Correspondence 0001104659-24-104832 from AdaptHealth Corp. (AHCO)
AdaptHealth Corp.
Date: Oct. 1, 2024 · CIK: 0001725255 · Accession: 0001104659-24-104832
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October 1, 2024
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
Attention: Christopher Dunham and Amanda Ravitz
Re:
AdaptHealth Corp.
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A
Filed April 26, 2024
File No. 001-38399
Dear Mr. Dunham and Ms. Ravitz:
This letter sets forth AdaptHealth Corp.’s
(the “Company”) responses to the comments of the staff (the “Staff”) of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
set forth in your letter, dated September 20, 2024, with respect to the above-referenced Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A (the
“2024 Proxy Statement”).
The text of the Staff’s comments has been
included in this letter for your convenience, and we have numbered the paragraphs below to correspond to the numbers in the Staff’s
letter. For your convenience, we have set forth the Company’s response to each of the numbered comments immediately below each numbered
comment.
Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A filed April 26, 2024
Pay Versus Performance, page 69
1. Staff’s Comment: It appears that you have included net income (loss) attributable
to AdaptHealth Corp. in column (h) of your pay versus performance table in lieu of net income as required by Item 402(v)(2)(v) of Regulation
S-K. Please include net income (loss), as reported in your audited GAAP financial statements, in column (h) for all years covered by the
table. Refer to Regulation S-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 128D.08. Please note that you may voluntarily provide supplemental
measures of net income or financial performance, so long as any additional disclosure is “clearly identified as supplemental, not
misleading, and not presented with greater prominence than the required disclosure.” See Pay Versus Performance, Release No. 34-95607
(August 25, 2022) [87 FR 55134 (September 8, 2022)] at Section II.F.3.
Response: In future proxy
disclosure the Company will include net income (loss), as reported in its audited GAAP consolidated financial statements, in column (h)
for all years covered by the Pay Versus Performance Table in accordance with Item 402(v)(2)(v) of Regulation S-K.
2. Staff’s Comment: We note that you have included Adjusted EBITDA, a non-GAAP measure,
as your Company-Selected Measure pursuant to Item 402(v)(2)(vi) of Regulation S-K. While Company-Selected Measure disclosure is not subject
to Regulation G or Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K, you must disclose how the measure is calculated from your audited financial statements.
Please tell us and revise future disclosure to explain how your Company-Selected Measure is calculated from your audited financial statements.
If the disclosure appears in a different part of the definitive proxy statement, you may satisfy the disclosure requirement by a cross-reference
thereto; however, incorporation by reference to a separate filing will not satisfy this disclosure requirement.
Response: If the Company-Selected
Measure in future proxy filings is a non-GAAP measure, such as Adjusted EBITDA, the Company will provide disclosure as to how the measure
is calculated from its audited consolidated financial statements in the Pay Versus Performance disclosure or by cross-reference to a different
part of the proxy statement. In the 2024 Proxy Statement, the Company calculated Adjusted EBITDA for each year disclosed on the Pay Versus
Performance Table as EBITDA, plus loss on extinguishment of debt, equity-based compensation expense, transaction costs, change in fair
value of the warrant liability, goodwill impairment, change in fair value of the contingent consideration
common shares liability, litigation settlement expense, and certain other non-recurring items of expense or income. The Company
calculated EBITDA as part of the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA for each year disclosed on the Pay Versus Performance Table as net income
(loss) attributable to AdaptHealth Corp., plus net income (loss) attributable to noncontrolling interests, interest expense, net, income
tax expense (benefit), and depreciation and amortization, including patient equipment depreciation.
3. Staff’s Comment: Refer to the reconciliation table on page 70. It is unclear what
amounts are reflected in the row titled “Fair value of equity compensation that vested during the year.” Specifically, Items
402(v)(2)(iii)(C)(1)(iii) and (iv) of Regulation S-K require two different calculations for equity awards that vest within the covered
fiscal year; however, it is unclear whether this row reflects vested awards that were granted in the same year, a prior year, or both.
Please note that disclosure under Items 402(v)(2)(iii)(C)(1)(i) – (vi) of Regulation S-K must show separate calculations for each
amount deducted and added and may not aggregate steps. Refer to Regulation S-K Compliance and Disclosure Interpretation 128D.04. Please
tell us and revise future filings, as applicable, to show each of the amounts added and subtracted for equity awards that vest in each
covered fiscal year.
Response: In future proxy
disclosure, the Company will include separate calculations for (i) the fair value as of the vesting date of any equity awards that
were granted and vested in the same covered fiscal year and (ii) the change as of the vesting date (from the end of the prior fiscal year)
in fair value (whether positive or negative) of any equity awards granted in a prior fiscal year for which all applicable vesting conditions
were satisfied at the end of or during the covered fiscal year, in each case in accordance with Items 402(v)(2)(iii)(C)(1)(iii) and
(iv) of Regulation S-K. The separate calculations for such equity awards as would have been presented in the 2024 Proxy Statement is set
forth below:
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If you have any questions related to this letter, please contact the
undersigned at (610) 424-4515.
Sincerely yours,
/s/ Jason Clemens
Name: Jason Clemens
Title: Chief Financial Officer
CC Suzanne Foster
Chief Executive Officer and
Director
AdaptHealth Corp.
220 West Germantown Pike, Suite 250
Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462
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