Claritev Corporation Reports Third Quarter 2026 Results
MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 09, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Claritev Corporation ("Claritev" or the "Company") (NYSE: CTEV), a technology, data and insights company focused on making healthcare more affordable, transparent and fair for all, today reported financial results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2026.
"This quarter captured what we mean by delivering on our promises," said Travis Dalton, Chairman, CEO and President of Claritev. "Our teams executed with focus, our clients responded to the value we are bringing them, and results came in ahead of our expectations. What stands out most to me is the breadth of what our team is delivering: growth across our solutions and our verticals, and an innovation engine, including dozens of AI agents already at work inside our workflows, that is raising the bar for how we serve our clients."
Mr. Dalton added, "Our recent Client Conference made that momentum tangible. Clients saw Transparency-Based Pricing, our Healthcare Intelligence platform, and expanded Medicare Advantage offerings, along with a preview of what else is on our roadmap. More importantly, it was a chance for us to listen and hear where they need us most. People sometimes describe Claritev as a transformation or a turnaround story. I describe it differently: Claritev is a growth company, and that is evident in our numbers, in our culture, and in our confidence."
"Our third-quarter performance reinforces our belief in the trajectory of the business and gives us the conviction to raise our current full-year outlook and introduce an early view of 2027," said Doug Garis, Chief Financial Officer of Claritev. "It’s clear, our diversification strategy is working and delivering strong financial results. We are now running approximately a year ahead of our March 2026 Investor Day plan, with preliminary 2027 revenue expectations of $1.1 billion. With increasing top-line momentum, we intend to continue investing in innovation and growth, while maintaining our focus on profitability and improving free cash flow conversion."
Business and Financial Highlights
2026 Financial Guidance
The Company is updating its full-year 2026 guidance, detailed in the table below:
Conference Call Information
The Company will host a conference call today, Monday, November 9, 2026 at 8:00 a.m. U.S. Eastern Time (ET) to discuss its financial results. A live webcast of the conference call can be accessed through the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website at investors.claritev.com/events-and-presentations. Participants should join the webcast ten minutes prior to the start of the conference call. The earnings press release and supplemental slide deck will also be available on this section of the Company’s website.
Participants wishing to join the question-and-answer portion of the operator-assisted call can contact investor relations at investor@claritev.com.
A replay of the conference call will be available after the call through the webcast archived on the Investor Relations section of the Company’s website.
About Claritev
Claritev is a healthcare technology, data, and insights company focused on delivering affordability, transparency, and quality across the healthcare system. Led by deeply experienced associates, data scientists, and innovators, Claritev provides technology-enabled solutions fueled by decades of claims expertise. The company leverages advanced analytics and AI to power a robust enterprise platform that delivers clear, actionable insights to support affordability, price transparency, and optimized network and benefits design. By supporting key stakeholders — including payers, employers, patients, providers, and third parties — Claritev is dedicated to making healthcare more accessible and affordable for all. Claritev serves more than 750 healthcare payers, over 100,000 employers, 60 million consumers, and 1.4 million contracted providers. For more information, visit claritev.com.
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1 We have not reconciled the forward-looking Adjusted EBITDA guidance included above to the most directly comparable GAAP (as defined below) measure because this cannot be done without unreasonable effort due to the variability and low visibility with respect to certain costs, the most significant of which are incentive compensation (including stock-based compensation), transaction-related expenses, and certain fair value measurements, which are potential adjustments to future earnings. We expect the variability of these items to have a potentially unpredictable, and a potentially significant, impact on our future GAAP financial results.
Investor Relations Contacts
Todd Friedman
Head of Investor Relations and Strategic Communications
Claritev
investor@claritev.com
Media Relations Contact
Jen O’Connor
VP, Brand Marketing
Claritev
press@claritev.com
Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding our opinions, beliefs, projections, business plans and expectations. These forward-looking statements may differ materially from actual results due to a variety of factors and can generally be identified by the use of forward-looking terminology, including the terms "believes," "estimates," "anticipates," "expects," "seeks," "projects," "forecasts," "intends," "plans," "may," "will," or "should,” or, in each case, their negative or other variations or comparable terminology. These statements include all matters that are not historical facts. They appear in a number of places throughout this press release, including, but not limited to, statements relating to our ability to deliver anticipated results; our technology and AI initiatives; our product development efforts, including the commercialization of new solutions; the anticipated growth of our business, including our expansion into new markets and verticals; our 2026 outlook and guidance; our preliminary 2027 revenue target and related expectations; and the long-term prospects of the Company. Such forward-looking statements are based on available current market information and management’s expectations, beliefs and forecasts concerning future events impacting the business. Although we believe that these forward-looking statements are based on reasonable assumptions at the time they are made, you should be aware that these forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These factors include: loss of, or a significant reduction in the work we do for, our clients, particularly our largest clients; the ability to achieve the goals of our strategic plans and recognize the anticipated strategic, operational, growth and efficiency benefits when expected; our ability to enter new lines of business and broaden the scope of our solutions; trends in the U.S. healthcare system, including recent trends of unknown duration of reduced healthcare utilization and increased patient financial responsibility for services; effects of competition; effects of pricing pressure; the inability of our clients to pay for our solutions; changes in our industry and in industry standards and technology; adverse outcomes related to litigation or governmental proceedings; interruptions or security breaches of our information technology systems and other cybersecurity attacks; our ability to maintain the licenses or right of use for the software we use; our ability to protect proprietary information, processes and applications; our inability to expand our network infrastructure; inability to preserve or increase our existing market share or the size of our preferred provider organization networks; decreases in discounts from providers; pressure to limit access to preferred provider networks; changes in our regulatory environment, including healthcare law and regulations; the expansion of privacy and security laws; heightened enforcement activity by government agencies; our ability to obtain additional financing or capital to meet our objectives; our ability to pay interest and principal on our notes and other indebtedness; lowering or withdrawal of our credit ratings; changes in accounting principles or the incurrence of impairment charges; the possibility that we may be adversely affected by other political, economic, business, and/or competitive factors; other factors disclosed in our Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") filings; and other factors beyond our control.
