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Harmony Biosciences (HRMY 1.35%)
Q1 2023 Earnings Call
May 02, 2023, 8:30 a.m. ET

Contents:

  • Prepared Remarks
  • Questions and Answers
  • Call Participants

Prepared Remarks:


Operator

Good morning. My name is Shelby, and I will be your conference operator today. At this time, I would like to welcome everyone to Harmony Biosciences' first-quarter 2023 financial results conference call. All participant lines have been placed on mute to prevent any background noise.

After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer session. [Operator instructions] Please be advised that today's conference may be recorded. [Operator instructions] I will now turn the call over to Luis Sanay, head of investor relations. Please go ahead.

Luis Sanay -- Head of Investor Relations

Thank you, operator. Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining us today as we review Harmony Biosciences' first-quarter 2023 financial results and provide a business update. Before we start, I encourage everyone to go to the Investors section of our website to find the materials that accompany our discussion today, including a reconciliation of our GAAP to non-GAAP financial measures. At this stage of our life cycle, we believe non-GAAP financial results better represent the underlying business performance.

Our speakers on today's call are: Dr. Jeffrey Dayno, president and CEO; Jeffrey Dierks, chief commercial officer; and Sandip Kapadia, chief financial officer. Moving on to Slide 2. As a reminder, we will be making forward-looking statements today, which are based on our current expectations and beliefs.

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These statements are subject to certain risks and uncertainties. Our actual results may differ materially, and we undertake no obligation to update these statements even if circumstances change. We encourage you to consult the risk factors referenced in our SEC filings for additional details. I would now like to turn the call over to Dr.

Jeffrey Dayno. Jeff?

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Luis. And thank you, everyone, for joining our conference call today. I would like to begin this call by expressing my appreciation to the Harmony Board of Directors for their confidence in me and my ability to lead the company forward in this next phase of Harmony's growth story. For this next phase, I will be joined by my colleagues on the management team, a very talented group of experienced pharm executives who share a common goal and whom I have worked alongside to build this company.

I also want to acknowledge and thank the incredibly talented group of people who make up Harmony Biosciences and have generated the strong performance we have demonstrated to date. As they often hear me say, it takes a total team effort, which is how we work at Harmony. After 12 years as a practicing neurologist taking care of patients, followed by 25 years in the industry, touching every aspect of the business, I have seen the impact that developing and delivering innovative treatments can have on patients and their families. I was eager to join Harmony at the very beginning of the company's journey, and I am energized by the progress we have made to date.

In fact, we are pleased to report another quarter of strong performance and operational excellence across our business. We saw continued momentum in our commercial business for WAKIX, as well as an advancement of our clinical development programs for pitolisant. Our strong commercial performance since the launch is a result of the unique and meaningfully differentiated product profile of WAKIX and the proven excellence of our commercial organization. This quarter we achieved another major milestone, surpassing $1 billion in cumulative net revenues for WAKIX within the first 3.5 years since launch, one of the most successful launches ever for a rare disease company.

Many of our investors and analysts are familiar with the remarkable journey Harmony has been on since the company was founded in 2017. For those who may be newer to our story, I would like to share with you some highlights and milestones from this first chapter of Harmony's growth story. Since joining the company at the start in 2017, I've been fortunate to have been closely involved in and leading some of Harmony's many accomplishments. In 2018, we opened the IND for pitolisant and were granted fast track status and breakthrough therapy designation, reflecting the FDA's belief that pitolisant could address an important unmet medical need for adult patients with narcolepsy.

Around the same time, we opened an expanded access program to provide treatment with pitolisant to appropriate adult patients with narcolepsy, while the NDA was being prepared and then under review. A number of patients who first experienced pitolisant through this compassionate use program are still on commercial WAKIX today. And most significantly, the FDA-approved WAKIX in 2019 for the treatment of excessive daytime sleepiness, or EDS, in adult patients with narcolepsy and in 2020 for the treatment of cataplexy in adult patients with narcolepsy. The FDA approval of WAKIX, along with the other regulatory approvals around the world, was based on a strong body of scientific evidence which demonstrated it to be safe and effective in patients with narcolepsy.

In fact, the FDA approval was based on clinical data from all 41 clinical trials that were conducted during the development program in over 1,500 patients, which represents a large safety database for an orphan drug approval. Most recently, our partner, Bioprojet, was granted EMA approval for WAKIX for use in pediatric narcolepsy patients down to age six. Patient and healthcare professional interest in WAKIX continue to be the fundamental drivers of our business. For the first quarter of 2023, we reported WAKIX net revenue of $119.1 million, representing an increase of 40 % year over year.

Growth continues to be driven by the strong underlying demand for WAKIX, which Jeffrey Dierks will expand on later in the call. In fact, March was the highest month of top-line prescription demand for WAKIX in over three years and the strongest month of new patient starts in a year. For the remainder of 2023, we expect continued growth for WAKIX and believe that the vast market opportunity, which remains in narcolepsy, along with the differentiated product profile of WAKIX, provides us with the ability to grow WAKIX for years to come. We are confident in WAKIX being a potential $1 billion-plus narcolepsy opportunity with the potential to contribute up to an additional $1 billion, if approved, in idiopathic hypersomnia and other current life cycle management programs.

As you heard me say before, Harmony remains a growth story with the focus on advancement of our current life cycle management programs for pitolisant and acquisition of new assets to build out our pipeline to drive additional growth. We are extremely pleased with the progress we have made across all of our current life cycle management programs. I will provide more details on these during the clinical update later in the call, but let me share some highlights of our progress. In idiopathic hypersomnia, or IH, we continue to see strong momentum in patient enrollment in our Phase 3 INTUNE study, which led to an accelerated timeline.

And we now anticipate top-line data in the fourth quarter of this year, about six months ahead of plan. In Prader-Willi syndrome, or PWS, we are preparing for an end-of-phase 2 meeting with the FDA scheduled for late second quarter to discuss the results from our Phase 2 proof-of-concept study and a proposed Phase 3 trial in patients with PWS. We are committed to advancing our development programs and are hopeful that these efforts could lead to additional new indications for pitolisant and address the unmet medical needs in these patient populations. In addition to our current life cycle management programs for pitolisant, we continue to make progress on new formulations with our partner Bioprojet, with the goal to extend the pitolisant franchise out beyond 2040.

