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Thank you. Greetings and welcome to the DocGo acquisition of Hicuity Health. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Mike Cole. Thank you. You may begin.

Thank you, Operator, and thank you all for joining the call today. Before turning the call over to management, I would like to make the following remarks concerning forward-looking statements. All statements made in this conference call, other than statements of historical fact, are forward-looking statements.

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These risks, uncertainties, and assumptions include, but are not limited to, the risk that the cost savings and synergies from the transaction may not be fully realized or may take longer than anticipated to be realized, disruption to the parties' businesses as a result of the transaction and associated integration activities.

Reputational risk and potential adverse reactions of Hicuity Health or DocGo customers, employees, vendors, contractors, or other business partners, including those resulting from the announcement or completion of the transaction, the extent to which Hicuity Health's business will perform consistent with management's expectations and projections and accuracy of projections and those other risks discussed in our risk factors and elsewhere in DocGo's annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, Form 8-K disclosing this transaction, and other reports and statements filed by DocGo with the SEC to which your attention is directed.

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Thank you all for joining us today. I'm excited to share more about our acquisition of Hicuity Health and what we hope this combination will mean for our customers, our patients, and of course our shareholders. We've spent the last several years building our capability to bring high quality care to patients where they need it.

Hicuity adds an important dimension to that vision, remotely supporting patients inside the hospital and connecting that care with the care they receive when they return home.

Joining me are Andrea Clegg, Hicuity's Chief Financial Officer, and Dr. John Kazianis, Hicuity's Vice President and Senior Medical Director. Andrea, maybe give us a little background on yourself.

Thank you, Lee. I have spent the last 20 years leading tech-enabled healthcare services companies to create new and innovative healthcare solutions in both the public and private arenas. I've been with Hicuity Health for over 10 years as CFO, and I am very excited to see these two great companies come together to continue their missions and improve patient care and access in this country. Now I'd like you to meet Dr. Kazianis.

And I'm Dr. John Kazianis, Vice President and Senior Medical Director at Hicuity Health, where I lead our Tele-ICU program. I've been with Hicuity for over 10 years. I'm a board-certified intensivist, pulmonologist, and internist. I'm excited to be here today to discuss how Hicuity's clinical capabilities complement DocGo and the opportunities we see across the Continuum of Care.

Thanks so much. We are so excited to welcome you to the team, and we're so excited to welcome the entire Hicuity Health team into the DocGo family. Andrea and John both bring an important perspective on the Hicuity business and the clinical model behind it, and I'm pleased to have them here with us today as we walk through our vision for this acquisition and the opportunities that we believe will unlock.

Afterwards, we'll then take your questions. So, let me start with some data that highlights the need we're addressing. The U.S. population continues to age. The population of adults 65 and older is growing at a rate that's nearly 10 times faster than working age adults, resulting in more individuals who need ongoing support across multiple settings.

A recent study points to a shortage of approximately 400,000 nurses by 2030.

And another predicts a shortage of 141,000 physicians by 2038. This is absolutely a challenge that the healthcare system needs to solve. And at the same time, more than 71% of physicians reported using telehealth in 2024, nearly 3 times the rate in 2018. Our health system partners are managing rising demand with limited clinical resources and significant financial pressure. Think of it.

As the need is rising, the availability of clinicians is declining. So we need solutions that can help them provide care more efficiently and focus their precious resources on individuals who require high acuity care. These trends are driving the need for integrated care platforms that leverage technology to extend clinical capacity, meeting patients where they are, and expanding the classical care delivery model.

This creates a significant opportunity for DocGo to deploy our vertically integrated technology, our clinical teams, our workflows, our holistic service offerings to extend the reach of our clinical teams and of course deliver care across multiple settings. Now, Andrea, maybe tell us a bit more about Hicuity Health.

Absolutely. Hicuity is a tech-enabled healthcare services provider delivering 24/7 care to acutely ill patients in the hospital, post-acute, and at-home care venues. Our team of 450 clinicians supports over 260 care facilities, operating in more than 30 states.

We monitor 4,700 patient beds that serve 160,000 patients annually. On a trailing 12-month basis, Hicuity generated revenues of approximately $65 million and $4.5 million in adjusted EBITDA. Our revenues over the trailing 12-month period were led by our Tele-ICU, virtual nursing, and remote telemetry monitoring service line.

Tele-ICU remains our largest service line and includes physician, nurse practitioner, and nursing support for intensive care unit patients. We also provide centralized telemetry monitoring and virtual patient observation services. We have also extended our capabilities beyond traditional care facilities by participating in the newer Hospital at Home program, where we remotely monitor hospital-level patients with chronic conditions in the comfort of their own home.

Underlying our services is Hicuity's proprietary technology platform, The HUB. The HUB brings together clinical information from the hospital EMR and bedside technology, along with integrated audio and video communications, clinical alerts, and care team workflows, all within a common platform with the goal of providing optimal patient care and tailored coordination with the bedside care team.

This combination of technology, clinical expertise, and a flexible delivery model provides an important foundation for the integration we are planning with DocGo.

Thanks, Andrea. And with that overview, I'd like now to walk through the transaction structure. So the merger agreement provides for DocGo to acquire Hicuity primarily in exchange for assuming $52 million of Hicuity's existing indebtedness held by Perceptive Advisors. The debt matures in December 2029 and carries an interest rate of SOFR + 7.5 percentage points. In addition, we will issue 2% of DocGo's fully diluted common stock at closing to Hicuity's preferred shareholder, Concord Health Partners.

Hicuity's preferred shareholder, Concord, would receive an additional 3.5% of our common stock if our market capitalization reaches $250 million within 3 years of closing subject to the agreement's terms.

Perceptive has also committed up to $50 million of additional debt financing in tranches on like terms. Perceptive will also receive a warrant of 4 million shares of common stock with an exercise price of $0.5039. We expect the first $12.5 million of the $50 million I mentioned will be funded this week in connection with the effectiveness of DocGo's MSA with Hicuity.

Another $12.5 million is tied to closing. The remaining $25 million of the $50 million I mentioned is available to use through 2027, if desired, provided we maintain at least $130 million in trailing 12-month Mobile Health revenue. To put that in perspective, to put the $130 million in perspective on a couple of things. On a combined basis, DocGo and Hicuity currently have approximately $155 million of trailing 12-month mobile health revenue.

Of course, we intend to use this fresh capital judiciously and responsibly, while executing our integration plan and improving the cash-generating capacity of our combined business.

All right, so this slide captures the heart of the opportunity. DocGo has built capabilities in medical transportation, mobile health, remote monitoring, and virtual care in the home.

SteadyMD, which we acquired at the end of last year, added our nationwide virtual care network. Hicuity brings virtual acute care, including Tele-ICU, Hospital at Home, and virtual nursing for patients in the home, which Andrea mentioned earlier. Together, all those capabilities give us the foundation to create a vertically integrated offering that supports more of the patient journey.

Think about a patient recovering from a serious illness for a second. In the hospital, Hicuity's virtual clinicians can support the bedside care team. When the patient is ready for discharge, DocGo can help coordinate transportation and the transition home. Once at home, one of our mobile clinicians can then visit the patient with a virtual provider overseeing the care.

If additional acute monitoring is required at home when we're not with the patient, we can provide that as well. All in all, our combined offering with Hicuity Health will have the ability to provide virtual care in the hospital and in the home, monitor the patients when we're not on site, and visit them at home when needed.

Virtual, remote, in-person, at scale, highly differentiated. That's the integrated model we're building, an offering where each step supports the patient's care team and care plan with the goal of making those transitions more coordinated. All managed on a single connected technology backbone, which can have a profound impact on the patient's journey, which is really what this is all about.

For our health system and insurance payer customers, this means access to a broader set of capabilities through a partner that understands both the hospital environment and care in the home. For DocGo, it deepens our customer relationships and supports patients over a longer period of time.

Combining DocGo and Hicuity will enable us to expand our care offering across a broader range of settings, connect patient care from hospital to the home, and differentiate from other point solution providers with a more comprehensive care delivery platform.

Now, this is something we're really excited about. Both Hicuity and DocGo bring substantial health system relationships to this combination. You can see a portion, just a portion of those customer rosters here. Hicuity customers may have a need for medical transportation, mobile health, or remote monitoring.

DocGo customers may benefit from Hicuity's virtual acute care capabilities. Together, we can also explore how to support their Hospital at Home programs. The starting point is the customer's need, it always is. And DocGo and Hicuity each have existing relationships where our teams understand and have earned the trust of our customers. This gives us a foundation to discuss additional services with them.

And exploratory conversations are already underway. We had a promising discussion with one of our long-term medical transportation customers about the possibility of bringing Hicuity's Tele-ICU services to them to help relieve the clinical burden at some of their rural healthcare locations.

And we've also had a preliminary discussion with one of Hicuity's large health system customers about the possibility of offering DocGo's mobile health services to portions of their patient population. It's important to note that the logos on this slide, while impressive, only represent, as I mentioned, a portion of a premier list of health services providers that we've been building long-standing relationships with over the past decade.

We believe these relationships will give us a running start for our ability to cross-sell our vertically integrated offering. We're optimistic that our combined expanded offering will fill gaps in health systems' clinical offerings and increase access to quality health care for their patients. And we're looking forward to sharing more with you as these opportunities take shape.

Now, regarding our strategic and integration plans for the acquisition. Above all, our integration strategy starts with supporting the clinical model that makes Hicuity valuable to its customers. Beyond that, we see opportunities in 3 key areas. First, operating efficiency, combining shared corporate functions and improving procurement and vendor pricing.

Second, technology and clinical coordination, aligning infrastructure and workflows so our virtual, mobile, and in-home teams can work together more efficiently. The objective is to make it easier to deliver the right service in the right setting. And third, growth, introducing a broader range of capabilities to our existing customers and supporting programs such as Hospital at Home.

What excites me is how these synergies work together. Greater scale and combined purchasing power gives us opportunity to improve margins. Connecting our technology and clinical teams should increase productivity as well as improving coordination for patients. More specifically, operating scale can help us reduce SG&A as a percentage of our revenue.

Procurement savings can lower our cost to serve. And aligning our technology and workflows can help our clinical teams support more patients while better clinical coordination strengthens the quality and continuity of care. And the more effective and compelling our suite of services, the greater our opportunity to grow, especially with customers who already know and trust us.

That's the opportunity for DocGo. Serve more of our customers' needs, support patients through more of their care journey, and ultimately turn that broader reach into profitable growth. And to that end, we've already identified approximately $4.3 million in incremental annual cost savings with additional upside still under evaluation.

This slide breaks down where we see those savings coming from. The largest opportunity is approximately $2.3 million in clinical productivity and staffing optimization. That means aligning resources with demand and improving workflows so our clinicians can use their time more effectively.

Another approximately $1.5 million comes from clinical leadership & organizational optimization, creating clear accountability, streamlining management, and reducing duplication as we bring the businesses together. We've also identified approximately $500,000 in savings from optimizing our operating footprint and facilities.

Across all 3 areas, our focus is on building a more efficient business while preserving the clinical expertise and quality of care that our customers have come to rely on. Beyond these identified opportunities, we're evaluating additional savings across vendors, procurement, insurance, technology, staffing, and other workflows.

As we develop the integration plan, we'll have a clearer view of the size and timing of those opportunities. These are annual savings opportunities that we expect to capture as the integration progresses. For DocGo, we believe this will help us achieve and maintain profitability and provide a more efficient platform to support our growth. That's what we're focused on, translating the strategic value of this combination into measurable financial results.

All right, diving deeper on the future state of our Care Anywhere platform. Dr. John, why don't you walk us through this one?

Absolutely. Thanks, Lee. Beyond the opportunity to drive operating efficiencies, we also see significant potential to create value by bringing together Hicuity Health and DocGo's complementary clinical capabilities to create a robust care delivery platform.

Hicuity brings 20 years of experience delivering technology-enabled acute and complex care, primarily in facility-based settings. Our services include Tele-ICU with both physician and virtual nursing capabilities, centralized inpatient Telemetry Monitoring, and virtual patient safety services. More recently, we have extended that expertise beyond the traditional hospital walls through Hospital at Home and in-home monitoring of patients with chronic conditions.

That evolution makes Hicuity a natural fit with DocGo's broader Care Anywhere vision. DocGo has expertise in mobile health, in-home virtual care, remote patient monitoring, and mobile phlebotomy. Putting these capabilities together creates the opportunity to extend the combined organization's reach across more care settings: from the hospital to the home, including both acute and chronic care management.

For our hospital and health system partners, that creates the opportunity to access a broader range of inpatient and outpatient capabilities through a single organization, simplifying how they source and integrate services while bringing value across the continuum of care. Lee?

Thanks, John. Love that. And think about what that means for a patient. Support from a virtual clinical team in the hospital, a clinician visiting at home after discharge, and remote monitoring of the patient at home in between visits. Our goal is to connect those services around the patient's needs and the care team's treatment plan. That's a meaningful expansion of what we can offer our health system partners.

The timeline at the bottom shows how we plan to bring the companies together. At closing, our first priority is continuity, making sure customers, clinicians, and patients continue to receive the support they depend on. The first 100 days focus on operational integration, bringing teams together and streamlining systems and workflows.

During year 1, we expect to build on that foundation through commercial expansion and introducing more of our combined capabilities to existing and new customers.

Over time, the goal is a unified platform that connects hospital-based and home-based care. Each phase moves us towards that vision while preserving the clinical strengths we each bring to the table. I think it's important we spend a moment on the technology because it's central to how we make all this work.

As I previously shared, DocGo's proprietary platform coordinates the resources needed to deliver care in the field. It helps match the right vehicle and clinician to what the patient needs, optimizes routing, and gives our teams real-time visibility. We're excited to add the power of the Hicuity Hub to our health tech stack.

Dr. John, maybe take a minute to share how this technology empowers Hicuity's clinicians to deliver the range of services that you provide.

Absolutely. The HUB was built to allow our clinical teams to manage complex virtual care at scale. It brings together thousands of patients across more than 260 facilities into a single real-time clinical environment. I'd like to highlight that the HUB has evolved iteratively over many years, shaped by the experience of our frontline clinicians, feedback from our hospital partners, and the vision of our software and technology teams.

At a high level, The HUB does 3 things. It creates visibility into patients and their needs, coordinates care for our clinicians, and measures impact of our services. First, it creates visibility by aggregating data from the electronic medical record, bedside monitoring devices, and other data sources from our hospital partners.

It allows our clinical teams to know when a new patient enters our environment, identifies changes in a patient's condition, and prioritize where and when clinical attention is needed.

Second, it coordinates care. The HUB serves as a workflow engine, generating configurable alerts, assigning tasks, coordinating activity across multiple clinicians, while providing integrated audio and video communications capabilities. This allows us to create structured and scalable clinical workflows, but most importantly, to customize those workflows around the unique needs, staffing models, and clinical priorities of hospital and health system partners.

And third, The HUB allows us to measure impact. The platform captures operational and service performance metrics, as well as clinical outcomes and rates of adherence to clinical best practices.

The ability to demonstrate not only what services were delivered, but the patient outcomes that our services providing, is an important part of the value proposition to our partners. So, as we think about Care Anywhere, The HUB provides an important technology foundation for delivering and coordinating care, measuring its impact, and ultimately demonstrating the value of that care at scale.

Thanks, Dr. John. The technology aspect of what we're building is really, really crucial to delivering the care that our customers have come to love from us. And as you can see, both DocGo and Hicuity have built those technology platforms that improve how care is delivered for our respective customers and their patients.

Bringing those capabilities together is, as I mentioned, crucial and allow us to better leverage limited clinical resources across a much broader range of patient needs. That's the shared DNA between DocGo and Hicuity, and it's one of the reasons I'm so excited about this combination.

Let's talk about the timeline to close. So this slide lays out the path from signing through closing and integration. In August, we shared that we signed the Hicuity merger agreement and received the financing commitment from Perceptive.

We expect the MSA will become effective this week, which will provide us with access to the initial $12.5 million tranche of funding.

We're currently targeting a November closing for Hicuity, subject to the completion of a state filing, at which point the second tranche of $12.5 million of funding will be available. Our teams are already deep in efforts on a detailed integration plan so that we're prepared to move quickly once the transaction closes.

Following closing, our first priority will be business continuity for customers, patients, and clinicians. From there, we will focus on capturing the operating efficiencies we've identified, aligning our technology and clinical workflows, and beginning to pursue the commercial opportunities created by the combination.

That work will continue into 2027. The objective is a disciplined integration that protects what Hicuity does well, delivers the expected synergies, and builds the connected hospital-to-home platform we've been discussing today.

We've done this before. One of the reasons we're so excited about the profitability and growth potential of Hicuity is due to the similar benefits we've realized with our October 2025 acquisition of virtual care provider, SteadyMD. Since our acquisition of Steady, we've seen considerable progress in key areas of the business. Telehealth volume increased 60% between the fourth quarter of 2025 when we acquired SteadyMD and the second quarter of 2026. And clinical headcount grew from 499 at year end to 866 as of September 14, an increase of 74%.

We're in the process of further integrating and optimizing existing business lines in our Care Gap Closure programs by having SteadyMD clinicians provide oversight for these visits. At acquisition, SteadyMD had approximately $25 million in trailing 12-month revenue, and we currently expect SteadyMD to have approximately $36 million for 2026, or 44% higher.

We're also seeing improved profitability. SteadyMD had a negative adjusted EBITDA margin at acquisition, and we currently expect approximately 5% for 2026, expanding to 10% by the end of 2027 as the business scales. Our continued success with the SteadyMD acquisition is a good model for us as we approach the Hicuity acquisition, and has reinforced for us the importance of adding clinical capacity to meet demand and using shared infrastructure and automation to improve efficiency and profitability.

We're bringing that experience to Hicuity with an integration plan designed for its business and its customers concurrent with improved growth and, of course, profitability.

Health systems have a lot on their plate. They're working to care for more patients, support their clinical teams, and manage costs, doing it all at the same time. That's why bringing these capabilities together is so compelling. Hicuity's virtual clinicians can extend the reach of hospital teams facing staffing shortages while DocGo's Mobile and In-Home services can help health systems care for appropriate patients beyond the hospital, preserving capacity for patients who need to be there.

Connecting those services also gives us an opportunity to address fragmentation, which is so desperately needed. We can help build a more coordinated transition from hospital care to a home visit, to remote monitoring, and to ongoing support. For patients, that means better access and better continuity. For health systems, it means more ways to support their patients and use their clinical resources more efficiently. That's what makes this combination strategically important for DocGo.

We're building capabilities around the priorities that matter most to our customers: staffing, capacity, coordination, cost, and access. The better we can help them address those priorities, the more valuable we become as a partner, and the greater our opportunity to build lasting relationships and profitable growth.

I'll close with the mission that has guided us throughout DocGo's journey, bringing high-quality, highly accessible care to patients where and when they need it. Hicuity expands our ability to pursue that mission, alongside the health systems and clinical teams who care for these patients every day.

I'm excited about what we can build together, and I'm grateful to the clinicians, the operational teams, and our support staff who make it all possible. Where we're needed, we go. The Hicuity acquisition expands DocGo's vertically integrated care offering with high acuity virtual care, proprietary technology, and an expanded ability to care for patients across the entire continuum of care, from the hospital to the home.

This is an inflection point for our company, and I'm excited about the possibilities and growth prospects of our expanded offering. I want to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued support and now open the floor up for questions.

Thank you. At this time we'll be conducting a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Ryan MacDonald with Needham & Company.

All right, thanks for taking my questions and for hosting the call, Lee. Maybe to start from a strategic perspective, it sounds like obviously you mentioned you've had some conversations already with health system customers across on both the Hicuity and the on the DocGo side. Just curious about sort of the potential appetite and value that you think you can see from the cross-selling opportunity and if you could go as far to talk about sort of the number of, let's call it individual point solutions that you could help sort of a health system narrow down or consolidate by sort of going on to the combined Hicuity and DocGo platform moving forward.

Absolutely. It's great to hear from you, Ryan, and always appreciate the question. So as you mentioned, I think it first starts with our customers. So, Hicuity's customer base are health systems, hospitals, and they work with over 260 different hospitals across the country. And then, of course, we work with hospital systems and our medical transportation. Monitoring businesses and so there is absolutely as I shared in the presentation there's absolutely an opportunity for us to approach Hicuity's customer base and offer some of the suite of services like medical transportation and patient monitoring that we currently offer on the DocGo platform, offer that to Hicuity's customer base, and then of course have the ability to bring Hicuity's suite of services to our customer base that we currently work with.

And we've already undergone a look at Hicuity's customer base, we've looked at our customer base, and we think there's a good opportunity to approach both with a more comprehensive suite of services that help patients both while they're in the hospital and in the ICU and then also when they're home.

So that's a big, big driving force for us. And as I mentioned, we have started to have conversations. So some of the hospitals that we provide medical transportation for, as an example, have staffing shortages, have a hard time staffing their ICUs. So we think there's an opportunity for us to introduce Hicuity's platform to them. And we've also had conversations with some of Hicuity's hospital systems that are providing care in the home. Hospital at Home programs, as an example, virtual nursing programs in the home, and they'll call out for service providers to come into the home.

And of course, we provide a suite of in-home services. So we think that ability to provide both solutions in the hospital, and then of course, in between the hospital with medical transportation, and then in the home, is going to provide a more comprehensive platform to our customers and to Hicuity's customers.

And again, Hicuity works with hundreds of hospitals, and we do too. And so there's going to be a nice opportunity for us to approach over time those customers. As I mentioned, we've even started to have some of those conversations to help us pressure test that hypothesis, and we're quite confident about it.

Makes sense. And then as we think about the timeline here, so I think you mentioned sort of targeting in November closing of the deal, first 100 days really focused on operational integration. So as we think about that $4.3 million target of sort of cost synergies or cost savings from the acquisition, should we be looking at sort of the of a, let's call it mid to late Q1 as a timeframe to being able to realize those cost savings or how should we think about sort of the timeline to achieving that $4.3 million target?

Yes, I'm glad you asked about that as well, Ryan. So I think the timeline, we're really going to take the next, call it, next couple months and weeks here to really put together a very strong integration plan, which we're going to start to implement as we exit the year.

I think some of those savings, as I mentioned, will start to accrete in Q1, as you mentioned, but some will take longer as we go throughout the year next year. And that's part of our sort of phased approach. I think when we think about the integration, it's very important for us, first off, to have that continuity of care for our customers and the patients. That's the first piece.

We want to make sure that our customers and our patients really, continue to receive the same high level of service both from DocGo and Hicuity that they've come to expect. That's the other piece of shared DNA.

I mentioned the technology platforms and sort of the tech backgrounds of both companies are shared DNA, but also the delivering the customer delight and delivering high quality to patients also is shared DNA. And we want to make sure that we don't disrupt that in any way, shape, form, or fashion. That's the first piece.

And then we're going to integrate pieces as we go to make sure that we're achieving the savings that we think this opportunity and this acquisition really brings to both companies to make us more profitable, both, but combined more profitable and also scale and grow the offering like I was touching on in your first question, Ryan. So I think Q1 2027, that's going to be the start.

I think the full amount, you know, comes into play in the back half of next year.

Wonderful. Rob, do we have other questions on the live?

Yes, our next question comes from David Larsen with BTIG.

Hi, thanks very much for the webinar. It's very helpful and informative. Can you talk a little bit more about Hicuity? What has the historical revenue growth rate been? I used to cover a company I think that's in the space, SOC Telemed. If you can maybe sort of compare yourselves to them, how you're the same or different. And then just thoughts on expanding into the home from being in the acute care environment.

Wonderful. So thanks, David, for the question, as always. I'm going to kick over the first portion of your question to Andrea to talk a little bit about the portion of Hicuity's revenue in the home, in the hospital, and then I'll address the second part of your question, which is really our ability to scale more and more of those services in the home.

Got it. Hi, David, nice to talk. Right, I'm here. Hicuity's revenue growth for this year compared to last year has been relatively flat at around $65 million. We've had good traction in some of our newer service lines that have offset some non-renewals in our ICU service line.

So we're very happy the newer service lines are performing so well. Of the $65 million, roughly $29 million is ICU, $20 million is Hospital at Home, and $14 million is in our telemetry and vitals monitoring service line.

The $20 million Hospital at Home, that's a little bit higher than I expected. Is that growing more rapidly than other parts of the business?

It has been. One customer accounts for predominantly all of that revenue and is our largest client. That client has grown 20% year over year. We operate 4 different regions of their Hospital at Home program where we provide virtual nursing to their acute patients. So we're really happy, they're really happy, and we continue to grow with them.

And then do you have any conversations with health plans? Like are any health plans clients of yours?

This customer has its own captive insurance company, so it's close to a health plan. But no, we don't have direct contracts with health plans at this time.

Okay, because I mean, I would think Hospitals at Home, it costs less money, it's more convenient for the patient, the members have higher satisfaction levels, it can improve stars ratings. And it's generally the way the market is moving.

So it doesn't surprise me that it's growing faster than the rest of the business. Okay. Thanks very much. I didn't mean to interrupt you, Lee.

Absolutely, David. That's helpful. And I think it's important to note, I mean, we have hospital systems as customers and we have insurance companies as customers, but we're also seeing again, in this particular instance that Andrea is describing, there's also sort of what's called payviders, right? They're both payers and providers at the same time.

We're seeing that obviously as a growing trend. A lot of health systems are vertically integrating. And so in this example and others, we have hospital systems that are also at risk, also paying, if you will, for the total cost of care. And so in that regard, it's exactly as you're describing. They have incentive to deliver services for cheaper to do so and expand their capacity by utilizing care in the home.

And that's obviously exactly what you're touching on. It's exactly what Andrea was describing as well with that particular health system also has a big payvider component to it. So our goal really is, as I've shared on many calls, our goal really is to help treat patients where they are, help them achieve better health. Outcomes and over time lower the total cost of care for everybody for the system, the insurance company that pays payviders, the hospital systems, and of course, we'll succeed in that.

To answer your question specifically about our ability to extend services into the home as Andrea is mentioning, this particular customer, we have a Hospital at Home, support program that we're doing with them. And I think there's opportunity for us to be able to meet those patients.

Today, Hicuity does it virtually. And I think there's an opportunity for us to expand access to those very same patients, both in person, right? So meeting them in their home, not just virtually, but also in person when it's needed to do lab work, blood draw to close gaps in care. And so we're excited to explore that.

We think there's an opportunity for us not only to help Hospital at Home programs virtually, which Hicuity is doing successfully, but also for us to bring those in-home services, mobile phlebotomy and care gap closure, primary care services, to help more holistically treat that patient. And I think that should be something that hospital systems, payviders, insurance companies should be, you know, very interested in.

There are no further audio questions. At this point, I'd like to turn the call back over to your host, Lee Bienstock, for any web questions.

Great, thank you so much, Rob. So I see some questions here in the chat that will also walk through. So the first question is what are the synergies between Hicuity and our current tech platform and how is the integration going? So I think you know we touched a little bit on Ryan's question regarding the integration plans.

So I think as I mentioned, our near-term objective is to maintain that business continuity and continue to deliver that high quality service. Now, the way we think about it is there's essentially 2 groups of integration opportunities that we think we can unlock here. So the first is we're going to look to continue -- combine our back office technology stack, right?

So there's the back office technology stack that enables our teams to operate and provides a lot of logistics backbone. Then there's the front of the house tech stack that our customers use.

So I think we're going to look to combine the back office tech stack, so like our internal ticketing systems, our workflows, our cloud hosting infrastructure as examples, our IT support and licensure, our human resources, our HRIS systems, we're going to look to integrate those as expeditiously as possible to unlock savings and kind of streamline the operation.

So again, our customers and patients won't feel it, but it'll make our teams more efficient integrating those back office tech components that we're already at work. We've already identified and we're already at work planning, and we're going to look to do those very, very quickly, as I mentioned, as we close out this year and into next year, unlock those savings. Now, the customer-facing platforms, right? So that's Hicuity's Hub, DocGo's Dara, Logistics, and routing platforms, all of those that our hospital system customers use, that our clinician teams use to provide the services to our customers, those tech stacks are going to operate on their own for now.

We want to make sure that our future goal is really to find and plan a very smart way to bring both of those together into a single operating platform that provides a unified end-to-end view of the patient journey, but that's going to take some more strategic planning, product roadmap outlining and mapping and focusing on the engineering. We're going to need to orchestrate that.

I think that will happen, sort of, in Q3 and Q4 timeline of next year. So that's the way we think about it. There are some quick things we can do that don't impact our customer workflows that don't impact patient-facing platforms. And those we're going to look to integrate very expeditiously and unlock all those benefits and all those savings and increase the profitability there, and then be very thoughtful and meticulous and methodical on how we integrate the front-facing platforms like The HUB and our DocGo logistics platform that our hospital systems use to make sure that we're doing it very seamlessly and there are no hiccups with our customer experience. That's the way we think about that.

So thank you for that question. Okay, we have a question in here, around our typical, can you discuss what a typical contract for Hicuity looks like from a duration perspective and renewal history? Is there a revenue model for Hicuity? How does it charge for its services? Andrea, maybe you can take that one.

Yes, got it. Our contracts initially have -- our initial -- our contracts have initial fixed terms of generally 2 to 3 years. Some are longer. So there's that fixed initial term with auto renew provisions. And so that's across all of our service lines. Our renewal rate history is what service companies typically experience. It bounces around from year to year, but over a 10-year average, we're in a mid-80% renewal rate for those contracts that come up for renewal. And then how do we get paid? We are paid by our client.

At the end of the day there are different models for different service lines, but we do not bear any of the professional fee reimbursement risk. So for instance, in the ICU, we are paid either per patient admitted to the ICU or per bed.

Same with Telemetry Monitoring, we will charge on a per bed basis or per patient per day in some cases. And then for Hospital at Home, we provide a shift rate. We provide so many nurses and there is a contracted nursing rate for that shift. So that is how we bill.

Great. Thank you, Andrea. Okay, we have a couple questions in here relating to the debt being provided by Perceptive. 1 question is asking about the interest rate on the debt. Another question here. Given the current losses from DocGo's operations how confident you that cash will be received and DocGo will stop burning cash in 2027, so that DocGo will be in position to pay the debt of Hicuity. So 2 questions relating to debt, both the rate and how we intend to pay both the debt service and how to repay the debt.

So first off, on the interest rate, the interest rate is SOFR + 7.5%. That's the interest rate on the debt, both the portion we are assuming from the transaction, the historical Hicuity debt, and any of the tranches that we draw down as additional financing being provided by Perceptive.

In terms of the debt service, there's really a few key points there. So first off, as Andrea mentioned in the presentation, Hicuity comes to us with $4.5 million of adjusted EBITDA. So that's adding to our path to profitability, and of course will help service the debt. That's 1.

Number 2, I think we've mentioned on previous calls that we expect DocGo expects to exit the year on a profitable run rate. So both of those combination, both the profitability that Hicuity is bringing, and by the way, we expect to effectuate additional synergies and additional avenues to increase that profitability. But again, the trailing 12 months for Hicuity is $4.5 million of adjusted EBITDA.

So both that and DocGo entering next year on a profitable run rate gives us the ability to pay down the debt and service the debt.

I'll also say that, of course, as we have the ability to pay down the debt, the balance of the debt, such as funds that come in that are owed to us, there's a question in here which I'll get to in a minute about New York City's HPD still has an outstanding balance with us that we expect to collect here. As we close out the year, as those funds come in from New York City and other strategic initiatives we're evaluating, we're going to look to pay down the debt balance as well and do that.

We don't expect to carry this debt long, long term.

We're going to look for opportunities for us both not only to service the debt from increasing profitability of the companies and as they integrate, increasing the profitability of the combined company, but also as cash comes in from some of the strategic initiatives we're evaluating, as New York City pays down that balance and those funds come in, we're going to look to utilize that to pay down the balance of the debt as well.

So that's our plan. And I think that gives a good snapshot of the way we're thinking about it as well as how the debt is structured.

Since I touched on it, there is a question in here about how much is expected payment due from New York City to DocGo and when will it arrive? So, as I mentioned, that's obviously something we've talked about over the months and quarters here, so. As I mentioned, HPD, which is New York City's Housing Preservation & Development department still owes us roughly $13 million from the work we did on the migrant program, caring for the asylum seekers that were arriving here in New York City.

So we're in active discussions with them on this outstanding balance, and they're asking for some additional documentation, which we've been very quick to provide, that they want to see from us. And we still expect to see payments from them in Q4 of this year. So we'll continue to keep you updated on that.

And just on that $13 million of that outstanding balance, just to put that in context, we've collected about 98% of the New York City receivable to date. So again, this is the last remaining piece of a much larger portion that we've been successful in collecting on.

Okay, turning back to some of the additional questions in here. Okay, there's a question here about could there be future opportunity to expand to beyond other countries? So I think our focus right now is our existing footprint here in the U.S.

Virtually we service patients in all 50 states. And so I think we're going to continue to expand on that. As I mentioned in the presentation, we've been successful in expanding on that with our SteadyMD acquisition.

