Supplemental disclosures |
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Supplemental disclosures
Under a resolution adopted in June 2018, the Board of Directors authorized the repurchase, at management's discretion, of up to an aggregate of $200 million of our common stock. This replaced a similar authorization adopted in August 2015. During the nine months ended June 30, 2018, we repurchased approximately 1.0 million common shares at a cost of $62.6 million. During the nine months ended June 30, 2017, we acquired 0.6 million common shares at a cost of $28.9 million. At June 30, 2018, $197.8 million remained available for future stock repurchases.
During the nine months ended June 30, 2018, we granted 0.3 million RSUs to our employees. These awards will vest ratably over five years. During the nine months ended June 30, 2018, we granted approximately 22,000 RSU's to members of our Board of Directors. These awards vest over one year.
Our deferred compensation plan uses both mutual fund and life insurance investments to fund its obligations. The mutual funds are recorded at fair value, based upon quoted prices in active markets, and the life insurance investments at cash surrender value; changes in value are reported in the Consolidated Statement of Operations. At June 30, 2018, the deferred compensation plan held $19.6 million of these investments.
In July 2017, we acquired Revitalised Limited, a provider of digital health, fitness and wellbeing services in the United Kingdom. As part of the acquisition, we anticipated and recorded an additional payment to the sellers which was contingent upon certain milestones being achieved. These milestones have been reached and, accordingly, we made a payment of $1.7 million to settle our contingent consideration liability in full. This cash flow was recorded within financing operations.
The carrying amounts of cash and cash equivalents, accounts receivable, accounts payable and other amounts included within current assets and liabilities that meet the definition of a financial instrument are shown at values equivalent to fair value due to the short-term nature of these items. Our accounts receivable balance includes both amounts invoiced and amounts that are ready to be invoiced and the funds are collectible within standard invoice terms.
During the nine months ended June 30, 2017, we undertook a restructuring of our United Kingdom Human Services operations as part of the ongoing integration of Remploy. During the nine months ended June 30, 2017, we recorded restructuring costs of $2.2 million, principally severance expenses. During the nine months ended June 30, 2018, we recorded additional restructuring costs of $2.3 million.
As part of our work for the U.S. Federal Government and many states, we allocate costs to individual projects and segments using a methodology driven by the Federal Cost Accounting Standards. During fiscal year 2018, we updated our methodology for allocation of costs which resulted in certain costs which had been within cost of revenue now being classified as SG&A. If we had utilized the same methodology in fiscal year 2018 as we had in fiscal year 2017, we estimate that SG&A would have been lower by approximately $1.0 million and $3.5 million during the three and nine months ended June 30, 2018, respectively. This change in methodology did not affect our operating income.
Litigation
On August 4, 2017, the Company and certain officers were named as defendants in a putative class action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, Steamfitters Local 449 Pension Plan v. MAXIMUS. The plaintiff alleges the defendants made a variety of materially false and misleading statements, or failed to disclose material information, concerning the status of the Company’s Health Assessment Advisory Service project for the U.K. Department for Work and Pensions from the period of October 20, 2014 through February 3, 2016, and seeks damages to be proved at trial. We deny the allegations and intend to defend the matter vigorously. At this time, it is not possible to reasonably predict whether this matter will be permitted to proceed as a class or to reasonably estimate the value of the claims asserted and we are unable to estimate the potential loss or range of loss.
A state Medicaid agency has been notified of two proposed disallowances by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) totaling approximately $31 million. From 2004 through 2009, we had a contract with the state agency in support of its school-based Medicaid claims. We entered into separate agreements with the school districts under which we assisted the districts prepare and submit claims to the state Medicaid agency which, in turn, submitted claims for reimbursement to CMS. The state has asserted that its agreement with us requires us to reimburse the state for the amounts owed to CMS. However, our agreements with the school districts require them to reimburse us for such amounts, and therefore we believe the school districts are responsible for any amounts that ultimately must be refunded to CMS. We believe our exposure in this matter is limited to our fees associated with this work and that the school districts will be responsible for the remainder. We have established a reserve to cover our estimated fees earned from this engagement relating to the disallowances. We exited the federal healthcare-claiming business in 2009 and no longer provide the services at issue in this matter. No legal action has been initiated against MAXIMUS.
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