Another key component of our next phase of growth is acquiring new assets through business development to expand our portfolio beyond WAKIX. It is our intent to build out a broad pipeline of rare orphan neurology assets and our assets and other neurological diseases where we can leverage our existing expertise and infrastructure. To achieve this, we intend to leverage our strong financial position with approximately 392 million in cash, cash equivalent, and investment securities at the end of the first quarter to acquire additional assets across a range of development stages, including both early and late stage, with a potential to launch both during and after the WAKIX life cycle. To conclude my opening remarks, I am honored to have the confidence of the board and the support of the entire organization to lead Harmony forward in this next phase of growth.

I'm extremely proud of the progress that our team has made to date, and I look forward to our continued growth as we help even more people living with rare neurological diseases. I will now turn the call over to Jeffrey Dierks, our chief commercial officer, to provide more details on our commercial performance. Jeff?

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Thanks, Jeff. Q1 represented another strong quarter of performance with demonstrated growth and momentum in our underlying business fundamentals. Net sales for the first quarter of 2023 were $119.1 million, which represents a 40 % growth from the same quarter prior year. We also surpassed $1 billion in cumulative net sales in the first quarter, a significant milestone achieved in less than 3.5 years from our launch, demonstrating value creation for the organization and a reflection of the impact that we've had on adult patients living with narcolepsy.

I'd like to highlight a few of our underlying business fundamentals on Slide 5 that drove our performance in the first quarter. The average number of patients on WAKIX in the first quarter increased to approximately 5,100. The average number of patients on WAKIX grew approximately 1,200 patients in the last four quarters, demonstrating strong consistent growth in our patient base over the last year. The growth speaks to the strong interest in WAKIX we're seeing in the narcolepsy community.

Growth in new patient starts, growth in new prescribers, along with solid patient refill behavior, following the seasonal payer dynamics of prescription reauthorization early in the first quarter. We exited Q1 with approximately 5,200 patients on WAKIX with strong momentum coming out of the first quarter. In March, we saw the highest month of top-line prescription demand for WAKIX in over three years and the strongest month of new patient starts in a year. The performance coming out of Q1 reinforces our confidence in WAKIX and the long-term growth opportunity in adult narcolepsy.

The growth in patients on WAKIX continues to be driven by a broadening and strengthening of our prescriber base. We continue to see growth in new prescribers of WAKIX in the first quarter. And now, with more prescribers of WAKIX and healthcare professionals enrolled in the sodium oxybate REMS program. We also continue to see growth in established prescribers of WAKIX.

As we've shared in previous earnings calls and demonstrated by the broadening and strengthening of the prescriber base of WAKIX, we anticipate continued future growth of WAKIX given the meaningfully differentiated product profile and the unique feature of being the only FDA-approved treatment for both EDS and cataplexy that is not a scheduled substance or a controlled substance. Our award-winning field sales team called on approximately 9,000 narcolepsy-treating healthcare professionals who see and treat almost 100% of the diagnosed adult narcolepsy patient opportunity. Both the 4,000 approximate HCPs enrolled in the oxybate REMS program and the approximately 5,000 healthcare professionals not enrolled in the oxybate REMS program. Our ability to reach and educate this approximately 9,000 narcolepsy-treating healthcare professionals and tap into the broad diagnosed narcolepsy patient opportunity gives us confidence in the long-term growth potential for WAKIX.

Recent market research conducted by Harmony supports our view of continued growth for WAKIX. Research conducted in February of 2023, with approximately 70 healthcare professionals with and without experience with WAKIX, demonstrated that more than 95% of the healthcare professionals with WAKIX experience stated they would write the same or increase prescribing of WAKIX in the next six months. And greater than 50% of those physicians surveyed, who had not prescribed WAKIX to date, indicated their intent to prescribe WAKIX in the next six months. And one of the highest performing drivers and differentiators for WAKIX was a unique feature as a nonscheduled treatment and less potential for abuse.

To support the continued growth and maximize the long-term opportunity in adult narcolepsy, we continue to evolve our commercial model to ensure we're being both responsive and meeting the needs of our customers. Our field sales team has had a year in their territory since the expansion in the first quarter of 2022, building relationships and educating the broad narcolepsy trading healthcare professional audience on the overall risk benefit profile of WAKIX for adult narcolepsy, and our commercial performance is a direct reflection of their effort and dedication. To compliment our field sales team's in-person engagement, we've expanded our virtual engagement with healthcare professionals through our remote territory manager team. The six-person team are conducting effective outreach to white space narcolepsy-treating healthcare professionals who are not covered by our field team, supporting any vacant territories with engagement, as well as serving on-demand requests for a rep contact by healthcare professionals through our branded website, wakix.com.

Our market access field team, through education with payers, has secured broad favorable formulary access for WAKIX and has demonstrated continued growth in coverage and improvement in coverage, helping to insure and accelerate appropriate adult narcolepsy patients' access to WAKIX. Our field reimbursement manager team has been effective in providing subject-matter expertise on the reimbursement and access for WAKIX to healthcare professional offices after an on-label adult narcolepsy prescription has been submitted to the patient hub. And lastly, our outstanding home office team of tenured and experienced commercial leaders continues to utilize data and insights to drive informed decision making to support our business across the adult narcolepsy patient journey. I appreciate the dedication and impact of the entire commercial team, the passion that they have for our business, and how they operate in the highly regulated environment of the pharmaceutical industry.

In summary, I'm excited about the continued strong commercial performance of WAKIX in adult narcolepsy. To put our performance into context, we've surpassed sodium oxybate REMS enrolled healthcare professionals in the number of unique prescribers of WAKIX. We've generated over $1 billion in net revenue and have over 5,000 patients on WAKIX in less than 3.5 years since our launch, which compares favorably to the oxybate launch over two decades ago. This strong performance, along with our evolved commercial model and strong culture of patient centricity and compliance, gives us confidence in the long-term growth potential for WAKIX and our belief of WAKIX being $1 billion-plus opportunity in adult narcolepsy with the potential to contribute up to an additional $1 billion dollars if approved in IH and other current life cycle management programs.

