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UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549
FORM 10-K
(Mark One)
For the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024
or
For the transition period from ___________________ to ___________________
Commission File Number: 001-39100
Progyny, Inc.
(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)
(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)
(212) 888-3124
(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
Title of each class Trading Symbol(s) Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock,$0.0001 par value per share PGNY The Nasdaq Global Select Market
Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None
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As of January 31, 2025, the registrant had 85,413,283 shares of common stock, $0.0001 par value per share, outstanding.
DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE
Portions of the registrant’s Definitive Proxy Statement relating to its 2025 Annual Meeting of Stockholders to be filed within 120 days after the end of the fiscal year ended December 31, 2024 are incorporated by reference into Part III of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
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PROGYNY, INC.
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PART I
Item 1. Business 6
Item 1A. Risk Factors 20
Item 1B. Unresolved Staff Comments 44
Item 1C. Cybersecurity 44
Item 2. Properties 44
Item 3. Legal Proceedings 45
Item 4. Mine Safety Disclosures 45
PART II
Item 6. [Reserved] 48
Item 7A. Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk 61
Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data 62
Item 9A. Controls and Procedures 92
Item 9B. Other Information 95
Item 9C. Disclosure Regarding Foreign Jurisdictions that Prevent Inspections 95
PART III
Item 10. Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance 95
Item 11. Executive Compensation 95
Item 14. Principal Accountant Fees and Services 96
PART IV
Item 15. Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules 96
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CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. We intend such forward-looking statements to be covered by the safe harbor provisions for forward-looking statements contained in Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Securities Act, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act. All statements other than statements of historical fact contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are forward-looking statements, including, without limitation, statements regarding our future results of operations and financial position; our ability to acquire or invest in complementary businesses, products, and technologies; our ability to achieve profitability on an annual basis and sustain such profitability; the sufficiency of our cash and cash equivalents and anticipated sources and uses of cash; our business strategies, plans, objectives and goals; our ability to acquire new clients and successfully engage new and existing clients; our ability to effectively manage our growth; our ability to compete effectively with existing competitors and new market entrants; the impact of recently adopted accounting pronouncements; our ability to attract and retain qualified employees and key personnel; the plans and objectives of management for future operations and capital expenditures; general economic and market trends; the impact of public health emergencies on our business, operations, and the markets and communities in which we and our clients, members and providers operate; and the potential impact of evolving laws and regulations, including any laws and regulations restricting reproductive rights. These statements are neither promises nor guarantees, but involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements.
In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by terms such as “may,” “will,” “should,” “expect,” “plan,” “anticipate,” “could,” “intend,” “target,” “project,” “contemplate,” “believe,” “estimate,” “predict,” “potential,” “seek,” “assume,” “future,” “continue” or “aim” or the negative of these terms or other similar expressions. The forward-looking statements in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are only predictions. We have based these forward-looking statements largely on our current expectations and projections about future events and financial trends that we believe may affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. These forward-looking statements speak only as of the date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and are subject to a number of important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward-looking statements, including the factors described under Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” and Part II, Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
In addition, statements such as “we believe” and similar statements reflect our beliefs and opinions on the relevant subject. These statements are based upon information available to us as of the filing date of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and while we believe such information forms a reasonable basis for such statements, such information may be limited or incomplete, and our statements should not be read to indicate that we have conducted an exhaustive inquiry into, or review of, all potentially available relevant information. These statements are inherently uncertain, and investors are cautioned not to unduly rely upon these statements.
You should read this Annual Report on Form 10-K and the documents that we reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K completely and with the understanding that our actual future results may be materially different from what we expect. We qualify all of our forward-looking statements by these cautionary statements. Except as required by applicable law, we do not plan to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statements contained herein, whether as a result of any new information, future events, changed circumstances or otherwise.
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SUMMARY OF RISKS AFFECTING OUR BUSINESS
Below is a summary of the principal factors that make an investment in our common stock speculative or risky. This summary does not address all of the risks and uncertainties that we face. Additional discussion of the risks summarized in this risk factor summary, and other risks and uncertainties that we face, can be found under the heading “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A. of this Annual Report on Form 10-K and should be carefully considered, together with other information in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and our other filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, or the SEC, before making an investment decision regarding our common stock.
•We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business and future results of operations, which would cause our stock price to decline.
•The market in which we operate is highly competitive, and, if we do not continue to compete effectively, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed.
•Unfavorable conditions in the global economy or our industry could limit our ability to grow our business and negatively affect our results of operations.
•Our business depends on our ability to retain our existing clients and increase the adoption of our services within our client base. Any failure to do so would harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•Our largest clients account for a significant portion of our revenue, and a significant number of our clients are in the technology industry. The loss of one or more of these clients, changes to pricing terms with these clients or changes within the technology industry could negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•If we are unable to attract new clients, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected.
•A significant change in the utilization of our fertility solutions, including the consumption rate or the mix of utilization, could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•Acquisitions, strategic investments, or partnerships could be difficult to identify, pose integration challenges, divert the attention of management, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value, and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•We have a limited operating history with our current platform of solutions, which makes it difficult to predict our future results of operations.
•The health benefits industry may be subject to negative publicity, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
•If our information technology systems, or those of the third parties with whom we do business, including our provider clinics, specialty pharmacies or other vendors, lag, fail or suffer cybersecurity breaches, we may experience a material disruption of our services or suffer a loss or inappropriate disclosure of confidential information, which could materially impact our business and results of operations.
•Our business depends on our ability to maintain our Center of Excellence network of high-quality fertility specialists and other healthcare providers. If we are unable to do so, our future growth would be limited and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be harmed.
•Our growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with, and monitoring of, third parties, including channel partners and vendors as well as insurance carriers.
•If we fail to maintain an efficient pharmacy distribution network or if there is a disruption to our network of specialty pharmacies or their supply chains, our business, financial condition and results of operations could suffer.
•We operate in a highly regulated industry and must comply with a significant number of new and evolving legal and regulatory requirements, as well as complex judicial mandates.
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•We are part of the broader healthcare industry and subject to increasing scrutiny and regulation within our business, including with respect to Progyny Rx’s PBM operations, which may adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
GENERAL
Unless the context otherwise indicates, references in this Annual Report on Form 10-K to the terms “Progyny,” “the Company,” “we,” “our” and “us” refer to Progyny, Inc. and its wholly owned subsidiaries.
“Progyny®” and our other registered and common law trade names, trademarks and service marks are the property of Progyny, Inc. Other trade names, trademarks and service marks used in this Annual Report on Form 10-K are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, the trademarks and trade names in this Annual Report on Form 10-K may be referred to without the ® and TM symbols, but such references should not be construed as any indicator that their respective owners will not assert their rights thereto.
MARKET, INDUSTRY AND OTHER DATA
This Annual Report on Form 10-K contains statistical data, estimates and forecasts that are based on independent industry publications and other publicly available information, as well as other information based on our internal sources. This information involves many assumptions and limitations, and you are cautioned not to give undue weight to these estimates. We have not independently verified the accuracy or completeness of the data contained in these industry publications and other publicly available information. Further, while we believe our internal research is reliable, such research has not been verified by any third party. The industry in which we operate is subject to a high degree of uncertainty and risk due to a variety of factors, including those described under Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, that could cause results to differ materially from those expressed in these publications and other publicly available information.
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PART I
ITEM 1. BUSINESS
Overview
We envision a world where everyone can realize their dreams of family and ideal health. Our mission is to empower healthier, supported journeys through transformative fertility, family building and women's health benefits. Through our differentiated approach to benefits plan design, member education and support and active network management, our clients’ employees are able to pursue the most effective treatment across life's milestones from the best providers and achieve optimal outcomes.
Progyny is a leading benefits management company specializing in fertility, family building and women's health benefits solutions in the United States. Our clients include many of the nation’s most prominent employers across a broad array of industries. We launched our fertility benefits solution in 2016 with our first five employer clients, and we have grown our current base of clients to more than 530 employers, each with at least 1,000 covered lives. We currently have contracts to provide coverage to approximately 6.7 million employees and their covered dependents (known in our industry as covered lives, and to whom we refer to as our members). We have achieved this growth by demonstrating that our purpose-built, data-driven and disruptive platform consistently delivers superior clinical outcomes in a cost-efficient manner, while driving exceptional client and member satisfaction. We have retained substantially all of our clients since we launched our fertility benefits solution, and our member satisfaction is evidenced by our most recent industry-leading Net Promoter Score, or NPS, of +79 for our fertility benefits solution and +84 for Progyny Rx, our integrated pharmacy benefits solution, as of December 31, 2024.
We are redefining fertility and family building benefits, proving that a comprehensive fertility solution can simultaneously benefit employers, members and providers. We believe the value proposition we deliver to all of these constituents is key to our success and growth. By empowering our members with education, guidance and financial support, and enabling high-quality fertility specialists to use the latest science and technologies, our solution leads to the development of customized treatment plans that result in optimal clinical outcomes for our members and cost savings for our clients.
In order to simplify the process for our members, we offer our proprietary Smart Cycle approach. Smart Cycles are designed by us to include the medical services required for a member’s full course of treatment, including all necessary diagnostic testing and access to the latest technology. In conjunction with the Smart Cycle plan design, each member who utilizes our benefit has a dedicated Patient Care Advocate, or PCA, who has fertility expertise and provides end-to-end concierge support, including logistical support (i.e., fertility specialist selection, appointment scheduling, treatment authorization and treatment payment), clinical guidance (i.e., treatment options, outcomes statistics and what to expect) and emotional support during the often challenging and unpredictable fertility journey. Additionally, all Progyny members have access to our selective network of high-quality fertility specialists, who we equip with a benefits design that enables them to pursue the best treatment pathways, providing our members with tailored treatments that result in optimal clinical outcomes.
In addition to our fertility benefits solution, we offer an integrated pharmacy benefits solution, Progyny Rx, which can be added by our clients. Progyny Rx provides our members with access to the medications needed during their fertility treatment. As part of this solution, we provide care management services, which include our formulary plan design, simplified authorization, assistance with prescription fulfillment and timely delivery of the medications by our network of specialty pharmacies, as well as medication administration training, pharmacy support services and continuing PCA support. We also expanded our solutions to include a preconception, maternity and postpartum care offering as well as a menopause and midlife care offering.
We have demonstrated our ability to drive better outcomes for our clients, members and provider clinics across multiple metrics. Provider clinics in our network produce outcomes that surpass their own reported practice averages when treating Progyny members because of our differentiated solution. Additionally, across our membership, our outcomes compared to national averages have been consistently superior to date.
Industry Background
The prevalence of infertility is high, affecting one in five married women aged 15 to 49 years with no prior births in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, and there is increasing
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awareness around infertility as a disease as more individuals are openly discussing their struggles with fertility. As transparency and dialogue around infertility have increased, there has been a de-stigmatization of the disease. Despite this change in perception of infertility and its high prevalence, it is one of the only high-prevalence medical conditions with limited or non-existent medical insurance. By comparison, medical conditions with similar prevalence, such as diabetes and asthma, are comprehensively covered by conventional health insurance carriers and employers. Due to the high prevalence of infertility, its high costs of treatment and the limited insurance coverage provided for this disease, there is a significant unmet need for fertility services in the United States, and several macro trends are driving the need for fertility treatments and propelling the overall size of the fertility market.
While fertility treatments have been available for over 40 years to help individuals suffering from infertility build their families, access to these treatments has been limited due to the lack of comprehensive coverage and the prohibitive costs. We believe that the lack of adequate coverage has been the result of both broader public policy issues, as well as conventional health insurance carrier-specific policies. For example, it was not until 2017 that infertility was first recognized as a disease by the American Medical Association, and, as of February 2025, only 22 states and the District of Columbia have mandated insurance coverage for infertility. For the states that do mandate coverage, the mandates vary greatly and may leave patients with inadequate coverage or unable to pursue care at all. When conventional health insurance carriers have chosen to structure fertility coverage for their employer clients, that coverage often has limited lifetime dollar maximums and clinically antiquated "one size fits all" clinical protocols, such as mandated step therapy protocols.
