10-Q: Quarterly report pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d)
Published on May 3, 2022
UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
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OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
FORM 10-Q
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PART I – FINANCIAL INFORMATION
Item 1 - Financial Statements
OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS
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Investments in direct financing leases – net |
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Other investments – net |
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Total investments |
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Goodwill |
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Other assets |
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Total assets |
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LIABILITIES AND EQUITY |
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Revolving credit facility |
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Senior notes and other unsecured borrowings – net |
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Total equity |
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Total liabilities and equity |
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See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF OPERATIONS
Unaudited
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Rental income |
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Other investment income |
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Miscellaneous income |
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Total revenues |
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Expenses |
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Depreciation and amortization |
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Impairment on real estate properties |
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Interest expense |
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Total expenses |
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Other income (expense) |
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Other (expense) income – net |
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Gain on assets sold – net |
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Total other income |
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Income before income tax expense and income from unconsolidated joint ventures |
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Net income |
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Net income available to common stockholders |
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Earnings per common share available to common stockholders: |
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Net income available to common stockholders |
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Net income |
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See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME
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Net income |
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Other comprehensive income (loss): |
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Comprehensive income |
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See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CHANGES IN EQUITY
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
Unaudited
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Balance at December 31, 2021 |
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Stock related compensation |
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Issuance of common stock |
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Vesting/exercising of Omega OP Units |
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Capital contribution from noncontrolling interest holder in consolidated JV |
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Net income |
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Balance at March 31, 2022 |
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Balance at December 31, 2020 |
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Issuance of common stock |
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Balance at March 31, 2021 |
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See notes to consolidated financial statements.
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OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
Unaudited (in thousands)
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Net income |
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Adjustment to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities: |
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Impairment on real estate properties |
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Recovery on direct financing leases |
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Provision for rental income |
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Provision (recovery) for credit losses |
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Amortization of deferred financing costs and loss on debt extinguishment |
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Gain on assets sold – net |
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Amortization of acquired in-place leases – net |
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Change in operating assets and liabilities – net: |
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Net proceeds from sale of real estate investments |
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Investments in unconsolidated joint ventures |
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OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Unaudited
March 31, 2022
NOTE 1 – BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES
Business Overview and Organization
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (“Parent”) is a Maryland corporation that, together with its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, “Omega,” the “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) invests in healthcare-related real estate properties located in the United States (“U.S.”) and the United Kingdom (“U.K.”). Our core business is to provide financing and capital to the long-term healthcare industry with a particular focus on skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”), assisted living facilities (“ALFs”), and to a lesser extent, independent living facilities (“ILFs”), rehabilitation and acute care facilities (“specialty facilities”) and medical office buildings. Our core portfolio consists of long-term “triple net” leases and mortgage loans with healthcare operating companies and affiliates (collectively, our “operators”). In addition to our core investments, we selectively make loans to operators for working capital and capital expenditures. From time to time, we also acquire equity interests in joint ventures or entities that support the long-term healthcare industry and our operators.
Omega has elected to be taxed as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) for federal income tax purposes and is structured as an umbrella partnership REIT (“UPREIT”) under which all of Omega’s assets are owned directly or indirectly by, and all of Omega’s operations are conducted directly or indirectly through, its operating partnership subsidiary, OHI Healthcare Properties Limited Partnership (collectively with its subsidiaries, “Omega OP”). Omega has exclusive control over Omega OP’s day-to-day management pursuant to the partnership agreement governing Omega OP. As of March 31, 2022, Parent owned approximately
Basis of Presentation and Principles of Consolidation
The accompanying unaudited consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with the instructions to Form 10-Q and do not include all the information and notes required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) for complete financial statements. In our opinion, all adjustments (consisting of normal recurring accruals) considered necessary for a fair presentation have been included. The results of operations for the interim periods reported herein are not necessarily indicative of results to be expected for the full year. These unaudited consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and the footnotes thereto included in our latest Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on February 17, 2022.
Omega’s consolidated financial statements include the accounts of (i) Parent, (ii) Omega OP, (iii) all direct and indirect wholly owned subsidiaries of Omega and (iv) other entities in which Omega or Omega OP has a majority voting interest and control. All intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in consolidation, and Omega’s net earnings are reduced by the portion of net earnings attributable to noncontrolling interests.
Segments
We conduct our operations and report financial results as
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Reclassification
Certain line items on our Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity, Consolidated Balance Sheets and Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows have been reclassified to conform to the current period presentation.
Risks and Uncertainties including COVID-19
The Company is subject to certain risks and uncertainties affecting the healthcare industry, including those stemming from the novel coronavirus (“COVID-19”) global pandemic described below, which has disproportionately impacted the senior care sector, as well as those stemming from healthcare legislation and changing regulation by federal, state and local governments. Additionally, we are subject to risks and uncertainties as a result of changes affecting operators of nursing home facilities due to the actions of governmental agencies and insurers to limit the rising cost of healthcare services.
Recent Accounting Pronouncements
ASU – 2022-02, Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326): Troubled Debt Restructurings and Vintage Disclosures
On March 31, 2022, the FASB issued ASU 2022-02, which eliminates the recognition and measurement guidance for troubled debt restructurings (“TDRs”) and requires additional disclosures for certain loan modifications. ASU 2022-02 also requires entities to disclose gross write-offs of financing receivables and net investments in leases by year of origination. The TDR guidance can be adopted using either a prospective or modified retrospective transition approach and the additional disclosure requirements are made prospectively. ASU 2022-02 would be effective for Omega’s first quarter of 2023, and early adoption is permitted. We are still evaluating the impact that adopting ASU 2022-02 will have on our consolidated financial statements.
ASU – 2020-04, Financial Instruments – Reference Rate Reform (Topic 848)
On March 12, 2020, the FASB issued ASU 2020-04, which contains optional practical expedients for a limited period of time to ease the potential burden in accounting for (or recognizing the effects of) reference rate reform on financial reporting for contracts, hedging relationships, and other transactions that reference the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”). The guidance may be elected over time until December 31, 2022, as reference rate reform activities occur. The Company has several derivative instruments (See Note 16 – Derivatives and Hedging), a $
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NOTE 2 – REAL ESTATE ASSETS
Three Months Ended March 31, |
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Our variable lease income primarily represents the reimbursement of real estate taxes and ground lease expenses by operators that Omega pays directly.
Asset Acquisitions
The following table summarizes the asset acquisitions that occurred during the first three months of 2022:
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The total consideration paid for this |
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Total consideration for the |
NOTE 3 – ASSETS HELD FOR SALE, DISPOSITIONS AND IMPAIRMENTS
Periodically we sell facilities to reduce our exposure to certain operators, geographies and non-strategic assets or due to the exercise of a tenant purchase option.
In March 2022, we reclassified
The following is a summary of our assets held for sale:
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Asset Sales
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, we sold
Real Estate Impairments
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, we recorded impairments of approximately $
NOTE 4 – CONTRACTUAL RECEIVABLES AND OTHER RECEIVABLES AND LEASE INDUCEMENTS
Contractual receivables relate to the amounts currently owed to us under the terms of our lease and loan agreements. Effective yield interest receivables relate to the difference between the interest income recognized on an effective yield basis over the term of the loan agreement and the interest currently due to us according to the contractual agreement. Straight-line rent receivables relate to the difference between the rental revenue recognized on a straight-line basis and the amounts currently due to us according to the contractual agreement. Lease inducements result from value provided by us to the lessee, at the inception, modification or renewal of the lease, and are amortized as a reduction of rental income over the non-cancellable lease term.
A summary of our net receivables and lease inducements by type is as follows:
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Agemo Holdings, LLC
Agemo Holdings, LLC (“Agemo”) continued to not pay contractual rent and interest due under its lease and loan agreements during the first quarter of 2022. As we already placed Agemo on a cash basis of revenue recognition during the third quarter of 2020,
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, the Agemo lease was amended to allow for the extension of the rent deferral through April 2022, which represents an additional deferral of approximately $
Guardian Healthcare
Guardian Healthcare (“Guardian”) continued to not make contractual rent and interest payments under its lease and loan agreements during the first quarter of 2022. As we already placed Guardian on a cash basis of revenue recognition in the fourth quarter of 2021,
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Extend the lease and loan terms to |
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sell |
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require Guardian to purchase |
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reduce the combined rent and mortgage interest to an aggregate $ |
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allow for the deferral of up to $ |
Guardian elected to utilize the allowed deferral in the restructuring agreement for unpaid contractual rent and interest during the period from October 2021 through March 2022 and for a portion of rent and interest in April 2022. In April 2022, Guardian made a partial payment after exhausting the maximum allowable deferral of $
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Other operator updates
From January through March 2022, an operator representing
We also have a $
In March 2022, another operator, representing
During the first quarter of 2022, we allowed three other operators, representing an aggregate
Other straight-line receivables and write-offs
During the first quarter of 2022, we wrote-off straight-line rent receivable balances of $
NOTE 5 – MORTGAGE NOTES RECEIVABLE
As of March 31, 2022, mortgage notes receivable relate to
The principal amounts outstanding of mortgage notes receivable, net of allowances, were as follows:
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Allowance for credit losses on mortgage notes receivable |
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Approximates the weighted average interest rate on |
| (2) |
Other mortgage notes outstanding have a weighted average interest rate of |
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Mortgage Note due 2027
As discussed in Note 4 – Contractual Receivables and Other Receivables and Lease Inducements, Guardian continued to not pay contractual rent and interest to us during the first quarter of 2022. During the first quarter of 2022, we continued our on-going negotiations to restructure and amend Guardian’s lease and loan agreements. As part of the restructuring negotiations, on February 15, 2022, Guardian completed the sale of
NOTE 6 – OTHER INVESTMENTS
Our other investments consist of fixed and variable rate loans to our operators and/or their principals to fund working capital and capital expenditures. These loans may be either unsecured or secured by the collateral of the borrower. A number of the secured loans are collateralized by a leasehold mortgage on, or an assignment or pledge of the membership interest in, the related properties, corporate guarantees and/or personal guarantees. We deem these to be “real estate related loans” that are included as qualifying assets under our quarterly REIT asset tests. As of March 31, 2022, we had
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Other investment notes due |
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Other investment notes outstanding (3) |
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| (1) | Approximates the weighted average interest rate as of March 31, 2022. |
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Other investment notes that are real estate related loans have a weighted average interest rate of |
| (3) |
Other investment notes that are non-real estate related loans have a weighted average interest rate of |
Interest revenue on other investment loans is included within other investment income on the Consolidated Statement of Operations. A summary of our other investments income by real estate and non-real estate loans, as defined above, is as follows:
Three Months Ended March 31, |
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2021 |
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Real estate related loans - interest income |
$ |
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$ |
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Total other investment income |
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Other investment notes due 2024-2025
As discussed in Note 4 – Contractual Receivables and Other Receivables and Lease Inducements, Agemo continued to not pay contractual rent and interest to us during the first quarter of 2022. We have continued to monitor the fair value of the collateral associated with Agemo’s $
Other investment notes outstanding
Term Loan – $
On March 25, 2022, we entered into a $
NOTE 7 – ALLOWANCE FOR CREDIT LOSSES
Rating |
Financial Statement Line Item |
Allowance for Credit Loss as of December 31, 2021 |
Provision (recovery) for Credit Loss for the three months ended March 31, 2022 |
Write-offs charged against allowance for the three months ended March 31, 2022 |
Allowance for Credit Loss as of March 31, 2022 |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Investment in Direct Financing Leases |
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2 |
Off-Balance Sheet Note Commitments |
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Off-Balance Sheet Note Commitments |
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Off-Balance Sheet Note Commitments |
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Total |
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$ |
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| (1) | This amount relates to a recovery recorded on the Guardian mortgage loan during the first quarter of 2022. See Note 5 – Mortgage Notes Receivable for additional information on the recovery recorded. |
| (2) |
This provision includes an additional $ |
| (3) |
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, we received $ |
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A rollforward of our allowance for credit losses for the three months ended March 31, 2021 is as follows:
Rating |
Financial Statement Line Item |
Allowance for Credit Loss at December 31, 2020 |
Provision (recovery) for Credit Loss for the three months ended March 31, 2021 |
Write-offs charged against allowance for the three months ended March 31, 2021 |
Allowance for Credit Loss as of March 31, 2021 |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Mortgage Notes Receivable |
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Investment in Direct Financing Leases |
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Other Investments |
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Other Investments |
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Off-Balance Sheet Note Commitments |
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Off-Balance Sheet Note Commitments |
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Off-Balance Sheet Mortgage Commitments |
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A summary of our amortized cost basis by year of origination and credit quality indicator is as follows:
Rating |
Financial Statement Line Item |
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2021 |
2020 |
2019 |
2018 |
2017 |
2016 & older |
Revolving Loans |
Balance as of March 31, 2022 |
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1 |
Mortgage notes receivable |
$ |
— |
$ |
— |
$ |
— |
$ |
— |
$ |
— |
$ |
— |
$ |
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$ |
— |
$ |
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2 |
Mortgage notes receivable |
— |
— |
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— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
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3 |
Mortgage notes receivable |
— |
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— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
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4 |
Mortgage notes receivable |
— |
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— |
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5 |
Mortgage notes receivable |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
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6 |
Mortgage notes receivable |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
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Investment in direct financing leases |
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— |
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Other investments |
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— |
— |
— |
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— |
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Other investments |
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— |
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Other investments |
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Other investments |
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— |
— |
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6 |
Other investments |
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— |
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Total |
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$ |
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$ |
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Interest Receivable on Mortgage and Other Investment Loans
We have elected the practical expedient to exclude interest receivable from our allowance for credit losses. As of March 31, 2022, $
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During the first quarter of 2022, we did
NOTE 8 – VARIABLE INTEREST ENTITIES
Unconsolidated Variable Interest Entities
We hold variable interests in several variable interest entities (“VIEs”) through our investing and financing activities, which are not consolidated, as we have concluded that we are not the primary beneficiary of these entities as we do not have the power to direct activities that most significantly impact the VIE’s economic performance and/or the variable interest we hold does not obligate us to absorb losses or provide us with the right to receive benefits from the VIE which could potentially be significant.