I would now like to turn the presentation back over to Jeff to provide an update on the clinical development and current life cycle management programs from Harmony. Jeff?

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Jeff. Before I begin the clinical update, I would like to take a moment to announce the appointment of Dr. Kumar Budur as Harmony's new chief medical officer. Kumar joined us last March as the senior vice president and head of clinical development and quickly stepped in and established operational excellence while building out the clinical team.

His impact has been demonstrated by the efficient completion and top-line data readout of our PWS Phase 2 trial in the second half of last year and the strong momentum he has been leading in our Phase 3 registration trial in idiopathic hypersomnia. Prior to joining Harmony, Kumar spent six years at AbbVie and, before that, six years at Takeda. A nationally recognized expert in research and development, he has overseen programs ranging from late discovery, early clinical development to late clinical development, and post-marketing studies. Kumar was involved in four new drug applications and was the lead for the clinical trials, submission, and approval processes for two of these NDAs.

He was trained at Cambridge University in the U.K. and Cleveland Clinic in the U.S. and completed his residency in psychiatry with fellowships in neurophysiology and sleep medicine. Kumar is board certified in psychiatry and sleep medicine and holds a master's degree in clinical research from Case Western Reserve University.

He brings 13 years of experience in drug development in the pharmaceutical industry, along with a keen strategic eye and a steady hand in managing development portfolios. I am very pleased to welcome Kumar as a member of our management team. Moving to our development pipeline to expand the clinical utility of pitolisant toward potential new indications in additional patient populations living with rare neurological diseases as shown on Slide 6. Starting with our development program in idiopathic hypersomnia, or IH, which we are very excited about.

We continue to see strong momentum in our Phase 3 registration trial in adult patients with IH known as the INTUNE study. The strong interests we have seen from both the patient community and clinical investigators has resulted in an accelerated timeline, and we now expect top-line results in the fourth quarter of this year about six months ahead of plan. If this Phase 3 trial is successful, it could represent the next new indication for WAKIX in adult patients with IH. Pitolisant could offer a new mechanism of action to treat patients with IH as pitolisant works through histamine to promote wakefulness.

It is dosed once daily in the morning, rather than in the evening, and could potentially address one of the key symptoms of IH known as sleep inertia. We view this as a significant market opportunity with approximately 40,000 patients diagnosed with IH. In addition, this opportunity could have significant synergies with our existing commercial infrastructure as there is significant overlap in the physicians who treat patients with narcolepsy and those who treat patients with IH. For Prader-Willi syndrome, we are currently preparing for an end-to-phase 2 meeting with the FDA scheduled for late second quarter to discuss the results from the Phase 2 proof-of-concept trial along with the proposed Phase 3 trial in patients with PWS.

It is our intent to advance the PWS program to a Phase 3 trial, and we will provide an update on our progress later this year. Moving on to our development program in myotonic dystrophy, or DM. Enrollment continues in our Phase 2 proof-of-concept study in adult patients with Type 1 myotonic dystrophy, or DM 1. We anticipate top-line data from this Phase 2 proof-of-concept study in the fourth quarter of this year.

Overall, our current life cycle management programs for pitolisant, in total, could address unmet medical needs and up to 100,000 diagnosed patients living with IH, PWS, and myotonic dystrophy, an opportunity that, if successful, would more than double our diagnosed patient opportunity. In addition to our current life cycle management programs for pitolisant, we continue to make progress on new formulations with our partner Bioprojet with the goal to extend the pitolisant franchise out beyond 2040. We will provide an update later this year on the status of these programs. Regarding pediatric narcolepsy, our partner Bioprojet received approval from the European Medicines Agency, or EMA, on March 15th of this year for a pediatric narcolepsy indication for WAKIX.

We are working with Bioprojet toward the submission to FDA of a supplemental new drug application for pediatric narcolepsy. In addition, we are working with the FDA to gain alignment on next steps in pursuit of pediatric exclusivity for WAKIX. To conclude, we have made significant progress in advancing our clinical development programs with pitolisant and look forward to providing you with further updates later this year. I also want to take a moment to thank all the patients and their families who are participating in our clinical trials, as well as the clinical investigators for all of their efforts and commitment in helping us to advance our development programs for pitolisant.

I will now turn the call over to our CFO, Sandip Kapadia, for an update on our financial performance. Sandip?

Sandip Kapadia -- Chief Financial Officer

Thank you, Jeff, and good morning, everyone. This morning, we issued our first-quarter press release and filed our 10-Q where you'll find the details of our financial and operating results. Our financial performance is also shown on Slide 7, Slide 8, and Slide 9. We're pleased to report a great start to the year with growth across several of our key metrics, including strong revenue growth, improved profitability, and continued cash generation.

Our performance gives us the continued confidence for the remainder of the year as we remain well positioned to execute on our growth strategy. But let me take a moment to take you through the details of our results. For the first quarter of 2023, we reported net revenues of 119.1 million, compared to 85.3 million in the prior-year quarter, representing a growth of 40 %. Our performance reflects the strong underlying demand for WAKIX.

We also successfully navigated the typical Q1 headwinds from seasonal pair dynamics and their normalization of trade inventories during the quarter. In the first quarter of 2023, operating expenses were 57.9 million, compared to 43 million in the prior-year quarter. The higher operating expenses were primarily driven by ongoing commercialization of WAKIX and the advancement of our clinical development program. Operating income improved with first-quarter 2023 operating income of 40.4 million, compared to 27.6 million in the prior-year quarter, representing an increase of 47%.

Non-GAAP adjusted net income for the first quarter of 2023 was 40.1 million, or $0.66 per diluted share, compared to 31.1 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, in the prior-year quarter, reflecting strong revenue growth and prudent expense management. We believe non-GAAP adjusted net income better reflect the underlying business performance. Please see our press release for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP results. During the first quarter of 2023, we generated approximately 43 million of cash from operations and ended the quarter with 392.4 million of cash, cash equivalents, and investment securities.

