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  • Brent Turner - President

  • Good morning, I'm Brent Turner, President of Acadia Healthcare. I'd like to welcome you to our first quarter 2015 conference call. To the extent a non-GAAP financial measure is discussed in today's call you may also find a reconciliation of that measure to the most directly comparable financial measure calculated according to GAAP on our website by following the Investor Relations link to press releases and viewing yesterday's news release.

  • This conference call may contain forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 including statements among others regarding Acadia?s expected quarterly and annual financial performance for 2015 and beyond. For this purpose any statements made during this call that are not statements of historical fact may be deemed to be forward-looking statements. Without limiting the foregoing the words believes, anticipates, plans, expects, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements.

  • You are hereby cautioned that these statements may be affected by the important factors among others set forth in Acadia's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and in the company's first quarter news release and consequently actual operations and results may differ materially from the results discussed in the forward-looking statements.

  • The Company undertakes no obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. At this time for opening remarks, I will now turn the conference over to our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Joey Jacobs.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Good morning. In addition to Brent, I'm here today with our Chief Financial Officer, David Duckworth and other members of our executive management team. David and I each have some brief remarks about the first quarter and our outlook for Acadia. Then, we'll open the line for your questions.

  • The first quarter of 2015 was a strong one for Acadia with both our organic growth and acquisition strategies contributing to our profitable growth. Our revenue increased over 80% for the quarter driving improved margins and growth in adjusted income from continuing operations of more than 90% compared to the first quarter of 2014.

  • Adjusted EPS grew 53.6% for the first quarter which is our third consecutive quarter of growth and adjusted EPS of over 50%. Our growth primarily reflected the addition of approximately 4,200 beds to our operations in the last 12 months along with 89 comprehensive treatment centers that serve almost 45,000 patients per day.

  • Most of these growths resulted from our acquisition strategy particularly the PiC and CRC transactions. We are very pleased with the operating progress of PiC in the UK and the integration of CRC. These large transactions greatly diversified our services, payer mix and geographic presence. In addition with PiC being acquired on July 1st last year and CRC on February 11th this year, we are well positioned to continue producing significant growth in the quarters ahead.

  • As we discussed with you on our last call, we have also continued to evaluate additional acquisition transactions. Since that call, we announced the first quarter purchase of Quality Addiction Management which operates seven comprehensive treatment centers in Wisconsin that serve about 2,600 patients per day. In addition, we reported yesterday that so far in the second quarter we've completed three acquisitions in the UK, Pastoral Healthcare, Choice Lifestyle and Vista Healthcare which include five facilities and 180 beds.

  • With active acquisition pipelines across all our markets we expect to announce additional transactions during the rest of 2015. Our first quarter financial performance also reflects strong execution of our organic growth strategy with same facility revenue growth of 8.5%. Patient days increased 9.9% for the quarter primarily due to the addition of approximately 297 new beds to the same facility base over the last 12 months. The revenues these new beds produced generated additional operating leverage that helped drive a 40 basis point increase in same facility EBITDA margin for the quarter as well as a 200 basis point increase in consolidated adjusted EBITDA margin.

  • Overall, we added 441 new beds over the past year which includes the opening of a 90=bed de novo facility during the first quarter. We continue to expect that for full year 2015, we will add more than 600 beds in the US which includes 90 beds related to the de novo facility that opened in the first quarter and 120 beds from one more de novo scheduled to open later this year.

  • Additionally, we opened one de novo CTC during the first quarter and plan to open three additional de novo CTCs in the remainder of 2015 as well as add more than 100 beds to our existing UK facilities. In summary, we feel great about our results for the first quarter and about our ability to continue our momentum moving forward through 2015. As a result we have increased our guidance for adjusted EPS for 2015 to a range of $2.11 to $2.15 which implies growth of 37% to 40% for 2015 compared with 2014.

  • Thank you for your interest in Acadia and now here is David Duckworth.