Below is a summary of our assets, liabilities and collateral associated with these unconsolidated VIEs as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021:
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December 31, |
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Real estate assets – net |
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Assets held for sale |
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Other investments – net |
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Contractual receivables – net |
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Straight-line rent receivables |
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Lease inducement |
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Net in-place lease liability |
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Security deposit |
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Contingent liability |
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Other liabilities |
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Total liabilities |
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Collateral |
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Letters of credit |
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Personal guarantee |
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Other collateral(1) |
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Total collateral |
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Maximum exposure to loss |
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$ |
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| (1) |
Amount excludes accounts receivable that Omega has a security interest in as collateral under the two working capital loans with operators that are unconsolidated VIEs. The fair value of the accounts receivable available to Omega was $ |
In determining our maximum exposure to loss from the unconsolidated VIEs, we considered the underlying carrying value of the real estate subject to leases with the operator and other collateral, if any, supporting our other investments, which may include accounts receivable, security deposits, letters of credit or personal guarantees, if any, as well as other liabilities recognized with respect to these operators.
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The table below reflects our total revenues from the operators that are considered unconsolidated VIEs for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
Three Months Ended March 31, |
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2021 |
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Rental income |
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$ |
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Other investment income |
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Total |
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$ |
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Consolidated VIEs
During the first quarter of 2022, we entered into a joint venture, which owns
NOTE 9 – INVESTMENTS IN JOINT VENTURES
Unconsolidated Joint Ventures
Omega owns an interest in a number of joint ventures that are accounted for under the equity method. These entities and their subsidiaries are not consolidated by the Company because it does not control, through voting rights or other means, the joint venture. The following is a summary of our investments in unconsolidated joint ventures (dollars in thousands):
Carrying Amount |
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Facility |
Facilities at |
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Investment(1) |
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3/31/2022 |
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2021 |
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Second Spring Healthcare Investments |
$ |
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SNF |
— |
$ |
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$ |
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Second Spring II LLC |
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Lakeway Realty, L.L.C. |
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Cindat Joint Venture |
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ALF |
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OMG Senior Housing, LLC |
— |
Specialty facility |
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— |
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— |
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OH CHS SNP, Inc. |
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N/A |
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$ |
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$ |
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| (1) | Our initial investment includes our transaction costs, if any. |
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The following table reflects our income (loss) from unconsolidated joint ventures for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
Three Months Ended March 31, |
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Second Spring Healthcare Investments(1) |
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$ |
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Second Spring II LLC |
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Lakeway Realty, L.L.C. |
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Cindat Joint Venture |
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OMG Senior Housing, LLC |
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OH CHS SNP, Inc. |
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Total |
$ |
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$ |
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| (1) |
The income from this unconsolidated joint venture for the three months ended March 31, 2021 includes a $ |
Asset Management Fees
We receive asset management fees from certain joint ventures for services provided. For each of the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, we recognized approximately $
NOTE 10 – GOODWILL AND OTHER INTANGIBLES
The following is a summary of our goodwill as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021:
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Balance as of December 31, 2021 |
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Foreign currency translation |
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Balance as of March 31, 2022 |
$ |
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The following is a summary of our intangibles as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021:
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December 31, |
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2021 |
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Above market leases |
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Accumulated amortization |
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Net above market leases |
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Below market leases |
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Net below market leases |
$ |
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$ |
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Above market leases, net of accumulated amortization, are included in other assets on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. Below market leases, net of accumulated amortization, are included in accrued expenses and other liabilities on our Consolidated Balance Sheets. The net amortization related to the above and below market leases is included in our Consolidated Statements of Operations as an adjustment to rental income.
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For the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, our net amortization related to intangibles was $
NOTE 11 – CONCENTRATION OF RISK
As of March 31, 2022, our portfolio of real estate investments (including properties associated with mortgages, direct financing leases, assets held for sale and consolidated joint ventures) consisted of
At March 31, 2022 we had investments with
At March 31, 2022, the three states in which we had our highest concentration of investments were Florida (
NOTE 12 – STOCKHOLDERS’ EQUITY
$
On January 27, 2022, the Company authorized the repurchase of up to $
Dividends
The following is a summary of our declared cash dividends on common stock:
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Dividend Reinvestment and Common Stock Purchase Plan
The following is a summary of the shares issued under the Dividend Reinvestment and Common Stock Purchase Plan for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 (in millions):
Three Months Ended |
Shares issued |
Gross Proceeds |
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March 31, 2021 |
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March 31, 2022 |
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At-The-Market Offering Programs
The following is a summary of the shares issued under our former $
Average Net Price |
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Shares issued |
Per Share(1) |
Gross Proceeds |
Commissions |
Net Proceeds |
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March 31, 2021 |
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$ |
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$ |
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$ |
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March 31, 2022 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
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| (1) | Represents the average price per share after commissions. |
We did not utilize the forward provisions under the 2021 ATM Program during the first quarter of 2022.
Accumulated Other Comprehensive Income (Loss)
The following is a summary of our accumulated other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax where applicable:
As of and for the |
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2021 |
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Foreign Currency Translation: |
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( |
$ |
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Translation (loss) gain |
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Realized (loss) gain |
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Unrealized gain (loss) |
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( |
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Total accumulated other comprehensive income before noncontrolling interest |
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Total accumulated other comprehensive income for Omega |
$ |
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$ |
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| (1) | Recorded in interest expense on the Consolidated Statements of Operations. |
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NOTE 13 – TAXES
Omega was organized, has operated and intends to continue to operate in a manner that enables Omega to qualify for taxation as a REIT under Sections 856 through 860 of the Code. On a quarterly and annual basis, we perform several analyses to test our compliance within the REIT taxation rules. If we fail to meet the requirements for qualification as a REIT in any tax year, we will be subject to federal income tax on our taxable income at regular corporate rates and may not be able to qualify as a REIT for the subsequent years, unless we qualify for certain relief provisions that are available in the event we fail to satisfy any of the requirements.
We are also subject to federal taxation of
As a REIT under the Code, we generally will not be subject to federal income taxes on the REIT taxable income that we distribute to stockholders, subject to certain exceptions. In 2021, we distributed dividends in excess of our taxable income.
We currently own stock in certain subsidiary REITs. These subsidiaries are required to individually satisfy all of the rules for qualification as a REIT. If we fail to meet the requirements for qualification as a REIT for any of these subsidiaries, it may cause Omega to fail the requirements for qualification as a REIT also.
We have elected to treat certain of our active subsidiaries as taxable REIT subsidiaries (“TRSs”). Our domestic TRSs are subject to federal, state and local income taxes at the applicable corporate rates. Our foreign TRSs are subject to foreign income taxes and may be subject to current-year income inclusion relating to ownership of a controlled foreign corporation for U.S. income tax purposes.
As of March 31, 2022,
As discussed in Note 2 – Real Estate Assets, in connection with the acquisition of one U.K. entity in the first quarter of 2022, we acquired foreign net operating losses of $
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The following is a summary of deferred tax assets and liabilities (which are recorded in other assets and accrued expenses and other liabilities, respectively, in our Consolidated Balance Sheets):
March 31, |
December 31, |
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2022 |
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2021 |
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(in thousands) |
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Deferred tax assets: |
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U.S. Federal net operating loss carryforward |
$ |
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$ |
|
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Foreign net operating loss carryforward |
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— |
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Deferred tax liability: |
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Foreign deferred tax liability (1) |
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| (1) | The deferred tax liability primarily resulted from inherited basis differences resulting from our acquisition of entities in the U.K. Subsequent adjustments to these accounts result from GAAP to tax differences related to depreciation, indexation and revenue recognition. |
The following is a summary of our provision for income taxes:
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| (1) | The above amounts do not include gross receipts or franchise taxes payable to certain states and municipalities. |
NOTE 14 – STOCK-BASED COMPENSATION
Stock-based compensation expense was $
We granted
We also granted
Time-based and performance-based grants made to named executive officers and key employees that meet certain conditions under the Company’s retirement policy (length of service, age, etc.) vest on an accelerated basis pursuant to the 2018 Stock Incentive Plan.
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NOTE 15 – BORROWING ACTIVITIES AND ARRANGEMENTS
The following is a summary of our borrowings:
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| (2) | Wholly owned subsidiaries of Omega OP are the obligor on these borrowings. |
| (3) | Borrowing is the debt of a consolidated joint venture. |
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Borrowing is the debt of the consolidated joint venture discussed in Note 8 – Variable Interest Entities which was formed in the first quarter of 2022. The borrowing is secured by |
| (5) | Guaranteed by Omega OP. |
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As of March 31, 2022, borrowings under Omega’s $ |
| (7) | Omega OP is the obligor on this borrowing. |
| (8) |
The interest rate swaps, that were cash flow hedges of Omega OP’s $ |
| (9) | All borrowings are direct borrowings of Parent unless otherwise noted. |
| (10) |
Certain of our other secured and unsecured borrowings are subject to customary affirmative and negative covenants, including financial covenants. |
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NOTE 16 – DERIVATIVES AND HEDGING
We are exposed to, among other risks, the impact of changes in foreign currency exchange rates as a result of our investments in the U.K. and interest rate risk related to our capital structure. As a matter of policy, we do not use derivatives for trading or speculative purposes. Our risk management program is designed to manage the exposure and volatility arising from these risks, and utilizes foreign currency forward contracts, interest rate swaps and debt issued in foreign currencies to offset a portion of these risks. As of March 31, 2022, we have
The location and the fair value of derivative instruments designated as hedges, at the respective balance sheet dates, were as follows:
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The fair value of the interest rate swaps and foreign currency forwards is derived from observable market data such as yield curves and foreign exchange rates and represents a Level 2 measurement on the fair value hierarchy.
