Medivolve Pivoting Towards Expansion of Service Offerings and Other Updates
15 November 2022 - 10:41AM
Medivolve Inc. (“
Medivolve” or the
“
Company“) (NEO: MEDV) (OTC: COPRF) (FRA: 4NC), a
healthcare technology and services company, has began its
transition towards other service offerings outside of COVID-19
testing.
As the pandemic has progressed with the rollout
of vaccines, boosters and increasing natural immunity the demand
for COVID-19 testing services has waned. With this current
decreasing patient demand combined with the cessation of the US
Government’s Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
COVID funding program in March of 2022, the Company is pivoting to
the expansion of other service offerings and focusing on the
collection of its existing receivables. As part of this pivot,
management has identified and closed five of its testing locations,
which all located outside of the state of California in order to
minimize losses, maintain cash reserves and keep open key testing
locations. If there were to be a surge in demand, the Company still
holds the leases and owns the infrastructure to quickly reopen the
closed locations.
The Company is now focusing on expanding other
service offerings outside of COVID-19, with an initial rollout of
remote patient monitoring planned for late Q4 2022 or early Q1
2023. The Company has identified a supplier for monitoring devices
and is in active discussions to procure retail space to offer these
devices to qualified patients. In addition, the Company is working
on credentialing with key payors as quickly as possible, in
parallel with exploring options to purchase entities with existing
credentialing. Credentialing refers to the process of applying to
health insurance networks for inclusion in their panels. This
service expansion will leverage the existing progress made with the
Management Service Organization (“MSO”) and telehealth platform.
The Company’s planned healthcare MSO will manage a telehealth
platform that connects patients with physicians, and facilitates
and manages the provision of virtual consultations, diagnosis, and
treatment services. Management envisions those clinical services
will be provided to patients by physicians through their
independent medical practices.
The Company is also designing a platform to help
physicians who provide care through the platform understand why
different patients with the same clinical diagnosis require
treatments with different medications, in turn helping them to
prescribe the most effective medications and treatments for each
patient, the first time. Expanding its initial scope of
development, the Company is also developing a framework to support
physicians in providing remote patient monitoring services as part
of its overall telehealth platform. Medivolve believes this
approach will lead to improvements in patient care, making it a
compelling alternative to telehealth service offerings currently in
the market.
The Company has made progress towards the
rollout of the telehealth platform in the third quarter:
- A partner has been identified and
final terms of the arrangement have been agreed for the MSO. The
Company is completing its diligence and exploring optimal tax
structuring strategies.
- Additional modules have been
created and developed for the telehealth platform technology stack.
These modules are now being put together in order to do a beta test
for the platform.
- The Company has a team that is
actively working on the credentialing process. The credentialing
process is complex and time consuming and varies by the payor and
thus in parallel with the billing team, the Company is exploring
options to purchase entities with an existing credentialing and has
retained a third-party expert in credentialing to assist the
Company in order to roll out new services as quickly as
possible.
Other Updates
In order to prevent exorbitant legal fees and
ensure full attention is put towards the expanded service
offerings, the Company agreed to settle a class action claim on
September 19, 2022, in the amount of $1,700,000 USD plus legal
costs estimated at $50,000 USD. This covers the period from June
17, 2017 to November 18, 2022 and related to claims arising prior
to David Preiner’s appointment as CEO of the Company. The Company
was able to negotiate payment terms rather than settling for a lump
sum payment in order to maintain cash reserves to roll out the
expanded service offerings.
About Medivolve
Medivolve (NEO: MEDV; OTC: COPRF; FRA: 4NC) is a healthcare
technology company that seeks to reinvent the US healthcare system
by leveraging a bespoke telehealth platform, a clinical diagnostic
network, and a data-driven AI framework to improve patient care.
The Company was born out of the healthcare crisis; to rethink,
relearn and ultimately, reimagine a better way for the healthcare
system to operate. Our network of retail collection sites play an
important role in recovery by giving Americans access to fast,
accurate, and inexpensive clinical services when and where they
need it. These centers will also play a pivotal role in diagnostic
testing, vaccinations, and other point-of-care services. We are
building disruptive technologies to make it easier and faster to
identify, treat, and prevent medical issues. In doing so, we are
working to give patients a holistic and empowered view of their
personal health. Our long-term mission is to address systemic
issues in the nation's fragmented, overly complex, and expensive
healthcare system. Medivolve's next phase of growth is about
pivoting the model and putting the pieces together to build a
profitable health-tech company. We are developing a singular,
streamlined technology network to provide data-driven physician
consultations, clinical diagnostics, and prescription services. Our
team is united by a powerful, singular purpose: harnessing the
transformative power of technology to create healthier lives.
Underpinned by a bespoke, AI-driven platform, we're developing a
system that constantly gets smarter, takes the guesswork out of
diagnostics, and flags critical health issues to help physicians,
delivering a high level of personalization for each patient.
For investing inquiries, please contact: David
Preiner, info@medivolve.ca, 702-990-3737.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-looking
Information
This press release contains "forward-looking information" within
the meaning of applicable Canadian securities legislation.
Forward-looking information includes, but is not limited to,
statements with respect to the deployment and features of the
Company’s telehealth platform, the Company’s ability to pivot its
business to expand its services beyond COVID-19 testing, the
settlement of legal claims. Generally, forward-looking information
can be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology such as
"plans", "expects" or "does not expect", "is expected", "budget",
"scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or
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and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may",
"could", "would", "might" or "will be taken", "occur" or "be
achieved". Forward-looking information is subject to known and
unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors that may cause the
actual results, level of activity, performance, or achievements of
the Company, as the case may be, to be materially different from
those expressed or implied by such forward-looking information,
including but not limited to: uncertainties relating to the demand
for a telehealth platform and pharmacy services; cash flow from
operations may be insufficient to fund planned growth; risks
inherent to the technological industry, including the emergence of
disruptive technologies that may impact the demand for the
Company’s products and services; receipt of necessary approvals;
general business, economic, competitive, political and social
uncertainties; accidents, labour disputes and shortages and other
risks of the healthcare and medical-related industries, and the
other risk factors discussed in the Company’s most recent annual
information form and management’s discussion and analysis,
available on SEDAR at www.sedar.com. Although the Company has
attempted to identify important factors that could cause actual
results to differ materially from those contained in forward
looking information, there may be other factors that cause results
not to be as anticipated, estimated or intended. There can be no
assurance that such information will prove to be accurate, as
actual results and future events could differ materially from those
anticipated in such statements. Accordingly, readers should not
place undue reliance on forward-looking information. The Company
does not undertake to update any forward-looking information,
except in accordance with applicable securities laws
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