Major cultural shifts and the evolving demographics of the workforce in the United States are driving demand for fertility treatments and adequate coverage to support them. More individuals than ever are making the choice to start their families later in life, increasing the biological likelihood of infertility as an individual's fertility declines with age. Additionally, the increased acceptance of non-traditional paths to parenthood has created an increased need for access to fertility treatments. As employees are demanding more robust fertility benefits coverage, employers are increasingly focused on providing a comprehensive fertility benefits solution that supports an inclusive and diverse workplace in order to attract and retain top employees. Because employers in the same industry are competing for employee talent, once the availability of fertility benefits begins to penetrate a particular industry, a demonstrable network effect occurs in which employees within that industry begin to expect the benefit from their employers, which can cause an employer to adopt the benefit to remain competitive and bolster employee satisfaction and retention.
Industry Challenges
We believe employers are faced with three major challenges related to providing fertility benefits to their employee bases:
•the lack of a comprehensive fertility benefits solution that optimizes their fertility treatment expenditures;
•the need to reduce the significant maternity and neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, expenses resulting from multiple births caused by fertility treatments and the resulting workplace impact; and
•the desire to find innovative ways to attract and retain highly sought-after talent.
Employers are seeing an increasing demand for fertility and family building benefits solutions from their employees, yet the programs offered by their conventional health insurance carriers do not successfully address these core challenges. Driven by these market dynamics, the market for fertility treatments has grown as more individuals pursue treatment. Given this increasing demand coupled with inadequate existing coverage, there is a greater need for a fertility benefits manager that can provide comprehensive and effective benefits to the employer market.
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Lack of Effective Fertility Benefits Solutions
The conventional fertility benefits options available to employers have been designed to control the utilization of services (and expenditures) by employees rather than to optimize outcomes. As such, their plan designs have included restrictive features, such as lifetime dollar maximums, mandated step therapy protocols and limited or no coverage for advanced diagnostics and procedures. In addition, these plan designs have failed to provide access to premier fertility specialists, robust patient support and the ability to dispense fertility medication in a timely manner.
When conventional fertility benefits coverage is restrictively structured with a lifetime dollar maximum, the patient often makes poor clinical decisions that ultimately result in greater costs for the employer. Because the dollar maximum can easily be exhausted in the midst of a fertility treatment cycle, patients may elect to transfer multiple embryos because they are under financial pressure and mistakenly believe that it will optimize their chance of becoming pregnant. The common use of multiple embryo transfer belies the fact that this procedure greatly increases the risk of multiple births and health complications among the mother and babies. One of the most common complications associated with multiples is preterm births, which significantly increases healthcare costs, including maternity care, labor and delivery costs and NICU expenses. Conventional health insurance carriers also often mandate step therapy protocols and restrict access to use of advanced diagnostics and procedures, which exacerbates the inefficient utilization of dollars available under the lifetime dollar maximum and wastes valuable time on less effective treatments.
The fertility process is a long, rigorous journey, both emotionally and physically. Conventional benefits programs lack meaningful care coordination, education or patient support. Patients and their dependents have no help in understanding the complex choices they are faced with and discerning between treatment alternatives. There is also limited emotional support when patients face setbacks or unexpected outcomes as the current system ignores the emotional burden of patients embarking on the path to pregnancy through assisted reproductive technology, or ART, treatments and the impact that burden has on employee productivity and the workplace.
The conventional pharmacy delivery infrastructure is not designed to address the uniqueness of fertility treatment, which requires highly coordinated and timely delivery of medications. Conventional benefits managers require extensive and multiple authorizations and have inconsistent approval processes, which can complicate and delay the provision of medications that are essential to fertility treatment. We believe that authorization and delivery times of one to two weeks are typical for conventional benefits programs. If medications are not received on time, patients may have to wait a month or longer to commence another round of fertility treatment, wasting valuable time and money. In addition, the storage, preparation and administration of fertility medication is complex and requires extensive self-administered injections, yet most fertility benefits solutions offer limited guidance and clinical support to patients around these issues. Additionally, because fertility medications are often self-administered injectable drugs, the effectiveness of a patient’s treatment may be compromised by improper storage and/or incorrect administration of their medications if the patient is not provided access to education and support.
Because of the unique challenges of infertility, including high costs and complexity of treatment and the variability of outcomes across fertility specialists, conventional benefits solutions have been unable to optimize outcomes and efficiently utilize employers’ dollars committed to fertility. As a result, employers are facing increased demand for an expensive benefits program without the availability of an effective solution in the conventional managed care environment.
Costs Associated with Multiple Births and Poor Fertility Treatment Outcomes
Regardless of whether an employer chooses to cover fertility treatments, they end up bearing the significant medical costs associated with unanticipated multiple births and miscarriages, as well as the associated impacts on the workplace. The high number of multiple embryo transfers that conventionally occurs during IVF leads to a significant number of multiple births, which in turn is a primary cause of dangerous and expensive preterm births, the most common complication resulting from multiple births, which lead to extensive maternity and NICU costs. In addition to multiple birth rates, the relatively higher miscarriage rate associated with IVF treatment leads to significant additional medical costs for employers and their employees, as well as emotional and physical strain on patients. As a result of these suboptimal treatment outcomes, employers also bear the related costs of increased employee absenteeism at the workplace, which is common with instances of multiples births. Employers may not be fully aware of the causal effect and ultimate impact of suboptimal fertility care under the current solutions offered by the conventional benefits programs since these programs do not collect outcomes data from their fertility specialists and therefore cannot accurately report on their program’s performance in a timely manner.
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Ability to Attract and Retain Talent
Employers are facing increasing competition to attract and retain talent. As a result, we believe that employers are enhancing their value proposition to employees by evaluating and providing benefits that are most in demand. Family building solutions are an increasing area of focus for employees, and in turn, employers.
Market Opportunity
We believe we have a significant opportunity to provide employers with a superior comprehensive solution that addresses the unique challenges and complexities of fertility treatment and related fertility pharmacy services. We estimate that the market for fertility treatments in the United States will continue to grow, especially as current estimates of the market exclude those individuals who do not have access to a comprehensive family building benefit and, as a result, do not seek treatment for infertility. Furthermore, when comparing the United States to other countries, the percentage of babies born utilizing ART is materially lower, at approximately 2% in the United States (where fertility treatment is not adequately covered), compared to approximately 10% in Denmark and more than 8% in Japan (where there is more public health funding for fertility treatment).
We contract with employers to provide fertility and family building benefits to their employees and covered dependents. We believe our addressable market primarily consists of large self-insured employers as well as labor populations under the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (also known as the Taft-Hartley Act) and federal government populations. There are approximately 8,000 employers in the United States who have a minimum of 1,000 employees, who together with the Taft-Hartley populations and federal government populations, represent approximately 106 million potential covered lives in total. As such, we estimate that our current member base of 6.7 million covered lives under contract represents a mid-single digit percent of our total market opportunity.
Regardless of whether or not these employers currently provide a fertility benefit, we believe they are prospective clients of Progyny. Further, 40% of our current clients had no prior fertility coverage before adopting the Progyny benefit, and 92% of our current clients enhanced their coverage when they switched to Progyny. Overall, we believe our market opportunity is substantial and is continuing to grow as a result of the rising demand for fertility benefits solutions, the lack of adequate offerings in the market today and the increased awareness of the challenges of infertility that we are helping to drive.
Solutions
We are redefining effective fertility and family building benefits through our purpose-built, data-driven and disruptive platform through which we offer our fertility benefits and Progyny Rx solutions. Our innovative and comprehensive fertility solution has proven to be simultaneously beneficial for our clients, our members and our network of fertility specialists. Through our differentiated approach to benefits plan design, patient education and support and active network management, our clients’ employees are able to pursue the most effective treatment from the best fertility specialists and achieve optimal outcomes in a cost-efficient manner, while our clients and members achieve savings in upfront treatment costs as well as reduced maternity and NICU expenses.
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Fertility Benefits Solution
Differentiated Benefits Plan Design
The innovative Smart Cycle is our proprietary, easy-to-understand fertility benefits design. Our Smart Cycle plan design allows members equitable access to the treatment they need and is designed to drive superior outcomes and reduce both upfront treatment expenses and subsequent costs. Everything needed for a comprehensive fertility treatment is contained within a Smart Cycle treatment bundle, including all necessary diagnostic testing and access to the latest technology (e.g., in the case of IVF treatment, preimplantation genetic testing). We currently offer 20 different Smart Cycle treatment bundles, which may be used independently or in combination depending on a member’s need. Each Smart Cycle has a separate unit value (i.e., some have fractional values and some have whole values). Our clients contract to purchase a cumulative Smart Cycle unit value per eligible member. These can range from one to unlimited cumulative Smart Cycles units. Members can choose their preferred provider clinics within our network and utilize their Smart Cycles for whichever treatments they and their fertility specialists determine to be necessary throughout their fertility journey.
The Smart Cycle structure allows our members, together with the advice of their fertility specialists and the support of their PCAs, to select the Smart Cycle treatment bundles that align with their unique treatment needs and their intended family building pathway, without having to follow the “one size fits all” protocols common to conventional health insurance carriers, and without the worry that their desired treatment approach will not be authorized or covered for the full treatment cycle. Our comprehensive Smart Cycles, which are our proprietary treatment bundles, are assessed regularly by our Medical Advisory Board, and include access to the latest science and technologies, enabling our network of fertility specialists to utilize best practices. Our superior clinical outcomes driven by our Smart Cycle plan design include higher rates of pregnancy and live births, as well as lower miscarriage rates and fewer multiple births.
Personalized Concierge-Style Member Support Services
Our fertility benefits solution provides members with access to significant support services that are crucial to the success of the fertility and family building journey. Before the fertility treatment process begins, and throughout every step of the fertility journey, we deliver high-touch member support services through a dedicated PCA, who is paired to a member and interacts with them an average of 15 times over the course of their treatment. Our PCAs have deep fertility expertise and provide extensive clinical education, guidance and emotional support to our members. Additionally, we have an in-house clinical staff, comprised of professionals with substantial expertise in reproductive endocrinology, fertility nursing, clinical psychology and social work who design our PCA training curriculum and direct our comprehensive member experience.
Our comprehensive member portal, accessible via any desktop or mobile device or via the mobile application, further supports the member experience by providing key educational resources and easy-to-access benefits information to our members. Our members can use the portal to securely message their PCA or access a curated library of videos, articles, podcasts and webinars on fertility and family building. The portal also offers digital solutions that help our members address the emotional effects that are often associated with infertility, including loss, self-blame, anxiety and depression. Additionally, the portal can be used to review plan coverage, benefit utilization, claim details and account balances. We believe our platform provides our members with best-in-class support services to help them navigate their fertility and family building journeys.
Selective Network of High-Quality Fertility Specialists
We have utilized our deep industry knowledge and the insights derived from our data analytics platform to establish and actively manage a national network of leading fertility specialists in the United States. Our members receive access to our selective Center of Excellence network of high-quality providers that includes over 1,050 fertility specialists who practice at over 650 provider clinic locations throughout the United States and over 1,140 specialists in total when including reproductive urologists. Our network includes 45 of the top 50 fertility practice groups by volume in the United States according to 2022 CDC data, which was published in 2024 and is the most recent data available. Fertility specialists who are invited to join our network must meet and maintain rigorous credentialing standards and quality thresholds that we set for inclusion in our network to ensure that our members receive the highest quality care. Our national network serves members in virtually every state, providing extensive geographic coverage to our national employers.
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Progyny Rx, an Integrated Pharmacy Benefits Solution
Progyny Rx is our integrated pharmacy benefits solution that can be added by clients that utilize our fertility benefits solution. This solution provides our members with access to the medications needed during their treatment. As part of this solution, we provide care management services, which include our formulary plan design, simplified authorization, assistance with prescription fulfillment and timely delivery of the medications by our network of specialty pharmacies, as well as medication administration training, pharmacy support services and continuing PCA support. Our single treatment and medication authorization process reduces the administrative burden, creating an efficient pharmacy solution for our members and their fertility specialists. Progyny Rx reduces dispensing and delivery time to two days to eliminate the risk of missed treatment cycles. Our single medication authorization and delivery process ensures that our members will not miss or delay cycles. We provide access to phone-based, clinical education and support seven days a week to ensure that our members understand any necessary medication storage requirements and administration techniques, including injection training. To further support members who require additional education, we also offer a library of on-demand videos. Given the importance of the timely use of medication to the success of fertility treatments, and the complexity involved in administering the medications, we believe Progyny Rx provides a differentiated and effective pharmacy solution for our clients and their employees.