NOTE 17 – FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS
The net carrying amount of cash and cash equivalents, restricted cash, contractual receivables, other assets and accrued expenses and other liabilities reported in the Consolidated Balance Sheets approximates fair value because of the short maturity of these instruments (Level 1).
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At March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, the net carrying amounts and fair values of our other financial instruments were as follows:
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Fair value estimates are subjective in nature and are dependent on a number of important assumptions, including estimates of future cash flows, risks, discount rates and relevant comparable market information associated with each financial instrument (see Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021). The use of different market assumptions and estimation methodologies may have a material effect on the reported estimated fair value amounts.
The following methods and assumptions were used in estimating fair value disclosures for financial instruments.
| ● | Mortgage notes receivable: The fair value of the mortgage notes receivables are estimated using a discounted cash flow analysis, using interest rates being offered for similar loans to borrowers with similar credit ratings (Level 3). |
| ● | Other investments: Other investments are primarily comprised of notes receivable. The fair values of notes receivable are estimated using a discounted cash flow analysis, using interest rates being offered for similar loans to borrowers with similar credit ratings (Level 3). |
| ● | Revolving credit facility, OP term loan, 2022 term loan and 2024 term loan: The carrying amount of these approximate fair value because the borrowings are interest rate adjusted. Differences between carrying value and the fair value in the table above are due to the inclusion of deferred financing costs in the carrying value. |
| ● | Senior notes: The fair value of the senior unsecured notes payable was estimated based on (Level 1) publicly available trading prices. |
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| ● | Subordinated debt: The fair value of our borrowings under these agreements are estimated using a present value technique based on inputs from trading activity provided by a third-party (Level 2). |
| ● | HUD mortgages: The fair value of our borrowings under HUD debt agreements are estimated using an expected present value technique based on quotes obtained by HUD debt brokers (Level 2). |
NOTE 18 – COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES
Litigation
Shareholder Litigation
The Company and certain of its officers, C. Taylor Pickett, Robert O. Stephenson, and Daniel J. Booth, are defendants in a purported securities class action lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (the “Securities Class Action”). Brought by lead plaintiff Royce Setzer and additional plaintiff Earl Holtzman, the Securities Class Action purports to assert claims for violations of Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”) and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder, as well as Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act, and seeks an unspecified amount of monetary damages, interest, fees and expenses of attorneys and experts, and other relief. The Securities Class Action alleges that the defendants violated the Exchange Act by making materially false and/or misleading statements, and by failing to disclose material adverse facts about the Company’s business, operations, and prospects, including the financial and operating results of one of the Company’s operators, the ability of such operator to make timely rent payments, and the impairment of certain of the Company’s leases and the uncollectibility of certain receivables. The initial complaint was dismissed with prejudice by the U.S. District Court, but the dismissal was overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 2020. Thereafter, the plaintiffs filed a Second Consolidated Amended Complaint in August 2020. In November 2020, the Company and the officers named in the Securities Class Action filed a Motion to Dismiss the Second Consolidated Amended Complaint. On September 28, 2021, the Court issued an order denying the motion to dismiss insofar as it requested dismissal of the entire action on grounds of loss causation, and granting it insofar as it sought dismissal of any claims arising out of defendants’ statements in February 2017. Because the dismissed claims were the basis for defendants’ efforts to begin the alleged class period in February 2017, the decision means that the alleged class period runs from May 3, 2017 to October 31, 2017.
Certain derivative actions have also been brought against the officers named in the Securities Class Action, and certain current and former directors of the Company, alleging claims relating to the matters at issue in the Securities Class Action. These derivative actions are currently stayed pending certain developments in the Securities Class Action.
In 2018, Stourbridge Investments LLC, a purported stockholder of the Company, filed a derivative action purportedly on behalf of the Company in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, alleging violations of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act and state-law claims including breach of fiduciary duty. The complaint alleges, among other things, that the named defendants are responsible for the Company’s failure to disclose the financial condition of Orianna Health Systems, the alleged non-disclosures that are also the subject of the Securities Class Action described above. The plaintiff did not make a demand on the Company to bring the action prior to filing it, but rather alleges that demand would have been futile. The case has been stayed pending the entry of judgment or a voluntary dismissal with prejudice in the Securities Class Action.
In 2019, purported stockholder Phillip Swan by his counsel, and stockholders Tom Bradley and Sarah Smith by their counsel, filed derivative actions in the Baltimore City Circuit Court of Maryland, purportedly on behalf of the Company, asserting claims for breach of fiduciary duty, waste of corporate assets and unjust enrichment against the named defendants. Those actions have been consolidated and stayed in the Maryland court pending completion of fact discovery in the Securities Class Action. Prior to filing suit, each of these stockholders had made demands on the Board of Directors in 2018 that the Company bring such lawsuits. After an investigation and due consideration, and in the exercise of its business judgment, the Board of Directors determined that it is not in the best interests of the Company to commence litigation against any current or former officers or directors based on the matters raised in the demands.
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In addition, in late 2020, Robert Wojcik, a purported shareholder of the Company, filed a derivative action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, purportedly on behalf of the Company, asserting violations of Section 14(a) of the Exchange Act, Sections 10(b) and 21D of the Exchange Act, as well as claims for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, abuse of control, gross mismanagement, and waste of corporate assets. Wojcik also did not make a demand on the Company prior to filing suit. The case has been stayed pending the entry of judgment or a voluntary dismissal with prejudice in the Securities Class Action.
The Company believes that the claims asserted against it in these lawsuits are without merit and intends to vigorously defend against them.
Other
Gulf Coast Subordinated Debt
In August 2021, we filed suit in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County (the “Court”) against the holders of certain Subordinated Debt associated with our Gulf Coast master lease agreement, following an assertion by the holders that our prior exercise of offset rights in connection with Gulf Coast’s non-payment of rent had resulted in defaults under the terms of the Subordinated Debt. The suit seeks a declaratory judgment to, among other items, declare that the aggregate amount of unpaid rent due from Gulf Coast under the master lease agreement exceeds all amounts which otherwise would be due and owing by a subsidiary of Omega (“Omega Obligor”) under the Subordinated Debt, and that all principal and interest due and owing under the Subordinated Debt may be (and was) offset in full as of December 31, 2021. In October 2021, the defendants in the case filed a motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction. A hearing was held on such motion on February 25, 2022, but the decision was taken under advisement. While Omega believes Omega Obligor is entitled to the enforcement of the offset rights sought in the action, the outcome of litigation is unpredictable, and Omega cannot predict the outcome of the declaratory judgment action, irrespective of whether it is litigated in the Court or, if the motion to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction is granted, in another court.
Lakeway Realty, L.L.C.
In September 2016, MedEquities received a Civil Investigative Demand (“CID”) from the U.S. Department of Justice (“DOJ”), which indicates that it is conducting an investigation regarding alleged violations of the False Claims Act, Stark Law and Anti-Kickback Statute in connection with claims that may have been submitted to Medicare and other federal payors for services rendered to patients at Lakeway Hospital or by providers with financial relationships with Lakeway Hospital. As a result of the acquisition of MedEquities, the Company owns a
On September 29, 2020, the Department of Justice announced it had reached a settlement of a False Claims Act case with Lakeway Regional Medical Center wherein Lakeway Regional Medical Center agreed to pay $
The Company believes that the acquisition, ownership and leasing of Lakeway Hospital through the Lakeway Partnership was and is in compliance with all applicable laws. However, due to the uncertainties surrounding this matter and its ultimate outcome, we are unable to determine whether it is probable that any loss has been incurred.
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In addition, we are subject to various other legal proceedings, claims and other actions arising out of the normal course of business. While any legal proceeding or claim has an element of uncertainty, management believes that the outcome of each lawsuit, claim or legal proceeding that is pending or threatened, or all of them combined, will not have a material adverse effect on our consolidated financial position or results of operations.
Indemnification Agreements
In connection with certain facility transitions, we have agreed to indemnify certain operators in certain events. As of March 31, 2022, our maximum funding commitment under these indemnification agreements was approximately $
Commitments
We have committed to fund the construction of new leased and mortgaged facilities, capital improvements and other commitments.
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| (2) |
This amount excludes our remaining commitments to fund under our other investments of approximately $ |
NOTE 19 – EARNINGS PER SHARE
The following tables set forth the computation of basic and diluted earnings per share:
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NOTE 20 – SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURE TO CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS
The following are supplemental disclosures to the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
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Item 2 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations
Forward-Looking Statements and Factors Affecting Future Results
Unless otherwise indicated or except where the context otherwise requires, the terms “we,” “us” and “our” and other similar terms in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q refer to Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries.
The following discussion should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and notes thereto appearing elsewhere in this document. This document contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the federal securities laws. These statements relate to our expectations, beliefs, intentions, plans, objectives, goals, strategies, future events, performance and underlying assumptions and other statements other than statements of historical facts. In some cases, you can identify forward-looking statements by the use of forward-looking terminology including, but not limited to, terms such as “may,” “will,” “anticipates,” “expects,” “believes,” “intends,” “should” or comparable terms or the negative thereof. These statements are based on information available on the date of this filing and only speak as to the date hereof and no obligation to update such forward-looking statements should be assumed.
Our actual results may differ materially from those reflected in the forward-looking statements contained herein as a result of a variety of factors, including, among other things:
| (1) | those items discussed under “Risk Factors” in Part I, Item 1A to our Annual Report on Form 10-K; |
| (2) | uncertainties relating to the business operations of the operators of our assets, including those relating to reimbursement by third-party payors, regulatory matters and occupancy levels; |
| (3) | the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our business and the business of our operators, including without limitation, the extent and duration of the COVID-19 pandemic, increased costs, staffing shortages and decreased occupancy levels experienced by operators of skilled nursing facilities (“SNFs”) and assisted living facilities (“ALFs”) in connection therewith, the ability of operators to comply with infection control and vaccine protocols, the long-term impact of vaccination on facility infection rates, and the extent to which continued government support may be available to operators to offset such costs and the conditions related thereto; |
| (4) | the ability of our operators in bankruptcy to reject unexpired lease obligations, modify the terms of our mortgages and impede our ability to collect unpaid rent or interest during the pendency of a bankruptcy proceeding and retain security deposits for the debtor’s obligations, and other costs and uncertainties associated with operator bankruptcies; |
| (5) | our ability to re-lease, otherwise transition, or sell underperforming assets or assets held for sale on a timely basis and on terms that allow us to realize the carrying value of these assets; |
| (6) | the availability and cost of capital to us; |
| (7) | changes in our credit ratings and the ratings of our debt securities; |
| (8) | competition in the financing of healthcare facilities; |
| (9) | competition in the long-term healthcare industry and shifts in the perception of various types of long-term care facilities, including SNFs and ALFs; |
| (10) | additional regulatory and other changes in the healthcare sector; |
| (11) | changes in the financial position of our operators; |
| (12) | the effect of economic and market conditions generally and, particularly, in the healthcare industry; |
| (13) | changes in interest rates and the impact of inflation; |
| (14) | the timing, amount and yield of any additional investments; |
| (15) | changes in tax laws and regulations affecting real estate investment trusts (“REITs”); |
| (16) | the potential impact of changes in the SNF and ALF markets or local real estate conditions on our ability to dispose of assets held for sale for the anticipated proceeds or on a timely basis, or to redeploy the proceeds therefrom on favorable terms; |
| (17) | our ability to maintain our status as a REIT; and |
| (18) | the effect of other factors affecting our business or the businesses of our operators that are beyond our or their control, including natural disasters, other health crises or pandemics and governmental action; particularly in the healthcare industry. |
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Overview
Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc. (“Parent”) is a Maryland corporation that, together with its consolidated subsidiaries (collectively, “Omega,” or “Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) has elected to be taxed as a REIT for federal income tax purposes. Omega is structured as an umbrella partnership REIT (“UPREIT”) under which all of Omega’s assets are owned directly or indirectly by, and all of Omega’s operations are conducted directly or indirectly through, its operating partnership subsidiary, OHI Healthcare Properties Limited Partnership (collectively with its subsidiaries, “Omega OP”). As of March 31, 2022, Parent owned approximately 97% of the issued and outstanding units of partnership interest in Omega OP (“Omega OP Units”), and other investors owned approximately 3% of the outstanding Omega OP Units.
