Insulet Corporation (PODD) Earnings Call Transcript & Summary
March 8, 2023
Earnings Call Speaker Segments
Joshua Jennings
analystAgain, my name is Josh Jennings. I'm leading the medical devices team here at TD Cowen. And we're excited to continue down the medical devices track at the 43rd Annual TD Cowen Health Care Conference. We're thrilled to have the Insulet team here today to join us for a fireside chat. Let me make a quick introduction. We have President and CEO, Jim Hollingshead; and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Wayde McMillan. Gentlemen, thanks so much for coming over at -- I guess, south from your headquarters, is that right, and coming down to Boston and having this discussion. We're going to let you kick off with some introductory remarks. And we'll dive into a little bit of Q&A, if that's okay.
James Hollingshead
executiveGreat. That's perfect. Thanks, Josh. Thanks for having us. Good morning, everybody. Great to see you all. Just a couple of quick comments. I'm guessing most of you in the room know us that Insulet is the maker of the Omnipod insulin delivery platform. We've just launched -- in last August, brought to market our fifth generation of that platform. We're very excited with Omnipod 5. Omnipod 5 is a tubeless, wearable, disposable insulin patch pump that also brings Automated Insulin Delivery, or AID, to the market. It's our flagship product. It's the product that we were founded as a company to build. And it is out of the gate incredibly strong because it delivers a great wearer experience, great channel economics and, most importantly, great outcomes and quality of life for our customers. And so with Omnipod 5, we had tremendous growth in our U.S. market. over Q3 and Q4 on top of what was already strong growth. Internationally, we're very happy with our Omnipod DASH platform, which is the gen 4 product. That's what we're doing internationally in our markets. We intend to launch Omnipod 5 in the U.K. and Germany this year, U.K. in the middle of the year, Germany by the second half of the year. So our results in 2022 were 22% growth in '22, which represents the seventh consecutive year that we achieved revenue growth of 20% or higher, which is we think we're very proud of our growth record. And it's really a signal of how revolutionary our product set is. Just a couple of other highlights I want to hit that we touched on in our Q4 call as well. With Omnipod 5, one of the great features and capabilities it brings to the market is constant cloud connection. And so we were just in Berlin at ATTD, our technology conference, presenting the first slice of real-world data off of 31,000 patients. The real-world evidence for us coming off of all of our patients will in the midterm be of significant competitive advantage for us, allowing us to constantly improve the experience and constantly improve the algorithm and constantly improve patient workflows. The data we showed in Berlin showed the product is performing incredibly well as designed and as we intended. That's one highlight I'm happy to talk about that, Josh. I don't know if you have a question about that or not. But -- and then the other thing I'll just highlight for us in 2022, we had a terrific year, another terrific year building our intellectual property portfolio. We completed a number of agreements, had cleaned up a number of existing agreements. And then we announced in our Q4 call just a couple of weeks ago that we made a couple of really powerful intellectual property acquisitions, including part of the patent portfolio from Bigfoot Biomedical and acquiring some IP from AGC, which is a company we had been working with for several years. The IP portfolio puts us in a terrific position both for continuing innovation. We've developed, as you might imagine, a lot of internal intellectual property. We've acquired some other IPs, so there will be opportunities for us to build that into our roadmap. It also provides us the opportunity to defend our position in the market. And we've done that in the past. We've recently defended our position against a company called Medtrum, who had been infringing on our products. And we just recently, as an example, got a preliminary injunction in Germany against a company called EOFlow, which has a patch pump that also infringes our patents. And so really comfortable with our IP positions. We think it's strong both on offense and defense. And so we're bullish about 2023. And we're even more bullish about our [ growth ] in Omnipod 5 revolution. And we have other things in the pipeline that I'm guessing Josh may ask us about. And with that, I'll just -- I'll stop. Did I miss anything, Wayde?
Wayde McMillan
executiveNo, that sounds great.
James Hollingshead
executiveOkay.
