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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, D.C. 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (date of earliest event reported): October 24, 2019

EHEALTH, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)




Delaware	001-33071	56-2357876
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

2625 AUGUSTINE DRIVE, SECOND FLOOR

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, 95054

(Address of principal executive offices) (Zip Code)

(650) 584-2700

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

Not applicable

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

¨ Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

¨ Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

¨ Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:



Title of each class	Trading Symbol(s)	Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.001 per share	EHTH	The Nasdaq Stock Market LLC

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (17 CFR §230.405) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (17 CFR §240.12b-2).

Emerging growth company ¨

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act. ¨



Item 2.02		Results of Operations and Financial Condition.

On October 24, 2019, eHealth, Inc. (the “Company”) held a conference call to discuss its financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019. In accordance with the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), prior to that conference call, the Company attempted to furnish a Current Report on Form 8-K to the SEC that included the press release reporting the Company’s financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2019, as is the Company’s usual practice. However, because the SEC’s EDGAR system experienced technical issues and was unable to process filings in the afternoon of October 24, 2019, that Current Report on Form 8-K was not accepted by the SEC until after the conference call had commenced. Accordingly, the Company is furnishing a transcript of its conference call herewith on a one-time basis as Exhibit 99.1.

The information in Item 2.02 of this Current Report on Form 8-K and the exhibit attached hereto are intended to be “furnished” and shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference in such filing, the information contained herein and in the accompanying exhibits shall not be incorporated by reference into any filing with the SEC made by the Company, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.



Item 9.01		Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(d) Exhibits



Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Transcript of earnings conference call on October 24, 2019

SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.




		eHealth, Inc.
Date:	October 28, 2019	/s/ Derek N. Yung
		Derek N. Yung Chief Financial Officer (Principal Financial Officer)

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CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS



Katerina Sidorovich Vice President-Investor Relations, eHealth, Inc.	Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.
Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.

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OTHER PARTICIPANTS



Daniel Aversano Analyst, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC	David Styblo Analyst, Jefferies LLC
George Hill Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	C. Gregory Peters Analyst, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
Jasper Bibb Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.	Michael Newshel Analyst, Evercore Group LLC
George F. Sutton Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Lisa Springer Analyst, Singular Research
Frank George Morgan Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC

MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION SECTION

Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Q3 2019 eHealth, Inc. Earnings Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. After the speaker presentation, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator Instructions] Please be advised that today's conference is being recorded. [Operator Instructions]

I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker, Kate Sidorovich. Please go ahead, ma'am.

Katerina Sidorovich

Vice President-Investor Relations, eHealth, Inc.

Thank you. Good afternoon and thank you all for joining us today, either by phone or by webcast, for a discussion about eHealth, Inc.'s third quarter 2019 financial results. On the call this afternoon, we'll have Scott Flanders, eHealth's Chief Executive Officer; and Derek Yung, Chief Financial Officer. After management completes its remarks, we'll open the lines for questions.

As a reminder, today's conference call is being recorded and webcast from the IR section of our website. A replay of the call will be available on our website following the call. We will be making forward-looking statements on this call, which includes statements regarding future events, beliefs and expectations, including statements relating to our expectations regarding our Medicare business, including Medicare enrollment growth, consumer demand, our

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competitive advantage, our market share, growth in online enrollment and our performance this Annual Enrollment Period; our investments in the Medicare business, including investments in telesales capacity, online demand generation channels, sales and marketing, and our technology platform; our expectations regarding the profitability of our business, seasonality, lifetime values, policy durations, retention rates, conversion rates and cost of acquisitions; our views regarding the Medicare market and current political environment; and our outlook for the fourth quarter and full-year 2019 guidance, including our assumptions and our ability to deliver on our guidance.

Forward-looking statements on this call represent eHealth's views as of today. You should not rely on the statements as representing our views in the future. We undertake no obligation or duty to update information contained in these forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected in our forward-looking statements. We describe these and other risks and uncertainties in our Annual Report on Form 10-K and quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, which you may access through the SEC website or from the Investor Relations section of our website.

We will be presenting certain financial measures on this call that are considered non-GAAP under SEC Regulation G. For reconciliation of each non-GAAP financial measure to the most directly comparable GAAP financial measure, please refer to the information included in our earnings press release issued today, and in our SEC filings, which can be found in the About Us section of our corporate website, under the heading Investor Relations.

And at this point, I will turn the call over to Scott Flanders.

Scott N. Flanders

Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.

Thank you, Kate, and welcome, everyone. Strong momentum in our business continued with another quarter of meaningful outperformance against our expectations. Third quarter revenue of $69.9 million grew 72% year-over- year, driven by a 70% increase in approved Medicare members and tail revenue of $11.5 million that we recognized during the quarter, which represents cash collections on plans beyond what we originally recognized as revenue under our conservative revenue recognition practices.

Our adjusted EBITDA was negative $18.8 million, reflecting significant investment made in our Medicare telesales capacity, as well as marketing investments during the quarter ahead of the Annual Enrollment Period. GAAP net loss was $11 million. Derek will cover our third quarter financial results in greater detail later on the call.

During the quarter, we completed our preparation for the Annual Enrollment Period. We expect to set another record for the company this AEP for Medicare enrollment volumes and for commission revenue. We successfully expanded our telesales capacity, with total sales agent head count more than doubling compared to last year's AEP, including a successful launch of our new sales center in Indianapolis.

Over the past few months, we tested and deployed new agent-facing technologies that we expect to further enhance our customers' experience and increase agent conversion rates. These tools are now available across our agent base, including both our in-house and flexible agent force.