  • David Duckworth - CFO

  • Thanks, Joey and good morning. Acadia's first quarter revenue increased 81.6% to $356.8 million from $201.4 million for the first quarter of 2014. Adjusted income from continuing operations increased 93.5% to $27.1 million from $14 million and adjusted EPS for the first quarter of 2015 rose 53.6% to $0.43 from $0.28 for the first quarter of 2014. Our adjusted results exclude transaction related expenses of $18.4 million and $1.6 million for the first quarters of 2015 and 2014 respectively and a $53,000 gain on foreign currency derivatives in the latest quarter. Weighted average shares outstanding increased 24.6% for the comparable quarters primarily due to our public equity offering in June of 2014 and the CRC acquisitions.

  • Acadia's first quarter tax rate on adjusted income from continuing operations before income taxes was 31.5% for the first quarter of 2015 which is consistent with our expectation of 32% for full year 2015 compared with 37.4% for the first quarter of 2014. Same facility revenues increased 8.5% for the first quarter reflecting a 9.9% increase in patient days and a 1.2% decrease in revenue per patient day.

  • Same facility EBITDA increased 40 basis points to 24.1% of same facility revenue for the first quarter of 2015 from 23.7% for the first quarter last year. Adjusted consolidated EBITDA rose 100.4% to $78.7 million from $39.3 million while adjusted consolidated EBITDA margin increased to 21.5% from 19.5%.

  • As discussed in yesterday's news release, we raised our 2015 guidance for adjusted earnings per diluted share to a range of $2.11 to $2.15 from the prior range of $2.03 to $2.10. Our financial guidance excludes the impact from any future acquisitions and transaction related expenses. This concludes our prepared remarks this morning and thank you for being with us. I will now ask Levi to open the floor for your questions.

  • Operator

  • Thank you. (Operator Instructions) Our first question comes from A.J. Rice with UBS.

  • A.J. Rice - Analyst

  • Hi, everybody. Thanks for taking the question. The acquisitions in the UK, just wondering did those simply add capacity for you or do they broaden your service offerings in any way? Maybe give us a little perspective on those first.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Sure, A.J., this is Joey. They do both. They do obviously add 180 beds to our capacity but they also will be filling out some of the continuum of care in certain markets and also give us a presence in certain markets for we were not there so they are good strategic fits for us and they do expand our care.

  • A.J. Rice - Analyst

  • And maybe I should know this but in what way do they broaden your service offering or your care?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • There are some secure beds.

  • A.J. Rice - Analyst

  • Okay.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • In certain markets that we need and then there's some of the lower end before they be discharged beds. The lower service demand beds in certain of the markets. So, it is good acquisitions for us in the right places.

  • A.J. Rice - Analyst

  • OK. And then, maybe just a broader question, obviously you are sort of two months into the CRC transaction. Is that sort of trended as you expect it so far, any surprises either positive upside or challenges as you?ve gotten into it?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • It is all to the positive, A.J. They have absolutely exceeded my expectations and the expectations that we had modeled in. Ron Fincher our Chief Operating Officer and the two division presidents, John Peloquin and Joe Procopio have done a tremendous job and we have been welcomed throughout that company and the results even though they were only for about 50 days in the quarter, the result exceeded our expectations and we seen those trends continue into April. So, absolutely similar to our PiC transaction which has outperformed our expectations. CRC is off to a good start. We are confident that I think we'd set the target of getting $7.5 million of synergies this first year. We are on target to make that happen. So, it's just been a great transaction. The team here, the infrastructure that we have here on the integration side throughout the company, it?s a lot of work but they are rising to the occasion. And so, we are very pleased with where we are with CRC.

  • A.J. Rice - Analyst

  • All right, great. Thanks a lot.

  • Operator

  • We will go to our next question from Kevin Fischbeck with Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

  • Joanna Gajuk - Analyst

  • Good morning, thank you for taking the question. This is actually Joanna Gajuk filling in for Kevin today. Question on the quarter, in terms of the pricing which on the same store basis was down year-over-year so is it just due to comps or is there anything in particular you can point to in terms of what?s driving pricing trends there?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Okay. It was up against a tough comp but more importantly, we have a lot of outpatient revenue with programs and with schools that due to the ice storms in the South probably took two weeks of that revenue out for us so it's more of we didn't get our outpatient revenue due to the weather in the first quarter and it was on top of a tough comp but we feel real good that it's bouncing back this quarter and that the weather has not been an issue. So, that's what our look at the results for the first quarter turned out to be.

