Note 11 - Related Party

3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2019

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RELATED PARTY

A director of the Company also serves as an officer of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp. (“Ameritas”). In connection with the Company’s regular assessment of its insurance-based associate benefits, which is conducted by an independent insurance broker, and the costs associated therewith, the Company purchases dental and vision insurance for certain of its associates from Ameritas. The total value of these purchases was

$59,000

and

$41,000

in the

three

-month periods ended

March 31, 2019

and

2018,

respectively.

During

2017,

the Company acquired a cost method investment in convertible preferred stock of Practicing Excellence.com, Inc., a privately-held Delaware Corporation (“PX”), which is included in other non-current assets and is carried at cost, adjusted for changes resulting from observable price changes in orderly transactions of the same investment in PX, if any. The Company also has an agreement with PX which commenced in

2016

under which the Company acts as a reseller of PX services and receives a portion of the revenues. The total revenue earned from the PX reseller agreement in the

three

-month periods ended

March 31, 2019

and

2018,

were

$153,000

and

$43,000,

respectively.