Omega has one reportable segment consisting of investments in healthcare-related real estate properties located in the United States (“U.S.”) and the United Kingdom (“U.K.”). Our core business is to provide financing and capital to the long-term healthcare industry with a particular focus on SNFs, ALFs, and to a lesser extent, independent living facilities (“ILFs”), rehabilitation and acute care facilities (“specialty facilities”) and medical office buildings. Our core portfolio consists of our long-term leases and mortgage loans with healthcare operating companies and affiliates (collectively, our “operators”). All of our mortgages are secured by first liens on the underlying real estate and personal property of the operators. In addition to our core investments, we selectively make loans to operators for working capital and capital expenditures. These loans, which may be either unsecured or secured by the collateral of the borrower, are classified as other investments. From time to time, we also acquire equity interests in joint ventures or entities that support the long-term healthcare industry and our operators.
COVID-19 Pandemic Update
The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to significantly and adversely impact SNFs and long-term care providers due to the higher rates of virus transmission and fatality among the elderly and frail populations that these facilities serve. As a result, many of our operators have been and may continue to be significantly impacted by the pandemic. Agemo Holdings, LLC (“Agemo”), Guardian Healthcare (“Guardian”) and Gulf Coast Health Care LLC (together with certain affiliates, “Gulf Coast”), three operators that failed to make contractual payments under their lease and loan agreements for periods of 2021, continued to not make payments during the first quarter of 2022. During the first quarter of 2022, two new operators, representing an aggregate of 6.1% of total revenue (excluding the impact of write-offs) for the three months ended March 31, 2022, missed contractual rent payments during the period, and we have agreed to short term deferrals with these two operators, as well as allowed one of these operators to apply its security deposit to pay rent, as discussed further in “Collectibility Issues” below. Additionally, we allowed three other operators, representing an aggregate 2.5% of total revenue (excluding the impact of write-offs) for the three months ended March 31, 2022, to apply $1.3 million of their security deposits to pay rent to accommodate short term liquidity issues, with regular rent payments required to resume shortly thereafter.
We believe these operators were impacted by, among other things, reduced revenue as a result of lower occupancy and increased expenses resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and uncertainties regarding the continuing availability of sufficient government support. We remain cautious as the COVID-19 pandemic continues to have a significant impact on our operators and their financial conditions, particularly given continued uncertainty regarding the availability of sufficient government support and trend of reduced federal support to our operators beginning in 2021, the persistence of staffing shortages that continue to impact our operators’ occupancy levels and profitability, the impact of governmental vaccine mandates for staff on these ongoing staffing shortages, other factors that may impact virus transmission in our facilities, including genetic mutations of the virus into new variants, the commencement in April 2021 for many of our operators of the repayment of accelerated payments of Medicare funds that were previously received as Advanced Medicare payments in 2020 and the commencement in December 2021 of repayment of deferred FICA obligations.
As of April 27, 2022, our operators have reported a decline in cases of COVID-19 involving employees and residents from the high caseload experienced in January 2022 driven by the Omicron variant. Our operators reported, as of April 27, 2022, cases of COVID-19 within 151, or 16.1%, of our 939 operating facilities as of December 31, 2021, which includes cases involving employees and residents.
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We caution that we have not independently validated any such facility virus incidence information, which may be reported on an inconsistent basis by our operators, and we can provide no assurance regarding the information’s accuracy or that there have not been any changes since the time it was obtained from our operators; we also undertake no duty to update this information. It remains uncertain to what extent vaccination programs for COVID-19 and any booster doses will mitigate the effects of COVID-19 in our facilities, particularly with regard to new variants of the virus, the impact of governmental vaccine mandates for staff on ongoing staffing shortages in our facilities and other factors that impact virus transmission in our facilities. The impact of these programs will depend in part on the continued efficacy and delivery of the vaccine and booster doses in our facilities, compliance with staff vaccination requirements and participation levels in vaccination programs among the residents and employees of our operators and in the communities in which they operate.
In addition to experiencing outbreaks of positive cases and deaths of residents and employees during the pandemic, our operators have been required to, and continue to, adapt their operations to manage the spread of the COVID-19 virus as well as the implementation of new treatments and vaccines, and to implement new requirements relating to infection control, staffing levels, personal protective equipment (“PPE”), testing mandates, quality of care, visitation protocols and reporting, among other regulations, throughout the pandemic while facing staffing shortages that have accelerated during the pandemic and that may impede the delivery of care. Many of our operators have reported incurring significant cost increases as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with dramatic increases for facilities with positive cases. These increases have been offset to some extent by increases in reimbursements due to increased skilling in place, which has been necessitated by pandemic-related protocols and may decrease when such protocols subside. We believe these increases primarily stem from elevated labor costs, including increased use of overtime and bonus pay and reliance on agency staffing due to staffing shortages, as well as a significant increase in both the cost and usage of PPE, testing equipment and processes and supplies, as well as implementation of new infection control protocols and vaccination programs.
The federal government announced in August and September 2021 that it would be requiring SNF and healthcare workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19 and issued an emergency implementing regulation effective November 5, 2021 requiring covered healthcare facilities to ensure eligible staff have received a first vaccine dose as of December 5, 2021 and a second dose of a two-dose vaccine as of January 4, 2022, with certain permitted exemptions in alignment with federal law, which were subsequently extended by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services by between one to two months depending on the applicable state. Our operators have reported increases in staff vaccination rates during the first quarter of 2022; however, we expect that such mandates may exacerbate ongoing staffing shortages in skilled nursing and senior housing facilities. In addition, operators who do not achieve full compliance with the requirements may face potential survey issues and penalties. At this time, there is significant uncertainty regarding the impact of such developments.
In addition, our facilities, on average, have experienced declines, in some cases that are material, in occupancy levels as a result of the pandemic. Occupancy in our facilities has generally improved on average since early 2021, with a slight reduction in growth in late 2021 and early 2022 due to the impact of new variants; however, average occupancy has not returned to pre-pandemic levels. It remains unclear when and the extent to which demand and occupancy levels will return to pre-COVID-19 levels. We believe these challenges to occupancy recovery may be in part due to staffing shortages, which in some cases have required operators to limit admissions, as well as COVID-19 related fatalities at the facilities, the delay of SNF placement and/or utilization of alternative care settings for those with lower level of care needs, the suspension and/or postponement of elective hospital procedures, fewer discharges from hospitals to SNFs and higher hospital readmittances from SNFs.
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While substantial government support, primarily through the federal CARES Act in the U.S. and distribution of PPE, vaccines and testing equipment by federal and state governments, was allocated to SNFs and to a lesser extent to ALFs in 2020, federal relief efforts were limited in 2021 as have been relief efforts in certain states. We believe further government support will be needed to continue to offset these impacts, which may take the form of stimulus or reimbursement rate adjustments to reflect sustained cost changes experienced by operators. It is unclear whether and to what extent such government support will continue to be sufficient and timely to offset these impacts. In particular, while $25.5 billion in federal funding for healthcare providers impacted by COVID-19 was announced in September 2021 with distributions beginning in late 2021, it remains unclear the extent to which these funds or remaining unallocated funds under the Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund (“Provider Relief Fund”) will be distributed to our operators in any meaningful way, whether additional funds will be added to the Provider Relief Fund or otherwise allocated to healthcare operators or our operators, or whether additional Medicaid funds under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (the “American Rescue Plan Act”) or other Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement rates changes in the U.S. will ultimately support reimbursement to our operators. Further, to the extent the cost and occupancy impacts on our operators continue or accelerate and are not offset by continued government relief that is sufficient and timely, we anticipate that the operating results of additional operators may be materially and adversely affected, some may be unwilling or unable to pay their contractual obligations to us in full or on a timely basis and we may be unable to restructure such obligations on terms as favorable to us as those currently in place.
There are a number of uncertainties we face as we consider the continuing impact of COVID-19 on our business, including how long census disruption and elevated COVID-19 costs will last, the impact of vaccination programs, including booster doses, and participation levels in those programs in reducing the spread of COVID-19 in our facilities, the impact of genetic mutations of the virus into new variants on our facilities, the impact of vaccine mandates on ongoing staffing shortages in our facilities, and the extent to which funding support from the federal government and the states will continue to offset these incremental costs as well as lost revenues. Notwithstanding vaccination programs, we expect that heightened clinical protocols for infection control within facilities will continue for some period; however, we do not know if future reimbursement rates or equipment provided by governmental agencies will be sufficient to cover the increased costs of enhanced infection control and monitoring.
While we continue to believe that longer term demographics will drive increasing demand for needs-based skilled nursing care, we expect the uncertainties to our business described above to persist at least for the near term until we can gain more information as to the level of costs our operators will continue to experience and for how long, and the level of additional governmental support that will be available to them, the potential support our operators may request from us and the future demand for needs-based skilled nursing care and senior living facilities. We continue to monitor the rate of occupancy recovery at many of our operators, and it remains uncertain whether and when demand, staffing availability and occupancy levels will return to pre-COVID-19 levels.
We continue to monitor the impacts of other regulatory changes, as discussed below, including any significant limits on the scope of services reimbursed and on reimbursement rates and fees, which could have a material adverse effect on an operator’s results of operations and financial condition, which could adversely affect the operator’s ability to meet its obligations to us.
Other Trends and Conditions
In addition to the impacts of COVID-19 discussed above, our operators have been and are likely to continue to be adversely affected by labor shortages and increased labor costs. In addition, our operations have also been and are likely to continue to be impacted by increased competition for the acquisition of facilities in the U.S., which has decreased the number of investment opportunities that would be accretive to our portfolio. As part of our continuous evaluation of our portfolio and in connection with certain operator restructuring transactions, we expect to continue to opportunistically sell assets, or portfolios of assets, from time to time.
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Government Regulation and Reimbursement
The following information supplements and updates, and should be read in conjunction with, the information contained under the caption Item 1. Business – Government Regulation and Reimbursement in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
The healthcare industry is heavily regulated. Our operators, which are primarily based in the U.S., are subject to extensive and complex federal, state and local healthcare laws and regulations; we also have several U.K.-based operators which are subject to a variety of laws and regulations in their jurisdiction. These laws and regulations are subject to frequent and substantial changes resulting from the adoption of new legislation, rules and regulations, and administrative and judicial interpretations of existing law. The ultimate timing or effect of these changes, which may be applied retroactively, cannot be predicted. Changes in laws and regulations impacting our operators, in addition to regulatory non-compliance by our operators, can have a significant effect on the operations and financial condition of our operators, which in turn may adversely impact us. There is the potential that we may be subject directly to healthcare laws and regulations because of the broad nature of some of these regulations, such as the Anti-kickback Statute and False Claims Act, among others.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) declared a public health emergency on January 31, 2020 following the World Health Organization's decision to declare COVID-19 a public health emergency of international concern. This declaration, which has been extended through July 15, 2022, allows HHS to provide temporary regulatory waivers and new reimbursement rules designed to equip providers with flexibility to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic by suspending various Medicare patient coverage criteria and documentation and care requirements, including, for example, suspension of the three-day prior hospital stay coverage requirement and expanding the list of approved services which may be provided via telehealth. These regulatory actions have contributed, and may continue to contribute, to a change in census volumes and skilled nursing mix that may not otherwise have occurred. It remains uncertain when federal and state regulators will resume enforcement of those regulations which are waived or otherwise not being enforced during the public health emergency due to the exercise of enforcement discretion.