Hicuity serves patients throughout the entire country virtually, and we are absolutely going to look to scale that efficiently in all 50 states. And I'll say we also have, of course footprint and operations physical operations in states across the country primarily in the Northeast and the West Coast where we go to patients' homes where we go and visit patients for mobile phlebotomy, where we go into patients' homes to close care gaps.

And we're going to look to expand those operations in the states where we already operate that physical footprint in. So to summarize it, scale and expand virtually in all 50 states and scale the physical footprint that we already have here in the U.S. is going to be our primary focus.

We do operate and have 600 great team members in the U.K. where we serve medical transportation and mobile health throughout the U.K. and we're going to continue to support that team and expand that team and look to drive more efficiency in that operation as well.

And I think that's the footprint that we're going to be focused on. Virtually all 50 states here in the U.S. continue to expand in the states we have physical presence in today. And continue to support our customers there and scale with those customers and new customers in those states where we have physical presence and then, of course, continue to support and drive profitability in our U.K. operation. That's our plan for the question relating to expanding to other countries I think that's our key focus.

Okay, we have a question in here. Thanks for all the questions. These are great. Are there any synergies between Hicuity and SteadyMD or would they remain separate and distinct subsidiaries? So I think there's absolutely synergies, both are virtual care platforms. And so I think there's going to be an opportunity to effectuate synergies.

I think in some cases, Hicuity provides higher acuity care. And so we can bring some of that opportunity to SteadyMD's customers which produces more preventative diagnostic digital health type care and so I think there's going to be an opportunity for us to collaborate streamline workflows for us to have the medical groups come together and collaborate, but ultimately, again, we're going to make sure that the main synergies are going to come operationally, how we go to market, how we serve patients, less so on the clinical side.

On the clinical side, we're going to continue to scale Hicuity services and then SteadyMD's more preventative care services but share in workflows back-end systems our -- as an example one area that we've targeted is going to be on our medical records platform, streamlining that, as I mentioned, sort of more of a back office function.

But nevertheless, we're going to look to streamline that operationally between the 2 groups. But we definitely think there's opportunities to cross-sell, opportunities to go to market together, and operationally ways that we can effectuate savings.

Okay. We have a great question in here relating to given $240 million of revenue is EBITDA positive, is there consideration to retire some operations that are not profitable? So this is a question that touches on comments I made, I believe it was last week during a fireside chat at the Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference relating to $240 million of our roughly $300 million plus of revenue that we have within the company, it's important to note is EBITDA positive, EBITDA contribution, adjusted EBITDA contribution positive today.

And so a comment I made, and we're continuing to implement this, is we're continuing to look at operations or markets that are not EBITDA contributions, so that smaller percentage of our overall revenue that's coming from EBITDA loss-making operations or markets. Our plan is to ensure that every single one of those markets and divisions are EBITDA contribution as we head into next year.

And either we will sunset markets or operations that aren't, and we're in the process of implementing improvements on portions of our markets and contracts that will allow us to enter next year with each of our markets and businesses on an EBITDA contribution basis. That is our plan. That is our commitment. That is what I shared during that Morgan Stanley Healthcare Conference Fireside Chat. That's what this question is touching on, and that's absolutely the plan as we close out this year and as we head into next year.

Okay, I think we have time maybe for 1 more question. I'm going to touch on an area perhaps that we haven't gotten a chance to talk about yet. Just give me a moment here to peruse through the questions. I think we've touched on almost every area.

There is a question in here, does DocGo plan to smart-size by selling off some assets in underperforming areas to focus on growth areas? So I think this question touches a little bit on the question I just answered, which is, again, our goal is to continue to increase profitability for the overall company is to focus on businesses and markets and service lines that are not EBITDA contribution to increase their profitability.

And then, of course, as everything I've mentioned that the company has done a strategic review and we continue to look at opportunities to streamline the business. And of course, as opportunities come in, we'll continue to be opportunistic as we always have in driving value for the business, driving long-term growth for the business, driving the ability to serve more and more patients with higher and higher quality and acuity care. That's our North Star.

And I think over time, you're seeing us implement a path to profitability plans, implement efficiency and operational plans, and also scale the business. And we're committed to scaling the areas of the business that are EBITDA contribution positive to address areas of the business that aren't and set us up nicely as we close out this year and head into next year.

So we're incredibly excited. We're incredibly excited to welcome the Hicuity team and their suite of services that they offer. We really feel like it will allow us to help our customers and, most importantly, help patients really receive the care they need. The marketplace desperately needs it. There are fewer and fewer clinicians. The need is increasing. There's areas of our country that don't have good access to care, that need virtual offerings.

There are patients that don't have the ability to get to the care they need. And so as we go through the acquisition, we're going to integrate those services, allow us to provide more care to patients, and then put the combined businesses, Hicuity and DocGo, on an efficient path to exit the year again profitable and achieve greater levels of profitability and value as we go through 2027 as we implement the integration plan.

So thank you so much for joining us. We're looking forward to speaking with you again on our next earnings call and as opportunities come up sharing more and more about our plans and our progress. Until then, be well.

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Thank you. We are ready to begin. Thank you all for coming. First, I want to start with the disclosure. For important disclosures, please see the Morgan Stanley Research website at www.morganstanley.com/researchdisclosures. If you have any questions, please reach out to your Morgan Stanley sales representative. Lee, thank you for being here. Maybe I'll pass it over to you for a quick intro on your side.

Yes, absolutely. Chris, it's great to be here with you again. I know you know our story very well. For those new to DocGo, we're a Mobile Health and Medical Transportation company. We bring care to where patients are, or we transport them to and from care. Over the last 12 months or so, we've transported about 700,000 patients. We provide services across multiple states, across the US and the UK. We also have a 50-state virtual practice that does about a million telehealth visits a year. We also remotely monitor patients, keeping track of patients, making sure their chronic conditions are not getting worse. A lot of heart failure patients. We monitor about 55,000 patients today. And so we have a growing business of Medical Transportation and Mobile Health, and we're really excited about it.

Excellent. Thank you. So I want to start off with Mobile Health. Mobile Health is experiencing a lot of significant growth in recent years. What sort of services are in that division? Can you discuss that, a little bit about the types of customers you're treating in that division?

Absolutely. So first off we start with the problem. And in the US, there's a big problem with Americans suffering from chronic conditions, which is talked about a lot. There are 160 million Americans suffering from at least one chronic condition. Many are suffering from more than one. And as a result, it's crippling the system, right? So patients are getting sicker. It's costing the system more money. As it costs the system more money, it becomes, you know, more and more strained. And so our goal really is to meet patients where they are. We think if we meet patients where they are in their home, for example, one of the things I did mention in that intro is we'll go and visit 150,000 patients in their home this year. So we're going to meet patients where they are.

We think when you meet the customer, in our case, the patient where they are, they're more likely to improve their health outcomes, we can help them improve their health outcomes, and as a result they live happier and healthier lives and cost the system less money. And so again, we're really targeting patients and helping patients with chronic conditions. We're dealing with aging populations. We're dealing with clinician shortages. We're dealing with rising health care costs. And so we've built an integrated Mobile Health platform, again, that brings care to where patients are, either virtually through our virtual health care practice We remotely monitor them, or we will go and visit them in their home when it's necessary.

And that's sort of the suite of Mobile Health Care services that we provide. It all works with our proprietary tech platform. So our tech platform is optimizing the right clinician with the right diagnostics, with the right licensure, delivering the care with the right modality in person or remote, all for the right patient need and optimizing that across the system. So again, we have about 1,000 vehicles providing We have 3,000 to 4,000 healthcare heroes, ranging from EMTs, paramedics, nurses, advanced providers, MDs. And our goal is to optimize the right clinician with the right diagnostics, with the right modality. If we could do it virtually, we want to provide care virtually. It's efficient and cost effective. If we need to be hands-on with the patient, we can also do that as well. And that integrated Mobile Health platform is really what differentiates us.

Excellent. So there's been a lot of focus on your path to profitability. Your goal is to be adjusted EBITDA positive by year-end. How are you going to get there?

Okay, so I'm really glad you asked this question, Chris. I know you and I have been talking about it, and I really want to be comprehensive and give very detailed specifics. So the first thing to note that while the company has been generating negative EBITDA the past several quarters, most of our business lines are actually providing a positive EBITDA contribution. So DocGo, we talked about it just now, consists of multiple service lines and currently only a handful of those service lines in the corporate layer are responsible for the losses of the company. So out of projected 2026 revenue, we shared as approximately, we guided to little over $300 million of revenue, about $240 million of that $300 million is coming from business lines that are currently today adjusted EBITDA positive on a contribution basis. Okay. So I wanted to share that detail. And so our plan and our requirement is that every business line that we continue to operate is going to contribute positive adjusted EBITDA to the portfolio.

And we're expecting that to happen by the end of the year. And so any business that's and any service line that's not generating positive EBITDA contribution is either going to be eliminated or redesigned, as we go -- as we progress through the year. And again, those steps are already being put in motion. So I really wanted to share that today. Now, some may ask, why haven't we done this already with some of the service lines? Why haven't we started to redesign or sunset some of these service lines? I think for us, we have multiple service lines that are growing very, very nicely. And as they grow, the scale helps us achieve profitability. Some service lines are not, and as a result, again, some of our transportation markets are not. And so again, as we progress throughout the year and as we enter into next year, our plan is to either, again, sunset some of that work or redesign how we go to market there. So that's the first piece in terms of the revenue and where the profits in the company are coming from and where the investments are that we're making and how long we're going to continue to make those investments in some of the markets we serve.

Then there's the gross margin. And so again, we talked about the top line and which businesses are contributing EBITDA are going to continue on. On the gross margin, we expect to return to about a 34% gross margin from our current level of 30.5%. which is what we shared on the last earnings call. Now, it sounds difficult to do that. But we've been, we're not -- our plan is not raise prices or lower wages, right? We have some of our underperforming markets are in the mid single digit gross margins. And so just simple math, as we reduce those markets that are producing lower gross margin, you know, that's going to improve the overall gross margin of the business. And we think that's very, very achievable.

So just to give you an example. In the lens of our Q2 results, our revenues were in line with expectations, but on the gross margin side, again, using medical transportation as an example, we recorded 32% in transport gross margins in Q2, which was lower than we expected or that we'd like. Again, our goal is to be at that 34% level. But if we remove the two worst performing transport markets from the portfolio, okay. One of which is in the process of being eliminated, the other one's being redesigned.

The transport gross margins would have been 35.6%. So up from 32%, transport would have been 35.6%. Again, if we remove those two underperforming markets. So that is a big, big factor for us. Again, we're going to continue to optimize the service lines and the geographies, going to ultimately drive the gross margin higher, which ultimately will lead to the company achieving its profitability goals.

And then on the SG&A side, again, in addition to the organic growth that we think we're going to see in Q4, Q4 is seasonally a very big quarter for us on the growth side. Winter months bring infectious diseases, bring respiratory illnesses. So we tend to see volumes go up in Q4. So again, on the growth side, we'll see improvement. On the gross margin side, I just talked about how we're going to see improvement. And on the SG&A side, we'll see improvement we still need to cut about $3 million per quarter from where we reported our Q2 numbers. And so that's our goal.

We already executed a pretty major RIF in June that's going to be more apparent in the second half financials and that's going to help us again cut down on the SG&A of the company. So the overall profitability is absolutely a priority. I wanted to kind of give those examples of really how we're going to achieve it both from a top line growth perspective, a gross margin perspective and what we still are in the process of cutting on the SG&A side. As we're executing on all three of those, we again, we share that we intend to exit the year on a profitable run rate basis.

Thank you, that's very thorough and helpful. Can you spend a minute on the recent Hicuity Health deal that you did and how that adds to the business? Congrats, by the way, on that deal.

Yes. We're very excited. So for those that don't know Hicuity Health well, we announced on our last earnings call that we signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hicuity Health. And we're very excited, I'll talk a little bit about it today, Chris, because I know we wanted to touch on it, but also I wanted to flag that we're going to be hosting a deep dive webinar by the end of the month. So we're going to be putting out a save the date on that to really deep dive in terms of how we plan to integrate Hicuity, some of the savings we think we could achieve, some of the growth vectors we think we could achieve. But at a high level, Hicuity is a virtual care platform. They provide tele-ICU, telemetry monitoring and virtual nursing services to hospital systems. Again, hospital systems is a big customer bucket for us as well.

We work with lots, many, many hospital systems. They do as well. And so they provide virtual care services for hospital systems. The reason why that's incredibly exciting for us is because we think there's a big opportunity to improve health outcomes by being present with the patient from the hospital to the home. So often the patient is getting dropped post-discharge. But in the hospital they're receiving great care. In many cases, again, they're receiving great care in part with Hicuity services. But then when they get discharged, the patient kind of falls out of the system again. And then as a result they end up bouncing back to the emergency room or being readmitted and again causing the system a lot of money and no patient wants to end up back in the hospital.

So we think there's a really tremendous opportunity for us to bridge the hospital to the home. Be present with the patient when they're in the hospital through Hicuity's suite of services. Of course we have our medical transportation division that's transporting patients out the hospital or to the next care setting, and then we can follow up with the patient virtually and in their home to make sure that their condition is continued to get better, the incision site is not getting infected, their meds are titrated, they're receiving the proper follow-up care so that they don't end up bouncing back to the hospital. That continuum of care, that we're going to be able to achieve with the Hicuity acquisition is going to have a profound impact on patients, have a profound impact on patients, it should be very, very valuable to hospitals and insurance customers.

So as it relates to Hicuity, you're assuming $52 million of debt for that deal, plus gaining access to additional funding up to a total of $100 million from that. Can you just talk a little bit more about how you plan to kind of service the debt?

Yes. Another great question. I'm glad we're touching on. So first of all, we do not intend to hold a substantial amount of debt for an extended period of time. So there is a debt component to this acquisition. We're assuming the current debt on Hicuity, which is $52 million. The lender on that is also going to provide us with additional funding of availability should we use it, Up to an additional $50 million. Now there's five components to how we're thinking about this debt. So the first off is profitability is a big, big component of this. As the company achieves profitability, which I just laid out, that gives us a lot of avenues for paying service on the debt, refinancing unit debt and so forth. So that's number one.

Number two is Hicuity is already coming to us with adjusted EBITDA, with profitability already. So Hicuity, as you mentioned, has about $65 million of revenue and it has about $4.5 million of adjusted EBITDA today. That's before we effectuate any synergies, any integration. And so, again, we think that there's opportunity to improve the profitability of Hicuity as we put the companies together. So that's, again, profitability. Hicuity is already coming with adjusted EBITDA. Number three is, we have a, Chris, I know you know this, and people that know our story well, we did a tremendous amount of emergency response work for the city of New York. During COVID, there was a migrant crisis that happened here in New York, where asylum seekers were being bused up from southern states, and we did a lot of work with the city. They still owe us about $13 million to $15 million, which we expect to collect here over the balance of the year. So that will bring in additional cash and capital that we can use to pay down the debt as that money comes in.

And then the other piece I think we're looking at is, we have an opportunity to sell some non-core service lines of the company, which, again, will bring in additional cash into the company. So through those avenues, profitability, Hicuity coming in with profitability, synergies that can be effectuated there, the collection of the city receivables that they owe us, which will bring in a significant amount of cash, and then our ability to sell some of our non-core service lines, even the markets that we're perhaps looking to exit on the medical transportation side have licenses that we can sell that will bring in additional cash into the company. Again, all used to either service or pay down the debt, and so we have a very concrete plan on how to handle that.

Thank you. Can you spend a minute on the front and back end tech stack for the business? How does EHR integration with Epic, Athena impact overall referrals and enhance functionality for your business?

Yes, so tech is a big component of what we do. I like to share that the doctor coming to your home is an old idea. I know we've spoken about this, Chris, before in the past. It's just wildly inefficient to send a doctor door to door. There's drive time, there's lag time in between patient visits. Sometimes you show up, the patient's not home. So the doctor's office, the physical doctor's office kind of solved that, right? They'll book 12 patients, they don't know which two are not going to show up, but they have capacity for 10. They book 12 and two don't show up.

But they're there and they're waiting for the patients to arrive. And they're dropping in from room to room. So we've essentially recreated that experience, but in the patient's home.

So what we do is we send an LPN or a phlebotomist or a medical assistant, actually a big component of us making these visits more and more profitable and achieving profitability for these visits is our ability to use lower-cost medical assistants or mobile phlebotomists to go to the home. And then the physician or advanced practice provider telehealth in and directs the clinician in the home what they want. I want to take a swab. I want to provide a vaccine. I want to do a bone density scanning. We do about 45 different clinical offerings in the home. The clinician that is overseeing the visit remotely is the one treatment planning, prescribing, and diagnosing. And they're dropping in home by home virtually, while the mobile health clinician, the lower cost clinician, is driving door to door.

So we've built that entire tech stack to be able to make it feel like the doctor is in your living room, when in reality, again, we have a mobile phlebotomist there, and the clinician is remote. The other piece that we've done is we've integrated our logistics and routing platform into Epic. And this is a big deal. So directly from the patient's chart, in Epic, a discharge nurse can click a button and order medical transportation to come pick that patient up at discharge. And now they're not picking up the phone calling an ambulance company to say, hey, when can you be here? They're clicking a button in the patient's chart and they're seeing exactly just like Uber, just like Instacart, when we're going to arrive.

And as a result, housekeeping knows when the bed is empty and now it's available to be made ready for the next patient. Intake knows when the patient's, the patient is more likely to be ready when we get there because the discharge nurse knows when we're arriving. So that integration into the hospital's workflow is very valuable. It's very valuable for us because the patient will be ready when we get there. It's very valuable for the hospital system because it integrates into their day-to-day workflow.

It allows us to optimize the patient's stay, all the vehicles in the field and on the road. And once we integrate it, the hospitals love it. And because they love it and because it's integrated, it tends to be very, very sticky.

Thank you. So I want to talk a little bit about labor and the inflationary environment we're in. How have you navigated this labor and inflationary environment? And then can you talk a little bit about your ability to adjust staffing, automate processes to address this area?

Yes, so any, I know there's a lot of biotech and pharma companies at the conference, and there's some healthcare services companies. Any healthcare services company is dealing with labor, is dealing with the clinicians, is dealing with those heroes that go into healthcare to help patients, and there's a lot of dynamics happening right now. The last time we spoke, there's always puts and takes, right? So what's the difficulty right now we're experiencing? So number one, on the inflationary side, we're seeing gas prices hurt us, right? We drove 11.5 million miles over the last 12 months to give a sense, and so -- for every dollar at the pump, we see about a 37% margin erosion. So again, we don't control gas prices, and our goal is to be more efficient.

The goal is not to drive more miles. The goal is to drive fewer miles and see more patients with those fewer miles.

And so being more efficient in the field allows us to address the gas prices. But we see some gas price. The gas prices are obviously -- from an inflationary perspective, hurting us. We think hiring, we have to hire up for the back half of the year. And so the cost to hire, Typically, we'll see that rise in the first half of the year and then help us to serve the bigger volume in the back half of the year. So that part is we're seeing pressure there. What we also know, which we haven't seen in previous years, is AI is helping us a lot with the pressure we're experiencing on gas and sort of higher clinician costs, we're able to automate a lot more of what we're doing. So as an example, we are automating a lot of our patient scheduling, a lot of our patient outreach.

When a patient texts us or has a question, our system is able to answer that question for them, reach into the patient's chart or reach into our protocols or reach into what to expect during a visit and answer the questions so that a human being doesn't actually have to answer the question. We have to schedule. Sometimes patients have to reschedule. Sometimes we want to confirm with the patient. We want to confirm they're going to be there when we arrive. We're automating all of that. All the order intake. We used to have multiple people receiving mobile phlebotomy orders.

Now we've automated about 80% of that. But net-net, you know, our North Star is anything that is not involved in the clinical delivery of the service, sticking a needle in someone's arm, taking someone's blood, scanning someone's bone density, doing a diabetic retinal scan, anything that doesn't involve the clinical care, anything that's relating to admin, anything that's relating to core with the patient, we're automating.

And so that's what gives us an opportunity. And we're not just a healthcare company, we're a technology company. We built that routing and optimization platform, right clinician with the right vehicle for the right patient need, all automated and optimized. And now we're also using our tech resources to automate a lot of the function that's not directly involved in the clinical delivery of service. And as we do that, we have about 10 initiatives right now that we think are going to save us about $6 million on the SG&A line. So that's a new -- we've always been pressured by gas prices, rising clinician costs, but now finally we have something that we're implementing that allows us to drop the cost of the delivery of our service, which everyone will benefit from.

As we drop the cost, our company becomes more profitable and more successful, and then we can offer a much more comprehensive, robust suite of services to our patients. So, that's the difference this year from last year or prior years, where we've been very successful and we have a number of different projects that are working towards automating and allowing us to scale without having to scale up the same size team.

So let's talk a little bit about the payer opportunity, including care gap closures, chronic care management. How are conversations with the payers, particularly around the dual eligible Medicaid population, any opportunity in Medicare Advantage? Can you talk a little bit about that payer opportunity?

Yes, so by far the biggest opportunity in healthcare right now, and certainly for the payers. And by the way, the payers includes commercial plans. You mentioned, you know, maybe a commercial Medicare Advantage plan or a obviously struggling with MLRs, but it also includes CMS, Medicare and Medicaid obviously as a huge stakeholder in kind of how things get paid in the system. The number one focus is just improving outcomes. Improving outcomes, improving outcomes. And I think we've been talking about this for three years. I think it's starting finally to come to fruition. So I know Chris, you and I were talking about it earlier today. Just yesterday I was in D.C., CMS was hosting a huge event for this ACCESS program that they launched, which is -- if anybody, take a look at it, 150 companies were admitted to this ACCESS program, which is all designed to use technology to drive the cost of care and reward outcomes.

This whole program is set up to reward outcomes. They have 150 companies that are seeding that program. We're one of those 150 companies. We were invited yesterday, and Secretary Kennedy was there, Dr. Oz was there. I mean, so this is clearly a very, very important initiative for them. And the entire thread of the two-hour meeting was improving outcomes. They do not want to reward activity. The more tests, the more the clinician, you know, the more revenue gets generated from the clinician, the more procedures, the more visits, the more office visits, the more surgeries, the more the hospital or the clinician or a provider like us, the more money we make. They want to stop that. They want to move from an activity-based model to a more to an outcomes-based model. That, I think, is the biggest shift change that can help the healthcare industry. Without it, I think you're just going to continue to see rising costs.

The entire system has to be set up for improving outcomes, and that's really what we're designed to do. We're going to the home to do a cancer screening. We're going to the home to do a diabetic, you know, retinal scan or a bone density scan or provide vaccinations. Everything we're doing is designed to help manage chronic conditions and reduce hospitalization, reduce the cost, reduce the number of visits that patients have to do. Patients don't want to be sicker, patients want to be healthier. The healthier they are, the less activity gets generated. The less activity that gets generated, the more the system saves. So improving outcomes, improving outcomes. Any healthcare provider or company like ours that's improving outcomes, I think will be rewarded over time.

Let's spend some time on M&A. You hit on that a little bit earlier. Can you discuss potential opportunities in M&A, particularly in Mobile Health? And when we think about that, are there areas that you think of kind of on the horizon for strategic expansion?

Yes. I know, again Chris, and we talk about this pretty regularly, but our company has been pretty active. So we've completed several Mobile Health M&A transactions in recent years, and most notably, I think last year, we acquired a mobile phlebotomy company called PTI, and we also added a 50-state clinical platform called SteadyMD, which is the telehealth platform that I was alluding to before. And both of those added capabilities to us. It allows us to send phlebotomists to the home, that's a lower cost than us sending nurses to the home, which is a big component to us getting the in-home visits profitable. And now it gives us a 50-state clinical practice that's providing virtual visits to behavioral health, digital health, AI startup companies, but also doing the virtual visits for DocGo and our own patients. So we've been able to scale that.

Again, I want to share some specifics. So when we acquired PTI on the mobile phlebotomy side, they were doing about $3 million to $4 million of revenue. We've grown that over 20% to 30% year-over-year. So they'll do over $5 million this year and we think there's opportunity for us to do more. We just expanded them to South Florida with one of our major hospital customers that we already had. And SteadyMD, when we acquired them, they were doing about $25 million of revenue in trailing 12 months and we think they're going to do well north of $36 million this year. So we've been successful in acquiring, integrating, and then scaling those businesses.

And so I think we will look to do that with Hicuity. I think we'll have our plate full with that. We'll always continue to be opportunistic, but I think right now our focus is on integrating Hicuity really well, getting the synergies that I talked about and making sure that we're continuing to scale the mobile phlebotomy, the virtual care platform, and now Hicuity as part of that virtual care platform, and implementing kind of the cost savings I was mentioning. That's going to be the big focus for the company, I think, as we proceed in the near future here for sure.

So let's spend a minute then expanding on that a little bit about capital allocation. So when you think of it from a priority perspective, how should we think about what you would prioritize M&A, share repurchases, increase the sales force, tech spend? What do you think about that?

Yes, so I think anything that, first and foremost, anything that's relating to the growth of the company, right? So again, we're going to invest in the technology that allows us to automate and ultimately bring down our cost structure, right? So that's an area where we can go scale the business and also do it more profitably and more efficiently. We're going to continue to look to invest there. And I think, I talked in detail about it, I think our goal also is going to be paying down any of the debt. As we're generating profits, as we are, perhaps divesting of non-core assets as we bring in the city receivables, I think a lot of that cash will go to growth and will go towards addressing the debt. Then I think that will be a big focus area for us.

In the past we've allocated some capital to improving sort of our fleet. I think our goal over the next, call it years, we're going to be de-emphasizing the growth of the CapEx. In the transport segment, we're going to focus on maintaining the vehicles we have versus buying new vehicles, and only doing that when it's absolutely necessary. So I think over time you're going to see spend less on the CapEx on the fleet, get more and more efficient in the field, and address paying down any debt, and ultimately, first and foremost, making sure that our teams have what they need to grow the business, see more patients more efficiently, and as we see more patients and as we scale, the company is going to become more profitable.

So let's talk a little bit about the RFP process and your capabilities there. When you think about how you've grown the business, diversified the business, do you feel that you have all the components to kind of target these larger contracts? And then can you discuss a little bit about what that progression has been like as you gear up for some of these larger contract situations?

Yes, so in terms of the progression, so we've always won and been successful with large contracts. So typically when we'll win a new opportunity, it's us to come in and provide our software and our medical transportation for the entire hospital. So we do well with that. And also historically before in the past, we bid and won on these large scale emergency response type contracts, multi-hundred million contracts. And I think for us, and I've shared over time, we're de-emphasizing these emergency response, COVID-style, migrant crisis-style contracts, and we're really bidding on evergreen opportunities where we can come in and provide longitudinal care, provide care year in and year out for needs that patients have today, they have it tomorrow, they're going to have it next year, they're going to have it the year after. So from an RFP perspective, I'm really proud of our team. I think we've successfully conducted that pivot from sort of this emergency response style RFP process to more evergreen type opportunities.

Our current pipeline is robust. We have a total of about $185 million in annual contract revenue across our business lines, and that includes new opportunities and renewals for business we already have. Our win rates over '25 and '26 tend to be around 26% to give you a sense of -- so we win about one out of every four contracts that we bid on, whether it be new or renewals. I think we expect a similar win rate as we go. I always like to say if you're winning too much, you're probably not being ambitious enough, you're probably not bidding on frontier type opportunities, and if you're winning too little, you're probably delusional and bidding on things that you shouldn't be bidding on.

So I think the Goldilocks, not too high, not too low rate, for any organization, probably you're winning about 25 to 35% of the opportunities you bid on. I think that means you're being ambitious, you're going after lots of opportunities. So our pipeline is pretty robust.

I think that's going to continue. Again, we'll continue to bid on things that we're already doing today, so contract renewals, and we're going to bid on evergreen style types of opportunities, and I think we'll continue similar type win rate.

So let's talk a little bit about market expansion. You've entered quite a few new markets. Can you discuss a little bit about how you assess entering into a new market and then what are you particularly looking for, I guess kind of when you think across the service lines when you enter a new market?

Yes, so when we enter a new market, we require essentially embedded demand, critical mass, an anchor customer, I like to say. So as an example we just launched a new market in Southern Florida. That came with one of our major hospital systems here in New York, where they have footprint there. And so they asked us to scale some mobile phlebotomy services in Southern Florida. We liked the demographics in that market. We were able to do it at a relatively low-cost basis. It allows us to achieve profitability very quickly in that market. And again, we already have embedded demand. And in addition to that anchor customer, we're already integrated with their ordering platform, we're already integrated into their workflows, we already have a strong relationship with that hospital system. So those are the those are the ways we look to grow.

We already have a insurance partner that we're working with in California and they want us to scale to a new state. And of course there's enough volume for us to make a good business case out of it. And that example I love to share in Florida is, again, we already have an integration with their ordering platform. We're already working with that hospital system. They brought us the opportunity and were able to achieve profitability in that new market with that dynamic. So that's how we look to grow from a geographic perspective. You'll see us focus on the geographies we already have. Again, with a big focus on getting to profitability, I think we're going to look to grow in the markets we're in. Of course, if there's a big opportunity in a new market, we'll evaluate that, and it has to make good business sense in the near and long term. But I think we're very focused on the markets we're in.

So for Mobile Health specifically, given the growth you've seen in that segment, can you discuss a little bit about where you see that market going generally and how you create value for your various channel partners, with a hospital, a payer or municipality?

Yes, so I really think it goes back to improving outcomes. Okay. That's really the goal. I give one 30-second example. You know, I talked about bridging the care between hospital to home. We work with one very large payer in California, has about 2 million members, and they refer us to patients that are getting discharged from the hospital, and we go and follow up with them in a 30-day readmit window to make sure that they don't bounce back to the hospital.

And so again, in terms of the value and where do I see mobile health going, if we can improve the likelihood that patient does not bounce back to the hospital, we're going to be successful. So in that example, they give us some of the sickest patients that they have. It's called a LACE score, which is length of stay, acuity, chronic condition. On a scale of 1 to 10, it's we have the 9.4s. And we've been able to reduce hospital readmissions, again, bridging hospital to home, by over 50% for those patients. And that's why that program has been growing so quickly. Improving outcomes.

I think we have time for one more question. I want to make sure I hit on Medical Transport as well, because I've hit I've spent a lot of time on Mobile Health. Can you discuss a little bit about that market opportunity as well? And then you've got some great partnerships with Jefferson, Northwell, HCA. How big do you think this market can be, that the market opportunity to cross-sell? Can you talk a little bit about that? Yes.

Yes, so the medical transportation business for us is about a $200 million business. Again, we're going to be focused on growing the markets that are profitable and paring back the ones that aren't. If from a Medical Transportation perspective, we think the TAM is about $7 billion here in the US. So very fragmented, again, we're one of the larger providers, but we still don't have a huge percentage of that market, so there's a big opportunity there. We're going to continue to partner with our big hospital systems. You mentioned Jefferson, you mentioned Northwell. In both scenarios, they utilize our tech platform that we talked about. And Jefferson, as an example, we've been working with since 2019. Northwell, we've also been working with since 2019. Both systems, we service all their facilities. We've done, for Jefferson as an example, we've done over 135,000 transports for them.

Our goal is to provide them great quality, predictable service that's tech enabled, that's integrated into their workflow, and very sticky, and we're going to continue to do that. We think that we can improve the gross margin of this segment again by focusing on the markets that are that are being profitable for us and driving that gross margin which we think we could drive much higher as we pare back some of the underperforming markets.

Well, Lee, thank you again for being here today.

It's always great to join you. Thanks, Chris, for having us. Thank you everyone.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to DocGo Second Quarter Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Monday, August 17, 2026.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Mike Cole, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

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At this time, it is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Lee Bienstock, CEO of DocGo. Lee, please go ahead.

Thank you, Mike, and thank you all for joining us today. The second quarter was a transformational period for our company, and the recent weeks marked a number of key milestones. Today, I'd like to share four significant updates with you.

Number one, we signed a definitive agreement to make our largest acquisition to date. Number two, in connection with the acquisition, we received a commitment for a major new source of funding. Three, we achieved record volumes across our key business verticals and four, we advanced our vision of integrating DocGo's technology and care delivery offerings to create one of the most innovative health care delivery platforms in the industry, a holistic tech-powered offering that enables us to match the right clinician with the right patient at the right time in the right setting.

A uniquely differentiated platform that improves patient access across the entire health care continuum from the hospital to the home. I have never been more excited or more optimistic about the future of our expanded offering than I am today.

So let's get into it. First and foremost, we formally announced in March that the company had undertaken an exploration of strategic alternatives to enhance shareholder value. Today, we're announcing that we've signed a definitive agreement to acquire virtual care provider, Hicuity Health. This marks our second major acquisition in the virtual care space in the last 9 months. While we plan to host a webinar in the coming weeks to share a deep dive on Hicuity Health and the powerful growth and cost synergies of this acquisition, I wanted to share an overview with you today.

