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As confidentially submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission on November 6, 2020

pursuant to the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012. This draft registration statement has not been publicly filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission and all information herein remains strictly confidential.

Registration No. 333-                

 

 

 

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM S-1

REGISTRATION STATEMENT

UNDER

THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933

 

 

Mulberry Health Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

Delaware   6324   46-1315570
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)   (Primary Standard Industrial Classification Code Number)  

(I.R.S. Employer

Identification No.)

75 Varick Street, 5th Floor

New York, New York 10013

(646) 403-3677

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

 

 

Bruce L. Gottlieb, Esq.

Special Counsel

Mulberry Health Inc.

75 Varick Street, 5th Floor

New York, New York 10013

(646) 403-3677

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

 

 

Copies to:

 

Keith L. Halverstam, Esq.
Peter N. Handrinos, Esq.
Latham & Watkins LLP
885 Third Avenue
New York, New York 10022
(212) 906-1200
  Joseph C. Theis, Jr., Esq.
Paul R. Rosie, Esq.
Goodwin Procter LLP
100 Northern Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02210
(617) 570-1000

 

 

APPROXIMATE DATE OF COMMENCEMENT OF PROPOSED SALE TO THE PUBLIC: AS SOON AS PRACTICABLE AFTER THIS REGISTRATION STATEMENT IS DECLARED 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 of 1933, 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.  

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company, or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and “emerging growth company” in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

 

Large accelerated filer      Accelerated filer  
Non-accelerated filer      Smaller reporting company  
     Emerging growth company  

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act.  

 

 

CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE

 

 

Title of each class of securities to be registered  

Proposed

maximum

aggregate
offering price(1)(2)

  Amount of
registration fee(3)

Common Stock, $0.00001 par value per share

  $               $            

 

 

 

(1)

Estimated solely for the purpose of calculating the registration fee pursuant to Rule 457(o) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

 

(2)

Includes the offering price of shares of common stock that may be sold if the option to purchase additional shares of common stock granted by the Registrant to the underwriters is exercised. See “Underwriting.”

 

(3)

To be paid in connection with the initial public filing of the registration statement.

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 the Registration Statement shall become effective on such date as the Securities and Exchange Commission, acting pursuant to said Section 8(a), may determine.

 

 

 


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The information in this preliminary prospectus is not complete and may be changed. These securities may not be sold until the registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission is effective. This preliminary prospectus is not an offer to sell nor does it seek an offer to buy these securities in any jurisdiction where the offer or sale is not permitted.

 

Subject to Completion. Dated                 , 2021.

             Shares

 

 

LOGO

Mulberry Health Inc.

Common Stock

 

 

This is an initial public offering of shares of common stock of Mulberry Health Inc. We are selling                shares of common stock.

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

We are an “emerging growth company,” as defined in Section 2(a) of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and, as such, will be subject to reduced public company reporting requirements. See “Prospectus Summary—Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company.”

 

 

Investing in our common stock involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 17 to read about factors you should consider before buying shares of our common stock.

 

 

Neither the Securities and Exchange Commission nor any state securities commission or 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 discounts and commissions(1)

   $        $    

Proceeds, before expenses, to us

   $        $    

 

(1)

See “Underwriting” for a description of the compensation payable to the underwriters.

We have granted the underwriters an option for a period of 30 days to purchase up to an additional                  shares of common stock from us.

 

 

The underwriters expect to deliver the shares against payment in New York, New York on                , 2021.

 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC    Morgan Stanley

 

 

Prospectus dated                 , 2021.


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     Page  

About this Prospectus

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Prospectus Summary

     1  

Risk Factors

     17  

Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements

     49  

Use of Proceeds

     51  

Dividend Policy

     52  

Capitalization

     53  

Dilution

     55  

Selected Consolidated Financial Data

     58  

Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

     59  

Business

     81  

Management

     111  

Executive Compensation

     117  

Principal Stockholders

     126  

Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions

     127  

Description of Capital Stock

     131  

Shares Eligible for Future Sale

     140  

Material U.S. Federal Income Tax Considerations for Non-U.S. Holders of Common Stock

     143  

Underwriting

     148  

Legal Matters

     155  

Change in Accountants

     156  

Experts

     158  

Where You Can Find More Information

     159  

Index to Consolidated Financial Statements

     F-1  

 

 

Through and including                     , 2021 (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.

You should rely only on the information contained in this prospectus and any free writing prospectus prepared by or on behalf of us that we have referred to you. Neither we nor the underwriters have authorized anyone to provide you with additional or different information. If anyone provides you with additional, different, or inconsistent information, you should not rely on it. Offers to sell, and solicitations of offers to buy, shares of our common stock are being made only in jurisdictions where offers and sales are permitted. The information contained in this prospectus is accurate only as of the date of this prospectus, regardless of the time of delivery of this prospectus or of any sale of our common stock. Our business, financial condition, operating results, and prospects may have changed since such date.

No action is being taken in any jurisdiction outside the United States to permit a public offering of our common stock. Persons who come into possession of this prospectus in jurisdictions outside the United States are required to inform themselves about and to observe any restriction as to this offering and the distribution of this prospectus applicable to those jurisdictions. See “Underwriting.”

 

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ABOUT THIS PROSPECTUS

Certain Definitions

As used in this prospectus, unless the context otherwise requires:

 

   

we,” “us,” “our,” “our business,” the “Company,” “Oscar,” and similar references refer to Mulberry Health Inc. and its subsidiaries.

 

   

Holdco” refers only to Mulberry Health Inc. and not any of its subsidiaries.

 

   

ACA” refers to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, as amended.

 

   

Annual Election Period” refers to the yearly period when beneficiaries can enroll or disenroll in an Original Medicare or Medicare Advantage health plan. The Annual Election Period starts on October 15 and ends on December 7 of each year.

 

   

direct policy premium” refers to monthly premiums collected from our members and/or from the federal government during the period indicated, before risk adjustment and reinsurance.

 

   

full stack technology platform” refers to our cloud-based end-to-end technology solution, which powers our differentiated member experience engine. Our platform connects our member-facing features, including our app, website, and virtual care solutions with our back-office tools that span all critical health care insurance and technology domains, including member and provider data, utilization management, claims management, billing, and benefits.

 

   

Health Insurance Marketplaces” refers to the health insurance marketplace operated by the federal government for most states and other marketplaces operated by individual states, for individuals and small employers to purchase health insurance coverage in the Individual and Small Group markets that include minimum levels of benefits and restrictions on coverage limitations and premium rates.

 

   

health insurance subsidiary” refers to any subsidiary of Mulberry Health Inc. that has applied for or received a license, certification or authorization to sell health plans by any state Department of Insurance, Department of Financial Services, Department of Health, or comparable regulatory authority. As of September 30, 2020, Mulberry Health Inc. had 14 health insurance subsidiaries.

 

   

health plans” refers to the health insurance plans that Oscar sells in the Individual and Small Group markets and the Medicare Advantage Plans that Oscar sells in the Medicare Advantage market. The term includes co-branded health plans sold directly by our health insurance subsidiaries, in the case of our Cleveland Clinic + Oscar, Montefiore + Oscar, and Oscar + Holy Cross + Memorial Health plans, and co-branded plans sold directly by our partner and partially-reinsured by a health insurance subsidiary, in the case of the Cigna + Oscar plan.

 

   

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio” is defined as provided in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics—InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio.”

 

   

InsuranceCo Combined Ratio” is defined as the sum of MLR and InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio.

 

   

Medical Loss Ratio” or “MLR” is defined as provided in “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics—Medical Loss Ratio.”

 

   

member” refers to any individual covered by any of our health plans. A member covered under more than one of our health plans counts as a single member for the purposes of this metric.

 

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monthly active users” refers to the total number of members who have logged into our website or app or contacted their Care Teams for the month of September 2020.

 

   

NPS” refers to net promoter score, which can range from a low of negative 100 to a high of positive 100. NPS benchmarks can vary significantly by industry, but a score greater than zero represents a company that has more promoters than detractors. For Oscar, NPS reflects member responses to the following question—“On a scale of zero to ten: How likely is it that you would recommend Oscar to a friend or colleague?” Responses of 9 or 10 are considered “promoters,” responses of 7 or 8 are considered neutral or “passives,” and responses of 6 or less are considered “detractors.” We then subtract the number of respondents who are detractors from the number of respondents who are promoters, divide that number by the total number of respondents, and then multiply the resulting figure by 100. We use this method to calculate an NPS score for each member segment, where a member segment is defined by a region and subsidization level of a member. We then calculate our aggregate NPS by taking a weighted average of the segments, where the weights reflect the actual representation of that segment in our aggregate membership. We do this to adjust for differing survey rates and response rates to our survey in different segments of our membership. Our methodology for calculating NPS reflects responses from our members who choose to respond to the survey question. In particular, our NPS reflects responses given to us between January 1, 2020, and September 30, 2020, and reflects a sample size of 12,520 responses over that period. NPS gives no weight to members who decline to answer the survey question.

 

   

Open Enrollment Period” refers to the yearly period when individuals and families can enroll in a health plan or make changes to an existing health plan. In most states, the 2021 open enrollment period for the Individual market starts on November 1, 2020 and ends on December 15, 2020; it ends as late as January 31, 2021 in certain states in which Oscar does business. The Medicare Advantage Open Enrollment Period starts on January 1, 2021 and ends on March 31, 2021.

 

   

Special Enrollment Period” refers to a time outside the Open Enrollment Period or Annual Election Period when an eligible person can enroll in a health plan or make changes to an existing health plan. A person is generally eligible for a special enrollment period if certain qualifying life events occur, such as losing certain health coverage, moving, getting married, having a baby, or adopting a child.

 

   

subscribing member” refers to the individual who has been designated the primary member under an Oscar account. Each Oscar account consists of one subscribing member and may include additional covered members, such as the subscribing member’s spouse and children. Numbers quoted for “subscribing members” throughout this prospectus include only subscribers 18 years of age and older.

Rounding Adjustments

Certain monetary amounts, percentages, and other figures included in this prospectus have been subject to rounding adjustments. Percentage amounts included in this prospectus have not in all cases been calculated on the basis of such rounded figures, but on the basis of such amounts prior to rounding. For this reason, percentage amounts in this prospectus may vary from those obtained by performing the same calculations using the figures in our consolidated financial statements or the figures included elsewhere in this prospectus. Certain other amounts that appear in this prospectus may not sum due to rounding.

 

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TRADEMARKS, SERVICE MARKS, AND TRADE NAMES

This prospectus includes our trademarks, service marks, and trade names, including but not limited to Oscar®, Oscar Health®, and our logo, which are protected under applicable intellectual property laws. This prospectus also contains trademarks, service marks, and trade names of other companies, which are the property of their respective owners. We do not intend our use or display of other parties’ trademarks, service marks, or trade names to imply, and such use or display should not be construed to imply, a relationship with, or endorsement or sponsorship of us by, these other parties. Solely for convenience, trademarks, service marks, and trade names referred to in this prospectus may appear without the ®, , or SM symbols, but such references are not intended to indicate, in any way, that we will not assert, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable law, our rights or the right of the applicable licensor to these trademarks, service marks, and trade names.

MARKET AND INDUSTRY DATA

This prospectus includes estimates regarding market and industry data. Unless otherwise indicated, information concerning our industry and the markets in which we operate, including our general expectations, market position, market opportunity, and market size, are based on management’s knowledge and experience in the markets in which we operate, together with currently available information obtained from various sources, including publicly available information, industry reports, and publications, reports from government agencies, surveys, our members and providers, and other contacts in the markets in which we operate. Certain information is based on management estimates, which have been derived from third-party sources, as well as data from our internal research, and are based on certain assumptions that we believe to be reasonable.

In presenting this information, we have made certain assumptions that we believe to be reasonable based on such data and other similar sources and on our knowledge of, and our experience to date in, the markets in which we operate. While we believe the market and industry data included in this prospectus and upon which the management estimates included herein are in part based are generally reliable, such information is inherently uncertain and imprecise, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to such data or the management estimates based on such data. Market and industry data are subject to change and may be limited by the availability of raw data, the voluntary nature of the data gathering process and other limitations inherent in any statistical survey of such data. Certain of these publications, studies and reports were published before the COVID-19 pandemic and therefore do not reflect any impact of COVID-19 on any specific market or globally. In addition, projections, assumptions, and estimates of the future performance of the markets in which we operate and our future performance are necessarily subject to uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described in “Risk Factors” and “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” These and other factors could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in the estimates made by third parties and by us. Accordingly, you are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such market and industry data or any other such estimates. The content of, or accessibility through, the sources and websites identified herein, except to the extent specifically set forth in this prospectus, does not constitute a portion of this prospectus and is not incorporated herein, and any websites are an inactive textual reference only. In addition, references to third-party publications and research reports herein are not intended to imply, and should not be construed to imply, a relationship with, or endorsement of us by, the third-party producing any such publication or report.

 

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PROSPECTUS SUMMARY

This summary highlights selected information contained elsewhere in this prospectus. This summary does not contain all of the information that you should consider before deciding to invest in our common stock. You should read the entire prospectus carefully, including the sections entitled “Risk Factors” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus, before making an investment decision. Some of the statements in this prospectus constitute forward-looking statements. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

Overview

At Oscar, we make a healthier life accessible and affordable for all.

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar over eight years ago to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family, helping us navigate the health care system in our moments of greatest need. In the years since, we have built a suite of services that permit us to earn our members’ trust, leverage the power of personalized data, and help our members find quality care they can afford. We call this our member engagement engine, and it is powered by a differentiated full stack technology platform that will allow us to continue to innovate like a technology company and not a traditional insurer in the years ahead.

After seven years of selling health insurance, we are proud to have earned industry-leading levels of trust, engagement, and customer satisfaction from the approximately 420,000 members who, as of September 30, 2020, have chosen Oscar. At the same time, we have achieved positive unit economics through an MLR of 88% for the year ended December 31, 2019. Our members live in 211 counties across 15 states and are expected to have over 5 million health care visits in 2020. They include families seeking coverage that works for toddlers and their busy parents, adults with chronic conditions who know their care providers by their first names, and seniors choosing a benefits package that will serve them throughout their retirement years. As we continue to bring the Oscar experience to new members, new states, and new markets, our goal will remain the same: to build engagement, earn trust, and help our members live healthier lives.

Hi, We’re Oscar

We created Oscar because of our own frustrations with U.S. health care. The U.S. health care system is the world’s largest and most expensive—projected to cost over $4 trillion in 2020—yet health outcomes are worse than in other advanced economies. Costs are so out of control that medical bills contribute to around 66% of all personal bankruptcies in the United States. It doesn’t have to be this way. According to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2019, nearly 25% of health care spending in the U.S. is wasted, the result of a system plagued by misaligned incentives, lack of coordination, and administrative complexities.

Health insurers have substantial influence over the health care ecosystem because they disburse 75 cents of every health care dollar. Despite decades of effort, however, incumbent insurers have made little progress in reigning in health care costs or incentivizing key stakeholders to produce better outcomes. Instead, for far too many consumers, health insurance adds an additional layer of complexity to an already complex system. With an average Net Promoter Score of negative 12, according to Deft Research, customer satisfaction for insurers in the Individual market ranks among the lowest of any economic sector.



 

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We founded Oscar to solve these problems and to provide consumers with access to the affordable, high-quality health care they deserve. We recognized that doing so would require reorienting how customers see their health insurer and what they expect from it. Too often, customers view legacy insurers as entities that merely take in monthly premiums and then pay medical claims. We aimed instead to serve as their guide to a confusing and fragmented system, helping them save money by optimizing their spending. In order to achieve all of this, we would need to earn something that is all too rare in the health insurance industry: member trust. We would need to build a technology platform that provides an intuitive, seamless customer experience, and we would need to leverage the power of personalized data. Though our member experience would begin with trust, engagement, and

the smart use of data, our ultimate goal would be to bend the cost curve by guiding members to the right care at the right time and at the right value.

Our experience to date reaffirms our view that real change in health care can only come from the use of personalized data to drive realtime actionable insights and recommendations, such as guiding members to the right doctor, hospital, or site-of-care through what we call care routing. We know we are on the right track when 68% of surveyed members indicate that they trust Oscar to advise them on how and where to get the health care they need and 75% of subscribing members with a medical visit use our tools to search for a provider. This compares to an industry-wide average of only 45% of surveyed customers who trust their insurer for health care advice, and no comparable or available statistics from our competitors when it comes to care routing. Given the central role that primary care providers, or PCPs, play in managing care, it is especially meaningful that 48% of first-time PCP visits as a member are to a doctor recommended to them by Oscar. It is the ongoing engagement and trusted relationship we have with our members that drives our NPS score of 30, which is in a different ballpark altogether than the negative 12 average among insurers in the Individual market.

We encourage members to interact regularly with us through our mobile app and website, which make it easy for Oscar members to search for and access their medical history, lab tests, and various care options, as well as to refill prescriptions through our virtual care solution. We also assign each member a dedicated Care Team, typically composed of five Care Guides and a registered nurse known as a Case Manager, who build trust and engagement by providing personalized insights and real-time guidance through the health care system. As of September 30, 2020, 88% of our subscribing members have interacted with our digital or Care Team channels, 80% have a digital profile, almost half have downloaded our app, and our per member app download rate year to date is approximately nine times higher than for other insurers. 44% of our subscribing members are monthly active users.

Additionally, since 2014, all of our members have had 24/7 access to our evolving Oscar virtual care offerings, in nearly all cases at no additional cost. These include urgent care through our Virtual Urgent Care service and, beginning January 1, 2021, primary care through our Virtual Primary Care service. Of our subscribing members who have had one or more medical visits, 38% have used our in-house virtual offering. Even before the recent COVID-19 pandemic, in the three-month period ended December 31, 2019, the total number of visits through our Oscar virtual program represented nearly one out of five (19%) of the total number of PCP, urgent care, and outpatient emergency room, or ER, visits by our subscribing members. Use of virtual care by our members has further increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The combination of our member engagement engine and full stack technology platform allows us to help our members find quality providers, but we understand that value is just as important. Over the next five years, health care costs are expected to grow at approximately 5% to 6% per year, outstripping both inflation and GDP growth estimates. Whether our members are spending their own out-of-pocket dollars before a deductible is reached or contending with rapid medical cost inflation, we



 

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are acutely aware of the need to make sure every consumer health care dollar is well spent. Our fully integrated systems and data infrastructure enable us to efficiently and effectively identify higher quality, lower cost health care providers in our network and our levels of trust and engagement earn us the ability to help our members find the right care.

The value of our proprietary insurance platform has been recognized across the industry as leading health care providers and insurers have chosen to form innovative platform-based partnerships with Oscar. In each of these models—including with organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic and Cigna—we contribute our full stack technology platform and member engagement engine in return for co-branding, risk-sharing, and/or fee-based reimbursement. We believe our investment in deeply differentiated technology provides a foundation that will enable us to monetize our platform and diversify our revenue streams over time, if we choose to do so.

We began by offering health plans in the Individual market because we believed it was where our member-first approach would set us apart. When the ACA created new direct-to-consumer channels in 2014, we knew that we would be competing with some of the nation’s largest health insurers. But we also knew we would have a unique window when a new entrant could gain market share rapidly by creating a superior product—one that could ultimately be extended to other insurance markets. After only seven years of selling health insurance in the Individual market, our strategy has proved out. We are the third largest for-profit national provider in that market, and we expanded to Small Group in 2017 and Medicare Advantage in 2020. Today, we have at least one health plan in 211 counties across 15 states and expect to expand in the years ahead both geographically and with respect to insurance markets.

Since our inception, we have experienced significant member growth while keeping insurance premiums affordable for our members. As of September 30, 2020, we had approximately 420,000 members, up from 82,000 as of September 30, 2017, representing a compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of approximately 72%. For the year ended December 31, 2019, after taking into account reinsurance premiums ceded, premiums earned were $468.9 million. Our direct policy premiums for the year ended December 31, 2019 were $1.3 billion, our total revenue was $488.2 million, and we generated a net loss of $261.2 million.

Health Care Needs to be Reimagined

Though affordability and poor outcomes are the most visible problems with U.S. health care from the consumer perspective, all of the ecosystem’s key stakeholders—consumers, employers, payers, and providers—face serious challenges when it comes to improving the system. As U.S. health care spending approaches 18% of gross domestic product—more than twice the average of other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries—the need for creative solutions from the private sector has never been greater:

 

   

Lack of Consumer-Centric Solutions.    Even though health care decisions are among the most important any consumer will make, it is easier to research the right auto mechanic online than the right oncologist and more convenient to make a restaurant reservation on a smartphone than to book something as simple as an annual physical. The reason has little to do with what is technologically feasible and everything to do with the skewed incentives created by the U.S. health care system.

 

   

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pharmacy networks each possessing distinct incentive structures—some or all of which may diverge from consumers’ interests. Even as consumer demand for greater coordination grows, inflexible and disparate legacy technological systems present a significant barrier to meeting consumers’ wants and needs.

 

   

Lack of Innovation.    As consumers have become more involved in—and financially responsible for—their own health care choices, they seek more personalization, convenience, and value. Consumer demand for new care delivery models—such as virtual, home and mobile—has only accelerated due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. The fee-for-service reimbursement model and fragmented legacy technology systems present serious hurdles for realizing the full benefits that telehealth can bring. We started Oscar to move health care forward and enabling innovative virtual care has been part of our DNA since the beginning.

We Have a Massive Opportunity

The U.S. health care industry is a massive and growing market in the middle of a paradigm shift that creates substantial opportunities for private sector innovation. According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, or CMS, health care spending in the U.S. is projected to be over $4 trillion in 2020 and to grow to over $6 trillion by 2028. Of the $4 trillion in health care spending, $3 trillion of that amount is expected to pass through health insurers, an amount that is expected to grow to nearly $5 trillion by 2028. The secular shifts toward consumerization, technological innovation, and personalization in health care, along with the accelerating demand for value and accountability, have raised the stakes for health insurers when it comes to providing lasting value to consumers. As the first technology-driven, direct-to-consumer health insurance company, we have built an innovative full stack technology platform that is uniquely positioned to deliver against this challenge.

We currently sell health plans in three markets—Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage—which, in aggregate, serve more than 50 million Americans and represent $450 billion in direct policy premiums.

As we scale, our addressable market will continue to expand due to our ability to enable new innovative models of integrated care. Our platform is increasingly modular and able to address large adjacencies within health care technology spend including telemedicine, care concierge, claims management and population health. Our member engagement tools and insurance operations infrastructure have the ability to be deployed alongside other provider and payer networks to enable new risk-based models. Collectively, we estimate these addressable markets represent an additional opportunity of $123 billion, including $40 billion in telemedicine, $20 billion in care concierge, $12 billion in claims management, and $51 billion in population health.

We Are a Full Stack Technology Platform

“Full stack” is not a term typically used in the legacy health insurance industry, but it is common in the technology sector, where companies are accustomed to building dynamic technology systems in-house that can be adjusted on a daily basis to serve the evolving needs of the business on every level. When we launched Oscar, we knew that tackling the challenges of the U.S. health care system would be ambitious. We recognized early on that health care was too broken to fix by simply reconfiguring existing technologies, and we understood that our ability to bend the cost curve would require us to control all of our data and processes before we could empower members with real-time actionable insights. This meant purpose-building a platform from the ground up that we update through



 

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code deployments more than 50 times per day. We believe we have built our platform to scale and it is broadly applicable across health care and health insurance in the U.S. and abroad. Competitors who lack this member engagement engine will face significant challenges in replicating our consumer experience; we believe our platform thus forms an important structural moat around the innovations we have developed.

Our Strengths

We believe the following strengths will continue to drive our growth and development:

 

   

Member-first philosophy.    We founded Oscar with a focus on guiding our members throughout their health care journey. We focus on delivering a better member experience by making health care easier to navigate, more transparent, and more affordable.

 

   

High member engagement and trust.    Our member-first philosophy allows us to develop and earn trusted relationships with our members. This deep trust drives higher levels of engagement, allowing us to positively influence how our members make decisions about their health and well-being.

 

   

Innovative approach to care.    We offer high-quality and high-value care to our members. Our innovative virtual care model acts as a front door for members to the health care system either by handling care directly or helping them find the right doctor at the right time.

 

   

Disruptive technology platform.    Innovation is core to our DNA. Over the last nine years, we have built a full stack technology platform that combines data science and end-to-end control of the member experience to drive better data, better insights, and better decision-making using a cloud-based platform.

 

   

Powering the broader health care ecosystem.    Our goal is to enable health care’s key stakeholders to deliver better care to consumers in innovative ways. Our full stack technology and member engagement engine have been recognized throughout the industry, allowing us to partner with leading health care companies across the ecosystem through co-branded, fee-based, and/or risk-sharing arrangements.

Our Growth Opportunities

We are in the early stages of addressing our market opportunity and reimagining health care in the U.S. The key elements of our growth strategy are to:

 

   

Acquire more members in existing markets and states.    We believe that we have a significant opportunity to expand and grow share within our current footprint of markets and states as we continue to refine our member engagement engine.

 

   

Launch new markets and states.    We believe we can substantially grow our member base by launching into new counties and states. Today, we serve members in 211 counties and 15 states in the U.S., and in 2021, we plan to expand to a total of 286 counties and 18 states.

 

   

Introduce new products and plans.    Our platform is built to be extensible to new products and plans, and we plan to continue investing and scaling to address the needs of consumers and partners. In 2017, we entered the Small Group market, and in 2020, we expanded our presence in this market with Cigna + Oscar preferred provider organization, or PPO, and exclusive provider organization, or EPO, plans. In 2019, we announced that we would be launching Medicare Advantage, and in 2020, we served our first members in that market.



 

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Develop new partnerships and evaluate potential acquisitions.    We believe there is substantial opportunity for us to continue partnering with health care’s key stakeholders through innovative fee-based and/or risk-sharing arrangements that reimagine the way health care is delivered. We will also consider growth through acquisition.

 

   

Monetize our technology.    We have made significant investments in our platform to build a unique full stack technology platform that enables innovation in the global health care system. We believe we are well-positioned to monetize our technology through risk-sharing partnerships or, even more directly, through a fee-based service arrangement.

Summary Risk Factors

There are a number of risks that you should understand before making an investment decision regarding this offering. These risks are discussed more fully in the section entitled “Risk Factors” following this prospectus summary. If any of these risks actually occur, our business, financial condition, or results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. In such case, the trading price of our common stock would likely decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment. These risks include, but are not limited to the following:

 

   

failure to retain and expand our member base;

 

   

failure to execute our growth strategy;

 

   

inability to achieve or maintain profitability in the future;

 

   

changes in federal or state laws or regulations, including changes with respect to the ACA and any regulations enacted thereunder;

 

   

failure to accurately estimate our incurred medical expenses or effectively manage our medical costs or related administrative costs;

 

   

failure to comply with ongoing regulatory requirements and applicable performance standards;

 

   

changes or developments in the health insurance markets in the United States, including passage and implementation of a law to create a single-payer or government-run health insurance program;

 

   

failure to comply with applicable privacy, security, and data laws, regulations, and standards;

 

   

inability to arrange for the delivery of quality care and maintain good relations with the physicians, hospitals, and other providers within and outside our provider networks; and

 

   

unfavorable or otherwise costly outcomes of lawsuits and claims that arise from the extensive laws and regulations to which we are subject.

Before you invest in our common stock, you should carefully consider all of the information in this prospectus, including matters set forth under the heading “Risk Factors.”

Implications of Being an Emerging Growth Company

We qualify as an “emerging growth company” as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012, or the JOBS Act. An emerging growth company may take advantage of certain reduced reporting and other requirements that are otherwise generally applicable to public companies. As a result:

 

   

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we are exempt from the requirement that critical audit matters be discussed in our independent auditor’s reports on our audited financial statements or any other requirements that may be adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, or the PCAOB, unless the SEC determines that the application of such requirements to emerging growth companies is in the public interest;

 

   

we are exempt from the provisions of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, requiring that our independent registered public accounting firm provide an attestation report on the effectiveness of its internal control over financial reporting;

 

   

we are exempt from the “say on pay,” “say on frequency,” and “say on golden parachute” advisory vote requirements of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, or the Dodd-Frank Act; and

 

   

we are exempt from certain disclosure requirements of the Dodd-Frank Act relating to compensation of our executive officers and are permitted to omit the detailed compensation discussion and analysis from proxy statements and reports filed under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act.

We may take advantage of these provisions until the last day of our fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering or such earlier time that we are no longer an emerging growth company. We would cease to be an emerging growth company upon the earliest of: (i) the last day of the first fiscal year in which our annual gross revenues are $1.07 billion or more; (ii) the date on which we have, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt securities; or (iii) the date on which we are deemed to be a “large accelerated filer,” which will occur as of the end of any fiscal year in which we (x) have an aggregate market value of our common stock held by non-affiliates of $700 million or more as of the last business day of our most recently completed second fiscal quarter, (y) have been required to file annual and quarterly reports under the Exchange Act, for a period of at least 12 months and (z) have filed at least one annual report pursuant to the Exchange Act.

We may choose to take advantage of some but not all of these reduced burdens. We have elected to adopt the reduced requirements with respect to our financial statements and the related selected financial data and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” disclosure. As a result, the information that we provide to stockholders may be different from the information you may receive from other public companies in which you hold an investment.

In addition, pursuant to Section 107 of the JOBS Act, as an emerging growth company, we have elected to take advantage of the extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. As a result, our operating results and financial statements may not be comparable to the operating results and financial statements of other companies who have adopted the new or revised accounting standards. It is possible that some investors will find our common stock less attractive as a result, which may result in a less active trading market for our common stock and higher volatility in our stock price.

Our Corporate Information

Mulberry Health Inc., the registrant and the issuer of our common stock in this offering, was incorporated as a Delaware corporation on October 25, 2012. Our corporate headquarters are located at 75 Varick Street, 5th Floor, New York, New York 10013. Our telephone number is (646) 403-3677.



 

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Our principal website address is www.hioscar.com. The information on, or that can be accessed through, our website is deemed not to be incorporated in this prospectus or to be part of this prospectus. You should not consider information contained on our website to be part of this prospectus in deciding whether to purchase shares of our common stock.



 

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THE OFFERING

 

Common stock offered by us

                shares.

Underwriters’ option to purchase additional shares of common stock

  


The underwriters have an option to purchase up to              additional shares of common stock from us at the initial public offering price, less underwriting discounts and commissions. The underwriters can exercise this option at any time within 30 days from the date of this prospectus.

Common stock to be outstanding immediately after this offering

  


             shares (or              shares if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares of common stock in full).

Use of proceeds

  

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering of approximately $             million (or $             million if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares of common stock in full), based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $             per share (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including to fund our growth (including capital contributions to our health insurance subsidiaries), technology development, working capital, operating expenses, and capital expenditures. Additionally, we may use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire or invest in products, services, or technologies; however, we do not have agreements or commitments for any material investments at this time. We will have broad discretion in the way that we use the net proceeds of this offering. See “Use of Proceeds.”

Dividend policy

   We do not expect to pay any dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future. See “Dividend Policy.”

Risk factors

   Investing in our common stock involves risks. See “Risk Factors” beginning on page 17 and other information included in this prospectus for a discussion of factors you should carefully consider before deciding to invest in shares of our common stock.

Listing

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The number of shares of our common stock that will be outstanding immediately after this offering is based on              shares of our common stock outstanding as of                     , 2020, and reflects the assumed automatic conversion of              shares of preferred stock into              shares of common stock in connection with the completion of this offering, or the Preferred Stock Conversion.

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

 

   

             shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options outstanding as of                     , 2020 under our 2012 Stock Plan, or the 2012 Plan, with a weighted average exercise price of $             per share;

 

   

             shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants outstanding as of                     , 2020, with a weighted average exercise price of $             per share; and

 

   

             shares of common stock that will become available for future issuance under our new equity compensation plans, consisting of (1)             shares of common stock under our 2021 Incentive Award Plan, or the 2021 Plan, and (2)            shares of common stock under our 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan, or the ESPP, each of which will become effective in connection with this offering (and each of which exclude any potential annual evergreen increases pursuant to the terms of the 2021 Plan and the ESPP).

Unless otherwise indicated, all information contained in this prospectus assumes or gives effect to:

 

   

the Preferred Stock Conversion;

 

   

the filing and effectiveness of our thirteenth amended and restated certificate of incorporation, or the Amended Charter, and the adoption of our third amended and restated bylaws, or the Amended Bylaws, each of which will occur immediately prior to the closing of this offering and which will effect the reclassification of all outstanding shares of Series A Common Stock, Series B Common Stock and Series C Common Stock into our common stock;

 

   

no exercise of the outstanding stock options or warrants described above subsequent to                     , 2020;

 

   

no exercise by the underwriters of their option to purchase up to              additional shares of common stock; and

 

   

an initial public offering price of $             per share of common stock, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus.



 

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SUMMARY CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL AND OTHER DATA

The following tables present the summary consolidated financial and other data for Mulberry Health Inc. and its subsidiaries. We have derived the summary consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020 and the summary consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2020 from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read this data together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus and the sections titled “Selected Consolidated Financial Data” and “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Our historical results for any prior period are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future.

 

     Year ended
December 31,
 
     2019     2020  
     (in thousands, except share
and per share data)
 

Consolidated Statement of Operations:

    

Revenue:

    

Premiums before ceded reinsurance

   $ 1,041,145     $                        

Reinsurance premiums ceded

     (572,284  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Premiums earned

     468,861    

Investment income and other revenue

     19,327    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenue

     488,188    

Operating expenses:

    

Claims incurred, net

     408,259    

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     284,249    

Federal and state assessments

     48,170    

Depreciation and amortization

     6,899    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     747,577    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income tax expense

     (259,389  

Income tax expense

     1,793    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (261,182  

Other comprehensive income—net of tax

    

Unrealized gain on investments

     17    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ (261,165   $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

   $ (3.02   $    

Weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

     86,439,407    

Pro forma net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

    

Pro forma weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

    

Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows:

    

Net cash used in operating activities

   $ (165,370   $    

Net cash provided by investing activities

     150,513    

Net cash used in financing activities

     (2,119  


 

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     As of December 31, 2020  
     Actual      Pro Forma(1)      Pro Forma
As Adjusted(2)(3)
 
     (in thousands)  

Consolidated Balance Sheet:

        

Cash and cash equivalents

   $                    $                    $                

Short-term investments

        

Total assets

        

Total liabilities

        

Convertible preferred stock

        

Total stockholders’ (deficit) equity

        

 

     Year ended
December 31,
 
     2019     2020  

Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics:(4)

    

Members (as of March 31 of the period indicated)

     249,280       415,751  

Direct Policy Premiums (in thousands)

   $ 1,325,760    

Medical Loss Ratio(5)

     87.6  

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio(6)

     24.9  

InsuranceCo Combined Ratio

     112.6  

Adjusted EBITDA(7) (in thousands)

   $ (222,173  

 

(1)

The pro forma consolidated balance sheet data as of December, 31, 2020 present our consolidated balance sheet data to give effect to (i) the filing and effectiveness of our Amended Charter, and (ii) the Preferred Stock Conversion, in each case as if such event had occurred on December 31, 2020.

(2)

The pro forma as adjusted consolidated balance sheet data reflect the items described in footnote (1) above and give effect to our receipt of estimated net proceeds from the sale of shares of common stock that we are offering by this prospectus at an assumed initial public offering price of $        per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us. A $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $        per share would increase (decrease) each of cash and cash equivalents, total assets and total stockholders’ (deficit) equity by $        million, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

(3)

The pro forma as adjusted data discussed above are illustrative only and will be adjusted based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing.

(4)

See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics” for information on how we define these key operating and non-GAAP financial metrics.



 

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(5)

MLR is calculated as set forth in the table below. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics—Medical Loss Ratio” for more information on MLR.

 

     Year ended December 31,  
     2019     2020  
     (in thousands)  

Direct claims incurred before ceded quota share reinsurance(a)

   $ 924,256     $                    

Excess of loss ceded claims(b)

     (13,908  

State reinsurance(c)

     (6,959  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net claims before ceded quota share reinsurance(A)

   $ 903,389     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Premiums before ceded reinsurance(d)

   $ 1,041,145     $    

Other non-recurring items(e)

     3,240    

Excess of loss reinsurance premiums(f)

 

     (13,332  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net premiums before ceded quota share reinsurance(B)

 

   $ 1,031,053     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Medical Loss Ratio (A divided by B)

 

     87.6  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

  (a)

See footnote 4 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for a reconciliation of direct claims incurred to claims incurred, net presented on the face of our audited consolidated income statement.

  (b)

Represents claims ceded to reinsurers pursuant to an excess of loss treaty, for which such reinsurers are financially liable. We use excess of loss reinsurance to limit the losses and individual claims of our members.

  (c)

Represents payments made by certain state-run reinsurance programs established subject to CMS approval under Section 1332 of the ACA.

  (d)

See footnote 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for an explanation of premiums before ceded reinsurance.

  (e)

Represents a pre-quota share write-off of a NYDFS receivable in 2019 as described in footnote 2 in the reconciliation presented in footnote 7 below, which is offset by proceeds received from the sale of a portion of our risk corridor recovery in 2019 as described in footnote 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

  (f)

Represents excess of loss insurance premiums paid.

 

(6)

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio is calculated as set forth in the table below. See “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics—InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio” for more information on InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio.

 

     Year ended December 31,  
     2019     2020  
     (in thousands)  

Selling, general and administrative expenses of health insurance subsidiaries

   $ 224,902     $                    

Premium deficiency reserves(a)

     (12,615  

Interest expense(b)

     (2,245  

Federal and state assessment of health insurance subsidiaries(c)

     47,049    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Health insurance subsidiary adjusted administrative expenses(A)

   $ 257,091     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Premiums before ceded reinsurance(d)

   $ 1,041,145     $    

Other non-recurring items(d)

     3,240    

Excess of loss reinsurance premiums(d)

 

     (13,332  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net premiums before ceded quota share reinsurance(B)

 

   $ 1,031,053     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio (A divided by B)

 

     24.9  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 


 

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  (a)

Represents the excess of expected future claims and administrative expenses over future premiums and reinsurance recoveries.

  (b)

Represents interest expense owed by our health insurance subsidiaries to Holdco in connection with intercompany indebtedness.

  (c)

Represents federal and state assessments of our health insurance subsidiaries.

  (d)

See footnotes (d) through (f) to footnote 5 above for a description of these line items.

 

(7)

Adjusted EBITDA is a supplemental measure of our performance that is not required by, or presented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the U.S., or GAAP. Adjusted EBITDA is not a measurement of our financial performance under GAAP and should not be considered as an alternative to net loss or any other performance measure derived in accordance with GAAP, or as an alternative to cash flows from operating activities as a measure of our liquidity.

We define Adjusted EBITDA as net loss for the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries before interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization as further adjusted for stock-based compensation, warrant contract expense, changes in the fair value of warrant liabilities, and non-operating litigation reserves/settlements as described below.

We caution investors that amounts presented in accordance with our definition of Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similar measures disclosed by our competitors, because not all companies and analysts calculate Adjusted EBITDA in the same manner. We present Adjusted EBITDA because we consider this metric to be an important supplemental measure of our performance and believe it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. Management believes that investors’ understanding of our performance is enhanced by including this non-GAAP financial measure as a reasonable basis for comparing our ongoing results of operations.

Management uses Adjusted EBITDA:

 

   

as a measurement of operating performance because it assists us in comparing the operating performance of our business on a consistent basis, as it removes the impact of items not directly resulting from our core operations;

 

   

for planning purposes, including the preparation of our internal annual operating budget and financial projections;

 

   

to evaluate the performance and effectiveness of our operational strategies; and

 

   

to evaluate our capacity to expand our business.

By providing this non-GAAP financial measure, together with a reconciliation to the most comparable GAAP measure, we believe we are enhancing investors’ understanding of our business and our results of operations, as well as assisting investors in evaluating how well we are executing our strategic initiatives. Adjusted EBITDA has limitations as an analytical tool, and should not be considered in isolation, or as an alternative to, or a substitute for net loss or other financial statement data presented in our consolidated financial statements as indicators of financial performance. Some of the limitations are:

 

   

such measures do not reflect our cash expenditures, or future requirements for capital expenditures, or contractual commitments;

 

   

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such measures do not reflect the interest expense, or the cash requirements necessary to service interest or principal payments on our debt;

 

   

such measures do not reflect our tax expense or the cash requirements to pay our taxes;

 

   

although depreciation and amortization are non-cash charges, the assets being depreciated and amortized will often have to be replaced in the future and such measures do not reflect any cash requirements for such replacements; and

 

   

other companies in our industry may calculate such measures differently than we do, limiting their usefulness as comparative measures.

Due to these limitations, Adjusted EBITDA should not be considered as measures of discretionary cash available to us to invest in the growth of our business. We compensate for these limitations by relying primarily on our GAAP results and using these non-GAAP measures only supplementally. As noted in the table below, Adjusted EBITDA includes adjustments to exclude the impact of material infrequent items, including litigation settlements net of reinsurance, among other items. It is reasonable to expect that these items could occur in future periods. However, we believe these adjustments are appropriate because the amounts recognized can vary significantly from period to period, do not directly relate to the ongoing operations of our business, and may complicate comparisons of our internal operating results and operating results of other companies over time. In addition, Adjusted EBITDA includes adjustments for other items that we do not expect to regularly record following this offering. Each of the normal recurring adjustments and other adjustments described in this paragraph and in the reconciliation table below help management with a measure of our core operating performance over time by removing items that are not related to day-to-day operations.

The following table reconciles Adjusted EBITDA to the most directly comparable GAAP financial performance measure, which is net loss:

 

     Year ended December 31,  
     2019     2020  
     (in thousands)  

Net loss

   $ (261,182   $                    

Interest expense

     —      

Income tax expense

     1,793    

Depreciation and amortization

     6,899    

Stock-based compensation/warrant expense(a)

     34,262    

Other non-recurring items(b)

     (3,945  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA(c)

   $ (222,173   $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

  (a)

Represents (i) non-cash expenses related to equity-based compensation programs, which vary from period to period depending on various factors including the timing, number, and the valuation of awards, (ii) warrant contract expense, and (iii) changes in the fair value of warrant liabilities.

  (b)

A health insurance subsidiary of the Company had previously recorded a receivable in 2018 of $16,055 (net of reinsurance) from the New York Department of Financial Services, or NYDFS, in connection with the NYDFS’s program to limit federal risk adjustment transfers, which would have allowed us to collect additional funds from the NYDFS that we had previously remitted to CMS. However, this NYDFS program would have resulted in other insurance carriers having to return certain of the funds they received in connection with the federal risk adjustment program to the NYDFS. In 2017, these carriers initiated a lawsuit against the NYDFS to reverse the NYDFS limitations, which was subsequently decided in



 

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  the carriers’ favor. As a result, we will no longer be entitled to receive the additional funds, and we have written off the receivable in 2019. The write-off of the receivable is offset by proceeds received from the sale of a portion of our risk corridor recovery in 2019 as described in footnote 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.
  (c)

Our Adjusted EBITDA consists of $129.5 million of net loss attributable to our health insurance subsidiaries and $92.7 million of net loss attributable to Holdco and its non-health insurance subsidiaries, which is primarily attributable to technology expenses. We believe presenting this attribution enhances investors’ understanding of our business and facilitates external comparisons of the results of our business to the historical performance of peer companies that may have different structures. In particular, as set out elsewhere in this prospectus, our investments in our full stack technology platform is a unique component of our cost structure that we believe provides a long term competitive advantage and sets us apart from our competitors. Accordingly, our net loss attributable to health insurance subsidiaries represents our net loss for our core products which is more comparable to the expense structure of our competitors. Our net loss attributable to Holdco and its non-health insurance subsidiaries represents the additional net loss resulting from our investments in technology to support our expected future growth.



 

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RISK FACTORS

Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider the risks and uncertainties described below, together with all of the other information in this prospectus, including our audited consolidated financial statements and the related notes, before deciding to invest in our common stock. The occurrence of any of the events described below could harm our business, operating results, financial condition, liquidity, or prospects. In such an event, the market price of our common stock could decline, and you may lose all or part of your investment. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us, or that we currently deem immaterial, may also impair our business. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.”

Most Material Risks to Us

Our success and ability to grow our business depend in part on retaining and expanding our member base. If we fail to add new members or retain current members, our business, revenue, operating results, and financial condition could be harmed.

We currently derive substantially all of our revenue from direct policy premiums, which is primarily driven by the number of members covered by our health plans. As a result, the size of our member base is critical to our success. We have experienced significant member growth since we commenced operations; however, we may not be able to maintain this growth, and our member base could decrease rapidly or shrink over time.

Attracting new members depends, in large part, on our ability to continue to be perceived as providing a superior member experience, competitive pricing, access to competitive provider networks and quality providers, and competitive insurance coverage relative to other insurers in the same geographic and insurance markets. Some of the health insurers with which we compete have greater financial and other resources, offer a broader scope of products, and may be able to price their products more competitively than ours. Many of them also have relationships with more providers and provider groups than we do, and so are able to offer a larger network and/or obtain better unit cost economics.

Additionally, our ability to attract new members and retain existing members depends in part on the Health Insurance Marketplaces, which we rely on to promote our health plans and increase our membership, and insurance brokers, who help us identify and enroll new members and generally assist with marketing our products and plans.

If we fail to remain competitive on member experience, pricing, and insurance coverage options, our ability to grow our business and generate revenue by attracting and retaining members may be adversely affected. There are many other factors that could negatively affect our ability to grow our member base, including if:

 

   

our competitors mimic our innovative product offerings or our full stack technology platform, causing current and potential members to purchase our competitors’ insurance products instead of ours;

 

   

our digital platform experiences disruptions;

 

   

we experience unfavorable shifts in member perception of our digital platform or other member service channels;

 

   

we suffer reputational harm to our brand resulting from negative publicity, whether accurate or inaccurate;

 

   

we are unable to maintain licenses and approvals to offer insurance in our current markets or to expand geographically in an economically sustainable manner;

 

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we fail to offer new and competitive products;

 

   

our strategic partners fail to renew or terminate our current contracts or we fail to enter into contracts with new strategic partners;

 

   

insurance brokers that we rely on to build our member base are unable to market our insurance products effectively, or if we fail to attract brokers to sell our insurance products, or lose important broker relationships to our competitors or otherwise;

 

   

technical or other problems frustrate the member experience; or

 

   

our members do not find sufficient value in our virtual care offerings, including primary and urgent care, to justify their costs.

Our inability to overcome these challenges could impair our ability to attract new members and retain existing members, and could have a material adverse effect on our business, revenue, operating results, and financial condition.

Our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed if we fail to execute our growth strategy.

Our growth strategy includes, without limitation, the acquisition of additional members in new and existing markets and states, introducing new products and plans, and monetizing our technology.

We are expanding rapidly by entering into new markets and introducing new health plans in the markets in which we currently operate. As of the date of this prospectus, our health insurance subsidiaries operate in 15 states, 12 of which we expanded to since 2017. In 2021, we plan to expand to three additional states for a total of 18 states. As our business grows, we may incur significant expenses prior to commencement of operations and the receipt of revenue, including significant time and expense in obtaining the regulatory approvals and licenses necessary to grow our operations. For example, in order to obtain a certificate of authority to market and sell insurance in most jurisdictions, we must establish a provider network and demonstrate our ability to perform or delegate utilization management and other administrative functions. Often, we are also required to contribute significant capital to fund capital and surplus requirements, escrows, or contingency guaranties. Even if we are successful in obtaining a certificate of authority, regulators may not approve our proposed benefit designs, provider networks, or premium levels, or may require us to change them in ways that harm our profitability. Further, even if we successfully attract members in sufficient numbers to cover our costs, the new business could fail, which could not only result in financial harm, but also reputational harm to our brand. We may also experience delays in operational start dates. Even if we are successful in establishing a profitable health plan in a new jurisdiction, increasing membership, revenues and medical costs could trigger increased risk-based capital, or RBC, requirements that could substantially exceed the net income generated by the health plan. In such circumstances, we may not be able to fund on a timely basis, or at all, the increased RBC requirements with our available cash resources. As we expand, if competitors seek to retain market share by reducing prices, we may be forced to reduce our prices on similar product offerings in order to remain competitive, which could impact our financial condition and may require a change in our operating strategies. It is difficult to predict the full effect of pricing changes. Even if we reduce the pricing of our products, our resulting membership enrollment could be lower than anticipated and our growth could stall. As a result of these factors, entering new markets or introducing new health plans may decrease our profitability. In addition, we are continuously updating and developing new technology for our providers. If our providers do not utilize the technology we deploy to them, we may not be able to efficiently and cost-effectively operate our business.

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our business in these newer markets could be adversely affected. There can also be no assurance that we will be able to maintain or enhance our reputation and brand in our existing markets, and failure to do so could materially adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

We also pursue opportunistic partnerships and acquisitions to allow us to provide better health care options for our members as well as to augment existing operations, and we may be in discussions with respect to one or more partnerships or acquisitions at any given time. For example, we recently entered into a partnership with Cigna to provide commercial health plans to small businesses, for which we made a significant investment in financial and other resources. Although we diligence and carefully consider the merits of every growth opportunity, it is possible that partnerships or other acquisition opportunities that we enter into may not perform as well as expected, may not achieve timely profitability or expected synergies, may expose us to additional liability, or may limit our ability to offer products in certain insurance markets and geographic regions.

We expect that our growth strategy will continue to focus on opportunities in existing and new markets and states for the foreseeable future, which will require significant dedication of management attention and financial resources. If we are unable to effectively execute our growth strategy, our future growth will suffer, and our results of operations could be harmed.

We have a history of losses, and we may not achieve or maintain profitability in the future.

We have not been profitable since our inception in 2012 and had an accumulated deficit of $1,012.9 million as of December 31, 2019. We incurred net losses of $261.2 million in the year ended December 31, 2019. We expect to make significant investments to further market, develop, and expand our business, including by improving our technology to acquire more members and maintain existing members and investing in partnerships and acquisitions. In addition, we expect to continue to increase our headcount in the coming years. As a public company, we will also incur significant legal, accounting, compliance, and other expenses that we did not incur as a private company. The commissions we offer to brokers could also increase significantly as we compete to attract new members. We will continue to make such investments to grow our business. Despite these investments, we may not succeed in increasing our revenue on the timeline that we expect or in an amount sufficient to lower our net loss and ultimately become profitable. Moreover, if our revenue declines, we may not be able to reduce costs in a timely manner because many of our costs are fixed, at least in the short-term. If we are unable to manage our costs effectively, this may limit our ability to optimize our business model, sign up new members, and grow our revenues. Accordingly, despite our best efforts to do so, we may not achieve or maintain profitability, and we may continue to incur significant losses in the future.

The implementation of the ACA, as well as any potential repeal of, changes to, or judicial challenges to the ACA, could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

The enactment of the ACA in March 2010 transformed the U.S. health care delivery system through a series of complex initiatives; however, the implementation of the ACA continues to face judicial challenges, as well as efforts to repeal or change certain of its significant provisions. For the year ended December 31, 2019, approximately 96% of our revenue was derived from sales of health plans subject to regulation under the ACA, primarily comprised of policies directly purchased by individuals and families and secondarily comprised of policies purchased by small employers and provided to their employees as a benefit. Consequently, changes to, or repeal of, portions or the entirety of the ACA, as well as judicial interpretations in response to legal and other constitutional challenges, could materially and adversely affect our business and financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. Even if the ACA is not amended or repealed, elected and appointed officials could continue to propose changes impacting implementation of the ACA, which could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

 

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The ACA’s provisions include the establishment of Health Insurance Marketplaces. The ACA also established significant subsidies to support the purchase of health insurance by individuals, in the form of advanced premium tax credits, or APTCs, available through Health Insurance Marketplaces. During the year ended December 31, 2019, the premiums of approximately 55% of our members were subsidized by APTCs. Additionally, the ACA implemented certain requirements for insurers, including changes to Medicare Advantage payments and the minimum MLR provision that requires insurers to pay rebates to consumers when insurers do not meet or exceed the specified annual MLR thresholds. The ACA also established anti-discrimination protections on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age, and disability, which may impact the manner in which health insurers receiving any form of federal financial assistance design and implement their benefit packages. Further, the ACA imposes significant fees, assessments, and taxes on us and other health insurers, plans and other industry participants. As of December 31, 2019, we offered Individual plans through the Health Insurance Marketplaces in 9 states, which represented approximately 65% of our total membership.

There have been significant efforts to repeal, or limit implementation of, certain provisions of the ACA. Such initiatives include repeal of the individual mandate effective in 2019, as well as easing of the regulatory restrictions placed on short-term limited duration insurance and association health plans, some or all of which may provide fewer benefits than the traditional ACA-mandated insurance benefits. The perceived uncertainty and possible changes in the Health Insurance Marketplaces could result in reduced participation from individuals seeking insurance coverage and possible non-renewal of existing policies. Because we rely on the Health Insurance Marketplaces to promote our Individual and some of our Small Group products and increase membership, reduced participation in such marketplaces could materially and adversely impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Also, although individuals would still be able to purchase coverage, possibly through marketplaces that continue to be maintained by certain states or by purchasing coverage directly from an insurer, the elimination of subsidies would make such coverage unaffordable to some individuals and could thereby reduce overall membership. Further, the federal government’s continued refusal to fund cost sharing subsidies and/or withdrawal of APTCs could additionally impact marketplace enrollment. These market and political dynamics may increase the risk that our Health Insurance Marketplace products will be selected by individuals who have a higher risk profile or utilization rate or lower subsidization rate than we anticipated when we established the pricing for products on Health Insurance Marketplaces, possibly leading to financial losses.

The constitutionality of the ACA itself continues to face judicial challenge. In December 2018, a partial summary judgment ruling by a federal district court in Texas v. United States of America held that the ACA’s individual mandate requirement—which was set to $0 by Congress in 2017—was essential to the ACA, and, without it, the remainder of the ACA was invalid (i.e., that it was not “severable” from the ACA). That decision was appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which agreed with the district court in December 2019 that the individual mandate was unconstitutional, but remanded the case to the district court for additional analysis on the question of severability of the remainder of the ACA. In January 2020, both plaintiffs and defendants appealed the Fifth Circuit’s decision to the Supreme Court, which granted a writ of certiorari in March 2020. Oral argument is expected to take place on November 10, 2020 in the case now captioned California v. Texas. The Supreme Court’s decision could end the case, or it could result in the case being sent back to the lower courts for continued litigation. The ACA remains in effect until judicial review of the decision is concluded. The ultimate content, timing, or effect of any potential future legislation or the outcome of the lawsuit cannot be predicted.

These changes to the ACA and other potential changes involving the functioning of the Health Insurance Marketplaces as a result of new legislation, regulation, or executive action, could materially impact our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

 

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Failure to accurately estimate our incurred medical expenses or effectively manage our medical costs or related administrative costs could negatively affect our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows.

Our profitability depends, to a significant degree, on our ability to accurately estimate and effectively manage our medical expenses. Because the premiums are set in advance of the policy year based on a projection of future expenses, our overall financial results are sensitive to changes in our medical expenses. For example, if our medical expenses for the policy year 2019 had been one percentage point higher, this would have resulted in an approximately $11.5 million increase in our net loss after taking into account risk adjustment determinations. Changes in health care regulations and practices, the level of utilization of health care services, hospital and pharmaceutical costs, and to the broader competitive landscape, disasters, the potential effects of climate change, major epidemics, pandemics, or newly emergent viruses (such as COVID-19), continued inequity and racial discrimination in the U.S. health care system and the resulting physical and mental health costs in broader society, new medical technologies, new pharmaceuticals, increases in provider fraud, and other external factors, including general economic conditions such as inflation and unemployment levels, are generally beyond our control and could reduce our ability to accurately estimate and effectively control the costs of providing health benefits.

Due to the time lag between when services are actually rendered by providers and when we receive, process, and pay a claim for those services, our medical expenses include a provision for claims incurred but not paid. We are continuously enhancing our process for estimating claims liability, which we monitor and refine on a monthly basis as claims receipts, payment information, and inpatient acuity information becomes available. As more complete information becomes available, we adjust the amount of the estimate, and include the changes in estimates in expenses in the period in which the changes are identified. Given the uncertainties inherent in such estimates, there can be no assurance that our claims liability estimate will be adequate, and any adjustments to the estimate may unfavorably impact, potentially in a material way, our reported results of operations and financial condition. Further, our inability to estimate our claims liability may also affect our ability to take timely corrective actions, further exacerbating the extent of any adverse effect on our results.

Additionally, when we expand our product offerings, we have limited information with which to develop our anticipated claims liability. Changes to (or new or revised interpretations of) subregulatory guidance, regulations, or statutes that govern Health Insurance Marketplaces, including, but not limited to, those governing eligibility criteria, Special Enrollment Periods, and minimum benefits requirements, may pose difficulty in estimating our claims liability.

From time to time in the past, our actual results have varied from those expected, particularly in times of significant changes in the number of our members. If it is determined that our estimates are significantly different than actual results, our results of operations and financial position could be adversely affected.

Risks Related to the Regulatory Framework that Governs Us

Our business activities are subject to ongoing, complex, and evolving regulatory obligations, and to continued regulatory review, which result in significant additional expense and the diversion of our management’s time and efforts. If we fail to comply with regulatory requirements, or are unable to meet performance standards applicable to our business, our operations could be disrupted or we may become subject to significant penalties.