These temporary changes to regulations and reimbursement, as well as emergency legislation, including the CARES Act enacted on March 27, 2020 and discussed below, continue to have a significant impact on the operations and financial condition of our operators. The extent of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the Company’s and our operators’ operational and financial performance will depend on future developments, including the sufficiency and timeliness of additional governmental relief, the duration, spread and intensity of the outbreak, the impact of genetic mutations of the virus into new variants, the impact of vaccine distributions and booster doses on our operators and their populations, the impact of vaccine mandates on staffing shortages at our operators, as well as the difference in how the pandemic may impact SNFs in contrast to ALFs, all of which developments and impacts are uncertain and difficult to predict. Due to these uncertainties, we are not able at this time to estimate the effect of these factors on our business; however, the adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be material.
A significant portion of our operators’ revenue is derived from government-funded reimbursement programs, consisting primarily of Medicare and Medicaid. As federal and state governments continue to focus on healthcare reform initiatives, efforts to reduce costs by government payors will likely continue. Significant limits on the scope of services reimbursed and/or reductions of reimbursement rates could therefore have a material adverse effect on our operators’ results of operations and financial condition. Additionally, new and evolving payor and provider programs that are tied to quality and efficiency could adversely impact our tenants’ and operators’ liquidity, financial condition or results of operations, and there can be no assurance that payments under any of these government healthcare programs are currently, or will be in the future, sufficient to fully reimburse the property operators for their operating and capital expenses. In addition to quality and value based reimbursement reforms, the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (“CMS”) has implemented a number of initiatives focused on the reporting of certain facility specific quality of care indicators that could affect our operators, including publicly released quality ratings for all of the nursing homes that participate in Medicare or Medicaid under the CMS “Five Star Quality Rating System.” Facility rankings, ranging from five stars (“much above average”) to one star (“much below average”) are updated on a monthly basis. SNFs are required to provide information for the CMS Nursing Home Compare website regarding staffing and quality measures. These rating changes have impacted referrals to SNFs, and it is possible that changes to this system or other ranking systems could lead to future reimbursement policies that reward or penalize facilities on the basis of the reported quality of care parameters.
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The following is a discussion of certain U.S. laws and regulations generally applicable to our operators, and in certain cases, to us.
Reimbursement Changes Related to COVID-19:
U.S. Federal Stimulus Funds and Financial Assistance for Healthcare Providers. In response to the pandemic, Congress has enacted a series of economic stimulus and relief measures. On March 18, 2020, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act was enacted in the U.S., providing a temporary 6.2% increase to each qualifying state and territory’s Medicaid Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (“FMAP”) effective January 1, 2020. The temporary FMAP increase will extend through the last day of the calendar quarter in which the public health emergency terminates. States will make individual determinations about how this additional Medicaid reimbursement will be applied to SNFs, if at all.
In further response to the pandemic, the CARES Act authorized approximately $178 billion to be distributed through the Provider Relief Fund to reimburse eligible healthcare providers for healthcare related expenses or lost revenues that were attributable to coronavirus. As part of the $178 billion, in May 2020, HHS announced that approximately $9.5 billion in targeted distributions would be made available to eligible SNFs, approximately $2.5 billion of which were composed of performance-based incentive payments tied to a facility’s infection rate. Further, in September 2021, HHS announced the release of $25.5 billion in provider funding, including $17 billion of the $178 billion previously authorized through the CARES Act and $8.5 billion for rural providers, including those with Medicaid and Medicare patients, through the American Rescue Plan Act. The Provider Relief Fund is administered under the broad authority and discretion of HHS and recipients are not required to repay distributions received to the extent they are used in compliance with applicable requirements. Also in September 2021, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (“CDC”) announced it would allocate $500 million to staffing, training and deployment of state-based nursing home and long-term care “strike teams” to assist facilities with known or suspected COVID-19 outbreaks.
HHS continues to evaluate and provide allocations of, and issue regulation and guidance regarding, grants made under the CARES Act. There are substantial uncertainties regarding the extent to which our operators will receive additional funding from HHS.
The CARES Act and related legislation also made other forms of financial assistance available to healthcare providers, which have the potential to impact our operators to varying degrees. This assistance includes Medicare and Medicaid payment adjustments and an expansion of the Medicare Accelerated and Advance Payment Program, which made available accelerated payments of Medicare funds in order to increase cash flow to providers. These payments are loans that providers are scheduled to repay beginning one year from the issuance date of each provider’s or supplier’s accelerated or advance payment, with repayment made through automatic recoupment of 25% of Medicare payments otherwise owed to the provider or supplier for eleven months, followed by an increase to 50% for another six months, after which any outstanding balance would be repaid subject to an interest rate of 4%. We believe these repayments commenced for many of our operators in April 2021 and have adversely impacted, and will continue to adversely impact, operating cash flows of these operators.
Additionally, CMS suspended Medicare sequestration payment adjustments, which would have otherwise reduced payments to Medicare providers by 2%, from May 1, 2020 through December 31, 2020, but also extended sequestration through 2030. The Bipartisan-Bicameral Omnibus COVID Relief Deal that passed in December 2020 further extended the suspension of the Medicare sequestration until March 31, 2021, and it most recently has been further extended from December 31, 2021 through March 31, 2022, resulting in a 1% cut in Medicare reimbursement for the three months starting April 1, 2022 and the full 2% sequester resuming July 1, 2022. While not limited to healthcare providers, the CARES Act additionally provided payroll tax relief for employers, allowing them to defer payment of employer Social Security taxes that are otherwise owed for wage payments made after March 27, 2020 through December 31, 2020 to December 31, 2021 with respect to 50% of the payroll taxes owed, with the remaining 50% deferred until December 31, 2022.
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Quality of Care Initiatives and Additional Requirements Related to COVID-19. In addition to COVID-19 reimbursement changes, several regulatory initiatives announced in 2020 and 2021 focused on addressing quality of care in long-term care facilities, including those related to COVID-19 testing and infection control protocols, vaccine protocols, staffing levels, reporting requirements, and visitation policies, as well as increased inspection of nursing homes. In August 2021, CMS announced it was developing an emergency regulation requiring staff vaccinations within the nation’s more than 15,000 Medicare and Medicaid-participating nursing homes, and in September 2021, CMS further announced that the scope of the regulation will be expanded to include workers in hospitals, dialysis facilities, ambulatory surgical settings, and home health agencies. In addition, recent updates to the Nursing Home Care website and the Five Star Quality Rating System include revisions to the inspection process, adjustment of staffing rating thresholds, the implementation of new quality measures and the inclusion of a staff turnover percentage (over a 12-month period). Additionally, the Biden Administration announced a focus on implementing minimum staffing requirements and increased inspections as part of the nursing home reforms announced in the 2022 State of the Union Address. Although the American Rescue Plan Act did not allocate specific funds to SNF or ALF providers, approximately $200 million was allocated to quality improvement organizations to provide infection control and vaccination uptake support to SNFs and $500 million has been allocated by the CDC to staffing, training and deployment of state-based nursing home and long-term care “strike teams” to assist facilities with known or suspected COVID-19 outbreaks.
On June 16, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis announced the launch of an investigation into the COVID-19 response of nursing homes and the use of federal funds by nursing homes during the pandemic. The Select Subcommittee continued to be active throughout the remainder of 2020 and 2021. In March 2021, the Oversight Subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee held a hearing on examining the impact of private equity in the U.S. healthcare system, including the impact on quality of care provided within the skilled nursing industry. The Biden Administration additionally announced in March 2022 a focus on reviewing private equity investment specifically in the skilled nursing sector. These initiatives, as well as additional calls for government review of the role of private equity in the U.S. healthcare industry, could result in legislation imposing additional requirements on our operators.
Reimbursement Generally:
Medicaid. The American Rescue Plan Act contains several provisions designed to increase coverage, expand benefits, and adjust federal financing for state Medicaid programs. For example, the American Rescue Plan Act increases the FMAP by 10 percentage points for state home and community-based services expenditures beginning April 1, 2021 through March 30, 2022 in an effort to assist seniors and people with disabilities to receive services safely in the community rather than in nursing homes and other congregate care settings. As a condition for receiving the FMAP increase, states must enhance, expand, or strengthen their Medicaid home and community-based services program during this period. These potential enhancements to Medicaid reimbursement funding may be offset in certain states by state budgetary concerns, the ability of the state to allocate matching funds and to comply with the new requirements, the potential for increased enrollment in Medicaid due to unemployment and declines in family incomes resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the potential allocation of state Medicaid funds available for reimbursement away from SNFs in favor of home and community-based programs. These challenges may particularly impact us in states where we have a larger presence, including Florida and Texas. In Texas in particular, several of our operators have historically experienced lower operating margins on their SNFs, as compared to other states, as a result of lower Medicaid reimbursement rates and higher labor costs. Our operators in Texas may also be adversely impacted by the expected expiration of an add-on by the state to the daily reimbursement rate for Medicaid patients that will terminate upon expiration of the federally declared public health emergency. In Florida, while added support to our operators during the pandemic has generally been limited, approximately $100 million in additional FMAP funds for nursing homes was approved by the State in November 2021, with the funds to be distributed through increased Medicaid payment rates over a three-month period. In addition, on April 6, 2022, the State of Florida enacted staffing reforms for SNFs that may provide additional flexibility to our operators in meeting minimum staffing requirements by using supplemental staff. Since our operators’ profit margins on Medicaid patients are generally relatively low, more than modest reductions in Medicaid reimbursement or an increase in the percentage of Medicaid patients has in the past and may in the future adversely affect our operators’ results of operations and financial condition, which in turn could adversely impact us.
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Medicare. On July 29, 2021, CMS issued a final rule regarding the government fiscal year 2022 Medicare payment rates and quality payment programs for SNFs, with aggregate Medicare Part A payments projected to increase by $410 million, or 1.2%, for fiscal year 2022 compared to fiscal year 2021. This estimated reimbursement increase is attributable to a 2.7% market basket increase factor less a 0.8 percentage point forecast error adjustment and a 0.7 percentage point productivity adjustment, and a $1.2 million decrease due to the proposed reduction to the SNF prospective payment system rates to account for the recent blood-clotting factors exclusion. The annual update is reduced by two percentage points for SNFs that fail to submit required quality data to CMS under the SNF Quality Reporting Program. CMS has indicated that these impact figures did not incorporate the SNF Value-Based Program reductions that are estimated to be $184.25 million in fiscal year 2022. While Medicare reimbursement rate setting, which takes effect annually each October, has historically included forecasted inflationary adjustments, the degree to which those forecasts accurately reflect current inflation rates remains uncertain. Additionally, it remains uncertain whether these adjustments will ultimately be offset by non-inflationary factors, including any adjustments related to the impact of various payment models, such as those described below.
Payments to providers continue to be increasingly tied to quality and efficiency. The Patient Driven Payment Model (“PDPM”), which was designed by CMS to improve the incentives to treat the needs of the whole patient, became effective October 1, 2019. CMS intended PDPM to be revenue-neutral to operators, with future Medicare reimbursement reductions possible if that was not the case. In April 2022, CMS put out a proposal for comment, which included an adjustment to obtain that revenue neutrality as early as the 2023 rate setting period; however, that proposal may change significantly prior to adoption. Prior to COVID-19, we believed that certain of our operators could realize efficiencies and cost savings from increased concurrent and group therapy under PDPM and some had reported early positive results. Given the ongoing impacts of COVID-19, many operators are and may continue to be restricted from pursuing concurrent and group therapy and unable to realize these benefits. Additionally, our operators continue to adapt to the reimbursement changes and other payment reforms resulting from the value-based purchasing programs applicable to SNFs under the 2014 Protecting Access to Medicare Act. These reimbursement changes have had and may, together with any further reimbursement changes to PDPM or value-based purchasing models, in the future have an adverse effect on the operations and financial condition of some operators and could adversely impact the ability of operators to meet their obligations to us.