St. Louis-based Hicuity Health is a leading provider of acute and critical care telemedicine services with an impressive roster of long-term relationships and a diverse portfolio of hospitals and health systems across the United States. Hicuity's 400-plus clinical staff provide Hicuity virtual care services that include Tele-ICU and virtual nursing and telemetry monitoring, which are all managed by Hicuity's proprietary clinical monitoring and patient management platform called the Hub. DocGo and Hicuity have shared DNA. Both companies have developed proprietary technology platforms that help optimize scarce clinical resources, whether it be an advanced practice provider, delivering critical care in an ICU or a mobile health clinician bringing preventative care to a patient in the home, merging the Hicuity Hub into DocGo's existing proprietary health tech stack will enable us to better match the right provider with the right patient at the right time in the right setting.

Combining Hicuity strength in providing care and health system settings with DocGo's technology-enabled mobile model that delivers care in the home, it differentiates our offering far beyond a single point solution on the patient journey and positions DocGo to support patients across the entire care continuum from the hospital to the home. The combination strengthens DocGo's technology-enabled care delivery model, expands our presence within health systems where we already have entrenched relationships and creates additional opportunities to expand and cross-sell our robust suite of virtual services, care in the home and remote monitoring.

Much like we are experiencing with our SteadyMD acquisition, we expect to realize significant operational efficiencies while leveraging our expanded platform to support future revenue growth. A dedicated cross-functional integration team has already begun planning integration and cost-cutting initiatives across operations, technology, finance, legal, human resources and clinical operations. Some specific areas we have identified include combining shared corporate functions and reducing duplicative administrative costs, leveraging a common technology infrastructure and operational platform, optimizing third-party vendor relationships and procurement, streamlining clinical operations across both organizations, and expanding cross-selling opportunities by offering a broader suite of virtual, mobile, and in-home health care services to customers.

In sum, we expect our acquisition of Hicuity to create a scaled, unified, mobile and virtual care delivery platform that powers health systems, health plans and digital health companies and represents an important step in advancing our Care Anywhere strategy.

Second, I'd like to share the details around the Hicuity transaction and our new funding. Hicuity brings an established revenue base and proven operating platform. On a trailing 12-month basis, Hicuity generated approximately $65 million in revenue and $4.5 million in adjusted EBITDA. Under terms of the agreement, DocGo will acquire 100% of Hicuity on a cash-free basis while assuming the company's existing indebtedness held by Perceptive Advisors.

At closing, the debt is estimated to be approximately $52 million and will now mature in December 2029. In addition to assuming the existing Hicuity debt, Perceptive has also committed to provide up to an additional $50 million of financing to DocGo in multiple tranches, the first $12.5 million of which will be funded with the execution of a services agreement through which we provide management-related services to Hicuity during the pre-closing period.

We expect to finalize this agreement in the near term. As part of the overall consideration, DocGo will issue new equity representing 2% of DocGo's fully diluted outstanding common stock at closing, all of which is going to Hicuity's preferred equity holder who may receive an additional 3.5% equity interest if DocGo achieves a market capitalization of $250 million within 3 years of closing. Perceptive Advisors and Hicuity's preferred equity holder, both have strong roots in health care and deep connections across the industry. We believe our strategic relationships with both of these partners have the potential to create additional value for DocGo in the months and years ahead.

Third, our business performance remains strong. Across all business lines, we achieved record volumes during the quarter, with U.S. medical transportation increasing 15%, health care in the home, increasing 26%, mobile phlebotomy increasing 20%, cardiac and remote patient monitoring increasing 13% and virtual care and lab orders increasing 58% when comparing year-over-year results. On the business development front, we signed a new contract with one of the largest national health plans to offer services to their members in Pennsylvania.

Additionally, we grew the total number of patients assigned for our care gap closure services to $1.7 million since inception up $100,000 from last quarter. We continue to be extremely pleased with the performance of our virtual care provider, SteadyMD. Despite the summer months typically being the slowest for telehealth services of this nature, Steady saw volumes similar to those of Q1. The large enterprise deal we completed with a leading online pharmacy in early Q2, is expected to be a key growth driver in the second half of the year at scales.

We continue to make progress with our efficiency initiatives. We saw a considerable sequential improvement in our adjusted EBITDA loss, which dropped nearly 40% quarter-over-quarter, declining from $10.3 million last quarter to $6.3 million in Q2. One factor that had a material impact on this improvement was a substantial corporate reduction in force during the quarter, which reduced annual SG&A by approximately $4.5 million. We are also starting to see a more material impact from a number of the AI efficiency initiatives that we discussed last quarter. One specific example is with our mobile phlebotomy business. Our engineers developed an AI communications tool that now handles 60% of inbound patient calls without the patient needing to speak to one of our live agents, and it also handles 100% of our outbound appointment scheduling calls.

On a typical day, this AI agent handles over 1,000 calls without human intervention. Additionally, AI data entry integrations now account for 65% of orders received. We anticipate this will increase to 90% of orders by the end of the year with our new system bringing the cost to process each order from $2 down to mere pennies. We currently have over 10 active efficiency-related programs of this nature across all business lines, supporting functions from eligibility determination to validation of patient care reports. Collectively, we estimate a potential annual savings of approximately $6 million when these are fully implemented over the coming quarters.

In our push to infuse technology into all aspects of our business, there are another 20 efficiency-related programs that are set to kick off in late 2026 and early 2027, and we look forward to sharing more about those on future earnings calls. Earlier today, we updated guidance. While our revenue guidance is relatively unchanged, not taking into account any potential impact of Hicuity, our adjusted EBITDA loss is wider than our original expectations as cost cuts took more time than anticipated to work their way through to the financials in the early part of 2026.

That being said, we believe that the company will achieve a positive adjusted EBITDA run rate as we exit the year and be set up for a very strong 2027. Fourth and finally, the realization of our vision. We have spent the last 3 years transforming DocGo into a fully vertically integrated technology-backed health care provider that can support our health system and insurance payer partners with end-to-end longitudinal care across the entire patient journey. While a number of companies offer point solutions in health care, we are building a holistic platform that we believe is both superior and differentiated. As I shared at the start of our call, I have never been more excited about the company we are building that aims to deliver care wherever patients may be.

At this time, I'll hand it over to Norm to review the financials.

Thank you, Lee, and good afternoon. Total revenue for the second quarter of 2026 was $73.4 million compared to $80.4 million in the second quarter of 2025. The year-over-year revenue decline was due entirely to the wind-down of migrant-related projects. Removing migrant-related revenues, we saw a revenue increase of 19% year-over-year in Q2. This was partially due to the October 2025 acquisition of SteadyMD, which added $8.9 million in revenues in Q2 of this year. Removing the impact of both the migrant-related revenues in the 2025 period, and the SteadyMD revenues in the 2026 period, revenues still increased by about 5% year-over-year.

Medical Transportation services revenue increased to $52 million in Q2 of 2026 from $49.6 million in the second quarter of 2025, slightly surpassing Q1's transport revenues as the highest quarterly number in DocGo's history. Revenues are driven higher by gains in both large and small U.S. markets with some of the strongest growth in markets like New York, Texas and Tennessee, we continue to see increasing demand across most of our markets.

Mobile Health revenue for the second quarter of 2026 was $21.4 million down from $30.8 million in the second quarter of last year, again, driven by the wind down of migrant revenues. Non-migrant mobile health revenues surged by 78%, driven by increases in care gap closures, remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy and by the inclusion of revenues from SteadyMD, which we acquired during the fourth quarter of 2025.

Adjusted EBITDA for the second quarter of 2026 was a negative $6.3 million compared to an adjusted EBITDA of negative $6.1 million in the second quarter of 2025. The adjusted gross margin, which removes the impact of depreciation and amortization and is the measure of margins that we track most closely was 30.5% in the second quarter of 2026 compared to 31.6% in the second quarter of 2025.

During the second quarter of 2026, adjusted gross margin for the Medical Transportation segment were 32% compared to 31.1% in Q2 of 2025 and up slightly from the first quarter of this year. Medical Transportation gross margins are still being restrained by higher-than-planned effective hourly wages for field labor. However, we have taken solid strides toward increasing our field head count in the first half of 2026, and we saw the overtime rate decline again in the second quarter of 2026 to approximately 8.1%, which is the lowest level that we've seen since the second quarter of 2024.

Transport gross margins were also impacted by increased fuel costs with our per gallon price rising to $4.27 in Q2 of 2026 compared to $3.16 per gallon in last year's second quarter. We estimate that fuel costs are strained to transport gross margins by about 60 basis points versus last year and the consolidated gross margin by about 40 basis points. Mobile Health segment adjusted gross margin was 27% versus 32.5% in the second quarter of 2025. SteadyMD gross margins were several points lower than normal, reflecting aggressive hiring in the first half to catch up to the increased demand from large customers and in anticipation of higher seasonal volumes in Q3 and Q4.

Now this factor, which is expected to normalize later in 2026, was partially offset by greater relative contributions from higher-margin mobile health service lines such as remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy. In fact, if you look at the underlying gross margins of the Mobile Health segment, there's actually solid improvement that is taking place. In last year's second quarter, more than 60% of mobile health revenues are derived from migrant-related projects, which generated gross margins of 37.1%.

Absent these revenues, the Mobile Health gross margins from continuing business lines improved by more than 500 basis points as we saw improved margins from the health care in the home business and the high-margin mobile phlebotomy and remote patient monitoring business lines accounted for a greater proportion of mobile health revenues than in last year's second quarter. While gross margins came in a little below expectations, operating expenses declined as anticipated. This is due to our cost-cutting actions that have been undertaken so far this year in the areas of head count and vendor spending. Offsetting this impact were increased recruiting costs due to the need to ramp up the hiring, onboarding and training of EMTs and mobile health clinical staff to meet customer demand. During the second quarter, we spent approximately $300,000 on recruiting outreach, supplementing the efforts of our in-house recruiting team. With SteadyMD 's hiring push mostly behind us, our continued cost-cutting efforts during the first half of 2026 and additional savings from our efficiency portfolio initiatives still to come we expect continued sequential declines in SG&A as we go throughout the year.

Looking to the rest of 2026, as Lee mentioned in his comments earlier, and as we pointed out in our press release, we are narrowing the range for our revenue guidance for 2026, based upon what we have already seen in the first half of the year. We now see full year revenues in the range of $305 million to $310 million, which is within the range of $300 million to $315 million that we shared on our last call in May. It's also higher than the $290 million to $300 million that we shared in mid-March and our initial guidance for the year of $280 million to $300 million. This does not include any revenue assumption from Hicuity as the timing of the closing of the Hicuity acquisition becomes more clear, we will update our revenue guidance accordingly.

Our guidance for 2026 also does not include any revenues for migrant-related projects and therefore, represent 21% to 23% growth over 2025's base revenues. We now anticipate a full year adjusted EBITDA loss in the range of $17 million to $22 million compared to our previous guidance of $5 million to $10 million adjusted EBITDA loss. As our EBITDA loss in the first half of 2026 was larger than anticipated and as our current gross margin trajectory, albeit upward sloping, is still somewhat lower than what we had originally anticipated.

Finally, turning to the balance sheet. At June 30, 2026, our total cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash and investments was $48.1 million, down from $59.9 million at March 31, 2026. Available cash was $25.2 million, down from $35.7 million at March 31. On April 1, we received approximately $8 million in migrant-related accounts receivable owed by New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, HPD, which we had expected to see during the first quarter. We are working on collecting the remainder of these receivables, although the timing of these future collections remains unpredictable.

However, the Hicuity transaction specifically the term loan commitment from Perceptive, which will replace our existing asset-backed line of credit, represents a major step forward for DocGo. This transaction will immediately reshape our balance sheet providing us with the flexibility we need to execute our growth plans. Over the longer term, we will continue to explore and execute steps necessary to reposition our business, line portfolio and to strengthen our balance sheet, making the company leaner, more profitable and more easily understood by investors and partners alike.

At this point, I'd like to turn the call back to the operator for Q&A. Operator, please proceed.

[Operator Instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Ryan MacDonald with Needham.

Maybe to start with the Hicuity Health acquisition. Can you just talk about sort of the customer overlap between you and Hicuity at the moment and sort of what cross-sell opportunities it presents? And then you talked about $65 million of revenue. How fast is the business growing generally? And then on the acquisition, what's sort of the sort of gating factors or inhibiting factors to getting that closed at the end of the year?

Absolutely. Thanks, Ryan. Great to hear from you. Your line was a little broken up, but I think we got the gist of the question. So we'll do our best to answer. And of course, we can follow up with anything. So on Hicuity Health, you mentioned about the existing customer base. So Hicuity Health works primarily with hospital systems and health systems. And so there is significant overlap, of course, with our hospital system partners where we work on the medical transportation side and Hicuity Health works with hospital systems as well, providing Tele-ICU and virtual care services.

So we think there's some nice overlap there. And of course, we work with some hospitals they don't. And of course, they -- we work with hospitals they don't and they work with hospitals that we don't. So we think there's a nice opportunity there. In addition, a lot of their programs include some virtual care in the home, transitional care management of patients that are being discharged to the home. And we think there's a nice opportunity for us to be able to provide additional in-person care services in the home, like mobile phlebotomy and other preventative care and transitional care services in the home.

So in addition to the virtual care synergies that we have with them and SteadyMD and all of our virtual care work, we also think there's a nice opportunity for us to cross-sell. And beyond cross-sell offer a full suite of services to patients in their home, both virtual and in person. That is an absolutely crucial component because we know payers, hospital systems are all focused on that link between the hospital and the home. And we've had great success in transitional care management programs, where patients are being discharged, they're going to the home, and we're following up in the 30-day postage charge window, and we've been able to reduce hospital remissions with that cohort by about 50% to 60%.

So this continues to deepen our link between the hospital and the home, which we think is incredibly valuable for the hospitals and insurance partners that we have. I think you also mentioned the question. Again, it was cutting in and out. But we heard portion of the question was relating to revenues. As I mentioned in the prepared remarks, Hicuity does have about $65 million of trailing 12-month revenues. Of course, we're going to do everything we can to support that growth. We're going to do everything we can to support them with the resources that they'll need to grow with the current existing customers they have as well as an opportunity for us to go to market together, which we're very, very excited about.

Appreciate the color there, Lee. Sorry for breaking up. Hopefully, I'm a little bit clearer now. Maybe on a separate note, I wanted to ask about the remote patient monitoring business. Obviously, CMS has got a proposed rule out there that might limit or eliminate sort of Medicare reimbursement for RPM in 2027. So -- just curious sort of what potential risks that creates to your RPM offering? Does Hicuity have any exposure there as well? And just how you're sort of viewing that situation?

Yes. And we can hear you loud and clear now, Ryan, thank you. So yes, as you mentioned, there's been some discussion about RPM, RPM rates, the RPM program overall from CMS. I think the first piece that at least we're looking at -- it impacts RPM, but there's a big component of what we do that goes along with RPM, which is really chronic care management and transitional care management.

And those pieces are incredibly valuable, right, managing -- helping manage chronic conditions and then also, again, managing the transition of patients from hospital to home. And there's really no discussion about those types of programs, again, which are all centered around not just monitoring a patient but also managing a patient. And we think that is a very, very big distinction.

We think overall, I'll see over time that the industry is going to reward managing chronic conditions versus simply monitoring the data that's coming in. And so again, there's telemetry monitoring that Hicuity is doing. We have our programs on the RPM side, but all are in service not just monitoring the patient but helping manage the patient, and that's where our clinical practice comes in. So we're not merely a monitoring company, but rather, again, a clinical practice that helps manage the chronic conditions.

So that's a big component. We have about 2,000 patients that kind of fit into that RPM program today. The vast majority of around 55,000 patients that we monitor, again, DocGo and hopefully, more with Hicuity. But the vast majority of those patients are cardiac patients. I know, as you know, they're implantable cardiac electronic device patients that we're monitoring. And again, there's no discussion. Those are obviously heart failure patients that we're monitoring on a regular basis.

And so again, no discussion there. So net-net, I think monitoring for monitoring sake, especially patients, again, that are not chronically ill, I think, again, may come under some pressure but managing patients in their chronic conditions, I think over time is going to get rewarded more and more, and that's exactly what we do.

And Ryan, I think you also asked about hurdles, any hurdles for the close of the Hicuity transaction. So none that I think are particularly troubling. I mean, obviously, you need to get state regulatory approvals, which we think should not be much of an issue other than timing because that's always unpredictable. And there is -- there are a couple of customers here and there that have to give their approval. But again, we've already been in touch with them, and we don't think that's going to pose a particular challenge for us.

And your next question comes from the line of Richard Close with Canaccord Genuity.

Congratulations on the progress in the acquisition. So just maybe to clean up a little bit on Ryan's questions. Maybe, Norm, if you could just follow up on the $65 million trailing 12-month revenue, how does that compare to the comparable 12 months? Is Hicuity has the business been growing? Let's just start there.

Yes, sure. And I'll take a look back and look forward as well because as part of our process here, we do have their projections, which are going to have to be borne out once we own it. But I would say it's growing probably at a low double-digit rate, so maybe about 10%. Like when I look out to thinking about what they're looking at for 2027, you're probably looking at a low double-digit 10% to 12% growth rate, and that's what's been happening. Now that's been happening while certain business lines or service lines have been growing. Others have been shrinking. They've been pivoting away from them. But on the overall level, that $65 million is something that's growing at, I would say, let's call it, a 10% to 12% growth rate on average.

That's helpful. Okay. Very helpful there. And then, Lee, maybe just cleaning up on the RPM response to Ryan. Are you saying that you have about 2,000 patients that essentially could be at risk from the CMS change and you have about a vast majority of 55,000 that are these cardiac patients that you would see no impact?

That's correct. Yes. So you got the numbers exactly right. It's about 55,000 implantable device monitoring patients, again, that we have today. Again, these are pacemakers, loop recorders, again, not being discussed. And obviously, these patients it's critically important that those devices, those transmissions get monitored on a regular basis, and that's exactly what our team does an incredible job of day in, day out partnering with cardiac clinics and so forth.

Again, not relevant to any of the discussions happening today. As you mentioned, we had -- we started enrolling patients in RPM and particularly CCM, we call it total care management because, again, we don't only focus on receiving the data, I'll say, patient's blood pressure or weight, but rather we use the patient's blood pressure or weight or pulse ox or a number of different data points that may come in as a way to more effectively manage their chronic condition.

We started enrolling patients in that about the end of last, I would say, through the beginning of this year. So we've been growing that. But again, we don't only focus on the RPM aspect of it. We are really focused on the chronic care management facets and transitional care management facets of it, and those pieces, again, are not being discussed by CMS. So over time, I do think it makes sense.

Again, if I'm thinking about the industry and what the industry should be rewarding, we should be rewarding companies like ours that are impacting patient outcomes or managing -- helping manage chronic conditions of which 160 million Americans have chronic conditions today, not simply getting the data but what are we doing with that data. And I think that's probably -- again, time will tell, but that's probably -- my belief is probably what CMS is pushing here, which is we're not going to reward groups and practices and companies for merely collecting the data, but rewarding them and incentivizing them to help use that data to better manage the chronic condition. And again, none of those programs like CCM, like PCM, Principal Care Management and TCM, Transitional Care Management are being talked about alongside some of these RPM rate cuts.

Okay. That's helpful. And then maybe just back on this cross-selling between the two businesses once the transactions close. I'm just curious, have you guys talked to any of the -- your customers, DocGo health system customers or on the Hicuity side that they've already expressed interest maybe in the various programs of the two companies. And so I'm just curious there. I understand the transportation business, and that's quite a bit different than Hicuity. So just curious what you've found so far?

Yes. And it's a great question. I think partly, we've been a little sensitive because again, obviously, this is an important transaction and it needed to be confidential and discrete. But we have had conversations both with some customers either that we have today on the medical transportation side as well as customers of Hicuity that we need consent for the transaction.

And so we have had conversations, I think first and foremost, with our transportation customers, we do have very strong, long-standing relationships with some of the major hospital systems that we've been providing medical transportation for over a number of years, and I was meeting recently with one of the presidents of a very large hospital system that we're working with. And there's certainly the need to help staff and to help provide services and support virtually for some of the hospitals where they're having a hard time staffing in person.

And so again, I think the relationships are there. I think perhaps medical transportation and, let's say, the virtual tele-ICU or telemetry monitoring are not as overlapping and sort of the service levels, but the relationships certainly are. And we have an opportunity to work deeper with the hospital systems that they know we deliver. We execute, we innovate. Our software is beloved and valued. And so bringing them more solutions that, again, execute, deliver, bring them value, have software that delivers, I think, again, will be very, very well received. And I think we started to have tangentially some conversations around that, for sure.

And Richard, I just want to add one more point. Sorry to interrupt you. I just want to add one more point, which is Again, we've seen with SteadyMD and then hopefully now with Hicuity, where we provide virtual care, a big differentiator for us, and we are placing resources there. We're placing a bet there, which we feel very passionately about is our ability not just to be with the patient virtually, right, in Hicuity's case, let's say, in the hospital or in the home, in SteadyMD's case to be with the patient virtually, but our ability at DocGo to add to be present with the patient in their home, both virtually and in person.

And so again, today, we have some of our partners that are providing virtual care, let's say, for Hicuity, but then also seeking services for other people to come into the home, let's say, to do mobile phlebotomy to take a lab specimen or to do wound care or to redress the incision site. Again, all things that we can do in the home. So that is a very big aspect of what we're doing, both again, Hicuity and Steady and our other business lines that are either doing medical transportation or care virtually, we can now add that care in the home component, which we think is a very big differentiator.

Okay. That's helpful. And then just like once this deal closes, you mentioned some areas of to be able to get some cost savings. You mentioned streamlined clinical functions. So I'm curious about what exactly you're talking about there on that front. It's not necessarily intuitive to be. It seems like two different businesses. So how are you thinking about the clinical function streamlined?

Yes. So it's a great question. So with the clinical operations in many cases, you need a multistate clinical practice groups. So as an example, DocGo, when we did the SteadyMD acquisition, DocGo was providing clinical services and clinical practice groups in multiple states and SteadyMD had a 50-state clinical practice group. And so instead of having overlapping clinical practice groups, we integrated them into one clinical practice group that was licensed across all 50 states.

Tier 2, Hicuity provides services in 30 states across the country, again, with various clinical practice groups and clinical infrastructure. And again, we see an opportunity to bring them together, the ability to do -- to utilize the 400-plus clinicians that Hicuity has alongside our 500 or 600 clinicians that we have today and to put them into one team and to integrate them to be able to scale what we're doing in a way.

And that's, again, what we did with SteadyMD, there's overlap in clinical practice groups, and then we can merge the teams and see efficiencies there on the clinical side. There's also just a tremendous amount of operational efficiencies, again, that we can leverage. A lot of times, we're using similar vendors. And so now we're going to be using maybe similar vendors with more scale, gives us more purchasing power. A lot of times we're using overlapping systems for cyber and IT, again, allows us to work together to synergize some of the overlap there. So there's going to be a lot of areas where we think that we can benefit both organizations and bring the costs down of both organizations by bringing them together.

[Operator Instructions] Your next question comes from the line of David Larsen with BTIG.

Can you please repeat what the sort of pure organic revenue growth rate number was in...

Dave, yes, you cut out just a minute there. We heard your question, but maybe you could just repeat it, just make sure we got it clearly.

What was the organic revenue growth rate were? I think Norm said it was 5%.

Yes, let's define organic. And by organic, what we're doing is we're looking at business lines that existed both in Q2 '25 and Q2 '26. So that would mean removing the migrant revenue from Q2 of last year and moving the SteadyMD revenue from Q2 of this year, and that number was roughly 5% year-over-year.

And then I think you said your I'm assuming -- it's a cost reduction effort.

Dave, we had a hard time hearing you on that. Can you maybe repeat the question?

I'm sorry. Sorry for the bad connection here. Can you hear me now?

Yes, we can hear you great now. No problem. We can hear you great.

Okay. So EBITDA breakeven exiting 2026. Can you maybe just talk a little bit about how you're going to get there? I mean it was a pretty significant loss in the quarter here. Are you assuming like incremental revenue growth or...

Yes, David, it's yes, yes and yes, right? It's incremental revenue growth, which is what we had modeled out, which is what we've sort of been seeing, a little bit of a sequential growth rate, a little bit of transport growth. But more to the point, we're going to see some pretty good seasonal increases in SteadyMD and some of our care gap closure business.

Our other mobile health business lines continue to perform admirably and they're growing on a sequential basis. It's also the margin thing. We talked about how -- I mentioned how our margin trajectory is moving in the right direction. It's definitely moving higher, but it's at a lower level now than really where we had projected it to be.

So for example, we felt that we were restrained by over 1 point -- over maybe 1.5, almost 1.5 points between the impact of gas prices on the transport side of the business and SteadyMD temporarily lower margins in the first -- in the second quarter of the year. So if you take those factors away and then you just sort of look at the general performance of the business, that would indicate performing at maybe 1.5 points, almost 2 points higher on gross margin. So on about $75 million, $80 million of revenue, that will get you almost $2 million.

So that will be another factor. And then continued sequential declines in SG&A that we expect. We have more of the people who are no longer here, but are still on our payroll because of severance. Those people are rolling off and have started to roll off. You'll see a greater impact on that in Q3. The repricing and the repricing of vendors or the substituting one vendor for the other, a lower-cost vendor that obviously also will have an impact.

All of those things are things that, as we pointed out on the last call, start to have impacts as we go throughout the year. So it's really all 3. It's a little bit of higher revenue, a little bit of increase in revenue, improved margin. I think that's really where some of the biggest impacts are going to be seen on the gross margin side. and then continued decline in SG&A, and that would add up to getting us to pretty close to a breakeven run rate.

Okay. And then just one more quick one. You say like there's some pretty high growth rates quoted in your press report for the earnings news report. Have you sized the amount of revenue coming from these areas like mobile phlebotomy, health care in the home, cardiac and remote patient monitoring, virtual care and lab orders. I mean these revenue growth rates look wonderful. I guess just how much revenue is in each of these buckets? Can you just sort of put some parameters around it?

Sure. And I'll give you a general idea of what the quarter number was and the run rate. So let's start with remote patient monitoring, the CRMS business, cardiac RMS business, had revenues about $4.5 million in the quarter. So again, if you look at that on a run rate basis, that's an $18 million annualized number.

And last year, I think for full year 2025, they ran at something in the 15% area. So that's a pretty good percentage growth rate. That's about a 20% growth rate on top line. SteadyMD did about 8 point -- that's a virtual care business that we just acquired late last year. So that did about $8.9 million. We had mentioned seasonally, as Lee mentioned in his comments that summer is a little bit of a slower season. So they did $8.9 million versus, I think, $9.5 million in the first quarter.

But then you get back to that trajectory in the second half of the year. PTI, which is our mobile phlebotomy business is currently in the quarter ran at about $1.4 million, $1.5 million. So again, that's a run rate of about $6 million. That's a business that we acquired that I think was at a run rate of about $4 million a year. So you've seen a pretty big increase there and also a very high-margin business. That sort of gives you an idea of where our larger business lines are. The care gap closure business, I think, also is running at over -- somewhere between $1 million and $2 million in the quarter.

And I'm showing no further questions at this time. I would like to hand it back to our CEO, Lee Bienstock for closing remarks.

Thank you so much, and thank you all for joining us. Speak to you soon. Be well.

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.

Good afternoon. My name is Sarah Conrad, and I'm on the GS Healthcare Services team here. Today, I am joined by DocGo and CEO, Lee Bienstock. We just -- for those who are a little less familiar with the story, can you give a high-level overview of the business today and how we're thinking about the core value proposition?

Absolutely, Sarah. It's great to be here with you. So for those less familiar with DocGo, essentially, we deliver health care literally. We go into patients' homes and deliver health care. We provide virtual care services, remote care services, and we also have a very large medical transportation business where we go and take patients from one care setting to the next.

So that's essentially what our company is there to do. We're going to meet patients where they are or bring patients to where they need to get to. And we do that at great scale. Last year, we transported 700,000 patients, and we also visited about 150,000 patients in the home and did over 1 million telehealth visits. So we're really excited. We're meeting patients where they are. And we think when you meet patients where they are, you have better health outcomes, you have better health outcomes. Obviously, it's great for the patient, it's great for the system, and we think we'll do well in that way.

Yes. So the company has gone through a bit of transition over the last couple of years. You've moved away from your COVID and migrant-related work. Can you talk about the main pieces of the business today and how investors should think about like what the normalized business should look like from here?

Absolutely. So you mentioned it. I mean, the company went public in 2021. At that time, we were a medical transportation company. We've been doing medical transportation now for over 10 years. When the company went public, we were doing about $100 million of transportation revenue in that year, this year, we'll do over $200 million. So we've doubled the medical transportation business in that time.

And at the time, we were doing a lot of COVID work and over the last number of years doing work relating to the migrant crisis in New York. And so the company was doing a lot of work with emergency response, right, us being an ambulance company at heart, a medical transportation company at heart. We were mobile and dynamic in that way, and that was what was needed to respond to some of these emergencies.

But really, the goal of the company has evolved into meeting patients where they are in an evergreen way, tackling their health and their chronic conditions in an evergreen proactive way, and that's where the company has evolved. In Q1 of this year, that was the first quarter in years where the company did not have any COVID revenue or migrant-related revenue, we're providing medical care to the migrants that were being bused in New York. We didn't have any of that type of revenue. We had about $76 million of revenue in Q1 of this year, all of which was comprised of our medical transportation revenue and the care anywhere portfolio, as I say, bringing care to where it's needed. So that was an exciting moment for us with the sort of first quarter and people got a chance and investors got a chance to see the business for the components that are evergreen and proactive in providing care where it's needed, and that was a big, big model for us.

Yes. So let's move on to medical transportation. This is your largest, most established vertical. Can you talk a little bit about the utilization environment there? What's driving growth today and also just the competitive environment within medical transportation?

Yes. So medical transportation has gotten a lot of excitement recently. And we were talking about one of our peer companies, I'd say, AMR just went public a couple of months ago, and we're cheering them on as well, of course. So I think really, medical transportation is evolving. Patients need to get to the care facilities and care settings that they need to get to receive efficient care. As I mentioned, we've been doing it for over a decade now. And the real genesis for us to bring innovation to the space was really, how can we use technology to become more efficient, how can we use technology to help the system.

And that's basically what we set out to build over the last 10, 11 years. We built a platform that's embedded within Epic, where a discharge nurse can literally click a button, and just like Uber, see exactly when the ambulance is going to arrive to pick up the patient. That is a really magical experience for discharge nurse.

If you think back, it used to be when you ordered ambulance for medical transportation, call the first company on the list, hey, Can you come pick up my patient now? Great. We'll be there in an hour. You don't really know they're going to be there in an hour. In 20 minutes, are they going to be there in 40 minutes? Maybe they weren't available to pick up the patient. You call the second one on the list. Now with us, we have our platform. It's directly embedded within Epic, and they click a button and they can see exactly when we're arriving.

And the other piece is we've approached the market in a very different way. We're not -- we're contracting with major hospital systems to provide medical transportation for their entire population. And this is a big aspect because you can imagine if a hospital calls up an ambulance company and said, hey, can you come pick up a patient? They didn't have such great insurance, maybe they're busy. They didn't have any insurance. Maybe they're not available. But for us, we help the hospital system manage the patient -- we contract in a way that we align incentives so that we can help them manage the patient flow. And that has been a big, big sort of breath of fresh air to the customers we work with. We work with some hospital systems like New York City Health and Hospitals, Mount Sinai, Jefferson. We work with mainline health. We work with Methodist. We work with a lot of great hospital systems that use our software, Northwell, and we help them manage that patient flow. And that integration between software and services is very unique. I think that's a winning strategy.

We can talk more about it, but there's a lot of companies out there that are just doing the software, but they can't provide you with the services or their antiquated companies providing services, but they don't have the technology. And that's kind of our unique value proposition as we bring both to bear, both the platform and the services, all integrated into 1 seamless experience for the facility and the patients.

Yes. So you mentioned you take all types of payers. We've had a couple of changes in the market recently with the HIC subsidies expiring, Medicaid challenges with SVT payments. Can you talk a little bit about how your payer mix has shifted over the last year or so?

Yes. So for us, really, we contract first and foremost, either with the insurance companies directly or with the hospital systems. I'll tell you that the -- there's a lot of strain on the system right now. Hospital systems are definitely worried about expenses, reimbursement rates that they're going to be getting. Certainly, we believe there's going to be a lot of what makes fewer population on some of the Medicaid plans.

And so as a result, what patients are going to end up in the hospital. The question is do they have Medicaid? Or do they not have Medicaid? Do they have insurance or they not have insurance? The hospitals are going to have to grapple with how they're going to provide services for those patients.

And so that's really why we exist. We're there to help them either mitigate that. We try to keep patients out of the hospital, right, when they don't need to be there and I'll tell a personal story in a second. And of course, if the patient does need to be there and need to be transported out upon discharge, we help them do that efficiently. So I think to be more and more efficient. One of the -- is really CMS' goal to reward outcomes and the upfront reimbursements are so low, you have no choice but to use technology to drive down the cost. Otherwise, you won't be successful.