For the remainder of 2023, we expect continued growth quarter over quarter in revenue and average number of patients on WAKIX. We also expect to continue to invest in R&D and SG&A as we advance our clinical development program and support the commercialization of WAKIX. Overall, we're confident in WAKIX being a potential 1 billion-plus narcolepsy opportunity with the potential to contribute up to an additional 1 billion if approved in IH and other life cycle management programs. In conclusion, we're pleased with the strong financial performance which continues to strengthen our company profile and enable us to execute on our growth strategy.

And with that, I'd like to turn the call back to Jeff for his closing remarks. Jeff?

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Sandip. In summary, as we turn the page on a new chapter at Harmony, we will not rest on our past success. We will remain focused on helping even more adult patients living with narcolepsy with WAKIX, completing our Phase 3 registration trial in idiopathic hypersomnia, advancing our clinical development program in Prader-Willi Syndrome, working with our partner, Bioprojet, on new formulations to extend the pitolisant franchise to help even more patients living with rare neurological diseases, and continuing our relentless pursuit of new assets to build out our pipeline. This concludes our planned remarks for today.

Thank you for joining our call, and I will now turn the call back over to the operator to facilitate the Q&A session. Operator, can you please open the call to questions?

Questions & Answers:


Operator

Thank you. [Operator instructions] We remind you to please pick up your handset and please limit yourself to one question and one follow-up question. We'll take our first question from Charles Duncan with Cantor Fitzgerald.

Charles Duncan -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst

Hey, yeah. Good morning, and congratulations, Jeff, on the appointment to CEO. Thanks for taking our question.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

First off, thank you.

Charles Duncan -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst

Sure. So, I have a commercial question and a pipeline question. I guess you did a great job addressing the commercial dynamics, but it seems like exit -- exit number of patients, new patients were notable in the first quarter. I guess I'm wondering how do you -- how do you see that business ramping now about halfway through the second quarter? And then, the second question is related to the pipeline.

I'll wait for that.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

OK, Charles. Good morning. Thank you. I'll let Jeff Dierks first answer the first question about exiting numbers.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. Good morning, Charles. Thanks for the question. So, clearly, we're extremely pleased with our continued growth in both the average number of patients, as well as the strong patient count ending the first quarter.

We did share in our prepared remarks, obviously, we saw a very strong month of March, the highest month of top-line prescription demand for WAKIX we've seen in over three years and a strong month of new patient starts in over a year. And, you know, although we're not providing any forward-looking guidance, Charles, what I can tell you, that momentum that we saw in March, we're seeing that continue in April. And we're very pleased with the performance that we're seeing heading into Q2. So, hopefully, that gives you a little perspective in terms of what we're seeing heading into the second quarter and how to think about the remainder of the year.

Charles Duncan -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst

Just as a follow-up to that, how is persistence tracking? You may not actually have the actual data, but how do you feel about patients staying on-drug?

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure, Charles. So, when you take a macro view of sort of looking at the narcolepsy category, you know this is a lifelong noncurative type of disorder, and patients continually turn through medicines. So, if you look overall in the category, on average, patients stay on the product between six and 10 months. And what we're seeing with WAKIX is WAKIX is on the higher end, closer to 10 months.

Extremely pleased with the feedback that we're getting from healthcare professionals and patients, and we're really excited about our ability to continue to grow our patient population.

Charles Duncan -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst

OK, super. Quick question. Pipeline idiopathic hypersomnia need to see the enrollment pace picking up or picked up and ahead of schedule. But the question that I have is regarding patient heterogeneity.

I guess how do you -- how do you maintain control over, call it, the quality of patient enrolled and therefore the risk of the trial while also seeing an acceleration in demand? Is -- is that something you're tracking?

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

So, Charles, I think that in terms of the acceleration in the study, I think, as a result of the high level of interest from both the patient and HCP community in terms of the Phase 3 IH INTUNE trial, you know, the patients, obviously, come in, have a diagnosis of idiopathic hypersomnia. They have a requisite sort of level baseline of excessive daytime sleepiness. So, no concerns about in terms of the patient population being enrolled in the trial. And, you know, what we're seeing I think just reflects the high level of interest, you know, given the mechanism of action of pitolisant for this condition.

So, you know, we continue to be excited for the opportunity, as you know, tracking about six months ahead of plan. And, you know, we're -- we're on track to complete enrollment in the second quarter. And then, I think, if successful, we look at this opportunity, you know, as a potential next new indication for WAKIX with about 40,000 patients diagnosed with IH. So, that -- that's in terms of what -- what we're looking at in this trial.

Charles Duncan -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst

Great. Looking forward to a lot of data later on this year. Thanks for taking the questions.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Sure. Thanks, Charles.

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Francois Brisebois with Oppenheimer.

Franc Brisebois -- Oppenheimer and Company -- Analyst

All right. Thanks for taking the questions, and congrats on a great quarter here. In terms of the growth here, you talked about the exit number. You know, we remember last year in the first quarter is that normal seasonality, the growth that happens in the first quarter, but there seem to be some some additional maybe COVID related one-offs.

Can you just help us maybe understand why that didn't happen this year, why you had a strong first quarter despite the seasonality? And maybe also compare and contrast the, you know, the average number to the exit number that you saw in the first quarter just so we can maybe get a read through of things to come.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, sure, Frank. Good morning. And, yeah, Jeff Dierks can respond to that.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. Good morning, Franc. Yeah, so with respect to last Q1 in 2022, we did talk about having two one-time events that did not occur, and we don't anticipate occurring moving forward. So, one related to changes in the business rules around our patient assistance program.

The second related to foundation support Medicare patients. So, we obviously had no additional changes to the business rules in our path this year. We didn't see any disruption in terms of foundation support for Medicare patients. So, that helps to explain a little bit of the dynamics.