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Our marketing programs, which have delivered strong results over the past four quarters, have been further refined ahead of the AEP, with a greater emphasis on data and analytics, designed to supply our agents with high quality leads at attractive cost of acquisition.

Our website experience for seniors who choose to enroll online or via a mobile device has been enhanced significantly compared to a year ago. Combined with stronger emphasis on online demand generation channels, we expect these improvements to translate into meaningful growth in online Medicare enrollment volumes compared to a year ago.

The improvements we have made have been implemented against the backdrop of a strong market environment. Based on CMS forecast, Medicare Advantage enrollments are expected to grow 10% in 2020, the highest annual growth rate in more than a decade. Increased affordability at MA plans, broader plan choice and greater plan complexity with new supplemental benefits being introduced by carriers make eHealth's broad selection of plans and carriers, combined with our market leading online comparison platform, more relevant than ever to consumers.

Simply put, we have entered this AEP from a position of strength, allowing us to guide up to the high end of our 2019 revenue and EBITDA forecast at a recent investor conference on October 4. Our confidence in the trajectory of our business remains high.

Turning to third quarter performance in our Medicare business, total revenue grew 75% and commission revenue grew 78% compared to a year ago. Sponsorship revenue from carriers grew 83% as insurers have increasingly recognized the advantages of eHealth's customer engagement platform, which has delivered enrollment growth well in excess of the overall Medicare market.

We continue to rely on a diversified portfolio approach to our demand generation strategy. And within our marketing portfolio, we are increasingly emphasizing digital advertising initiatives, which target consumers who are more likely to enroll online with limited or no call center interaction. To this end, 21% of our major medical applications in the third quarter were submitted online, compared with just 9% in the third quarter a year ago.

Third quarter performance in this regard represented 4 times increase in the number of online applications year- over-year. We believe we are delivering solidly on our strategy to significantly expand the online portion of eHealth's enrollment activity.

Our Individual & Family Plan major medical business, which returned to growth in the second quarter for the first time in several years, continue to perform strongly, driven by higher new enrollment volumes and increased member retention. Approved IFP members grew 76% and IFP commission revenue grew 95% compared to the third quarter of 2018.

Turning to the Small Business market, the number of submitted applications declined 15% compared to the third quarter of 2018, as we shifted a portion of our sales resources to Medicare ahead of the AEP. Small Business group commission revenue increased 14% over the same time period due to higher renewal revenue.

In conclusion, this year, we have delivered three consecutive quarters of successful execution, exceeding our expectations in every single quarter and organically growing our year-to-date revenue 76% compared to the same period a year ago.

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Annual Enrollment Period began last week on October 15 and we entered this important Medicare selling season from a position of strength and confidence. During this AEP, the majority of Medicare recipients have access to a broader selection of plans compared to a year ago. And our platform is an optimal destination for seniors to make an informed choice and enroll in a plan that best suits their individual needs.

There's been a lot of activity on the political front ahead of the election year, that we believe that regardless of the outcome of the primary and the presidential election, the Medicare Advantage program will remain a cornerstone of administering health insurance to seniors in this country. eHealth's marketplace focus, technology platform and consumer-centric business model is proving to be the best solution to help more and more seniors access the best health insurance for their individual needs.

And now, I will turn the call over to Derek to speak more specifically about the numbers.

Derek Yung

Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.

Thank you, Scott, and good afternoon, everyone. Our third quarter results reflect strong revenue and enrollment growth in our Medicare and individual and family businesses and a significant investment in our telesales capacity and marketing initiatives ahead of the Medicare annual enrollment period.

In our Medicare business, third quarter revenue of $57.2 million grew 75% compared to a year ago due to a 70% year-over-year increase in approved Medicare members, 64% growth in non-commissioned revenue driven primarily by carrier sponsorship revenue, and $3.8 million in tail revenue driven by greater than estimated customer policy duration which I will describe in greater detail shortly.

The Medicare segment generated a loss of $11 million, reflecting investments as we have prepared for what is expected to be another record fourth quarter selling season in terms of revenue, enrollment volumes, and profitability. Year-to-date, our Medicare segment profit was $5.9 million compared to $2.2 million for the same period last year. Our estimated number of revenue generating Medicare members was approximately $551,000 at the end of the third quarter, up from approximately $410,000 at the end of the third quarter of 2018, or an increase of 34%.

Third quarter 2019 revenue from our Individual, Family and Small Business segment was $12.7 million, a 59% increase compared to a year ago. Similar to the second quarter, we saw a strong increase in the number of approved members for major medical IP products which grew 76% year-over-year. In addition, we are seeing a continued trend of longer duration for these products resulting in higher estimated lifetime values. Third quarter constrained LTVs for Individual & Family Plan products grew in excess of 40% compared to the third quarter a year ago as a result of favorable commission rates and policy duration. Commission revenue in our IFP business grew 95% compared to a year ago. Small Business group commission revenue increased by 14% year-over-year.

The Individual, Family and Small Business segment profit was $3.8 million compared to a loss of $0.6 million in the third quarter of 2018.

Our estimated Individual & Family Plan membership at the end of third quarter was approximately 131,000, down 19% compared to the estimated membership of 161,000 we reported at the end of third quarter a year ago. The estimated number of members on Small Business products was approximately 45,000, a 17% increase compared to year ago.

