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17. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS
On April 24, 2025, the Company announced that the Genetic Testing for Oncology (L39365) LCD issued by the Medicare Administrative Contractor Novitas Solutions will go into effect, ending reimbursement for the Company’s PancraGEN® test, and that specimens for first-line fluid chemistry and PancraGEN® testing will not be accepted by the Company after May 2, 2025. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) delayed implementation by 60 days earlier in the year and confirmed finalization of the LCD on April 24, 2025.
On January 14, 2025, our board of directors approved a Restructuring Plan and cost-savings to reduce and better align its workforce with the anticipated loss of PancraGEN® coverage by CMS which occurred on April 24, 2025. Under the Restructuring Plan, the Company is reducing its workforce and impacted employees will be eligible to receive severance benefits. The Company expects to incur severance costs in the range of $0.5 million to $0.6 million to be recorded primarily in the second quarter of 2025 which is in addition to the $0.2 million previously recorded in the first quarter of 2025.
INTERPACE BIOSCIENCES, INC
Item 2. Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This quarterly report on Form 10-Q contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). Statements that are not historical facts, including statements about our plans, objectives, beliefs and expectations, are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements include statements preceded by, followed by or that include the words “believes,” “expects,” “anticipates,” “plans,” “estimates,” “intends,” “projects,” “should,” “could,” “may,” “will” or similar words and expressions. These forward-looking statements are contained throughout this Form 10-Q.
Forward-looking statements are only predictions and are not guarantees of future performance. These statements are based on current expectations and assumptions involving judgments about, among other things, future economic, competitive and market conditions and future business decisions, all of which are difficult or impossible to predict accurately and many of which are beyond our control. These predictions are also affected by known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause our actual results to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any forward-looking statement. Many of these factors are beyond our ability to control or predict. Our actual results could differ materially from the results contemplated by these forward-looking statements due to a number of factors. Such factors include, but are not limited to, the following:
Please see Part I – Item 1A – “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 filed with the SEC on March 31, 2025, and as amended on April 28, 2025, as well as other documents we file with the SEC from time-to-time, for other important factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from our current expectations as expressed in the forward-looking statements discussed in this Form 10-Q. Because of these and other risks, uncertainties and assumptions, you should not place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements. In addition, these statements speak only as of the date of the report in which they are set forth and, except as may be required by law, we undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statements for any reason.
OVERVIEW
We are a fully integrated commercial company that provides molecular diagnostics, bioinformatics and pathology services for evaluation of risk of cancer by leveraging the latest technology in personalized medicine for improved patient diagnosis and management. We develop and commercialize genomic tests and related first line assays principally focused on early detection of patients with indeterminate biopsies and at high risk of cancer using the latest technology.
Impact of Our Reliance on CMS and Novitas
Along with many laboratories, we will be negatively impacted by LCD DL39365, which was finalized on April 24, 2025 by our local Medicare Administrative Contractor, Novitas. This LCD, which governs “Genetic Testing for Oncology,” resulted in the loss of existing Medicare coverage for one of our molecular tests, PancraGEN®. On June 5, 2023 we announced that Novitas issued the final LCD of Genetic Testing for Oncology (L39365) which, if finalized, would have established non-coverage for the Company’s widely used PancraGEN® test effective July 17, 2023. On July 6, 2023, Novitas announced that it would not be implementing the final Genetic Testing for Oncology LCD (L39365) as scheduled on July 17, 2023. Novitas then issued a new virtually identical proposed LCD affecting the same companies and tests and reaching the same conclusions as noted in the previously rescinded LCD on July 27, 2023. In response, the Company participated in a public meeting presentation and submitted detailed written comments supporting the use of PancraGEN®. On July 29, 2024, we announced that CMS granted Novitas an undefined extension to the final decision for the LCD. As a result, we were able to continue offering PancraGEN® and the related Point2® fluid chemistry tests for amylase, CEA, and glucose for all of 2024.
