Astrana Health, Inc.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Mar 12, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Mar 12, 2026
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ITEM 9A. Controls and Procedures
Evaluation of Disclosure Controls and Procedures
The Company maintains “disclosure controls and procedures,” as defined in Rule 13a-15(e) under the Exchange Act, designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports filed or submitted under the Exchange Act is recorded, processed, summarized and reported within the time periods specified in the SEC’s rules and forms. Disclosure controls and procedures include, without limitation, controls and procedures designed to ensure that information required to be disclosed by a company in the reports that it files or submits under the Exchange Act is accumulated and communicated to the company’s management, including its principal executive and principal financial officers, as appropriate to allow timely decisions regarding required disclosure. Management recognizes that any controls and procedures, no matter how well designed and operated, can provide only reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives.
As of December 31, 2025, we carried out an evaluation, under the supervision and with the participation of our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial and Operating Officer, of the effectiveness of the design and operation of our disclosure controls and procedures.
Based on that evaluation, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial and Operating Officer, concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures were not effective as of December 31, 2025, because of the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting disclosed below in Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting.
Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
Management is responsible for establishing and maintaining adequate “internal control over financial reporting,” as such term is defined in Exchange Act Rule 13a-15(f). A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed by, or under the supervision of, its principal executive officer and principal financial officer, and effected by such company’s Board of Directors, management, and other personnel to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and includes those policies and procedures that:
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Pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company;
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Provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and that the receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and
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Provide reasonable assurance regarding the prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate.
Our management, with the participation of our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial and Operating Officer, assessed the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, the end of our fiscal year. Our management based its assessment on criteria established in the Internal Control—Integrated Framework (2013) issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission. Our management’s assessment included evaluation and testing of the design and operating effectiveness of key financial reporting controls, process documentation, accounting policies, and our overall control environment.
Based on our management’s assessment, our management has concluded that our internal control over financial reporting was not effective as of December 31, 2025, due to the material weakness described below.
Such material weakness resulted in an elevated risk that a material misstatement of our annual or interim financial statements would not be prevented or detected by other compensating controls. Notwithstanding the material weakness in internal control over financial reporting, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial and Operating Officer, believe that our consolidated financial statements included in this Form 10-K present fairly, in all material respects, our financial position, results of our operations and our cash flows for the periods presented in this Form 10-K, in conformity with U.S. GAAP.
Management has excluded Prospect, which we acquired on July 1, 2025, from its assessment of internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025. Total assets, net assets, and revenue of Prospect excluded from our assessment of internal control over financial reporting were approximately 13.3% of total assets, 13.7% of net assets, and 19.4% of revenues, respectively, as of and for the year ended December 31, 2025.
Attestation Report of the Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Our independent registered public accounting firm, Ernst & Young LLP, audited our consolidated financial statements for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025, included in this Annual Report on Form 10-K, and has issued an adverse report with respect to the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting, a copy of which is included below in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.
Material Weakness in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A material weakness is a deficiency, or a combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the Company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The Company identified the following material weakness as of December 31, 2025.
We identified a material weakness in the design of our internal control over financial reporting related to accounting for business combinations. Specifically, we did not design and implement effective controls to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the determination of net working capital acquired, including the identification and valuation of current assets and current liabilities as of the acquisition date. As a result, management did not have sufficient precision in its review controls to prevent or detect material misstatements in the purchase price allocation.
Remediation Plan
Management, with the oversight from the Audit Committee of the Board of Directors, has begun the process of executing remediation plans that address the material weakness in our internal controls over financial reporting. We are using both internal and external resources to assist in undertaking the following actions:
Establish a standardized acquisition checklist and internal control framework specifically for business combinations and adjustments to net working capital.
Implement formal controls to ensure the completeness and accuracy of all acquired current assets and assumed liabilities.
Introduce a multi-tiered management review process for the identification and valuation of acquired assets.
Enhance technical oversight over complex acquisitions, including evaluating the need of engagement of accounting experts with specific expertise in Accounting Standards Codification 805, “Business Combinations”.