So it's pretty clear what the industry and what CMS is trying to do. They're trying to incentivize providers like us and hospital systems and insurance companies that we work with to drive the cost down, to improve outcomes and to reward companies and providers for doing that. We've all had experiences where we've gone to the doctor, taking this child to the hospital, and there's just test after test, providers get rewarded, the sicker and sicker you get, the more and more times they visit hospital, the more and more time they visit a doctor's office. And the system has to change to where actually companies like mine, companies like ours are successful, the healthier the patient is.

That's what CMS, I believe, is trying to do. We sit at the intersection of that. And I think you're going to see more and more of that come down, come down the pike here. I think also in some cases, you're going to see pressure on rates, but in some cases, you're going to see higher incentives. I think CMS is really pushing more preventative care. They're increasing the G-codes on preventative care. They're improving reimbursements on proactive screenings and things of that nature, all with an effort to improve outcomes, which will ultimately drive down the total cost of care. So that's really kind of the piece of the strategy we're focused on.

Yes. So I guess sticking on medical transportation just for a little bit. So what do you think customers are prioritizing when they're selecting their vendors? And then what do you think is driving your ability to continue to take share in this market?

So I think, first and foremost, the customers we work with are prioritizing the transparency of the service delivery. When are we going to be there? How often do we arrive on time? How quickly can we move the patients and free up the bed for the next patient. That's the key. So for example, when we're ordered, when medical transportation is ordered through us, alerts go out across the hospital. The housekeeping team is notified. Now it's time to go and make up the room for the next patient. The intake team is notified, hey, the bed is freed up for the next patient. Discharge nurse does exactly when to get the patient ready because they know exactly when we're going to be arriving.

So that transparency understanding each piece of the service delivery is very, very valuable to the hospital system, and that's what the tech platform enables them to do. I also think the quality of the service is very, very important. And so they choose us based on that. They typically don't choose us based on price. We're not going to be the lowest cost provider. We're there to provide medical transportation to the entire patient population that they serve often times that requires the hospital system to invest alongside us, right? I mean, part of the issue has been that all the ambulance companies happen to be busy when a patient that doesn't have insurance or has, let's say, low reimbursement insurance, needs to be transported. We'll be there to take that patient. We want to provide great care and great access for all, but then the incentives have to be in line between the facility and the provider.

So a lot of cases, we have a program where we call like a dedicated fleet, where our ambulances are dedicated to that facility. And will transport any of the patients they need to transport and we'll bill insurance if we're able to collect our daily minimum, the hospital system doesn't owe us anything, if we're able -- if we're not able to collect, then the hospital pitches in the shortfall. And that aligns incentives.

The other way we align incentives is we'll tell the hospital when we're going to arrive to pick up the patient. We show up there and the patient is not ready. We just have to wait around. Everybody loses, the patient loses, the hospital loses and we lose we couldn't be the only ones to lose in that scenario. We're just waiting for the patient to be ready.

So that's the key, aligning all the incentives where the hospital system knows they can have reliable, great quality, transparent transportation and patient flow. We know that when we show up, the patient is going to be ready. So we could be really efficient and transport as many patients as we can throughout that shift throughout that day. And then, of course, the patient benefits in a great way when there's great quality, predictable transportation to get them where they need to be. That's what we've set up. That's why we think we're going to be very successful.

Great hearing about those partnerships and relationships that you have. I want to pivot to the recent acquisition of SteadyMD, which had a really strong first quarter. Can you talk a little bit about how this business is operating post acquisition? And how we should think about the pipeline of new logos and existing logos from here?

Yes. So we're very excited. We have a very talented team that's joined the company in SteadyMD. They had a record quarter Q1. They're on a really great trajectory for the rest of this year. They continue to sign incredible customers and partners in the pharmacy space, in the digital wellness space. And I think we're very excited.

The piece that is very foundational. This idea of going to deliver care in the home, we don't send a doctor. We don't send an MD to the home. We don't send a nurse practitioner or physician assistant into the home. There's just too much drive time, there's too much time in between the patient interactions.

So what we do, which is very unique, is we'll send the medical assistant or an LPN into the home. They are hands, eyes and ears in the home, that's able to vaccinate a patient, that's able to take a swab, take a lab sample, take a screening and remotely, virtually is the higher order clinician. And that's the SteadyMD network.

So we've really -- through this acquisition, we've done 2 things: a, we've brought a great virtual care practice, 50 state into the company. And we've created this network where now SteadyMD clinicians are overseeing the DocGo visits in the home. And that 400, 500, 600 clinician network is enabling us to scale the in-the-home visits way faster.

So that's why we're so excited about this. And we think, look, you have to be able to provide care in every modality, virtually, remotely and in-person. And there are so many companies that could do it virtually, but they can't be in-person or companies that could be in person like the doctor's office, but they don't do the digital or remote well. We are building the competency to do all of it, under 1 clinical practice.

And so when the telehealth visit will do, we'll do a telehealth visit. When we need to be with the patient hands on, we have the ability to do that as well. We can't take a blood sample through a Zoom call, through a virtual visit. We can't give a patient of vaccination through a screen. But we can do a lot of things virtually. And so that's the wonderful aspect of what we're building. We're building this Care Anywhere platform, where we can be with the patient when it's needed. We can be virtual when it's efficient. We can be remote, so we're monitoring the patient throughout their daily lives, and we can intervene and be proactive in the moment in real time. That is very unique at the scale we're doing it. It's a very big vision. And it's really, frankly, what's needed for the health care system because if -- the health care system keeps going the way it's going, where we spent 19% of GDP. I'm sure a lot of people are talking about this throughout the conference.

Patients are just getting sicker and sicker. And rewarding providers like ours for treating patients that just keep getting sicker and sicker, really frankly, makes no sense. That's what CMS is really pushing. We applaud them for that and rewarding folks like us for the healthier the patients get, the less they're bouncing back to the hospital is really where the system needs to go to be -- to save the system, frankly, from total collapse.

Yes. We talked about -- a little bit about the flywheel demand with the SteadyMD acquisition. So as we think about the demand trajectory and also the margin profile, like how should we think about this integrating into the company and driving additional efficiencies.

Yes. So that is the big aspect, that integration where the SteadyMD clinical practice group. So before we acquired SteadyMD, we had our own clinical practice group and then, of course, SteadyMD came with the clinical practice group. So now we've integrated the clinical practice group into 1 clinical practice group serving all the patients we see, whether they be SteadyMD patients, DocGo patients or any of the patients that we see. And again, marrying the SteadyMD network to the clinician and the home when DocGo sends a clinician at home. That's what's going to be driving the efficiency.

So we think that's going to improve the margins, a big aspect of the company is we've been investing into the ability to bring a doctor's office into a patient's living room. That's what we've been investing into. It's cost us money. Obviously, it's contributing to the EBITDA loss, but we think that opportunity is just such a big opportunity, but we also realize that we have to improve the margins as we go, if we want to be effective and viable. And so SteadyMD allows us to improve the margins as we go, allows us to see the patients in the home, but also to serve other customers with virtual visits, and that integration, integrating the clinical practice groups and then integrating the competencies, DocGo's ability to go in the home, SteadyMD's ability to be virtual. Now it's all under 1 roof, and we can be very, very efficient going forward.

Yes. And just double clicking one more time in the SteadyMD. So there's been a little bit of focus on like some of the current logos like the online pharmacies for waitlists. But can you talk about are there any other types of customers that you want to call out or like additional logos that you would want to expand into that you think are a big opportunity?

Yes. So you mentioned online pharmacy. That's obviously a big with the GLP-1 adoption. That's been a big driver for the company, and we've been at the forefront of that. I also think something that has not been talked about a lot is -- well, everyone is talking about AI, but everyone is talking about AI as sort of like a replacement or maybe to be more efficient.

We actually think the clinician with AI is going to be very, very powerful. So I'll give you an example, we work with a customer today. Dermatology AI company where you can upload a picture of, let's say, a skin condition or you can engage with AI in a chat. But ultimately, if there's some diagnosis needed or there's some higher-level interaction that's needed where a patient actually wants to speak to a clinician, we can unlock that.

So I think it's going to -- our clinicians that are making sure that the AI is making the right diagnosis. It's our clinicians are going to be sort of an off ramp for when a patient actually does want to speak to a human clinician. And I think you're going to see a lot of marrying between the 2. Today, a clinician still has to review that dermatology assessment. And so we're working with a lot of the AI companies to bring the clinical practice to whatever tools they're trying to build to make the health care system more efficient.

Okay. So now we walked through a lot of the pieces of the business. I want to ask about the underlying demand trends you're seeing across the portfolio in the second quarter. We've heard from some of our hospital companies, one last week who said, surgical volumes were down and potentially flagged a weaker demand environment. So I guess just is there any color that you can give us on demand trends throughout the second quarter so far?

Yes. So we actually -- we don't play with those higher order surgical procedures. Actually, if we're doing our job well, surgical procedures will go down and sort of higher, more acute interventions will go down. And that's really, frankly, what the health care system needs.

Now of course, hospitals play a vital role. If a patient truly needs that more acute surgical procedure than we want to be there to be able to maybe coordinate the transportation or to provide the follow-up care in the home to make sure that it's healing properly and so forth, we do all of that.

So I think the demand trends we're seeing is really around the consumerization of health care. I think a lot of the wearable companies are going to get more and more into health care. I think they are doing a wonderful job with some of the diagnostics they're able to do with the wearables, but then if they truly want to take the next leap into sort of a medical device, they're going to need a clinical practice and setting up a clinical practice is not so easy to do, certainly to do it in all 50 states is not so easy to do. And so we're finding a lot of demand there, where you have the consumerization of health care and those digital health companies that want to offer actual medical advice, medical services, to their members, to their subscribers, we unlock that for them. So we're seeing a lot of growth there.

I think we're also seeing a lot of growth again from the payer side, where they're trying to improve their MLR. They're trying to drive down cost. They're trying to reduce hospital readmissions. They're trying to improve their HEDIS quality score ratings. And the only way to really do that, there's a lot of ways to do that, but the big way to do that is -- drifting that are unattached, that are going without the care -- we're helping them address that. So we're seeing a big tailwind there for sure.

And so we're continuing to widen the scope that we're providing in the home. We're trying to meet patients before they end up in a hospitalization. We're trying to meet patients within that 30-day readmit window so that we can see them in the home. Maybe redress that incision site, maybe make sure that they don't bounce back to the hospital. We work with a very large payer in California, where they've been giving us the late score patients, length of stay acuity, chronic condition patients on a scale of 1 to 10. They've been giving us, I think on average 9.2 out of 10. So these are the highest acuity patients. Our patient population they've been giving us has been bouncing back to the emergency department 60% less. So because, again, we're following up with their care plans in the home. So I think this idea of meeting patients where they are is playing out and the payers that -- the majority of the customers we have on the payers, I want to expand with us this year.

Okay? So maybe all the demand is just shifting out of those acute settings. So you've outlined a path to profitability this year. So how should we think about the key drivers and what the puts and takes are going to be?

Yes. So this is a big, big aspect for the company. We shared on our last earnings call that we plan to breakeven in the back half of the year. And it's really a factor of 3, obviously, key components. The first is on a quarterly revenue basis, we want to achieve the $80 million to $85 million. We feel like that's the critical need, the sort of watermark that we need to get to on the revenue side in order to have the scale that we need.

And so in Q1, I mentioned we did about $76 million of revenue. So we feel like we're quite close to that. And of course, I mentioned a lot of the growth that we're seeing throughout the company. And so that is sort of within reach, if you will. So that revenue base, that's one component of it, that $80 million to $85 million of quarterly revenue.

Then on the gross margin side, we feel like we need to be in the 34% to 35%. In Q1, we are at 31.6% adjusted gross margin. So we feel like, again, we have about 200 or 300 basis points to -- 200 to 400 basis points to go there. That's going to be driven by being more and more efficient in our delivery, reducing overtime hours for staff, reducing shift bonuses, being much more efficient again in the field, the medical assistant and the licensed practical nurses alongside the SteadyMD clinicians and driving that gross margin up.

And as the mobile health portfolio takes more and more of the revenue component that will drive margins up with it. So as an example, our mobile phlebotomy offering has about 55% gross margins, our remote patient monitoring practice has about 60% gross margin. So as those continue to grow and become a bigger component of the revenue base, it will also take gross margins with it.

And then we need to cut about $4 million to $5 million of SG&A spend per quarter. We did a very large reduction in force recently, so we took some costs out of the business, and we're continuing to work with the vendors that we work with to sort of pare back some of the spending there, and we think that we can get that done.

Okay. So that was some really good detail there on mix versus scale versus operating efficiency. As we think about '27 and beyond, once we're past that breakeven point, what do you think are the biggest levers going forward?

Yes. I think it's going to continue to be on -- from a growth perspective, it's going to continue to be the Care Anywhere platform. I think we're going to continue to have very nice growth in those components. We think the Care Anywhere platform, again, the virtual care, the care in the home, the mobile app, the more patient monitoring aspects, will grow about 30% to 40% year-on-year. Again, medical transportation less. And so as that grows, that will be a continuing lever for that.

I think we'll also continue to expand with the payers we work with. Right now, we work with a number of wonderful fantastic name brand payers. I know some of them will be at the conference. And so we work with those payers. And we think over time, we're going to be thoughtful about it. There are a lot of markets that those payers want us to go to.

So I shared -- and it's always -- I think you said it's a balance there, right? So we have a payer that we work with in California. We recently expanded with them to Kentucky, New Mexico. There's other states we can stand with them. And so I think it's -- but we also want to make -- be mindful of new markets, require new investment, which require perhaps strain on the EBITDA. So we're being very thoughtful about that. We're expanding to new states in a very measured way. And we think we're expanding to states in a way where we can do it profitably quickly.

We announced a couple of weeks ago that we just launched mobile phlebotomy services in Southern Florida, actually, this neck of the woods. And we did that in partnership with one of the major labs, and we did it in a way where we were able to scale the staff cheaply and quickly and the demand was already there for us. We didn't have to generate it. So we think we're going to be profitable very quickly in that endeavor here in Southern Florida. And so that's the way we're kind of be scaling the business.

Yes. So we touched a little bit on the CMS access model a little earlier. I'd love to go more in depth into both CMS access, but also are there any other CMS or regulatory proposals that we should be aware of as it relates to your business?

Yes. So the access model was a big program that CMS launched. Essentially, what that model is trying to incentivize is a much lower upfront, basically, reimbursement for a preventative care. And if you're successful in achieving health outcomes, which I'll give me examples of, then you get sort of incentive payments and bonus payments. And that was a big move by CMS. They put out an RFP. I think a lot of companies responded to it. They ultimately ended up choosing 150 to participate. We are one of the 150 that was selected. And I think time will tell. We will launch in a measured way where patients can be enrolled into our practice as part of the ACCESS program, and we will provide preventative care exactly like we're doing today and try to drive outcomes. And so I think we will see more programs like that from CMS. I think that's the only real solution.

I think part of the aspect that people in health care don't talk enough about is in order to improve health outcomes, most of the time, you need a long-term view, right? Patients that have chronic conditions, it takes time to impact their health outcomes. It takes time to improve their condition. And our system is set up in a very short-term way. I may have 1 insurance provider this year. And next year, I might change my insurance provider. I might work for a company where I have 1 insurance and then I go and work for another company, it has a different insurance.

So how can a insurance company actually invest to make me healthier, try so hard this year to maybe perhaps help me if I'm struggling with a chronic condition, only to see me go to another health insurance company if I were to change roles or change jobs, change insurance companies? And so that's the problem the system has. The only one that can solve that is CMS. And so I think that is CMS' responsibility, and I think they're going to continue to look there, all the conversations that we have around this from people that are in that orbit, advising in that space are telling us that CMS is pushing more and more to develop programs that are incentivizing that because otherwise, the health care system is completely doomed.

Even for us, we're a self-insured employer on the health side. And we try so hard to help our employees, our team members that perhaps are high utilizers and have chronic conditions. And look, we feel more responsibility to try to help them, even if they are to go to move on to another company and have another insurance provider, but we see it. You have to have a long-term view to impact someone's health. But the insurance industry and the health care industry is set up for short-term incentives. And so that has to be solved.

Everybody is talking about all these things with AI and everything else, you can invest in anything you want. If it does not improve health outcomes over a period of time where you could actually make a return on that investment, which is how we're set up, which is the way it should be, right? I'm going to work so hard to make a patient healthier only to see them go to another provider or go to another insurance company. And that insurance company is going to get all the benefit of all the investment I made into that patient, then that has to change. So I think that's the types of programs you're seeing, the HEDIS quality scale is a big part of that, where insurance providers are incentivized to improve outcomes and have higher star ratings. I think it's about something like 40% of the plans, improvement in their reimbursement rate if they would -- and they're missing out on that. And 5% is a meaningful premium reimbursement to get from CMS uplift. So I think that's where the system is going. It has to go that way. The only one that could actually push incentives like that is CMS and I know from the ACCESS program as an example, they're really looking towards that.

Okay. I've got 1 quick housekeeping modeling question. So fuel costs have been a big area of focus with the conflict in the Middle East. They weighed on earnings in the first quarter. But it seems like costs have come down. Is there any updated framing you can give us? And how we should be thinking about that into the second quarter and the rest of the year?

Yes, it's funny. So obviously, we have -- I should have mentioned at the onset, we deliver health care. How do we do it? We have 1,000 vehicles. We have 4,000 clinicians in the field, all meeting patients where they are, taking patients where they need to get to. And last year, we were bragging that we drove like 11.5 million miles. And the team was -- we were talking about it and I said, hey, guys, actually, we should be bragging about how few -- how much fewer miles we can drive. And so that's part of the efficiency. If we didn't have our tech platform, I'm sure we'd be driving a lot more.

But as part of that, we purchased about 270,000 gallons of gasoline each quarter. It's pretty significant. And so about -- for every dollar increase at the pump, we see about a 35% -- a 35 basis point margin hit. So for every dollar, again, 35 basis point margin hit. Our biggest component in the business is really the vehicles and labor, not the gas. But we'd love it if the gas prices went lower, but it's about -- for every dollar, it's about 35 basis points. Sometimes people think like it would end up impacting our business more. It will be a headwind for us in Q2, we saw much higher -- we're seeing much higher gas prices in Q2, we think that will persist. But then we think hopefully debates in the back half of the year, which will help on the gross margin side.

The other piece that we're doing in order to offset things we can control, like gas prices, is to invest in the things that we can control like automating a lot of the aspects of the business. So we -- I mentioned on our last earnings call, we have an efficiency portfolio that includes a lot of automation -- in the business. So for example, on our prebilling -- annual prebilling function where we would go in and see a preauthorization to see if the patient has insurance, we're going to be able to collect, notify the hospital system of that. And now we're using AI to do that as an example. We were using a lot of human capital to coordinate patient schedules, visits, rescheduling, confirming appointments and now we're using AI more and more to do that.

So we are going to do the best we can to procure the gas for cheapest possible way, but understanding we can't control the price. But we are absolutely like, we're sleeves rolled up on the aspects of the business that we can control, investing in automation so that we can improve the margins, which is a big facet of what we're doing to get to breakeven in the back half of the year.

Yes. And so how should we think about cash flow and capital needs over the medium term? And how should we think about capital allocation given where we are today?

Yes. So first and foremost, I've been resolute. In terms of the capital allocation, we're going to continue to fund the growth of the business and fund the capabilities of the business. And we think that there's a lot of opportunity for us in the pipeline that we have in the business and the existing customer base we have.

As I mentioned, we have the majority of our health plans are looking to expand with us this year. So that's really, first and foremost, for the capital allocation priority will sit. And then I think we have ability to access capital. We have ability -- we have a line of credit today that we're looking to slightly modify and have access to capital to help fund the growth of the business going forward.

Okay. And we've got about 2 minutes left. So I just want to go over what do you think investors are most misunderstanding about the DocGo business today?

Good ones there, and thank you for asking that. So again, sometimes people look at our stock chart and said, lee, what am I missing? A $300 million health care services and technology company going and meeting patients where they are, which is, again, one of the other pieces we didn't talk about is the federal government is also earmarking about $50 billion to help improve access to patients. You're doing all this. You have great scale. You have 1,000 vehicles, 4,000 clinicians. You're operating across all 50 states. What are we missing when we look at the stock chart?

So I think we've -- over the last couple of years have really been digesting the comps from COVID and the migrant. Like I said, I think Q1 was the first quarter where we didn't have any of that. But in Q1 of last year, we had about $35 million of migrant revenues, providing services to the humanitarian crisis in Europe relating to the migrants.

So when you look year-over-year, right, the business is growing or is it not? Again, when you take out the migrant revenues, it is, but when you see it in sort of on that screening process, those year-over-year comps have been tough for us. So that continues. I think we'll have some of that in Q2, but as we go throughout the year, that will abate. And I also think, again, I think people are looking at really where we're investing into and seeing -- they want to see the progress in the health care and the address Care Anywhere program. I think we are showing that. We certainly showed that with all the volumes being up in Q1. We'll continue to show that as we go throughout the year here. And then as we hit that profitability threshold, I think we're going to be celebrating that.

Yes. So we're super excited to watch the rest of the story from here and reaching breakeven profitability. Thank you so much for the time and attending our conference today.

Thanks, Sarah. Appreciate it. Thank you to the Goldman team.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the DocGo First Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Monday, May 11, 2026.

I would now like to turn the conference over to Mike Cole, Vice President of Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

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At this time, it is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Lee Bienstock, CEO of DocGo. Lee, please go ahead.

Thank you, Mike, and thank you all for joining us today. We reported a strong top line of $75.6 million in revenue during the first quarter with an adjusted EBITDA loss of $10.2 million. Additionally, we increased our 2026 revenue guidance from a range of $290 million to $310 million to $300 million to $315 million, while leaving our 2026 adjusted EBITDA guidance unchanged at a loss of $5 million to $10 million.

I would like to take a few minutes and break down the revenue and profitability aspects individually. First, a major driver of our strong revenue performance and increased revenue guidance is our virtual care offering, SteadyMD. We noted this upward trend in our last earnings call, and we are pleased to share that this trend has accelerated.

During the first quarter, SteadyMD generated in excess of $9 million in revenue, beating the previous high set in the fourth quarter of last year by roughly $1 million and completed approximately 1.1 million total visits and lab orders during the period, up 38% when compared to last year.

SteadyMD recently entered into a new contract with a leading online pharmacy to provide virtual care services for weight loss prescriptions and a broad scope of general clinical services, which will fuel continued growth. Second, our mobile phlebotomy offering is performing exceptionally well.

While their revenue base is smaller, we are now projecting as much as 75% growth for this business in 2026, which is well above our previous expectation, and we anticipate our rate of home visits to increase from 600 per day currently to 900 per day by the end of 2026. We've opened new territories in Upstate New York and Pennsylvania to meet demand for our services, and we are planning to launch services in Florida, which is a new state for us.

We are expanding our use of technology as well, working with a major national lab to integrate our order intake into their applications to allow doctors to order home visits directly through the lab systems and deploying AI automation for order intake and customer service to help increase our margins. And third, we have signed recent new contracts and expansions with payers and providers for our care gap closure, PCP and transition of care services.

We have now surpassed 1.6 million lives assigned to us for care gap services since inception, and we've increased the number of visits completed 46% year-over-year. Also of note, we have begun an aggressive pace of onboarding for PCP and longitudinal care services, and our panel now has over 1,000 patients, the vast majority of which were enrolled in Q1. Our goal is for this business line to break even in late 2026, dramatically lessening the investment level that has been required to launch and grow this business over the last few years. Regarding our medical transportation business, we have recently had several significant renewals in addition to some smaller wins, further solidifying the long-term revenue profile of this business segment.

We renewed our contract with one major New York hospital system for an additional year and renewed our contract with another major New York health system for 2 additional years and added their Staten Island facilities. We signed a contract to provide service for a long-term acute care hospital in Chattanooga, Tennessee, signed contracts to provide medical transportation with several hospice facilities in Wisconsin and signed a new nonemergency patient transport services contract for the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in the United Kingdom.

In addition to what we have factored into our updated revenue guidance, our business development pipeline remains strong and supportive of continued growth with multiple opportunities for medical transportation growth, both in the U.S. and especially in our U.K. operations. Consistent with our approach, we will update guidance accordingly if and when contracts are entered into.

Collectively, we cannot be more pleased with the near-term revenue growth opportunities for our consolidated business. Now I'd like to shift gears and break down the gross margin and SG&A lines to provide some color behind our decision to increase revenue expectations while keeping our adjusted EBITDA guidance unchanged. We experienced labor inefficiencies as a result of SteadyMD's exceptional growth.

As I mentioned previously, we had high expectations for this business in 2026, and those lofty expectations are being exceeded. Their dramatic growth required us to pay increased incentives to our current clinicians to cover shifts while we worked to bridge a hiring gap. As a result, this negatively impacted our consolidated gross margin by approximately 60 basis points.

During the first quarter, we leveraged DocGo's recruiting expertise to increase SteadyMD's clinical workforce by over 45%, and we expect this added workforce to help meet pent-up demand for SteadyMD services in the second half of the year. In addition, we saw a significant increase in fuel costs in March, driven by the war in the Middle East.

We estimate that every $1 increase at the pump cost us about 35 basis points of consolidated gross margin. Our average price paid in March was $3.69 compared to an average cost of $2.93 per gallon in January and February. Average fuel costs in Q2 to date have remained at this elevated level, which we expect to be a continued drag on gross margin over the near term, unlike the temporary narrowing of SteadyMD's margins I just described, which has already corrected in the second quarter so far.

And last, if we adjust our operating expenses to exclude depreciation, stock-based compensation and other nonrecurring items, we saw a decrease from $35.7 million in the fourth quarter of last year to $34.1 million in the first quarter of this year. We feel this is the most accurate representation of how our cost-cutting efforts are working their way through our financials.

There is undoubtedly a lag in this process, and we are just starting to see the impact from many of the cost cuts made late last year. Our expectation is that we will see an acceleration in this improvement in the coming quarters based on steps that have already been taken and additional cuts already underway in the second quarter.

In sum, we saw margin headwinds driven by the geopolitical tensions influencing fuel prices and the aggressive pace of operational expansion that was beyond our initial expectations. We believe that these margin constraints are temporary in nature and not reflective of our long-term profitability profile. Our top line is strong and getting even stronger.

We achieved record volumes across all major business lines in the first quarter, with U.S. Medical Transportation increasing 17%, health care in the home increasing 46%, mobile phlebotomy increasing 8%, cardiac and remote patient monitoring increasing 13% and virtual care and lab orders increasing 37% year-over-year. Before handing it to Norm, I would also like to briefly address the strategic alternatives process that was announced on March 16 of this year.

While I'm obviously limited in what I can say, the company's evaluation of strategic alternatives remains ongoing. While there can be no assurance that this process will result in DocGo pursuing any particular transaction or other strategic outcome, we will share further developments as appropriate.

Now I will hand it over to Norm to review the financial details.

Thank you, Lee, and good afternoon. Total revenue for the first quarter of 2026 was $75.6 million compared to $96 million in the first quarter of 2025. The year-over-year revenue decline was entirely due to the wind down of migrant-related projects.

Removing migrant-related revenues, we saw a revenue increase of 24% year-over-year in Q1. Now this was partially due to the recent acquisition of SteadyMD, which added $9.5 million in revenues in Q1 of this year. Removing the impact of both the migrant-related revenues in the 2025 period and the SteadyMD revenues in the 2026 period and revenues still increased by about 8% year-over-year.

Medical transportation services revenue increased to $51.9 million in Q1 of 2026 from $50.8 million in transport revenues that we recorded in the first quarter of 2025 and were the highest quarterly transport revenues in DocGo's history. Revenues were driven higher by gains in both large and small U.S. markets with some of the strongest growth in markets like New York, Texas and Tennessee.

We continue to see increasing demand across most of our markets. Mobile Health revenue for the first quarter of 2026 was $23.6 million, down from $45.2 million in the first quarter of last year, driven again by the wind down of migrant revenues. Non-migrant mobile health revenues more than doubled, driven by increases in care gap closures, remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy and by the inclusion of revenues from SteadyMD, which we acquired during the fourth quarter of 2025.

Removing the impact of SteadyMD, Mobile Health revenues still increased by about 38% year-over-year. Adjusted EBITDA for the first quarter of 2026 was a negative $10.2 million compared to an adjusted EBITDA of negative $3.9 million in the first quarter of 2025. The adjusted gross margin, which removes the impact of depreciation and amortization and is the measure of margins that we track most closely, was 31.6% in the first quarter of 2026 compared to 32.1% in the first quarter of 2025.

However, looking at only the revenues from business lines that were active in both periods, thereby removing Migrant revenues of $35 million and gross profits of $12.3 million from the first quarter of 2025 and removing SteadyMD revenues of $9.5 million and gross profits of $2.8 million from the first quarter of 2026, the adjusted gross margins of the underlying business would have been 31.9% in Q1 of 2026, up about 1.5 points from 30.4% in last year's first quarter.

During the first quarter of 2026, adjusted gross margins for the Medical Transportation segment were 31.9% compared to 30.8% in Q1 of 2025. Medical Transportation gross margins are still being restrained by higher-than-planned effective hourly wages for field labor. However, we took solid strides toward increasing our field headcount in the first quarter of 2026, and we saw the overtime rate decline in the first quarter of 2026, closer to the sub-10% overtime rates we saw in the first half of 2024.

Transport gross margins were also impacted by increased fuel costs, as Lee described earlier. Mobile Health segment adjusted gross margin was 31% versus 30.8% in the first quarter of 2025. SteadyMD gross margins were several points lower than normal, reflecting the aggressive hiring in the first quarter to catch up to the increased demand from large customers.

This factor, which is expected to reverse itself starting in Q2, was offset by greater relative contributions from higher-margin service lines within mobile health, such as remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy. While revenue came in well above expectations and gross margins were generally in line, operating expenses came in higher than anticipated.

This is due to the need to ramp up the hiring, onboarding and training of mobile health clinical staff to meet customer demand as well as the fact that our cost-cutting decisions regarding vendor spending and corporate headcount made in late Q4 and into 2026 won't meaningfully impact our income statement until the second quarter.

With SteadyMD's recent hiring push behind us, our continued cost-cutting efforts in Q1 and additional savings from the efficiency portfolio initiative that we discussed on last quarter's call and that are anticipated to have a positive impact on our second half 2026 results, we continue to expect sequential declines in SG&A in dollar terms as we go throughout the year.

As of March 31, 2026, our total cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash and investments, came to $59.9 million, down from $68.3 million at the end of 2025. Our cash balance at quarter end was lower than we had expected due to the delay in collecting migrant-related accounts receivable owed by New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and Development, which we had expected to see during the first quarter.

However, on April 1, the first day of the second quarter, we received approximately $8 million in these receivables, and we are working on collecting the remainder of these receivables. With some further, albeit smaller operating losses in Q2 of 2026 and several growth-related initiatives requiring working capital, we would expect further declines in cash in the near term.

This could create some working capital pressure, which is expected to ease in the second half of the year, in line with our planned return to profitability. Turning to 2026 for the rest of 2026. As Lee mentioned in his comments earlier, and as we pointed out in our press release, we have updated and increased our revenue guidance for the year based upon what we have seen in the first 4-plus months of the year and the positive volume trends across most of our business lines.

We now see full year revenues in the range of $310 million to $315 million, up from the range of $290 million to $300 million that we shared in mid-March and higher than our initial guidance of $280 million to $300 million. Now this does not include any revenues from migrant-related projects and would represent a 19% to 25% growth over 2025's base revenues.

We continue to anticipate a full year adjusted EBITDA loss in the range of $5 million to $10 million, which is unchanged from our previous guidance. At this point, I'd like to turn the call back over to the operator for the question-and-answer session. Operator, please proceed.

[Operator Instructions] With that, your first question comes from the line of Ryan MacDonald with Needham.

This is Matt Shea on for Ryan. Maybe starting with the SteadyMD business. Nice to see the momentum continuing from last quarter, especially with the new win. Lee, maybe just double-click on this segment. What kind of pipeline are you seeing for new logos versus growth with existing logos?

And are you seeing most of this demand from online pharmacies for weight loss or any other customer types worth calling out? And then, Norm, maybe when thinking about the top line guidance, it seems like majority was driven by the SteadyMD weight loss customers, but curious if you can put any finer points on that.

Absolutely. Matt, great to hear from you. Really appreciate the question. And on the part of the question relating to the growth and the pipeline of what we're seeing in SteadyMD, as I mentioned in our prepared remarks, we're very, very encouraged and excited about the growth prospects there.

I think the growth is coming from really both avenues, our existing customer base. We continue to grow our capacity and grow our volumes with our existing customer base that we've been working with now for quite some time. And we have been adding new logos pretty consistently over the course of the end of last year and as we head into this year, which is also fueling further growth.