But I think more importantly, we continue to see strong growth within our business. WAKIX is very much a growth story. We continue to see very strong top-line prescription demand. We have the normal reauthorization of prescriptions in January into early February.

But coming out of the quarter, the exiting number of approximately 50 to 100 really speaks to the strength that we see in the momentum coming out of Q1. And we're really excited about what we're anticipating for the remainder of the year and beyond.

Franc Brisebois -- Oppenheimer and Company -- Analyst

Great. And you mentioned how strong March was and a record setting for new patients. And I'm just wondering, 3.5 years into launch, is there -- is there one thing in particular that comes up as to why all of a sudden there's -- there's still, you know, some -- this much kind of growth?

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. Well, there's a couple of reasons. One, I would say first thing, Franc, is, obviously, our expanded field sales team is now had a year in their geography. So, our ability to extend our reach and our frequency to healthcare professionals and educate prescribers, I think continues to drive both the -- the breadth and the depth of our prescriber base.

But the other thing I shared in my prepared remarks is we've compared our launch very favorably to oxybate. And so, you look at that product, I mean, certainly very successful product in the market helped a lot of patients, and we continue to watch that product grow over its life cycle. And that gives us a lot of confidence in our growth potential, right, because we have the ability to access most of the oxybate-prescribing healthcare professionals and non-oxybate prescribing healthcare professionals and tap into that approximately 9,000 narcolepsy-treating healthcare professionals. But then, the other component that I shared in my remarks too, Franc, is we've just conducted some market research, and it's very consistent with what we heard last year.

It was done in February with approximately 70 healthcare professionals. And we continue to see those healthcare professionals with WAKIX experience. 95 % of them had shared that they're going to write the same or increase prescribing. And even more importantly, 50 % of the doctors with zero experience with WAKIX stated their intent to prescribe in the next six months.

So, we continue to see growth in the depth of breadth of our prescriber base. I think it speaks to the meaningfully differentiated product profile, and we're looking forward to growth for years to come with WAKIX in adult narcolepsy.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. And I think what I would add to that, Franc, I think one of the drivers in terms of the market research, Jeff, was the nonscheduled status as an important component in terms of the product profile driving some of that interest in continue prescribing.

Franc Brisebois -- Oppenheimer and Company -- Analyst

OK, great. And then, just -- I'll sneak in a quick last one here. Can you ballpark maybe the percentage has the change of patients on both oxybate and WAKIX? And any update on maybe how reimbursement works for those patients? Thank you.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

So, Franc, it's been relatively consistent. It's been low double-digit percentage of WAKIX patients are also on an oxybate. And what we've seen within the reimbursement landscape is it really hasn't been any changes over the last few quarters. Again, this is a rare orphan population, so it's a small percentage of patients that are spread over about 125 different payers.

So, when you're looking at a category when patients are seeing benefit on both products, it is being reimbursed very successfully. And we're really pleased with our continued growth and uptake.

Franc Brisebois -- Oppenheimer and Company -- Analyst

Great. Thank you.

Operator

And we'll take our next question from David Amsellem with Piper Sandler.

David Amsellem -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst

Hey, thanks. So, just a couple. First, can you talk about the attrition rate associated with WAKIX? And is it fair to say that it -- that could potentially lower rate of attrition could be driving that number in terms of average patients on drugs? So, that's number one. Number two, can you talk about the cadence of gross to net as the year progresses, particularly with the oxybate commercial dynamics going forward? So, that's the second question.

The third, just philosophically, what's your view on share buybacks just given where the stock is? Thank you.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Sure, David. Good morning, David. OK. Jeff, you want to speak to the attrition? And -- and then, kind of gross to net, Sandip can discuss philosophy on share buyback.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. Thanks for the question, Dave. So, from an attrition rate, you know, looking at in terms of just discontinuation rate, I mean, we've -- we've shared that looking across the category to macro level at about 12 months within the first year, you see about 30% to 50 % of all narcolepsy patients discontinuing medicines. And we've shared that WAKIX patient medication behavior falls right in the middle of that range, and it's very consistent with what we're seeing for every other product.

So, you know, I think our continued growth in the average number of patients speaks to our ability to continue to drive top-line demand, adding new patient starts. And our DC rate does compare favorably to the other products in that category. So, hopefully, that helps provide a little bit of insight in terms of patient medication dynamics. And then, maybe I'll turn it over to Sandip to talk about gross to net and some of the cadence.

Sandip Kapadia -- Chief Financial Officer

Yeah, no. Thanks, Jeff. With respect to gross to net, I think we we're seeing, basically, the same dynamic we see across the industry. You know, dynamic [Technical difficulty] in the past, you know, gross to net tends to be higher in the first quarter or as we have our obligations for certain deductions but -- but generally normalizes in the second quarter and beyond.

So, we -- nothing different from what we've seen in the past, and nothing different from what other companies would experience similarly, especially in the space. And I think you have a very important question clearly around the potential for share buyback. Look, we're always evaluating options to maximize shareholder value, including business development or, you know, as you mentioned, maybe return of capital to shareholders. So, that's something that certainly, as a company, we'd evaluate.

And as you know, we're in a very unique position as a company. We have a strong balance sheet of 392 million of cash and cash equivalents on the balance sheet. We're generating positive cash flow as you saw in the last quarter. Again, another quarter of strong cash generation.

And we're a profitable company. So, we have flexibility to execute on multiple of these funds and certainly something that we're going to continue to evaluate.

David Amsellem -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst

Helpful. Thank you.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, David.

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Greg [Inaudible] with Mizuho Securities.

Unknown speaker

Thanks so much. First of all congrats, Jeff, again on being named permanent CEO, and my best on great success. My first question, it might be might be an obvious answer, but I figured I'd ask the question anyway. But now that you are permanent CEO, is there any change in Harmony's corporate goals, and perhaps any change to the near-term or longer-term corporate strategy? So, that's my first question.

I'll wait for that before I ask my second question. Thanks.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. Sure, Greg. Yeah, no. Yeah, thanks.

