers in our amended and restated certificate of incorporation will generally not limit liability under state or federal securities laws.

Delaware law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation provide that we will, in certain situations, indemnify any person made or threatened to be made a party to a proceeding by reason of that person’s former or present official capacity with the Company against judgments, penalties, fines, settlements and reasonable expenses, including reasonable attorneys’ fees. Any person is also entitled, subject to certain limitations, to payment or reimbursement of reasonable expenses in

 

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advance of the final disposition of the proceeding. In addition, the employment agreements to which we are a party provide for the indemnification of our employees who are party thereto.

In addition, we have entered into or plan to enter into indemnification agreements with each of our directors, pursuant to which we have agreed to indemnify the directors to the fullest extent permitted by law. The directors are entitled to reimbursement for certain claims against them if they acted in good faith and in a manner that such directors reasonably believed was in, or not opposed to, our best interests. We are also required to advance certain expenses incurred by our directors in connection with certain proceedings or claims against them arising from their serving us or otherwise providing service at our request. We also maintain a directors’ and officers’ insurance policy pursuant to which our directors and officers are insured against liability for actions taken in their capacities as directors and officers.

 

Item 15. Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

Since our incorporation in October 2003, we have issued securities to a limited number of individuals as described below.

1) On October 24, 2003, we issued 1,095,000 shares of our common stock to Dr. Sean Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. David Hunter and Dr. Gary Weiss in connection with the initial capitalization of the Company for an aggregate purchase price of $1,000. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. After taking into account subsequent recapitalizations effected by the Company, such shares currently equal 5,475,000 shares of our common stock.

2) On January 2, 2004, we issued 5,000 shares of our common stock to Brent Backhaus, our Chief Technology Officer, in connection with his assignment to the Company of certain intellectual property rights. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. After taking into account subsequent recapitalizations effected by the Company, such shares currently equal 25,000 shares of our common stock.

3) On January 5, 2004, we issued 31,900 shares of our common stock to Dr. Kirk Brown and Dr. Ranie W. Pendarvis for an aggregate purchase price of $130,000. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act. After taking into account subsequent recapitalizations effected by the Company, such shares currently equal 159,500 shares of our common stock.

4) In December 2004, we issued an aggregate of approximately $1,000,000 of 10% Convertible Subordinated Promissory Notes to Dr. Sean Casey, Francis Casey, Sharon Casey, Dr. Eduard Michel, Dr. David Hunter and Dr. Gary Weiss. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D based on the status of the investors as Accredited Investors under Rule 501.

5) At various times during 2005, we issued 448,340 shares of our common stock to our affiliated radiologists under our Stock Purchase Plan, for an aggregate purchase price of $1,345,023. These transactions were exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D based on the status of the investors as Accredited Investors under Rule 501.

6) On May 2, 2005, we issued 3,626,667 shares of our Series A Preferred Stock to a total of seven investors for an aggregate purchase price of $13,600,000. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D based on the status of the investors as Accredited Investors under Rule 501.

 

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7) In connection with the issuance of our Series A Preferred Stock, on May 2, 2005 we issued a warrant, to purchase 72,533 shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $0.01 per share, to William Blair & Company, L.L.C. for services rendered in connection with the sale of our Series A Preferred Stock. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D based on the status of the investor as an Accredited Investor under Rule 501.

8) In July 2006, we issued 120,000 shares of our common stock under our Stock Purchase Plan to an affiliated radiologist upon receipt of the final monthly installment payment from the affiliated radiologist pursuant to the terms of a subscription agreement, which was entered into in February 2005 and subsequently amended, for an aggregate purchase price of $360,000. This transaction was exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Regulation D based on the status of the investor as an Accredited Investor under Rule 501.

9) Since our inception, we have issued an aggregate of 3,474,090 options to purchase our common stock to directors, officers, employees and affiliated radiologists with exercise prices ranging from $1.00 to $12.00. These transactions were exempt from registration under the Securities Act by virtue of Section 4(2) of the Securities Act and Rule 701.

Except for the issuance of our Series A Preferred Stock as described in 6 and 7 above, none of the foregoing transactions involved any underwriters, underwriting discounts or commissions. In addition, none of the foregoing transactions involved any public offering and the registrant believes each transaction was exempt from the registration requirements of the Securities Act as stated above. The recipients of securities in these transactions represented their intention to acquire the securities for investment purposes only and not with a view to, or for resale in connection with, any distribution thereof, and appropriate legends were affixed to the share certificates and instruments issued in such transactions. All recipients of the securities either received adequate information about the registrant or had access, through their relationships with the registrant, to such information.

 

Item 16. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules

(a) Exhibits

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

  1.1     

Form of Underwriting Agreement.*

  3.1     

Certificate of Incorporation of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation).†

  3.2     

Bylaws of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation).†

  3.3     

Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation).†

  3.4     

Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

  3.5     

Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

  4.1     

Form of Stock Certificate.*

  5.1     

Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.*

10.1     

Stockholders Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2005, by and among Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and the Investors (as defined therein).*

 

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Exhibit No.

