Greetings, and welcome to the BrainsWay first quarter 2021 earnings conference call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. A question- and- answer session will follow the formal presentation. If anyone should require operator assistance during the conference, please press star zero on your telephone keypad. As a reminder, this conference is being recorded. It is now my pleasure to introduce Bob Yedid of LifeSci Advisors. Thank you. You may begin.
Thank you, Daryl, and thank you all, and welcome to BrainsWay's first quarter 2021 earnings conference call. With us today are BrainsWay's President and Chief Executive Officer, Christopher von Jako, and the new Chief Financial Officer, Scott Areglado. The format for today's call will be a discussion of the first quarter trends and business updates from Chris, followed by a detailed discussion of the financials from Scott. We will open up the call for your questions. Earlier this morning, BrainsWay released results for the first quarter ending March 31st, 2021. A copy of the press release is available on the company's investor relations website.
Before I turn the call over to Chris and Scott, I'd like to remind you that this conference call, including both management's prepared remarks and the question- and- answer session, may contain projections or other forward-looking statements regarding future events or future performance of BrainsWay, including but not limited to any statements relating to commercial plans or activities, financial projections, clinical studies, R&D plans, and/or anticipated timelines. These statements are only predictions, and BrainsWay cannot guarantee that they will in fact occur. BrainsWay does not assume any obligation to update that information. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, such as reliance on third parties and shifting market conditions, particularly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which may cause actual results to differ from those anticipated by BrainsWay at this time.
Additional risks concerning factors that could cause actual results, actual events, results, or achievements to materially differ from those contained in the forward-looking statements can be found in the company's registration statement on Form 20-F and its other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. With those remarks, it's my pleasure to turn the call over to the CEO, Chris von Jako. Chris?
Thank you, Bob, and welcome everyone, and thank you for joining us today. We are extremely pleased with the current operating trends in our business and expect some of our recent achievements to drive further growth in our business. I'll discuss all of this further shortly, but first, I will provide a brief overview of our key first quarter financial results. We achieved $6.1 million in revenue for the first quarter of 2021, which represented a significant 47% increase over our first quarter 2020, demonstrating the resiliency of our business following the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. Importantly, we believe that the momentum we began generating in our business late last year, which continued into our first quarter of 2021, is expected to be sustained throughout the year.
Key to the current and continued strong performance of our business is that the operating environment has improved, a trend that we expect to further progress as additional stability returns to the marketplace and everyday life. As evidence of this, patient treatments with dTMS have continued to increase since the fourth quarter. I would like to highlight that we recently completed the 100,000 patient treatment with dTMS, which we view as a major milestone and a testament to the innovative, non-invasive mental health technologies we have developed. Looking ahead, with approximately 40% of the U.S. population currently fully vaccinated and another 10% that have received at least one dose of the vaccine, we anticipate that these positive patient trends will continue. Moreover, mental health issues continue to rise dramatically as we emerge from COVID-19.
In fact, a recent study published in The Lancet Psychiatry indicated that 34% of about 235,000 primarily U.S. patients studied who suffered and recovered from COVID-19 were diagnosed with a brain or psychiatric disorder within six months. With over 100 million people that have recovered from COVID-19 worldwide, and with the United States ranking first among nations in number of cases, it is cause for concern that we may face a secondary epidemic of mental illness. In a separate recent study of about 4,000 recovered COVID-19 patients published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, over 52% met the criteria for symptoms for major depressive disorder.
Of course, these studies do not include individuals with mental health issues who may not have necessarily been diagnosed with COVID-19, but nonetheless suffer from the ill effects of isolation, lack of support from family, friends, and colleagues, and other impacts from COVID-19 to their daily lives over the last 15 months. The importance of mental health, especially in light of COVID-19, has taken on a greater sense of urgency. As such, we continue to ramp up our patient awareness initiatives. To highlight May as Mental Health Awareness Month, we were honored to ring the Nasdaq closing bell earlier this month. We also launched a robust social media influencer campaign around mental health awareness. In addition, we recently initiated a significant patient awareness campaign with the goal of reaching any patient seeking an alternative to medical management of their mental health.
