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| So we feel pretty good about our unregulated cash position |
| We do expect to see significant continued improvement through plan operations and through member mix, where we would see that PMPM revenue increase |
| So between these two things, this gives us great confidence in the trajectory of our business and our ability to succeed in the long term |
| We've delivered favorable results each and every quarter this year driven by the strong unit economics of our core MA business on that PPO chassis and our differentiated care management platform that we continue to significantly invest in |
| This outcome maintained Clover's trend of significant year-over-year MCR improvement since 2021 |
| So heading into 2024, I hope that everybody gets a sense for the increasing confidence that we have in achieving our profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis in 2024 as well as the durability of that progress, setting us up for success in future years |
| We also had strong Clover Home Care coverage in 2023, which we expect to benefit our MedEx control throughout 2024 |
| Most importantly, this step change improvement in our Insurance results have translated to a full year 2023 adjusted EBITDA loss of $45 million, which is another significant improvement from 2022's loss of $290 million |
| I believe that this large improvement in gross profit and adjusted EBITDA demonstrates the rapid and outstanding progress we've made to our core business and is the result of clear focus by the Clover team |
| It remains our focus, and we are in striking distance of that and I feel good about that |
| We have also focused on significantly increasing value delivered through our care management platform, underpinned by Clover Assistant and Clover Home Care, which helps us deliver proactive care management at scale and bend the cost curve for our sickest members |
| Given this, we feel good about our member levels at mix as well as our ability to achieve our 2024 profitability goals |
| We expect these meaningful advancements in Clover Assistant's capabilities to continually improve the impact that our technology has on our business performance, and more importantly, continually improve the care that our members receive |
| In summary, we are obviously proud of our results and the momentum we have built in 2023 |
| So what we've done here, just to be clearer, is that we feel very good about the momentum and we feel very good about the improvement in the business |
| The investments we've made to build our care management platform and to empower more physicians with Clover Assistant technology have uniquely positioned us to deliver strong clinical and financial results within a PPO as our 2023 results show |
| Ultimately, we believe that we are the only Medicare Advantage plan with a wide network care management model that's centered on technology-empowered physicians, and this will lead to a sustainable growth advantage over our competitors |
| I'm very excited to be putting the finishing touches on a very strong year of execution for Clover |
| And I believe that our care management platform provides us with a unique ability to navigate any underlying shifts in industry trends |
| In summary, Clover delivered impressive progress on its path to profitability this year, a significant year-over-year improvement in its key operating metrics |
| Given that we do expect, publicly stated by other plans that they will be pulling back and repricing their products, we really do think that there’s an opportunity for us to leverage the fact that our technology-driven approach manages our membership much better than others, we believe |
| We believe that we are well positioned to deliver upon our initial outlook even as we have priced in headwinds that may be coming from broader industry utilization trends into this guidance |
| Put another way, if those trends do not develop, I believe we are well placed to achieve the high end of our range |
| Putting industry trends aside, we have significant momentum from the continued focused efforts that we have been executing on in the last two years, which will help us deliver profitable adjusted EBITDA in 2024 |
| You can expect us to continue to prudently manage our strong liquidity position as we work to achieve 2024 profitability on an adjusted EBITDA basis |
| The significant improvement in MCR since 2022 alone has driven a 181% improvement in our per member per month Insurance gross profit, which has increased from an $87 PMPM profit in 2022 to a $245 PMPM profit in 2023 |
| What's most important in my mind is that these impressive insurance results were generated within the context of a benefit-rich, wide network, PPO-first approach |
| We feel good about where we sit on the overall liquidity |
| We believe that we are well positioned to achieve the goals we've laid out for 2024 without the need for additional capital |
| As our business continues to mature, we strongly believe that the moat afforded by Clover Assistant and Clover Home Care, coupled with our focus and investments to improve our Stars performance, will allow us to expand our positioning from steady profitability to highly profitable growth |
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| Our Q4 and full year 2023 non-Insurance segment revenue each declined 68% versus the prior year periods, respectively, to $198 million in Q4 and $773 million for the full year |
| As industry-wide PPO penetration continues to expand from its current 43% and closer to the Clover PPO rate of 95%, we expect and already see that our peers will be confronted with increasing difficulty in managing their PPOs, especially since HMO and PPO frameworks are not easily interchangeable |
| Fourth quarter adjusted SG&A was $81 million, down 4% year-over-year |
| Second of all, I do think that when we look at Star ratings, it's much harder to predict your Star rating when you're growing significantly |
| I also think that, that has been a good strategic move on our part because those people who really took on a lot of PPO risk and didn’t have managed – those management capabilities, I think have had seen it be difficult for them to manage their performance because they don’t have something like Clover Assistant to provide their management capabilities on that wide network |
| So we guided to negative 20 to 20 (ph) |
| Going back to the first quarter of 2023, we did experience elevated trends year-over-year that continued to persist through year-end |
| Regarding ACO, we have been reducing -- we did exit last year, as everyone knows, and we have been lowering our exposure |
| We aren't saying that we are seeing that |
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