form10k2011.htm

 
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C.  20549
_________________
FORM 10-K

[X] ANNUAL REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011
OR
[  ] TRANSITION REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(D) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the transition period from  _____  to  _____

Commission File No. 0-20260

INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware
06-1150326
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)
(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

Two Manhattanville Road, Purchase, New York
10577
(Address of principal executive offices)
(Zip Code)
(914) 253-8000
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class
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Common Stock, $.01 par value
NASDAQ Global Market

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Yes                
NoX

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Yes                
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Indicate by check mark whether registrant has submitted electronically and posted on its corporate website, if any, every Interactive Data File required to be submitted and posted pursuant to Rule 405 of Regulation S-T during the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was required to submit and post such files).  Yes [X]No [  ]

Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent filers pursuant to Item 405 of Regulation S-K (17 CFR 229.405) is not contained herein, and will not be contained, to the best of registrant’s knowledge, in definitive proxy or information statements incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this Form 10-K [ X ]

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Accelerated Filer         X
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Aggregate market value of voting stock (Common Stock, $.01 par value) held by non-affiliates of the Registrant was approximately $114.3 million on June 30, 2011 based on the closing sales price of the Common Stock on such date.

The aggregate number of shares of the Registrant’s Common Stock, $.01 par value, outstanding was approximately 11,983,000 on March 2, 2012.

 
 

 



DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

See Part III hereof with respect to incorporation by reference from the Registrant’s definitive proxy statement for the Registrant’s 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed pursuant to Regulation 14A under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.


PART I


ITEM 1.  Business

Overview –

We manage highly specialized outpatient centers in emerging, technology-based, niche medical markets. Currently, we are a leading manager of fertility centers and vein clinics in the United States. We provide services and products through two operating segments (Attain® Fertility Centers and Vein Clinics) and shared support services through our corporate office. We provide our fertility centers and vein clinics with administrative services such as finance, accounting, human resources, risk management, legal and purchasing support; marketing and sales support; internet marketing and website support; access to integrated information systems; in some instances, non-physician personnel; and access to capital for financing clinic operations and expansion.
 

Attain Fertility Centers Division

Our Attain Fertility Centers Division provides a number of services to fertility centers across the United States.  These services include business and management services to a network of 15 contracted fertility centers in our Partner Program, and our Attain IVF products to both our 15 contracted fertility centers and an additional 24 affiliate fertility centers.  Our Partner and Affiliate fertility centers offer a range of diagnostic and fertility treatment options to patients. The fertility centers’ physicians perform diagnostic tests on both women and men to determine the cause of infertility and each fertility center has an endocrine and andrology laboratory on site in order to perform and expedite infertility analyses. Once the cause of infertility is identified, several treatment options are offered to patients, including IVF treatment, frozen embryo transfer, intrauterine insemination and minimally invasive surgery to correct anatomical reproductive problems. A typical fertility center is staffed by three or more physicians, a scientist, embryologists, nurses, support staff and ultrasound technicians and has on-site laboratories.

The main operations of our Attain Fertility Centers Division currently focus on the following two areas:

Business and Management Services: We provide a suite of services which we provide to fertility centers that enters into a business service agreement with us.  These services include all aspects of running the practice outside of providing medical care (examples include, marketing, customer service, financing, information technology, human resources, and legal services).

Attain IVF programs: Offerings which are designed to help patients attain their goal of starting a family. We offer our Attain IVF programs directly to fertility patients, including patients of our partner and affiliate centers.

Business and Management Services Overview:

We provide a number of business and management services to both our partners (those who we have a management service agreement in place for) and affiliates (fertility centers who obtain a smaller number of services from us, primarily in acquiring patients).

 
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Our 15 partner practices serve 16 metropolitan markets across the United States. We believe these 15 Partner centers are the largest managed network of fertility centers in the United States, with 64 locations and 101 physicians and PhD scientists, accounting for approximately 15% of the total in vitro fertilization (“IVF”) procedures performed in the United States in 2010, which is the latest period for which third-party data are available. The division supports fertility centers’ operations and growth by providing access to information systems such as our proprietary ARTworks® electronic medical records software, as well as medical equipment and facilities, non-physician personnel, patient relationship management software and financial support services.

Our Affiliate Program allows fertility centers to pay fees to receive selected business services that we provide to our Partners, such as internet marketing and access to the Council of Physicians and Scientists (the “Council”). We also provide our Affiliates with access to our Attain IVF programs. As of December 31, 2011, we had contracted with 24 Affiliate fertility centers.

Practices enter into Partner relationships with us to access our suite of services and business management expertise to help them grow their practice and improve margins.   We provide expertise in planning, execution, funding and operational integration to support growth and improve efficiencies.  We help our partners adapt and thrive in a dynamic industry.  We believe IVF volume growth at our Partner practices has consistently outpaced the national average and their competition.

When establishing a Partner relationship, we typically acquire the assets of a fertility center, enter into a long-term comprehensive business service agreement with the center and assume most administrative and financial functions of the center. Generally, we  pay a fixed sum for the exclusive right to service the fertility center. These agreements are typically for terms of 10 to 25 years and contain automatic renewal provisions. Some of these agreements also contain provisions that allow the Partner fertility center to terminate the agreement, upon 12 months’ prior notice, at any time after five years from the agreement’s effective date. Partners typically have obligations upon termination in certain circumstances, such as purchasing the assets used in operating the fertility center and making payments based on recent revenues. Partners also agree to promote their practices by, among other things, participating in marketing programs we develop for them. Typically, the fertility center contracting with us is a professional corporation in which the key physicians are the shareholders. Generally, no shareholder of a Partner fertility center may assign his or her interest in the Partner fertility center without our written consent.
 

We require each professional corporation operating in our Partner fertility centers to enter into employment agreements with all key physicians at that center. These employment agreements typically have five-year terms and contain provisions prohibiting the key physicians from practicing reproductive endocrinology, infertility medicine or assisted reproductive technology in competition with our partners, within a specified area, for the term of the agreement and for 12 to 24 months thereafter in states where this is not prohibited. Although it is unclear whether these non-competition provisions would be enforceable if challenged, we have not experienced significant competition from physicians who formerly practiced at our Partner centers. We also usually enter into a personal responsibility agreement directly with each physician shareholder of the practice. The personal responsibility agreement obligates a physician shareholder to repay us a proportionate amount of the exclusive right to service fee payment received by that physician shareholder if he or she leaves the practice sooner than five years after the payment.
 

Under 13 of our current Partner agreements, as compensation for our services we receive a three-part fee comprised of: a percentage of net revenues, generally between 3% and 6%; reimbursed costs of services (costs incurred in providing services to a fertility center and any costs paid on behalf of the fertility center); and either a fixed amount or a percentage of the center’s earnings, which currently ranges from 10% to 20%, but may be subject to limits. Our remaining Partner agreement is a cost-plus arrangement in which we receive a fee for our Reimbursed Cost of Services, plus an additional fee equal to 9.5% of those costs.

Attain IVF Program Overview:

Our Attain IVF programs serve as patient recruitment and case management vehicles where the patient contracts with us to provide the financial program services described below. Our Partners and Affiliates are bound by the terms of the program through participation agreements that support our packaged pricing. These programs are designed to make the fertility treatment process easier for patients by providing a continuum of services over an extended period, if necessary. Our Attain IVF programs achieve this objective by offering the following services:

 
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Patient recruitment via internet web portals and search engines, in-clinic educational materials, in-clinic contact with fertility specialists and on-line contact with patient service specialists;
     
 
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Educating patients as to the benefits of various treatment options offered by our network of contracted medical providers which have been tailored to appeal to patients at various stages of their reproductive lives and with various medical conditions;
     
 
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Explaining the financial costs and patient responsibilities of the various treatment options;
     
 
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Educating patients as to the various financing options offered by our Attain IVF programs and referring them to sources of third-party financing when requested;
     
 
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Coordinating an initial medical assessment required for entry into our Attain IVF programs;
     
 
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Arranging treatment with an Affiliate or a Partner center for all treatment cycles used by the patient; and
     
 
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Providing on-going case management, treatment plan monitoring and evaluation services.
 

Patients enrolling in our Attain IVF programs can select from various treatment and financing options which are designed to appeal to patients at different stages of their reproductive lives and with different financial needs and resources. The average cost of one fresh IVF cycle is approximately $12,400 according to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine.  According to our estimates, the average cost of a frozen embryo transfer is approximately $3,000.

The Attain IVF Refund Program allows medically cleared patients to pay an up-front deposit of approximately twice the average cost of a fresh IVF cycle in return for up to six treatment cycles (consisting of three fresh IVF cycles and three frozen embryo transfers) with a refund if treatment does not result in a baby. The refund is equal to 70% of the contract amount for patients using their own eggs and 100% of the contract amount if the patient uses donor eggs. The Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program allows all patients, including those who are not medically cleared for our Attain IVF Refund Program, to pay a single fee, which is slightly less than the average cost of two fresh IVF cycles, in return for up to four treatment cycles (consisting of two fresh IVF cycles and two frozen embryo transfers). The fertility treatment cycles are provided to patients by fertility centers with which we contract for participation in the program.

The benefits of our Attain IVF programs to our fertility centers include: allowing for patients to commit to multiple fertility treatments which improves treatment volume and revenues; insulating the centers from refund risk; managing cash and administrative details associated with our Attain IVF programs; and enabling physicians to maintain a traditional fee for service arrangement without the appearance of conflicts of interest that otherwise might arise from self administering a refund program. The benefits of our Attain IVF programs to patients include: improved success rates associated with multiple fertility treatment cycles; increased financial certainty relating to the cost of the fertility treatment process; and, in the case of our Attain IVF Refund Program, a significant financial refund should the treatments be unsuccessful.

We receive payment directly from patients who participate in our Attain IVF programs. By contract, 30% of the Attain IVF Refund Program contract amount is non-refundable (for the non-donor egg option) and is recognized ratably (on a fair value basis) as revenues over the course of the patient’s treatment cycles. If the patient achieves pregnancy prior to the completion of the last available treatment cycle, then the remaining unamortized portion of the non-refundable fee is immediately recognized as income. The remaining 70% of revenues are recorded upon the patient becoming pregnant and achieving a fetal heartbeat. For the donor egg option, for which 100% of the contract amount is refundable, all revenues are recorded upon the patient becoming pregnant and achieving a fetal heartbeat. We are able to record income at the time of pregnancy (as measured by a fetal heartbeat) for our Attain IVF Refund Program, as we have substantially completed our fertility obligation to the patient and we can accurately estimate the amount of expenses or refunds that will become due if there is a pregnancy loss. We are able to make these estimates for pregnancy loss based upon reliable Company specific data with respect to the large homogeneous population we have served for more than eight years. Expenses prior to pregnancy related to the program are recorded as incurred. All of the amounts shown on the balance sheets in our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this report as Attain IVF Refund Program deferred revenues and other patient deposits include unrecognized program enrollment/service fees and potentially refundable contract amounts for enrolled patients who have not had a successful pregnancy outcome and deposits received from patients who have not yet commenced treatment under the program.

 
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Due to the characteristics of our Attain IVF programs, we pay for a patient’s treatment costs in excess of their contract amount should the initial treatment cycles be unsuccessful. In order to moderate and manage the likelihood that we will need to pay for these treatment costs, we have developed a sophisticated statistical model and case management program in which Attain IVF Refund Program patients are pre-approved prior to enrollment in the program. We also continuously review patients’ clinical criteria as they undergo treatment. If, while undergoing treatment, a patient’s clinical response falls outside our criteria for participation in Attain IVF programs, we have the right to remove that individual from the program, with an applicable refund to the patient. To date, our case management process has been effective in managing the risks associated with our Attain IVF Refund Program within expected limits. A patient has the right to withdraw from our Attain IVF Refund Program at any time and will be issued an applicable refund.

Our Attain Fertility Centers Division also supports the Council of Physicians and Scientists for leading fertility providers, which we established 16 years ago. The Council is comprised mostly of representatives from our fertility network and brings together leaders in reproductive medicine and embryology with the goal of promoting a high quality clinical environment throughout our fertility center network. The Council meets regularly and conducts bi-monthly teleconferences on topics related to improving infertility diagnosis, treatment and success rates. Additionally, the Council helps to establish the principles of our culture of safety. We believe our centers follow the Practice and Ethics Guidelines for clinical practice set forth by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Our partners have also achieved accreditation from the American Association for Ambulatory Healthcare, the College of American Pathologists and other similar accreditation organizations, which demonstrates our partners commitment to compliance with nationally recognized standards for laboratory services, patient safety and quality patient care.

We assisted in the organization of, and obtained a minority equity interest in, an offshore captive insurance company called Assisted Reproductive Technology Insurance Company (“ARTIC”), which is designed to moderate the cost of malpractice insurance to Partners and Affiliates of our fertility network who participate. Most of the equity of ARTIC is owned by various physician practices that are members of our fertility network, and we have no future obligations to provide additional funding to ARTIC. As of December 31, 2011, ARTIC provided malpractice insurance coverage to the majority of the physician practices within our Partner fertility network.

Insurance and managed care payors, depending on the plan under which a patient is covered, reimburse certain services that our Partners provide, such as diagnostic testing, surgeries and, in certain circumstances, fertility treatments. However, the charges for assisted reproduction technology (“ART”) services our Partners primarily provide are often paid directly by patients, including through programs such as our Attain IVF programs. Several states mandate offering certain benefits of varying degrees for ART services, but these mandates may not necessarily cover all ART services provided by our Partners. We are aware of efforts to expand mandated coverage to additional states, but it is unclear if these efforts will be successful. If in the future mandates are enacted by additional states, we expect the impact on our Partner fertility centers to be neutral to positive; as such mandates would likely increase the market for fertility center services, but at payment rates that are lower than the amounts typically paid directly by patients.  Mandated coverage will likely negatively impact enrollment of patients in our Attain IVF programs.

Approximately 40% of our Partner centers’ payments were derived from third-party payors for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, all of which was provided by private payors. Contractual arrangements with third-party payors typically are for a term of one year, may be terminated by either party upon 90 days’ notice any time after the initial one-year term and contain automatic annual renewal provisions. Contractual arrangements with third-party payors also typically include payment terms and schedules of rates, although those payment terms and schedules of rates are subject to renegotiation after the initial term of the contract.


 
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Vein Clinics Division

Our Vein Clinics Division operates as Vein Clinics of America, Inc. (VCA), a wholly owned subsidiary, which provides business and management services to a network of 45 vein clinics located in 14 states. We believe our vein clinics network is the largest single network of vein care providers in the United States. These clinics provide specialized treatment for patients suffering from vein diseases and other vein disorders, such as varicose veins, spider veins and venous ulcers.

We offer vein care services and support, including arranging training for physicians, clinical and financial information systems, revenue cycle management, yield management, sales and marketing services, group purchasing, non-physician personnel, facilities, site selection and development and other operational functions to support the clinic. The division supports vein practice operations and growth by providing access to information systems such as our proprietary Virtual Physician Assistant (“VPA”) information system, which is an end-to-end patient and clinic operating system that provides decision support and revenue cycle functions. A typical vein practice averages 2,500 to 3,500 square feet in size and is located in an affluent, growing community. Each clinic has a standardized operational structure composed of a phlebologist (a physician specialized in the diagnosis and treatment of disorders of venous origin), nurse, ultrasound technologist, office manager and assistant. Medical services or treatments are provided to vein care patients by physicians who are employed by professional corporations, whose financial condition, results of operations and cash flows are consolidated with our consolidated financial statements.

Our Vein Clinics Division’s philosophy of patient care is based on complete disease management, from initial screening to treatment to follow up. Each step in this process is critical to the patient’s successful outcome. Our practices currently use Endovenous Laser Treatment (“ELT”) as well as sclerotherapy to treat vein diseases such as varicose veins and spider veins. Our practices use extensive and sophisticated ultrasound mapping prior to treatment, which we believe results in a more effective treatment plan. Rigorous post-treatment follow up identifies any residual or emerging issues so that they can be quickly managed before the disease worsens.

Our Vein Clinics Division depends upon third-party payors, including governmental and private insurance programs, to pay for most treatments provided to patients. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, approximately 81% and 83% of payments received by our Vein Clinics Division were from private insurance programs, respectively, 16% and 15% were from Medicare, respectively, with any remaining payments received directly from patients.

The private third-party payors providing reimbursement to our vein practices include standard indemnity insurance programs as well as managed care programs, such as preferred provider organizations and health maintenance organizations. These third-party payors provide reimbursement to our vein clinics at negotiated rates for medically necessary treatments. Most ELT treatments for varicose veins and venous leg ulcers provided at our vein practices are reimbursed by third-party payors. However, third-party payors generally do not cover sclerotherapy or treatments they determine are not medically necessary, such as the cosmetic treatment of spider veins. In some cases, third-party payors require prior authorization of varicose vein treatment to provide reimbursement. Contractual arrangements with third-party payors typically are for a term of one year, may be terminated by either party upon 60 to 90 days’ notice after the initial term and contain automatic annual renewal provisions. Contractual arrangements with third-party payors also typically include payment terms and schedules of rates that are subject to change by the third-party payor upon as little as 30 days’ notice. Payments from Medicare are paid in accordance with a set fee schedule and are subject to change or review by governmental authorities.

Once our Vein Clinics Division has facilitated a vein practice’s establishment, we enter into a contract with the professional corporation operating in our clinic. Unlike our Partner fertility centers, the physicians who are employed at our vein practices typically do not have an ownership interest in the medical practice. A “friendly physician” model is used for ownership, pursuant to which we are the primary beneficiary and obligor of the vein practice’s operations; except in two states where, we also own and operate vein practices through subsidiaries since we are not prohibited from doing so under applicable corporate practice of medicine laws. Under the terms of our contracts with the vein practices, we have sole and exclusive responsibility to manage the non-medical operations of the practice and the physicians have sole responsibility for the medical and clinical aspects of the practice. Our contracts with the vein practice provide that we are responsible for the leasing of space, obtaining all equipment and services needed, providing all billing and collections functions, arranging for and supervising all non-physician personnel and providing services so they can market their own practices. In exchange for our services, our contracts

 
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with the vein practices provide that the vein practice pay us a fee equal to 150% of our expenses of operating and managing the vein clinics. These fees have historically exceeded the operating margin generated by any particular vein practice prior to payment of the management fee. Accordingly, each vein practice only pays the portion of the management fee that is equal to the amount of revenue generated by the practice annually up to the 150% amount. As a result, our vein practices (the professional corporation) do not generate any net profits at year end. Our contracts with the vein practices are typically for 25 years with renewal rights. In the event of early termination, any accrued obligations remain outstanding until satisfied. We also have the right at any time to cause the “friendly physician” to transfer his or her ownership in a vein practice to another physician designated by us.

We require each professional corporation operating in our vein practices to enter into an employment agreement with the physician practicing at that site. The employment agreement typically has a term of one year and automatically renews for additional one-year periods unless terminated by either party. The physician generally is required to pay the clinic either $75,000 or $50,000 if the agreement is terminated prior to three years from the physician’s first employment with the practice, with the amount due depending on the time of termination. This requirement helps defray the training expenses we incur when we assist the physician in establishing a practice. The physician also usually covenants not to compete with the practice or provide medical services in the treatment of varicose veins or other venous diseases, within a specified area, during the agreement’s term and for two years thereafter. Although it is unclear whether these non-competition provisions would be enforceable if challenged, we have not experienced significant competition from physicians who formerly practiced at our vein practices.

Since our acquisition of VCA in August 2007, we have made significant investments in this division’s infrastructure, which have been designed to allow us to open new practices at a rapid and sustained pace utilizing a replicable model. These investments include:
 
 
     
 
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Physician recruiting and training. The business model for our Vein Clinics Division depends on the professional corporation being able to identify, recruit and train new physicians to staff new clinics. We have invested in additional professional personnel as well as other recruiting and training assets to support scaled growth in the future.
     
 
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Regional management. We have established a regional management infrastructure to manage the day-to-day operations of the expanding Vein Clinics Division clinical network and anticipate continued investment in regional management talent as the number of clinics expands.
     
 
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Revenue cycle management. Over the past several years, the market for vein care has undergone a shift from private out of pocket payment by patients to an environment where most treatment is covered by insurance. This shift has caused us to make heavy investments in physician credentialing, working capital and improved billing and collections personnel, systems and procedures. These investments will continue as the business grows.
 
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New practice development. With our planned roll-out of new practice openings, we are making investments in personnel and procedures for identifying opportunities and opening new practices in existing and new markets.
     
 
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Marketing and sales. We have established more formal, physician referral and direct-to-consumer marketing programs.
     
 

Shared Services Group
 
 
Through our corporate Shared Services group, we provide the following support to our Attain Fertility Centers and Vein Clinics Divisions:

 
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Administrative Services.  Our Shared Services group provides our contracted fertility centers and vein clinics with administrative services, including: accounting and financial services, such as accounts payable, payroll and financial reporting; human resources administration; legal services; risk management; insurance; information systems and services; and strategic planning.
     
 
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Access to Capital.  We believe we provide our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics with a competitive advantage through access to capital for funding accounts receivable, expansion and growth. We provide our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics with efficient access to capital which allows them to obtain current technologies, equipment and facilities that enable them to provide a full spectrum of services to effectively compete for patients. For example, we have built new clinical facilities housing state-of-the-art fertility and vein clinics for numerous providers which has enabled them to expand their health care treatment offerings to a wider population of patients.
     
 
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Integrated Information Systems.  Using our established base of treatment providers, we are continuously developing integrated information systems to collect and analyze clinical, patient, financial and marketing data, which we believe allow us to more effectively control expenses and improve cash collections at our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics. Our  proprietary ARTworks clinical software provides electronic medical records, treatment plan and success rate research capabilities, decision support functionality and clinical risk management services, which we believe makes our physicians more efficient and improves quality of care.  We provide our vein clinics access to our proprietary VPA information system, which is an end-to-end patient and clinic operating system that provides decision support and revenue cycle functions.
     
 
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Human Resources.  Our Shared Services group provides our contracted fertility centers and vein clinics with human resources services, including: policies and procedures; arranging for comprehensive benefits and managing the implementation of those benefits; wage and hour administration; performance reviews; job descriptions; and overall human capital management.
     

Our Healthcare Markets
 
 
Reproductive Medicine
 
 
Reproductive medicine encompasses the medical discipline that focuses on male and female reproductive systems and processes. According to a recent industry estimate, approximately 10% of U.S. couples have trouble conceiving. There are many reasons why couples have difficulty conceiving, and accurate identification of a specific cause of infertility can be time consuming, expensive and requires access to specialized diagnostic and treatment services. Reproductive endocrinologists are specialized physicians who perform these more sophisticated medical and surgical fertility diagnoses and treatments. Reproductive endocrinologists generally have completed a minimum of four years of residency training in obstetrics and gynecology and have at least two years of additional training in an approved subspecialty fellowship program. There are approximately 1,400 practicing reproductive endocrinologists offering fertility services across 480 fertility centers in the United States. According to Marketdata Enterprises, Inc., expenditures relating to fertility services in the U.S. market were estimated at approximately $4 billion for 2008. The fertility services market is highly fragmented among providers in each major local market as well as on a national basis.
 
 
Fertility services include diagnostic tests performed on both the female and male. Depending on the results of the diagnostic tests performed, treatment options may include, among others, fertility drug therapy, artificial insemination and fertility surgeries to correct anatomical problems. Procedures that require gametes (sperm and eggs) to be handled in vitro (outside the body) are classified as ART services. Current types of ART services include IVF, frozen embryo transfers, donor egg programs as well as other more specialized treatments. IVF treatments are the most frequently employed form of ART, with 104,946 fresh IVF cycles performed in the United States in 2010 (Society of Assisted Reproductive Technology). Current techniques used in connection with IVF services include intracytoplasmic sperm injection, assisted hatching, cryopreservation of embryos, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and blastocyst culture and transfer.

 
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Although demand for advanced reproductive medicine and treatment is slowing as the baby boomers age we believe market growth will be driven in the future for the following reasons:
 
 
     
 
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The quality of treatment is improving, increasing pregnancy success rates;
     
 
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Improvements in embryo culture media and implantation rates are leading to the capability of reducing high order multiple births, which is one of the greatest risk factors in this industry;
       
 
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With improving pregnancy rates, the cost of treatment is decreasing thereby making these services more affordable;
 
       
 
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Demand for reproductive medical services is increasing through greater public awareness and acceptance of these treatments; and
 
       
 
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Couples are delaying child birth until later in life. In 2006, approximately one out of every 12 first births was to a woman age 35 or older, compared with one out of every 100 first births in 1970, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
 
 
 
While fertility market growth has moderated recently, in line with a demographic trough of couples of family-bearing age and we believe that we are well positioned to increase our share of the fertility market due to the following factors:
 
 
     
 
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The benefits arising from consolidation, including the economies of scale that can be realized by leveraging a corporate infrastructure like ours to minimize general and administrative expenses as a percentage of fertility center revenues;
     
 
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The need for greater efficiencies to offset rising costs and decreases in revenue growth;
     
 
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The barriers to establishing new fertility centers, including the capital-intensive nature of acquiring and maintaining state-of-the-art medical equipment, laboratory and clinical facilities and the need to develop and maintain specialized information systems to meet the demands of patients and third-party payors;
     
 
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The need for support services like those we provide to address the need for seven-days-a-week  service to respond to patient demands and to optimize the outcomes of patient treatments;
     
 
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The increased need for marketing services like those we provide to address increasing competition among medical providers specializing in fertility treatment; and
     
 
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Our track record of growing contracted fertility center Partners two to three times faster than fertility centers that are not a part of our network, based on the number of fresh IVF cycles performed.
 