Provide mandatory technical training for finance staff on identifying and valuing “cut-off” items for acquired businesses
Changes in Internal Control over Financial Reporting
There were no changes in internal control over financial reporting (as defined by Rule 13a-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the quarter ended December 31, 2025 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting. We commenced activities related to our remediation plan following the end of the quarter.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial and Operating Officer, intends that our disclosure controls and procedures and internal control over financial reporting are designed to provide reasonable assurance of achieving their objectives. However, our management does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal control over financial reporting will prevent all errors and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, have been detected. These inherent limitations include the realities that judgments in decision-making can be faulty, and that breakdowns can occur because of a simple error or mistake. Additionally, controls can be circumvented by the individual acts of some persons, by collusion of two or more people or by management override of the controls. The design of any system of controls also is based in part upon certain assumptions about the likelihood of future events, and there can be no assurance that any design will succeed in achieving its stated goals under all potential future conditions; over time, controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or the degree of compliance with policies or procedures may deteriorate. Because of the inherent limitations in a cost effective control system, misstatements due to error or fraud may occur and not be detected.
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Astrana Health, Inc.
Opinion on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
We have audited Astrana Health, Inc.’s internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework) (the COSO criteria). In our opinion, because of the effect of the material weakness described below on the achievement of the objectives of the control criteria, Astrana Health, Inc. (the Company) has not maintained effective internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on the COSO criteria.
A material weakness is a deficiency, or combination of deficiencies, in internal control over financial reporting, such that there is a reasonable possibility that a material misstatement of the company’s annual or interim financial statements will not be prevented or detected on a timely basis. The following material weakness has been identified and included in management’s assessment. Management has identified a material weakness in the design of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting related to accounting for business combinations. Specifically, the Company did not design and implement effective controls to ensure the completeness and accuracy of the determination of net working capital acquired, including the identification and valuation of current assets and current liabilities as of the acquisition date. As a result, management did not have sufficient precision in its review controls to prevent or detect material misstatements in the purchase price allocation.
As indicated in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting, management’s assessment of and conclusion on the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting did not include the internal controls of all the assets of certain direct and indirect subsidiaries of PHP Holdings, LLC, and all of the outstanding equity interests of Prospect Health Plan, Inc., and Foothill Regional Medical Center (such assets and equity collectively, “Prospect”), which is included in the 2025 consolidated financial statements of the Company and constituted 13.3% and 13.7% of total and net assets, respectively, as of December 31, 2025 and 19.4% of revenues for the year then ended. Our audit of internal control over financial reporting of the Company also did not include an evaluation of the internal control over financial reporting of Prospect.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the consolidated balance sheets of the Company as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated statements of income, mezzanine and stockholders' equity (deficit) and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes. This material weakness was considered in determining the nature, timing and extent of audit tests applied in our audit of the 2025 consolidated financial statements, and this report does not affect our report dated March 12, 2026, which expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
The Company’s management is responsible for maintaining effective internal control over financial reporting and for its assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting included in the accompanying Management’s Report on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s internal control over financial reporting based on our audit. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audit in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether effective internal control over financial reporting was maintained in all material respects.
Our audit included obtaining an understanding of internal control over financial reporting, assessing the risk that a material weakness exists, testing and evaluating the design and operating effectiveness of internal control based on the assessed risk, and performing such other procedures as we considered necessary in the circumstances. We believe that our audit provides a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Definition and Limitations of Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
A company’s internal control over financial reporting is a process designed to provide reasonable assurance regarding the reliability of financial reporting and the preparation of financial statements for external purposes in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles. A company’s internal control over financial reporting includes those policies and procedures that (1) pertain to the maintenance of records that, in reasonable detail, accurately and fairly reflect the transactions and dispositions of the assets of the company; (2) provide reasonable assurance that transactions are recorded as necessary to permit preparation of financial statements in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, and that receipts and expenditures of the company are being made only in accordance with authorizations of management and directors of the company; and (3) provide reasonable assurance regarding prevention or timely detection of unauthorized acquisition, use, or disposition of the company’s assets that could have a material effect on the financial statements.
Because of its inherent limitations, internal control over financial reporting may not prevent or detect misstatements. Also, projections of any evaluation of effectiveness to future periods are subject to the risk that controls may become inadequate because of changes in conditions, or that the degree of compliance with the policies or procedures may deteriorate
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
Los Angeles, California
March 12, 2026
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