  

Description

10.2     

Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2006, by and among Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., the parties listed on the signature page thereto as investors and, for purposes of Section 1 only, William Blair & Company, L.L.C.*

10.3     

Cross Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 24, 2003, by and among Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., Sean O. Casey, Eduard Michel, David Hunter and Gary Weiss.*

10.4     

Form of Indemnification Agreement, between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and each member of the Board of Directors.*

10.5     

Employment Agreement, effective as of May 2, 2005, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Sean Casey.*

10.6     

Employment Agreement, effective as of August 1, 2003, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Mark Marlow.*

10.7     

Employment Agreement, effective as of November 1, 2003, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Brent Backhaus.*

10.8     

Employment Agreement, effective as of November 1, 2003, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Lorna Lusic.*

10.9     

Employment Agreement, effective as of October 4, 2004, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and George Frisch.*

10.10   

Employment Agreement, effective as of July 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Eduard Michel.*

10.11   

Loan Agreement, dated July 20, 2004, among Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.12   

Security Agreement, dated as of July 20, 2004, by Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC, in favor of Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.13   

Security Agreement, dated as of July 20, 2004, by Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., in favor of Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.14   

Assumption Agreement and Amendment of Loan Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2005, among Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.15   

Amendment to Loan Agreement, dated March 26, 2006, among Virtual Radiologic Corporation, Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.16   

Amendment No. 1 to Security Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2006, by Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.17   

Professional and Management Services Agreement and License, dated as of January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC and Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

10.18   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Minnesota, P.A.*

10.19   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of New York, P.A.*

10.20   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of California, P.A.*

10.21   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, P.A.*

 

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Exhibit No.

  

Description

10.22   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.A.*

10.23   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Texas, P.A.*

10.24   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Minnesota, P.A.*

10.25   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of New York, P.A.*

10.26   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of California, P.A.*

10.27   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, P.A.*

10.28   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.A.*

10.29   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Texas, P.A.*

10.30   

Lease Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2004, by and between Midwest Holding Corp. #9, Inc. and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC.*

10.31   

First Amendment to Lease Agreement, dated August 12, 2004, by and between Midwest Holding Corp. #9, Inc. and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC.*

10.32   

MEDB Building Lease Agreement, dated November 28, 2005, by and between Maui Economic Development Board, Inc., and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc.*

10.33   

Second Revised Licensing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2006, between Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. and Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

10.34   

Virtual Radiologic Corporation Equity Incentive Plan.*

10.35   

Virtual Radiologic Corporation Stock Purchase Plan.*

10.36   

Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC Equity Incentive Plan.*

10.37   

Form of Incentive Option Agreement.*

10.38   

Form of Non-qualified Option Agreement.*

16.1     

Letter of Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd. regarding its dismissal.†

23.1     

Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.†

23.2     

Consent of Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd.†

23.3     

Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (included in the opinion referred to in 5.1 above).*

24.1     

Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this registration statement).


* To be filed by amendment.
Filed herewith.

 

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Item 17. Undertakings

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters at the completion specified in the underwriting agreement certificates in such denominations and registered in such names as required by the underwriters to permit prompt delivery to each purchaser.

(b) Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors, officers and controlling persons of the registrant pursuant to our amended and restated certificate of incorporation or bylaws, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the Securities and Exchange Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and is, therefore, unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification against such liabilities (other than the payment by the registrant of expenses incurred or paid by a director, officer or controlling person of the registrant in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such director, officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being registered, the registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter has been settled by controlling precedent, submit to a court of appropriate jurisdiction the question whether such indemnification by it is against public policy as expressed in the Securities Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of such issue.

(c) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes that:

 

  (1) For purposes of determining any liability under the Securities Act, the information omitted from the form of prospectus filed as part of this registration statement in reliance upon Rule 430A and contained in a form of prospectus filed by the registrant pursuant to Rule 424(b)(1) or (4) or Rule 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective; and

 

  (2) For the purpose of determining any liability under the Securities Act, each post-effective amendment that contains a form of prospectus shall be deemed to be a new registration statement relating to the securities offered therein, and the offering of such securities at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, the registrant has duly caused this Registration Statement on Form S-1 to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in the City of Minnetonka, State of Minnesota, on this 10th day of August, 2006.

 

VIRTUAL RADIOLOGIC CORPORATION

By:

  /S/    SEAN CASEY, M.D.

Name:

  Sean Casey, M.D.

Title:

  President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors

POWER OF ATTORNEY

Each person whose signature appears below authorizes Sean Casey and Mark Marlow, or each of them severally, as his true and lawful attorney-in-fact and agent, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, to execute in his name and on his behalf, in any and all capacities, this registrant’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 relating to the common stock and any amendments thereto (and any additional registration statement related thereto permitted by Rule 462(b) promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933 (and all further amendments, including post-effective amendments thereto)), necessary or advisable to enable the registrant to comply with the Securities Act of 1933, and any rules, regulations and requirements of the Securities and Exchange Commission in respect thereof, in connection with the registration of the securities which are the subject of such Registration Statement, which amendments may make such changes in such Registration Statement as such attorney may deem appropriate, and with full power and authority to perform and do any and all acts and things whatsoever which any such attorney or substitute may deem necessary or advisable to be performed or done in connection with any or all of the above-described matters, as fully as each of the undersigned could do if personally present and acting, hereby ratifying and approving all acts of any such attorney or substitute.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement on Form S-1 has been signed by the following persons in the capacities indicated and on the dates indicated.