 
Vein Disease
 
 
Phlebology is the medical specialty concerned with the treatment of vein diseases. Common vein diseases and their symptoms can take many forms, including:
 
 
     
 
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Varicose veins — which are caused when small valves designed to allow blood to flow in only one direction fail or leak. This causes blood to flow backwards under the force of gravity and pool inside the vein;


 
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Spider veins — which are very small varicose veins. They are thin, threadlike veins that lie close to the skin’s surface and are commonly red or purple in appearance. Spider veins can be hormonally induced and are often associated with pregnancy and menstruation;
 
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Venous Leg Ulcers — which are non-healing open wounds that are caused by venous pump failure. Ulcers usually occur near the inside of the ankle, but can be found anywhere below the knee and can occur with or without visible varicose veins;
 

 
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Klippel-Trenaunay Syndrome — which is a rare, congenital disorder in which patients usually have one hypertrophied leg, a port wine stain and large varicose veins on the lateral aspect of the leg; and
     
 
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Restless Leg Syndrome — which may occur when valves fail, causing blood to reflux, or flow backwards, causing it to pool and stagnate in the veins, leading to aching, throbbing, cramping and fatigue in the legs.
 
 
Although there are both surgical as well as minimally invasive treatment protocols for vein disease, we specialize in minimally invasive care. Conventional vein care treatment under both protocols usually begins with an ultrasound assisted mapping to determine the extent of the disease, generally followed by a surgical or minimally invasive treatment protocol. Historically, the most common surgical treatment has been a procedure referred to as vein stripping, which is the surgical removal of surface veins. While still used in some areas, this procedure is much less common.  Vein stripping is generally done as an outpatient procedure and is performed while the patient is under general anesthesia. Vein stripping may leave scarring and require an extended recovery time. More common minimally invasive treatments include ELT  and sclerotherapy, which are the treatments offered by our practices. ELT is a laser treatment which does not involve hospitalization, general surgery or the potential for significant scarring that is associated with vein stripping. With ELT, after local anesthesia is administered, a small optical fiber is inserted through a needle into the varicose vein under ultrasound guidance. The laser is activated and, as the optic fiber is removed from the vein, it heats and closes the vein. Once the vein is closed, the blood that was circulating through the vein is naturally rerouted to other healthy veins. Over time, the varicose vein is absorbed by the body. Sclerotherapy involves injecting abnormal veins with a solution called a sclerosant. This immediately shrinks the vein and causes it to dissolve over a period of weeks, allowing the body to naturally redirect the blood flow to healthy veins. A typical sclerotherapy treatment may last for 15 to 20 minutes and consists of multiple microinjections.
 
Various demographic trends are contributing to the growth in demand for vein care. We believe annual expenditures related to vein care in the United States are approximately $2 billion and are projected to grow 12% per year for the next several years.. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of lasers for thermal ablation of veins and subsequent establishment of an American Medical Association Current Procedural Terminology code for reimbursement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has opened this market to rapid growth and development. We also believe that the market for vein care will continue to grow in the future as awareness of minimally invasive treatment protocols grows among people with vein disease and as additional third-party payors recognize the medical necessity of treating vein disease. We believe that approximately 25 million people are currently affected by vein disease in the United States, but only approximately one million receive treatment for such vein disease.
 
We believe numerous market conditions in this market produce business opportunities for us, including:
 
 
     
 
• 
The level of specialized skills required for comprehensive patient treatment;
     
 
• 
Favorable sociological trends including a growing demographic wave from an aging population;
     
 
• 
The need to develop and maintain specialized management information systems to meet the increasing demands of patient billing and third-party payors;

 
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• 
The current fragmented nature of the market, which is comprised of numerous smaller, independent providers, allowing the opportunity for market consolidation;
     
 
• 
New laser and medical technologies that make access to treatment less painful and disfiguring, coupled with insurance company reimbursement for these new technologies;
     
 
• 
The large number of people affected by vein disease in the United States in relation to the relatively low percentage of people who actually receive treatment for such vein disease; and
Our Strategy

Attain Fertility Centers Division:
 
 
Make Selective Contract Acquisitions of Partner Fertility Centers
 
 
The U.S. market for fertility services is highly fragmented and we believe that it is ripe for consolidation. Recruitment into our Partner Program has traditionally focused on fertility centers that first participate as Affiliates who participate in our Attain IVF product. Affiliate practices have the opportunity to become familiar with the offerings we provide and our commitment to customer service, which allows the Affiliate practices to see our value proposition first hand. We, in turn, have a chance to assess a practice’s commitment to growth and utilization of our services without making a significant up-front financial commitment. In addition to recruiting from Affiliate centers, we have a development staff that targets leading physician groups with established practices in selected metropolitan markets. These candidates are then evaluated against our contract acquisition criteria, which includes factors such as size of practice, physician reputation and the physicians’ growth-oriented outlook. We believe that our competitors’ ability to compete with us for contract acquisitions is currently limited due to our experience acquiring Partner center contracts, our position as the manager of what we believe is the largest network of fertility centers in the United States and our developed infrastructure and experience in delivering valuable services to support fertility center operations.
 
Expand our Network of Affiliate Fertility Centers
 
As of December 31, 2011, we had Affiliates in 24 metropolitan markets and intend to expand our network of Affiliate fertility centers to other metropolitan markets across the United States. We primarily focus our network development activities on metropolitan markets with populations in excess of 500,000. Because of the relatively low percentage of the population that seeks fertility treatment, a large population base is required to support a sophisticated fertility center. Our fertility centers are capable of drawing patients from a large geographic area and, as such, our development staff is focused on the top 100 largest metropolitan markets, where we expect the highest demand for fertility centers to occur.

Increase Penetration of Our Attain IVF Programs
 
Currently, many third-party payors provide limited coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of infertility. Our Attain IVF programs, which are offered directly to patients, have been designed to offer attractive financial options to prospective patients. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, approximately 19.5% of self-pay patients in our Partner and Affiliate network utilized our Attain IVF Programs. We believe that the penetration of our Attain IVF programs can be meaningfully increased by educating patients on the improved success rates associated with multiple treatment cycles and the packaged pricing features of our Attain IVF programs, which allow for multiple treatment cycles and, in the case of our Attain IVF Refund Program, a significant financial refund if the treatments are unsuccessful. We also believe we can increase overall market penetration of our Attain IVF programs by demonstrating to physicians at potential Affiliate and Partner practices the benefit of increased patient volume and retention that we believe result from offering our Attain IVF programs.


 
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Leverage the Company’s Operating Model and Support Services

There is significant value to the company’s integrated IT systems.  The billing/scheduling system is integrated with the ARTworks EMR.  These two systems in turn are integrated with a proprietary, patient relationship management, PRM system, which used by partner practice new patient visit coordinators to track inquiry conversion, and a salesforce.com application used by professional liasons in referral sales activities.

The coordination of back office functions, which include: finance and accounting,  human resources, legal, risk management, and  information technology offer cost effective, best practice oriented services to our partner practices.

Most importantly, business service support offers significant leverage in operations, comprised of: billing, collections, revenue cycle management, offered through a centralized shared service center, as well as the   financing of equipment needed to support clinical excellence, and  clinical system development and administration.  Similarly, marketing and sales functions , comprised of marketing plan development,  campaign management and measurement,  sales training, call center system development and administration, as well as, social media and reputation management support offers best in class expertise to partner practices.


Vein Clinics Division:
 
 
Develop De Novo Vein Clinics
 
 
We intend to develop new vein practices in targeted markets. Our past experience suggests that one vein practice can generally support a population of 500,000 to one million in metropolitan markets. Our practice development staff focuses on the following:
 
 
     
 
• 
Developing new practices in markets where we already have existing practices that have not fully penetrated their market to take advantage of existing investments in regional management, managed care contracts, personnel and marketing capabilities;

     
 
• 
Identifying attractive new markets in states that already have a vein practice location and states contiguous to existing vein practices locations to leverage regional management, personnel and other infrastructure assets; and
     
 
• 
Identifying locations where we believe there are attractive demographics, reasonable media costs and a favorable reimbursement environment.
 
 
We believe our vein practice model can be predictably and profitably replicated in new markets. Our ability to develop de novo vein practices is demonstrated by the 5 new practices opened during 2011.  We expect to accelerate and increase the number of de novo vein practices to be opened in 2012, however this pace could be affected by challenges in physician recruitment and securing suitable locations. De novo traditional vein practices offer an attractive return on capital as they require relatively little capital investment, typically $300,000 to $500,000, and usually reach break-even in nine months or less after opening of the clinic.

 
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Increase the Total Number of Patients Treated
 
 
We intend to work with our existing vein practices to increase the total number of patients they treat. To achieve this objective we intend to:
 
     
 
• 
Offer products and services that help them attract patients, including access to state-of-the-art equipment, access to our clinical and information technology applications;
 
• 
Enhance their ability to provide superior care through use of our proprietary VPA information system, which is an end-to-end patient and clinic operating system that provides decision support and revenue cycle functions;
     
 
• 
Help drive additional patient volume through our sales and marketing efforts, including physician referral development,  our direct-to-consumer advertising, internet marketing, and providing marketing materials and programs to our vein practices for their use; and
 
• 
Increase new patient volume through the protocols we established for our call center professionals and contact follow up procedures our center and practice staff employ to ensure patients attend their consultation and all scheduled treatments; and
 
 

Continue Improving Operating Efficiencies
 

We continuously seek opportunities to lower costs and realize operating efficiencies, while increasing patient safety and quality care through the implementation of a centralized infrastructure focused on improved accounts receivable management, along with leveraging economies of scale in support functions such as procurement, finance, information technology, human resources, risk management and legal services. We expect to further leverage our corporate infrastructure as we expand our network of vein practices.
 

Sales and Marketing
 
 
Our Vein Clinics Division specializes in the development of sophisticated marketing and sales programs that give vein practices access to business-building techniques designed to facilitate growth and development. 
We operate web portals that: allow visitors access to educational material concerning vein care issues; provide links to our vein practices; allow prospective patients to engage in web chats,  request vein care appointments or follow up contact.

Competition
 
 
Our business divisions operate in highly competitive areas. Our vein practices compete with other vein care providers, dermatologist and surgical clinics that provide ELT and sclerotherapy as an ancillary offering, vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists. Basic barriers to entry-level care in the vein care industry are low. We do not believe that we currently face significant competition providing managerial services to vein practices. We believe that the vein practices we work with are well positioned to compete in our markets based on the reputations of the physicians providing services at those practices; however, there can be no assurance that these practices will be able to compete effectively with existing providers in our markets or that new competitors will not enter into our markets. These existing and new competitors may have greater financial and other resources than we or our vein clinics do. See “Risk Factors — We face increased competition from existing providers, as well as new providers entering our markets.”


 
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Health Care Regulation
 
 
The health care industry is highly regulated. Our ability to operate profitably will depend in part upon our ability, and the ability of our affiliated physicians and physician practice groups, to obtain and maintain all licenses and other approvals necessary to comply with applicable health care regulations. We believe that health care regulations will continue to change. Therefore, we monitor developments in health care law, and we are likely to be required to modify our operations from time to time as our business and the regulatory environment changes. Many aspects of our current and anticipated business operations have not been the subject of specific judicial or regulatory interpretation. A review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities may result in a determination that could adversely affect our operations. In addition, the health care regulatory environment may change in a way that restricts our operations. Future changes in health care regulation are difficult to predict and may constrain or require us to restructure our operations, which could negatively impact our business and operating results.
 

Physician Licensure Laws
 
 
The practice of medicine is subject to state licensure laws, regulations and approvals. We have established a process designed to help ensure that the physicians at our fertility centers and vein clinics are appropriately licensed under applicable state law. If physicians at the centers or clinics fail to renew their licenses on an annual basis or fail to maintain an unrestricted license, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be negatively impacted.
 

Corporate Practice of Medicine
 
 
Some states have laws that prevent for profit corporations,  like us from practicing medicine, employing physicians and other individuals licensed in the healing arts or other learned profession and exercising control over their decisions, also known, collectively, as the corporate practice of medicine. In some states these prohibitions are expressly stated in a statute or regulation, whereas in other states the prohibition is a matter of judicial or regulatory interpretation. Additionally, in those states which apply such prohibitions to individuals licensed in the healing arts or other learned profession, it is not clear whether physician assistants or nurse practitioners would be subject to such prohibitions.
 
 
In states that prohibit the corporate practice of medicine, we operate by maintaining long-term business service contracts with affiliated medical practices, which are each owned and operated by physicians and which employ or contract with additional physicians. Under such an arrangement, the laws of most states focus on the extent to which the corporation exercises control over the physicians and on the ability of the physicians to use their own professional judgment as to diagnosis and treatment. We do not represent to the public that we offer medical services, and we do not exercise influence or control over the practice of medicine by physicians or by their affiliated medical practices. In each of these states, the affiliated fertility center or vein clinic is the sole employer of the physicians, and the affiliated fertility center or vein clinic retains the full authority to direct the medical, professional and ethical aspects of its medical practice. Our fertility centers and vein clinics are duly licensed or qualified as a medical practice or professional corporation in the states where such license or qualification is required.
 
 
Corporate practice of medicine laws and their interpretations are continually evolving and may change in the future. Moreover, these laws and their interpretations are generally enforced by state courts and regulatory agencies that have broad discretion in their enforcement. Although we neither employ physicians nor provide medical services in those states that prohibit the corporate practice of medicine, a state court or enforcement agency may conclude that we are engaged in the corporate practice of medicine in those states where we employ nurse practitioners and physician assistants who work under the supervision of the physicians at our fertility centers and vein clinics or because we provide services to physicians in connection with their performance of professional medical services through our management contracts.

 
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Although we have not received notification from any state regulatory or similar authority asserting that we are engaged in the corporate practice of medicine, to the extent any act or service to be performed by us is construed by a court or enforcement agency as constituting the practice of medicine in a particular jurisdiction, we cannot be sure that such court or enforcement agency would not construe our arrangements as violating that jurisdiction’s corporate practice of medicine doctrine, particularly in the case of our vein clinics, where we employ a “friendly” physician model. If such a claim were successful, we could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, could be required to restructure or terminate our applicable contractual arrangements and managed physicians could have restrictions imposed upon their licenses to practice medicine. Additionally, a physician shareholder of a managed practice might successfully avoid restrictions on the practice’s ability to operate independent of our management on the grounds that the managed practice’s management arrangement with us violates the state’s prohibition on the corporate practice of medicine. Such results or the inability of us or the managed practices to restructure our relationships to comply with such prohibitions could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.

 
 
Fee Splitting
 
 
The laws of some states prohibit physicians from splitting with anyone, other than providers who are part of the same group practice, any professional fee, commission, rebate or other form of compensation for any services not actually and personally rendered. The precise language and judicial interpretation of fee-splitting prohibitions varies from state to state.
 
Courts in a number of states, including Illinois, have interpreted fee-splitting statutes as prohibiting all percentage of gross revenue and percentage of net profit management fee arrangements, despite the performance of legitimate management services. Prior to November 1, 2009, our management agreement with our Partner fertility center in Illinois provided that we be paid a base fee equal to a fixed percentage of the revenues of the fertility center that declined to zero to the extent the costs relating to the management of the fertility center increase as a percentage of total revenues. Due to the substantial risk that this compensation arrangement, being based on a percentage of revenues, would not be upheld if challenged under Illinois law, we entered into a new compensation agreement with
this fertility Partner effective November 1, 2009. Under the terms of our new cost-plus agreement our fees are now equal to reimbursement of our costs incurred in operating the center, plus 9.5%.
 
Fee-splitting laws and their interpretations vary from state to state and are enforced by state courts and regulatory authorities that have broad discretion in their enforcement. For example, our Attain IVF Refund Program could be interpreted by one or more state regulators as a prohibited fee split to the extent that we retain a portion of the payments patients pay directly to us for their medical treatment by our fertility centers. There can be no assurance that these laws will be interpreted in a manner consistent with our practices or that other laws or regulations will not be enacted in the future that could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and operating results. Penalties for violating fee-splitting statutes or regulations may include the medical license revocation, suspension, probation or other disciplinary action of the providers affiliated with our fertility centers or vein clinics who have been found to violate the fee-splitting statutes or regulations.
 
In addition, courts have refused to enforce contracts found to violate state fee-splitting prohibitions. To the extent any of our contractual arrangements are construed by a court or enforcement agency as violating a jurisdiction’s fee-splitting laws, there is a possibility that some provisions of our agreements may not be enforceable. For example, a physician shareholder of a managed practice might successfully avoid payment of a management fee on the grounds that the management arrangement violates the state’s fee-splitting prohibition. We also may be required to redesign or terminate our arrangements, including our Attain IVF programs, and our relationships with our fertility centers or vein clinics in order to bring their activities into compliance with such laws. The termination of, or our failure to, successfully restructure, any such relationship could have a material adverse affect on our business, financial condition and operating results. In particular, a forced restructuring of our management fee could have a material impact on us. In addition, expansion of our operations to new jurisdictions could require structural and organizational modifications of our relationships with our fertility centers and vein clinics in order to comply with additional statutes.

 
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Further, although our management agreements with our vein clinics provide that each vein clinic pay us a fee equal to 150% of our expenses of operating and managing the vein clinic, these fees have historically exceeded the operating margin generated by any particular vein clinic prior to payment of the management fee. Accordingly, each vein clinic only pays the portion of the management fee that is equal to the amount of revenue generated by the clinic annually up to the 150% amount. As a result, our vein clinics do not generate any net profits at year end. In those states that have interpreted fee-splitting statutes as prohibiting a percentage of net revenue management fee arrangements where we have vein clinics, there is material risk that a regulator could recharacterize our management fee as 100% of net revenue in violation of such states’ fee-splitting statutes which would subject physicians affiliated with our vein clinics to disciplinary actions or civil penalties.
 
Courts in other states, including Maryland, where we have two vein clinics, have interpreted their fee-splitting statutes to prohibit non-physicians from receiving fees in connection with the management of a physician practice that do not bear a reasonable relationship to the services being rendered based on the fair market value of such services. A state regulator could conclude that 150% of our expenses does not bear a reasonable relationship to the services being rendered because none of our vein clinics generate sufficient revenues to pay the full management fee. If our management fee were to be challenged in a state such as Maryland, there is substantial risk that this compensation method would not be upheld, which could subject the providers who are affiliated with the vein clinics in Maryland to disciplinary action as well as civil penalties. We also have vein clinics in Wisconsin, Tennessee and Kansas, which have a similar requirement that the management fee reflect the fair market value of the services being rendered and impose disciplinary actions, civil penalties and criminal penalties on the physicians who are affiliated with our vein clinics in those locations if such fee does not reflect the fair market value of the services being rendered.
 
 
Federal and State Anti-Kickback Prohibitions
 
Various federal and state laws govern financial arrangements among health care providers. The federal anti-kickback law prohibits the knowing and willful offer, payment, solicitation or receipt of any form of remuneration in return for, or with the purpose to induce, the referral of Medicare, Medicaid or other federal health care program patients, or in return for, or with the purpose to induce, the purchase, lease or order of items or services that are covered by Medicare, Medicaid or other federal health care programs. Similarly, many state laws prohibit the solicitation, payment or receipt of remuneration in return for, or to induce, the referral of patients to private as well as government programs in violation of these statutes.

Federal and state anti-kickback statutes are very broad and it is possible that a court could conclude that the marketing services we offer in exchange for a management fee based on a percentage of net profits constitutes a payment in violation of these statutes. Our fertility centers and vein clinics are also subject to these statutes, but we do not oversee and are not responsible for their compliance with these laws.
 
Violations of these anti-kickback laws may result in substantial civil or criminal penalties for individuals or entities. These laws may be enforced by the government or by private individual whistleblowers. If we or our fertility centers or vein clinics are found to have violated federal or state anti-kickback laws, our business, operations or financial condition could be adversely affected.
 
 
Physician Self-Referral Prohibitions
 
 
The federal physician self-referral statute, known as the “Stark” statute, prohibits a physician from making a referral for certain designated health services to any entity with which the physician has a financial relationship, unless there is an exception in the statute that allows the referral. The entity that receives a prohibited referral from a physician may not submit a bill to Medicare for that service. Federal courts have ruled that a violation of the Stark statute, as well as a violation of the federal anti-kickback law described above, can serve as the basis for a Federal False Claims Act suit. Many state laws prohibit physician referrals to entities with which the physician has a financial interest, or require that the physician provide the patient notice of the physician’s financial relationship before

 
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making the referral. Violation of the Stark statute and state laws prohibiting physician referrals can result in substantial civil penalties for both the referring physician and any entity that submits a claim for a health care service made pursuant to a prohibited referral. Although we have structured our arrangements with our fertility centers and vein clinics to comply with the Stark statute and state laws prohibiting certain physician referrals, because of the complexity of these laws, these laws could be interpreted in a manner inconsistent with our operations. In addition, our fertility centers and vein clinics are themselves subject to these laws, but we do not oversee and are not responsible for their compliance with these laws. Federal or state self-referral regulation could adversely impact our arrangements with certain customers, and our ability to market our services directly to physicians in a position to refer patients to our fertility centers and vein clinics.
 
 
False Claims
 
 
Under separate federal statutes, submission of false or fraudulent claims to government payors may lead to civil monetary penalties, criminal fines and imprisonment and/or exclusion from participation in the Medicare, Medicaid and other federally-funded health care programs. These false claims statutes include the Federal False Claims Act, which allows any person to bring suit alleging false or fraudulent Medicare or Medicaid claims or other violations of the statute and to share in any amounts paid by the entity to the government in fines or settlement. In some jurisdictions, even claims that were accurately submitted for medically necessary health care services have been held by courts to be “false” where the provider was not in compliance with federal anti-kickback or Stark laws, or applicable Medicare regulations. These private actions have increased significantly in recent years and have increased the risk that we or our vein clinics will have to defend a false claims action, pay fines or be excluded from participation in the Medicare and/or Medicaid programs as a result of an investigation involving our fertility centers or vein clinics arising out of such an action.

Business of Insurance
 
 
Laws and regulatory approaches to insurance are state specific and vary widely from state to state. Although most states supply statutory definitions of “insurance,” these definitions are subject to disparate interpretation by state courts, attorney generals and regulators. Our Attain IVF programs have several characteristics that are present in an insurance contract. We view our Attain IVF programs as guaranties or warranties of our fertility centers’ performance; however, it is possible that an insurance regulator in a state where we conduct business could take the position that our Attain IVF programs are insurance and should be regulated as such by the state. If we are found to have engaged in the business of insurance without a license, we could be subject to criminal and civil penalties or be forced to comply with burdensome reserve requirements or restructure the programs.
 

Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
 
 
 
Numerous federal and state laws and regulations govern the collection, dissemination, use, security and confidentiality of individually identifiable health information. These laws include:
 
 
 
Provisions of HIPAA that limit how healthcare providers may use and disclose individually identifiable health information, provide certain rights to individuals with respect to that information and impose certain security requirements;
 
 
 
The federal HITECH Act, which strengthens and expands the HIPAA Privacy Standards and Security Standards;
 
 
 
Other federal and state laws restricting the use and protecting the privacy and security of patient information, many of which are not preempted by HIPAA;
 
 
 
Federal and state consumer protection laws; and
 
 
 
Federal and state laws regulating the conduct of research with human subjects.
 
As part of our medical record keeping, third-party billing, research and other services, we collect and maintain patient health information in paper and electronic format. New patient health information standards, whether implemented pursuant to HIPAA, the HITECH Act, congressional action or otherwise, could have a significant effect on the manner in which we handle healthcare-related data and communicate with payors, and compliance with these standards could impose significant costs on us or limit our ability to offer services, thereby negatively impacting the business opportunities available to us.

 
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If we do not comply with existing or new laws and regulations related to patient health information we could be subject to monetary fines, civil penalties or criminal sanctions.

Antitrust Laws
 
In connection with the corporate practice of medicine laws referred to above, our fertility centers and vein clinics are organized as separate legal entities. As such, our fertility centers and vein clinics may be deemed to be persons separate from both us and each other under antitrust laws and, accordingly, subject to a wide range of laws that prohibit anti-competitive conduct among separate legal entities. There can be no assurance that a review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities would not have a material adverse effect on our operation or the operation of our fertility centers or vein clinics.
 

Future Legislation and Regulation
 
 
Health care providers are subject to federal, state and local laws and regulations, and sanctions imposed under or changes to such laws or regulations could adversely affect our operations or financial results. The federal fiscal year 2010 budget establishes a reserve fund of more than $630 billion over the next 10 years to finance fundamental reform of the United States’ health care system, in an effort to reduce costs and expand health care coverage. The fund will be paid for by a combination of tax revenue and reductions in Medicare and Medicaid spending.
 
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, or the Affordable Care Act, were signed into law by President Obama in March 2010 and will result in significant reforms to the U.S. healthcare system and the structure of the healthcare delivery system.  The Affordable Care Act will create new payment methodologies and mechanisms under the Medicare and Medicaid programs to link payment with quality and cost-effective service delivery.  The overall goal of the Affordable Care Act is to create a more integrated, coordinated, and efficient healthcare delivery system.  The full impact of the Affordable Care Act is uncertain, and will depend on future regulations and guidance to be promulgated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.  Any new reimbursement methodologies and mechanisms adopted by Medicare, Medicaid or other commercial third party payors as a direct or indirect result of the Affordable Care Act could have an impact on the demand and reimbursement for our services.

The Affordable Care Act also provides the federal government with increased authority and tools to combat health care fraud and abuse, including additional subpoena powers, the ability to provide additional screening for new providers in the Medicare and Medicaid program, and the authority to withhold Medicare payment to a provider while an investigation is pending, among others.

A failure or breach of our information systems could have negative impact on the business. The disclosure or misuse of confidential patient or proprietary business information could result in a disruption to our business, damage our reputation, increase our costs and/or cause losses.  The development and enhancement of the controls and processes designed to protect our systems, computers, software, data and networks from attack, damage or unauthorized access is paramount to the Company. Although we believe that we have robust information security procedures and other safeguards in place, as cyber threats continue to evolve, we may be required to expend additional resources to continue to enhance our information security measures and/or to investigate and remediate any information security vulnerabilities.
 

