Earnings Call Excerpt
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Odyssey HealthCare (ODSY)
Q3 2008 Earnings Call
October 29, 2008 9:00 am
Executives
Dirk Allison - Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Bob Lefton - Chief Executive Officer and President
Analysts
Darren Lehrich - Deutsche Bank
Kemp Dolliver - Cowen and Company
A.J. Rice - Soleil Securities
Adam Feinstein - Barclay's Capital
Newton Juhng - BB&T Capital Markets
Dawn Brock - JP Morgan
Presentation
Operator
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the third quarter 2008 Odyssey HealthCare earnings conference call. My name is Shanelle and I will be your coordinator for today. (Operator instructions).
I would now like to turn the presentation over to your host for today’s call, Mr. Dirk Allison, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Please proceed, sir.
Dirk Allison
Thank you, Operator. Let me welcome everyone to the conference call to discuss Odyssey’s third quarter 2008 financial results. Bob Lefton, our CEO, will lead off, and then I will follow with more detail concerning our financial results, we’ll then open the call up for your questions.
Before I turn the call over to Bob, I want to take care of a couple of items. The first, as it relates to forward-looking statements. Certain statements in this presentation are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Federal Securities laws.
Such forward-looking statements are based on management’s current expectations and are subject to known and unknown risks, uncertainties, and assumptions which may cause the forward-looking events and circumstances described in the presentation to differ materially from those anticipated or implied by the forward-looking statements.
Such risks, uncertainties, and assumptions include, but are not limited to, those risks, uncertainties, and assumptions identified in our press release dated August 4th, 2008, and the disclosure contained in the headings Government Regulation and Payment Structure in Item 1 Business and Item 1A Risk Factors of Odyssey’s annual report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on March 14th, 2008, and in Odyssey’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Many of these factors are beyond the ability of the company to control or predict. Given these uncertainties, listeners are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements which reflect management views only as of today’s date.
The company undertakes no obligation to revise or update any of the forward-looking statements or publicly announce any updates or revisions to any of the forward-looking statements to reflect any change in the company’s expectations or any change in events, conditions, circumstances, or assumptions underlying such statements.
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