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InfuSystem Holdings, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries (the “Company”) are a leading provider of infusion pumps and related products and services for patients in the home, oncology clinics, ambulatory surgery centers, and other sites of care from
six locations in the United States and Canada. The Company provides products and services to hospitals, oncology practices and facilities and other alternate site health care providers. Headquartered in Madison Heights, Michigan, the Company delivers local, field-based customer support, and also operate pump service and repair Centers of Excellence in Michigan, Kansas, California, Texas, Georgia and Ontario, Canada. InfuSystem Inc. (“ISI”), which is an operating subsidiary of the Company, is accredited by the Community Health Accreditation Program (“CHAP”) while First Biomedical, Inc. (“First Biomedical”), which is an operating subsidiary of the Company, is ISO certified.The Company ’s core service is to supply electronic ambulatory infusion pumps and associated disposable supply kits to oncology clinics, infusion clinics and hospital outpatient chemotherapy clinics to be utilized in the treatment of a variety of cancers including colorectal cancer, pain management and other disease states. The majority of the Company’s pumps are electronic infusion pumps. Smiths Medical, Inc. supplies more than
10% of the ambulatory pumps purchased by the Company. The Company has a supply agreement in place with this supplier. Certain “spot” purchases are made on the open market subject to individual negotiation.In addition, the Company sells or rents new and pre-owned pole mounted and ambulatory infusion pumps to, and provides biomedical recertification, maintenance and repair services for , oncology practices, as well as other alternate site settings including home care and home infusion providers, skilled nursing facilities, pain centers and others. The Company also provides these products and services to customers in the small-hospital market.
The Company purchases new and pre-owned pole mounted and ambulatory infusion pumps from a variety of sources on a non-exclusive basis. The Company repairs, refurbishes and provides biomedical certification for the devices as needed. The pumps are then available for sale, rental or to be used within the Company’s ambulatory infusion pump management service.
The accompanying consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States of America (“GAAP”)
and the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
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