We also continue to expand our efforts to educate prospective patients on the benefit of BrainsWay's dTMS. This includes, for example, content on our new website clearly explains the important differences between dTMS and traditional TMS. As well as our hosting of numerous well-attended webinars, including 10 in the first quarter alone, aimed at informing patients and providers alike about the benefit of BrainsWay's unique approach to mental health treatment. In our continuation of recent trends, we are pleased to report that our organic website traffic has again increased significantly, up over 33% from Q4 2020 to Q1 2021. I would now like to turn to dTMS for the treatment of OCD, as well as our continued efforts to obtain reimbursement in this key indication. As of the end of the first quarter, we had shipped 225 OCD coils as add-on helmets to certain of BrainsWay's new and existing systems.
As a reminder, we fully launched this innovative treatment in the first quarter of 2019. Already about 1/3 of our total installed base have opted to offer our OCD treatment, which is a clear-cut reflection that our customers strongly believe in the benefit of dTMS for OCD. We know that a number of these providers have been requesting coverage from healthcare plans for specific OCD patients and are also now advocating coverage for dTMS generally for this indication. During the first quarter, we dramatically improved both our depression and OCD resources, including features on our website and customer portal to guide our providers in navigating the sometimes complex coverage landscape.
We also continue to reach out to payers with new clinical evidence, including eight additional studies published in 2020, highlighted by our real-world evidence study that analyzed 219 patients from 22 medical centers to support dTMS treatment for patients with OCD. During the first quarter, we held 13 meetings, including with all seven Medicare administrative contractors and six large commercial payers. During these meetings, many of which included behavioral health medical directors, we presented our dTMS OCD clinical evidence, as well as information on appropriate patient selection criteria, proper placement of dTMS within the treatment continuum, and associated health economics. We continue to reach out to additional commercial payers to present this information.
I would add that the Clinical TMS Society, a leading TMS medical association, recently published its 2021 recommended OCD coverage policy with guidance on patient selection criteria and treatment protocols, which we also shared with payers to demonstrate the medical society support. Based on this collective work, we are awaiting current evidence reviews and coverage policy decisions from multiple payers. I would now like to highlight two recent achievements that have the potential to drive meaningful further growth in our business. First, we recently successfully initiated our controlled market release of dTMS for smoking addiction. This new commercial offering, the first of its kind, was distributed to 10 customers. The initial patients at these sites have been treated or still undergoing treatment, and we have received excellent feedback from our customers in regard to the impact the therapy is having on their patients.
As previously discussed, we received FDA clearance based on the data from our double-blind, multicenter trial of 262 smokers. These smokers were highly addicted to cigarettes with a long history of smoking, and with 70% of them having failed three or more attempts to quit. Of the participants who received a full course of dTMS treatment, 28% achieved four consecutive weeks of abstinence from smoking. We have a significant opportunity to leverage this large target market with 34 million adult smokers in the U.S. Over time, we expect that dTMS for smoking addiction could have a significant impact on our business, and we look forward to providing you with further updates on this exciting commercial launch over the coming months. We were also pleased to have recently received FDA clearance for our Theta Burst three-minute protocol utilizing the Deep TMS System for depression.
This new FDA-cleared protocol, which is immediately available on our systems, provides patients with shorter duration of treatment option to manage their depression. The availability of a shorter treatment protocol has the potential to expand access to care by providing clinicians with added flexibility in selecting courses of treatment that may be better for certain patients. In support of our successful application to the FDA, BrainsWay's seventh clearance to date, we submitted safety and efficacy data from 146 subjects who had received either the standard dTMS protocol or Theta Burst dTMS protocol. Subjects in both groups demonstrated a statistically and clinically meaningful reduction in depression scores.
Switching gears, our recent equity raise, which generated over $45.2 million of gross proceeds, favorably positions the company to invest more aggressively to increase the revenue growth rate and shareholder value. As previously mentioned, we are continuing to expand our sales coverage as well as accelerate our marketing and reimbursement initiatives. Finally, we're extremely proud of our R&D and clinical leadership position in the non-invasive neurostimulation space, and we will continue to invest to maintain this position. Turning to investor relations. We remain dedicated to sharing BrainsWay's compelling growth story with both institutional and retail investors. In the first quarter, both during and following our recent successfully completed equity offering, we met with a number of high-quality, healthcare-focused, U.S.-based institutional investors. We also presented at the annual Oppenheimer Healthcare Conference, as well as held meetings with a number of high-net-worth retail investors.