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Our total revenue for the third quarter was $69.9 million, an increase of 72% compared to the third quarter of 2018. Our total estimated membership at the end of the quarter for all products combined was approximately 991,000 members, including approximately 264,000 estimated members on ancillary products.

Before I move on to discuss operating expenses, I want to provide more detail on the dynamics that we're seeing with estimated lifetime values, or LTVs, in our Medicare business. Under ASC 606 accounting, we recognize revenue based on the constrained lifetime value of each enrollment that is approved by our carrier partners. The base LTVs are determined through an estimation of commission payments that we'd expect to collect over the life of approved policies in our book of business and is based on a detailed historical analysis of several inputs including our past experience with policy durations and commission rates per paying member.

These estimates of the base LTV are then reduced by applying constraint factor, effectively discounting the revenue we book compared to what we expect to collect. This constraint acts as insurance against overstating revenue for the duration of the policy due to fluctuations in policy duration, commission rates or other external factors.

Our revenue recognition approach using constrained LTVs is appropriately conservative and this is demonstrated in how we recognize tail revenue in every quarter of 2019. We recognize tail revenue when our cash collections are in excess of the estimated constrained LTVs for previously sold Medicare policies. The constrained LTVs from Medicare Advantage plans, which account for majority of our existing Medicare members, have grown on a year- over-year basis for five consecutive quarters driven by higher commission rates and better than expected policy duration on many of our existing policies.

On our last earnings call in July, we noted that several - after several quarters of continuous growth in constrained LTVs for our Medicare Advantage products, we expect that the LTV to decline by mid-single digits for approved applications in the fourth quarter of 2019 compared to the fourth quarter of 2018. This forecast was driven by higher policy turnover that we observed during the first quarter of this year on Medicare Advantage members that we enrolled during the last annual enrollment period in the fourth quarter of 2018.

We believe that the increased turnover in that specific group of approved applications was driven by the open enrollment period which took place in the first quarter of this year for the first time since 2011. Since our earnings call in July, we have observed a reversal of this trend with lower turnover on this Medicare Advantage cohort. As a result, the difference between cumulative turnover on this Medicare Advantage cohort on a year-to-date basis compared to how prior fourth quarter cohorts turnover by this time has narrowed.

At this point and in light of these circumstances, we expect that fourth quarter Medicare Advantage constrained LTVs will only be down by 1 to 2 percentage points compared to the Medicare Advantage constrained LTVs for the fourth quarter of 2018. For the full year 2019, our weighted average Medicare Advantage LTVs are expected to be flat to slightly up compared to 2018.

Our commission receivable balance at the end of third quarter was $358 million, an increase of $16 million compared to the ending balance at the end of the second quarter, and an increase of $92 million compared to the balance at the end of the third quarter a year ago. Our commission receivable balance reflects future commissions we expect to collect on our existing membership discounted by the constraint factored that I described earlier. Our commission receivable balances increases each quarter by the amount that we recognize our revenue for in-quarter enrollments which is based on lifetime value estimates. This increase is net of the upfront commission payments for in-quarter enrollment and reoccurring commission payments that we received

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on our existing members enrolled in prior periods. During the third quarter, we collected $43.4 million in commission payments.

Now, I would like to review our operating expenses and profitability metrics. In the third quarter, we made significant investments in expanding our Medicare telesales capacity including our new Indianapolis sales center launch, as well as hiring, training, and onboarding agents ahead of the October 15 start to AEP. As Scott mentioned earlier on the call, we grew our agent count in excess of 100% compared to the same time a year ago through a combination of in-house hiring and expanding our outsourced agent force. Our third quarter non-GAAP customer care enrollment expenses, which excludes stock-based compensation, grew $22.7 million or 133% compared to the third quarter a year ago, reflecting this investment, as well as the fact that we are operating with a larger agent count throughout this year having kept the majority of our in-house agents onboard following the completion of the last AEP.

The newly hired agents were not fully productive for most of the third quarter as they were going through licensing and training. As a result, customer care enrollment expense per approved member increased significantly both sequentially and on a year-over-year basis. Similar to last year, we expect this metric to come down in the fourth quarter when our expanded telesales resources are leveraged across a much larger volume of enrollments and as the agents become more productive.

Our non-GAAP marketing and advertising expense which excludes stock-based compensation grew $9.3 million or 60% year-over-year. Variable marketing expense in our Medicare business grew 78% compared to the 70% growth in approved Medicare members as we invested more on the margin in direct online demand generation channels that have higher marketing costs of acquisition, but also tend to have higher unassisted online conversions.

Shifting towards increased online penetration which should over time translate into higher operational scalability and lower agent cost per enrollment is at the core of our growth strategy in the Medicare market. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2019 was negative $18.8 million which was better than our expectations and compared to negative $6.9 million for the third quarter of 2018. We calculate adjusted EBITDA by adding restructuring charges, acquisition costs, stock-based compensation, change in fair value of earnout liability, depreciation and amortization, amortization of acquired intangibles, other income, and benefit from income taxes to our GAAP net loss.

GAAP net loss for the third quarter of 2019 was $11 million compared to GAAP net loss of $9 million for the third quarter of 2018. Our third quarter cash flow from operations was negative $15.9 million compared to negative $5 million for the third quarter of 2018. Capital expenditures, which include capitalized internally-developed software costs, were approximately $4 million for the third quarter. Our cash balance was $91.4 million as of September 30, and we had no debt outstanding under our line of credits.