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plans. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners, or NAIC, has adopted the Annual Financial Reporting Model Regulation, or the Model Audit Rule, which, where adopted by states, requires expanded governance practices, risk and solvency assessment reporting, and filing of periodic financial and operating reports. Most states have adopted these or similar measures to expand the scope of regulations relating to corporate governance and internal control activities of health maintenance organizations, or HMOs, and insurance companies. We are also required to notify, or obtain approval from, federal and/or state regulatory authorities prior to taking various actions as a business, including making changes to our network, service offerings, and the coverage of our health plans, as well as prior to entering into relationships with certain vendors and health organizations.

In each of the jurisdictions in which we operate, we are regulated by the relevant insurance and/or health and/or human services, or other government departments that oversee the activities of insurance and/or health care organizations providing or arranging to provide services to Medicare Advantage members, Health Insurance Marketplace enrollees, or other beneficiaries. For example, our health insurance subsidiaries must comply with minimum statutory capital and other financial solvency requirements, such as deposit and surplus requirements, and related reporting requirements. Our health insurance subsidiaries must also comply with numerous statutes and regulations governing the sale, marketing, and administration of insurance. Additionally, our health insurance subsidiaries may be required to maintain dedicated personnel and physical offices in certain jurisdictions where we operate.

The frequent enactment of, amendments to, or changes in interpretations of laws and regulations could, among other things: require us to restructure our relationships with providers within our network; require us to contract with additional providers at unfavorable terms; require us to cover certain forms of care provided by out-of-network providers at rates or levels indicated by rule or statute; require us to implement changes to our health care services and types of coverage, or prevent us from innovating and evolving; restrict revenue and enrollment growth; increase our sales, marketing, and administrative costs; impose additional capital and surplus requirements; make it more difficult to obtain regulatory approvals to operate our business or maintain existing regulatory approvals; prevent or delay us from entering into new service areas or product lines; and increase or change our liability to members in the event of malpractice by our contracted providers. The evolving regulatory landscape requires a significant investment of time and resources to ensure compliance with new and changing laws and regulations. In addition, changes in political party legislative majorities or executive branch administrations at the state or federal level in the United States may change the attitude towards health care programs and result in changes to the existing legislative or regulatory environment.

The federal government periodically considers reducing or reallocating the amount of money it spends for Medicare. Furthermore, Medicare remains subject to the automatic spending reductions imposed by the Budget Control Act of 2011 and the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, subject to a 2% cap, which was extended by subsequent legislative amendments through 2030. We anticipate this and any future similar initiatives will require government agencies to find funding alternatives, which may result in reductions in funding for programs, contraction of covered benefits, and limited or no premium rate increases, or premium rate decreases.

Additionally, the taxes and fees that we are required to pay to federal, state, and local governments may increase due to several factors, including: enactment of, changes to, or interpretations of, tax laws and regulations, audits by governmental authorities, and geographic expansions into higher taxing jurisdictions.

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plan’s Star Rating, as published by CMS, with those plans receiving a rating of four (4.0) or more stars eligible for quality-based bonus payments. A plan’s Star Rating affects its image in the market, and plans that perform well are able to offer enhanced benefits and market more effectively. Medicare Advantage plans with Star Ratings of five (5.0) stars are eligible for year-round open enrollment; conversely, plans with lower Star Ratings have more restricted times for enrollment of beneficiaries. Medicare Advantage plans with Star Ratings of less than three (3.0) stars for three consecutive years are denoted as “low performing” plans on the CMS website and in the CMS “Medicare and You” handbook. In addition, in 2019, CMS had its authority reinstated to terminate Medicare Advantage contracts for plans rated below three (3.0) stars for three consecutive years. As a result, Medicare Advantage plans that achieve higher Star Ratings may have competitive advantage over plans with lower Star Ratings. As of December 31, 2019, none of our health plans were eligible to receive Star Ratings because of our recent market entry. The Star Rating system is subject to change annually by CMS, which may make it more difficult to achieve and maintain three (3.0) Star Ratings or greater in the future. Our health insurance subsidiaries’ operating results, premium revenue, and benefit offerings will likely depend significantly on their Star Ratings, and there can be no assurances that we will be successful in achieving favorable Star Ratings or maintaining or improving our Star Ratings once achieved. Similarly, health care accreditation agencies such as the National Committee for Quality Assurance, or NCQA, evaluate health plans based on various criteria, including effectiveness of care and member satisfaction. Health insurers seeking accreditation from NCQA must pass a rigorous, comprehensive review, and must annually report their performance. If we fail to achieve and maintain accreditation from agencies, such as NCQA, we could lose the ability to offer our health plans on Health Insurance Marketplaces, or in certain jurisdictions, which would materially and adversely affect our results of operations, financial position, and cash flows.    

Additionally, there are numerous steps federal and state regulators require for continued implementation of the ACA. If we fail to effectively implement or appropriately adjust our operational and strategic initiatives with respect to the implementation of health care reform, or do not do so as effectively as our competitors, our results of operations may be materially and adversely affected.

Although we strive to comply with all existing regulations and to meet performance standards applicable to our business, failure to meet these requirements could result in financial fines, inability to obtain new regulatory approvals to sell insurance or health plans, inability to obtain regulatory approval to expand our geographic service area, revocation of existing licenses to offer insurance, other penalties, and reputational harm.

Changes or developments in the health insurance markets in the United States, including passage and implementation of a law to create a single-payer or government-run health insurance program, could materially and adversely harm our business and operating results.

Our business is within the public and private sectors of the U.S. health insurance system, which are evolving quickly and subject to a changing regulatory environment, and our future financial performance will depend in part on growth in the market for private health insurance, as well as our ability to adapt to regulatory developments. Changes and developments in the health insurance system in the United States could reduce demand for our services and harm our business. For example, there has been an ongoing national debate relating to the health insurance system in the United States. Certain elected officials have introduced proposals to expand the Medicare program, ranging from proposals that would create a new single-payer national health insurance program for all United States residents, replacing virtually all other sources of public and private insurance, to more incremental approaches, such as lowering the age of eligibility for the Medicare program, expanding Medicare to a larger population, or creating a new public health insurance option that would compete with private insurers. Additionally, proposals to establish a single-payer or government-run health care system at the state level are regularly introduced in some of our key states, such as New York and California. We

 

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are unable to predict the full impact of health care reform initiatives on our operations in light of the uncertainty of whether such initiatives would be successful, and the uncertainty regarding the terms and timing of any provisions enacted, and the impact of those provisions on various health care and insurance industry participants. In the event that laws, regulations, or subregulatory guidance that eliminate or reduce the perceived need for private sources of health insurance, are adopted, the demand for our products could be adversely impacted, causing us to reevaluate the manner in which we commercialize our platform and products. Changes in laws, regulations, and subregulatory guidance governing health insurance may also be incompatible with various aspects of our business and require that we make significant modifications to our existing technology or practices, which may be costly and time-consuming to implement, and could harm our business, operating results and financial condition. Various aspects of health care reform could also cause us to discontinue certain health plans or prohibit us from offering or selling certain health plans in particular jurisdictions. Our business, operating results, financial condition, and prospects may be materially and adversely affected if we are unable to adapt to developments in health care reform in the United States, and the market price of our common stock could become highly volatile and may fluctuate or decline substantially as a result of uncertainty around changes to the public and private health insurance markets.

If we fail to comply with applicable privacy, security, and data laws, regulations and standards, including with respect to third-party service providers that utilize sensitive personal information on our behalf, or applicable consumer protection laws, our business, reputation, results of operations, financial position, and cash flows could be materially and adversely affected.

As part of our normal operations, we collect, process, and retain confidential information about individuals. We are subject to various federal and state laws and rules regarding the collection, use, disclosure, storage, transmission, and destruction of confidential information about individuals. For example, we are subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, or HIPAA, and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, or HITECH, which require us to protect the privacy, security, and confidentiality of medical records and protected health information, or PHI, that we collect, disseminate, maintain, and use. HIPAA applies national privacy and security standards for PHI to covered entities, including health insurers and certain types of health care providers, and their service providers that access, create, receive, use, or maintain PHI, known as business associates. HIPAA requires covered entities and business associates to maintain policies and procedures governing PHI that is used or disclosed, and to implement administrative, physical, and technical safeguards to protect PHI, including PHI maintained, used, and disclosed in electronic form. These safeguards include employee training, identifying business associates with whom covered entities need to enter into HIPAA-compliant contractual arrangements, and various other measures. Health insurers and other covered entities are also required to report impermissible uses or disclosures of PHI to affected individuals and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, unless the covered entity demonstrates through a risk assessment that there is low probability the PHI has been compromised, and to notify the media in any states where 500 or more people are impacted by any unauthorized release or use of or access to PHI. Ongoing implementation and oversight of these measures involves significant time, effort, and expense. While we undertake substantial efforts to secure the PHI we maintain, use, and disclose in electronic form, a cyber-attack or other intrusion that bypasses our information security systems causing an information security breach, loss of PHI, confidential member information, or other data subject to privacy laws or a material disruption of our operational systems could result in a material adverse impact on our business, along with potentially substantial fines and penalties.

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PHI. If a person knowingly or intentionally obtains or discloses PHI in violation of HIPAA requirements, criminal penalties may also be imposed. HIPAA authorizes state Attorneys General to file suit under HIPAA on behalf of state residents. Courts can award damages, costs, and attorneys’ fees related to violations of HIPAA in such cases. While HIPAA does not create a private right of action allowing individuals to sue us in civil court for HIPAA violations, its standards have been used as the basis for a duty of care in state civil suits such as those for negligence or recklessness in the misuse or breach of PHI. It is possible that Congress may enact additional legislation in the future to increase the amount or application of penalties, and to create a private right of action under HIPAA, which could entitle patients to seek monetary damages for violations of the privacy rules.

State laws may apply to our collection, use, handling, processing, destruction, disclosure, and storage of personal information as well. States have begun enacting more comprehensive privacy laws and regulations addressing consumer rights to data protection or transparency that may affect our privacy and security practices. For example, the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, or the CCPA, effective as of January 1, 2020, gives California residents expanded rights to access and require deletion of their personal information, opt out of certain personal information sharing, and receive detailed information about how their personal information is used. The CCPA also provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches that may increase data breach litigation. The CCPA does contain an exemption for medical information governed by the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act, and for PHI collected by a covered entity or business associate governed by the privacy, security, and breach notification rule established pursuant to HIPAA and HITECH, but the precise interpretation and application of this exemption by regulators is not yet clear.

With laws and regulations, such as HIPAA and the CCPA, imposing relatively burdensome obligations, and with substantial uncertainty over the interpretation and application of these and other laws and regulations to our business, we may face challenges in addressing their requirements and making necessary changes to our policies and practices, and may incur significant costs and expenses in an effort to do so. For example, the increased consumer control over the sharing of personal information under the CCPA may affect members’ ability to share such personal information with us, or may require us to delete or remove member information from our records or data sets, which may create considerable costs or loss of revenue for our organization.

In addition, certain of our businesses are also subject to the Payment Card Industry, or PCI, Data Security Standard, which is a multifaceted security standard that is designed to protect credit card account data as mandated by PCI entities. We rely on vendors to assist us with PCI matters and to ensure PCI compliance. Our business and operations are also subject to federal, state, and local consumer protection laws, including the Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, which places restrictions on the use of automated tools and technologies to communicate with wireless telephone subscribers or communications services consumers generally. Despite our compliance efforts, we may become subject to claims that we have violated the PCI Data Security Standard, the TCPA or other telemarketing laws based on past, present, or future business practices, which could have an adverse impact on our business and reputation.

In addition, any failure or perceived failure by us to maintain posted privacy policies which are accurate, comprehensive and fully implemented, and any violation or perceived violation of our privacy-, data protection-, or information security-related obligations to members, users, or other third parties or any of our other legal obligations relating to privacy, data protection, or information security may result in governmental investigations or enforcement actions, litigation, claims, or public statements against us by consumer advocacy groups or others, and could result in significant liability, loss of relationships with key third parties, including telecommunications carriers, social media networks, and other data providers, or cause our consumers to lose trust in us, which could have material impact on our revenue and operations.

 

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Despite our best attempts to maintain adherence to information privacy and security best practices, as well as compliance with applicable laws, rules, and contractual requirements, our facilities and systems, and those of our third-party service providers, may be vulnerable to privacy or security breaches, acts of vandalism or theft, malware, ransomware, or other forms of cyber-attack, misplaced or lost data including paper or electronic media, programming and/or human errors, or other similar events. In the past, we have experienced, and disclosed to applicable regulatory authorities, data breaches resulting in disclosure of confidential or PHI. Although none of these data breaches have resulted in any material financial loss or penalty to date, future data breaches could require us to expend significant resources to remediate any damage, interrupt our operations and damage our reputation, subject us to state or federal agency review and could also result in regulatory enforcement actions, material fines and penalties, litigation or other actions which could have a material adverse effect on our business, reputation and results of operations, financial position, and cash flows.

We are subject to extensive fraud, waste, and abuse laws that may give rise to lawsuits and claims against us, the outcome of which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations.

Because we receive payments from federal governmental agencies, we are subject to various laws commonly referred to as “fraud, waste, and abuse” laws, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the federal Physician Self-Referral Law, or Stark Law, and the federal False Claims Act, or FCA. These laws permit the Department of Justice, or DOJ, the HHS Office of Inspector General, or OIG, CMS, and other enforcement authorities to institute a claim, action, investigation, or other proceeding against us for violations and, depending on the facts and circumstances, to seek treble damages, criminal and civil fines, penalties, and assessments. Violations of these laws can also result in exclusion, debarment, temporary or permanent suspension from participation in government health care programs, the institution of corporate integrity agreements, or CIAs, and/or other heightened monitoring of our operations. Liability under such statutes and regulations may arise, among other things, if we knew, or it is determined that we should have known, that information we provided to form the basis for a claim for government payment was false or fraudulent, or that we were out of compliance with program requirements considered material to the government’s payment decision. Fraud, waste and abuse prohibitions encompass a wide range of activities, including, but not limited to, kickbacks or other inducements for referral of members or for the coverage of products (such as prescription drugs) by a plan, billing for unnecessary medical services by a health care provider, payments made to excluded providers, and improper marketing and beneficiary inducements.

The DOJ and the OIG have continuously increased their scrutiny of health care payers and providers, and Medicare Advantage insurers, under the FCA, in particular, which has led to a number of investigations, prosecutions, convictions, and settlements in the health care industry. CMS and the OIG also periodically perform risk adjustment data validation, or RADV, audits of selected Medicare Advantage health insurance plans to validate the coding practices of, and supporting documentation maintained by health care providers. Certain of our health plans may be selected for such audits, which could in the future result in retrospective adjustments to payments made to our health plans, fines, corrective action plans, or other adverse action by CMS. CMS is also proposing changes to its RADV program. The proposed changes to the HHS-RADV program may increase financial recoveries from the government’s ability to retrospectively claw back or recover funds from health insurers.

In particular, there has recently been increased scrutiny by the government on health insurers’ diagnosis coding and risk adjustment practices, particularly for Medicare Advantage plans. In some proceedings involving Medicare Advantage plans, there have been allegations that certain financial arrangements with providers violate other laws governing fraud and abuse, such as the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. Health insurers are required to maintain compliance programs to prevent, detect and remediate fraud, waste, and abuse, and are often the subject of fraud, waste, and abuse investigations

 

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and audits. We perform ongoing monitoring of our compliance with CMS risk adjustment requirements and other applicable laws. We also monitor our provider payment practices and relationships with other third parties whose products and services we reimburse (e.g., pharmaceutical manufacturers) to ensure compliance with applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute. While we believe our compliance efforts and relationships with providers and other third parties comply with applicable laws, we may be subject to audits, reviews, and investigations of our practices and arrangements by government agencies.

The regulations, contractual requirements, and policies applicable to participants in government health care programs are complex and subject to change. Moreover, many of the laws, rules, and regulations in this area have not been well-interpreted by applicable regulatory agencies or the courts. Additionally, the significant increase in actions brought under the FCA’s “whistleblower” or “qui tam” provisions, which allow private individuals to bring actions on behalf of the government, has caused greater numbers of health care companies to have to defend a false claim action, pay fines, or agree to enter into a CIA to avoid being excluded from Medicare and other state and federal health care programs as a result of an investigation arising out of such action. Health plans and providers often seek to resolve these types of allegations through settlement for significant and material amounts, even when they do not acknowledge or admit liability, to avoid the uncertainty of treble damages that may be awarded in litigation proceedings. Such settlements often contain additional compliance and reporting requirements as part of a consent decree or settlement agreement, including, for example, CIAs, deferred prosecution agreements, or non-prosecution agreements. If we are subject to liability under qui tam or other actions or settlements, our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations could be adversely affected.

Risks Related to our Business

If we are unable to arrange for the delivery of quality care, and maintain good relations with the physicians, hospitals, and other providers within and outside our provider networks, or if we are unable to enter into cost-effective contracts with such providers, our profitability could be adversely affected.

Our profitability depends, in large part, upon our ability to contract at competitive prices with hospitals, physicians, and other health care providers, such that we can provide our members with access to competitive provider networks. Our provider arrangements with primary care physicians, specialists, hospitals, and other health care providers generally may be terminated or not renewed by either party without cause upon prior written notice. We cannot provide any assurance that we will be able to continue to renew our existing contracts or enter into new contracts on a timely basis or under favorable terms enabling us to service our members profitably. Health care providers within our provider networks may not properly manage the costs of services, maintain financial solvency or avoid disputes with other providers or their federal and state regulators. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on the provision of services to our members and our operations.

In any particular market or geography, physicians and other health care providers could refuse to contract, demand higher payments, demand favorable contract terms, or take other actions that could result in higher medical costs or difficulty in meeting regulatory or accreditation requirements, among other things. In some markets and geographies, certain health care providers, particularly hospitals, physician/hospital organizations, or multi-specialty physician groups, may have significant positions or near monopolies that could result in diminished bargaining power on our part. In addition, accountable care organizations, clinically integrated networks, independent practice associations, practice management companies (which aggregate physician practices for administrative efficiency and marketing leverage), and other organizational structures that physicians, hospitals and other health care providers choose may change the way in which these providers interact with us, and may change

 

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the competitive landscape. Such organizations or groups of health care providers may compete directly with us, which could adversely affect our operations, and our results of operations, financial position, and cash flows by impacting our relationships with these providers or affecting the way that we price our products and estimate our costs, which might require us to incur costs to change our operations. Health care providers in our provider networks may consolidate or merge into hospital systems, resulting in a reduction of providers in our network and in the competitive environment. In addition, if these providers refuse to contract with us, use their market position to negotiate contracts unfavorable to us or place us at a competitive disadvantage, our ability to market products or to be profitable in those areas could be materially and adversely affected.

From time to time, health care providers assert, or threaten to assert, claims seeking to terminate provider agreements. If a provider agreement were terminated, such termination could adversely impact the adequacy of our network to service our members, and may put us at risk of non-compliance with applicable federal and state laws. If we are unable to retain our current provider contract terms or enter into new provider contracts timely or on favorable terms, our profitability may be harmed. In addition, from time to time, we may in the future be subject to class action or other lawsuits by health care providers with respect to claims payment procedures, reimbursement policies, network participation, or similar matters. In addition, regardless of whether any such lawsuits brought against us are successful or have merit, they will still be time-consuming and costly, and could have an adverse impact on our reputation. As a result, under such circumstances, we bear significant costs and may be unable to operate our business effectively.

Some providers that render services to our members are not contracted with our health insurance subsidiaries. While our health insurance subsidiaries are required to meet various federal and state requirements regarding the size and composition of our participating provider networks, our business model is based, in the Individual and Medicare Advantage markets, and for certain of our Small Group plans, on contracting with selected health care systems and other providers, not all systems and providers in a given area. This allows us to work more closely with high quality health care systems that engage with us using our technology. That approach, however, makes it possible that our members will receive emergency services, or other services which we are required to cover by law or by the terms of our health plans, from providers who are not contracted with our health insurance subsidiaries. This situation is more likely for our members than for members who choose a plan from a competitor of ours with a broader network. In those cases, there is no pre-established understanding between the provider and our health insurance subsidiary about the amount of compensation that is due to the provider. In some states, and under federal law for our Medicare Advantage business, the amount of compensation is defined by law or regulation, but in most instances, it is either not defined or it is established by a standard that is not unambiguously translatable into dollars. In such instances, providers may claim they are underpaid for their services, and may either litigate or arbitrate their dispute with our health insurance subsidiary. Additionally, many states require us to hold our members harmless for these out-of-network costs, which can be significant. It is difficult to predict the amount we may have to pay to out-of-network providers. The uncertainty of the amount to pay to such providers and the possibility of subsequent adjustment of the payment could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations.

Moreover, the insolvency of one of our partners or providers could expose us to material liabilities. For example, a portion of our specialists and hospitals are paid on a capitated basis. We expect to maintain such arrangements or enter into similar arrangements as we expand. Under certain capitation arrangements, we pay a fixed amount per member per month, or PMPM, to the provider without regard to the frequency, extent, or nature of the medical services actually furnished, and such provider is responsible for paying other providers in our network out of the capitation amount. Due to insolvency or other circumstances, such delegated providers with a capitation arrangement may be unable or unwilling to pay claims they have incurred with third party providers in connection with

 

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referral services provided to our members. The inability or unwillingness of delegated providers to pay referral claims presents us with both immediate financial risk and potential disruption to member care, as well as potential loss of members. Depending on states’ laws, we may be held liable for such unpaid referral claims even though the delegated provider has contractually assumed such risk. Additionally, competitive pressures or practical regulatory considerations may force us to pay such claims even when we have no legal obligation to do so, or we may have already paid claims to a delegated provider and such payments cannot be recouped when the delegated provider becomes insolvent. Such liabilities incurred or losses suffered as a result of provider insolvency or other circumstances could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations.

The result of risk adjustment programs may impact our revenue, add operational complexity, and introduce additional uncertainties that have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows.

The Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage markets we serve employ risk adjustment programs that impact the revenue we recognize for our enrolled membership. As a result of the variability of certain factors that go into the development of the risk adjustment we recognize, such as risk scores, and other market-level factors where applicable, the actual amount of revenue could be materially more or less than our estimates. Consequently, our estimate of our health plans’ risk scores for any period, and any resulting change in our accrual of revenues related thereto, could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial condition, and cash flows. The data provided to CMS to determine the risk score are subject to audit by CMS even several years after the annual settlements occur. If the risk adjustment data we submit are found to incorrectly overstate the health risk of our members, we may be required to refund funds previously received by us and/or be subject to penalties or sanctions, including potential liability under the FCA, which could be significant and would reduce our revenue in the year that repayment or settlement is required. Further, if the data we provide to CMS incorrectly understates the health risk of our members, we might be underpaid for the care that we must provide to our members, which could have a negative impact on our results of operations and financial condition.

Significant delays in our receipt of direct policy premiums, including as a result of regulatory restrictions on policy cancellations and non-renewals, could have a material adverse effect on our business operations, cash flows, or earnings.

We currently derive substantially all of our revenue from direct policy premiums and recognize premium revenue over the period that coverage is effective. For the year ended December 31, 2019, approximately 57% of our direct policy premiums were collected directly from our members, and approximately 43% of our direct policy premiums were collected from CMS as part of the APTC program. There can be no assurance that we will receive premiums in advance of or by the end of a given coverage period. Moreover, actions taken by state and federal governments could increase the likelihood of delay in our receipt of premiums. For example, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state insurance departments, including in states in which we operate, issued guidelines, recommendations, and moratoria around policy cancellations and non-renewals due to non-payment. In certain states, departments urged insurers to consider actions that included relaxing due dates for premium payments, extending grace periods, waiving late fees and penalties, and allowing premium payment plans to avoid a lapse in coverage. Certain states also prohibited insurers from terminating plans due to non-payment until a specified date. If such guidelines, recommendations, and moratoria were to remain in place for an extended period of time or if similar measures were introduced due to a resurgence of COVID-19 or for other reasons, including unanticipated public health or economic crises, our receipt of premiums, if any, could be significantly delayed, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, operations, cash flows, or earnings.

 

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We rely on our relationship with the Oscar Medical Group, which we do not own, to provide health care services, and our business would be harmed in multiple states if that relationship were disrupted or if our arrangements with the Oscar Medical Group become subject to legal challenges.

Our corporate entities are not licensed to practice medicine. Pursuant to state corporate practice of medicine laws, many states in which we operate through our subsidiaries limit the practice of medicine to licensed individuals or professional organizations owned by licensed individuals, and business corporations generally may not exercise control over the medical decisions of physicians. Statutes and regulations relating to the corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting between physicians and referral sources, and similar issues, vary widely from state to state. Certain of our subsidiaries, including Mulberry Management Corporation, have management agreements with three physician-owned professional corporations, known collectively as the Oscar Medical Group. Under the terms of these agreements, the Oscar Medical Group retains sole responsibility for all medical decisions, as well as for hiring and managing physicians and other licensed health care providers, developing operating policies and procedures, and implementing professional standards and controls. We believe that our services operations comply with applicable state statutes and regulations regarding corporate practice of medicine, fee-splitting, and similar issues. However, regulatory authorities and other parties may assert that, despite the management agreements and other arrangements through which we operate, we are engaged in the prohibited corporate practice of medicine, that our arrangements constitute unlawful fee-splitting, or that other similar issues exist. To that end, many of the laws, rules, and regulations with respect to corporate practice of medicine are ambiguous and have not been well-interpreted by applicable regulatory agencies or the courts. Moreover, we cannot predict whether changes will be made to existing laws, regulations, or interpretations, or whether new ones will be enacted or adopted, which could cause us to be out of compliance with these requirements. If this were to occur, we could be subject to civil and/or criminal penalties, our agreements could be found legally invalid and unenforceable (in whole or in part), or we could be required to restructure our contractual arrangements, any of which could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position, or cash flows.

Additionally, while we expect that our relationship with the Oscar Medical Group will continue, a material change in our relationship with the Oscar Medical Group, whether resulting from a dispute among the entities or the loss of these relationships or contracts with the Oscar Medical Group, could impair our ability to provide services to our members and could harm our business.

Our limited operating history makes it difficult to evaluate our current business performance, implementation of our business model, and our future prospects.

We launched our business in 2012 and have a limited operating history. Today, our insurance subsidiaries operate in 15 states, 12 of which we expanded to since 2017. Due to our limited operating history and the rapid growth we have experienced since we began operations, there is greater uncertainty in estimating our operating results, and our historical results may not be indicative of, or comparable to, our future results. In addition, we have limited data to validate key aspects of our business model, including our growth strategy. For example, we recently entered into a strategic partnership with Cigna to offer differentiated health solutions to small businesses. As a relatively new entrant in this market, we have limited experience and are unable to predict whether we will be able to effectively and consistently provide solutions that are tailored to the budgets of small businesses and to the health needs of their employees. We cannot provide any assurance that the data that we collect will provide useful measures for evaluating our business model. Moreover, we cannot provide any assurance that partnerships or joint ventures that we enter into in the future will perform as well as historical partnerships or expectations. Our inability to adequately assess our performance and growth could have a material adverse effect on our brand, reputation, business, financial condition, and results of operations.

 

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Our revenue depends on the direct policy premiums we collect from members who obtain health care services from a limited number of in-network providers, and the loss of any of these providers could result in a material reduction of our membership, which would adversely impact our revenue and operating results.

Almost all of our revenue depends on the direct policy premiums we collect from members or from the federal government on behalf of our members who obtain health care services from a limited number of providers that we contract with. We generally manage our provider contracts on a state by state basis, entering into separate contracts in each state with local affiliates of a particular provider, such that no one local provider contract receives a majority of our allowed medical costs for services rendered to our members. When aggregating the payments we make to each provider through its local affiliates, however, Tenet Healthcare Corporation, AdventHealth, and Cleveland Clinic Foundation accounted for a total of approximately 10%, 9% and 9%, respectively, of total allowable medical costs for the year ended December 31, 2019. We believe that a majority of our revenue will continue to be derived from direct policy premiums obtained from members who receive services from a concentrated number of providers. These providers may terminate or seek to terminate their contracts with us in the future. The sudden loss of any of our providers or the renegotiation of any of our provider contracts could adversely impact our reputation or the quality of our provider networks, which could result in a loss of a membership that adversely affects our revenue and operating results. In the ordinary course of business, we engage in active discussions and renegotiations with providers in respect of the terms of our provider contracts. Certain of our providers may seek to renegotiate or terminate their agreements with us for a variety of reasons, including in response to higher than expected health care costs and other market dynamics or financial pressures. These discussions could result in reductions to the fees and changes to the scope of services contemplated by our original provider agreements and, consequently, could negatively impact our revenues, business, and prospects.

Unanticipated changes in population morbidity in one or more states in which we operate our health plans could significantly increase utilization rates and medical costs.

Large-scale changes in health care utilization can take many forms and may be associated with widespread natural disasters, illness, or medical conditions. For example, natural disasters, such as a major earthquake, wildfire, or hurricane, affecting states in which we operate, could have a significant impact on the health of a large number of our covered members. Other conditions that could impact our members include a virulent influenza season or epidemic or pandemic, newly emergent mosquito-borne illnesses, such as the Zika virus, the West Nile virus, or the Chikungunya virus, or new viruses such as COVID-19. In addition, federal and state law enforcement officials have issued warnings in the past, and may do so in the future, about potential terrorist activity involving biological or other weapons of mass destruction.

All of these conditions, and others, could have a significant impact on the health of the population of wide-spread areas. We seek to ensure our premiums appropriately account for anticipated changes in utilization, including seasonal items, such as the flu. However, if one of the states in which we operate were to experience a large-scale natural disaster, a viral epidemic or pandemic, a significant terrorism attack, or some other large-scale event affecting the health of a large number of our members, our covered medical expenses in that state would rise, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations. Additionally, such natural disasters, epidemics, or pandemics could lead to regulatory changes which may force us to cover health care costs for members for which we would not typically be responsible. For example, states experiencing natural disasters such as wildfires and hurricanes may promulgate emergency regulation requiring insurers to relax prior authorization requirements, remove prescription drug refill limitations, and cover out-of-network care.

 

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COVID-19 could significantly increase our costs of operation due to unanticipated changes in law or regulation, population morbidity, or utilization behaviors.

We seek to ensure our direct policy premiums appropriately account for anticipated changes in utilization. However, our ability to do so accurately is limited by the changing nature of COVID-19 state infection rates, and the evolving clinical understanding of COVID-19’s post-acute, long-term impacts on health. If one of the states in which we operate were to experience a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak affecting the health of a large number of our members, our covered medical expenses in that state would rise, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations. Additionally, the long-term health impacts of SARS-CoV-2 infection causing COVID-19 are not yet well known or understood. If a large-scale COVID-19 outbreak resulted in a significant number of our members needing unanticipated ongoing post-acute care, such as regular physical, occupational, or respiratory therapy, additional pharmaceutical intervention, or care for increased frequency of other illness resulting from a COVID-19-weakened immune system, our business could be materially adversely impacted due to an unanticipated increase in covered medical expenses.

State and federal governments have promulgated regulatory changes requiring us to relax premium collection practices, and cover health care costs for members for which we would not typically be responsible. For example, some states require member health care expenses incurred for services received via telemedicine to be borne entirely by us. New large-scale COVID-19 outbreaks may result in additional regulation in our states of operation, which could limit our ability to collect unpaid premiums. Such outbreaks may also result in our required coverage of additional unanticipated medical costs.

We utilize quota share reinsurance to reduce our capital and surplus requirements. If regulators do not approve our reinsurance agreements for this purpose, or if we cannot negotiate renewals of our quota share arrangements on acceptable terms, or at all, enter into new agreements with reinsurers, or otherwise obtain capital through debt or equity financings, our capital position would be negatively impacted, and we could fall out of compliance with applicable regulatory requirements.

We currently utilize quota share reinsurance arrangements with two other insurance companies, Axa France Vie and Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Company, to reduce our capital and surplus requirements, which enables us to more efficiently deploy capital to finance our growth. In connection with our quota share reinsurance arrangements, which generally have terms of two or three years, reinsurers are entitled to a portion of our premiums, but also share financial responsibility for health care costs incurred by our members. All premiums and claims ceded under our quota share arrangements are shared proportionally with our reinsurers, up to a limit specified in each agreement, which varies from 100% to 105% of ceded premiums for the agreements applicable to the year ended December 31, 2019. These reinsurers have the unilateral right to extend certain of our arrangements if certain profitability limits are not met. Our decisions on claims payments are binding on the reinsurer with the exception of any payments by us that are not required to be made under the member’s policy. During the year ended December 31, 2019, approximately 55% of our business was ceded under quota share reinsurance arrangements. Because reinsurers are entitled to a portion of our premiums under our quota share reinsurance arrangements, changes in the amount of business ceded under these arrangements directly impacts our net premium and net income estimates. We also have excess of loss insurance arrangements that cover claims on individuals that rise above $500,000. We pay approximately 1% of premiums for this coverage to our reinsurer. The amount of business ceded under our reinsurance arrangements can vary significantly from year to year. Further, if our reinsurers consistently and successfully dispute our obligations to make a claim payment under a given policy, if we cannot renegotiate renewals of any of our quota share reinsurance arrangements on acceptable terms, if we are unable to enter into such arrangements with additional reinsurers or, if such

 

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arrangements are not approved by any of our regulators (or if our regulators take a different view, whether prospectively or retroactively, with respect to the capital treatment of our reinsurance agreements), we may not have sufficient capital and surplus to comply with applicable regulatory requirements, and we would have to enter into a corrective action plan or cease operations in jurisdictions where we could not comply with such requirements.

These arrangements also subject us to various obligations, representations, and warranties with respect to the reinsurers. Reinsurance does not relieve us of liability as an insurer. We remain obligated to pay our members’ health care claims, even if a reinsurer defaults on obligations to us under the reinsurance arrangement. Although we regularly evaluate the financial condition of reinsurers to minimize exposure to significant losses from reinsurer insolvencies, reinsurers may become financially unsound. If a reinsurer fails to meet its obligations under the reinsurance contract or if the liabilities exceed any applicable loss limit, we remain responsible for covering the claims on the reinsured policies.

We may in the future rely on debt and equity to help fund subsidiary surplus requirements, as well as pay our operating expenses and capital expenditures or fund acquisitions. In the event we need access for such purposes, our ability to obtain such capital may be limited and the cost of any such capital may be significant.

We are subject to risks associated with outsourcing services and functions to third parties.

We contract with third party vendors and service providers who provide services to us and our subsidiaries to help with our internal administrative functions, as well as third party vendors and service providers who help us administer our products and plans. For example, CaremarkPCS Health provides certain prescription benefit management, disease management, and specialty pharmacy services with respect to our health plans. In New Jersey, we contract with QualCare, which provides us with access to its network, which represents a significant portion of our medical network in New Jersey, and various network management services. The partial or complete loss of a vendor or other third-party relationship could cause a material disruption to our business and make it difficult and costly to provide services and products that our regulators and members expect, which could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition, cash flows, and results of operations.

Some of these third-parties have direct access to our systems in order to provide their services to us and operate the majority of our communications, network, and computer hardware and software. For example, we currently offer our products through our website and online app using Amazon Web Services, Inc., or AWS, platforms for cloud computing, a provider of cloud infrastructure services, and the Google Cloud Platform, or GCP. Our operations depend on protecting the virtual cloud infrastructure hosted in AWS and GCP by maintaining its configuration, architecture, and interconnection specifications, as well as the information stored in these cloud platforms and which third-party internet service providers transmit. In the event that either our AWS or GCP service agreement is terminated, or there is a lapse of service, interruption of internet service provider connectivity, or damage to such facilities, we could experience interruptions in meeting key service obligations to our members and business partners, as well as delays and additional expense in arranging new facilities and services, which could harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

Other third-parties that have access to our systems and member information, or provide services that help with our administrative functions include Atlassian Corporation Plc, or Atlassian, which provides a reporting and project management tool called Jira for certain of our health insurance subsidiaries to launch and track investigations, make changes to member information, and communicate efficiently with departments within Oscar, and inContact, Inc., or inContact, which

 

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provides cloud-based contact center software solutions that we use to engage with members. The Oscar platform also integrates various third-party applications, including Google LLC, or Google, Workplace applications, such as Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, and Drive.

Our arrangements with third party vendors and service providers may make our operations vulnerable if those third parties fail to satisfy their obligations to us, including their obligations to maintain and protect the security and confidentiality of our information and data, or the information and data relating to our members or customers. We are also at risk of a data security incident involving a vendor or third party, which could result in a breakdown of such third party’s data protection processes or cyber-attackers gaining access to our infrastructure through the third party. To the extent that a vendor or third party suffers a data security incident that compromises its operations, we could incur significant costs and possible service interruption. In addition, we may have disagreements with our third party vendors or service providers regarding relative responsibilities for any such failures or incidents under applicable business associate agreements or other applicable outsourcing agreements. Any contractual remedies and/or indemnification obligations we may have for vendor or service provider failures or incidents may not be adequate to fully compensate us for any losses suffered as a result of any vendor’s failure to satisfy its obligations to us or under applicable law. Our vendor and service provider arrangements could be adversely impacted by changes in vendors’ or service providers’ operations or financial condition, or other matters outside of our control. Violations of, or noncompliance with, laws and/or regulations governing our business or noncompliance with contract terms by third party vendors and service providers could increase our exposure to liability to our members, providers, or other third parties, or could result in sanctions and/or fines from the regulators that oversee our business. In turn, this could increase the costs associated with the operation of our business or have an adverse impact on our business and reputation. Moreover, if these vendor and service provider relationships were terminated for any reason, we may not be able to find alternative partners in a timely manner or on acceptable financial terms, and may incur significant costs and/or experience significant disruption to our operations in connection with any such vendor or service provider transition. As a result, we may not be able to meet the full demands of our members or customers and, in turn, our business, financial condition, and results of operations may be harmed. In addition, we may not fully realize the anticipated economic and other benefits from our outsourcing projects or other relationships we enter into with third party vendors and service providers, as a result of unanticipated delays in transitioning our operations to the third party vendor or service provider, such third party vendor or service provider’s noncompliance with contract terms, unanticipated costs or expenses, or violations of laws and/or regulations, or otherwise. This could result in substantial costs or other operational or financial problems that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations.

Our investment portfolio may suffer losses which could materially and adversely affect our results of operations or liquidity.

We maintain a significant investment portfolio of cash equivalents and primarily short-term investments in a variety of securities, which are subject to general credit, liquidity, market, and interest rate risks and will decline in value if interest rates increase or one of the issuers’ credit ratings is reduced. As a result, we may experience a reduction in value or loss of our investments, which could have a materially adverse effect on our results of operations, liquidity, and financial condition.

If state regulators do not approve payments of dividends and distributions by our subsidiaries to us, we may not have sufficient funds to implement our business strategy.

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if our current levels of reserves and capital become excessive, we may make requests for dividends and distributions from our subsidiaries to fund our operations. In addition to state corporate law limitations, these subsidiaries are subject to more stringent laws and regulations that may restrict the ability to pay or limit the amount of dividends and distributions that can be paid to us without prior approval of, or notification to, state regulators, including mandatory statutory capital and surplus requirements. As we become profitable, we may increasingly rely on distributions from our subsidiaries, and if regulators were to deny our subsidiaries’ requests to pay dividends, the funds available to us would be limited, which could harm our ability to implement our business strategy.

If we are unable to integrate and manage our information systems effectively, our operations could be disrupted.

Our operations depend significantly on effective information systems. The information gathered and processed by our information systems, assists us in, among other things, monitoring utilization and other cost factors, processing provider claims, and providing data to our regulators. Our health care providers also depend upon our information systems for membership verifications, claims status, and other information. We partner with third parties, including Amazon, Atlassian, inContact, and Google, to support our information technology systems. Our information systems and applications require continual maintenance, upgrading, and enhancement to meet our current and expected operational needs and regulatory requirements. If we underestimate the need to expand or experience difficulties with the transition to or from information systems or do not appropriately plan, integrate, maintain, enhance, or expand our information systems, we could suffer, among other things, operational disruptions, loss of existing members and difficulty in attracting new members, regulatory enforcement, and increases in administrative expenses. In addition, our ability to integrate and manage our information systems may be impaired as the result of events outside our control, including acts of nature, such as earthquakes or fires, or acts of terrorists. Also, we may from time to time obtain significant portions of our systems-related or other services or facilities from independent third parties, which may make our operations vulnerable if such third parties discontinue such services or fail to perform adequately.

From time to time, we may become involved in costly and time-consuming litigation and regulatory actions, which require significant attention from our management.

From time to time, we are a defendant in lawsuits and regulatory actions, and are subject to audits and investigations relating to our business, including, without limitation, claims by members alleging failure to pay for or authorize payment for health care, claims related to non-payment or insufficient payments for out-of-network services by providers, claims of trademark and other intellectual property infringement, claims alleging bad faith, investigations regarding our submission of risk adjustment data, enforcement actions by state regulatory bodies alleging non-compliance with state law, and claims related to the imposition of new taxes, including, but not limited to, claims that may have retroactive application. We also may receive subpoenas and other requests for information from various federal and state agencies, regulatory authorities, state Attorneys General, committees, subcommittees, and members of the U.S. Congress and other state, federal, and international governmental authorities. Due to the inherent uncertainties of litigation and regulatory proceedings, we cannot accurately predict the ultimate outcome of any such proceedings. An unfavorable outcome could have a material adverse impact on our business and financial position, results of operations, and/or cash flows, and may affect our reputation and brand. In addition, regardless of the outcome of any litigation or regulatory proceedings, investigations, audits, or reviews, responding to such matters is costly and time consuming, and requires significant attention from our management, and could, therefore, harm our business and financial position, results of operations or cash flows. Insurance may not cover such claims, may not provide sufficient payments to cover all of the costs to resolve one or more such claims, and may result in our having to pay significant fines, judgments, or settlements,

 

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which, if uninsured, or if the fines, judgments and settlements exceed insured levels, could adversely affect our results of operations and cash flows, thereby harming our business. See “Business—Legal Proceedings.”

The regulations and contractual requirements applicable to us and other market participants are complex and subject to change, making it necessary for us to invest significant resources in complying with our regulatory and contractual requirements. Ongoing vigorous legal enforcement and the highly technical regulatory scheme mean that our compliance efforts in this area will continue to require significant resources, and we may not always be successful in ensuring appropriate compliance by our Company, employees, consultants, or vendors, for whose compliance or lack thereof we may be held responsible and liable. Regulatory audits, investigations, and reviews could result in changes to our business practices, and also could result in significant or material premium refunds, fines, penalties, civil liabilities, criminal liabilities, or other sanctions, including marketing and enrollment sanctions, suspension or exclusion from participation in government programs, imposition of heightened monitoring by our federal or state regulators, and suspension or loss of licensure if we are determined to be in violation of applicable laws or regulations. Any of these audits, reviews, or investigations could have a material adverse effect on our financial position, results of operations, or business, or could result in significant liabilities and negative publicity for our Company.

We rely on the experience and expertise of our co-founder, senior management team, highly-specialized technology and insurance experts, key technical employees, and other highly skilled personnel.

Our success depends upon the continued service of Mario Schlosser, our co-founder, Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors, and senior management team, highly-specialized insurance experts, and key technical employees, as well as our ability to continue to attract and retain additional highly qualified personnel. Our future success depends on our continuing ability to identify, hire, develop, motivate, retain, and integrate highly skilled personnel for all areas of our business. If we are unable to attract the requisite personnel, including a new Chief Financial Officer to replace Siddhartha Sankaran when he transitions from his current role to a member of our board of directors after the completion of this offering, our business, and prospects may be adversely affected. Each of our co-founder, executive officers, specialized technology and insurance experts, key technical personnel, and other employees could terminate his or her relationship with us at any time. The loss of our co-founder or any other member of our senior management team, specialized technology and insurance experts, or key personnel might significantly delay or prevent the achievement of our strategic business objectives and could harm our business. In addition, much of our essential technology and infrastructure are custom-made for our business by our personnel. The loss of key technology personnel, including members of management, as well as our engineering and product development personnel, could disrupt our operations and harm our business. We also rely on a small number of highly-specialized insurance experts, the loss of any one of whom could have a disproportionate impact on our business. Competition in our industry for qualified employees is intense. Our compensation arrangements, such as our equity award programs, may not always be successful in attracting new employees, and retaining and motivating our existing employees. Moreover, if and when the stock options or other equity awards are substantially vested, employees under such equity arrangements may be more likely to leave, particularly when the underlying shares have seen a value appreciation.

We face significant competition for personnel, particularly in New York, where our headquarters is located. To attract top talent, we have to offer, and believe we will need to continue to offer, competitive compensation and benefits packages. We may also need to increase our employee compensation levels in response to competitor actions. If we are unable to hire new employees quickly enough to meet our needs, or otherwise fail to effectively manage our hiring needs or successfully

 

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integrate new hires, including our recently hired management team members, our efficiency, ability to meet forecasts and our employee morale, productivity, and retention could suffer, which in turn could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

If we sustain a cyber-attack or suffer privacy or data security breaches that disrupt our information systems or operations, or result in the dissemination of sensitive personal or confidential information, we could suffer increased costs, exposure to significant liability, adverse regulatory consequences, reputational harm, loss of business, and other serious negative consequences.

As part of our normal operations, we routinely collect, process, store, and transmit large amounts of data, including PHI subject to HIPAA, as well as proprietary or confidential information relating to our business or third parties, including our members, providers, and vendors. Information security risks have generally increased in recent years because of the proliferation of new technologies and the increased sophistication and activities of perpetrators of cyber-attacks. Hackers and data thieves are increasingly sophisticated and operating large-scale and complex automated attacks. As cyber threats continue to evolve, we may be required to expend additional resources to further enhance our information security measures, develop additional protocols and/or investigate and remediate any information security vulnerabilities.

Our information technology systems and safety control systems are subject to a growing number of threats from computer programmers, hackers, and other adversaries that may be able to penetrate our network security and misappropriate our confidential information or that of third parties, create system disruptions, or cause damage, security issues, or shutdowns. They also may be able to develop and deploy viruses, worms, and other malicious software programs that attack our systems or otherwise exploit security vulnerabilities. Because the techniques used to circumvent, gain access to, or sabotage security systems, can be highly sophisticated and change frequently, they often are not recognized until launched against a target, and may originate from less regulated and remote areas around the world. We may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventive measures, resulting in potential data loss and damage to our systems. Our systems are also subject to compromise from internal threats such as improper action by employees, including malicious insiders, or by vendors, counterparties, and other third parties with otherwise legitimate access to our systems. Our policies, employee training (including phishing prevention training), procedures, and technical safeguards may not prevent all improper access to our network or proprietary or confidential information by employees, vendors, counterparties, or other third parties. Our facilities may also be vulnerable to security incidents or security attacks, acts of vandalism or theft, misplaced or lost data, human errors, or other similar events that could negatively affect our systems, and our and our members’, data. Additionally, our third-party service providers who process information on our behalf may cause security breaches for which we are responsible.

Moreover, we face the ongoing challenge of managing access controls in a complex environment. The process of enhancing our protective measures can itself create a risk of systems disruptions and security issues. Given the breadth of our operations and the increasing sophistication of cyberattacks, a particular incident could occur and persist for an extended period of time before being detected. The extent of a particular cyberattack and the steps that we may need to take to investigate the attack may take a significant amount of time before such an investigation could be completed and full and reliable information about the incident is known. During such time, the extent of any harm or how best to remediate it might not be known, which could further increase the risks, costs, and consequences of a data security incident. In addition, our systems must be routinely updated, patched, and upgraded to protect against known vulnerabilities. The volume of new software vulnerabilities has increased substantially, as has the importance of patches and other remedial measures. In addition to remediating newly identified vulnerabilities, previously identified vulnerabilities must also be updated.

 

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We are at risk that cyber attackers exploit these known vulnerabilities before they have been addressed. The complexity of our systems and platforms, the increased frequency at which vendors are issuing security patches to their products, our need to test patches, and, in some instances, coordinate with third-parties before they can be deployed, all could further increase our risks.

Any compromise or perceived compromise of the security of our systems or the systems of one or more of our vendors or service providers could damage our reputation and brand, cause the termination of relationships with our members, result in disruption or interruption to our business operations, marketing partners and carriers, reduce demand for our services, and subject us to significant liability and expense, as well as regulatory action and lawsuits, which would harm our business, operating results, and financial condition. The CCPA, in particular, includes a private right of action for California consumers whose CCPA-covered personal information is impacted by a data security incident resulting from a company’s failure to maintain reasonable security procedures, and, hence, may result in civil litigation in the event of a data breach impacting such information. Although we maintain insurance covering certain security and privacy damages and claim expenses, we may not carry insurance or maintain coverage sufficient to compensate for all liability and, in any event, insurance coverage would not address the reputational damage that could result from a security incident or any regulatory actions or litigation that may result. In addition, in the event that additional data security laws are implemented, we may not be able to timely comply with such requirements, or such requirements may not be compatible with our current processes.

Real or perceived errors, failures or bugs in our systems, website, or app could impair our operations, damage our reputation and brand, and harm our business and operating results.

Our continued success is dependent on our systems, applications, and software continuing to operate and to meet the changing needs of our members and users. We rely on our technology and engineering staff and vendors to successfully implement changes to, and maintain, our systems and services in an efficient and secure manner. Like all information systems and technology, our website and online app may contain material errors, failures, vulnerabilities, or bugs, particularly when new features or capabilities are released, any of which could lead to interruptions, delays, or website or online app shutdowns, or could cause loss of critical data, or the unauthorized disclosure, access, acquisition, alteration or use of personal or other confidential information.

A significant impact on the performance, reliability, security, and availability of our systems, software, or services may harm our reputation and brand, impair our ability to operate, retain existing members, or attract new members, and expose us to legal claims and government action, each of which could have a material adverse impact on our financial condition, results of operations, and growth prospects.

We may not be able to utilize our net operating loss carryforwards, or NOLs, to offset future taxable income for U.S. federal income tax purposes, which could adversely affect our cash flows.

As of December 31, 2019, we had federal income tax NOLs of approximately $844 million available to offset our future taxable income, if any, prior to consideration of annual limitations that may be imposed under Section 382 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or the Code, or otherwise. Of our NOLs, approximately $667 million of losses will expire between 2032 and 2039, and approximately $177 million of losses can be carried forward indefinitely.

We may be unable to use our NOLs, as we do not have a history of positive earnings. In addition, under Section 382 of the Code, if a corporation undergoes an “ownership change” (very generally defined as a greater than 50% change, by value, in the corporation’s equity ownership by certain

 

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shareholders or groups of shareholders over a rolling three-year period), the corporation’s ability to use its pre-ownership change NOLs to offset its post-ownership change income may be limited. We completed an analysis under Section 382, and determined that our NOLs are subject to limitations based on changes in ownership that occurred in 2016, and we may experience ownership changes in the future as a result of subsequent shifts in our stock ownership, including this offering, some of which may be outside of our control. If we undergo another ownership change, we may incur additional limitations on our ability to utilize our NOLs existing at the time of the ownership change prior to their expiration. Future regulatory changes could also limit our ability to utilize our NOLs. To the extent we are not able to offset future taxable income with our NOLs, our cash flows may be adversely affected.

Failure to secure, protect, or enforce our intellectual property rights could harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

Our commercial success is dependent in part on protecting our core technologies, intellectual property assets, and proprietary rights (such as source code, information, data, processes, and other forms of information, know-how, and technology). We rely on a combination of copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secret laws, and contractual restrictions to establish and protect our intellectual property. However, there are steps that we have not yet taken to protect our intellectual property on a global basis. For example, we do not have any patents, which limits our ability to deter patent infringement claims by competitors and other third parties who may hold or obtain patents. Additionally, the steps that we have already taken to protect our intellectual property may not be sufficient or effective, and our confidentiality, non-disclosure, or invention assignment agreements with employees, consultants, partners, or other parties may be breached and may otherwise not be effective in establishing our rights in intellectual property and in controlling access to our proprietary information. Even if we do detect violations, we may need to engage in litigation to enforce our rights.

We currently hold various domain names relating to our brand, including HiOscar.com. We also engage a third party vendor to monitor fictitious sites that may purport to be us. Failure to protect our domain names could adversely affect our reputation and brand, and make it more difficult for users to find our website and our online app. We may be unable, without significant cost or at all, to prevent third parties from diverting traffic from or acquiring domain names that are similar to, infringe upon, or otherwise decrease the value of our trademarks and other proprietary rights.

While we take precautions designed to protect our intellectual property, it may still be possible for competitors and other unauthorized third parties to copy our technology and use our proprietary brand, content, and information to create or enhance competing solutions and products, which could adversely affect our competitive position in our rapidly evolving and highly competitive industry. Some license provisions that protect against unauthorized use, copying, decompiling, transfer, and disclosure of our technology may be unenforceable under the laws of certain jurisdictions and foreign countries, and the remedies for such events may not be sufficient to compensate for such breaches. We enter into confidentiality and invention assignment agreements with our employees and consultants, and enter into confidentiality agreements with our third-party providers and strategic partners. We cannot assure you that these agreements will be effective in controlling access to, and use and distribution of, our platform and proprietary information. Further, these agreements do not prevent our competitors from independently developing technologies that are substantially equivalent or superior to our offerings. Such arrangements may limit our ability to protect, maintain, enforce, or commercialize such intellectual property rights. If we are unable to prevent the unauthorized use or exploitation of our intellectual property, the value of our brand, content, and other intangible assets may be diminished, competitors may be able to more effectively mimic our service and methods of operations, the perception of our business and service to members, and potential members, may become confused, and our ability to attract customers may be adversely affected. Any inability or failure to protect our intellectual property could adversely impact our business, results of operations, and financial condition.

 

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We have filed, and may continue in the future to file, applications to protect certain of our innovations and intellectual property. We do not know whether any of our applications will result in the issuance of a patent, trademark, or copyright, as applicable, or whether the examination process will require us to narrow our claims. In addition, we may not receive competitive advantages from the rights granted under our intellectual property. Our existing intellectual property, and any intellectual property granted to us, or that we otherwise acquire in the future, may be contested, circumvented, or invalidated, and we may not be able to detect or prevent third parties from infringing our rights to our intellectual property. Therefore, the exact effect of the protection of this intellectual property cannot be predicted with certainty. In addition, given the costs, effort, and risks of obtaining patent protection, including the requirement to ultimately disclose the invention to the public, we may choose not to seek patent protection for certain innovations. Any failure to adequately obtain such patent protection, or other intellectual property protection, could later prove to adversely impact our business.

We may be required to spend significant resources in order to monitor, protect, and defend our intellectual property rights, and some violations may be difficult or impossible to detect. Litigation to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights could be costly, time-consuming, and distracting to management, and could result in the impairment or loss of portions of our intellectual property. Our efforts to enforce our intellectual property rights may be met with defenses, counterclaims, and countersuits attacking the validity and enforceability of our intellectual property rights. Our inability to protect our proprietary technology against unauthorized copying or use, as well as any costly litigation or diversion of our management’s attention and resources, could impair the functionality of our platform, delay introductions of enhancements to our platform, result in our substituting inferior or more costly technologies into our platform, or harm our reputation or brand. In addition, we may be required to license additional technology from third parties to develop and market new offerings or platform features, which may not be on commercially reasonable terms, or at all, and could adversely affect our ability to compete or require us to rebrand or otherwise modify our offerings, which could further exhaust our resources. Furthermore, we may also be obligated to indemnify our members or business partners in connection with any such litigation and to obtain licenses.

Risks Related to this Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock

Our management team will have immediate and broad discretion over the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may not use them effectively.

We currently intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including to fund our growth (including capital contributions to our health insurance subsidiaries), technology development, working capital, operating expenses, and capital expenditures. Additionally, we may use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire or invest in products, services, or technologies; however, we do not have agreements or commitments for any material investments at this time. See “Use of Proceeds.” Our management will have broad discretion in the application of the net proceeds. Our stockholders may not agree with the manner in which our management chooses to allocate the net proceeds from this offering. The failure by our management to apply these funds effectively could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operation. Pending their use, we may invest the net proceeds from this offering in a manner that does not produce income. The decisions made by our management may not result in positive returns on your investment and you will not have an opportunity to evaluate the economic, financial, or other information upon which our management bases its decisions.

 

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Our common stock price may be volatile or may decline regardless of our operating performance, and you may not be able to resell your shares at or above the initial public offering price.

Prior to this offering, there has not been a public trading market for shares of our common stock. It is possible that after this offering an active trading market will not develop or continue or, if developed, that any market will be sustained, which could make it difficult for you to sell your shares of common stock at an attractive price or at all. The initial public offering price of our common stock will be determined by negotiations between us and the representatives of the underwriters based upon a number of factors and may not be indicative of prices that will prevail in the open market following the consummation of this offering. See “Underwriting.” Consequently, you may not be able to sell shares of our common stock at prices equal to or greater than the price you paid in this offering.