Employees
 

As of December 31, 2011, we had 1,534 employees.  Of these, 1,197 were employed by our Attain Fertility Centers Division, 308 by our Vein Clinics Division and 29 were employed at our corporate headquarters, including 4 who were executive management.  Of the 1,534 employees, 166 were employed on a part-time basis and 109 were employed on a per diem basis.  We are not a party to any collective bargaining agreement and we believe that our employee relationships are good.

 
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Segment Information

 
In mid-2010, we consolidated our Fertility Centers Division and our Consumer Services Division into one operating segment, the Attain Fertility Centers Division (AFC). This consolidation resulted in a reduction from three operating segments to two, our current Attain Fertility Centers and our Vein Clinics divisions. This consolidation was done to reflect the integrated goals, resources and management shared by the former Fertility Centers and Consumer Services divisions.
 

Performance by segment, for the three years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 are presented below (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
Attain Fertility
Centers
   
Vein
Clinics
   
Corp. G&A
   
Consolidated
 
                         
For the Year ended December 31, 2011
                       
Revenues
  $ 199,963     $ 73,619     $     $ 273,582  
Cost of Services
    182,015       70,476             252,491  
Contribution
    17,948       3,143             21,091  
Operating Margin
    9.0 %     4.3 %           7.7 %
                                 
General and administrative
                11,551       11,551  
Other Expense
                1,650       1,650  
Interest (income) expense, net
                335       335  
Income (loss) before income taxes
    17,948       3,143       (13,356 )     7,555  
Depreciation expense included above
  $ 4,312     $ 2,120     $ 767     $ 7,199  
Capital expenditures, net
  $ 3,704     $ 4,658     $ 860     $ 9,222  
Total assets
  $ 55,029     $ 57,507     $ 44,968     $ 157,504  
                                 
For the Year ended December 31, 2010
                               
Revenues
  $ 182,443     $ 60,726     $     $ 243,169  
Cost of Services
    164,718       57,235             221,953  
Contribution
    17,725       3,491             21,216  
Operating Margin
    9.7 %     5.7 %           8.7 %
                                 
General and administrative
                12,668       12,668  
Interest (income) expense, net
    (202 )           897       695  
Income (loss) before income taxes
  $ 17,927     $ 3,491     $ (13,565 )   $ 7,853  
Depreciation expense included above
  $ 3,773     $ 1,133     $ 645     $ 5,551  
Capital expenditures, net
  $ 3,413     $ 3,995     $ 702     $ 8,110  
Total assets
  $ 41,692     $ 52,999     $ 53,964     $ 148,655  
                                 
For the Year ended December 31, 2009
                               
Revenues
  $ 166,135     $ 50,625     $     $ 216,760  
Cost of Services
    149,345       46,525             195,870  
Contribution
    16,790       4,100             20,890  
Operating Margin
    10.1 %     8.1 %           9.6 %
                                 
General and administrative
                12,155       12,155  
Interest (income) expense, net
    (149 )           1,059       910  
Income (loss) before income taxes
  $ 16,939     $ 4,100     $ (13,214 )   $ 7,825  
Depreciation expense included above
  $ 4,076     $ 873     $ 873     $ 5,822  
Capital expenditures, net
  $ 4,173     $ 947     $ 790     $ 5,910  
Total assets
  $ 39,190     $ 49,845     $ 35,274     $ 124,309  


 
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Our Fertility Centers and Vein Clinics
 
 
For the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, the following three contracted fertility centers each individually provided greater than 10% of our revenues, net and/or contribution as follows:

   
Percent of Company
Revenues, net
   
Percent of
Contribution
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                                     
Shady Grove Fertility Center
    17.1       16.9       17.6       17.2       15.8       15.4  
Fertility Centers of Illinois
    10.2       11.3       13.1       9.5       9.3       10.3  
Seattle Reproductive Medicine
    6.7       5.6       6.0       12.0       8.8       8.6  

 
Under our fertility Partner agreement with the Shady Grove Fertility Center, we receive as compensation for our services a three-part fee comprised of:  a percentage of the fertility center’s net revenues; reimbursed costs of services (costs incurred in servicing a fertility center and any costs paid on behalf of the fertility center); and a fixed dollar amount of the fertility center’s earnings after services fees which is subject to further limits.  

Our revenues from our Fertility Centers of Illinois Partner are not based on this three-part structure. Rather, effective as of November 1, 2009, our revenues from FCI are generally equal to the operating expenses associated with managing FCI’s medical practice plus 9.5% of such expenses.

Our revenues from our fertility Partner agreement with Seattle Reproductive Medicine are comprised of a three-part fee consisting of :  a percentage of the fertility center’s net revenues; reimbursed costs of services (costs incurred in servicing a fertility center and any costs paid on behalf of the fertility center); and a fixed percentage of the fertility center’s earnings after services fees which may be subject to further qualifications.

A complete listing of our fertility Partner agreements and vein clinic locations as of December 31, 2011 is presented below.

Fertility Partner Agreements
  
                           
       
Remaining
       
   
Year Contract
 
 
Contract
 
No. of
 
No. of
Name
State
Acquired
 
Years
 
M.D.s
 
PhDs
                             
Foulk & Whitten Nevada Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.
NV
December 2009
   
22
     
1
     
0
 
Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C.
ID
December 2009
   
22
     
 1
     
0
 
Utah Fertility Center, P.C.
UT
December 2009
   
22
     
1
     
0
 
Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists, Ltd. 
AZ
July 2008
   
21
     
4
     
1
 
Southeastern Fertility Centers, P.A. 
SC
April 2008
   
21
     
3
     
1
 
Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.A. 
FL
August 2007
   
20
     
5
     
1
 
Reproductive Partners Medical Group, Inc.
CA
January 2005
   
17
     
10
     
0
 
Seattle Reproductive Medicine, Inc., P.S. 
WA
January 2004
   
7
     
9
     
1
 
Reproductive Endocrine Associates of Charlotte, P.C. 
NC
September 2003
   
6
     
6
     
0
 
Northwest Center for Infertility & Reproductive Endocrinology
FL
April 2002
   
5
     
7
     
1
 
Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center, P.C. 
MD, VA & DC
March 1998
   
11
     
23
     
2
 
Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. 
IL
February 1997
   
10
     
11
     
2
 
Bay Area Fertility & Gynecology Medical Group, Inc. 
CA
January 1997
   
14
     
6
     
1
 
MPD Medical Associates (MA), P.C. (doing business as RSC of New England)
MA, NH & RI
July 1988
   
2
     
6
     
1
 


 
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Vein Clinic Locations

Location
Open Date Opened
Location
Open Date Opened
       
Wilton, CT
 Aug 2011
Merrillville, IN
 Aug 2006
Exton, PA
 Apr 2011
Kansas City, MO
 Jun 2006
Deerfield, IL
 Feb 2011
Alpharetta, GA
 Oct 2005
Canton, CT
 Feb 2011
Gurnee, IL
 Sep 2005
Brentwood, TN
 Jan 2011
Naperville, IL
 Sept 2004
Trevose, PA
 Dec 2010
Lawrenceville, GA
 Sep 2001
Crocker Park, OH
 Dec 2010
Indianapolis, IN
 Apr 2001
Greenwich, CT
 Nov 2010
Knoxville, TN
 Mar 2001
Chapel Hill, NC
 Nov 2010
Raleigh, NC
 Mar 2000
Glastonbury, CT
 Oct 2010
Greensboro, NC
 Jan 2000
Quantico, VA
 Sep 2010
Rockville, MD
 Nov 1998
Chevy Chase, MD
 May 2010
Milwaukee, WI
 Mar 1998
Columbia, MD
 May 2010
Charlotte, NC
 Feb 1998
Cleveland, OH
 Apr 2009
Orland Park, IL
 Nov 1996
Cincinnati, OH
 Jan 2009
Fairfax, VA
 Mar 1992
Pittsburgh, PA
 Dec 2008
Overland Park, KS
 Apr 1991
Old Orchard, IL
 Dec 2008
Timonium, MD
 Jun 1990
Marietta, GA
 Jun 2008
Buffalo Grove, IL
 Aug 1989
Alexandria, VA
 Apr 2008
Atlanta, GA
 Jun 1988
Boca Raton, FL
 Feb 2008
Oak Brook, IL
Pre-1985
Sterling, VA
 Dec 2007
Chicago, IL
Pre-1985
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
 Jul 2007
Schaumburg, IL
Pre-1985
St. Louis, MO
 Jan 2007
   

  
 

 
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ITEM 1A.                                Risk Factors

RISK FACTORS
 
 
In evaluating our business, every investor should carefully consider the following risks.  Our business, financial condition or results of operations could be materially adversely affected by any of the following risks.

 

The loss of one or more of our Partner fertility centers would lead to a decline in our revenues and profit.
 
 
The contracts that we enter into with our Partner fertility centers typically have terms that range from 10 to 25 years and contain automatic renewal provisions. Some of these agreements also contain provisions that allow the Partner fertility center to terminate the agreement, upon 12 months’ prior notice, at any time after five years from the agreement’s effective date. Our two largest Partner fertility centers provided approximately 38% of our Attain Fertility Centers division revenues for the year ended December 31, 2011. If either of these Partner fertility centers, or any of our other Partner fertility centers, were to terminate its agreement with us, we would lose all of the revenues associated with such Partner fertility center, but would not experience any meaningful reduction in our infrastructure costs.
 

We may not be able to find suitable Partner candidates or successfully integrate the operations of the fertility centers with which we enter into Partner contracts.
 
 
A key part of our business strategy is to enter into additional Partner contracts. We cannot assure you that we will be able to find suitable Partner candidates or that the fertility centers that we enter into Partner contracts with will be successful. Even if suitable Partner candidates are identified, negotiation over suitable terms and conditions may be protracted and unsuccessful, and we may not be able to achieve planned increases in the number of Partner centers. Further, achieving the anticipated benefits of current and possible future Partner contracts will depend in part upon whether we can integrate the operations of those fertility centers with our operations in a timely and cost-effective manner. The process of integrating the operations of Partner fertility centers with our operations is complex, expensive and time consuming and involves a number of risks, including, but not limited to:
 
 
     
 
• 
difficulties in integrating or retaining key medical providers of the Partner fertility center;
     
 
• 
difficulties in integrating the operations of the Partner fertility center, such as information technology resources and financial and operational data;
     
 
• 
diversion of our management’s attention; and
     
 
• 
potential incompatibility of cultures.
 

We are dependent on the medical providers in our fertility centers and vein clinics to successfully execute our business strategy.
 
 
Although we manage our fertility centers and vein clinics, the medical providers at those centers and clinics provide medical services directly to patients and we do not have control over their medical activities. We cannot guarantee any medical provider’s ability to generate positive patient outcomes, build a positive reputation for their practice or to comply with our expectations. If the medical providers in our fertility centers and vein clinics act negligently or unethically, allow their medical practices to deteriorate or do not meet our growth expectations, it could diminish the value of our brand and our results of operations could be adversely affected.

 
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We may have difficulty attracting and retaining physicians for our fertility centers and vein clinics.
 
 
A key part of our business strategy is to enter into additional Partner contracts and open new vein clinics. The success of our fertility centers is dependent upon our ability to retain the key medical providers associated with those centers. If one or more key medical providers were to depart from a fertility center, our business could suffer. Our ability to open new vein clinics is dependent upon identifying, recruiting and retaining qualified physicians to perform procedures at these clinics. We have had difficulties staffing new vein clinics because some third-party payors require that the physicians performing procedures at these clinics have certain specified credentials. We will not be able to implement successfully our business strategy if we are unable to properly staff our fertility centers and vein clinics.
 
 
A reduction in reimbursements or an inability to negotiate attractive reimbursement rates from third-party payors for the services that our Partner centers or vein clinics provide could adversely affect our revenues and growth.
 
 
A significant portion of our fertility Partner and vein clinic revenues depends on reimbursements to the underlying physician practices from third-party payors. These third parties include private health insurers and other organizations, such as health maintenance organizations, as well as government authorities. Third parties are systematically challenging prices charged for medical treatment. A third-party payor may deny or reduce reimbursement if it determines that a prescribed treatment is not used in accordance with cost-effective treatment methods, as determined by the payor, or is experimental, unnecessary or inappropriate. In addition, although third parties may approve reimbursement, such approvals may be under terms and conditions that discourage use of our services, even if those services are safer or more effective than alternative services. A reduction in reimbursements from third-party payors, whether in the form of changes to reimbursement contracts, such as by limiting reimbursement for certain procedures to specialists, loss of reimbursement contracts, solvency issues on the part of the payors, or in the case of our vein clinics, changes in Medicare reimbursement, would cause patients to reduce their treatments or obtain services from other providers and could reduce our revenues and profitability. Our ability to profitably open vein clinics in new markets also significantly depends on our ability to obtain attractive reimbursement rates from third-party payors in those new markets. If we are unable to obtain satisfactory reimbursement rates from third-party payors for vein clinics in new markets, our growth would suffer.
 
 
Health care reform could impact the demand for our services.
 
 
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, or the Affordable Care Act, were signed into law in March 2010 and has resulted in significant reforms to the U.S. healthcare system and the structure of the healthcare provider delivery system.  The full impact of the Affordable Care Act is still unknown, and will depend on future regulations and guidance to be promulgated by the Centers or Medicare & Medicaid Services.  Any new reimbursement methodologies and mechanisms adopted by Medicare, Medicaid or other commercial third party payors as a direct or indirect result of the affordable care Act could have an impact on the demand and reimbursement for our services.

We face competition from existing providers, as well as new providers entering our markets.
 
 
Our business divisions operate in highly competitive areas. Our fertility centers compete with national, regional and local physician practice fertility centers, hospitals and university medical centers, some of which have programs that compete with our Attain IVF programs. Our fertility centers may also compete with fertility centers located outside of the United States, due to the largely self-pay nature of IVF treatment in the United States. Our vein clinics compete with other vein care clinic providers, dermatologist and surgical clinics that provide ELT and sclerotherapy as an ancillary offering, vascular surgeons and interventional radiologists. Barriers to entry in the vein care industry are low. New health care providers that enter our markets impact our market share, patient volume and growth rates. Increased competitive pressures require us to commit resources to marketing efforts, which impacts our margins and profitability. There can be no assurance that our fertility centers or vein clinics will be able to compete effectively with existing providers in our markets or that new competitors will not enter into our markets. These existing and new competitors may have greater financial and other resources than we or our fertility centers or vein clinics do. Increased competition could also make it more difficult for us to expand our business by entering into new contracts with fertility centers or opening new vein clinics.

 
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The development of alternative treatments could diminish demand for our services.
 
 
The fertility and vein care industries are dynamic, and new, technologically intensive treatments are constantly under development. New treatments that are more effective or provide better reimbursement could decrease patient demand or profitability for the treatments that our fertility centers or vein clinics currently offer. If our fertility centers or vein clinics do not adopt new treatments as they are developed, patients could seek treatment elsewhere.
 
 
If we are found not to be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, we could be subject to significant fines or penalties, be forced to curtail certain of our operations or rearrange material agreements to our detriment.
 
 
We, and each of our fertility centers and vein clinics, are subject to numerous federal and state laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, federal and state anti-kickback laws, controlled substances laws, the federal Stark law and state self-referral laws, false claims laws, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”), Medicare and Medicaid regulations and laws regulating the business of insurance. These laws and regulations are extremely complex and could be subject to various interpretations. Our fertility centers and vein clinics are also subject to these statutes, but we do not oversee, nor are we responsible for, their compliance with these laws. Many aspects of our business, to date, have not been the subject of federal or state regulatory review and we, and any of our fertility centers or vein clinics, may not have been in compliance at all times with all applicable laws and regulations. If we, or our fertility centers or vein clinics, are found by a court or regulatory authority to have violated any applicable laws or regulations, we could be subject to significant fines or penalties or be forced to curtail certain of our operations.
 
 
Further, the laws of many states prohibit physicians from splitting fees with non-physicians, or other physicians, and prohibit non-physician entities from practicing medicine. These laws vary from state to state and are enforced by the courts and by regulatory authorities with broad discretion. Many aspects of our business, to date, have not been the subject of judicial or regulatory interpretation; thus, a review of our business by courts or regulatory authorities may result in determinations that could adversely affect our operations. In addition, the health care regulatory environment could change so as to restrict our existing operations or their expansion. State corporate practice of medicine laws may be interpreted as prohibiting corporations or associations from exercising control over physicians or employing nurse practitioners or physician assistants and may prohibit physicians from practicing medicine in partnership with, or as employees of, any person not licensed to practice medicine.

State regulators may seek to challenge the arrangements that we have with our fertility centers and vein clinics. A determination in any state that we are engaged in the corporate practice of medicine or any unlawful fee-splitting arrangement could render any management agreement between us and a practice located in such state unenforceable or subject to modification, which could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations. Regulatory authorities or other parties may assert that we are or a practice is engaged in the corporate practice of medicine or that the management fees paid to us by the managed practices constitute unlawful fee-splitting or the corporate practice of medicine. If such a claim were asserted successfully, we could be subject to civil and criminal penalties, managed physicians could have restrictions imposed upon their licenses to practice medicine, parts or all of our existing management agreements could be rendered unenforceable and we could be required to restructure our contractual arrangements with the managed practices, all of which could have an adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.
 

Although we view our Attain IVF programs as a guaranty or warranty of our fertility centers’ performance, the Attain IVF programs have several characteristics that are present in an insurance contract. As such, an insurance regulator in a particular state may find that we have been and are engaged in the business of insurance without a license, which could subject us to criminal and civil liabilities and would subject our Attain IVF programs to substantial regulation in that state as an insurance contract, including burdensome reserve requirements. In addition, in states that prohibit physicians from splitting professional fees with non-physicians, we could be required to restructure our Attain IVF programs if a state concluded that our Attain IVF programs constituted fee splitting because we retain a portion of the payments patients pay directly to us for their medical treatment by our fertility centers. The imposition of any such liabilities and any such changes in our method of doing business would likely reduce revenues and contribution from our Attain Fertility Centers Division.

 
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Additionally, our management agreements with our vein clinics provide that the vein clinics will pay us a fee equal to 150% of our expenses of operating and managing the vein clinics. These fees have historically exceeded the operating margin generated by any particular vein clinic prior to payment of the management fee. Accordingly, each vein clinic only pays the portion of the management fee that is equal to the amount of profit generated by the clinic annually up to the 150% amount. As a result, our vein clinics do not generate any net profits at year end. A state regulator could find that such a compensation model is actually based on a percentage of the revenue of a particular vein clinic or that our management fee is not commensurate with the services we provide, in which case our management agreements would be violating fee-splitting laws of certain states where we operate vein clinics. We could be forced to restructure the fee structure under the management agreements to our material financial detriment or the providers affiliated with our vein clinics who have been found to violate the fee-splitting statutes or regulations may be subject to disciplinary action or criminal sanctions, which could lead to the closure of one or more of our vein clinics.

New or enhanced laws and regulations affecting the fertility industry could increase our costs of compliance and force us to alter certain of our operations.
 
 
A number of high profile events have occurred recently related to ART and fertility practices generally, such as the implantation of a greater than recommended number of embryos, resulting in extraordinarily high-order multiple births, or the implantation of incorrect patient embryos. Federal and state regulators may more carefully scrutinize the fertility industry as a result of these events, and may adopt more stringent laws and regulations that could increase our compliance costs or force us to alter certain of our operations.  In addition, some states have proposed laws that would define “person” to include an embryo; any such laws in States where our fertility centers practice may have an adverse impact on their operations.
 
 
We and our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics may not have sufficient liability insurance to cover potential claims.
 
 
The medical procedures performed by physicians and other medical personnel in our network of fertility centers and vein clinics can involve significant complications, including genetically defective births, embryo loss and patient death. We are likely to be, and from time to time have been, named as a party in legal proceedings involving medical malpractice or other injuries that occur at one of our fertility centers or vein clinics, particularly in those fertility centers where we provide the services of a physician assistant or nurse practitioner. A successful malpractice claim could exceed the limits of insurance that we maintain, in which case we would have to fund any settlement in excess of our insurance coverage. We also maintain medical malpractice insurance coverage for our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics, and a successful malpractice claim against one of those centers or clinics in excess of the coverage we maintain for them would adversely affect the revenues we derive from those centers and clinics. In addition, the captive insurance company that provides a portion of our insurance coverage does not maintain reserves in amounts that would be required of other, larger insurers, and therefore may not have adequate capital to fund a claim against us or the Partner fertility centers covered by the captive insurance company. A malpractice claim, whether or not successful, could be costly to defend, could consume management resources and could adversely affect our reputation and business and the reputations and businesses of our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics. We also cannot assure you that we or our Partner fertility centers or vein clinics will be able to obtain insurance coverage in the future on commercially reasonable terms, or at all.

 
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Our success depends on retaining key members of our management team.
 
 
The success of our business strategy depends on the continued contribution of key members of our management team. The loss of key members of this team could disrupt our growth plans and our ability to implement our business strategy.

We rely on a limited number of third-party vendors for medicine and supplies.
 
 
Our fertility centers and vein clinics rely on a limited number of third-party vendors that produce medications and supplies vital to patient treatment. If any of these vendors were to experience a supply shortage or cease doing business, and we were unable to find an alternative third-party vendor, we might not be able to properly serve our patients.
 
 
Our credit agreement contains covenants that impose restrictions on us that may limit our operating flexibility, prevent us from entering into extraordinary transactions that benefit our stockholders and limit our growth.
 
 
Our credit agreement contains covenants that restrict our flexibility to conduct business. These covenants prohibit or limit, among other things:
 
 
     
 
• 
the payment of dividends to our stockholders;
     
 
• 
the incurrence of additional indebtedness;
     
 
• 
the making of certain types of restricted payments and investments;
     
 
• 
sales of assets; and
     
 
• 
consolidations, mergers and transfers of all or substantially all of our assets.
 
 
The credit agreement also requires that we maintain certain leverage and fixed charge ratios and minimum levels of earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization. Our failure to comply with any of these covenants could cause the lenders to declare a default and accelerate amounts due to them under the credit agreement.
 
 
In addition, our credit agreement places certain restrictions on our ability to acquire the business, assets or capital stock of fertility centers. If we identify fertility centers that we want to acquire in excess of limits in our credit agreement and do not obtain the consent of our lender to those acquisitions, we may not be able to execute on our strategy.

We may not have adequate protection for our intellectual property rights.
 
 
Trade secrets and other proprietary information not protected by patents are critical to our business. Our sole means of protecting this information is to utilize confidentiality agreements with employees, third parties and consultants. If these agreements are breached, another entity could obtain our trade secrets and proprietary information and attempt to replicate our business model, which could have an adverse effect on our business.

We could be subject to additional income tax liabilities.
 
 
We are subject to income taxes in various states within the United States. Judgment is often required in evaluating our provision for income taxes. During the ordinary course of business, there are certain transactions for which the ultimate tax determination is uncertain. For example, certain taxing authorities may take the position that we are providing services in jurisdictions where our Partner fertility centers operate. The final determination of tax audits and any related litigation could be materially different from our historical income tax provisions and accruals. The results of an audit or litigation could have a material effect on our operating results or cash flows.

 
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Systems and information technology interruption could adversely impact our ability to operate.

In addition, we face the threat to our computer systems of unauthorized access, computer hackers, computer viruses, malicious code, organized cyber attacks and other security problems and system disruptions. We have devoted and will continue to devote significant resources to the security of our computer systems, but they may still be vulnerable to these threats. A user who circumvents security measures could misappropriate proprietary information or cause interruptions or malfunctions in operations. As a result, we may be required to expend significant resources to protect against the threat of these system disruptions and security breaches or to alleviate problems caused by these disruptions and breaches. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition, results of operations and cash flows.

ITEM 1B.                                Unresolved Staff Comments
 
None.

ITEM  2.                      Properties

Our headquarters and executive offices are located in Purchase, New York, where we occupy approximately 28,400 square feet under a lease expiring in 2022. Future lease payments will average approximately $68,600 per month.

We also lease or sublease locations for our fertility centers and vein clinics. Costs associated with the fertility agreements are reimbursed to us as part of our fee agreement with the applicable clinic whereas costs associated with vein clinic locations are not reimbursed.

We believe that our executive offices and the space occupied by our clinics are adequate for our operations.
 
ITEM  3.                      Legal Proceedings
 

From time to time, we and our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics and their physicians are parties to legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business. We are exposed to claims of professional negligence based on services performed by our employees, including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as well as based on our relationships with physicians providing treatments at our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics. We maintain, for our medical practices and certain of our employees, medical malpractice insurance with limits of $3 million per claim, regardless of the number of the covered defendants, and $10 million per year in the aggregate, with respect to our Partner fertility centers, and with limits generally equal to $1 million per physician and $10 million per year in the aggregate, with respect to our vein clinics. Our Partner fertility centers, vein clinics and their physicians are additional named insureds under our policies. All of our insurance policies are subject to deductibles or a self-insured retention. A portion of the insurance for certain of our fertility centers is provided by ARTIC. 

