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Income Taxes
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Income Tax Disclosure [Abstract]  
Income Taxes

7.   Income Taxes. Our provision for income taxes for the three-month periods ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 was a tax expense of approximately $1.2 million and $651,000, respectively, which resulted in an effective tax rate of

(58.3)% and 9.5%, respectively. The increase in the income tax expense and the corresponding change in the effective income tax rate for the three-month period ended March 31, 2020, when compared to the prior-year period, was primarily due to discrete expenses related to the fair value adjustment of the contingent consideration liabilities of recent equity acquisitions and the write-off of our purchase option to acquire Bluegrass Vascular Technologies, Inc. (“Bluegrass Vascular”) due to our decision not to exercise our option to purchase this business (see Note 14).