So that will create a little bit of erosion. We also experienced a significant contribution from COVID-19 testing during the third quarter, performing approximately 9.9 million molecular tests and 1.5 million serology tests. At the request of the company, this call is being recorded. We've -- net of the $400 million of capital, whatever free cash flow that we have, we're going to return back to shareholders in the form of dividends, in the form of share repurchases, and M&A. And that's -- those improvements are already part of the 3% productivity gains that we have in our operational excellence program. We seem to see some early indications that there's interest in understanding whether you have the antibodies or not, which might inform patients and physicians around their urgency of getting vaccinated. Risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that may affect Quest Diagnostics' future results include, but are not limited to those described in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Thank you. So, we walked through on the last call, how some of the margin impact in Q4, it was really temporary around the annual incentive plan and some costs related to some special things that we needed to do for COVID testing in that quarter, some over time as we were having a fair amount of absences and some of things that we really saw is temporary. Yeah. And then finally, as Sam and Steve said, we are fine-tuning the cost structure, and well make the necessary rebalances in the cost structure to deliver what we need to deliver next year. Maybe just another one on the margins, you touched on a little bit there, in the first question. 8 Facts About Retirement You Need to Know, Three Penny Stocks Making Big Moves In November, Agilent Remains In Buy Range Ahead Of Next Week's Q4 Report, Dont Chase Walmart Higher, Wait For Extra Low Prices, Russian airstrikes reported in cities across Ukraine, Stocks gain ground after wholesale inflation eases in US. This reflects modest continued declines in Q2 from the roughly 30,000 test per day we are seeing in April. So this morning, I'll discuss our performance for the quarter, our role in the COVID-19 pandemic and update you on our non-COVID base business and then Mark will provide more detail on the third quarter results and our updated financial outlook for the remainder of the year. As with all our articles, The Motley Fool does not assume any responsibility for your use of this content, and we strongly encourage you to do your own research, including listening to the call yourself and reading the company's SEC filings. We assume average reimbursement for COVID-19 molecular testing to hold relatively steady through this period, while the public health emergency company renewed beyond July, additional expenses are not captured in our guidance. Just any thoughts around kind of what the magnitude of changes on the commercial side you guys could potentially see in PCR?? And so we were happy with the utilization levels. If maybe I can ask it a little bit different way. Is it just like percentage of that $160 million that comes out? Just any thoughts on all that would be great. Yes. And then finally, what was asked about earlier around the consumer opportunity in front of us. Remind you all what it is, is one is, yes, we help them run their labs and when they see one, they see one, but they save money. We're very happy with the relationships that we've built as Steve mentioned with the payers. Sure. Our final question comes from Rachel Vatnsdal Olson from J.P. Morgan. And then just to clarify the earlier comments. Has that dynamic changed? Let me just add to that. In the quarter, we launched our COVID-19 active infection tests, offering consumers a choice of using and -- at-home care or getting their specimen collection done at a drive-thru location. On consumer, we talked about potential $0.25 million [Phonetic] business by 2025. So, this takes into a margin compression of about 10 basis points. Does that how do you see capital priorities and capital deployment as we exit this year and think about the next year or two? Next question is from Ricky Goldwasser from Morgan Stanley. After all, the newsletter theyhave run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has tripled the market.*. And I thank all the 42,000 people at Quest Diagnostics for all their hard work and dedication. And here are some highlights from the certain quarter. So if we don't see a significant falloff from where we stand today in PCR, or if it surges up again because of these variants or some other unknown factor, certainly, that would take us to the higher end, combined with -- if the base business also were to continue to recover and not go the opposite direction as COVID surged again. We expect COVID-19 molecular volumes to average 10,000 to 15,000 per day in the fourth quarter. Base business revenue per req was up 3.3%. You said part of it would be temporary, part of it would be permanent. Yes. But the people we're talking to right now recognize that, that's short term, and that should not be a part of the valuation discussion. So thank you, Erin. A replay of the call may be accessed online They don't have a doctor, but they