On May 27, 2020, CMS added physical therapy, occupational therapy and speech-language pathology to the list of approved telehealth Providers for the Medicare Part B programs provided by a SNF as a part of the COVID-19 1135 waiver provisions. The COVID-19 1135 waiver provisions also allow for the facility to bill an originating site fee to CMS for telehealth services provided to Medicare Part B beneficiary residents of the facility when the services are provided by a physician from an alternate location, effective March 6, 2020 through the end of the public health emergency.
Other Regulation:
Department of Justice and Other Enforcement Actions. SNFs are under intense scrutiny for ensuring the quality of care being rendered to residents and appropriate billing practices conducted by the facility. The Department of Justice (“DOJ”) has historically used the False Claims Act to civilly pursue nursing homes that bill the federal government for services not rendered or care that is grossly substandard. For example, California prosecutors announced in March 2021 an investigation into a skilled nursing provider that is affiliated with one of our operators, alleging the chain manipulated the submission of staffing level data in order to improve its Five Star rating. In 2020, the DOJ launched a National Nursing Home Initiative to coordinate and enhance civil and criminal enforcement actions against nursing homes with grossly substandard deficiencies. Such enforcement activities are unpredictable and may develop over lengthy periods of time. An adverse resolution of any of these enforcement activities or investigations incurred by our operators may involve injunctive relief and/or substantial monetary penalties, either or both of which could have a material adverse effect on their reputation, business, results of operations and cash flows.
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2022 and Recent Highlights
Investments
| ● | We acquired $108.5 million of real estate assets which included 30 facilities during the three months ended March 31, 2022. The initial cash yield (the initial annual contractual cash rent divided by the purchase price) on these asset acquisitions was between 8% and 9.5%. |
| ● | We invested $18.2 million under our construction-in-progress and capital improvement programs during the three months ended March 31, 2022. |
| ● | In the first quarter of 2022, we advanced $2.8 million under existing mortgage loans. |
Dispositions and Impairments
| ● | In the first quarter of 2022, we sold 27 facilities for approximately $332.6 million in net cash proceeds, recognizing a net gain of approximately $113.6 million. One of these facilities was sold to the joint venture that was consolidated in the first quarter of 2022. The proceeds and gain primarily relate to the sale of 22 facilities that were previously leased and operated by Gulf Coast Health Care LLC (together with certain affiliates “Gulf Coast”) and were included in assets held for sale as of December 31, 2021. The net cash proceeds from the sale, including certain costs accrued as of the end of the first quarter, were $304.0 million, and we recognized a net gain of approximately $113.5 million. |
| ● | In the first quarter of 2022, we recorded impairments on real estate properties of approximately $3.5 million on two facilities primarily as a result of reclassifying facilities to held for sale. |
| ● | In March 2022, we reclassified seven facilities leased to Guardian Healthcare (“Guardian”) to held for sale in connection with the planned restructuring. We also entered into agreements to sell seven of these held for facilities in March and April 2022 for estimated gross proceeds of $36.5 million. As of March 31, 2022, the remaining 19 facilities in held for sale are all under sales agreements which provide for estimated proceeds of $83.1 million, subject to terms and conditions of such agreements. |
Financing Activities
| ● | In January 2022, our Board authorized the repurchase of up to $500 million of our outstanding common stock, from time to time, through March 2025. During the first quarter of 2022, the Company repurchased 980,530 shares of our outstanding common stock at an average price of $27.84 per share. In April 2022, the Company repurchased 3.9 million of our outstanding common stock for $106.1 million. |
Other Highlights
| ● | During the first quarter of 2022, we made $25.8 million of new other investment loans with a weighted average interest rate of 8.5%. Of the $25.8 million, $25 million relates to a term loan entered into with LaVie Care Centers, LLC (“LaVie,” f/k/a Consulate Health Care) that bears interest at a fixed rate of 8.5% per annum and matures on March 31, 2032. During the first quarter of 2022, we also advanced $72.2 million under existing other investment loans. Of the $72.2 million, $47.4 million related to a revolving working capital loan which also had repayments of $48.1 million during the first quarter of 2022. |
| ● | In 2022, Omega was again included in the Bloomberg Gender-Equality Index (GEI) – one of only 418 companies worldwide, and fewer than 15 U.S. REITs, to be included in the 2022 index. |
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Collectibility Issues
| ● | During the first quarter of 2022, Agemo Holdings, LLC (“Agemo”) continued to not pay contractual rent and interest due under its lease and loan agreements. As Agemo was already placed on a cash basis of revenue recognition during the third quarter of 2020, no revenue was recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2022. In the first quarter of 2022, we recorded a provision for credit losses of $4.7 million related to the $25.0 million secured working capital loan as a result of a reduction in the fair value of the underlying collateral assets supporting the current carrying values. |
| ● | During the first quarter of 2022, Guardian Healthcare (“Guardian”) continued to not make contractual rent and interest payments under its lease and loan agreements. As Guardian was already placed on a cash basis of revenue recognition in the fourth quarter of 2021, no revenue was recorded during the three months ended March 31, 2022. We recorded a $5.1 million recovery for credit losses in the first quarter of 2022 on the Guardian mortgage loan in connection with a $21.7 million principal repayment on the loan from the proceeds of the sale of three of the mortgage facilities. We also transitioned or sold 10 facilities that were previously leased to Guardian in the first quarter of 2022 in connection with on-going restructuring activities. In April 2022, we agreed to a formal restructuring agreement, master lease amendment and mortgage loan amendment with Guardian. As part of the restructuring agreement and amendments, Omega and Guardian agreed to, among other things, allow for the deferral of up to $18.0 million of aggregate rent and interest, effective retrospectively, with repayment required after September 30, 2024 and to reduce the combined rent and mortgage interest to an aggregate $24.0 million following the completion of the sale of those seven facilities. Guardian made a partial payment in April 2022 after exhausting the maximum allowable deferral of $18.0 million under the restructuring agreement. |
| ● | From January through March 2022, an operator, representing 3.8% and 3.3%, respectively, of total revenue (excluded the impact of write-offs) for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, did not pay its contractual amounts due under its lease agreement. In March 2022, the lease with this operator was amended to allow for a short-term rent deferral for January through March 2022. This operator paid the contractual amount due under its lease agreement in April 2022. Omega holds a $1.0 million letter of credit and a $150 thousand security deposit from this operator. The operator remains current on its loan obligations, which are secured by a first lien on the accounts receivable of the operator. |
| ● | In March 2022, another operator representing 2.3% and 2.1%, respectively, of total revenue (excluding the impact of write-offs) for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, did not pay its contractual amounts due under its lease agreement. In April 2022, the lease with this operator was amended to allow the operator to apply its $2.0 million security deposit in order to pay March 2022 rent and to allow for a short-term rent deferral for April 2022, with regular rent payments required to resume in May 2022. |
| ● | During the first quarter of 2022, we allowed three other operators, each representing 2.5% and 2.7%, respectively, of total revenue (excluding the impact of write-offs) for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021 to apply $1.3 million of their security deposits to pay rent in order to accommodate short term liquidity issues, with regular rent payments required to resume shortly thereafter. As of April 30, 2022, all of these operators are current on their lease obligations. These operators are required to begin replenishing their security deposits in 2023. |
| ● | During the first quarter of 2022, we wrote off straight-line rent receivable balances of $3.2 million through rental income as a result of transitioning six facilities to another existing operator. |
Dividends
| ● | On April 21, 2022, the Board of Directors declared a cash dividend for the quarter ended March 31, 2022 of $0.67 per share. |
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Results of Operations
The following is our discussion of the consolidated results of operations, financial position and liquidity and capital resources, which should be read in conjunction with our unaudited consolidated financial statements and accompanying notes.
Three Months Ended March 31, 2022 and 2021
Revenues
Our revenues for the three months ended March 31, 2022 totaled $249.3 million, a decrease of approximately $24.5 million over the same period in 2021. Included below is a description of the material changes in revenues for three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021:
| ● | Rental income was $216.9 million, a decrease of $20.9 million over the same period in 2021. The decrease was primarily the result of (i) a $17.4 million decrease relating to two cash basis operators, Agemo and Guardian, from which we received no rental payments and recorded no revenue for in the first quarter of 2022; (ii) a $7.3 million decrease as a result of recognizing no rental income associated with the 24 facilities previously leased to Gulf Coast in the first quarter of 2022, as 23 of the facilities were temporarily transitioned to another operator in December 2021 that was not required to pay contractual rent during the transition period, as a part of the chapter 11 bankruptcy process; and (iii) a $4.6 million decrease resulting from the acceleration of certain in-place lease liabilities due to facility transitions. The overall decrease in rental income was partially offset by (i) a $6.4 million increase due to additional rental income in the first quarter of 2022 from acquisitions and construction in progress facilities being placed in service and (ii) a net increase of $1.8 million due to lease extensions, facility transitions and sales. |
| ● | Mortgage interest income was $20.5 million, a decrease of $3.1 million over the same period in 2021. The decrease was primarily the result of recognizing no interest income in the first quarter of 2022 on the Guardian mortgage loan with $82.0 million of principal outstanding as of March 31, 2022. The loan was placed on non-accrual status in the fourth quarter of 2021, with all payments received (none in the first quarter of 2022) applied directly to principal under the cost recovery method. |
Expenses
Our expenses for the three months ended March 31, 2022 totaled $167.7 million, a decrease of approximately $23.4 million over the same period in 2021. Included below is a description of the material changes in expenses for three months ended March 31, 2022 compared to the same period in 2021:
| ● | Our depreciation and amortization expense was $82.8 million, a $2.1 million decrease over the same period in 2021. The decrease primarily relates to facility sales and facilities reclassified to assets held for sale, such as the 22 Gulf Coast facilities that were sold in the first quarter of 2022, partially offset by facility acquisitions and capital additions. |
| ● | Our impairment on real estate properties was $3.5 million, a decrease of $25.2 million over the same period in 2021. The 2022 impairments were recognized in connection with reclassifying two facilities to held for sale in the first quarter to reduce their net book value to the estimated fair value less costs to sell. The 2021 impairments related to four facilities, three of which were recognized in connection with reclassifying the facilities to assets held for sale. |
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| ● | Our provision for credit losses was $1.8 million, a $2.8 million increase over the same period in 2021. The increase was primarily as a result of additional reserves taken against a loan outstanding to Agemo (see Item 2 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Collectibility Issues), increases in loan balances and increases in loss rates in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the same period in 2021 partially offset by recoveries for cash collections and paydowns received on the Guardian mortgage (see Item 2 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Collectibility Issues). |
Other Income (Expense)
For the three months ended March 31, 2022, total other income was $113.2 million, an increase of approximately $42.3 million over the same period in 2021. The decrease was mainly due to: (i) a $29.7 million loss on debt extinguishment in the first quarter of 2021 primarily related to fees, premiums and expenses related to the purchase of $350 million of the 4.375% Senior Notes due 2023 during the first quarter of 2021 and (ii) $13.3 million increase in gain on assets sold related to the sale of 27 facilities in the first quarter of 2022 compared to the sale of 24 facilities during the same period in 2021.
National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts Funds From Operations
We use funds from operations (“Nareit FFO”), a non-GAAP financial measure, as one of several criteria to measure the operating performance of our business. We calculate and report Nareit FFO in accordance with the definition of Funds from Operations and interpretive guidelines issued by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (“Nareit”). Nareit FFO is defined as net income (computed in accordance with GAAP), adjusted for the effects of asset dispositions and certain non-cash items, primarily depreciation and amortization and impairment on real estate assets, and after adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures and changes in the fair value of warrants. Adjustments for unconsolidated partnerships and joint ventures are calculated to reflect funds from operations on the same basis. Revenue recognized based on the application of security deposits and letters of credit or based on the ability to offset against other financial instruments is included within Nareit FFO. We believe that Nareit FFO is an important supplemental measure of our operating performance. As real estate assets (except land) are depreciated under GAAP, such accounting presentation implies that the value of real estate assets diminishes predictably over time, while real estate values instead have historically risen or fallen with market conditions. Nareit FFO was designed by the real estate industry to address this issue. Nareit FFO herein is not necessarily comparable to Nareit FFO of other REITs that do not use the same definition or implementation guidelines or interpret the standards differently from us.
