Operating Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2015

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Operating Segment Information

Operating Segment Information

The Company has four reportable segments that are evaluated regularly by its chief decision making group (consisting of the Chief Executive Officer, Interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer) in deciding how to allocate resources and in assessing performance. The chief operating decision making group evaluates performance based upon stand-alone segment operating income. Since assets by segment are not reported to or used by the Company’s chief operating decision making group to allocate resources, or to assess performance, total assets by segment are not disclosed.

Effective April 1, 2014, the Company refined the measurement of its segment data to better reflect an organizational structure whereby certain expenses managed by functional area leadership are no longer classified within the operating segments but rather as a component of Corporate and unallocated. Such classification is consistent with the disaggregated financial information used by the Company's chief operating decision making group. The amounts classified as Corporate and unallocated have historically consisted primarily of corporate general and administrative costs and other centrally managed overhead costs, including accounting and finance, human resources, and legal costs, as well as non-recurring acquisition costs and the post-acquisition amortization of certain intangible assets. Currently, as a result of the refinement of its segment data, the Company no longer classifies the costs of the marketing and research and development functional areas and the amortization of capitalized software costs within the operating segments. The Company has retroactively reclassified the prior years' operating income in the table below to present all segment information on a comparable basis.

Operating segment data is as follows:

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2015			2014			2013
Revenue:
QSI Dental Division	$	18,451		$	19,840		$	19,990
NextGen Division	373,765			341,120			344,315
Hospital Solutions Division	18,004			15,614			31,413
RCM Services Division	80,005			68,093			64,511
Consolidated revenue	$	490,225		$	444,667		$	460,229
Operating income (loss):
QSI Dental Division	$	5,228		$	6,155		$	5,819
NextGen Division	178,680			155,578			158,110
Hospital Solutions Division	(2,790		)	(7,453		)	2,997
RCM Services Division	12,873			9,343			8,417
Unallocated corporate expense	(158,035		)	(140,535		)	(106,243		)
Consolidated operating income	$	35,956		$	23,088		$	69,100

The major components of the Corporate and unallocated amounts are summarized in the table below:

	Fiscal Year Ended March 31,
	2015	2014	2013
Research and development costs	69,240	41,524	30,865
Amortization of capitalized software costs	12,817	12,338	9,668
Marketing expense	11,913	10,123	7,012
Other Corporate and overhead costs (1)	64,065	76,550	58,698
Total Corporate and unallocated	158,035	140,535	106,243

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(1) Includes the $25,971 Hospital Solutions Division impairment charge recorded in the year ended March 31, 2014.