may want to get lab testing done once a year just to check the underlying health of their body. Great. When you think about our capital deployment philosophy, it's very consistent. Yeah. And how should we think about the margin expansion opportunity for the rest of the year from 1Q levels, if we look at that as a baseline? Can you provide a little bit more color on how should we think about the margin progression throughout '21? We drove the strong year-over-year growth in our base business, which excludes COVID-19 testing. Now there's going to be greater demand for programs that get to portions of the population that help us get back to work, get back to leisure activities, get back to life. So the other margin consideration as we grow, as we expected and as weve signaled in our guidance, that, that will help drive margin expansion. And the funnel of opportunities continues to grow. But for other commercial laboratories and hospitals to use that capacity to get into competing with us, by way of example, wound. Jim and I are entirely engaged together, will be a large number of these accounts. So could you just elaborate on the PLS contract momentum that you've been seeing, especially when the hospitals return to normal, how should we think about the cadence of those wins and revenue contributions for this year? So, the people are focused on percentage margin. A transcript of prepared remarks on this call will be posted later today on Quest Diagnostics' website at www.questdiagnostics.com. But certainly, as we go forward, we're going to have to continue to talk to our commercial payers and negotiate. So we'll try to make clear that we see these growth opportunities. A replay of the call may be accessed online Thank you. So we didn't specifically call that out. If you just kind of go through the math, you can see this is going to be accretive to our growth in '23 and '24 beyond what we've seen so far because the numbers get much more substantial year-on-year to give us a nice lift in our growth rate going forward. So of the $160 million, should we be thinking about that as like half of that goes away to get to sort of including PAMA, we're talking $80 million to $100 million of expenses that would need to come down, unless you think volumes are really to accelerate and the incremental margins on those? Finally, revenue growth rates from acquisitions will be measured against our base business. Your line is open, Jack Meehan -- Nephron Research -- Analyst. Pito Chickering with Deutsche Bank. And what we said is we have a good funnel and anything we might do prospectively be on top of what we said. Net earnings were $4.3 billion, or, Shares of Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) were down 2% on Monday following its latest earnings announcement. Certainly, there are other expenses that go with direct-to-consumer. American Consumer News, LLC dba MarketBeat 2010-2022. So we feel good about the start of the year, which gives us confidence for the full year. Yeah, sure. But as you can imagine, Washington is busy. I also mentioned at Investor Day that we did not assume COVID would go away. But as you can imagine, Washington is busy. Well get back to where we were in 2019. And frankly, we think its a good opportunity because, if you go through the math, even at lower price points, this is a sizable market, and we have a good share right now. We see hospital back in business. Reported EPS is expected to be in a range of $8.52 to $8.72 and adjusted EPS to be in a range of $9.75 to $9.95. Third-quarter, The Home Depot (NYSE: HD) reported its third quarter 2022 earnings results today. Revenue per requisition increased 20.9% versus the prior year, driven largely by COVID-19 testing. The fact that when you think about pricing, it's a definitely improving environment for us. To see all exchange delays and terms of use please see Barchart's disclaimer. Yes. We announced one that closed, but stay tuned, there should be some more announcements as we get into the early part of next year. Together with our JV partners in our Quest, we resulted approximately 7.2 million molecular tests. Okay. Thank you. Revenues for Diagnostic Information Services declined 10.5% compared to the prior year. Now if we don't -- or if we're not successful with SALSA, the question is, could we get another year of relief. Yes, yes. And what we indicated last year is that strategy is working. We have to continue our program around harmonization of processes and harmonization around systems because they're all on the same platform within the new facility. Your password must be at least 8 characters long and contain at least 1 number, 1 letter, and 1 special character. So we feel good about that. Next question is from Brian Tanquilut with Jefferies. Certainly, things have opened up a lot more than they were in the spring. Thats much a much better environment without PAMA than 2019 was, where we are historically losing over 100 basis points. We're in good position with our contracts. [Operator Instructions] The entire content of the call, including the presentation and question-and-answer session that will follow, are the copyrighted property of Quest Diagnostics with all rights