Robust Data Collection Process
We believe that we are the only fertility and family building benefits company to collect data in a timely manner directly from providers on adherence to treatment protocols and clinical outcomes, including single embryo transfer rates, pregnancy rates, miscarriage rates, live birth rates, multiple birth rates, practice patterns, treatment timelines and costs per birth. Our data is used to understand the utilization of our benefits, our provider clinics’ adherence to best practices and the outcomes produced by each clinic and across our network. This data informs decisions across our platform, from services covered to our fertility network standards. The insights from our data also enable us to actively manage our fertility specialist network and ensure that our fertility specialists are utilizing best practices and optimizing outcomes. The data collection process also includes extensive member surveys, which allow us to understand and improve our member experience and satisfaction. Finally, our data allows us to provide our clients with unique and detailed reports in order to provide full transparency into the utilization of their benefit program, their expenditures and the outcomes delivered and value created. We believe that we effectively utilize our thorough data collection and analysis process and our unique and robust data set to continuously improve the client and member experience across our platform.
Prestigious Medical Advisory Board
Our Medical Advisory Board is comprised of nationally recognized fertility specialists who are advancing fertility science and research. They are responsible for oversight of key clinical issues, including evaluating new fertility treatment diagnostics and procedures to ensure that our benefits design and overall program is comprehensive and designed to drive to the best outcomes. This review ensures that we are evaluating and covering the latest and most effective fertility treatments and identifying opportunities to improve our plan design, member experience and fertility specialists network standards.
Full Service Client Success
We provide a dedicated client success team to help ensure that we are delivering superior service. Our client success managers support our clients’ day-to-day needs and resolve issues that arise. For example, to help our clients ensure that their employees are fully aware of the Progyny program, our client success teams work with our clients to create co-branded materials to support health fairs, open enrollment events and other employee communications. The client success team also attends open enrollment benefits fairs and other health fairs throughout the year and hosts virtual open enrollment webinars for members to attend live or on-demand. Our client success team also reviews all program reports with our clients to reinforce the transparency we provide to clients into their expenditures and outcomes and to review and quantify the value created by our solutions. We believe our client success services, including our detailed client reporting, play an important role in helping us maintain and strengthen our client relationships.
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Ease of Integration for Our Clients
Once we are selected by an employer to manage their fertility and family building benefit, our solution is easy to implement as part of their broader pre-tax medical benefits package. Integrating our solution involves only a small commitment of our client's time (typically only six to ten hours over the course of six weeks). Underlying the ease of integration is the fact that we have developed multiple integration solutions that allow us to integrate with any health plan or health insurance carrier, reducing significant time and expense for our clients. Our ability to integrate our solution with our clients' health insurance plan allows our benefit to be offered to employees on a pre-tax basis, providing our members with significant savings in comparison to a post-tax reimbursement. We believe our ability to integrate our benefits solutions with all of the large national health insurance carriers is a differentiating factor within the industry.
Assistance Service Reimbursement Programs
We also offer an assistance service program where certain services can be offered through a reimbursement program, including adoption, surrogacy, doula, and travel reimbursement when travel is required to receive medical services. We can manage the reimbursement of these expenses for those clients who offer such reimbursement benefits. For these programs, employers designate a specific lifetime dollar amount toward the elected assistance service for their employees. We then administer the expense reimbursement to employees up to this dollar amount. We work with our clients to determine what expenses related to adoption or surrogacy or any other elected benefit will be covered under their plan, thereby alleviating their administrative burden.
Value Proposition
We believe that our competitive success is a function of our ability to concurrently: (1) provide tangible financial value to our clients; (2) deliver a better and more supported fertility journey to our members; and (3) provide value to, and work collaboratively with, the nation’s leading fertility specialists.
We Provide Measurable Value to Our Employer Clients
•Substantial and Measurable Financial Value. Our superior clinical outcomes drive savings in both upfront fertility treatment costs (due to our higher live birth rates) as well as subsequent maternity and NICU expenses for our clients (due to our lower multiple birth rates).
•Progyny Rx Savings. Progyny Rx delivers unit cost savings to our clients based on a reduction in unnecessary quantities of medication dispensed.
•Employee Productivity and Retention. Our solution addresses employee absenteeism, poor productivity, and the lack of employee retention driven by the stress of suffering from infertility (and undergoing fertility treatment) as well as the return-to-work issues related to multiple births. Our members are able to receive the most effective treatments more quickly and have access to high-touch member support services through our PCAs, thereby reducing the physical and emotional rigors of infertility and its treatment.
•Appeal to Existing and Prospective Employees. Better fertility benefits programs can be a key component to enhancing a company’s overall benefits program and an important tool in its recruiting efforts and in helping retain key talent. An appealing feature of the Progyny benefit from an employee retention perspective is that the benefit is both comprehensive and is accessible by all groups across an employee population. The level of employee satisfaction we provide is important for any employer focused on employee retention.
We Provide Meaningful Value to Our Members
•Superior Clinical Outcomes. Our members experience healthier pregnancies (with significantly increased utilization of single embryo transfer) and superior rates of pregnancy and live births, as well as reduced rates of miscarriages and multiple births, saving valuable time and money and limiting personal and professional disruption.
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Live birth rate per attempted retrieval(2) 34.9 % 36.8 % 46.7 %
Single embryo transfer rate(1) 78.9 % 80.8 % 96.6 %
Pregnancy rate per IVF transfer(1) 54.3 % 55.6 % 60.8 %
Live birth rate per transfer(2) 42.2 % 43.2 % 52.1 %
IVF multiples rate(2) 5.8 % 5.4 % 2.1 %
(1)Calculated based on the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, or SART, 2021 National Summary Report, finalized in 2024.
(2)Calculated based on CDC, 2022 National Summary and Clinic Data Sets, published in 2024.
(3)Calculated based on the 12-month period ended December 31, 2023.
•Comprehensive Coverage. We provide all individuals with access to comprehensive coverage. Our Smart Cycle design ensures that members always have coverage for a full treatment cycle as their access to treatment is not limited by a dollar maximum that could be exhausted mid-treatment. Additionally, members have access to the latest technologies and procedures, which are reviewed and approved by our Medical Advisory Board.
•Access for All Employees and Dependents. Smart Cycles are available to be utilized across all employee groups, including populations not typically covered.
•Equitable Access to Care. Our Smart Cycle design ensures members receive fair and balanced access to care that is not dependent on where members live, how expensive a fertility specialist is or which specific treatments are required.
•High-Touch Concierge Member Experience. We provide our members with high-touch, end-to-end concierge support, including logistical assistance, clinical guidance and emotional support through our PCAs and our in-house clinical staff.
•Access to Selective, Premier Fertility Specialist Network. Our solution provides members with access to the nation’s leading fertility specialists, including over 1,050 fertility specialists who practice at over 650 provider clinic locations throughout the United States. Our network includes 45 of the top 50 fertility practice groups by volume in the United States according to 2022 CDC data.
•Integrated Pharmacy Benefits Solution. Progyny Rx provides members with a simplified authorization process, timely medication delivery and member support from pharmacy clinicians seven days a week.
We Provide Meaningful Value to Our Fertility Specialists
•Members Supported with a Comprehensive Benefit. Our solutions allow our members to arrive at their fertility specialist with a fully-covered course of treatment and the flexibility to utilize the latest approved technologies and best practices via our comprehensive Smart Cycle benefits plan design. Members are also educated on the use of best practices and are supported by PCAs throughout their fertility journey.
•Eliminate Step Therapy Protocols. Our network of fertility specialists have access to the latest science and technologies through our innovative Smart Cycles, which free our fertility specialists from having to follow the ineffective protocols common to conventional coverage and allow them to pursue the most effective treatments first, thereby saving time and money.
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•Simplified Administration. Once a Smart Cycle treatment is authorized, fertility specialists within our network are able to prescribe the optimal treatment plan without any need for pre-certification or pre-authorization.
•Superior Clinical Outcomes. Outcomes for Progyny members across our fertility specialist network are superior to the average outcomes that the same provider clinics report to the CDC for all of their patients. Specifically, as shown in the table above, the in-network average live birth rate per attempted retrieval for Progyny members is 46.7%, as compared to the 36.8% average live birth rate per attempted retrieval for all patients at those same clinics. This results in the typical Progyny member undergoing 2.1 retrievals for a live birth as compared to the national average of 3.6 retrievals. This difference of more than one retrieval represents substantial cost avoidance for our clients, as well as significantly less physical and emotional stress on the member.
•Eliminating Financial Risk Associated With Collections. We assume full responsibility for the collection of all members’ deductibles and coinsurance, thereby eliminating the burden and cost of collection (and bad debt expense) for member payments that our provider clinics otherwise would experience.
•Data Sharing and Reporting. We produce clinic scorecards quarterly with key performance indicators that allow fertility specialists to compare their results with peer averages.
•Higher Volumes and Improved Financial Performance. Fertility specialists in our network often experience an increase in patient volume, and because of our comprehensive benefits design, an increase in the number of patients who progress from consultation to treatment.
Growth Strategy
Expand Our Client Base
We intend to continue increasing our client base of self-insured employers in the United States by leveraging our experienced sales team and strong relationships with benefits consultants. We believe that we have a total addressable market of approximately 8,000 potential employer clients in the United States, who have a minimum of 1,000 employees, as well as Taft-Hartley labor populations, and federal government populations, and, with our base of over 530 clients under contract, we are still in the early stages of our growth trajectory. Importantly, as we have continued to grow, we have meaningfully diversified our client base across an array of different industries. We believe that our employer clients are thought leaders in their respective industries and are creating a network effect that is helping to drive more widespread adoption of fertility benefits in their specific industries. We are expanding our client base within each industry that we serve, and have developed industry-specific strategies, which enable us to most effectively target our addressable market. Additionally, we believe that our expanding presence has resulted in a heightened awareness of fertility benefits and has informed the market of the value we provide to our employer clients and our members, which we believe also helps facilitate growth.
Capitalize on Embedded Growth Potential within Our Existing Client Base
Because of how our revenue model is structured, we believe we are positioned to realize organic revenue growth as our clients and their respective employee bases grow and utilize more fertility treatment services as a result. A meaningful portion of our clients have grown, and we believe many of them will continue to grow. In addition, we have historically realized similar utilization trends of fertility services for new members compared with existing members on a same client basis. We believe the combination of these factors results in meaningful and sustainable embedded growth potential well into the future.
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Expansion of Progyny Benefits Solutions within Our Existing Client Base
We expect to see further growth from existing clients that add incremental services to their fertility benefits program. For example, a client can expand the fertility benefits they offer to their employees by increasing the number of Smart Cycles they contract for, and they can expand the solutions they offer by adding our new preconception, maternity and postpartum offering and menopause and midlife care offering. In addition, our fertility benefits solution clients can purchase our add-on Progyny Rx solution. We introduced Progyny Rx in the third quarter of 2017 and went live with a select number of clients in January 2018. Currently, 91% of our clients under contract are utilizing this solution, including 95% of the clients we signed in fiscal year 2024. We believe our sales and marketing capabilities play an important role in informing and educating clients about the additional value and impact we can provide to them and their members by enhancing their benefit program.
New Services and Addressable Markets to Enhance the Depth and Breadth of Our Comprehensive Family Building Offering
As we continue to grow and expand our client base, we are continually evaluating the latest evolving trends to identify ways we can better serve the needs of existing and potential clients and their employees. We believe we are uniquely positioned to do this for several reasons. We believe the combination of our Medical Advisory Board and our selective network of high-quality fertility specialists, as well as the data we collect and analyze, provides us with differentiated insights into fertility care delivery and support. In addition, we believe we have positive and collaborative relationships with our clients that offer us additional insights into their needs. We believe the combination of these factors, coupled with our demonstrated track record of adding more services to our benefits design, highlights that we are well positioned to continue to do so in the future. To date, we have identified several ways we believe we can potentially expand our comprehensive family building offering, our addressable market, and our client base in the future, including the addition of our new preconception, maternity and postpartum offering and menopause and midlife care offering. In addition, we may aim to expand our addressable market to middle market employers with under 1,000 employees, including fully insured populations. We will continue to evaluate opportunities as our platform continues to expand.
Clients
We currently have contracts to serve over 530 employers in the United States across more than 40 industries. Our current clients, who are leaders across both high-growth and mature industries and range in size from at least 1,000 to 600,000 employees, represent approximately 6.7 million lives under contract.