Many factors, some of which are outside our control, may cause the market price of our common stock to fluctuate significantly, including those described elsewhere in this “Risk Factors” section and this prospectus, as well as the following:

 

   

our operating and financial performance and prospects;

 

   

our quarterly or annual earnings, or those of other companies in our industry, compared to market expectations;

 

   

conditions that impact demand for our offerings and platform, including demand in our industry generally and the performance of the third parties through whom we conduct significant parts of our business;

 

   

future announcements concerning our business or our competitors’ businesses;

 

   

the public’s reaction to our press releases, other public announcements, and filings with the SEC;

 

   

the market’s reaction to our reduced disclosure and other requirements as a result of being treated as an “emerging growth company” under the JOBS Act;

 

   

coverage by or changes in financial estimates by securities analysts or failure to meet their expectations;

 

   

market and industry perception of our success, or lack thereof, in pursuing our growth strategy;

 

   

strategic actions by us or our competitors, such as acquisitions or restructurings;

 

   

changes in laws or regulations which adversely affect our industry or us;

 

   

changes in accounting standards, policies, guidance, interpretations, or principles;

 

   

changes in our board of directors, senior management, or key personnel;

 

   

issuances, exchanges or sales, or expected issuances, exchanges, or sales of our capital stock;

 

   

changes in our dividend policy;

 

   

adverse resolution of new or pending litigation, or other claims against us; and

 

   

changes in general market, economic, and political conditions in the United States and global economies or financial markets, including those resulting from natural disasters, terrorist attacks, global pandemics, acts of war, and responses to such events.

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and industry factors may materially reduce the market price of our common stock, regardless of our operating performance. In addition, price volatility may be greater if the public float and trading volume of our common stock is low. As a result, you may suffer a loss on your investment.

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

We currently intend to retain all available funds and any future earnings to fund the development and growth of our business. As a result, we do not anticipate declaring or paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future. Any decision to declare and pay dividends in the future will be made at the discretion of our board of directors and will depend on, among other things, our business prospects, results of operations, financial condition, cash requirements and availability, industry trends, and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant. Any such decision also will be subject to compliance with contractual restrictions and covenants in the agreements governing our current indebtedness. In addition, our ability to pay dividends in the future depends on the earnings and distributions of funds from our health insurance subsidiaries. Applicable state insurance laws restrict the ability of such health insurance subsidiaries to declare stockholder dividends and require our health insurance subsidiaries to maintain specified levels of statutory capital and surplus. Moreover, we may incur additional indebtedness, the terms of which may further restrict or prevent us from paying dividends on our common stock. As a result, you may have to sell some or all of your common stock after price appreciation in order to generate cash flow from your investment, which you may not be able to do. Our inability or decision not to pay dividends could also adversely affect the market price of our common stock.

We may issue shares of preferred stock in the future, which could make it difficult for another company to acquire us or could otherwise adversely affect holders of our common stock, which could depress the price of our common stock.

Our Amended Charter will authorize us to issue one or more series of preferred stock. Our board of directors will have the authority to determine the preferences, limitations, and relative rights of the shares of preferred stock and to fix the number of shares constituting any series and the designation of such series, without any further vote or action by our stockholders. Our preferred stock could be issued with voting, liquidation, dividend, and other rights superior to the rights of our common stock. The potential issuance of preferred stock may delay or prevent a change in control of us, discouraging bids for our common stock at a premium to the market price, and materially and adversely affect the market price and the voting and other rights of the holders of our common stock.

The issuance by us of additional shares of common stock or convertible securities may dilute your ownership of us and could adversely affect our stock price.

In connection with this offering, we intend to file a registration statement with the SEC on Form S-8 providing for the registration of shares of our common stock issued or reserved for issuance under 2012 Plan, 2021 Plan, and ESPP. Subject to the satisfaction of vesting conditions and the expiration of lockup agreements, shares registered under the registration statement on Form S-8 will be available for resale immediately in the public market without restriction. From time to time in the future, we may also issue additional shares of our common stock or securities convertible into common stock pursuant to a variety of transactions, including acquisitions. The issuance by us of additional shares of our common stock or securities convertible into our common stock would dilute your ownership of us, and the sale of a significant amount of such shares in the public market could adversely affect prevailing market prices of our common stock.

 

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Future sales, or the perception of future sales, by us or our existing stockholders in the public market following this offering could cause the market price for our common stock to decline.

The sale of substantial amounts of shares of our common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales could occur, could harm the prevailing market price of shares of our common stock. These sales, or the possibility that these sales may occur, also might make it more difficult for us to sell equity securities in the future at a time and at a price that we deem appropriate. Upon completion of this offering, we will have a total of                shares of our common stock outstanding (or                shares if the underwriters exercise their over-allotment option in full).

All of the shares of common stock sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, except that any shares held by our affiliates, as that term is defined under Rule 144 of the Securities Act, or Rule 144, may be sold only in compliance with the limitations described in “Shares Eligible for Future Sale.” The remaining outstanding shares of common stock held by our existing owners after this offering will be subject to certain restrictions on resale. We, our executive officers, directors, and the holders of substantially all of our outstanding stock will sign lock-up agreements with the underwriters that will, subject to certain customary exceptions, restrict the sale of the shares of our common stock and certain other securities held by them for 180 days following the date of this prospectus.                  may, in their sole discretion and at any time without notice, release all or any portion of the shares or securities subject to any such lock-up agreements. See “Underwriting” for a description of these lock-up agreements.

As restrictions on resale end, the market price of our shares of common stock could drop significantly if the holders of such restricted shares sell them or are perceived by the market as intending to sell them. These factors could also make it more difficult for us to raise additional funds through future offerings of our shares of common stock or other securities.

Upon the expiration of the lock-up agreements described above, all such shares will be eligible for resale in the public market, subject, in the case of shares held by our affiliates, to volume, manner of sale, and other limitations described in “Shares Eligible for Future Sale.”

The JOBS Act will allow us to postpone the date by which we must comply with certain laws and regulations intended to protect investors, and to reduce the amount of information we provide in our reports filed with the SEC. We cannot be certain if this reduced disclosure will make our common stock less attractive to investors.

The JOBS Act is intended to reduce the regulatory burden on “emerging growth companies.” As defined in the JOBS Act, a public company whose initial public offering of common equity securities occurs after December 8, 2011, and whose annual net revenues are less than $1.07 billion will, in general, qualify as an “emerging growth company” until the earliest of:

 

   

the last day of its fiscal year following the fifth anniversary of the date of its initial public offering of common equity securities;

 

   

the last day of its fiscal year in which it has annual gross revenue of $1.07 billion or more;

 

   

the date on which it has, during the previous three-year period, issued more than $1.07 billion in nonconvertible debt; and

 

   

the date on which it is deemed to be a “large accelerated filer,” which will occur at such time as the company (1) has an aggregate worldwide market value of common equity securities held by non-affiliates of $700 million or more as of the last business day of its most recently completed second fiscal quarter, (2) has been required to file annual and quarterly reports under the Exchange Act for a period of at least 12 months, and (3) has filed at least one annual report pursuant to the Exchange Act.

 

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Under this definition, we will be an “emerging growth company” upon completion of this offering and could remain an “emerging growth company” until as late as the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering. For so long as we are an “emerging growth company,” we will, among other things:

 

   

not be required to comply with the auditor attestation requirements of Section 404(b) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404(b);

 

   

not be required to hold a nonbinding advisory stockholder vote on executive compensation pursuant to Section 14A(a) of the Exchange Act;

 

   

not be required to seek stockholder approval of any golden parachute payments not previously approved pursuant to Section 14A(b) of the Exchange Act;

 

   

be exempt from the requirement of the PCAOB regarding the communication of critical audit matters in the auditor’s report on the financial statements; and

 

   

be subject to reduced disclosure obligations regarding executive compensation in our periodic reports and proxy statements.

In addition, Section 107 of the JOBS Act provides that an emerging growth company can use the extended transition period provided in Section 7(a)(2)(B) of the Securities Act for complying with new or revised accounting standards. This permits an emerging growth company to delay the adoption of certain accounting standards until those standards would otherwise apply to private companies. We have elected to use this extended transition period and, as a result, our consolidated financial statements may not be comparable to the financial statements of issuers who are required to comply with the effective dates for new or revised accounting standards that are applicable to public companies. We cannot predict if investors will find our common stock less attractive as a result of our decision to take advantage of some or all of the reduced disclosure requirements above. If some investors find our common stock less attractive as a result, there may be a less active trading market for our common stock and our stock price may be more volatile.

The obligations associated with being a public company require significant resources and management attention, and we have and will continue to incur increased costs as a result of becoming a public company.

After completion of this offering, as a public company, we will face increased legal, accounting, administrative, and other costs and expenses that we did not incur as a private company, and which have not been reflected in our historical consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. We have already started to incur, and expect to continue to incur, significant costs related to operating as a public company. Upon the completion of this offering, we will be subject to the Exchange Act, the rules and regulations implemented by the SEC, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the Dodd-Frank Act, the PCAOB, and the rules and standards of the exchange upon which our securities are listed, each of which imposes additional reporting and other obligations on public companies. As a public company, we will be required to, among others:

 

   

prepare, file, and distribute annual, quarterly, and current reports with respect to our business and financial condition;

 

   

prepare, file, and distribute proxy statements and other stockholder communications;

 

   

expand the roles and duties of our Board and committees thereof, and management;

 

   

hire additional financial and accounting personnel and other experienced accounting and finance staff with the expertise to address complex accounting matters applicable to public companies;

 

   

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involve and retain to a greater degree outside counsel and accountants to assist us with the activities listed above;

 

   

enhance our investor relations function;

 

   

establish new internal policies, including those relating to trading in our securities and disclosure controls and procedures;

 

   

comply with our exchange’s listing standards; and

 

   

comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act.

These rules and regulations and changes in laws, regulations, and standards relating to corporate governance and public disclosure, which have created uncertainty for public companies, have and will continue to increase our legal and financial compliance costs and make some activities more time consuming and costly. These laws, regulations, and standards are subject to varying interpretations, in many cases due to their lack of specificity, and, as a result, their application in practice may evolve over time as new guidance is provided by regulatory and governing bodies. This could result in continuing uncertainty regarding compliance matters and higher costs necessitated by ongoing revisions to disclosure and governance practices. Our investment in compliance with existing and evolving regulatory requirements has and will continue to result in increased administrative expenses and a diversion of management’s time and attention from revenue-generating activities to compliance activities, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

In addition, the need to establish the corporate infrastructure demanded of a public company may also divert management’s attention from implementing our business strategy, which could prevent us from improving our business, financial condition, and results of operations. If we do not continue to develop and implement the right processes and tools to manage our changing enterprise and maintain our culture, our ability to compete successfully and achieve our business objectives could be impaired, which could negatively impact our business, financial condition, and results of operations. In addition, we cannot predict or estimate the amount of additional costs we may incur to comply with these requirements. We anticipate that these costs will materially increase our general and administrative expenses.

We also expect that being a public company and complying with applicable rules and regulations will make it more difficult and more expensive for us to obtain director and officer liability insurance, and we may be required to accept reduced policy limits and coverage, or incur substantially higher costs to obtain the same or similar coverage. As a result, it may be more difficult for us to attract and retain qualified people to serve on our board of directors, our board committees, or as executive officers.

As a public reporting company, we will be subject to rules and regulations established from time to time by the SEC regarding our internal control over financial reporting. If we fail to establish and maintain effective internal control over financial reporting and disclosure controls and procedures, we may not be able to accurately report our financial results, or report them in a timely manner.

Upon consummation of this offering, we will become a public reporting company subject to the rules and regulations established from time to time by the SEC and the                . These rules and regulations will require, among other things, that we establish and periodically evaluate procedures with respect to our internal control over financial reporting. Reporting obligations as a public company are likely to place a considerable strain on our financial and management systems, processes, and controls, as well as on our personnel.

 

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In addition, as a public company, we will be required to document and test our internal control over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act so that our management can certify as to the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting. Section 404(a) of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, or Section 404(a), requires that, beginning with our second annual report following our initial public offering, management assess and report annually on the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, and identify any material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting. Although Section 404(b) requires our independent registered public accounting firm to issue an annual report that addresses the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting, we have opted to rely on the exemptions provided in the JOBS Act, and, consequently, will not be required to comply with SEC rules that implement Section 404(b) until such time as we are no longer treated as an “emerging growth company.” We could potentially qualify as an “emerging growth company” until as late as the fifth anniversary of the completion of this offering. We expect our first Section 404(a) assessment will take place for our annual report for the year ending                 .

If our senior management is unable to conclude that we have effective internal control over financial reporting, or to certify the effectiveness of such controls, and our independent registered public accounting firm cannot render an unqualified opinion on management’s assessment and the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting at such time as it is required to do so, and material weaknesses in our internal control over financial reporting are identified, we could be subject to regulatory scrutiny, a loss of public and investor confidence, and to litigation from investors and stockholders, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and our stock price. In addition, if we do not maintain adequate financial and management personnel, processes, and controls, we may not be able to manage our business effectively or accurately report our financial performance on a timely basis, which could cause a decline in our common stock price and adversely affect our business, financial condition, and results of operations. Failure to comply with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act could potentially subject us to sanctions or investigations by the SEC, the exchange upon which our securities are listed or other regulatory authorities, which would require additional financial and management resources.

Anti-takeover provisions in our governing documents and under Delaware law could make an acquisition of our company more difficult, limit attempts by our stockholders to replace or remove our current management, and depress the market price of our common stock.

Our Amended Charter, Amended Bylaws, and Delaware law contain, or will contain, provisions that could have the effect of rendering more difficult, delaying or preventing an acquisition deemed undesirable by our board of directors. Among others, our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws will include the following provisions:

 

   

limitations on convening special stockholder meetings, which could make it difficult for our stockholders to adopt desired governance changes;

 

   

advance notice procedures, which apply for stockholders to nominate candidates for election as directors or to bring matters before an annual meeting of stockholders;

 

   

a prohibition on stockholder action by written consent, which means that our stockholders will only be able to take action at a meeting of stockholders;

 

   

a forum selection clause, which means certain litigation against us can only be brought in Delaware;

 

   

no authorization of cumulative voting, which limits the ability of minority stockholders to elect director candidates;

 

   

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certain amendments to our certificate of incorporation will require the approval of two-thirds of the then outstanding voting power of our capital stock;

 

   

our bylaws will provide that the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the then-outstanding voting power of our capital stock, voting as a single class, is required for stockholders to amend or adopt any provision of our bylaws; and

 

   

the authorization of undesignated or “blank check” preferred stock, the terms of which may be established and shares of which may be issued without further action by our stockholders.

These provisions, alone or together, could delay or prevent hostile takeovers and changes in control or changes in our management. As a Delaware corporation, we are also subject to provisions of Delaware law, including Section 203 of the Delaware General Corporation Law, or the DGCL, which prevents interested stockholders, such as certain stockholders holding more than 15% of our outstanding common stock from engaging in certain business combinations unless (i) prior to the time such stockholder became an interested stockholder, the board approved the transaction that resulted in such stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, (ii) upon consummation of the transaction that resulted in such stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned 85% of the common stock or (iii) following board approval, the business combination receives the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds of our outstanding common stock not held by such interested stockholder.

Additionally, the insurance law in most states requires regulatory review and approval of a change in control of our domestic insurers. “Control” generally means the possession, direct or indirect, of the power to direct, or cause the direction of, the management and policies of an insurer, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise. The state statutes usually presume that control exists if a person or company, directly or indirectly, owns, controls, or holds with the power to vote ten percent (10%) or more of the voting securities of an insurer or a parent company. This presumption can then be rebutted by a showing that control does not exist. Accordingly, a change in control could trigger regulatory review and approval in one or more states in which we operate.

Any provision of our Amended Charter, Amended Bylaws, Delaware law, or applicable state insurance law that has the effect of delaying, preventing, or deterring a change in control could limit the opportunity for our stockholders to receive a premium for their shares of our common stock, and could also affect the price that some investors are willing to pay for our common stock.

Our Amended Charter will provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, and federal district courts will be the sole and exclusive forum for Securities Act claims, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.

Our Amended Charter will provide that, unless we consent to the selection of an alternative forum, the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware is the sole and exclusive forum for: (a) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf; (b) any action asserting a claim of breach of fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers or other employees to us or to our stockholders; (c) any action asserting a claim arising pursuant to the DGCL, our Amended Charter or Amended Bylaws, or as to which the DGCL confers exclusive jurisdiction on the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware; or (d) any action asserting a claim governed by the internal affairs doctrine; provided that the exclusive forum provisions will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by Exchange Act or to any claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Our Amended Charter will further provide that, unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum,

 

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the federal district courts are the sole and exclusive forum for the resolution of any complaint asserting a cause of action arising under the Securities Act, subject to a final adjudication in the State of Delaware of the enforceability of such exclusive forum provision. The choice of forum provisions may limit a stockholder’s ability to bring a claim in a judicial forum that it finds favorable for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or other employees, which may discourage such lawsuits against us and our directors, officers, and other employees. Alternatively, if a court were to find the choice of forum provisions contained in our Amended Charter to be inapplicable or unenforceable in an action, we may incur additional costs associated with resolving such action in other jurisdictions, which could harm our business, financial condition, and results of operations.

An active trading market for our common stock may never develop or be sustained.

Although the shares of our common stock will be authorized for trading on the                , an active trading market for our common stock may not develop on that exchange or elsewhere or, if developed, that market may not be sustained. If an active trading market for our common stock does not develop or is not maintained, the liquidity of our common stock, your ability to sell your shares of our common stock when desired, and the prices that you may obtain for your shares of common stock will be adversely affected.

If securities analysts do not publish research or reports about our company, or if they issue unfavorable commentary about us or our industry or downgrade our common stock, the price of our common stock could decline.

The trading market for our common stock will depend in part on the research and reports that third-party securities analysts publish about our company and our industry. We may be unable to attract research coverage, and if one or more analysts cease coverage of our company, we could lose visibility in the market. In addition, one or more of these analysts could downgrade our common stock or issue other negative commentary about our company or our industry. As a result of one or more of these factors, the trading price of our common stock could decline.

If our operating and financial performance in any given period does not meet the guidance that we provide to the public, the market price of our common stock may decline.

We may, but are not obligated to, provide public guidance on our expected operating and financial results for future periods. Any such guidance will be comprised of forward-looking statements subject to the risks and uncertainties described in this prospectus, and in our other public filings and public statements. Our actual results may not always be in line with or exceed any guidance we have provided, especially in times of economic uncertainty. If, in the future, our operating or financial results for a particular period do not meet any guidance we provide or the expectations of investment analysts, or if we reduce our guidance for future periods, the market price of our common stock may decline. Even if we do issue public guidance, there can be no assurance that we will continue to do so in the future.

Investors in this offering will experience immediate and substantial dilution of $        per share.

Based on an assumed initial public offering price of $        per share (the midpoint of the range set forth on the cover of this prospectus), purchasers of our common stock in this offering will experience immediate and substantial dilution of $        per share in the as adjusted net tangible book value per share of common stock from the initial public offering price, and our as adjusted net tangible book value as of                    , 2020 after giving effect to this offering would be $        per share. This dilution is due in large part to earlier investors having paid substantially less than the initial public offering price when they purchased their shares. See “Dilution.”

 

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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This prospectus contains forward-looking statements. All statements other than statements of historical facts contained in this prospectus may be forward-looking statements. Statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position, business strategy, and plans and objectives of management for future operations, including, among others, statements regarding the offering, expected growth and future capital expenditures, are forward-looking statements. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expects,” “plans,” “anticipates,” “could,” “intends,” “targets,” “projects,” “contemplates,” “believes,” “estimates,” “predicts,” “potential,” or “continue” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. Accordingly, we caution you that any such forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance and are subject to risks, assumptions, and uncertainties that are difficult to predict. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in these forward-looking statements are reasonable as of the date made, actual results may prove to be materially different from the results expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.

There are or will be important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from those indicated in these forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the following:

 

   

failure to retain and expand our member base;

 

   

failure to execute our growth strategy;

 

   

inability to achieve or maintain profitability in the future;

 

   

changes in federal or state laws or regulations, including changes with respect to the ACA and any regulations enacted thereunder;

 

   

failure to accurately estimate our incurred claims expenses or effectively manage our claims costs or related administrative costs;

 

   

failure to comply with ongoing regulatory requirements and applicable performance standards;

 

   

changes or developments in the health insurance markets in the United States, including passage and implementation of a law to create a single-payer or government-run health insurance program;

 

   

failure to comply with applicable privacy, security, and data laws, regulations, and standards;

 

   

inability to arrange for the delivery of quality care and maintain good relations with the physicians, hospitals, and other providers within and outside our provider networks;

 

   

unfavorable or otherwise costly outcomes of lawsuits and claims that arise from the extensive laws and regulations to which we are subject;

 

   

unanticipated results of risk adjustment programs;

 

   

delays in our receipt of premiums;

 

   

disruptions or challenges to our relationship with the Oscar Medical Group;

 

   

loss of key in-network providers;

 

   

unanticipated changes in population morbidity and large-scale changes in health care utilization; and

 

   

the other factors set forth under “Risk Factors.”

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other risks or uncertainties materialize, or if our underlying assumptions prove to be incorrect, actual results may differ materially from what we anticipate. Many of the important factors that will determine these results are beyond our ability to control or predict. Accordingly, you should not place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements. Any forward-looking statement speaks only as of the date on which it is made, and, except as otherwise required by law, we do not undertake any obligation to publicly update or review any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise. New factors emerge from time to time, and it is not possible for us to predict which will arise. In addition, we cannot assess the impact of each factor on our business or the extent to which any factor, or combination of factors, may cause actual results to differ materially from those contained in any forward-looking statements.

In addition, statements that “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the date of this prospectus, and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.

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 forms a part with the understanding that our actual future results, levels of activity, performance, and achievements may be materially different from what we expect.

 

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USE OF PROCEEDS

We estimate that we will receive net proceeds from this offering of approximately $                 million (or approximately $                 million if the underwriters exercise their option to purchase additional shares of common stock in full), based upon an assumed initial public offering price of $                 per share (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

We intend to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, including to fund our growth (including capital contributions to our health insurance subsidiaries), technology development, working capital, operating expenses, and capital expenditures. Additionally, we may use a portion of the net proceeds to acquire or invest in products, services, or technologies; however, we do not have agreements or commitments for any material investments at this time. We will have broad discretion in the way that we use the net proceeds of this offering. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to this Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—Our management team will have immediate and broad discretion over the use of the net proceeds from this offering and may not use them effectively” for additional information.

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial public offering price of $                per share (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) would increase (decrease) the net proceeds to us from this offering by approximately $                 million, assuming the number of shares offered, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

Each 1,000,000 share increase (decrease) in the number of shares offered in this offering would increase (decrease) the net proceeds to us from this offering by approximately $                 million, assuming that the price per share for the offering remains at $                 (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

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DIVIDEND POLICY

We have never declared or paid any cash dividends on our capital stock. We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. Any future determination to declare cash dividends will be made at the discretion of our board of directors, subject to applicable laws, and will depend on a number of factors, including our financial condition, results of operations, capital and surplus requirements, contractual restrictions, general business conditions, and other factors that our board of directors may deem relevant.

Additionally, we are a holding company that transacts a majority of our business through operating subsidiaries. Consequently, our ability to pay dividends to stockholders is largely dependent on receipt of dividends and other distributions from our subsidiaries. Applicable insurance laws restrict the ability of our health insurance subsidiaries to declare stockholder dividends and require our health insurance subsidiaries to maintain specified levels of statutory capital and surplus. Regulators have broad powers to prevent reduction of statutory surplus to inadequate levels, and there is no assurance that dividends of the maximum amounts calculated under any applicable formula would be permitted. State insurance regulatory authorities that have jurisdiction over the payment of dividends by our health insurance subsidiaries may in the future adopt statutory provisions more restrictive than those currently in effect. See “Business—Government Regulation—State Regulation of Insurance Companies and HMOs.” In addition, some of our health insurance subsidiaries may have entered into specific commitments not to pay dividends.

Our ability to pay dividends may also be restricted by the terms of any future credit agreement or any future debt, or preferred equity securities of us or our subsidiaries. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to this Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future.”

 

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CAPITALIZATION

The following table sets forth our cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments and capitalization as of December 31, 2020 on:

 

   

an actual basis;

 

   

a pro forma basis to give effect to (i) the filing and effectiveness of our Amended Charter and (ii) the Preferred Stock Conversion, in each case as if such event had occurred on December 31, 2020; and

 

   

a pro forma as adjusted basis to give effect to the pro forma adjustments described in the preceding clause and to further reflect the issuance and sale of common stock in this offering at an assumed initial public offering price of $                per share (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us, and the application of the net proceeds therefrom as described under “Use of Proceeds.”

The pro forma and pro forma as adjusted information set forth in the table below is illustrative only and will be adjusted based on the actual initial public offering price and other terms of this offering determined at pricing. You should read this information in conjunction with our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus and the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section and other financial information contained in this prospectus.

 

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    As of December 31, 2020  
    Actual     Pro forma     Pro forma
as
adjusted(1)
 
    (in thousands, except share
and per share data)
 

Cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investments(2)

  $                   $                   $                
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Indebtedness:

     

Convertible preferred stock, par value $0.00001; 339,262,809 shares authorized, actual and 335,625,349 shares issued and 334,605,349 shares outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, pro forma and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; no shares authorized, pro forma as adjusted and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     

Total (deficit) equity:

     

Stockholders’ (deficit) equity:

     

Preferred stock, par value $0.00001; no shares authorized, actual and no shares issued and outstanding, actual; shares authorized, pro forma and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; shares authorized, pro forma as adjusted and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     

Common stock, $0.00001 par value; no shares authorized, actual and no shares issued and outstanding, actual; shares authorized, pro forma and shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; shares authorized, pro forma as adjusted and shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     

Series A common stock, $0.00001 par value; 602,000,000 shares authorized, actual and 17,034,585 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, pro forma and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; no shares authorized, pro forma as adjusted and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     

Series B common stock, $0.00001 par value; 69,991,713 shares authorized, actual and 69,487,963 shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, pro forma and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; no shares authorized, pro forma as adjusted and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     

Series C common stock, $0.00001 par value; 10,000,000 shares authorized, actual and no shares issued and outstanding, actual; no shares authorized, pro forma and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma; no shares authorized, pro forma as adjusted and no shares issued and outstanding, pro forma as adjusted

     

Treasury stock

     

Additional paid-in capital

     

Accumulated deficit

     

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ (deficit) equity

     
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total capitalization

  $       $       $    
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1)

Each $1.00 increase or decrease in the assumed initial public offering price of $                per share (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus) would increase or decrease each of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ (deficit) equity and total capitalization on a pro forma as adjusted basis by approximately $                million, assuming the number of shares offered, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

Each 1,000,000 share increase or decrease in the number of shares offered in this offering would increase or decrease each of cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments, additional paid-in capital, total stockholders’ (deficit) equity and total capitalization on a pro forma as adjusted basis by approximately $                 million, assuming that the price per share for the offering remains at $                  (which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus), and after deducting the estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

 

(2)

Excludes approximately $                million of restricted cash and cash equivalents and includes $                million of short-term investments.

 

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DILUTION

If you invest in our common stock in this offering, your ownership interest will be immediately diluted to the extent of the difference between the initial public offering price per share of our common stock and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after this offering. Dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share to new investors represents the difference between the amount per share paid by purchasers of shares of our common stock in this offering and the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share of our common stock immediately after completion of this offering.

Net tangible book value per share is determined by dividing our total tangible assets less our total liabilities by the number of shares of our common stock outstanding. Our historical net tangible book value (deficit) as of December 31, 2020, was approximately $                 million, or $                 per share. Our pro forma net tangible book value as of December 31, 2020 was $                 million, or $                 per share, based on the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding as of December 31, 2020, after giving effect to the Preferred Stock Conversion, as if such conversion occurred on December 31, 2020.

After giving effect to the sale by us of                  shares of our common stock in this offering at the assumed initial public offering price of $                 per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, and after deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions, and estimated offering expenses payable by us, our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value as of December 31, 2020, would have been $                 million, or $                 per share. This represents an immediate increase in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value of $                 per share to our existing stockholders and an immediate dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value of $                 per share to investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering. The following table illustrates this dilution:

 

Assumed initial public offering price per share of common stock

      $                

Historical net tangible book value (deficit) per share as of December 31, 2020

   $                   

Increase per share attributable to the pro forma adjustments described above

     

Pro forma net tangible book value per share as of December 31, 2020

     

Increase per share attributable to new investors purchasing shares of common stock in this offering

     
  

 

 

    

Pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share immediately after this offering

      $    
     

 

 

 

Dilution in pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value per share to new common stock investors in this offering

      $    
     

 

 

 

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial offering price of $                 per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value after this offering by approximately $                 million, or $                 per share, and would increase (decrease) the dilution per share to new investors purchasing our common stock in this offering by $                 per share, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Each increase (decrease) of 1.0 million shares in the number of shares sold in this offering, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) our pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value after this offering by approximately $                 million, or $                 per share,

 

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and would increase (decrease) the dilution per share to new investors by $                 per share, assuming that the assumed initial public offering price of $                 per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

The following table presents, on a pro forma basis as of December 31, 2020, after giving effect to (i) the Preferred Stock Conversion and (ii) the sale by us of shares of our common stock in this offering at the assumed initial public offering price of $                 per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, the difference between the existing stockholders and the investors purchasing shares of our common stock in this offering with respect to the number of shares of our common stock purchased from us, the total consideration paid or to be paid to us, and the average price per share paid or to be paid to us, before deducting estimated underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us:

 

     Shares Purchased     Total Consideration        
     Number      Percent     Amount      Percent     Average
price per
Share
 

Existing stockholders

                                $                             $                

New investors

            
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

        100   $          100   $    
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Each $1.00 increase (decrease) in the assumed initial offering price of $                 per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) the total consideration paid by new investors, total consideration paid by all stockholders and average price per share paid by all stockholders by $                , $                 and $                 per share, respectively, assuming that the number of shares offered by us, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions, and estimated offering expenses payable by us. Each increase (decrease) of 1.0 million shares in the number of shares sold in this offering, as set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, would increase (decrease) the total consideration paid by new investors, total consideration paid by all stockholders and average price per share paid by all stockholders by $                , $                 and $                 per share, respectively, assuming that the assumed initial public offering price of $                 per share, which is the midpoint of the price range set forth on the cover page of this prospectus, remains the same, and after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and estimated offering expenses payable by us.

If the underwriters exercise in full their option to purchase                  additional shares of our common stock in this offering, the pro forma as adjusted net tangible book value (deficit) per share after this offering would be $                 per share and the dilution to new investors in this offering would be $                 per share. If the underwriters exercise such option in full, the number of shares held by new investors will increase to approximately                  shares of our common stock, or approximately                 % of the total number of shares of our common stock outstanding after this offering.

The number of shares of our common stock that will be outstanding after this offering as shown in the table above is based on                  shares of our common stock (after giving effect to the Preferred Stock Conversion) outstanding as of December 31, 2020, and excludes the following:

 

   

                shares of common stock issuable upon exercise of stock options outstanding as of                 , 2020 under the 2012 Plan with a weighted average exercise price of $                 per share;

 

   

                shares of common stock issuable upon the exercise of warrants outstanding as of                 , 2020, with a weighted average exercise price of $                 per share; and

 

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                 shares of common stock that will become available for future issuance under our new equity compensation plans, consisting of (1)                 shares of common stock under the 2021 Plan and (2)                 shares of common stock under the ESPP, each of which will become effective in connection with this offering (and each of which exclude any potential annual evergreen increases pursuant to the terms of the 2021 Plan and the ESPP).

To the extent any options or warrants are granted and exercised in the future, there may be additional economic dilution to new investors.

In addition, we may choose to raise additional capital due to market conditions or strategic considerations, even if we believe we have sufficient funds for our current or future operating plans. To the extent that we raise additional capital through the sale of equity, as common stock, or other securities that are convertible into our common stock, such as convertible debt securities, the issuance of these securities could result in further dilution to our stockholders.

 

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SELECTED CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL DATA

The following tables present the selected consolidated financial data for Mulberry Health Inc. and its subsidiaries. We have derived the selected consolidated statements of operations data for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020 and the selected consolidated balance sheet data as of December 31, 2019 and 2020 from our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus. You should read this data together with our consolidated financial statements and related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus and the section titled “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations.” Our historical results for any prior period are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected in the future.

 

     Year ended December,  
               2019                         2020            
     (in thousands, except share and per
share data)
 

Consolidated Statement of Operations:

    

Revenue:

    

Premiums before ceded reinsurance

   $ 1,041,145     $                

Reinsurance premiums ceded

     (572,284  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Premiums earned

     468,861    

Investment income and other revenue

     19,327    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenue

     488,188    

Operating Expenses:

    

Claims incurred, net

     408,259    

Selling, general, and administrative expenses

     284,249    

Federal and state assessments

     48,170    

Depreciation and amortization

     6,899    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     747,577    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Loss before income tax expense

     (259,389  

Income tax expense

     1,793    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss

     (261,182  

Other comprehensive income—net of tax

    

Unrealized gain on investments

     17    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ (261,165   $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

   $ (3.02   $    

Weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

     86,439,407    

Consolidated Balance Sheet:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 336,644     $    

Short-term investments

     333,753    

Total assets

     1,346,914    

Total liabilities

     996,308    

Convertible preferred stock

     1,295,744    

Total stockholders’ (deficit) equity

     (945,138  

 

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MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION

AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS

You should read the following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations in conjunction with the section entitled “Selected Consolidated Financial Data” and our consolidated financial statements and the related notes included elsewhere in this prospectus. This discussion contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties about our business and operations. Our actual results and the timing of selected events may differ materially from those anticipated in these forward-looking statements as a result of various factors, including those we describe under “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this prospectus. See “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements.” Additionally, our historical results are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for any period in the future.

Overview

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar over eight years ago to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family, helping us navigate the health care system in our moments of greatest need. In the years since, we have built a suite of services that permit us to earn our members’ trust, leverage the power of personalized data, and help our members find quality care they can afford. We call this our member engagement engine, and it is powered by a differentiated full stack technology platform that will allow us to continue to innovate like a technology company and not a traditional insurer in the years ahead. As we continue to bring the Oscar experience to new members, new states, and new markets, our goal will remain the same: to build engagement, earn trust, and help our members live healthier lives.

Our experience over the past few years tells us that our strategy is working and that there is substantial demand for the member-first experience that Oscar was founded to create. We have grown our membership to approximately 420,000 members over the past three years, representing a CAGR of approximately 72%, while keeping insurance premiums affordable for our members and maintaining industry-leading engagement, trust, and member satisfaction metrics. Our use of quota share reinsurance arrangements has helped us grow in a sustainable and capital efficient manner. We have achieved an estimated 10% market share across the counties we serve in the Individual market and are now the third-largest for-profit insurer in the Individual market based on membership. Simultaneously, we have extended our offerings into new insurance markets, including Small Group and Medicare Advantage. In parallel, we have been able to meaningfully lower our MLR by approximately 10 points, to a healthy and economically sustainable level. We have also been able to drive our InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio lower over time with increased scale and technological efficiencies. Throughout this period, we have continued to enhance our members’ experience by consistently deploying new features that help simplify and improve their health care journey. As a result, some of the most sophisticated participants in the health care ecosystem have recognized the power of our full stack technology platform and have formed innovative partnerships with us.

For the year ended December 31, 2019, after taking into account reinsurance premiums ceded, premiums earned were $468.9 million. Additionally, our members generated $1,325.8 million of direct policy premiums for the year ended December 31, 2019, an increase from $390.7 million for the year ended December 31, 2017, representing a CAGR of 84%. In 2019, our sixth year of serving members in the Individual market, we achieved an MLR of 87.6%. For the year ended December 31, 2019, due to our continued investment in our technology, product development, and market expansion, we generated a net loss of $261.2 million and an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $222.2 million for the year

 

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ended December 31, 2019. See “Prospectus Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial and Other Data” for more information and for a reconciliation of non-GAAP metrics to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

Our Business Model

Our business model is built around our member engagement engine and full stack technology platform, which drive high engagement and trust among our members, collect and integrate data to produce real-time personalized insights, and help our members find high quality care options, including innovative virtual care solutions that we develop in partnership with the Oscar Medical Group. We believe the investments we have made to date lead to better outcomes and a better experience for our members, and that our competitors will not be able to replicate our differentiated suite of services without access to a full stack technology platform such as ours. As we continue to invest in our technology, we expect the following impact:

 

  1.

Continued Membership Growth:     We believe our member engagement engine will attract and retain members across our existing and new products over time. Notably, we have a significant opportunity to expand our offerings beyond our current geographic and insurance market footprint as well as grow share in our existing offerings. Additionally, our members who engage more frequently with their dedicated Care Teams have higher retention rates than our non-engaged members, which should drive increasing retention rates over time.

 

  2.

Improved Unit Economics:     Our technology investments and scale have helped us meaningfully reduce our MLR and administrative expense ratios over the past several years and we expect they will continue to do so. Specifically, we expect many elements of our member engagement engine and full stack technology platform, including care routing, real-time interventions, and virtual care will help us achieve a better MLR over time. We also expect other elements of our platform, including our modern claims system, will drive administrative efficiencies over time. Finally, we expect to achieve increased operating leverage as we scale our fixed costs over a growing membership base.

 

  3.

Increased Platform Opportunities:     Recognition of our innovative model has already enabled partnerships with other payers and providers in which co-branded insurance products are powered by our platform. The attractive economics of these deals include both risk-sharing and fee-based compensation for use of our innovative technology. In the future, we may continue to pursue such deals, including through fee-based licensing arrangements involving our integrated platform and engine or modules thereof. We believe the health care of the future is consumer-oriented, digitally-enabled, data-driven, and value-conscious and that we are well-positioned to power stakeholders in that future.

Our revenue largely consists of premiums that we receive from our members, which we receive as a fixed amount PMPM. In each of the three insurance markets we serve—Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage—we establish our PMPM premium rates on either an annual or quarterly basis through a process of actuarial estimation and regulatory approval from state and/or federal agencies. Our estimates reflect a variety of factors, including our members’ expected utilization of medical services, expected member risk acuity, and expected non-benefit administrative expenses including distribution and personnel costs. Other revenue consists primarily of investment income. In the future, we may also derive fee-based as well as risk-sharing revenue from partnerships with other entities in the health care ecosystem.

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cede a specified percent of our premiums and claims to our third party reinsurers under a quota share reinsurance arrangement. In return, the reinsurers must meet the risk and capital requirements associated with the premiums we cede to them. Under our excess of loss reinsurance contracts, the reinsurer is paid to cover claims related losses over a $500,000 attachment point, which mitigates catastrophic risk.

Our claims incurred consists of costs of care for the health services incurred by our members including inpatient, outpatient, physician and pharmacy costs. These may also include amounts under risk-sharing agreements with some of our provider partners. The amount of these costs are impacted by our contracted unit costs and members’ utilization of such services. We believe our differentiated member engagement engine and full stack technology platform, including care routing, Care Team interventions, our evolving virtual care solutions, and our innovative plan designs should help lower these costs over time for us and our members. Our total selling, general, and administrative expenses are made up of fixed and variable costs associated with running our insurance subsidiaries as well as development costs associated with building our technology and certain other administrative expenses. The operating costs in our subsidiaries consist of distribution and marketing costs to sell our plans, vendor costs, compensation and benefits, and taxes and fees. Our development costs are largely made up of employees in our product and engineering teams that are focused on extending the capabilities of our full stack technology platform.

Insurance Premiums

We generate a substantial majority of our total revenue from premiums we receive from serving members in the geographies in which we operate. Direct policy premiums are received on a PMPM basis from our members and other managed care organizations with which we operate as a partner. For the year ended December 31, 2019, 57% of our direct policy premiums were collected directly from our members, while the rest are collected from CMS as part of the Advanced Premium Tax Credit program, collectively referred to as direct policy premiums. We recognize premiums before ceded reinsurance revenue over the period that coverage is effective and bill our members on a monthly basis, with billings due at the beginning of the service period. CMS engages in a monthly reconciliation and payment process for its portion of direct policy premiums. For the year ended December 31, 2020, we also received approximately    % of our direct policy premiums from our Medicare Advantage plans.

Individual and Small Group

The Individual market primarily consists of policies purchased by individuals and families through Health Insurance Marketplaces. The Small Group market consists of employees of companies with up to 50 full-time workers in most states and up to 100 full-time workers in California, Colorado, New York, and Vermont.

In the Individual market, our PMPM premium rates become applicable at the beginning of a calendar year and are developed during the prior year based on our estimates of a variety of factors, including our members’ utilization of medical services, the unit cost for such services, estimated member risk acuity, and non-benefit administrative expenses including distribution and personnel costs. In the Small Group market, the process is substantially similar except that in some states we may file rates on a quarterly basis. We offer health plans in the Individual market on exchange and off-exchange under the five “metal” plan categories—Catastrophic, Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum. These differ based on the size of the monthly premium and the level of sharing of medical costs between Oscar and our members, with the Catastrophic and Bronze plans having the highest level of sharing. Both Individual and Small Group PMPM premium rates are required to be approved by applicable state and federal regulatory agencies in accordance with the ACA, as well as any premium

 

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rate changes by age, geography, and plan design, amongst others. Additionally, various federal and state laws have minimum MLR requirements. We elect to participate in a given Individual or Small Group market on an annual basis. In substantially all cases, our base premiums are subject to a risk adjustment based on the health status of our members relative to the overall health status of all individuals in a given state or market.

Medicare Advantage

We began providing Medicare Advantage service in 2020 to adults who are age 65 and older and eligible for traditional Medicare but who instead select coverage through a private market plan.

We enter into contracts with CMS under the Medicare Advantage program to provide health care benefits to Medicare beneficiaries. In exchange, we receive a fixed PMPM premium that varies based on a variety of factors including the CMS Star ratings of our health plans as well as member geographic location, demographics and health status. CMS also uses a risk adjustment system to adjust the premiums paid to Medicare Advantage plans that reflects the predicted health care costs of their members compared to an “average” beneficiary based on health status and other factors. Medicare Advantage premiums paid to us under our CMS contracts are subject to annual review by CMS as well as federal government reviews and audits. We elect to participate in a given Medicare geographic region on an annual basis.

 

 

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Innovative Partnerships

As we have built our full stack technology platform, we have started to monetize the platform we have built through co-branded partnerships with leading providers, payers and other innovators. Our partnerships with Cigna in the Small Group market, Montefiore, Holy Cross, and Memorial in the Medicare Advantage market, and the Cleveland Clinic in the Individual market are proof points of our ability to deploy our technology to support innovative health care use cases. We are increasingly creating value by enabling other payers and providers to leverage the strength of our full stack technology platform to power health plans. In some of those partnerships, we expect to monetize via a fee-based service arrangement, dependent on the set of services we are performing. In other partnerships, we monetize through a risk-sharing arrangement with our insurer or provider partner.

 

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Reinsurance

We believe our reinsurance agreements help us achieve important goals for our business, including risk management, capital efficiency, and greater predictability in our earnings in the event of unexpected fluctuations in MLR. Specifically, reinsurance is a financial arrangement under which one insurer, which we refer to as the “primary insurer,” purchases insurance from another insurance company, or the reinsurer, which covers a portion of the medical claims of the primary insurer in return for a portion of their premium, or premiums ceded. Some reinsurance agreements include a ceding commission payment from the reinsurer to the primary insurer to cover administrative costs. We currently use quota share agreements with certain partners to reduce our capital and surplus requirements, which enables us to grow in a capital efficient manner and better manage risk. For the year ended December 31, 2019, approximately 55% of our total revenue was ceded under quota share reinsurance arrangements. Because reinsurers are entitled to a portion of our premiums under our quota share reinsurance arrangements, increases in the amount of premiums ceded under these arrangements reduce our revenue. Premiums for quota share insurance are based on a percentage of premiums earned. Claims ceded under these quota share arrangements are limited to an amount specified in each agreement, which varies from 100% to 105% of ceded premiums for the agreements applicable to the year ended December 31, 2019. To the extent ceded premiums exceed ceded claims and commissions, we receive a refund. Reinsurance recoveries are recorded as a reduction to claims incurred, net. We also use excess of loss reinsurance to limit our exposure to large catastrophic risk from individual claims of members. Reinsurance premiums are based on enrollment calculated on a PMPM basis. Our quota share and excess of loss reinsurance treaties do not relieve us of our primary medical claims incurred obligations.

Key Operating and Non-GAAP Financial Metrics

We regularly review a number of metrics, including the following key operating and non-GAAP financial metrics, to evaluate our business, measure our performance, identify trends in our business, prepare financial projections, and make strategic decisions. We believe these operational and financial measures are useful in evaluating our performance, in addition to our financial results prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

     Year ended December 31,  
             2019                     2020          

Members (as of March 31 of the period indicated)

     249,280       415,751  

Direct Policy Premiums (in thousands)

   $ 1,325,760    

Medical Loss Ratio

     87.6  

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio

     24.9  

InsuranceCo Combined Ratio

     112.6  

Adjusted EBITDA(1) (in thousands)

   $ (222,173  

 

(1)

Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure. See “Prospectus Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial and Other Data” for information regarding our use of Adjusted EBITDA.

Members

Members are defined as any individual covered by one of our health plans. We present members as of March 31 of each calendar year because we believe it is most relevant to investors to show members after the Annual Election Period and Open Enrollment Period have ended and we have enrolled the majority of our members for the year, which number of members may be less than the number shown in the table above at the end of the fiscal year. We view the number of members enrolled in our health plans as an important metric to help evaluate and estimate revenue and market share. Additionally, the more members we enroll, the more data we have which allows us to improve the functionality of our platform.

 

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Membership increased 73% to 415,751 as of March 31, 2020 compared to 249,280 as of March 31, 2019. The increase is primarily attributable to growth in key existing states, especially in California and Florida, and the expansion of our offerings to new states from offering health plans in 9 states in 2019 to 15 states in 2020.

Direct Policy Premiums

Direct policy premiums are defined as the premiums collected from our members or from the federal government during the period indicated, before risk adjustments and reinsurance. These premiums include Advanced Premium Tax Credits, or premium subsidies, which are available to individuals and families with annual income between 100% and 600% of the federal poverty level in California and 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level in all other states under the ACA. We believe direct policy premiums are an important metric to assess our growth. We expect direct policy premiums will increase over time as we increase membership and continue to diversify our member mix across metal tiers and our health plans.

Direct policy premiums increased     % to $                million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to $1,325.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. The increase is primarily attributable to the significant growth in our membership in existing and new states.

Medical Loss Ratio

Medical loss ratio is calculated as set forth in the table below. Medical claims are total medical expenses incurred by members in order to utilize health care services less any member cost sharing. These services include inpatient, outpatient, pharmacy, and physician costs. Medical claims also include risk sharing arrangements with certain of our providers. The impact of the federal risk adjustment program is included in the denominator of our MLR. We believe MLR is an important metric to demonstrate the loss ratio of our costs to pay for health care of our members to the premiums before ceded reinsurance. We believe our member engagement engine and full stack technology platform will allow us to more efficiently manage total claims incurred. MLRs in our existing products are subject to various federal and state minimum requirements. Below is a calculation of our MLR for the periods indicated.

 

     Year ended December 31,  
             2019                     2020          
     (in thousands)  

Direct claims incurred before ceded quota share reinsurance(1)

   $ 924,256     $                

Excess of loss ceded claims(2)

     (13,908  

State reinsurance(3)

     (6,959  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net claims before ceded quota share reinsurance(A)

   $ 903,389     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Premiums before ceded reinsurance(4)

   $ 1,041,145     $    

Other non-recurring items(5)

     3,240    

Excess of loss reinsurance premiums(6)

     (13,332  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net premiums before ceded quota share reinsurance(B)

   $ 1,031,053     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Medical Loss Ratio (A divided by B)

     87.6  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1)

See footnote 4 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for a reconciliation of direct claims incurred to claims incurred, net presented on the face of our audited consolidated income statement.

(2)

Represents claims ceded to reinsurers pursuant to an excess of loss treaty, for which such reinsurers are financially liable. We use excess of loss reinsurance to limit the losses and individual claims of our members.

 

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(3)

Represents payments made by certain state-run reinsurance programs established subject to CMS approval under Section 1332 of the ACA.

(4)

See footnote 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus for an explanation of premiums before ceded reinsurance.

(5)

Represents a pre-quota share write-off of a NYDFS receivable in 2019 as described in footnote 2 in the reconciliation presented in the section titled “—Adjusted EBITDA” below, which is offset by proceeds received from the sale of a portion of our risk corridor recovery in 2019 as described in footnote 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

(6)

Represents excess of loss insurance premiums paid.

MLR decreased to    % for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to 87.6% for the year ended December 31, 2019. The decrease is attributable to the impact of COVID-19 as elective or other medical appointments have been suspended or canceled to avoid non-essential patient exposure to medical environments and thus fewer medical claims have been made by members as well as certain operational improvements.

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio is calculated as set forth in the table below. We believe InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio is useful to evaluate our ability to lower our expenses as a percentage of premiums before ceded quota share reinsurance. We classify expenses as either variable or fixed. Variable expenses are those which are directly correlated with increases or decreases in membership and include expenses paid to vendors, distribution partners, certain employee compensation (such as for Care Guides), as well as taxes and fees. Fixed expenses are those expenses associated with operating our health plans which are not correlated with membership changes. Fixed expenses include employee-related compensation, benefits, marketing and other general and administrative expenses. We believe that the combination of our technology and our efforts to continue to scale will allow us to achieve efficiencies in our variable and fixed costs over time. Below is a calculation of our InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio for the periods indicated.

 

     Year ended December 31,  
             2019                     2020          
     (in thousands)  

Selling, general and administrative expenses of health insurance subsidiaries

   $ 224,902     $    

Premium deficiency reserves(1)

     (12,615  

Interest expense(2)

     (2,245  

Federal and state assessment of health insurance subsidiaries(3)

     47,049    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Health insurance subsidiary adjusted administrative expenses (A)

   $ 257,091     $                
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Premiums before ceded reinsurance(4)

   $ 1,041,145     $    

Other non-recurring items(4)

     3,240    

Excess of loss reinsurance premiums(4)

     (13,332  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net premiums before ceded quota share reinsurance(B)

   $ 1,031,053     $    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio (A divided by B)

     24.9  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1)

Represents the excess of expected future claims and administrative expenses over future premiums and reinsurance recoveries.

(2)

Represents interest expense owed by our health insurance subsidiaries to Holdco in connection with intercompany indebtedness.

(3)

Represents federal and state assessments of our health insurance subsidiaries.

(4)

See footnotes 4 through 6 to the calculation presented in the section titled “—Medical Loss Ratio” above for a description of these line items.

 

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The Administrative Expense Ratio decreased to                % for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to 24.9% for the year ended December 31, 2019. The decrease is primarily attributable to higher membership driving increased premiums resulting in scaling of expenses and economies of scale and the continued efficacy of our technology in managing the business.

InsuranceCo Combined Ratio

InsuranceCo Combined Ratio is defined as the sum of MLR and InsuranceCo Administrative Expense Ratio. We believe this ratio best represents the current overall performance of our insurance business for activities that can be compared to peers.

InsuranceCo Combined Ratio decreased to                % for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to 112.6% for the year ended December 31, 2019. The decrease is primarily attributable to higher direct policy premiums, lower MLR, and greater cost efficiencies. Premiums increased due to higher membership related to expansion and higher PMPMs. The decrease in MLR is attributable to the impact of COVID-19 as elective or other medical appointments have been suspended or canceled to avoid non-essential patient exposure to medical environments and thus fewer medical claims have been made by members as well as certain operational improvements. Administrative expenses benefit from some economies of scale and expense productivity.

Adjusted EBITDA

Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net loss for the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries before interest expense, income tax expense, depreciation and amortization as further adjusted for stock-based compensation, warrant contract expense, changes in the fair value of warrant liabilities, and non-operating litigation reserves/settlements as described below. We present Adjusted EBITDA because we consider it to be an important supplemental measure of our performance and believe it is frequently used by securities analysts, investors, and other interested parties in the evaluation of companies in our industry. Adjusted EBITDA is a non-GAAP measure. See “Prospectus Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial and Other Data” for information regarding our use of Adjusted EBITDA.

 

     Year ended December 31,  
             2019                     2020          
     (in thousands)  

Net loss

   $ (261,182  

Interest expense

     —      

Income tax expense

     1,793    

Depreciation and amortization

     6,899    

Stock-based compensation/warrant expense(1)

     34,262    

Other nonrecurring items(2)

     (3,945  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Adjusted EBITDA(3)

   $ (222,173   $                
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

(1)

Represents (i) non-cash expenses related to equity-based compensation programs, which vary from period to period depending on various factors including the timing, number, and the valuation of awards, (ii) warrant contract expense, and (iii) changes in the fair value of warrant liabilities.

(2)

A health insurance subsidiary of the Company had previously recorded a receivable in 2018 of $16,055 (net of reinsurance) from the New York Department of Financial Services, or NYDFS, in connection with the NYDFS’s program to limit federal risk adjustment transfers, which would have allowed us to collect additional funds from the NYDFS that we had previously remitted to CMS. However, this NYDFS program would have resulted in other insurance carriers having to return certain of the funds they received in connection with the federal risk adjustment program to the NYDFS. In 2017, these carriers initiated a lawsuit against the NYDFS to reverse the NYDFS limitations, which was subsequently decided in the carriers’ favor. As a result, we will no longer

 

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  be entitled to receive the additional funds, and we have written off the receivable in 2019. The write-off of the receivable is offset by proceeds received from the sale of a portion of our risk corridor recovery in 2019 as described in footnote 3 to our audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.
(3)

Our Adjusted EBITDA consists of $129.5 million of net loss attributable to our health insurance subsidiaries and $92.7 million of net loss attributable to Holdco and its non-health insurance subsidiaries, which is primarily attributable to technology expenses. We believe presenting this attribution enhances investors’ understanding of our business and facilitates external comparisons of the results of our business to the historical performance of peer companies that may have different structures. In particular, as set out elsewhere in this prospectus, our investments in our full stack technology platform is a unique component of our cost structure that we believe provides a long term competitive advantage and sets us apart from our competitors. Accordingly, our net loss attributable to health insurance subsidiaries represents our net loss for our core products which is more comparable to the expense structure of our competitors. Our net loss attributable to Holdco and its non-health insurance subsidiaries represents the additional net loss resulting from our investments in technology to support our expected future growth.

Key Factors Affecting Performance

Our financial condition and results of operations have been, and will continue to be, affected by a number of factors including the following:

Our Ability to Acquire New Members and Retain Existing Members

Our long-term growth depends in large part on our continued ability to acquire new members and retain existing members. We believe that we have significant opportunity to expand and grow share within our current geographic footprint. We typically enter new counties with a 7% to 8% average share in year one and are typically able to grow our penetration over time. Today, we estimate our market share in the Individual market has grown to more than 15% in counties where we have been operating for three years or more, based on membership within the market. Our ability to continue acquiring members in existing markets and states is driven by our combination of innovative plan design and data-driven pricing. Members find value in the differentiated offerings in our health plans, such as virtual care at no additional cost, wellness incentives, and dedicated Care Teams.

We believe our member engagement engine is the start of how we retain members. On average, our members who engage more frequently with their dedicated Care Teams have higher retention rates than members who are less engaged. Our increased engagement allows us to provide our members with even better guidance through the health care system, creating a virtuous cycle that benefits our members, our partners and increases the value of our platform. Our ability to retain our members is also driven by our ability to competitively price our products each year. We have developed a digital platform and in-depth approach to pricing that takes a balanced view of growth, profitability and risk that allows us to remain affordable and competitive within our markets. We believe it would be difficult for incumbent insurance providers to emulate this model without access to a full stack technology platform such as ours.

Our Ability to Expand into New Geographies

Our continued success also depends on our ability to expand into new geographies. Our existing geographic footprint today represents a fraction of our addressable market opportunity. Today, we serve members in 211 counties and 15 states in the U.S., and in 2021, we plan to expand to a total of 286 counties and 18 states. Based upon our experience to date, we believe our innovative care model can scale nationally. We therefore expect to be able to selectively and strategically expand into new geographies.

 

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In order to expand into a new market or state, we start planning approximately 10 to 18 months prior to target launch date, depending on the insurance market and whether we are operating through a partnership or not. Our goal in selecting markets is to maximize return on investment over the long term. We typically enter into markets with Individual plans and offer our health plans in limited geographic areas. Over time, we seek to expand into other insurance products, plans, and coverage areas. We believe that the scalable economics of the Individual plans alone make it likely that we will have a positive return on investment. As we continue our expansion, our success will depend on the competitive dynamics in our new markets, and our ability to attract members and deploy our care model in those markets.

Our Ability to Expand into New Partnerships and Products

Our growth depends on our ability to expand into new partnerships, products and plans, which attract new members. We currently operate in the Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage markets, and our modernized approach has been designed with flexibility to more easily add new plans and end markets. As we further scale our business, we will be able to leverage our existing regulatory infrastructure, strong brand name, and full stack technology platform into developing new plans for existing markets and growing membership through enhanced plan designs. Our continued success is dependent on our ability to maintain our competitive position as a technology-driven, direct-to-consumer health insurance company.

We plan to continue to invest in and scale our offerings to address the needs of consumers and our partners. We believe opportunities exist to expand in commercial, government and other ancillary benefits markets, amongst others. Our expansion into new products and plans may come through partnerships with other health insurers or providers. These innovative partnerships and risk-sharing arrangements allow us to leverage the strengths of legacy health care stakeholders while reimagining the way health care is delivered.