reserved. So, that would always be the preference. Now, I'd like to introduce Shawn Bevec, Vice President of Investor, Quest Diagnostics. Are you sharing upside from the savings, or are these more sort of fixed-price contracts with some downside protection? Real-time analyst ratings, insider transactions, earnings data, and more. And we continue to see a nice funnel for '21 as well. But certainly, in our mind, we would expect to continue to defend our commercial contracts as well through the PHEs in the same basis for CMS paying us at that rate should apply to the commercial payers as well. And if, for some reason, that consumer business doesn't deliver, then we can turn off the marketing expense. Its investment upfront in new tests and organic convention. Good morning, Steve. Were getting good traction, and we believe youre going to start to see an acceleration of the revenues we get from it, which should be a net tailwind for us where our growth overall as we go into 23 and beyond, tracking to that $250 million number in 25. Revenues are now expected to be between $9.72 billion and $9.86 billion. Last week the Public Health Emergency was again extended another 90 days through mid-July. It's going to be less material to our top line and to our margin. The company continues to believe that the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on future operating results, cash flows and/or its financial condition will be primarily driven by the pandemic severity and duration, healthcare insurer, government and client payer reimbursement rates for COVID-19 molecular tests, the pandemics impact on the U.S. healthcare system and the U.S. economy, and the timing, scope and effectiveness of federal, state and local governmental responses to the pandemic, which are drivers beyond the company's knowledge and control. And these people worry about the disease and they may come in once a month, once a quarter to get testing. There's clinical mix, business mix and payer mix. Obviously, value-based arrangements are becoming more significant, as you described in your prepared remarks. So, while were very pleased with where we see the base business growth for the year, it would have been even higher, had it not been for Omicron. Thanks, Steve. The real economic benefit of pooling comes from capacity increase. In the second quarter, we continue to see a better than expected recovery in our base business, with organic base testing revenues essentially returning to pre-pandemic levels in June. So as we've said for many years now, you should plan on a PAMA cut in 2023. And we do see a lot of people getting prepared for better manufacturing rates, better position for populations to get back to work-life and leisure activities, and we're going to start to see more of that, and Quest has a significant role in helping in that regard. We expect that trend to continue. A replay of the call may be accessed online at www.QuestDiagnostics.com/investor or by phone at 1800-337-6568 for domestic callers or 402-220-9660 for international callers. COVID-19 testing revenues are expected to be between $850 million and $1 billion, a decline of approximately 64% to 69%. Our next question comes from Pito Chickering from Deutsche Bank. Our next question comes from Ann Hynes from Mizuho Securities. We think theres dynamics in the marketplace, and were working on plans to actually gain share in the COVID testing marketplace that this could be with us for the foreseeable future. We're starting to hear some companies that are accelerating hiring in preparation for next year, when you think about the increased need for serology, so with COVID vaccine, etc. HRSA runs the program to provide funding for COVID-19 testing vaccination and treatment for uninsured patients. As we get into renegotiations with the plans, we believe we have a stronger position to negotiate, in some cases, modest price increases because we're delivering more and more value. Theres really three very different types of mix that enter into that. I would say, it's been a nice recovery over the sequence of the first half. Our next question comes from Patrick Donnelly from Citi. So in the steerage one where we're moving work, it's really more quarterly, so it's a constant look at that. We have more certainty around what is left within that initial guidance. Now, I'd like to introduce Shawn Bevec, Vice President of Investor Relations for Quest Diagnostics. Because every day, every couple of weeks, every month certainly gives us a better line of sight into expectations. And toward that end, we are launching a new campaign designed to remind customers of the value that Quest brings to healthcare. Telephone replays will be available from approximately 10:30 a.m. Eastern Time on April 21, 2022, until midnight Eastern Time on May 5, 2022. Our average wait time is approximately five minutes, which is roughly half the level since 2019. So, at that point, we said $7.40 to $8 and a 7% to 9% CAGR from 2022 and beyond. So if I could add, Steve, just a couple of things, at least, around your question around our pipeline. So -- yeah. As Mark said, too, its a smaller business, particularly on the base business, and that number is growing strong