[November 14, 2014]

American CareSource Announces Third Quarter 2014 Financial Results

American CareSource Holdings (NASDAQ: ANCI), operator of urgent care centers and a leading national network of ancillary healthcare providers, today reported net revenue of $6.8 million during the third quarter of 2014, as compared with $6.5 million for the same period a year ago.

The net loss for the three months ended September 30, 2014, was $1.5 million, as compared with a loss of $858,000 during the third quarter 2013. Operating expenses were $8.4 million during the third quarter, compared to $7.4 million during the third quarter 2013. Adjusted EBITDA for the third quarter of 2014 was a loss of $1.1 million, compared to an adjusted EBITDA loss of $548,000 in the third quarter of 2013.

Urgent and Primary Care Centers

Third Quarter Highlights and Certain Subsequent Events

• Completed the acquisition of substantially all the assets of Bay Walk-In Clinic in Panama City and Panama City Beach, Fla. The transaction resulted in the Company's first two sites in the state of Florida;
• Acquired Express Family Care, the owner and operator of three urgent care centers located in the greater Birmingham, Alabama metropolitan area. Two existing centers are located in Rainbow City and Hueytown; the third site in Springville, Alabama opened in late October 2014. The centers are the Company's initial entrance into the state of Alabama;
• Closed a $5 million line of credit with a top-tier U.S. bank, providing the Company funding to support its urgent and primary care acquisition program. The line of credit has a two-year term at a rate of LIBOR plus 1.75% per annum, which is currently 1.90%.
• Subsequent to September 30, the Company announced the acquisition of MedHelp, a full-service urgent and primary care provider located in Alpharetta, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta. It is the Company's third site in the Atlanta metropolitan area and should create strategic revenue opportunities and operating efficiencies; and
• In early October, the Company entered into a three-year agreement with HealthSmart Preferred Care II, L.P., to operate the Company's ancillary provider network. The arrangement will allow the Company to operate the network more cost-efficiently and to focus on growing and operating the urgent and primary care business.

During the three months ended September 30, 2014, our acquired sites experienced, in the aggregate, approximately 8,800 patient visits, which generated net revenue of approximately $1.1 million. Based on the third quarter of 2014, the annualized revenue run rate for the urgent and primary care business was approximately $8.1 million. For the three months ended September 30, 2014, segment operating income was $8,000. The operating results for the quarter reflect operating investments made at certain sites in preparation for future growth, as well as non-recurring costs of approximately $29,000.

"We are encouraged by the progress of our acquisition program during the third quarter," said Dr. Richard W. Turner, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. "With the management services agreement in place with HealthSmart to operate the network business, we expect to devote more of our attention to operating and managing the acquired sites to facilitate growth, and on our acquisition program to capitalize on the segment of U.S. health care that is currently experiencing its greatest need and fastest growth - urgent care delivery."

Ancillary Network

Revenue from the ancillary network in the third quarter 2014 was $5.7 million compared to $6.5 million in the third quarter of 2013.

During the quarter, the Company continued to experience volume declines from its legacy clients, but revenue continued to be positively affected by contributions from two third-party administrators ("TPAs") acquired by HealthSmart, our largest client and ancillary network operator as of October 1, 2014. Subsequent to the acquisitions by HealthSmart, the Company partnered with HealthSmart to quickly and efficiently implement the TPAs, which contributed aggregate revenue of approximately $1 million in third quarter of 2014.

The ancillary network business contributed segment operating income of approximately $421,000 in the third quarter of 2014 as compared with a $208,000 in the same period last year. Operating results were positively affected by improved margins on provider payments, from 25.9 percent in the third quarter last year to 30.5 percent in the most recent quarter. In addition, as compared to the third quarter of 2013, fewer investments were made in sales and strategic consulting costs.

Shared Services

Shared Services include the common costs related to the urgent and primary care sites and the ancillary network lines of business on a limited basis. Shared Services include the executive management team and common functions such as finance and accounting, human resources, legal, marketing and information technology. The Company believes that the Shared Services approach is highly scalable because it will lower costs through economies of scale and standardized processes, allowing the urgent and primary sites and ancillary network to focus on patients and operations.

During the three months ended September 30, 2014, Shared Services costs increased to $1.8 million compared to $900,000 during the three months ended September 30, 2013. During the third quarter of 2014, Shared Services included approximately $111,000 of acquisition-related transaction costs, as well as professional fees related to certain strategic initiatives, including the management services agreement with HealthSmart. In addition, marketing investments of $65,000 were made for website development and branding.

Financial Liquidity

Total cash and cash equivalents as of September 30, 2014, amounted to $2.5 million, as compared to $3.6 million on June 30, 2014, and $6.2 million on December 31, 2013. As of September 30, 2014, the line of credit had remaining borrowing capacity of approximately $2.2 million.

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

American CareSource has provided in this press release financial measures that have not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles ("GAAP") and that are therefore considered non-GAAP financial measures. This information includes Adjusted EBITDA, which is defined as operating income or loss before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization and excludes the impact of non-cash stock-based compensation expense, severance charges, amortization of long-term client agreements, strategic transaction-related costs and other non-cash and non-recurring charges. We use these non-GAAP financial measures internally in analyzing our financial results and believe they are useful to investors, as a supplement to GAAP measures, in evaluating the Company's ongoing financial performance.

A reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to operating income or loss is provided in the tables accompanying this release.

About American CareSource Holdings, Inc.

American CareSource Holdings is the owner and operator of a growing chain of urgent and primary care centers and an ancillary care network through its subsidiary, Ancillary Care Services ("ACS"). ACS provides ancillary healthcare services and offers cost-effective alternatives to physician and hospital-based services through its nationwide network of approximately 4,800 ancillary service providers and approximately 33,000 sites. These providers offer services in 32 categories including laboratories, dialysis centers, free-standing diagnostic imaging centers, infusion centers, long-term acute care centers, home-health services and non-hospital surgery centers, as well as durable medical equipment.

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Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

Any statements that are not historical facts contained in this release, including with respect to the Company's plans, objectives and expectations for future operations, projections of the Company's future operating results or financial condition, and expectations regarding the healthcare industry and economic conditions, are forward-looking statements. Substantial risks and uncertainties could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, our ability to attract or maintain patients, clients or providers or achieve our financial results, changes in national healthcare policy, federal or state regulation, and/or rates of reimbursement including without limitation to the impact of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Health Care and Educational Affordability Reconciliation Act and medical loss ratio regulations, general economic conditions (including economic downturns and increases in unemployment), the Company's ability to successfully implement our growth strategy for the urgent and primary care business, the Company's ability to identify and acquire target centers, increased competition in the urgent care and primary care market, the Company's ability to recruit and retain qualified physicians and other healthcare professionals, reduction in reimbursement rates from governmental payors, lower than anticipated demand for services, pricing, market acceptance or preference, the company's ability to integrate with its clients, consolidation in the industry that affect the Company's key clients, changes in the business decisions by significant clients, term expirations of contracts with significant clients, possible termination of relationships with significant clients, increased competition, decisions by service providers in the Company's network to terminate their agreements with the Company, the Company's ability to maintain a network of ancillary service providers that is adequate to generate significant claims volume, increased competition in the ancillary network business from major carriers, increased competition from cost containment vendors and solutions, the Company's inability to manage growth, implementation and performance difficulties, and other risk factors detailed from time to time in the company's periodic filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as otherwise required by law, the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise these forward-looking statements.

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