On January 9, 2025, the Company announced the new LCD established non-coverage for its PancraGEN® test, and that it would stop offering the test and would not accept specimens for first-line fluid chemistry and PancraGEN® testing after February 7, 2025. As a result of the established non-coverage for PancraGEN®, the Company announced that its board of directors had approved a restructuring and cost-savings plan to reduce operating costs and better align its workforce with the loss of PancraGEN®. For more information, please see Restructuring below.
On January 27, 2025, the Company announced that CMS had directed its Medicare Administrative Contractors, Novitas and First Coast Service Options, Inc., to delay implementation of the Genetic Testing for Oncology LCD (L39365), from February 23, 2025 until April 24, 2025. On April 24, 2025, the Company announced that the LCD would take effect immediately. Because PancraGEN® is primarily ordered for Medicare patients, the decision to end reimbursement coverage means that the Company will not be able to continue offering this test. Specimens for first-line fluid chemistry and PancraGEN® testing were not accepted by the Company after May 2, 2025. As a result of the loss of PancraGEN®, the Company will begin implementing the Restructuring Plan and expects to incur restructuring and related costs in the range of $0.5 million to $0.6 million to be recorded primarily in the second quarter of 2025 which is in addition to the $0.2 million previously recorded in the first quarter of 2025.
Restructuring
As discussed above in “Impact of Our Reliance on CMS and Novitas,” on January 14, 2025, our board of directors approved a Restructuring Plan and cost-savings to reduce and better align its workforce with the anticipated loss of PancraGEN® coverage by CMS.
Under the Restructuring Plan, the Company would reduce its workforce and impacted employees would be eligible to receive severance benefits. The Company expects to incur severance costs in the range of $0.5 million to $0.6 million to be recorded primarily in the second quarter of 2025 which is in addition to the $0.2 million recorded in the first quarter of 2025.
Clinical Services
Our clinical services business commercializes clinically useful molecular diagnostic tests and molecular pathology services. We commercialize genomic tests and related first-line assays principally focused on risk-stratification of cancer using the latest technology to help personalize medicine and improve patient diagnosis and management. Our tests and services provide mutational analysis of genomic material contained in suspicious cysts, nodules, and lesions with the goal of better informing surgery or surveillance treatment decisions in patients suspected of thyroid, pancreatic, and other cancers. The molecular diagnostic tests we offer enable healthcare providers to stratify cancer risk, helping to avoid unnecessary surgical treatment in patients at low risk, while also helping to identify patients that would benefit from increased surveillance or surgical intervention.
We currently have three commercialized molecular diagnostic tests in the marketplace: ThyGeNEXT®, an expanded oncogenic mutation panel that helps “rule-in” and “rule-out” malignancy in thyroid nodules; ThyraMIR®v2, used in combination with ThyGeNEXT®, which further stratifies thyroid nodules for malignancy risk utilizing a proprietary microRNA gene expression classifier; and RespriDx® a genomic test that also utilizes our PathFinderTG® platform, to help physicians differentiate metastatic or recurrent lung cancer from the presence of newly formed primary lung cancer.
Revenue Recognition
Clinical services derive revenues from the performance of proprietary assays or tests. Our performance obligation is fulfilled upon completion, review and release of test results to the customer, at which time we bill third-party payers or direct-bill payers for the tests performed. Under Accounting Standards Codification 606, revenue is recognized based upon the estimated transaction price or NRV, which is determined based on historical collection rates by each payer category for each proprietary test offered. To the extent that the transaction price includes variable consideration, for all third party and direct-bill payers and proprietary tests, we estimate the amount of variable consideration that should be included in the transaction price using the expected value method based on historical experience.
The ultimate amounts received from the third-party and direct-bill payers and related estimated reimbursement rates are regularly reviewed and we adjust the NRVs and related contractual allowances accordingly. If actual collections and related NRVs vary significantly from our estimates, we adjust the estimates of contractual allowances, which affects net revenue in the period such variances become known.
Cost of Revenue
Cost of revenue consists primarily of the costs associated with operating our laboratory and other costs directly related to our tests. Personnel costs, which constitute the largest portion of cost of services, include all labor-related costs, such as salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits and payroll taxes for laboratory personnel. Other direct costs include, but are not limited to, laboratory supplies, certain consulting expenses, royalty expenses, and facility expenses.
CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, certain statements of operations data. The trends illustrated in this table may not be indicative of future results.
Consolidated Results of Continuing Operations for the Quarter Ended March 31, 2025 Compared to the Quarter Ended March 31, 2024 (in thousands)
Revenue, net
Revenue, net for the three months ended March 31, 2025 increased by $1.3 million, or 13%, to $11.5 million, compared to $10.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was driven by increased test volumes as compared to the prior year.
Cost of revenue
Cost of revenue for the three months ended March 31, 2025 was $4.1 million, as compared to $3.9 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase was primarily due to an increase in lab supplies related to test volume increases. As a percentage of revenue, cost of revenue was approximately 36% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 38% for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
Gross profit
Gross profit was approximately $7.4 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $6.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The gross profit percentage was approximately 64% for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and 62% for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
Sales and marketing expense
Sales and marketing expense was approximately $2.8 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024, respectively.
Research and development
Research and development expense was approximately $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
General and administrative
General and administrative expense was approximately $2.6 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $2.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase can be primarily attributed to an increase in employee costs in the first quarter of 2025.
Operating income
Operating income from continuing operations was $1.8 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $1.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The increase in operating income for the three months ended March 31, 2025 can be primarily attributed to the increase in revenue and gross profit discussed above.
Note payable interest expense
Note payable interest expense was $0.1 million for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $0.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2024. The interest expense was from the Term Loan.
Provision for income taxes
Income tax expense was approximately $18,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2025 and $4,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2024.
Loss from discontinued operations, net of tax
We had a loss from discontinued operations of approximately $0.1 million for both the three months ended March 31, 2025 and March 31, 2024.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to the GAAP results provided throughout this document, we have provided certain non-GAAP financial measures to help evaluate the results of our performance. We believe that these non-GAAP financial measures, when presented in conjunction with comparable GAAP financial measures, are useful to both management and investors in analyzing our ongoing business and operating performance. We believe that providing the non-GAAP information to investors, in addition to the GAAP presentation, allows investors to view our financial results in the way that management views financial results.
In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, we discuss Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP financial measure. Adjusted EBITDA is a metric used by management to measure cash flow of the ongoing business. Adjusted EBITDA is defined as income or loss from continuing operations, plus depreciation and amortization, non-cash stock-based compensation, severance expense, interest and taxes, and other non-cash expenses including change in fair value of notes payable. The table below includes a reconciliation of this non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure.
Reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA (Unaudited) ($ in thousands)
LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES
In October 2021, the Company entered into the Term Loan with BroadOak, providing for a term loan in the aggregate principal amount of $8,000,000. Funding of the Term Loan took place on November 1, 2021. The Term Loan was scheduled to mature upon the earlier of (i) October 31, 2024 or (ii) the occurrence of a change in control, and bears interest at the rate of 9% per annum. The Term Loan is secured by a security interest in substantially all the Company’s and its subsidiaries’ assets and was subordinate to the Company’s former $7,500,000 revolving credit facility with Comerica Bank. The Term Loan has an origination fee of 3% of the Term Loan amount, and a terminal payment equal to (i) 15% of the original principal amount of the Term Loan if the change of control occurs on or prior to the first anniversary of the funding of the Term Loan, (ii) 20% of the original principal amount of the Term Loan if the change of control occurs after the first anniversary but on or prior to the second anniversary of the funding of the Term Loan and (iii) 30% of the original principal amount of the Term Loan if the change of control occurs after the second anniversary of the funding of the Term Loan, or if the Term Loan is repaid on its maturity date. Upon receipt of the term loan, the proceeds were used to repay in full at their maturity the notes extended by Ampersand and 1315 Capital discussed above. See Note 13, Notes Payable, for more details. In May 2022, the Company issued a Convertible Note to BroadOak, pursuant to which BroadOak funded a term loan in the aggregate principal amount of $2.0 million which was converted into a subordinated term loan and was added to the outstanding balance of the Term Loan. See Note 13, Notes Payable, for more details.