double digits. So there's several ways you could come to the high end, low end. Maybe one on a similar vein, at least on the cost side, just in terms of some of the labor retention, labor inflation that you guys have seen, can you just talk about, I guess, where we are in that process? So we think the physician side will change, and there will be a different way of providing physician services to patients going forward. So we're still trying to understand what that second half opportunity would be. And so we'll hold back on giving you an exact number about profitability, but we are going to get the return from that $250 million. Invest better with The Motley Fool. And before joining Quest, Patrick had over 20 years of leadership experience in the biotech in molecular diagnostics industries. So, our health plan revenues are growing faster than our overall revenues and we believe growing faster than the market. Ricky Goldwasser with Morgan Stanley. And the range, the percent of our volume that comes through these retail partners actually varies during surges, I would say its less, it reduces because we start to then get a lot of specimens from physician offices, urgent care centers and hospitals. Yes. Hi, this is actually Tim Daley on for Dan. But to really move the needle, it has to be really broadly endorsed and embraced. But certainly we don't have any specific information on that at this point. Price as of November 15, 2022, 4:00 p.m. So were more focused on overall growth as opposed to the percentage year-over-year because, obviously, the compare makes it complicated. Our next question comes from Kevin Caliendo from UBS. Now Ill turn it over to Sam, who will provide more details on our performance and share more insights on our updated guidance for the remainder of 2022. Thanks. Base business revenue per req was up 3.3%. Let me start with where you ended. Rice with Credit Suisse. So a patient comes into our PSC, we take the requisition, and we can literally adjudicate that claim, ex the payment coming to us. I talked about some of the cost reductions that we're going to make, and I talked about the Invigorate productivity savings that we're going to make. Although we started operating in early January, we still have some final fit-out and equipment to put in, and that will drive some of the spending in the first half. And so, hopefully that provides some clarity of what we think the role will be. Finally, to the 50,000 colleagues of Quest Diagnostics, its been the honor of my lifetime to serve as your CEO. We're going to continue to monitor demand in our business and we have the flexibility, generally, to [Indecipherable] a fairly short window as volumes move in one direction or the other. We're sitting on very healthy amount of cash of $700 million. We expect to complete the early debt redemption in November. As a result, we were unable to build HRSA for over $20 billion in COVID-19 testing work that was performed just prior to the March 23rd HRSA cut-off date. So that's why we're cautious in terms of committing too much to what this pronouncement by CMS means. Before the pandemic, we kicked this program off and so we have a nice platform that's been building up volume and we feel that there's going to be more opportunities in front of us as this demand, given the circumstances, continue to have a lot of interest for consumers. So some of these are several years in the coming in terms of the return and some of them we get much more immediate. Thanks. And some degree of stabilization during the second half of the year. Now talking about some tail of COVID here too. The way I would think about it is, again, COVID continues to come down. So not only does it make it easier on physicians and patients, but it tends to steer more work to us because the administrative volume is lower. So from an overall perspective, the COVID direction should be favorable to base. Matt Larew -- William Blair & Company -- Analyst. Become a Motley Fool member today to get instant access to our top analyst recommendations, in-depth research, investing resources, and more. So I would not want to take away an implication of margin compression, Pito. Your line is now open. We expect reimbursement to decline when the PHE expired, [Phonetic] which we currently assume will happen in January. Good morning. Cash provided by operations was $502 million. And as you would expect, Quest would be one of those options. And so therefore, in the coronary, that's very, very competitive. And so the reason that's important is that in order to make this economic and because the economies of scale we get with this huge pooling, we have to do approximately 10 specimens to equate to a single one for our core PCR business. Its also in our experience that we work with our physicians and the patients that they serve. Organic base testing revenues grew compared to 2019 levels in the quarter. There's a lot of other things, as you can imagine, that go into that. Thanks, Ralph. So just a reminder that we shared a view that we could grow our consumer business to $0.25 billion by 2025. Thanks, Shawn, and thanks, everyone for joining us today. Excluding M&A and new PLS wins, base testing volumes declined