Thanks for your comments. With regards to our strategy, with regards to my new role, you know, our strategy and focus for the company remains the same. And I was a role member of the team who designed our growth strategy along with many folks around the table here. So, as I mentioned, we'll continue to focus on, obviously, growing our core business and helping even more patients with narcolepsy with WAKIX and then advancing our clinical development programs, which is a key focus, namely our most advanced program in idiopathic hypersomnia, looking forward to our engagement with FDA on -- on the Prader-Willi program, and obviously the readout in Type 1 myotonic dystrophy in the fourth quarter of this year.

We are also focused on working on new formulations of pitolisant with our partner Bioprojet with the goal to extend the pitolisant franchise out beyond 2040. In addition, obviously, sort of the last pillar of our growth strategy, you know, looking at new assets to build out our pipeline, you know, an important priority for us and with a lot of focus on that as well. So, I think in summary, our strategy remains the same, and Harmony remains a growth story. And I think, given the focus of our growth to advance our life cycle management programs, build out our pipeline, develop new formulations of pitolisant, I think I'm well positioned to lead Harmony forward in our next phase of growth.

Unknown speaker

Great, thanks so much for that. And just maybe a follow-up questions, just more on the commercial side of the business. My first, just in terms of the ability to commercialize WAKIX. Just wondering if at this stage in time, given what you're seeing out with the -- the sales force, are you basically at 100% back to where you were pre-COVID? Just want to know kind of where you're able to engage and whether there's still opportunities to engage even better.

And then, beyond that, you were able to add about 1,200 patients over the last several quarters. And I'm wondering if that's a good run rate for the company on a go-forward basis or not.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, Jeff.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. So, Greg, with respect to commercialization of WAKIX and sort of where are we -- so, when you look at in-person engagement with our field sales team, we're at about 85% or so of all of our engagements being front and center in front of a healthcare professional and his or her office staff. And I think that that's probably going to be "sort of the new normal." I think a lot of offices have adopted telemedicine as a standard practice, especially for managing individuals that are sort of well controlled on a condition. And so, what we've done as a result of that is really looked at our ability to evolve our commercial model to supplement our in-person engagement with our field team.

So, we do have a six-person virtual remote territory management team that ends up supporting outbound contacts with healthcare professionals in some white space areas, vacant territory management, as well as supporting any requests for healthcare professional rep contacts on our branded website. We obviously have implemented a field reimbursement manager team which is very standard placed across this group. I know that Jazz and Abbott all certainly have a team for their respective organizations in terms of providing subject matter expertise for reimbursement and access for WAKIX. And we have a great organization here.

We have an outstanding home office team that continues to utilize data and insights to really drive informed business decision making within our business across the adult narcolepsy journey. So, I think we are very pleased with our evolved commercial model. Our main goal is to make sure that we're meeting the needs of our customers and adding value. And I think that we're operating at a very high impact level with our field teams, with our remote territory managers, or FRMs, our market directors, as well as our home office team, to really be able to commercialize this.

And then, lastly, with respect to patient adds, so I mean, obviously, we've seen very strong continued success over the past 12 months. We've seen approximately 1,200 average patients being added the last four quarters. We obviously talked about our average number of patients increasing to approximately 5,100 in the first quarter. Certainly, we're not providing any forward-looking guidance, Greg.

But, I think, if you kind of look about moving forward, I think the best analog that we're looking at is really how our launch has been comparing to oxybate. You know, there's a product that obviously has been very successful in being able to continue to grow throughout its life cycle. Very successful product, has helped a lot of patients, and you continue to see how that product continues to grow over its life cycle. And it gives us a lot of confidence in the growth potential moving forward as we talked about.

Not only can we tap into the patient opportunity that exists within the approximate 4,000 REMS-enrolled oxybate prescribers, but we can also access an additional approximately 5,000 narcolepsy-treating doctors that are not in the REMS program, which gives us access to almost 100% of the diagnosed patient opportunity. And so, we do expect continued growth for WAKIX for the remainder of '23 and beyond. And as we've talked about, we have extreme confidence that WAKIX, in terms of the long-term growth opportunity, is going to be a 1 billion-plus opportunity in narcolepsy and, if successful, an additional 1 billion-plus in other current life cycle management programs.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. And, Greg, the way we sort of summarized it that concept is, you know, it provides broad clinical utility just from a sort of kind of a medical clinical perspective. You know, reflective of that larger, sort of HCP universe and -- which is based on the overall benefit risk profile.

Unknown speaker

Thanks again.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. Thank you, Greg.

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Ami Fadia with Needham.

Ami Fadia -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Hi, good morning. Thanks for taking my question. Firstly, Jeff, congratulations on your being announced as the permanent CEO. I have two questions.

Thank you. I have two questions. First, can you talk about how the number of healthcare professionals that are prescribing WAKIX has evolved over the last year or so? And where are the incremental prescribers coming from? Are they ones that are enrolled in the oxybate REMS program or out of the group? And then, also if you can talk about the number of patients being prescribed with physicians, how that has evolved? Thank you. And I have one more.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

OK, all right. Ami, I'll turn it over to Jeff. But I think that in terms of the physicians, how that's evolved over time, is a really interesting story based on some commercial analytics that the team has gone that Jeff Dierks can speak to.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. So, Ami, in terms of the -- the evolution of our number of unique prescribers of WAKIX, what we've seen is a very consistent growth in the number of new prescribers even going all the way back through COVID. And I think it speaks to our ability to tap into 9,000 eligible narcolepsy-treating healthcare professionals. So, our rate of new adds has been, as I said, very consistent every single quarter that we've had since COVID.

And they're coming from the oxybate REMS enrolled healthcare professionals. But, certainly, we have a very, very high number of prescribers within that universe. Those healthcare professionals tend to be more comfortable in diagnosing and treating narcolepsy. So, we've penetrated that audience very deeply, but we're -- we're really seeing continued growth is in that additional 5,000 healthcare professionals that are not enrolled in the REMS program.