Based on information available as of October 24, 2019, eHealth is reaffirming its guidance for total revenue and adjusted EBITDA for the full year ending December 31, 2019 and also updating its guidance for certain GAAP and non-GAAP measures for the full year ending December 31, 2019 due to the third quarter of 2019 reduction in fair value of the earnout liability assumed in connection with our acquisition of GoMedigap and a change in income tax rate. Our 2019 guidance ranges are included in our third quarter earnings release for your reference.

Based on the quality and scale of our call center resources in place, the acceleration of our online enrollments and the strength of our consumer demand we're observing, we are confident in our ability to deliver at the high

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end of the revenue and EBITDA guidance ranges. This implies a year-over-year growth in 2019 approved Medicare members of over 60%.

After what has been an investment quarter, we are forecasting a return to meaningful EBITDA profitability in the fourth quarter driven by significant sequential increase in enrollment growth and a related increase on our revenue. On a year-over-year basis, we forecast our fourth quarter EBITDA to grow significantly both on a margin and absolute dollar basis relative to the fourth quarter of 2018. The top end of our 2019 EBITDA guidance implies fourth quarter 2019 EBITDA growth of over 50% compared to Q4 of 2018.

I want to remind you that these comments on our guidance are based on current indications of our business and our current estimates, assumptions and judgments which may change at any time. Our actual results may differ as a result of changes in our estimates, assumptions and judgments. We undertake no obligation to update our comments or our guidance.

Before we turn the call over to the operator, I want to address our membership metrics in context of customer policy retention, a topic that's been top of mind for investors and analysts over the past few months.

In order to compute customer policy retention rate, it's important to keep in mind the following three finances. One, our retention rates are more accurately assessed by using the number of paying members that we add in a given period and not the number of in-period approved members. Our approved Medicare Advantage members have converted into paying members at an average of 92%. In addition, some of the members that are approved in a given quarter don't become paying members until the following quarter, a spillover effect that's especially pronounced during high-enrollment quarters.

Second, policy turnover is higher in the first year post-approval and starts to decline in the outer years. Policy persistency is particularly strong once a policy has been held for over a year, getting us through our current average policy duration approximately three years for Medicare Advantage.

Three and lastly, due to the pronounced seasonality of our enrollments, it is more accurate to look at churn and other metrics on trailing 12-month basis. We summarize these points and also provide an example of customer policy retention math as part of our earnings call slides which are now posted on Investor Relations website. Our goal has always to be fully transparent to our investors and analysts, and over the coming quarters, we will be revisiting our reported metrics and to evaluate if we can make these - make additions or changes to further that goal.

And now, we'll open up the call for questions. Operator?

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QUESTION AND ANSWER SECTION

Operator: Thank you. [Operator Instructions] Our first question comes from Jailendra Singh with Credit Suisse. Your line is now open.



Daniel Aversano Analyst, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC	Q

Hi. This is Daniel Aversano filling in for Jailendra Singh. Thank you for taking my question. Do you have any more details on the new call center in Indianapolis? I know last year that you had approximately 136,000 unanswered calls. So have you seen less leakage so far? And lastly, can you talk more about your marketing investments and engagement efforts?



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. Hi. Thanks for the questions. It's Dave Francis. The Indianapolis call center has launched really without a hitch. I think we've talked about previously that we were looking to staff as many as 200 salespeople in that office and it's gone, like I said, without a hitch. We had full hiring, had everybody trained, appointed and when the AEP bell opened on October 15, that was our first office opened and taking calls, and they've been performing as or better than expected.

As it relates to the number of calls that we've talked about last year that we were unable to answer because of constrained capacity, so far, we're early in AEP, so it's way too early to be telling exactly what the full AEP will be, but we feel very good about operationally how all the call centers are operating and the number of customers that we are able to touch. We've got meaningfully less leakage, as you put it, than we did last year.

And as it relates to the marketing side of things, everything is working as we expected. We've made some significant investments in the - across the different marketing channels that we talk at length about from all the way from direct mail up to search engine marketing, and very pleased right now with the way AEP is going. With that said, we're less than 20% of the way through AEP. So it's way too early to see how everything's going to end, but we feel very good about where things stand at the moment. And I think that's all we're prepared to say at the moment.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yes. The only thing I will add to that is in Q3, evidence to our ability to serve more calls that we did have less call center revenue in Q3 this year than we compare to last year given the productivity and the size of our sales force that we had this year compared to last year in Q3.



Daniel Aversano Analyst, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC	Q

Okay. Great. Thank you. And just one more quick question. Would you also be able to talk about some of the initiatives you're focused on for your lead sourcing and customer - and bringing down your lead sourcing and customer acquisition costs? Do you see a big opportunity there?

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Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah, I can start with that. So we continue to have success in scaling our direct-to-consumer marketing and customer acquisition. It's been a multiyear effort. And for many years, as you have seen, we have driven the cost per member down on marketing. Our focus now is really continue to keep that scale while growing enrollment.

So just to kind of echo that point, our desire here is not to look for reduction in unit economics of marketing, it's to maintain it while we scale. And the key component to that is continue evolution of our marketing programs to be more analytically driven, which was discussed by Scott. And the other highlight here is we will continue to expand and increase our online marketing at a more outsized rate as compared to other channels. And the reason for it is that the members that we acquire through online marketing channels tend to enroll more online.



Daniel Aversano Analyst, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC	Q

Perfect. Thank you very much.

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of George Hill with Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.



George Hill Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	Q

Hey. Good afternoon, guys. And I hopped on the call a little bit late. I'll apologize if you covered this. I guess, Derek, you talked about 90 - I'm trying to read my notes here - approved members becoming paying members 92% of the time. I guess can we talk about the other 8% and can you frame this statistic kind of relative to history or is this new?