  • Joanna Gajuk - Analyst

  • And then in terms of pricing in the UK which I guess we don't have the year-over-year numbers but to compare to fourth quarter and the full year number you disclosed previously so it sounds like it was sort of down too but I assume that's probably mostly exchange rate, is that right?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • That is correct. That is exactly the exchange rate. I think we ended the fourth quarter at $737 a day and in the first quarter we are at $706. That 4% decline was due to the exchange rate so that's correct. We will be adding some more of the transition beds in the UK which do have a lower revenue per day but it builds out the continuum of care. So, we will be doing some of that this year but for the first quarter it would just be exchange rate.

  • Joanna Gajuk - Analyst

  • Great. And on the UK just staying on the business so the margins there that you disclosed 25.7% so also we don't have a year-over-year comparison but I guess that the numbers for fourth quarter full year and the full year number we had was that so the market, that the margins were down so is it also the way to think about the FX hitting that or is there something else or just seasonality of the business?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Quite frankly, it is the -- we are ramping up now beds and incurring operating losses to bring these new beds online. And so, that took a little bit out of margin over there in the UK but these beds will be coming online and you know, and be there for us for the foreseeable future. So, we're wanting to add, continue to add our occupancies in the 90% range there and we just got to add more same store beds and we absorb a little cost when that occurs so that's OK with us but the margin is going to hang in there around 26%, I think.

  • Joanna Gajuk - Analyst

  • Okay. That's what I was looking for, so 26% is the sort of the numbers to think about. And then, just lastly, staying on the UK business so any sort of view or color you can give us in terms of the outlook there for the NHS project and reimbursement or anything going on that is worth noting?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Nothing worth noting. The NHS budget has been done. There is a slight reduction in the secure facilities but it is only in England and then, there are multiple contracts with the local principalities. We probably will see probably from pricing, maybe a 1% reduction. We had in our budget a flat but the NHS is behind us now and our folks over there are very confident that we can do very well with the pricing that we have.

  • Joanna Gajuk - Analyst

  • Great. Thank you so much. That's all from us.

  • Operator

  • We'll go to the next question from Whit Mayo with Robert Baird.

  • Whit Mayo - Analyst

  • Hey, thanks. Can you maybe go back and talk a little bit about the CTC development projects that you announced? I presume that's a pretty low capital source of growth and you know, maybe just walk us through the process of start to finish, is there licensing involved and then, you know, is there something you knew you were going to do going into the transaction or were these projects that CRC had in place or something that you just simply see as an opportunity and accelerated?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • They had these de novos on their want list. I think our acquisition is speeding up the timeline of bringing those on. We did open up one in the first quarter in the state of Virginia. And so there is a licensing, there is a process that you have to go through that takes some time, but, once again, I think the CRC family being a part of Acadia now where they have more resources available to them that we will be able to improve the time on getting them from start to finish. And so we're glad to have them. They fit nicely. We already have started identifying some for next year. So, John is doing a great job bringing those to us and their great operations, very much in need the demand for this service is, and some places is overwhelming.

  • Whit Mayo - Analyst

  • Well, maybe a rule of thumb to think about in terms of what the timeline is from start to finish and, you know, is there a capital number to think about and then finally, is there, you know, I don't want to, you know, hold you to guidance or anything but is there maybe a number to think about for how many of these you think you could target each year?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • I think we can do five to 10 year, Whit.

  • Whit Mayo - Analyst

  • Okay.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • And it takes probably six to nine months to get them through the process. And capital whether we buy a building which is going to be small or whether we lease a space but capital here is not very intensive at all.

  • Whit Mayo - Analyst

  • Got it. And maybe for David, just on the cash flow, I know that the first quarter is weak for a variety of reasons, working capital, et cetera but is there, you know, anything to think about in the second quarter and can you share how much is out on your revolver after the UK transactions?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Sure, Whit. We have $180 million outstanding on our revolver as we stand today after closing the acquisitions in April and we think you know, first quarter is the quarter where we see a lower cash flow number but we do see that rebounding nicely in the second quarter, expect that cash flows from operations would be in the range of $50 million or so for the second quarter.