In May 2009, a complaint entitled Sally Ware and Christopher Ware v. Daniel Baxter Whitesides and Reproductive Endocrinology Associates of Charlotte (REACh) was filed in the Superior Court Division, Mecklenburg County, State of North Carolina.  The lawsuit alleged that due to defendants’ negligence, an embryo with a genetic disease was implanted into Sally Ware which resulted in the birth of a child with cystic fibrosis.  The plaintiffs’ claims were adjudicated via binding arbitration. On April 11, 2011 the arbitration panel found no negligence on behalf of the physician and REACh, but found that plaintiffs were injured because of the negligence of a nurse who is a Company employee. The arbitrators awarded the plaintiffs $26,381 in damages for wrongful conception and $2.0 million in damages for severe emotional distress.   The insurance carrier for the physician and REACh who paid the plaintiffs approximately $1.5 million filed a lawsuit against the Company in September 2011 in the General Court of Justice, Superior Court Division, Guildford County, South Carolina in which the carrier is claiming, among other things, a willful refusal of the Company to indemnify carrier under the management agreement between REACh and the Company as a result of payments made by the carrier to the Wares as a result of the arbitral award.  We have retained North Carolina counsel and the we will arbitrate the dispute based on a Court’s determination. Although we are vigorously defending the allegations, we cannot assure you that we will ultimately prevail.

ITEM 4.                      Mine Safety Disclosure

Not applicable.

 
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PART II

ITEM 5.
Market for Registrant's Common Equity, Related Stockholder Matters and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities

Our common stock is traded on the NASDAQ Global Market under the symbol “INMD” The following table sets forth the high and low closing sales price for our common stock, as reported on the NASDAQ Global Market.


   
Common Stock
 
   
High
   
Low
 
2011             
           
Fourth Quarter
  $ 8.53     $ 6.70  
Third Quarter
  $ 9.98     $ 7.73  
Second Quarter
  $ 10.38     $ 9.15  
First Quarter
  $ 11.04     $ 8.56  
                 
2010
               
Fourth Quarter
  $ 9.21     $ 7.95  
Third Quarter
  $ 10.24     $ 7.57  
Second Quarter
  $ 9.23     $ 7.80  
First Quarter
  $ 9.00     $ 7.01  

On March 1, 2012, there were approximately 97 holders of record of the Common Stock and approximately 926 beneficial owners of shares registered in nominee or street name.

Dividend Policy

We have not paid cash dividends on our common stock during the last two fiscal years, and we currently anticipate retaining all available funds for use in the operation and expansion of the business. Therefore, we do not anticipate paying any cash dividends on our common stock in the foreseeable future.

Securities Authorized for Issuance Under Equity Compensation Plans

We have three stock option plans which have previously been approved by our shareholders.  The following table sets forth certain information relative to these stock option plans.

Plan Category
 
 
 
Number of securities to be issued upon exercise of outstanding options
   
Weighted average exercise price of outstanding options
   
Number of securities remaining available for future issuance under equity compensation plans (excluding securities reflected in column (a)
 
   
(a)
   
(b)
   
(c)
 
Equity compensation plans approved by security holders
    164,543     $ 7.55       851,443  
                         
Equity compensation plans not approved by security holders
     ¾        ¾        ¾  
                         
Total
    164,543     $ 7.55       851,443  

 
During 2011, 2010 and 2009, we issued approximately 122,000, 168,000, and 142,000 shares, respectively, of restricted common stock as compensation to several of our officers and directors with an aggregate value of $1,060,000, $1,341,000 and $978,000 respectively. These shares were valued at their fair value on the date of grant, and are amortized to expense over their vesting period, which approximates the service period.
 
 
During 2010 we issued approximately 81,000 incentive stock options to certain members of our management team. These options have a five year life, vest over four years and had a fair value at date of grant of approximately $311,000.
 

 
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Performance Graph

The following graph compares the cumulative 5-year total return attained by shareholders on IntegraMed America, Inc.'s common stock relative to the cumulative total returns of the NASDAQ Composite index and the NASDAQ Health Services index. An investment of $100 (with reinvestment of all dividends) is assumed to have been made in our common stock and in each of the indexes on 12/31/2006 and its relative performance is tracked through 12/31/2011.
 
 

 
                                     
      12/06       12/07       12/08       12/09       12/10       12/11  
                                                 
IntegraMed America, Inc.
    100.00       95.51       56.06       65.70       71.93       65.28  
NASDAQ Composite
    100.00       110.26       65.65       95.19       112.10       110.81  
NASDAQ Health Services
    100.00       108.32       79.23       89.61       92.33       77.63  

The stock price performance included in this graph is not necessarily indicative of future stock price performance.


 
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ITEM 6.  Selected Financial Data

The following selected financial data (for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, and 2007) are derived from our consolidated financial statements and should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements, related notes, and other financial information included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Financial information for our Vein Clinics division is included only for the period subsequent to its August 8, 2007 acquisition.

Statement of Operations Data:

   
Year Ended December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2008
   
2007
 
   
(in thousands, except per share amounts)
 
                               
Revenues, net
  $ 273,582     $ 243,169     $ 216,760     $ 198,153     $ 151,822  
Costs of services and sales
    252,491       221,953       195,870       179,867       136,699  
Contribution
    21,091       21,216       20,890       18,286       15,123  
General and administrative expenses
    11,551       12,668       12,155       10,654       10,537  
Total other (income) expense, net
    1,985       695       910       1,180       (120 )
Income before taxes
    7,555       7,853       7,825       6,452       4,706  
Provision for income taxes
    2,955       3,128       3,331       2,537       1,662  
Net income applicable to Common Stock
  $ 4,600     $ 4,725     $ 4,494     $ 3,915     $ 3,044  
                                         
Basic EPS
  $ 0.39     $ 0.42     $ 0.51     $ 0.45     $ 0.37  
Diluted EPS
  $ 0.39     $ 0.41     $ 0.51     $ 0.45     $ 0.36  
                                         
Weighted average shares - basic
    11,838       11,380       8,773       8,618       8,310  
Weighted average shares  - diluted
    11,869       11,429       8,834       8,691       8,410  
 
 
Balance Sheet Data:


   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2008
   
2007
 
   
(in thousands)
 
                               
Working capital (1)
  $ 19,607     $ 17,881     $ (2,703 )   $ (2,447 )   $ (3,435 )
Total assets
    157,504       148,655       124,309       121,441       114,171  
Total indebtedness
    11,003       14,692       26,166       30,219       25,460  
Retained Earnings (Accumulated deficit)
    11,639       7,039       2,314       (2,180 )     (6,095 )
Total shareholders' equity
    89,542       83,520       58,193       52,264       47,634  

 (1)
Represents current assets less current liabilities.

 
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ITEM 7.  Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

 

The following discussion and analysis should be read in conjunction with the historical consolidated financial statements and related notes and the other financial information appearing elsewhere in this report. This discussion and analysis contains forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions. Our actual results and timing of events could differ materially from those anticipated in the forward-looking statements as a result of many factors, including those discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” and elsewhere in this report.


Forward Looking Statements
 
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains certain forward-looking statements regarding events and/or anticipated results within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the attainment of which involves various risks and uncertainties. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as, "may", "will", "expect", "believe", "estimate", "anticipate", "continue", or similar terms, variations of those terms or the negative of those terms. Our actual results may differ materially from those described in these forward-looking statements due to many factors, including, among other things, those discussed under the caption “Risk Factors” in Item 1A. We are under no obligation (and expressly disclaim any such obligation) to update or alter any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
 
Overview
 
 
We manage highly specialized outpatient centers in emerging, technology-based, niche medical markets. We currently operate in two healthcare sectors, fertility care and vein treatment. We support our operations with an established and extensive infrastructure of clinical and business resources. Each of our operating divisions is presented as a separate segment for financial reporting purposes.

The Attain Fertility Centers Division is comprised of 39 contracted fertility centers, located in major markets across the United States. Each contracted center is composed of a multi-physician practice with most offering multiple clinical locations in their service area.   This Division provides an array of services to contracted fertility centers ranging from consumer marketing services to complete practice management services.  The strategy of the Attain Fertility Centers Division is to support the long term growth of contracted centers by attracting and retaining new patients, expanding market share, and for our partner practices (those that we provide the full range of management service), we enable superior clinical and patient care, and increase the operational efficiency of the fertility center.  The Attain Fertility Centers Division drives growth at our contracted fertility centers through a number of business development and marketing initiatives, these include our suite of Attain™ IVF programs.  The Attain™ IVF programs consist of product offerings which allow a patient to pay one fee for multiple treatment cycles and under certain programs, patients are eligible for a refund if they do not take home a baby.

Our Vein Clinics Division began operations on August 8, 2007, with the purchase of Vein Clinics of America, Inc. (“VCA”), a company that had been in business since 1981. The Vein Clinics Division currently manages a network of 45 clinics located in 14 states, which specialize in the treatment of vein disease and other vein disorders.

The primary elements of our business strategy include:
 

   
• 
Drive growth at our contracted fertility centers by providing additional services; services.
 
   
• 
Expand the relationships to additional fertility centers through the sale of consumer product offerings;
   
• 
Developing de novo vein clinics;
   
• 
Increasing the total number of patients treated;
   
• 
Increasing the penetration of our Attain IVF programs; and
   
• 
Continuing to improve operating efficiencies.
 
 
 

 
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Major Events Impacting Financial Condition and Results of Operations

2011

On December 31, 2011, Andrew Mintz, President of Attain Fertility Centers Division resigned for personal reasons.

On September 28, 2011, we announced the promotion of Timothy P. Sheehan to Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Sheehan had been serving as Interim Chief Financial Officer since January 1, 2011.

On August 8, 2011, we amended our credit facility with Bank of America, N.A., TD Bank, N.A. and Webster Bank, N.A.  This amendment revised our consolidated EBITDA covenant.
 On March 2, 2011, we amended our credit facility with Bank of America, TD Bank, and Webster Bank.  This amendment revised two financial covenants (Consolidated EBITDA and the method of calculating the fixed charge covenant) which better aligned our credit facility with our business strategy.

On January 18, 2011 we announced the acquisition of the Northwest Center for Reproductive Science (NCRS) for a purchase price of approximately $2.3 million.  NCRS was an established fertility practice based in the Pacific Northwest and has been successfully integrated into Seattle Reproductive Medicine, our Seattle based Partner fertility center.

2010
 
On December 21, 2010, we announced the retirement at year end of our Chief Financial Officer, John W. Hlywak, Jr. and the appointment of Timothy P. Sheehan as Interim Chief Financial Officer on January 1st, 2011.  In connection with the retirement of Mr. Hlywak, we  announced expected costs of $300,000 of post-retirement costs.
 
 
On November 3, 2010, we announced the planned opening of 5 additional new clinics in our Vein Clinics Division (these are in addition to our previously announced 10 new clinics in 2010 and the beginning of 2011).  We estimated startup costs related to these five additional clinics of between $1.75-$2.25 million and stated that these costs would impact 2011 reported results principally during Q2 and Q3 of 2011.
 
On October 12, 2010, our Attain Fertility Centers Division announced the addition of New Hope Center for Reproductive Medicine in Virginia Beach, VA to our affiliate network.
 
On September 30, 2010, we issued a press release lowering our earnings expectations for the third and fourth quarter of 2010.  Within this press release, we highlighted the start up costs related to the expansion efforts of our Vein Clinics Division and other earnings pressures that we were experiencing in the second half of 2010 (including physician departures in both divisions and a flood at one of our larger partner practices).
 

 
On September 1, 2010, our Attain Fertility Centers Division announced the addition of the Stanford Fertility and Reproductive Medicine Center (SFRMC) to our affiliate  network.
 

On July 23, 2010, our Attain Fertility Centers Division announced the addition of Houston Fertility Institute to our affiliate network.
 

 
On July 7, 2010, we announced the combination of our Fertility Centers Division and Consumer Services Division into the Attain Fertility Centers Division, effective with the reporting of our second quarter 2010 results.  At the same time, we announced the appointment of Mr. Andrew Mintz to lead the new Division.
 

 
On June 7, 2010, our Vein Clinics Division announced the planned opening of 10 new clinics across seven states, primarily in the second half of 2010 and the first quarter of 2011.
 

 
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On May 21, 2010, we entered into a new credit facility with Bank of America, TD Bank and Webster Bank.  The credit facilities are comprised of a $35 million revolving line of credit, and a $25 million term loan (of which approximately $16 million was outstanding at the time of closing).
 

 
On February 18, 2010, we completed a public offering of 2,800,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $7.50 per share, which raised approximately $19.1 million of net proceeds, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and offering expenses. The stated use of proceeds for this new capital was to assist with the addition of new partner fertility centers, accelerate the pace of new vein clinic openings in 2010, and for general working capital and other corporate purposes.
 

On February 4, 2010, we announced the addition of Tennessee Reproductive Medicine to the Attain Fertility Centers Division’s affiliate network.
 

 
On January 12, 2010, we announced plans to open a new vein clinic in Chevy Chase, Maryland in early May 2010. This was the 35th clinic in our Vein Clinics Division and our seventh clinic in the greater Baltimore/Washington D.C. region.
 

 
On January 8, 2010, we announced plans to open a new vein clinic in Columbia, Maryland in mid-2010. This was the 34th clinic in our Vein Clinics Division and added  interventional radiology treatments to the full range of vein treatments provided at our existing vein clinics.
 

2009

On December 1, 2009, we acquired the rights to supply a complete range of business, marketing and facility services to three new Partner fertility centers in the western United States; the Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine, the Nevada Center for Reproductive Medicine and the Utah Fertility Center, based in Boise, Idaho, Reno, Nevada and Prove, Utah respectively. The Idaho and Nevada fertility centers are established centers and the Utah center began seeing patients in early 2010. Under the terms of these 25-year agreements, our service fees are comprised of a fixed percentage of revenues, reimbursed costs of services, and an additional fixed percentage of each center’s earnings. We also committed up to $1.0 million to fund any necessary capital needs of the practices.

On October 28, 2009, management concluded and subsequently reported to the audit committee of our board of directors that our audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2007 and 2008 and for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2007 and 2008 should no longer be relied upon and should be restated for the correction of errors due to an understatement in revenue recognized in connection with our Attain IVF Refund Program (formerly our Shared Risk Refund Program).  As a result, we restated our audited consolidated financial statements as of December 31, 2007 and 2008 and for the years ended December 31, 2006, 2007 and 2008 with respect to the revenue recognized for our Attain IVF Refund Program within our Attain Fertility Centers Division.

On April 20, 2009, we announced the opening of a new vein clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. This represented the 34th clinic in our Vein Clinics Division, our entry into the Cleveland market and the expansion of our presence in the State of Ohio.
 
 
On April 1, 2009, we elected to exercise the option contained in our business service agreement with Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists, based in Phoenix, Arizona, and expand our service offerings from a limited range of services to those offered to our other fertility Partners.
 
 
On January 20, 2009, we announced the opening of a new vein clinic in Cincinnati, Ohio. This represented the 33rd clinic in our Vein Clinics Division and our first entry into the State of Ohio and the Cincinnati market.
 
 

 
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Subsequent Events
 
On February 10, 2012, we announced that our Attain Fertility Centers Division had entered into an agreement with UNC Health Care System’s to provide full complement of support services, including operational and financial management, revenue cycle management, patient marketing and sales, information systems support to their fertility practice.
 
Under the terms of this 20-year agreement, our service fees are comprised of a fixed percentage of revenues, reimbursed costs of services, and an additional fixed percentage of the center’s earnings. We also committed up to $.05 million to fund any necessary capital needs of the practice.


Significant Accounting Policies and Use of Estimates
 
 
Our significant accounting policies are described in Note 2 of our consolidated financial statements included elsewhere in this Form 10-K.
 
 
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, including our significant accounting policies, requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. On an ongoing basis, we evaluate our estimates and assumptions, including those related to revenue recognition, allowance for uncollectible accounts, contingencies and income taxes. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe are reasonable under the circumstances. The results of our analysis form the basis for making assumptions about the carrying values of assets and liabilities that are not readily apparent from other sources. Actual results may differ from these estimates under different assumptions or conditions, and the impact of such differences may be material to our consolidated financial statements. The most significant use of estimates and assumptions in the preparation of our consolidated financial statements relates to the determination of net revenues and accounts receivable and reserves for estimated refunds and subsequent medical costs due to pregnancy losses in our Attain IVF programs.
 
 
Uncollectible reserve amounts are determined based on historical collection performance data and are reviewed and adjusted monthly as necessary. We make periodic estimates for pregnancy loss based upon relevant Company specific data.
 
Results of Operations
 

The following table shows the percentage of net revenues represented by various expenses and other income items reflected in our consolidated statements of operations for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009:

 
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2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
Revenues, net:
                 
Fertility Centers
    73.1 %     75.0 %     76.6 %
Vein Clinics
    26.9 %     25.0 %     23.4 %
Total revenues
    100.0 %     100.0 %     100.0 %
                         
Costs of services and sales:
                       
Fertility Centers
    66.5 %     67.7 %     68.9 %
Vein Clinics
    25.8 %     23.5 %     21.5 %
Total costs of services and sales
    92.3 %     91.3 %     90.4 %
                         
Contribution:
                       
Fertility Centers
    6.6 %     7.3 %     7.7 %
Vein Clinics
    1.1 %     1.4 %     1.9 %
Total contribution
    7.7 %     8.7 %     9.6 %
                         
General and administrative expenses
    4.2 %     5.2 %     5.6 %
Other Expense
    0.6 %     0.0 %     0.0 %
Interest income
    (0.0 )%     (0.1 )%     (0.1 )%
Interest expense
    0.1 %     0.4 %     0.5 %
Total other expenses
    4.9 %     5.5 %     6.0 %
                         
Income from operations before income taxes
    2.8 %     3.2 %     3.6 %
Income tax provision
    1.1 %     1.3 %     1.5 %
Net income
    1.7 %     1.9 %     2.1 %
                         


Year Ended December 31, 2011 as Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2010
 
 
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, total revenues were $273.6 million, an increase of approximately $30.4 million, or 12.5%, from the same period in 2010. Revenue at our Attain Fertility Centers Division was up approximately $17.5 million, or 9.6%, based on growth in both our Partner fertility centers and Attain IVF programs. Revenue at our Vein Clinics grew $12.9 million, or 21.2% from the same period in 2010 driven by organic revenue growth at existing clinics and revenues from new clinics opened in the fourth quarter of 2010 and throughout 2011.

For the year ended December 31, 2011, operating contribution was $21.1 million versus $21.2 million in the comparable period of 2010. These results reflect a slight decline in contribution from our Vein Clinics segment in 2011 due to start-up costs associated with new clinic openings.


Year Ended December 31, 2010 as Compared to Year Ended December 31, 2009
 
 
For the twelve months ended December 31, 2010, total revenues were $243.2 million, an increase of approximately $26.4 million, or 12.2%, from the same period in 2009. Revenue at our Attain Fertility Centers Division was up approximately $16.3 million, or 9.8%, based on growth in both our Partner fertility centers and Attain IVF programs. Revenue at our Vein Clinics grew $10.1 million, or 20.0% from the same period in 2009 driven by organic revenue growth at existing clinics and revenues from new clinics which were opened during 2010.

For the year ended December 31, 2010, contribution increased from $20.9 million in the comparable period of 2009, to $21.2 million in 2010, or an increase of 1.6%. This increase was driven by growth of 5.6% from our Attain Fertility Centers Division, partially offset by a slight decline from our Vein Clinics segment due to start-up costs associated with new clinic openings.




 
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A Segment-by-Segment Discussion is Presented Below:

Attain Fertility Centers:
 
 
Our Attain Fertility Centers segment is comprised primarily of our Partner fertility centers, which represent the provider aspect of the fertility market, and our Attain IVF Programs, which are directed at the consumer portion of the market.

Revenues:

Partner fertility centers

In providing clinical care to patients, each of our Partner fertility centers generates patient revenues which we do not report in our consolidated financial statements. Although we do not consolidate the Partner fertility center practice financials with our own, these financials do directly affect our revenues.

The components of our revenues from most of our Partner fertility centers are:
 
 
     
 
• 
A base service fee calculated as a percentage of patient revenues as reported by the Partner fertility center (this percentage generally varies from 6% down to 3% depending on the agreement and the level of patient revenues);
     
 
• 
Cost of services equal to reimbursement for the expenses which we advanced to the Partner fertility center during the month (representing substantially all of the expenses incurred by the center, except physician compensation); and
     
 
• 
Our additional fees which represent our share of the net income of the Partner fertility center (which varies from 10% to 20% or a fixed amount depending on the underlying center, subject to limits in some circumstances).
 

Our revenues from one Partner clinic are not based on this three-part structure. Rather, effective as of November 1, 2009, our revenues this clinic are generally equal to the operating expenses associated with managing  the medical practice plus 9.5% of such expenses.

In addition to these revenues generated from our fertility centers, we often receive miscellaneous other revenues related to providing non-medical services to medical practices. From the total of our revenues, we subtract the annual amortization of our business service rights under most agreements, which are the rights to provide business services to each of the centers.

During 2011, revenue from our Partner fertility centers increased by $15.5 million, or 10.1%, relative to the same period in the prior year. This increase was the result of a $12.9 million rise in same-center revenues as well as $2.6 million of incremental revenues from the in-market acquisition of a competing clinic in one of our major markets. The increased revenue from same-centers was due in part to increased patient flow and a favorable mix of treatment procedures.

During 2010, revenue from our Partner fertility centers increased by $8.3 million, or 5.8%, relative to the same period in the prior year. This increase was the result of a $3.0 million rise in same-center revenues as well as $5.3 million of incremental revenues from the addition of new Partner contracts in 2009. The increased revenue from same-centers was due in part to the increased number of physicians practicing at these locations as well as facility fees earned from affiliated physicians who utilized our clinical facilities.

The table below illustrates the components of the Attain Fertility Centers revenues in relation to the Partner fertility center practice financials for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 (in thousands):

 
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Year ended December 31,
 
     
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                     
 
Partner Fertility Center Financials
                 
(a)
Patient revenue
  $ 239,677     $ 215,468     $ 203,898  
(b)
Cost of services
    (152,131 )     (138,360 )     (130,615 )
(c)
Base service fee
    (11,834 )     (10,906 )     ( 9,562 )
(d)
Practice contribution (a-b-c)
    75,712       66,202       63,721  
(e)
Additional service fee
    (6,335 )     (5,569 )     (6,302 )
(f)
Contribution retained by Physician Partners (d-e)
  $ 69,377     $ 60,633     $ 57,419  

 
IntegraMed Financials
                 
(g)
IntegraMed gross revenue (b+c+e)
  $ 170,300     $ 154,835     $ 146,479  
(h)
Amortization of business service rights
    (1,295 )     (1,295 )     (1,295 )
(i)
Other revenue
    125       99       125  
(j)
IntegraMed fertility services revenue (g+h+i)
  $ 169,130     $ 153,639     $ 145,309  

 (i) Other revenue includes administrative fees we receive from ARTIC, the captive insurance company as well as other miscellaneous fees.
 

The Company’s revenue generated from the business services provided to the physician Partner clinics (line “g”) is comprised of the three fee components, the cost of service fee (line “b”), the base service fee (line “c”) and the additional service fee (line “e”).
 
The revenue recorded by our physician Partner clinics (line “a”) is derived from providing medical services to patients. As the exclusive service provider to these clinics, the Company supplies the clinics with all resources necessary for the physicians to provide these medical services. In return, the Company receives reimbursement for the cost of these resources (line “b”) plus two additional fees (lines “c” and “e”) which are based on the performance of specific operations under the service agreement.  The residual financial results of the partner physician’s business (patient revenue, line “a”, less costs and fees of the business) (line “f”), are a right of the partner physicians (the business owners), and as such are not consolidated in the financial results of the Company.
 
Our Cost of Service and Sales are comprised of all costs necessary to operate Partner fertility and vein care clinics as well as payments to contracted physicians for medical services associated with our Attain IVF programs. A tabular break-down of these costs are presented below (in thousands):

   
Attain Fertility
   
 
Vein Clinics
   
Total Cost of Services
 
For the year ended December 31, 2011   
                 
Employee Salaries & Benefits    $ 81,204       $ 31,079       $ 112,283   
Professional Service Fees
    29,652             29,652  
Clinical Supplies & Donor Fee
    16,708       7,603       24,311  
Office Expenses
    6,101       3,018       9,119  
Occupancy Costs
    13,914       3,612       17,526  
Depreciation Expense
    4,312       1,675       5,987  
Marketing and Promotion
    4,803       7,935       12,738  
Outside Services
    3,020             3,020  
Insurance/Taxes
    4,939             4,939  
Bad Debt
    1,890       1,047       2,937  
Other
    7,261       7,778       15,039  
Subtotal
  $ 173,804     $ 63,747     $ 237,551  
Division Overhead
    8,212       6,728       14,940  
Total Cost of services and sales
  $ 182,016     $ 70,475     $ 252,491  



 
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Attain Fertility
   
 
Vein Clinics
   
Total Cost of Services
 
                   
For the year ended December 31, 2010
                 
Employee Salaries & Benefits   $ 72,127     $ 24,484     $ 96,611  
Professional Service Fees
    26,898             26,898  
Clinical Supplies & Donor Fee
    14,816       5,898       20,714  
Office Expenses
    3,695       2,717       6,412  
Occupancy Costs
    12,697       2,432       15,129  
Depreciation/Lease Expense
    5,841       583       6,424  
Marketing and Promotion
    3,529       8,184       11,713  
Outside Services
    3,716             3,716  
Insurance/Taxes
    4,593             4,593  
Bad Debt
    2,021       1,933       3,954  
Other
    8,122       5,040       13,162  
Subtotal
  $ 158,055     $ 51,271     $ 209,326  
Division Overhead
    6,663       5,964       12,627  
Total Cost of services and sales
  $ 164,718     $ 57,235     $ 221,953  
                         
For the year ended December 31, 2009
                       
Employee Salaries & Benefits   $ 68,087       21,465     $ 89,552  
Professional Service Fees
    21,073             21,073  
Clinical Supplies & Donor Fee
    13,116       4,807       17,923  
Office Expenses
    6,170       1,726       7,896  
Occupancy Costs
    12,275       1,897       14,172  
Depreciation/Lease Expense
    4,114       750       4,864  
Marketing and Promotion
    3,768       5,626       9,394  
Outside Services
    3,530             3,530  
Insurance/Taxes
    4,315             4,315  
Bad Debt
    3,151       1,655       4,806  
Other
    4,425       3,004       7,429  
Subtotal
  $ 144,024     $ 40,930     $ 184,954  
Division Overhead
    5,321       5,595       10,916  
Total Cost of services and sales
  $ 149,345     $ 46,525     $ 195,870  


The following summarized quarterly data for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 is presented for additional analysis and demonstration of the slight seasonality of our Attain Fertility Centers Division. New patients visits are an indicator of initial patient interest in fertility treatment and IVF cases completed are an indicator of billable charges. Contributing to the lower number of IVF cases completed are temporary voluntary laboratory closures at year end as several of our labs in order to undergo normal maintenance.