Our Ability to Manage Our Medical Expenses

Our business performance and growth depends, in large part, on our ability to accurately estimate and effectively manage our MLR. Historically, our MLR has fluctuated substantially, and has also varied across our state health plans. Over the last three years, we have improved our MLR from 96.8% for the year ended December 31, 2017 to 87.6% for the year ended December 31, 2019 by focusing on improving our plan design and pricing, our risk adjustment operations, and other operational efficiencies. We believe our differentiated member engagement engine and full stack technology platform, tools including care routing, Care Team interventions, our evolving virtual care solutions, and our innovative plan designs and our claims engine should help lower these costs over time for us and our members.

Our Ability to Achieve Efficiencies in our Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Our results depend on our ability to manage our selling, general and administrative expenses. While we expect selling, general and administrative expenses to increase as we grow the business and incur additional expenses of being a public company, we do not expect our expenses to grow at the same pace as our direct policy premiums because we do not require a proportional increase in the size of our headcount or technology infrastructure to support our growth. We are focused on leveraging the operational efficiencies created by our innovative cloud-based platform, which is scalable, flexible and purpose-built, spanning all critical health care insurance and technology domains, including member and provider data, utilization management, claims management, billing, and benefits. Our existing full stack technology platform will help us run our operations efficiently at scale, delivering better outcomes, and cost savings for our members.

 

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We use our technology to drive efficiency across all functions, including underwriting, plan administration and claims. We are beginning to realize operating efficiencies as we scale against our fixed expense base. We believe that as we continue to scale, we will be able to achieve efficiencies in our selling, general and administrative expenses to drive profitability. Our administrative infrastructure has significant expansion capacity, allowing us to integrate new members from expansion within existing markets and to enter new markets at lower incremental cost.

Our Ability to Grow in a Capital Efficient Manner

Each of our health insurance subsidiaries that is operated by the Company is subject to laws and regulations that, among other things, require the maintenance of a minimum amount of statutory capital. Our ability to continue to grow depends on effective balance sheet management. We utilize quota share reinsurance and excess of loss reinsurance to help improve capital efficiency of the balance sheet and to protect potential tail risk exposures, respectively. The structure of our reinsurance contracts is consistent with our long-term risk strategy, which is designed to (1) optimize capital efficiency, (2) provide a buffer from adverse deviations in claims, and (3) allow us to grow sustainably and profitably.

We must comply with regulatory constraints on our minimum capital position and have entered into a number of parental guarantees with our health insurance subsidiaries as part of the certificate of authority application process in various states. Actual capital levels are monitored on a regular basis, and we believe we will have access to sufficient capital and liquidity sources to satisfy future regulatory requirements. We believe our investment strategy is conservative given our growth trajectory and short-term liabilities.

Seasonality

Our business is generally affected by the seasonal patterns of our enrollment and medical expenses and, to a lesser extent, marketing spend in advance of an Open Enrollment Period or Annual Election Period. Direct policy premiums earned are historically highest in the first quarter primarily due to the annual enrollment cycles and the enrollment of our members.

Members

In the Small Group market, approximately 40% of membership is acquired between December 1 and January 1; with the remaining members acquired throughout the balance of the year. For Individual and Medicare Advantage products, the majority of our member growth occurs in connection with the annual Open Enrollment Period and Annual Election Period. We also add members throughout the year, including during Special Enrollment Periods when certain eligible individuals can enroll.

Claims Incurred

Our medical expenses are generally expected to be highest in the fourth quarter of the year and are impacted by seasonal effects of medical costs such as the flu season, the utilization of deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums over the course of the policy year which shifts more costs to us in the fourth quarter as we pay a higher proportion of claims. As a result, we typically have higher levels of medical costs in the third and fourth quarters of a calendar year. Our medical costs can also vary according to the number of days and holidays in a given period.

 

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Impact of COVID-19

In December 2019, a novel strain of coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, was identified in Wuhan, China. Since then, SARS-CoV-2, and the resulting disease, COVID-19, has spread to almost every country in the world and all 50 states within the United States. Global health concerns relating to the outbreak of COVID-19 have been weighing on the macroeconomic environment, and the outbreak has significantly increased economic uncertainty. The outbreak has resulted in authorities implementing numerous measures to try to contain the virus, such as travel bans and restrictions, quarantines, shelter-in-place orders, and business shutdowns.

In particular for our business, governmental authorities have also recommended, and in certain cases, required, that elective or other medical appointments be suspended or canceled to avoid non-essential patient exposure to medical environments and potential infection. These and other measures have meant that our MLR has improved as members have fewer medical expenses and providers make fewer claims against members’ health insurance.

Various government measures, community self-isolation practices and shelter-in-place requirements, as well as the perceived need by individuals to continue such practices to avoid infection, have generally reduced the extent to which consumers visit health care professionals in-person or seek treatment for certain conditions or ailments.

Components of our Results of Operations

Premiums Before Ceded Reinsurance

Premiums before ceded reinsurance primarily consist of premiums received, or to be received, directly from our members or from CMS as part of the Advanced Premium Tax Credit program. Premiums before ceded reinsurance are generally impacted by the amount of risk sharing adjustments, our ability to acquire new members and retain existing members and average size and premium rate of policies.

Reinsurance Premiums Ceded

Reinsurance premiums ceded represent the amount of premiums written that are ceded to reinsurers either through quota share or excess of loss reinsurance. We enter into reinsurance agreements, in part, to limit our exposure to potential losses as well as to provide additional capacity for growth. Reinsurance premiums ceded are recognized over the reinsurance contract period in proportion to the period of risk covered. The volume of our reinsurance premiums ceded is impacted by the level of our premiums earned and any decision we make to increase or decrease limits, retention levels and co-participations.

Investment Income and Other Revenue

Investment income and other revenue primarily includes interest earned and gains on investments in U.S. Treasury and agency securities, corporate notes, certificates of deposit and commercial paper.

Claims Incurred, Net

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fee-for-service claims arrangements with providers, we retain the financial responsibility for medical care provided and incur costs based on actual utilization of hospital and physician services. Medical claims are recognized in the period health care services are provided. Unpaid medical expenses include claims reported and in the process of being settled, but that have not yet been paid, as well as health care costs incurred but not yet reported to us, which are collectively referred to as benefits payable or claim reserves. The development of the claim reserve estimate is based on actuarial methodologies that consider underlying claim payment patterns, medical cost inflation, historical developments, such as claim inventory levels and claim receipt patterns, and other relevant factors. The methods for making such estimates and for establishing the resulting liability are continuously reviewed and any adjustments are reflected in the period determined.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses primarily include wages, benefits, stock compensation expense, research and development, advertising, rent, costs of software and hardware, distribution costs and administrative costs associated with centralized functions that are necessary to support our business. Such centralized functions include, but are not limited to, information systems, executive management, legal, finance, and claims processing. Research and development expenses include expenses related to developing our platform, including technology to route members to the right care, build effective provider networks, reduce contract costs, and increase efficiency in the insurance process. We expect our selling, general and administrative expenses to increase over time following the closing of this offering due to the additional legal, accounting, insurance, investor relations and other costs that we will incur as a public company, as well as other costs associated with continuing to grow our business.

Federal and State Assessments

Federal and state assessments represent non-income tax charges from federal and state governments, including but not limited to Exchange user fees, premium taxes and franchise taxes.

Depreciation and Amortization

Depreciation expense relates to the amortization of property and equipment. Amortization expense relates to the amortization of internally developed software.

Income Tax Expense

Income tax expense consists primarily of changes to our current and deferred federal and state tax assets and liabilities. Income taxes are recorded as deferred tax assets and deferred tax liabilities based on differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities. Our deferred tax assets and liabilities are calculated by applying the current tax rates and laws to taxable years in which such differences are expected to reverse.

We continually review the need for, and the adequacy of, valuation allowances, and recognize benefits from our deferred tax assets only when an analysis of both positive and negative factors indicates that it is more likely than not such benefits will be realized.

 

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Results of Operations

Year Ended December 31, 2020 compared to the Year Ended December 31, 2019

The following table sets forth our results of operations for the years indicated:

 

     Year ended December 31,      Percentage
change
 
             2019                     2020          
     (in thousands)  

Revenue:

       

Premiums before ceded reinsurance

   $ 1,041,145     $                                    

Reinsurance premiums ceded

     (572,284     
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Premiums earned

     468,861       

Investment income and other revenue

     19,327       
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total revenue

     488,188       

Operating expenses:

       

Claims incurred, net

     408,259       

Selling, general and administrative expenses

     284,249       

Federal and state assessments

     48,170       

Depreciation and amortization

     6,899       
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Total operating expenses

     747,577       
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Loss before income tax expense

     (259,389     

Income tax expense

     1,793       
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Net loss

   $ (261,182   $       
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

Premiums Before Ceded Reinsurance

Premiums before ceded reinsurance increased $                million or                 % to $                million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $1,041.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily driven by increased membership in existing states, the expansion of our offering to six new states and increases in our membership premiums. These amounts were partially offset by an increase of $                million in risk adjustment payments required to be made under the ACA driven primarily by our increase in membership that have healthier risk profiles within respective geographies.

Reinsurance Premiums Ceded

Reinsurance premiums ceded increased $                million or                 % to $                million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $572.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily attributable to an increase of $                million in the amount the Company ceded through its quota share and excess of loss reinsurance contracts due to an increase in average quota share cession rates from 55% in 2019 to                % in 2020 and an increase in premiums subject to reinsurance.

Investment Income and Other Revenue

Investment income and other revenue decreased $                million or                 % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $19.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily attributable to lower interest rates on our existing investments.

 

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Claims Incurred, Net

Claims incurred, net increased $                 million or                % to $                million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $408.3 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily driven by increased claims resulting from membership growth which more than offset the decreased claims driven by lower utilization of benefits by our members due to COVID-19. The increase is claims incurred, net was offset by an increase in average quota share cessation rates.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses

Selling, general and administrative expenses increased $                 million or     % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $284.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, due to an increase in expenses paid to vendors and distribution partners attributable to membership growth, which was partially offset by an increase in ceded reinsurance commissions. We also incurred additional payroll expense to support our continued growth and product development initiatives.

Federal and State Assessments

Federal and state assessments increased $                 million or    % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $48.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily attributable to higher membership Exchange fees in and a health insurance provider fee of $                million in 2020 which was suspended for 2019.

Depreciation and Amortization

Depreciation and amortization increased $                 million or      % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $6.9 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily attributable to additions to internally developed software placed into service during 2020.

Income Tax Expense

Income tax expense increased $                 million or    % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 from $1.8 million for the year ended December 31, 2019, which was primarily attributable to one profitable subsidiary which had an increase in pretax income and is not included in the consolidated federal tax return.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Overview     

We maintain liquidity at two levels of our corporate structure, through our health insurance subsidiaries and through Holdco.

The majority of the assets held by our health insurance subsidiaries is in the form of cash and cash equivalents and investments. For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020, cash and cash equivalents and investments of the health insurance subsidiaries were $504.0 million and $                 million, respectively, of which $15.4 million and $                 million, respectively, was on deposit with regulators as required for statutory licensing purposes and is classified as restricted deposits on the balance sheet.

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characteristics of an insurer’s investments and products. The combined statutory capital and surplus of our health insurance subsidiaries was $135.7 million and $                million at December 31, 2019 and 2020, respectively, which was in compliance with and in excess of the minimum capital and surplus requirements for each period. The health insurance subsidiaries historically have required capital contributions from Holdco to maintain minimum levels. Our health insurance subsidiaries also utilize quota share reinsurance arrangements to reduce our minimum capital and surplus requirements, which enables us to more efficiently deploy capital to fund our growth. For the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020, Holdco made $98.6 million and $                 million of capital contributions, respectively, to the health insurance subsidiaries. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to our Business—If state regulators do not approve payments of dividends and distributions by our subsidiaries to us, we may not have sufficient funds to implement our business strategy.”

The majority of the assets held by Holdco are in the form of cash and cash equivalents and investments. Cash and cash equivalents and investments of Holdco were $177.7 million and $                 million, of which $6.5 million and $                 million were restricted for the years ended December 31, 2019 and 2020, respectively. Since inception, Holdco has financed its operations primarily through private sales of equity securities. For the year ended December 31, 2019, Holdco also had access to a revolving credit facility, which terminated by its terms in July 2019. No borrowings were drawn under this facility for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Our cash flows used in operations may differ substantially from our net loss due to non-cash charges or due to changes in balance sheet accounts. The timing of our cash flows from operating activities can also vary among periods due to the timing of payments made or received. Some of our payments and receipts, including risk adjustment and subsequent reinsurance receipts, can be significant. Therefore, their timing can influence cash flows from operating activities in any given period which would have a negative impact on our operating cash flows.

We may be required to seek additional equity or debt financing. Our future capital requirements will depend on many factors, including the pace of new member growth. In the event that additional financing is required from outside sources, we may not be able to raise it on terms acceptable to us or at all. If we are unable to raise additional capital when desired, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be harmed.

Investments

We generally invest cash of our health insurance subsidiaries in investment-grade, marketable debt securities to improve our overall investment return. We primarily invest cash of the Company in U.S. Treasury and agency securities. These investments are purchased pursuant to board approved investment policies which conform to applicable state laws and regulations.

Our investment policies are designed to provide liquidity, preserve capital, and maximize total return on invested assets, all in a manner consistent with state requirements that prescribe the types of instruments in which our subsidiaries may invest. These investment policies require that our investments have final maturities of a maximum of three years from the settlement date. Professional portfolio managers operating under documented guidelines manage our investments and a portion of our cash equivalents. Our portfolio managers must obtain our prior approval before selling investments where the loss position of those investments exceeds certain levels.

Our restricted investments are invested principally in cash and cash equivalents and U.S. Treasury securities; we have the ability to hold such restricted investments until maturity. The Company maintains cash and cash equivalents and investments on deposit or pledged to various state agencies as a condition for licensure. We classify our restricted assets as long-term given the requirement to maintain such assets on deposit with regulators.

 

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Summary of Cash Flows

Our cash flows used in operations may differ substantially from our net loss due to non-cash charges or due to changes in balance sheet accounts.

The timing of our cash flows from operating activities can also vary among periods due to the timing of payments made or received. Some of our payments and receipts, including loss settlements and subsequent reinsurance receipts, can be significant. Therefore, their timing can influence cash flows from operating activities in any given period. The potential for a large claim under an insurance or reinsurance contract means that our health insurance subsidiaries may need to make substantial payments within relatively short periods of time, which would have a negative impact on our operating cash flows.

The following table shows summary cash flows information for the periods indicated:

 

     Year ended December 31,  
             2019                     2020          
     (in thousands)  

Net cash used in operating activities

   $ (165,370   $                

Net cash provided by investing activities

     150,513    

Net cash used in financing activities

     (2,119  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net decrease in cash and cash equivalents and restricted cash equivalents

   $ (16,976   $    

Operating Activities

Net cash used in operating activities decreased $                 million or    % to $                million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to $165.4 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. The decrease was primarily attributable to an increase in the risk adjustment transfer and benefits payable.

Investing Activities

Net cash provided by investing activities decreased $                million or    % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to $150.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. The decrease was primarily attributable to higher purchases of investments.

Financing Activities

Net cash used in financing activities increased $                million or    % to $                 million for the year ended December 31, 2020 compared to $2.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. The increase was primarily attributable to the $225 million issuance of the Series A11 Preferred Stock in 2020.                

 

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Contractual Obligations and Commitments

The following table sets forth our contractual obligations and commitments as of December 31, 2020:

 

     Payments Due by Period  
     Total      Less
than
1 Year
     1 to 3
Years
     4 to 5
Years
     More
than
5 Years
 
     (in thousands)  

Long-term debt, including current position(1)

                                  

Interest on long-term debt(2)

                                  

Operating lease obligations(3)

                  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $      $      $      $      $  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1)

(2)

(3)

We lease office space under operating leases that are non-cancellable and expire on various dates through 2030.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

We do not have any off-balance sheet arrangements, as defined by applicable regulations of the SEC, that are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on our financial condition, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures, or capital resources.

Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates

The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities in our financial statements. We regularly assess these estimates; however, actual amounts could differ from those estimates. The most significant items involving management’s estimates include estimates of benefits payable, reinsurance, premium deficiency reserve, risk adjustment, stock-based compensation, and income taxes. The impact of changes in estimates is recorded in the period in which they become known.

An accounting policy is considered to be critical if the nature of the estimates or assumptions is material due to the levels of subjectivity and judgment necessary to account for highly uncertain matters or the susceptibility of such matters to change, and the effect of the estimates and assumptions on financial condition, or operating performance. The accounting policies we believe to reflect our more significant estimates, judgments and assumptions that are most critical to understanding and evaluating our reported financial results are: benefits payable, reinsurance, premium deficiency reserve, risk adjustment, stock-based compensation, and income taxes.

Benefits Payable

Benefits payable includes estimates of our obligations for health care services that have been rendered on behalf of members, but for which claims have either not yet been received or processed. Depending on the health care professional and type of service, the typical billing lag for services can be up to 90 days from the date of service. Approximately 90% of claims related to health care services are known and settled within 90 days from the date of service and substantially all within twelve months from the accepted claims submission.

 

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In each reporting period, our operating results include the effects of more completely developed benefits payable estimates associated with previously reported periods. If the revised estimate of prior period health care claims is less than the previous estimate, we will decrease reported health care claims in the current period (favorable development). If the revised estimate of prior period health care claims is more than the previous estimate, we will increase reported health care costs in the current period (unfavorable development). Health care costs in the year ended December 31, 2019 included favorable health care claim development related to prior years of $10.3 million (net of reinsurance).

In developing our benefits payable estimates, we apply different estimation methods depending on the month for which incurred claims are being estimated. For example, in recent months, we estimate claim costs incurred by applying assumed medical cost trends to the PMPM medical costs incurred in prior months for which more complete claim data is available, supplemented by a review of near-term completion factors. Additional consideration is also given to settled claims that may reopen as a result of provider disputes.

Completion Factors

A completion factor is an actuarial estimate, based upon historical experience and analysis of current trends, of the percentage of incurred claims during a given period that have been adjudicated by us at the date of estimation. Completion factors are the most significant factors we use in developing our benefits payable estimates for periods prior to the most recent months. Completion factors include judgments related to claim submissions such as the time from date of service to claim receipt, claim levels and processing cycles, as well as other factors. If actual claims submission rates from providers (which can be influenced by a number of factors, including provider mix and electronic versus manual submissions) or our claim processing patterns are different than estimated, our reserve estimates may be significantly impacted.

The following table illustrates the sensitivity of the estimated potential impact on our benefits payable estimates gross of reinsurance, for those periods as of December 31, 2019 to an increase (decrease) in the underlying completion factors:

 

Change in Estimates

   Increase
(Decrease) in
Benefits Payable

(in thousands)
 

(1.00)%

   $ 22,304  

(0.75)%

     16,682  

(0.50)%

     11,091  

(0.25)%

     5,531  

0.25%

     5,501  

0.50%

     (10,972

0.75%

     (16,414

Management believes the amount of benefits payable is reasonable and adequate to cover our liability for unpaid claims as of December 31, 2019; however, actual claim payments may differ from established estimates as discussed above. Assuming a hypothetical 1% difference between our December 31, 2019 estimates of benefits payable and actual benefits payable, excluding any potential offsetting impact from premium rebates, net earnings for the year ended December 31, 2019 would have increased or decreased by approximately $1.5 million, or 1% of the claim reserve.

For more detail related to our medical claims expenses, see note 2 of the audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

 

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Reinsurance

The Company is party to quota share reinsurance agreements with two reinsurers under which the reinsurers assume an agreed percentage of the underlying policies. All premiums and claims ceded under our quota share contracts are shared proportionally with our reinsurers up to a limit specified in each agreement, which varies from 100% to 105% of ceded premiums for the agreements applicable to the year ended December 31, 2019. We are entitled to refunds for premiums for quota share insurance if our MLR is below certain specified thresholds. Reinsurance recoveries are recorded as a reduction to claims incurred, net. The Company also has a reinsurance assumed agreement, which is included as an addition to premiums earned in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss. The Company stopped assuming reinsurance on the Tennessee Small Group market for contracts written in 2018. These contracts have since ended and any activity is related to the adjudication of claims which may follow the policy for up to four years.

The Company regularly evaluates the financial condition of its reinsurers to minimize exposure to significant credit losses. For our unauthorized reinsurers, the Company strives to maintain sufficient qualifying assets of the reinsurer in trusts or collateral, mostly in excess of net reinsurance recoverables.

The Company has other reinsurance agreements to limit its losses and individual claims of enrolled members. Premiums for these reinsurance agreements are based on enrollment calculated on a per member, per month basis. Reinsurance recoveries are recorded as reductions to claims incurred, net. The reinsurance coverage does not relieve the Company of its primary obligations. Our reinsurers have ratings from AA- to A++.

Premium Deficiency Reserve

Premium deficiencies are recognized in selling, general and administrative expense when it is probable that expected future claims and administrative expenses will exceed future premium and reinsurance recoveries on existing medical insurance contracts. Administrative expenses are inclusive of maintenance costs to operate the business (e.g. claim processing costs, and salaries, among others.) For purposes of determining premium deficiency losses, contracts are grouped consistent with the Company’s method of acquiring, servicing, and measuring the profitability of such contracts which is generally on a state and product basis. Anticipated investment income is not considered in the calculation of premium deficiency reserve losses.

Risk Adjustment

The risk adjustment programs in the Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage markets we serve are designed to mitigate the potential impact of adverse selection and provide stability for health insurers. Under the Individual and Small Group risk adjustment program, each plan is assigned a risk score based upon demographic information and current year claims information related to its members. Plans with lower than average risk scores will generally pay into the pool, while plans with higher than average risk scores will generally receive distributions. This amount is calculated based on the risk score of the Company’s members. The Company refines its estimate as new information becomes available and the Company receives the final report from CMS in August of the following year. In the Medicare Advantage risk adjustment program, each member is assigned a risk score that reflects the member’s predicted health costs compared to an average member. Plans receive higher payments for members with higher risk scores than members with lower risk scores.

Stock-Based Compensation

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Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”). Employee options are valued on the date of grant and are expensed on a straight-line basis over the related service period (generally the vesting period) of the award. We estimate the fair value of each stock option grant using the Black-Scholes-Merton option-pricing model, which uses the underlying fair value of our common stock as the most critical input for the estimate. Both option and stock awards, generally vest over a period of four years and are exercisable up to ten years from the date of grant. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company modified certain awards in conjunction with employee terminations. The modifications provided for the extension of the post-employment exercise period. The modifications resulted in approximately $8.7 million of additional selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Income Taxes

The Company records deferred tax assets, or DTAs, and deferred tax liabilities or DTLs, based on differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities. The deferred tax assets and liabilities are calculated by applying enacted tax rates and laws to taxable years in which such differences are expected to reverse.

The Company continually reviews the need for, and the adequacy of, a valuation allowance and recognizes the benefits from the Company’s deferred tax assets only when an analysis of both positive and negative factors indicate that it is more likely than not that the benefits will be realized. With respect to NOLs, tax credits, and deferred taxes the Company funds its subsidiaries as such attributes are consolidated from the Company’s subsidiaries and realized by the Company. The Company has recorded nearly a full valuation allowance on the value of the deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2019.

The Company files a consolidated federal income tax return on behalf of itself and substantially all of its various operating subsidiaries. The Company’s Ohio entity is considered outside of the US Consolidated group and files tax returns separately. The Company files as part of a unitary group in various states. Often, application of tax rules within the various jurisdictions is subject to differing interpretation. An analysis is performed of the amount at which each tax position meets a “more likely than not” standard for sustainability upon examination by taxing authorities. Only tax benefit or provision amounts meeting or exceeding this standard will be reflected in the tax expense and deferred tax balances. At present, the Company has not recorded any tax amounts which fail to meet this standard. Any differences between the amounts of tax benefits reported on tax returns and tax benefits reported in the financial statements will be recorded as a liability for unrecognized tax benefits. Any liability for unrecognized tax benefits would be reported separately from deferred tax assets and liabilities. For additional information, see note 17 of the audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures of Market Risk

Market risk represents the risk of loss that may impact our financial position due to adverse changes in financial market prices and rates. Our market risk exposure is primarily a result of exposure due to potential changes in interest rates and/or inflation and the resulting impact on investment income and interest expense. We do not hold financial instruments for trading purposes.

Interest Rate Risk

We are subject to interest rate risk in connection with the fair value of our investment portfolio, which consists of U.S. Treasury and agency securities, corporate notes, certificates of deposit and commercial paper. Our primary market risk exposure is changes to prime rate-based interest rates.

 

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Interest rate risk is highly sensitive due to many factors, including U.S. monetary and tax policies, U.S. and international economic factors and other factors beyond our control. Assuming a hypothetical and immediate 1% increase in interest rates at December 31, 2019, the fair value of our investments would decrease by approximately $1.9 million. Any declines in interest rates over time would reduce our investment income.

Inflation Risk

Inflationary factors such as increases in health care costs may adversely affect our operating results. While it is difficult to accurately measure the impact of inflation due to the imprecise nature of the estimates required, we believe the effects of inflation, if any, on our historical results of operations and financial condition have been immaterial. We cannot assure you, however, that our results of operations and financial condition will not be materially impacted by inflation in the future.

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

For a discussion of new accounting pronouncements recently adopted and not yet adopted, see note 2 to the audited consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this prospectus.

JOBS Act

We qualify as an “emerging growth company,” as defined in the JOBS Act. Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards issued subsequent to the enactment of the JOBS Act until such time as those standards apply to private companies. We have elected to use this extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards that have different effective dates for public and private companies until the earlier of the date that we (i) are no longer an emerging growth company or (ii) affirmatively and irrevocably opt out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act. As a result, our financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with the new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates.

We are in the process of evaluating the benefits of relying on other exemptions and reduced reporting requirements provided by the JOBS Act. Subject to certain conditions set forth in the JOBS Act, if as an emerging growth company we choose to rely on such exemptions, we may not be required to, among other things, (1) provide an auditor’s attestation report on our systems of internal controls over financial reporting pursuant to Section 404, (2) provide all of the compensation disclosure that may be required of non-emerging growth public companies under the Dodd-Frank Act, (3) comply with the requirement of the PCAOB regarding the communication of critical audit matters in the auditor’s report on the financial statements, and (4) disclose certain executive compensation related items, such as the correlation between executive compensation and performance and comparisons of the Chief Executive Officer’s compensation to median employee compensation. These exemptions will apply until we no longer meet the requirements of being an emerging growth company. We will remain an emerging growth company until the earlier of (a) the last day of the fiscal year (i) following the fifth anniversary of the completion of our initial public offering, (ii) in which we have total annual gross revenue of at least $1.07 billion, or (iii) in which we are deemed to be a large accelerated filer, which means the market value of our common stock that is held by non-affiliates exceeds $700.0 million as of the last business day of our prior second fiscal quarter, and (b) the date on which we have issued more than $1 billion in non-convertible debt during the prior three-year period.

 

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BUSINESS

Our Purpose

At Oscar, we make a healthier life accessible and affordable for all.

Our Business

Oscar is the first health insurance company built around a full stack technology platform and a relentless focus on serving our members. We started Oscar over eight years ago to create the kind of health insurance company we would want for ourselves—one that behaves like a doctor in the family, helping us navigate the health care system in our moments of greatest need. In the years since, we have built a suite of services that permit us to earn our members’ trust, leverage the power of personalized data, and help our members find quality care they can afford. We call this our member engagement engine, and it is powered by a differentiated full stack technology platform that will allow us to continue to innovate like a technology company and not a traditional insurer in the years ahead.

After seven years of selling health insurance, we are proud to have earned industry-leading levels of trust, engagement, and customer satisfaction from the approximately 420,000 members who, as of September 30, 2020, have chosen Oscar. At the same time, we have achieved positive unit economics through an MLR of 88% for the year ended December 31, 2019. Our members live in 211 counties across 15 states and are expected to have over 5 million health care visits in 2020. They include families seeking coverage that works for toddlers and their busy parents, adults with chronic conditions who know their care providers by their first names, and seniors choosing a benefits package that will serve them throughout their retirement years. As we continue to bring the Oscar experience to new members, new states, and new markets, our goal will remain the same: to build engagement, earn trust, and help our members live healthier lives.

Hi, We’re Oscar

The Problem

We created Oscar because of our own frustrations with U.S. health care. The U.S. health care system is the world’s largest and most expensive—projected to cost over $4 trillion in 2020—yet health outcomes are worse than in other advanced economies. Costs are so out of control that medical bills contribute to around 66% of all personal bankruptcies in the United States. It doesn’t have to be this way. According to a report published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2019, nearly 25% of health care spending in the U.S. is wasted, the result of a system plagued by misaligned incentives, lack of coordination, and administrative complexities.

Health insurers have substantial influence over the health care ecosystem because they disburse 75 cents of every health care dollar. Despite decades of effort, however, incumbent insurers have made little progress in reigning in health care costs or incentivizing key stakeholders to produce better outcomes. According to the Harris Poll, U.S. consumers give health insurers the lowest rating of any sector of the health care system when it comes to making a positive difference. Instead, for far too many consumers, health insurance adds an additional layer of complexity to an already complex system. According to another survey, fewer than 4% of Americans could accurately define the four basic health insurance terms: Deductible, Co-Insurance, Co-Pay, and Out-of-Pocket Maximum. With an average NPS of negative 12, according to Deft Research, customer satisfaction for insurers in the Individual market ranks among the lowest of any economic sector.

 

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Our Solution

We founded Oscar to solve these problems and to provide consumers with access to the affordable, high-quality health care they deserve. We recognized that doing so would require reorienting how customers see their health insurer and what they expect from it. Too often, customers view legacy insurers as entities that merely take in monthly premiums and then pay medical claims. We aimed instead to serve as their guide to a confusing and fragmented system, helping them save money by optimizing their spending. In order to achieve all of this, we would need to earn something that is all too rare in the health insurance industry: member trust. We would need to build a technology platform that provides an intuitive, seamless customer experience, and we would need to leverage the power of personalized data. Though our member experience would begin with trust, engagement, and the smart use of data, our ultimate goal would be to bend the cost curve by guiding members to the right care at the right time and at the right value.

Our experience to date reaffirms our view that real change in health care can only come from the use of personalized data to drive real-time actionable insights and recommendations, such as guiding members to the right doctor, hospital, or site-of-care through what we call care routing. We know we are on the right track when 68% of surveyed members indicate that they trust Oscar to advise them on how and where to get the health care they need and 75% of subscribing members with a medical visit use our tools to search for a provider. This compares to an industry-wide average of only 45% of surveyed customers who trust their insurer for health care advice, and no comparable or available statistics from our competitors when it comes to care routing. Given the central role that primary care providers, or PCPs, play in managing care, it is especially meaningful that 48% of our first-time PCP visits as a member are to a doctor recommended to them by Oscar. It is the ongoing engagement and trusted relationship we have with our members that drives our NPS score of 30, which is in a different ballpark altogether than the negative 12 average among insurers in the Individual market.

Our Full Stack Technology Platform

As early as 2012, we recognized the importance of building a full stack technology platform for three reasons. First, existing health care administration technologies were too fractured and antiquated to simply reconfigure them for the 21st century consumer. Second, if we wanted to create a modern member-first health insurance company, we would need access to the right data at the right time for all of our members. Third, change would not come in one fell swoop but through daily iteration and trial and error on multiple fronts, which is difficult or impossible on legacy systems. To overcome these limitations, we would need to own the entire insurance operations infrastructure and build our own full stack technology platform. This led us to create our own policies and procedures around claims and service, which allowed us to make faster decisions and deliver better member service. It also led us to build our own cloud-based technology platform, which allows for greater scalability and flexibility, and spans all critical health care insurance and technology domains, including member and provider data, utilization management, claims management, billing, and benefits. The resulting technology platform, which we update through code deployments more than 50 times per day, makes it easier for providers to work with us, accelerates our ability to identify patterns in our members’ data, improves payment accuracy to reduce frustration across the system, and streamlines regulatory reporting. We believe we have built our platform to scale and it is broadly applicable across health care and health insurance in the U.S. and abroad. Competitors who lack this member engagement engine will face significant challenges in replicating our consumer experience; we believe our platform thus forms an important structural moat around the innovations we have developed.

Our Member Engagement Engine

In addition to a digital platform, we knew that we would need to develop a simple and intuitive consumer experience that would enable our members to take control of their health care decisions.

 

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That experience begins with trust and engagement, which we earn by providing our members with features that help them navigate the many disconnected elements of the health care ecosystem. When our members adopt these tools, we not only streamline their day-to-day interactions with the health care system, we also obtain valuable data that lets us better understand their unique health care needs. Trust, engagement, and personalized data allow us to help route our members to the providers that can give them the right care, including virtual care, at the right time and right cost. Our full stack technology platform also permits us to offer personalized insights and benefits. It is the combination of all these factors—trust, engagement, care routing, and personalized insights—that allows us to help our members find quality care at rates they can afford. Our ability to deliver a high-value product, in turn, engenders more trust, engagement, and ability on our part to provide personalized, data-driven insights. We refer to this virtuous cycle as our member engagement engine.

 

 

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An important aspect of our approach to building trust and engaging members is to engage with them through whatever channel is most comfortable for them. Whether it is a secure in-app message to answer coverage and benefit questions, a consultation with a board-certified doctor in the middle of the night through our $0 virtual care solution, or finding the right in-network provider and scheduling an in-person appointment through our app or website, we are there for our members when they need us most. In this way, we are building a product experience more similar to what consumers experience from a best-in-class technology or consumer products company than from a traditional health care organization.

We also maintain a consistent focus on bringing our brand to life for our members through materials, communications, and interactions. We want every experience that our members have with us to reinforce our values and approach to health care. From the first touchpoint we have with a new member, we emphasize our commitment to delivering a differentiated experience that focuses on them as the end user. We strive to simplify the often complex language used in health care and insurance so that our members feel comfortable accessing their care. We carefully adjust the language we use through A/B testing to increase engagement and utilization.

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their personalized Care Team to welcome them to Oscar. Each Care Team is typically composed of five Care Guides and a registered nurse known as a Case Manager, supported by a regional team of additional nurses and social workers. Care Teams serve as our members’ guides throughout their health care journey and have access to a broad array of personalized data, allowing them to provide real-time guidance in English or Spanish.

 

 

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We encourage members to interact regularly with us through our mobile app and website, which make it easy for Oscar members to search for and access their medical history, lab tests, and various care options, as well as to refill prescriptions through our virtual care solution. We also assign each member a dedicated Care Team, typically composed of five Care Guides and a registered nurse known as a Case Manager, who build trust and engagement by providing personalized insights and real-time guidance through the health care system. As of September 30, 2020, 88% of our subscribing members have interacted with our digital or Care Team channels, 80% have a digital profile, almost half have downloaded our app, and our per member app download rate year to date is approximately nine times higher than for other insurers. 44% of our subscribing members are monthly active users.

Additionally, since 2014, all of our members have had 24/7 access to our evolving Oscar virtual care offerings, in nearly all cases at no additional cost. These include urgent care through our Virtual Urgent Care service, and beginning January 1, 2021, primary care through our Virtual Primary Care service. Of our subscribing members who have had one or more medical visits, 38% have used our in-house virtual offering. Even before the recent COVID-19 pandemic, in the three-month period ended December 31, 2019, the total number of visits through our Oscar virtual program represented nearly one out of five (19%) of the total number of PCP, urgent care, and outpatient ER visits by our subscribing members. Use of virtual care by our members has further increased during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Saving Money on Health Care

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next five years, health care costs are expected to grow at approximately 5% to 6% per year, outstripping both inflation and GDP growth estimates. Whether our members are spending their own out-of-pocket dollars before a deductible is reached or contending with rapid medical cost inflation, we are acutely aware of the need to make sure every consumer health care dollar is well spent. Our fully integrated systems and data infrastructure enable us to efficiently and effectively identify higher quality, lower cost health care providers in our network, and our levels of trust and engagement earn us the ability to help our members find the right care. During the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020, 47% of our first-time doctor visits as a member to major specialties—Family Medicine, Pediatricians, OBGYNs, Cardiologists, Dermatologists, and Psychologists—were guided by an Oscar recommendation from our app or a member’s Care Team. This care routing resulted in estimated median member savings of approximately 6% during the nine-month period ended September 30, 2020, for members who accepted our top recommendations, and member satisfaction levels of 94%. Our popular $0 virtual care options also help our members avoid unnecessary and costly in-person visits to the doctor. We have also created a $3 prescription drug tier made up of approximately 300 drugs that treat our members’ most common conditions. Our ability to better manage the cost for members is evident by our improving MLR over time.

Our Growing Plan Portfolio

We began by offering health plans in the Individual market because we believed it was where our member-first approach would set us apart. When the ACA created new direct-to-consumer channels in 2014, we knew that we would be competing with some of the nation’s largest health insurers. But we also knew we would have a unique window when a new entrant could gain market share rapidly by creating a superior product—one that could ultimately be extended to other insurance markets. After only seven years of selling health insurance in the Individual market, our strategy has proved out. We are the third largest for-profit national provider in that market, and we expanded to Small Group in 2017 and Medicare Advantage in 2020. Today, we have at least one health plan in 211 counties across 15 states and expect to expand in the years ahead both geographically and with respect to insurance markets.

Our “Oscar +” Platform Partnerships

The value of our proprietary insurance platform has been recognized across the industry as leading health care providers and insurers have chosen to form innovative platform-based partnerships with Oscar. In each of these models—including with organizations such as the Cleveland Clinic and Cigna—we contribute our full stack technology platform and member engagement engine in return for co-branding, risk-sharing, and/or fee-based arrangement. Despite the hundreds of pure-play insurance technology vendors who have spent decades in this space, the fact that leading health care institutions want us to share risk, co-brand with us, and provide attractive economics speaks volumes about market perception of our differentiated platform. We believe our investment in deeply differentiated technology provides a foundation that will enable us to monetize our platform and diversify our revenue streams over time, if we choose to do so.

 

   

Cleveland Clinic + Oscar.    In 2018, we launched a groundbreaking partnership with Cleveland Clinic to merge our consumer interface with their world-renowned provider network. Today, every Cleveland Clinic + Oscar plan member has access to the prestigious Cleveland Clinic provider network in combination with the powerful member engagement tools of Oscar.

 

   

Montefiore + Oscar.    In 2019, we announced a partnership in Medicare Advantage with Montefiore Health System to offer the first co-branded plan in New York. Members of the Montefiore + Oscar plan get access to high quality affordable doctors from Montefiore’s first-class team through our platform when and where it’s convenient.

 

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Oscar + Holy Cross + Memorial Health.    In 2020, we expanded our presence in Medicare Advantage by announcing a co-branding partnership with Holy Cross Health and Memorial Healthcare System in Florida, where our platform powers an Oscar + Holy Cross + Memorial Health product that combines our platform with our partners’ extensive physician networks.

 

   

Cigna + Oscar.    In 2020, we also announced a Cigna + Oscar partnership with Cigna to serve the Small Group employer market, which includes approximately 15 million consumers. Our partnership unites Oscar’s highly-differentiated member experience with Cigna’s broad provider networks.

Our Financials

Since our inception, we have experienced significant member growth while keeping insurance premiums affordable for our members. We have also achieved high levels of member satisfaction while still managing to keep premiums at a level our members can afford. By 2019, our sixth year of serving members in the Individual market, we had achieved an estimated 10% of market share based on membership within the market, and an MLR of 87.6%. As of September 30, 2020, we had approximately 420,000 members, up from 82,000 as of September 30, 2017, representing a compound annual growth rate, or CAGR, of approximately 72%. For the year ended December 31, 2019, after taking into account reinsurance premiums ceded, premiums earned were $468.9 million. Our direct policy premiums for the year ended December 31, 2019 were $1.3 billion and our total revenue was $488.2 million. Due to our continued investment in our technology, product development, and market expansion, we generated a net loss of $261.2 million and an Adjusted EBITDA loss of $222.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. See “Prospectus Summary—Summary Consolidated Financial and Other Data” for more information and for a reconciliation of non-GAAP metrics to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.

Health Care Needs to be Reimagined

Though affordability and poor outcomes are the most visible problems with U.S. health care from the consumer perspective, all of the ecosystem’s key stakeholders—consumers, employers, payers, and providers—face serious challenges when it comes to improving the system. As U.S. health care spending approaches 18% of gross domestic product—more than twice the average of other Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development countries—the need for creative solutions from the private sector has never been greater.

Lack of Consumer-Centric Solutions

Even though health care decisions are among the most important any consumer will make, it is easier to research the right auto mechanic online than the right oncologist and more convenient to make a restaurant reservation on a smartphone than to book something as simple as an annual physical. The reason has little to do with what is technologically feasible and everything to do with the skewed incentives created by the U.S. health care system. The tax treatment of employer-sponsored health insurance that ties coverage to employment, the fee-for-service payment structure that incentivizes providers to focus on episodic and reactive care, and a web of archaic regulations that were not designed with modern technology in mind all have traditionally conspired to make the largest and arguably most important sector of the economy the least responsive to consumer demands. In recent years, as health care costs continue to skyrocket, the burden has gradually but significantly shifted to the consumer. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, the average employee premium contribution for family health insurance coverage for 2020 was over $5,500, an increase of approximately 40% in the last decade, while the average annual deductible among covered employees rose by approximately 80% to $1,644 in the last decade. In most sectors of the economy, this would

 

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lead to enhanced competition that benefits consumers. Yet in health care, even as consumers have become more financially responsible for their decisions, they still lack access to basic data—such as price and quality—that would enable them to make informed choices. As a result, many consumers have lost trust in the U.S. health care system. According to the American Board of Internal Medicine, confidence in the medical system fell from 80% in 1975 to 38% in 2019—the most dramatic decline for any American institution in the same period.

Lack of Coordination and Interoperability

The health care industry is fragmented and inefficient, with different legacy health insurers, hospital systems, provider groups, and pharmacy networks each possessing distinct incentive structures—some or all of which may diverge from consumers’ interests. It is no wonder individual consumers feel lost or overlooked within this system. To make matters worse, each of these industry actors have traditionally maintained separate, often antiquated, technological systems with rigid architecture and siloed data. Even as consumer demand for greater coordination grows, inflexible and disparate legacy technological systems present a significant barrier to meeting consumers’ wants and needs.

Lack of Innovation

As consumers have become more involved in—and financially responsible for—their own health care choices, they seek more personalization, convenience, and value. Consumer demand for new care delivery models—such as virtual, home and mobile—has only accelerated due to the recent COVID-19 pandemic. According to a McKinsey & Company report, only 11% of consumers used telehealth in 2019, whereas 46% of consumers used telehealth to replace cancelled health care visits in April 2020 (for Oscar members, 57% of primary care visits in April 2020 were conducted virtually). Consumer adoption of telehealth has clearly been accelerated by COVID-19, with 76% of consumers indicating they are likely to use telehealth where available going forward. Despite the surge in consumer demand, however, the existing fee-for-service reimbursement model and fragmented legacy technology systems present serious hurdles for telehealth when it comes to addressing anything other than the most basic health issues. Only entities who are incentivized to lower total cost of care and who have access to end-to-end platforms that incorporate real-time, personalized patient data will be able to realize the full potential of this potentially transformative technology. We built Oscar to move health care forward and enabling innovative virtual care has been part of our DNA since the beginning.

We Have a Massive Opportunity

The U.S. health care industry is a massive and growing market in the middle of a paradigm shift that creates substantial opportunities for private sector innovation. According to CMS, health care spending in the U.S. is projected to be over $4 trillion in 2020 and to grow to over $6 trillion by 2028. Of the $4 trillion in health care spending, $3 trillion of that amount is expected to pass through health insurers, an amount that is expected to grow to nearly $5 trillion by 2028. The secular shifts toward consumerization, technological innovation, and personalization in health care, along with the accelerating demand for value and accountability, have raised the stakes for health insurers when it comes to providing lasting value to their consumers. As the first technology-driven, direct-to-consumer health insurance company, we have built an innovative full stack technology platform that is uniquely positioned to deliver against this challenge. Our member experience begins with trust, engagement, and the smart use of data, but our ultimate goal is to bend the cost curve by guiding members to the right care at the right time and at the right value.

 

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We currently sell health plans in three markets—Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage—which, in aggregate, serve more than 50 million Americans and represent $450 billion in direct policy premiums.

 

   

The Individual market primarily consists of policies purchased by individuals and families through the Health Insurance Marketplaces. These marketplaces, established in 2014, grew rapidly, following the 2010 enactment of ACA provisions that today, require health insurance companies not to discriminate against pre-existing medical conditions in coverage decisions and provide for premium subsidies for middle and low-income Americans through tax credits. Rules enacted in 2019 provide for Individual Coverage Health Reimbursement Arrangements, or ICHRAs, which enable employers to make tax-favored contributions towards their employees’ purchase of Individual plans. The Departments of Labor, Treasury, and HHS estimate that approximately 800,000 employers will use ICHRAs to pay for insurance for more than 11 million employees and family members in the Individual market. We expect employers will embrace this trend for the same reasons they have shifted away from pensions to 401(k) accounts and agree with the many experts who believe that the decoupling of health insurance from employment would be socially beneficial.

 

   

The Small Group market consists of employees of companies with up to 50 full-time workers in most states and up to 100 full-time workers in California, Colorado, New York, and Vermont. Small businesses are not required to provide health insurance coverage, but those that do are interested in attracting and retaining talented employees and conferring a benefit that is subject to significant tax incentives. Small Group represented a market size of $76 billion of premiums in 2019, and is a part of the broader employer-based insurance market that is expected to account for approximately $1.2 trillion of premiums in 2020, growing at a 4% CAGR to approximately $1.7 trillion by 2028.

 

   

Medicare Advantage plans are a type of Medicare health plan offered by private companies that contract with the federal government to provide benefits to consumers over 65 years old, giving them the option between traditional Medicare or low- or zero-cost federally-subsidized Medicare Advantage plans. As of September 30, 2020, there were approximately 25 million Medicare Advantage enrollees, and they are estimated to spend approximately $290 billion in annual premiums according to HHS. By 2025, Medicare Advantage enrollment could represent approximately 38 million members, according to LEK Consulting.

While we will continue to focus on bringing the Oscar platform to new members within our existing markets, we also expect to expand into new insurance markets where our member-first approach will add value. These may include the U.S. self-funded employer and international markets.

Our platform partnerships with payers and providers show that we can provide technology solutions to a variety of sophisticated stakeholders across the health care system. As we scale, our addressable market will continue to expand due to our ability to enable new innovative models of integrated care. Our platform is increasingly modular and able to address large adjacencies within health care technology spend including telemedicine, care concierge, claims management and population health. Our member engagement tools and insurance operations infrastructure have the ability to be deployed alongside other provider and payer networks to enable new risk-based models. Collectively, we estimate these addressable markets represent an additional opportunity of $123 billion, including $40 billion in telemedicine, $20 billion in care concierge, $12 billion in claims management, and $51 billion in population health.

We Are a Full Stack Technology Platform

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would take collaboration with players across the system, investment in the resources needed to develop our own infrastructure, and the ability to convince people that their insurer could do more for their health than just pay medical claims. We recognized early on that health care was too broken to fix by simply reconfiguring existing technologies, and we understood that our ability to bend the cost curve would require us to control all of our data and processes before we could empower members with real-time actionable insights. This meant purpose-building a platform from the ground up that we update through code deployments more than 50 times per day. We believe we have built our platform to scale and it is broadly applicable across health care and health insurance in the U.S. and abroad. Competitors who lack this member engagement engine will face significant challenges in replicating our experience; we believe our platform thus forms an important structural moat around the innovations we have developed.

We Intervene in Real-Time

Our Care Teams are a critical entry point for our members in navigating and accessing care through Oscar. Through our member engagement, we are able to form a relationship with our members over time that allows us to recommend and ultimately shift members to better and more affordable care. Members are paired with their own Care Team of five dedicated Care Guides and a registered nurse known as a Case Manager supported by a regional team of licensed nurses and social workers. This team acts as a consistent resource to build a long-term relationship and continuity with a member. A member’s Care Team can answer questions about benefits, upcoming care, prescriptions, and much more, as well as help them find high quality providers. When a Care Guide is unable to answer a member’s question, instead of transferring that member to another department, the Care Guide will take on the responsibility of tracking down the answer and delivering it personally to the member. We believe our Care Team approach is one of the core reasons our member satisfaction is so high.

 

 

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Not only do our members get a dedicated Care Team, they get a Care Team that understands their particular needs and situation. Our proprietary algorithm uses location, predicted Care Team engagement, language preference, and plan type to assign members automatically to the right Care Team. This enables our Care Guides to better understand the needs of our members’ in each of their respective communities—which may vary in terms of housing, income, education, and other social

 

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indicators—while becoming experts in the health care landscape of a given market. We also have dedicated teams to assist members with specialized medical needs, including those in need of a transplant, behavioral health treatment, or other forms of complex care management.

Our Care Teams can also offer personalized guidance because of their access to all of our members’ longitudinal data on our full stack technology platform. It is our differentiated platform that makes it possible for us to train and enable our Care Guides to be efficient and effective as they provide customized insights to our members and serve as our first line of response for intervening in real-time in members’ care events. Our Care Teams have a bird’s-eye view of a member’s journey through the health care system, including claims and authorization history, past appointments, and in some cases, appointments scheduled in the future. Our proprietary clinical segmentation model prompts Care Guides and nurses to reach out to members with more complex health needs to make sure they are getting the care they need, particularly if we notice events such as the member being admitted to the hospital, or a lapse in medication adherence. During the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, our Care Teams were able to identify members who were at special risk or had delayed important care and to intercept them before their health worsened. After we reached out to members taking maintenance medications or using durable medical equipment, or DME, for conditions highlighted by CDC as higher risk for COVID-19, 70% of survey respondents indicated that they refilled or renewed their prescriptions or DME after receiving Oscar’s messages. Members in this category who engaged with their Care Teams on this issue had 114% higher conversion to prescription delivery or delivery-by-mail than those who did not.

When our platform detects that members are seeking information about emergency care, we can put them in immediate touch with doctors on our virtual platform, showing a relative reduction in ER visits of 9% between our target and control groups. When members are admitted into certain ERs, our platform notifies their Care Teams in real-time to enable follow-up as needed to help arrange discharge to an appropriate facility or to ensure home health care. With access to member data on our platform, Care Teams are also able to proactively reach out to schedule follow-ups, help with prescriptions, or connect our members with necessary virtual care. All of this is made feasible and cost-efficient by our full stack technology platform that allows us to make full use of available data, has the machine learning to interpret and drive actionable insights from that data, and then empowers members to make better decisions through our easy-to-use front end.

 

 

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As of September 30, 2020, 72% of Oscar subscribing members have turned to their Care Team for help in navigating the health care system, making it a core piece of our member experience that we believe increases retention and serves as a primary avenue for influencing health care spend. Strong engagement with our Care Team also extends across the spectrum of our members’ health care needs. Over 90% of our subscribing members with a chronic disease have interacted with their Care Team as of September 30, 2020. When members do have acute needs, the Care Team relationship amplifies our ability to use traditional case management techniques to drive results. For Oscar members who are engaged with their Care Teams through our case management program, our 30-day hospital readmission rate is 5.7%—an approximately 60% reduction relative to the industry average of 13.9% as estimated by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

We Help our Members Find the Right Doctor

Finding the right care at the right time can be complicated. While many consumers turn to their friends and families for provider recommendations, these and similar channels lack a data-informed view on cost and quality. At Oscar, we want to serve as our members’ first point of contact as they navigate the health care system. Our ranking algorithm uses artificial intelligence to match members to the best doctors for them, driven by sophisticated cost and quality algorithms. This technology saves both Oscar and members money by routing care to high value providers.

Members can search directly on the Oscar app or website, or if they prefer, in consultation with their Care Team, for the right provider. Approximately three out of four of our subscribing members who have a medical visit use our care routing tools to search for a provider each year. Among care router users, approximately two-thirds end up visiting one of the top five providers recommended through the care router and 94% have a positive review for the doctors they find through Oscar. Members who use our care routing technology and accept our care router suggestions experience median cost savings of approximately 6% relative to costs for the same services elsewhere.

 

 

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We Help our Members Get Virtual Care

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when our members seek care through a broad platform tailored to solving specific member needs, whether through Virtual Urgent Care or Virtual Primary Care, staffed by the Oscar Medical Group, which was founded in 2017. Since 2014, all of our members have had access to telemedicine 24/7.

Of our subscribing members who have had one or more medical visits, 38% have used our virtual offering. We are taking a virtual-first approach to reimagine the way care is delivered and have built a proprietary infrastructure integrated with Oscar claims and data management systems focused on the consumer. With Virtual Urgent Care, members can talk to or message a provider and get a diagnosis, a new prescription, or a last-minute refill in as little as 15 minutes. Our proprietary infrastructure ensures that data is appropriately shared between Care Teams, virtual urgent care providers, and members.

 

 

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We expanded our virtual platform in 2020 by launching plans, to be effective as of January 1, 2021, offering virtual primary care for a more convenient and efficient provider experience. Through Oscar Virtual Primary Care, primary care from select providers—as well as downstream care in some instances—is included at no cost and is unlimited to our members. Virtual Primary Care unlocks new ways to improve clinical outcomes and member experience while reducing cost.

We Have Built an End-to-End Platform

Product features such as Care Teams, Care Routing, and virtual care are our way of building the trust, engagement, and relationship that gives us the right and the ability to help members bend the cost curve in health care. Owning the technologies that power our business from end-to-end lets us pioneer new ways of addressing frictions in the health care system and is the foundation for Oscar’s vision to make a healthier life accessible and affordable for all. Using artificial intelligence throughout our platform, we have built a predictive and user friendly back end. An example is our fully-built claims system. This is the underlying technology that insurers use to process member care events for eligibility and payment. We recognized that rebuilding this part of the stack would be critical to our long-term success and scalability, so at the beginning of 2017 we began the process of building our own claims system. Today, this platform provides the foundation for our personalized data insight and analysis as well as our critical cost structure savings. For example, in 2019, 92% of our claims below $30,000 were auto-adjudicated without human intervention, and we were able to pay our provider

 

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partners within an average of five days compared to an industry average of 20 to 30. Our claims system and other internal tools also power our cost estimates tool: when a member contacts our Care Team for an estimate of what a particular service or item will cost, the result is calculated in real-time by our claims engine. Unlike most cost estimates within the industry, which reflect average cost for an average provider, our estimates reflect the rate of an actual provider for an actual procedure and also the member’s personalized plan details, such as their deductible and out-of-pocket spending for the year. This functionality is also available to members directly on the web.

 

 

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Further, as noted above, many of our most sophisticated population health tools are closely integrated with our claims system, so that when a particular claim indicates a member is facing a significant health issue, our Care Teams can reach out proactively to help.

 

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Our platform is built to scale and its integration and configurability will enable us, in the years ahead, to make previously impossible things simple. These include features such as paying providers immediately through real-time claims adjudication, providing real-time prior-authorizations for Oscar members, automating the application of dynamic incentives for members and providers based on actions they take, and making health care more transparent for consumers through even more personalized and accurate cost estimates. Our powerful full stack technology enables us to be differentiated in what we offer members and we believe that over time it will continue to allow us to be innovative in ways our competitors cannot match.

 

 

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What We Offer Our Members

Our technology gives us the flexibility to launch new features, enter new geographic and product markets, and enter into innovative partnerships in ways traditional insurers cannot. Today, we offer health plans in three insurance markets: Individual, Small Group, and Medicare Advantage, across 211 counties and 15 states. In 2021, we anticipate expanding our presence to a total of 286 counties and 18 states.

 

 

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Our Health Plans

We began Oscar by offering health plans within the Individual market, one of the few direct-to-consumer insurance markets in health care. The Individual market is built for those who do not have access to employer-sponsored or government-sponsored insurance. As part of the Individual market, health plans are named after metal tiers—for example, Catastrophic, Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum—to make it easy for consumers to compare options. Each health plan offers a different level of coverage and suits members’ needs depending on their circumstances.

For our products and plans in the Small Group market, our digital platform and member engagement engine allow us to add new dimensions to traditional plan offerings that have struggled to keep up with the demands of an increasingly consumer-focused market. In January 2020, we announced our Cigna + Oscar partnership to deliver a Small Group plan offering in certain markets that combines the strengths of both our organizations. Through Cigna + Oscar, we provide business owners and their employees with access to member-first health care coverage and physician networks that provide personalized care.

We also operate in the Medicare Advantage market, which provides a private-sector alternative to traditional fee-for-service Medicare by allowing individuals 65 and older to apply their Medicare entitlement to obtain free or low-cost health plans that offer richer benefits and lower out-of-pocket expenses than the public alternative. This high growth market is forecast to grow from approximately 25 million enrollees as of September 30, 2020 to approximately 38 million enrollees in 2025, reflecting

 

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a CAGR of approximately 8.7%. In Medicare Advantage, CMS pays health insurers a PMPM premium to manage the health care and associated expenses of a participating member. Health insurers are therefore incentivized to manage the care of a given member with a focus on improving health outcomes and quality of care while lowering costs. We believe our singular focus on the consumer and the technology platform we have built uniquely position us in this important and growing consumer-focused market.

