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Subsequent Events
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2024
Subsequent Events [Abstract]  
Subsequent Events Subsequent Events
Change Healthcare Funding Agreement
On February 21, 2024, we received notice from Change Healthcare (CHC), a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group (United) of a cybersecurity breach affecting some of CHC's information technology systems. At the time, CHC acted as an intermediary for processing the vast majority of our payment claims for domestic commercial and government payors. In response to the cybersecurity breach, both the Company and CHC severed those business service connections between our systems and CHC’s. As a result of the outage, the Company was unable to submit payment claims through CHC's platform. The Company was able to submit Medicare claims outside of CHC's platform, but experienced a significant reduction in cash flow during this period of time due to the CHC outage. On March 1, 2024, CHC launched a temporary assistance funding program to help bridge the gap in short-term cash flow needs for providers impacted by the disruption of CHC's services. Under the program, CHC provides funding to providers for amounts that would otherwise have been received (with certain limitations), but for the disruption in processing electronic claims as a result of the outage. Amounts provided under this program are subject to repayment within 45 business days of receiving notice from CHC that claims processing and payment processing services have been restored and payments impacted during the service disruption period are being processed. Such notice has not been received as of the date of this filing. As of April 30, 2024, DaVita had received approximately $472,000 of funds related to this program, which were utilized along with cash on hand to pay off the $765,000 previously outstanding on the Company's revolving line of credit under its senior secured credit facilities.
CHC began to restore claims submission functionality on March 28, 2024 and the Company has resumed submission of most of its commercial claims through CHC's platform, although the Company continues to experience payment collection delays. As of March 31, 2024, because the outage impacted the Company's ability to submit claims, our patient accounts receivable balances and days sales outstanding (DSO) increased, which ultimately negatively impacted our cash flows for the first quarter of 2024, and resulted in an increase in outstanding borrowings under our revolving credit facility. Subsequent to March 31, 2024, accounts receivable balances and DSO have declined and are expected to continue to decline over the next few months as we continue claims submissions and cash collections.
Fourth Amendment to Credit Agreement
The Company plans to enter into a fourth amendment to its existing credit agreement which is expected to extend the maturity date for approximately $1,640,300 of our senior secured term loan B-1 facility to 2031, among other things. The transaction is expected to close in May 2024, subject to agreement on and delivery of definitive documentation.