Transcript
Kyle Rice (00:00) good morning. Morning. How are you today?
Dimi Barot (00:03) I’m well, how are you, Kyle?
Kyle Rice (00:05) Doing well, doing well today. It’s been a weird start to the week I feel like, but we’re getting there super busy. Yeah, yeah.
Dimi Barot (00:12) Well, I appreciate the quick response yesterday and then I don’t know if you had a chance to scan what I had sent last night, I wanted to make sure it was blessed by Tristan before I went to get it notarized. Did you have a chance to take a look at that email?
Kyle Rice (00:27) Yeah, I did. I think it looked okay. Tristan and team are reviewing it this morning. So as soon as I get a response from that, I will ping you back on there. And then we should be all squared away apologies on the delivery. By the way, dr, bro, when I checked Friday, it was showing, it was out for delivery. So I’m not sure if there was a delay on the fedex side. So I just wanted to apologize there and let you know that I saw that it was out and then it happened to come on Monday, so.
Dimi Barot (00:54) That’s okay, man. If it was supposed to be delivered Friday and it didn’t it’s obviously not your fault if it was out for delivery. So I appreciate that.
Nic Schisler (01:04) Kyle, I think Tristan and Cassidy said it looks good by the way. So we should be good to go there.
Kyle Rice (01:10) Oh, did they, I missed that?
Nic Schisler (01:11) It’s okay. I think they just commented back. I just saw it.
Kyle Rice (01:14) Okay. Perfect. Yeah, dr, bro, the Puerto Rico sworn statement looks like it is good to go. And we did get the sign off and blessing from Tristan and team here. Perfect. Then.
Dimi Barot (01:23) I’ll head over to get everything notarized and the plan is to have the entire packet sent back to Cassidy overnighted… this afternoon. So she should have it tomorrow.
Kyle Rice (01:34) Perfect. I will let her know that plans to go out today, and then we will scan it into our system, get it uploaded for reference. And then we’ll turn that around to the PR board.
Dimi Barot (01:44) Perfect. Awesome. Joined by desktop… how much else we have to go through?
Dimi Barot (02:02) There, he is… all right. So that’s the… item of priority. Is there anything else from a housekeeping or renewal perspective that we need to know?
Kyle Rice (02:16) I know we talked cmes last week and I put together all your cmes kind of like a brief audit as well as some required courses for Louisiana. Did you prescribe? I assume the answer is no, but did you prescribe any? I can’t talk controlled?
Dimi Barot (02:37) Substances? No, no.
Kyle Rice (02:39) All right. So we should be able to get a waiver for that. I think the only thing that I just need you to do for that is the laws and rules course for Louisiana which is specific to that. I will. And I believe that was in my email on the, and I’ll resend that to you if you need. And then I tried to link together all these similar courses to try to save, you know, recompleting, you know, around these courses as well. And like courses that will help require some of these different requirements. So I think that should be a good resource moving forward for you. I just wanted to check to see if you had any questions pertaining to cme or anything else.
Dimi Barot (03:12) No, thank you for that. I actually knocked out.
Dimi Barot (03:20) And put in the chat. Let’s see text. The board requires three. All right. So the three hours of prescribing opioids that’s what you’re going to try to get a waiver for? Yeah.
Kyle Rice (03:31) So if you didn’t Louisiana states, if you don’t prescribe any controlled substances in there, you can do a waiver for that course. And then the only course I believe is just the Louisiana laws and rules course.
Dimi Barot (03:43) Okay. I didn’t see that in the chat. Did you put it in the email? I’ll put it in the chat actually, no, the laws and rules course. I already replied in the chat and I already completed it and I put the attachment in there.
Kyle Rice (03:56) Did you put that in?
Dimi Barot (03:58) In the medallion chat?
Kyle Rice (04:00) Let’s see. I’m not seeing that.
Dimi Barot (04:01) I, if you look, I replied on 320 with an attachment three.
Kyle Rice (04:09) 20, I would say you’re looking those via chat right now. Yeah.
Dimi Barot (04:15) This… one, right? Yes. So what I did if you look at here is I put this in the chat as an attachment.
Kyle Rice (04:29) Okay, perfect. Perfect. All right. I will take care of that, then mark that’s complete. And.
Dimi Barot (04:34) Then for this one that you’re describing the control substances, one, would my eight hour Dea controlled substance one that I did a year and a half or whatever ago? Would that not be? Would that not suffice?
Kyle Rice (04:47) I think that falls out outside of the window because they’re requesting to see me to be completed from 328, 20 25 to four 30. So I think that just falls outside the window. But that three hour prescribing course, we, I believe we can waive since you did not per, pers prescribe any CDS in Louisiana. Okay? I can ask the team, to take a look at that and then apply for the waiver all.