We did a lot of analytics that really supported our expansion of our field sales team. And there are about 1,000 healthcare professionals that had just only prescribed wake-promoting agents really in a refill capacity. And we started to see those healthcare professionals initiating treatment with WAKIX, which speaks to the broad clinical utility that Jeff spoke of earlier. The fact that it's the only nonscheduled treatment option, you can right it with refills, healthcare professionals that really aren't comfortable with [Inaudible] scheduled medicine.

So, we're seeing growth more predominantly from that 5,000 audience than the 4,000 because we're very penetrated. But the growth that we're seeing in that 4,000 oxybate REMS enrolled doctors is in the depth of their prescribing, right. There's a higher concentration of patients within that audience. So, we continue to see those individuals starting new appropriate adult narcolepsy patients on product.

And then, in terms of the number of patients per healthcare professional and how that evolved, as you would imagine with any type of launch, the number of patients per healthcare professional continues to grow as we get further in. We're very, very pleased with the fact that the vast majority of healthcare professionals that start one patient on WAKIX ultimately find a second, a third, a fourth within their practice to start them. Given the rare orphan model, on that evolution, it's not -- I start two people in the same month. Most narcolepsy patients see their healthcare professional every three or four months.

So, the time it takes for somebody to become a repeat prescriber to a trialist, to an adopter, evolves over time, but we're extremely pleased with what we're seeing and growing not only the breadth of our prescriber base but also the depth.

Ami Fadia -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Great, that's helpful. Just with regards to business development, I believe you indicated that you're exploring opportunities that could result in a new product launch both during and after the LOE for WAKIX. Can you talk about kind of the type of assets you are evaluating at the moment, and if there were maybe more than [Technical difficulty] late stage? Any color on that would be helpful.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, sure, Ami. I think we -- we continue to be active in the space evaluating the BD landscape and potential opportunities. And as I mentioned, it is a strategic priority for us. Obviously, we're in a solid position to execute on business development with our strong cash position, approximately 392 million as of the end of March.

In terms of it continues to be a target-rich environment -- and we're looking at across both early phase and late phase of development to launch both during and beyond the WAKIX life cycle. We want to be strategic in the decision making, so when we announce the deal, it will make sense and be a good fit for Harmony. So, we're really looking at a lot of different opportunities across development phases focused on orphan rare neurology, which is sort of the sweet spot, but also looking at adjacencies and other neurologic disorders where we can leverage internal expertise and on infrastructure. So, sort of a broad -- you know, looking at the landscape broadly, but then honing in and trying to be strategic for what would be a good fit and make sense for Harmony.

Ami Fadia -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Got it. Thank you.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Ami.

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Corinne Jenkins with Goldman Sachs.

Corinne Jenkins -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst

Good morning, everyone. Maybe two for me. First, we talked a bit about the patient growth this quarter. It was about 200, which is a bit shy of your stated quarterly target of an average of 300 patients.

So, what seasonal dynamics might have been at play here since we didn't have that outflow of patient assistance programs this year?

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Good morning, Corinne. Jeff, you want to answer that?

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. Good morning, Corinne. Patient growth in Q1 of adding 200 patients is actually right in line with our expectations that we've not stated moving forward, 300 patient adds per quarter. First quarter, as you know, we've got obviously the normal seasonal payer dynamics.

You've got reauthorization of prescriptions. And one of the unique things that we will see as we move further into our launch is the more number of established patients that we carry over year over year, the more patients that are going to be facing these reauthorizations. So, if you go back a year, we had approximately 3,800 patients on product, bringing them into the new calendar year. This year, we have 4,900 patients carrying over, so you have another 1,100 patients that are being exposed to the reauthorizations.

And a lot of it is about timing, right? So, January, you get, ultimately, a lot of individuals that are going through that reauthorization process that usually takes January and early February. And what we're seeing really is a very, very strong dynamic and momentum coming out of Q1 with March really being, as we've talked about, the highest number of top-line prescriptions that we've seen in three years and new patient starts in a year. So, we're looking forward for that momentum to carry forward. But I think our ability to grow 200 average patients, it's 100% higher than a year ago without the one-time seasonal -- sort of the one-time dynamics that we talked about earlier in the call.

We're really pleased with what we're seeing, really excited about the future growth potential for the brand in this product becoming $1 billion-plus opportunity.

Corinne Jenkins -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst

OK. And then, you mentioned that there was about 5,000 physicians that aren't on REMS that have prescribed WAKIX. I'm curious if you could give us a sense for how many patients on average those physicians are treating that would be candidates for WAKIX?

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. So, Corinne, there are 5,000 healthcare professionals that are not enrolled in the REMS oxybate program. It's not that all 5,000 of them have prescribed WAKIX. But that is a very unique opportunity for us to tap into over our life cycle.

So, we've seen within the 4,000 oxybate REMS program doctors, a large percentage of those individuals have prescribed. You're probably looking at well over 1,000 of those 5,000 healthcare professionals outside the oxybate program that have prescribed the product. And we continue to see growth at a very regular cadence from that 5,000 group. Clearly, those are individuals that are not a large sleep center.

You know, they probably have three to five narcolepsy patients under their care. Some may have as many as five to 10. Some may have as few as one to three. But they all represent opportunity, and our expanded field sales team really has been sort of right sized to be able -- that we can appropriately reach n frequency with these healthcare professionals to educate them.

And lastly, in terms of who's an eligible patient for WAKIX, what -- what I would tell you and what we hear from feedback from healthcare professionals is that almost every adult patient living with narcolepsy is an appropriate patient for WAKIX. And we hear that loud and clear from [Inaudible] just given the overall benefit risk profile, the meaningfully differentiated product profile, the nonscheduled status. So, hopefully, that helps a little bit for some color on your response.

Corinne Jenkins -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst

Yeah, that's helpful. Thank you.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah. And, Corinne, I think Jeff mentioned before, in terms of those HCPs that are in the oxybate REMS, they tend to be more experienced with -- with more patients that they're managing. So, it's the depth of prescribing in that group where the opportunity continues. The other 5,000 outside the oxybate REMS, they're probably not managing as many patients.

So, I think the breadth across that group with regards to the opportunity for continued growth in the brand.

Corinne Jenkins -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst

Great. Helpful. Thank you.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Corinne.