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

George, that's a good question. And I'll point people to what I commented in my prepared remarks which is more detailed on the slides that we posted in our Investor Relations website. The 92% has been very steady in the history that we've been in this Medicare business. And even in the figures that we have disclosed on the slide, you can see that it's averaged out to 92% when you look at on a trailing 12-month basis the last four quarters.

So, what tends to happen is people either don't actually qualify or and then are not paying or they're - and are not paying because they are unhappy with the plan. And it's not a unusual situation, not just for eHealth but other brokers or other plan providers, where they see a drop-off between approved to paid.



George Hill Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	Q

Okay. And like I said, I apologize I dialed in a little bit late. It sounded like you said for Q4, the erosion in LTV is now going to be 1% to 2% versus mid-single digits. I guess can you - there's a couple of factors that drive the LTV component. I guess can you talk about which puts and takes have moved versus when we communicated at the end of Q2? My guess is going to be that retention is looking better because you have pretty good visibility to the other components of the LTV calculations.

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Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. That's good insight there, George. S, the three primary inputs in LTV is policy duration, commission rates, and approved-to-paid ratio that we have just commented on. The latter two of those components are fairly consistent. One's, obviously, a cohort has enrolled, so really is around persistency of the policies.

And as I mentioned in the prepared remarks, which I'll give more color here, what we saw was coming out of the OEP period people who had enrolled during AEP in 2018 churning more, meaning they switch more because of the ability to be able to do that given that OEP period. Since then, for people who did not switch, what we've seen is a reversal of that trend where they're staying on longer than what we've seen compared to historical patterns. So when those two things come together on a cumulative basis, we're seeing a trend basically narrowing.

So, it's not obviously the full year cycle yet, so the final chapter of this is still to be seen, obviously with AEP, but at least we can say that given the evidence we've seen so far, we are seeing perhaps a more of a shifting in the seasonality of people switching as opposed to maybe a permanent increase in switching based on the introduction of - or the reintroduction of OEP.



George Hill Analyst, Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc.	Q

Right. That's helpful and I don't want to neglect Scott and Dave. So what I want to ask about is I want to know how are you guys thinking about the Q1 switching season. I guess, how do you retain applicants versus people who came on in Q4. You probably can't do anything to prevent switching, but I guess what I care about is from a marketing, go-to market perspective, do you guys keep kind of the pedal to the metal on marketing spend and the attraction of beneficiaries and enrollees and applicants in Q1, given this is the second year that we have the switching season. And whether it's people aging in or people who are switching like it's almost like you get a little bit of a second bite of the apple as it relates to AEP. I'd love to know how you guys are thinking about the switching period kind of second time around.



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

So, George, it's Dave. I'll go first and let Scott pile on. But there's two things as we look at Q1. Number one is, for lack of a better term, playing defense on those customers that we've just signed up. So, to the extent that we can limit that increased turnover in customers that we saw in the first quarter of this last year from the previous Q4 new buying cohort, we've got some plans in place to have specific outreach to those folks to make sure that they understand what they bought, that they're using it properly, if they have any questions to help those folks better understand and make sure that they're correctly using their products, so that there's less impetus for them to want to turn over. If they do want to turnover then we're right there for them to do that with us, so that we keep them in our book and they don't end up exiting the book.

And then secondly, as we've talked about and have demonstrated through our outsized growth rates relative to the market, any time of opportunity for broad-based customer groups to change, we believe they ought to be doing so using our platform, given the tools and the breadth of choice that they have. And as we saw last year with significant growth in the first quarter, we fully expect to be plowing additional marketing resources into the marketplace so that we can capture as many of those customers as possible. So, it's increasing the persistency of all of the customers in our book including the new ones that we've added in the fourth quarter plus encouraging those folks that are coming back into the market in the first quarter OEP to come to the eHealth platform to do their shopping.

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Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	A

What I would add to that is those members that churned out from AEP in last year's fourth quarter into new plans in Q1 have shown low churn. And so, what is probably the case is they got into the non-optimal plan and then got into the right plan in Q1 and have had strong consistency since then. And so, this is why we flagged the higher churn and Derek who might have been lost in an awfully long CFO script because we covered a lot but we've been pleased to see that that churn abated dramatically. And so, we flagged it when we thought it was a potential issue. And from today's call, we're trying to alleviate anyone's ongoing concern about churn for us. But it's flat year-over-year overall.

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from Tobey Sommer with SunTrust. Your line is open.



Jasper Bibb Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.	Q

Thanks. This is Jasper Bibb on for Tobey today. You've invested a lot in technology and online enrollment experience. It appears others are likely to follow. How long would you say it would take for another platform company to get to where you are right now?



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

It's Dave. I I'll answer it this way. We've talked a lot about our platform both from a telephonic and an online perspective. There are two aspects to the platform that are important. One is the front-end experience for the customer where they engage with us and candidly we've seen a lot of people coming in and creating online clothing and shopping experiences where they're able to show different customers plans and that sort of thing. We would call that the nonproprietary side of the marketplace business.

We continue to invest heavily on the front end of the shop and make sure that our customers have the best shopping experience available to them. The back end of the experience is what we believe is proprietary to the way that we are doing business that we connect across all of our products with over 170 insurance companies across the country, large, national, small, regional and otherwise. And that is the part of the business that is very difficult to replicate given the inconsistencies of technology platforms across all the different payers and creating the connections and maintaining all the business logic and what have you that's entailed in all of that. That's a gross oversimplification of what it takes to build that back end but it's something that we believe take not quarters or months but years for another potential competitor to replicate. Yes, the insurers are willing to open up their back ends to that kind of electronic linkage.