And the big push we made really in the first quarter of this year was to ramp the hiring in order to meet this growth and meet the demand. In terms of the types of customers we're working with, we're really working with -- you mentioned it, the online pharmacies. I mentioned one that we're expanding with quickly. Digital health companies, wellness companies, digital wearable companies as well are all partnering with us as well as your typical labs that you might expect as well.

So really seeing growth from across that space. Yes, it's weight loss, but it's also general wellness trend as well as sort of the consumerization of health care is really pushing growth for us there. So we're really, really excited about it. The SteadyMD team is a great, great team, a great addition. And as we go through the year here, some of the growth is also going to come from DocGo's in-home visits.

We really want to drive SteadyMD's telehealth capacity to be a key component of overseeing prescribing treatment planning the visits that are happening in the home with our mobile health clinicians. That's a big, big area of integration for us as we go throughout the year here and will help us also expand our margins for those in-home visits.

So we're really seeing it across the board, really great addition to the team, really fits nicely into the future of health care, care anywhere vision that we're pursuing, and we couldn't be more excited. Norm?

Matt, in terms of the top line, I think you're referring to the guidance that we've given where we're going to a range of $300 million to $315 million, so let's say a midpoint of $307.5 million and you compare that to where we were before, which is $290 million to $300 million. So let's take a $295 million midpoint.

So we essentially are adding $12 million to the guidance. There are a couple of ways of looking at it. Number one, I would say that when I look at our quarterly results for Q1, the number that we did, which was about $75.5 million, $75.6 million is probably about anywhere from $3 million to $4 million ahead of where we thought we would be. So that gets us off to a good start.

But when you break it down by the different business entities, so the $12 million or so increase in guidance for the top line midpoint to midpoint, I'd say about $8 million to $9 million of that is probably related to SteadyMD. We necessarily projected it in a somewhat conservative way, right? We only had the company for about a month or 2 at the time that we made our last guidance, we gave our last guidance, and it's pleasantly surprised us with volumes with that volume growth, as Lee has mentioned.

But that's only one part of it. The transport business is performing very well. We had a thesis that we've talked about on this call a couple of times, wherein if we had -- we knew we had the demand, we looked at the number of calls and trips that we couldn't take because we didn't have enough personnel. And we knew that if we would add to our headcount, we would add to our field labor that, that would translate into more volume.

And that's worked. So, so far, that part is definitely working. So if you think about it that way, then that definitely adds to the growth as well or at least it validates the transport growth we expected. And then you have some of our smaller business lines within mobile health like the mobile phlebotomy business and the CRMS business, remote patient monitoring business, which grew like 20% year-over-year in the first quarter.

So again, I would say that the majority of the increase relates to SteadyMD, but we're seeing some solid volume growth, as Lee mentioned in his prepared comments, really across all of our business lines.

Okay. That's great color. I appreciate that from both of you. And then maybe touching on another area that sounded really strong this quarter, again, with being the payer and the care gap closure business, nice to see lives there crossing the, call it, 1.5 million mark. Maybe just first, it's a very dynamic year for the payers.

Any changes in terms of how they're looking to use you for these care gap closures or any services they want you to prioritize more maybe than what had been prioritized in the past? And then second, I think earlier this year at our conference, you had sort of talked about a pipeline of 2 to 4 more incremental payers that you could sign on in the first half of this year.

I wasn't sure from your prepared remarks if you had brought 1 or 2 on maybe this quarter, but maybe just update us on that thinking there, if that's still the right way to think about the incremental payers you're bringing on in the first half and maybe where you're at on that so far?

Absolutely. I'm glad you mentioned that. So in terms of what the payers are looking for us to do, I think it's pretty consistent with what we've been seeing as we've built this out really over the last 18 to 24 months, which is really absolutely the care gap service, care gap closure, particularly for patients that are falling through the cracks, drifting, unattached, that continues to be a big need in the market, really no change there, and we've been ramping up our ability and growing -- really growing our volumes year-over-year as we go throughout building up that business.

I think the other piece that we're really seeing is when we go visit the care gap -- the open care gap patients, we are seeing that a lot of them are just also unattached or don't know who their primary care provider is and a very large percentage, the majority of which that don't have a PCP are opting for us to become their PCP. So those are the services really that we're adding on top of the care gap closure services, and we've continued to do that.

We saw in the first quarter, it was pretty interesting when we go to see the patients in their homes for care gap and also for PCP services, we're seeing that 60% of the patients we go and visit have 2 or more chronic conditions. And a big percentage of them have 3 or more chronic conditions. 20% of them have social needs or risks that are impacting their health outcomes. We also see that 42% of the patients had chronic conditions that had never before been documented.

So these are big drivers for the health plans, and we're able to uncover this, that we're able to meet patients where they're at. And so -- and that goes along with our 50% plus readmission reduction that we're seeing with our longitudinal care patients that we've been working with. So we're really seeing great impact on health outcomes. We're really starting to provide more longitudinal care in addition to the care gap services.

And uncovering chronic conditions that had been undocumented before is a big, big benefit to the health plan and of course, to the patient. So that's really what the plans are using us for. That's what we're -- that's the data and the insight that we're providing back to them, and it's proving out to be very, very valuable. And of course, we think we'll be successful and continue to grow the company as we provide more and more value.

The majority of all of the plans that we work with have told us that they would like to expand with us over the coming year. So again, that's really given us a lot of excitement and optimism and enthusiasm for what we're doing there. On the new logos, I know you mentioned that, Matt, on the new logos, we'll announce them as it makes sense, but we're absolutely on pace to add 2 to 4 new logos in the first half of this year.

And the next question comes from the line of Pito Chickering with Deutsche Bank.

This is Kieran Ryan on for Pito. Appreciate all the color that you gave there. I guess just stepping back, could you maybe just help us just understand kind of the puts and takes around the reiteration of the EBITDA guidance just as far as kind of how the tailwinds from the really strong outperformance on revenues and with SteadyMD.

Maybe offset by some incremental headwinds on kind of the labor cost and transportation and with SteadyMD and then on the fuel side. Just how should we think about that all kind of balancing out towards the reiterated range?

It sort of answered the question itself, Kieran. But what's happening is we feel we have some really good momentum on the revenue side as evidenced by the fact that we outperformed our number for Q1 and we raised the guidance for the full year. And the reason why we left the overall EBITDA guidance the same even with a higher revenue expectation is for those reasons that you mentioned, right?

There'll be a little bit of pressure on gross margins in the transport piece in Q2 because of fuel prices. Lee mentioned that our average gas price was about $3.69 per gallon in March, up from that $2.93 in January and February. That number is currently running at about $4. We don't think that, that's going to last really beyond the second quarter, but that's something that we have to take into account. Granted, we're not as leveraged to fuel prices maybe as we were in the past when we were only an ambulance company.

But it still will have an impact and could have an impact for us of maybe 1/3 of a point to 0.5 point in gross margin, which will obviously have an impact on -- will offset some of the gain that we would have from having higher margins than were originally projecting. On the operating expense side, so some of the stuff that Lee mentioned relates to SteadyMD.

I did say in my comments that our -- there's been a lag in our cost cutting or in the way that, that sort of flows its way through to our income statement. So we expect to pick up some benefit there in Q2, but we're starting at a somewhat higher point. So we just want to build in a little bit of conservatism as far as that goes as well if operating expenses continue to run a little bit hot compared to where we expected things.

Got it. That's helpful. And then I think you had said if we adjust both SteadyMD and the migrant revenues in 1Q '25, mobile health growth was 38% in the quarter. And I see you're kind of grouping some business lines in together, Health Care at Any Address, which seems to account for the most of the dollars in mobile health.

Can you just help us kind of understand what -- which business lines are driving the most growth on a dollar basis ex SteadyMD because there's obviously some really strong percentage growth rates there that are all contributing, but just so we can understand that a bit better.

Yes. So I think on a dollar basis, you're seeing our patient monitoring business have really strong growth year-over-year, also really strong profitability profile as well in that growth. You also see growth in the health care in the home business, our care gap in primary care continues to grow year-over-year, and you're seeing growth in our mobile phlebotomy offering as well.

So those are the 3 pieces. And then, of course, SteadyMD, which you mentioned. So those are really the pieces that are growing the fastest. They're starting to integrate with one another, SteadyMD overseeing the DocGo visits in the home, utilizing phlebotomists for the care gap visits in the home, utilizing patient monitoring for patients where it makes sense when we go and visit them in the home.

And so that care at any address health care anywhere portfolio, we're really excited to see that growing and one playing and feeding the other is sort of a vision that we have as we go to provide care virtually in person and remotely. And that's the piece that's growing the fastest at the company right now.

And the next question comes from the line of Richard Close with Canaccord Genuity.

Yes. Maybe just a follow-up to that last question and some of the earlier questions. But just with respect to SteadyMD first, I think coming out of the fourth quarter, you had said something that's like a $25 million to $30 million business and call it, in 2026. So I guess based on the comments on the guidance, is, call it, $34 million to $39 million a good number for SteadyMD now for '26? Why don't we start there?

Yes. Richard, I appreciate it. So I think, as Norm mentioned, SteadyMD did about $9.5 million in the quarter for Q1. Now we do tend to see Q1 and Q4 as the highest levels for SteadyMD sort of as you go in those winter months as you close out the year and start the year.

But as you're mentioning, that $9.5 million kind of puts them at that $36 million run rate for the year, but understanding that the middle months of the year tend to be a little bit lower on the volume. Now that being said, we are bringing on additional customers. We are onboarding additional customers that will potentially smooth that out as we go throughout the year. But that's basically, as you mentioned, that's the pace they're on as we exit Q1.

Okay. And then just to be clear, with respect to the, call it, $23.6 million for mobile health, you have the $9.5 million for SteadyMD. There's like absolutely no migrant in any of those numbers or the mobile health for the quarter. That's completely gone, correct?

That's correct.

Okay. And then maybe back to the question right before me in terms of -- so if we looked at like remote monitoring, if we ex out the mobile SteadyMD from the $23.6 million of total mobile, is remote monitoring the biggest chunk of what's remaining in there?

It's the biggest -- Richard, it's the biggest single one. It was a little bit more than $4 million, I'd say, $4.1 million in the quarter. But to give you an idea, the clinical staffing business was about $3.8 million, $3.7 million, $3.8 million. So it was a close second.

But yes, it is actually the biggest one, operating at a margin for the quarter of over 60%. Natural margin is probably a little bit lower than that, but it's solidly over 50%. So that really helps the overall margin picture for Mobile Health.

Okay. And we're throwing around a bunch of terms here, but clinical staffing is care gap closure and PCP and that's correct?

So the clinical staffing is basically our portion of the business where we support mobile clinics and clinical staffing for our health care partners. So it's essentially programs that we run on behalf of clinical groups like the -- we have groups like radiology groups and so forth that we run staffed clinics for.

It's a legacy government medical services business that we bought in, I think, back in 2022.

Okay. So remote monitoring is $4.1 million, you got staffing at $3.8 million, and then it would be care gap closure or the home, health care in the home and then mobile phlebotomy.

Correct. Yes. And the health care in the home, we -- again, the mobile phlebotomy is one of the service offerings that we do in the home, right? So primary care, care gap closure, mobile phlebotomy. In those scenarios, we're sending a clinician into the home. That's sort of the care in the home service line. We're calling out mobile phlebotomy because it's one of the fastest-growing components of that care in the home business.

So a big growth and a lot of those off of relatively small, but continued progress there. With respect to fuel prices, when you say you would expect some relief there, just maybe on transport, how much is the fixed rate programs versus the lease rate programs as a percentage? How is that trending? And do you get any relief on fuel on those agreements? Or how do we think about that?

On the leased-hour arrangements?

Yes.

No, I don't think there's anything that's built in there. I mean we were talking about it here over the last few weeks. In general, whether it's on the headcount side or the fuel side, we really need to go back on some of our contracts and try to work in some sort of automatic indexed cost adjustment, but it doesn't exist on the vast majority of our contracts.

Where this plays out is that from a lease hour perspective versus fee-for-service, then we kind of look at it and say the fewer trips we have, the better because we're not using up the fuel. But other than that, that's not something really that's under our control.

Okay. Okay. And then with respect to the cost savings in this -- they're kicking in the second quarter. When do you get like the full sort of the full positive impact from the cost cutting? Is that like midway through the third quarter or actually here in the second quarter?

I would say the full impact would probably be sometime in the third quarter. And I say that thinking about the sort of list we have of the very specific cost-cutting measures. Richard, part of the reason why we saw higher expenses than we would have expected in -- we initially expected in Q1 is typically, what will happen is we will swap out one vendor for another vendor.

That's lower priced or we will just stop working with a vendor. But it's the kind of thing where you've got a list of vendors and you've got these cost savings that are identified and executed, but there's a lag because I might have a contract with that vendor that goes through the end of March, even though I told them in January that we're not using their services anymore or I told them back in December, I'm not using their services anymore.

And it's the same thing with some of the personnel. As we sort of shift into more of the corporate layer here, where we're trying to take some cost out. What ends up happening is that we'll have situations where someone is told, hey, look, we've identified this position for elimination, but we need you to stick around for another 30 days or 60 days. It sort of gets you into that next quarter.

And that's why that ends up happening. So knowing what we have executed so far in Q2, and what we have on the calendar to execute between now and the end of Q2, I would say that we're not going to get the full benefit of all of those things during this quarter. But by third quarter, we should get almost all of it.

Obviously, in Q4, we'll have whatever took place at the end of Q2 and Q3 hitting the P&L. So if things flow through the way we anticipate and without other things coming up that would cause us to add to our headcount or to take on other vendors that we don't currently have, we would expect that sequential decline in operating expenses as we go into Q2, 3 and 4.

Okay. And then good job on collecting. I guess you said $8 million April 1 or something like that.

Yes. [indiscernible] mix.

Okay. How much is still out there? And what's the thought process on when that comes in?

Yes. So from HPD, which is the one that we talked about Housing Preservation and Development, there's about, I guess, $13 million left. We are in the process of communicating with them, sending them, in some cases, the very same information that we sent them last time, in some cases, sending it a different way.

There's a formal process by which we would go through that. They have now laid out for us exactly what it is that is "missing" in order for us to get paid on those items. And we're gathering that information and are sending it over. I'm going to say -- I mean, look, I look in their payment system, I think there's probably another $1 million or so that will come in maybe in the next couple of weeks. But beyond that, we would expect it to come in over the balance of 2026.

One thing that we have learned, even though we have now collected 97% of that contract is that it gets really, really difficult to predict the exact timing of when those payments are going to be made. And so we try to err on the side of being conservative. I will point out, when we talk about migrant revenues on the other hand, so there's HPD, but there's also New York City Health and Hospitals, the HERC program that we talked about, all that's been collected, and that was collected on a very timely basis in terms of the stuff that we billed as we came to the last days of those programs in late 2025.

So I don't think there's anything material that's outstanding on any of those contracts as we sit here, that was all brought in during Q1. So it's really that $13 million or so that's sort of sitting out there that we are working very, very hard to collect.

And the next question comes from the line of David Larsen with BTIG.

This is Jenny Shen on for Dave. I just wanted to ask more about the weight management program or business within SteadyMD. I think you mentioned in the prepared remarks a new partnership or contract with an online pharmacy.

Can you just speak more about that? Are you partnering with the pharmacy that offers the branded medications? Or are they offering the compounds? And how does that revenue sharing work?

Yes. So on the revenue, we charge a per visit rate. There's no revenue sharing. It's just we charge our contracted rate, as you mentioned, Jenny.

In terms of your part of the question relating to the weight loss medication, we're working with the branded weight loss medications, the pharmacies that are offering those branded weight loss options and we are the clinical visit as part of that prescription as part of that prescribing process.

So that's really what's driving that growth there. Of course, we're seeing, obviously, in the marketplace, a big tailwind and growth in that space, and we are participating in that.

Okay. Perfect. And then can you remind us how much of revenue do you expect the payer business to contribute in 2026? And how much is SteadyMD do you think?

Absolutely. So as we mentioned, we updated the guidance to $300 million to $315 million for the year. And we expect, again, as we shared on the last earnings call, we expect about $85 million to $100 million to come from the Mobile Health segment and then about $210 million to come, $215 million to come from the Medical Transportation segment for the remainder of the year.

SteadyMD, as was mentioned, I think Richard asked about it specifically. Again, SteadyMD exited Q1 at a $9.5 million quarter. And so they're contributing roughly that $35 million, $36 million as we go throughout the year in our projections.

And that concludes your question-and-answer session. I would like to turn it back to Lee Bienstock for closing remarks.

Thank you so much. Appreciate everybody joining us and looking forward to speaking with you again soon. Have a great evening.

Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you all for joining. You may now disconnect.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the DocGo Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2025 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on March 16, 2026. I would now like to turn the conference over to Mr. Mike Cole, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

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Thank you, Mike, and thank you all for joining us. Today, we announced a strong close to the year, reporting $74.9 million in fourth quarter revenue and an adjusted EBITDA loss of $11.6 million. While our revenue exceeded expectations and enabled us to beat the top end of our revenue guidance, our adjusted EBITDA loss was slightly greater than expected largely due to costs associated with the final wind-down of our migrant related programs in the fourth quarter, which we do not expect to recur going forward.

Additionally, on the back of new customer expansions and improved hiring rates, we are increasing 2026 revenue guidance to $290 million to $310 million compared to our previous guidance of $280 million to $300 million and when combined with our cost efficiency initiatives, we are now expecting an adjusted EBITDA loss of $5 million to $10 million compared to our previously projected adjusted EBITDA loss of $15 million to $25 million.

I'd like to take a few minutes and cover the details driving this improved outlook. First, we are seeing an absolutely stellar performance from our virtual care offering, SteadyMD. During the fourth quarter, StudyMD exceeded $8 million in revenue for the first time in its history, beating the previous quarterly high by approximately $1 million. As we did not acquire SteadyMD until late October, we recorded $6.1 million in DCO's fourth quarter results. At the same time, StudyMD's full year-over-year gross margins improved from approximately 30% to 37% and with the dental gains expected in 2026.

Our integration efforts remain on track, and we are aiming to consolidate provider networks so that steady and de clinicians will be able to provide care for patients across Taco's mobile health offerings by the end of the second quarter. For the full year 2025, StudyMD exceeded 4 million patient interactions consisting of approximately 3 million lab orders and 1 million synchronous and asynchronous telehealth visits. That compares to approximately 2.5 million patient interactions in 2024, which consisted of approximately 2 million lab orders and 500,000 synchronous and asynchronous telehealth visits.

The fourth quarter performance was exceptional, and we anticipate this strong growth to continue, driven by the recent announcement of major customer expansions to meet the needs of our customers' branded GLP-1 weight loss programs. Second, we are seeing considerable improvement in our hiring rates to support strong demand in our Medical Transportation segment, allowing us to outsource fewer rides and recognize the associated revenue. I want to be clear, we still have considerable work to do, but we have filled 206 ENT and paramedic roles out of the 546 that were opened at the end of last quarter.

In Q4, we saw overtime rates in this segment in the teens above our target in the mid-single digits. We are seeing this overtime rate gradually decline as hiring continues to improve, which we expect will provide some additional margin improvement potential as we progress through the year. I am extremely enthusiastic about the progress we are making to bring the doctor's office into the patient's living room and the continued strength in key metrics across our business. For example, when we compare our Q4 2025 metrics to Q4 2024, medical transportation trips increased 11%. Health care and the home visits were up 113%, mobile phlebotomy visits were up 16%, remote patients monitored increased 16%, and telehealth and lab orders were up 50%.

We also continued expanding our care gap closure programs with 1 of our top 10 national insurance payer customers to provide annual preventative exams in the state of Kentucky, which is expected to launch later this month. We are working with this payer across California, in New Mexico and now Kentucky. For our care gap closure program as a whole, we saw a 12% sequential gain in the number of assigned lives increasing from 1.3 million last quarter to over 1.45 million currently.

As we grow our business with insurance payers, we continue to refine our approach to care delivery in a manner that drives efficiency and maintains our exceptionally high customer satisfaction rate which was measured at an NPS score of 92% as of March 1. To that end, we're planning to leverage SteadyMD's clinical network to provide the virtual portions of our visits starting in Q2 and we continue expanding our use of genic AI and workflow automation for administrative and patient support functions. While we will continue to invest in this business, we expect that level of investment to decline considerably as early markets mature and become more self-sustaining, reducing the cash outlay in 2026.

Our goal is to grow this business, which we believe has significant future strategic value in an efficient manner that both minimizes investment and supports our goal of achieving profitability in the second half of 2026. Our remote patient monitoring business was another bright spot during the fourth quarter, generating record revenue of $4 million and $830,000 in adjusted EBITDA for the period. This performance was driven by a 16% increase in the number of patients monitored when compared to the same period in 2024 with strong growth in our virtual care management offering.

We are seeing substantial margin gains in this business as greater economies of scale are achieved and we expect continued improvements in profitability over the balance of 2026. Additionally, we launched our efficiency innovation portfolio in Q4. This is a collection of more than a dozen projects designed to increase efficiency and create more operating leverage in our P&L. These projects span our medical transportation, mobile health and corporate segments and are anticipated to deliver approximately $5 million to $6 million of savings in 2026 and approximately $20 million to $24 million of savings in '27 when we experienced the full annual benefit of these projects.

Central to this work is our use of technology, which has always been a focus and key differentiator for DocGo. We've already incorporated a genic patient outreach into our proprietary Dara ordering and routing platform, and we introduced automation into our prebilling function to increase efficiency. We're planning to expand these initiatives and bring others online in the coming months. I look forward to sharing more about these efforts on future calls.

We shared in our earnings release earlier today that DocGo has initiated a process to explore a range of strategic alternatives designed to maximize shareholder value. We make no assurance that this process will yield positive results or that any transaction may be identified or undertaken.

Finally, I'm often asked when DocGo will achieve profitability, and I always say it's a confluence of 3 key components: our top line revenue, our gross margin and our SG&A. With regards to revenue, we continue to see strong demand for our services and top line growth across our volume metrics. Our gross margin is improving due to our progress in hiring and reducing our overtime costs, and we expect our SG&A to improve as our efficiency innovation portfolio projects take shape and make a real impact. At this time, I will now hand it over to Norm to review the financials. Norm, please go ahead.

Thank you, Lee, and good afternoon. Total revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $74.9 million compared to $120.8 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. The year-over-year revenue decline was entirely due to the wind down of migrant related projects. Removing migrant-related revenues in both periods, we saw a revenue increase of 11% year-over-year in Q4. For the full year, total revenue amounted to $322.2 million in 2025 compared to $616 million in 2024. Medical Transportation services revenue increased to $50.2 million in Q4 of 2025 from $49.1 million in transport revenues that we recorded in the fourth quarter of 2024. Revenues were driven higher by gains in both large and small U.S. markets with some of the strongest growth in markets like New York, Texas and Tennessee.

Mobile Health revenue for the fourth quarter of 2025 was $24.8 million, down from $71.8 million in the fourth quarter of last year, driven by the wind-down of migrant revenues. Included in this year's amount was approximately $7.4 million in migrant related revenues. Nonmigrant global health revenues increased by 47%, driven by increases in care gap closures, remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy and by the inclusion of 2 months of revenues from SteadyMD, which we acquired on October 20.

Adjusted EBITDA for the fourth quarter of 2025 was a loss of $11.3 million compared to adjusted EBITDA of $1.1 million in the fourth quarter of 2024. For the full year, the adjusted EBITDA loss was $28.6 million in 2025 compared to adjusted EBITDA of $60 million in 2024. The adjusted gross margin, which removes the impact of depreciation and amortization and is the measure of margins that we track most closely was 32.5% in the fourth quarter of 2025 compared to 33.5% in the fourth quarter of 2024.

During the fourth quarter of 2025, adjusted gross margins for the medical transportation segment were 32.8% compared to 30.1% in Q4 of 2024, and the highest gross margins that we've seen in that segment since Q1 of 2024. Despite these improvements, medical transportation gross margins are still being restrained by higher-than-planned effective hourly wages for field labor. As we pointed out on the last call, our transportation business has been running at the highest utilization rates that we've seen leading to higher overtime rates.

Over time, accounted for about 13% of hourly wages in Q4 and has been running between 11% and 13% for the past several quarters. However, we took solid strides toward increasing our field headcount in the fourth quarter of 2025, and we would expect the overtime rate to trend lower in 2026, closer to the sub 10% overtime rates that we saw in the first half of 2024. This should provide a lift to transportation gross margins in 2026.

Mobile Health segment adjusted gross margin was 31.8% versus 35.9% in the fourth quarter of 2024. As we completed the wind down of migrant related programs, we experienced significantly lower gross margins in that area, which were below 20% for the quarter. We expect that Mobile Health segment gross margins will improve in 2026 in the absence of these wind down costs and with greater relative contributions from higher-margin service lines such as remote patient monitoring, mobile phlebotomy and virtual care.

There were several nonrecurring noncash items that had a large impact on our GAAP results this quarter, so I'd like to spend some time reviewing them. Within the operating expense category, we incurred noncash charges due to the write-down of intangible assets and goodwill. The write-downs were driven by the persistent gap between the carrying value of our assets and our market cap. We began this process in the third quarter when we wrote down the goodwill and intangible assets relating to our clinical staffing business. Even after these write-downs, entering Q4, there was still a significant amount of goodwill and intangible assets on our balance sheet, primarily due to the acquisitions we have completed over the past 4 years.

Throughout the fourth quarter, our market capitalization remained well below our net asset value requiring us to consider adjusting the valuation of all of our intangible assets and goodwill in an attempt to narrow this gap in accordance with ASC 350 and ASC 360. At year-end, we have now written down all the intangible assets and goodwill to 0. This resulted in a total goodwill impairment of $49.5 million and an impairment of intangible assets of an additional $22.6 million in the fourth quarter.

Along these lines, within the other expense category, we impaired the entire carrying value of an equity investment into a health care company we made in previous years, which had an impact of $5 million in other expense. It is important to note that these write-downs are all accounting driven and noncash in nature. In no way do they reflect the change in the company's outlook regarding the future prospects or profitability of any of these underlying business lines?

At year-end, our total cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash and investments was $68.3 million, down from $95.2 million at September 30, 2025. The largest factor in the decline in cash was the acquisition of SteadyMD in October. We paid $12.5 million in cash for SteadyMD and incurred additional transaction-related costs of approximately $1.5 million. Our cash balance at year-end was lower than we had expected due to the delay in collecting migrant related accounts receivable owed by New York City's Department of Housing Preservation and development, which we had expected to see during the fourth quarter, coupled with an ongoing operating loss. With further operating losses expected during the first half of 2026 and several growth-related initiatives requiring working capital, we would expect further declines in cash in the near term, creating potential working capital pressure during 2026.

To mitigate this, we are highly focused on reducing cash utilization and operating costs, particularly at the corporate level. We're also working with our current credit line provider to remedy issues related to certain financial covenants, which may increase borrowing costs while providing us with greater flexibility. Turning to 2026. As Lee mentioned in his comments earlier, and as we pointed out in our press release, we have updated and increased our guidance for 2026, based upon what we've seen in the first 2-plus months of the year and the positive volume trends across most of our business lines.

We now see full year revenues in the range of $290 million to $310 million, up from the range of $280 million to $300 million that we had shared back in November. This does not include any revenues from migrant-related projects and represents a 15% to 23% growth over 2025 space revenues. We anticipate a full year adjusted EBITDA loss in the range of $5 million to $10 million compared to our prior guidance of a loss of $15 million to $25 million. In addition to the increased revenue outlook, we have several cost-cutting initiatives underway that we are addressing with the efficiency innovation portfolio efforts that Lee previously outlined, which we believe can accelerate our pathway to profitability.

We continue to expect to achieve profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis in the back half of this year. At this point, I'd like to turn the call back to the operator for Q&A. Operator, please proceed.

[Operator Instructions] And your first question comes from the line of Pito Chickering from Deutsche Bank.

I guess just to lead off here. You talked about doing your formal process a lot of strategic alternative. Just can you give us any color on sort of what the process entails, and any color on is going so far?

Peter, absolutely. Thanks for the question. So we've engaged an investment bank to run a formal process with the goal of maximizing shareholder value. We can't share more at this time as we're in the process. But of course, as things progress, if they do progress, we'll share more at that time.

Okay. I figured as much, but if I look ahead to ask here. Can you about the improvement in the 2006 guidance in both revenue and EBITDA from upside from SteadyMD or improvements in mobile health or transportation or SG&A? Just any color because you raised revenues by $10 million and adjusted EBITDA by $10 million to $15 million.

Yes, absolutely. Thanks for that question as well, Pito. So we're seeing increased volumes in -- particularly in our Medical Transportation segment, where we've also made progress on EMS staffing. Those are the 2 key components really for the increased revenue outlook of about $10 million. We are seeing additional upside in SteadyMD and those, I would say, are the primary drivers of our increased guidance. Both volumes in SteadyMD are up significantly as well as our ability to fulfill the volumes that we've seen in the Medical Transportation segment with additional hiring that we've been successful with we still have some additional room to run on the staffing.

That's going to be a continued focus for us on the EMS side. But that's really been the driving factor of the revenue guide increase. On the EBITDA side, it really is a factor of, a, the revenue increase provides most -- more gross profit dollars. We're also seeing gross margin improve with reduced overtime that Norm pointed out. And so we see gross margin improving as we start the year here and as we progress because we've been able to staff more efficiently and drive that overtime rate down. And then again, we're also very focused on reducing SG&A by another 10% to 15% from recent levels with some of these efficiency innovation portfolio items that we've already kicked off.

These are areas where we're working to automate many of the functions in billing, in dispatch where we can utilize perhaps fewer staff members but leverage automation to make us more efficient. And we've already kicked that off. I mentioned [ 3 ] billing is an area where we've already made that automation process improvement and there's going to be other areas as we progress throughout the year here as we use technology to become more and more efficient and take costs out of the business. That's what's really driving the EBITDA improvement, the EBITDA outlook improvement. Norm, anything to add?

Yes. I mean I would just say that when we look at the gross margin, the exit rate of gross margin, in the fourth quarter. So we showed it was around 32.5%, 33% on a blended adjusted basis. But in reality, 1 of the things -- exactly a couple of things that were holding us back in the fourth quarter that have already improved here in the first 2, 2.5 months of the year. Number 1 is on the transport side. So as Lee mentioned, there's the overtime rate, which is -- it can't be overstated in terms of the impact, that having a higher overtime rate has on your overall gross margins, it raises your effective hourly rate. If we look at the fourth quarter, the effective hourly rate for field labor was probably the highest that we've seen. And it has since moderated along the lines of having our overtime rate come down like 13% closer to the 10% area that we had seen in the first half of 2024.

So that's 1 driver. The other part of it is when we look at the mobile health revenue or the Mobile Health gross margins, so on its way out, the migrant revenue came in at a much, much lower gross margin level than it had. It's traditionally been running in the 35% to 38% gross margin range. Then in the third quarter of last year, it ran in maybe the high or mid-20s and then under 20% and it's a little bit of a stranded cost thing, but it's more a matter of just sort of having people on staff until the end of the year.

Some of those projects ended midway through the month of December. And you're left with a little bit of cost. Those costs are all gone. There's not going to be any of it in Q1 along with those revenues. So when we think of the exit rate and then we think what we had pegged the gross margin at our original guidance, especially in the first half of the year, we think we're running at a level at somewhat above that.

Okay. Excellent. And then last question here. You talked about sort of free cash flow pros potentially negotiated covenants here. Can you just sort quantify what free cash flow generation or free cash flow declines will be sort of during 2026. And any color on how we start in the year. And just to be very clear, does that include or not include collections in the rest of the migraine business?

Okay. So a little bit to unpack there, so we'll do it in order. I mean the first thing to point out, and we did talk about it here in our prepared comments, our cash balance at year-end was lower than what we had pegged it to be. And that's simply because there's about $20 million of those migrant receivables. The last piece of it, we've collected 97% of everything up until now. That did not come in during the fourth quarter, that still has not come in yet in the first quarter. I believe that a good chunk of that is imminent. By that, I mean I still think that some of it is going to come in during the first quarter, even though it was only about a couple of weeks ago.

So it's pretty imminent and the rest will come in in the second quarter, maybe in the third quarter, but we expect to collect all of it. So when I look out a few months, I wouldn't expect there to be any net difference. But yes, that's $20 million of receivables or $20 million of cash that I would have expected when we last spoke in November of last year that I would have expected to have had in the door and in the bank by the end of the year. So that's 1 factor. But again, getting to your other question, very clearly, it doesn't change -- our outlook hasn't changed as to the ultimate collectability of that money. I'm just looking at a cash balance is somewhat lower than it had been before.

We do have working capital requirements. As Lee mentioned, we're bringing on a lot of new people on the EMT side. So you bring on EMT, you start to pay them, you get them out in the field, working on the truck, they do more volumes. And then those are typically paid within 80 to 90 days. So you've got a little bit of your typical growth working capital needs there as well. So that's really what we're talking about.