Joshua Jennings
analystThanks [indiscernible] Jim, that was fantastic, very thorough and also concise, impressive. Maybe just to ask, and you did bring it up in your intro, just about the data that came out and just -- how meaningful do you think that is? And maybe just give a high-level recap of what came out at ATTD.
James Hollingshead
executiveThanks, Josh. We're very excited about the ability of Omnipod 5 to gather usage data from every user. And at ATTD, what we presented was our first slice of real-world evidence, RWE, as a term of art. What we presented was data from 31,000 Omnipod 5 users who had been on the product for 90 days. And I'll just -- we'll talk about what the data and what we presented and then talk about why it's an advantage. What we presented was from all of those users, from 31,000 users, and those are all-comers, so they don't need to opt in, they don't need to bring their device in and plug in, we get that data out of the cloud. What we presented was the performance of Omnipod 5 in a couple of different contexts. One context is we designed Omnipod 5 to allow users to set different glucose targets. And so the -- and kind of the default target is 110. But users can choose different glucose targets throughout the day. And one of the really interesting things we found, which was consistent with our intent, is that the younger the user, the more likely they were to set higher targets at different points of the day. And that's because parents want to have their kids have activity. If you're sort of a teenage, early 20s, you often set your target a little higher because you're out and about and more active. And so we saw that usage pattern as very interesting. So you can see the utility of having multiple targets, first. And second, what it showed was that performance to target set is very, very good for Omnipod 5. So when you set the target in Omnipod 5, the algorithm chases the target. And so it demonstrated that the product is performing extremely well. The other approach that we presented was what if for patients who just set it at 110 and go, what happens? And in that instance, our time in range performance, so not just time to target, but time in range, is very, very strong, low 70 percentages for people that set -- for everybody who just set it at 110 and went. And if they also bolus-ed more frequently, so bolus-ed with each meal, their time in range went up into the mid-70s. So really terrific performance with the product clinically in general, really happy with that. Now why is it an advantage? And this is a long answer, I'm sorry, Josh. The reason it's an advantage is because our competitors have presented real-world evidence. But their datasets -- and I'm not throwing rocks, it's great that everybody is presenting real-world evidence. That's where chronic care has to go. And that's the promise of med device in chronic care. Because we can actually see how devices get used, right? But when our competitors present their data, they have to present data that comes from people who either are highly engaged, so they're actually actively uploading their data, or their physicians insist that they come in and upload their data. Now it's well-known that, that set of patients is just more highly engaged in their care. They will get better results. We're presenting data from everybody. We're presenting data from people that love the therapy and are engaged in their therapy and self-care. And we're presenting the whole spectrum, patients who are using it, maybe don't want to be using it, maybe they don't want to be caring for themselves. And our performance is astounding. But the reason that's a massive advantage for us competitively is with all of that data, we will be able to use that data, protect the privacy, protect the security, de-identify it and then use deep analytics and machine learning to constantly improve the offer. So we'll be able to see where patients drop off of therapy. We'll be able to see bolus-ing behavior. We'll be able to see that by splits. We'll be able to see it for pediatrics. We'll be able to see how the algorithm is performing in different settings and then ultimately improve the algorithm. We'll be able to report interesting things to physicians. So there's a whole range of things that we're going to be able to do off of that data asset. And I think it's telling that we showed 31,000 patients, when we were only 5 months on market. That's effectively the first 31,000 patients on the product, Our competitors' datasets after a couple of years of market tend to be sort of in the 8,000 number range, right? So that -- just that comparison will tell you. We are extremely excited about data and our ability to use data to improve the patient experience and improve the offering for all stakeholders in the system over time. Because we think it will change the basis of competition and drive even stronger product preference for Omnipod 5.