The forward-looking statements contained in this press release are based on our current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects on our business. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting our business will be those that we have anticipated. These forward-looking statements involve a number of risks, uncertainties (some of which are beyond our control) or other assumptions that may cause actual results or performance to be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, those factors described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K, our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, and other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by us. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should any of the assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material respects from those projected in these forward-looking statements.
We undertake no obligation to update these statements as a result of new information or future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.
Non-GAAP Financial Measures
In addition to the financial measures prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States ("GAAP"), this press release contains certain non-GAAP financial measures, including EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, unlevered free cash flow and adjusted cash conversion ratio. A non-GAAP financial measure is generally defined as a numerical measure of a company’s financial or operating performance that excludes or includes amounts so as to be different than the most directly comparable measure calculated and presented in accordance with GAAP.
EBITDA, Adjusted EBITDA, free cash flow, unlevered free cash flow and adjusted cash conversion ratio are supplemental measures of Claritev's performance that are not required by or presented in accordance with GAAP. These measures are not measurements of our financial or operating performance under GAAP, have limitations as analytical tools and should not be considered in isolation or as an alternative to net loss, cash flows or any other measures of performance prepared in accordance with GAAP.
EBITDA represents net loss before interest expense, interest income, income tax provision (benefit), depreciation, amortization of intangible assets, and non-income taxes. Adjusted EBITDA is EBITDA as further adjusted by certain items as described in the table below.
In addition, in evaluating EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA you should be aware that in the future, we may incur expenses similar to the adjustments in the presentation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA. The presentation of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results will be unaffected by unusual or non-recurring items. The calculations of EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA may not be comparable to similarly titled measures reported by other companies. Based on our industry and debt financing experience, we believe that EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA are customarily used by investors, analysts and other interested parties to provide useful information regarding a company’s ability to service and/or incur indebtedness.
We also believe that Adjusted EBITDA is useful to investors and analysts in assessing our operating performance during the periods these charges were incurred on a consistent basis with the periods during which these charges were not incurred. Both EBITDA and Adjusted EBITDA have limitations as analytical tools, and you should not consider either in isolation, or as a substitute for analysis of our results as reported under GAAP. Some of the limitations are:
Claritev’s presentation of Adjusted EBITDA should not be construed as an inference that our future results and financial position will be unaffected by unusual items.
Free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, net of proceeds from disposal, all as disclosed in the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows. Unlevered free cash flow is defined as net cash provided by operating activities less capital expenditures, net of proceeds from disposal, plus cash interest paid, all as disclosed in the condensed consolidated statements of cash flows. Free cash flow and unlevered free cash Flow are measures of our operational performance used by management to evaluate our business after purchases of property and equipment and, in the case of unlevered free cash flow, prior to the impact of our capital structure. Free cash flow and unlevered free cash Flow should be considered in addition to, rather than as a substitute for, consolidated net income as a measure of our performance and net cash provided by operating activities as a measure of our liquidity. Additionally, Claritev’s definitions of free cash flow and unlevered free cash flow are limited, in that they do not represent residual cash flows available for discretionary expenditures, due to the fact that the measures do not deduct the payments required for debt service, in the case of unlevered free cash flow, and other contractual obligations or payments made for business acquisitions.
Adjusted cash conversion ratio is defined as unlevered free cash flow divided by Adjusted EBITDA. Claritev believes that the presentation of the adjusted cash conversion ratio provides useful information to investors because it is a financial performance measure that shows how much of its Adjusted EBITDA Claritev converts into unlevered free cash flow.
(1) "Transformation costs" represent costs directly associated with our multi-year transformation program called Vision 2030 which includes internal personnel costs for employees that have been either hired or redeployed and are fully dedicated to transformation activities, as well as other non-recurring and duplicative costs. At such time that internal personnel are redeployed to non-transformation activities, they will no longer be included as an adjustment herein.
(2) "Other expenses, net" represents impairment of other assets, non-integration related severance costs, start-up costs related to international expansion and miscellaneous non-recurring expenses.