Company: PHR
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0001412408-25-000039
Chunk: 333

Company: Phreesia, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-05-28
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 3
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 alter the networks’ rules or policies to the detriment of non-members, including us.

Changes in laws and regulations relating to interchange fees on payment card transactions would adversely affect our revenue and results of operations.

We pay interchange fees to the card networks or the card issuers for each transaction we process. The card networks may increase, from time to time, the fees that they charge members or service providers. Although we may attempt to pass these increases along to our clients, this may result in the loss of clients to our competitors that do not pass along the increases. A provision of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") known as the Durbin Amendment empowered the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System ("FRS"), to establish and regulate a cap on the interchange fees that issuers (e.g. banks) may charge or receive for electronic clearing of debit card transactions. The original regulations implementing the Durbin Amendment established standards for assessing whether debit card interchange fees received by debit card issuers were reasonable and proportional to the costs incurred by issuers for electronic debit transactions, and it established a maximum permissible interchange fee that an issuer may receive for an electronic debit transaction, limiting the fee revenue to debit card issuers and payment processors. If the maximum permissible interchange fee for debit cards, credit cards, or other payment cards is changed or the exempt status of HSA-linked payment cards from such maximum interchange rate caps is lost as a result of amendment to Regulation II by the FRS or any other new rulemaking, legislation, or private litigation challenge, our revenue and profit from payment card transactions processed through our payments platform could decrease, and there could be a material adverse effect on our financial condition and results of operations.

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Risk relating to our data and intellectual property 

If our intellectual property is not adequately protected, we may not be able to build name recognition, protect our technology and products, and our business may be adversely affected.

Our business depends on proprietary technology and content, including software, databases, confidential information and know-how, the protection of which is crucial to the success of our business. We rely on a combination of trademark, trade-secret and copyright laws, confidentiality procedures and contractual provisions to protect our intellectual property rights in our proprietary technology, content and brand. We may, over time, increase our investment in protecting our intellectual property through additional trademark, patent and other intellectual property filings that could be expensive and time-consuming. Effective trademark, trade-secret and copyright protection is expensive to develop