Joshua Jennings
analystOutstanding. Congratulations on such a strong launch. Not even a full year yet, and it's exceeded all of The Street's expectations, not sure if it exceeded internal expectations or not, but the ones that you share with The Street. I'm sure they're a little bit different internally. But I mean, super, super strong launch. And I wanted to just ask about the drivers. And I'm sure it's a mix. But I think the differentiators, you have the algorithm you just described, but the footprint, the patch pump, then you have the pharmacy access. And I mean, do you think those two are just both in parallel kind of driving the demand in tandem? Or is there -- is one element, the patch pump or pharmacy access, kind of driving it a little bit more than the other? Maybe a hard question to answer without any -- maybe with no data behind it. But maybe just thoughts on that.
James Hollingshead
executiveSure, it's a great question. If you think about our offering, the Omnipod platform itself -- before we launched Omnipod 5, which included AID, the Omnipod platform itself was taking, I would say, more than a fair share of the market just on the overall experience. And it hit some of those points that you're raising, Josh. It's small, it's unobtrusive, it's wearable, disposable, waterproof, tubeless, in effect, needle-less because it has an auto-insertion of a plastic cannula. So that wearer experience, the form factor experience, strongly preferred by customers, by patients everywhere. Then if you think about the channel access, the economics of Omnipod just as a platform in the U.S. market through the pharmacy channel, it means you have a pay-as-you-go opportunity as a patient. So if you have a patient or a customer who's thinking about going on an insulin pump, if they're going on our competitors' pumps, that's durable medical equipment. It's reimbursed through the durable medical equipment category. That means that there's a $5,000 or $6,000 cost of that pump, the payer is laying out $4,000, say, it depends on the plan, the patient is paying out an initial co-pay of $1,000. So there's a huge barrier to getting onto that platform. With Omnipod DASH and Omnipod 5 through the pharmacy channel, there is no upfront cost. And then the co-pay for the patient is about the same as the co-pay for somebody who's doing multiple daily injections as the economics are about in the same ballpark for those customers. So there's no upfront cost, there's no barrier to starting and they're out of pocket. The vast majority of our patients have a co-pay that's less than $50. Many of our patients have a $0 co-pay to be on therapy. So the economics are better. And then the pharmacy channel itself is much more convenient for people than the DME channel. So they can go into the pharmacy. They can get their product through mail-order pharmacy. It's the same way they're getting their insulin. So all of that -- that's even before Omnipod 5, all of that is a massive appeal. And that's why we've done so well with Omnipod DASH even after the introduction of AID algorithms. Now add to that equation, a really, really strong, really effective AID algorithm that is also a learning algorithm that personalizes your care. And as a customer, as a patient, why would you choose something else, right? You may have -- over the last couple of years, when our competitors had AID systems in their big tube pumps, you may have chosen AID instead of form factor. But now you can have form factor and AID. And so for me, it's hard to separate the two. But AID is actually the feature that unlocks the key to us just being the obvious choice. It is the obvious choice. And if you lay those three systems down in front of a customer that's thinking about a pump, almost universally, they say, "Give me the Omnipod." And so we've removed all the barriers to adopting our system. And I always give you a long answers, Josh. I'll stop with that.
Joshua Jennings
analystNo, no, I appreciate the long answers. You have a lot of great intel, appreciate it.
James Hollingshead
executiveAID Is a key piece.
Joshua Jennings
analystUnderstood, understood. And just one of the reasons I ask that question to lead into my next question is just the pharmacy channel and just the parameters for a diabetes device to gain coverage through the pharmacy. Is -- just review that for us. Because I think there's some speculation that the pharmacy could open up for other pumps that -- and there are -- I think there are some rules. What is your team's understanding of what qualifies a diabetes device or a pump, I guess, to be...
James Hollingshead
executiveIt was a big innovation for us to get into pharmacy, Josh. And I can tell you, rather than talking any abstract about what other companies might do or what will -- I'll tell you what we had to do.
Joshua Jennings
analystOkay, that's perfect.