 
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(in thousands, except new patient visits and IVF cases completed).

   
Period Ended December 31, 2011
 
      Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4    
Total
 
Revenues, Net
  $ 48,599     $ 49,653     $ 50,816     $ 50,895     $ 199,963  
Contribution
  $ 4,435     $ 4,172     $ 4,656     $ 4,684     $ 17,947  
                                         
Partner Center Statistics:
                                       
New Patient Visits
    7,639       7,458       7,412       7,057       29,566  
IVF Cases Completed
    3,808       3,886       3,821       3,831       15,346  
IUI Cycles
    6,017       6,410       6,244       6,487       25,158  
Attain IVF Statistics:
                                       
Applications
    761       719       730       606       2,816  
Enrollments
    439       457       418       349       1,663  
Pregnancies
    267       269       285       243       1,064  
                                         
   
Period Ended December 31, 2010
 
      Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4    
Total
 
Revenues, Net
  $ 44,044     $ 45,580     $ 45,899     $ 46,920     $ 182,443  
Contribution
  $ 4,445     $ 4,389     $ 4,636     $ 4,255     $ 17,725  
                                         
Partner Center Statistics:
                                       
New Patient Visits
    7,041       7,161       6,933       6,787       27,922  
IVF Cases Completed
    3,413       3,558       3,578       3,082       13,631  
IUI Cycles
    5,723       6,259       6,103       5,621       23,706  
Attain IVF Statistics:
                                       
Applications
    725       799       713       693       2,930  
Enrollments
    361       433       448       391       1,633  
Pregnancies
    216       262       289       305       1,072  

   
Period Ended December 31, 2009
 
      Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4    
Total
 
Revenues, Net
  $ 41,509     $ 42,294     $ 40,977     $ 41,355     $ 166,135  
Contribution
  $ 4,153     $ 4,218     $ 4,047     $ 4,371     $ 16,790  
                                         
Partner Center Statistics:
                                       
New Patient Visits
    6,980       7,086       7,069       6,433       27,568  
IVF Cases Completed
    3,624       3,560       3,488       3,255       13,927  
IUI Cycles
    5,848       5,908       6,065       6,215       24,036  
Attain IVF Statistics:
                                       
Applications
    549       519       552       593       2,213  
Enrollments
    253       239       288       283       1,063  
Pregnancies
    211       199       175       195       780  

Attain IVF program:

Patients enrolled in our Attain IVF Refund Program pay us an up-front fee (deposit) in return for up to six treatment cycles (consisting of three fresh IVF cycles and three frozen embryo transfers). Any non-refundable portion of these fees is recognized as revenue, based on the relative fair value of each treatment cycle completed relative to the total fair value of the contracted treatment package available to the patient. The refundable portion of the program contract amount is recognized as revenue when the patient becomes pregnant. At the time of pregnancy, we establish a reserve for future medical costs should the patient miscarry and require additional contracted treatment cycles. The two main factors that impact Attain IVF Refund Program financial performance are:

 
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• 
the number of patients enrolled and receiving treatment, and
     
 
• 
clinical pregnancy rates.
 
 
Patients enrolled in our Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program pay us a single fee, which is slightly less than the average cost of two fresh IVF cycles, in return for up to four treatment cycles (consisting of two fresh IVF cycles and two frozen embryo transfers). With respect to our Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program, we recognize a pro rata share of the contract amount as revenue as each treatment cycle is completed. The remaining portion of the program contract amount is recognized as revenue when the patient becomes pregnant. Under such revenue recognition methodology, we never recognize more revenue than the potential refundable amount under the program. At the time of pregnancy, we establish a reserve for future medical costs should the patient miscarry and
require additional contracted treatment cycles. The main factors that impacts Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program financial performance is the number of patients enrolled and receiving treatment as well as clinical outcomes.

Revenues from our Attain IVF programs increased by $2.1 million, or 7.1%, for the year ended December 31, 2011, versus the same period in the prior year. This growth was driven primarily by the continued increased enrollment in our Multi-Cycle program which was introduced during fiscal 2010,  for which there is no refund component.  Enrollments into our Attain IVF programs grew 1.8% in 2011 versus the prior year reflecting increased competition in this area from other providers.

Revenues from our Attain IVF programs increased by $8.2 million, or 41.8%, for the year ended December 31, 2010, versus the same period in the prior year. This growth was fueled primarily by the expansion of our Multi-Cycle product offering during fiscal 2010 which helped drive enrollments and pregnancies in our Attain IVF programs to increases of 53.6% and  37.4% , respectively, during 2010 versus the prior year


Contribution:

Contribution from our Attain Fertility Centers Division for the year ended December 31, 2011 rose $0.2 million or 1.3% to $17.9 million versus $17.7 million in the year earlier period. This increase is comprised of additional contribution of $1.5 million from our Partner fertility centers resulting from higher management fees associated with the underlying growth of those clinics; an additional $0.1 million of contribution from our Attain IVF and Affiliate programs less additional division specific overhead costs of $1.4 million primarily related to marketing programs,   management infrastructure and occupancy costs.

Contribution from our Attain Fertility Centers Division for the year ended December 31, 2010 rose $0.9 million or 5.3% to $17.7 million versus $16.8 million in the year earlier period. This increase is comprised of additional contribution of $0.1 million from our Partner fertility centers resulting from higher management fees associated with the underlying growth of those clinics; an additional $0.9 million of contribution from our Attain IVF programs resulting from the revenue additions described above, less additional division specific overhead costs of $1.3 million primarily related to marketing initiatives and additional management infrastructure.

Vein Clinics Segment:

Revenues within our Vein Clinics segment are generated from direct billings to patients or their insurer for vein disease treatment services and these revenues are consolidated directly into our financials.

 
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 Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2011 were $73.6 million, up 21.2%, or $12.9 million from 2010.  During 2011, we opened five new vein clinic locations in Brentwood, TN; Deerfield, IL; Exton, PA; Canton, CT and Wilton, CT. These additional clinics brought our total number of vein clinics to 45 as of December 31, 2011. These new vein clinics accounted for $4.4 million of the increase in net revenue. The remaining $8.5 million increase was generated from existing same-store clinics and/or clinics opened during 2010 which were not in operation for the full calendar year. During 2011 we also closed one under-performing clinic in Madison, WI, and folded one under-performing clinic into a more established clinic in the South Florida market.

 Revenues for the year ended December 31, 2010 were $60.7 million, up 20.0%, or $10.1 million from 2009.  During 2010, we opened new vein clinic locations in Columbia and Chevy Chase, Maryland, Quantico, VA, Glastonbury & Greenwich, CT, Chapel Hill, NC, Crocker Park, OH, and Trevose, PA. These additional clinics brought our total number of vein clinics to 42 as of December 31, 2010. These new vein clinics were primarily opened in the later part of 2010 and accounted for $2.0 million of the increase in division revenue. The remaining $8.1 million increase was generated from existing clinics and resulted from increased marketing, operational and service enhancement offerings.

Contribution:

Contribution for the year ended December 31, 2011 was $3.1 million, a decline of $0.4 million from the prior year. Vein clinic contribution continues to be impacted by start-up losses at new clinics which totaled approximately $0.2 million and $2.5 million for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2011, a level consistent with our expectations.   Contribution from our mature clinics, those opened prior to January 1, 2010, grew by $0.5 million, or 4.3% for the year ended December 31, 2011 versus the prior year.

Contribution for the year ended December 31, 2010 was $3.5 million, a decline of $0.6 million from the prior year and is attributable to the start-up costs associated with our new clinic expansion program.

Our strategy is to continue to expand our clinic footprint by opening additional new vein clinics in locations across the United States during 2012 and in future years. As a result of this expansion program, we anticipate additional new clinic start-up losses of $0.6 to $0.9 million in the first quarter of 2012 and approximately $3.5 million for all of fiscal 2012.  The pace of these openings is dependent upon our ability to identify and develop appropriate site locations for clinics which comprise both adequate reimbursement rates and patient demographics, and to recruit qualified physicians to staff those sites.

First Leg Starts, which are a billable procedure, and a measure of our ability to attract and convert new patients, rose 17.6% and 15.2% in the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 versus 2010, and 2010 versus 2009, respectively.

Vein Clinics Division quarterly data for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 appear below (in thousands, except patient metrics).
 
   
Period Ended December 31, 2011
 
      Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4    
Total
 
Revenues, Net
  $ 15,660     $ 19,398     $ 18,581     $ 19,980     $ 73,619  
Contribution
  $ 248     $ 1,192     $ 543     $ 1,161     $ 3,144  
Inquiries
    5,733       8,912       6,402       3,313       24,360  
New Consultations
    3,723       5,604       4,977       3,019       17,323  
First Leg Starts
    2,125       2,759       2,575       2,304       9,763  

   
Period Ended December 31, 2010
 
      Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4    
Total
 
Revenues, Net
  $ 12,980     $ 16,188     $ 14,658     $ 16,900     $ 60,726  
Contribution
  $ 867     $ 1,956     $ 112     $ 556     $ 3,491  
Inquiries
    5,244       7,347       5,231       3,024       20,846  
New Consultations
    3,420       4,541       3,781       2,811       14,553  
First Leg Starts
    1,882       2,307       2,097       2,017       8,303  

 
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Period Ended December 31, 2009
 
      Q1       Q2       Q3       Q4    
Total
 
Revenues, Net
  $ 10,846     $ 13,821     $ 12,621     $ 13,337     $ 50,625  
Contribution
  $ 754     $ 1,282     $ 995     $ 1,069     $ 4,100  
Inquiries
    4,783       6,894       5,328       3,407       20,412  
New Consultations
    3,121       4,585       3,894       2,564       14,164  
First Leg Starts
    1,574       2,085       1,959       1,590       7,208  
 

 
 

General and Administrative Expenses
 
General and administrative expenses are comprised of salaries and benefits, administrative, regulatory compliance and operational support costs defined as our Shared Services group, which are not specifically related to individual center or clinic operations or other product offerings.

General and administrative expenses totaled $11.5 million for the year ended December 31, 2011, a decrease from the $12.7 million recognized in the prior year. The decrease in general and administrative expenses in 2011 is partially attributable to on-going cost controls as well as a realignment of specific cost elements between General and Administrative and Cost of Service items. We measure our performance in part by relating general and administrative expenses to operating contribution. For the year ended December 31, 2011, general and administrative expenses were 54.8% of contribution compared to 59.7% of contribution for the year ended December 31, 2010, indicating enhanced leverage within our Shared Service cost structure.
 
For the year ended December 31, 2009, general and administrative expenses totaled $12.2 million and 58.2% of operating contribution.

We continue to actively manage general and administrative expenses in an effort to leverage our Shared Services group and extract economies of scale as those opportunities arise.

Interest

Net interest expense was $0.3 million, $0.7 million and $0.9 million for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively. The reduction in net interest expense for the years presented is the result of scheduled debt repayments which reduced our outstanding loan balances.

Subject to interest rate fluctuations and changes to our credit arrangements, we anticipate interest expense to decrease gradually in the coming quarters as scheduled debt repayments reduce our outstanding principal balances.

Income Tax Provision
 
Our provision for income tax was approximately $3.0 million, $3.1 million and $3.3 million for the three years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively, or 39.1%, 39.8% and 42.6% of pre-tax income, respectively. Our effective tax rates for all years reflect provisions for both federal and state income taxes.

Effective January 1, 2007, we adopted ASC 740-10-50, "Accounting for Uncertainty in Income Taxes," which clarifies the accounting and disclosure for uncertainty in income taxes. The adoption of this interpretation has not had a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

We file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various states. For federal income tax purposes, our 2009 through 2011 tax years remain open for examination by the tax authorities.  Federal income tax returns through 2008 have been examined by the Internal Revenue Service, and an examination of the 2009 federal income tax returns is in process.  For state tax purposes, our 2005 through 2011 tax years remain open for examination by the tax authorities mainly because we are currently under examination by the State of Florida.  We do not anticipate any material impact to our consolidated financial statements due to these examinations.


 
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Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
 
Current accounting guidance addresses how a business enterprise should evaluate whether it has a controlling financial interest in an entity through means other than voting rights and accordingly should consolidate the entity. In June 2009, the Financial Accounting Standards Board ("FASB") amended its guidance on accounting for variable interest entities ("VIE"). The new accounting guidance is effective for reporting periods after January 1, 2010 requires continuous assessments of whether an enterprise is the primary beneficiary of a VIE. An enterprise is required to consolidate if it has the power to direct the activities of the VIE that most significantly impact the entity's economic performance, and is the primary beneficiary or obligor of the VIE. As of December 31, 2011, through our ownership of Vein Clinics of America, Inc, we have interests in the individual vein clinics, where we are the primary beneficiary and obligor of their financial results (our contract provides for us to receive any excess or deficit profits from the vein clinics). As such we have consolidated these vein clinic operations in our consolidated financial statements.  Since we do not have any financial interest in the individual fertility centers and we are not the primary beneficiary or obligor of their financial results (our contracts provide for the physician owners of the clinics to receive any excess or deficit profits), we do not consolidate the results of the fertility centers in our accounts. Also, since we do not have a controlling interest in the captive insurance provider and we are not the primary beneficiary, we do not consolidate the results of the captive insurance company in our accounts.

Liquidity and Capital Resources
 
As of December 31, 2011, we had approximately $57.9 million in cash and cash equivalents on hand as compared to $50.2 million at December 31, 2010. We had a working capital of approximately $19.6 million, at December 31, 2011.
 
Attain IVF deferred revenue and other patient deposits, which are reflected as a current liability, represent funds received from patients in advance of treatment cycles and are an indication of future revenues. These deposits totaled approximately $16.3 million and $15.9 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. The change in deposit balances are a direct result of patient enrollment, and through-put, in our treatment programs. These deposits are a significant source of cash flow and represent interest-free financing for us.  These funds are not restricted and the cash balances are included in our cash and cash equivalents.
 
In May, 2010, we entered into a syndicated amended and restated financing arrangement with Bank of America, TD Bank and Webster Bank and secured a $35 million three-year revolving credit facility (amounts available to be borrowed are based on eligible patient receivables and as of December 31, 2011, approximately $12.4 million of the $35 million line of credit was available) and a $25 million three-year term loan (of which approximately $16 million was outstanding at the date of closing). Both the term loan and the revolving credit facility mature in May 2013. Interest on the term loan and revolving loans are payable based on a tiered pricing structure related to a defined leverage ratio. Commitment fees on unused portions of the revolving credit facility are also payable based on a tiered pricing structure tied to the same defined leverage ratio.
 
We continuously review our credit agreements and may renew, revise or enter into new agreements from time to time as deemed necessary.
 
During the third quarter of 2010 we also entered into an interest rate swap agreement to help manage interest rate risk. This swap will mature in the third quarter of 2013, at which time we will re-evaluate our options for managing interest rate risk.
 
As of December 31, 2010, we were not in compliance with one of the required financial covenants in our credit facility, for which we have received a waiver from our lenders.  On March 2, 2011, we amended our credit facility to modify (i) the definition of “Unfunded Capital Expenditures” and (ii) the covenant related to “Minimum Consolidated EBITDA,” for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2010 and each fiscal quarter through March 31, 2012 to $16 million on a trailing four quarters basis and for each quarter ending June 30, 2012 and thereafter to $18 million.  At December 31, 2011, we were in compliance with all of our financial covenants under our credit facility.

On February 18, 2010, we completed a public offering of 2,800,000 shares of common stock at a price to the public of $7.50 per share, which raised approximately $19.1 million of net proceeds, after deducting underwriting discounts, commissions and offering expenses. The stated use of proceeds for this new capital was to assist with the addition of new partner fertility centers, accelerate the pace of new vein clinic openings and for general working capital and other corporate purposes.
 

 
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As of December 31, 2011, we did not have any significant contractual commitments for the acquisition of fixed assets or construction of leasehold improvements.  However, we do anticipate upcoming capital expenditures during the normal course of business which we will be able to finance from our operating cash flows. These expenditures are primarily related to medical equipment, information system infrastructure and leasehold improvements.
 
We believe that working capital, specifically cash and cash equivalents, remains at adequate levels to fund our operations and our commitments for fixed asset acquisitions. We also believe that the cash flows from our operations plus our available credit facility will be sufficient to provide for our future liquidity needs over the next twelve months.

Significant Contractual Obligations and Other Commercial Commitments
 
 
The following summarizes our contractual obligations and other commercial commitments at December 31, 2011, and the effect such obligations are expected to have on our liquidity and cash flows in future periods.

   
Payments Due by Period
 
         
Less Than
               
After
 
   
Total
   
1 Year
   
1 — 3 Years
   
4 — 5 Years
   
5 Years
 
   
(in thousands)
 
                                         
Notes payable
 
$
10,970
   
$
3,783
   
$
7,187
   
$
   
$
 
Capital lease obligations
   
33
     
33
     
     
     
 
Interest on debt
   
387
     
311
     
76
     
     
 
Operating leases
   
66,700
     
11,8718
     
29,377
     
6,948
     
18,504
 
                                         
Total contractual cash obligations
 
$
     
$
     
$
     
$
     
$
   
Total contractual cash obligations
   
 78,090
     
 15,998
     
 36,640
     
 6,948
     
 18,504
 
                                         
 
 
                                         
   
Amount of Commitment Expiration Per Period
 
         
Less Than
               
After
 
   
Total
   
1 Year
   
1 — 3 Years
   
4 — 5 Years
   
5 Years
 
   
(in thousands)
 
                                         
Unused lines of credit
 
$
35,000
   
$
   
$
35,000
   
$
   
$
 

We also have commitments to provide working capital financing to Partner centers in our Attain Fertility Centers division that are not included in the above table. A significant portion of these commitments relate to our transactions with the medical practices themselves. Our responsibilities to the these medical practices are to provide financing for their accounts receivable and to hold patient deposits on their behalf, as well as undistributed physician earnings. Disbursements to the medical practices generally occur monthly. The medical practice’s repayment hierarchy consists of the following:

 
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• 
We provide a cash credit to the practice for billings to patients and insurance companies;
     
 
• 
We reduce the cash credit for center expenses that we have incurred on behalf of the practice;
     
 
• 
We reduce the cash credit for the base portion of our service fee which relates to the Partner revenues;
     
 
• 
We reduce the cash credit for the variable portion of our service fee which relates to the Partner earnings; and
     
 
• 
We disburse to the medical practice the remaining cash amount which represents the physician’s undistributed earnings.
 
 
We are also responsible for the collection of the Partner accounts receivables. We continuously fund these needs from our cash flows from operations, the collection of prior months’ receivables and deposits from patients in advance of treatment. If delays in repayment are incurred, which have not as yet been encountered, we could draw on our existing revolving line of credit. We also make payments on behalf of the Partner for which we are reimbursed in the short-term. Other than these payments, as a general course, we do not make other advances to the medical practices. We have no other funding commitments to the Partner centers.

RECENTLY ISSUED ACCOUNTING GUIDANCE:
 
Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income (ASU No. 2011-05)
 
In June 2011, the FASB issued a new accounting standard on presenting comprehensive income with the intention of increasing its prominence in financial statements by eliminating the option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in stockholder’s equity. The standard requires comprehensive income to be reported in either a single statement that presents the components of net income, the components of other comprehensive income, and total comprehensive income, or in two consecutive statements. The standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011 for public companies. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment (ASU No. 2011-08)
 
The FASB’s recently issued accounting standard simplifies the goodwill impairment assessment for some circumstances because it permits a company to make a qualitative assessment of whether goodwill impairment exists before applying the two-step goodwill impairment test.  If the conclusion from the qualitative assessment is that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, the company would be required to conduct the current two-step goodwill impairment test. Otherwise, it would not need to apply the two-step test. The new standard is effective for public and nonpublic companies for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011.  We have adopted early the relevant provisions of ASU 2011-08 in the fourth quarter of 2011. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Health Care Entities (Topic 954): Presentation and Disclosure of Patient Service Revenue (ASU No. 2011-07)
 
In July 2011, the FASB issued a new accounting standard on the presentation of patient service revenue and related provisions for doubtful accounts. Under the term of this pronouncement certain health care entities are required to change the presentation of their statement of operations by reclassifying the provision for bad debts associated with patient service revenue from an operating expense to a deduction from patient service revenue (net of contractual allowances and discounts). This pronouncement is applicable to only those entities that recognize significant amounts of patient service revenue at the time services are rendered even though the entities do not assess a patient’s ability to pay. All other entities would continue to present the provision for bad debts (including bad debts associated with patient service revenue) as an operating expense. The new standard is effective for public companies effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2011.  As the patient service revenue included in our financials includes an assessment of a patient’s ability to pay, and is presented net of related contractual allowances, it is our opinion that this standard in not applicable to our statement of operations, and therefore we will continue to present the provision for bad debts as an operating expense.

 
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ITEM 7A.  Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk

 
In the normal course of business, our interest income and expense items are sensitive to changes in the general level of interest rates. We are currently subject to interest rate risk associated with our credit facilities as well as our short term investments and certain advances to our Partner Fertility Centers, some of which are tied to either short term interest rates, LIBOR or the prime rate. As of  December 31, 2011, we do not believe that a one percent change in market level interest rates would have a material impact our pre-tax income.

ITEM 8.  Financial Statements and Supplementary Data

See Index to Financial Statements on Page F-1.

ITEM 9.  Changes in and Disagreements with Accountants on Accounting and Financial Disclosure.

None.

ITEM 9A. Controls and Procedures

 
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
 
We carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, of the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended). Based upon that evaluation, the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer have concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were effective as of the end of the period covered by this report.
 
Management’s Annual Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
 
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate internal control over financial reporting as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act.
 
Internal control over financial reporting refers to a process designed by, or under the supervision of, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer and effected by our board of directors, management and other personnel, to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:  

 
 
pertain to the maintenance of records that in reasonable detail accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of our assets;
 
 
 
provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that our receipts and expenditures are being made only in accordance with authorizations of our management and members of our board of directors; and
  
 
provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of our assets that could have a material effect on our financial statements.
 
Internal control over financial reporting cannot provide absolute assurance of achieving financial reporting objectives because of its inherent limitations. Internal control over financial reporting is a process that involves human diligence and compliance and is subject to lapses in judgment and breakdowns resulting from human failures. Internal control over financial reporting also can be circumvented by collusion or improper override. Because of such limitations, there is a risk that material misstatements may not be prevented or detected on a timely basis by internal control over financial reporting. However, these inherent limitations are known features of the financial reporting process, and it is possible to design into the process safeguards to reduce, though not eliminate, this risk.

 
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Management conducted the above-referenced assessment of the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011 using the framework set forth in the report entitled, “Internal Control—Integrated Framework,” issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission, or the COSO Report. Based on management’s evaluation and the criteria set forth in the COSO Report, management concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was effective as of December 31, 2011.
 
The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, EisnerAmper LLP, has audited our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011 as stated in their report which appears on page F-2 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2011.
 
Changes in internal controls:
 
 
There were no changes made in our internal control over financial reporting during the period covered by this report that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
 

ITEM 9B.  Other Information

None.
PART III

ITEM 10.                      Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance

Our Board of Directors has adopted a Code of Business Conduct that is applicable to all of our directors, officers and employees, a copy of which has previously been filed with the SEC.  Any material changes made to our Code of Business Conduct or any waivers granted to any of our directors and executive officers will be publicly disclosed by filing a current report on Form 8-K.  A copy of our Code of Business Conduct as well as charters for our Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, which comply with the corporate governance rules of NASDAQ, are available on our website at www.integramed.com.  In addition, copies of such documents are also available to our shareholders upon request by contacting our Investor Relations Department at 914-253-8000 or through an e-mail request from our website at www.integramed.com.

The other information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the applicable information in the definitive proxy statement for our 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, which is to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after our fiscal year end, including the information set forth under the captions “Election of Directors for a Term of One Year”, “Section 16 (a) Beneficial Ownership Reporting Compliance” and “Committees of the Board”.

ITEM 11.                      Executive Compensation

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the applicable information in the definitive proxy statement for our 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, which is to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after our fiscal year end, including the information set forth under the captions “Executive Compensation”, “Director Compensation” and “Compensation Committee Interlocks and Insider Participation”.

ITEM 12.
Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management, and Related Stockholder Matters

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the applicable information in the definitive proxy statement for our 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, which is to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after our fiscal year end, including the information set forth under the caption “Security Ownership”.

ITEM 13.                      Certain Relationships, Related Transactions and Director Independence

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the applicable information in the definitive proxy statement for our 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, which is to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after our fiscal year end, including the information set forth under the caption “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions”.

 
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ITEM 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services

The information required by this Item is incorporated by reference to the applicable information in the definitive proxy statement for our 2012 annual meeting of shareholders, which is to be filed with the SEC within 120 days after our fiscal year end, including the information set forth under the caption “Independent Public Registered Accounting Firm”.


PART IV

ITEM 15.  Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedule

(a)
(1)
Financial Statements
 
(2)
The exhibits that are listed on the Index to Exhibits herein which are filed as 10.67; 10.68; 21.1; 23.1; 31.1; 31.2; 32.1 and 32.2
     
(b)
 
Exhibits.  The list of exhibits required to be filed with Annual Report on Form 10-K is set forth in the Index to Exhibits herein.






