Q4 2019 Earnings Call
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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Mednax fourth quarter 2019 earnings Conference call at this point all the participant lines ARNA listen only mode. However, there will be an opportunity for your questions. If you'd like to ask a question. Please press one then zero on your phone keypad.
If you need any assistance during the call. Please press star zero in an operator will assist you offline as a reminder, today's call is being recorded I'll turn the call now are Mr. Charles Lynch, Vice President strategy in Investor Relations. Please go ahead Sir.
Thank you good morning, everyone welcome to our fourth quarter call with me today is our CEO, Roger Mattel and our CFO Stephen Farber quickly radar disclaimer that moved to the call certain statements information. During this conference call may be deemed to be forward looking statements within the meeting on the Federal Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of night.
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These forward looking statements are based on assumptions on investments made by Mednax is management.
They are experienced an investment of historical trends current condition expected future development and other factors they believed to be appropriate.
Any forward looking statements made during this call are made as of today and Max undertakes no duty to update or revise any such statements whether as a result of new affirmation future events or otherwise.
Factors that could cause actual results developments and business decision to differ materially from forward looking statements are describing the company's most recent annual report on form 10-K.
And as quarterly reports on form 10-Q, including the sections entitled risk factors.
In today's remarks by management, we will be discussing non-GAAP financial metric.
A reconciliation of these non-GAAP financial measures to the most comparable GAAP measures can be found in this morning's earnings press release, our annual report on form 10-K, and even in the Investor section of our website located at Mednax Dot com.
Ill turn the call over to Robert.
Thank you Charlie good morning, and thanks for joining our call.
Our operating results for the fourth quarter and full year 2019 were in line with our expectations 2019 was a here a significant organizational change leadership restructuring on broad spectrum transformational activity.
We expect a 2020 to continue our full throttle efforts to improve and have provided a preliminary financial outlook for the year.
There's a lot I'd like to cover today, but I will start by discussing the payer matter that we announced alongside our.