 

Signature

  

Title

 

Date

/S/    SEAN CASEY, M.D.

Sean Casey, M.D.

  

President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors (Principal Executive Officer)

  August 10, 2006

/S/    MARK MARLOW

Mark Marlow

  

Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

  August 10, 2006

/S/    EDUARD MICHEL, M.D.

Eduard Michel, M.D.

  

Director

  August 10, 2006

/S/    MARK E. JENNINGS

Mark E. Jennings

  

Director

  August 10, 2006

/S/    ANDREW P. HERTZMARK

Andrew P. Hertzmark

  

Director

  August 10, 2006

/S/    DOMINGO R. GALLARDO

Domingo R. Gallardo

  

Director

  August 10, 2006

 

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.

  

Description

  1.1     

Form of Underwriting Agreement.*

  3.1     

Certificate of Incorporation of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation).†

  3.2     

Bylaws of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation).†

  3.3     

Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation of Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. (now known as Virtual Radiologic Corporation).†

  3.4     

Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

  3.5     

Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

  4.1     

Form of Stock Certificate.*

  5.1     

Opinion of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP.*

10.1     

Stockholders Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2005, by and among Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and the Investors (as defined therein).*

10.2     

Investor Rights Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2006, by and among Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., the parties listed on the signature page thereto as investors and, for purposes of Section 1 only, William Blair & Company, L.L.C.*

10.3     

Cross Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 24, 2003, by and among Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., Sean O. Casey, Eduard Michel, David Hunter and Gary Weiss.*

10.4     

Form of Indemnification Agreement, between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and each member of the Board of Directors.*

10.5     

Employment Agreement, effective as of May 2, 2005, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Sean Casey.*

10.6     

Employment Agreement, effective as of August 1, 2003, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Mark Marlow.*

10.7     

Employment Agreement, effective as of November 1, 2003, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Brent Backhaus.*

10.8     

Employment Agreement, effective as of November 1, 2003, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Lorna Lusic.*

10.9     

Employment Agreement, effective as of October 4, 2004, by and between Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and George Frisch.*

10.10   

Employment Agreement, effective as of July 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Eduard Michel.*

10.11   

Loan Agreement, dated July 20, 2004, among Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.12   

Security Agreement, dated as of July 20, 2004, by Virtual Radiologic Professionals, PLC, in favor of Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.13   

Security Agreement, dated as of July 20, 2004, by Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc., in favor of Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.14   

Assumption Agreement and Amendment of Loan Agreement, dated as of May 2, 2005, among Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc. and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

 

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Exhibit No.

  

Description

10.15   

Amendment to Loan Agreement, dated March 26, 2006, among Virtual Radiologic Corporation, Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.16   

Amendment No. 1 to Security Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2006, by Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Associated Commercial Finance, Inc.*

10.17   

Professional and Management Services Agreement and License, dated as of January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC and Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

10.18   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Minnesota, P.A.*

10.19   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of New York, P.A.*

10.20   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of California, P.A.*

10.21   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, P.A.*

10.22   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.A.*

10.23   

Management Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Corporation and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Texas, P.A.*

10.24   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Minnesota, P.A.*

10.25   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of New York, P.A.*

10.26   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of California, P.A.*

10.27   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Illinois, P.A.*

10.28   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Michigan, P.A.*

10.29   

Professional Services Agreement, dated as January 1, 2006, by and between Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC, and Virtual Radiologic Professionals of Texas, P.A.*

10.30   

Lease Agreement, dated as of March 11, 2004, by and between Midwest Holding Corp. #9, Inc. and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC.*

10.31   

First Amendment to Lease Agreement, dated August 12, 2004, by and between Midwest Holding Corp. #9, Inc. and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, LLC.*

10.32   

MEDB Building Lease Agreement, dated November 28, 2005, by and between Maui Economic Development Board, Inc., and Virtual Radiologic Consultants, Inc.*

10.33   

Second Revised Licensing Agreement, dated as of April 1, 2006, between Fujifilm Medical Systems U.S.A. and Virtual Radiologic Corporation.*

10.34   

Virtual Radiologic Corporation Equity Incentive Plan.*

10.35   

Virtual Radiologic Corporation Stock Purchase Plan.*

 

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Exhibit No.

  

Description

10.36   

Virtual Radiologic Professionals, LLC Equity Incentive Plan.*

10.37   

Form of Incentive Option Agreement.*

10.38   

Form of Non-qualified Option Agreement.*

16.1     

Letter of Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd. regarding its dismissal.†

23.1     

Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.†

23.2     

Consent of Schechter Dokken Kanter Andrews & Selcer Ltd.†

23.3     

Consent of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP (included in the opinion referred to in 5.1 above).*

24.1     

Power of Attorney (included on the signature page to this registration statement).


* To be filed by amendment.
Filed herewith.

 

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