So we see a lot of people coming into our marketplace given the growth that we've had on the front end, the customer engagement side. And we believe the more folks coming in, the better. It opens up more shopping experiences for customers generally. But to put the full marketplace end-to-end experience together in a customer-friendly way that we have, we believe, is extraordinarily difficult, expensive, and time-consuming for a potential competitor to do.



Jasper Bibb Analyst, SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, Inc.	Q

Thanks. That's very helpful.

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Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of George Sutton with Craig-Hallum. Your line is now open.



George F. Sutton Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Q

Thank you. You mentioned that tail revenues in the quarter were $11.5 million and they've increased five quarters in a row. Curious, does your Q4 assumption include any tail revenues?



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

That's a good question. Just to be clear, we've seen tail revenue five quarters in a row. I don't think we've specifically commented that it's increased five quarters in a row. But $11 million for the quarter is correct.

So, in our guidance, there are expectations included around tail revenue and that's actually been the case since our first guidance. What is also true is tail revenue have exceeded our expectations. And relative to kind of the earlier questions from George, really, when we see better than expected results in our cash collection, it is driven mostly because of better persistency, people staying in the policies longer. So, that's the case. So obviously, we have analytics around a fairly large membership of people. The longer they have - someone's been on a policy, the less variability there is around churn and you actually can see some of the data that we all have included around the lifecycle of churn percentages, at least for Medicare Advantage, in our Investor Relations materials. So, more to come on that obviously based on how we see Q4 plays out. But hopefully, that's the answer to your questions, George.



George F. Sutton Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Q

Wondered if you could explain your growth plans for the AEP versus the combination of your increased capacity and the assumption of higher online-only adds.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

George, what are you - is there - are you talking about adds...



George F. Sutton Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Q

So to be clear, you're assuming a doubling of capacity. You're assuming more of what I would define as call center capacity. You are assuming higher online-only adds, but your growth rates are obviously quite a bit different. So, I just wanted to make sure I understood that dichotomy.



Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	A

Look, in a word, I would just say that our guidance is conservative.



George F. Sutton Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Q

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That was my assumption. Last question, are you seeing - let me ask it this way. Industry folks, including us, have looked at Medicare Plan Finder and found it to be relatively uncomfortable and unlikely for most people to work through. Are you finding any impacts thus far in this season from Medicare Plan Finder?



Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	A

No.



George F. Sutton Analyst, Craig-Hallum Capital Group LLC	Q

Thanks, guys.

Operator: Thank you. And our following question comes from the line of Frank Morgan with RBC Capital Markets. Your line is now open.



Frank George Morgan Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC	Q

Good afternoon. Just going back to the AEP, I'm just curious, do you have any specific numbers you might be able to share, like how it's going so far? I mean, presumably, you're getting real-time updates on those numbers and understanding early in the process. But any way you could kind of quantify or give some kind of benchmark about how it's going so far in this AEP?



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Frank, you're right. We see the numbers on an almost real-time basis. I would say that we are very pleased with the way that we plan for and plan for AEP is the way that the numbers are coming in thus far.



Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. Record calls and record conversions.



Frank George Morgan Analyst, RBC Capital Markets LLC	Q

Okay. Thanks. And then, just curious, a lot has been mentioned about the Plan Finder potential for growing competition, but just curious with seeing strategic buyers in this space. Does that, in any way, affect your view of how the competitive landscape plays out?

And then, my last one was that the 21% online number that you had in the third quarter, is that a fair number that you expect to see in the 4Q with AEP or is that - does that get diluted down somewhat given the growth in overall volume? Thanks.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

So let me answer the second question, is on a sequential basis, we have seen historically and we do expect fourth quarter share of online applications to go up. So, we would expect the same thing to happen in 2019 as well.

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On the competitive side - and I'll start, and then, Dave and Scott can add - we play in a very large market, as you know, Frank. We've had a lot of success driving towards the growth strategy that we've been on the last four quarters. And as you heard earlier in our prepared remarks and also in Q&A, we are very happy with - and very confident in our preparation and execution towards AEP so far.



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. I'll leave it there. I do want to say, Frank, again, the fact that we got to over 20% online enrollments in the third quarter, and as Derek said, the trend is for that to accelerate into the fourth quarter historically, and thus far, this quarter, we've seen just that. We have high expectations for the transition to the online side of the business to continue to be a meaningful driver for us both from a P&L perspective and a strategic positioning perspective. So, we're really pleased with where those numbers are coming in, particularly given that we were only looking for 19% to 20% online for the entire year. So, we're really pleased with that. And again, competitively, we're pleased with what we're seeing in the marketplace relative to our ability to acquire customers.

Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from David Styblo with Jefferies. Your line is currently open.



David Styblo Analyst, Jefferies LLC	Q

Hi. Good afternoon. Thanks for the questions. Hey, guys, the stock is down a few dollars in aftermarket trading. I think a couple of things that just are raising questions for investors that I thought I'd ask to see how you can help maybe add some clarity to it, is first of all, on the variable marketing cost for the approved members and customer care enrollment, those are obviously up 7% and 52% that you guys released, how do we think about that normalizing? How quick does that maybe get back to flattish? Is that something that can happen in the fourth quarter since those agents will be seasoned or does it take a longer period beyond that? That would be the first question I had.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. Good question. So third quarter, both those metrics largely came in line or exceed our expectations, given the preparation that we were looking to put in place in terms of capacity going to AEP. So, the way that we look at those metrics is really on a back half of year basis. And it will normalize largely because of, obviously, the AEP period, and also on the sales by really getting agents to be productive, which many of them weren't in the third quarter because they were ramping and getting training, getting licensed.