Operator

And we'll take our next question from Jason Gerberry with Bank of America.

Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst

Hey, guys. Good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. First one just ahead of the Phase 3 IH readout.

Just curious how you'd frame the bogey for commercial success for WAKIX. Do you need to match sort of the treatment effect size that Xywav saw, which I think was like a 6.5 point placebo adjusted ESS delta? Or is something less than that considering WAKIX's other differentiating factors enough? And then, my second question is more about just as we see more oxybate competitors trickle into the market this year, how you're thinking about 2024 gross to net and just net pricing dynamics for WAKIX. Do you see any impact there at all? Thanks.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, sure, Jason. Yeah, thanks for the questions. So, with regards to the IH, let me answer that then pass it over to Jeff Dierks. So, with regards to the INTUNE study, you know, I think what success would look like is, obviously, defined by a positive outcome on the primary endpoint around improvement in EDS as measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scaleboard sleepiness scale.

I think, as you know, it's a randomized withdrawal design and enriched design with four weeks of randomized withdrawal phase. So, you know, I think in terms of the magnitude with regards to -- we know that the data in the narcolepsy trials showed about a five- to six-point difference from baseline to endpoint and improvement in Epworth. And given that IH is an adjacency to narcolepsy, anticipating sort of a similar kind of outcome. In addition, looking at other important endpoints around sleep inertia and the idiopathic hypersomnia severity scale, so I think we're confident in terms of the mechanism of action and how pitolisant would perform in patients with IH and look forward to top-line data readout in fourth quarter this year.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

And then, Jason, as to your second question about just oxybate competition, sort of how we're thinking about '24, and even really what we're seeing now is, you know, we continue to be extremely pleased with our growth and what we reported in Q1 with respect to net sales and growth. And, obviously, we've seen strong performance of WAKIX with the availability of other branded oxybates on the market since our launch. And what we've seen with the launch of generic Oxybate in January 23rd, we haven't seen any impact on WAKIX, right? We saw really strong patient growth in Q1, and a lot of that is our belief that WAKIX is growing the brand and segment of the narcolepsy market and, more importantly, growing beyond Oxybate, right? As we've talked about this segment of doctors that are oxybate REMS enrolled but we have this unique opportunity in the 5,000-ish healthcare professionals who are not enrolled in the REMS program, that we can tap into that unique diagnose patient opportunity. Moving forward, we've talked with payers.

We've not really seen any major changes with respect to contracting. We don't believe that payers are going to be implementing any types of steps for WAKIX through either branded or generic oxybate. And we think that we're very well insulated in our ability to continue to grow here even with more oxybates on the market.

Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst

Great. Thanks, guys.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Thanks, Jason.

Operator

And we'll take our last question from Danielle Brill with Raymond James.

Danielle Brill -- Raymond James -- Analyst

Hi, guys. Thank you for squeezing me in. And, Jeff, congrats. Much deserved on the promotion.

So, I just wanted to clarify my follow-up to a prior question on the expected run rate moving forward. It sounds like, moving forward, we should be anticipating around 200 net patient ads per quarter. Is that fair? And then, I wanted to ask, so -- so, obviously, there was unfortunately a citizens' petition filed recently. I'm curious if this is something that is even on the radar of KOLs and the narcolepsy community.

And if so, if this has had any impact on -- or if there's been any feedback from prescribers? Yeah, I'll stop there. Thank you.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, sure. Good morning, Danielle. Thanks for your question, and happy we could squeeze you in. So, let me respond to the question about the citizens' petition first, and then Jeff can provide the follow-up question that you had.

So, while we take the allegations stated in the citizens' petition seriously, it is our position that the citizens' petition is full of unfounded allegations. And we're confident that a careful review of the unfounded allegations, in light of the data and information available to FDA from a broad range of sources, will ultimately lead the agency to deny the petition on the merits. And with regards to WAKIX -- and it received regulatory approvals around the world based on a strong body of scientific evidence, which demonstrated it to be safe and effective in patients with narcolepsy. So, I think that with that, we remain confident in the overall risk benefit profile of WAKIX based on the robust clinical development program, post-marketing safety data that we submit on a regular basis, and the FDA reviews on a regular basis.

So, I'll turn it over to Jeff to clarify the second question.

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sure. And so, with respect to run rate, Danielle, I mean, obviously, we're not providing any forward-looking guidance, but I think you've been very astute in terms of looking at our business and there is a rhythm to our business. There is some seasonal dynamics in Q1 and Q3 that tend to provide some headwinds, Q2 and Q4 tend to provide some tailwind. So, you're thinking about the business correctly moving forward, but I think we've got really strong momentum going into Q2.

We expect the patient adds are going to really probably mirror those dynamics that we see. We know that there's a significant growth opportunity ahead of us, obviously, looking at oxybate as a great analog in terms of where we are relative to them and their launch and what we see as a future opportunity growth moving forward. So, I think you have a very good handle on looking at the business and really being able to tap into that opportunity as really the market allows around the seasonal dynamics.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Operator? 

Operator

And thank you. I'm showing no further questions. I would now like to turn the call back to management for any closing remarks.

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Yeah, thank you, operator, and thank to everyone for joining our call today and for your interest in Harmony. As you heard from the team this morning, our business remains strong and our growth potential is significant. We will continue to focus our efforts on addressing the unmet medical needs of patients living with rare neurological diseases. I am proud of the team.

I'm excited to lead harmony forward in our next phase of growth. Thank you, and have a great day.

Operator

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Call participants:

Luis Sanay -- Head of Investor Relations

Jeff Dayno -- President and Chief Executive Officer

Jeff Dierks -- Chief Commercial Officer

Sandip Kapadia -- Chief Financial Officer

Charles Duncan -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst

Franc Brisebois -- Oppenheimer and Company -- Analyst

David Amsellem -- Piper Sandler -- Analyst

Unknown speaker

Ami Fadia -- Needham and Company -- Analyst

Corinne Jenkins -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst

Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America Merrill Lynch -- Analyst

Danielle Brill -- Raymond James -- Analyst

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