James Hollingshead
executiveAll right. So what we had to do to get into the pharmacy channel was we had to have the bulk of the value of the product be in a consumable, which is true for us. The Pod contains -- the chipset contains the algorithm. So that's a consumable, disposable component of the product. So the bulk of it had to be a consumable. There had to be no capital upfront. And to do that, we gave away the PDM. So when a customer started the PDM -- or sorry, that's -- you guys may all know that PDMs are Personalized Diabetes Manager, or Personal Diabetes Manager. It's the lockdown phone. So that's the one piece of durable equipment. That comes in the starter kit, that's given away at the outset. And so you've got a consumable with no capital upfront cost. So that fits the pharmacy channel reimbursement criteria. And the other thing was we needed a new product. We couldn't take a product that was a DME product and then convert it to pharmacy. And so with those -- and then we were able to get pharmacy reimbursement with Omnipod DASH. And that proved to be a huge revolution, right? To get into that channel has been terrific for us, and more importantly, terrific for customers. Now will somebody be able to follow that? They're going to have to have those same criteria met. And we don't foresee that happening right now in the competitive landscape. But never say never, we watch that very closely. But it's -- it was a difficult thing for us to do. And it's intrinsic to our offer that it fits the pharmacy channel.
Joshua Jennings
analystWanted to ask a little bit about the pipeline. You talked about how the -- capturing all of this data to be able to enhance the algorithm. Are there next-generation algorithms in the pipeline? My understanding is that there are. There may be some components that could be advanced maybe on the semiconductor side. Maybe just talk about some of those things in terms of where Insulet plans to take Omnipod 5. But maybe getting a little bit ahead of myself with only a couple of quarters into the launch here, but we're always looking for out-year action.
James Hollingshead
executiveYes. So we have -- you might imagine, we have a pretty robust portfolio. And we're thrilled with Omnipod 5. And obviously, the performance of Omnipod 5 out of the gate in the market has been really remarkable. I mean, it's -- at least at our high case, you had said that before. There's a lot of things that it's doing that we find really remarkable in terms of generating demand and adoption. But we're always thinking about what comes next. And so we are always thinking about what comes next in algorithms and how we can improve algorithms. We're not making any announcements. I'm not going to make any news on that. But we do have -- we have concepts in the pipeline around how to improve the algorithm and there's some work to be done there. We're always looking at better form factors. We're looking at different footprints for the Pod and things like that. We are laser-focused on pod pump therapy, right? That's what we're focused on. But we want to constantly improve the physical wearer experience. We want to constantly improve the algorithm. And then with data products, we want to constantly improve the experience around that as well. And so we want the app and the PDM to be a great experience. We're working on other data products both for patients and for physicians. And a lot of that is in the future of that. And then of course, how we would use all that data, applying machine learning techniques to constantly improve the experience is important for us as well.
Joshua Jennings
analystGreat. Maybe some near-term pipeline action. Just Libre 2 and 3 were approved for integration with AIDs this week. How big a deal was that just in terms of the Libre patient population particularly and the type 1 segment that could arguably be convinced to move into AID therapy now because they've been taking that first step with the CGM?
James Hollingshead
executiveYes. We work very closely with our CGM partners, Abbott and Dexcom. We have great relationships. And I'll just say congratulations to Abbott to hitting that clearance milestone. That's a big deal. They've put a lot of effort into that. We were expecting a clearance. And so we've been working obviously on doing data integrations with the Libre family of sensors. We have a work plan. We're working diligently to get -- make those integrations happen. And we anticipated FDA clearance. And it doesn't actually move our joint working timeline. It's just something that had to happen in that mix. And so congratulations to them. I think it's great. In terms of what it does for patients, Libre has -- I think their latest number -- and I'm not here representing them. But I'll tell you what, I think their latest number is about 4.5 million patients in their installed base, which is mostly Libre 2. They have launched Libre 3, but it's mostly Libre 2. That's a huge installed base for us. Again, I use this phrase, it's a stocked pond, right? I used to do a lot of fishing with my dad. It's a stocked pond for us to go fishing in. They're very heavily positioned in the type 2 market. But they also have quite a lot of patients living with type 1 diabetes in their installed base. And obviously, for us, our core market is -- right now with Omnipod 5, with AID is mostly type 1 patients. But we do have type 2 patients. Obviously, at DASH, we're the leader in pump therapy for people with type 2 diabetes with DASH. But we have announced that we have had FDA approval for our pivotal trial. And we are about to start enrolling our pivotal trial to get FDA clearance for Omnipod 5 as a type 2 therapy, right? And so both for -- as we finish that integration, Libre's installed base and growing base of type 1 patients with their CGM and then their installed base and their growing base of type 2 patients represent a big TAM for us, a bunch of people that need our help. And so we're very excited from that point of view as well.