  • Whit Mayo - Analyst

  • Great. And one last one, I'll slide in just maybe for Joey, CMS proposed a few weeks ago expanding parity to the Medicaid Managed Care populations, just curious, you know, how you think about that and the potential for some of the changes to treatment limitations going forward? Thanks.

  • Brent Turner - President

  • Whit, this is Brent. I just think that's a, you know, continuing occurrence there across all payers, you know, just the acceptability of the importance of parity. You know, just reiterating that the parity is not just for the commercial plans but also for the managed plans that cover the Medicaid and the Medicare advantaged lives. So, you know, again, we are experiencing some real good momentum from a legislative and regulatory standpoint and I think those -- that proposal is just further evidence of that.

  • Whit Mayo - Analyst

  • Great. Thanks a lot.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Paula Torch with Avondale Partners.

  • Paula Torch - Analyst

  • Good morning. Thanks for taking my question. I have a quick one on CRC. You did talk previously about I guess 25% or 30% of the beds that you acquired from CRC that are unoccupied right now as well as facilities that you see for expansion opportunities. So, I was just wondering what the near term focus would be for the next couple of quarters, is it a combination or do you expect to execute on your plans to grow census before adding additional capacity to that asset?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Actually, they have several facilities that need actual capacity expansion and on the ones that had the unused beds Ron and Joe have done a good job focusing on growing that. The last time I looked, Paula, I think we'd already grown the census approximately 100 patients a day since the acquisition so it's off to a good start. And so, we'll continue to do both throughout the year.

  • Paula Torch - Analyst

  • Okay, great. Thank you. And just anything from a regulatory standpoint that is happening that would possibly affect the CT business in any way and I think, you know, there's been a lot more chatter on the use of Suboxone as a treatment. I'm wondering if that were to be something that would be more favorable, could you replace your current CTCs with that sort of treatment?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Nothing. It's going to be like, I think for the next several years it's going to be a lot like it is today. The Suboxone usage may go up a little but it's going to be a lot like it is today. It?s very stable.

  • Paula Torch - Analyst

  • Okay, great. And I just have a quick question on the beds that you are growing this year. First, of the 185 beds opened in the first quarter I think if I do my math correctly about 56 of them were expansions and I think we talked about 400 for expansions in 2015 so was the first quarter pace in line with your expectations and maybe how should we think about modeling it out for the rest of the year?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • You should keep it. The 400 number is a good number and you should take the 56 or 60 beds that we did in the first quarter and then, I would just divide it by three and plug them in over the next three quarters.

  • Paula Torch - Analyst

  • Okay. So, certainly double that amount as we move on?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Yes.

  • Paula Torch - Analyst

  • And I thought that we had talked last quarter about 295 beds from de novos and I think the update now was for maybe about 200 or so if I did my math correctly so was there a project that got pushed out or perhaps there was something that I missed?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • There is a project out West that it is possible it could get opened in December but more than likely it will be January or February. So, it's that close and we wanted to be, you know, conservative when we gave out this number but we have a de novo project that's right on the border line of being in the fourth quarter of this year or the first quarter of next year.

  • Paula Torch - Analyst

  • Okay, great. Thank you so much, this is very helpful.

  • Operator

  • We'll take our next question from Chris Rigg with Susquehanna Financial Group.

  • Chris Riggs - Analyst

  • Good morning, guys. I just wanted to follow up on the last question with regard to the CRC census being up 100 filled beds per day. I think you said there was 600 to 700 empty previously.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Yes.

  • Chris Riggs - Analyst

  • How much of the 600 to 700 do you think you can fill and is that, you know, whatever number you're expecting is that included in guidance for this year?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • It's included in our guidance. The guidance is real time so, but you know, if we put another 100 to 200 patient growth for those empty beds, I would be extremely pleased. You know, we'd given ourselves somewhere between 24 to 30 months to get those back online, get those filled. There'll be some, there'll be a couple of places where we have too many beds and it is just not feasible to get to occupancy there but there's a great opportunity out there for us. So, once again, we are giving ourselves 24 to 30 months to get 75% of those beds filled.