On the marketing side, as we had commented on our prepared remarks, really, the pickup there was on online marketing spend as a percentage of total marketing spend. And because people that we acquired through online marketing channels have higher propensity to enroll online, there's a great ability for us to up on marketing because we have less [indiscernible] (46:19) cost. And as you heard, we did exceed our expectations in Q3 for online enrollment. So, you see a corresponding positive result from that effort.

So yeah, for the year, at the midpoint, we had guided to a flattish on a total variable cost. I think that's still the case. And we will obviously always look for additional investment opportunities to the extent that makes sense. And if it does make sense, it will more likely come from the marketing side through online - increase in online market investments.

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David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

But to be very specific, Dave, the CC&E costs, the sale costs are directly related to the fact that we made significant investments to put on significantly more sales capacity in the third quarter. The vast majority of that capacity was unproductive as they were going through onboarding, training and appointment. So, we absorbed the cost in anticipation of the business coming in in the fourth quarter and having the capacity to help as many customers as possible in the fourth quarter; hence, the third quarter blip and it's consistent with prior years as well.



David Styblo Analyst, Jefferies LLC	Q

Sure. That makes sense. Thanks. Thanks for the color there. I think the second element that could use some explaining is just on the LTV. So, the MA LTV was only up 1% this quarter versus the 8% to 16% in the first half of the year. I guess I would have thought it would've been up again pretty strongly just because you guys have a rate tailwind. And sounded like from some of the comments earlier, that duration was looking better on that - on the new cohort. So, can you help me understand the discrepancy on the MA part. And then, also on the Med Sup LTV, the declines there are accelerating up to 10% versus 3% to 6% in the first half sort of mix. Can you explain what's happening on the LTV on that side as well?



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. Let me start with that. On the MS side, we acquired GoMedigap about a year and a half ago, and then, we've really, really scaled that business since we acquired them. And we are going through a certain degree of growing pains around kind of the operational aspects as we look to maintain or increase persistency. So, you caught that.

On the MA side, there is a lot going on when we look at third quarter LTVs. One is obviously, there's a seasonality aspect of the LTVs. So if you look at it on a sequential basis, you will see some fluctuations. On a year-over-year basis, we look at - we use a two-year look-back to average out the impact of either rate - both rate increases and also policy duration. So, that's why earlier in the year in early quarters, we had favorable longer durations that were still flowing into LTVs that were starting to get muted because of the enrollments we saw in Q4 2018. As we commented in our prepared remarks, we are seeing that churn reversing and normalizing and narrowing compared to what we saw earlier in the quarter, but it hasn't been completely reversed yet. So, that's why you see more of a flattish behavior in Q3.



David Styblo Analyst, Jefferies LLC	Q

Okay. And then, so that's not just a fourth quarter event because I thought initially, the fact that the fourth quarter of 2018 was sort of overestimated, you're correcting for that in the fourth quarter of 2019, which the original guidance was down mid-single digits, now it's only down 1 or 2 points. I thought that was sort of the catch up, that it doesn't really happen in quarters 2 or 3, but it sounds like it does actually happen throughout the year then.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

It does but it's more dramatic for the quarter that it relates to. So, our estimation is on a two-year look-back but it's unseasonalized. So, that's the nuance. So just to comment more specifically, the churn that we were addressing

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both in the call in Q2 and now is specific to the AEP cohort. But in terms of the LTV calculation, it does build into other quarters as well but not nearly as much as the core that the season is related to.



David Styblo Analyst, Jefferies LLC	Q

Okay. Great. Thanks, guys.

Operator: Thank you. And our following question comes from the line of Greg Peters with Raymond James. Your line is open.



C. Gregory Peters Analyst, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.	Q

Good afternoon. I have one question and then a follow-up. You mentioned competitive conditions. There seems to be a new player or strategic coming into the market almost on a daily basis. So, one of the things we've been hearing is rising lead costs. And I was wondering if you could give us some additional color around your go-to- market strategy and your process to drive the online enrollment. I noticed it was up 21% in the third quarter.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

So, I think - so if I understand your question, is have we seen additional competitive pressure against our marketing initiatives and has that - how has that shown up in terms of our acquisition costs.



C. Gregory Peters Analyst, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.	Q

Well, I'm sorry if it wasn't clear. We're hearing specifically that the cost of leads is been rising beyond just the 7% that you reported in your third quarter. And in the context of new players and/or strategics coming into the market, I'm just curious about your go-to-market strategy, how you're dealing with those pressures.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Got you. Okay. In Q3, the increase that we reported is primarily related to increase in online market investments and less so of competitive pressure broadly across other channels. And our principal channels are the direct channels with direct response TV, direct mail and direct traffic on the website. So, there was nothing in Q3 that we saw that would point to a broader increase in competition.

With that said, you are right that there is a lot of interest in this market and for good reasons, because they probably see the same thing, obviously, that we see around the market opportunity, and obviously, the growing aspect of Medicare Advantage as a very, very attractive product for consumers and health insurance carriers.