On October 24, 2023, the Company entered into a Second Amendment to the Loan and Security Agreement with BroadOak (the “Second Amendment”). The primary changes to the Term Loan were as follows:
On March 29, 2024, the Company entered into a Third Amendment to the Loan and Security Agreement with BroadOak (the “Third Amendment”), extending the loan maturity date to June 30, 2025. The primary changes to the Second Amendment were as follows:
On January 14, 2025, the Company entered into a Fourth Amendment to the Loan and Security Agreement with BroadOak (the “Fourth Amendment”), extending the loan maturity date to December 31, 2025. The primary changes to the Third Amendment were as follows:
The Term Loan contains affirmative and negative restrictive covenants, including restrictions on certain mergers, acquisitions, investments and encumbrances which could adversely affect our ability to conduct our business. The Term Loan also contains customary events of default. The balance of the loan at March 31, 2025 was $2.9 million.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, we had operating income from continuing operations of $1.8 million. As of the three months ended March 31, 2025, we had cash and cash equivalents of $1.2 million, total current assets of $11.7 million and current liabilities of $8.7 million. As of May 2, 2025, we had approximately $1.6 million of cash and cash equivalents.
During the three months ended March 31, 2025, net cash provided by operating activities was $1.2 million. The main component of cash provided by operating activities was our net income of $1.6 million. During the three months ended March 31, 2024, net cash used in operating activities was $0.1 million. The main component of cash used in operating activities was our decrease in accrued salaries and bonus of $1.1 million.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, cash used in investing activities was zero. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, cash used in investing activities was primarily related to the purchase of lab equipment.
For the three months ended March 31, 2025, cash used in financing activities was $1.5 million, which were payments made on the Term Loan. For the three months ended March 31, 2024, cash used in financing activities was $0.6 million, which were payments made on the Term Loan.
We generated positive cash flows from operations for the three months ending March 31, 2025. We intend to meet our ongoing capital needs by using our available cash as well as through targeted margin improvement; collection of accounts receivable; containment of costs; and the potential use of other financing options and other strategic alternatives.
The Company continues to explore various strategic alternatives, dilutive and non-dilutive sources of funding, including equity and debt financings, strategic alliances, business development and other sources in order to provide additional liquidity. With the delisting of the Common Stock from Nasdaq in February 2021, our ability to raise additional capital on terms acceptable to the Company has been adversely impacted. There can be no assurance that the Company will be successful in obtaining such funding on terms acceptable to the Company. The Company may seek an uplisting of its Common Stock to Nasdaq, but no assurances can be given that a Nasdaq listing will be achieved.
Further, along with many laboratories, we will be negatively impacted by the LCD L39365, which was finalized on April 24, 2025 by our local Medicare Administrative Contractor, Novitas. This LCD, which governs “Genetic Testing for Oncology,” resulted in the loss of existing Medicare coverage for one of our molecular tests, PancraGEN®. On June 5, 2023 we announced that Novitas issued the final LCD of Genetic Testing for Oncology (L39365) which, if finalized, would have established non-coverage for the Company’s widely used PancraGEN® test effective July 17, 2023. On July 6, 2023, Novitas announced that it would not be implementing the final Genetic Testing for Oncology LCD (L39365) as scheduled on July 17, 2023. Novitas then issued a new virtually identical proposed LCD affecting the same companies and tests and reaching the same conclusions as noted in the previously rescinded LCD on July 27, 2023. In response, the Company participated in a public meeting presentation and submitted detailed written comments supporting the use of PancraGEN®. On July 29, 2024, the Company announced that CMS granted Novitas an undefined extension to the final decision for the LCD. As a result, we were able to continue offering PancraGEN® and the related Point2® fluid chemistry tests for amylase, CEA, and glucose for all of 2024.
On January 9, 2025, we announced that the new LCD established non-coverage for the Company’s PancraGEN® test, and that we would stop offering the test and would not accept specimens for first-line fluid chemistry and PancraGEN® testing after February 7, 2025. As a result of the established non-coverage for PancraGEN®, we announced, in January 2025, that our board of directors had approved the Restructuring Plan to reduce operating costs and better align our workforce with the loss of PancraGEN®. See “Restructuring.”