Our Network

Our health plans include access to a network of high-quality physicians and hospitals, as well as a personalized Care Team that supports members every step of the way, from finding a doctor to navigating costs. We believe the era in which broad, overbuilt provider networks are the principal option is over. To reduce health care costs, certain individuals and employers may move away from broad, national networks to localized program designs. In broad networks, where every hospital and doctor is part of every insurer’s network, there is limited direct competition on cost and quality between hospitals. The result is widely diverging prices in the same markets, with little to no correlation with quality.

As large portions of the health care system shift to more selective networks, we believe the insurers that will thrive are those that can consistently deliver a high-quality experience by engaging their members and routing care to in-network facilities and physicians that offer quality care at affordable rates. Oscar has EPO or similar networks in all of our markets for our Individual and Medicare Advantage products. The Cigna + Oscar Small Group products use Cigna’s network to offer PPO and EPO plans. We selectively work with technology-forward, high brand-recognition health systems and are proud to say that 9 of the 10 largest health systems in the U.S. are a part of our network. We optimize our networks for quality and cost by building algorithmically and our proprietary model is able to score the quality and completeness of a network in real-time, based on contract inputs and what we know about the region’s member base.

Our Growth Opportunities

We are in the early stages of addressing our market opportunity and reimagining health care in the U.S. The key elements of our growth strategy are to:

Acquire more members in existing markets and states

We believe that we have a significant opportunity to expand and grow share within our current footprint of markets and states. We typically enter new counties with a 7% to 8% average share in year one and are typically able to grow our penetration over time. Today, we estimate our market share in the Individual market has grown to more than 15% in counties where we have been operating for three years or more, based on membership within the market. Our ability to continue acquiring members in existing markets and states is driven by our combination of innovative plan design and data-driven pricing, as well as growing brand recognition through word of mouth from satisfied members. Our member base has continued to evolve as we have invested in our plan design and pricing. Members find value in the differentiated offerings in our health plans, such as virtual care at no additional cost, wellness incentives, and dedicated Care Teams.

We have also established an in-depth approach to the pricing process with a balanced view of growth, profitability, and risk amidst the competitive backdrop. Since launch, we have continued to refine our data-driven pricing process which allows us to assemble deep market-level insights that we enhance over time.

 

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Launch new markets and states

We believe we can substantially grow our member base by launching into new counties and states. Today, we serve members in 211 counties and 15 states in the U.S., and in 2021, we plan to expand to a total of 286 counties and 18 states. We will focus on markets where we can offer competitively priced premiums over the long term and thus drive consistent member retention. Our platform allows us to expand into new counties and states efficiently with limited incremental spend. We have a unique opportunity to leverage our technology to rapidly and seamlessly reach consumers in new geographies.

Introduce new products and plans

Our platform is built to be extensible to new products and plans, and we plan to continue investing and scaling to address the needs of consumers and partners. In 2017, we entered the Small Group market, and in 2020, we expanded our presence in this market with Cigna + Oscar PPO and EPO plans. In 2019, we announced that we would be launching Medicare Advantage, and in 2020, we served our first members in that market. We will continue to evaluate opportunities to bring Oscar’s consumer-focused approach to health insurance markets such as the expanded Individual market through ICHRA, the U.S. employer self-funded market, and international markets.

In our existing insurance markets, innovative plan designs enable us to acquire new members and grow our market share. In 2020, we announced that as part of our Oscar health plans in select markets, we would offer members Virtual Primary Care (including downstream care in some instances) at $0 for unlimited virtual primary care visits from select providers. We will continue to develop new plan designs that meet the evolving needs of our members and the health care ecosystem.

Our ability to evaluate opportunities, to leverage our existing regulatory framework, technology and brand, and to launch efficiently will continue to create value for us. We anticipate that our ability to quickly expand into new products and plans will help contribute to our growth in the future.

Develop new partnerships and evaluate potential acquisitions

We believe there is substantial opportunity for us to continue partnering with the health care industry’s key stakeholders through innovative fee-based and/or risk-sharing arrangements that reimagine the way health care is delivered. We will also consider growth through acquisition. Our Cigna + Oscar partnership in Small Group; Montefiore + Oscar partnership in Medicare Advantage; and Cleveland Clinic + Oscar partnership in Individual are proof points of our ability to deploy our technology to support innovative, value-based approaches to health care.

In addition to continued partnerships both regionally and nationally across our several product lines, we may selectively pursue acquisitions. These acquisitions may include new geographies and insurance offerings as well as complementary capabilities we can integrate into our existing product offerings to better engage members, improve health outcomes, and lower costs.

Monetize our technology

We have made significant investments in our platform to build a unique full stack technology platform that enables innovation in the global health care system. The fact that leading health care organizations in both the payer and provider sectors want to share risk, co-brand with us, and offer attractive economics—speaks volumes about market perception of the potential of our platform. As a result, we believe we are well-positioned to monetize our technology through risk-sharing partnerships, where we take risk for provider claims on behalf of our members, or, even more directly, through a

 

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fee-based service arrangement where we charge a fee per member. As consumers take increasing control of their health care, we believe our differentiated member engagement and end-to-end member experience can and will create value in multiple sectors of the health care ecosystem. As care shifts towards virtual delivery, we also believe there are more opportunities to deploy our digital, telehealth capabilities to enable other innovative care models.

Our platform today also has the ability to deliver solutions that represent multi-billion dollar industries, such as telemedicine, benefits management, claims processing and health care data and analytics. By leveraging our technology in areas such as machine learning, predictive analytics, and multimodal communication, we have built technology that is both member-first and helps lower costs. We believe that we have the ability to power these adjacent industries with our member engagement engine and full stack technology platform.

Our People, Vision, and Values

As of September 30, 2020, we had 1,676 employees, 589 of whom were based in our New York headquarters, 922 based in Tempe, Arizona, and 68 based in Los Angeles, California. We compete to hire and retain highly-talented and diverse individuals, and we offer our employees competitive compensation packages that typically include base salary, performance bonus, and equity components. Our employees have backgrounds as technology leaders, policy makers, data scientists, physicians, insurance experts, and beyond.

Oscar attracts employees because we are a mission-driven company. We view it as a privilege and a responsibility to serve our 420,000 members—and we take the responsibility very seriously. We also see it as our responsibility to fundamentally change the industry in which we are operating. As such, Oscar engenders a culture of discovery, analysis, collaboration, and perseverance. This is reflected in our vision and values.

Our Vision.    We refactor health care to make good care cost less.

Refactor is a term used in software engineering that means to improve the design, structure, and implementation of the software, while preserving its functionality. At Oscar, we take this definition a step further. We improve our members’ experience by building trust through deep engagement, personalized guidance, and rapid iteration.

Our Values.    We live by the following seven precepts:

 

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What we do is a big deal.    We’re solving problems that change lives. Respect the rules, but fight for better ones.

 

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Powered by people.    Members above all else. Machines augment us; they don’t replace us. Differences strengthen us. Developing and growing others is what raises the bar.

 

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Seek the truth but never assume you’ve found it. Be scientific. Don’t simply believe what you’re told. Conventional wisdom is always conventional, but not always wise.

 

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No genius without grit.    Be relentless. Be scrappy. Trying and failing beats not trying and changing nothing.

 

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Inspire and provoke.    Develop and display leadership at all levels. Never stop being an individual contributor. Lead others by inspiring with your craft.

 

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Be transparent.    Give and ask for direct feedback. Be grateful for and excited by the help of others. Don’t talk about people behind their backs. Publish, even when it hurts.

 

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Make it right.    Admit your mistakes. Then, learn from them. Teach us what you’ve learned. Use what you make. Never build alone.

Competitive Conditions and Environment

We operate in a highly competitive environment in an industry subject to significant and ongoing changes, including business consolidations, new strategic alliances, market pressures, scientific and technological advances in medical care and therapeutics, and regulatory and legislative challenges and reform both at the federal and state level. This reform includes, but is not limited to, the federal and state health care reform legislation described under “—Government Regulation.” In addition, changes to the political environment may drive additional shifts in the competitive landscape.

We compete to enroll and retain new members and employer groups, as we currently derive substantially all of our revenue from direct policy premiums, which is primarily driven by the number of members covered by our health plans. Employer groups choosing a health plan for their employees and individuals who wish to enroll in a health plan or to change health plans typically choose a plan based on price, the quality of care and services offered, ease of access to services, a specific provider being part of the network, the availability of supplemental benefits, and the reputation or name-recognition of the health plan. We believe that the principal competitive features affecting our ability to retain and increase membership include the range and prices of health plans offered, diversity of coverage, benefits and wellness programs, breadth and quality of provider network, quality of service and member experience, responsiveness to member demands, financial stability, comprehensiveness of coverage, market presence, and reputation.

As attracting new members depends in part on our ability to provide access to competitive provider networks, we compete in establishing such provider networks. We believe that the factors providers consider in deciding whether to contract with a health insurer include existing and potential member volume, reimbursement rates, timeliness and accuracy of claims payment and administrative service capabilities. While our health insurance subsidiaries are required to meet various federal and state requirements regarding the size and composition of our participating provider networks, our business model is based on contracting with selected health care systems and other providers, not all systems and providers in a given area. This allows us to work more closely with high quality health care systems that engage with us using our technology and to receive more favorable reimbursement rates from these health care systems. For additional information on risks associated with the competitive environment in which we operate and a list of factors that could negatively affect our ability to grow our member base, see “Risk Factors—Most Material Risks to Us—Our success and ability to grow our business depend in part on retaining and expanding our member base. If we fail to add new members or retain current members, our business, revenue, operating results and financial condition could be harmed” and “Risk Factors—Risks Related to our Business—If we are unable to arrange for the delivery of quality care, and maintain good relations with the physicians, hospitals, and other providers within and outside our provider networks, or if we are unable to enter into cost-effective contracts with such providers, our profitability could be adversely affected.”

The relative importance of each of the competitive factors mentioned in the above paragraphs and the identity of our principal competitors for members, employer groups, and providers varies by market and geography. In the Small Group market, for example, our principal competitors include plans offered by national carriers and local Blue Cross plans, while our principal competitors in the Individual market primarily consist of plans offered by national carriers, regional carriers, Medicaid-focused insurers offering Health Insurance Marketplace products, local Blue Cross plans, and start-up carriers. In the Medicare Advantage market, our principal competitors include Original Medicare fee-for-service plans managed by the federal government and Medicare Advantage plans offered by national,

 

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regional, and local managed care organizations and insurance companies, and accountable care organizations.

Additionally, we face significant competition for personnel, particularly in New York, where our headquarters is located. We rely on a small number of highly-specialized insurance experts, and competition in our industry for qualified employees is intense. Our compensation arrangements, such as our equity award programs, may not always be successful in attracting new employees and retaining and motivating our existing employees.

Sales and Marketing

Our marketing and sales initiatives focus on member growth through four primary avenues: acquiring members through Health Insurance Marketplaces, acquiring members through brokers, acquiring members directly through our digital platform and internal sales team, and signing agreements with small businesses that provide employee coverage as part of their benefits packages. We use marketing and sales strategies and various channels, including the internet, which we use on a selected basis to promote our advertisements through social and other media platforms, to reach consumers as well as enterprise benefits leaders. Enterprise marketing and sales strategies also include account-based marketing, business development initiatives, and client service teams focused on member acquisition, employee enrollment, and member engagement. We also use the data generated in member support interactions to constantly refine and improve our marketing campaign.

Reinsurance

We enter into reinsurance agreements to help us achieve important goals for our business, including capital efficiency and greater predictability in our earnings in the event of unexpected fluctuations in MLR. Our reinsurance is contracted under two different types of arrangements: quota share reinsurance contracts and excess of loss reinsurance contracts. In quota share reinsurance, the reinsurer agrees to assume a specified percentage of the ceding company’s losses arising out of a defined class of business in exchange for a corresponding percentage of premiums (in some cases, net of a ceding commission). In excess of loss reinsurance, the reinsurer agrees to assume all or a portion of the ceding company’s losses in excess of a specified amount. Under excess of loss reinsurance, the premium payable to the reinsurer is negotiated by the parties based on losses on an individual member in a given calendar year and their assessment of the amount of risk being ceded to the reinsurer because the reinsurer does not share proportionately in the ceding company’s losses.

Our reinsurance contracts generally have a duration of one to three years, and we review them in advance of the contract’s expiration. During each renewal cycle, there are a number of factors we consider when determining our reinsurance coverage, including (1) plans to change the underlying insurance coverage we offer, (2) trends in loss activity, (3) the level of our capital and surplus, (4) changes in our risk appetite, and (5) the cost and availability of reinsurance coverage. There can be no assurance that we will be able to renew our reinsurance contracts on similar or attractive terms, or at all, and no assurance that we will be able to negotiate reinsurance coverage with another reinsurance carrier if we are unable to renew our existing reinsurance contracts.

Intellectual Property

We believe that our intellectual property rights are important to our business, and our commercial success depends, in part, on our ability to protect our core technologies and other intellectual property assets. We rely on a combination of copyrights, trademarks, service marks, trade secret laws, technical

 

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know-how, confidentiality procedures, and other contractual restrictions to establish and protect our intellectual property. As of September 30, 2020, we exclusively owned two registered trademarks in the United States, the Oscar and Oscar Health marks. While trademark registrations in the United States have terms of limited duration, there is no limit on the number of times that the registrations may be renewed if they remain in use in commerce and if all required filings and payments are made with the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Further, even if a federal registration of a trademark in the United States is not renewed, the owner of the trademark may retain its common law trademark rights thereafter, for as long as the mark remains in use in commerce in the applicable state or states. In addition, we have registered domain names for websites that we use or may use in our business. As of September 30, 2020, we had no issued patents and no pending patent applications anywhere in the world, and therefore, we do not have patent protection for any of our proprietary technology, including our full stack technology platform, proprietary software, mobile app, or web portal. However, our software and other proprietary information are protected by copyright on creation. Copyright registrations, which have so far not been necessary, may be sought on an as-needed basis.

We seek to control access to and distribution of our proprietary information, including our algorithms, source and object code, designs, and business processes, through security measures and contractual restrictions. We seek to limit access to our confidential and proprietary information to a “need to know” basis and enter into confidentiality and nondisclosure agreements with our employees, consultants, members, and vendors that may receive or otherwise have access to any confidential or proprietary information. We also obtain written invention assignment agreements from our employees and consultants that assign to us all right, interest, and title to inventions and work product developed during their employment or service engagement, respectively, with us. In the ordinary course of business, we provide our intellectual property to external third parties through licensing or restricted use agreements. For information on risks associated with our intellectual property rights, see “Risk Factors—Risks Related to our Business—Failure to secure, protect, or enforce our intellectual property rights could harm our business, results of operations, and financial condition” and “Risk Factors—Risks Related to our Business—If we are unable to integrate and manage our information systems effectively, our operations could be disrupted.”

Information Technology

Our business is dependent on effective, resilient, and secure information systems that assist us in, among other things, monitoring utilization, and other cost factors, processing provider claims, providing data to our regulators, and implementing our data security measures. Our members also depend upon our information systems for enrollment, primary care and specialist physician roster access and other information, while our providers depend upon our information systems for eligibility verifications, claims status, and other information.

We partner with third parties, including Amazon, Atlassian, inContact, and Google, to support our information technology systems. This makes our operations vulnerable to adverse effects if such third parties fail to perform adequately. We have entered into agreements with third party vendors who manage certain of our information technology infrastructure services including, among other things, our information technology operations, end-user services, and platforms for cloud computing. As a result of such agreements, we have been able to reduce our administrative expenses over time, while improving the reliability of our information technology functions, and maintain targeted levels of service and operating performance. A segment of the infrastructure services is managed within our cloud platform, while other portions of the infrastructure services are managed externally by vendors. Our use of cloud service providers in particular is intentionally and inherently resilient, with platform level redundancy in networking and computer hardware. As an example, we distribute our AWS services across multiple availability zones to reduce the likelihood of infrastructure failure.

 

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We have established a program of security measures to help protect our computer systems from security breaches and malicious activity and have implemented controls designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of data, including PHI, and the systems that store and transmit such data. We have employed various technology and process-based methods, such as network isolation, intrusion detection systems, vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, use of threat intelligence, content filtering, endpoint security (including anti-malware and detection response capabilities), email security mechanisms, and access control mechanisms. We also use encryption techniques for data at rest and in transit.

Our information systems and applications require continual maintenance, upgrading, and enhancement to meet our current and expected operational needs and regulatory requirements. We regularly upgrade and expand our information systems’ capabilities. For information on risks associated with our information technology systems, see “Risk Factors—Risks Related to our Business—If we are unable to integrate and manage our information systems effectively, our operations could be disrupted” and “Risk Factors—Risks Related to our Business—If we sustain a cyber-attack or suffer privacy or data security breaches that disrupt our information systems or operations, or result in the dissemination of sensitive personal or confidential information, we could suffer increased costs, exposure to significant liability, adverse regulatory consequences, reputational harm, loss of business, and other serious negative consequences.”

Government Regulation

General

Our operations are subject to comprehensive and detailed federal, state, and local laws and regulations throughout the jurisdictions in which we do business. These laws and regulations, which can vary significantly from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, restrict how we conduct our businesses and result in additional burdens and costs to us. Further, federal, state, and local laws and regulations are subject to amendments and changing interpretations in each jurisdiction. The application of these myriad, detailed legal and regulatory requirements to the complex operation of our businesses creates areas of uncertainty. In addition, there are numerous proposed health care laws and regulations at the federal, state, and local levels, some of which could materially adversely affect our businesses if they were to be enacted. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to the Regulatory Framework that Governs Us—Changes or developments in the health insurance markets in the United States, including passage and implementation of a law to create a single-payer or government-run health insurance program, could materially and adversely harm our business and operating results.”

Supervisory agencies, including federal and state regulatory and enforcement authorities, have broad authority to:

 

   

grant, suspend, deny, and revoke certificates of authority to transact insurance;

 

   

regulate our products and services;

 

   

regulate, limit, or suspend our ability to market products, including the exclusion of our products from Health Insurance Marketplaces;

 

   

approve premium rates;

 

   

monitor our solvency and reserve adequacy;

 

   

scrutinize our investment activities on the basis of quality, diversification, and other quantitative criteria; and

 

   

impose criminal, civil, or administrative monetary penalties, and other sanctions for non-compliance with regulatory requirements.

 

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In particular, we are subject to comprehensive oversight from CMS related to our Medicare Advantage plans. CMS regulates the Medicare Advantage payments made to us and the submission of information relating to the health status of members for purposes of determining the amounts of those payments. Additional CMS regulations govern Medicare Advantage benefit design, eligibility, enrollment and disenrollment processes, call center performance, plan marketing, record-keeping and record retention, quality assurance, timeliness of claims payment, network adequacy, and certain aspects of our relationships with and compensation of providers.

To carry out the above tasks, CMS and other agencies periodically examine our current and past business practices, accounts and other books and records, operations and performance of our health plans, compliance with contracts, adherence to governing rules and regulations, and the quality of care we provide to our members. This information and these practices may be subject to routine surveys, mandatory data reporting and disclosure requirements, regular and special investigations and audits, and from time to time, we may receive subpoenas and other requests for information from government entities. For example, CMS currently conducts RADV audits of a subset of Medicare Advantage contracts for each contract year. The RADV program audits diagnosis codes submitted in support of enhanced payments by Medicare Advantage organizations to ensure such diagnosis codes are valid and supported by medical record documentation. In addition, the OIG also audits risk adjustment of companies offering Medicare Advantage plans, and we anticipate this remaining a focus of government investigations in the next few years.

The health insurance business also may be adversely impacted by court decisions that expand or invalidate the interpretations of existing statutes and regulations. It is uncertain whether we can recoup, through higher premiums or other measures, the increased costs caused by potential legislation, regulation, or court rulings.

State Regulation of Insurance Companies and HMOs

Our insurance and HMO subsidiaries must obtain and maintain regulatory approvals to sell specific health plans in the jurisdictions in which they conduct business. The nature and extent of state regulation varies by jurisdiction, and state insurance regulators generally have broad administrative authority with respect to all aspects of the insurance business. The Model Audit Rule, where adopted by states, requires expanded governance practices, risk and solvency assessment reporting and the filing of periodic financial and operating reports. Most states have adopted these or similar measures to expand the scope of regulations relating to corporate governance and internal control activities of HMOs and insurance companies. Health insurers and HMOs are subject to state examination and periodic regulatory approval renewal proceedings. Some of our business activity is subject to other health care-related regulations and requirements, including utilization review, pharmacy service, or provider-related regulations and regulatory approval requirements. These requirements differ from state to state and may contain network, contracting, product and rate, licensing and financial and reporting requirements. There are laws and regulations that set specific standards for delivery of services, appeals, grievances, and payment of claims, adequacy of health care professional networks, fraud prevention, protection of consumer health information, pricing and underwriting practices, and covered benefits and services.

In addition, we are regulated as an insurance holding company and are subject to the insurance holding company laws of the states in which our health insurance subsidiaries are domiciled. These laws and other laws that govern operations of insurance companies and HMOs contain certain reporting requirements, as well as restrictions on transactions between an insurer or HMO and its affiliates, and may restrict the ability of our health insurance subsidiaries to pay dividends to our holding companies. Under New York law, for example, Oscar Insurance Corporation, or OIC, our New York-domiciled insurance subsidiary, may not declare or distribute a dividend to shareholders except

 

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out of earned surplus (as defined under New York law). Additionally, absent prior approval of the Superintendent of the Department of Financial Services, or the Superintendent, OIC may not declare or distribute any dividend to shareholders which, together with all dividends declared or distributed by us during the preceding 12 months, exceeds the lesser of (a) ten percent of OIC’s surplus to policyholders as shown by its last statement on file with the Superintendent, or (b) one hundred percent of adjusted net investment income (as defined under New York law) during such period. Holding company laws and regulations generally require registration with applicable state departments of insurance and the filing of reports describing capital structure, ownership, financial condition, certain intercompany transactions, enterprise risks, corporate governance, and general business operations. In addition, state insurance holding company laws and regulations generally require notice or prior regulatory approval of certain transactions including acquisitions, material intercompany transfers of assets, and guarantees and other transactions between the regulated companies and their affiliates, including parent holding companies. Applicable state insurance holding company acts also restrict the ability of any person to obtain control of an insurance company or HMO without prior regulatory approval. These acts generally define “control” as the direct or indirect power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person and is presumed to exist if a person directly or indirectly owns or controls 10% or more of the voting securities of another person. Some state laws have different definitions or applications of this standard. Dispositions of control generally are also regulated under applicable state insurance holding company laws.

The states of domicile of our health insurance subsidiaries have statutory RBC requirements for insurance companies and HMOs based on the Risk-Based Capital For Health Organizations Model Act. These RBC requirements are intended to assess the capital adequacy of life and health insurers and HMOs, taking into account the risk characteristics of a company’s investments and products. In general, under these laws, an insurance company or HMO must submit a report of its RBC level to the insurance regulator of its state of domicile each calendar year. These laws typically require increasing degrees of regulatory oversight and intervention if a company’s RBC declines below certain thresholds. As of December 31, 2019, the RBC levels of our insurance and HMO subsidiaries met or exceeded all applicable mandatory RBC requirements. For more information on RBC capital and additional liquidity and capital requirements, see “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations—Liquidity and Capital Resources—Overview.”

Further, almost all states require insurers and HMOs to comply with the standards set forth in the Model Audit Rule, which imposes financial reporting, independent audit, and corporate governance requirements. Additionally, as a company that directly or indirectly controls insurers, we have an obligation to adopt a formal enterprise risk management, or ERM, function and file enterprise risk reports on an annual basis. The ERM function and reports must address any activity, circumstance, event, or series of events involving the insurer that, if not remedied promptly, is likely to have a material adverse effect upon the financial condition or liquidity of the insurer, including anything that would cause the insurer’s RBC to fall below certain threshold levels or that would cause further transaction of business to be hazardous to policyholders or creditors, or the public. Similarly, in accordance with NAIC’s Risk Management and Own Risk Solvency Assessment Model Act, we must complete an annual “own risk and solvency assessment,” which is an internal assessment, appropriate to the nature, scale, and complexity of our company, of the material and relevant risks associated with the current business plan, and of the sufficiency of capital resources to support those risks.

Ongoing Requirements and Changes Stemming from the ACA

The ACA significantly changed the United States health care system. While we anticipate continued efforts to invalidate, modify, repeal, or replace the ACA, either through Congress, court challenges, or administrative action, we expect the major portions of the ACA to remain in place and continue to significantly impact our business operations and results of operations, including pricing, minimum MLRs, and the geographies in which our products are available.

 

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The ACA prohibits annual and lifetime limits on essential health benefits, member cost-sharing on specified preventive benefits, and pre-existing condition exclusions. Further, the ACA implemented certain requirements for insurers, including changes to Medicare Advantage payments and the minimum MLR provision that requires insurers to pay rebates to members when insurers do not meet or exceed the specified annual MLR thresholds. In addition, the ACA required a number of other changes with significant effects on both federal and state health insurance markets, including strict rules on how health insurance is rated, what benefits must be offered, the assessment of new taxes and fees (including annual fees on health insurance companies), the creation of public Health Insurance Marketplaces for Individuals and Small employer group health insurance and the availability of premium subsidies for qualified individuals. The ACA allows individual states to choose to enact additional state-specific requirements that extend ACA mandates and some of the states where we operate have implemented higher MLR percentage requirements, lower tobacco user rating ratios, and different age curve variations. Changes to our business environment are likely to continue as elected officials at the national and state levels continue to enact, and both elected officials and candidates for election continue to propose, significant modifications to existing laws and regulations, including changes to taxes and fees. Also, legal challenges regarding the ACA could have a material adverse effect on our business, cash flows, financial condition, and results of operations. See “Risk Factors—Most Material Risks to Us—The implementation of the ACA, as well as potential repeal of, changes to, or judicial challenges to the ACA, could materially and adversely affect our business, results of operations, and financial condition.”

In general, the individual market risk pool that includes public Health Insurance Marketplaces has become less healthy since its inception in 2014 and continues to exhibit risk volatility. Based on our experience in public Health Insurance Marketplaces to date, we have made adjustments to our premium rates and participation footprint, and we will continue to evaluate the performance of such products going forward. In addition, insurers have faced uncertainties related to federal government funding for various ACA programs. These factors may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations if premiums are not adequate or do not appropriately reflect the acuity of our member population. Any variation from our expectations regarding acuity, enrollment levels, adverse selection, or other assumptions utilized in setting premium rates could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations, financial position, and cash flows.

Further, implementation of the ACA brings with it significant oversight responsibilities by health insurers that may result in increased governmental audits, increased assertions of alleged FCA liability, and an increased risk of other litigation.

Federal regulatory agencies continue to modify regulations and guidance related to the ACA and markets more broadly. Some of the more significant ACA rules are described below:

 

   

The minimum MLR thresholds by market, as defined by HHS, are as follows:

 

Insurance Market

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Small Group

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Individual

     80

 

   

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The minimum MLR thresholds disclosed above are based on definitions of an MLR calculation provided by HHS, or specific states, as applicable, and differ from our calculation of “benefit expense ratio” based on premium revenue and benefit expense as reported in accordance with GAAP. Definitions under applicable MLR regulations also impact insurers differently depending upon their organizational structure or tax status, which could result in a competitive advantage

 

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to some insurance providers that may not be available to us, resulting in an uneven playing field in the industry. Failure to meet the minimum MLR thresholds triggers an obligation to issue premium rebates to members.

 

   

The ACA also imposed a separate minimum MLR threshold of 85% for Medicare Advantage plans. Medicare Advantage plans that do not meet this threshold will have to pay a member MLR rebate. If a plan’s MLR is below 85% for three consecutive years, enrollment will be restricted and the plan will be prohibited from accepting new members. A Medicare Advantage plan contract will be terminated if the plan’s MLR is below 85% for five consecutive years.

 

   

All of our premium revenue and medical membership was subject to the minimum MLR regulations as of and for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

   

The ACA created an incentive payment program for Medicare Advantage plans. CMS has developed the Medicare Advantage Star Ratings system, which awards between 1.0 and 5.0 stars to Medicare Advantage plans based on performance in several categories, including quality of care and customer service. The Star Ratings are used by CMS to award quality-based bonus payments to plans that receive a rating of 4.0 stars or higher. The methodology and measures included in the Star Ratings system can be modified by CMS annually. As of December 31, 2019, none of our Medicare Advantage plans were eligible to receive Star Ratings because of our recent market entry. We expect to have Star Ratings for our New York plan for performance year 2020.

 

   

Further, the ACA directed the HHS Secretary to develop a system that rates qualified health plans, or QHPs, certified by the Health Insurance Marketplace based on relative quality and price. As a QHP issuer, we must submit quality rating information in accordance with CMS guidelines as a condition of certification and participation in the Health Insurance Marketplaces. Our overall ratings, represented on a scale of 1.0 to 5.0 stars, are based on three categories: member experience, medical care, and plan administration. As of 2020, quality rating information for QHPs is publicly displayed and accessible to consumers on all Health Insurance Marketplaces.

 

   

Federal regulations require premium rate increases to be reviewed for Small Group and Individual products above specified thresholds that may be adjusted from time to time. The regulations provide for state insurance regulators to conduct the reviews, except in cases where a state lacks the resources or authority to conduct the required rate reviews, in which cases HHS will conduct the reviews.

 

   

Prior to the implementation of the ACA, health insurers were permitted to use differential pricing based on factors such as health status, gender, and age. The ACA prohibits health insurers selling ACA-regulated plans in the Individual and Small Group markets from using health status and gender in the determination of the insurance premium. In addition, age rating under the ACA is limited to a 3:1 ratio for adults age 21 and older, and tobacco use rating is limited to a 1.5:1 ratio. States also may choose to enact more restrictive rules than the federal minimum standards.

 

   

Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates will not increase as much as they would have, absent the ACA, due to the payment formula promulgated by the ACA that continues to impact reimbursements. We also expect further and ongoing regulatory guidance on a number of issues related to Medicare Advantage, including evolving methodologies for ratings and quality bonus payments. CMS is also proposing changes to its RADV program. The proposed changes to the RADV program may increase the government’s ability to retrospectively claw back or recover funds from health insurers.

 

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Privacy, Confidentiality and Data Standards Regulation

HIPAA and the administrative simplification provisions of HIPAA impose a number of requirements on covered entities (including health insurers, HMOs, group health plans, providers, and clearinghouses) and their business associates relating to the use, disclosure and safeguarding of PHI. These requirements include uniform standards of common electronic health care transactions and privacy and security regulations; and unique identifier rules for employers, health plans, and providers.

In addition, HITECH and corresponding implementing regulations have imposed additional requirements on the use and disclosure of PHI such as additional breach notification and reporting requirements, contracting requirements for HIPAA business associate agreements, and strengthened enforcement mechanisms and increased penalties for HIPAA violations. Federal consumer protection laws may also apply in some instances to our privacy and security practices related to personally identifiable information. We maintain an internal HIPAA compliance program, which we believe complies with HIPAA privacy and security regulations, and have dedicated resources to monitor compliance with this program.

In addition, Health Insurance Marketplaces are required to adhere to privacy and security standards with respect to personally identifiable information and to impose privacy and security standards that are at least as protective as those the marketplaces must follow. These standards may differ from, and be more stringent than, HIPAA.

The use and disclosure of certain data that we collect or process about or from individuals are also regulated in some instances by other federal laws, including the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, or GLBA, and state statutes implementing GLBA, in connection with insurance transactions in the states where we operate. Additionally, in response to the growing threat of cyber attacks in the insurance industry, certain jurisdictions, including New York, have begun to consider new cybersecurity measures, including the adoption of cybersecurity regulations. In March 2017, the NYDFS promulgated Cybersecurity Requirements for Financial Services Companies, which require covered financial institutions to establish and maintain a cybersecurity program and implement and maintain cybersecurity policies and procedures that meet specific requirements.

There are also numerous state and federal laws and regulations related to the privacy and security of health information. Laws in all 50 states require businesses to provide notices to affected individuals whose personal information has been disclosed as a result of a data breach, and certain states require notifications for data breaches involving individually identifiable health information. Most states require holders of personal information to maintain safeguards and take certain actions in response to a data breach, such as maintaining reasonable security measures and providing prompt notification of the breach to affected individuals and the state’s attorney general. For further discussion, see “Risk Factors—Risks Related to the Regulatory Framework that Governs Us.”

Furthermore, states have begun enacting more comprehensive privacy laws and regulations addressing consumer rights to data protection or transparency that may affect our privacy and security practices. This includes, for example, the CCPA, which governs the collection, use, handling, processing, destruction, disclosure, storage, and protection of California residents’ data and imposes additional breach notification requirements. The CCPA requires new disclosures, imposes new rules, and affords California residents new abilities to seek access and deletion of their non-PHI personal information in portions of our business not regulated by the GLBA and state law equivalents. State consumer protection laws may also apply to our privacy and security practices related to personally identifiable information, including information related to consumers and care providers. Complying with conflicting cybersecurity regulations and varying enforcement philosophies, which may differ from state to state, requires significant resources and may materially and adversely affect our ability to standardize our products and services across state lines.

 

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New federal regulations requiring additional transparency could also materially impact our operations. These regulations include federal regulation on data interoperability requiring member data to be made available to third parties unaffiliated with Oscar, as well as federal regulation requiring hospitals and insurers to publish negotiated prices for services.

In addition, certain of our businesses are also subject to the PCI Data Security Standard, which is a multifaceted security standard that is designed to protect credit card account data as mandated by PCI entities. We rely on vendors to assist us with PCI matters and to ensure PCI compliance. Our business and operations are also subject to federal, state, and local consumer protection laws governing the use of email and telephone marketing.

Fraud, Waste and Abuse Laws and the False Claims Act

Because we receive payments from federal governmental agencies, we are subject to various laws commonly referred to as “fraud, waste, and abuse” laws, including the federal Anti-Kickback Statute, the Stark Law, and the FCA. These laws permit the DOJ, the OIG, CMS, and other enforcement authorities to institute a claim, action, investigation, or other proceeding against us for violations and, depending on the facts and circumstances, to seek treble damages, criminal, civil, or administrative fines, penalties, and assessments. Violations of these laws can also result in exclusion, debarment, temporary or permanent suspension from participation in government health care programs, the institution of corporate integrity agreements, or CIAs, and/or other heightened monitoring of our operations. Liability under such statutes and regulations may arise if, among other things, we knew, or it is determined that we should have known, that information we provided to form the basis for a claim for government payment was false or fraudulent, or that we were out of compliance with program requirements considered material to the government’s payment decision. Companies who receive funds from federal and state governmental agencies are required to maintain compliance programs to detect and deter fraud, waste, and abuse. Although our compliance program is designed to meet all statutory and regulatory requirements, our policies and procedures are frequently under review and subject to updates, and our training and education programs continue to evolve.

Fraud, waste, and abuse prohibitions encompass a wide range of activities, including, but not limited to, kickbacks or other inducements for referral of members or for the coverage of products (such as prescription drugs) by a plan, billing for unnecessary medical services by a health care provider, payments made to excluded providers, and improper marketing and beneficiary inducements. In particular, there has recently been increased scrutiny by the DOJ on health plans’ diagnosis coding and risk adjustment practices, particularly for Medicare Advantage plans. The regulations, contractual requirements, and policies applicable to participants in government health care programs are complex and subject to change. Health insurers are required to maintain compliance programs to prevent, detect, and remediate fraud, waste, and abuse, and are often the subject of fraud, waste, and abuse investigations and audits. We perform ongoing monitoring of our compliance with CMS risk adjustment requirements and other applicable laws. We also monitor our provider payment practices and relationships with other third parties whose products and services we reimburse (e.g. pharmaceutical manufacturers) to ensure compliance with applicable laws, including, but not limited to, the federal Anti-Kickback Statute.

In addition to the FCA, under the federal Civil Monetary Penalties Law, the OIG has the authority to impose civil penalties against any person who, among other things, knowingly presents, or causes to be presented, certain false or otherwise improper claims. There also is FCA liability for knowingly or improperly avoiding repayment of an overpayment received from the government and/or failing to promptly report and return such overpayment. Qui tam actions can be brought by private individuals (for example, a “whistleblower,” such as a disgruntled current or former competitor, member, or

 

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employee) on behalf of the government alleging that a company has defrauded the government, and the FCA permits the private individual to share in any settlement of, or judgment entered in, the lawsuit. Qui tam actions have increased significantly in recent years, causing greater numbers of health care companies to have to defend a false claim action, pay substantial settlement amounts, and/or enter into a CIA and/or other heightened monitoring arrangements to avoid exclusion from government health care programs as a result of an investigation arising out of such action. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to the Regulatory Framework that Governs Us—We are subject to extensive fraud, waste, and abuse laws that may give rise to lawsuits and claims against us, the outcome of which may have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, cash flows, or results of operations.”

Guaranty Fund Assessments

Under certain state insolvency or guaranty association laws, insurance companies, and HMOs can be assessed for amounts paid by guaranty funds for policyholder losses incurred when an insurance company or HMO becomes insolvent. Most state insolvency or guaranty association laws currently provide for assessments based upon the amount of premiums received on insurance underwritten within such state (with a minimum amount payable even if no premium is received). Under many of these guaranty association laws, assessments are made or adjusted retrospectively. Some states permit insurers or HMOs to recover assessments paid through full or partial premium tax offsets, or through future policyholder surcharges. The amount and timing of any future assessments cannot be predicted with certainty; however, future assessments are likely to occur.

Facilities

Our corporate headquarters are located in New York, New York, where we lease and sublease office space. We lease additional office space in New York and also lease offices in Dallas, Texas, Los Angeles, California, and Tempe, Arizona. We believe that our corporate headquarters and other offices are adequate for our immediate needs and that we will be able to obtain additional or substitute space, as needed, on commercially reasonable terms.

Geographic Scope of the Business

As of the date of this prospectus, our health insurance subsidiaries operate in the following 15 states in the United States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Michigan, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia. We expanded to 12 of these states between 2017 and the date of this prospectus.

When we began serving members in our first state in 2014, our health plans covered approximately 15,000 members, compared to approximately 420,000 members as of September 30, 2020.

Legal Proceedings

Our current and past business practices are subject to review or other investigations by various state insurance and health care regulatory authorities and other state and federal regulatory authorities. These authorities regularly scrutinize the business practices of health insurance companies. These reviews focus on numerous facets of our business, including claims payment practices, statutory capital requirements, provider contracting, risk adjustment, competitive practices, commission payments, privacy issues, utilization management practices, pharmacy benefits, access to

 

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care, and sales practices, among others. Some of these reviews have historically resulted in fines imposed on us and some have required changes to certain of our practices. We continue to be subject to these reviews, which could result in additional fines or other sanctions being imposed on us or additional changes to certain of our practices.

We are also currently involved in, and may in the future from time to time become involved in, legal proceedings and claims in the ordinary course of our business, including with our members, providers, employees, and other parties. These matters can relate to various employment claims, disputes regarding reinsurance arrangements and class action lawsuits, or other claims relating to the performance of contractual and non-contractual obligations to providers, members, employer groups, and others, including, but not limited to, the alleged failure to properly pay in-network and out-of-network claims and challenges to the manner in which we process claims, and claims alleging that we have engaged in unfair business practices. Although the results of these reviews, legal proceedings and claims cannot be predicted with certainty, we do not believe that the final outcome of any matters that we are currently involved in are reasonably likely to have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, or results of operations. Regardless of final outcomes, however, any such reviews, proceedings, and claims may nonetheless impose a significant burden on management and employees and be costly to defend, with unfavorable preliminary or interim rulings.

 

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MANAGEMENT

The following table sets forth information regarding our executive officers and members of our board of directors, including their ages as of the date of this prospectus.

 

Name

  

Age

  

Position(s)

Executive Officers

     

Mario Schlosser

   42   

Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Siddhartha Sankaran

   43   

Chief Financial Officer

Meghan Joyce

   36   

Chief Operating Officer

Joel Klein

   74   

Chief Policy and Strategy Officer

Dennis Weaver, M.D.

   60   

Chief Clinical Officer

Directors

     

Joshua Kushner

   35   

Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of the Board

Joel Cutler

   62   

Director

     

Director

     

Director

     

Director

Executive Officers

Mario Schlosser has served as our Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our board of directors since December 2012. Prior to co-founding Oscar in 2012, Mr. Schlosser co-founded Vostu, Ltd., a social gaming company in Latin America, where he led the company’s analytics and game design practices from August 2006 to November 2012. From August 2007 to March 2010, Mr. Schlosser served as a Senior Investment Associate at Bridgewater Associates, where he developed analytical trading models. Prior to joining Bridgewater Associates, Mr. Schlosser worked as a consultant for McKinsey & Company in Europe, the United States, and Brazil from November 2002 to May 2007. Mr. Schlosser holds a degree in computer science with highest distinction from the University of Hannover and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. As a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Mr. Schlosser wrote and co-authored 10 computer science publications. We believe Mr. Schlosser’s perspective and experience from serving as a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of various companies, including Oscar, as well as his technical acumen, make him well-qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.

Siddhartha Sankaran has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2019. Mr. Sankaran will continue to serve in such capacity through March 15, 2021, after which he will serve as Vice Chairman to the Company, assisting the new Chief Financial Officer and providing associated transitional services through June 30, 2021. We anticipate that Mr. Sankaran will be appointed as a member of our board of directors on or prior to June 30, 2021. Prior to joining Oscar, Mr. Sankaran served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of American International Group, Inc., or AIG, from February 2016 to December 2018. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer at AIG from November 2010 to February 2016. Mr. Sankaran has been a member of the board of directors of Third Point Reinsurance Ltd., a holding company that provides property and casualty reinsurance products through its reinsurance subsidiaries, since August 2019, and has served as its Chairman since August 2020. Mr. Sankaran holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree, majoring in actuarial science, with distinction from the University of Waterloo.

Meghan Joyce has served as our Chief Operating Officer since September 2019. Prior to joining Oscar, Ms. Joyce served in several leadership roles at Uber Technologies, Inc. from April 2013 to April 2019, most recently as Regional General Manager of the United States and Canada, responsible for

 

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business outcomes and rider and driver experience in cities across the United States and Canada. Prior to that, she served as Senior Policy Advisor at the U.S. Treasury from May 2011 to August 2012, where she managed special projects in financial fiscal policy for the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury, Under Secretary of Domestic Finance, and Assistant Secretary of Capital Markets. Ms. Joyce has served as a member of the board of directors of The Boston Beer Company, Inc., an alcoholic beverage company, since March 2019. Ms. Joyce holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with highest honors, majoring in the history of science, from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Joel Klein has served as our Chief Policy and Strategy Officer since January 2016. Prior to joining Oscar, Mr. Klein served as the Executive Vice President, Office of the Chairman at News Corporation from June 2013 to December 2015, where he was also a member of the board of directors from June 2013 through November 2020. From January 2011 to September 2015, he served as the Chief Executive Officer at Amplify Education, Inc., an educational technology teaching firm. From 2002 to 2010, he served as the Chancellor of the New York City public school system, and before then, as the U.S. Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Bertelsmann, Inc. and Chief U.S. Liaison Officer to Bertelsmann AG from 2001 to 2002. Mr. Klein also served with the Clinton administration in a number of roles, including Assistant U.S. Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice from 1997 until 2000 and Deputy White House Counsel to President Clinton from 1993 to 1995. Mr. Klein has served as a member of the board of directors of Boston Properties, Inc. since January 2013 and as such board of directors’ Chairman since May 2018. Mr. Klein holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in economics and political science, from Columbia College and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Dennis Weaver, M.D., has served as our Chief Clinical Officer since August 2017. Prior to joining Oscar, Dr. Weaver served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Medical Officer at The Advisory Board Company from April 2011 to August 2017. Dr. Weaver holds a Bachelor of Science degree, majoring in Basic Sciences, from the United States Air Force Academy, an M.D. from the University of Iowa, and a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis.

Directors

Joshua Kushner has served as our Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of our board of directors since October 2012. Mr. Kushner is the Managing Director of Thrive Capital Management, LLC, a New York-based venture capital firm. Mr. Kushner holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, majoring in Government, from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. We believe Mr. Kushner’s experience as an investor in innovative technology companies, including Oscar, makes him particularly qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.

Joel Cutler has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2015. Mr. Cutler is the Co-Founder of and a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, a venture capital firm he joined in April 2000. Mr. Cutler has served as a member of the board of directors of Lemonade, Inc., a home, renters, and pet health insurance company since November 2016. Mr. Cutler holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Government and Economics from Colby College and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. We believe Mr. Cutler’s experience in a wide range of industries, including the insurance industry, his leadership at a venture capital firm, and his service as a director at numerous companies make him well-qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.

Family Relationships

There are no family relationships among any of our directors or executive officers.

 

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Composition of our Board of Directors

Our board of directors currently consists of                  directors. Our Amended Charter will provide that our board of directors will be divided into three classes, as nearly equal in number as possible, with the directors in each class serving for a three-year term, and one class being elected each year by our stockholders. Our current directors will be divided among the three classes as follows:

 

   

the Class I directors will be                  and                 , and their initial terms will expire at the first annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2022;

 

   

the Class II directors will be                 ,                  , and                 , and their initial terms will expire at the second annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2023; and

 

   

the Class III directors will be                 ,                  , and                 , and their initial terms will expire at the third annual meeting of stockholders to be held in 2024.

Each director’s term will continue until the election and qualification of his or her successor, or his or her earlier death, disqualification, resignation, or removal. Any increase or decrease in the number of directors will be distributed among the three classes so that, as nearly as possible, each class will consist of one-third of our directors. This classification of our board of directors may have the effect of delaying or preventing changes in control of our Company. See “Description of Capital Stock—Anti-Takeover Effects of Delaware Law and our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws.”

When considering whether directors have the experience, qualifications, attributes, or skills, taken as a whole, to enable our board of directors to satisfy its oversight responsibilities effectively in light of our business and structure, the board of directors focuses primarily on each person’s background and experience as reflected in the information discussed in each of the directors’ individual biographies set forth above. We believe that our directors provide an appropriate mix of experience and skills relevant to the size and nature of our business.

Director Independence

Prior to the consummation of this offering, our board of directors undertook a review of the independence of our directors and considered whether any director has a material relationship with us that could compromise that director’s ability to exercise independent judgment in carrying out that director’s responsibilities. Our board of directors has affirmatively determined that                 ,                  , and                  are each an “independent director,” as defined under the rules of the                . In making these determinations, our board of directors considered the current and prior relationships that each director has with our Company and all other facts and circumstances our board of directors deemed relevant in determining their independence, including the beneficial ownership of our capital stock by each director, and the transactions involving them described in the section titled “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions.”

Committees of Our Board of Directors

Our board of directors directs the management of our business and affairs, as provided by Delaware law, and conducts its business through meetings of the board of directors and standing committees. We will have a standing audit committee, nominating and corporate governance committee, and compensation committee. In addition, from time to time, special committees may be established under the direction of the board of directors when necessary to address specific issues.

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directors in connection with this offering. A copy of each of the audit committee, nominating and corporate governance committee, and compensation committee charters will be available on our principal corporate website at www.hioscar.com substantially concurrently with the consummation of this offering. The information on, or that can be accessed through, any of our websites is deemed not to be incorporated in this prospectus or to be part of this prospectus.

Audit Committee

Our audit committee will be responsible for, among other things:

 

   

appointing, compensating, retaining, evaluating, terminating, and overseeing our independent registered public accounting firm;

 

   

discussing with our independent registered public accounting firm their independence from management;

 

   

reviewing with our independent registered public accounting firm the scope and results of their audit;

 

   

approving all audit and permissible non-audit services to be performed by our independent registered public accounting firm;

 

   

overseeing the financial reporting process and discussing with management and our independent registered public accounting firm the quarterly and annual financial statements that we file with the SEC;

 

   

overseeing our financial and accounting controls and compliance with legal and regulatory requirements;

 

   

reviewing our policies on risk assessment and risk management;

 

   

reviewing related party transactions; and

 

   

establishing procedures for the confidential anonymous submission of concerns regarding questionable accounting, internal controls, or auditing matters.

Upon the consummation of this offering, our audit committee will consist of                 ,                , and                 , with                  serving as chair. We intend to rely on the phase-in rules of Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act and the                 , which require that our audit committee have at least one independent member upon the listing of our common stock, have a majority of independent members within 90 days of the date of this prospectus and be composed entirely of independent members within one year of the date of this prospectus. Our board of directors has affirmatively determined that                 ,                  , and                  each meet the definition of “independent director” for purposes of serving on the audit committee under Rule 10A-3 of the Exchange Act and the                  rules. In addition, our board of directors has determined that each member of our audit committee meets the financial literacy requirements of                  listing standards and that                  will qualify as an “audit committee financial expert,” as such term is defined in Item 407(d)(5) of Regulation S-K.

Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee

Our nominating and corporate governance committee will be responsible for, among other things:

 

   

identifying individuals qualified to become members of our board of directors, consistent with criteria approved by our board of directors;

 

   

periodically reviewing our board of directors’ leadership structure and recommending any proposed changes to our board of directors, including recommending to our board of directors the nominees for election to our board of directors at annual meetings of our stockholders;

 

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overseeing an annual evaluation of the effectiveness of our board of directors and its committees; and

 

   

developing and recommending to our board of directors a set of corporate governance guidelines.

Upon the consummation of this offering, our nominating and corporate governance committee will consist of                 ,                  , and                 , with                  serving as chair. Our board of directors has affirmatively determined that                  and                  each meet the definition of “independent director” under the                  rules.

Compensation Committee

Our compensation committee will be responsible for, among other things:

 

   

reviewing and approving the corporate goals and objectives, evaluating the performance of and reviewing and approving (either alone, or if directed by the board of directors, in connection with a majority of the independent members of the board of directors) the compensation of our Chief Executive Officer;

 

   

reviewing and setting or making recommendations to our board of directors regarding the compensation of our other executive officers;

 

   

reviewing and approving or making recommendations to our board of directors regarding our incentive compensation and equity-based plans and arrangements;

 

   

making recommendations to our board of directors regarding the compensation of our directors; and

 

   

appointing and overseeing any compensation consultants.

Upon the consummation of this offering, our compensation committee will consist of                 ,                 , and                 , with                  serving as chair. Our board of directors has determined that                 ,                 , and                  meet the definition of “independent director” for purposes of serving on the compensation committee under                  rules, including the heightened independence standards for members of a compensation committee, and are “non-employee directors” as defined in Rule 16b-3 of the Exchange Act.

Risk Oversight

Our board of directors is responsible for overseeing our risk management process. Our board of directors focuses on our general risk management strategy, the most significant risks facing us, and oversees the implementation of risk mitigation strategies by management. Our audit committee is also responsible for discussing our policies with respect to risk assessment and risk management. Our board of directors does not believe that its role in the oversight of our risks affects the board of directors’ leadership structure.

Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation

None of our executive officers serves as a member of the board of directors or compensation committee (or other committee performing equivalent functions) of any entity that has one or more executive officers serving on our board of directors or compensation committee.

 

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Board Diversity

Our nominating and corporate governance committee will be responsible for reviewing with the board of directors, on an annual basis, the appropriate characteristics, skills, and experience required for the board of directors as a whole and its individual members. Although our board of directors does not have a formal written diversity policy with respect to the evaluation of director candidates, in its evaluation of director candidates, our nominating and corporate governance committee will consider factors including, without limitation, issues of character, integrity, judgment, potential conflicts of interest, other commitments, and diversity, and with respect to diversity, such factors as gender, race, ethnicity, experience, and area of expertise, as well as other individual qualities and attributes that contribute to the total diversity of viewpoints and experience represented on the board of directors.

Code of Business Conduct and Ethics

Prior to the completion of this offering, we will adopt a written code of business conduct and ethics that applies to our directors, officers, and employees, including our principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer or controller, or persons performing similar functions. A copy of the code will be posted on our website, www.hioscar.com. In addition, we intend to post on our website all disclosures that are required by law or the                  listing standards concerning any amendments to, or waivers from, any provision of the code. The information on, or that can be accessed through, any of our websites is deemed not to be incorporated in this prospectus or to be part of this prospectus.

 

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EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION

This section discusses the material components of the executive compensation program for our executive officers who are named in the “2020 Summary Compensation Table” below. In 2020, our chief executive officer and our two other highest-paid executive officers, or our named executive officers, and their positions will be as follows:

 

   

Mario Schlosser, Chief Executive Officer;

 

   

Meghan Joyce, Chief Operating Officer; and

 

   

Joel Klein, Chief Policy and Strategy Officer.

This discussion may contain forward-looking statements that are based on our current plans, considerations, expectations, and determinations regarding future compensation programs. Actual compensation programs that we adopt following the completion of this offering may differ materially from the currently planned programs summarized in this discussion.

We will continue to update, in accordance with the rules and regulations of the SEC, information in this section regarding the compensation of our named executive officers.

2020 Summary Compensation Table

The following table sets forth information concerning the compensation of our named executive officers for the year ended December 31, 2020:

 

Name and Principal Position

   Salary
($)
     Bonus
($)
     Option
Awards
($)
     Non-Equity
Incentive Plan
Compensation ($)
     All Other
Compensation
($)
     Total
($)
 

Mario Schlosser

                 

Chief Executive Officer

                 

Meghan Joyce

                 

Chief Operating Officer

                 

Joel Klein

                 

Chief Policy and Strategy Officer

                 

Outstanding Equity Awards at Fiscal Year-End

The following table summarizes the number of shares of common stock underlying outstanding equity incentive plan awards for each named executive officer as of December 31, 2020. Each equity award listed in the following table was granted under the 2012 Plan.

 

            Option Awards  

Name

   Grant
Date
     Vesting
Commencement
Date
     Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Exercisable
     Number of
Securities
Underlying
Unexercised
Options (#)
Unexercisable
     Option
Exercise
Price ($)
     Option
Expiration
Date
 

Mario Schlosser

                 

Meghan Joyce

                 

Joel Klein

                 

Director Compensation

In 2020, we did not make any equity awards or non-equity awards to, or provide any other compensation to our non-employee directors.

 

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We intend to approve and implement a compensation program for our non-employee directors that consists of annual retainer fees and long-term equity awards. We are still in the process of developing our non-employee director compensation program.

Equity Incentive Plans

2012 Stock Plan

We maintain the 2012 Stock Plan, or the 2012 Plan, which was initially adopted on December 6, 2012 and most recently amended and restated in October 2020. The material terms of the 2012 Plan (as amended and restated) are summarized below.

Termination

The 2012 Plan is scheduled to expire on May 22, 2030; however, following the effectiveness of the 2021 Plan, the 2012 Plan will terminate and we will not make any further awards under the 2012 Plan. However, any outstanding awards granted under the 2012 Plan will remain outstanding, subject to the terms of the 2012 Plan and applicable award agreement. Shares of our common stock subject to awards granted under the 2012 Plan that expire unexercised or are cancelled, terminated, or forfeited in any manner without issuance of shares thereunder following the effective date of the 2021 Plan, will become available for issuance under the 2021 Plan in accordance with its terms.

Eligibility and Administration

Our employees, outside directors, and consultants are eligible to receive grants of nonqualified stock options, or NSOs, restricted stock units, or RSUs, or the direct award or sale of shares of our common stock. Only our employees may receive grants of incentive stock options, or ISOs. The 2012 Plan is administered by the compensation committee of our board of directors. Subject to the provisions of the 2012 Plan, our board of directors has the authority and discretion to take any actions it deems necessary or advisable for the administration of the 2012 Plan.

Limitation on Awards and Shares Available

An aggregate of 153,767,065 shares of our common stock have been authorized for issuance under the 2012 Plan. Each of these shares may be issued as an ISO. The shares offered under the 2012 Plan may be authorized but unissued shares of our common stock or treasury shares. In the event that shares of our common stock previously issued under the 2012 Plan are reacquired by us, such shares are currently added to the number of shares then available for issuance under the 2012 Plan. Additionally, if shares that otherwise would have been issuable under the 2012 Plan are withheld in payment of the purchase price, exercise price, or withholding taxes with respect to an award, such shares are currently added back to the available for issuance under the 2012 Plan. In the event that an outstanding award expires or is cancelled for any reason, the shares allocable to the unexercised or otherwise canceled portion of such award are currently added back to the shares of our common stock available for issuance under the 2012 Plan. Following the effective date of the 2021 Plan, such shares will become available for issuance under the 2021 Plan in accordance with its terms.

Awards

The 2012 Plan provides for the grant of stock options, including ISOs and NSOs, stock payments, and RSUs. All awards under the Plan will be set forth in award agreements, which will detail all terms and conditions of the awards, including any applicable vesting and payment terms and post-termination exercise limitations. A brief description of each award type follows.

 

   

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deferral beyond exercise and favorable capital gains tax treatment to their holders if certain holding period and other requirements of the Code are satisfied. The per share exercise price of a stock option may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the underlying share on the date of grant (or 110% in the case of ISOs granted to a person who owns more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of outstanding common stock of the Company, its parent, or any of its subsidiaries). The term of a stock option may not be longer than ten years (or five years in the case of ISOs granted to a person who owns more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of outstanding shares of our common stock, its parent, or any of its subsidiaries).