Joshua Jennings
analystExcellent. Any timelines that you can either remind me of or issue on Libre 3 integration? I know Abbott has a couple of more steps before you can go live with that, but also on the G7 -- Dexcom G7 side.
James Hollingshead
executiveJosh, you know that we don't announce anything until we're getting them to market or filing them. And so I'll just say that we've been working really closely with both partners. We're working hard on G7, we're working hard on the Libre family. I think the work is going really well. But it's just a matter of getting the work done. And there's some complexity. One thing I'll say is that each of those four sensors is actually different from a data protocol point of view. And so it's a separate integration with each of the -- despite the sort of interconnectivity premise of it, each of them is a little bit different. And so there's actual different software work to do with each of them. The work is going well. The partnerships are both terrifically strong. And we'll get them to market as fast as we can.
Joshua Jennings
analystGreat. And then maybe another near-term pipeline topic is just the basal Pod and day 7 -- or 7-day, where I believe is -- just we had a diabetes [indiscernible] endocrinologist earlier in the week, yesterday, just yesterday. And they just brought up the fact that there's going to be a 7-day kind of insulin dosing product coming out on the therapeutic side. And maybe that -- I just wanted to get your thoughts on that potential introduction and how that would kind of -- how the basal Pod fits in through that dynamic.
James Hollingshead
executiveSure. We're excited about basal Pod. And it's a new-to-world product built on our product platform, is the way to think about it. So the basal Pod will be the basic Omnipod form factor. And the idea behind is very, very simple way for people that need basal-only insulin to get their insulin and adhere to insulin therapy. And so you picture the same form factor, but it's a much, much simpler product. What it will do is it has -- it doesn't require a lockdown phone, a PDM. It doesn't require a CGM. You get your Pod. You fill it with insulin and put it on your arm. And it gives you a trickle dose of your basal rate over 3 days. It runs for 3 days. And then it reminds you to change it. And so it's a very simple offer and it's new-to-world. And the reason -- one of the many things that led us to do this, one of the things that led us to do it was we discovered that Omnipod DASH, which does a basal and bolus -- has a basal/bolus capability, a number of type 2 patients were being put on Omnipod DASH just for basal use. So already, we know there's market demand. And our market research suggests that patients want it and the PCPs love it. Those patients are largely managed by PCPs. And so the intent behind it is no needles or eliminate needle phobia, get the patient on therapy, get them adherent on therapy. Because people that are taking a daily dose of insulin often forget to take their jab or they don't want to take their jab because they don't like needles, so they're not that highly adherent. And our work with KOLs suggests that -- a KOL will tell us, "Just get their basal rate right for a type 2 patient, and you're really adding value." So what we want to do is bring an offer that got people on insulin, didn't give them fear of needles, got them delivering an adherent basal rate of insulin. And we think there's a place for it in the market. There's a lot happening in that part of the market, right? So you've got people that do basal rate with MDI with simple syringes. You've got people that do basal rate with a pen daily. And we will see once-a-week injections. But you're talking a market in the U.S. alone that's at least 3 million people. Abbott would tell you it's 4.5 million people. We tend to go on the conservative side. So we think it's somewhere between 3 million and 4.5 million people that need basal insulin and often delay the use of their insulin or they don't adhere well. So we're really excited about it because we think we dramatically simplify basal rate care. The other thing from a business point of view that it will do is people will get used to wearing the Omnipod platform. They get used to the simple needle insertion and so on. Those patients almost always progress to intensive insulins. So they need both basal and bolus. We intend to commercialize basal only in 2024. By the time we're getting to scale with that, we intend to have the IFU sometime. I'm not guiding to that date, but we're doing the trial right now. So in some reasonable time frame, we should have the IFU for Omnipod 5. So if things go as planned, we'll be getting to scale with basal. People will transition their needs. And as their insulin needs transition, they'll be transitioning on to Omnipod 5. If we don't have the IFU for Omnipod 5, they'll be transitioning on to DASH. So it becomes a feeder for our core business. But it also solves, we think, a big problem for some measurable percent of people on insulin-only -- or on basal-only.