As far as the vendor -- the line of credit is concerned. So we have your typical, I'll say, EBITDA covenant or adjusted EBITDA covenant, and it's no secret. We've been running it at an EBITDA negative level for a good few quarters. So that's one of those things that we need to work through with them. We're in the process of working with our credit line provider in terms of how they interpret that and those kinds of adjustments to make sure that, that line of credit remains available to us. We have not tapped down on it since we -- drawn down on it since we paid it back in August of last year. But it would be nice to know it's there. Certainly nice to was there. So that's a big part of it.

As far as -- I want to avoid I think I learned my lesson, I want to avoid like looking into the crystal ball and talk about exactly how much cash will be there at what date. But just to give you an idea of the trend, as we mentioned, I think the next couple of quarters where we expect some negative EBITDA, at least in Q1 and Q2 and into Q3, that will probably result in a somewhat lower cash balance. But again, it depends on the timing of that -- of the payment of the remaining migrant receivables. When they come in, that will cover up the loss. And technically, that could keep us at a somewhat flat level.

So all of it really depends on the timing of that and the timing of some of the payments that we make. But then as we get towards the back part of the year, and we're looking at relatively small EBITDA losses or even positive EBITDA numbers as we get to the back end of the year, then we should see a sort of a plateauing of that particular cash balance.

And your next question comes from the line of Ryan MacDonald from Needham & Company.

Maybe, Lee, just on the payer business first. Obviously, some great momentum there in terms of covered lives that you continue to grow there, the expansion into Kentucky as well. And I think earlier this year, at our conference, you were talking about sort of a pipeline of 2 to 4 more incremental payers that you could sign on within the first half of this year. Just any update on sort of what that pipeline looks like and if that's being factored into even the increased top line outlook, if at all, that you set today.

Absolutely, Ryan. Thanks for the question. Great to hear from you. So the forecast that we have, the forecast that we shared today is consistent to what we shared in our previous call. We continue to see momentum in this business. The number of visits is up significantly as we mentioned, the number of lives and patients that are being referred to us by the payers is up, and we continue to balance scaling that business with also obviously, the investment we're making in that business. And that's the key factor there.

I think the reason why I was excited to share the expansion into a new state by a payer we're already working with in 2 other states is just that is a great harbinger for us that the value we're providing to our partners is there. They're looking to us to expand and provide that value to additional patients in other states. And that is a good indicator to us that, of course, patients and the partners we're working with are deeply valuing the services we're providing. And so that makes us very, very excited. And of course, we see it every day when we go visit patients and see the impact we're making.

So that's the momentum we're seeing. We're really focused on making sure that we're growing efficiently, that we're continuing to scale while balancing the investment we're making in this business so that we could achieve really critical mass in the markets -- the markets we're in and be very selective about whatever markets we expand to primarily with existing customers of ours. So that's the focus. I think you'll see us visit in the patient's homes, about 200,000 patients this year across our mobile lab and care in the home business. Care Gap, transitional care management, primary care is another big focus of ours where we're seeing good progress.

We always endeavored when we entered this business to not only close care gaps, but provide longitudinal preventative care. That's when you can really impact the cost of care, improve health outcomes, and so we're seeing great progress there as well. So that's what the forecast consists of as, of course, if we sign additional contracts, we'll announce those and then adjust accordingly as we go throughout the year.

Excellent. Appreciate it. Obviously, there's a lot of moving parts at the gross margin level this year with some of the migrant revenues coming off, a reduction in overtime rates, also sort of shifting SteadyMD to -- or integrating it to the point where you can start doing more of the mobile health visits through that platform in the second quarter. Can you just kind of give us a sense of sort of implied in the forecast, where you're thinking in terms of gross margins at each segment level on the overall level as you're thinking about the 2026 guide?

Sure. So, at the risk of sounding redundant like everybody else in the world, we do expect sequential gross margin gains as we go through the year. That's the first thing I'll point out. But I think that might -- whether that plays out or whether we end up doing better in the first and second quarter and a little bit less in the third and fourth quarter compared to where we are. But on a full year basis, we would expect the blended gross -- the consolidated blended gross margin to come in right about 33%. So that will be a little bit of a pickup.

On the transport side, where we're currently running at about last quarter, our adjusted gross margin was, I think it was 32.8%. I would always be clear about it. There's a certain limit to where gross margins go. I think that once we get to a point where we would have gross margins on the transport side of 34.5% to 35%, can probably, probably end up seeing that scale back a little bit. So I would say that on the transport side, that number is going to be hopefully somewhat higher than -- a little bit north of 33%.

As we go through the full year, and I can point to certain markets where we're certainly expecting a turnaround and there are 1 or 2 markets that are currently holding us back that we've already seen better improvement or some improvement in Q1. So that's the transport side. And then Mobile Health, a lot of it is going to come down to mix. We have a group of -- obviously, the health plan provider, the care in the home business is a much relatively lower margin than what we see otherwise.

But then the mobile phlebotomy business comes in at a high-margin SteadyMD comes in at a pretty high margin, but we've talked about how they've had to rapidly expand. So you might even see a period of time where SteadyMD margins are taking a little bit of a step back, along with some growth that's above plan. But then you have your relocation monitoring business, which is chugging along, which is increasing both on a year-over-year and sequential basis and the margin is hanging in there and it's north of 50%.

So we would like to see mobile health margins get back to, let's say, a 35% blended basis blended level for the year, and that would sort of get you that 33% for the full year.

And your next question comes from the line of David Larsen from BTIG.

Can you talk about for the 2026 guide, the different sort of revenue components in the past, you've kind of disclosed it like by division, transport, municipalities, health systems, payers or also by like RPM, virtual primary care -- any of those sort of sort of details by division would be very helpful. Absolutely, Dave. Thanks for the question.

So I think if we take the midpoint of our updated guidance, call it, $300 million as the midpoint, we're expecting now that transport is going to come in somewhere around $215 million. We think there's some additional upside there if we continue to make progress on the staffing. And on the Mobile Health side continues to be in that $85 million to $88 million of projected revenue. In the Mobile Health side, if you remember, it consists of no population health, municipal revenue doesn't include any micro revenue, of course, for 2026? And also we continue to point out that if we'll do municipal or population health revenue, we're going to report on that as sort of separate item.

So it really does consist on the mobile health side of our study and, of course, acquisition, which is a virtual care side, the care and the home portfolio that I was describing, the mobile labs, the Care gap, the primary care and the patient monitoring, along with some of the staff clinics that we do. That's really the component pieces. I would say that we've shared in previous calls that SteadyMD is sort of in the $25 million to $30 million range.

As Norm pointed out, we think there's upside to that plan, given the progress that we're making now that we've spent more time with that business having acquired in October, and we're continuing to integrate and infuse them into the company and all the opportunities that the company is seeing and so I would say that's sort of the mix. You have that SteadyMD and acquisition that is coming really into full bloom as we integrate it and that Mobile Health collection of businesses is in the $85 million to $88 million of revenue, of which -- none of that is migrant or municipal or population health in nature?

That's very helpful. And then can you talk about the cross-selling effort? Like I would imagine from a health plan perspective, cargo closures, that's enormously helpful. How frequently would you be able to add in like promote patient monitoring? And then, okay, you assign a primary care doctor or you have a mobile lab service. Like can you talk about the cross-sell and upsell growth potential?

That's a great question. I'm so glad you asked it because that's often something that I think is really an untapped opportunity for us. I think we've done some of it, and I can give some examples in a minute. But I think that, that remains a very big opportunity for the company, 1 that we've made some progress on, but there's clearly more opportunity that we can leverage as we really refine our portfolio of services. I think 2025 was a year where we've established a great portfolio of services on the mobile health and medical transportation side. It's very clear what our value is. Patients love it and now we can start to think about how do we cross-sell and provide those services to patients on a broader basis, particularly because our 2 main customer segments are really the 2 customer segments you want to have in health care.

We work directly with large health systems and hospitals and then the payers. And so we're excited about being at the center of that between the payers and the hospitals, which is really where the vast majority of touch points and really cost is coming from in the system that we're contracting with and partnered with in that space. So I'll give you a few examples. I mean, one area that we're really enthused about is our ability to take a care gap patient and turn them into a preventative primary longitudinal care patient. So we go and we may close a care gap for a diabetes patient or do a screening of some sort.

And we find that many of those patients do not have a primary care provider or know who that primary care provider is and over 70% of the time would opt for us to be that primary care provider. So we're starting to add that aspect of our services as we go into care gap and then primary care. The other piece I'll just flag also you mentioned the mobile labs. We're working with some of the hottest consumer health care companies in the space, the wearable space, where they're now offering lab orders and they're integrating your lab results into their consumer apps, for their wearables. And right now, they're driving patients to patient service centers, but we have partnerships with a lot of the labs, perhaps we can go to the homes of those patients as an upsell as a more convenience than driving them to the patient center.

So going into the home and providing mobile ads as an example. And we continue to think that the opportunity that we have where we're bedside at discharge is a very key moment in a patient's journey. When the patient is being discharged by the hospital on our EMS teams are there transporting the patients, and we're bedside at discharge. We continue to think that, that is a crucial moment in the health care journey. And so what can we do to bridge the discharge from the hospital to the home. We think we have a big role to play in that as we continue to build out the capabilities and continue to work with our amazing partners.

So those are some of the areas that we are absolutely excited about it, and that's why I'm giving such a long detailed answer about it because I think it's an additional area of opportunity that is in front of the company as we go forward here.

And your last question comes from the line of Sarah James from Cantor Fitzgerald.

I appreciate the commentary that you've made so far on some of the moving pieces in '26 with migrant costs being concluded in '25 and the improvement you've already seen year-to-date in EMS labor. But wondering if you could put that all together with what you're planning on the SG&A efficiency side and give us a view of how we should think about EBITDA cadence throughout the year.

So I guess based on what you're doing on the G&A side, is it like a ratable improvement for the year? Should the year be really back-end loaded? Or how should we think about that?

Yes. Thanks, Norman, for the question. I think as Norm mentioned, I think we see most of the EBITDA -- the adjusted EBITDA projection, the loss focused on the first half of the year. And as we turn the corner into the second half of the year, we turn to profitability. I think the big components really are in reducing corporate expenses both on the headcount side as well as some of the vendors that we work with on the corporate side. I mean we've already undertaken a lot of that work. And so that is a factor. And then on the efficiency side, the charge I've really given to the team is to find a way to make us more efficient, use technology, automate, standardize processes at the company where the patient and the customer doesn't feel it.

They don't know that we're being more efficient. The service levels that they've come to love, remain as high as ever, the patient's experience that the patients absolutely love. I mentioned the Net Promoter Score of 92 stay as delightful of a patient experience that you can have in a patient's home when they're in need of health care to maintain that high bar, but at the same time, remove cost and the way to do that is to use technology into automate. And so I mentioned an example of the pre-billing process today or in the past, I should say, we had our dispatchers, and we had members of our team doing the pre-billing component to ensure, of course, that the patient had insurance that we were going to be able to collect, as an example, on the medical transportation trip.

Now we're working to automate that. And we feel like we have build something that can automate that process and then, of course, free up our people to do other work or perhaps allow us to be just as efficient and productive perhaps with fewer people. And that really is a driving function. And so -- we're really looking at areas where we are using human labor today, but it can be automated, it can be standardized and that are -- those are the areas that we're using technology to build out.

Another great example I've been using is when we first started engaging with the patient list that the payers are providing us for care gap services, we were making phone calls for all those patients, myself included. I did a bunch of those calls, and got quite good, I might add, but engaging with the patients. But now we're automating a large portion of it. We're automating a large portion of it with text, we're automating a large portion of it with agentic-AI, and we're doing more with fewer resources.

And so those are really the areas we're focused on. We are very enthused by the progress we're seeing. That agentic-AI, patient engagement solution is already live. It's been running for months now. That automation of the pre-billing is set to go live. We've been testing it for months now. And so these are the areas that we're really going to push forward on to drive efficiency and ultimately remove cost from the business that we know is crucial. And so that is really where we set out. We really worked on it towards the end of last year, and we're starting to see it come to fruition as we kicked off 2026.

Your next question comes from the line of David Grossman from Stifel.

Maybe you could help us better understand kind of your expectations for the cadence of mobile growth as 26 progresses. And maybe if you could, in your response, maybe help us better understand what visibility you have today and what the pipeline may look like, including how do you leverage the success you're having with this 1 particular payer and care gap closure into marketing that to some of the other payers?

Absolutely. Thanks, David, for the question. So as we mentioned on our last call, we really -- we're really taking the approach to set guidance based on what we have today, the contracts we have today, the [ sets ] we have today, the volumes we have today, and then of course, if we're able to add to that with new contracts, new expansions, additional staff, then we would update as we went along. And so we're taking that same approach this quarter. This is based on the staff we have today. We mentioned how much progress we're making on the staffing. There's still more progress to be made. This includes the contracts we have today. It doesn't include any sort of wins that are projected to come but rather what we already have in-house today.

So that in terms of visibility, in terms of that part of your question, this is the full visibility that we have. It's the contracts that we have with the staff we have today. Of course, things can happen, but this is what we have in the mix of the business right now with the customers we already have. So that's the key component. I think we really project that the mobile health business will grow as we go throughout the year. There is no 1 quarter where we hit some inflection point. It really is going to be a linear build on the mobile health side, because as I mentioned, it's including all the contracts we already have today. I think what you're seeing on the mobile health side is about a 40% year-over-year growth from 2025 to 2026. Now of course, that does include a full year of stead EMV revenues, which we acquired, as we mentioned in October. If you exclude study MD from both periods, we have about 10% to 15% year-over-year growth as well.

So what we're going to be focused on this year is integrating study and b, utilizing them across the DocGo platform so that we're utilizing studying these clinician base to oversee the visits that are happening in the patient's homes with our mobile health clinicians in the homes. And then, of course, enabling them to grow as well. But that's basically what we see is a linear growth on mobile health as we go throughout the year. Of course, if we were to win a new contract that would maybe introduce a step function into the growth rate, but it's based on what we have today is sort of the visibility aspect to your question.

Okay. Great. And just a quick one for you, Norm. So I think you said you expect to get another chunk of cash from HPD at some point, perhaps even before the end of the month. Any sense of what the gating items are to getting paid at this point? Or has it just been typical administrative kind of delays in getting the final payments. Any sense for whether or not there's any risk to the $20 million. I think in your press release, you said you expect to get fully paid, but I just thought I'd just ask the question.

Yes. And sure, David. It's a good question. And just to set the table, we're in touch with them on a pretty frequent basis. I have a counterpart there, there's about half a dozen people here who are in touch with their counterparts. I speak to them weekly. So what has been going on is that as the administration has sort of transitioned , first of all, people have been a little bit busy. But beyond that, they're going through an audit, not just for our payable to -- not just the payable to us, but really for everything that HPD has done with all the different vendors that they have and they're going to even they brought in a, I'll say 1 of the big 4 accounting firms that was and consulting firms that was doing an audit for them across the board.

And looking at the stuff that they already paid, looking at the stuff that was already opened, kind of routine type of process, but I would say that, that payment was held hostage, if you will, by that particular audit that really dragged on for quite a few months. That audit has been wrapped up. The findings are now being put together on paper. And that's why I think that we should find out really within days of what they are going to pay us in an initial wave of funding. And then, of course, if there's some stuff where they require additional information, all of which we have, we would provide that and continue that process going.

So -- and that was the big gating item there really was getting that audit done that took at least, I would say, 2 to 3 months maybe more to get complete.

And there are no further questions at this time. I will now hand the call back to Mr. Lee Bienstock for any closing remarks.

Wonderful. Thank you so much for everyone joining us today, and we're looking forward to speaking with you again soon. Take care.

And this concludes today's call. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect.

Good day. And welcome to the IAccess Alpha Virtual Best Ideas Winter Investment Conference 2025 The next presenting company is DocGo Inc. [Operator Instructions] I'd now like to turn the floor over to today's host, Mr. Lee Bienstock, CEO of DocGo Inc. Sir, the floor is yours.

Thank you so much. It's great to be with you today at the Best Ideas Conference and to talk about DocGo, our mobile health care company, where we bring medical care to where it's needed, when it's needed. And that's really our great idea.

Our best idea is creating a world-class medical company that delivers mobile health care, medical care to where it's needed, when it's needed. And we believe that when you meet patients where they are, you have great outcomes. And better outcomes lead to better health and better health leads to less strain on the entire health care system, something that is desperately needed in our country and for our health care system. So we're excited to share how we do that with you today. I'll make sure we leave some time at the end for questions, and we'll get into it.

So as I mentioned, our thesis, is we are building a leading provider of tech-driven mobile care. We have a foundational expanding medical transportation business where essentially we've built an Uber-like experience for medical transportation, where we bring patients to the care setting that they need or bring them home from the hospital. We have a rapidly growing care in the home business. All of it is run off our proprietary tech backbone that we built purpose-built for delivering care in this way. We have a strong balance sheet and the resources to support our growth in the years to come.

And of course, anyone working in the health care space has a massive expanding TAM. But as I'll share later in the presentation, CMS, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and other key players in the ecosystem are predicting a huge growth in the amount of care being delivered in the home.

So here's what we do in a nutshell. We have three service lines. As I mentioned, we have a medical transportation, a division. It's a tech-powered state-of-the-art platform with our own fleet. Our own skilled EMS professionals providing medical transportation and management. I'll talk more about it, but our tech platform is integrated with Epic. It works into the patient flow of the hospital systems we work with. We work with premier hospital systems like Mount Sinai, Jefferson, North Well, New York City Health and Hospitals, Mainline Health and they utilize our technology to help coordinate the patient flow, discharge in medical transportation.

We have a rapidly growing mobile health care division, where we use the same tech backbone to deliver care in a patient's living room, and we're building out the capabilities to bring a doctor's office, the capabilities of the doctor's office to the patient's living room. When we're not with patients, we have a growing remote patient monitoring business, where today, we monitor over 50,000 patients, primarily in the cardiac space that have implantable loop recorders and pacemakers, and we're reviewing those transmissions of data continuously on a daily basis to make sure that their conditions are not precipitating and we're intervening when necessary.

And all told, we have thousands of clinical staff providing these services in over -- almost 1,000 mobile vehicles in 31 states and the U.K. and our clinical practice, we have a 50-state virtual practice where we can provide virtual care to anyone across the country. We've served over 10 million patients since we started, so we've been scaling, we've been doing this at great scale now for many years.

And most importantly, the patients love it. Patients love it when you meet them where they are and engage with them on their terms, in their preferred setting, and it's a really tech-forward experience and patients love it. And that is the most important -- most important aspect. And when patients love it, they're more likely to engage in their health and you're more likely to have better health outcomes, and that's what everybody wants. That's really the platform we're building here on the medical transportation side.

We have a great roster of customers on the mobile health care side. We're working with the payers, the health insurance companies that are identifying patients that have gaps in care that need care brought to them. And they're providing us with those list of patients, and our team is engaging and going and seeing those patients day in, day out. We expect to provide medical transportation for about 700,000 patients this year. Provide care in the home, mobile lab, care gap closure, primary care to over 150,000 patients.

And as I mentioned, we monitor over 50,000 patients today. So great scale across our service lines, all the goal to bring care to where you are. That's our best idea. Who knew if you meet patients where they are on their terms, just like any other industry, if you deliver great care to where they are when they need it, you're going to have great results. And that's why we're so excited to continue to build out.

This has been the financial profile of the company. I like putting this slide right upfront, so people can get a sense. I mentioned the scale of the volume of visits and patient engagement that we're -- that we're delivering today. And here's what the business has looked like over the years. And you'll notice a couple of elements here.

Number one is you see the growth of our medical transportation business. Now 5 years ago, we did less than $100 million of revenue in that business. This year, we guided to about $200 million -- $200 million plus. And you'll also notice our work with our payers and providers, those list of patients that the payers and providers are working with us to bring care to their members that have open gaps in care, need care to help keep them out of the hospital or the condition -- the chronic condition from precipitating getting even worse, and that's the light blue bar that you see being built out there.

And we issued guidance, which I'll get into a little bit more, we issued guidance for next year on our last earnings call to between $280 million to $300 million of revenue. So we're essentially tripling the base business of the company over the past 5 years or so. We're really, really proud of that.

All the while, you'll notice the gray bar, we were instrumental in responding to the COVID crisis, right? We're a mobile health care company, which was incredibly valuable during the pandemic. We've been providing services to the migrants and asylum seekers that were arriving in our home state of New York here. And that's the gray bar that you see there. The company experienced revenue and deployment in a significant way around those crises and emergency responses, and that's where you see that gray bar, which again, sort of overshadows the great growth in the base business that we've been experiencing over the past number of years. And so that's why we like to talk about that upfront.

Oftentimes, investors will ask me, well, what happened with the revenue last year or the year before, and that's where you see the COVID revenue and the migrant revenue that we're breaking out and showing the base business revenues and the growth there. And I think it's important for us to talk about that at the onset. So people can see the growth profile of the company and all its component pieces. And we're very proud of it.

So as I mentioned, we had our earnings call last month, and here are some highlights from our Q3 call. Our total revenue for the company was about $71 million in revenue, $70.8 million in revenue. Our adjusted gross margin was 33%. We had an adjusted EBITDA loss of about $7.2 million. Again, we'll talk about where some of that investment is going, but that investment that you see here is going into building out the capabilities of bringing the doctor's office to a patient's living room. And continuing to invest in the growth and infrastructure of the company.

Mobile health revenue is about $20 million. Medical Transportation revenue is about $50 million, breaking those pieces out. And our Medical Transportation adjusted gross margin was 31.7%. The company doesn't have any debt on its balance sheet, our outstanding amount on our line of credit is sitting at zero. We've paid that all back and total cash on the balance sheet is $95.2 million. So we have a really healthy balance sheet. We've managed it well.

We continue to have a growing business that we invest in the capabilities of the company and some really great traction. I announced also on our last earnings call that we achieved record volumes across all our major business lines with medical transportation, U.S. Medical Transportation growing by 2.5%, our care gap closure in transitional care business growing 320% year-over-year, our mobile phlebotomy business growing 11% year-over-year, our remote patient monitoring business growing 6% year-over-year and when comparing to third quarter of this year, third quarter of last year.

So we really see volumes up. That's how we know we're absolutely on the right path, and patients are loving it. Health plans are benefiting from it. Hospital systems are benefiting from it. Most importantly, patients are benefiting from it. And we're really, really excited about the growth plans of the company and all the capabilities we're bringing out and the financial health of the company.

And this really is the problem we're solving. Chronic disease is a massive issue in the U.S. health care landscape. The CDC, again, there was a great article in the CDC estimated that 90% of the nation's $4.5 trillion in annual health care spend is relating to people with chronic illness. If we can help people with diabetes, with heart failure, with chronic kidney failure, we can help those patients manage their diseases, stay out of the hospital, lead healthier lives. We're going to help this massive issue in the U.S. health care system. And that's exactly the type of solutions that we are building out is to be able to address and help treat chronic conditions key patients out of the hospital and ultimately provide preventative proactive care, and this is a huge need in the U.S. health care landscape.

We'll dig in a little bit more on mobile health. As I mentioned, we're projected to visit over 150,000 patients in their home this year. We work with the payers and providers that have patients that are part of their member base or patients that they're trying to reach. And for whatever reason, they're not getting the care they need. Maybe they need a diabetic retinal scan, they have diabetes, and we have to make sure that they're not at risk for vision impairment. Maybe they have osteoporosis and they need a bone density scan, maybe they're at risk of colon cancer. We need to do a colon cancer screening. They have vaccinations that they haven't received.

They have received an annual wellness visit. And so we go to the home and those are the exact services that we deliver. We deliver over 40 different care gaps in the home, building out the capabilities to do that. That's what our company is all about. And we've been making great, great progress there. And like I said, we'll visit 150,000 patients in their home this year.

The payers we work with, that list is growing. I'd like to share that a couple of years ago, we were working with one payer. They gave us a list of about 70,000 patients that were in need of these services. And now we work with payers you see here listed, over a half dozen payers that have given us 1.3 million patients, list of patients that are in need of those care gap closure and primary care services Molina, Health First and an Empire Health Plan, L.A. Care, Elevance, Emblem, all customers, all working with us in partnership to reach patients that have open gaps in care and needs preventative care.

And if we close those gaps in care, the health plan save money because the patients are healthier, they're not landing in the hospital. The health plans get a higher quality rating because their members are getting the care they need and all of that drives savings and better performance for these health plans. So we are targeting the very aspect of what the health plans are struggling with right now, which is ballooning costs. And patients with chronic conditions, ending up in the hospital. And we are absolutely going and treating those patients, helping them close those gaps in care.

As I mentioned, this is a very, very big market, as you can imagine, 30% of the PCP market is expected to shift into nontraditional providers according to Bain. And again, CMS is projecting a huge percentage of care to find its way into the home because oftentimes, that's the best setting for some of this care, and we're right at the nexus of that.

Here's how we do it. This idea, this great idea, this best idea is an old idea. The doctor he used to come to your home, but it was inefficient, there was too much drive time. We frankly have a scarcity of physicians in this country and advanced practice providers and so how do we do what we do?

We've built a tech platform that allows us to send certified medical assistance, licensed practical nurses, phlebotomists into the home. They are the ones that are driving from home to home. They're the ones that are getting the patient visit set up. They're the ones that are hands, eyes and ears in the patient's home. And they are overseen synchronously by that very scarce advanced practice provider, that licensed medical physician, that physician's assistant, that nurse practitioner overseeing and directing the visit and they're able to tell the clinician that's in the home. They want to see inside the ear, nose and throat. They want to take a swab. They want to administer a vaccine.

The remote clinical staff is the one prescribing treatment planning and diagnosing and the clinician in the home is the one that's the hands, eyes and ears hands on with that patient. And that's exactly the platform that we've built. It is tech forward, and that allows us to essentially put that old idea back into play. Spending the capabilities of a clinician into a patient's home. And we're very excited about this. Patients absolutely love it.

And again, it's very tech forward and again, meeting patients where they are. And this is the platform we built out. In order to help us accelerate that platform, the expansion of that platform, the scale of that platform, we need more and more advanced practice providers. And so you may have seen about 6 weeks ago, we made an acquisition where we acquired a company called SteadyMD, that has been operating for 9 years. They'll do about $25 million of revenue this year.

And they have hundreds of advanced practice providers, providing clinical care, virtual care, telemedicine across 50 states today, and we feel like that network of clinicians overlaid with our field deployment, those mobile health care clinicians in the field paired with the SteadyMD platform is going to help us go faster, is going to help us be more efficient. Allowing us to use those hundreds of telehealth based providers that SteadyMD has to garner up to 10% gross margin improvement on our deployment. We're very, very excited about this, and they have a world-class platform.

This is what we offer in the home. We talked about it, mobile phlebotomy, care gap closure, transitional care management, urgent care, primary care, all in the patient's home or via telehealth. And again, we're one of the largest scale providers of this. And meeting patients where they are, again, is the profound idea.

As I touched on it, sometimes patients need to go to the hospital, sometimes patients need to be taken from one care setting to the next, and we have one of the preeminent medical transportation platforms in the industry, also a multibillion-dollar market. And we partner with the hospital systems in this case. So on the mobile health care side, we are partnering with the health insurance companies. And on the medical transportation side, we're partnering with the health systems, the hospitals themselves.

Here's a list of the wonderful customers we have there, enterprise-grade agreements and deployments with the hospital systems, and we provide efficient, reliable, tech-forward medical transportation, that is integrated with Epic, which I'll get into in a moment. And we're deploying this in multiple markets across the U.S. and the hospital systems utilize our tech platform that's integrated with Epic to manage the patient flow.

Now on that tech platform, we built our proprietary mobile health and medical transportation platform that allows a discharging nurse to click a button in a patient's chart, and see exactly when that ambulance is going to arrive to pick up that patient. And housekeeping knows when to get that bed made up for the next patient.

And intake knows that, that bed is now free to give to the next patient. And all of it is integrated seamlessly and discharging their snow is, okay, the ambulance is going to arrive in 20 minutes. I need to get the patient ready. So that when we arrive, we're not waiting around the patients ready to be taken. So that efficient patient flow and workflow is incredibly valuable when you infuse technology into the process, and that's what we've been building now for 10 years.

And as I mentioned, hospital systems love it. Household systems like Mount Sinai and New York City Health and Hospitals and Jefferson are all utilizing this tech platform and our crews in the field. And loved ones know exactly when they're -- when the patient is arriving home because they get a link and just like any other tech platform today, you see exactly when the service is being -- is arriving or when the goods are being delivered.

And in our case, they could see exactly when the patient is going to be arriving at the next destination, all seamlessly integrated. And this is a huge competitive advantage for us that we've been building and investing into for many years now. It's HIPAA compliant, it's SOC2 and ISO 27001 certified. And so we're very, very, very proud of what we're building out here.

As I mentioned, our volumes are all up. We're very excited about that progress and that traction we're seeing. I talked about the patients that are assigned to us for care gap and transitional care management, about 70,000 patients couple of years ago to well over 1 million today, that's grown 142% compounded over the course of that span. The number of visits we're completing up 90% over the course of 2024 to the projections we have for 2026.

Number of CCP visits. Again, all these volumes up in a big way because these are absolutely important aspects of the health care delivery system that patients need, and we're bringing it to them when they need it. We have a great team. Folks on the call may know Dr. Klasko, who is the former CEO and President of the Jefferson Health System, joined as the Chair of our Board. It's great that I'm here with you.

I serve as the CEO, and we have a great leadership team that has deep expertise in EMS, in mobile health care, in the hospital settings and so forth, and we're working really hard day in, day out to serve patients, to serve more and more patients to help our partners be successful and we believe that we make patients healthier and our partners like health insurance companies and hospitals more successful. Our company will be very successful alongside that. So here's really what our competitive advantage is.

We put all the pieces together to be able to deliver a seamless experience in a patient's home. And so the patient sees and gets to feel the experience of us having our own proprietary tech platform with our own staff, with our own fleet, with our own lab license, with our own clinical practice group with our own managed care credentials, all combined so that we can provide a comprehensive great experience of high-quality medical care in a patient's home.

And putting all these pieces together is not easy and it takes time, takes effort, takes brainpower, takes skill, takes execution, and that's exactly what we've been doing over the number of years here. And we now have the ability to deliver exactly what I'm just describing because of our vertical integration. There's so many companies out there that are selling software, but the hospital systems or the insurance companies, they need the personnel to actually use it.

There's so many companies out there that are antiquated. They may have the ambulances or the personnel or the brick-and-mortar doctor's office -- but they're not -- they don't have the tech platform to really deliver the services and the way that we're doing it. We're so unique in that way. We've built the software and the tech platform, but we don't just leverage that. We utilize that paired with our own clinical staff to be able to deliver care where it's needed.

Okay. I'm going to leave some time for questions here. We think we're very unique in the space. You may have recognized some of these names from Amwell to Teladoc to Uber Health, but we're putting all these services comprehensively in a way together that allows us to deliver a pretty seamless unique experience that, frankly, is unmatched in the industry.

How are we going to grow the company? We think about that day in, day out. First off, I shared some of the customers we're working with. We have strong long-term relationships with leading health systems, payers and providers, exactly the people in the health care industry that you want to be partnered up with if you want to impact change, if you want to grow. And they have lots of needs and we have lots of the capabilities that they need. And so there's a lot of opportunity, frankly, with the customers we have already today.

We are very focused on reducing hospitalization. That's what cost the system a lot of money. That's the most expensive care setting. Is when you're in the hospital. And so we have programs specifically designed to keep you out of the hospital. Hospitals play a vital role when you need to be there, you need to be there and they absolutely provide a necessary role in the ecosystem.

But oftentimes, you don't need to be in the hospital or if we can keep you from going to the hospital by preventing precipitating condition or helping you manage your chronic condition better, that's what we're all about. And so that's the role we play. We have a growing virtual care management platform, payer programs. We have a robust pipeline of new customers that we'll be looking to bring on, hopefully in the next years to come. And we're very excited about that. And we've also shown propensity and ability to execute on strategic M&A.

As I mentioned, we acquired SteadyMD about 6 weeks ago. We've been adept at acquiring companies and adding those capabilities and helping us scale faster with M&A, and we have a disciplined M&A approach, but we have a robust M&A pipeline that we'll continue to explore in the coming months and years.

The key takeaways, and we'll leave some time for questions here. We have a strong balance sheet to support our growth. We have a defensive competitive advantage from our tech and our vertical integration, the software and the services, all integrated into one platform, turnkey, we have a unique value proposition. We want to succeed when the patient is healthier. We want to succeed when the patient is cared for in their home. We want to succeed when we're efficient in moving patients from one care setting to the next with the medical transportation platform that we have.