Dimi Barot (05:13) Right. And Jamie was the one who put that in here. Kyle is looking into a waiver for the three hour course. So just let me know if for whatever reason that can’t be done. And then if I need to complete it, then I’m happy to do what I need to.
Kyle Rice (05:37) Perfect. Sounds like a plan. And then I did not see anything. It looks like we’re all caught up on tasking and renewals to date. And then the only thing I just wanted to touch on was dr gangol had reached out last week pertaining to her Michigan compact license.
Dimi Barot (05:53) Yeah. And then I saw your response. And then I saw something in the medallion platform as an announcement because I bet a lot of folks are concerned about it that it looks like that’s not going to be an issue anymore.
Kyle Rice (06:03) Looks like it’s not going to be an issue that’s slated to. I believe the Michigan governor is slated to sign that today. I believe there’s about 8,000 licenses that were potentially impacted by the compact, which is just wild and craziness to me. So I believe that is going to go through today and there shouldn’t be any additional action she needs. I’ll keep you guys monitored and updated as soon as Michigan signs that, and we have an official confirmation, but it looks like we are trending that way.
Dimi Barot (06:30) Okay. Perfect. All right.
Kyle Rice (06:32) So awesome. So, to summarize, I will confirm the Louisiana requirements for you with that cme, we’ll get that uploaded to CE, broker for you. We’ll explore the waiver, which I think is definitely 100 percent doable since you did not prescribe there, we’ll get the be on the lookout for the Puerto Rico application going out today via overnight, going back to Cassidy. She will rescan that and then we’ll return that around to Puerto Rico and I’ll keep you updated on that. And then I think we are all set.
Dimi Barot (07:00) Yeah. While we’re on that subject, let me just make sure I’m literally following here. Let me turn off my background so I can show you guys with that contamination of.
Dimi Barot (07:19) sleeper.
Dimi Barot (07:25) Here we go. All right. So let me show you… just to be clear especially… since we’re recording every conversation as we always do. So, I literally went through the exact prescriptive instructions and I am taking… the documents that have these pink stickies myself in just a bit to get every single item notarized. This is the sworn statement that I sent you guys a copy of. I’m, I even put if you saw at the bottom notarized by whatever in my type thing. So that way it’s just not now I’m like what is it? Once bitten? Twice shy with Puerto Rico. So literally to the T, there was one form I wanted to ask about this one. This is the criminal background check. And in the instructions, it says notarize section one and two. So on the criminal background check because the notary is my friend, I just am going to be fine because it’s at the bank where I’m on the board. But I went ahead and signed one and two in the past. I don’t remember having signed two because it says signature of agency slash individual making request. But if you read it, I think it’s me giving consent or I’m the individual making the request. So, did I do that right?
Kyle Rice (08:57) I believe. So, yes. Okay. So.
Dimi Barot (09:00) The notarization will go on both of them, correct? Under my signature.
Kyle Rice (09:04) I believe so. Yes.
Dimi Barot (09:05) Okay, perfect. Just for.
Kyle Rice (09:09) the picture, I know that I believe that they indicate that the seal need to be halfway over the photo as well on that.
Dimi Barot (09:15) Must cover the photo. Beautiful. So again, I pre sign all this stuff because this bank, I know very well, and I just literally now just tell them this is what I need done. So, I’m going to personally go there and make sure that in addition to the notarization that the seal covers part of the photo. And then whatever is the rest?
Kyle Rice (09:37) Beautiful. Sounds great.
Dimi Barot (09:39) So, I think to the extent that it’s possible everything is going to be done exactly the way that I mean, I think so, I know I’ve done everything exactly. There are some where it says you do not need to sign or notarize this application. So I’m just essentially including them with the sticky notes. So that way Cassidy doesn’t have any ambiguity. The good thing is to your point from the email, the rest of the packet including the supporting documents, et cetera. With the pink stickies. It’s everything that we had talked about that’s part of the application. So my understanding is that when Cassidy reviews approves and then sends this directly to the Puerto Rico medical board unless… there’s something that we don’t know which is not an insignificant chance this would be to the T, exactly the comprehensive application that the medical board in Puerto Rico would need to be able to review, approve and not kick back. Is that the understanding that you guys have as well?
Kyle Rice (10:46) That’s my understanding as well. Dr bro.
Dimi Barot (10:48) Okay. All right. Well, let’s hope and pray that this works out the way that it’s supposed to. And as I told you, I plan to head over and knock this out here in the next couple of hours. And then I’ll send you guys a group email to let you know that everything has been completed. The entire package is on its way back to Cassidy. And then there is a return shipping label. I’m assuming you guys already know what that is. But if you’d prefer, I can even put the tracking number in there.