On January 27, 2025, the Company announced that CMS had directed its Medicare Administrative Contractors, Novitas and First Coast Service Options, Inc., to delay implementation of the Genetic Testing for Oncology LCD (L39365), from February 23, 2025 until April 24, 2025. On April 24, 2025, the Company announced that the LCD would take effect immediately and that specimens for first-line fluid chemistry and PancraGEN® testing will not be accepted by the Company after May 2, 2025. On April 25, 2025, the Company announced implementation of its previously approved Restructuring Plan. The Company expects the implementation of the Restructuring Plan to be substantially completed by the end of the second quarter of 2025. The Company expects to incur restructuring and related costs in the range of $0.5 million to $0.6 million to be recorded primarily in the second quarter of 2025 which is in addition to the $0.2 million recorded in the first quarter of 2025.
With the Company’s continued improvement in operating performance, as of the date of this filing, even with the loss of reimbursement coverage of PancraGEN®, the Company anticipates that current cash and cash equivalents and forecasted cash receipts will be sufficient to meet its anticipated cash requirements through the next twelve months from the date of the filing of this report.
Inflation
We do not believe that inflation had a significant impact on our results of operations for the periods presented. However, inflation and supply chain disruptions, whether caused by tariffs, restrictions or slowdowns in shipping or logistics, increases in demand for certain goods used in our operations, or otherwise, could impact our operations in the near term.
Critical Accounting Estimates
See Note 5, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies and Note 16, Recent Accounting Standards to the Interim Financial Statements included elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for information regarding newly adopted and recent accounting pronouncements. See also Note 1, Nature of Business and Significant Accounting Policies to our financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, as amended, for a discussion of our critical accounting policies. There have been no material changes to such critical accounting policies. We believe our most critical accounting policies include accounting for revenue recognition, leases, income taxes and stock-based compensation expense.
Item 3. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures About Market Risk
As a smaller reporting company, we are electing scaled disclosure reporting obligations and therefore are not required to provide the information requested by this Item.
Item 4. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Our principal executive officer and principal financial officer evaluated the effectiveness of our disclosure controls and procedures as of March 31, 2025. The term “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rules 13a-15(e) and 15d-15(e) under the Exchange Act, means controls and other procedures of a company that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported, within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives and management necessarily applies its judgment in evaluating the cost-benefit relationship of possible controls and procedures. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate, to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
Based on management’s evaluation of the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures, the principal executive officer and principal financial officer of the Company have identified a material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting in the quarterly period ended December 31, 2024 related to the accruing of royalty expense and the understanding of the complex agreements associated with the royalties, and have concluded that the Company’s disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of March 31, 2025 as a result of such material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
The Company has adopted a remediation plan, pursuant to which the Company is amending its internal controls to mitigate the material weakness which was identified by management, including holding quarterly meetings between the accounting department and lab management to discuss any agreements that may have been entered into during that quarter. The Company believes implementation of these processes and appropriate testing of their effectiveness will remediate the material weakness in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting.
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
Other than the material weakness and the adoption of the remediation plan discussed above, there has been no change in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined in Rule 13a-15(f) and 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) that occurred during the quarter covered by this report that has materially affected, or is reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1. Legal Proceedings
None.
Item 1A. Risk Factors
In addition to the other information set forth in this report, you should carefully consider the factors discussed in Part I, Item 1A, “Risk Factors” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K of the Company filed with the SEC on March 31, 2025, as amended, and as updated and supplemented below and in subsequent filings. These risk factors could materially harm our business, operating results and financial condition. Additional factors and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently consider immaterial also may materially adversely affect our business, financial condition or future results.
Item 2. Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities, Use of Proceeds and Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
None.
Item 3. Defaults Upon Senior Securities
None.
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures
None.
Item 5. Other Information
None.
Item 6. Exhibits
SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements 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.
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