  • Chris Riggs - Analyst

  • Okay. And then, just on the startup costs I think the number previously was $6 million to $7 million a year, is that still a good range? And how much of that hit up in the first quarter?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Approximately $1 million hit in the first quarter and I think the $6 million, you know, it could be $5 million to $6 million. I'm not, you know, I'm not going to change that today but we do know we spent about $1 million in the first quarter.

  • Chris Riggs - Analyst

  • Okay, great. Thanks a lot.

  • Operator

  • We'll go to our next question from Gary Lieberman from Wells Fargo.

  • Gary Lieberman - Analyst

  • Good morning. Thanks for taking the question. Can you make any comments on the occupancy rates in the UK? Another company mentioned that they have seen a pretty significant increase in their occupancy rates.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • We run and Joey Chamberlain over there who heads up our UK operation, they've done a fantastic job. Our occupancies, they're in the low 90s. We probably have grown it from the high 70s in the past nine months. So, Joey has done a great job of growing the census and that's why we're adding beds and you know, that hurts our margin short-term but we got to get these beds online to continue to grow the business.

  • Gary Lieberman - Analyst

  • Okay. Thanks. And then, maybe can you just remind us of target leverage ratios and where you see your ratio trending over time?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Sure, Gary. I think, you know, we've generally talked about operating, you know, not much higher than the five times. We ended the first quarter at 5.1 times and, you know, when you look at these tuck-in acquisitions that we've done even in the UK, the impact was de minimis, it barely took us up to 5.2. So, as we continue to increase the EBITDA and get the benefit of acquired earnings, we will continue to be able to do incremental tack-on transactions and stay in this leverage level. The impact that would drive us, you know, any higher or have us look at a different structure is going to be a much -- you know, a more larger material transaction all at one time.

  • Gary Lieberman - Analyst

  • But you don't see the leverage ratio constraining you at all, in sort of your growth expectations?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Absolutely not.

  • Gary Lieberman - Analyst

  • Okay, great. Thank you very much.

  • Operator

  • Our next question comes from Darren Lehrich with Deutsche Bank.

  • Dana Nentin - Analyst

  • Hi, good morning, It's Dana Nentin in for Darren. Just going back for the CRC deal, I was wondering if you could parse out the revenue contribution in the quarter?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • I don't have those numbers so, sorry. If I had them I'd give them to you.

  • Dana Nentin - Analyst

  • All right, no worries. Looking at the same store length of stay, I think it was down 6.6% in the quarter. I'm just wondering if you could provide some color on what you saw there, you know, seeing any state Medicaid pressures or is that still mostly a function of, you know, RTC to acute conversions?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Actually, I can give a little detail here. Our RTC length of stay basically is flat and has been flat. It was -- in 2014 for the first quarter it was 180 days. For the first quarter of 2015, it's 178.2 days so it is basically flat. What we have seen is that we have two markets. One out West and one in the South that the treatment of care where the industry average and our company's average is around 10 days for acute services, they're running about seven days and I think that's just the standard of care in those two cities and they have had tremendous growth. I think their admission growth has been outstanding. And so, that probably has played more of an impact on going to [stay the planet], just the two markets where we've added new beds and new hospitals and the length of stay just happens to be in those markets, it's just a little bit less than what it is throughout the country.

  • Dana Nentin - Analyst

  • Okay, thanks. And then I guess just one quick housekeeping item. Can you give us a number of same store facilities and beds at the end of the quarter?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Yes, Dana. There are 52 facilities in our same facility group and just under 4,500 beds in that group.

  • Dana Nentin - Analyst

  • Perfect. Thank you.