So, we're aware of that competition. We do feel like we have advantages in marketing that allow us to be able to compete in a manner that allows us to continue to scale, and most importantly, as we do a lot of our lead acquisition principally through direct to consumer, as opposed to relying on lead gen partners. And then, of course, we continue to scale our online capabilities, both from an enrollment perspective and marketing perspective.

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David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Greg, it's a competitive marketplace but we continue to believe that we have the opportunity to grow at multiples of the market rate while still maintaining a very margin-positive impact on all the incremental business that we're bringing in, despite the competition.



C. Gregory Peters Analyst, Raymond James & Associates, Inc.	Q

Great. My follow-up question, which is in - and I understand the dynamics of the near-term growth opportunities and sacrificing cash flow, or free cash flow, that is. But I was wondering if you could just give us an update. I think in the past, you might have suggested that operating cash flow or cash flow from operations might turn neutral or slightly positive at some point a year or two down the road. Maybe you can just give us an updated perspective on that.



Derek Yung Chief Financial Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. At our Investor Day back in May, we had commented that we'd be close to breakeven on a trailing 12- month basis March 2020 based on the guidance at that point. We have obviously since revised our guidance upwards. And then, we had commented at other settings that we don't expect to be a little bit - be at operating cash flow breakeven at that same time period, given our business model, which is heavier investments upfront for customer acquisition.

So as of now, we expect that the cash on the balance sheet plus our access to revolving facility to be able to allow for us to pursue our growth strategy for both in the five-year base scenario and also the tailwind scenario that we had discussed at Analyst Day. If there are additional opportunities to pursue more growth, we will look to leverage more on our $358 million commission receivable to give us more access to capital to fuel that growth.

We will be revisiting our long-term growth plan, obviously, after this year since we are pacing ahead of both the base and the tailwinds in that five-year plan. In that point, we'll be more be able to discuss where we see our cash flow dynamics in the outer years.



Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. Let me just add to that, that answers two questions with one sentence, is we do not expect our gross margin for enrollment to be decremented by any of the market competition. What would cause us to earn more cash is just volumes well in excess of our tailwind case.

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from Michael Newshel with Evercore ISI. Your line is now open.



Michael Newshel Analyst, Evercore Group LLC	Q

Thanks. Can you just comment on your - on the level of conservatism in the guidance, since you decided not to leave the full-year revenue guidance unchanged, even though the third quarter came in better, plus the Medicare LTV outlook actually improved and setup investment capacity. So, can you just kind of like frame that decision? And then, also just how - where how you're thinking about upside drivers for the enrollment season?

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Scott N. Flanders Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. So, we made the decision headed into the Q2 earnings call to guide once up and made a decision for a management team and a board level that we would not be guiding at Q3. So, this is a decision that was made irrespective of where we came in. Q3 just nothing should be read into that.



Michael Newshel Analyst, Evercore Group LLC	Q

Great. Yeah. Thanks for clarifying that. And then, just in terms of upside drivers then for the fourth quarter, since the aging count has doubled, is there a productivity of the key swing factor or is it like demand through seniors and the quality of lead also key factors, too?



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

No. It's both. It's the volume of customers coming into the platform and our ability to do that on a margin-positive basis from a marketing investment perspective, and that's the investments that we've made on the technology side to make those agents that we've had onboard for a while and those that we've onboarded just recently to be more productive. So to, in essence, increase their conversion rates throughout the fourth quarter. And we build what we believe is an aggressive but very achievable plan with various areas of potential leverage in it.

So again, to Scott's point, it's imprudent for us this early in the AEP season to be further commenting on guidance beyond that, which we have, but other than to say that we are very pleased with the way that the business has been coming in, and as Scott said, record volumes and record conversions so far.



Michael Newshel Analyst, Evercore Group LLC	Q

Great. Thank you.

Operator: Thank you. And our next question comes from the line of Lisa Springer with Singular Research. Your line is open.



Lisa Springer Analyst, Singular Research	Q

Thank you. I just wanted to ask a quick question about the expansion of telesales capacity. How much of that was in-house agents versus flexible agents, and is there a difference in conversion rates between those two groups?



David K. Francis Chief Operating Officer, eHealth, Inc.	A

Yeah. The in-house growth was about 50%, so call it 400 up to 600 last year, and then, the balance of that is going to be external agents. There is a conversion rate difference. It had - the newer the agent, the less productive they are in phone. Much as a person playing golf or baseball, the more swings of the bat or club they have, the better they get at using the tools and interacting with the customers.

So as I mentioned before, we make a lot of investments on the technology side to make that sales process easier both for tenured agents and for new agents, and we are seeing the benefits of that already with AEP. But there's no question that a more tenured agent is more productive and more efficient than a new agent.

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Operator: Thank you. And I'm not showing any further questions at this time. I would now like to turn the conference back to Scott Flanders for any further remarks.

Scott N. Flanders

Chief Executive Officer & Director, eHealth, Inc.

Thank you, everyone, and for the caliber of questions. It definitely feels to me that the analyst coverage of eHealth has matured dramatically since a year ago when we were headed into AEP. And I just really appreciate the attention being paid to this name. We could not be more optimistic about our business's position. The 4x growth and online, we think, is a harbinger of a sea change in our strategy and our competitive differentiation. And so, as I said earlier, we remain uniquely confident in the trajectory of our business and we believe we're going to have a record fourth quarter. We look forward to telling you about it when the calendar turns to 2020. Thank you, everyone, for being on the call.

Operator: Ladies and gentlemen, this concludes today's conference call. Thank you for participating. You may all disconnect.

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