approximately 8% in Q4 versus the prior year. Thank you. As you may have seen or you'll see in our capital spend for 2020, we ended up $418 million, which was above the initial range. And when we move that work, there's a value base, there's an incentive for Quest. Unit price headwinds remained modest and in line with expectations. We wanted to just capture some of these maybe changed assumptions or at least varying assumptions. I'm here with Steve Rusckowski, our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President and Mark Guinan, our Chief Financial Officer. We have maybe a consistent inflationary environment as the assumption wages increasing by salaries, wages and benefits increasing by 3% to 4%, but we are taking expenses down next year in other areas, and we are focusing on Invigorate. With a single swap, you can test for influenza, you can also test for other viral and bacterial issues. So we feel good about that. The investments that you're making this year, are those continue into 2022 and beyond? In terms of share repurchases, we have made share repurchases this year, $950 million throughout the first three quarters of the year, and that will provide a lift as well in terms of earnings next year. In addition, we reported 5.1% revenue growth in the quarter on the base business, and a chunk of that did come from revenue per req. So when we talk about nontraditional channels, you know its not limited to one partner. Your line is open. I will always be grateful for what you've done to serve our customers. Operator? The system has been successfully deployed to over 700 patient service centers. Ma'am, your line is open. If you go back and hear what I said, we started off July at high single-digits. We still have a ways to go to recover there. And that trend, we believe, is a good trend, and will provide tailwind for us to consolidate the market. Motley Fool Transcribers has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. We didn't have to give up in order to gain, but it was really more about the case that we've been making for years, that's getting more and more from the payers that we're part of the solution. And that's for, obviously, Medicare, and we still have to work through some of the issues with the commercial payers as well to understand how it's going to work with them. Was the guidance range raise related to the first quarter beat? Were going to refresh all of your memories on what we said at investor Day. We remain excited about the opportunities we see in the direct-to-consumer testing market. Hey, good morning, guys. Yeah. So, actually there was, in Q3, a significant incremental expense to catch up our bonuses that are not going to be repeated in Q4. Two comments on Jacks question and Erins. When you look at the compares, the easiest compare on the base business was Q1. But we have price pressure with client relationships, with physicians. 2021 FY 10-K Annual report; Transcript menu. And in that contract, we continue to build stronger elements of what we call value-based programs, and I'll touch on that a minute, Ricky. The second part of our two-point strategy is to drive operational excellence. Turning to our updated guidance. Our new lab in Clifton, New Jersey thats been operational for about a year and were seeing incremental productivity gains from the investments weve made in automation and artificial intelligence. And I think the important thing is that as the big volume grows, weve always shared that incremental organic growth in the base business at a very high level of drop-through. The math doesn't work out anymore. And then if you go to the Northeast, New York and if you go into Boston and Connecticut, actually, we've seen some nice steady recovery with the exception of, as we've indicated earlier, New York City, but specific to the Borough of Manhattan. So to answer your question you started with is there some more of a nice steady progression clinically and also geographically. We said we spent about $30 million so far. So this is going to be quite impactful and beneficial to them. 11 Nov 21. Making the world smarter, happier, and richer. So commercial payer pricing is within it, and that has improved, to Jims comment, vastly versus where we were. Compared to 2019, our basis DIS revenue grew nearly 5% in the second quarter, and it was up more than 1% excluding acquisitions. But we certainly have not stepped back on investing internally because we think it's the best way to drive returns. Our health systems business was actually, just a pure reference, was good in the quarter, and that tends to mix up our rev per req. So we continue to work on our relationship with UnitedHealthcare. Mark, do you want to take the first part, and I'll take the second? So that removed some of that uncertainty of it going -- reverting back to where it was before we got the bump from $51 to $100. As we look toward 2023, our expectation for COVID-19 molecular and serology testing volumes assumes that the COVID-19 testing run rates in the second half of 2022 continues into next year. No login or account required. Thanks so much for squeezing me. Now wed be happy to take your questions. And so therefore, as we mentioned, throughout