Kyle Rice (11:21) Perfect. That sounds good. We should have the tracking number as well and I will pay. I’m going to, we have a specific thread for your Puerto Rico application right now with Cassidy and Tristan. So I’ll ping and let them know that you’re in underway and in process for today and plans to go out. And then if you just let me know when that’s dropped off at fedex, I’ll keep an eye on it and we can monitor for next steps.
Dimi Barot (11:41) Great. Anything else?
Kyle Rice (11:45) Nothing from me?
Nic Schisler (11:46) Okay. Kyle, I really.
Dimi Barot (11:47) Appreciate the pace and the responsiveness over the last week in particular. So hopefully we can nip this in the bud and thanks for your assistance. Yeah.
Kyle Rice (11:59) No worries. Definitely understand Puerto Rico has been quite the bear and really want to get you licensed there for, you know, your priority, you know, sleep plan, let’s go on live and, you know, just knock this out at the end of the day. And the ultimate goal is just to get, you know, national licensor, and, you know, to get this Puerto Rico nipped in the bud and completed, you know?
Dimi Barot (12:17) Yeah, Nick, you were going to say something?
Nic Schisler (12:20) Yeah, I have. If you have just one minute and if we need to carve out more time, we can, I saw a polls note last week and… do you all want to try and schedule some time this week to talk about if there’s going to be changes to maybe your volume estimates?
Nic Schisler (12:38) The reason why I bring this up and this isn’t to sound cliche or salesy even though it might. But I was chatting with gabby and so, I know that we have at least 30 renewals that we need to handle for you between now and the end of August before the contract ends. And because we have no more consumption in play, we do have to get something in place so that we can perform that work for you. Now, I don’t want you to overcommit on additional hires, additional licensure that you might end up purchasing. But then you might not use. And then you might be out of funds. So I want to be very conscious of that. What I do want to try and figure out if we can between now and the end of March. And I know it’s a little aggressive is if we can find out what you really need. It gives gabby and I a bit more flexibility to offer you some better preferred pricing essentially. So because it’s the end of quarter, she and I have some different levers we can pull. And because of what’s happened in the past, because of your customer experience, I think we can take all of that into play and see if we can offer you some type of better preferred pricing as we move forward between now and the end of the contract. And then when it’s time to potentially talk about extending our partnership another year or two years or whatever it is, we can have further conversations again. So I know that she, I know that I followed up with Paul, you guys are trying to align. So if we can, if you want to try and find some time in the next couple of days, I think that would be great. I’m.
Dimi Barot (14:11) speaking at a conference later this week and therefore, I’m traveling in the midst of all this tsa craziness tomorrow and then Friday and I’m thinking there’s a way that potentially we could chat either Thursday or Monday does either work?
Nic Schisler (14:24) Better for you. Let’s make Thursday happen. Let’s make Thursday happen if we can, because I think that gives me and gabby some time to, even though you’re out on Friday, take a look at where you’re at from a volume perspective, put some pricing together and deliver it to you by the end of the week. Essentially that way if you can’t connect on Monday, we need to connect first thing on Tuesday and we can figure something out. Then we can do that as well.
Dimi Barot (14:49) Alright, let’s plan on two 30 to three, eastern Thursday. If that works for you, let.
Nic Schisler (14:53) Me take a quick look at my calendar. Yes, that’s fine. I will send you both a calendar invite before the end of the day today.
Dimi Barot (15:01) Sounds good.
Nic Schisler (15:02) Okay. Thank you for being open to that. I appreciate it. I think we’re just trying to get you all in a better spot as we move forward essentially. And if we can save you some dollars, I think that’s what we’re trying to do as well. Yeah.
Dimi Barot (15:14) I’m happy to try to move a little bit faster in the spirit of trying to take full advantage of these end of quarter incentives and opportunities to be able to memorialize something that would be more favorable economically to arima of.
Nic Schisler (15:28) Course, that’s why I’m trying to bring that to your attention.
Nic Schisler (15:31) I know we’ve kind of been talking about it for a while but I kind of figured if we’re going to do it now would be the best time to do it, but it has to all work out and we understand that. So no pressure. Just wanted to have that conversation real quick, but, you know, we’ll keep you updated with PR. I think we’re all trying to push as hard as we can and keep it organized, concise and control what we can control this time. And hopefully when we send it along, we have a much better outcome than the first time around, okay?
Dimi Barot (15:59) Yeah. I hope so, man, that’s why I want this to go through Cassidy so that she gives her blessing and that nothing is lost in translation, but I’ll do my part, get this out today. Cassidy should have it tomorrow. If fedex doesn’t botch it, and then hopefully we can get this out sooner rather than later.
Nic Schisler (16:19) World on time. Hopefully, Tom hanks is right. Yeah, all.
Dimi Barot (16:23) Right. Well, thank you both and talk to you soon.
Nic Schisler (16:25) Thanks, dr. Burrow. Talk to you soon.
Dimi Barot (16:27) Thanks.