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Description of Business
2 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2014
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]  
Description of Business
1.            Description of Business
 
Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc. (the “Company” or “ApolloMed”) and its affiliated physician groups are a physician-centric, integrated healthcare delivery system serving Medicare, Commercial and Medi-Cal beneficiaries in California.  As of March 31, 2014, ApolloMed’s physician network consisted of hospitalists, primary care physicians and specialist physicians primarily through the Company’s owned and affiliated physician groups. ApolloMed operates as a medical management holding company through the following wholly-owned subsidiary management companies: Apollo Medical Management, Inc. (“AMM”), Pulmonary Critical Care Management, Inc. (“PCCM”), Verdugo Medical Management, Inc. (“VMM”) and ApolloMed ACO, Inc. (“ApolloMed ACO”). Through AMM, PCCM, and VMM, the Company manages affiliated medical groups, which consisted of ApolloMed Hospitalists (“AMH"), ApolloMed Care Clinic (“ACC”), Maverick Medical Group, Inc. (“MMG”), Los Angeles Lung Center (“LALC”), and Eli Hendel, M.D., Inc. (“Hendel.”) AMM, PCCM and VMM each operate as a physician practice management company (“PPM”) and are in the business of providing management services to physician practice corporations (“PPC”) under long-term management service agreements. ApolloMedACO participates in the Medicare Shared Savings Program (“MSSP”), the goal of which is to improve the quality of patient care and outcomes through more efficient and coordinated approach among providers. 
 
Change in Fiscal Year
 
On May 16, 2014, the board of directors of Apollo Medical Holdings, Inc., or the "Company", approved a change to the Company's fiscal year end from January 31 to March 31.  The Company elected to change its fiscal year end in order to simplify business processes and to align the Company’s fiscal year with the reporting periods for other healthcare services reporting companies to allow for easier comparison and industry coverage. As a result of this change, this Transition Report on Form 10-Q includes the financial information for the two months transition period from February 1, 2014 to March 31, 2014, or "Transition Period". References in this Transition Report on Form 10-Q to fiscal year 2014 or fiscal 2014 refer to the period from February 1, 2014 through March 31, 2014 and references to fiscal year 2013 or fiscal 2013 refer to the period from February 1, 2013 through March 31, 2013. Prior to this Transition Report on Form 10-Q, the Company’s Annual Reports on Form 10-K covered the fiscal year from February 1 to January 31.