We have clients in the technology, consumer retail, e-commerce, industrial, healthcare, media, insurance, legal, food and beverage, financial services, life sciences, professional services, government services, union, energy, manufacturing, logistics, transportation, aerospace, real estate, nonprofit and hospitality sectors.
Substantially all of our clients have renewed their benefits management contracts since our initial benefit offering launched in 2016. The majority of our clients have signed multi-year contracts or contracts that renew automatically on an annual basis.
Given that the majority of our clients contract with us for a January 1st benefits plan start date, our sales cycle follows the conventional healthcare benefits cycle, which largely concludes by the end of October of the prior year to allow for benefits education and annual open enrollment to occur. In the 2024 sales cycle, more clients, with benefits going live in 2025, have opted for comprehensive coverage, with substantially all of our new clients electing Progyny Rx, multiple Smart Cycles and/or egg-freezing.
Competitive Landscape
We believe we are the leader in the market for employer-sponsored fertility benefits and family building solutions.
We believe we compete favorably based on the following competitive factors:
•the value and comprehensiveness of the benefits solution and superior outcomes for members;
•benefits plan design;
•access for all employees and their covered dependents;
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•equitable access to care across geographic areas;
•treatment plans that maximize effectiveness and achieve desired outcomes;
•member experience, including unlimited dedicated patient education, clinical guidance and emotional support;
•access to a network of high-quality fertility specialists;
•data reporting and sharing; and
•access to an integrated pharmacy solution.
While we do not believe any single competitor offers a similarly robust, integrated fertility and family building benefits solution, there are alternative solutions in the market such as the health insurance companies who are able to provide fertility benefits management services as part of their overall administration of a company's health plan and who are our primary competition. In addition, other competitors include specialty fertility-focused solutions owned or sponsored by health insurance companies to provide more comprehensive support to fertility patients than their general medical coverage provides, such as case management or educational support, and venture capital or private equity-backed companies who focus on maternity and reproductive health services more broadly, or who provide fertility-specific benefits solutions.
Our solutions are structured as a pre-tax benefit program integrated into employers’ overall employee medical insurance plan, which is unique compared to the offerings of benefits managers new to the industry that do not have integrated health insurance carrier solutions. In addition to our unique plan design, member support and fertility specialist network, one of the key structural differences between our pre-tax benefit and post-tax reimbursement programs is that the individual receiving reimbursement for fertility treatments must pay income taxes on the amount of that reimbursement for the post-tax programs.
Sales and Marketing
We sell our solutions through our sales organization and, in many cases, we leverage our relationships with top benefits consultants, channel partners and health plan partners to establish relationships with potential clients. Our sales team has broad experience in health benefits management and extensive long-term relationships with industry participants and benefits executives at large employers. Our sales team is organized principally by geography and account size and is responsible for identifying potential clients and managing the overall sales process. The success and effectiveness of our sales team is evidenced by the addition of over 80 new clients in 2024, and the fact that a majority of our current clients terminated their prior fertility benefit to switch to Progyny.
We generate client leads, accelerate sales opportunities and build brand awareness through our marketing programs. Our marketing programs target human resource, benefits and finance executives in addition to healthcare professionals and senior business leaders. Our principal marketing programs include learning opportunities for potential members, demand generation, field marketing events, integrated marketing campaigns (including direct email and online advertising) and participation in industry events, trade shows and conferences. We also benefit from strong referrals as several of our prominent clients have publicly endorsed Progyny and discussed the value they and their members receive.
Government Regulation
The healthcare industry is subject to significant and evolving federal and state regulation and judicial interpretation. We are regulated, directly or indirectly through our client relationships, by various federal agencies, including, but not limited to, the Department of Health and Human Services, or HHS, the Department of Labor, or DOL, and the Federal Trade Commission, or FTC, as well as by various state governments and agencies. Although many regulatory and governmental requirements do not directly apply to us or our business, our clients may be directly subject to such regulations and requirements, and, in turn, we may be required to comply as a result of our contractual obligations with our clients. We have structured our operations to comply with all laws, regulations and other requirements applicable to us directly and to our clients, members, fertility specialists and specialty pharmacies. However, it is uncertain how our operations may be impacted by changing political, legislative, and regulatory landscapes and priorities, as well as other factors impacting the healthcare industry.
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Licensing Requirements
Many states have licensure or registration requirements for entities acting as a third-party administrator, or TPA, or pharmacy benefit manager, or PBM. Given the nature and scope of the solutions and services that we provide, we are required to maintain TPA and/or PBM licenses and registrations in certain jurisdictions and to ensure that such licenses and registrations are in good standing on an annual basis. These licenses require us to comply with the rules and regulations of the governmental bodies that issued such licenses, including maintaining certain solvency or bond requirements. In addition, certain states impose licensing requirements on entities that provide utilization review services. We are licensed, are exempt from licensure or registration, or believe that we are otherwise authorized in the states where we provide utilization review services.
ERISA Regulation
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, or ERISA, regulates certain aspects of employee health plans, including both insured and self-funded health plans sponsored by our clients, with whom we have agreements to provide TPA services and, in most cases, PBM services through Progyny Rx. In our capacity as a TPA and/or PBM for our clients, we may be subject to certain provisions of ERISA.
Under ERISA, health plan fiduciaries are subject to certain fiduciary obligations. However, we believe that the conduct of our business vis-à-vis our clients’ plans is not of a fiduciary nature, and, therefore, we are not subject in general to the fiduciary obligations imposed by ERISA with respect to such plans. In addition, ERISA plans are subject to certain rules, published by the DOL, including reporting requirements for direct and indirect compensation received by health plan service providers. ERISA's prohibitions on certain forms of remuneration made to, or received by, health plan service providers or other persons are broadly written, and their application to particular cases is uncertain.
Although ERISA has historically been interpreted to have a broad preemptive effect with respect to certain state laws that “relate” to benefit plans, it does not preempt all state laws imposing transparency or other requirements on PBMs. If the interpretation of ERISA preemption is further narrowed in the future, our contractual obligations with our self-insured clients would likely require us to comply more broadly with state laws applicable to health insurance that do not currently apply to us.
PBM Regulation
Recently, there have been a number of reform efforts focused on PBM regulation, program pricing, and transparency, from both federal and state legislatures and agencies, including, but not limited to, the disclosure, receipt and retention of rebates and other payments received from pharmaceutical manufacturers or pharmacy program partners, rules governing contractual provisions between PBMs and their contracted payers and/or pharmacies, registration or licensing of PBMs, transparency reporting requirements, and audits of PBM operations.
In addition, certain quasi-regulatory organizations, including the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy and the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, have issued model regulations or may propose future model regulations related to PBM operations. PBM credentialing organizations may also establish voluntary standards regarding PBM activities. While the model regulations and standards of these quasi-regulatory or credentialing organizations are not legal requirements, federal and state lawmakers may be influenced to adopt similar legislation, and such model regulations and standards may also impact client expectations or requirements for PBM services.
HIPAA Privacy and Security Requirements
Regulations promulgated pursuant to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, as amended, or HIPAA, establish privacy and security standards that limit the use and disclosure of certain individually identifiable health information (known as “protected health information”), including reproductive health information, and require the implementation of administrative, physical and technical safeguards to protect the privacy of protected health information and ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of electronic protected health information. The privacy regulations established under HIPAA provide individuals with rights related to understanding and controlling how their protected health information is used and disclosed. As a provider of services to entities subject to HIPAA, we are directly subject to certain provisions of HIPAA in our capacity as a “Business Associate.” When acting as a Business Associate under HIPAA, to the extent permitted by applicable privacy regulations and contractual arrangements with our clients, we are permitted to use and disclose protected health information to perform our services and for other limited purposes, but other uses and disclosures, such as marketing communications, require written authorization from the member or must meet an exception specified under HIPAA. We also have downstream Business Associates that perform services for us and are also subject to HIPAA.
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Other Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Requirements
In addition to HIPAA, numerous other federal and state laws, rules, regulations and standards govern the collection, dissemination, use, handling, transfer, processing, access to and confidentiality of personal information, some of which may be applicable to our business. Certain federal and state laws protect types of personal information that may be viewed as particularly sensitive. For example, New York’s Public Health Law, Article 27-F protects information that could reveal confidential HIV-related information about an individual. In many cases, state laws are more restrictive than, and not preempted by, HIPAA, and may allow personal rights of action with respect to data privacy or cybersecurity breaches, as well as fines. State laws are contributing to increased enforcement activity and may also be subject to interpretation by various courts and other governmental authorities. Further, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (collectively, CCPA), gives California residents certain rights to access and delete their personal information, opt out of certain personal information sharing, including certain sensitive personal information, and receive detailed information about how their personal information is used. The CCPA provides for civil penalties for violations, as well as a private right of action for data breaches, which has increased the likelihood and risks associated with data breach litigation. Additional compliance investment and potential business process changes may be required. Similar laws have passed in other states and are continuing to be proposed at the state and federal level, reflecting a trend toward more stringent privacy legislation in the United States. The enactment of such laws could have potentially conflicting requirements that would make compliance more challenging and could lead to additional liability risks.
Consumer Protection Laws
Federal and state consumer protection laws are being applied increasingly by the FTC, Federal Communications Commission, or FCC, and state attorneys general to regulate the collection, use, handling, transfer, storage, processing and disclosure of personal or health information, through websites or otherwise, and to regulate the presentation of website content. Consumer protection laws require us to publish statements to users of our services that describe how we handle personal information and choices consumers may have about the way we handle personal information.
State Corporate Practice and Fee-Splitting Prohibitions
These laws generally prohibit non-physician entities from practicing medicine, exercising control over physicians or engaging in certain practices such as fee-splitting with physicians. We have structured our operations and contracts with our providers to comply with these laws. However, regulatory authorities, state medical boards, state attorneys general and other parties, including our network physicians, may assert that we are engaged in the prohibited corporate practice of medicine, and/or that our arrangement with our network providers constitutes unlawful fee-splitting.
Intellectual Property
As of December 31, 2024, we had a number of registered trademarks, including Progyny (and design), Smart Cycle and UnPack It, none of which are subject to any known rights of any third parties, including any impairments, assignments or pledges. Other than these registered trademarks, we do not believe our business is dependent to a material degree on trademarks, patents, copyrights or trade secrets.
Seasonality
Our business experiences moderate seasonality in revenue with a slightly higher proportion of revenue during the second half of the year as compared with the first half. Given that the majority of our clients contract with us for a January 1st benefits plan start date and that the average cost of treatments earlier in the overall treatment process is somewhat lower than the average cost as treatment progresses, our revenue from treatment services tends to grow as the year continues, particularly for new clients. In addition, as with most medical benefits plans, members will typically seek to maximize the use of their benefits once they have reached their annual deductible and/or annual out-of-pocket maximums, thereby increasing treatments in the latter part of the year. For additional information, see Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors—Risks Related to Our Business and Industry—Our business experiences seasonality, which may cause fluctuations in our sales and results of operations” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Employees and Human Capital
As of December 31, 2024, we had 680 employees, of which 675 were full-time. Ouremployees are our most important asset, and our culture is key to our success. We are united around our mission and committed to our shared values of passion, collaboration, innovation, integrity and growth.
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Our people strategy is primarily focused on culture and engagement, competitive compensation and development, and community outreach and support.
•Culture and Engagement.We believe our culture has been a key contributor to our success to date and that the critical nature of the mission we are pursuing promotes a sense of greater purpose and fulfillment in our employees. We have invested substantial time and resources in building our culture in order to retain and recruit talent and to effectively focus on, and pursue, our corporate objectives. We measure employee engagement on an ongoing basis, including through broad employee satisfaction surveys and pulse surveys on specific issues. These are intended to assess our success in promoting an environment where employees are engaged, satisfied and productive and possess a strong understanding of our business objectives. The results from engagement surveys are used to implement programs and processes designed to enhance employee engagement and improve the employee experience or modify existing programs and benefits offerings.
