BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Policies)

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

These Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements should be read in conjunction with the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements, including the notes thereto, and other information included in the Annual Report on Form 10-K of BioScrip, Inc. and its wholly-owned subsidiaries (the “Company”) for the year ended December 31, 2014 (the “Annual Report”) filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. These Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements have been prepared in accordance with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for interim financial information, and the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 10 of Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements.

The information furnished in these Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements reflects all adjustments, including normal recurring adjustments, which are, in the opinion of management, necessary for a fair presentation of the results for the interim periods presented. Operating results for the three months ended March 31, 2015 requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in the financial statements and accompanying notes and are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the full year ending December 31, 2015. The accounting policies followed for interim financial reporting are the same as those disclosed in Note 2 of the Audited Consolidated Financial Statements included in the Annual Report.

Consolidation

The Unaudited Consolidated Financial Statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Reclassifications

On March 31, 2014 the Company completed the sale of substantially all of its Home Health Services segment to LHC Group, Inc. (see Note 6 - Discontinued Operations). As a result of the sale of the Home Health Services segment, the Company operates in two operating and reportable segments, “Infusion Services” and “PBM Services”. All prior period financial statements have been reclassified to include the Home Health Services segment as discontinued operations. In addition, other classification changes have been made which have no material effect on the Company’s previously reported consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows.

Change in Estimate of the Collectability of Accounts Receivable

During 2014, the Company experienced deterioration in the aging of certain accounts receivable primarily due to delays and disruptions related to the integration of its acquisitions in 2013. The disruption to billing and collection processes was attributable in part to the following:


•	Re-licensure and new managed care credentialing was required in connection with the CarePoint Business;


•	Medicare claims were not filed until retraining and review of eligibility was performed;


•	Merged facilities and work teams in seven large markets and related employee turnover;


•	Conversion to a single version of our dispensing and billing system while still managing accounts receivable run-off on five other legacy versions; and


•	Cash posting challenges that delayed secondary and patient billings and patient statement issuance.

The Company outsourced collections to third party agency partners and hired and trained billing and collection personnel to mitigate the effects of the disruption, however, the Company experienced more difficulty collecting the aged balances than it originally estimated. The Company provided incremental allowances in each quarter during 2014 to address the developing deterioration, and as such the Company materially changed its estimates based on actual collection experience during and after the acquisition disruption period.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

In November 2014, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued ASU 2014-16 “Derivatives and Hedging (Topic 815): Determining Whether the Host Contract in a Hybrid Financial Instrument Issued in the Form of a Share Is More Akin to Debt or to Equity” (“ASU 2014-16”). ASU 2014-16 requires an entity to determine the nature of the host contract by considering the economic characteristics and risks of the entire hybrid financial instrument issued in the form of a share, including the embedded derivative feature that is being evaluated for separate accounting from the host contract when evaluating whether the host contract is more akin to debt or equity. ASU 2014-16 is effective for annual and interim reporting periods beginning January 1, 2016 and is not expected to have a material impact on the Company’s Consolidated Financial Statements.

In May 2014, the FASB issued guidance codified in Accounting Standards Codification (“ASC”) 606, Revenue Recognition - Revenue from Contracts with Customers, which supersedes the guidance in former ASC 605, Revenue Recognition. ASC 606 becomes effective for the Company on January 1, 2017. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the provisions of ASC 606.

- Definition

Disclosure of accounting policy regarding (1) the principles it follows in consolidating or combining the separate financial statements, including the principles followed in determining the inclusion or exclusion of subsidiaries or other entities in the consolidated or combined financial statements and (2) its treatment of interests (for example, common stock, a partnership interest or other means of exerting influence) in other entities, for example consolidation or use of the equity or cost methods of accounting. The accounting policy may also address the accounting treatment for intercompany accounts and transactions, noncontrolling interest, and the income statement treatment in consolidation for issuances of stock by a subsidiary.

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