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RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2019
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS [ABSTRACT]  
RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

(16)RELATED PARTY

During 1999, the Company entered into an agreement under which Avion, LLC (“Avion”) and Airmax LLC (“Airmax”) provide certain aviation flight services as requested by the Company. Such services include the use of an aircraft and flight crew. Kenneth D. Tuchman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, has a direct 100% beneficial ownership interest in Avion and Airmax. During the three months ended March 31, 2019, and 2018, the Company expensed $0.3 million and $0.3 million, respectively, to Avion and Airmax for services provided to the Company. There were $170 thousand in payments due and outstanding to Avion and Airmax as of March 31, 2019.

During 2014, the Company entered into a vendor contract with Convercent Inc. to provide learning management and web and telephony based global helpline solutions. This contract was renewed for the global helpline solution only, after an arms-length market pricing review, in the fourth quarter of 2016 and is currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2019.  A minority owner of Convercent is a company which is owned and controlled by Kenneth D. Tuchman, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. During the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company expensed $15 thousand and $15 thousand, respectively, for these services.

During 2015, the Company entered into a contract to purchase software from CaféX, in which the Company holds an 17.8% equity investment. During the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company purchased $16 thousand and $15 thousand, respectively, of software from CaféX. See Note 2 for further information regarding this investment.

During 2017, in connection with the Motif acquisition, the Company became a party to a real estate lease for a building that is owned, in part, by one of the Motif Founders. The lease expired in March 2019.

Ms. Regina M. Paolillo, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of the Company, is a member of the board of directors of Welltok, Inc., a consumer health SaaS company, and partner of the Company in a  joint venture. During the three months ended March 31, 2019 and 2018, the Company recorded revenue of $1.4 million and $0.8 million, respectively, in connection with work performed through the joint venture.