•Competitive Compensation and Development. We invest in our workforce by offering competitive salaries, attractive incentives and innovative benefits. Our benefits are designed to help employees and their families stay healthy, meet their financial goals, protect their income and balance their work and personal lives. These benefits include access to mental health services, life and financial planning workshops, wellness initiatives, employee assistance programs, and new parent and return-to-work benefits. We also include the Progyny benefit as part of our benefits offerings, allowing our employees to realize their dreams of family and ideal health. We offer paid parental leave for new parents, with an extension of leave for those with an infant in the NICU, as well as a pregnancy loss leave benefit as an enhancement to our bereavement leave policy, explicitly recognizing the physical, emotional, and mental health impact of a pregnancy loss or failed fertility procedure, adoption or surrogacy. We also offer additional paid leave to all employees to support other family health and care challenges. In addition, we focus on creating opportunities for employee growth, development and training, including opportunities to cultivate talent and identify internal candidates for new roles at the Company, management and leadership development programs, technical skill building initiatives and mentoring programs.
•Community Outreach and Support. We believe it is important to give back and promote community outreach and support through corporate giving, charitable matching, and employee volunteerism in the communities in which we live and work. We allow flexible work hours to accommodate employee volunteer opportunities and attend company-sponsored charitable events and continue to develop partnerships with community organizations that align with our priorities in fertility, family building and equity in healthcare.
Our Corporate Information
We were incorporated in Delaware in 2008 under the name Auxogen Bioscience, Inc. In 2010, we changed our name to Auxogen, Inc. and in 2015 we changed our name to Progyny, Inc. Our principal executive offices are located at 1359 Broadway, New York, New York 10018, and our telephone number is (212) 888-3124. Our website address is www.progyny.com. Information contained on, or that can be accessed through, our website is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Available Information
We file electronically with the SEC our annual reports on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K (including amendments to those reports), proxy statements and other information. Our SEC filings are available to the public on the Internet at the SEC’s website at http://www.sec.gov. We also make available on our website at investors.progyny.com, under “Financials—SEC Filings,” free of charge, copies of these reports as soon as reasonably practicable after filing or furnishing these reports with the SEC. The information contained on the websites referenced in this Annual Report on Form 10-K is not incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K. Further, our references to website URLs are intended to be inactive textual references only.
We announce material information to the public through filings with the SEC, our investor relations website at investors.progyny.com, press releases, public conference calls, and webcasts to achieve broad, non-exclusionary distribution of information. We therefore encourage investors and others interested in Progyny to review the information disclosed through such channels. Any updates to the list of disclosure channels through which we will announce information will be posted on the investor relations page of our website.
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ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Investing in our common stock involves a high degree of risk. You should carefully consider all of the information contained in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, including the sections titled “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements,” Part II, Item 7 “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” and our consolidated financial statements and the accompanying notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The risks and uncertainties described below are not the only ones we face. Any of the following risks could materially and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations and the actual outcome of matters as to which forward-looking statements are made in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and could cause the trading price of our common stock to decline, which would cause you to lose all or part of your investment. Our business, financial condition and results of operations could also be harmed by risks and uncertainties not currently known to us or that we currently do not believe are material.
Risks Related to Our Business and Industry
We may fail to meet our publicly announced guidance or other expectations about our business and future results of operations, which would cause our stock price to decline.
We have provided, and may continue to provide, guidance about our business and future results of operations. On February 27, 2025, we issued guidance for the first quarter of 2025 and full year 2025. Our guidance, which consists of forward-looking statements, is qualified by, and subject to, such assumptions, estimates and expectations as of the date such guidance is given and may be revised at a later time, solely in our discretion, as we learn more information. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and other important factors that may cause our actual results, performance or achievements to be materially different from any future results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. In developing guidance, our management must make certain assumptions and judgments about, among other things, our business strategy, plans, and goals; expectations concerning our market position and future operations; and other financial and operating information, as well as the impact of events beyond our control, such as macroeconomic conditions, shortages of fertility medications or trends in utilization or consumption, that are inherently difficult to predict. While the guidance may be presented with numerical specificity, it is necessarily speculative in nature. Accordingly, our guidance is only an estimate of what management believes is realizable as of the date of release of such guidance. Furthermore, analysts and investors may develop and publish their own projections of our business, which may form a consensus about our future performance. Our actual business results may vary significantly from such guidance or consensus due to a number of factors, many of which are outside of our control and which could adversely affect our business and future results of operations. In addition, if we make downward revisions of our previously announced guidance, or if our publicly announced guidance of our future results of operations fails to meet expectations of securities analysts, investors or other interested parties, the price of our common stock would decline.
The market in which we operate is highly competitive, and, if we do not continue to compete effectively, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed.
We operate in a highly competitive market and compete on the basis of several factors, including: the value and comprehensiveness of our solutions and the Smart Cycle (our unique approach to benefits plan design that ensures that members always have coverage for a full treatment cycle as their access to treatment is not limited by a dollar maximum that could be exhausted mid-treatment), superior outcomes, access for all employee groups and covered dependents, equitable access to care across geographic areas, quality of the member experience and comprehensive member support, access to our selective Center of Excellence network of high-quality fertility specialists, data reporting and analysis and access to an integrated pharmacy solution. While we do not believe any single competitor offers similarly robust and integrated fertility and family building benefits solutions, there are alternative solutions in the market offered by health insurance companies, entities owned or sponsored by health insurance companies, and venture capital or private equity-backed companies that focus on maternity and reproductive health services more broadly or that provide fertility-specific benefits solutions.
As we market our solutions to potential clients that currently utilize other fertility benefits vendors, we may fail to convince their internal stakeholders that our offerings and our model are superior to their current solutions. Some of our competitors are more established, benefit from greater brand recognition and have substantially greater financial, technical and marketing resources. Our competitors may develop or integrate solutions and services that may be more efficient or appealing to our existing and potential clients. For example, fertility-focused PBMs could emerge that would compete with Progyny Rx. In addition, we believe one of our key competitive advantages is our purpose-built, data-driven platform. While we do not believe any competitors have developed a similarly robust data collection, sharing and reporting process at this time, current or future competitors may be successful in doing so in the future.
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As the market in which we operate matures and more competitors enter the market and introduce differentiated solutions or services that compete with our solutions, our success depends on our ability to: compete effectively in our market, identify and effectively respond to changes in market dynamics and client and member preferences, maintain or increase our market share, and differentiate our offerings by innovating and delivering products and services that provide enhanced value to our clients and members. As we market our solutions to existing and potential clients, we must convince them that our solutions and our model are superior to our competitors. As a result of these and other factors, we may be unable to continue to compete successfully, which would have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations. We also could be adversely affected if we fail to identify or effectively respond to changes in market dynamics. As a result of any of these factors, we may not be able to continue to compete successfully against our current or future competitors, and this competition could result in declining market share, which would harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
In addition, many healthcare industry participants are consolidating to create larger and more integrated healthcare delivery systems with greater market power, and we expect regulatory and economic conditions to result in additional consolidation in the healthcare industry. Financial investors are acquiring fertility practices, and this may accelerate consolidation within the fertility industry. Although comprehensive, our solution is a standalone fertility benefit, and clients may prefer a single healthcare solution, which could adversely affect our ability to retain existing clients or grow our client base. We work with partner organizations to market our benefit to potential clients. As consolidation accelerates, the economies of scale of our partner organizations may grow. If a partner experiences sizable growth following consolidation, it may determine that it no longer needs to rely on us and may reduce demand for our services. Furthermore, as healthcare providers consolidate to create larger and more integrated healthcare delivery systems with greater market power, these providers may try to use their market power to negotiate fee increases for their services. Finally, consolidation may also result in the acquisition of our partners by competitors or development by our partners of products and services that compete with our products and services. Any of these potential results of consolidation could also have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Unfavorable conditions in the global economy or our industry could limit our ability to grow our business and negatively affect our results of operations.
Market volatility and uncertainty related to general economic conditions remain widespread, making it very difficult for our clients and us to accurately forecast and plan future business activities. Negative conditions in the general economy in the United States and elsewhere, including conditions resulting from changes in gross domestic product growth, financial and credit market fluctuations, inflation, consumer confidence, international trade relations, geopolitical conflict, political turmoil, natural catastrophes, epidemics, pandemics or outbreaks of contagious diseases, warfare and terrorist attacks, could cause a decrease in business investments, including spending on employee benefits, and negatively affect the growth of our business. In addition, economic conditions, including inflation, interest rate fluctuations, changes in capital market conditions, disruptions in the banking industry and other parts of the financial services sector, and regulatory changes, such as the taxability of medical benefits like ours, may affect our ability to obtain necessary financing on acceptable terms.
Unfavorable changes in our industry, including reductions in general healthcare spending, or in the United States and global economy could have a negative effect on our and our existing clients’ and potential clients’ results of operations. This could result in the delay or cancellation by certain clients, including if adoption of our solutions are perceived by existing clients and potential clients to be discretionary, if they experience a reduction in their employee headcount, whether due to reductions in force or turnover, or are unable to grow employee headcount or there are material defaults by members on past amounts due. An increase in the cost of obtaining fertility medication or general medical cost inflation could also negatively impact our results of operations. In addition, the increased pace of consolidation in the healthcare industry may result in competitors with greater market power, which may adversely affect our ability to retain existing clients and attract new clients. Many economists believe the global economy will likely experience a recessionary environment in the near future.The Federal Reserve’s efforts to tame inflation have led to, and may continue to lead to, increased interest rates. A significant escalation or expansion of economic disruption could have a material adverse effect on our results of operations. We cannot predict the timing, strength, or duration of any economic slowdown, instability, or recovery, generally or within any particular industry, nor its impact on us or our clients.
Our business depends on our ability to retain our existing clients and increase the adoption of our services within our client base. Any failure to do so would harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
As part of our growth strategy, we are focused on retaining and expanding our services within our existing client base. Our clients can expand the benefits they offer their employees in a number of ways, including by adding egg freezing, increasing the number of Smart Cycle units, and adding our Progyny Rx solution or any of our other solutions and services.
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We went live with Progyny Rx in 2018, and 91% of our current clients have now launched this solution, including approximately 95% of the clients we signed in 2024.
Factors that may affect our ability to retain our existing clients and sell additional solutions to them include, but are not limited to, the following:
•the price, timeliness and outcomes of our solutions;
•the availability, price, timeliness, outcomes, performance and functionality of competing solutions;
•our ability to maintain and appropriately expand our Center of Excellence network of high-quality fertility specialists;
•our ability to continue to offer complementary solutions and services that will enhance our comprehensive fertility and family building offering;
•changes in healthcare laws and regulations, the enforcement of such laws and regulations, or healthcare trends;
•global economic conditions, including any material increase in unemployment rates, and the business environment of our clients and, in particular, slowing growth or reduction in our clients’ headcount or spending on employee benefits; and
•consolidation of our clients, resulting in a change to their benefits program or a shift to one of our competitors.
Any of the above factors, alone or together, could negatively affect our ability to retain existing clients and sell additional solutions to them, which would have an adverse effect on our business, revenue growth and results of operations.
Our largest clients account for a significant portion of our revenue, and a significant number of our clients are in the technology industry. The loss of one or more of these clients, changes to pricing terms with these clients or changes within the technology industry could negatively impact our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We currently have contracts to serve over 530 employers with at least 1,000 covered lives in the United States across more than 40 industries. For the year ended December 31, 2024, one of our clients accounted for 12% of our total revenue (the "Client"). For the year ended December 31, 2023, the Client accounted for 13% of our total revenue. No other clients accounted for more than 10% of our total revenue for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023. In the third quarter of 2024, we were notified that the Client elected to exercise a 90-day option to terminate its services agreement, effective as of January 1, 2025.
Engagement with these clients is generally covered through contracts that are multi-year in duration. These clients may terminate early or decline to renew their existing contracts with us upon expiration, and any such termination or failure to renew could have a negative impact on our revenue and impact our long-term growth. Our clients could also renegotiate pricing terms at the time of renewal, which could have a negative impact on our revenue. In addition, we generate a significant portion of our revenue from clients in the technology industry. Any of a variety of changes in that industry, including reductions in workforce or heightened employee attrition, changes in economic conditions, mergers or consolidations, reduced spending on benefits programs and other factors, could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
If we are unable to attract new clients, our business, financial condition and results of operations would be adversely affected.