And when patients are healthier and our partners are winning, that's when we win, that's a great recipe, and we're very excited about our role in that. And we're building a recurring revenue base with highly attractive customers. Yes, we helped during the pandemic. Yes, we helped during the migrant and the asylum seeker crisis. But all the while, at the same time, we've been growing our base business. We've been growing out our capabilities. We've been growing out our tech platform to really set us up for the years to come and to help a lot of people. And we're a mission-driven company. Our goal is to keep patients out of the hospital. Make them healthier. And if we're successful in doing that, our company is going to be successful.

And of course, there's just an enormous TAM out there for us to effectuate that growth and for us to effectuate that better patient outcome. And this is what it's all about. The lithium is just so much better than the waiting room. How many of us have been on the right-hand side of the photo, with our children, and our loved ones? And if we can give people perhaps a different experience in their home, with the same quality of care, we feel like that is a profound idea. You may say, a best idea keeping with the spirit of this conference. And so we're so excited about that, and that's exactly what we're building here at DocGo.

Okay. So let's take a look, left some time for some Q&A. Excellent. So I have a bunch of questions here. I'll try to get to them all.

First question we have up is, how is SteadyMD acquisition improving margins and capacity across your in-home visit model?

So that is a very important piece. As I mentioned, we have two aspects to make that home visit possible. First, we have the field resources that are going from home to home from care setting to care setting. And that is, of course, what the company has always done well. We have, again, that huge fleet, a huge workforce that's trained to go into the patient's home.

But at the same time, they're overseen by the advanced provider. A licensed clinician and the MD, the NP, the PA. And so that is exactly what SteadyMD is bringing to DocGo. They have a network of hundreds of these advanced practice providers. And they're also serving other customers. So that when they're not seeing a DocGo patient, they're seeing another telehealth visit from their roster of impressive customers. And so that allows us to maximally utilize every minute of that advanced provider today and make us much more efficient and then, of course, bring that capacity to us to help us scale in the markets we're in and help us scale to the markets that we're being asked to go to.

For example, we work with a payer today, in California that recently asked us to expand to New Mexico, which we just started serving patients in New Mexico over the last few weeks. And so SteadyMD will help us expand to new markets as we work with our payers, we love that. right? The payers we're working with are happy, they're benefiting. The patients are benefiting. They ask us to go to new states. SteadyMD already has a 50-state clinical network that we're going to leverage for expansion there as well.

Let's take a look at a few other questions. What does your pipeline look like for new quality and gap closure programs heading into 2026?

So that's a really great question because I think it touches on two very important aspects. So the first is -- we -- as I mentioned, we have a growing number of patient lists that are being provided to us by the payers we already work with, and we think there's enormous opportunity there for us to continue to expand with the payers we're already working with in the markets we're already working with. We're also going to be looking to add new payers in the markets we're already in, adding density and the more density we add, the more efficient we get, the more efficient we get, the better the margins improve.

And so we're working on building that out in the markets we're in today. We will expand to new markets that will typically happen with an existing payer we're already working with, and they are partnering with us to scale to a new market. So we're never going to go to a new market and hope to get volume or hope to get customers. Typically, our expansion strategy to new markets is because we already have a customer that's taking us to that new market, if you will. And that's going to continue to be our ethos going into next year.

And so I think it's going to be a mix between, frankly, expanding in the markets we're already in, getting greater density, getting greater efficiency and then expanding to some new markets with our existing customer base or with a large anchor customer that wants us to enter into that market with the same capabilities and service lines that we offer today.

The reason why I also wanted to focus on this question as well, is because I mentioned the guidance that we gave for next year, the $280 million to $300 million of revenue for next year. That takes into account the customers we already have today. It does not take into account any new customers that we may sign any new markets we may go into any new deployments that we may undertake any additional M&A activities, we may pursue next year.

All of that would be additive to the guidance that we issued on our last earnings call. So that's why it's very important. I'm glad thank you whoever submitted that question, it's a great one because I think it touches on our growth strategy on how we expand, but also touches on how we came to the guidance that we issued on our last earnings call

And so that puts us at time. Really appreciate it. We're here. We're really excited about what we're doing. We're going out and serving patients. We engage the investor community. Appreciate you hosting us today. If you have questions, absolutely reach out to us and watch as we grow in the space. We're going to be delivering care to where patients are when they need it, and when we do that, we help them lead healthier lives, manage their chronic conditions. And ultimately, we think we're going to be very successful doing that.

That concludes DocGo Inc.'s presentation. You may now disconnect, and please consult the conference agenda for the next presenting company.

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the DocGo Third Quarter Earnings Conference Call. [Operator Instructions] This call is being recorded on Monday, November 10, 2025. I would now like to turn the conference call over to Mr. Mike Cole, Vice President, Investor Relations. Please go ahead.

Thank you, operator. Before turning the call over to management, I would like to make the following remarks concerning forward-looking statements. All statements made in this conference call other than statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements. The words may, will, plan, potential, could, goal, outlook, design, anticipate, aim, believe, estimate, expect, intend, guidance, confidence, target, project and other similar expressions may be used to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future performance, and we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize our plans, intentions, outcomes, results or expectations.

Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to substantial risks, uncertainties and assumptions, many of which are beyond our control and which may cause our actual results or outcomes or the timing of results or outcomes to differ materially from those contained in our forward-looking statements. These risks, uncertainties and assumptions include, but are not limited to, those discussed in risk factors and elsewhere in DocGo's annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, our earnings release for this quarter and other reports and statements filed by DocGo with the SEC to which your attention is directed. Actual outcomes and results or timing of results or outcomes may differ materially from what is expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements.

In addition, today's call contains references to non-GAAP financial measures. Reconciliations of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures are included in our earnings release on the current report on Form 8-K that includes our earnings release, which is posted on our website, docgo.com as well as filed with the SEC. The information contained in this call is accurate as of only the date discussed. Investors should not assume that statements will remain relevant and operative at a later time.

We undertake no obligation to update any information discussed in this call to reflect events or circumstances after the date of this call or to reflect new information or the occurrence of unanticipated events, except as to the extent required by law.

At this time, it is now my pleasure to turn the call over to Mr. Lee Bienstock, CEO of DocGo. Lee, please go ahead.

Thank you, Mike, and thank you all for joining us today. 2025 has been an important year of transition for DocGo, and I would like to start our call by sharing 4 key headlines from the quarter before sharing more specifics about our performance.

First, we experienced record volumes across all of our base business offerings in the quarter. Our strategy to build a robust evergreen health care business is coming to fruition. Second, we continue to have a strong balance sheet with cash we intend to use to fund our growth and capitalize on the opportunities in front of us. Third, we are extremely excited about our acquisition of SteadyMD and how their 50-state virtual care network and over 500 advanced practice providers will allow us to scale more efficiently.

And fourth, today, we announced 2026 guidance of $280 million to $300 million in revenue and a full year 2026 adjusted EBITDA loss of $15 million to $25 million, with the majority of this adjusted EBITDA loss expected to be realized in the first half of the year. Our 2026 revenue guidance represents 12% to 20% year-over-year base business growth. Any potential acquisitions or new contract wins would be incremental to that amount, and we would provide updates on 2026 guidance as needed. At the top end of our revenue guidance range for 2026, we would expect to exit the year on an adjusted EBITDA positive run rate.

We have a bold vision of building a company that brings the capabilities of a doctor's office into a patient's living room. I am excited about our investment to build these capabilities, which I believe is a small price to pay for the promise of something that has transformational potential, both for our company and our industry. Before I cover the individual business verticals, I want to emphasize that each of our service lines with the exception of our Care Gap Closure and Primary Care offerings is EBITDA -- is adjusted EBITDA positive on a contribution basis. I think it's important to highlight this because their value can be masked by the impact of corporate overhead costs at our current scale and the investment we are making in the capabilities I just referenced.

Now I'll touch on our Medical Transportation and Payer Provider Mobile Health verticals. Our flagship Medical Transportation business achieved record volumes in Q3, driven by numerous long-term contracts with strong visibility and an enviable roster of customers, including Jefferson Health, Mount Sinai, New York City Health and Hospitals, HCA Tristar, the NHS in the U.K. and others. We expect this business will generate more than $200 million of revenue in 2025, making this a strong foundational asset.

As we add additional scale and ramp staffing in this segment over the next 2 to 3 years, we anticipate that we can further improve the adjusted EBITDA contribution margin to approximately 12%. We continue to see incredibly strong demand for our services with opportunities to grow revenue within our existing customer base. Several of our large health system customers use our total transportation solution, which includes our proprietary software, dedicated ambulances, EMS crews and staff to manage their transfer center operations. Our Epic integrated technology platform creates efficiency, transparency and provides a single source of truth for transportation management across vendors.

In this capacity, we often have the ability to select whether to assign a trip to one of our ambulances or select a different transportation vendor if we don't have an available unit staffed to run the trip. We estimate that over the last 12 months, we have assigned over 26,000 trips to other companies, many of which could have been run by our fleet if we had available service level capacity. We have accelerated our talent acquisition efforts and are looking to hire hundreds of additional EMS staff as soon as it is practical to create the capacity and better capitalize on this embedded demand from our current customers. We expect that these targeted additional hires will enable us to capture millions of dollars of additional top line revenue on our existing contracts in 2026.

In summary, our transportation business serves a vital market need, is profitable on a stand-alone basis and is a valuable foundational asset.

Moving on. I would like to cover our Payer and Provider vertical, which is expected to generate approximately $50 million of revenue in 2025, which includes a contribution of approximately $5 million from the SteadyMD acquisition in mid-October and is expected to grow to $85 million next year. This vertical includes services such as Care Gap Closure, Primary and Preventative Care, Telehealth, Remote Patient Monitoring, Mobile Phlebotomy and other Payer and Provider services.

One of our core offerings in this vertical is our remote patient monitoring business, which has made considerable progress over the last year. Remote patient monitoring is operating at an annual run rate of approximately $15 million with a greater than 10% adjusted EBITDA contribution margin, which is expected to continue trending higher in 2026. We've signed 13 new contracts or expansions this year on the back of strong demand and have 8 additional proposals submitted or in contracting. We are excited to keep developing this capability in a space that typically commands high multiples.

An area of our Payer and Provider vertical that is taking longer than anticipated to ramp but still holds great promise for us is our primary care services. We had originally budgeted approximately $5 million to $10 million of revenue from primary care in 2025. We are seeing progress here and just received a substantial list from a major health plan to offer these services to 10,000 members, which will launch in Q4 and ramp in early 2026.

Also within our Payer and Provider vertical, our Care Gap Closure and Transitions of Care business more than quadrupled when we compare Q3 2025 to Q3 2024. While our investment in product development, training and technology to build our capabilities was substantial in 2025, we expect that rate of investment to decline considerably in 2026, which will help contribute to our goal of achieving profitability.

As we work to drive our Care Gap and Primary Care business to profitability as soon as possible, I want to underscore why we are making this strategic investment to build these capabilities. DocGo's ability to leverage a tech-enabled clinical workforce to reach difficult populations with chronic conditions delivers meaningful value to our Payer and Provider customers. Our solutions help keep people healthier and in their homes and have the potential to significantly lower health systems costs.

Considering the convergence of increasing costs, flat reimbursement levels, facility overcrowding and ongoing operational challenges facing health care today, we believe DocGo's offering is positioned to drive substantial value and represents a significant opportunity for our company. While this Payer and Provider business takes considerable time to develop, we have made significant inroads over the last 2 years, and we believe it has high growth potential. As I shared on our last earnings call, we are already working with 2 of the top 10 national payers and are in active discussions with both of these customers to expand those contracts. Additionally, we are in the process of contracting with 2 more of the top 10 national payers and have an additional 10 pending proposals in our business development pipeline.

I wanted to illustrate the potential of these relationships by highlighting the growth trajectory of one of our major Payer customers over time. In 2023, our first year working with a major California health plan, we performed 789 total patient visits. In 2024, that number grew by nearly 65% to 1,293. In 2025, it is expected to grow another 250% and reach 4,500. And in 2026, it's expected to grow another 280% and reach over 17,000 visits based on existing plans. This same customer started with a single transition of care program, added Care Gap Closure and has recently added Longitudinal Care services as well.

In summary, it takes time for these relationships to ramp, but they can accelerate quickly as our customers appreciate the value we can deliver. As I mentioned, we also considerably expanded our capabilities with our acquisition of virtual care provider, SteadyMD, last month. We believe we got a very attractive deal for our shareholders with the way we structured this transaction and the value it brings. For those of you who didn't have the opportunity to dial into our webcast last month, which is posted on our Investor Relations website, SteadyMD offers a 50-state virtual clinician workforce, clinical operations and world-class technology that powers real-time matching between patient needs and clinical expertise.

The company provides virtual care for top consumer health care and digital wellness brands, including 2 Fortune 10 customers. SteadyMD maintains a roster of over 500 clinicians, is expected to service over 3 million patients in 2025 and is projected to generate approximately $25 million in revenue this year. SteadyMD's scaled network of virtual providers is expected to enable DocGo to achieve more efficient delivery of patient care by pairing DocGo's mobile health clinicians in the field with SteadyMD's clinical network over time.

We are enthusiastic about this acquisition for numerous reasons. First, it provides us with a 50-state virtual care footprint, which significantly expands our clinical capacity and positions us to extend our offering to both payers and providers. Second, we have long believed that pairing our last mile clinical delivery capabilities with virtual care has the potential to unlock the power and potential of telehealth and creates an optimal end-to-end solution. We look forward to the potential synergies this creates, and we'll look to both amplify our existing offerings and potentially launch new services next year. Lastly, we see strong opportunities for cross-pollinization between the 2 exceptional customer bases that both DocGo and SteadyMD have built, and we look forward to exploring those as well.

We continue to believe that DocGo has a unique ability to acquire traditional health care assets where we can overlay our technology, mobile health capabilities and extensive customer base to drive additional value. There are a wide variety of health care companies out there that see DocGo's last mile health care delivery capabilities as a missing piece, making us a very attractive partner, and we plan to remain active on the M&A front.

In sum, 2025 has been a transitional year as we move beyond emergency response contracts and increasingly focused on executing DocGo's evolution to a provider of long-term integrated technology-driven health care solutions that meet the needs of our customers today and tomorrow. I couldn't be more proud of the progress we are making as we are positioned for strong growth in each of our key verticals. We expect the investment in our early-stage business lines to gradually abate over the course of 2026. We have made a strategic acquisition in SteadyMD that expands our footprint, adds accretive capabilities and a roster of blue-chip customers that we can continue building upon.

Additionally, we continue to grow our pipeline of new business and look for potential acquisition opportunities, both of which can help us gain critical mass, achieve profitability and create additional shareholder value in the coming years. Our future is bright and valuable. We have the right products and services to address critical needs in our health care industry, have built differentiated technology and capabilities and have business lines such as Medical Transportation and Remote Patient Monitoring that are already firmly EBITDA positive, and we have the balance sheet to see our vision of bringing the doctor's office to the living room a reality.

At this time, I will hand it over to Norm to cover the financials. Norm, please go ahead.

Thank you, Lee, and good afternoon. Total revenue for the third quarter of 2025 was $70.8 million compared to $138.7 million in the third quarter of 2024. The year-over-year revenue decline was entirely due to the sunset of migrant-related projects. Excluding revenue from migrant-related programs, revenue increased by 8% to $62.4 million in Q3 of 2025 from $58 million in Q3 of 2024.

Medical Transportation services revenue increased to $50.1 million in Q3 of 2025 from $48 million in transport revenues that we recorded in the third quarter of 2024. Revenues were driven higher by gains in nearly all of our U.S. markets with some of the strongest growth in Texas and Tennessee. Mobile Health revenue for the third quarter of 2025 was $20.7 million, down from $90.7 million in the third quarter of last year, driven by the wind down of migrant services. Included in this year's amount was approximately $8 million in migrant-related revenues. Non-migrant Mobile Health revenues increased by more than 20% year-over-year, driven by increases in Care Gap Closures, Remote Patient Monitoring and Mobile Phlebotomy.

Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2025 was a loss of $7.1 million compared to adjusted EBITDA of $17.9 million in the third quarter of 2024. The adjusted gross margin, which removes the impact of depreciation and amortization and several one-off items and is the measure of margins that we track most closely, was 33% in the third quarter of 2025 compared to 36% in the third quarter of 2024. During the third quarter of 2025, adjusted gross margins for the Medical Transportation segment were 31.7% compared to 30.7% in Q3 of 2024 and the highest gross margins we've seen in this segment since Q1 of 2024.

During the third quarter, our transportation business ran at the highest utilization rates that we've seen. Given these utilization rates, it will be critical for us to expand our field labor team, which we would expect to lead to higher revenues and improved gross margins for Transport in 2026. Mobile Health segment adjusted gross margin was 36.2% versus 38.8% in the third quarter of 2024, but up from adjusted gross margins of 32.5% in the second quarter of 2025. We expect to continue replacing migrant-related revenues with relatively higher-margin service lines, such as remote patient monitoring and mobile phlebotomy.

On both the cost of goods sold and an operating cost basis, we continue to make significant investments in our Care Gap Closure business. We estimate that the adjusted gross margin for Mobile Health would have been above 40% in Q3 of 2025, excluding the Care Gap Closure business.

There were also some nonrecurring items that had a large impact on our GAAP results this quarter, so I'd like to briefly review them. Within the cost of goods sold area, we incurred increased insurance costs in the amount of approximately $5.2 million. These largely consisted of additional premium owed for workers' compensation coverage back in 2022 and 2023, driven largely by an increased migrant program-related employee base and the settlement of a large auto insurance claim for an incident in 2022 in the since discontinued California transport market. Also, within the operating expense category, we incurred noncash charges due to the write-down of various intangible assets and goodwill. These charges totaled $16.7 million in the quarter.

During the third quarter, we made further progress on strengthening our balance sheet by paying off the outstanding amounts under our line of credit, removing $30 million in debt from our balance sheet. We continue to collect our older, larger invoices, which allowed us to generate approximately $1.7 million in operating cash flow for the quarter despite our operating losses. Through the first 9 months of 2025, we have generated nearly $45 million in cash flow from operations.

As of September 30, 2025, our total cash and cash equivalents, including restricted cash and investments, was $95.2 million, down from $107.3 million at the beginning of the year. However, having paid down the entire outstanding balance on our credit line during Q3, our cash position net of debt is well above our net position as of the beginning of this year. Our balance sheet is now debt-free for the first time since late 2023.

Our accounts receivable continued to decrease, particularly for migrant-related receivables. At quarter end, we had approximately $37 million in accounts receivable from the various migrant programs, which represented a little more than 1/3 of our total company ARR. This compares to $54 million in migrant program-related ARR at the end of Q2, $120 million at the end of Q1 and $150 million at the end of 2024, which at the time represented approximately 71% of the company total. We've now collected about 96% of all of our migrant-related receivables from the inception of those programs until today, and we remain confident that we will collect all remaining outstanding amounts.

Now that we've improved our cash balance and paid off our credit line debt, we are well positioned to carry the company through this ongoing transitionary period. Over these final 7 weeks or so of 2025, we will focus intently on collecting the remainder of the migrant-related receivables. Assuming that these amounts are collected during the fourth quarter, we would expect our cash balances at year-end to be higher than they were at the end of Q3 after adjusting for the SteadyMD acquisition. We expect to exit 2026 at about $65 million of cash, which we expect will be the low point, subject, of course, to buybacks or any additional acquisitions.

Finally, as we head here into the home stretch of 2025, we'd like to discuss our outlook for the full year and offer a preliminary view on 2026. For full year 2025, we now expect revenues in the range of $315 million to $320 million. Of that amount, about $68 million to $70 million relates to migrant projects, so the base revenue should come in at about $250 million. For adjusted EBITDA, we see the full year 2025 loss in the range of $25 million to $28 million. For 2026, we see revenues in the range of $280 million to $300 million, which would represent a 12% to 20% growth over 2025 base revenues.

We anticipate a full year adjusted EBITDA loss of somewhere between $15 million and $25 million. However, at the top end of this revenue guidance range for 2026, we would expect to exit the year on an adjusted EBITDA positive run rate. On a sequential basis, looking at 2026, we expect revenues to increase and for the EBITDA performance to improve over each of the 4 quarters of the year.

At this point, I'd like to turn the call back over to the operator for questions and answers. Operator, please proceed.

[Operator Instructions]

And your first question comes from Pito Chickering from Scotiabank.

Looking at the implied margins for the fourth quarter, look to be sort of -- I think it looks like negative 13%. Can you help bridge us versus margins we saw in the third quarter of down 10%. How much came from SteadyMD acquisition versus core ops, just bridging the 3Q to 4Q margins?

So there wasn't anything in Q3 on SteadyMD. SteadyMD showed up in October. So you're going to get most of the quarter is SteadyMD. We think that number should be somewhere around $5 million in -- a little bit more than $5 million in revenue for the quarter. And I would say slightly EBITDA negative for that period. So it really shouldn't have a material impact. It's going to have an impact on the margin percentage. But otherwise, it's not going to have much of an impact. We will have lower -- we will have basically no revenue from -- or a very small revenue number from the migrant-related revenue. So that's also going to have an impact on the margin a little bit.

Okay. And then for 2026 EBITDA guidance, the implied margins there for next year are negative 10%. Yet we're exiting fourth quarter at sort of negative 13% margin. Can you sort of walk us through kind of how that improves throughout the year? And what should we be modeling in the first half of your EBITDA versus the back half of your EBITDA?

Yes, sure. So there are a couple of areas where we think we'll do a little bit better in terms of our model. First of all, on the gross margin percentage. So it's interesting to note that the Q3 adjusted gross margin, as we walked through, worked out to about 33%. That's higher than what we did in Q1 or Q2 of this year, and we think that it's something of a proxy for where we go in the next few quarters going forward. There are some projects that we have, especially on the transport side that we think will raise the gross margin a little bit. But realistically, those will probably have more of an impact in the second, third and fourth quarter of next year than here in the fourth quarter of 2025 or the first quarter of 2026. So there's a little bit of room over there as well.

And then on the operating expense side, so we continue to work hard at trying to reduce our SG&A. And as we were able to take a couple of million dollars out per quarter in SG&A, that should also have an impact towards the back half of next year. And then there's a scale. So our expectation, Pito, is that whatever we see in terms of revenue in Q1 will be the low point of 2026. It will go up then the way we model it out into Q2, into Q3, into Q4. And consequently, the EBITDA loss or profitability will improve every quarter as we go Q1, 2, 3 and 4. So we think that, that's going to have the impact.

So going to your second question, as far as the breakdown, the -- I would say the bulk of the expectation for a negative EBITDA number is going to come in the first half of the year. It's clearly going to be skewed towards the first half of the year in terms of those losses. And then you get a much smaller loss in the third quarter and maybe even perhaps we think a positive number in the fourth quarter.

Okay. And then last question for me. Looking at for 2026 revenue guidance, how much do you assume for migrants for next year? And how should we be modeling transport versus Mobile Health next year?

Absolutely, Pito. This is Lee. So in terms of migrant-related revenues for 2026, we don't expect any migrant-related revenues for 2026. So that number will be 0 for next year. In terms of the breakdown for the guide, it's important to note that the guide really is -- current guidance is based on the baseline of the business as we see it today. Any new contract wins or M&A would be in addition to the number we're sharing tonight. The breakdown is about 2/3 Transport, 1/3 Mobile Health. That's essentially the way to look at it.

And your next question comes from Sarah James from Cantor.

I wanted to dig a little bit more into the Payer-Provider revenue growth. So you guys obviously have a very strong pipeline there. It sounds like when you step up from $50 million in '25 to $85 million in '26, am I right in annualizing the SteadyMD impact to be $15 million of that and then you'd have $20 million from organic growth? And then what kind of deal closure assumptions does that include for the pipeline that you talked about with possibly expanding your existing 2 national payers or adding in 2 others?

Absolutely, Sarah. Thanks for the question. So first off, the $85 million for Payer and Provider for next year includes about $25 million from the SteadyMD acquisition. That's the run rate the business is on. Of course, we announced that acquisition a few weeks ago. So we're in the process of integrating it. So we have a $25 million of the $85 million as SteadyMD contribution for next year and the remaining would be the $60 million from our current Payer and Provider baseline business.

To answer your question specifically, I'm glad you asked it, it does not include any deal closures or additional M&A or contribution from our pipeline. We're looking at the contracts we currently have today. We're looking at the geographies we currently operate in today, the list of patients that have been provided to us so far and our current customer set and basing our guidance for next year off of that, both for Payer and Provider and the Transportation portions of the business.

Great. And can you help us understand what does it look like when you expand the Payer-Provider contracts going from Transition of Care to Care Gap Closure to Longitudinal? What are the orders of magnitude of revenue that, that could impact or the way it could change your margin profile for that segment?

Absolutely. So as you mentioned, Sarah, mostly our Payer and Provider contracts typically start with either Care Gap Closure services where the payers provide us with a list of patients that have open care gaps. They haven't been seen. This could be diabetic retinal exams, bone density scans, annual wellness visits, vaccinations. And then we go and engage those patients, we meet them where they are, and we help close out those care gaps. And these are chronically ill patients. They're typically patients that are costing the health plans a lot of money. And so the health plans are heavily incentivized to make sure they're reaching these patients. And if they don't, their quality scores for their plan are negatively impacted. And then, of course, patients end up landing in the hospital. That costs the payers lots of money.

So they're providing us with a list of patients. These are the patients that have open gaps in care, and we're going to see them. So they either start with Care Gap Closure or Transitional Care Management. And so as the patient is being discharged from the hospital, they've already been hospitalized or they visited the emergency room, they're leaving the hospital. We work with them to make sure that their transition of care to the next setting could be their home, could be another facility. We make sure that their discharge plan is well taken care of and that we're redressing the incision site, titrating meds, making sure we're checking their vital that their transition of care is well taken care of and they don't end up back in the hospital. That's where our services typically start with the payers.

What we're also finding is a lot of these patients need primary care services and preventative care. And so as I mentioned, we're in the process of expanding the relationships we have into primary care and preventative care, more longitudinal care. So instead of going to serve a care gap closure visit or transitional care, we're providing the long-term care and the preventative care and the primary care for that patient. And that's typically step 2 in that process.

And then you can see scenarios where we enroll those patients in Remote Patient Monitoring, as I mentioned. And so really, developing the patients in the care they need, meeting them where they are, closing care gaps to start and then making sure they have the proper primary and preventative care. That's how the progression of those contracts typically take. And then the lists get larger, the patient needs get bigger and more varied, and then we're there to sort of expand into those payer contracts as they see really the impact of our work and how better off their patients are with our services.

I know we've shared -- and I want to share one more piece here, which is with a lot of the health plans we work with, one example we gave, which I gave in the prepared remarks, we've helped reduce their ED readmission rate by over 50% for the patients in that transitional care management program. So the payers are seeing real benefit, and they're continuing to give us more and more work. And so that's what we're basing our guidance on is the contracts we currently have and the ability to expand with our current customer set. Any new additions from the pipeline or M&A or any significant contract wins would be in addition to the guidance we're giving tonight.

And your next question comes from Ryan MacDonald from Needham.

Maybe to start on the transportation side. So it's great to hear about the heightened levels of utilization and sort of that being a signal for incremental investment to scale the team. But how do you balance sort of supply/demand in terms of what you're seeing so that as you continue to scale the team that you have enough demand to sort of utilize those teams in an optimal way so it's not becoming sort of margin dilutive?

Absolutely, Ryan. Thanks for the question. So I thought it was important for us to mention how many trips we're currently outsourcing or handing off to other vendors. And so we looked at that number over the last 12 months. It's added up to about 26,000 trips. So that's really the number we're using as sort of the embedded demand we have and the contracts we have and how much staff and supply we need in order to meet that demand. And that's really the number we're working off of. Of course, new contract wins, we'd have to hire more, but that's the number we're working off of.

And we've been able to quantify those trips in all of our markets and then the corresponding level of staff that we would need in order to satisfy those trips and not outsource them. And so that's what we're basing our entire hiring plan around. If you add those up, those 26,000 trips across all of our markets, it looks like we have to hire about another 700 to 800 staff. Now I'll tell you, we've made progress on that over the past number of weeks here, but we're continuing to ramp that up pretty intensively right now. We have big work streams going within the company to make sure that we're both retaining the great staff we have and attracting new team members to join so that we can scale those efforts. But it's really based off of the number of trips that we're already outsourcing from the embedded demand we have from our contracts.

Helpful color there. And then maybe as a follow-up, obviously, great to hear about the continued scaling and growth in the remote patient monitoring business, 13 contracts this year, 8 more proposals. Can you just talk about what some of the core areas and sort of care areas that you're focused in with remote? And really, the genesis of the question is a bit is, obviously, the recent news about United rolling back RPM, except for, I think, chronic heart failure and hypertension during pregnancy. Just kind of curious what you're hearing in the market of does that sort of create a knock-on effect at all for other payers in the market?

Yes, Ryan, I'm so glad you mentioned that. So actually, our core offering in remote patient monitoring is really in the cardiology space. So you mentioned chronic heart failure and other insurance companies rolling back coverage to just cardiology and heart disease. That actually would bode well for us. We have a deep expertise in cardiology and implantable cardiac devices like loop recorders, pacemakers and so forth. So that's really our specialty, and that's the area where we're investing in.

So that's the focus of our remote patient monitoring efforts is these devices that are transmitting data, particularly for heart failure and other cardiology-related chronic conditions. We have been expanding since from that into other specialties like diabetes and others, but the core focus of our group right now is in cardiology.

And your next question comes from David Larsen from BTIG.

This is Jenny Shen, on for David. First, I just wanted to ask about your current view of the hospital and hospital spending environment as a whole. We've spoken to some hospital executives who've said some of the uncertainty in the market, including around things like ACA and Medicaid have caused them to be more cautious with their budgets, and they're expecting there could be pressure on volumes and spending. Have you had or heard any of that sentiment with your customers so far, but it looks like volumes are strong. Just any thoughts on hospital customer sentiment on spending?

Absolutely, Jenny. It's great to hear from you, and it's a great question. So look, I think it's still early to tell what really the impacts will be from any new legislation. But you can certainly see an area where perhaps there's more Americans that are underinsured or uninsured and they end up in hospitals, emergency rooms and really straining capacity. And then, of course, perhaps those hospitals won't be able to recoup reimbursement from underinsured or uninsured patients. So it's definitely a concern.

We spend a lot of time with hospital executives, and I speak to hospital system CEOs very regularly. And I think our core focus is on how we can save them money and be more efficient. That's really always been our focus. We feel like we can help them manage their patient flow, make sure patients are not staying an extra night in the hospital if they don't need to because they couldn't get the medical transportation coordinated. We help with that. Our platform specifically is designed for that. And so we feel like we've gotten receptivity from hospital systems very recently to that.

And then, of course, on the payer and provider side, our whole goal, again, whether it be with hospital systems or payers is we want to help lower their costs and their utilization. And so that transitional care management program I described, when a patient is getting discharged, that is a critical moment in patient engagement. They're leaving the hospital. And so we're there bedside often, scheduling follow-up appointment, making sure that we're going to go and see them perhaps in their home to make sure their discharge planning is being taken care of. That is very valuable, and that will help patients stay out of the hospital. And that helps hospitals because hospitals get penalized if patients bounce back within a 30-day window. And so we're helping keep patients from doing that. And it helps the payers because, again, patients are most costly when they're in the hospital.

So again, we really are excited by what we're building here. We think it is very timely. We think it's incredibly strategic to the health care ecosystem. And really, it's all designed on trying to save the system money, the hospital's money and the payers' money and that we think will be successful with that.

Yes, Jenny, what I would add to that is that I can say anecdotally that in the last 6 months or a year, we've had conversations with hospital systems that we've been in the ambulance business for quite some time, but there are some big hospital systems we've spoken to that we had not really spoken to prior to, let's say, the last 6 or 12 months who are now thinking about precisely that, outsourcing the management of the flow of patients into and out of their facilities, something that they had always done on their own. It's always been a pain point to them, and now they really have to think about being more efficient and getting it off their plate. So we're having -- we have opportunities that I don't think even existed a couple of years ago.

That sounds great. And then for a quick follow-up. Have you seen any impact from the government shutdown? Has that impacted any municipal decision-making at all?

Yes, absolutely. So we've shared over the past several earnings calls, we've actually emphasized less our work in the population government space. So we've really been focused on the hospital systems, the payers, the providers. SteadyMD is now customer set, it's going to get more and more of our attention, time and resources. And so that's really where our big focus is.

And again, I think honestly, it's very early to tell any impact from some of this legislation or policy changes. We don't see it yet. And frankly, a lot of the policy changes kick in later on down the road next year or the year after. So we're really heads down. We think our value prop speaks to whatever environment the health care system or policy may be, whatever situation the health care system may be in or whatever policy that there may be an effect because, again, we're there to help save the system money, save hospital systems money, help CMS save money, help our insurance partners save money. And that's really our goal, and we think that will be germane and relevant no matter what going forward here.

And your last question comes from Mike Latimore from Northland Capital.

This is Aditya, on behalf of Mike Latimore. Could you give some color on how are the bookings in the third quarter? And how much did they grow sequentially?