 
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FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 
Item 8 and 15 (a)(1)
 
Contents





IntegraMed America, Inc
Page
   
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
F-2-3
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 2011 and 2010
F-4
Consolidated Statements of Operations for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009
 
F-5
Consolidated Statements of Shareholders' Equity for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009
 
F-6
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009
 
F-7
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements
F-8
   
Financial Statement Schedule
 
   
Reports of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm on Financial Statement Schedule II
 
S-1-2
Valuation and Qualifying Accounts
S-3



 
F-1

 


 
 

 

REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and
Shareholders of IntegraMed America, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of IntegraMed America, Inc. as of December 31, 2011 and 2010 and the related consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for each of years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2011.  We also have audited IntegraMed America, Inc.‘s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).  IntegraMed America, Inc.’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements, for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting, and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting, included in the accompanying management’s annual report on internal controls over financial reporting.  Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements and an opinion on the company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audits.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audits to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement and whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.  Our audits of the consolidated financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall consolidated financial statement presentation.  Our audits of internal control over financial reporting included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, and testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk.  We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinions.

A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles.  A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements. Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements.  Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
 

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of IntegraMed America, Inc. as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the years in the two-year period ended December 31, 2011 in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.  Also in our opinion, IntegraMed America, Inc. maintained, in all material respects, effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2011, based on criteria established in Internal Control-Internal Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (COSO).



/s/EisnerAmper LLP
New York, New York
March 6, 2012

 
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REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM

To the Board of Directors and
Shareholders of IntegraMed America, Inc.

We have audited the accompanying consolidated statements of operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows of IntegraMed America, Inc. for the year ended December 31, 2009.  IntegraMed America, Inc.’s management is responsible for these consolidated financial statements. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on these consolidated financial statements based on our audit.

We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States).  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the consolidated financial statements are free of material misstatement.  Our audit of the consolidated financial statements included examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting the amounts and disclosures in the consolidated financial statements, assessing the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, and evaluating the overall consolidated financial statement presentation.  We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.

In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements of IntegraMed America, Inc. referred to above present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated results of its operations and its cash flows for the year ended December 31, 2009, in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America.

/s/Amper, Politziner & Mattia, LLP
Edison, New Jersey
March 10, 2010

 
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PART I — FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1.                     Consolidated Financial Statements
INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
(all dollars in thousands, except share amounts)


   
December 31,
   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
ASSETS
           
Current assets:
           
Cash and cash equivalents
  $ 57,909     $ 50,183  
Patient and other receivables, net
    6,372       7,350  
Deferred income taxes
    2,222       2,510  
Prepaids and other current assets
    8,602       9,611  
Total current assets
    75,105       69,654  
                 
Fixed assets, net
    21,288       19,264  
Business service rights, net
    24,114       22,915  
Goodwill
    30,334       30,334  
Trademarks
    4,442       4,442  
Other assets
    2,221       2,046  
Total assets
  $ 157,504     $ 148,655  
                 
LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS' EQUITY
               
Current liabilities:
               
Accounts payable
  $ 4,037     $ 3,626  
Accrued liabilities
    17,074       17,265  
Current portion of long-term notes payable and other obligations
    3,816       3,784  
Due to Fertility Medical Practices
    14,229       11,246  
Attain IVF deferred revenue and other patient deposits
    16,342       15,852  
Total current liabilities
    55,498       51,773  
                 
Long-term notes payable and other obligations
    7,187       10,908  
Deferred income and other tax liabilities
    5,277       2,454  
Total Liabilities
    67,962       65,135  
                 
Commitments and Contingencies
               
                 
Shareholders' equity:
               
Common Stock, $.01 par value – 20,000,000 shares authorized at December 31, 2011 and 2010 respectively, 11,894,302 and 11,735,339 shares issued at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively and 11,857,094 and 11,728,491 shares outstanding at December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively
      119         117  
Capital in excess of par
    78,156       76,483  
Accumulated other comprehensive loss
    (42 )     (55 )
Treasury stock, at cost – 37,208 and 6,848 shares in 2011 and 2010, respectively
    (330 )     (64 )
Retained earnings
    11,639       7,039  
Total shareholders' equity
    89,542       83,520  
Total liabilities and shareholders' equity
  $ 157,504     $ 148,655  
                 

See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.

 
F-4

 


INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
(all amounts in thousands, except per share amounts)



   
For the years ended
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Revenues, net
                 
Fertility Centers
  $ 199,963     $ 182,443     $ 166,135  
Vein Clinics
    73,619       60,726       50,625  
Total revenues
    273,582       243,169       216,760  
                         
Costs of services and sales:
                       
Fertility Centers
    182,016       164,718       149,345  
Vein Clinics
    70,475       57,235       46,525  
Total costs of services and sales
    252,491       221,953       195,870  
                         
Contribution
                       
Fertility Centers
    17,947       17,725       16,790  
Vein Clinics
    3,144       3,491       4,100  
Total contribution
    21,091       21,216       20,890  
                         
General and administrative expenses
    11,551       12,668       12,155  
Other Expense
    1,650              
Interest income
    (181 )     (202 )     (250 )
Interest expense
    516       897       1,160  
Total other expenses, net
    13,536       13,363       13,065  
                         
Income before income taxes
    7,555       7,853       7,825  
Income tax provision
    2,955       3,128       3,331  
Net income
  $ 4,600     $ 4,725     $ 4,494  
                         
Basic and diluted net earnings per share:
                       
Basic earnings per share
  $ 0.39     $ 0.42     $ 0.51  
Diluted earnings per share
  $ 0.39     $ 0.41     $ 0.51  
                         
Weighted average shares - basic
    11,838       11,380       8,773  
Weighted average shares - diluted
    11,869       11,429       8,834  
                         
                         


See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.


 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY
(all amounts in thousands)


               
Accumulated
               
Retained Earnings
       
   
Common Stock
   
Capital in
   
Comprehensive
   
Treasury Stock
   
(Accumulated
   
Total
 
   
Shares
   
Amount
   
Excess of Par
   
Income (Loss)
   
Shares
   
Amount
   
Deficit)
   
Equity
 
                                                 
BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2008
    8,668     $ 87     $ 54,943     $ (375 )     23     $ (211 )   $ (2,180 )   $ 52,264  
Stock grants issued, net
    142       1       (1 )           23       (164 )           (164 )
Stock based compensation expense
                1,337                               1,337  
Exercise of common stock options and related
tax benefits
    22             75                               75  
Unrealized gain on hedging transaction
                      187                         187  
Net income for the year ended 12/31/09
                                        4,494       4,494  
                                                                 
BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2009
    8,832     $ 88     $ 56,354     $ (188 )     46     $ (375 )   $ 2,314     $ 58,193  
Stock awards grants, net
    168       2       (1 )           45       (346 )           (345 )
Stock based compensation expense
                1,591                               1,591  
Stock options exercised and related
tax benefits
    19             162       (15 )                       147  
Unrealized gain on hedging transaction, net
                      148                         148  
Secondary Offering
    2,800       28       19,034                                       19,062  
Retire Treasury Stock
    (84 )     (1 )     (657 )           (84 )     657             (1 )
Net income for the year ended 12/31/10
                                        4,725       4,725  
                                                                 
BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2010
    11,735       117       76,483       (55 )     7       (64 )     7,039       83,520  
Stock awards grants, net
    122       1       (1 )           30       (266 )           (266 )
Stock based compensation expense
                1,478                               1,478  
Stock options exercised and related
tax benefits
    37       1       196                               197  
Unrealized gain on hedging transaction, net
                      13                         13  
Net income for the year ended 12/31/11
                                        4,600       4,600  
BALANCE AT DECEMBER 31, 2011
    11,894     $ 119     $ 78,156     $ (42 )     37     $ (330 )   $ 11,639     $ 89,542  

 

 
See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements


 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
(all amounts in thousands)


 

 
   
For the year ended
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
                   
Cash flows from operating activities:
                 
Net income
  $ 4,600     $ 4,725     $ 4,494  
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided
                       
by operating activities:
                       
Depreciation and amortization
    8,494       6,846       7,119  
Deferred income tax provision
    5,036       663       3,433  
Deferred or stock-based compensation
    1,478       1,591       1,337  
                         
Changes in assets and liabilities —
                       
                         
Patient and other accounts receivables
    978       (386 )     (283 )
Prepaids and other current assets
    (821 )     (1,958 )     (1,187 )
Other assets
    (175 )     207       (472 )
                         
Accounts payable
    411       744       (7 )
Accrued liabilities
    (456 )     1,837       (2,865 )
Due to medical practices
    2,983       4,822       70  
Attain IVF deferred revenue and other
patient deposits
     490        2,490        2,125  
Net cash provided by operating activities
    23,018       21,581       13,764  
                         
Cash flows from investing activities:
                       
Purchase of business service rights
    (2,494 )           (3,550 )
Purchase of fixed assets and leasehold improvements, net
    (9,223 )     (8,110 )     (5,909 )
Net cash used in investing activities
    (11,717 )     (8,110 )     (9,459 )
                         
Cash flows from financing activities:
                       
Debt repayments
    (3,667 )     (11,255 )     (3,750 )
Common Stock transactions, net
          19,062       8  
Proceeds from stock option exercises
    92       40       29  
Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities
    (3,575 )     7,847       (3,713 )
                         
Net increase  in cash and cash equivalents
    7,726       21,318       590  
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year
    50,183       28,865       28,275  
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year
  $ 57,909     $ 50,183     $ 28,865  
                         
Supplemental Information:
                       
Interest paid
  $ 534     $ 912     $ 1,067  
Income taxes paid
  $ 435     $ 2,616     $ 3,896  



See accompanying notes to the consolidated financial statements.


 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
 

 

 
NOTE 1 — THE COMPANY:
 

 
IntegraMed America, Inc. (the “Company”) is a specialty healthcare services company offering products and services to patients and providers in the fertility, through our Attain Fertility Centers Division, and vein care, through our Vein Clinics Division, segments of the healthcare industry.

Our Attain Fertility Centers Division provides a number of services to fertility centers across the United States.  These services include business and management services to a network of 15 contracted fertility centers in our Partner Program, and our Attain IVF products to both our 14 contracted fertility centers and an additional 24 affiliate fertility centers.  Our Partner and Affiliate fertility centers offer a range of diagnostic and fertility treatment options to patients. The fertility centers’ physicians perform diagnostic tests on both women and men to determine the cause of infertility and each fertility center has an endocrine and andrology laboratory on site in order to perform and expedite infertility analyses. Once the cause of infertility is identified, several treatment options are offered to patients, including IVF treatment, frozen embryo transfer, intrauterine insemination and minimally invasive surgery to correct anatomical reproductive problems.

Our Vein Clinic Division, which began operations in August, 2007,  is currently comprised of 45 (41 as of December 31, 2010) vein clinics in major markets, which primarily provide advanced treatment for vein diseases. We offer a comprehensive array of defined business services to these clinics which are designed to support their operations and growth.

 

 
NOTE 2 ¾ SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES:
 

 
 
Basis of consolidation ¾
 

 
The consolidated financial statements comprise the accounts of IntegraMed America, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries. We are currently organized and report our operations along two distinct product lines, our Attain Fertility Centers segment and our Vein Clinics segment.
 

 
In our Attain Fertility Centers  Segment, we derive our revenues from business service contracts with independent fertility centers; fees assessed to patients enrolling in our Attain IVF programs; fees assessed to affiliated fertility clinics; and referral fees derived from fertility patient financing products. Our Vein Clinics Segment derives revenues from billings to patients and third party payers for treatment services rendered based upon the amount billed to the patient or their payer less any expected contractual allowances resulting from specified rates contained within payer contracts.
 
 
We evaluate whether we should report the results of the clinical operations in which we have management service contracts in accordance with ASC 810. Since we do not have a controlling financial interest in any of the fertility medical practices to which we provide services, and we are not the primary beneficiary or obligor of their financial results (our contracts provide for the physician owners of the clinics to receive any excess or deficit of profits), we do not consolidate their results. This is further supported by the facts that the physician owners of the clinics have the voting rights with respect to the entity and sufficient equity interests to fund their entity.  We do have effective voting control and a controlling financial interest in the operations of each of the vein clinics, where we are the primary beneficiary and obligor of their financial results (our contracts provide for us to receive any excess or deficit of profits) and therefore consolidate the results of those clinic operations. Accordingly, we report the revenue for patient services only from the vein clinic segment and those fertility patients who enroll in the Attain IVF programs. (included in our Attain Fertility Centers segment).
 

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 

Revenue Recognition
 

 
Attain Fertility Centers - Partner service fees
 

 
Generally under our current fertility Partner agreements, we receive as compensation for our services a three-part fee comprised of: (i) a tiered percentage of the fertility center’s net revenues, (ii) reimbursed costs of services (costs incurred in servicing a fertility center and any costs paid on behalf of the fertility center) and (iii) either a fixed percentage ranging from 10% to 20%, or a fixed dollar amount  of the fertility center’s earnings after service fees, which may be subject to further limits. However, under one of our current Partner agreements, we do not receive a three-part fee. Rather, effective as of November 1, 2009, we receive a fee that is generally equal to the operating expenses associated with managing that centers medical practice plus a fixed percentage of those expenses.
 

 
All revenues from Partner contracts are recorded in the period services are rendered. Direct costs incurred by us in performing our services and costs incurred on behalf of the medical practices are reported as costs of services. Revenue and costs are recognized in the same period in which the related services have been performed.
 

 
Attain Fertility Centers – Attain IVF Programs
 

 
The Attain IVF Programs consist of fertility treatment packages that includes a fixed number of treatment cycles for one fixed price. We receive payment directly from consumers who qualify for the program and the patient contracts with us to provide the medical treatment.  We discharge the obligation of patient treatment by arranging with affiliated fertility clinics for the provision of patient care.  We pay contracted fertility centers a defined reimbursement for each treatment cycle performed. Since we are  the primary obligor in the arrangement, has latitude in establishing the price, performs a portion of the contracted service, has discretion in supplier selection, the amount earned by us per transaction is not fixed and the patient looks to us as the contracting party, these arrangements qualify for gross accounting under ASC 605.  We have two principal programs in this program, the Attain IVF Refund Program and the Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program.

Under our Attain IVF Refund Program, by contract, a portion of the enrollment fee (generally 30%) is non-refundable and is recognized as revenue based on the relative fair value of each treatment cycle completed relative to the total fair value of the contracted treatment package available to the patient, following the guidance of ASC 605. The remaining revenue, which consists of the 70% refundable portion as well as any part of the 30% non-refundable portion not yet recognized as revenue, is recorded upon the patient becoming pregnant and achieving a fetal heartbeat (most of the patients that are pregnant at this point go on to deliver a baby).  We are able to record income at the time of pregnancy as we have substantially completed our obligation to the patient, discharged the patient from the care of the fertility specialists,  and we can accurately estimate the amount of expenses and refunds that will become due if there is a pregnancy loss.  We are able to make these estimates for pregnancy loss based upon reliable Company specific data with respect to the large homogeneous population we have served for more than seven years. Expenses prior to pregnancy related to the program and principally paid to the affiliated fertility clinic are recorded as incurred.

Accordingly, at each balance sheet date, we have established a liability for patients in the Attain IVF Refund Program for the following:

1.  
Deposits for customers who have not yet begun treatment and for whom no revenue has been recognized (we expect such amounts to be recognized as income or refunded within twelve to eighteen months)
2.  
Refund reserve for those patients who became pregnant, but may  not deliver a baby (See Note 12)
3.  
Medical costs associated with additional treatments to a patient who became pregnant, did not deliver a baby and still has additional treatments available under their treatment package.  (See Note 12)


 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 


The table below presents the balances of each of these liabilities as of the respective dates (000’s):


   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Deposits or refundable fees
  $ 13,918     $ 13,691  
Refund reserve for pregnant patients
    238       386  
Medical cost reserve
    393       431  


Due to the characteristics of the program, we assume the risk for a patient’s treatment cost in excess of their enrollment fee should initial treatment cycles be unsuccessful.  In order to moderate and manage this risk, we have developed a sophisticated statistical model and case management program in which Attain IVF patients are medically pre-approved prior to enrollment in the program. We also continuously review their clinical criteria as they undergo treatment.  If, while undergoing treatment, a patient’s clinical response falls outside our criteria for participation in the Attain IVF program, we have the right to remove that individual from the program, with an applicable refund to the patient. To date, our case management process has been effective in managing the risks associated with our Attain IVF program within expected limits.  A patient may withdraw from the program at anytime and will be issued a refund.
 

Patients enrolled in our Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program pay us a single fee, which is slightly less than the average cost of two fresh IVF cycles, in return for up to four treatment cycles (consisting of two fresh IVF cycles and two frozen embryo transfers). With respect to our Attain IVF Multi-Cycle Program, we recognize a pro rata share of the contract amount as revenue as each treatment cycle is completed based on the relative fair value of each treatment cycle completed relative to the total value of the treatment package. The refundable portion of the program contract amount is recognized as revenue when the patient becomes pregnant (as determined by a fetal heartbeat). Under such revenue recognition methodology, we never recognize more revenue than the potential refundable amount under the program. At the time of pregnancy, we establish a reserve for future medical costs should the patient miscarry and require additional contracted treatment cycles.

 
Attain Fertility Centers - Patient Financing
 

A fertility treatment cycle can be an expensive process for which many patients do not have full medical insurance coverage. As a service to these patients, we can arrange financing to qualified patients of our network at rates significantly lower than credit cards and other finance companies. Our financing operations are administered by a third-party vendor and loans are made to qualified patients by an independent bank or finance organization. We are not at risk for loan losses and receive a placement fee from the lender involved.  Since many financing transactions are closely associated with our Attain IVF Programs, financing revenues, which we receive and record at the time the loans are closed, are reported as part of the Attain Fertility Centers segment’s revenues.

Attain Fertility Centers - Affiliate Service Fee
 

 
Under our Affiliate agreements, we receive as compensation for our services a fixed fee dependent upon the level of service provided. All revenues and costs from Affiliate contracts are recorded in the period services are rendered.
 

 
Vein Clinics – Patient Revenues and Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Uncollectible Accounts

Our relationship with the individual medical practices comprising our Vein Clinics Division meets the test for consolidation under ASC 810. Among these tests is the fact that we hold a controlling financial interest in the medical practices, we are the primary beneficiary of the results of the practices and we are obligated to absorb any losses of the practices. As a result of these relationships, we consolidate the medical practice’s patient revenues in

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 

our consolidated financial statements. These revenues are derived from the treatment of individual patients and revenue is recognized when the services are performed, net of allowance for contractual discounts.

The medical practices have agreements with third-party payers that provide for payments at amounts different from established rates.  Payment arrangements include prospectively determined rates for reimbursed cost and discounted charges.  Revenue is reported at the estimated net realizable amounts from patients and third-party payers.
 
A summary of the payment arrangements with major third-party payers follows:

·  
Medicare:   All outpatient services related to Medicare beneficiaries are paid based on a fixed physician fee schedule per service which is updated annually. 
 
 
·  
Managed care:   Payment terms under managed care health plans are based primarily on prior  contractual arrangements, such as predetermined rates per diagnosis, per diem rates or discounted fee for service rates.
 
 
Approximately 16% and 15% respectively, of gross patient revenues of the Vein Clinics Division for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, related to services rendered to patients covered by the Medicare program.
 
Laws and regulations governing the Medicare program are complex and subject to interpretation.  Management believes that it is in compliance with all applicable laws and regulations and is not aware of any pending or threatened investigations involving allegations of potential wrongdoing.  While no such regulatory inquiries have been made, compliance with such laws and regulations can be subject to future government review and interpretation. 
 
Our accounts receivable are primarily comprised of patient and third-party receivables arising from services provided by our Vein Clinics Division. Receivables due directly from patients are carried at the original charge for the service provided less an estimated allowance for uncollectible amounts. Reserves for uncollectible amounts are determined based on historical collection performance data and are reviewed and adjusted monthly as necessary.

Vein Clinics – Deferred Compensation Arrangements

The professional corporations providing medical services at the clinics have entered into employment agreements with physicians at clinic sites providing for multi-year bonus compensation to be accumulated over a physician’s first five years of employment.  Accumulated balances are paid out during the years following this period, or after specific performance targets have been met.  These obligations are funded in physician designated investment accounts on a quarterly basis.  At December 31, 2011 and 2010, these balances totaled approximately $1,137,000 and $1,413,000, respectively, and are recorded in accrued liabilities.

Intangible and Long-Lived Assets

Our intangible assets are comprised of Business Service Rights associated with our fertility Partner contracts, Goodwill associated with our acquisition of Vein Clinics of America, Inc., and Trademarks, also associated with our Vein Clinic acquisition.

Business service rights represent payments we made for the right to service certain fertility centers. Certain business service rights are refundable from the medical practice at termination of the underlying contracts. We amortize our non-refundable Business Service Rights on a straight-line basis over the life of the underlying contract, usually ten to twenty five years. Our refundable Business Service Rights are not amortized as they are contractually reimbursable from the medical practice upon termination of the underlying contract. Our Goodwill and Trademark assets associated with the Vein Clinics of America, Inc. acquisition are deemed to have indefinite lives and are therefore not amortized.

 
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We evaluate our intangible and long-lived assets for impairment on a regular basis in accordance with ASC 350. If we were to incur an impairment loss, it may have a material adverse effect on our results of operations for the year in which the impairment is recorded. As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, none of our long lived assets were deemed to be impaired.

 
Use of Estimates –

 
The preparation of financial statements in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting periods. Actual results could differ from those estimates. The use of estimates and assumptions in the preparation of the accompanying consolidated financial statements is primarily related to the determination of accounts receivable reserves as well as refunds due to pregnancy losses and subsequent medical costs within our Attain IVF programs.

 
Due to Fertility Medical Practices ¾
 

 
Due to Medical Practices represents the net amounts owed by us to contracted medical practices in our Fertility Partner Program. This balance is comprised of amounts due to us by the medical practices for funds which we advanced for use in financing their accounts receivable and other selected transactions, less balances owed to the medical practices by us for undistributed physician earnings and patient deposits we hold on behalf of the medical practices.
 

 
Cash and cash equivalents ¾
 

 
Cash and cash equivalents primarily include unrestricted cash balances and certificates of deposits with original maturities of one year or less, recorded at cost, which approximates market.
 

 
Prepaid Marketing¾

Prepaid marketing consists of two items, those expenses which relate to the following period which were paid prior to the end of the current period, and direct response advertising costs, which we capitalize and then expense over the life of the expected benefit from the advertising costs in accordance with ASC 720.

 
Concentrations of credit risk ¾
 

Financial instruments, which potentially expose us to concentrations of credit risk, consist primarily of trade receivables from patients and third-party payers which totaled approximately $7.0 million and $9.7 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively. Our related reserves for uncollectible accounts totaled $0.7 million and $2.5 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively (see Note 6).
 

Income taxes ¾
 

We account for income taxes utilizing the asset and liability approach in accordance with FASB ASC 740 “Income Taxes.”  Deferred tax assets and liabilities are recognized on differences between the book and tax basis of assets and liabilities using presently enacted tax rates. The income tax provision is the sum of the amount of income tax paid or payable for the year as determined by applying the provisions of enacted tax laws to the taxable income for that year and the net change during the year in our deferred tax assets and liabilities. (See Note 16).

 
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Earnings per share ¾
 

 
We determine earnings per share in accordance with ASC 260.  Basic earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares outstanding during the reporting period.  Diluted earnings per share is calculated by dividing net income by the weighted average number of common shares, and potential common shares, outstanding during the reporting period.  (See Note 17)
 

 
Fair value of financial instruments
 

The fair value of a financial instrument, such as notes payable, represents the amount at which the instrument could be exchanged in a current transaction between willing parties, other than in a forced sale or liquidation. Significant differences can arise between the fair value and carrying amounts of financial instruments that are recorded at historical cost amounts. We believe that the carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents approximate fair value due to their short-term nature.
 
As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, the carrying amount of our long-term liabilities approximates the fair value of such instruments based upon our best estimate of interest rates that would be available to us for similar debt obligations with similar maturities.

New accounting pronouncements ¾

Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements

Comprehensive Income (Topic 220): Presentation of Comprehensive Income (ASU No. 2011-05)
 
In June 2011 the FASB issued a new accounting standard on presenting comprehensive income with the intention of increasing its prominence in financial statements by eliminating the option to report other comprehensive income and its components in the statement of changes in stockholder’s equity. The standard requires comprehensive income to be reported in either a single statement that presents the components of net income, the components of other comprehensive income, and total comprehensive income, or in two consecutive statements. The standard is effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those years, beginning after December 15, 2011 for public companies. We do not expect the adoption of this standard to have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

Intangibles—Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Testing Goodwill for Impairment (ASU No. 2011-08)
 
The FASB’s recently issued accounting standard simplifies the goodwill impairment assessment for some circumstances because it permits a company to make a qualitative assessment of whether goodwill impairment exists before applying the two-step goodwill impairment test.  If the conclusion from the qualitative assessment is that it is more likely than not that the fair value of a reporting unit is less than its carrying amount, the company would be required to conduct the current two-step goodwill impairment test. Otherwise, it would not need to apply the two-step test. The new standard is effective for public and nonpublic companies for annual and interim goodwill impairment tests performed in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2011.  We have adopted early the relevant provisions of ASU 2011-08 in the fourth quarter of 2011. The adoption of this standard did not have a material impact on our consolidated financial statements.