 

   

RSUs. RSUs are contractual promises to deliver shares of our common stock in the future, which may also remain forfeitable unless and until specified conditions are met, and may be accompanied by the right to receive the equivalent value of dividends paid on shares of our common stock prior to the delivery of the underlying shares. Delivery of the shares underlying RSUs may be deferred under the terms of the award or at the election of the participant, if the plan administrator permits such a deferral.

 

   

Stock Grant or Purchase. Stock grants or purchases are awards of shares of our common stock.

Certain Transactions

The plan administrator has broad discretion to take action under the Plan, as well as make adjustments to the terms and conditions of awards, to facilitate changes in the event of certain transactions and events affecting our common stock without us receiving consideration. In addition, in the event of certain non-reciprocal transactions with our stockholders known as “equity restructurings,” the plan administrator will make equitable adjustments to the Plan and outstanding awards. In the event of a corporate transaction, which includes us being a party to a merger or consolidation, or the sale of substantially all of our assets, all shares of our common stock acquired under the 2012 Plan and all awards outstanding on the effective date of the corporate transaction shall be treated in the manner described in the definitive transaction agreement or, in the event the transaction does not entail a definitive agreement to which we are a party, our board of directors has discretion to determine the treatment of outstanding awards, including the discretion to accelerate the vesting and exercisability of awards.

Plan Amendment and Termination

Our board of directors may amend, suspend, or terminate the 2012 Plan at any time; however, except in connection with certain changes in our capital structure, stockholder approval will be required for any amendment that increases the number of shares available under the 2012 Plan or materially changes the class of persons eligible for the grant of ISOs. No award may be granted pursuant to the 2012 Plan after May 22, 2030.

2021 Incentive Award Plan

We intend to adopt the 2021 Incentive Award Plan, or the 2021 Plan, subject to approval by our stockholders, under which we may grant cash and equity incentive awards to eligible service providers in order to attract, motivate, and retain the talent for which we compete. The material terms of the 2021 Plan, as it is currently contemplated, are summarized below. Our board of directors is still in the process of developing, approving, and implementing the 2021 Plan and, accordingly, this summary is subject to change.

 

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Eligibility and Administration

Our employees, consultants and directors, and employees, consultants, and directors of our subsidiaries will be eligible to receive awards under the 2021 Plan. Following our initial public offering, the 2021 Plan will be administered by our board of directors with respect to awards to non-employee directors and by our compensation committee with respect to other participants, each of which may delegate its duties and responsibilities to committees of our directors and/or officers (referred to collectively as the plan administrator below), subject to certain limitations that may be imposed under Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, and/or stock exchange rules, as applicable. The plan administrator will have the authority to make all determinations and interpretations under, prescribe all forms for use with, and adopt rules for the administration of, the 2021 Plan, subject to its express terms and conditions. The plan administrator will also set the terms and conditions of all awards under the 2021 Plan, including any vesting and vesting acceleration conditions.

Limitation on Awards and Shares Available

An aggregate of                shares of our common stock will be available for issuance under awards granted pursuant to the 2021 Plan, which shares may be authorized but unissued shares, or shares purchased in the open market. The number of shares available for issuance will be increased by (i) the number of shares available under the 2012 Plan as of the effective date of the 2021 Plan, with the maximum number of shares to be added to the 2021 Plan equal to                shares, and (ii) an annual increase on the first day of each calendar year beginning January 1, 2022 and ending on and including January 1, 2031, equal to the lesser of (A)        % of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (B) such smaller number of shares as is determined by our board of directors.

If an award under the 2021 Plan or the 2012 Plan expires, lapses, or is terminated, exchanged for or settled for cash, surrendered, repurchased, cancelled without having been fully exercised or forfeited, any shares subject to such award may, to the extent of such forfeiture, expiration or cash settlement, be used again for new grants under the 2021 Plan. Further, shares delivered to us to satisfy the applicable exercise or purchase price of an award under the 2021 Plan or the 2012 Plan and/or to satisfy any applicable tax withholding obligations (including shares retained by us from the award under the 2021 Plan or the 2012 Plan being exercised or purchased, and/or creating the tax obligation) will become or again be available for award grants under the 2021 Plan. The payment of dividend equivalents in cash in conjunction with any awards under the 2021 Plan will not reduce the shares available for grant under the 2021 Plan. However, the following shares may not be used again for grant under the 2021 Plan: (i) shares subject to stock appreciation rights, or SARs, that are not issued in connection with the stock settlement of the SAR on exercise, and (ii) shares purchased on the open market with the cash proceeds from the exercise of options.

Awards granted under the 2021 Plan upon the assumption of, or in substitution for, awards authorized or outstanding under a qualifying equity plan maintained by an entity with which we enter into a merger or similar corporate transaction will not reduce the shares available for grant under the 2021 Plan. The 2021 Plan provides that, commencing with the calendar year following the calendar year in which the effective date of the 2021 Plan occurs, the sum of any cash compensation and the aggregate grant date fair value (determined as of the date of the grant under ASC 718, or any successor thereto) of all awards granted to a non-employee director as compensation for services as a non-employee director during any calendar year may not exceed $        .

 

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Awards

The 2021 Plan provides for the grant of stock options, including ISOs and NSOs, restricted stock, dividend equivalents, RSUs, performance shares, other incentive awards, SARs, and cash awards. No determination has been made as to the types or amounts of awards that will be granted to specific individuals pursuant to the 2021 Plan. Certain awards under the 2021 Plan may provide for a deferral of compensation, subject to Section 409A of the Code, which may impose additional requirements on the terms and conditions of such awards. All awards under the 2021 Plan will be set forth in award agreements, which will detail all terms and conditions of the awards, including any applicable vesting and payment terms and post-termination exercise limitations. Awards other than cash awards generally will be settled in shares of our common stock, but the plan administrator may provide for cash settlement of any award. A brief description of each award type follows.

 

   

Stock Options. Stock options provide for the purchase of shares of our common stock in the future at an exercise price set on the grant date. ISOs, by contrast to NSOs, may provide tax deferral beyond exercise and favorable capital gains tax treatment to their holders if certain holding period and other requirements of the Code are satisfied. The exercise price of a stock option may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the underlying share on the date of grant (or 110% in the case of ISOs granted to certain significant stockholders), except with respect to certain substitute options granted in connection with a corporate transaction. The term of a stock option may not be longer than ten years (or five years in the case of ISOs granted to certain significant stockholders). Vesting conditions determined by the plan administrator may apply to stock options and may include continued service, performance and/or other conditions.

 

   

SARs. SARs entitle their holder, upon exercise, to receive from us an amount equal to the appreciation of the shares subject to the award between the grant date and the exercise date. The exercise price of a SAR may not be less than 100% of the fair market value of the underlying share on the date of grant (except with respect to certain substitute SARs granted in connection with a corporate transaction) and the term of a SAR may not be longer than ten years. Vesting conditions determined by the plan administrator may apply to SARs and may include continued service, performance, and/or other conditions.

 

   

Restricted Stock and RSUs. Restricted stock is an award of nontransferable shares of our common stock that remain forfeitable unless and until specified conditions are met, and which may be subject to a purchase price. RSUs are contractual promises to deliver shares of our common stock in the future, which may also remain forfeitable unless and until specified conditions are met, and may be accompanied by the right to receive the equivalent value of dividends paid on shares of our common stock prior to the delivery of the underlying shares. Delivery of the shares underlying RSUs may be deferred under the terms of the award or at the election of the participant, if the plan administrator permits such a deferral. Conditions applicable to restricted stock and RSUs may be based on continuing service, the attainment of performance goals, and/or such other conditions as the plan administrator may determine.

 

   

Other Stock or Cash Based Awards. Other stock or cash based awards of cash, fully vested shares of our common stock, and other awards valued wholly or partially by referring to, or otherwise based on, shares of our common stock may be granted under the 2021 Plan. Other stock or cash based awards may be granted to participants and may also be available as a payment form in the settlement of other awards, as standalone payments and as payment in lieu of base salary, bonus, fees, or other cash compensation otherwise payable to any individual who is eligible to receive awards.

 

   

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awards other than stock options or SARs. Dividend equivalents are credited as of dividend record dates during the period between the date an award is granted and the date such award vests, is exercised, is distributed, or expires, as determined by the plan administrator.

Performance Awards

Performance awards include any of the foregoing awards that are granted subject to vesting and/or payment based on the attainment of specified performance goals or other criteria the plan administrator may determine, which may or may not be objectively determinable. Performance criteria upon which performance goals are established by the plan administrator may include but are not limited to: (1) net earnings (either before or after one or more of the following: (a) interest, (b) taxes, (c) depreciation, (d) amortization and (e) non-cash equity-based compensation expense); (2) gross or net sales or revenue; (3) net income (either before or after taxes); (4) adjusted net income; (5) operating earnings or profit; (6) cash flow (including, but not limited to, operating cash flow, and free cash flow); (7) return on assets; (8) return on capital; (9) return on stockholders’ equity; (10) total stockholder return; (11) return on sales; (12) gross or net profit or operating margin; (13) costs; (14) funds from operations; (15) expenses; (16) working capital; (17) earnings per share; (18) adjusted earnings per share; (19) price per share of common stock; (20) regulatory achievements or compliance; (21) implementation or completion of critical projects; (22) market share; (23) economic value; (24) debt levels or reduction; (25) sales-related goals; (26) comparisons with other stock market indices; (27) operating efficiency; (28) employee satisfaction; (29) financing and other capital raising transactions; (30) recruiting and maintaining personnel; and (31) year-end cash, any of which may be measured either in absolute terms for us or any operating unit of our company or as compared to any incremental increase or decrease or as compared to results of a peer group, or to market performance indicators or indices.

Certain Transactions

The plan administrator has broad discretion to take action under the 2021 Plan, as well as make adjustments to the terms and conditions of existing and future awards, to prevent the dilution or enlargement of intended benefits, and facilitate necessary or desirable changes in the event of certain transactions and events affecting our common stock, such as stock dividends, stock splits, mergers, acquisitions, consolidations, and other corporate transactions. In addition, in the event of certain non-reciprocal transactions with our stockholders known as “equity restructurings,” the plan administrator will make equitable adjustments to the 2021 Plan and outstanding awards. In the event of a change in control of our company (as defined in the 2021 Plan), to the extent that the surviving entity declines to continue, convert, assume, or replace outstanding awards, then all such awards will become fully vested and exercisable in connection with the transaction. Upon or in anticipation of a change of control, the plan administrator may cause any outstanding awards to terminate at a specified time in the future and give the participant the right to exercise such awards during a period of time determined by the plan administrator in its sole discretion. Individual award agreements may provide for additional accelerated vesting and payment provisions.

Foreign Participants, Claw-Back Provisions, Transferability, and Participant Payments

The plan administrator may modify award terms, establish subplans, and/or adjust other terms and conditions of awards, subject to the share limits described above, in order to facilitate grants of awards subject to the laws and/or stock exchange rules of countries outside of the United States. All awards will be subject to the provisions of any claw-back policy implemented by our company to the extent set forth in such claw-back policy and/or in the applicable award agreement. With limited exceptions for estate planning, domestic relations orders, certain beneficiary designations and the laws of descent and distribution, awards under the 2021 Plan are generally non-transferable prior to vesting,

 

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and are exercisable only by the participant. With regard to tax withholding, exercise price, and purchase price obligations arising in connection with awards under the 2021 Plan, the plan administrator may, in its discretion, accept cash or check, shares of our common stock that meet specified conditions, a “market sell order,” or such other consideration as it deems suitable.

Plan Amendment and Termination

Our board of directors may amend or terminate the 2021 Plan at any time; however, except in connection with certain changes in our capital structure, stockholder approval will be required for any amendment that increases the number of shares available under the 2021 Plan. Stockholder approval is not required for any amendment that “reprices” any stock option or SAR, or cancels any stock option or SAR in exchange for cash, or another award when the option or SAR price per share exceeds the fair market value of the underlying shares. No award may be granted pursuant to the 2021 Plan after the tenth anniversary of the earlier of the date on which our stockholders approved the 2021 Plan or the date on which our board of directors adopted the 2021 Plan.

2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan

In connection with the offering, we intend to adopt the ESPP, which will become effective on the day the ESPP is adopted by our board of directors. The material terms of the ESPP, as it is currently contemplated, are summarized below. Our board of directors is still in the process of developing, approving, and implementing the ESPP and, accordingly, this summary is subject to change.

Shares Available; Administration

We expect a total of                shares of our common stock to be initially reserved for issuance under our ESPP. In addition, we expect that the number of shares available for issuance under the ESPP will be annually increased on January 1 of each calendar year beginning in 2022 and ending in 2031, by an amount equal to the lesser of: (i)     % of the aggregate number of shares of common stock outstanding on the final day of the immediately preceding calendar year and (ii) such smaller number of shares as is determined by our board of directors. In no event will more than                 shares of our common stock be available for issuance under the ESPP.

Our board of directors or a committee designated by our board of directors will have authority to interpret the terms of the ESPP and determine eligibility of participants. We expect that the compensation committee will be the administrator of the ESPP.

Eligibility

The plan administrator may designate certain of our subsidiaries as participating “designated subsidiaries” in the ESPP and may change these designations from time to time. Employees of our company and our designated subsidiaries are eligible to participate in the ESPP if they meet the eligibility requirements under the ESPP established from time to time by the plan administrator. However, an employee may not be granted rights to purchase stock under the ESPP if such employee, immediately after the grant, would own (directly or through attribution) stock possessing 5% or more of the total combined voting power or value of all classes of our common or other class of stock.

If the grant of a purchase right under the ESPP to any eligible employee who is a citizen or resident of a foreign jurisdiction would be prohibited under the laws of such foreign jurisdiction or the grant of a purchase right to such employee in compliance with the laws of such foreign jurisdiction would cause the ESPP to violate the requirements of Section 423 of the Code, as determined by the plan administrator in its sole discretion, such employee will not be permitted to participate in the ESPP.

 

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Eligible employees become participants in the ESPP by enrolling and authorizing payroll deductions by the deadline established by the plan administrator prior to the relevant offering date. Directors who are not employees, as well as consultants, are not eligible to participate. Employees who choose not to participate, or are not eligible to participate at the start of an offering period but who become eligible thereafter, may enroll in any subsequent offering period.

Participation in an Offering

We intend for the ESPP to qualify under Section 423 of the Code and stock will be offered under the ESPP during offering periods. The length of offering periods under the ESPP will be determined by the plan administrator and may be up to 27 months long. Employee payroll deductions will be used to purchase shares on each purchase date during an offering period. The number of purchase periods within, and purchase dates during, each offering period will be established by the plan administrator. Offering periods under the ESPP will commence when determined by the plan administrator. The plan administrator may, in its discretion, modify the terms of future offering periods.

We expect that the ESPP will permit participants to purchase our common stock through payroll deductions of up to 20% of their eligible compensation, which will include a participant’s gross base compensation for services to us, including overtime payments and excluding sales commissions, incentive compensation, bonuses, expense reimbursements, fringe benefits, and other special payments. The plan administrator will establish a maximum number of shares that may be purchased by a participant during any offering period or purchase period, which, in the absence of a contrary designation, will be                shares for an offering period and/or a purchase period. In addition, no employee will be permitted to accrue the right to purchase stock under the ESPP at a rate in excess of $25,000 worth of shares during any calendar year during which such a purchase right is outstanding (based on the fair market value per share of our common stock as of the first day of the offering period).

On the first trading day of each offering period, each participant automatically will be granted an option to purchase shares of our common stock. The option will be exercised on the applicable purchase date(s) during the offering period, to the extent of the payroll deductions accumulated during the applicable purchase period. We expect that the purchase price of the shares, in the absence of a contrary determination by the plan administrator, will be 85% of the lower of the fair market value of our common stock on the first trading day of the offering period or on the applicable purchase date, which will be the final trading day of the applicable purchase period.

Participants may voluntarily end their participation in the ESPP at any time at least one week prior to the end of the applicable offering period (or such longer or shorter period specified by the plan administrator), and will be paid their accrued payroll deductions that have not yet been used to purchase shares of common stock. Participation ends automatically upon a participant’s termination of employment.

Transferability

A participant may not transfer rights granted under the ESPP other than by will, the laws of descent and distribution or as otherwise provided in the ESPP.

Certain Transactions

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outstanding rights. In addition, in the event of the foregoing transactions or events, or certain significant transactions, including a change in control, the plan administrator may provide for (i) either the replacement of outstanding rights with other rights or property, or termination of outstanding rights in exchange for cash, (ii) the assumption or substitution of outstanding rights by the successor or survivor corporation or parent, or subsidiary thereof, (iii) the adjustment in the number and type of shares of stock subject to outstanding rights, (iv) the use of participants’ accumulated payroll deductions to purchase stock on a new purchase date prior to the next scheduled purchase date and termination of any rights under ongoing offering periods, or (v) the termination of all outstanding rights. Under the ESPP, a change in control has the same definition as given to such term in the 2021 Plan.

Plan Amendment; Termination

The plan administrator may amend, suspend, or terminate the ESPP at any time. However, stockholder approval of any amendment to the ESPP must be obtained for any amendment which increases the aggregate number or changes the type of shares that may be sold pursuant to rights under the ESPP, changes the corporations or classes of corporations whose employees are eligible to participate in the ESPP, or changes the ESPP in any manner that would cause the ESPP to no longer be an employee stock purchase plan within the meaning of Section 423(b) of the Code. The ESPP will terminate on the tenth anniversary of the date it is initially approved by our board of directors.

 

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PRINCIPAL STOCKHOLDERS

The following table sets forth information with respect to the beneficial ownership of our common stock as of December 31, 2020, and as adjusted to reflect the Preferred Stock Conversion and the filing and effectiveness of our Amended Charter and adoption of our Amended Bylaws upon the closing of this offering, in each case as if such event had occurred on December 31, 2020, and to give effect to this offering, for:

 

   

each person known by us to beneficially own more than 5% of our common stock;

 

   

each of our named executive officers and directors; and

 

   

all of our executive officers and directors as a group.

The number of shares beneficially owned by each stockholder as described in this prospectus is determined under rules issued by the SEC. Under these rules, beneficial ownership includes any shares as to which the individual or entity has sole or shared voting power or investment power. In computing the number of shares beneficially owned by an individual or entity and the percentage ownership of that person, shares of common stock subject to options, warrants, or other rights held by such person that are currently exercisable or will become exercisable within 60 days of December 31, 2020 are considered outstanding, although these shares are not considered outstanding for purposes of computing the percentage ownership of any other person. The applicable percentage ownership after this offering is based on              shares of our common stock outstanding immediately following the completion of this offering, assuming that the underwriters will not exercise their option to purchase additional shares of common stock and assuming the issuance of up to              shares of common stock at the closing of this offering. Unless otherwise indicated, the address of all listed stockholders is 75 Varick Street, 5th Floor New York, New York 10013.

Each of the stockholders listed below has sole voting and investment power with respect to the shares beneficially owned by such stockholder unless noted otherwise, subject to community property laws where applicable.

 

     Shares of Common Stock
Beneficially Owned Before
This Offering
     Shares of Common Stock
Beneficially Owned After
This Offering
 

Name of Beneficial Owner

   Number      Percent      Number      Percent  

5% Stockholders:

           

                    

           

                    

           

                    

           

Named Executive Officers and Directors:

           

Mario Schlosser

           

Meghan Joyce

           

Joel Klein

           

Joel Cutler

           

Joshua Kushner

           

                    

           

                    

           

                    

           

All executive officers and directors as a group (         individuals)

           

 

*

Represents beneficial ownership of less than 1.0%.

 

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CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS

In addition to the compensation arrangements, including employment, termination of employment, and change in control arrangements, discussed in the sections titled “Management” and “Executive Compensation,” the following is a description of each transaction since January 1, 2018 and each currently proposed transaction in which:

 

   

we have been or are to be a participant;

 

   

the amount involved exceeded or exceeds $120,000; and

 

   

any of our directors, executive officers or holders of more than 5% of our outstanding capital stock, or any immediate family member of, or person sharing the household with, any of these individuals or entities, had or will have a direct or indirect material interest.

Series A9, Series AA-9, Series A10 and Series A11 Preferred Stock Financings

In March 2018, we issued and sold an aggregate of 23,177,793 shares of our Series A9 Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $7.13489 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $165.4 million.

In March 2018, we issued and sold an aggregate of 11,820,502 shares of our Series AA-9 Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $2.92000 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $34.5 million.

From October 2018 to December 2018, we issued and sold an aggregate of 53,877,952 shares of our Series A10 Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $7.14578 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $385.0 million.

From May 2020 to June 2020, we issued and sold an aggregate of 37,287,281 shares of our Series A11 Preferred Stock at a purchase price of $6.01898 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $224.4 million. We refer to such issuances and sales collectively as the Series A11 Financing. In connection with the Series A11 Financing, each accredited investor received a right to purchase additional shares of our Series A11 Preferred Stock until March 1, 2021 in an aggregate amount up to 33% of the number of shares purchased by such accredited investor in the Series A11 Financing. Pursuant to the exercise of such rights, from                      2020 to                      2021, we issued and sold an aggregate of              shares of our Series A11 Preferred Stock to              accredited investors at a purchase price of $6.01898 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $            .

 

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The following table summarizes the participation in the foregoing transactions by our directors, executive officers, and holders of more than 5% of our capital stock:

 

Related Party

   Shares of
Series A9
Preferred
Stock
     Shares of
Series AA-9
Preferred
Stock
     Shares of
Series A10
Preferred
Stock
     Shares of
Series A11
Preferred
Stock
     Aggregate
Purchase Price
 

Entities affiliated with Alphabet Holdings LLC(1)

     1,401,564        116,290        52,478,526        8,307,055      $ 435,339,571  

Entities affiliated with Founders Fund(2)

     9,810,943        10,123,326        —          166,139      $ 100,560,098  

Entities affiliated with General Catalyst Group(3)

     1,002,416        13,398        —          3,322,822      $ 26,790,438  

Entities affiliated with Khosla Ventures(4)

     700,782        —          —          3,322,822      $ 25,000,001  

Entities affiliated with Thrive Capital(5)

     1,289,025        106,952        —          8,307,055      $ 59,509,349  

 

(1)

Includes shares of preferred stock purchased by Alphabet Holdings LLC, CapitalG 2015 LP, and Verily Life Sciences LLC.

(2)

Includes shares of preferred stock purchased by The Founders Fund V, LP, The Founders Fund V Principals Fund, LP, The Founders Fund V Entrepreneurs Fund, LP, The Founders Fund VI, LP, The Founders Fund VI Principals Fund, LP, The Founders Fund VI Entrepreneurs Fund, LP., and certain employees of Founders Fund.

(3)

Includes shares of preferred stock purchased from us by General Catalyst Group VI, L.P. and General Catalyst Group X—Growth Venture, L.P. and shares of preferred stock acquired by General Catalyst Group X—Growth Venture, L.P. in secondary transactions with existing Company stockholders. Joel Cutler, a member of our board of directors, is a Managing Director at General Catalyst Group.

(4)

Includes shares of preferred stock purchased by Khosla Ventures IV, LP, Khosla Ventures IV (CF), LP., and Khosla Ventures VI, LP.

(5)

Includes shares of preferred stock purchased by Thrive Capital Partners III, L.P., Thrive Capital Partners V, L.P., Thrive Capital Partners VI Growth, L.P., Claremount V Associates, L.P., Claremount VI Associates, L.P., and Claremount TW, L.P. Joshua Kushner, a member of our board of directors, is the Managing Director of Thrive Capital.

Stock Repurchases

In December 2018, we repurchased an aggregate of 1,548,053 shares of our Series A Common Stock from certain of our existing stockholders at a purchase price of $6.4312 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $9.9 million. 280,260 of these shares were repurchased from Joel Klein, one of our executive officers, as part of a Company-wide share repurchase program, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $1.8 million.

In August 2019, we repurchased 503,750 shares of our Series B Common Stock and 440,050 shares of our Series A Common Stock from Mario Schlosser, our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, at a purchase price of $6.4312 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $6.1 million.

Investors’ Rights Agreement

We are party to a Tenth Amended and Restated Investors’ Rights Agreement, or the IRA, dated May 22, 2020, with certain holders of our capital stock, including entities affiliated with Alphabet

 

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Holdings LLC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst Group, Khosla Ventures, and Thrive Capital, all of which are beneficial holders of more than 5% of our capital stock or are entities with which certain of our directors are affiliated. Mario Schlosser, our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, is also party to the IRA. Under the IRA, certain holders of our capital stock have the right to demand that we file a registration statement or request that their shares of our capital stock be covered by a registration statement that we are otherwise filing. See the section titled “Description of Capital Stock—Registration Rights” for additional information regarding the registration rights granted under the IRA. The IRA also imposes certain affirmative obligations on us and provides for a right of first refusal in favor of certain holders with regard to certain issuances of our capital stock. The rights of first refusal will not apply to, and will terminate upon the completion of this offering along with certain other provisions of the IRA.

Right of First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement

We are party to a Tenth Amended and Restated First Refusal and Co-Sale Agreement, or the ROFR Agreement, dated May 22, 2020, with certain holders of our capital stock, including entities affiliated with Alphabet Holdings LLC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst Group, Khosla Ventures, and Thrive Capital, all of which are beneficial holders of more than 5% of our capital stock or are entities with which our directors are affiliated. Mario Schlosser, our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, is also party to the ROFR Agreement. Under the ROFR Agreement, certain holders of our capital stock and we have a right to purchase shares of our capital stock that our stockholders propose to sell to other parties. See the section titled “Principal Stockholders” for additional information regarding beneficial ownership of our capital stock. Upon completion of this offering, the ROFR Agreement will terminate.

Voting Agreement

We are party to a Tenth Amended and Restated Voting Agreement, or the Voting Agreement, dated May 22, 2020, under which certain holders of our capital stock, including entities affiliated with Alphabet Holdings LLC, Founders Fund, General Catalyst Group, Khosla Ventures, and Thrive Capital, all of which are beneficial holders of more than 5% of our capital stock or are entities with which our directors are affiliated, have agreed to vote their shares of our capital stock on certain matters, including with respect to the election of directors. Mario Schlosser, our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, is also party to the Voting Agreement. Upon completion of this offering, the Voting Agreement will terminate, and none of our stockholders will have any special rights regarding the election or designation of members of our board of directors.

Puck Lease Agreement

Our former principal place of business was located in a building owned by New Puck, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company that is affiliated with parties related to Joshua Kushner. Joshua Kushner is a member of our board of directors and is the Managing Director of Thrive Capital, a beneficial holder of more than 5% of our capital stock. Rental expense recorded for this office space for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 was approximately $3.0 million and approximately $1.5 million, respectively. Our sublease and lease agreements for such office space expired between May 2019 and August 2019.

Alphabet Agreements

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have agreed to provide us with technology infrastructure and enterprise services. From January 1, 2018 through December 31, 2020, we have paid these affiliates an aggregate of approximately $             million under these agreements.

Stock Option Grants to Directors and Executive Officers

We have granted stock options to certain of our directors and executive officers. For more information regarding the stock options granted to our directors and named executive officers, see the section titled “Executive Compensation.”

Director and Officer Indemnification and Insurance

Our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws will provide indemnification and advancement of expenses for our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL. In addition, prior to the consummation of this offering, we intend to enter into separate indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. We have also purchased directors’ and officers’ liability insurance. See “Description of Capital Stock—Limitations on Liability and Indemnification of Officers and Directors.”

Our Policy Regarding Related Party Transactions

Prior to the closing of this offering, we expect that our board of directors will adopt a policy providing that the audit committee will review and approve or ratify material transactions, arrangements, or relationships in which we participate and in which any related person has or will have a direct or indirect material interest. A “related person” is a director, director-nominee, executive officer, or beneficial holder of more than 5% of any class of our voting securities, or an immediate family member thereof. A transaction involving an amount in excess of $120,000 of value is presumed to be a material transaction, though transactions involving lower amounts may be material based on the facts and circumstances. Direct or indirect material interests may arise by virtue of control or significant influence of the related person to the transaction or by a direct or indirect pecuniary interest of the related person in the transaction. Under this policy, the audit committee shall review if the transaction is on terms comparable to those that could be obtained in arm’s length dealings with an unrelated third party, the extent of the related person’s interest in the transaction, and shall also take into account the conflicts of interest and corporate opportunity provisions of our Code of Business Conduct and Ethics. All of the transactions described above were entered into prior to the adoption of this policy.

Certain of the foregoing disclosures are summaries of certain provisions of our related party agreements, and are qualified in their entirety by reference to all of the provisions of such agreements. Because these descriptions are only summaries of the applicable agreements, they do not necessarily contain all of the information that you may find useful. Copies of certain of the agreements (or forms of the agreements) have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, and are available electronically on the website of the SEC at www.sec.gov.

 

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DESCRIPTION OF CAPITAL STOCK

The following is a description of the material terms of our Amended Charter and our Amended Bylaws, each of which will be in effect upon the completion of this offering, and certain provisions of the DGCL. The descriptions herein are qualified in their entirety by our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws, copies of which have been filed as exhibits to the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part, as well as the relevant provisions of the DGCL. In this “Description of Capital Stock” section, “we,” “us,” “our,” and “our company” refer to Mulberry Health Inc. and not any of its subsidiaries.

General

Prior to the completion of this offering, we will file our Amended Charter and we will adopt our Amended Bylaws. Our Amended Charter will authorize capital stock consisting of:

 

   

             shares of common stock, par value $             per share; and

 

   

             shares of preferred stock, par value $             per share, the rights and preferences of which the board of directors may establish from time to time.

As of December 31, 2020, after giving effect to the Preferred Stock Conversion, which will occur in connection with the completion of this offering, there were              shares of our common stock outstanding held by              stockholders of record and no shares of our preferred stock outstanding. Pursuant to our Amended Charter, our board of directors will have the authority, without stockholder approval, except as required by the listing standards of the             , to issue additional shares of our common stock.

Certain provisions of our Amended Charter and our Amended Bylaws summarized below may be deemed to have an anti-takeover effect and may delay or prevent a tender offer or takeover attempt that a stockholder might consider in its best interest, including those attempts that might result in a premium over the market price for the shares of common stock.

Common Stock

Dividend Rights

Holders of shares of our common stock will be entitled to receive dividends when, as and if declared by our board of directors out of funds legally available therefor, subject to any statutory or contractual restrictions on the payment of dividends and to any restrictions on the payment of dividends imposed by the terms of any outstanding stock. Under Delaware law, we can only pay dividends either out of “surplus” or out of the current or the immediately preceding year’s net profits. Surplus is defined as the excess, if any, at any given time, of the total assets of a corporation over its total liabilities and statutory capital. The value of a corporation’s assets can be measured in a number of ways and may not necessarily equal their book value.

Applicable insurance laws restrict the ability of our health insurance subsidiaries to declare stockholder dividends and require insurance companies to maintain specified levels of statutory capital and surplus. Insurance regulators have broad powers to prevent reduction of statutory surplus to inadequate levels, and there is no assurance that dividends of the maximum amounts calculated under any applicable formula would be permitted. State insurance regulatory authorities that have jurisdiction over the payment of dividends by our health insurance subsidiaries may in the future adopt statutory provisions more restrictive than those currently in effect.

 

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We currently intend to retain any future earnings and do not expect to pay any dividends in the foreseeable future. See “Dividend Policy” and “Risk Factors—Risks Related to this Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—We do not intend to pay dividends on our common stock for the foreseeable future.”

Voting Rights

Holders of our common stock will be entitled to one vote for each share held on all matters submitted to a vote of stockholders. The holders of our common stock will vote together as a single class, unless otherwise required by law. The holders of our common stock will not have cumulative voting rights in the election of directors.

Our Amended Charter will provide for a classified board of directors consisting of three classes of approximately equal size, each serving staggered three-year terms. If the number of directors is changed, any increase or decrease shall be apportioned among the classes by the board of directors so as to maintain the number of directors in each class as nearly equal as possible, and any additional director of any class elected to fill a vacancy resulting from an increase in such class shall hold office for a term that shall coincide with the remaining term of that class. In no case will a decrease in the number of directors shorten the term of any incumbent director. See “Management—Composition of our Board of Directors.”

No Preemptive or Similar Rights

Holders of our common stock will not have preemptive, subscription, redemption, or conversion rights. There will be no redemption or sinking fund provisions applicable to our common stock. The rights, preferences, and privileges of the holders of our common stock will be subject to and may be adversely affected by the rights of the holders of shares of any series of our preferred stock that we may designate in the future.

Right to Receive Liquidation Distributions

In the event of our liquidation, dissolution, or winding-up, the assets legally available for distribution to our stockholders would be distributable ratably among the holders of our common stock and any participating preferred stock outstanding at that time, subject to prior satisfaction of all outstanding debt and liabilities and the preferential rights of, and the payment of liquidation preferences, if any, on any outstanding shares of preferred stock.

Fully Paid and Non-Assessable

All shares of our common stock outstanding upon the completion of this offering will be fully paid and non-assessable.

Preferred Stock

No shares of preferred stock will be issued or outstanding immediately after the offering contemplated by this prospectus. Our Amended Charter will authorize our board of directors to establish one or more series of preferred stock. Unless required by law or any stock exchange, the authorized shares of preferred stock will be available for issuance without further action by the holders of our common stock. Our board of directors will have the discretion to determine, without stockholder approval and with respect to any series of preferred stock, the powers (including voting powers),

 

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preferences, and relative, participating, optional, or other special rights, and the qualifications, limitations, or restrictions thereof, including, without limitation:

 

   

the designation of the series;

 

   

the number of shares of the series, which our board of directors may, except where otherwise provided in the preferred stock designation, increase (but not above the total number of authorized shares of the class) or decrease (but not below the number of shares then outstanding);

 

   

whether dividends, if any, will be cumulative or non-cumulative and the dividend rate of the series;

 

   

the dates at which dividends, if any, will be payable;

 

   

the redemption or repurchase rights and price or prices, if any, for shares of the series;

 

   

the terms and amounts of any sinking fund provided for the purchase or redemption of shares of the series;

 

   

the amounts payable on shares of the series in the event of any voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, or winding-up of our affairs;

 

   

whether the shares of the series will be convertible into shares of any other class or series, or any other security, of us or any other entity, and, if so, the specification of the other class or series or other security, the conversion price or prices, or rate or rates, any rate adjustments, the date or dates as of which the shares will be convertible and all other terms and conditions upon which the conversion may be made;

 

   

restrictions on the issuance of shares of the same series or of any other class or series; and

 

   

the voting rights, if any, of the holders of the series.

We could issue a series of preferred stock that could, depending on the terms of the series, impede or discourage an acquisition attempt or other transaction that some, or a majority, of the holders of our common stock might believe to be in their best interests or in which the holders of our common stock might receive a premium over the market price of the shares of our common stock. Additionally, the issuance of preferred stock may adversely affect the rights of holders of our common stock by restricting dividends on our common stock, diluting the voting power of our common stock or subordinating the liquidation rights of our common stock. As a result of these or other factors, the issuance of preferred stock could have an adverse impact on the market price of our common stock. We have no current plan for the issuance of any shares of preferred stock.

Options

As of December 31, 2020, we had outstanding options to purchase an aggregate of              shares of our common stock, with a weighted-average exercise price of approximately $             per share, under the 2012 Plan.

Warrants

As of December 31, 2020, we had outstanding              warrants to purchase an aggregate of              shares of our common stock at an exercise price of $             per share. The warrants have a             -year term.

 

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Registration Rights

Under the IRA, following the completion of this offering, certain holders of our common stock, including, but not limited to, certain holders of at least 5% of our capital stock and entities affiliated with certain of our directors, have certain registration rights, as set forth below. Such registration rights will terminate upon the earliest of (i) the date that is five years after the completion of this offering, (ii) as to a given holder of registration rights, the date after the completion of this offering when such holder of registration rights and its affiliates can sell all of their shares pursuant to Rule 144 of the Securities Act during a three-month period without registration and (iii) the completion of certain liquidation events. Under the IRA, we are generally required to pay all expenses (other than underwriting discounts and commissions and certain other expenses) related to any registration effected pursuant to the exercise of such registration rights.

Demand Registration Rights

After the completion of this offering, the holders of up to              shares of our common stock will be entitled to certain demand registration rights. At any time beginning six months after the effective date of this registration statement, the holders of at least 50% of the shares having registration rights then outstanding may request that we file a registration statement to register the offer and sale of their shares. We are only obligated to effect up to two such registrations. Each such request for registration must cover securities the anticipated aggregate offering price of which is at least $50.0 million. If we determine that it would be seriously detrimental to us and our stockholders to effect such a demand registration, we have the right to defer such registration, not more than once in any twelve-month period, for a period of up to 90 days.

Form S-3 Registration Rights

After the completion of this offering, holders of up to              shares of our common stock will be entitled to certain Form S-3 registration rights. At any time when we are eligible to file a registration statement on Form S-3, the holders of at least 30% of the shares having these rights then outstanding can request that we register the offer and sale of their shares on a registration statement on Form S-3 so long as the request covers securities the anticipated aggregate public offering price of which, net of any underwriters’ discounts or commissions, is at least $5.0 million. These holders may make an unlimited number of requests for registration on a registration statement on Form S-3. However, we will not be required to effect a registration on Form S-3 if we have effected two such registrations within the twelve-month period preceding the date of the request. If we determine that it would be seriously detrimental to us and our stockholders to effect such a demand registration, we have the right to defer such registration, not more than once in any twelve-month period, for a period of up to 90 days.

Piggyback Registration Rights

After the completion of this offering, the holders of up to              shares of our common stock will be entitled to certain “piggyback” registration rights. If we propose to register shares of our common stock or other securities under the Securities Act, either for our own account or for the account of other security holders, in connection with such offering, all holders of these shares then outstanding can request that we include their shares in such registration, subject to certain marketing and other limitations. As a result, whenever we propose to file a registration statement under the Securities Act, other than with respect to (i) a registration pursuant to the demand registration rights described in the preceding paragraph above, (ii) a registration relating solely to our stock plans, (iii) a registration relating to a corporate reorganization or other transaction covered by Rule 145 promulgated under the Securities Act, (iv) a registration on any form that does not include substantially the same information as would be required to be included in a registration statement covering the sale of the shares having

 

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registration rights, or (v) a registration relating to the offer and sale of debt securities, the holders of these shares are entitled to notice of the registration and have the right, subject to certain limitations, to include their shares in the registration.

Anti-Takeover Effects of Delaware Law and our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws

The DGCL contains, and our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws will contain provisions that may delay, defer, or discourage another party from acquiring control of us. We expect that these provisions, which are summarized below, will discourage coercive takeover practices or inadequate takeover bids. These provisions are also designed to encourage persons seeking to acquire control of us to first negotiate with our board of directors, which we believe may result in an improvement of the terms of any such acquisition in favor of our stockholders. However, they also give our board of directors the power to discourage acquisitions that some stockholders may favor.

Classified Board of Directors

Our Amended Bylaws will provide that our board of directors will be classified into three classes of directors, each of which will hold office for a three-year term. In addition, directors may only be removed from the board of directors for cause. The existence of a classified board could delay a potential acquirer from obtaining majority control of our board of directors, and the prospect of that delay might deter a potential acquirer. See “Management—Composition of our Board of Directors.”

Authorized but Unissued Shares

The authorized but unissued shares of common stock and preferred stock are available for future issuance without stockholder approval, subject to any limitations imposed by the listing standards of the             . These additional shares may be used for a variety of corporate finance transactions, acquisitions, and employee benefit plans. The existence of authorized but unissued and unreserved common stock and preferred stock could make more difficult or discourage an attempt to obtain control of us by means of a proxy contest, tender offer, merger, or otherwise.

Advance Notice Requirements for Stockholder Proposals and Director Nominations

Our Amended Bylaws will provide advance notice procedures for stockholder proposals to be brought before an annual meeting of stockholders, including proposed nominations of candidates for election to our board of directors. Our Amended Bylaws will also specify certain requirements regarding the form and content of a stockholder’s notice. These provisions might preclude our stockholders from bringing matters before our annual meeting of stockholders or from making nominations for directors at our annual meeting of stockholders if the proper procedures are not followed. We expect that these provisions may also discourage or deter a potential acquirer from conducting a solicitation of proxies to elect the acquirer’s own slate of directors or otherwise attempting to obtain control of our company.

Stockholder Action by Written Consent; Special Meetings of Stockholders

Pursuant to Section 228 of the DGCL, any action required to be taken at any annual or special meeting of the stockholders may be taken without a meeting, without prior notice, and without a vote if a consent or consents in writing, setting forth the action so taken, is signed by the holders of outstanding stock having not less than the minimum number of votes that would be necessary to authorize or take such action at a meeting at which all shares of our stock entitled to vote thereon were present and voted, unless the company’s certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Our Amended

 

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Charter will provide that our stockholders may not take action by written consent, but may only take action at annual or special meetings of our stockholders. As a result, a holder controlling a majority of our capital stock would not be able to amend our Amended Bylaws or remove directors without holding a meeting of our stockholders called in accordance with our Amended Bylaws. Our Amended Bylaws will further provide that special meetings of our stockholders may be called only by a majority of our board of directors, the chairperson of our board of directors, our Chief Executive Officer, or our President (in the absence of a chief executive officer), thus prohibiting a stockholder from calling a special meeting. These provisions might delay the ability of our stockholders to force consideration of a proposal or for stockholders controlling a majority of our capital stock to take any action, including the removal of directors.

No Cumulative Voting

The DGCL provides that stockholders are not entitled to cumulate votes in the election of directors unless a corporation’s certificate of incorporation provides otherwise. Our Amended Charter will not provide for cumulative voting.

Amendment of Amended Charter or Amended Bylaws

Our Amended Charter will require the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds in the voting power of the outstanding shares of our capital stock in order to amend certain provisions, including those relating to removal of directors, rights, and privileges of our common stock, indemnification, exclusive forum, and the prohibition on stockholder action by written consent. Our Amended Bylaws will provide that the approval of the holders of at least two-thirds in the voting power of the outstanding shares of our capital stock of the outstanding shares of capital stock entitled to vote thereon is required for stockholders to amend or adopt any provision of our Amended Bylaws.

The foregoing provisions of our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws could discourage potential acquisition proposals and could delay or prevent a change in control. These provisions are intended to enhance the likelihood of continuity and stability in the composition of our board of directors and in the policies formulated by our board of directors and to discourage certain types of transactions that may involve an actual or threatened change of control. These provisions are designed to reduce our vulnerability to an unsolicited acquisition proposal. The provisions also are intended to discourage certain tactics that may be used in proxy fights. However, such provisions could have the effect of discouraging others from making tender offers for our shares and, as a consequence, they also may inhibit fluctuations in the market price of our shares of common stock that could result from actual or rumored takeover attempts. Such provisions also may have the effect of preventing changes in our management or delaying or preventing a transaction that might benefit you or other minority stockholders.

Issuance of Undesignated Preferred Stock

Our board of directors will have the authority, without further action by our stockholders, to issue up to              shares of undesignated preferred stock with rights and preferences, including voting rights, designated from time to time by our board of directors. The existence of authorized but unissued shares of preferred stock would enable our board of directors to render more difficult or to discourage an attempt to obtain control of us by means of a merger, tender offer, proxy contest, or other means.

Section 203 of the DGCL

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stockholder” for a period of three years after the time of the transaction in which the person became an interested stockholder, unless:

 

   

the business combination or transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder was approved by the board of directors prior to the time that the stockholder became an interested stockholder;

 

   

upon consummation of the transaction which resulted in the stockholder becoming an interested stockholder, the interested stockholder owned at least 85% of the voting stock of the corporation outstanding at the time the transaction commenced, excluding shares owned by directors who are also officers of the corporation and shares owned by employee stock plans in which employee participants do not have the right to determine confidentially whether shares held subject to the plan will be tendered in a tender or exchange offer; or

 

   

at or subsequent to the time the stockholder became an interested stockholder, the business combination was approved by the board of directors and authorized at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders, and not by written consent, by the affirmative vote of at least 6623% of the outstanding voting stock which is not owned by the interested stockholder at an annual or special meeting of the stockholders.

In general, Section 203 defines a “business combination” to include mergers, asset sales, and other transactions resulting in financial benefit to a stockholder and an “interested stockholder” as a person who, together with affiliates and associates, owns, or, if such person is an affiliate or associate of the corporation within three years did own, 15% or more of the corporation’s outstanding voting stock. These provisions may have the effect of delaying, deferring, or preventing changes in control of our company.

Exclusive Venue

Our Amended Charter will require, to the fullest extent permitted by law, that (i) any derivative action or proceeding brought on our behalf, (ii) any action asserting a claim of breach of a fiduciary duty owed by any of our directors, officers, or other employees to us or our stockholders, (iii) any action asserting a claim against us arising pursuant to any provision of the DGCL or our Amended Charter, or Amended Bylaws, or (iv) any action asserting a claim against us governed by the internal affairs doctrine will have to be brought only in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware; provided that, the exclusive forum provision will not apply to suits brought to enforce any liability or duty created by the Exchange Act, or to any claim for which the federal courts have exclusive jurisdiction. Our Amended Charter also will provide that unless we consent in writing to the selection of an alternative forum, the U.S. federal district courts shall be the exclusive forum for the resolution of any claims arising under the Securities Act. Any person or entity purchasing or otherwise acquiring any interest in our securities shall be deemed to have notice of and consented to this provision. Although we believe this provision benefits us by providing increased consistency in the application of Delaware law in the types of lawsuits to which it applies, the provision may have the effect of discouraging lawsuits against our directors and officers. See “Risk Factors—Risks Related to this Offering and Ownership of Our Common Stock—Our Amended Charter will provide that the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware will be the sole and exclusive forum for substantially all disputes between us and our stockholders, and federal district courts will be the sole and exclusive forum for Securities Act claims, which could limit our stockholders’ ability to obtain a favorable judicial forum for disputes with us or our directors, officers, or employees.”

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subject to certain exceptions. Our Amended Charter will include a provision that eliminates the personal liability of directors for monetary damages to the corporation or its stockholders for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except to the extent such exemption from liability or limitation thereof is not permitted under the DGCL. The effect of these provisions is to eliminate the rights of us and our stockholders, through stockholders’ derivative suits on our behalf, to recover monetary damages from a director for breach of fiduciary duty as a director, including breaches resulting from grossly negligent behavior. However, exculpation does not apply to any breaches of the director’s duty of loyalty, any acts or omissions not in good faith or that involve intentional misconduct or knowing violation of law, any authorization of dividends or stock redemptions or repurchases paid or made in violation of the DGCL, or for any transaction from which the director derived an improper personal benefit.

Our Amended Bylaws generally will provide that we must indemnify and advance expenses to our directors and officers to the fullest extent authorized by the DGCL. We also will be expressly authorized to carry directors’ and officers’ liability insurance providing indemnification for our directors, officers, and certain employees for some liabilities. We believe that these indemnification and advancement provisions and insurance are useful to attract and retain qualified directors and executive officers.

The limitation of liability, indemnification, and advancement provisions in our Amended Charter and Amended Bylaws may discourage stockholders from bringing a lawsuit against directors for breach of their fiduciary duty. These provisions also may 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 we pay the costs of settlement and damage awards against directors and officers pursuant to these indemnification provisions.

There is currently no pending material litigation or proceeding involving any of our directors, officers, or employees for which indemnification is sought.

Indemnification Agreements

Prior to the completion of this offering, we intend to enter into an indemnification agreement with each of our directors and executive officers as described in “Certain Relationships and Related Party Transactions—Director and Officer Indemnification and Insurance.” Insofar as indemnification for liabilities arising under the Securities Act may be permitted to directors or executive officers, we have been informed that in the opinion of the SEC such indemnification is against public policy and is therefore unenforceable.

Corporate Opportunities

Our Amended Charter will provide that, to the fullest extent permitted by law, we have renounced any interest or expectancy in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, an Excluded Opportunity. An “Excluded Opportunity” is any matter, transaction or interest that is presented to, or acquired, created or developed by, or which otherwise comes into the possession of, (i) any director who is not an employee of Oscar or any of its subsidiaries, or (ii) any holder of preferred stock or any partner, member, director, stockholder, employee, or agent of any such holder, other than someone who is an employee of Oscar or any of its subsidiaries, collectively, Covered Persons, unless such matter, transaction or interest is presented to, or acquired, created or developed by, or otherwise comes into the possession of, a Covered Person expressly and solely in such Covered Person’s capacity as a director.

 

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Dissenters’ Rights of Appraisal and Payment

Under the DGCL, with certain exceptions, our stockholders will have appraisal rights in connection with a merger or consolidation of Oscar. Pursuant to the DGCL, stockholders who properly request and perfect appraisal rights in connection with such merger or consolidation will have the right to receive payment of the fair value of their shares as determined by the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware.

Stockholders’ Derivative Actions

Under the DGCL, any of our stockholders may bring an action in our name to procure a judgment in our favor, also known as a derivative action, provided that the stockholder bringing the action is a holder of our shares at the time of the transaction to which the action relates or such stockholder’s shares thereafter devolved by operation of law and such suit is brought in the Court of Chancery in the State of Delaware. See “—Exclusive Venue” above.

Stock Exchange Listing

We intend to apply to list our common stock on the              under the symbol “            .”

Transfer Agent and Registrar

The transfer agent and registrar for our common stock is             . The transfer agent and registrar’s address is             , and its telephone number is             .

 

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SHARES ELIGIBLE FOR FUTURE SALE

Immediately prior to this offering, there was no public market for our common stock. Future sales of substantial amounts of common stock in the public market, or the perception that such sales may occur, could adversely affect the market price of our common stock. Although we have applied to have our common stock listed on the                , we cannot assure you that there will be an active public market for our common stock.

Upon the closing of this offering, we will have outstanding an aggregate of                shares of common stock, assuming the issuance of                shares of common stock offered by us in this offering. Of these shares, all shares sold in this offering will be freely tradable without restriction or further registration under the Securities Act, except for any shares purchased by our “affiliates,” as that term is defined in Rule 144, whose sales would be subject to the Rule 144 resale restrictions described below, other than the holding period requirement.

The remaining                shares of common stock will be “restricted securities,” as that term is defined in Rule 144. These restricted securities are eligible for public sale only if they are registered under the Securities Act or if they qualify for an exemption from registration under Rules 144 or 701 under the Securities Act, which are summarized below.

Registration Rights

Pursuant to our IRA, after the completion of this offering, the holders of up to                shares of our common stock, or certain transferees, will be entitled to certain rights with respect to the registration of the offer and sale of those shares under the Securities Act. See the section titled “Description of Capital Stock—Registration Rights” for a description of these registration rights. If the offer and sale of these shares of our common stock are registered, the shares will be freely tradable without restriction under the Securities Act, subject to the Rule 144 limitations applicable to affiliates, and a large number of shares may be sold into the public market.

Lock-Up Agreements and Market Stand-Off Provisions

We, our officers and directors, and holders of substantially all of our common stock and securities convertible into or exchangeable for our common stock will agree that, without the prior written consent of                , as representatives of the underwriters, we and they will not, subject to certain exceptions, during the period ending 180 days after the date of this prospectus:

 

   

offer, sell, contract to sell, pledge, grant any option to purchase, make any short sale or otherwise transfer or dispose of any shares of our common stock, or any options or warrants to purchase any shares of our common stock, or any securities convertible into, or exchangeable for, or that represent the right to receive, shares of our common stock, or publicly disclose an intention to do any of the foregoing; or

 

   

enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, all or a portion of the economic consequences of ownership of our common stock or any securities convertible into or exercisable, or exchangeable for shares of our common stock,

whether any transaction described above is to be settled by delivery of our common stock or such other securities, in cash or otherwise. Holders of substantially all of our capital stock and options are subject to market stand-off provisions in agreements with us that impose similar restrictions.

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a case-by-case basis. Upon a request to release any shares subject to a lock-up, the representatives of the underwriters would consider the particular circumstances surrounding the request, including, but not limited to, the length of time before the lock-up expires, the number of shares requested to be released, reasons for the request, the possible impact on the market or our common stock and whether the holder of our shares requesting the release is an officer, director, or other affiliate of ours.

Upon the expiration of the applicable lock-up periods, substantially all of the shares subject to such lock-up restrictions and market stand-off restrictions will become eligible for sale, subject to the limitations discussed above. For additional information, see “Underwriting.”

Rule 144

Affiliate Resales of Restricted Securities

In general, beginning 90 days after the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part, a person who is an affiliate of ours, or who was an affiliate at any time during the 90 days before a sale, who has beneficially owned shares of our common stock for at least 180 days would be entitled to sell in “broker’s transactions” or certain “riskless principal transactions,” or to market makers, a number of shares within any three-month period that does not exceed the greater of:

 

   

1% of the number of shares of our common stock then outstanding; and

 

   

the average weekly trading volume in our common stock on the                  during the four calendar weeks preceding the filing of a notice on Form 144 with respect to such sale.

Affiliate resales under Rule 144 are also subject to the availability of current public information about us. In addition, if the number of shares being sold under Rule 144 by an affiliate during any three-month period exceeds 5,000 shares or has an aggregate sale price in excess of $50,000, the seller must file a notice on Form 144 with the SEC and the                  concurrently with either the placing of a sale order with the broker or the execution directly with a market maker.

Non-Affiliate Resales of Restricted Securities

Under Rule 144, a person who is not an affiliate of ours at the time of sale, and has not been an affiliate at any time during the 90 days preceding a sale, and who has beneficially owned shares of our common stock for at least six months but less than a year, is entitled to sell such shares subject only to the availability of current public information about us. If such person has held our shares for at least one year, such person can resell without regard to any Rule 144 restrictions, including the 90-day public company requirement and the current public information requirement.

Non-affiliate resales are not subject to the manner of sale, volume limitation, or notice filing provisions of Rule 144.

Rule 701

In general, under Rule 701, any of our employees, directors, officers, consultants or advisors who purchases shares from us in connection with a compensatory stock or option plan or other written agreement before the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part is entitled to sell such shares 90 days after such effective date in reliance on Rule 144. Our affiliates can resell shares in reliance on Rule 144 without having to comply with the holding period requirement, and non-affiliates of the issuer can resell shares in reliance on Rule 144 without having to comply with the current public information and holding period requirements.

 

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The SEC has indicated that Rule 701 will apply to typical stock options granted by an issuer before it becomes subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act, along with the shares acquired upon exercise of such options, including exercises after an issuer becomes subject to the reporting requirements of the Exchange Act.

Equity Plans

We intend to file one or more registration statements on Form S-8 under the Securities Act to register the offer and sale of all shares of common stock subject to outstanding stock options issued and common stock issuable under our 2012 Plan, as well as common stock subject to equity awards that will be granted under our 2021 Plan and ESPP. As of December 31, 2020, options to purchase                shares of common stock were outstanding. We expect to file the registration statement covering shares offered pursuant to our equity incentive plans shortly after the date of this prospectus, permitting the resale of such shares by non-affiliates in the public market without restriction under the Securities Act and the sale by affiliates in the public market subject to compliance with the resale provisions of Rule 144. See “Executive Compensation—Equity Incentive Plans” for a description of our equity compensation plans.

 

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MATERIAL U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX CONSIDERATIONS

FOR NON-U.S. HOLDERS OF COMMON STOCK

The following discussion is a summary of the material U.S. federal income tax considerations for Non-U.S. Holders (as defined below) of the purchase, ownership and disposition of our common stock issued pursuant to this offering, but does not purport to be a complete analysis of all potential tax effects. The effects of other U.S. federal tax laws, such as estate and gift tax laws, and any applicable state, local, or non-U.S. tax laws are not discussed. This discussion is based on the Code, Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, judicial decisions, and published rulings and administrative pronouncements of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service, or the IRS, in each case in effect as of the date hereof. These authorities may change or be subject to differing interpretations. Any such change or differing interpretation may be applied retroactively in a manner that could adversely affect a Non-U.S. Holder of our common stock. We have not sought and will not seek any rulings from the IRS regarding the matters discussed below. There can be no assurance the IRS or a court will not take a contrary position to that discussed below regarding the tax consequences of the purchase, ownership, and disposition of our common stock.

This discussion is limited to Non-U.S. Holders that hold our common stock as a “capital asset” within the meaning of Section 1221 of the Code (generally, property held for investment). This discussion does not address all U.S. federal income tax consequences relevant to a Non-U.S. Holder’s particular circumstances, including the impact of the Medicare contribution tax on net investment income. In addition, it does not address consequences relevant to Non-U.S. Holders subject to special rules, including, without limitation:

 

   

U.S. expatriates and former citizens or long-term residents of the United States;

 

   

persons subject to the alternative minimum tax;

 

   

persons holding our common stock as part of a hedge, straddle, or other risk reduction strategy or as part of a conversion transaction or other integrated investment;

 

   

banks, insurance companies, and other financial institutions;

 

   

brokers, dealers, or traders in securities;

 

   

“controlled foreign corporations,” “passive foreign investment companies,” and corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax;

 

   

partnerships or other entities or arrangements treated as partnerships for U.S. federal income tax purposes, and other pass-through entities (and investors in such entities);

 

   

tax-exempt organizations or governmental organizations;

 

   

persons deemed to sell our common stock under the constructive sale provisions of the Code;

 

   

persons who hold or receive our common stock pursuant to the exercise of any employee stock option or otherwise as compensation;

 

   

persons that actually or constructively own 5% or more of our common stock;

 

   

tax-qualified retirement plans;

 

   

“qualified foreign pension funds” as defined in Section 897(l)(2) of the Code and entities all of the interests of which are held by qualified foreign pension funds; and

 

   

persons subject to special tax accounting rules as a result of any item of gross income with respect to the common stock being taken into account in an applicable financial statement.

