Advanced Health Corporation and Advanced Heart Physicians and Surgeons Network, PC in Dispute.TARRYTOWN, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 16, 1998--Advanced Health Corporation (Nasdaq: ADVH) announced today that there is a dispute between the Company and one of its physician practice clients, Advanced Heart Physicians and Surgeons Physicians and surgeons are medical practitioners who treat illness and injury by prescribing medication, performing diagnostic tests and evaluations, performing surgery, and providing other medical services and advice. Network, PC, (the "Practice") and its partners, Drs. Jeffrey Moses and Valavanur Subramanian, in connection with the Practice's management services agreement (MSA (Metropolitan Service Area) An urban area with at least 50,000 people plus surrounding counties. There are 306 MSAs and 428 RSAs (rural service areas) in the U.S. MSAs and RSAs are used to allocate cellular licenses. ). Dr. Jeffrey Moses has issued a notice of "Irreconcilable Differences The existence of significant differences between a married couple that are so great and beyond resolution as to make the marriage unworkable, and for which the law permits a Divorce. " with his partner, Dr. Subramanian. Based on this notice, Dr. Moses has informed ADVH that he and his partner are seeking to exercise a purported termination right under the MSA, and are therefore seeking to have the Company repurchase approximately 545,000 shares of ADVH stock granted to them in 1995 and to pay certain fees in connection with the termination of the MSA. The aggregate amount being demanded by Drs. Moses and Subramanian in connection with the purported termination and the stock repurchase Stock repurchase A firm's repurchase of outstanding shares of its common stock. is $3.5 million. ADVH believes the Practice does not have grounds to terminate the MSA, receive the disputed fees or require ADVH to repurchase stock it had granted to Drs. Moses and Subramanian. Under the current MSA, if the physicians did have grounds to terminate the MSA due to Irreconcilable Differences, they would each be required to enter into separate, substantially similar management services agreements with ADVH. There can be no assurance as to the outcome of this dispute. Advanced Health is a leading health care services company that vertically integrates outsourcing services with clinical information systems. Through its Advanced Health Management subsidiary, the Company provides outsourcing services to independent and hospital-affiliated practices and networks. Through its Advanced Health Technologies subsidiary, the Company provides clinical information solutions to health care organizations. These information systems provide physicians and integrated delivery systems integrated delivery system Integrated provider Medical practice A coordinated health care system formed by physician groups and hospitals which ↑ efficiency and ↓ redundancy in providing health care; IDSs coordinate delivery of a broad range of health with patient-specific clinical and health plan information at the point of care to improve the quality and reduce the costs of health care. This press release contains forward-looking information. The forward-looking statements are made pursuant to the safe harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be significantly impacted by certain risks and uncertainties herein and in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K Form 10-K A report required by the SEC from exchange-listed companies that provides for annual disclosure of certain financial information. Form 10-K See 10-K. filed with Securities and Exchange Commission for the year ended December 31, 1997. |
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