John C. Rademacher
Thanks, Nicole, and good morning, everyone. As you will see in our second quarter results, the Option Care Health team delivered another strong quarter with balanced growth across the portfolio. As a result, we are increasing our guidance range for the year across revenue, adjusted EBITDA and adjusted EPS. Option Care Health operates in an industry with growing demand, and we believe we are well positioned as a leading independent provider of home and alternate site infusion services with significant scale, a diverse portfolio and a resilient operating model. During the quarter, our team continued to capitalize on shifting competitive dynamics and deepening partnerships with payers and pharma manufacturers. We also capitalized on our national scale with local responsiveness, which we believe remains a differentiator. And we continue to see positive impacts on the resilient and nimble operating model we have created, which enables us to deliver consistent results in any operating environment. Indeed, over my nearly 10 years leading this organization, Option Care Health has thrived through regulatory change, biosimilar events, changing competitive dynamics, therapy administration shifts and labor and supply shortages. This quarter was no different, and I believe we are well positioned for success going forward. Mike will go deeper into the financials in a few minutes. But to highlight some key takeaways. Revenue momentum continued in the second quarter with balanced performance across the portfolio. Building on first quarter results, we delivered revenue growth of 15% over the second quarter of last year. Acute therapy growth was in the mid-teens, and the team executed well to capitalize on shifting industry dynamics and to leverage our continued investments and capabilities to be locally responsive to serve the specific needs of patients on these therapies. Our chronic therapies also performed well with growth in the mid-teens. We continue to see solid performance in our rare and orphan and limited distribution therapies a testament to our national scale and ability to reach smaller cohorts of patients as we continue to partner with pharma to develop and deliver innovative programs customized to their therapies. The strength of the top line performance across the broad set of therapies, along with disciplined spending drove a 5% adjusted EBITDA growth on a year-over-year basis despite the previously articulated headwinds that we faced. During the quarter, we continued to focus on our relationships with health plans as we believe our value proposition provides a meaningful opportunity to reduce the total cost of care for their members and help them better manage their medical loss ratios. Providing high-quality care at an appropriate cost in a setting in which their members want to receive it, makes us an important part of the solution to the pressures they are facing of an aging population and increased disease prevalence and utilization of health care services. Our market access team continues to work closely with national payers and health plans across the country to develop meaningful programs to broaden access and provide better, more cost-effective care for their members. We also continue to deepen our relationships with our pharma partners by leveraging our clinical capabilities, pharmacy infrastructure and broad geographic coverage to help enable tailored programs and services to patient populations with complex needs. Our network of nearly 90 pharmacies, coupled with our clinical centers of excellence and extensive nursing network of over 3,000 nurses, including Naven Health, provides a strong platform and unparalleled capabilities. We continue to expand our portfolio of therapies, including YE