For which business?

Like overall, yes.

I mean we saw sequential growth in almost all of our businesses. In Transport, we would see, let's say, in the U.S., and we look at it in terms of the number of trips that we carried. So we saw like a mid-single-digit sequential growth in trip count, which for a quarter-over-quarter number, that's very, very good. We're happy with that. Obviously, our Payer and Provider business lines all showed some growth during the quarter. I think every one of those business lines showed a higher revenue number for Q3 than for Q4.

So in fact, when we look towards 2026, if we would simply take the Q3 results and annualize them, that would already put us in pretty good shape as far as the guidance that we gave. So we definitely saw a pickup in volumes. And I think we mentioned in the release or elsewhere that we did see record volumes. Now granted it wasn't blowing away our previous records, but we did see higher volumes across all of those business lines in Q3 than we had ever seen.

Got it. And how much cash do you expect to have at the end of the year?

So just using the end of Q3 as a baseline, we had $95 million when you take cash and the restricted cash as well or $73 million, if you just look at the unrestricted cash. We would expect that number to go up net by a few million dollars, assuming that as we expect, we will collect on the remainder of the large migrant-related invoices that are out there, that would be enough to cover any kind of operating loss, and we should be able to squeeze out some operating cash flow on that basis. So we would expect that the number will go up a little bit by the end of Q4.

As we've shared, we think that, that number from there starts to go down at the end of Q1, at the end of Q2 before picking up in the back half of the year. But we feel that we would exit 2026 at a number that's about $65 million or higher.

And there are no further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the call back over to Mr. Lee Bienstock. Please continue.

Thank you, and thank you all for joining us today. Be well.

Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes your conference call for today. We thank you very much for your participation. You may now disconnect. Have a great day.

Greetings, and welcome to the DocGo acquisition of SteadyMD. [Operator Instructions] As a reminder, this conference call is being recorded. I would now like to turn the conference over to your host, Mike Cole. Thank you. You may begin.

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At this time, I will now turn the call over to Lee Bienstock, CEO of DocGo. Lee, please go ahead.

Thank you, Mike, and thank you all for joining us today. I'm Lee Bienstock, CEO of DocGo, and we are excited to share more about our announcement that DocGo has acquired SteadyMD. And today, joining me to help us do that is Guy Friedman, CEO and Co-Founder of SteadyMD.

Thanks, Lee. Hi, everyone. I'm Guy Friedman, the CEO and Co-Founder of SteadyMD, and we're excited to join the DocGo team and build a fantastic business together.

Likewise, thanks so much, Guy. So those that are new to the DocGo story, DocGo is a leading provider of tech-enabled mobile health care. We provide services across 31 U.S. states and the U.K. today with a fleet of over 900 mobile health vehicles powered by our proprietary tech platform and our heroes in the field, our over 3,000 clinical staff that are out providing care to where patients need it, when they need it every day.

Since 2015, we've served over 10 million patients and our patients absolutely love the services we provide. We have over 92 patient Net Promoter Score. We have multiple service lines. We provide world-class medical transportation and medical transportation management powered by our tech platform and our state-of-the-art fleet as well as the thousands of EMS professionals that I mentioned that are out every day providing exceptional medical transportation and medical transportation management. This year, we expect to transport over 750,000 patients.

We provide in-home medical care with an innovative approach, which I'll talk more about that uses upskilled clinicians to provide care in the comfort of a patient's home, office or community setting. And this year, we expect to provide and visit over 150,000 patients and provide care in their homes as well as mobile lab. We also provide remote patient monitoring with an empowered care team that provides continuous insight and monitoring on patients' health, driving smarter patient care plans and stronger patient engagement and this year, we expect to monitor over 50,000 patients, and we do that with an incredible roster of partners and customers ranging from Mount Sinai to Jefferson to Northwell to Molina and LA Care, the NHS in the U.K. and more, and now we're excited to add a 50-state tech-enabled telehealth platform in SteadyMD.

So how do we do what we do? How do we bring care into the home of patients at scale. And it really comes down to our innovative hybrid care delivery model, where we utilize mobile health clinicians that are LPNs or RNs, licensed practical nurses or RNs who travel to patients' homes and patients' locations with specialized equipment. They are the hands, eyes and ears in the patient's home where they are, and we pair them with physicians, PAs and NPs that oversee the clinical visit virtually, synchronously, directing the LPN in the home to provide back real-time diagnostics screenings and other data so that the patient can receive a comprehensive visit, a high-quality visit in their home. It's this innovative approach that allows us to scale this model efficiently.

I like to say the doctor coming to visit you is a 100-year-old idea. The doctor used to go visit their patients in the home, but it was just inefficient. There was a lot of drive time in between, and everyone knows we just don't have enough advanced practice providers in this country to meet the demand, and so in order to leverage that scarce resource maximally, we have them oversee virtually our LPNs in the field with our tech platform, and so SteadyMD is really going to help us scale this, by providing, we'll talk more about it, the hundreds of advanced practice providers in the telehealth platform that will allow us to scale this mobile health care delivery across the country and the U.K. Guy, maybe talk a little bit more about SteadyMD and the incredible platform that you and the team have built.

Yes. Thanks, Lee. Appreciate that. So yes, SteadyMD was founded 9 years ago in 2016. Originally, our business model was in the virtual primary care space, selling direct to consumers. In early 2020, we pivoted to our current business model. Today, as the slide shows, we power some of the largest digital health companies in the world from the Fortune 100 to the most innovative startups doing cutting-edge digital health and caring for patients in new and unique ways.

So the way our business works is digital health companies integrate with our platform, and we power their offerings with our 50-state clinician network, which is comprised of hundreds of NPs, PAs, MDs and other specialists, built a robust technology platform with great APIs, a custom EMR and online clinic, spent a lot of time and energy building custom scheduling, workforce management and other operational technology to make this all run.

In the past year, we've had very solid growth. We've seen approximately 3 million patients spanning from lab orders to urgent care visits and long-term care in a lot of different digital health verticals. So we're excited to join the team and keep building this and building upon the work we've done so far.

It's incredible, and to see the roster of customers that you have and the scale that you've been able to achieve with the team and the quality of the product and the platform is just incredible, and we think together, we have a really incredible foundation to build tremendous mobile health and virtual care management platform.

Now I wanted to spend some time for us to touch on the synergies that both of us are going to bring and achieve together, how DocGo is going to benefit SteadyMD and how SteadyMD is going to benefit DocGo. So I mean, first, how SteadyMD benefits DocGo, we talked about it. SteadyMD's 50-state virtual provider network is going to really help augment DocGo's in-home care delivery, and the use of SteadyMD's hundreds of telehealth-based providers is going to potentially garner up to 10% of a gross margin improvement for our in-home visits, and SteadyMD is going to help us more quickly launch into new geographies with their existing scale and their existing presence, and we think the ability to cross-sell B2B telehealth services to our partners and customers is going to be a big opportunity as well.

So we really feel that SteadyMD is going to bring a lot to the DocGo platform and allow us to scale faster and more efficiently. Guy, maybe touch on what DocGo is going to help bring to the SteadyMD platform and ecosystem.

Yes, absolutely. I mean it's always been kind of a dream in the industry to combine virtual care and in-person care, both are extremely complex businesses. If we can offer a combined offering to both our sets of customers, it's truly an end-to-end solution, and that has a tremendous potential for growth and the ability to care for more patients in a better way nationwide.

So it's really an end-to-end solution where we can augment our clients and our partners with in-home care and all the services DocGo provides, and I think with DocGo's support, we'll be able to offer all the rest of the infrastructure DocGo has built to our partners as well. So it's really an amazing combination. I think it's going to be a revolutionary progress moving forward.

No question, and I want to kind of illustrate that a little bit more deeply here on how SteadyMD's telehealth platform is really going to accelerate DocGo's service offerings. So first off, we think SteadyMD is going to help advance the growth of our quality and gap closure programs, our world-class quality and gap closure programs, as I mentioned, by bringing SteadyMD's already existing 50-state virtual care platform that's going to seamlessly integrate into our mobile health care deployments, allowing us to scale in the markets we're in, allowing us to scale to new markets and expand our home visit capacity is going to be tremendous.

Not only that, SteadyMD has big scale in lab order approvals, and obviously, DocGo has a fast-growing in-home phlebotomy, in-home lab business, and so SteadyMD's providers are going to be helping order diagnostics. They already help order diagnostics for major lab companies and employers, and of course, we can layer in DocGo's capabilities to that to provide in-home mobile lab and in-home phlebotomy, and as I mentioned, DocGo's mobile phlebotomy fulfill specimen collections in the home. So that pairs very nicely with SteadyMD's platform that's already providing order diagnostics for major, major lab companies.

And then, of course, we've talked about it at DocGo. We've shared primary care is a big focus of ours, primary care, preventative care in the home, helping keep patients healthier and out of the hospital. That starts with great preventative primary care, and so SteadyMD's providers are going to significantly increase the capacity for our primary care patients and DocGo's in-home services are really going to augment SteadyMD's primary care practice. So that combination is going to allow us to bring primary care to even more patients much, much more quickly, and so many of the patients that we go and see to provide care gap closure programs and care gap services, so many of them don't have a primary care provider or haven't seen one in over a year, and we know there's a primary care provider shortage in this country.

And so the ability to pair these two platforms together is going to help address that and the need is absolutely there and the need is great. Now how do we do this? One of the big components of really this integration are the two world-class proprietary health tech platforms that we're both bringing to the table, and DocGo's platform helps optimize mobile health resources in the field to provide maximum utilization with the right vehicle, the right clinician at the right time, at the right location, all at scale, scale I talked about. and SteadyMD's platform that optimizes the clinical resource utilization, the right clinician for the right patient at the right time via telehealth at scale.

So this is a profound combination of tech platforms that help do and accomplish essentially the same thing in the field and remotely, and pairing those two together are going to allow us to be incredibly efficient and allow us to scale to much, much greater capacity, and so both platforms are purpose-built to create efficiency in last mile care delivery, and that is going to be a tremendous benefit to our customers, to our partners, to our patients by combining these two tech platforms, and we're very, very excited about that.

So how did we structure the transaction? DocGo acquired SteadyMD for a purchase price of up to $25 million, which involves an upfront payment and a contingent payment, and DocGo funded the transaction through our existing cash on the balance sheet. Any contingent earn-out payment will be paid in either cash or stock at DocGo's election, and SteadyMD is expected to generate approximately $25 million of revenue in 2025 and is expected to be EBITDA positive in 2026, and I already talked about all the synergies and overlap and efficiency that both platforms are going to hopefully achieve together.

Our mission has always been to bring high-quality care to where it's needed, when it's needed, helping patients lead healthier lives and stay out of the hospital. Where we are needed, we go, and now with SteadyMD, we'll be able to go farther more efficiently faster, and I couldn't be more excited about our future.

Now we'll hand the call back to the operator for Q&A. Thank you.

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Our first question comes from Michael Latimore with Northland Capital Markets.

Great. Congrats on the news. Very exciting. Just curious if you guys have worked together in the past with any customers? How did you know each other?

Michael, absolutely, thanks for the question. So SteadyMD has been on our radar for quite some time. Actually, when we first started providing in-home services, we had looked at the marketplace for some potential partners to power the telehealth portion overseeing and directing the mobile health clinician in the home, and at the time, we had looked at some of SteadyMD's competitors, and they didn't have the capabilities or frankly, the quality that we needed. And we thought, well, maybe perhaps we'll build out this capability in-house.

As we started to scale, we realize we want to go faster. There's an opportunity for us to be a lot more efficient. And so we started looking at utilizing and leveraging a partner again and SteadyMD rose right to the top of that list. The ability to scale to all 50 states, they're already licensed and servicing patients via telehealth and have customers with patients in all 50 states. And we realized pretty quickly that, yes, there's a partnership opportunity here, but there's a much bigger opportunity for us to integrate more deeply, for us to cross-sell and provide our various different solutions to our different customer bases. And so we started to get very excited about the ability to combine both businesses, and that's when we really started heading down that path.

And so that's really what we're excited to do. And we've been looking at this portion of the market. We've tested with it. And we think that SteadyMD far and away has the best quality, the best leadership team, the best tech platform that will help pair in real time, the telehealth provider, the virtual care provider, the advanced practice provider with our mobile health clinician in the field, and we feel very, very excited to merge the 2 platforms together, and we think that it's going to be very accretive both to the top line and the bottom line.

Yes, makes sense. The 10% gross margin lift, was that for Mobile Health overall, the Mobile Health segment or a subsegment of Mobile?

That's right. It's for the Mobile Health segment, really specifically targeted at our in-home business. So the ability to pair SteadyMD's advanced practice provider with DocGo's mobile health clinician in the field. Really, the advanced practice provider overseeing the mobile health clinician in the home is the most expensive component of our in-home visit, and it's actually one of the most difficult portions of the visit to fulfill with the advanced practice provider.

And so we want to get a lot more efficient with the advanced practice provider utilization because it is the most expensive component, and that's exactly what SteadyMD is bringing to us. And so that paired with our mobile health logistics platform and the mobile health deployment, the LPNs in the field is going to bring us that gross margin improvement.

The other thing that we've been talking about is, as you know, we acquired a mobile phlebotomy company earlier in the year as well. And so we're also looking at leveraging our fleet of mobile phlebotomists to do some of the care gap and some of the care gap closure program work in the home. They can't do all of the services we provide. I mean that's one of our big competitive advantages.

We provide over 40 different clinical offerings in the home. Some of them a mobile phlebotomist can do, and so we're looking to leverage them as well, which will also drive a gross margin improvement for some of the, call it, more entry-level care gap closure visits in the home, and then we're also going to pair that with SteadyMD.

So what you see us doing here is really putting the pieces in place to be very efficient in the field, using the right clinician for the right patient need in the field, paired with the right clinician for the right patient need virtually, and as we start to put those pieces together, we're going to get scale, which is SteadyMD is significantly bringing to us and efficiency, and that's really the power of what we're doing here and what we're announcing.

We're getting scale and efficiency on the advanced practice provider on the virtual side, and we've been obviously making investment on the mobile health clinician in the field. And the pairing of that is really the big opportunity here, and we're excited about it.

Our next question comes from Ryan Langston with TD Cowen.

On the cross-selling point, I guess what is the overlap of the two books of business kind of currently look like? I'm just trying to get a sense of the overall opportunity maybe just currently to cross-sell those services between the two businesses.

Absolutely. Absolutely. Thanks, Ryan. So first off, on the existing sort of customer overlap, I think the big area there is really with the labs that we both work with. So we have a deep integration with one of the large major labs. SteadyMD works closely with another major lab that we work with less. So we think we're going to be able to really scale our lab business pretty significantly by working together, bringing some of the lab customers we have, SteadyMD is going to bring some of the lab customers they have. And so we're going to be able to build out that infrastructure and that scale.

And then I think there's actually a big opportunity to cross-sell customers that we don't have that SteadyMD has and to cross-sell the SteadyMD customers, but also cross-sell the DocGo customers that SteadyMD doesn't have. So we're looking forward to that. I think SteadyMD works with essentially direct-to-consumer B2C providers, wellness companies, a lot of health tech start-ups, and they have a huge roster of customers, some really, really impressive names.

We're very excited to work with together with them, and then I think we really bring the enterprise hospital systems and payer partners that they don't have. So there's a big opportunity here, I think, to work with the already existing customer base we both have that overlaps, but we're also very excited to be introduced to a new customer base and then the same. So I think there's opportunity for both.

Cool. And then just last for me. I'm sorry if I missed it. I know you did mention some gross margin lift, but maybe just run through the growth profile of this company, maybe in terms of just revenue or a long-term algorithm, just how we should think about it maybe over the next couple of years? And maybe just a little bit more on how you think you can sort of leverage maybe existing G&A at both SteadyMD and DocGo over the next couple of years with that revenue growth.

Of course. So on the G&A side, I think we've already -- we've done a lot of work upfront on this, a lot of work upfront. We mentioned in our press release that Alvarez & Marsal was retained, and they helped us look at some of the overlap on the G&A side, some of the synergy side, they made great pairing with us to look at some opportunities there. So of course, on the G&A side, when it comes to compliance, human resources, finance, payroll, benefits, we're already identifying some really great overlap and synergies that just naturally comes from an acquisition like this. And then I was touching on the synergies really in the patient care delivery. I mean that's where there's huge synergies as we go to market together in the home and virtually.

So we've sort of identified both gross margin and G&A synergies as part of this, and we've had some really great minds helping us think through all of that, and we have a really solid plan going forward. In terms of the growth profile, we'll share a lot more about sort of the financial profile of the combination, what it does for our guidance going forward for the rest of this year and into next year. We plan on sharing a lot more details about that on our earnings call coming up here in the beginning of November. So we'll dive a lot more into that.

But we definitely think there's an opportunity for us to accelerate the growth trajectory of SteadyMD. It's a very impressive company. They have an incredible roster of customers. The solution is best in breed, and then we think that we can layer on both our resources and our infrastructure to help them scale even more. So that's what we're looking at doing. They have a very strong growth profile, and we think we could supercharge that.

Our next question comes from Ryan MacDonald with Needham & Company.

This is Matt Shea on for Ryan. Congratulations on the deal here, guys. Nice to see how SteadyMD can accelerate a variety of your service offerings, but maybe relative to the payer business, was the deal in part from an increased level of demand or patients being assigned to DocGo and SteadyMD is needed to help service that demand? Or how should we think about this potentially accelerating the payer and care gap business?

Yes, Matt, that is spot on. Great to hear from you, Matt. So absolutely. I think on the payer side, that's a big -- everyone knows that's been following our company, we have a big opportunity there. We're going to see patients that don't have good access to care that have mobility issues. We're going into their home. We're closing care gaps. We're helping provide preventative care, keeping patients out of the hospital where they're most costly. I mean that's a big opportunity for our company. We've been investing into that.

We have a world-class solution. Patients absolutely love it. I mentioned we have a 92 Net Promoter Score on that. And so we want to be able to scale it. I think there's really two aspects to this. One is new geographies, and we're going to be very thoughtful about that. But SteadyMD has a 50-state presence, and so that can allow us to scale a little bit more quickly to new geographies.

We'll always continue to expand to new geographies consistent with our profile where we have an anchor customer there. And so as an example, we work with a payer today in one of our markets, and they asked us to expand to New Mexico, which we had announced. And so this will help us expand there a lot more efficiently, a lot more quickly. But of course, we also have that anchor customer to come with it. And again, care gap closure services for that expansion. So there's no question about it there.

I'll also mention on the PCP side. So a lot of the patients that we go and see, I mean, 1 in 4 Americans doesn't have a primary care provider, doesn't know who it is. And so there's a big opportunity there. Actually, a big percentage of the patients we go see don't know who their primary care provider is or haven't seen a primary care provider. So we are continuing to invest in the capabilities to provide great primary care, which we feel ultimately improves patient outcomes, which is going to be a huge value, obviously, to patients, but also to the payers and the ecosystem at large.

So SteadyMD has a deep history in providing PCP services. SteadyMD has a deep history in providing preventative care, urgent care. And so we're going to leverage their expertise in that space and allow us to go a lot more quickly into PCP. We recently had one of our payers tell us that they plan to give us list of patients, 10,000 patients that are in need of PCP services.

So we have the opportunity there. We want to scale into it. It will take us time to scale into that when you're talking about those types of numbers, but this will help us absolutely give us a head start on that with SteadyMD.

Okay. Great. That's helpful. And then on the synergies on the cost side, exciting to see that 10% gross margin improvement. How should we think about the time line or maybe the pace of that expansion?

Yes. I think that our plan is to integrate pretty quickly here, really to effectuate everything that we shared on this webcast. I think we're really looking to have everything in place sort of that integration happen over the course of the rest of this year and into Q1 and really hitting stride sort of in that Q2 through the remainder of the year.

So I think that's really our time line here. I think we're on a, call it, 3- to 6-month time line to really integrate and effectuate all of the synergies that we have planned here, and again, I think we have a really robust and well thought-out plan as part of this acquisition. I'm really proud of really all the work that's gone in ahead of this. We were very thoughtful about it, and we really enlisted world-class advisers, and so I think over the course of sort of 3 to 6 months, you'll start to see integrations, but pretty quickly here, we're going to be looking to leverage the virtual platform of SteadyMD to help us expand, and so -- and then I think you'll start to see the synergies start coming into place at the beginning half of next year.

Our next question comes from John Pinney with Canaccord Genuity.

John Pinney on for Richard Close. Congrats on the acquisition. So I guess, can you go into what like the revenue model is for SteadyMD currently? Is it mostly like visit revenue? Is there some like recurring revenue based access to the tech platform? Or just any commentary you can provide there?

Yes, absolutely. So I mentioned -- so SteadyMD, they provide telehealth visits and also lab visits. To give you a sense, on the telehealth side, they did -- they're expecting about $900,000 -- over $900,000 this year and there are 2 million lab visits. On the pricing side, I think pricing varies. It depends on the services that they're providing.

SteadyMD really prides itself, and we were very impressed by this. They engage deeply with their customers. They try to understand exactly what their needs are, and they put together sort of a specific program for them. But I think the way to sum it up, typically, it involves a monthly fee along with a per visit fee or an hourly fee depending on the clinical services. And there are -- they also have monthly minimums, which is very smart and it sort of protects them, which we like to see. So many of SteadyMD's customers are deeply integrated with them. That's another big component of it with their platform. And sort of the SteadyMD platform in that regard provides recurring monthly revenue for us. So we're excited about that.

We think they've gone to market very intelligently. They run their business very well. They're looking at providing tremendous value and also ensuring that their company is protected. So we are very impressed by that, and we think sort of a very, very good model, which aligns incentives with the customers and also the company, which is -- and patients, which is something we always want to see.

I always say all three have to win. The company has to win, the customer has to win and the patient has to win, probably most importantly, and then we'll be successful. Their contracting and model very much is in line with that.

All right. Great. And I guess one more quick one. So for -- on the press release, you said like there's $20 million revenue like expected through September 30 and then $25 million for all of 2025. Is there anything to call out for like the implied sort of softer fourth quarter? Or is that just kind of some conservatism or anything to call out there?

Yes. Great question, John. So I think our goal was to really kind of give a view in the press release of sort of what SteadyMD has done so far up to this point in the year. We're going to give a lot more sort of color and specificity on the earnings call. And that call is in say, a few weeks here in the beginning of November, we'll announce the date pretty shortly. So I think we'll talk a lot more about what the expected revenue contribution is going to be for SteadyMD for this year, the remainder of this year. I mean the year is almost done, but the remainder of this year and then into next year. But we didn't want to put out a specific number.

So we said basically a little over $25 million for the remainder of the year, but we'll adjust that, and we'll update that with a sharper pencil and give more specificity on it on the earnings call coming up.

Our next question comes from David Larsen with BTIG.

Congratulations on the transaction. Can you talk a little bit more about the margin profile of SteadyMD? Just generally speaking, how is like the gross margin? Is it a tech company? Or is it more a provider business?

Of course. So SteadyMD is sort of cut from the same cloth as us. It's a tech platform that also provides the clinicians. So to me, I think that really is the future of health care. And I know, David, we've talked about that a lot. I think that the companies that are going to win both provide the technology, but then also sort of the boots on the ground or the virtual providers to pair with it.

I think so many of the customers we speak to people are trying to sell them software. And the software is great, but you also have to have the workforce to utilize that software to actually implement clinical offerings. And so we really feel that, that is a key component of our strategy. I mean we leverage technology. We purpose-built it ourselves, which we've done at DocGo. SteadyMD has done that on their platform. And so -- but they also provide the clinicians that go with it. And we're going to continue to invest that way. I see some questions in the queue here relating to technology and AI, which I'll touch on.

But essentially, that's our big sort of strategic vision is that we want to have a tech platform enabled by the clinicians that utilize it and are providing care and providing that to our customers, and that's a big competitive advantage for us. I think the addition in terms of margin specifically, I think the addition of SteadyMD is going to help us achieve our gross margin objective of 40% plus for the mobile health business.

I think SteadyMD's current gross margins are in line with that. And I think, again, we talked about on this call, but I think SteadyMD is going to help us elevate the gross margin of DocGo's current health care in the home business, right? So it's twofold, right? I think it's going to help us achieve our gross margin objectives on the in-home visits. And then, of course, their gross margins in line with this 40% plus mobile health gross margin goal.

So really, it's about -- this is about efficiency. It's about high utilization of the advanced practice providers overseeing the mobile health clinicians in the home. And then it's also about us bringing the mobile health clinicians to the SteadyMD platform so that they can offer the ability to go see patients in their homes or where they are to the SteadyMD customer base. And once we scale that, we're going to see some good gross margin accretion here.

Okay. Great. And then just one more quick one. Can you talk about the difference between the telehealth tech that SteadyMD has versus what DocGo did or did not have previously? Because it was my understanding that there was some virtual care capabilities that DocGo had, basically, the nurses in the home could be overseen by a physician. Just -- or did you not have the telehealth capability previously?

Yes. Great question, David. So yes, I mean -- but our platform has always been about pairing the mobile health clinician in the field with the advanced practice provider via telehealth. Some of the visits were telehealth only. And yes, we did utilize telehealth synchronously with overseeing the visits, but nowhere near the scale that SteadyMD is operating at today with the hundreds of advanced practice provider clinicians that they have trained and onboarded on the platform.

I also think SteadyMD's platform is really akin to what we built on the mobile side, right? So David, you know well, our mobile health platform is about pairing essentially the right clinician in the field with the right vehicle with the right diagnostics for the right patient need, optimizing their routing, the logistics, clustering the patients in a way that we can be very efficient in the field.

We didn't have the platform similar to SteadyMD that does that on the virtual provider side. So the right clinician for the right patient need under the right program that they have with their customers, all scheduled in a way that is incredibly efficient, and so the way I view it is SteadyMD has their current customer base. It's generating revenue. They're providing those services to their customers. And any gaps in their schedule currently, we can absolutely fill those with our in-home visits paired up. And then ultimately, they're going to help us scale and bring on more capacity to meet our needs as well.

So their platform really does what our platform does for mobile health clinicians. They do it on the virtual side. And we think that their platform, not only with the scale of their platform, but their platform is going to help us be more efficient pairing synchronously the virtual provider with the mobile health provider in the field. And we're very excited about the opportunity to integrate their technology with our platform.

So really it's going to be a very differentiated platform where we are optimizing the resources in the field, at the same time, we're optimizing the resources virtually. I think that's going to be very unique, probably very, very, very differentiated. I don't know anyone else that's doing that right now. So it's going to be very powerful.

Our next question comes from Aidan Conniff with Stifel.

Congrats on the transaction. You have Aidan on for David Grossman. My first question was just around the seasonality, if there is any in the SteadyMD business. I know your guys' payer business has a little bit of seasonality as payers look to close kind of these scores towards the end of the year. So just wondering if there's any seasonality in SteadyMD's.

Yes. I think Inherently, in health care, there'll always be some seasonality around flu season. I think it's actually pretty similar to what we see with the end of year push and sort of the Q1 of the year, sort of those winter months. I think we see an uptick in volumes. We see it on our medical transportation side. We see it on our care in the home side, and we think actually that once we start layering in SteadyMD into the care gap business, we see payers really do a sprint towards the end of the year to try to close out as many care gaps for patients as possible.

So we've been gearing up for Q4. This is going to help us in Q4 somewhat. I mean there'll be some time to integrate here. But we think over time, the back half of the year, as we integrate SteadyMD, absolutely for next year, we're going to see increased volumes because we see the payers really sprinting towards the back end of the year, and we probably will anticipate that with SteadyMD as well once we integrate them and once we bring them on.

Okay. And then just one clarification. For SteadyMD, are the clinicians W-2ed or 1099?

Yes. So it's a mix depending on the services that they're providing and how many hours they're working for us. So I would say it's a mix.

There are no further audio questions. Are there any web questions?

Thank you, Rob. I do see a number of questions in here. We'll take as many as we can. I think a lot of them we've covered, but I want to take a few here. So there's a question, as I mentioned in the chat relating to AI.

Is DocGo utilizing leveraging AI and other emerging technologies to improve scalability?

So absolutely, we are. We're infusing AI in a number of different areas. One of the most exciting areas that we're infusing with AI is in our patient engagement and outreach portion of our deployment. So those that know our business, the payers give us lists of patients that are in need of care. They have open care gaps. They have chronic conditions, and we reach out to those patients and schedule visits to go to their home and close out these care gaps and provide preventative care.

We've been leveraging AI tremendously in that effort. So for example, when we confirm an appointment, we schedule an appointment, if patients have a question of what to expect during that appointment, AI is answering all of -- a lot of those questions and rescheduling and scheduling patient visits, and we're starting to use it more and more on the outreach towards those patients to schedule and be very efficient there.

We're also utilizing it in other facets of the business when it comes to routing, I mentioned scheduling. So we're making it very efficient on the operations of the business, leveraging AI, and that scheduling platform that I mentioned, we built that in-house. So we're excited about that. And over time, it's something that we can extend to our customer base. And we're also looking at ways to predict whether a patient is going to show up or whether they're going to be there when we arrive at their home.

So as we do more and more visits, we're doing thousands and thousands of visits to the home. And of course, now it's SteadyMD, really over 1 million virtual visits. We want to make sure that the time still works for the patient. We don't want to show up at their house and not to be there. And so we're building models to predict patient no-shows, cancellations. And so that's a big facet as well that we're looking at to, again, get us even more efficient and make sure that when we show up at a patient's home, they're there, they're ready for us, and we're there to provide great care and the timing works. So we're building some technology around that as well.

So at our core, we're a tech company. We're going to push into that space to make us even more efficient to provide patients with great service and then really leverage our clinical staff to make them more efficient in providing patient care, and that's a big, big area for us. So really appreciate that question.

We have a question in here. How does this transaction fit into DocGo's broader M&A strategy?

So the focus for our M&A strategy is to add to our capability set. That's our core goal. I mean with companies who have built world-class platforms, that's a criteria. On the mobile health side, we're seeing companies that we -- we're seeking companies where I think we can layer on their last mile mobile health capabilities to add to ours and leverage our tech stack to create value and very similar in line with the SteadyMD acquisition.

We didn't talk about it as much on this call, but we're very proud of the platform we have on the medical transportation side. We have one of the world-class medical transportation platforms as well as our crews in the field. So on the medical transportation side, we're also seeking opportunities to increase scale in our existing geographies and maybe expand the footprint. But as I mentioned, we're always looking where expansion into new markets comes with an anchor client on the medical transportation and mobile health side. That's always a crucial component to us. All that is staying the same.

Okay. We have a lot of questions here. We'll try to get to as many as we can. There's a question in here about will you operate on two platforms? Or will you integrate into one? Will you expand into the rest of the world? And how soon would that be? That's a great question.

We are ambitious. Thank you for that question. So our plan is to really integrate the two platforms, as I mentioned, over the next 3 to 6 months here, and again, patients won't feel that integration on the operational side, but on the efficiency side, they will on the quality side, they will. So we're very excited about that.

To the world, I'm not sure we have that ambition just yet. I think the U.S. is a huge market that offers a lot of opportunity in and of itself, and so as I mentioned, we'll expand to new geographies with anchor customers, but also really use SteadyMD to get more efficient in the geographies we operate in.

When it comes to the rest of the world outside the U.S., those that know us well know that we operate a great, great business in the U.K. We have 600 health care heroes out in the U.K. providing services up and down the U.K. And so I think over time, this is absolutely an opportunity for us to leverage telehealth and virtual into what we're doing over there. But of course, that will come with the necessary regulatory steps and the necessary compliance steps, and we'll look into that when the time is right. But thanks for that question. Absolutely, we're looking to expand, and we're excited about it.

Okay. I think we have time for one more question. Let's see. A lot of these we've covered in earlier remarks. Actually, a lot of the questions can be summed up really with this one, which we spoke about, how does SteadyMD's telehealth platform specifically complement DocGo's existing mobile health business?

And we touched on it, almost a lot of the questions are really oriented around this. So that's actually a good summary as we close out this call. I think, again, the magic of our platform has always been our ability to pair a mobile health clinician in the home with a virtual advanced practice provider overseeing the visit through telehealth connection. And so the advanced practice provider is the most expensive component of the delivery model. And as I've been talking about, SteadyMD will allow us to maximize the utilization of the advanced practice provider.

So this increased utilization and 50-state coverage it's going to allow us to, as I mentioned, drive up our gross margin while also scaling to new geographies, again, just more expeditiously and profitably. So short answer, efficiency and scale. That's really what you're hearing from us here today.

So really appreciate everyone joining the call. We're very excited. Guy and Yarone, the founders of SteadyMD along with the SteadyMD team are joining the DocGo family. They are incredible operators. They're innovators in the space. They're very well regarded, and we're just excited to welcome their team and their platform and their capabilities to ours, and I'm very excited for the future.

So with that, I'll hand it back to the operator and looking forward to speaking to everybody in the coming weeks and months and looking forward to people joining our earnings call at the beginning of November and looking forward to building this future together. Thank you so much.

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