  • Operator

  • And we'll go to our next question from Charles Haff with Craig-Hallum Capital Group.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • Hi. Thanks for taking my questions. You know, a question for you on the macro environment, Jeff Geller from the University of Massachusetts did some testimony in front of the House Energy and Commerce committee and he was citing the treatment advocacy center, said that there's about 13 beds per 100,000 population and optimally we should be at about 50 beds per 100,000 population. I'm just wondering if you have any comments or thoughts in terms of that supply demand imbalance that they cited in front of the House committee?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • The first I've heard about it is you giving us this overview now. What you said, we lack of study if it goes from 13 to 50 we like that. We do see a lot of demand for the services and we do think that area will have a lot of same store growth and acquisition opportunities for us. So, and I think more of the general population is understanding that that treatment is out there. So, that's a positive but the first time I?d heard about that testimony was right now.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • Okay. Are there large geographies in the United States that you see dramatic under bedding versus others?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • I don't have an answer for that.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • Okay.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • I haven't given it any thought. I haven't given it any thought.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • Okay. No worries. And then, a question for you on the pricing environment for acquisitions and just kind of the general color, do you see more willing buyers out there than you did say a year ago? Or can you comment about, you know, kind of the pricing environment and where you see the multiples today either, you know, on the acute side or on the treatment center side?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • I think overall the multiples are going to hopefully be around an eight times trailing and you know, but that varies per acquisition. So, are there more buyers out there and more people looking? Sure, as we have been successful, other people want to be Acadia so to do that they have to start with their first facility. So, but that's okay. Steve Davidson who heads up our development activities and all of senior management who is involved our pipeline is very strong and we don't see. We think multiples will be pretty steady and we think there are plenty of opportunities for us.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • Okay. Great, thank you. And then, last question on pricing, I wondered if you could kind of break out where you think commercial pricing is today for your portfolio and you know, maybe Medicare, Medicaid, private pay pricing?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Okay. On the commercial side, it's in the 4% to 6% range. Medicare, we now know this year we're -- I think we've got slightly over 2% raise until October 1st and then on October 1st, I think we're getting about a 1.6% raise. So, we know pretty much what Medicare is doing. The state budgets are getting done right now and many of those have July 1 or October 1 dates. If we can get a 1% maybe 2% from the state, that would be great for us. Now, on the -- on our specialty facilities, we are able to get a little bit better pricing there because it is more self-pay and commercial. So, we will be able to on that book of business do better because we do not take pretty much Medicare or Medicaid in those facilities.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • So, that may be like a mid single digit or upper single digit?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Mid single.

  • Charles Haff - Analyst

  • Okay, great. Thanks for taking my questions.

  • Operator

  • We'll go to our next question from Frank Morgan with RBC Capital Markets.

  • Frank Morgan - Analyst

  • Good morning. A lot of discussion around top line but I'm just curious, could you kind of walk through your expense lines and then you talk about what you are seeing trends there particularly on the wage labor side? Thanks.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Frank, we are still living with the 2% to 3% at the local level. And that there's really not any shortages of personnel that we see impacting any of our facilities. You know, occasionally a facility will have, you know, a temporary need for people and we can find those. So, salary and wages and benefits, we think our revenues will outpace their growth so we do still continue -- want to see margin improvement for the company and I think we can do that as we drive the revenue and just slightly increase our productivity. So, if we can do those two things, you know, that's all we need and we will give reasonable raises to our employees and we have no one market that is -- no one market that's trying to be more aggressive there than what the country as a whole is doing.

  • Frank Morgan - Analyst

  • Okay. One more and I will hop. Just any general thoughts on the proposed psych rule that came out I guess last Friday, and I?ll hop? Thanks.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Not really. You know, we got a rate increase from that ruling. We know that there is some quality things there as Brent mentioned earlier the reinforcement of the parity throughout the system. On the regulatory side, it's all positive for our industry. And so, we see that continuing.

  • Frank Morgan - Analyst

  • Okay, thanks.

  • Operator

  • We'll go to our next question from Dana Hambly with Stephens Research.

  • Dana Hambly - Analyst

  • Hey, thanks. Joey, just back on the same market average length of stay being down. You mentioned two markets. Is that something that is new or is that just a couple of new markets rolling into the same store facilities?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • It is always been there but they have had new beds. They have had -- we've expanded those facilities significantly and actually opened up a new facility in one of those markets. So, they do very well financially but they just come with a little bit lower length of stay than the rest of the country.