Joshua Jennings
analystAnd just within that dynamic, before Omnipod 5 has an IFU, physicians can prescribe their patients, type 2 patients, through the pharmacy channel on Omnipod 5 today. Is that -- I don't know why I've been fixated on this since ADA last year. Because it just seems like a unique little door-opener for the type 2 segment for Omnipod 5. Is that a common scenario? I mean, are you seeing more -- I mean, I don't know, you probably don't want to quantify it. But is it -- is Omnipod 5 getting traction on...
James Hollingshead
executiveSo we are not promoting it. We don't have a label. And in fact, I just came from our national sales meeting, where we reminded everybody that we're not promoting it, right, because we don't have the label. We are very successful with Omnipod DASH, where we do have the label for type 2. But we are definitely seeing prescriptions for people with type 2 diabetes on to Omnipod 5. So we're definitely getting off-label use despite not promoting it. And to your point, I think the fact that both products are reimbursed through the pharmacy channel, docs can write what they want to write. It's also where those customers go to get their insulin. In some cases, it's where they get their CGM and makes it all very, very easy for them to do it in one place.
Joshua Jennings
analystGreat. We've been talking about kind of some pipeline action mostly during this discussion. Wanted to ask, 2023 is a year of investment. And maybe just to help us think through the margin guidance, but also when should investors think about seeing some leverage and some margin expansion, and understandably that you're in the middle of a launch and you need to fuel that growth.
Wayde McMillan
executiveYes. Thanks, Josh. It really gives us an opportunity to talk about that overall investment thesis. And to put the context around that, we think, as Jim just highlighted a lot of reasons, we're in a leadership position in a very large unpenetrated market. So we're in a very early chapter in bringing what we think was -- and I love Jim's opening, where he said this is the product Insulet was founded and created. And so we know we're in a very early chapter in a leadership position. So we're going to make those investments, as Jim just said, to broaden our CGM partner. So we can bring G6 now and eventually G7 and then Libre portfolio of CGMs to interact and build out our Automated Insulin Delivery system. We're going to invest in an iOS platform, which I know you've asked us about in the past, as well as expanding internationally. So it really is a year of significant investment for us. And we're building a platform. All of these investments are new, including the cloud infrastructure that Jim referenced, which we think is a real differentiator for us. So it's a heavy investment at this front end of what we think is decades-plus of our growth platform that we can grow off of and continue to iterate on, including the hardware, software and algorithm improvements that Jim referenced that are deeper back in our pipeline. So with all that, we made the decision to continue investing heavily to make sure we maintain a leadership position here. And we have committed to start to leverage operating margin again in 2023 -- or pardon me, in 2024. And some of the big drivers for that are going to be our gross margin expansion. We've been challenged, like many companies, with the macro environment. But we're very proud of the fact that we're still mid-60s in our gross margin, and we've got headroom to continue to grow that over time. That will be one of the biggest opportunities for us to drive expansion on the bottom line. And then all the investments that we're creating today are leverageable over time. So those will be also opportunities for us to expand operating margins. The one thing I would say is that we're going to continue to invest heavily in R&D. And that innovation pipeline is important for us. So that will be an area that we won't leverage much over time. But SG&A and leveraging all the infrastructure that we're building today, including in the U.S. and internationally, will be something that will provide opportunity for us to help with margin expansion over time.