 
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Health Care Entities (Topic 954): Presentation and Disclosure of Patient Service Revenue (ASU No. 2011-07)
 
In July 2011, the FASB issued a new accounting standard on the presentation of patient service revenue and related provisions for doubtful accounts. Under the term of this pronouncement certain health care entities are required to change the presentation of their statement of operations by reclassifying the provision for bad debts associated with patient service revenue from an operating expense to a deduction from patient service revenue (net of contractual allowances and discounts). This pronouncement is applicable to only those entities that recognize significant amounts of patient service revenue at the time services are rendered even though the entities do not assess a patient’s ability to pay. All other entities would continue to present the provision for bad debts (including bad debts associated with patient service revenue) as an operating expense. The new standard is effective for public companies effective for fiscal years, and interim periods within those fiscal years, beginning after December 15, 2011.  As the patient service revenue included in our financials includes an assessment of a patient’s ability to pay, and is presented net of related contractual allowances, it is our opinion that this standard in not applicable to our statement of operations, and therefore we will continue to present the provision for bad debts as an operating expense.

NOTE 3 ¾ SIGNIFICANT SERVICE CONTRACTS:
 

 
For the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, the following three contracted fertility centers each individually provided greater than 10% of our revenues, net and/or contribution as follows:


   
Percent of Company
Revenues, net
   
Percent of
Contribution
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                                     
Shady Grove Fertility Center
    17.1       16.9       17.6       17.2       15.8       15.4  
Fertility Centers of Illinois
    10.2       11.3       13.1       9.5       9.3       10.3  
Seattle Reproductive Medicine
    6.7       5.6       6.0       12.0       8.8       8.6  
                                                 

 
Under our fertility Partner agreement with the Shady Grove Fertility Center, we receive as compensation for our services a three-part fee comprised of:  a percentage of the fertility center’s net revenues; reimbursed costs of services (costs incurred in servicing a fertility center and any costs paid on behalf of the fertility center); and a fixed dollar amount of the fertility center’s earnings after services fees which is subject to further limits.  

Our revenues from our Fertility Centers of Illinois Partner are not based on this three-part structure. Rather, effective as of November 1, 2009, our revenues from FCI are generally equal to the operating expenses associated with managing FCI’s medical practice plus 9.5% of such expenses.

Our revenues from our fertility Partner agreement with Seattle Reproductive Medicine are comprised of a three-part fee consisting of :  a percentage of the fertility center’s net revenues; reimbursed costs of services (costs incurred in servicing a fertility center and any costs paid on behalf of the fertility center); and a fixed percentage of the fertility center’s earnings after services fees which may be subject to further qualifications.


NOTE 4 ¾ SEGMENT INFORMATION:
 

 
In mid-2010, we consolidated our Fertility Centers Division and our Consumer Services Division into one operating segment, the Attain Fertility Centers Division (AFC). This consolidation resulted in a reduction from three operating segments to two, our current Attain Fertility Centers and our Vein Clinics divisions. This consolidation was done to reflect the integrated goals, resources and management shared by the former Fertility Centers and Consumer Services divisions.
 

 
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Performance by segment, for the three years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 are presented below (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
Attain Fertility
Centers
   
Vein
Clinics
   
Corp. G&A
   
Consolidated
 
                         
For the Year ended December 31, 2011
                       
Revenues
  $ 199,963     $ 73,619     $     $ 273,582  
Cost of Services
    182,015       70,476             252,491  
Contribution
    17,948       3,143             21,091  
Operating Margin
    9.0 %     4.3 %           7.7 %
                                 
General and administrative
                11,551       11,551  
Other Expense
                1,650       1,650  
Interest (income) expense, net
                335       335  
Income (loss) before income taxes
    17,948       3,143       (13,536 )     7,555  
Depreciation expense included above
  $ 4,312     $ 2,120     $ 767     $ 7,199  
Capital expenditures, net
  $ 3,704     $ 4,658     $ 860     $ 9,222  
Total assets
  $ 55,029     $ 57,507     $ 44,968     $ 157,504  
                                 
For the Year ended December 31, 2010
                               
Revenues
  $ 182,443     $ 60,726     $     $ 243,169  
Cost of Services
    164,718       57,235             221,953  
Contribution
    17,725       3,491             21,216  
Operating Margin
    9.7 %     5.7 %           8.7 %
                                 
General and administrative
                12,668       12,668  
Interest (income) expense, net
    (202 )           897       695  
Income (loss) before income taxes
  $ 17,927     $ 3,491     $ (13,565 )   $ 7,853  
Depreciation expense included above
  $ 3,773     $ 1,133     $ 645     $ 5,551  
Capital expenditures, net
  $ 3,413     $ 3,995     $ 702     $ 8,110  
Total assets
  $ 41,692     $ 52,999     $ 53,964     $ 148,655  
                                 
For the Year ended December 31, 2009
                               
Revenues
  $ 166,135     $ 50,625     $     $ 216,760  
Cost of Services
    149,345       46,525             195,870  
Contribution
    16,790       4,100             20,890  
Operating Margin
    10.1 %     8.1 %           9.6 %
                                 
General and administrative
                12,155       12,155  
Interest (income) expense, net
    (149 )           1,059       910  
Income (loss) before income taxes
  $ 16,939     $ 4,100     $ (13,214 )   $ 7,825  
Depreciation expense included above
  $ 4,076     $ 873     $ 873     $ 5,822  
Capital expenditures, net
  $ 4,173     $ 947     $ 790     $ 5,910  
Total assets
  $ 39,190     $ 49,845     $ 35,274     $ 124,309  

 

 

 
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NOTE 5 – CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENTS:
 

 
To the extent that cash balances exceed short term operating needs, excess cash is invested in certificates of deposits.  The composition of our cash and certificates of deposits is as follows (000’s omitted):
 

 

   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Cash
  $ 49,744     $ 32,057  
Cash equivalents
    8,165       18,126  
Total cash and cash equivalents
  $ 57,909     $ 50,183  

 

 
NOTE 6 – PATIENT AND OTHER RECEIVABLES, NET:
 

 
Patient and other receivables are principally comprised of patient and insurance receivables from our Vein Clinics segment which represent outstanding balances due for patient treatments less estimated allowances for insurance contractual agreements and uncollectible balances.  For the periods ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, we believe that our receivable reserves were adequate to provide for any  collection issues.
 

 
The composition of our patient and other receivables is as follows (000’s omitted):
 

 

 
   
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Vein Clinic patient and insurance receivables
  $ 7,045     $ 9,745  
                 
Reserve for uncollectible accounts
    (769 )     (2,492 )
Subtotal Vein Clinic receivables, net
    6,276       7,253  
Other receivables
    96       97  
Total patient and other receivables, net
  $ 6,372     $ 7,350  

 

 
Our Vein Clinics Division depends upon third-party payors, including governmental and private insurance programs, to pay for most treatments provided to patients. For the twelve months ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, approximately 81% and 83% of payments received by our Vein Clinics Division were from private insurance programs, respectively, 16% and 15% were from Medicare, respectively, with any remaining payments received directly from patients.

 Receivables due from third-party payers and from patients are recorded based on the original charge for the service provided, less an estimate for an allowance for uncollectible amounts. Uncollectible reserve amounts are determined based on historical collection performance data, specific identification of individual accounts and events and are reviewed and adjusted monthly as necessary. 

 
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NOTE 7 ¾ PREPAIDS AND OTHER CURRENT ASSETS:
 

 
Prepaids and Other Current Assets contain prepaid insurance premiums, medical supplies, tax payments, direct response advertising costs and various other assets whose useful life is less than one year.

Direct Response Advertising Costs of $1.3 million and $1.3 million as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, consist of capitalized advertising costs which have met the criteria outlined in ASU 340, including; probable future benefit, the ability to uniquely track individual responses to specific advertisements, and from which no material selling or marketing expenses are expected to occur after the advertisement.  These capitalized Direct Response Advertising costs are amortized and recognized as an expense over the expected benefit period.  These amounts (which relate primarily to specific broadcast and internet based advertisements) are capitalized and begin to amortize at the time of use, based on the broadcast date or month of usage and are amortized over the expected period that revenue will be generated over as a result of these costs (which was six or seven months in 2011, deopending on the line of business).

 
NOTE 8 ¾ FIXED ASSETS, NET:
 

 
Fixed assets, net of depreciation at December 31, 2011 and 2010 consisted of the following (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Furniture, office and computer equipment
  $ 28,473     $ 24,379  
Medical equipment
    11,306       10,315  
Leasehold improvements
    30,151       26,001  
Construction in progress
    8       20  
Assets under capital leases
    427       427  
Total
    70,365       61,142  
Less ¾ Accumulated depreciation and amortization
    (49,077 )     (41,878 )
    $ 21,288     $ 19,264  

 
Our fixed assets are depreciated on a straight line basis. We generally assign useful lives of five years to assets classified as furniture, fixtures, office and medical equipment. Assets classified as computer hardware and software are generally assigned a three year useful life and leasehold improvements are depreciated over the lesser of their useful life, or the term of the lease.
 

 
Depreciation expense on fixed assets for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 was $7,199,000, $5,551,000, and  $5,822,000, respectively.  Assets under capital lease are comprised of various medical equipment.  Accumulated amortization related specifically to capital leases at December 31, 2011 and 2010 was $393,000 and $298,000, respectively.
 

 
NOTE 9 ¾ BUSINESS SERVICE RIGHTS, NET:
 
Business Service Rights, net at December 31, 2011 and 2010 consisted of the following (000’s omitted):
 
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Business Service rights, net
  $ 40,249     $ 37,755  
Less accumulated amortization
    (16,135 )     (14,840 )
Total
  $ 24,114     $ 22,915  

 

 
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Business Service Rights are negotiated one-time payments we generally make to physician practices joining our fertility Partner program. These payments are made to secure the right to provide business services to the practices for contracted terms generally ranging from ten to twenty five years. Depending upon the negotiated terms, these payments may be refundable at the termination of the contract or non-refundable. We amortize our non-refundable Business Service Rights over the life of the applicable contract. Refundable Business Service Rights, which totaled approximately $12.2 million as of December 31, 2011, are not amortized because these amounts will be repaid to us upon termination of the contract.
 

For the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, amortization expense related to our Business Service Rights totaled approximately $1.3 million, respectively.
 

Amortization expense of our Business Service Rights in future years are as follows (000’s omitted):

2012
    1,295  
2013
    1,295  
2014
    1,295  
2015
    1,295  
2016
    1,295  
Thereafter
    5,472  
Total payments
  $ 11,947  

 
We test our Business Service Rights for impairment on a regular basis in accordance with ASC 360. To date, no impairment charges have been recognized.
 

 
NOTE 10 – INTANGIBLE ASSETS:
 

As of December 31, 2011, our consolidated financial statements include intangible assets with a carrying value totaling approximately $59 million as per the table below (000’s):

     
2011
2010
Goodwill
     
$30,344
 
$30,334
Trademarks
   
4,442
 
$4,442
Business Service Rights - Refundable
12,167
 
9,673
 
Business Service Rights - Non-Refundable
11,947
24,114
13,242
$22,915
             
       
$57,691
 
$58,890
             

In evaluating the recoverability of our intangible assets, we follows the guidance contained in FASB ASU 2011-08 Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350), which provides for a qualitative assessment of intangible asset valuation, followed by a quantitative two-step process to determine impairment if necessary.

Based on a review of relevant events, circumstances and expected trends as contained in FASB ASU 2011-08 section 350-20-35-3C, as well as other qualifiers, we concluded that as of December 31, 2011, it is more likely than not that the carrying value of our intangible assets, in whole and individually, is not less than their fair value.
 

 
If the fair value is less than the carrying amount, an impairment loss would be recognized in an amount equal to the excess of the carrying amount of the intangible assets over their fair values. To date we have not recorded any impairment losses.
 

 
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NOTE 11 ¾ OTHER ASSETS:
 

 
As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, other assets consisted of the following (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Physician investment accounts – supporting VCA
deferred compensation arrangements
  $ 1,137     $ 966  
Security deposits
    1,034       1,021  
Deferred offering costs
               
Other
    50       59  
Total
  $ 2,221     $ 2,046  

 
NOTE 12 ¾ ACCRUED LIABILITIES:
 

 
Accrued liabilities at December 31, 2011 and 2010 consisted of the following (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Accrued payroll
  $ 1,588     $ 2,937  
Accrued employee incentives and benefits
    2,371       3,229  
Accrued physician incentives (VCA)
    3,978       3,404  
Accrued costs on behalf of medical practices
    4,849       3,695  
Accrued rent
    2,071       1,028  
Accrued professional fees
    539       819  
Reserves for estimated Attain IVF patient refunds
    238       386  
Reserve for Attain IVF post-pregnancy medical costs
    393       431  
Other (1)
    1,047       1,336  
Total accrued liabilities
  $ 17,074     $ 17,265  

 
(1) Individually represents less than 5% of total accrued liabilities.
 

 
Our Attain IVF refund and medical cost reserves provide for warranty costs associated with revenue we record from our Attain IVF Programs.  Our deferred revenue relating to Attain IVF is comprised of both a refundable and non-refundable portion.  We recognize the non-refundable portion of the product enrollment fee as revenue based on the relative value of a completed treatment cycle to the value of all treatment cycles included in the product offering. The refundable portion of any product offering (in addition to any amounts not yet recognized) are recognized as revenue at the time a patient becomes pregnant and a fetal heartbeat is achieved (at which point most patients will go on to successfully deliver a baby).  When we recognize non-refundable revenue related to a patient achieving pregnancy (as opposed to a cycle completed in regards to non-refundable fees) or when a patient withdraws from the program, we will establish reserves at each balance sheet date for patients who have been classified as pregnant, but have not yet delivered a baby.  These reserves are:
 

A Refund Reserve:  A reserve for those patients who have become pregnant, but may not successfully deliver a baby and who will request the refundable portion of the program fee to be returned to them. The Refund Reserve is calculated by reviewing the percentage of revenue recognized at time of pregnancy, which was later refunded to the patient due to a baby not being successfully delivered.  We have not had any material adjustments to the reserve balance other than the normal accounting activity to reflect the changing related asset values.

 
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Medical Cost Reserves: A reserve for additional medical treatment costs for a patient who has become pregnant, but has not yet delivered a baby and has additional treatment cycles available to them under the program.  The Medical Cost Reserve is calculated by reviewing the percentage of revenue recognized at time of pregnancy, which was later spent on further medical costs.  We have not had any material adjustment to the reserve balance other than the normal accounting activity to reflect the changing related asset values.
 
We base the estimates for both reserves upon reliable, actual Company specific data with regards to a large homogenous population which we have served for more than nine years.

 
NOTE 13 – DUE TO FERTILITY MEDICAL PRACTICES:

 
Due to Fertility Medical Practices is comprised of the net amounts owed by us to medical practices contracted for the full array of practice management services. We do not consolidate the results of the Fertility Medical Practices into our accounts (as discussed in Note 2). This balance is comprised of amounts due to us by the medical practices for funds which we advanced for use in financing their accounts receivable and selected other transactions, less balances owed to the medical practices by us for undistributed physician earnings and patient deposits we hold on behalf of the medical practices.
 

 
While we are responsible for the management and collection of the Partner’s accounts receivable, as part of the business services we provide, the credit and collection risk for these receivables remains with the medical practice. We finance the receivables with full recourse. Amounts financed relating to uncollectible accounts are recovered from the medical practice in the month uncollectible reserves are established or accounts are written-off.
 
 
As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, Due to Medical Practices was comprised of the following balances (000’s omitted):
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Advances to Partner medical practices
  $ (17,552 )   $ (14,906 )
Undistributed physician earnings
    5,508       2,841  
Partner practice patient deposits
    26,273       23,311  
Due to Medical Practices, net
  $ 14,229     $ 11,246  

NOTE 14 ¾ NOTES PAYABLE AND OTHER OBLIGATIONS:
 

 
Notes payable and other obligations at December 31, 2011 and 2010 consisted of the following (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Notes payable
  $ 10,904     $ 14,476  
Derivative fair valuation adjustment
    66       87  
Obligations under capital lease
    33       129  
                 
Total notes payable and other obligations
  $ 11,003     $ 14,692  
Less ¾ Current portion
    (3,816 )     (3,784 )
                 
Long-term notes payable and other obligations
  $ 7,187     $ 10,908  

 

 
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NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 


Note payable to Bank ¾
 

 
In May, 2010, we entered into a syndicated amended and restated financing arrangement with Bank of America, TD Bank and Webster Bank and secured a $35 million three-year revolving credit facility (amounts available to be borrowed are based on eligible patient receivables and as of December 31, 2011, approximately $12.4 million of the $35 million line of credit was available) and a $25 million three-year term loan (of which approximately $16 million was outstanding at the time of closing). Both the term loan and the revolving credit facility mature in May 2013. Interest on the term loan and revolving loans are payable based on a tiered pricing structure related to a defined leverage ratio. As of December 31, 2011, interest on the term loan was payable at a rate of approximately 3.5%. As of December 31, 2011 there was no outstanding balance on the revolving credit facility and the unused balance bore a commitment fee of 0.25%.

During the third quarter of 2010 we also entered into an interest rate swap agreement to help manage interest rate risk. This swap will mature in the third quarter of 2013, at which time we will re-evaluate our options for managing interest rate risk (See Note 15).
 
Our credit facility is collateralized by substantially all of our assets. As of December 31, 2011, we were in full compliance with all applicable debt covenants. We continuously review our credit agreements and may renew, revise or enter into new agreements from time to time as deemed necessary.
 
Debt Maturities ¾

At December 31, 2011, aggregate note payments, including capital lease obligation payments, in future years were as follows (000’s omitted):

2012
  $ 3,816  
2013
  $ 7,187  
Total payments
  $ 11,003  

Leases ¾

Our capital lease obligation relates to medical equipment acquired for certain vein clinics.

We maintain operating leases for our corporate headquarters and for medical office space for our Partner and our vein clinic centers.  We also have operating leases covering certain medical equipment.  Aggregate rental expense under operating leases was approximately $17.7 million, $14.0 million, and $12.6 million, for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.

At December 31, 2011, the minimum lease payments for assets under capital and non-cancelable operating leases in future years were as follows (000’s omitted):
 
   
Capital
   
Operating
 
             
2012
  $ 34     $ 11,871  
2013
          11,680  
2014
          9,521  
2015
          8,176  
2016
          6,948  
Thereafter
          18,504  
Total minimum lease payments
  $ 34     $ 66,700  
Less ¾ Amount representing interest
    1          
Present value of minimum lease payments
  $ 33          

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 


NOTE 15 – OTHER COMPREHENSIVE LOSS:

IntegraMed is exposed to the risk that its earnings and cash flows could be adversely impacted by market driven fluctuations in the level of interest rates. It is our policy to manage these risks by using a mix of fixed and floating rate debt and derivative instruments. As such, as part of its credit agreement with lending institutions, IntegraMed entered into an interest rate swap agreement associated with its term loan in order to help mitigate the associated interest rate risk.

As a result of this swap agreements, our net income for the twelve months ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009  included additional financing costs of approximately $83,000, $280,000 and $390,000,  respectively. In addition to the costs included in our reported net income, the interest rate swap is accounted for as a hedge and has also generated a non-recognized after-tax loss of approximately $43,000 and $55,000 as of December 31, 2011 and 2010, respectively, which is reported as part of our comprehensive income.

This fair value of this cash flow hedge was calculated in accordance with ASC 820, utilizing Level 2 inputs of quoted prices for similar liabilities in active markets.

We deem this hedge to be highly effective as it shares the same amortization schedule as the underlying debt subject to the hedge and any change in fair value inversely mimics the appropriate portion of the hedged item. As of December 31, 2011, we had no other hedge or derivative transactions.
 
The following table summarizes total comprehensive income (loss) for the applicable periods (000's omitted):
 
   
For the
years ended
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Net income as reported
  $ 4,600     $ 4,725     $ 4,494  
Net non-recognized gain on derivative transactions
    13       133       187  
                         
Total comprehensive income
  $ 4,613     $ 4,858     $ 4,681  
                         

NOTE 16 ¾ INCOME TAXES:

The provision for income taxes consisted of the following (000's omitted):

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



   
For the years ended
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Current taxes:
                 
Federal
 
$
(538)
   
$
2,029
   
$
665
 
State
   
502
     
422
     
396
 
Total current tax expense (benefit)
 
$
(36)
   
$
2,451
   
$
1,061
 
                         
Deferred taxes:
                       
Federal
 
$
3,001
   
$
550
   
$
1,868
 
State
   
(10)
     
127
     
402
 
Total deferred tax expense
 
$
2,991
   
$
677
   
$
2,270
 
                         
Total tax provision
 
$
2,955
   
$
3,128
   
$
3,331
 

The consolidated financial statement income tax provision differed from income taxes determined by applying the statutory federal income tax rate to the consolidated financial statement income before income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 primarily as a result of the following (000's omitted):

   
For the years ended
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Provision at U.S. federal statutory rate
 
$
2,569
   
$
2,670
   
$
2,661
 
State income taxes, net of federal tax effect
   
284
     
362
     
366
 
Non-deductible expenses
   
84
     
118
     
118
 
Change in liability for uncertain tax positions
   
18
     
(22)
     
186
 
Income tax expense
 
$
2,955
   
$
3,128
   
$
3,331
 

Significant components of the deferred tax assets (liabilities) at December 31, 2011 and 2010 were as follows (000's omitted):
 
 
 
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Deferred tax assets
           
Temporary book to tax differences
 
$
2,800
   
$
2,912
 
Total deferred tax assets
   
2,800
     
2,912
 
                 
Deferred tax liabilities
               
Depreciation and amortization
   
(5,235
)
   
(2,375
)
Other
   
(338
)
   
(311
)
Total deferred tax liabilities
   
(5,573
)
   
(2,686
)
                 
                 
Net total deferred tax asset (liability)
 
$
(2,773)
   
$
226
 

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 

At December 31, 2011 and 2010, $2.2 million and $2.5 million, respectively, of the Company’s net deferred tax asset (liability) were included on the Consolidated Balance Sheets in Deferred income taxes, and $5.0 million and $2.3 million, respectively, were included in Deferred income and other tax liabilities.

We assess the realizability of our deferred tax assets at each interim and annual balance sheet date based on actual and forecasted operating results in order to determine the proper amount, if any, required for a valuation allowance. As a result of this assessment, we believe that it is more likely than not, given the weight of available evidence, that all of our deferred tax assets will be realized.
We file income tax returns in the U.S. federal jurisdiction and various states. For federal income tax purposes, our 2009 through 2011 tax years remain open for examination by the tax authorities.  Federal income tax returns through 2008 have been examined by the Internal Revenue Service, and we are now under  examination for  2009.  For state tax purposes, our 2005 through 2011 tax years remain open for examination by the tax authorities mainly because we are currently under examination by the State of Florida.  We do not anticipate any material impact to our consolidated financial statements due to these examinations.

The change in liability for uncertain income tax positions for the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010 follows:

   
Unrecognized
Tax Benefits (000s)
 
   
2011
   
2010
 
             
Balance as of January 1,
 
$
170
   
$
454
 
Additions for current year tax positions
   
20
     
20
 
Additions for prior year tax positions
   
90
     
208
 
Reductions for prior year tax positions
   
   
(157)
 
Settlements
   
   
(374)
 
Reductions related to expirations of statute of limitations
 
(24)
     
 
Additional interest
   
26
     
 19
 
Balance as of December 31,
 
$
282
   
$
170
 

In accordance with our accounting policy, interest expense and penalties related to income taxes are included in the income tax expense line of our consolidated statement of operations.  For the years ended December 31, 2011 and 2010, we recognized $26,000 and $19,000, respectively, for interest expense related to uncertain tax positions.  As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, we had recorded liabilities for interest expense related to uncertain tax positions in the amounts of $60,000 and $34,000, respectively.  We made no accrual for penalties related to uncertain income tax positions.

NOTE 17 - EARNINGS PER SHARE:

 
The reconciliation of the numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted EPS computations for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 as is a follows (000's omitted, except for per share amounts):
 

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



 

 
   
For the years ended
December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Numerator
                 
Net Income
  $ 4,600     $ 4,725     $ 4,494  
Denominator
                       
Weighted average shares outstanding
    11,838       11,380       8,773  
Effect of dilutive options
    31       49       61  
Weighted average shares and dilutive potential Common shares
    11,869       11,429       8,834  
Basic earnings per common share
  $ 0.39     $ 0.42     $ 0.51  
Diluted earnings per common share
  $ 0.39     $ 0.41     $ 0.51  

 
For the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, options to purchase approximately 55,000,  91,000 and 61,000 shares of common stock, respectively, were excluded from the computation of diluted earnings per share as the exercise price of the options was above the average market price of the shares of common stock.
 

 
NOTE 18 ¾ SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY:
 

 
During 2011, 2010 and 2009, we issued approximately 122,000, 168,000, and 142,000 shares, respectively, of restricted common stock as deferred compensation to several of our officers and directors with an aggregate value of $1,060,000, $1,341,000 and $978,000 respectively. These shares were valued at their fair value on the date of grant, and are amortized to expense over their vesting period, which approximates the service period.
 

 
During 2010 we issued approximately 81,000 incentive stock options to certain members of our management team. These options have a ten year life, vest over four years and had a fair value at date of grant of approximately $311,000.
 

 
During 2010, we amended our Certificate of Incorporation, increasing the number of authorized common shares from 15,000,000 to 20,000,000, as approved by shareholder vote.
 

 
Our Board of Directors has authorized the retirement of common stock held as Treasury Shares on a periodic basis. As such we retired approximately 84,000 shares of Treasury Stock during the year ended December 31, 2010.  As of December 31, 2011 there were 37,208 shares of common stock held as Treasury shares.
 

 
NOTE 19  ¾ STOCK-BASED EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION:
 

 
We account for our stock based employee compensation plans in accordance with ASC 718. ASC 718 addresses the accounting for share based payment transactions in which an enterprise receives employee services in exchange for equity instruments of the enterprise or liabilities that are based on the fair value of the enterprise’s equity instruments or that may be settled by the issuance of such equity instruments. ASC 718 requires that such transactions be accounted for using a fair value based method.
 