  • Dana Hambly - Analyst

  • Okay. So, those markets just growing a little faster than the rest of the same store portfolio.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • They have grown very fast.

  • Dana Hambly - Analyst

  • Okay. And then, could you give an update on you know, what's going on in the UK behavioral market with the, you know, the care pathways and the kind of what stage are we there or innings if that's an easier analogy and any lessons learned there that you can import?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Okay. I think we are in the third inning. I think what you're seeing us with our acquisitions and with the team's guidance from the UK, is we're filling out the continuum of care for our facility and that makes us much more attractive to the NHS so that they can put a patient with us and the patient can go all the way through the continuum of care. So, I would say we are in the third inning. For the country, for the UK I would think that Joey and her team are well ahead of that about planning and working with NHS about providing the continuum of care.

  • Dana Hambly - Analyst

  • Okay. That's helpful. And then, last one for me, David, just on the CapEx in the quarter at around $53 million, could you say what part of that was routine?

  • David Duckworth - CFO

  • Yes. Dana, we had $9 million of that was routine so 2.5% of our revenue and we did see slightly higher expansion CapEx just due to the de novos that came online during the quarter or will come online later in the year.

  • Dana Hambly - Analyst

  • Okay, great. Thank you.

  • Operator

  • And we'll take our next question from Brian Tanquilut with Jefferies.

  • Brian Tanquilut - Analyst

  • Hey, good morning, guys. Joey, just to follow up on Dan's question, as we look at the UK landscape, you've been there you know, almost a year now, what are you seeing in the market in terms of, you know, obviously you've done two acquisitions but in terms of the dynamics and the M&A landscape, one, and then, second, the pricing expectations, you know, going forward, how should we think about that in the UK?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • I think it is going to be very similar to what we've done that the pricing for the facilities will be very similar to the transactions that we've just completed and I think there's a lot of opportunity there.

  • Brian Tanquilut - Analyst

  • Okay. Got it. And then, so, you know, you've been at CRC for a few months now so, just in terms of what you are seeing from, you know, kind of a turnaround opportunity or the progress that you've made in reigniting growth at CRC, you know, if you don't mind just giving us some descriptions on what you've seen so far being there inside CRC?

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Well, I think you see it in that we exceeded our earnings for the quarter and part of that was CRC. I think you'll just have to wait until the second quarter comes out and you?ll see the second quarter results for CRC. We're very pleased. They are off to a great start both on growing their patients and visits and revenues and their margins so they're ahead of plan for us.

  • Brian Tanquilut - Analyst

  • And then, last question for me, Joey, as it relates to addiction, you know, obviously it's kind of a new area for you guys and you've already done one acquisition after CRC in that space. How do you see that as a driver of growth going forward? I mean, how do you size that opportunity and what kind of pace should I expect or should we think about your push into the addiction area of behavioral health? Thank you.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Right now, there's a lot of activity in the addiction area. We're going to be very careful on the facilities and the transactions that we do. But the most recent one that we did other than CRC is the one in Wisconsin and we would do those every day if those were presented to us. It's a great transaction and if there's more share or Tucsons out there for us to buy, we're going to make those type of acquisitions. So, it's going to be a good year for 2015 for all of the company but addiction might grow a little bit faster.

  • Brian Tanquilut - Analyst

  • Got it. Thanks, Joey.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Thanks.

  • Operator

  • And that concludes today's question and answer session. At this time, I would like to turn the conference back to Mr. Joey Jacobs for any additional or closing remarks.

  • Joey Jacobs - Chairman, CEO

  • Well, thank you all very much. I just want to give a shoutout to -- I made a visit this week to our new facility that will be coming online in the third quarter, everything is looking good there, it's a 120 bed acute hospital. And so, we're very pleased with that. We are extremely excited about our acquisition up in Wisconsin and Dr. Goldstone there and what we're doing with it. So, just had a great quarter and thank you for your interest in Acadia.

  • Operator

  • That concludes today's conference. We appreciate your participation.