Sanara MedTech Inc. Announces Closing of Scendia Biologics, LLC Acquisition

Sanara MedTech Inc. recently announced it closed the acquisition of Scendia Biologics, LLC on July 1, 2022. Prior to this acquisition, Scendia was a sub-distributor of Sanara’s and joint venture partner.

Zach Fleming, Sanara’s CEO, said “At Sanara, we are constantly looking to find new products and technologies that can help us to achieve our goal of improving patient outcomes and lowering overall costs. This acquisition furthers our goal by adding a significant portfolio of advanced biologic products that are complementary to our current surgical product offering. In addition, we believe the acquisition will expand our ability to partner with additional health systems to deliver a more comprehensive suite of surgical products. We also believe that the physicians who currently use our existing surgical products could benefit from the Scendia product portfolio as they strive to improve patient outcomes and decrease post-acute complications.”

Transaction Details

• $7.4 million base purchase price paid at closing ($1.4 million in cash and $6.0 million in common stock)
• Two potential future earnout payments payable on an annual basis in either cash or common stock at Sanara’s election based on sales growth in year one and year two after closing
• Scendia’s unaudited full-year 2021 revenue was $8.3 million and unaudited trailing twelve-month revenue was $11.0 million (as of May 31, 2022). This acquisition is expected to be accretive to Sanara’s EPS in Q3 of 2022

Ryan Phillips, Scendia’s President and Founder, added “We have had a successful partnership with Sanara for years; both companies share a goal of improving patient outcomes and lowering costs. Working together, we expect to offer a wider suite of products to more physicians and patients, helping to ensure the right solution is available when needed. I look forward to being part of the Sanara team and working together to continue to grow our business in the years to come.”

Scendia Biologics was formed in 2016 and is based in Orlando, FL. Scendia supplies a range of orthobiologic and soft tissue focused products used in a wide variety of surgical specialties. Scendia operates a state-licensed and FDA- registered tissue bank for the storage and distribution of allograft tissue based products to hospitals, surgery centers, and clinicians across the US. Prior to this acquisition, Scendia’s customers were primarily located in the southeastern US. Sanara plans to expand Scendia’s geographic footprint and integrate their surgical products into the company’s national strategy. Scendia generates revenue in 8 states at or above $50,000 per year where Sanara does the same. Sanara’s management believes that there is an opportunity to expand Scendia’s sales in the additional 18 states where Sanara also generates revenue above that level. Sanara’s goal is to expand its geographic footprint across all 50 states for both its and Scendia’s products.

With a focus on improving patient outcomes through evidence-based healing solutions, Sanara MedTech Inc. markets, distributes, and develops wound and skincare products for use by physicians and clinicians in hospitals, clinics, and all post-acute care settings and offers wound care and dermatology virtual consultation services via telemedicine. Sanara’s products are primarily sold in the North American advanced wound care and surgical tissue repair markets. Sanara MedTech markets and distributes CellerateRX Surgical Activated Collagen, FORTIFY TRG Tissue Repair Graft and FORTIFY FLOWABLE Extracellular Matrix as well as advanced biologic joint venture products AMPLIFY Verified Inductive Bone Matrix, ALLOCYTE Advanced Cellular Bone Matrix, BiFORM Bioactive Moldable Matrix and TEXAGEN Amniotic Membrane Allograft to the surgical market. In addition, the following products are sold to the wound care market: BIAKŌS Antimicrobial Skin and Wound Cleanser, BIAKŌS Antimicrobial Wound Gel, BIAKŌS Antimicrobial Skin and Wound Irrigation Solution and HYCOL Hydrolyzed Collagen. Sanara’s pipeline also contains potentially transformative product candidates for mitigation of opportunistic pathogens and biofilm, wound re-epithelialization and closure, necrotic tissue debridement, and cell compatible substrates. The company believes it has the ability to drive its pipeline from concept to preclinical and clinical development while meeting quality and regulatory requirements. Sanara is constantly seeking long-term strategic partnerships with a focus on products that improve outcomes at a lower overall cost. In addition, Sanara is actively seeking to expand within its six focus areas of wound and skincare for the acute, post-acute, and surgical markets. The focus areas are debridement, biofilm removal, hydrolyzed collagen, advanced biologics, negative pressure wound therapy adjunct products, and the oxygen delivery system segment of the healthcare industry.