To increase our revenue, we must continue to attract new clients. Our ability to do so depends in large part on the success of our sales and marketing efforts and our ability to attract industry leaders in diversified sectors, which could prompt others in the same sectors to follow suit in order to remain competitive. Potential clients may seek out other options; therefore, we must demonstrate that our solutions are valuable and superior to alternatives. If we fail to provide high-quality solutions and convince clients of the benefits of our model and value proposition, we may not be able to attract new clients. The market for our solutions could decline or grow more slowly than we expect, including due to general economic conditions, high unemployment rates, reductions in workforce or employee attrition, impacts related to epidemics, pandemics, and outbreaks of contagious diseases, a decrease in business investments, including spending on
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employee benefits, and other factors. If the market for our solutions declines or grows more slowly than we expect, or if the number of clients that contract with us for our solutions declines or fails to increase as we expect, our financial results could be adversely impacted. As the markets in which we participate mature, fertility solutions and services evolve and competitors begin to enter into the market and introduce differentiated solutions or services that are perceived to compete with our solutions, particularly if such competing solutions are adopted by an industry leader in a particular sector, our ability to sell our solutions could be impaired. As a result of these and other factors, we may be unable to attract new clients, which would have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
A significant change in the utilization of our fertility solutions, including the consumption rate or the mix of utilization, could have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We cannot control or predict the consumption rate of our solutions or the mix of utilization of our solutions by our clients, in particular as it relates to newer clients. A significant reduction in the number of members using our solutions could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Factors that have and could continue to contribute to a reduction in the use of our solutions include: reductions in workforce by existing clients; general economic downturns that result in business failures and high unemployment rates; impacts related to public health emergencies; employers no longer offering comprehensive health coverage or offering alternative solutions such as coverage on a voluntary, employee-funded basis; labor shortages at our provider clinics; changes to the taxability of medical benefits; failure to adapt and respond effectively to changes in the medical landscape, laws, regulations and government enforcement priorities, client and member needs, requirements or preferences; premium increases and benefits changes; or negative publicity.
It is also difficult for us to control or predict the consumption rate or mix of utilization of our solutions at the member level. If the actual utilization of our solutions by members is significantly greater than budgeted, our clients may be responsible for costs that exceed their planned expenditure. If we cannot help our clients accurately predict rate of consumption by their employees, our clients may turn to alternative solutions, and our business and profitability would be adversely impacted.In addition, higher clinical success rates and other factors could also impact timing and treatment paths, which may result in lower revenue per utilizing member.
Acquisitions, strategic investments, or partnerships could be difficult to identify, pose integration challenges, divert the attention of management, disrupt our business, dilute stockholder value, and adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
From time to time, we may acquire or invest in businesses, joint ventures, products and services, or technologies that we believe could complement or expand our solutions, enhance our technical capabilities, or otherwise offer growth opportunities. For example, we acquired Apryl GmbH, a Berlin-based fertility benefits platform, in June 2024 and Benefit Bump LLC, a comprehensive parental leave benefits navigation program for new and growing families in January 2025. We also expanded our offerings to include preconception, maternity and postpartum and menopause and midlife care solutions. We expect to make additional investments as we continue to introduce new solutions and services to enhance our comprehensive family building offering and our technology infrastructure, including systems architecture, scalability, availability, performance and security. Any such acquisition or investment may divert the attention of management and cause us to incur expenses in identifying, investigating and pursuing suitable opportunities, whether or not the transactions are completed, and may result in unforeseen operating difficulties and expenditures. In particular, we may encounter difficulties integrating the businesses, technologies, products and services, personnel or operations of any acquired companies, particularly if key personnel of an acquired company choose not to work for us, an acquired company is operationally difficult to integrate, or we have difficulty retaining the clients of any acquired business due to changes in ownership, management or otherwise. Any such transactions that we are able to complete may not result in any synergies or other benefits we had expected to achieve, which could result in impairment charges that could be substantial. In addition, certain transactions could also result in dilutive issuances of equity securities or the incurrence of debt, which could adversely affect our results of operations. If the resulting business from a transaction fails to meet our expectations, or we fail to successfully integrate such businesses into our own, our business, financial condition and results of operations may be adversely affected, or we may be exposed to unknown risks or liabilities.
We have a limited operating history with our current platform of solutions, which makes it difficult to predict our future results of operations.
We went live with our fertility benefits solution in 2016 and Progyny Rx in 2018. As a result of our limited operating history with our current platform of solutions, as well as a limited amount of time serving a majority of our client base, our ability to accurately forecast our future results of operations is limited and subject to a number of uncertainties, including our ability to plan for and model future growth. Our historical revenue growth should not be considered indicative of our future performance. Further, in future periods, our revenue growth could slow or decline for a number of
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reasons, including slowing demand for our solutions and fertility benefits in general, change in utilization trends by our members, general economic slowdown, an increase in unemployment rates, increased competition, changes in healthcare trends and regulations, changes to science relating to the fertility market, a decrease in the growth of the fertility market, or our failure to anticipate and adapt to changing market trends and to take advantage of growth opportunities. If our assumptions regarding these risks and uncertainties and our future revenue growth are incorrect or change, or if we do not address these risks effectively, our operating and financial results could differ materially from our expectations, and our business could suffer.
We have a history of operating losses and may not sustain profitability in the future.
We experienced net losses from 2015 to 2019. For example, our net loss was $8.6 million for the year ended December 31, 2019. While we have experienced significant revenue growth since 2016, achieved profitability starting in 2020 and currently project future profitability, we cannot guarantee that we will have sufficient sales to sustain our growth or maintain profitability in the future. We also expect our costs and expenses to increase in future periods, which could negatively affect our future results of operations if our revenue does not increase sufficiently to cover increased costs. In particular, we expect to continue to invest in our sales and client success teams to educate potential clients and drive new client adoption, as well as expand the scope of Progyny benefits within our existing client base. We also expect to incur additional costs as we continue to introduce new solutions and services to enhance our comprehensive family building offering and our technology infrastructure, including systems architecture, scalability, availability, performance and security. We will face increased compliance costs associated with our growth and the expansion of our client base. In addition, we incur significant legal, accounting and other expenses related to being a public company. Our efforts to grow our business may be costlier than we expect, and we may not be able to increase our revenue enough to offset our increased operating expenses. We may incur significant losses in the future for a number of reasons, including the other risks described herein, and unforeseen expenses, difficulties, complications and delays, and other unknown events. If we are unable to sustain profitability, the value of our business and common stock may significantly decrease.
The health benefits industry may be subject to negative publicity, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
The health benefits industry may be subject to negative publicity, which can arise from, among other things, increases in premium rates, industry consolidation, cost of care initiatives, drug prices and the ongoing debate over the ACA. In addition, negative publicity may result in increased regulation and legislative review of industry practices, which may further increase our costs of doing business and adversely affect our profitability. For example, PBM programs and drug rebates have been criticized as leading to a lack of transparency about the true cost of a drug, and certain members of Congress as well as HHS’s Office of Inspector General, or OIG, have proposed regulatory changes that could potentially affect our business and operations. Negative public perception or publicity of the health benefits industry in general, the insurance carriers with whom we integrate our solutions, our self-insured employer clients, or us could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
If our information technology systems, or those of third parties with whom we do business, including our provider clinics, specialty pharmacies or other vendors, lag, fail or suffer cybersecurity breaches, we may experience a material disruption of our services or suffer a loss or inappropriate disclosure of confidential information, which could materially impact our business and results of operations.
Our business is increasingly dependent on critical, complex and interdependent information technology systems, including cloud-based systems, to support business processes as well as internal and external communications. Therefore, our success is dependent in part on our ability to secure, integrate, develop, redesign and enhance our (or contract with vendors to provide) information technology systems that support our business strategy initiatives and processes in a compliant, secure, and cost and resource efficient manner. If we or the third parties with whom we do business, including our provider clinics, specialty pharmacies or other vendors, experience an issue with our or their information technology systems, it may result in a disruption to our operations or downstream disruption to our relationships with our clients or our provider clinics. Additionally, if we choose to in source any of the services currently handled by a third-party vendor, it may result in technological or operational disruptions.
In the current environment, there are numerous and evolving risks to cybersecurity and data privacy, including criminal hackers, hacktivists, denial-of-service, ransomware, state-sponsored intrusions, industrial espionage, employee malfeasance and human or technological errors. High-profile cybersecurity breaches at other companies and government agencies have increased in recent years. There is the possibility of targeted cyberattacks by foreign countries or entities that could impact United States government and private companies’ technological infrastructures, some of which we utilize to provide our services. The healthcare industry has seen a shift to an accelerated use of digital and technological platforms, particularly in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. As a result of such shift, there have been, and may continue to be,
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more targeted cyberattacks and threats on us, our vendors, provider clinics and specialty pharmacies. Despite the implementation of security measures, including steps designed to secure our technology infrastructure and sensitive data, we cannot provide assurance that our current information technology system or any updates or upgrades thereto, the current or future information technology systems of the third parties with whom we do business, including our provider clinics, specialty pharmacies or other vendors, are fully protected against malicious intrusion, malware, computer viruses, unauthorized access, natural disasters, terrorism, war, telecommunication and electrical failures, information or data theft or other similar risks. Furthermore, because the techniques used to obtain unauthorized access to, or to sabotage, systems change frequently and often are not recognized until launched against a target, we may be unable to anticipate these techniques or implement adequate preventative measures. We may also experience cybersecurity breaches that may remain undetected for an extended period. Even if identified, we may be unable to adequately investigate or remediate incidents or breaches due to attackers increasingly using tools and techniques that are designed to circumvent controls, to avoid detection, and to remove or obfuscate forensic evidence.
We have experienced in the past and expect to continue to experience actual and attempted cyberattacks of our information technology systems, such as through email phishing scams, spoofing attempts and malicious attachments. Although none of these actual or attempted cyberattacks has had a material adverse impact on our operations or financial condition, we cannot guarantee that such incidents will not have such an impact in the future. In addition, to the extent that any disruption or cybersecurity breach were to result in a loss or inappropriate disclosure of confidential or proprietary information, we could incur liability. We have access to sensitive information relating to members, our employees and our business partners in the ordinary course of our business. Any failure or perceived failure by us, or our third-party vendors on our behalf, to comply with U.S. and foreign data privacy and cybersecurity laws, rules and regulations, as well as contractual commitments in this respect, may result in governmental enforcement actions, fines, or litigation, which could have an adverse effect on our reputation and business. If a significant data breach occurred, our reputation could be materially and adversely affected, confidence among our clients and members may be diminished, or we may be subject to legal claims, any of which may contribute to the loss of clients and have a material adverse effect on us. We maintain cyber liability insurance, however, this insurance may not be sufficient to cover the financial, legal, business or reputational losses that may result from an interruption or breach of our systems, and we cannot be sure that such coverage will continue to be available on commercially reasonable terms or at all. To the extent such disruptions or uncertainties result in the theft, destruction, loss or misappropriation or release of our confidential data or our intellectual property, our business and results of operations could be materially and adversely affected. See “Risks Related to Legal and Regulatory Requirements—We operate in a highly regulated industry and must comply with a significant number of evolving legal and regulatory requirements, as well as complex judicial mandates, which could have an adverse impact on our business—Data Protection and Breaches.”
If we fail to offer high-quality support, our reputation could suffer.
Our clients rely on our client success personnel and our members rely on our PCAs to resolve issues and realize the full benefits that our solutions and services provide. High-quality support is also important for the renewal and expansion of our services to existing clients. The importance of our support functions will increase as we expand our business and pursue new clients. If we do not help our clients quickly resolve issues and provide effective ongoing support, our ability to maintain and expand our offerings to existing and new clients could suffer, and our reputation with existing or potential clients could suffer. Further, to the extent that we are unsuccessful in hiring, training and retaining adequate PCAs and client success personnel, our ability to provide adequate and timely support to our members and clients would be negatively impacted, and our members’ and clients’ satisfaction with our solutions and services would be adversely affected.
Failure to effectively develop and expand our marketing and sales capabilities could harm our ability to increase our client base and achieve broader market acceptance of the solutions we provide.
Our ability to increase our client base and achieve broader market acceptance of the solutions we provide will depend to a significant extent on our ability to expand our marketing and sales capabilities. We plan to continue expanding our direct sales force and to dedicate significant resources to sales and marketing programs, including direct sales, inside sales, targeted direct marketing, advertising, digital marketing, e-newsletter and conference sponsorships. All of these efforts will require us to invest significant financial and other resources. Our business and results of operations could be harmed if our sales and marketing efforts do not generate significant increases in revenue. We may not achieve anticipated revenue growth from expanding our sales and marketing efforts if we are unable to hire, develop, integrate and retain talented and effective sales personnel, if our new and existing sales personnel, on the whole, are unable to achieve desired productivity levels in a reasonable period of time, or if our sales and marketing programs are not effective.