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activities of the partnership, and certain determinations made at the partner level. Accordingly, partnerships holding our common stock and the partners in such partnerships should consult their tax advisors regarding the U.S. federal income tax consequences to them.

THIS DISCUSSION IS FOR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES ONLY AND IS NOT TAX ADVICE. INVESTORS SHOULD CONSULT THEIR TAX ADVISORS WITH RESPECT TO THE APPLICATION OF THE U.S. FEDERAL INCOME TAX LAWS TO THEIR PARTICULAR SITUATIONS AS WELL AS ANY TAX CONSEQUENCES OF THE PURCHASE, OWNERSHIP, AND DISPOSITION OF OUR COMMON STOCK ARISING UNDER THE U.S. FEDERAL ESTATE OR GIFT TAX LAWS OR UNDER THE LAWS OF ANY STATE, LOCAL, OR NON-U.S. TAXING JURISDICTION OR UNDER ANY APPLICABLE INCOME TAX TREATY.

Definition of a Non-U.S. Holder

For purposes of this discussion, a “Non-U.S. Holder” is any beneficial owner of our common stock that is neither a “U.S. person” nor an entity treated as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes. A U.S. person is any person that, for U.S. federal income tax purposes, is or is treated as any of the following:

 

   

an individual who is a citizen or resident of the United States;

 

   

a corporation created or organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof, or the District of Columbia;

 

   

an estate, the income of which is subject to U.S. federal income tax regardless of its source; or

 

   

a trust that (1) is subject to the primary supervision of a U.S. court and the control of one or more “United States persons” (within the meaning of Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code), or (2) has a valid election in effect to be treated as a United States person for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Distributions

As described in the section entitled “Dividend Policy,” we do not anticipate declaring or paying dividends to holders of our common stock in the foreseeable future. However, if we do make distributions of cash or property on our common stock, such distributions 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 first be applied against and reduce a Non-U.S. Holder’s adjusted tax basis in its common stock, but not below zero. Any excess will be treated as capital gain and will be treated as described below under “—Sale or Other Taxable Disposition.”

Subject to the discussion below on effectively connected income, dividends paid to a Non-U.S. Holder of our common stock will be subject to U.S. federal withholding tax at a rate of 30% of the gross amount of the dividends (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty, provided the Non-U.S. Holder furnishes a valid IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E (or other applicable documentation) certifying qualification for the lower treaty rate). A Non-U.S. Holder that does not timely furnish the required documentation, but that qualifies for a reduced treaty rate, may generally obtain a refund of any excess amounts withheld by timely filing an appropriate claim for refund with the IRS. Non-U.S. Holders should consult their tax advisors regarding their entitlement to benefits under any applicable income tax treaty.

 

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If dividends paid to a Non-U.S. Holder are effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, the Non-U.S. Holder maintains a permanent establishment in the United States to which such dividends are attributable), the Non-U.S. Holder will be exempt from the U.S. federal withholding tax described above. To claim the exemption, the Non-U.S. Holder must furnish to the applicable withholding agent a valid IRS Form W-8ECI (or other applicable documentation), certifying that the dividends are effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States.

Any such effectively connected dividends will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net income basis at the regular graduated rates. A Non-U.S. Holder that is a corporation also may be subject to a branch profits tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty) on such effectively connected dividends, as adjusted for certain items. Non-U.S. Holders should consult their tax advisors regarding any applicable tax treaties that may provide for different rules.

Sale or Other Taxable Disposition

Subject to the discussion below on information reporting, backup withholding, and foreign accounts, a Non-U.S. Holder will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax on any gain realized upon the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock unless:

 

   

the gain is effectively connected with the Non-U.S. Holder’s conduct of a trade or business within the United States (and, if required by an applicable income tax treaty, the Non-U.S. Holder maintains a permanent establishment in the United States to which such gain is attributable);

 

   

the Non-U.S. Holder is a nonresident alien individual present in the United States for 183 days or more during the taxable year of the disposition and certain other requirements are met; or

 

   

our common stock constitutes a U.S. real property interest, or a USRPI, by reason of our status as a U.S. real property holding corporation, or a USRPHC, for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Gain described in the first bullet point above generally will be subject to U.S. federal income tax on a net income basis at the regular graduated rates. A Non-U.S. Holder that is a corporation also may be subject to a branch profits tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty) on such effectively connected gain, as adjusted for certain items.

Gain described in the second bullet point above will be subject to U.S. federal income tax at a rate of 30% (or such lower rate specified by an applicable income tax treaty), which may be offset by U.S. source capital losses of the Non-U.S. Holder (even though the individual is not considered a resident of the United States), provided the Non-U.S. Holder has timely filed U.S. federal income tax returns with respect to such losses.

Because the determination of whether we are a USRPHC depends on the fair market value of our USRPIs relative to the fair market value of our non-U.S. real property interests and our other business assets, there can be no assurance we currently are not a USRPHC or will not become one in the future. Even if we are or were to become a USRPHC, gain arising from the sale or other taxable disposition by a Non-U.S. Holder of our common stock will not be subject to U.S. federal income tax if our common stock is “regularly traded,” as defined by applicable Treasury Regulations, on an established securities market, and such Non-U.S. Holder owned, actually and constructively, 5% or less of our common stock throughout the shorter of the five-year period ending on the date of the sale or other taxable disposition or the Non-U.S. Holder’s holding period.

 

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Non-U.S. Holders should consult their tax advisors regarding potentially applicable income tax treaties that may provide for different rules.

Information Reporting and Backup Withholding

Payments of dividends on our common stock will not be subject to backup withholding, provided the applicable withholding agent does not have actual knowledge or reason to know the holder is a United States person and the holder either certifies its non-U.S. status, such as by furnishing a valid IRS Form W-8BEN, W-8BEN-E or W-8ECI, or otherwise establishes an exemption. However, information returns are required to be filed with the IRS in connection with any distributions on our common stock paid to the Non-U.S. Holder, regardless of whether such distributions constitute dividends or whether any tax was actually withheld. In addition, proceeds of the sale or other taxable disposition of our common stock within the United States or conducted through certain U.S.-related brokers generally will not be subject to backup withholding or information reporting, if the applicable withholding agent receives the certification described above and does not have actual knowledge or reason to know that such holder is a United States person, or the holder otherwise establishes an exemption. Proceeds of a disposition of our common stock conducted through a non-U.S. office of a non-U.S. broker generally will not be subject to backup withholding or information reporting.

Copies of information returns that are filed with the IRS may also be made available under the provisions of an applicable treaty or agreement to the tax authorities of the country in which the Non-U.S. Holder resides or is established.

Backup withholding is not an additional tax. Any amounts withheld under the backup withholding rules may generally be allowed as a refund or a credit against a Non-U.S. Holder’s U.S. federal income tax liability, provided the required information is timely furnished to the IRS.

Additional Withholding Tax on Payments Made to Foreign Accounts

Withholding taxes may be imposed under Sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code (such sections commonly referred to as the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA), on certain types of payments made to non-U.S. financial institutions and certain other non-U.S. entities. Specifically, a 30% withholding tax may be imposed on dividends on, or (subject to the proposed Treasury Regulations discussed below) gross proceeds from the sale or other disposition of, our common stock paid to a “foreign financial institution” or a “non-financial foreign entity” (each as defined in the Code), unless (1) the foreign financial institution undertakes certain diligence and reporting obligations, (2) the non-financial foreign entity either certifies it does not have any “substantial United States owners” (as defined in the Code) or furnishes identifying information regarding each substantial United States owner, or (3) the foreign financial institution or non-financial foreign entity otherwise qualifies for an exemption from these rules. If the payee is a foreign financial institution and is subject to the diligence and reporting requirements in (1) above, it must enter into an agreement with the U.S. Department of the Treasury requiring, among other things, that it undertake to identify accounts held by certain “specified United States persons” or “United States-owned foreign entities” (each as defined in the Code), annually report certain information about such accounts, and withhold 30% on certain payments to non-compliant foreign financial institutions and certain other account holders. Foreign financial institutions located in jurisdictions that have an intergovernmental agreement with the United States governing FATCA may be subject to different rules.

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proposed Treasury Regulations no withholding would apply to such gross proceeds. Taxpayers may rely on these proposed Treasury Regulations until final Treasury Regulations are issued. Under certain circumstances, a non-U.S. holder may be eligible for refunds or credits of the tax.

Prospective investors should consult their tax advisors regarding the potential application of withholding under FATCA to their investment in our common stock.

 

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UNDERWRITING

We 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. LLC and Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC are the representatives of the underwriters.

 

Underwriters

   Number of
Shares
 

Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC

                   

Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC

  
  

 

 

 

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. The underwriting agreement also provides that if an underwriter defaults, the purchase commitments of non-defaulting underwriters may also be increased or the offering may be terminated.

The underwriters have an option to buy up to an additional                     shares from us to cover sales by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than the total number set forth in the table above. 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 us. Such amounts are shown assuming both no exercise and full exercise of the underwriters’ option to purchase up to additional shares from us.

 

     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. After the initial offering of the shares, the representatives may change the offering price and the other selling terms.

The offering of the shares by the underwriters is subject to receipt and acceptance and subject to the underwriters’ right to reject any order in whole or in part. Sales of shares made outside of the United States may be made by affiliates of the underwriters.

A prospectus in electronic format may be made available on the web sites maintained by one or more underwriters, or selling group members, if any, participating in the offering. The underwriters may agree to allocate a number of shares to underwriters and selling group members for sale to their online brokerage account holders. Internet distributions will be allocated by the representatives to underwriters and selling group members that may make internet distributions on the same basis as other allocations.

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underwriters, subject to certain exceptions, not to dispose of or hedge any of our or their common stock or securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of common stock during for 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                     . See “Shares Eligible for Future Sale” for a discussion of certain transfer restrictions.

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

We have applied to list our common stock on the                  under the symbol “                .”

In connection with the offering, the underwriters may purchase and sell shares of our common stock in the open market. These transactions may include short sales, stabilizing transactions and purchases to cover positions created by short sales. Short sales involve the sale by the underwriters of a greater number of shares than they are required to purchase in the offering, and a short position represents the amount of such sales that have not been covered by subsequent purchases. A “covered short position” is a short position that is not greater than the amount of additional shares for which the underwriters’ option described above may be exercised. The underwriters may cover 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 cover 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 described above. “Naked” short sales are any short sales that create a short position greater than the amount of additional shares for which the option described above may be exercised. The underwriters must cover any such 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 representatives have 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 our 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. The underwriters are not required to engage in these activities and may end any of these activities at any time. These transactions may be effected on the                 , in the over-the-counter market or otherwise.

We estimate that our share of the total expenses of the offering, excluding underwriting discounts and commissions, will be approximately $                million. We have agreed to reimburse the underwriters for certain of their expenses in an amount up to $                .

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The underwriters and their respective affiliates are full service financial institutions engaged in various activities, which may include sales and trading, commercial and investment banking, advisory, investment management, investment research, principal investment, hedging, market making, brokerage, and other financial and non-financial activities and services. Certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates have provided, and may in the future provide, a variety of these services to the issuer and to persons and entities with relationships with the issuer, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses.

As of September 30, 2020, Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and its affiliated funds beneficially owned 7,254 shares of Series A Common Stock, 17,532 shares of Series B Common Stock, and 308,115 shares of Series A6 Preferred Stock. All of the shares of capital stock owned by Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC and its affiliated funds were acquired in arms’ length transactions.

In the ordinary course of their various business activities, the underwriters and their respective affiliates, officers, directors, and employees may purchase, sell, or hold a broad array of investments and actively traded securities, derivatives, loans, commodities, currencies, credit default swaps and other financial instruments for their own account and for the accounts of their customers, and such investment and trading activities may involve or relate to assets, securities, or instruments of the issuer (directly, as collateral securing other obligations or otherwise) or persons and entities with relationships with the issuer. The underwriters and their respective affiliates may also communicate independent investment recommendations, market color or trading ideas or publish or express independent research views in respect of such assets, securities, or instruments and may at any time hold, or recommend to clients that they should acquire, long and/or short positions in such assets, securities, and instruments.

Other than in the United States, no action has been taken by us or the underwriters that would permit a public offering of the securities offered by this prospectus in any jurisdiction where action for that purpose is required. The securities offered by this prospectus may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, nor may this prospectus or any other offering material or advertisements in connection with the offer and sale of any such securities be distributed or published in any jurisdiction, except under circumstances that will result in compliance with the applicable rules and regulations of that jurisdiction. Persons into whose possession this prospectus comes are advised to inform themselves about and to observe any restrictions relating to the offering and the distribution of this prospectus. This prospectus does not constitute an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities offered by this prospectus in any jurisdiction in which such an offer or a solicitation is unlawful.

Other Relationships

The underwriters and their respective affiliates are full service financial institutions engaged in various activities, which may include securities trading, commercial and investment banking, financial advisory, investment management, investment research, principal investment, hedging, financing, and brokerage activities.

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 us, for which they received or will receive customary fees and expenses.

In addition, from time to time, certain of the underwriters and their respective affiliates may effect transactions for their own account or for the account of customers, and hold on behalf of themselves or their customers, long or short positions in our debt or equity securities or loans, and may do so in the future.

 

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European Economic Area and United Kingdom

In relation to each Member State of the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, or each a Relevant State, no common stock have been offered or will be offered pursuant to the offering to the public in that Relevant State prior to the publication of a prospectus in relation to the common stock which has been approved by the competent authority in that Relevant State or, where appropriate, approved in another Relevant State and notified to the competent authority in that Relevant State, all in accordance with the Prospectus Regulation, except that offers of common stock may be made to the public in that Relevant State at any time under the following exemptions under the Prospectus Regulation:

 

   

to any legal entity which is a qualified investor as defined in the Prospectus Regulation;

 

   

to fewer than 150 natural or legal persons (other than qualified investors as defined in the Prospectus Regulation), subject to obtaining the prior consent of the representatives; or

 

   

in any other circumstances falling within Article 1(4) of the Prospectus Regulation, provided that no such offer of shares shall require us or any of our representatives to publish a prospectus pursuant to Article 3 of the Prospectus Regulation or supplement a prospectus pursuant to Article 23 of the Prospectus Regulation and each person who initially acquires any shares or to whom any offer is made will be deemed to have represented, acknowledged and agreed to, and with each of the representatives and us that it is a “qualified investor” as defined in the Prospectus Regulation.

In the case of any shares being offered to a financial intermediary as that term is used in Article 5 of the Prospectus Regulation, each such financial intermediary will be deemed to have represented, acknowledged and agreed that the shares acquired by it in the offer have not been acquired on a nondiscretionary basis on behalf of, nor have they been acquired with a view to their offer or resale to, persons in circumstances which may give rise to an offer of any shares to the public other than their offer or resale in a Member State to qualified investors as so defined, or in circumstances in which the prior consent of the representatives has been obtained to each such proposed offer or resale.

For the purposes of this provision, the expression an “offer of shares to the public” in relation to any shares in any Member State means the communication in any form and by 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 shares, the expression “Prospectus Regulation” means Regulation (EU) 2017/1129 (as amended).

United Kingdom

Each underwriter has represented and agreed that:

 

  (i)

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 the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, as amended, or the FSMA) received by it in connection with the issue or sale of the shares in circumstances in which Section 21(1) of the FSMA does not apply to us; and

 

  (ii)

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

Canada

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Prospectus Exemptions or subsection 73.3(1) of the Securities Act (Ontario), and are permitted clients, as defined in National Instrument 31-103 Registration Requirements, Exemptions, and Ongoing Registrant Obligations. Any resale of the securities must be made in accordance with an exemption form, or in a transaction not subject to, the prospectus requirements of applicable securities laws.

Securities legislation in certain provinces or territories of Canada may provide a purchaser with remedies for rescission or damages if this prospectus (including any amendment thereto) contains a misrepresentation, provided that the remedies for rescission or damages are exercised by the purchaser within the time limit prescribed by the securities legislation of the purchaser’s province or territory. The purchaser should refer to any applicable provisions of the securities legislation of the purchaser’s province or territory for particulars of these rights or consult with a legal advisor.

Pursuant to section 3A.3 of National Instrument 33-105 Underwriting Conflicts (NI 33-105), the underwriters are not required to comply with the disclosure requirements of NI 33-105 regarding underwriter conflicts of interest in connection with this offering.

Hong Kong

The securities may not be offered or sold in Hong Kong 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 (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance (Cap. 32 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance, or which do not constitute an invitation to the public within the meaning of the Securities and Futures Ordinance (Cap. 571 of the Laws of Hong Kong), or Securities and Futures Ordinance, or (ii) to “professional investors” as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance and any rules made thereunder, or (iii) in other circumstances which do not result in the document being a “prospectus” as defined in the Companies (Winding Up and Miscellaneous Provisions) Ordinance, and no advertisement, invitation, or document relating to the securities 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 securities 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” in Hong Kong as defined in the Securities and Futures Ordinance and any rules made thereunder.

Singapore

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 (as defined under Section 4A of the Securities and Futures Act, Chapter 289 of Singapore, or the SFA) under Section 274 of the SFA, (ii) to a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA) pursuant to Section 275(1) of the SFA, or any person pursuant to Section 275(1A) of the SFA, 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, in each case subject to conditions set forth in the SFA.

Where the shares are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 of the SFA by a relevant person which is a corporation (which is not an accredited investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA)) 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, the securities (as defined in

 

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Section 239(1) of the SFA) of that corporation shall not be transferable for 6 months after that corporation has acquired the shares under Section 275 of the SFA except: (1) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the SFA or to a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA), (2) where such transfer arises from an offer in that corporation’s securities pursuant to Section 275(1A) of the SFA, (3) where no consideration is or will be given for the transfer, (4) where the transfer is by operation of law, (5) as specified in Section 276(7) of the SFA, or (6) as specified in Regulation 32 of the Securities and Futures (Offers of Investments) (Shares and Debentures) Regulations 2005 of Singapore, or Regulation 32.

Where the shares are subscribed or purchased under Section 275 of the SFA by a relevant person which is a trust (where the trustee is not an accredited investor (as defined in Section 4A of the SFA)) whose sole purpose is to hold investments and each beneficiary of the trust is an accredited investor, the beneficiaries’ rights and interest (howsoever described) in that trust shall not be transferable for 6 months after that trust has acquired the shares under Section 275 of the SFA except: (1) to an institutional investor under Section 274 of the SFA or to a relevant person (as defined in Section 275(2) of the SFA), (2) where such transfer arises from an offer that is made on terms that such rights or interest are acquired at a consideration of not less than $200,000 (or its equivalent in a foreign currency) for each transaction (whether such amount is to be paid for in cash or by exchange of securities, or other assets), (3) where no consideration is or will be given for the transfer, (4) where the transfer is by operation of law,(5) as specified in Section 276(7) of the SFA, or (6) as specified in Regulation 32.

Japan

The securities have not been and will not be registered under the Financial Instruments and Exchange Act of Japan (Act No. 25 of 1948, as amended), or the FIEA. The securities may not be offered or sold, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to or for the benefit of any resident of Japan (including any person resident in Japan or any corporation or other entity organized under the laws of Japan) or to others for reoffering or resale, directly or indirectly, in Japan or to or for the benefit of any resident of Japan, except pursuant to an exemption from the registration requirements of the FIEA and otherwise in compliance with any relevant laws and regulations of Japan.

Australia

No placement document, prospectus, product disclosure statement, or other disclosure document has been lodged with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, or ASIC, in relation to the offering. This offering document does not constitute a prospectus, product disclosure statement, or other disclosure document under the Corporations Act 2001, or the Corporations Act, and does not purport to include the information required for a prospectus, product disclosure statement, or other disclosure document under the Corporations Act.

Any offer in Australia of the shares may only be made to persons, or the Exempt Investors, who are “sophisticated investors” (within the meaning of section 708(8) of the Corporations Act), “professional investors” (within the meaning of section 708(11) of the Corporations Act) or otherwise pursuant to one or more exemptions contained in section 708 of the Corporations Act so that it is lawful to offer the shares without disclosure to investors under Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act.

The shares applied for by Exempt Investors in Australia must not be offered for sale in Australia in the period of 12 months after the date of allotment under the offering, except in circumstances where disclosure to investors under Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act would not be required pursuant to an exemption under section 708 of the Corporations Act or otherwise or where the offer is pursuant to a disclosure document which complies with Chapter 6D of the Corporations Act. Any person acquiring shares must observe such Australian on-sale restrictions.

 

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This offering document contains general information only and does not take account of the investment objectives, financial situation, or particular needs of any particular person. It does not contain any securities recommendations or financial product advice. Before making an investment decision, investors need to consider whether the information in this offering document is appropriate to their needs, objectives, and circumstances, and, if necessary, seek expert advice on those matters.

Dubai International Financial Centre

This offering document relates to an Exempt Offer in accordance with the Offered Securities Rules of the Dubai Financial Services Authority, or DFSA. This offering document is intended for distribution only to persons of a type specified in the Offered Securities Rules of the DFSA. It must not be delivered to, or relied on by, any other person. The DFSA has no responsibility for reviewing or verifying any documents in connection with Exempt Offers. The DFSA has not approved this prospectus nor taken steps to verify the information set forth in this prospectus and has no responsibility for the offering document. The securities to which this offering document relates may be illiquid and/or subject to restrictions on their resale. Prospective purchasers of the securities offered should conduct their own due diligence on the securities. If you do not understand the contents of this offering document you should consult an authorized financial advisor.

Switzerland

We have not and will not register with the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, or FINMA, as a foreign collective investment scheme pursuant to Article 119 of the Federal Act on Collective Investment Scheme of 23 June 2006, as amended, or CISA, and accordingly the securities being offered pursuant to this prospectus have not and will not be approved, and may not be licensable, with FINMA. Therefore, the securities have not been authorized for distribution by FINMA as a foreign collective investment scheme pursuant to Article 119 CISA and the securities offered hereby may not be offered to the public (as this term is defined in Article 3 CISA) in or from Switzerland. The securities may solely be offered to “qualified investors,” as this term is defined in Article 10 CISA, and in the circumstances set out in Article 3 of the Ordinance on Collective Investment Scheme of 22 November 2006, as amended, or CISO, such that there is no public offer. Investors, however, do not benefit from protection under CISA or CISO, or supervision by FINMA. This prospectus and any other materials relating to the securities are strictly personal and confidential to each offeree, and do not constitute an offer to any other person. This prospectus may only be used by those qualified investors to whom it has been handed out in connection with the offer described in this prospectus and may neither directly or indirectly be distributed or made available to any person or entity other than its recipients. It may not be used in connection with any other offer and shall in particular not be copied and/or distributed to the public in Switzerland or from Switzerland. This prospectus does not constitute an issue prospectus as that term is understood pursuant to Article 652a and/or 1156 of the Swiss Federal Code of Obligations. We have not applied for a listing of the securities on the SIX Swiss Exchange or any other regulated securities market in Switzerland, and consequently, the information presented in this prospectus does not necessarily comply with the information standards set out in the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange and corresponding prospectus schemes annexed to the listing rules of the SIX Swiss Exchange.

 

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LEGAL MATTERS

The validity of the shares of common stock offered hereby will be passed upon for us by Latham & Watkins LLP, New York, New York. Certain legal matters related to this offering will be passed upon for the underwriters by Goodwin Procter LLP, Boston, Massachusetts.

 

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CHANGE IN ACCOUNTANTS

Dismissal of Deloitte & Touche LLP

Deloitte & Touche LLP, or Deloitte, was previously engaged as our independent auditors to perform an audit of the Company and its subsidiaries’ consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. On June 12, 2020, Deloitte was dismissed effective immediately, which such action was ratified by the Audit Committee of our board of directors. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, or PwC, and Grant Thornton LLP, or Grant Thornton, were each engaged to serve as independent registered public accounting firms for the years indicated, and as further described, below.

The reports of Deloitte on the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 did not contain any adverse opinion or disclaimer of opinion, nor were such reports qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope, or accounting principles.

During the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 and the subsequent interim period through June 12, 2020, Deloitte did not have any “disagreement” (as such term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions thereto) with the Company on any matter of accounting principles or practices, financial statement disclosure or auditing scope or procedure, which disagreement, if not resolved to the satisfaction of Deloitte, would have caused it to make reference to the subject matter of the disagreement in connection with its report on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

During the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2019 and the subsequent interim period through June 12, 2020, there were no “reportable events” (as such term is defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K and the related instructions thereto).

The Company has provided a copy of this disclosure to Deloitte and requested that they furnish a letter addressed to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or Commission, stating whether or not it agrees with the statements made herein. A copy of the letter, dated November 6, 2020, is filed as an Exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Engagement and Dismissal of Grant Thornton LLP

In anticipation of the initial public offering, due to independence matters impeding Deloitte’s ability to provide assurance under the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States), or PCAOB, on August 25, 2020, Grant Thornton was engaged as the independent registered public accounting firm, which such action was ratified by the Audit Committee of our board of directors, solely to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019 in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States and the standards of the PCAOB. Upon completion of the audit, the Audit Committee of our board of directors will dismiss Grant Thornton.

During the two most recent years and the subsequent period preceding the engagement of Grant Thornton, the Company did not consult with Grant Thornton with respect to: (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 the consolidated financial statements, and no written report or oral advice of Grant Thornton was provided that 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 defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K), or any “reportable event” (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).

 

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The Company has provided a copy of this disclosure to Grant Thornton and requested that they furnish a letter addressed to the Commission stating whether or not it agrees with the statements made herein. A copy of the letter, dated November 6, 2020, is filed as an Exhibit to the registration statement of which this prospectus is a part.

Engagement of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP

On June 9, 2020, the Audit Committee of our board of directors engaged PwC to serve as our independent auditors to perform an audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2020 in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States. In anticipation of the initial public offering and upon dismissal of Grant Thornton at the completion of the audit of the Company’s consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2019, as discussed above, PwC will be engaged as our independent registered public accounting firm to audit the Company’s consolidated financial statements as of the year ended December 31, 2020 in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB, contingent upon completion of PwC’s client acceptance procedures.

During the two most recent years and the subsequent period preceding the engagement of PwC, the Company did not consult with PwC with respect to: (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 the consolidated financial statements, and no written report or oral advice of PwC was provided that was an important factor considered by the Company 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 defined in Item 304(a)(1)(iv) of Regulation S-K), or any “reportable event” (as defined in Item 304(a)(1)(v) of Regulation S-K).

 

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EXPERTS

The consolidated financial statements of Mulberry Health Inc. as of December 31, 2019 and for the year ended December 31, 2019, included in this prospectus and elsewhere in the registration statement, have been so included in reliance upon the report of Grant Thornton LLP, independent registered public accountants, upon the authority of said firm as experts in accounting and auditing.

 

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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 with respect to the shares of common stock offered hereby. This prospectus, which constitutes a part of the registration statement, does not contain all of the information set forth in the registration statement or the exhibits and schedules filed with the registration statement. For further information about us and the common stock offered hereby, we refer you to the registration statement and the exhibits filed with the registration statement. Statements contained in this prospectus regarding the contents of any contract or any other document that is filed as an exhibit to the registration statement are not necessarily complete, and each such statement is qualified in all respects by reference to the full text of such contract or other document filed as an exhibit to the registration statement. The SEC also maintains an internet website that contains reports, proxy statements and other information about registrants, like us, that file electronically with the SEC. The address of that website is www.sec.gov.

Upon the closing of this offering, we will be required to file periodic reports, proxy statements, and other information with the SEC pursuant to the Exchange Act. These reports, proxy statements, and other information will be available on the website of the SEC referred to above.

We also maintain a website at www.hioscar.com, through which you may access these materials free of charge as soon as reasonably practicable after they are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not a part of this prospectus and the inclusion of our website address in this prospectus is an inactive textual reference only.

 

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MULBERRY HEALTH INC.

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Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

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CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

 

 

Consolidated Balance Sheet

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Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

     F-4  

Consolidated Statement of Convertible Preferred Stock and Stockholders’ Deficit

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Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows

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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

The Board of Directors

and Stockholders

Mulberry Health Inc.

New York, New York

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheet of Mulberry Health Inc. (a Delaware corporation) and subsidiaries (the “Company”) as of December 31, 2019, the related consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss, convertible preferred stock and stockholders’ deficit, and cash flows for the year then ended, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company as of December 31, 2019, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for the year then ended, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (“PCAOB”) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB and 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, whether due to error or fraud. The Company is not required to have, nor were we engaged to perform, an audit of its internal control over financial reporting. As part of our audit we are required to obtain an understanding of internal control over financial reporting but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting. Accordingly, we express no such opinion.

Our audit included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures include examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audit also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ GRANT THORNTON LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor in 2020.

Hartford, Connecticut

November 5, 2020

 

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MULBERRY HEALTH INC.

CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEET

 

     As of December 31, 2019  
     (In thousands, except
share data)
 

ASSETS:

  

Current assets:

  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 336,644  

Short-term investments

     333,753  

Premium and other receivables, less allowance for doubtful accounts of $3,897

     30,068  

Risk adjustment transfer receivable

     25,122  

Accrued investment income

     1,444  

Reinsurance recoverable

     516,064  
  

 

 

 

Total current assets

     1,243,095  

Property, equipment, and capitalized software, net

     33,076  

Long-term investments

     29,475  

Restricted deposits

     25,079  

Other assets

     15,763  

Net deferred tax asset

     426  
  

 

 

 

TOTAL ASSETS

   $ 1,346,914  
  

 

 

 

LIABILITIES, CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT:

  

Current liabilities:

  

Benefits payable

   $ 156,557  

Risk adjustment transfer payable

     298,634  

Premium deficiency reserve

     12,755  

Advanced premiums

     25,308  

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

     61,724  

Reinsurance payable

     432,511  
  

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     987,489  

Warrant liabilities

     8,819  
  

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     996,308  

Commitments and contingencies (Note 16)

  

Convertible preferred stock, (Series A, A1, AA, AAA, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, AA9 A10); $0.00001 par value; 339,262,809 shares authorized; 335,625,349 issued and outstanding; aggregate liquidation preference of $1,295,744

     1,295,744  

STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT:

  

Common stock, Series A, $0.00001 par value, 602,000,000 shares authorized; 17,034,585 issued and outstanding; Series B common stock $0.00001 par value, 69,991,713 shares authorized, 69,487,963 shares issued and outstanding; Series C common stock $0.00001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding

     2  

Treasury stock (943,800 shares) (Note 15)

     (2,923

Additional paid-in capital

     70,673  

Accumulated deficit

     (1,012,863

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

     (27
  

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ deficit

     (945,138
  

 

 

 

TOTAL LIABILITIES, CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

   $ 1,346,914  
  

 

 

 

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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MULBERRY HEALTH INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF OPERATIONS AND COMPREHENSIVE LOSS

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands, except share and
per share data)
 

REVENUE

  

Premiums before ceded reinsurance

   $ 1,041,145  

Reinsurance premiums ceded

     (572,284
  

 

 

 

Premiums earned

     468,861  

Investment income and other revenue

     19,327  
  

 

 

 

Total revenue

     488,188  

OPERATING EXPENSES

  

Claims incurred, net

     408,259  

Selling, general and administrative expenses (Note 15)

     284,249  

Federal and state assessments

     48,170  

Depreciation and amortization

     6,899  
  

 

 

 

Total operating expenses

     747,577  
  

 

 

 

Loss before income tax expense

     (259,389

Income tax expense

     1,793  
  

 

 

 

Net loss

     (261,182

Other comprehensive income—net of tax

  

Unrealized gain on investments

     17  
  

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ 261,165  
  

 

 

 

Net loss per share attributable to common stockholders, basic and diluted

   $ (3.02

Weighted-average common shares outstanding, basic and diluted

     86,439,407  

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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MULBERRY HEALTH INC.

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK AND STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2019

 

    Convertible
Preferred Stock

All Series
    Common Stock                                
    Shares Issued
and
Outstanding
    Amount     Shares
Issued and
Outstanding
    Amount     Additional
Paid-In
Capital
    Accumulated
Deficit
    Treasury
Stock
    Other
Comprehensive
Income (Loss)
    Total
Stockholders’
Deficit
 
    (In thousands except share data)  

December 31, 2018

    335,625,349     $ 1,295,744       86,108,270     $ 2     $ 36,311     $ (751,681   $ —       $ (44   $ (715,412

Options exercised

    —         —         1,358,078       —         873       —         —         —         873  

Stock repurchased

    —         —         (943,800     —         (69     —         (2,923     —         (2,992

Stock-based compensation

    —         —         —         —         33,558       —         —         —         33,558  

Unrealized gain, net

    —         —         —         —         —         —         —         17       17  

Net loss

    —         —         —         —         —         (261,182     —         —         (261,182
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

December 31, 2019

    335,625,349     $ 1,295,744       86,522,548     $ 2     $ 70,673     $ (1,012,863   $ (2,923   $ (27   $ (945,138
 

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOWS

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

  

Net loss

   $ (261,182

Adjustments to reconcile net loss to net cash used in operating activities:

  

Net deferred tax asset

     (426

Net realized gain on sale of financial instruments

     (481

Warrant expense

     704  

Depreciation and amortization expense

     6,899  

Stock-based compensation expense

     33,558  

Investment amortization, net of accretion

     (6,649

Changes in assets and liabilities:

  

(Increase) / decrease in:

  

Premium and other receivables

     (8,596

Risk adjustment transfer receivable

     (25,122

Accrued investment income

     115  

Reinsurance recoverable

     (305,721

Other assets

     (11,893

Increase / (decrease) in:

  

Benefits payable

     21,432  

Advanced premiums

     5,509  

Premium deficiency reserve

     12,615  

Accounts payable and accrued liabilities

     7,508  

Reinsurance payable

     274,623  

Risk adjustment transfer payable

     91,737  
  

 

 

 

Net cash used in operating activities

     (165,370

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

  

Purchase of fixed maturity securities

     (877,670

Sale of investments

     716,232  

Maturity of investments

     345,024  

Purchase of property, equipment and capitalized software

     (25,996

Change in restricted deposits

     (7,113

Other, net

     36  
  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by investing activities

     150,513  

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

  

Stock options exercised

     873  

Stock repurchase

     (2,992
  

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities

     (2,119

Decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash equivalents

     (16,976

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and cash equivalents—Beginning of year

     370,356  
  

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and cash equivalents—end of year

   $ 353,380  
  

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and cash equivalents—end of year:

  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 336,644  

Restricted cash and cash equivalents included in restricted deposits

     16,736  
  

 

 

 

Total cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash and cash equivalents

   $ 353,380  
  

 

 

 

Supplemental Disclosures:

  

Income taxes payments

   $ 1,833  

See accompanying notes to consolidated financial statements

 

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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

(In thousands, except share and per share amounts, or as otherwise stated herein)

1. ORGANIZATION

Mulberry Health Inc. (“Mulberry” or the “Company” or the “Parent”) is a holding company domiciled in New York and incorporated in Delaware since October 25, 2012. Mulberry provides individual health insurance benefits in Arizona, New York, California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas markets through its wholly owned subsidiaries Oscar Insurance Corporation (“ONY”), Oscar Health Plan of California (“OCA”), Oscar Insurance Corporation of Ohio (“OOH”), Oscar Garden State Insurance Corporation (“OGS”), Oscar Health Plan, Inc. (“OAZ”), Oscar Buckeye State Insurance Corporation (“OBS”), Oscar Health Plan of New York (“ONYMA”) and Oscar Insurance Company of Florida (“OFL”). Beginning in 2019, Mulberry began offering small group health insurance benefits in New York, California, New Jersey and Tennessee. Together, these subsidiaries represent the Company’s health plans which the Company operates as one segment to sell insurance to its members directly as well as through the state-run health care exchanges formed in conjunction with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“ACA”). The Company’s concierge-like business plan leverages technology to enhance interaction between its members and the medical providers. The Company has arrangements with integrated health systems through our wholly-owned subsidiaries OOH and ONYMA which are consolidated into the Company’s financial results pursuant to the guidance regarding Variable Interest Entities. See Note 2. Integrated health systems include multiple hospitals, health care centers, large independent practice associations, physicians and ancillary providers licensed to provide health care services in the States of Ohio and New York. For the Company’s arrangements with integrated health systems the Company shares 50% of the underwriting risks through shared savings and 50% of net income. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company incurred $3.6 million of expense through shared savings arrangements, which expense is included in claims incurred, net in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss.

The Company is affiliated with several medical professional corporations (collectively, “professional corporations”) that employ health care providers to deliver telemedical health care services to its covered member population in various states. As part of the arrangements with the professional corporations, the Company has guaranteed their debt. The Company concluded that the professional corporations are variable interest entities as the Company has guaranteed their debt and the equity at risk is insufficient to finance their activities without additional subordinated financial support from the Company. The Company has determined it has a controlling financial interest in the professional corporations, and, thus, is their primary beneficiary, as the Company has (i) the power to direct the activities of the professional corporations that most significantly impact their economic performance, and (ii) the obligation to absorb losses of the professional corporations that could potentially be significant to it or the right to receive benefits from the professional corporations that could potentially be significant to it. As of December 31, 2019, the collective assets and liabilities of the professional corporations were $1.6 million and $2.7 million, respectively; and for the year ended December 31, 2019, the collective revenues and operating expenses were $5.7 million and $6.6 million, respectively. The professional corporations’ collective equity and the change in collective equity approximates nil and therefore the Company does not separately present a noncontrolling interest in the Company’s consolidated balance sheet or statement of operations and comprehensive loss.

2. SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

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financial statements include the accounts of the Company and its wholly owned subsidiaries. All intercompany balances and transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.

Variable Interest Entities—The Company enters arrangements with various entities that are deemed to be variable interest entities (“VIE”). A VIE is an entity that either (1) has equity investors that lack certain essential characteristics of a controlling financial interest (including the ability to control activities of the entity, the obligation to absorb the entity’s expected losses and the right to receive the entity’s expected residual returns) or (2) lacks sufficient equity to finance its own activities without financial support provided by other entities, which in turn would be expected to absorb at least some of the expected losses of the VIE. The Company is deemed a primary beneficiary of a VIE if it has (1) the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the economic performance of the VIEs and (2) the obligation to absorb losses of or the right to receive benefits from the VIE that could be potentially significant to the VIE. If both conditions are present, the Company is required to consolidate the VIE. OOH and ONYMA are subject to collaborative arrangements with prominent health care networks, through which the health care networks are entitled to 50% of net income of the entities. Payments to the health care networks are treated as expenses to the Company and are included in claims incurred, net.

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 certain assets, liabilities, revenue, and expenses as well as the related disclosures. The Company must often make estimates about effects of matters that are inherently uncertain and will likely change in subsequent periods. Actual results could differ materially from those estimates. Principal areas requiring the use of estimates include health care costs incurred but not yet reported (“IBNR”), reinsurance, premium deficiency reserve (“PDR”), risk adjustment, stock-based compensation, and income taxes.

Segment Information—The Company operates and manages its business as one reportable and operating segment.

Cash and Cash Equivalents—The Company considers all short-term investments with an original maturity of three months or less when purchased to be cash equivalents.

Restricted Cash and Cash Equivalents—The Company maintains cash, cash equivalents and investments on deposit or pledged to various state agencies as a condition for licensure. These restricted deposits are recorded as long-term, due to the nature of the states’ requirements. The Company’s restricted cash and cash equivalents portion of its restricted deposits, are disclosed on its Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows. (See restricted deposits for additional information)

Premiums Earned and Premium and Other Receivables—Premium revenue is recognized over the period that coverage is effective. Premiums billed and received in advance of the coverage period are recorded as advanced premiums. Monthly premiums billed, but not received by the end of the coverage period are classified as premiums receivable. Other receivables includes pharmaceutical rebates and other claim related receivables.

ACA Premium Stabilization Programs—The Company conducts business primarily in the individual health insurance market and is therefore subject to the Premium Stabilization Programs (“Programs”) of the ACA. These Programs included risk adjustment, reinsurance and risk corridors, of which the reinsurance and risk corridors programs were transitional and only in effect for 2014 through 2016.

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insurers applies to plans sold inside and outside of the insurance exchanges. Under the risk adjustment program, each plan is assigned a risk score based upon demographic information and current year claims information related to its members. Plans with lower than average risk scores will generally pay into the pool, while plans with higher than average risk scores will generally receive distributions. This amount is calculated based on the risk score of the Company’s members. The Company refines its estimate as new information becomes available and the Company receives the final report from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) in August of the following year.

Health Insurance Industry Fee (“HIF”)—The ACA, as amended by the Health Care Education Reconciliation Act, includes an annual, nondeductible insurance industry tax that is levied proportionally across the insurance industry for risk-based health insurance products. The Company is subject to paying this tax. It is calculated based on a ratio of the Company’s applicable net premiums written, compared to the total U.S. health insurance industry applicable net premiums written during the previous calendar year. The Company records the HIF liability in accounts payable and accrued liabilities at the beginning of the calendar year. A corresponding deferred cost is recorded in receivables and other assets that is amortized to selling, general and administrative expense in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss using a straight-line method of allocation over the calendar year. There was a one year suspension for 2019, but it will resume in 2020. The fee has been permanently repealed for calendar years beginning in 2021.

Reinsurance—The Company is party to quota share reinsurance agreements with two reinsurers under which the reinsurer assumes an agreed percentage of the underlying policies being reinsured and shares all premiums and incurred claims accordingly. Reinsurance recoveries are recorded as a reduction to claims incurred, net.

The Company also has a reinsurance assumed agreement, which is included as an addition to premiums earned in the accompanying consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss. The Company stopped assuming reinsurance on the Tennessee Small Group market for the 2018 policy year and it is currently in run off.

The Company regularly evaluates the financial condition of its reinsurers to minimize exposure to significant losses. For our unauthorized reinsurers, the Company strives to maintain sufficient qualifying assets of the reinsurer in trusts or collateral, mostly in excess of net reinsurance recoverables.

The Company has other reinsurance agreements to limit its losses and individual claims of enrolled members. Premiums for these reinsurance agreements are based on enrollment calculated on a per member, per month basis. Reinsurance recoveries are recorded as reductions to claims incurred, net. The reinsurance coverage does not relieve the Company of its primary obligations. Our reinsurers have ratings from AA- to A++.

Restricted Deposits—As a condition for licensure, the Company is required to maintain certain funds on deposit or pledged to various state agencies. These funds consist of cash, cash equivalents and investments that the Company records at fair value. The states require that these funds remain on deposit for an indefinite period-of-time and, therefore, the Company classifies these restricted deposits as long-term regardless of the contractual maturity date of the securities held.

Benefits Payable—Medical claims expenses are recognized in the period health care services are provided. Benefits payable include claims reported, but not yet paid (“IBNP”) as well as claims incurred but not reported (“IBNR”) and accrued liabilities resulting from provider risk target arrangements. Risk target arrangements established certain contractual targets and if providers have positive performance to target the accrual is included in benefits payable. IBNR is an actuarial estimate

 

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that is based on claim payment patterns, medical cost inflation, historical developments such as claim inventory levels and claim receipt patterns, and other relevant factors. The methods for making such estimates and for establishing the resulting liability are continuously reviewed and any adjustments are reflected in the period determined. Given the extensive degree of judgment in this estimate, it is possible that our estimates of benefits payable could develop either favorably or unfavorably. The changes in our estimate of benefits payable may relate to a prior quarter, prior year, or earlier periods. For our rollforward of our benefits payable, refer to “Note 8. Benefits Payable”.

The Company records as part of benefits payable, its best estimate of the ultimate liability for claims disputed by out of network providers based on what is considered usual and customary allowed charges and any related uncertainty at arriving at mutually agreed upon rates. As these liabilities are part of the overall claim reserve, they are proportionally ceded to our quota-share reinsurers for historical policy years with contracts in force. At December 31, 2019, settlement reserves were $41.0 million.

The completion factor development method is utilized for claims under $0.1 million and is supplemented by the incurred claim methodology for the most recent incurral months. A seriatim methodology is utilized for claims over $0.1 million, supplemented by case management data supplied by our medical and claims operations areas. Claims reserve triangle analytical cohorts are segmented by plan type within a given state and region, and all reserves are determined separately incorporating the current inventory of claims in course of settlement. The reserve model incorporates historical reserve testing and detail on prior period development down to the incurral month. Claims reserve triangles are inclusive of medical and behavioral health claims only. Pharmacy costs represent payments for members’ prescription drug benefits, net of rebates from drug manufacturers. Receivables for such pharmacy rebates are included in other receivables in our consolidated balance sheet. Pharmacy claims are point of sale claims and have no runoff.

Premium Deficiency Reserve (“PDR”)—Premium deficiencies are recognized in selling, general and administrative expense when it is probable that expected future claims and administrative expenses will exceed future premium and reinsurance recoveries on existing medical insurance contracts. Administrative expenses are inclusive of maintenance costs to operate the business (e.g. claim processing costs, salaries, etc.). For purposes of determining premium deficiency losses, contracts are grouped consistent with the Company’s method of acquiring, servicing and measuring the profitability of such contracts which is generally on a state and product basis. Anticipated investment income is not considered in the calculation of premium deficiency reserve losses.

Selling, General and Administrative Expenses—Selling, general and administrative expenses primarily include wages, benefits, stock compensation expense, research and development, advertising, rent, costs of software and hardware, distribution costs and administrative costs associated with centralized functions that are necessary to support our business. Such centralized functions include, but are not limited to, information systems, executive management, legal, finance, and claims processing. Marketing expenses include short duration policy acquisition costs which are expensed as incurred. Policy acquisition costs are those costs that relate directly to the successful acquisition of new and renewal insurance policies. Such costs include commissions, costs of policy issuance and underwriting, and other costs we incur to acquire new business or renew existing business. The Company expenses policy acquisition costs related to its employer-group prepaid health services policies as incurred. These short-duration employer-group prepaid health services policies typically have a 1-year term, are paid and expensed on a monthly basis and may be canceled upon 30 days notice by the employer group. Marketing costs for the year ended December 31, 2019 were $51.4 million.

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fees, premium taxes, and franchise taxes. The Company has health insurance companies that file state statutory reports and are liable for Premium Taxes.

Property, Equipment and Capitalized Software—Property, equipment and capitalized software are recorded at cost, and presented net of accumulated depreciation. Depreciation and amortization expense is recognized on a straight-line basis over the estimated useful lives of the related assets ranging between 3 and 10 years. The Company recorded depreciation and amortization expense of $6.9 million, for the year ended December 31, 2019. The Company capitalizes costs incurred related to certain software projects for internal use incurred during the application development stage. Costs related to planning activities and post implementation activities are expensed as incurred. Internal-use software is amortized on a straight-line basis over its estimated useful life, which generally is 3 years. The Company evaluates the useful lives of these assets on an annual basis and tests for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances occur that could impact the recoverability of these assets.

Impairment of Long-Lived Assets—A review of long-lived assets for impairment is performed when events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying value of such assets may not be recoverable. If an indication of impairment is present, the Company compares the estimated undiscounted future cash flows to be generated by the asset group to the asset group’s carrying amount. If the undiscounted future cash flows are less than the carrying amount of the asset group, the Company records an impairment loss equal to the amount by which the asset group’s carrying amount exceeds its fair value. The fair value is determined based on valuation techniques such as a comparison to fair values of similar assets or using a discounted cash flow analysis.

This fair value measurement is based on significant inputs that are not observable in the market and thus represents Level 3 inputs. Significant changes in the underlying assumptions used to value long lived assets could significantly increase or decrease the fair value estimates used for impairment assessments.

Long lived assets that do not have indefinite lives are amortized/depreciated over their useful lives and reviewed for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate that the carrying amount of the asset may not be recoverable. The Company reevaluates the useful life determinations each year to determine whether events and circumstances warrant a revision to the remaining useful lives.

Leases—For lease agreements in which the Company is the lessee and that provide for escalating rent payments or rent-free occupancy periods, the Company recognizes rent expense on a straight-line basis over the noncancelable lease term and option renewal periods in which failure to exercise such options would result in an economic penalty in such amount that renewal appears, at the inception of the lease, to be reasonably assured. The Company records deferred rent in accounts payable and accrued liabilities on the consolidated balance sheet. The lease term commences on the date that the Company takes possession of or controls the physical use of the property.

Accounts Payable and Accrued Liabilities—Accounts payable and accrued liabilities include accrued selling, general and administrative expenses.

Stock-Based Compensation—The Company accounts for stock-based awards to employees in accordance with the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Codification (ASC) 718, Compensation—Stock Compensation (“ASC 718”). Employee options are valued on the date of grant, using the Black- Scholes-Merton option-pricing model and are expensed on a straight-line basis over the related service period (generally the vesting period) of the award. Both, option and stock awards, generally vest over a period of 4 years and are exercisable up to 10 years from the date

 

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of grant. During the period ended, December 31, 2019, the Company modified certain awards in conjunction with employee terminations. The modifications provided for the extension of the post-employment exercise period. The modifications resulted in approximately $8.7 million of additional selling, general and administrative expenses in 2019.

The Company made an accounting policy election to account for forfeitures as they occur and stop estimating a forfeiture rate in accordance with ASC 718. This change has been applied on a modified retrospective basis. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

Investments—The Company regularly evaluates its investments in debt securities to determine if a decline in value is other-than-temporary. When evaluating these declines, the Company assesses the severity of the loss relative to its original cost, the time that the market value has been less than its original cost and considers the Company’s intent to retain the investments for a long enough period to allow for a sufficient market recovery. If a decline in the value of a debt security is considered other-than-temporary, the Company reduces the investment through a charge to the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss. No adjustments were necessary during the period presented. The Company considers investments with maturities of twelve months or longer when purchased as long term investments.

Fair Value Measurements—Fair value represents the amount that would be received to sell an asset or paid to transfer a liability in an orderly transaction between market participants. As such, fair value is a market-based measurement that is determined based on assumptions that market participants would use in pricing an asset or a liability. Assets and liabilities recorded at fair values are measured in accordance with a three-tier fair value hierarchy based on the observability of the inputs available in the market used to measure fair value:

Level 1—Quoted prices in active markets for identical assets or liabilities.

Level 2—Observable inputs other than quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities, quoted prices for identical or similar assets or liabilities in inactive markets, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data for substantially the full term of the assets or liabilities.

Level 3—Inputs that are generally unobservable and typically reflect management’s estimate of assumptions that market participants would use in pricing the assets or liability.

The Company’s financial assets including cash equivalents and investments are measured at fair value on a recurring basis.

Income Taxes—The Company records deferred tax assets (“DTAs”) and deferred tax liabilities (“DTLs”) based on differences between the book and tax bases of assets and liabilities. The deferred tax assets and liabilities are calculated by applying enacted tax rates and laws to taxable years in which such differences are expected to reverse.

The Company continually reviews the need for, and the adequacy of, a valuation allowance and recognizes the benefits from the Company’s deferred tax assets only when an analysis of both positive and negative factors indicate that it is more likely than not that the benefits will be realized. With respect to net operating losses, tax credits, and deferred taxes the Parent funds its subsidiaries as such attributes are consolidated from the Company’s subsidiaries and realized by Mulberry Health Inc. The Company has recorded a partial valuation allowance on the value of the deferred tax assets as of December 31, 2019.

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Consolidated group and files tax returns separately. Mulberry files as part of a unitary group in various states. Often, application of tax rules within the various jurisdictions is subject to differing interpretation. An analysis is performed of the amount at which each tax position meets a “more likely than not” standard for sustainability upon examination by taxing authorities. Only tax benefit or provision amounts meeting or exceeding this standard will be reflected in the tax expense and deferred tax balances. At present, the Company has not recorded any tax amounts which fail to meet this standard. Any differences between the amounts of tax benefits reported on tax returns and tax benefits reported in the financial statements will be recorded as a liability for unrecognized tax benefits. Any liability for unrecognized tax benefits would be reported separately from deferred tax assets and liabilities. Refer to “Note 17 Income taxes” for additional information.

Net Loss Per Share—The Company follows the two-class method when computing net loss per share as the Company has issued shares that meet the definition of participating securities. The two-class method determines net loss per share for each class of common and participating securities according to dividends declared or accumulated and participation rights in undistributed earnings. The two-class method requires income or loss available to common stockholders for the period to be allocated between common and participating securities based upon their respective rights to receive dividends as if all income or losses for the period had been distributed.

The rights, including the liquidation and dividend rights, of the holders of Common A and Common B stock are identical, except with respect to voting. As such, the undistributed losses are allocated on a proportionate basis and the resulting net loss per share attributable to common stockholders were, therefore, the same for both Common A and Common B on an individual or combined basis. The Company has treated Common A and B as one class for net loss per share purposes.

Basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is computed by dividing the net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period. Diluted net loss attributable to common stockholders is computed by adjusting net losses attributable to common stockholders to reallocate undistributed earnings based on the potential impact of dilutive securities. Diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is computed by dividing the diluted net loss attributable to common stockholders by the weighted average number of shares of common stock outstanding for the period, including potential dilutive common shares.

The Company’s convertible preferred stock contractually entitles the holders of such shares to participate in dividends, but contractually does not require the holders of such shares to participate in losses of the Company. Accordingly, in periods in which the Company reports a net loss attributable to common stockholders, diluted net loss per share attributable to common stockholders is the same as basic net loss per share attributable to common stockholders since dilutive common shares are not assumed to have been issued, as their effect is anti-dilutive. The Company reported a net loss attributable to common stockholders for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Recently Adopted Accounting Pronouncements

In May 2014, the FASB issued Accounting Standards Update (“ASU”) No. 2014-09,Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” (“ASU 2014-09”) as modified by ASU No. 2015-14,Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Deferral of the Effective Date,” ASU 2016-08,Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations (Reporting Revenue Gross versus Net),” ASU No. 2016-10,Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing,” ASU No. 2016-12,Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Narrow-Scope Improvements and Practical Expedients,” and

 

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ASU 2016-20,Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Technical Corrections and Improvements.” ASU 2014-09 supersedes existing revenue recognition standards with a single model unless those contracts are within the scope of other standards. The Company early-adopted the standard effective January 1, 2019. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In January 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-01,Financial Instruments—Overall (Subtopic 825-10): Recognition and Measurement of Financial Assets and Financial Liabilities” (“ASU 2016-01”). The new guidance changes the current accounting related to (i) the classification and measurement of certain equity investments, (ii) the presentation of changes in the fair value of financial liabilities measured under the fair value option that are due to instrument-specific credit risk, and (iii) certain disclosures associated with the fair value of financial instruments. Most notably, ASU 2016-01 requires that equity investments, with certain exemptions, be measured at fair value with changes in fair value recognized in net income as opposed to other comprehensive income. This guidance was effective for the Company for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018 and for interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company adopted the standard effective January 1, 2019. The adoption of this standard did not have an impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows: Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments, (Topic 230)” (“ASU 2016-15”), which amends the guidance in ASC 230 on the classification of certain cash receipts and payments in the statement of cash flows. This standard clarifies the classification of certain cash receipts and cash payments in the statement of cash flows, including debt prepayment or extinguishment costs, settlement of contingent consideration arising from a business combination, insurance settlement proceeds, and distributions from certain equity method investees. The amendments are effective for the Company for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019. The Company adopted this standard effective January 1, 2019. The adoption of this standard did not have a material effect on the Company’s consolidated financial statements.

In June 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-07 (Topic 718); Improvements to Non-employee Share-Based Payment Accounting (Topic 718). This standard expands the scope of Topic 718 to include share-based payment transactions for acquiring goods and services from non-employees. FASB clarified that Topic 718 does not apply to shares-based payments used to effectively provide financing to the issuer or awards granted in conjunction with selling goods or services to customers as part of a contract accounted for under ASC 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers. The standard is effective for the Company as of January 1, 2020. Early adoption is permitted. The Company early-adopted the standard effective January 1, 2019. The adoption of this standard did not have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

From time to time, new accounting pronouncements are issued by the FASB or other standard setting bodies that the Company adopts as of the specified effective date. The Company is an emerging growth company, as defined in the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act of 2012 (the “JOBS Act”). Under the JOBS Act, emerging growth companies can delay adopting new or revised accounting standards issued subsequent to the enactment of the JOBS Act until such time as those standards apply to private companies. The Company has elected to use this extended transition period for complying with new or revised accounting standards that have different effective dates for public and private companies until the earlier of the date that it is (i) no longer an emerging growth company or (ii) affirmatively and irrevocably opt out of the extended transition period provided in the JOBS Act. As a result, these financial statements may not be comparable to companies that comply with the new or revised accounting pronouncements as of public company effective dates.