We further believe that by excluding the effect of depreciation, amortization, impairment on real estate assets and gains or losses from sales of real estate, all of which are based on historical costs and which may be of limited relevance in evaluating current performance, Nareit FFO can facilitate comparisons of operating performance between periods and between other REITs. We offer this measure to assist the users of our financial statements in evaluating our financial performance under GAAP, and Nareit FFO should not be considered a measure of liquidity, an alternative to net income or an indicator of any other performance measure determined in accordance with GAAP. Investors and potential investors in our securities should not rely on this measure as a substitute for any GAAP measure, including net income.
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The following table presents our Nareit FFO results for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021:
Three Months Ended |
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March 31, |
||||||
|
2022 |
|
2021 |
|||
(in thousands) |
||||||
Net income |
$ |
195,156 |
$ |
164,366 |
||
Deduct gain from real estate dispositions |
(113,637) |
(100,342) |
||||
Deduct gain from real estate dispositions - unconsolidated joint ventures |
|
— |
|
(14,924) |
||
|
81,519 |
|
49,100 |
|||
Elimination of non-cash items included in net income: |
|
|
|
|||
Depreciation and amortization |
|
82,752 |
|
84,849 |
||
Depreciation – unconsolidated joint ventures |
|
2,896 |
|
3,361 |
||
Add back impairments on real estate properties |
3,511 |
28,689 |
||||
Add back impairments on real estate properties - unconsolidated joint ventures |
— |
4,178 |
||||
Add back unrealized loss on warrants |
|
— |
72 |
|||
Nareit FFO |
$ |
170,678 |
$ |
170,249 |
||
Liquidity and Capital Resources
Sources and Uses
Our primary sources of cash include rental income and interest receipts, existing availability under our revolving credit facility, proceeds from our DRSPP and the $1.0 billion 2021 At-The-Market Offering Program (“2021 ATM Program”), facility sales, and proceeds from mortgage and other investment payoffs. We anticipate that these sources will be adequate to fund our cash flow needs through the next twelve months, which include common stock dividends, debt service payments (including principal and interest), real estate investments (including facility acquisitions, capital improvement programs and other capital expenditures), mortgage and other investment loan advances and normal recurring G&A expenses (primarily consisting of employee payroll and benefits and expenses relating to third parties for legal, consulting and audit services).
Capital Structure
At March 31, 2022, we had total assets of $10.0 billion, total equity of $4.1 billion and total debt of $5.7 billion in our consolidated financial statements, with such debt representing approximately 57.9% of total capitalization.
Debt
At March 31, 2022, the weighted-average annual interest rate of our debt was 3.96%. Additionally, as of March 31, 2022, 92% of our debt with outstanding principal balances has fixed interest payments.
Two of our interest rate swaps that were entered into in May 2019 with aggregate notional amounts of $50.0 million matured on February 10, 2022. These interest rate swap contracts were designated as hedges against our exposure to changes in interest payment cash flow fluctuations in the variable interest rates on the OP term loan.
As of March 31, 2022, we had long-term credit ratings of Baa3 from Moody’s and BBB- from S&P Global and Fitch. Credit ratings impact our ability to access capital and directly impact our cost of capital as well. For example, our revolving credit facility accrues interest and fees at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus a margin that depends upon our credit rating. A downgrade in credit ratings by Moody’s and S&P Global may have a negative impact on the interest rates and fees for our revolving credit facility.
Certain of our other secured and unsecured borrowings are subject to customary affirmative and negative covenants, including financial covenants. As of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, we were in compliance with all affirmative and negative covenants, including financial covenants, for our secured and unsecured borrowings.
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Supplemental Guarantor Information
Parent has issued approximately $4.9 billion aggregate principal of senior notes outstanding at March 31, 2022 that were registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended. The senior notes are guaranteed by Omega OP.
The SEC adopted amendments to Rule 3-10 of Regulation S-X and created Rule 13-01 to simplify disclosure requirements related to certain registered securities, such as our senior notes. As a result of these amendments, registrants are permitted to provide certain alternative financial and non-financial disclosures, to the extent material, in lieu of separate financial statements for subsidiary issuers and guarantors of registered debt securities. Accordingly, separate consolidated financial statements of Omega OP have not been presented. Parent and Omega OP, on a combined basis, have no material assets, liabilities or operations other than financing activities (including borrowings under the outstanding senior notes, the revolving credit facility and the OP term loan) and their investments in non-guarantor subsidiaries.
Omega OP is currently the sole guarantor of our senior notes. The guarantees by Omega OP of our senior notes are full and unconditional and joint and several with respect to the payment of the principal and premium and interest on our senior notes. The guarantees of Omega OP are senior unsecured obligations of Omega OP that rank equal with all existing and future senior debt of Omega OP and are senior to all subordinated debt. However, the guarantees are effectively subordinated to any secured debt of Omega OP. As of March 31, 2022, there were no significant restrictions on the ability of Omega OP to make distributions to Omega.
Equity
At March 31, 2022, we had approximately 238.2 million shares of common stock outstanding, and our shares had a market value of $7.4 billion. The following is a summary of activity under our equity programs during the three months ended March 31, 2022:
| ● | In January 2022, our Board authorized the repurchase of up to $500 million of our outstanding common stock, from time to time, through March 2025. During the first quarter of 2022, the Company repurchased 980,530 shares of our outstanding common stock at an average price of $27.84 per share. |
| ● | We did not issue any shares of common stock under our 2021 ATM Program during the three months ended March 31, 2022. We did not utilize the forward provisions under the 2021 ATM Program during the three months ended March 31, 2022. We have $929.9 million of sales remaining under the 2021 ATM Program as of March 31, 2022. |
| ● | We issued 79.9 thousand shares of common stock under DRSPP during the three months ended March 31, 2022. Aggregate gross proceeds from these sales were $2.3 million during the first quarter of 2022. |
Dividends
As a REIT, we are required to distribute dividends (other than capital gain dividends) to our stockholders in an amount at least equal to (A) the sum of (i) 90% of our “REIT taxable income” (computed without regard to the dividends paid deduction and our net capital gain), and (ii) 90% of the net income (after tax), if any, from foreclosure property, minus (B) the sum of certain items of non-cash income. In addition, if we dispose of any built-in gain asset during a recognition period, we will be required to distribute at least 90% of the built-in gain (after tax), if any, recognized on the disposition of such asset. Such distributions must be paid in the taxable year to which they relate, or in the following taxable year if declared before we timely file our tax return for such year and paid on or before the first regular dividend payment after such declaration. In addition, such distributions are required to be made pro rata, with no preference to any share of stock as compared with other shares of the same class, and with no preference to one class of stock as compared with another class except to the extent that such class is entitled to such a preference. To the extent that we do not distribute all of our net capital gain or do distribute at least 90%, but less than 100% of our “REIT taxable income” as adjusted, we will be subject to tax thereon at regular ordinary and capital gain corporate tax rates.
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For the three months ended March 31, 2022, we paid dividends of approximately $160.6 million to our common stockholders. On February 15, 2022, we paid dividends of $0.67 per outstanding common share to the common stockholders of record as of the close of business on February 7, 2022.
Material Cash Requirements
During the three months ended March 31, 2022, there were no significant changes to our material cash requirements from those disclosed in the section “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” in our 2021 Annual Report.
As of March 31, 2022, we had $220.9 million of commitments to fund the construction of new leased and mortgaged facilities, capital improvements and other commitments. Additionally, we have commitments to fund $41.2 million of advancements under existing other investment loans. These commitments are expected to be funded over the next several years and are dependent upon the operators’ election to use the commitments.
Other Arrangements
We own interests in certain unconsolidated joint ventures as described in Note 9 to the Consolidated Financial Statements – Investments in Joint Ventures. Our risk of loss is generally limited to our investment in the joint venture and any outstanding loans receivable. We use derivative instruments to hedge interest rate and foreign currency exchange rate exposure as discussed in Note 15 – Derivatives and Hedging in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Cash Flow Summary
Cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash totaled $494.8 million as of March 31, 2022, an increase of $470.4 million as compared to the balance at December 31, 2021. The following is a discussion of changes in cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash due to operating, investing and financing activities, which are presented in our Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows.
Operating Activities – Operating activities generated $132.2 million of net cash flow for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to $176.0 million for the same period in 2021, a decrease of $43.8 million, which is primarily driven by a decrease of $30.2 million of net income, adjusted for non-cash items, primarily due to a year over year reduction in rental income and mortgage revenue related to three operators, as discussed in our material changes analysis under Results of Operations above. A $13.6 million change in the net movements of the operating assets and liabilities, primarily driven by an increase in receivables, also contributed to the overall decrease in cash provided by operating activities.
Investing Activities – Net cash flow from investing activities was an inflow of $177.3 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to an outflow of $396.3 million for the same period in 2021. The $573.6 million change in cash flow from investing activities related primarily to (i) a $481.3 million decrease in real estate acquisitions driven by the acquisition of 24 senior living facilities from Healthpeak Properties, Inc. for $511.3 million in the first quarter of 2021, (ii) a $144.3 million increase in proceeds from the sales of real estate investments largely driven by the sale of 22 facilities previously leased to Gulf Coast for net proceeds of $310.3 million in the first quarter of 2022, (iii) a $23.8 million increase in mortgage collections, net of placements driven by a $21.7 million partial principal paydown on the Guardian mortgage loan in the first quarter of 2022 and (iv) a $10.4 million decrease in investments in unconsolidated joint ventures driven by our $10.3 million investment in Second Spring II LLC in the first quarter of 2021, offset by (i) a $68.3 million increase in new other investments, net of other investments proceeds driven by the new $25.0 million term loan to LaVie and additional draws on existing loans, (ii) a $7.4 million decrease in distributions from unconsolidated joint venture in excess of earnings primarily related to the Second Spring Healthcare Investments joint venture due to significant facility sales in the first quarter of 2021, (iii) a $4.4 million increase in investment in construction in progress and capital expenditures, (iv) a $3.0 million decrease in receipts from insurance proceeds and (v) a $2.5 million decrease in acquisition related deposits.
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Financing Activities – Net cash flow from financing activities was an inflow of $161.2 million for the three months ended March 31, 2022, as compared to an inflow of $108.6 million for the same period in 2021. The $52.6 million change in cash flow from financing activities was primarily related to (i) $115.9 million increase in proceeds from other long-term borrowings, net of repayments as we had increased borrowings on our revolving credit facility in connection with funding acquisitions and loans, (ii) a $33.8 million decrease in payment of financing related costs due to fees and premiums paid in the first quarter of 2021 related to the early redemption of $350 million of principal of the 4.375% senior notes due 2023 and (iii) a $4.6 million decrease in distributions to Omega OP Unit holders. The overall increase in financing inflows was partially offset by (i) a $72.0 million decrease in cash proceeds from the issuance of common stock in 2022 due to decreased issuances under our DRSPP and our ATM Programs, as compared to the same period in 2021, (ii) $27.3 million of repurchases of shares of common stock in the first quarter of 2022 and (iii) a $2.3 million increase in dividends paid.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates
Our financial statements are prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”) in the U.S. Our preparation of the financial statements requires us to make estimates and assumptions about future events that affect the amounts reported in our financial statements and accompanying footnotes. Future events and their effects cannot be determined with absolute certainty. Therefore, the determination of estimates requires the exercise of judgment. Actual results inevitably will differ from those estimates, and such differences may be material to the consolidated financial statements. We have described our accounting policies in Note 2 – Summary of Significant Accounting Policies to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021. There have been no material changes to our critical accounting policies or estimates since December 31, 2021.