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Our future revenue may not grow at the rates they historically have, or at all.
We have experienced significant growth since the launch of our fertility benefits solution in 2016. Revenue and our client base may not grow at the same rates they historically have, or they may decline in the future. Our future growth will depend, in part, on our ability to:
•continue to attract new clients and maintain existing clients;
•price our solutions and services effectively so that we are able to attract new clients, expand sales to our existing clients and maintain profitability;
•provide our clients and members with client support that meets their needs, including through dedicated PCAs;
•maintain successful collection of member cost shares and other applicable receivable balances directly from members;
•retain and maintain relationships with high-quality and respected fertility specialists;
•attract and retain highly qualified personnel to support all clients and members;
•maintain satisfactory relationships with insurance carriers; and
•increase awareness of our brand and successfully compete with other companies.
We may not successfully accomplish all or any of these objectives, which may affect our future revenue, and which makes it difficult for us to forecast our future results of operations. In addition, if the assumptions that we use to plan our business are incorrect or change in reaction to changes in our market, it may be difficult for us to maintain profitability. You should not rely on our revenue for any prior quarterly or annual periods as any indication of our future revenue or revenue growth.
In addition, we expect to continue to expend substantial financial and other resources on:
•sales and marketing;
•our technology infrastructure, including systems architecture, scalability, availability, performance and security; and
•general administration, including increased legal and accounting expenses associated with being a public company.
These investments may not result in increased revenue growth in our business. If we are unable to increase our revenue at a rate sufficient to offset the expected increase in our costs, our business, financial position, and results of operations will be harmed, and we may not be able to maintain profitability over the long term. Additionally, we may encounter unforeseen operating expenses, difficulties, complications, delays and other unknown factors that may result in losses in future periods.
If our revenue growth does not meet our expectations in future periods, we may not maintain profitability in the future, and our business, financial position and results of operations may be harmed.
If the estimates and assumptions we use to determine the size of the target markets for our services are inaccurate, our future growth rate may be impacted, and our business would be harmed.
Market opportunity estimates and growth forecasts, including those we have generated ourselves, are subject to significant uncertainty and are based on assumptions and estimates that may not prove to be accurate, including the risks described herein. Even if the market in which we operate achieves the forecasted growth, our business could fail to grow at similar rates, if at all.
Our estimates of the market opportunity for our services are based on the assumption that the purpose-built, data-driven and disruptive fertility benefits platform with the Smart Cycle plan design we offer will continue to be attractive to employers. Employers may pursue alternatives or may not see the value in providing enhanced fertility-related coverage
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and services to their employees. In addition, we believe we are helping to expand the size of the fertility market as we enhance demand and increase awareness for fertility benefits. If these assumptions prove inaccurate, or if the increase in awareness of fertility benefits attracts potential competitors to enter the market and results in greater competition, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
Furthermore, the healthcare industry is rapidly evolving and the markets for fertility benefits management and the related fertility pharmacy benefits management are relatively immature. It is difficult to predict member utilization rates and demand for our solutions, the entry of competitive solutions or the future growth rate and size of the fertility market, and more specifically the fertility benefits management market and the pharmacy benefits management market. The expansion of the fertility market depends on a number of factors, including, but not limited to: the continued trend of individuals starting families later in life, increase in number of single mothers by choice, adoption of non-traditional paths to parenthood and continued de-stigmatization of infertility. Further, the expansion of the fertility benefits management market and the pharmacy benefits market both depend on a number of factors, including, but not limited to: the continued trends of a competitive workforce with employers competing for talent based on benefits that they provide and employers’ focus on benefits to attract and retain top talent.
Additionally, in June 2022 the U.S. Supreme Court in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization reversed Roe v. Wade by holding that there is no constitutional right to abortion. Consequently, certain states have enacted or proposed restrictive abortion laws that may also implicate fertility procedures and travel reimbursement programs, which may decrease the demand for, or availability of, certain fertility services. Although President Biden issued executive orders and federal agencies have issued guidance intended to protect access to reproductive healthcare services, the enactment of certain state laws restricting abortion care and other changes in laws, or in interpretation of laws through court decisions, affecting fertility benefits may conflict with, and ultimately limit, the covered benefits offered by a company to its employees and the types of fertility treatment services available at provider clinics. We cannot predict the timing or impact of any future rule making, executive orders, court decisions or other changes in the law, or in how such laws, once enacted, would be interpreted and enforced.
If fertility benefits management or pharmacy benefits management do not continue to achieve market acceptance, or if there is a reduction in demand caused by a lack of client or member acceptance, a reduction in employers’ focus on enhancing benefits to employees, weakening economic conditions, data security or privacy concerns, governmental regulation, competing offerings or otherwise, the market for our solutions and services might not continue to develop or might develop more slowly than we expect, which would adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. Any losses, costs or liabilities may not be covered by, or may exceed the coverage limits of, any or all applicable insurance policies.
We may not be able to successfully manage our growth, and if we are not able to grow efficiently, our business, financial condition and results of operations could be harmed.
As usage of our solutions grows, we will need to devote additional resources to improving and maintaining our infrastructure. In addition, we will need to appropriately scale our internal business systems and our client success and member services personnel to serve our growing client base. Any failure of or delay in these efforts could result in reduced client and member satisfaction, resulting in decreased sales to new clients and lower renewal and utilization rates by existing clients, which could hurt our revenue growth and our reputation. Even if we are successful in these efforts, they will require the dedication of management time and attention. We could also face inefficiencies or service disruptions as a result of our efforts to scale our internal infrastructure. We cannot be sure that the expansion and improvements to our internal infrastructure will be effectively implemented on a timely basis, and such failures could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business experiences seasonality, which may cause fluctuations in our revenue and results of operations.
Our business experiences moderate seasonality in revenue with a slightly higher proportion of revenue during the second half of the year as compared to the first half. Given that the majority of our clients contract with us for a January 1st benefits plan start date and that the average cost of treatments earlier in the overall treatment process is somewhat lower than the average cost as treatment progresses, our revenue from treatment services tends to grow as the year continues, particularly for new clients. In addition, as with most medical benefits plans, members will typically seek to maximize the use of their benefits once they have reached their annual deductible and/or annual out-of-pocket maximums, thereby increasing treatments in the latter part of the year. We expect that this seasonality will continue to affect our revenue and results of operations in the future as we continue to target larger enterprise clients.
The seasonality of our business could create cash flow management risks if we do not adequately anticipate and plan for periods of comparatively decreased cash flow, which could negatively impact our ability to execute on our
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strategy, which in turn could harm our results of operations. Accordingly, our results for any particular quarter may vary for a number of reasons, and we caution investors to evaluate our quarterly results in light of these factors.
If our new solutions and services are not adopted by our clients or members, or if we fail to innovate and develop new offerings that are adopted by our clients, our revenue and results of operations may be adversely affected.
To date, we have derived a substantial majority of our revenue from sales of our fertility benefits and Progyny Rx solutions. As we operate in an evolving industry and new market, our long-term results of operations and continued growth will depend on our ability to successfully develop and market new solutions and services to our clients. If our existing clients and members do not value and/or are not willing to adopt such new solutions or services, it could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations. If we are unable to accurately predict clients’ or members’ preferences, if the market in which we operate changes, including in response to government regulation, or if we are unable to modify our solutions and services on a timely basis, we may lose clients. Our results of operations would also suffer if our innovations are not responsive to the needs of our members, appropriately timed with market opportunity or effectively brought to market.
If we fail to adapt and respond effectively to the changing medical landscape, changing laws, regulations and government enforcement priorities, and changing client needs, requirements or preferences, our offerings may become less competitive.
The market in which we compete is subject to a changing medical landscape and changing laws, regulations and government enforcement priorities, as well as changing client needs, requirements and preferences. The success of our business will depend, in part, on our ability to adapt and respond effectively to these changes on a timely basis. Our business strategy may not effectively respond to these changes, and we may fail to recognize and position ourselves to capitalize on market opportunities. We may not have sufficient advance notice and resources to develop and effectively implement an alternative strategy. There may be scientific or clinical changes that require us to change our solutions or that make our solutions, including the Smart Cycles, less competitive in the marketplace. If there are sensitivities to our model or our existing competitors and new entrants create new disruptive business models and/or develop new solutions that clients and members prefer to our solutions, we may lose clients and members, and our results of operations, cash flows and/or prospects may be adversely affected. The future performance of our business will depend in large part on our ability to design and implement market appropriate strategic initiatives, some of which will occur over several years in a dynamic industry. If these initiatives do not achieve their objectives, our results of operations could be adversely affected.
If we fail to maintain and enhance our brand, our ability to expand our client base will be impaired, and our business, financial condition and results of operations may suffer.
We believe that maintaining and enhancing the Progyny brand is important to support the marketing and sale of our existing and future solutions to new clients and expand sales of our solutions to existing clients. We also believe that the importance of brand recognition will increase as competition in our market increases. Successfully maintaining and enhancing our brand will depend largely on the effectiveness of our marketing efforts, our ability to provide reliable services that continue to meet the needs of our clients at competitive prices, our ability to maintain our clients’ trust, our ability to continue to develop new solutions, and our ability to successfully differentiate our platform from competitive solutions and services. Our brand promotion activities may not generate client awareness or yield increased revenue, and even if they do, any increased revenue may not offset the expenses we incur in building our brand. If we fail to successfully promote and maintain our brand, our business, financial condition and results of operations may suffer.
If we fail to retain members of our management team or other key employees or fail to attract additional qualified personnel, our business and future growth may be negatively impacted.
Our success and future growth depend, in part, on the continued services of our management team and other key employees as well as our ability to continue to identify, attract, and retain additional highly-qualified personnel. Competition for talent is intense, and many of the companies with which we compete for talent have greater resources than we do. There is no guarantee that we will be able to attract such personnel on terms that are favorable to us or at all. In addition, our management team and other key employees are employed on an at-will basis, which means that these personnel could terminate their employment with us at any time. If we fail to retain one or more members of our management team or other key employees, or fail to attract and retain new personnel, our business and future growth may be negatively impacted.
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Any litigation against us could be costly and time-consuming to defend and could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We have in the past and may in the future become subject to legal proceedings and claims that arise in the ordinary course of business, such as claims brought by our clients or vendors in connection with commercial disputes or employment claims made by our current or former employees. We are unable to predict the outcome of any legal proceedings. Such proceedings might result in substantial costs, regardless of the outcome, and may divert management’s attention and resources, which might seriously harm our business, financial condition and results of operations. Insurance might not cover litigation claims, might not provide sufficient payments to cover all the costs to resolve one or more such claims, and might not continue to be available on terms acceptable to us. A claim brought against us that is uninsured or under insured could result in unanticipated costs, including negative publicity, regardless of whether the allegations are valid or we are ultimately liable, which could damage our reputation and have a material adverse impact on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We are exposed to credit risk from our members.
We collect co-payments, co-insurance and deductibles directly from our members. We do not require collateral for such receivables. Our failure to collect a significant portion of the amount due on such receivables directly from members could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our business with government entities is subject to a number of challenges and risks.
We may sell our services or solutions to U.S. federal, state, and local government and agency clients. Sales to such entities are subject to a number of challenges and risks. Selling to such entities can be highly competitive, expensive, and time-consuming, often requiring significant upfront time and expense without any assurance that these efforts will generate a sale. Government contracting requirements may change and in doing so restrict our ability to sell into the government sector until we have attained a revised certification. Government demand and payment for our offerings are dependent on many factors beyond our control, including general economic conditions, public sector budgetary constraints and funding authorizations, and general political priorities, with funding reductions or delays adversely affecting public sector demand for our offerings.
Further, governmental and highly regulated entities may demand contract terms that differ from our standard arrangements. Such entities may have statutory, contractual, or other legal rights to terminate contracts with us or our partners due to a default or for other reasons. Any such termination may adversely affect our reputation, business, financial condition and results of operations.
Failure to enforce our intellectual property rights could impair our ability to protect our proprietary technology and our brand.