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



 
In considering the fair value of the underlying stock when we grant options or issue restricted stock, we consider several factors including the fair values established by market transactions. Stock-option based compensation includes significant estimates and judgments of when stock options might be exercised, forfeiture rates and stock price volatility. The timing of option exercises is out of our control and depends upon a number of factors including our market value and the financial objectives of the option holders. These estimates can have a material impact on our stock compensation expense but will have no impact on our cash flows.
 

 
We currently have three stock-based plans which have been previously approved by the stockholders under which a total of 2,650,000 shares, subject to adjustment, of common stock were reserved for issuance of incentive and non-incentive stock options and stock grants.  Under these plans, stock awards may be granted to employees, directors and such other persons as the Board of Directors determines will contribute to our success. Vesting periods are set by the Board of Directors and stock options are generally exercisable during a ten-year period following the date of award, with stock grants generally vesting in three to five years. The Board of Directors has the authority to accelerate the maturity of any stock option or grant at its discretion, and all stock options and grants have anti-dilution provisions.  Under all of our plans, options expire three months from the date of the holder’s termination of employment or twelve months in the event of disability or death.  As of December 31, 2011, there were 851,443 shares available for granting under these plans. We recognize compensation cost for stock awards over the vesting period based on the fair value of the award as of the date of the grant.
 

 
The following table sets forth information about the weighted-average fair value of options granted during the periods below, and the assumptions used for each grant:


   
For the years ending December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Fair Value of Options
    N/A     $ 5.11       N/A  
Dividend yield
    N/A       0.0 %     N/A  
Expected volatility
    N/A       57.4 %     N/A  
Risk free interest rate
    N/A       3.9 %     N/A  
Expected term in years
    N/A       5.0       N/A  

Our dividend yield assumptions on the underlying common stock upon which the options were granted anticipate that all earnings will be retained for use in the operation and expansion of the company and no dividends will be paid to shareholders. Our expected volatility is based on historic trading patterns of our common stock. The risk free interest rate is based on the yield of short term U.S. Treasury securities in effect at the time of the grant. The expected term of the options reflects our historic exercise and forfeiture experience with similar option grants.

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



Stock-based compensation activity under these plans is summarized below:

 
   
Number of
shares of
 Common Stock underlying options
   
 
Weighted Average exercise price
 
             
Options outstanding at December 31, 2008
    227,016     $ 5.78  
Granted
           
Exercised
    (21,331 )   $ 1.72  
Options outstanding at December 31, 2009
    205,685     $ 5.78  
Granted
    81,117     $ 8.28  
Exercised
    (19,595 )   $ 2.03  
Cancelled
    (19,221 )   $ 8.14  
Options outstanding at December 31, 2010
    247,986     $ 6.96  
Granted
    122,366     $ 8.66  
Exercised
    (36,597 )   $ 2.52  
Cancelled
    (169,212 )   $ 7.55  
Options outstanding at December 31, 2011
    164,543          

 
Options exercisable at:
 

 
December 31, 2009
    119,771     $ 4.64  
December 31, 2010
    132,137     $ 5.95  
December 31, 2011
    119,948     $ 7.37  

 
As of December 31, 2011, stock options outstanding and exercisable by price range were as follows:
 

 
OPTIONS OUTSTANDING
   
OPTIONS EXERCISABLE
 
Range of
Exercise Prices
   
Outstanding
As of
12/31/2011
   
Weighted Average
Remaining
Contractual Life
   
Weighted Average
Exercise Price
   
Exercisable
As of
12/31/2011
   
Weighted Average
Exercise Price
 
                                 
$ 0.00 - $2.50                 $           $  
$ 2.56 - $5.00       21,648       0.2     $ 2.94       21,648     $ 2.94  
$ 5.01 - $20.00       142,895       5.1     $ 8.25       98,300     $ 8.34  
          164,543       4.5     $ 7.55       119,948     $ 7.37  

 
The total intrinsic value of options exercised during the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 was approximately $240,000, $127,000 and $125,000 respectively.The aggregate intrinsic value of options outstanding and exercisable as of December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 was approximately $205,000, $338,000, and $354,000, respectively.
 

 
During the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, we issued restricted stock grants to selected officers and members of the Board of Directors. These stock grants vest over a three or five year period for officers, with grants to directors vesting immediately. These grants are valued at the closing market price on the date granted with the associated compensation expense is recognized ratably over the applicable period.

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



Compensation expense recognized in connection with stock options for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 was $201,000, $288,000, and $189,000 respectively. Compensation expense recognized in connection with stock grants for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009 was $1,277,000, $1,303,000, and $1,147,000 respectively.  As of December 31, 2011, remaining unamortized stock compensation expense for both stock options and restricted stock grants was approximately $ 1.2 million  and will be recognized as follows (000’s):

   
Stock
Options
   
Restricted
Stock
Grants
 
             
2012
    128       469  
2013
    85       342  
2014
    5       105  
2015
          56  
2016
           
Thereafter
           
Unamortized stock compensation costs at December 31, 2011
  $ 218     $ 972  

NOTE 20 ¾ QUARTERLY FINANCIAL DATA (UNAUDITED):
 

 
Summarized quarterly financial data 2011, 2010, and 2009 appear below (in thousands, except per share data):
 

 
   
Revenues Net
   
Contribution
   
Net Income
   
Diluted Net
Income Per Share (1)
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                                                                         
First quarter
  $ 64,259     $ 57,024     $ 52,355     $ 4,683     $ 5,312     $ 4,907     $ 958     $ 1,121     $ 920     $ 0.08     $ 0.11     $ 0.10  
Second quarter
    69,051       61,768       56,115       5,364       6,345       5,500       348     $ 1,616       1,114       0.03       0.14       0.13  
Third quarter
    69,397       60,557       53,598       5,199       4,748       5,043       1,441       1,099       1,228       0.12       0.09       0.14  
Fourth quarter
    70,875       63,820       54,692       5,845       4,811       5,440       1,853       890       1,232       0.16       0.08       0.14  
Total year
  $ 273,582     $ 243,169     $ 216,760     $ 21,091     $ 21,216     $ 20,890     $ 4,600     $ 4,725     $ 4,494     $ 0.39     $ 0.41     $ 0.51  

 
(1) The sum of the quarterly earnings per share may not equal the full year earnings per share as the computations of the weighted average shares outstanding for each quarter and the full year are made independently.
 

 
NOTE 21 ¾ COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES:
 

Capital Leases ¾
 

 
Refer to Note 14 for a summary of capital lease commitments.
 

 
Reliance on Third Party Vendors ¾
 

 
Our fertility and vein clinics are dependent on a limited number of primary third-party vendors that produce supplies and medications vital to treating infertility and vein disease.  Should any of these vendors experience a supply shortage, it may have an adverse impact on the operations of our clinical locations and network members.  To date, no shortage or disruption has been experienced.

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



 
Employment Agreements
 

 
We have an employment agreement with our President and Chief Executive Officer. Pursuant to that agreement, we may terminate the President and Chief Executive Officer’s employment without cause on thirty days notice, in which event severance pay equal to twelve months’ base salary  plus an annual bonus, calculated without regard to the condition precedents established under the bonus plan, will be payable in a lump sum. Under the employment agreement, if we had terminated Mr. Higham effective December 31, 2011, based on his 2011 compensation, he would have been paid an aggregate of $420,000 of which represents his 2011 base salary and $315,000 of which represents his 2011 bonus.

The employment agreement further provides that in the event that within one year after a “Change of Control” (as defined therein) of the Company occurs, and  the President and Chief Executive Officer’s employment is terminated, the President and Chief Executive Officer will be paid a lump sum amount equal to their base salary for a 24-month period following termination, plus twice the full amount of their annual bonus based on their then current salary, without regard to the condition precedents established for the bonus payment. Based on this change of control provision, if there had been a change of control of the Company in 2011 and the President and Chief Executive Officer’s employment had terminated effective December 31, 2011, either for “Good Reason” or without cause, then the President and Chief Executive Officer would be entitled to termination pay equal to $840,000 representing his then annualized base salary for 24-months, plus $630,000 representing twice the amount to which he was eligible under our Executive Incentive Compensation Plan for 2011.

We have also entered into indemnification and change in control severance agreements with certain of our Corporate officers, which include, among other terms, noncompetitive provisions and salary and benefits continuation.  Our minimum aggregate commitment under these agreements at December 31, 2011 was approximately $3.2 million.
 

 
Commitments to Partners ¾
 

 
In accordance with the majority of our Partner agreements, we are obligated to: (i) on an ongoing basis, advance funds to the fertility centers to fund operations and provide services; and (ii) on a monthly basis, transfer to the fertility centers funds equal to the net accounts receivable generated that month to finance those receivables less any amounts owed to us for services fees and/or advances.
 

 
Legal Settlement -

On January 15, 2009, a patient of our Partner fertility center, Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C.(“FCI”), filed suit (Heather Kornick vs. Lawrence A. Jacobs, M.D. and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C.), in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (the “Kornick Lawsuit”),  alleging, among other things, a failure to diagnose plaintiff's adrenal cortical carcinoma. In June 2009, plaintiff amended their complaint to add the Company and, more recently, two of the Company's nurse employees, as defendants.  The parties participated in a mediation on July 5, 2011 and have received a release from the plaintiff dated July 28, 2011, in consideration of $4.5 million, $1.65 million of which the Company is obligated to pay.  The balance of the settlement amount is the responsibility of the Company’s insurance carrier and FCI.  The Company’s obligation of $1.65 million is reflected on the financial statements for the year ending December 31, 2011 as “Other Expense”.

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



 
Litigation ¾
 

From time to time, we and our Partner fertility centers, and vein clinics and their physicians are parties to legal proceedings in the ordinary course of business. We are exposed to claims of professional negligence based on services performed by our employees, including physician assistants and nurse practitioners, as well as based on our relationships with physicians providing treatments at our Partner fertility centers and vein clinics.

The Company records accruals for contingencies when it is probable that a liability has been incurred and the amount can be reasonably estimated. These accruals are adjusted periodically as assessments change or additional information becomes available.  As of December 31, 2011, the Company has not recorded any expense related to any outstanding litigation because it has not yet been determined if a liability has incurred related to outstanding litigation. Although, we are vigorously defending the allegations, we cannot assure you that we will ultimately prevail and if so, if the liability can be reasonably estimated.  Legal defense costs expected to be incurred in connection with a loss contingency are accrued when probable and reasonably estimable.

We maintain medical malpractice insurance with limits of $3 million per claim, regardless of the number of the covered defendants, and $10 million per year in the aggregate, with respect to our Partner fertility centers, and with limits generally equal to $1 million per physician and $10 million per year in the aggregate, with respect to our vein clinics. Our Partner fertility centers, vein clinics and their physicians are additional named insured’s under our policies. All of our insurance policies are subject to deductibles or a self-insured retention. A portion of the insurance for certain of our fertility centers is provided by ARTIC. 

Insurance ¾

 
As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, we and our affiliated fertility and vein care centers were insured with respect to medical malpractice risks on a claims made basis.  We believe, either through this captive insurance company, or on the open market, we will be able to obtain continued coverage for both our fertility and vein care physicians in the future. We are not aware of any claims against us or our affiliated medical practices, which would expose us, or our affiliated medical practices to liabilities in excess of insured amounts.
 

 
As of December 31, 2011 and 2010, we also carried policies to insure against liability, theft, property loss, business interruption and a variety of other business risks. We also maintain an appropriate insurance reserve to cover estimated deductible amounts should a claim be filed under our policies.  Premiums paid to the captive insurance company, which we manage for the benefit of our Fertility Partners were $2,141,000, $2,124,000, and $2,140,000 for the years ended December 31, 2011, 2010 and 2009, respectively.
 

 
NOTE 22 ¾ RELATED PARTY TRANSACTIONS:
 

 
For the years 2004 through 2009, Dr. Michael J. Levy, an employed shareholder physician of the Shady Grove Fertility P.C., served as a non-voting advisory director to our Board of Directors. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the Shady Grove medical practice paid us service fees of $3,225,172.
 

 
For the years 2004 through 2009, Dr. Aaron Lifchez, an employed shareholder physician of the Fertility Centers of Illinois S.C., served as a non-voting advisory director to our Board of Directors. For the year ended December 31, 2009, the FCI medical practice paid us service fees of $2,147,445.
 

 
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INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
 

 



 
NOTE 23 ¾ SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION AND NON-CASH TRANSACTIONS:
 

 
Equity transactions related to common stock, principally arising from stock grants, option exercises and related  tax benefits disclosed on our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows are comprised of the following (000’s omitted):
 

 
   
For the
Year ended December 31,
 
   
2011
   
2010
   
2009
 
                   
Common stock offering
  $     $ 19,062     $  
Common stock options and grants
    92       278     $ 37  
Tax benefit related to stock transactions
          108       39  
Treasury Stock, net and other
          (346 )     (39 )
    $ 92     $ 19,102     $ 37  

 

 

 
F-31

 
 
SCHEDULE I
 
 
 
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE



To the Board of Directors and Shareholders
of IntegraMed America, Inc.:


Our audit of the consolidated financial statements referred to in our report dated March 6, 2012 appearing in the 2011 Annual Report to Shareholders of IntegraMed America, Inc. also included an audit of the financial statement schedule listed in Item 8 and 15 (a) (1) of this Form 10-K. In our opinion, this financial statement schedule presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements.



/s/EisnerAmper LLP
New York, New York
March 6, 2012





 

 
S-1

 


 

SCHEDULE I
 
 
REPORT OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM ON FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULE



To the Board of Directors and Shareholders
of IntegraMed America, Inc.:


Our audit of the consolidated financial statements referred to in our report dated March 10, 2010 appearing in the 2011 Annual Report to Shareholders of IntegraMed America, Inc. also included an audit of the financial statement schedule listed in Item 8 and 15 (a) (1) of this Form 10-K. In our opinion, this financial statement schedule presents fairly, in all material respects, the information set forth therein when read in conjunction with the related consolidated financial statements.



/s/Amper, Politziner & Mattia, LLP
Edison, New Jersey
March 10, 2010






 

 

 
S-2

 


SCHEDULE II
 
 

 
INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
 

 
VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS
 

 
For the Years Ended December 31, 2011, 2010, 2009
 

 

 

 

 
   
Balance at
Beginning
of Year
   
 
Additions
   
 
Deductions
   
End of
Year
 
                         
Year Ended December 31, 2011
                       
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
  $ 2,492     $ 1,111     $ 2,834     $ 769  
Reserve for Attain IVF refunds
    386       260       408       238  
Reserve for attain IVF medical costs
    431       465       503       393  
                                 
Year Ended December 31, 2010
                               
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
  $ 2,913     $ 4,189     $ 4,610     $ 2,492  
Reserve for Attain IVF refunds
    300       422       336       386  
Reserve for Attain IVF medical costs
    344       454       367       431  
                                 
Year Ended December 31, 2009
                               
Allowance for doubtful accounts receivable
  $ 2,648     $ 4,820     $ 4,555     $ 2,913  
Reserve for Attain IVF refunds
    397       206       303       300  
Reserve for Attain IVF medical costs
    331       72       59       344  
                                 

 

 
S-3

 


 
SIGNATURES
 

 
Pursuant to the requirements of Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
 

 
     
INTEGRAMED AMERICA, INC.
       
March 6, 2012
 
By:
/s/Timothy P. Sheehan
     
Timothy P. Sheehan
Senior Vice President Finance
and Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and Accounting Officer)

 
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, this report has been signed below by the following persons on behalf of the Registrant and in the capacities and on the dates indicated.
 

 
Signature
Title
Date
     
/s/Jay Higham
   
Jay Higham
President and Chief Executive Officer and Director
(Principal Executive Officer)
 
 
March 6, 2012
/s/Timothy P. Sheehan
   
Timothy P. Sheehan
Senior Vice President Finance and
Chief Financial Officer
(Principal Financial and
Accounting Officer)
 
 
 
March 6, 2012
/s/Gerardo Canet
   
Gerardo Canet
Director
March 6, 2012
     
/s/Michael C. Howe
   
Michael C. Howe
Director
March 6, 2012
     
/s/Wayne R. Moon
   
Wayne R. Moon
Director
March 6, 2012
     
/s/Lawrence J. Stuesser
   
Lawrence J. Stuesser
Director
March 6, 2012
     
/s/Elizabeth E. Tallett
   
Elizabeth E. Tallett
Director
March 6, 2012
     
/s/Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D.
   
Yvonne S. Thornton, M.D.
Director
March 6, 2012


 
 

 

EXHIBIT INDEX
 
 
         
Exhibit
 
   
Number
 
Description
         
 
3
.1
 
Restated Certificate of Incorporation of IntegraMed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
3
.2
 
By-laws of IntegraMed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
4
.1
 
Specimen certificate for shares of common stock
 
 
10
.1 *
 
1992 Stock Option Plan, including form of option, filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-47046) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 9, 1992 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.2 *
 
Amended and Restated 1992 Incentive and Non-Incentive Stock Option Plan, dated April 16, 1998, filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 5, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.3
 
Agreement of Lease, dated September 27, 1994, between Purchase Corporate Park Associates and IntegraMed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1994 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.4
 
Amendment, dated January 1995, to Agreement of Lease between Purchase Corporate Park Associates and Integramed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 dated October 2, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.5
 
Second Amendment, dated August 23, 1999, to Agreement of Lease between Purchase Corporate Park Associates, L.P. and IntegraMed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 dated October 2, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.6
 
Third Amendment, dated October 15, 2002, to Agreement of Lease between Purchase Corporate Park Associates, L.P. and IntegraMed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 dated October 2, 2009 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.7
 
Business Service Agreement, dated August 30, 2007, by and between IntegraMed and the Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.A. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated September 6, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.8 *
 
Employment Agreement, dated October 10, 2005, between IntegraMed and Jay Higham filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto

 
 

 


 
10
.9
 
Management Agreement, dated January 7, 1997, by and between IntegraMed and Bay Area Fertility and Gynecology Medical Group, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 20, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.10
 
Amendment No. 1, dated April 5, 1998, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Bay Area Fertility and Gynecology Medical Group, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.11
 
Amendment No. 2, dated July 21, 1998, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Bay Area Fertility and Gynecology Medical Group, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.12
 
Amendment No. 3, dated April 1, 2000, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Bay Area Fertility and Gynecology Group, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.13
 
Amendment No. 4, dated January 1, 2001, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Bay Area Fertility and Gynecology Medical Group, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.14
 
Amendment No. 5, dated September 19, 2001, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Bay Area Fertility and Gynecology Medical Group, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.15
 
Amendment No. 6, dated December 2003, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a California medical corporation, filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.16
 
Management Agreement, dated February 28, 1997, between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-26551) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on May 6, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.17
 
Amendment, dated May 2, 1997, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to Amendment No. 1 to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-26551) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 20, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.18
 
Amendment No. 2, dated June 18, 1997, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to Amendment No. 1 to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 333-26551) filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 20, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.19
 
Amendment No. 3, dated August 19, 1997, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto

 
 

 


 
10
.20
 
Amendment No. 4, dated January 9, 1998, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to a Schedule 13D dated February 11, 1998 filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by Gerardo Canet and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.21
 
Amendment No. 5, dated March 5, 1998, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.22
 
Amendment No. 6, dated July 1, 1999, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.23
 
Amendment No. 7, dated April 1, 2000, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.24
 
Amendment No. 8, dated September 24, 2001, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.25
 
Amendment No. 9, dated December 2003, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.26
 
Amendment No. 10, dated January 1, 2005, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.27
 
Amendment No. 11, dated November 30, 2009, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Fertility Centers of Illinois, S.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A on February 4, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
 
10
.28
 
Service Agreement, dated May 25, 2001, between IntegraMed and MPD Medical Associates (MA), P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.29
 
Amendment No. 1, dated March 5, 2002, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and MPD Medical Associates (MA), P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.30
 
Management Agreement, dated March 11, 1998, between Shady Grove Fertility Centers, P.C. and Levy, Sagoskin and Stillman, M.D., P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1997 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 

 
 

 


 
10
.31
 
Amendment No. 1, dated April 16, 1998, to Management Agreement between Shady Grove Fertility Centers, Inc. and Levy, Sagoskin and Stillman, M.D., P.C filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.32
 
Amendment No. 2, dated May 6, 1998, to Management Agreement between Shady Grove Fertility Centers, Inc. and Levy, Sagoskin and Stillman, M.D., P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 1998 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.33
 
Amendment No. 3, dated September 1, 1999, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.34
 
Amendment No. 4, dated April 1, 2000, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.35
 
Amendment No. 5 to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.36
 
Amendment No. 6, dated September 18, 2001, to Management Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2001 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.37
 
Amendment No. 7, dated November 2003, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.38
 
Amendment No. 8, dated February 16, 2006, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.39
 
Amendment No. 9, dated March 22, 2007, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Shady Grove Fertility Reproductive Science Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.40 *
 
Form of Retention Agreement filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 1999 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.41 *
 
Form of Amendment to Retention Agreement relating to Section 409A of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.42 *
 
Form of Indemnification Agreement filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2000 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 

 
 

 


 
10
.43 *
 
Form of Amendment to Indemnification Agreement relating to Section 409A of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.44
 
Service Agreement, dated April 26, 2002, between IntegraMed and Northwest Center for Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.45
 
Amendment No. 1, dated June 14, 2002, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Northwest Center for Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.46
 
Amendment No. 2, dated November 1, 2002, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Northwest Center for Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.47
 
Amendment No. 3, dated January 1, 2003, to Service Agreement between IntegraMed and Northwest Center for Infertility and Reproductive Endocrinology filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.48 *
 
2000 Long-Term Compensation Plan filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2002 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.49 *
 
Form of Incentive Stock Option Agreement filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.50 *
 
Form of Non-Qualified Stock Option Agreement filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.51 *
 
Form of Restricted Stock Unit Award Agreement filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.52 *
 
Form of Amendment filed as an Exhibit to Integramed’s Curent report on Form 8-K dated January 26, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.53
 
Service Agreement, dated September 1, 2003, between IntegraMed and Reproductive Endocrine Associates of Charlotte, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2003 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.54
 
Service Agreement, dated January 1, 2004, between IntegraMed and Seattle Reproductive Medicine, Inc., P.S. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2004 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.55
 
Submanagement Agreement, dated January 1, 2005, between Reproductive Partners, Inc. and IntegraMed filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2005 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 

 
 

 


 
10
.56 *
 
2007 Long-Term Compensation Plan filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2007 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.57
 
Business Service Agreement, dated April 24, 2008, between IntegraMed and Southeastern Fertility Centers, P.A. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended March 31, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.58
 
Business Service Agreement, dated July 9, 2008, between IntegraMed and Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists Ltd. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2008 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
10
.59
 
First Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated December 1, 2009, by and among IntegraMed, Idaho Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C. and Idaho Reproductive Labs, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A on February 4, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.60
 
First Amended and Restated Management Agreement, dated December 1, 2009, by and among IntegraMed, Foulk & Whitten Nevada Center for Reproductive Medicine, P.C. and Nevada Reproductive Labs, Inc. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A on February 4, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto
 
 
10
.61
 
Management Agreement, dated December 1, 2009, by and between IntegraMed and Utah Fertility Center, P.C. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Registration Statement on Form S-1/A on February 4, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
 
.62
 
 
Amendment No. 7 dated, October 12, 2010, to Service Agreement Between IntegraMed America, Inc. and Reproductive Science Center of San Francisco Bay Area, a medical corporation, filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed America’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended September 30, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.63
 
Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement by and among IntegraMed America, Inc., Bank of America, T.D. Bank, N.A. and Webster Bank, N.A. dated May 21, 2010 and filed as an Exhibit on IntegraMed America’s Form 8-K dated May 21, 2010 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.64
 
First Amendment to Service Agreement dated January 14, 2011 by and between IntegraMed America, Inc. and Seattle Reproductive Medicine, Inc., P.S. filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed America’s Form 8-K dated January 14, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.
 
 
10
.65
 
First Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement Agreement dated March 2, 2011 by and among IntegraMed America, Inc., Bank of America, T.D. Bank, N.A and Webster Bank, N.A. filed as Exhibit No. 10.68 on IntegraMed America’s Form 8-K dated March 2, 2011
 
 
10
.66
 
Second Amendment to Third Amended and Restated Loan Agreement dated as of August 2, 2011 by and among IntegraMed, Bank of America, as administrative agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer and the lenders named therein filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Report on Form 10-Q for the quarterly period ended June 30, 2011 and incorporated herein by reference thereto.

 
 

 


 
10
.67
 
IntegraMed America, Inc. Long-Term Incentive Cash Award Plan effective as of January 1, 2012 and filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 2011
 
 
10
.68
 
Management Agreement between IntegraMed America, Inc. and UNC Fertility LLC dated February 1, 2011 and filed as an Exhibit to IntegraMed America’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended 2011.
 
 
21
.1
 
List of subsidiaries of IntegraMed America, Inc.
 
 
23
.1
 
Consent of EisnerAmper, LLP Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
 
23
.2
 
Consent of Amper, Politziner & Mattia, LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
 
 
31
.1
 
CEO Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 dated March 6, 2012.
 
 
31
.2
 
CFO Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 302 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 dated March 6, 2012.
 
 
32
.1
 
CEO Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 dated March 6, 2012.
 
 
32
.2
 
CFO Certification Pursuant to 18 U.S.C. § 1350 as Adopted Pursuant to Section 906 of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 dated March 6, 2012.
         
 
101
.INS
 
XBRL Instance Document
 
 
101
.SCH
.
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document
 
 
101
.CAL
 
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Document
 
 
101
.DEF
 
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Document
 
 
101
.LAB
 
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Document
 
 
101
.PRE
 
XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Document
 
 
 
   
*
Management Contract or Compensatory Plan or Arrangement