 

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In February 2016, the (FASB) issued (ASU) 2016- 02, “Leases (Topic 842)” (ASU 2016-02). Under ASU 2016-02, an entity will be required to recognize assets and liabilities for the rights and obligations created by leases on the entity’s balance sheet for both finance and operating leases. For leases with a term of 12 months or less, an entity can elect to not recognize lease assets and lease liabilities and expense the lease over a straight-line basis for the term of the lease. ASU 2016-02 will require new disclosures that depict the amount, timing, and uncertainty of cash flows pertaining to an entity’s leases. Companies are required to adopt the new standard using a modified retrospective approach for annual and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2018. In November 2019, the FASB issued guidance delaying the effective date for all entities, except for public business entities. This guidance is effective for the Company for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2021 and interim periods within fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2022. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently evaluating the effect that the adoption of ASU 2016-02 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13,Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326)” (“ASU 2016-13”), which requires entities to use a current expected credit loss model, which is a new impairment model based on expected losses rather than incurred losses. Under this model, an entity would recognize an impairment allowance equal to its current estimate of all contractual cash flows that the entity does not expect to collect from financial assets measured at amortized cost. The entity’s estimate would consider relevant information about past events, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts, which will result in recognition of lifetime expected credit losses upon loan origination. In November 2018, the FASB issued ASU No. 2018-19,Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments-Credit Losses,” which narrowed the scope and changed the effective date for non-public entities for ASU 2016-13. The FASB subsequently issued supplemental guidance within ASU No. 2019-05,Financial Instruments-Credit Losses (Topic 326): Targeted Transition Relief” (‘‘ASU 2019-05’’). ASU 2019-05 provides an option to irrevocably elect the fair value option for certain financial assets previously measured at amortized cost basis. ASU 2016-13 is effective for the Company for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2022, including interim periods within those fiscal years. Early adoption is permitted. The Company is currently assessing the effect that the adoption of ASU 2016-13 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-13,Fair Value Measurement (Topic 820): Disclosure Framework-Changes to the Disclosure Requirements for Fair Value Measurement,” (“ASU 2018-13”). The amendments in ASU 2018-13 eliminate, add, and modify certain disclosure requirements for fair value measurements. The amendments are effective for interim and annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted for either the entirety of ASU 2018-13 or only the provisions that eliminate or modify disclosure requirements. The Company is currently assessing the effect that ASU 2018-13 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15,Intangibles-Goodwill and Other-Internal-Use Software: Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement that is a Service Contract” (“ASU 2018-15”), which requires implementation costs incurred by customers in cloud computing arrangements (i.e., hosting arrangements) to be capitalized under the same premises of authoritative guidance for internal-use software, and deferred over the non-cancellable term of the cloud computing arrangements plus any option renewal periods that are reasonably certain to be exercised by the customer or for which the exercise is controlled by the service provider. The guidance is effective for the Company for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2020, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2021. Early adoption is permitted. The Company currently anticipates that the adoption of ASU 2018-15 will not have a material effect on its financial statements.

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ASU 2018-18 clarify that certain transactions between collaborative arrangement participants should be accounted for as revenue under ASC 606 when the collaborative arrangement participant is a customer in the context of a unit of account. The amendments under ASU 2018-18 are effective for interim and annual fiscal periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The amendments in ASU 2018-18 should be applied retrospectively to the date of initial application of ASC 606. The Company is currently evaluating the effects that the adoption of ASU 2018-18 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

In November 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-11,Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses” (“ASU 2019-11”). In May 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-05,Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326): Targeted Transition Relief.” In April 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-04,Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses, Topic 815, Derivatives and Hedging, and Topic 825, Financial Instruments.” In November 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-19,Codification Improvements to Topic 326, Financial Instruments—Credit Losses.” These updates provide an option to irrevocably elect to measure certain individual financial assets at fair value instead of amortized cost and provide additional clarification and implementation guidance on certain aspects of the previously issued ASU 2016-13 and have the same effective date and transition requirements as ASU 2016-13. The effect of a prospective transition approach is to maintain the same amortized cost basis before and after the date of adoption. The Company is currently evaluating the effects the adoption of ASU 2019-11 will have on its consolidated financial statements

In December 2019, the FASB issued ASU 2019-12,Income Taxes (Topic 740): Simplifying the Accounting for Income Taxes” (“ASU 2019-12”). The amendments in ASU 2019-12 remove certain exceptions to the general principles in ASC Topic 740. The amendments also clarify and amend existing guidance to improve consistent application. The amendments are effective for the Company’s annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted. The transition method (retrospective, modified retrospective, or prospective basis) related to the amendments depends on the applicable guidance, and all amendments for which there is no transition guidance specified are to be applied on a prospective basis. The Company is currently evaluating the effects the adoption of ASU 2019-12 will have on its consolidated financial statements.

 

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3. PREMIUMS EARNED

Direct policy premiums are collected directly from our members, while 43% of the Company’s premiums are collected from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services as part of the Advanced Premium Tax Credit program (“APTC”), collectively member policy premiums. The Company also records the impact of risk adjustment to premiums earned based on year-to-date health plan experience which are reasonably estimable. The Company refines its estimate as new information becomes available and the Company receives the final report from Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Service (“CMS”) in August of the following year. In 2019, the Company sold its rights to some of its risk corridor claim. The effect on premiums earned in 2019 was $20.0 million. The following table illustrates the impact of risk adjustment on premiums earned for the year ended December 31, 2019

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Premiums Earned:

  

Direct policy premiums

   $ 1,325,760  

Premiums assumed

     455  
  

 

 

 

Direct and assumed premiums

     1,326,215  

Risk adjustment and corridor, net

     (285,070
  

 

 

 

Premiums before ceded reinsurance

     1,041,145  

Reinsurance premiums ceded

     (572,284
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 468,861  
  

 

 

 

The ACA and the implementing regulations at 45 C.F.R. Part 153 established a temporary risk corridor (“Risk Corridor”) program covering issuers of qualified health plans in the Individual and Small Group markets for the 2014, 2015, and 2016 benefit years. However, this temporary program was defunded and the federal government did not pay out recoveries to participants, and insurance carriers had higher losses than were anticipated or priced. A class action lawsuit was filed on behalf of a number of participating insurance carriers (including the Company) to require the government to pay amounts owed to insurance carriers under the Risk Corridor temporary program. A litigation finance company paid approximately $30 million to the Company to “factor” a portion of the Company’s potential recovery receivable (Risk Corridor claim of approximately $210 million) that may result from a successful resolution of the lawsuit on behalf of the plaintiffs (i.e., insurance carriers). While the $30.0 million received from the factored potential receivable has been recorded in revenue through 2019, $20.0 million in 2019 and $10.0 million in 2018, there is no existing potential recoverable amount on the Company’s books at December 31, 2019, for the Risk Corridor (nor the net portion that it could still receive since the Company did not factor 100% of the potential Risk Corridor payment). Since 2016, receivables associated with the Risk Corridor amounts were fully reserved for. On April 27, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that insurers are entitled to the full amount due under the Risk Corridor program. The Supreme Court remanded the cases before it to the lower courts for further proceedings consistent with its opinion. The decision does not order an immediate issuance of payment and the timing of any payments is unclear. The net receipts from the final court decision will be reduced due to the Company having sold part of its interest in its risk corridor claim. The Company currently estimates that they could receive $56.9 million in net proceeds from the litigation finance company. The Company will not recognize this gain contingency in the consolidated financial statements until substantially all uncertainties about the realization of the gain contingency are resolved and the gain contingency is considered realized or realizable.

Risk Adjustment is a program of the ACA administered federally by CMS. Generally speaking, insurance plans with younger healthier members must return some of their collected premium to a pool and insurance companies with older sicker members receive from the pool. However, the New York

 

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Department of Financial Services (“NY DFS”), initiated the imposition of a program seeking to limit these transfers (i.e., payers pay less and receivers receive less). Such limitation by NY DFS has been referred to as the “Haircut”. The Company had previously recorded a receivable $23.2 million for the Haircut as of December 31, 2019. In 2017, carriers initiated a lawsuit against the NY DFS to reverse the imposition of the Haircut since large carriers would be required to pay back some of the Risk Adjustment funds they received from CMS. In July 2020, a final decision regarding the large carriers lawsuit was issued in the large carriers’ favor. This final decision could potentially be appealed to the Supreme Court, however, the issuance of the final decision represents a significant change in facts subsequent to December 31, 2019. As a consequence, in 2019 the Company wrote off a receivable of $23.2 million and recognized a total charge of $16.1 million which was net of reinsurance of $7.2 million.

4. REINSURANCE

The Company has quota share reinsurance treaties with two reinsurers under which the reinsurer assumes an agreed percentage of the underlying policies being reinsured and shares all premiums and incurred claims accordingly. The Company also gets a ceding commission which is based on a percentage of ceded premiums and the reinsurer retains a margin. The Company’s reinsurance contracts have an ultimate net loss ratio that limits our reinsurers’ exposure and beyond which claims shall no longer be ceded out to the reinsurer. To the extent ceded premiums exceed ceded claims and commissions, the Company receives an experience refund.

The Company reports assumed reinsurance premiums in premiums earned on the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss. The following table reconciles total reinsurance premiums ceded and assumed included in premiums earned in the consolidated statements of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Reinsurance premiums:

  

Reinsurance premiums ceded

   $ (587,864

Experience refund

     15,580  

Assumed reinsurance

     455  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ (571,829
  

 

 

 

The Company records claims expense net of reinsurance recoveries. The following table reconciles the total claims expense to the net claims expense as presented in the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Claims incurred, net

  

Direct claims incurred

   $ 924,256  

Private reinsurance losses ceded

     (516,144

Assumed reinsurance

     147  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 408,259  
  

 

 

 

 

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The Company records selling, general and administrative expenses net of ceding commission. The following table is as presented to the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss for the year ended December 31, 2019.

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Selling, general and administrative expense, net

  

Selling, general and administrative expenses

   $ 349,840  

Ceding commissions

     (65,591
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 284,249  
  

 

 

 

5. INVESTMENTS

A summary of investments by major security type is as follows at December 31, 2019:

 

     As of December 31, 2019  
     Amortized
Cost
     Unrealized
Gains
     Unrealized
Losses
    Fair Value  
     (In thousands)  

U.S. treasury and agency securities

   $ 270,259      $ —        $ (2   $ 270,257  

Corporate notes

     56,975        —          (25     56,950  

Certificate of deposit

     25,304        —          —         25,304  

Commercial paper

     10,717        —          —         10,717  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total

   $ 363,255      $ —        $ (27   $ 363,228  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

 

At December 31, 2019, the securities classified as current available-for-sale mature within one year or less. There are no available-for-sale securities that have been in a continuous unrealized loss position for longer than twelve months.

The current securities that mature within one year or less are as follows:

 

     As of December 31, 2019  
     Number of
Securities
     Fair Value      Gross
Unrealized
Losses
 
     (In thousands)  

Investments twelve months or less:

        

U.S. treasury and agency securities

     59      $ 270,257      $ (2

Corporate notes

     80        56,950        (25

Certificate of deposit

     19        25,304        —    

Commercial paper

     14        10,717        —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     172      $ 363,228      $ (27
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Net Investment Income—Net investment income for the year ended December 31, 2019 was attributable to the following:

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Interest income

   $ 11,122  

Investment discount amortization net of premium accretion

     6,649  

Net realized gain

     481  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 18,252  
  

 

 

 

6. FAIR VALUE

In accordance with ASC 820, Fair Value Measurement, assets and liabilities measured at fair value on recurring basis for 2019 are as follows:

 

     As of December 31, 2019  
     (Level 1)      (Level 2)      (Level 3)      Total Fair
Value
Measurement
 
     (In thousands)  

Investments

           

U.S. treasury and agency securities

   $ —        $ 270,257      $ —        $ 270,257  

Corporate notes

     —          56,950        —          56,950  

Commercial paper

     —          10,717        —          10,717  

Certificate of deposit

     —          25,304        —          25,304  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ —        $ 363,228      $ —        $ 363,228  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Warrant liabilities

   $         $      $ 8,819      $ 8,819  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The Company classifies investments within Level 2, because the Company uses quoted market prices or alternative pricing sources that are based on market observable inputs to determine their fair value. The carrying values of restricted deposits reported on the consolidated balance sheet but not listed in the table above approximate their fair value. Cash and cash equivalents are carried at cost, which approximates fair value.

The Company classified warrant liabilities within Level 3 value hierarchy because the liability is based on present value calculations and external valuation models whose inputs include market interest rates, estimated operational capitalization rates, and volatilities. Fair value is determined using an option pricing model.

The table below presents changes in the fair value of the Company’s Level 3 warrant liabilities.

 

     As of
December 31,
2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Beginning balance

   $ 8,115  

Vesting of warrants

     416  

Change in fair value

     288  
  

 

 

 

Ending balance

   $ 8,819  
  

 

 

 

 

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7. REGULATION

The Company is subject to extensive regulation under both State and Federal law. Both the State and Federal regulations require, among other things, that qualified insurance companies demonstrate fiscally sound operations. Such requirements generally include maintaining sufficient levels of capital and meeting certain liquidity benchmarks in order to satisfy operating liabilities or at a minimum to have an approved financial plan towards achieving net operating surplus.

Regulatory Capital and Dividend Restrictions

Each of our health maintenance organizations (“HMO”) and insurance subsidiaries must maintain a minimum amount of statutory capital determined by statute or regulation. The minimum statutory capital requirements differ by state and are generally based on a percentage of annualized premium revenue, a percentage of annualized health care costs, a percentage of certain liabilities, a statutory minimum, risk-based capital (“RBC”) requirements or other financial ratios. Failure to maintain these requirements would trigger regulatory action by the state. Such statues, regulations and capital requirements also restrict the timing, payment and amount of dividends and other distributions that may be paid to us as the sole stockholder. Aggregate minimum required statutory capital and surplus is based on the greater of the RBC level that would trigger regulatory action or minimum requirements per state insurance regulation. At December 31, 2019, all insurance subsidiaries individually exceeded the minimum required statutory capital and surplus requirements as well as RBC minimum required levels. The combined statutory capital and surplus of our HMO and insurance subsidiaries was $135.7 million at December 31, 2019.

Dividend restrictions vary by state, but the maximum amount of dividends which can be paid without prior approval from the applicable state is subject to restrictions relating to statutory capital, unassigned surplus and net income for the previous year. Some states require prior approval of all dividends, regardless of amount. States may disapprove any dividend that, together with other dividends paid by a subsidiary in the prior 12 months, exceeds the regulatory maximum as computed for the subsidiary based on its statutory surplus and net income. Under applicable regulatory requirements at December 31, 2019, no dividends may be paid through the end of 2020 by our HMO and insurance subsidiaries without prior approval by regulatory authorities.

Medical Loss Ratio (“MLR”) Requirements

The ACA established a minimum MLR provision that required insurers to pay rebates to customers when the specified MLR is below the established thresholds. The Company accrues for the estimated amount of premiums to be returned retrospectively to members as an adjustment to premium revenue. In 2019, the Company’s MLR was greater than the established thresholds and in but all one market where a de minimis amount was returned to the member no premiums were returned to the members.

Premium-Based Fee on Health Insurers

As of January 1, 2015, the Company was subject to an annual fee under Section 9010 of the ACA. This health insurance industry fee is based on a ratio of an insurer’s net health insurance premiums written for the previous calendar year compared to the U.S. health insurance industry total. The assessed fee is not deductible for income tax purposes and is classified as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses on the Company’s consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss, but was not applicable for 2019 due to a one year suspension of the fee. Refer to Note 2 for more information.

 

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8. BENEFITS PAYABLE

The following tables provide information about incurred and paid health care claims development for the year ended December 31, 2019, as well as cumulative claims frequency. The claims development information for all periods preceding the most recent reporting period is considered required unaudited supplementary information. For claims frequency information summarized below, a claim is defined as the financial settlement of a single medical event in which remuneration was paid to the servicing provider. Total IBNR plus expected development on reported claims represents estimates for claims incurred but not reported and development on reported claims. The Company estimates its liability using actuarial methods that are commonly used by health insurance actuaries and meet Actuarial Standards of Practice. These actuarial methods consider factors such as historical data for payment patterns, cost trends, product mix, seasonality, utilization of health care services and other relevant factors.

The following table summarizes health care claims incurred, net of reinsurance:

Incurred Health Care Claims

Net of Reinsurance

 

     For the years ended December 31,         
     (In thousands)      Cumulative
number of
reported claims
(in thousands)
 
     Unaudited      Unaudited      Unaudited         
     2016      2017      2018      2019  

Date of Service(*):

              

2016

   $ 489,151      $ 474,624      $ 475,380      $ 477,818        949  

2017

     —          232,738        234,176        236,699        653  

2018

     —          —          579,936        564,718        1,733  

2019

     —          —          —          418,516        1,752  
           

 

 

    

Total

            $ 1,697,751     
           

 

 

    

The following table summarizes health care claims paid, net of reinsurance:

Cumulative Paid Health Care Claims

Net of Reinsurance

 

     For the years ended December 31,  
     (In thousands)  
     Unaudited      Unaudited      Unaudited         
     2016      2017      2018      2019  

Date of Service(*):

           

2016

   $ 402,424      $ 472,662      $ 474,977      $ 475,422  

2017

     —          188,804        229,992        232,702  

2018

     —          —          488,531        549,684  

2019

     —          —          —          359,570  
           

 

 

 

Total

              1,617,378  
           

 

 

 

Total benefits payable, net of reinsurance

            $ 80,373  
           

 

 

 

 

(*)

The years ended December 31, 2016, 2017, and 2018 are unaudited in the above tables.

At December 31, 2019, total Health Care IBNR liabilities plus expected development on reported claims totaled $156.6 million. A majority of the total Health Care IBNR liabilities plus expected development on reported claims at December 31, 2019 relate to the current year.

 

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The following table reconciles total outstanding liabilities, net of reinsurance to benefits payable in the Consolidated Balance Sheet:

 

     As of
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Short-duration health care costs payable, net of reinsurance

   $ 80,373  

Reinsurance recoverables

     76,184  
  

 

 

 

Total benefits payable

   $ 156,557  
  

 

 

 

The following table shows the components of the change in benefits payable during 2019:

 

     As of
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Benefits payable, beginning of the period

   $ 135,126  

Less: Reinsurance recoverable

     39,135  
  

 

 

 

Benefits payable, beginning of the period, net

   $ 95,991  
  

 

 

 

Current year

   $ 418,516  

Prior years

     (10,257
  

 

 

 

Total claims incurred, net

   $ 408,259  
  

 

 

 

Less: benefits paid

  

Current year

   $ 359,570  

Prior years

     64,307  
  

 

 

 

Total benefits paid, net

   $ 423,877  
  

 

 

 

Benefits payable, end of period, net

   $ 80,373  

Add: Reinsurance recoverable

     76,184  
  

 

 

 

Benefits payable, end of period

   $ 156,557  
  

 

 

 

The provision for benefits payable attributable to prior year claims incurred developed favorably by $10.3 million in 2019 related to prior years. The favorable development in 2019 is the result of ongoing analysis of recent loss development trends and claim payment patterns. Changes to original estimates are recorded in the period the additional information becomes known.

Claims Adjustment Expenses (“CAE”)—CAE are costs the Company incurs or expects to incur in connection with the adjustment and recording of health claims. Such expenses include, but are not limited to case management, utilization review, and quality assurance and are intended to reduce the number of health services provided or the cost of such services. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded $63.8 million of CAE, which is reported as a component of selling, general and administrative expenses. Related unpaid claims adjustment expenses of $3.0 million at December 31, 2019 are reported with accounts payable and accrued liabilities.

9. DEBT AND WARRANTS

In July 2016, the Company entered into a $45 million senior secured revolving facility (“Revolving Facility”) agreement with Barclays Bank PLC as administrative agent. The Company’s Revolving Facility agreement expired in 2019. No borrowings have been drawn under this facility.

In connection with a loan facility entered into during 2013 (such facility was terminated in 2016), the Company issued 1,887,430 warrants to purchase Series AA preferred stock at $0.56 per share.

 

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Preferred stock of the Company has been classified outside permanent equity (see note 10) and as such, the warrants are accounted for as liabilities and recorded at fair value, $7.5 million at December 31, 2019.

The Company has an arrangement with an integrated health system, as described in Note 1. Pursuant to an agreement under the arrangement, on February 15, 2017, the Company issued warrants to purchase up to 500,000 shares of Series A8 preferred stock at $6.75 per share. As of December 31, 2019, all the warrants were vested and are exercisable through July 25, 2021. The aggregate fair value of the warrants, at date of issuance was $0.4 million. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded $0.1 million related to the vesting of these warrants as selling, general and administrative expense. Preferred stock of the Company has been classified outside permanent equity (see note 10) and as such, the warrants are accounted for as liabilities and recorded at fair value, $0.5 million at December 31, 2019.

In September 2018, the Company issued a detachable warrant to purchase 1,250,000 shares of Series A9 preferred stock at $7.13 per share. The warrants vest over a period of three years and are exercisable through January 1, 2023. At date of issuance, the aggregate fair value of the outstanding warrant was $1.2 million. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded $0.3 million related to the vesting of these warrants as selling, general and administrative expenses. Preferred stock of the Company has been classified outside permanent equity (see note 10) and as such, the warrants are accounted for as liabilities and recorded at fair value, $0.8 million at December 31, 2019.

During the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded an increase in the fair value of warrant liabilities of $0.3 million and included the corresponding charge in selling, general and administrative expenses. Fair value is determined using an option pricing model.

10. CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK

In 2018, the Company’s certificate of incorporation was amended and restated to authorize the Company to issue 339,262,809 shares of $0.00001 par value preferred stock.

The Company has issued a variety of series’ of convertible preferred stock, Series A convertible preferred stock, Series A1 convertible preferred stock, Series AA convertible preferred stock, Series AAA convertible preferred stock, Series A4 convertible preferred stock, Series A5 convertible preferred stock, Series A6 convertible preferred stock, Series A7 convertible preferred stock, Series A8 convertible preferred stock, Series A9 convertible preferred stock, Series AA-9 convertible preferred stock, Series A10 convertible preferred stock, collectively referred to as “Preferred Stock”, that have been classified separately on the consolidated balance sheet. Redemption rights have not been granted to holders of Preferred Stock, except in the event of a deemed liquidation.

Upon issuance of each class of Preferred Stock, the Company assessed the embedded conversion and liquidation features of the shares and determined that such features did not require the Company to separately account for these features. The Company also concluded that a contingent beneficial conversion feature (i.e. “down round feature”) existed on the issuance date of each series of Preferred Stock. The beneficial conversion feature is not recognized before the resolution of the related contingency.

The Company’s Preferred Stock is classified outside of stockholders’ deficit on the consolidated balance sheet because the holders of such shares have liquidation rights in the event of a deemed liquidation that, in certain situations, is not solely within the control of the Company and would require the redemption of the then-outstanding Preferred Stock. The Preferred Stock is not redeemable, except in the event of a deemed liquidation at liquidation preference amounts.

 

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As of December 31, 2019, the Company had reserved 3,637,460 shares of convertible preferred stock for the exercise of outstanding warrants.

As of the balance sheet date, preferred stock consisted of the following:

 

December 31, 2019

 

Preferred
Stock Series

   Preferred
Shares
Authorized
     Preferred
Shares Issued
     Preferred
Shares
Outstanding
     Carrying
Value
     Liquidation
Preference
     Common
Stock Issuable
Upon
Conversion
 
(In thousands, except share data)  

A

     41,913,800        41,913,800        41,913,800      $ 18,254      $ 18,254        41,913,800  

A1

     1,371,010        1,371,010        1,371,010        1,194        1,194        1,371,010  

AA

     24,267,440        22,379,980        22,379,980        12,450        12,450        22,379,980  

AAA

     36,109,790        36,109,790        36,109,790        20,088        20,088        36,109,790  

A4

     23,142,080        23,142,080        23,142,080        30,000        30,000        23,142,080  

A5

     29,189,760        29,189,760        29,189,760        80,000        80,000        29,189,760  

A6

     29,942,474        29,942,474        29,942,474        134,918        134,918        29,942,474  

A7

     6,265,845        6,265,845        6,265,845        32,500        32,500        6,265,845  

A8

     56,934,363        56,434,363        56,434,363        381,200        381,200        56,434,363  

A9

     24,427,793        23,177,793        23,177,793        165,624        165,624        23,177,793  

AA-9

     11,820,502        11,820,502        11,820,502        34,516        34,516        11,820,502  

A10

     53,877,952        53,877,952        53,877,952        385,000        385,000        53,877,952  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

     339,262,809        335,625,349        335,625,349      $ 1,295,744      $ 1,295,744        335,625,349  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The holders of the Preferred Stock have the following rights and preferences:

Voting Rights

The holders of Preferred Stock are entitled to the number of votes equal to the number of shares of common stock into which such shares of Preferred Stock could convert (see “Conversion” below) at the record date for the determination of stockholders entitled to vote. The Series AA-9 convertible preferred stock, Series A9 convertible preferred stock and Series A10 convertible preferred stock are known as the “New Preferred Stock”, and the series of convertible preferred stock, other than the New Preferred, is collectively referred to as the “Legacy Preferred Stock”. As long as at least 37,370,484 Legacy Preferred stock remains outstanding, Legacy Preferred Stock may elect nine board directors of the Company. As long as at least 7,871,778 of Series A10 convertible preferred stock remains outstanding, Series A10 preferred stock may elect one board director of the Company. The holders of Legacy Preferred Stock, Series A10 convertible preferred stock, Series A common stock, and Series B common stock, voting as a single class on an as-converted basis, are entitled to elect any remaining board directors of the Company.

Dividends

The holders of the Preferred Stock are entitled to receive noncumulative dividends in preference to any declaration or payment of dividends the Series A common stock, Series B common stock or Series C common stock when, as and if declared by the board of directors, at a rate of 8% per annum of the Original Issue Price of the respective series of preferred stock. In addition, the holders of shares of Preferred Stock are entitled to participate pro rata on an as-converted-basis of Preferred Stock to Series A common stock on any additional dividends paid to the holders of Series A common stock, Series B common stock or Series C common stock. No dividends have been declared through December 31, 2019.

 

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Liquidation

In the event of a liquidation, voluntary or involuntary, dissolution or winding up of the Company or deemed liquidation event, the holders of the Preferred Stock will be entitled to receive (i) an amount per share equal to the applicable Original Issue Price plus (ii) any dividends declared but unpaid. In the event that proceeds are not sufficient to permit payment in full to the holders of the Preferred Stock, the proceeds will be ratably distributed among the holders of the Preferred Stock.

After payments have been made in full to the holders of Preferred Stock, then, to the extent available, the remaining assets of the Company available for distribution to its stockholders will be distributed ratably among the holders of Series A common stock, Series B common stock and Series C common stock.

Conversion

All shares of Preferred Stock are convertible at any time to Series A common stock on 1:1 basis at the original price per share paid to the Company, subject to appropriate adjustment in the event of any stock dividend, stock split, combination or other similar recapitalization with respect to the Preferred Stock.

All shares of Preferred Stock are subject to an automatic conversion into shares of Series A common stock in the event of the closing of a qualified public offering.

11. COMMON STOCK

Common Stock

As of December 31, 2019, the Company’s certificate of incorporation, as amended and restated, authorized the Company to issue 681,991,713 shares of $0.00001 par value common stock, 602,000,000 of which have been designated Series A common stock, 69,991,713 of which have been designated Series B common stock and 10,000,000 of which have been designated Series C common stock, collectively referred to as “Common Stock”.

As of December 31, 2019, the Company had reserved 463,704,467 shares of Series A common stock for the conversion of the outstanding shares of convertible preferred stock, the exercise of outstanding preferred stock warrants, the exercise of outstanding stock options and the number of shares remaining available for future grant.

The holders of the Common Stock have the following rights and preferences:

Voting Rights

Each share of Series A common stock entitles the holder to one vote and each share of Series B common stock entitles the holder to ten votes and Series C common share are not entitled to any votes on all matters submitted to a vote of the Company’s stockholders. The Series A common stock and Series B common stock, voting together as a single class and not as a separate series, are entitled to elect one board director of the Company

Dividends

Common stockholders are entitled to receive dividends, as may be declared by the board of directors, if any, subject to the preferential dividend right of the preferred stockholders. No dividends have been declared through December 31, 2019.

 

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12. STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION

The Company grants stock option and restricted stock awards to employees and non-employee consultants under the terms of the 2012 Stock Compensation Plan (the “Plan”) as well as outside the Plan (“Out of Plan”). All awards are subject to approval by the board of directors. Total stock-based compensation for the year ended December 31, 2019 was $33.6 million and classified in selling, general and administrative expenses.

The Company modified certain awards in conjunction with employee terminations. The modifications provided for the extension of the post-employment exercise period. The modifications resulted in $8.7 million of selling, general and administrative expenses for the year ended December 31, 2019.

Total unrecognized compensation cost related to unvested share-based awards at December 31, 2019 was $74.4 million. Of the total 136.0 million shares of Series A common stock authorized under the Plan, there were 12.8 million still available for future issuance as of December 31, 2019.

2012 Plan—Stock Option—The following table summarizes the Plan stock option award activity for the year ended December 31, 2019:

 

     Options Outstanding  
     December 31, 2019     Weighted
Average
Exercise
Price
     Weighted
Average
Contractual
Life (in years)
     Aggregate
Intrinsic
Value
 

Balance—December 31, 2018

     68,717,017     $ 2.37        7.54      $ 55,101,956  

Options granted

     49,677,028       3.22        —          —    

Options exercised

     (1,358,078     0.67        —          3,396,384  

Options canceled

     (6,294,539     2.66        —          3,179,493  
  

 

 

         

 

 

 

Balance—December 31, 2019

     110,741,428     $ 2.75        7.94      $ 61,677,833  
  

 

 

         

 

 

 

Options exercisable—December 31, 2019

     82,355,639     $ 2.59        7.27      $ 54,761,704  
  

 

 

         

 

 

 

Option Valuation—The fair value of a stock option is estimated using an option-pricing model that takes into account as of the grant date the exercise price and expected life of the option, the current price of the underlying stock and its expected volatility, expected dividends on the stock, and the risk-free interest rate for the expected term of the option. The Company has used the simplified method in calculating the expected term of all option grants based on the vesting period and contractual term. Compensation costs related to share-based payment transactions are recognized in the selling, general and administrative expenses upon satisfaction of the vesting requirements.

The weighted average per share grant-date fair value of options granted during the year ended December 31, 2019 was $1.33. The following weighted average assumptions were used in estimating the grant date fair values in 2019:

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 

Term in years

     6.04  

Dividend Rate

     0

Risk free rate of return

     1.9

Volatility

     40

 

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Out of Plan Options—As of December 31, 2019 the Company has issued 2.6 million Out of Plan stock options to non-employee consultants in exchange for services. As of December 31, 2019, there were 0.9 million vested and unexercised Out of Plan options outstanding.

13. DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN

The Company maintains a defined contribution plan under section 401(k) of the U.S. Code, which covers substantially all of the Company’s employees. The plan allows employees to contribute a portion of their pre-tax income in accordance with specific IRS guidelines. The Company matches a percentage of the employees’ contributions with certain limits to a maximum of 2% of an employee’s salary. Employees are fully vested in their contributions and the Company’s contribution. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company recorded payroll contribution expense of $1.6 million.

14. PROPERTY, EQUIPMENT AND CAPITALIZED SOFTWARE

The following table summarizes the balances of the Company’s property, equipment and capitalized software:

 

     As of
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Property, equipment, and capitalized software:

  

Software and hardware

   $ 27,588  

Leasehold improvements

     20,364  

Property and fixtures

     1,334  
  

 

 

 

Property, equipment, and capitalized software

     49,286  

Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization

     (16,210
  

 

 

 

Property, equipment, and capitalized software, net

   $ 33,076  
  

 

 

 

15. RELATED PARTY DISCLOSURES

The Company has leased office space for its corporate headquarters from subsidiaries of Thrive Capital, an investor in Mulberry. Rent expense incurred related to these contracts was $1.5 million and is recorded in selling, general and administrative expense for the year ended December 31, 2019. The related lease agreements expired in 2019.

The Company has entered into various technology service agreements with affiliates of Alphabet Holdings LLC, who is a beneficial holder of more than 5% of our capital stock. For the year ended December 31, 2019, the Company incurred expenses of $1.3 million for technology infrastructure and enterprise services and $1.1 million for lead generation services and is recorded in selling, general and administrative expense.

In August 2019, the Company repurchased 503,750 shares of our Series B Common Stock and 440,050 shares of our Series A Common Stock from our Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, at a purchase price of $6.4312 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of approximately $6.1 million of which $3.1 million was recognized as compensation in selling, general and administration expense and $3.0 million was attributed to the fair market value of the underlying shares and recorded as treasury stock.

16. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

Commitments

 

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The Company leases office space under operating leases expiring on various dates through 2030. Total rent expense for the year ended December 31, 2019 was $9.0 million. In 2019 future minimum lease payments under non-cancellable operating leases, expiring through 2030, are as follows:

 

Years Ending December 31,

   (In thousands)  

2020

   $ 8,257  

2021

     14,043  

2022

     14,140  

2023

     14,047  

2024

     14,205  

Thereafter

     21,745  
  

 

 

 

Total

   $ 86,437  
  

 

 

 

Contingencies

In the ordinary course of business, the Company is frequently made party to a variety of legal actions and regulatory inquiries, including class actions and suits brought by members, care providers, customers and regulators, relating to the Company’s businesses, including management and administration of health benefit plans and other services. These matters include employment and contract claims and claims related to health care benefits coverage and other business practices.

The Company records liabilities for its estimates of probable costs resulting from these matters where appropriate. Estimates of costs resulting from legal and regulatory matters involving the Company are inherently difficult to predict, particularly where the matters: involve indeterminate claims for monetary damages or may involve fines, penalties or punitive damages; present novel legal theories or represent a shift in regulatory policy; involve a large number of claimants or regulatory bodies; are in the early stages of the proceedings; or could result in a change in business practices. Accordingly, the Company is often unable to estimate the losses or ranges of losses for those matters where there is a reasonable possibility or it is probable that a loss may be incurred, the ultimate settlement of which could be material.

17. INCOME TAXES

Mulberry Health Inc. files a consolidated federal income tax return on behalf of itself and its various operating subsidiaries. Mulberry Health Inc. files as part of a unitary return group in various states.

Significant components of the income tax expense are as follow:

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Current income tax:

  

Federal

   $ 2,219  

State

     —    
  

 

 

 

Total current income tax

     2,219  
  

 

 

 

Deferred income tax:

  

Federal

     (426

State

     —    
  

 

 

 

Total deferred tax

     (426
  

 

 

 

Total income tax

   $ 1,793  
  

 

 

 

 

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A reconciliation of the federal income tax rate and the effective income tax rate is as follows:

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Loss before income tax expense

   $ (259,389     —  

Income tax benefit at statutory rate

     (54,472     21.00

Change in valuation allowance

     39,280       (15.14 )% 

Stock compensation- adjustment

     1,241       (0.48 )% 

Pre tax true-up on permanent/Pre tax book income

     1,043       (0.40 )% 

Revision to estimates based on filed tax return

     8,700       (3.35 )% 

Non-deductible salary

     5,687       (2.19 )% 

Other permanent items

     314       (0.12 )% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total income tax

   $ 1,793       (0.68 )% 
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Significant components of the Company’s deferred tax assets and liabilities are as follows:

 

     As of
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Deferred Tax Assets:

  

Advanced premiums reserve

   $ 1,060  

Benefits payable

     1,602  

Premium deficiency reserves

     2,649  

Start-up costs

     4,593  

NOL carryforwards

     177,291  

Stock option

     5,072  

Other (including items <5% of total ordinary tax assets)

     5,443  
  

 

 

 

Subtotal

     197,710  

Valuation allowance

     191,605  
  

 

 

 

Total Deferred Tax Asset

   $ 6,105  
  

 

 

 
     As of
December 31, 2019
 

Deferred Tax Liabilities:

  

Capitalized salary and software

   $ 3,507  

Prepaid expenses

     1,645  

Other liabilities

     527  
  

 

 

 

Total deferred tax liability

     5,679  
  

 

 

 

Net Deferred Tax Asset

   $ 426  
  

 

 

 

On December 22, 2017, President Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (“Act”) into legislation. The Act includes numerous changes in tax law, including, but not limited to a reduction in the federal income tax rate for corporations from 35% to 21% which took effect for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2018. We are required to recognize the effect of a change in tax rate on deferred tax assets and liabilities in the period the tax rate change was enacted. As of December 31, 2019, the Act had no impact on tax expense or the net deferred tax asset.

On March 27, 2020, the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was enacted in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The CARES Act, among other things, permits NOL

 

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carryovers and carrybacks to offset 100% of taxable income for taxable years beginning before 2021. In addition, the CARES Act allows NOLs incurred in 2018, 2019, and 2020 to be carried back to each of the five preceding taxable years to generate a refund of previously paid income taxes. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of the CARES Act, but at present does not expect that the NOL carryback provision of the CARES Act would result in a cash benefit to The Company. The CARES Act also modified the limitation of business interest for tax years beginning in 2019 and 2020. The Company anticipates no impact or modification to the net operating loss carryover.

As of December 31, 2019, the Company has Federal net operating loss carryovers of $844.0 million, $667.0 million which expire between 2032 and 2039 and $177.0 million which carryover indefinitely. The Company considers all available positive and negative evidence, including future reversals of existing taxable temporary differences, projected future taxable income, tax planning strategies and the Company’s recent operating results. The Company established a valuation allowance of $912.0 million because it does not consider it more likely than not that these deferred tax assets will be recovered, as the Company does not have a history of positive earnings.

Pursuant to Internal Revenue Code (“IRC”), Section 382, use of the Company’s U.S. federal carryforwards may be limited in the event of a cumulative change in ownership. The Company completed an analysis under IRC Sections 382 in 2018 and determined that the Company’s net operating losses were subject to limitations of $295.5 million due to changes in ownership in 2016. The Company has performed an additional analysis for IRC Sections 382 and determined that no ownership change occurred in 2019.

In September, 2019 the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed Section 382 regulations. These proposed regulations on the items of income and deductions that are included in calculating built-in gains and losses under IRC Section 382(h) would further limit the applicability of net operating losses. In January, 2020 additional proposed regulations provide some transition relief by extending the applicability date of the new rules to 30 days after the publication of final regulations. These regulations would grant transition relief to taxpayers that must determine built-in gain and loss when a change in a loss corporation’s ownership occurs for purposes of the IRC Section 382. The new proposed regulations would also allow the grandfathering of certain, specified transactions.

The Company has State net operating losses from group filings of approximately $168.4 million and from standalone filings of $2.2 million. The Company established a full valuation allowance because it does not consider it more likely than not that these deferred tax assets will be recovered, as the Company does not have a history of positive earnings.

The Company has made a proactive election under IRC§280C(c)(3) to claim a reduced research tax credit. The Company is in the process of finalizing its research credit computations. The amounts and method to be utilized in calculating the research tax credit have not yet been determined. Any credit amount generated will require a full valuation allowance because it does not consider it more likely than not that these deferred tax assets will be recovered, as the Company does not have a history of positive earnings.

The Company files a consolidated federal tax return as well as consolidated New York and New York City income tax returns. The Company began operations during 2012 and has never been placed under audit. The statute of limitations has run on tax years 2014 and prior, while 2015 through 2019 are open to examination to the extent of Net Operating Losses. The Company’s Ohio entity is considered outside of the US Consolidated group and files tax returns separately. It generates a current liability and deferred tax asset.

 

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At present, the Company has not recorded any reserve for uncertain tax benefits. The Company’s liability for unrecognized tax benefits may increase in the next 12 months. A reasonable estimate of the increase cannot be made at this time.

The Company’s policy is to classify interest accrued related to unrecognized tax benefits in interest expense, included within other expenses, while penalties are included in income tax expense. The Company had no interest or penalties for the years ended December 31, 2019.

18. CONDENSED FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Mulberry Health Inc. (the Parent Company) condensed financial statements should be read in conjunction with the Company’s consolidated financial statements. The condensed financial statements include the activity of the Parent Company and reflect its subsidiaries using the equity method of accounting. Under the equity method, the investment in consolidated subsidiaries is stated at cost plus equity in undistributed earnings of consolidated subsidiaries. The following summarizes the major categories of the Parent Company’s financial statements.

 

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Condensed Balance Sheet

 

     As of
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands, except
share data)
 

ASSETS:

  

Current assets:

  

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 45,733  

Investments and restricted deposits (Note 5)

     132,060  

Investments in and advances to subsidiaries

     159,754  

Other assets

     23,444  
  

 

 

 

TOTAL ASSETS

   $ 360,991  
  

 

 

 

LIABILITES, CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK AND STOCHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

  

Other liabilities

     10,385  
  

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     10,385  
  

 

 

 

Commitments and contingencies (Note 16)

  

Convertible preferred stock, (Series A, A1, AA, AAA, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, AA9 A10); $0.00001 par value; 339,262,809 shares authorized; 335,625,349 issued and outstanding; aggregate liquidation preference of $1,295,744 (Note 10)

     1,295,744  

STOCKHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

  

Common stock, Series A, $0.00001 par value, 602,000,000 shares authorized; 17,034,585 issued and outstanding; Series B common stock $0.00001 par value, 69,991,713 shares authorized, 69,487,963 shares issued and outstanding; Series C common stock $0.00001 par value, 10,000,000 shares authorized, no shares issued and outstanding (Note 11)

     2  

Treasury stock (Note 15)

     (2,923

Additional paid-in capital

     70,673  

Accumulated deficit

     (1,012,863

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

     (27
  

 

 

 

Total stockholders’ deficit

     (945,138
  

 

 

 

TOTAL LIABILITES, CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK AND STOCHOLDERS’ DEFICIT

   $ 360,991  
  

 

 

 

 

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Condensed Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Loss

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

REVENUE

  

Investment income

   $ 8,996  
  

 

 

 

Total revenue

     8,996  

EXPENSES

  

General and administrative expenses

     35,178  
  

 

 

 

Total expenses

     35,178  
  

 

 

 

Loss before equity in net loss of subsidiaries

     (26,182

Equity in net loss of subsidiaries

     (235,000
  

 

 

 

Net loss

   $ (261,182
  

 

 

 

Unrealized gain on investments

     17  
  

 

 

 

Comprehensive loss

   $ (261,165
  

 

 

 

Condensed Statement of Cash Flows

 

     For the year ended
December 31, 2019
 
     (In thousands)  

Net cash used in operating activities

   $ (13,200

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITES:

  

Investments in subsidiaries

     (153,563

Purchase of fixed maturity securities

     (440,214

Sale of investments

     490,887  

Maturity of investments

     145,821  

Purchase of property, equipment and capitalized software

     (29,690
  

 

 

 

Net cash provided by investing activities

     13,241  

CASH FLOW FROM FINANCING ACTIVITES:

  

Stock options exercised

     873  

Stock repurchase

     (2,992
  

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities:

     (2,119

Decrease in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash equivalents

     (2,078

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and cash equivalents—beginning of year

     47,811  
  

 

 

 

Cash, cash equivalents, restricted cash and cash equivalents—end of year

   $ 45,733  
  

 

 

 

19. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

In connection with the preparation of the consolidated financial statements, the Company evaluated subsequent events, through November 5, 2020, which was the date the consolidated financial statements were issued.

On October 30, 2020, the Company entered into a first lien credit loan facility (“facility agreement”) with HPS Investment Partners, LLC (“HPSIP”) whereby HPSIP agreed to provide a $150.0 million First Lien Term Loan (“Term Loan”) with a maturity in four years from the date of the facility agreement. The Term Loan maintains an interest rate equal to the greater of 1% per annum and

 

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the product of LIBOR and statutory reserves and repayment of the Team Loan is payable, to the extent not previously paid, on the maturity date. The Term Loan is secured by the assets of the Company and maintains certain reporting requirements, conditions precedent, affirmative covenants and financial covenants. The financial covenants include that the Company must maintain a minimum of gross premiums set forth by fiscal quarter, maintain a minimum weekly liquidity (as defined in the facility agreement) of $60.0 million or greater, and commencing December 31, 2022, a combined ratio set forth by fiscal quarter.

The Company is monitoring the current COVID-19 pandemic, which has disrupted the global economy and financial markets. There is a significant amount of uncertainty about the length and severity of the consequences caused by the pandemic. The Company has considered information available to it as of the date of issuance of these financial statements and has not currently experienced significant negative impact to its operations, liquidity or capital resources as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

While governmental and non-governmental organizations are engaging in efforts to combat the spread and severity of the COVID-19 pandemic and related public health issues, the full extent to which the outbreak of COVID-19 could impact our business, results of operations and financial condition is still unknown and will depend on future developments, which are highly uncertain and cannot be predicted.

The Company will continue to closely monitor the COVID-19 pandemic and its potential impact on its operations, liquidity and capital resources.

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PART II

INFORMATION NOT REQUIRED IN THE PROSPECTUS

Item 13. Other expenses of issuance and distribution.

The following table sets forth all fees and expenses, other than the underwriting discounts and commissions payable solely by Mulberry Health Inc. in connection with the offer and sale of the securities being registered. All amounts shown are estimated except for the SEC registration fee, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc., or FINRA, filing fee and the exchange listing fee.

 

     Amount
to be
    paid    
 

SEC registration fee

   $              *  

FINRA filing fee

                *  

Exchange listing fee

                *  

Accounting fees and expenses

                *  

Legal fees and expenses

                *  

Printing and engraving expenses

                *  

Transfer agent and registrar fees

                *  

Blue sky fees and expenses

                *  

Miscellaneous expenses

                *  
  

 

 

Total

   $              *  
  

 

 

 

*

To be completed by amendment.

Item 14. Indemnification of directors and officers.

Section 102 of the DGCL permits a corporation to eliminate the personal liability of directors of a corporation to the corporation or its stockholders for monetary damages for a breach of fiduciary duty as a director, except where the director breached his or her duty of loyalty, failed to act in good faith, engaged in intentional misconduct or knowingly violated a law, authorized the payment of a dividend or approved a stock repurchase in violation of the DGCL or obtained an improper personal benefit. We expect to adopt an amended and restated certificate of incorporation, which will become effective upon the closing of this offering, and which will provide that no director of Mulberry Health Inc. shall be personally liable to it or its stockholders for monetary damages for any breach of fiduciary duty as a director, notwithstanding any provision of law imposing such liability, except to the extent that the DGCL prohibits the elimination or limitation of liability of directors for breaches of fiduciary duty.

Section 145 of the DGCL provides that a corporation has the power to indemnify a director, officer, employee, or agent of the corporation, or a person serving at the request of the corporation for another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise in related capacities, against expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by the person in connection with an action, suit or proceeding to which he or she was or is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding by reason of such position, if such person acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the corporation, and, in any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful, except that, in the case of actions brought by or in the right of the corporation, no indemnification shall be made with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the corporation unless and only to the extent that the Delaware Court of Chancery or

 

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other adjudicating court determines that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all of the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which the Delaware Court of Chancery or such other court shall deem proper.

Upon consummation of this offering, our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will provide indemnification for our directors and officers to the fullest extent permitted by the DGCL, subject to certain limited exceptions. We will indemnify each person who was or is a party or threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding (other than an action by or in the right of us) by reason of the fact that he or she is or was, or has agreed to become, a director or officer, or is or was serving, or has agreed to serve, at our request as a director, officer, partner, employee or trustee of, or in a similar capacity with, another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise (all such persons being referred to as an “Indemnitee”), or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with such action, suit or proceeding and any appeal therefrom, if such Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, our best interests, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, he or she had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful. Our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws will provide that we will indemnify any Indemnitee who was or is a party to an action or suit by or in the right of us to procure a judgment in our favor by reason of the fact that the Indemnitee is or was, or has agreed to become, a director or officer, or is or was serving, or has agreed to serve, at our request as a director, officer, partner, employee or trustee of, or in a similar capacity with, another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, or by reason of any action alleged to have been taken or omitted in such capacity, against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) and, to the extent permitted by law, amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred in connection with such action, suit or proceeding, and any appeal therefrom, if the Indemnitee acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in, or not opposed to, our best interests, except that no indemnification shall be made with respect to any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to us, unless a court determines that, despite such adjudication but in view of all of the circumstances, he or she is entitled to indemnification of such expenses. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent that any Indemnitee has been successful, on the merits or otherwise, he or she will be indemnified by us against all expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred in connection therewith. Expenses must be advanced to an Indemnitee under certain circumstances.

Prior to the consummation of this offering, we intend to enter into separate indemnification agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. Each indemnification agreement will provide, among other things, for indemnification to the fullest extent permitted by law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws against any and all expenses, judgments, fines, penalties, and amounts paid in settlement of any claim. The indemnification agreements will provide for the advancement or payment of all expenses to the indemnitee and for the reimbursement to us if it is found that such indemnitee is not entitled to such indemnification under applicable law and our amended and restated certificate of incorporation and amended and restated bylaws.

We maintain a general liability insurance policy that covers certain liabilities of directors and officers of our corporation arising out of claims based on acts or omissions in their capacities as directors or officers.

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our officers and persons who control us within the meaning of the Securities Act against certain liabilities.

Item 15. Recent sales of unregistered securities.

The following sets forth information regarding all unregistered securities sold by us since January 1, 2018:

Preferred Stock Issuances

In March 2018, we issued and sold an aggregate of 23,177,793 shares of our Series A9 Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share, to 31 accredited investors at a purchase price of $7.13489 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $165,371,003.65.

In March 2018, we issued and sold an aggregate of 11,820,502 shares of our Series AA-9 Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share, to 28 accredited investors at a purchase price of $2.92000 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $34,515,865.84.

From October 2018 to December 2018, we issued and sold an aggregate of 53,877,952 shares of our Series A10 Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share, to 5 accredited investors at a purchase price of $7.14578 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $384,999,991.87.

From May 2020 to June 2020, we issued and sold an aggregate of 37,287,281 shares of our Series A11 Preferred Stock, par value $0.00001 per share, to 27 accredited investors at a purchase price of $6.01898 per share, for an aggregate purchase price of $224,431,398.76. We refer to such issuances and sales collectively as the Series A11 Financing. In connection with the Series A11 Financing, each accredited investor received a right to purchase additional shares of our Series A11 Preferred Stock until March 1, 2021 in an aggregate amount up to 33% of the number of shares purchased by such accredited investor in the Series A11 Financing. No accredited investors have exercised such rights through the date of this registration statement.

Warrant Issuances

In September 2018, we issued a warrant to purchase up to an aggregate of 1,250,000 shares of our Series A9 Preferred Stock to an accredited investor at an exercise price of $7.13489 per share for an aggregate exercise price of $8,918,612.50.

Option, RSU, and Common Stock Issuances

From January 1, 2018 through the date of this registration statement, we granted to our employees, officers and directors options to purchase an aggregate of 85,579,162 shares of Series A Common Stock at per share exercise prices ranging from $2.71 to $4.24, and 0 restricted stock units, under the 2012 Plan. From January 1, 2018 through the date of this registration statement, we issued an aggregate of 12,488,207 shares of Series A Common Stock at per share purchase prices ranging from $0.14 to $3.25 pursuant to the exercise of options by our employees, officers and directors.

The issuances of the securities in the transactions described above were deemed to be exempt from registration under the Securities Act in reliance upon Section 4(a)(2) of the Securities Act and/or Rule 506, Rule 701 or Regulation S promulgated thereunder. The securities were issued directly by us and did not involve a public offering or general solicitation. The recipients of such securities represented their intentions to acquire the securities for investment purposes only and not with a view to, or for sale in connection with, any distribution thereof.

 

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None of the transactions set forth in Item 15 involved any underwriters, underwriting discounts or commissions or any public offering. All recipients had adequate access, through their relationships with us, to information about us. The sales of these securities were made without any general solicitation or advertising.

Item 16. Exhibits and financial statements.

(a) Exhibits

The exhibits filed herewith are set forth on the Index to Exhibits filed as a part of this Registration Statement beginning on page II-6 hereof.

(b) Financial Statement Schedules

All schedules have been omitted because the information required to be set forth in the schedules is either not applicable or is shown in the financial statements or notes thereto.

Item 17. Undertakings.

(a) The undersigned registrant hereby undertakes to provide to the underwriters at the closing 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 the foregoing provisions, or otherwise, the registrant has been advised that in the opinion of the SEC 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 hereby further 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 497(h) under the Securities Act shall be deemed to be part of this registration statement as of the time it was declared effective.

(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.

(3) For the purpose of determining liability of the registrant under the Securities Act of 1933 to any purchaser in the initial distribution of the securities, the undersigned registrant undertakes that in a primary offering of securities of the undersigned registrant pursuant to this registration statement, regardless of the underwriting method used to sell the securities to the purchaser, if the securities are

 

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offered or sold to such purchaser by means of any of the following communications, the undersigned registrant will be a seller to the purchaser and will be considered to offer or sell such securities to such purchaser:

(i) Any preliminary prospectus or prospectus of the undersigned registrant relating to the offering required to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 under the Securities Act;

(ii) Any free writing prospectus relating to the offering prepared by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant or used or referred to by the undersigned registrant;

(iii) The portion of any other free writing prospectus relating to the offering containing material information about the undersigned registrant or its securities provided by or on behalf of the undersigned registrant; and

(iv) Any other communication that is an offer in the offering made by the undersigned registrant to the purchaser.

 

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INDEX TO EXHIBITS

 

Exhibit No.

    
  1.1*    Form of Underwriting Agreement.
  3.1*    Twelfth Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Mulberry Health Inc., as in effect prior to the consummation of this offering.
  3.2*    Form of Amended and Restated Certificate of Incorporation of Mulberry Health Inc., to be in effect upon the consummation of this offering.
  3.3*    Second Amended and Restated Bylaws of Mulberry Health Inc., as in effect prior to the consummation of this offering.
  3.4*    Form of Amended and Restated Bylaws of Mulberry Health Inc., to be in effect upon the consummation of this offering.
  4.1*    Specimen Common Stock Certificate of Mulberry Health Inc.
  5.1*    Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP.
10.1*    Warrant to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock, by and between Mulberry Health Inc. and Venture Lending & Leasing VI, LLC, dated March 20, 2013.
10.2*    Warrant to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock, by and between Mulberry Health Inc. and Venture Lending & Leasing VII, LLC, dated March 20, 2013.
10.3*    Warrant to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock, by and between Mulberry Health Inc. and Montefiore Medical Center, dated February 15, 2017.
10.4*    Warrant to Purchase Shares of Preferred Stock, by and between Mulberry Health Inc. and True North Health, Inc., dated September 5, 2018.
10.5*†    Mulberry Health Inc. 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.
10.6*†    Form of Stock Option Award Agreement under 2012 Stock Incentive Plan.
10.7*†    Mulberry Health Inc. 2021 Incentive Award Plan.
10.8*†    Form of Stock Option Award Agreement under 2021 Incentive Award Plan.
10.9*†    Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement under 2021 Incentive Award Plan.
10.10*†    Mulberry Health Inc. 2021 Employee Stock Purchase Plan.
10.11*†    Employment Offer Letter, by and between Mulberry Health Inc. and Mario Schlosser, dated November 29, 2012.
10.12*†    Employment Offer Letter, by and between Oscar Insurance Corporation and Joel Klein, dated January 1, 2016.
10.13*†    Employment Offer Letter, by and between Mulberry Management Corporation and Meghan Joyce, dated June 26, 2019.
10.14*†    Director Compensation Program.
10.15*    Form of Indemnification Agreement.
16.1    Letter Regarding Change in Accountants of Deloitte & Touche LLP.
16.2    Letter Regarding Change in Accountants of Grant Thornton LLP.
21.1*    List of Subsidiaries of Mulberry Health Inc.

 

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Exhibit No.

    
23.1*    Consent of Grant Thornton LLP as to Mulberry Health Inc.
23.2*    Consent of Latham & Watkins LLP (included in Exhibit 5.1).
24.1*    Power of Attorney (included on signature page).

 

*

To be filed by amendment.

Indicates a management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.

 

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SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this registration statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly authorized, in New York, New York, on this                      day of                     , 2021.

 

MULBERRY HEALTH INC.

By:    

   
 

Mario Schlosser

Chief Executive Officer

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POWER OF ATTORNEY

KNOW ALL PERSONS BY THESE PRESENTS, that each person whose signature appears below constitutes and appoints                  and                 , and each one of them, as his or her true and lawful attorneys-in-fact and agents, with full power of substitution and resubstitution, for him or her and in their name, place and stead, in any and all capacities, to sign any and all amendments (including post-effective amendments) to this registration statement, and to sign any registration statement for the same offering covered by this registration statement that is to be effective on filing pursuant to Rule 462(b) under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and all post-effective amendments thereto, and to file the same, with all exhibits thereto and other documents in connection therewith, with the Securities and Exchange Commission, granting unto said attorneys-in-fact and agents, and each of them, full power and authority to do and perform each and every act and thing requisite and necessary to be done in connection therewith, as fully to all intents and purposes as he or she might or could do in person, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys-in-fact and agents or any of them, or his or her substitute or substitutes, may lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, this registration statement has been signed by the following persons in the capacities and on the date indicated.

 

Signature

 

Title

 

Date

 

Mario Schlosser

 

Chief Executive Officer and Director

(Principal Executive Officer)

                      , 2021

 

Siddhartha Sankaran

 

Chief Financial Officer

(Principal Financial Officer)

                      , 2021

 

Ari Fischel

 

Vice President, Finance and Accounting

(Principal Accounting Officer)

                      , 2021

 

Joel Cutler

  Director                       , 2021

 

Joshua Kushner

  Director                       , 2021

 

    

  Director                       , 2021

 

    

  Director                       , 2021

 

    

  Director                       , 2021

 

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