Joshua Jennings
analystMaybe last topic, a couple of minutes left. Just some competitors, more and more noise about patch pump development programs. You've got embecta, Tandem made an acquisition. I think Medtronic has an internal program and maybe investment in another company. But what does your team have on the competitive radar? Are there any technologies that you think have any kind of next 12-, 24- to 36-month potential to get into the United States? We don't see any ourselves. I just want to sanity check that with you.
James Hollingshead
executiveI'm going to start, then I will ask Wayde to answer -- give color on that. We watch the competitive space, as you might imagine, really closely. We're very -- I think it's an intel place. We're very productively paranoid on what's going on in this space. And so we -- I imagine we probably see patch pump programs before most people see them, to tell you the truth, in what we do. And so we're watching very closely. There are lots of people. It's -- the first thing, it's very telling that most of our competitors are chasing the patch pump offering and we're not trying to develop the tube pump offering. So that would tell you the market dynamics. And given that, you would expect eventually competition to emerge eventually. At the moment, I think we have some really clear greenfield running in front of us. And I think that our offer is so compelling and, as we roll it out internationally, will be just as compelling to patients internationally as it is in the U.S. And we have -- and this is what I actually want you to pick up and talk about the scale effects. But we have so many scale advantages. We've got a strong IP portfolio. And over time, data will become a different dimension of competition. But I'd like to...
Wayde McMillan
executiveSure. There's lots to talk about here. From a scale standpoint, obviously, it brings a lot of investment quality, regulatory and all the advancements in our manufacturing capability to scale our manufacturing operations to support the growth. So we like that a lot. But we also like that we're -- as Jim said, we're laser-focused on being the best patch pump in the market. So we're investing heavily as we just talked about. But all of our R&D dollars go into our patch pump design, which is different than our competitors, who are having to spread their investments across the legacy tube pump platforms, maybe something in the middle and then eventually getting to patch pump. So in our view, as long as we can continue investing as much or more than the competition and focusing it all in one area, we should just broaden [indiscernible] over time. And so we're very excited about the advancements in other areas of diabetes, as Jim referenced earlier. May not be a bad thing if there's other people in the market with a patch pump who can help us convince the market that patch pumps are better than some of the other alternatives out there. Kind of like the CGM space, we see that both competitors are doing incredibly well by moving the market from BGM to CGM. So it actually may be a benefit for us if we saw another competitor in the marketplace on the patch side to help drive the messaging. You see us do direct-to-consumer advertising in the past. We know that there's a lot of power when we start that back up again. So we are obviously, as Jim said, healthily conscious of the competition out there and trying to improve lives for people with diabetes. And to the extent we can do that and be the best patch pump offering, that's our goal. So if the market moves to patches, we want to be the best. And obviously, the basal program we talked about earlier, even broadening the TAM and addressing additional people with the basal-only needs. That's what gets us excited and gets us motivated every day. It's a passionate group of people at Insulet today. And again, so in context of the competition, I think we'll definitely see it over time. We can see that there's advantages for patches over the legacy products in the marketplace. So I'm sure we'll see them over time. It's our job to be the best patch pump option for our customers.
Joshua Jennings
analystI appreciate that. We don't have any competitive entry in the United States in the next 36 months. But I don't know if you guys have any...
James Hollingshead
executiveWe'll take that.
Joshua Jennings
analystOkay. Great. All right. Well, gentlemen, thank you guys so much for spending time with us today. Really appreciate you participating in the TD Cowen Health Care Conference.
James Hollingshead
executiveThanks, Josh. Pleasure to be here.
Wayde McMillan
executiveThanks, everybody.
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