Our success depends in part on our ability to protect our brand, trade secrets and confidential information, including unpatented know-how, technology and other proprietary information, and maintaining, defending and enforcing our intellectual property rights. We rely on our agreements with our clients, non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements with employees and third parties, and our trademarks, trade secrets, and copyrights to protect our intellectual property rights. However, any of these parties may breach such agreements and disclose our confidential or proprietary information, and we may not be able to obtain adequate remedies for such breaches. In addition, we may not be able to detect or prevent the unauthorized use of such information or take appropriate and timely steps to protect and enforce our intellectual property rights. There is no assurance that we will be able to obtain, maintain, defend and enforce our intellectual property rights or that such intellectual property rights will not be challenged, narrowed, held unenforceable or circumvented. Therefore, these legal protections and precautions may not prevent infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violations of our intellectual property. Any litigation and any infringement, misappropriation, dilution or other violations of our intellectual property could hinder our ability to market and sell our solutions, and our business, financial condition and results of operations could be adversely affected.
If any of our trade secrets were to be lawfully obtained or independently developed by a competitor or other third party, we would have no right to prevent them from using that technology or information to compete with us, and our competitive position would be harmed.
Third parties may allege that our products and services, or the conduct of our business, infringe, misappropriate or otherwise violate such third party’s intellectual property rights. Even if such claims are without merit, defending such claims would cause us to incur substantial expenses and could cause us to pay substantial damages or seek a costly license if we are found to be infringing, misappropriating, or otherwise violating a third party’s intellectual property rights. If we
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are unable to enter into a license on acceptable terms or at all, we could be forced to cease some aspect of our business operations or be forced to redesign our products or services so that we no longer infringe a third-party's intellectual property rights, which may result in significant cost and delay to us or which redesign could be technically infeasible. Even if resolved in our favor, litigation or other legal proceedings relating to intellectual property claims may cause us to incur significant expenses and could distract our employees and management from their normal responsibilities.
Moreover, although we take measures to ensure that our employees do not use the confidential or proprietary information or know-how of others in their work for us, we may be subject to claims that we or these employees have used or disclosed intellectual property, including trade secrets or other confidential or proprietary information, of third parties, including such individual’s former employer. If we fail in defending any such claims, in addition to paying monetary damages, we may lose valuable intellectual property rights or personnel. Even if we are successful in defending against such claims, litigation could result in substantial costs and be a distraction to management.
Furthermore, we currently own registered trademarks. Any of our trademarks or trade names, whether registered or unregistered, may be challenged, opposed, infringed, cancelled, circumvented or declared generic or determined to be infringing on other marks, as applicable. We may not be able to protect our rights to these trademarks and trade names, which we need to continue to build name recognition with potential partners or clients in our markets of interest.
We may not be able to utilize a portion of our net operating loss or research tax credit carryforwards, which could adversely affect our profitability.
Under Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, our ability to utilize net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes in any taxable year may be limited if we experience an “ownership change.” A Section 382 “ownership change” generally occurs if one or more stockholders or groups of stockholders who own at least 5% of our stock increase their ownership by more than 50 percentage points over their lowest ownership percentage within a rolling three-year period. Similar rules may apply under state tax laws. Future issuances of our stock could cause an “ownership change.” Any future ownership change, which could be outside of our control, could also have a material effect on the use of our net operating loss carryforwards or other tax attributes existing at the time of the ownership change, which could adversely affect our profitability.
Changes in our effective tax rate or tax liabilities may have an adverse effect on our results of operations.
Our effective tax rate could be impacted due to several factors, including, but not limited to:
•changes in the relative amounts of income before taxes in the various jurisdictions in which we operate that have differing statutory tax rates;
•changes in tax laws, tax treaties, or regulations or the interpretation of them (such as the Inflation Reduction Act, which, among other changes, introduced a 15% corporate minimum tax on certain United States corporations and a 1% excise tax on certain stock redemptions by United States corporations);
•changes to our assessment about our ability to realize our deferred tax assets that are based on estimates of our future results, the prudence and feasibility of possible tax planning strategies, and the economic and political environments in which we do business;
•the outcome of future tax audits, examinations, or administrative appeals;
•limitations or adverse findings regarding our ability to do business in some jurisdictions; and
•discrete impact tax items, including items resulting from the amount and timing of equity exercises and our stock price.
Any of these factors could have an adverse effect on our results of operations.
Certain U.S. state tax authorities may assert that we have a state nexus and seek to impose state and local taxes, which could adversely affect our results of operations.
We currently file tax returns in certain states. There is a risk that certain state tax authorities, where we do not currently file a tax return, could assert that we are liable for state and local taxes based on income or gross receipts allocable to such states. States are becoming increasingly aggressive in asserting a nexus for state tax purposes. We could
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be subject to state and local taxation, including penalties and interest attributable to prior periods, if a state tax authority where we do not currently file a state tax return successfully asserts that our activities give rise to a taxable nexus. Such tax assessments, penalties and interest may adversely affect our results of operations.
Our reported financial results may be adversely affected by changes in accounting principles generally accepted in the United States.
Accounting principles generally accepted in the United States are subject to interpretation by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, or FASB, the SEC and various bodies formed to promulgate and interpret appropriate accounting principles. A change in accounting principles or interpretations, including the adoption of new or revised accounting principles, may require us to make changes to our systems, processes and controls, which could have a significant effect on our reported financial results, cause unexpected financial reporting fluctuations, retroactively affect previously reported results or require us to make costly changes to our operational processes and accounting systems upon or following the adoption of these standards. See Note 2 – Significant Accounting Policies included in the notes to the consolidated financial statements of this Annual Report on Form 10-K for additional information on recently issued but not yet adopted accounting standards.
If our estimates or judgments relating to our critical accounting policies prove to be incorrect, our results of operations could be adversely affected.
The preparation of consolidated financial statements in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles, or U.S. GAAP, requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the amounts reported in our consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes included elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K. We base our estimates on historical experience and on various other assumptions that we believe to be reasonable under the circumstances, as provided in Part II, Item 7. “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations-Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates” of this Annual Report on Form 10-K. The results of these estimates form the basis for making judgments about the carrying values of assets, liabilities and equity and the amount of revenue and expenses that are not readily apparent from other sources. We believe that the assumptions and estimates associated with our accrued receivables related to revenue recognition, accrued claims payable, stock-based compensation expense, and accounting for income taxes have the greatest potential impact on our consolidated financial statements, and therefore, we consider these to be our critical accounting policies and estimates. Our results of operations may be adversely affected if our assumptions change or if actual circumstances differ from those in our assumptions, which could cause our results of operations to fall below the expectations of securities analysts and investors, resulting in a decline in the market price of our common stock.
Risks Related to Our Relationships with Third Parties
Our business depends on our ability to maintain our Center of Excellence network of high-quality fertility specialists and other healthcare providers. If we are unable to do so, our future growth would be limited and our business, financial condition and results of operations would be harmed.
Our success is dependent upon our continued ability to maintain a selective Center of Excellence, our proprietary, credentialed network of high-quality fertility specialists. Fertility specialists and our other network providers could refuse to continue to contract with us, demand higher payments or take other actions that could result in higher medical costs, less attractive service for our members or difficulty meeting regulatory or accreditation requirements. Identifying high-quality fertility specialists and other healthcare providers; credentialing and negotiating contracts with them; and evaluating, monitoring and maintaining our network requires significant time and resources. Our network provider contractual arrangements generally may be terminated or not renewed by either party without cause upon prior written notice. We cannot provide any assurance that we will be able to continue to renew our existing contracts or enter into new contracts on a timely basis or under favorable terms enabling us to service our members in a profitable manner. If we are not successful in maintaining our relationships with top fertility specialists, they may refuse to renew their contracts with us, and potential competitors may be effective in onboarding these or other high-quality fertility specialists to create a similar high-quality network. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our operations and the provision of services to our members.
There may be additional shifts in the fertility specialty provider space as the fertility market matures, and high-quality fertility specialists may become more demanding in re-negotiating to remain in our network. Our ability to develop and maintain satisfactory relationships with high-quality fertility specialists and other healthcare providers also may be negatively impacted by other factors beyond our control, such as legal and regulatory changes, including changes in government enforcement priorities, impacting providers or consolidation activity among hospitals, physician groups and healthcare providers. In addition, in some markets and geographic areas, certain organizations of physicians or healthcare
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providers, such as practice management companies (which group together physician practices for administrative efficiency and marketing leverage), accountable care organizations, clinically integrated networks, independent practice associations, and other organizational structures that physicians and other healthcare providers choose may change the way in which these providers do business with us, as well as the competitive landscape. Such organizations or groups of healthcare providers may compete directly with us, which could force us to incur costs to change our business operations, adversely impact our relationships with our providers, or affect how we price our products and estimate our costs, all of which could adversely affect our results of operations, financial position, and cash flows. Healthcare providers in our network may consolidate or merge into other groups or healthcare systems, resulting in a reduction of providers in our network and in the competitive environment. In addition, if these providers refuse to contract with us, use their market position to negotiate contracts unfavorable to us or place us at a competitive disadvantage, our ability to market our solutions or to be profitable in those areas could be materially and adversely affected.
From time to time, our network providers may assert, or threaten to assert, claims seeking to terminate our contractual arrangements. If enough provider agreements are terminated, such terminations could adversely impact the adequacy of our network to service our members and adversely impact our ability to market our solutions. If we are unable to retain our current provider contract terms or enter into new provider contracts timely or on favorable terms, our profitability may be harmed. In addition, from time to time, we may in the future be subject to class action or other lawsuits by healthcare providers with respect to claims payment procedures, reimbursement policies, network participation, or similar matters. Regardless of whether any such lawsuits brought against us are successful or have merit, they will be time-consuming and costly and could have an adverse impact on our reputation. As a result, under such circumstances, we may be unable to operate our business effectively.
The perceived value of our solutions and our reputation may be negatively impacted if the services provided by one or more of our fertility specialists or another network healthcare provider are not satisfactory to our members, including as a result of provider error, which could result in litigation. For example, if a provider within our network experiences an issue with its cryopreservation techniques or releases sensitive member information, it could result in us incurring substantial additional expenses, expose us to public scrutiny, adversely affect our brand and reputation, expose us to litigation and/or regulatory action, and otherwise make our operations vulnerable. In addition, if a fertility specialist provides services that result in less than favorable outcomes, this could cause us to fail to meet our contractually guaranteed performance metrics, and we could be obligated to provide the affected client with a fee reduction. The failure to maintain our selective network of high-quality fertility specialists and other healthcare providers, or the failure of such providers to meet and exceed our members’ expectations, may result in a loss of or inability to grow or maintain our client base, which could adversely affect our business, financial condition and results of operations.
Our growth depends in part on the success of our strategic relationships with, and monitoring of, third parties, including channel partners and vendors, as well as insurance carriers.
In order to grow our business, we anticipate that we will continue to depend on our relationships with third parties, including channel partners, vendors and insurance carriers, among others. As the fertility industry and our client base grow, if we do not successfully maintain our relationships with insurance carriers, they may make integration more difficult or expensive, such as implementing an onerous fee structure in exchange for our ability to continue to integrate our solutions with their platforms. If we are unsuccessful in establishing or maintaining our relationships with third parties, our ability to compete in the marketplace or to grow our revenue could be impaired and our results of operations may suffer.
In addition, our arrangements with such third parties may expose us to public scrutiny, adversely affect our brand and reputation, expose us to litigation and/or regulatory action, or otherwise make our operations vulnerable if we fail to adequately monitor their performance or if they fail to meet their contractual obligations to us or to comply with applicable laws or regulations.
If we fail to maintain an efficient pharmacy distribution network or if there is a disruption to our network of specialty pharmacies or their supply chains, our business, financial condition and results of operations could suffer.
The timely delivery of fertility medication is essential for fertility treatments. If medication is delivered late or becomes unavailable, it may result in postponement of a member’s treatment cycle and member dissatisfaction with our solutions. We believe that our ability to continue to maintain and grow the adoption of Progyny Rx by our clients is highly dependent on our success in maintaining an efficient pharmacy distribution network and our on-time delivery record. The specialty pharmacies in our network could refuse to contract with us, demand higher drug pricing or take other actions that could result in higher medical costs or less attractive services for our members.
In addition, specialty pharmacies could face supply chain issues or regulatory delays impacting the availability or distribution of certain fertility medication requiring drug substitutions that could result in higher medical costs or
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