the first half of the year, we would expect some reduction in that reimbursements. We will now open it up to questions. We actually do have some geographies that are growing year-over-year, and then we have something like -- and it's really Manhattan. But actually, in this case, we're not obligated to do it because they're not even identified. M&A continues to be a driver of growth. And the 10,000 to 15,000 is so its coming down, COVID testing is coming down. A replay of the call may be accessed online at www.questdiagnostics.com/investor or by phone at 800-583-8095 for domestic callers or 203-369-3815 for international callers. How are sort of you thinking about building out your pipeline for the advanced market? So Ricky, obviously, the size of the revenue we've generated from COVID, which more than offset the base business has materially impacted our margins and expanded them greatly relative to our historical margins. Hi, everybody. We still see our prescription drug monitoring and toxicology business has been somewhat of a laggard, but that's going to recover, not back to '19 levels, but it's coming along. We appreciate your continued support, and you all have a great day. And we believe these value-based contracts are achieving better alignment with health plans, which we believe will allow us to gain share. And that's a separate order, that's a separate payment and etc. Two quick follow-up questions here. Can you tell us what percentage of your test is CVS? So the fourth quarter guidance of $1.91 annualizes to $7.64 and has a good guide for the improved base pricing business as well as strong COVID pricing. And so we're having a number of dialogues around that. Yeah, generally, it's a renegotiation, Ralph. Wanted to ask about utilization. There's variability around that, but that's our assumption right now. We continue to move forward on that. In terms of value-based contracting, the biggest opportunity we have, which you indicated in the past, is around United. And until we have news, that's better than that. Now if we dont or if were not successful with SALSA, the question is, could we get another year of relief. Similarly, demand for COVID-19 serology testing is likely to wane in the back half of the year. And since the uninsured volumes have dropped off, that proportion has dropped off as well as we go, but it's still significant. Steve? We're seeing a strong recovery in most of the country and a slower recovery in the Northeast. So the other margin consideration as we grow, as we expected and as we've signaled in our guidance, that, that will help drive margin expansion. Total revenue of $2.77 billion, down 40 basis points versus the prior year; earnings per share were $4.02 on a reported basis, down approximately 3% versus the prior year; and And what we said is in Q2, we've got some investments we're making, particularly we're releasing a new platform. Okay. So whats going to happen going into 2023? That's not an assumption that I would make. Risks and uncertainties, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic that may affect Quest Diagnostics' future results include, but are not limited to, those described in our most recent annual report on Form 10-K and subsequently filed quarterly reports on Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K. Is there any specific areas of menu that youre targeting or do you think are resonating on where that investment is getting directed? So the $350 million in the first quarter is more a reflection of how much cash we had at year-end and the fact that we didn't do a transaction in Q1 as opposed to any change in priority. So the core volumes, I want to be clear, for the quarter, were mid-to-high single-digits,with an improvement from July and August and then fairly flat in September and that was an apples and apples comparison. Total base testing volumes increased more than 6% versus the prior year. So -- sure. Maybe just to talk a little bit about capital deployment. What do you expect -- how do you expect to deploy that once you're able to and maybe about timing of the cash deployment since it's very elevated? Stephen Baxter -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst. Therefore, we assume COVID-19 molecular volumes will be lower in the second quarter compared to Q1. And then Mark will provide more detail on our financial results and talk about our outlook and underlying assumptions. So stay tuned for more details. When we do enter into these capitated arrangements, I can assure you, going forward, we are going to have a much greater say in what we call the clinical pathways that are used by physicians to ensure that utilization makes sense for the clinical condition that the physician diagnoses. So again through the month of August and then September, and I think there is going to be a fair amount of variance across the United States of who does what and when. And the last question in the queue is from Eric Coldwell with Baird. Adjusted EPS was $4.48 and compared to $1.67 last year. Does that -- how do you see capital priorities and capital deployment as we exit this year and think about the next year or two? 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