Item 3 – Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures about Market Risk
During the quarter ended March 31, 2022, there were no material changes in our primary market risk exposures or how those exposures are managed from the information disclosed under Item 7A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Item 4 – Controls and Procedures
Disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”)) are controls and other procedures of an issuer that are designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by the issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by an issuer in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the issuer’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, or persons performing similar functions, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure.
In connection with the preparation of our Form 10-Q as of and for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, management evaluated the effectiveness of the design and operation of the disclosure controls and procedures of the Company as of March 31, 2022. Based on this evaluation, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer concluded that disclosure controls and procedures of the Company were effective at a reasonable assurance level as of March 31, 2022.
Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in the Company’s internal control over financial reporting during the quarter ended March 31, 2022 identified in connection with the evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures described above that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
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PART II – OTHER INFORMATION
Item 1 – Legal Proceedings
See Note 18 – Commitments and Contingencies to the Consolidated Financial Statements - Part I, Item 1 hereto, which is hereby incorporated by reference in response to this Item.
Item 1A – Risk Factors
In addition to the risk factors previously disclosed in Item 1A contained in Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021, investors should carefully consider the following additional risk factor, which should be read in conjunction with the risk factors set forth in such Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and the other information contained in this report and our other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The COVID-19 pandemic and measures intended to prevent its spread could have a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations, cash flows and financial condition.
The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to significantly and adversely impact, and may continue to impact SNFs and long-term care providers due to higher rates of virus transmission and fatality among the elderly and frail populations these facilities serve. As a result, many of our operators have been, and may continue to be, significantly impacted by the pandemic. See Item 2 – Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations – Overview.
Continued uncertainty exists relating to our other operators’ ability to meet their payments obligations generally or meet their payment obligations to us, including due to continued uncertainty regarding the availability of sufficient government support, the persistence of staffing shortages that have impacted, and may continue to impact, our operators’ occupancy levels and profitability, the impact of governmental vaccine mandates for staff on ongoing staffing shortages, and other factors that may impact virus transmission in our facilities, including the impact of genetic mutations of the virus into new variants, as well as the commencement in April 2021 for many of our operators of the repayment of accelerated payments of Medicare funds that were previously received as Advanced Medicare payments in 2020, and the commencement in December 2021 of repayment of deferred FICA obligations. To the extent our operators are unable to meet their payment obligations, we may record additional impairment charges with respect to straight-line rent receivables associated with any such operator or with respect to outstanding loans and our financial condition could be adversely impacted. See “Our assets, including our real estate and loans, are subject to impairment charges, and our valuation and reserve estimates are based on assumptions and may be subject to adjustment” in Item 1A contained in Part I of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2021.
Our operators have been, and continue to be, impacted by the pandemic in numerous ways. In addition to experiencing outbreaks of positive cases and deaths of residents and employees during the pandemic, our operators have been required to, and continue to, adapt their operations rapidly throughout the pandemic to manage the spread of the COVID-19 virus as well as the implementation of new treatments and vaccines, and to implement new requirements relating to infection control, staffing levels, PPE, quality of care, visitation protocols, and reporting, among other regulations, throughout the pandemic while facing staffing shortages that have accelerated during the pandemic and that may impede the delivery of care. Significant uncertainty remains regarding the impact of vaccine mandates for SNF and healthcare workers on ongoing staffing shortages in our facilities, which have caused some operators to limit admissions. In addition, it remains uncertain to what extent vaccination programs for COVID-19, which have been implemented in most of our facilities, will continue to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 in our facilities, or how effective existing vaccines and booster doses will be against the variants of the COVID-19 virus; the impact of these programs will depend in part on the continued speed, distribution, efficacy and delivery of the vaccine and booster doses in our facilities, compliance with staff vaccination requirements as well as participation levels in vaccination programs among the residents and employees of our operators. Our operators have continued to report considerable variation in participation levels among both employees and residents, which we believe may change over time with additional vaccination education efforts for residents and implementation of vaccine mandates for staff.
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In addition to the risks associated with managing the spread of the virus, delivery of the vaccines and care of their patients and residents, many of our operators reported incurring, and may continue to incur, significant cost increases as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, with dramatic increases for facilities with positive cases. We believe these increases primarily stem from elevated labor costs, in part as a result of staffing shortages, including the increased use of overtime and bonus pay and reliance on agency staffing, as well as a significant increase in both the cost and usage of PPE, testing equipment and processes and supplies, as well as implementation of new infection control protocols and delivery of the vaccine. In addition, many of our operators have experienced declines in occupancy levels as a result of the pandemic. We believe these declines may be in part due to staffing shortages, which in some cases have required operators to limit admissions, as well as COVID-19-induced fatalities at the facilities, the delay of SNF placement and/or utilization of alternative care settings for those with lower level of care needs, the suspension or postponement of elective hospital procedures, fewer discharges from hospitals to SNFs and higher hospital readmittances from SNFs. We continue to monitor the impact of occupancy levels at many of our operators, and it remains uncertain whether and when demand and occupancy levels will return to pre-COVID-19 levels.
Federal relief efforts for SNFs and ALFs have been limited since 2021 as have been relief efforts in certain states, and further government support will likely be needed to continue to offset these impacts. It is unclear whether and to what extent such government support, which may take the form of stimulus or reimbursement rate adjustments to reflect sustained cost changes experienced by operators, has been and will continue to be sufficient and timely to offset these impacts. In particular, it remains unclear whether relief will be distributed to our operators in any meaningful way or whether additional Medicaid or Medicare funds will ultimately support reimbursement to our operators. Further, to the extent the impacts of the pandemic continue or accelerate and are not offset by continued government relief that is sufficient and timely, we anticipate that the operating results of certain of our operators would be materially and adversely affected, some may be unwilling or unable to pay their contractual obligations to us in full or on a timely basis and we may be unable to restructure such obligations on terms as favorable to us as those currently in place. Even if operators are able to avail themselves of government relief to offset some of these costs, they may face challenges in complying with the terms and conditions of government support and may face longer-term adverse impacts to their personnel and business operations from the COVID-19 pandemic, including potential patient litigation and decreased demand for their services, loss of business due to an interruption in their operations, workforce challenges, new regulatory restrictions, or other liabilities related to gathering restrictions, quarantines, reopening plans, vaccine distribution or delivery, spread of infection or other related factors.
Numerous state and local governments and the federal government have initiated efforts that may also affect landlords’ and/or mortgagees’ ability to collect payments due or enforce remedies for the failure to pay amounts due. Additionally, a number of professional liability and employment related claims have been filed or are threatened to be filed against long-term care providers related to the COVID-19 pandemic. While such claims may be subject to liability protection provisions within various state executive orders or legislation and/or federal legislation, an adverse resolution of any of legal proceeding or investigations against our operators may involve injunctive relief and/or substantial monetary penalties, either or both of which could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, results of operations and cash flows.
The COVID-19 pandemic has from time to time also caused, and may continue to cause, severe economic, market and other disruptions worldwide. The pandemic has led governments and other authorities in the U.S., U.K. and around the world to impose measures intended to control its spread, including but not limited to, restrictions on freedom of movement and business operations which may remain in place or be reinstated along with continuing uncertainty around the potential duration of the pandemic. We cannot assure you that conditions in the bank lending, capital and other financial markets will not deteriorate or fluctuate as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, or that our access to capital and other sources of funding will not become constrained, which could adversely affect the availability and terms of future borrowings, renewals or refinancing. In addition, our employees may be impacted directly or indirectly by the pandemic and we may be required to make changes to our internal controls as a result of changes in our business processes or personnel; any such changes may increase our operational and financial reporting risks.
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The extent of the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on our and our operators’ operational and financial performance will depend on future developments, including the ability to control the spread of the outbreak generally and in our facilities, and the delivery and efficacy of and participation in vaccination programs and other treatments for COVID-19, government funds and other support for the senior care sector and the efficacy of other policies and measures that may mitigate the impact of the pandemic, as well as the future demand for needs-based skilled nursing care and senior living facilities, all of which are uncertain and difficult to predict. Due to these uncertainties, we are not able at this time to estimate the effect of these factors on our business, but the adverse impact on our business, results of operations, financial condition and cash flows could be material.
Inflation could adversely impact our operators and our results of operations.
Inflation, both real or anticipated as well as any resulting governmental policies, could adversely affect the economy and the costs of labor, goods and services to our operators or borrowers. Our long-term leases and loans typically contain provisions such as rent and interest escalators that are designed to mitigate the adverse impact of inflation on Omega’s results of operations. However, these provisions may have limited effectiveness at mitigating the risk of high levels of inflation due to contractual limits on escalation which exist on substantially all of our escalation provisions. Our leases are triple-net and typically require the operator to pay all property operating expenses and, therefore, increases in property-level expenses at our leased properties generally do not directly affect us. However, increased operating costs resulting from inflation could have an adverse impact on our operators and borrowers if increases in their operating expenses exceed increases in their revenue, which may adversely affect our operators’ or borrowers’ ability to pay rent or other obligations owed to us.
An increase in our operators’ expenses and a failure of their revenues to increase at least with inflation could adversely impact our operators’ and our financial condition and our results of operations.
Item 2 – Unregistered Sales of Equity Securities and Use of Proceeds
During the quarter ended March 31, 2022, Omega did not issue any shares of Omega common stock in exchange for Omega OP Units.
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On January 27, 2022, the Company authorized the repurchase of up to $500 million of our outstanding common stock from time to time through March 2025. The Company is authorized to repurchase shares of its common stock in open market and privately negotiated transactions or in any other manner as determined by the Company’s management and in accordance with applicable law. The timing and amount of stock repurchases will be determined, in management’s discretion, based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to market conditions, other capital management needs and opportunities, and corporate and regulatory considerations. The Company has no obligation to repurchase any amount of its common stock, and such repurchases, if any, may be discontinued at any time.
During the first quarter of 2022, we repurchased shares of our outstanding common stock as follows:
Maximum |
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Total Number of |
Number (or |
|||||||||
Shares |
Approximate |
|||||||||
Purchased as |
Dollar Value) of |
|||||||||
Part of Publicly |
Shares that may |
|||||||||
Total Number |
Announced |
yet be Purchased |
||||||||
of Shares |
Average Price |
Plans or |
Under these Plans |
|||||||
Period |
|
Purchased |
|
Paid per Share |
|
Programs |
|
or Programs |
||
January 1, 2022 to January 31, 2022 |
|
— |
$ |
— |
|
— |
$ |
— |
||
February 1, 2022 to February 28, 2022 |
|
— |
|
— |
|
— |
|
— |
||
March 1, 2022 to March 31, 2022 |
|
980,530 |
|
27.84 |
|
980,530 |
|
472,698,431 |
||
Total |
|
980,530 |
$ |
27.84 |
|
980,530 |
$ |
472,698,431 |
||
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Item 6–Exhibits
Exhibit No. |
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31.1 |
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31.2 |
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32.1 |
Section 1350 Certification of the Chief Executive Officer of Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.* |
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32.2 |
Section 1350 Certification of the Chief Financial Officer of Omega Healthcare Investors, Inc.* |
|
101 |
The following financial statements from the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2022, formatted in Inline XBRL: (i) Consolidated Balance Sheets, (ii) Consolidated Statements of Operations, (iii) Consolidated Statements of Comprehensive Income, (iv) Consolidated Statements of Changes in Equity, (v) Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows, and (vi) Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, tagged as blocks of text and including detailed tags. |
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104 |
Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document (included in Exhibit 101). |
* Exhibits that are filed herewith.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
OMEGA HEALTHCARE INVESTORS, INC.
Registrant
Date: May 3, 2022 |
By: |
/S/ C. TAYLOR PICKETT |
C. Taylor Pickett |
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Chief Executive Officer |
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Date: May 3, 2022 |
By: |
/S/ ROBERT O. STEPHENSON |
Robert O. Stephenson |
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Chief Financial Officer |
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