We will be presenting at a number of additional healthcare investment conferences during the remainder of 2021. Later this year, we intend to host a KOL event for investors and analysts, similar to the meeting we held last November. I would like to take the opportunity now to welcome Scott to the BrainsWay team. He joined us as senior vice president and CFO earlier this month. Scott brings more than 25 years of leadership experience across finance and accounting positions within the high-tech medical device industry. Most recently, he was the CFO of iCAD, a Nasdaq-listed global med tech company that focuses on early detection and treatment of cancer. We are thrilled to have Scott on the BrainsWay team, as he is extraordinarily qualified to assist in our mission of boldly advancing neuroscience to improve health and transform lives.
I look forward to his interactions with many of you over the coming weeks. Finally, as always, I'd like to express my gratitude to our hardworking customers on the front line of this mental health crisis and to the entire BrainsWay team for their continued support and dedication to our mission. These extraordinary efforts by our customers and employees continue to generate significant achievements for BrainsWay, positioning us well to leverage the many key catalysts ahead of us. Thank you again for joining us today. With that, I will now pass the call to Scott for his review on our first quarter 2021 financial results. Scott.
Thank you, Chris. I am pleased to be joining my first BrainsWay earnings call, and I'm thrilled to be a part of this dynamic growing company. I will jump right in with a discussion of our financial results. For the first quarter of 2021, we generated revenue of $6.1 million, a 47% increase compared to the first quarter 2020 revenue of $4.2 million. This year-over-year revenue growth was driven by the increase in our direct sales. Our recurring revenues, primarily derived from leases, were $3.5 million, consistent with the first quarter of 2020. These lease revenues represented 56% of our total revenue, which underscores the recurring nature and predictability of BrainsWay's growing revenues. As of March 31st, 2021, BrainsWay's installed base totaled 652 Deep TMS systems, which reflects a quarter-over-quarter increase of 23 systems and 19% growth year-over-year.
Gross profit for the first quarter of 2021 was $4.6 million, compared to $3.1 million during the prior year period. Gross margin for the quarter was 75%, as compared to 76% in the first quarter of 2020. Moving on to operating expenses. For the first quarter of 2021, research and development expenses were $1.2 million, as compared to $1.8 million in the first quarter of 2020, and primarily consisted of costs associated with the continued development of our patented Deep TMS technology. SG&A expenses for the first quarter of 2021 were $3.6 million, compared to $3.7 million for the first quarter of 2020. Total operating expenses were $6.8 million for both the first quarter of 2021 and 2020.
It is important to note that operating expenses for the first quarter of 2021 included a one-time non-cash charge of approximately $2 million for stock compensation expense, which was related to the repricing of options in the first quarter of 2021. Absent this one-time charge, operating expenses would have been approximately $4.8 million for the first quarter of 2021. Going forward, we expect to invest in initiatives to drive commercial adoption of our primary indications in major depressive disorder and OCD, as well as further clinical evidence for our smoking addiction indication. Operating loss for the first quarter was $2.2 million, compared with a loss of $3.6 million for the same period in 2020. For the first quarter ended 2021, we incurred a net loss of $2.7 million, compared to a net loss of $3.4 million in the first quarter of 2020, a year-over-year improvement of $1 million.
The net loss in 2021 included the $2 million stock compensation charge that I just referenced. Moving on to the balance sheet. We ended the quarter with cash equivalents, and short-term deposits of $58.5 million, compared to $17.2 million as of December 31st, 2020. The significantly increased cash position reflects the completion of the company's public offering, which was closed in March 2021 and generated gross proceeds of approximately $45.2 million.
We believe that our strong balance sheet allows us to expand our sales and marketing efforts to drive additional adoption of our Deep TMS System, to continue to invest in R&D in order to explore new potential indications for our differentiated innovative technology. As Chris mentioned, we believe these initiatives and investments will help drive top-line growth and improve the company's strategic position. This concludes our prepared remarks, and I will now ask the operator to open up the call for questions. Operator?
Thank you. We will now be conducting a question- and- answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please press star one on your telephone keypad. A confirmation tone will indicate your line is in the question queue. You may press star two if you would like to remove your question from the queue. For participants using speaker equipment, it may be necessary to pick up your handset before pressing the star keys. One moment please while we poll for your questions. Our first question has come from the line of Steven Lichtman with Oppenheimer. Please proceed with your questions.
Thank you. Good morning, guys. Chris, you mentioned some of the digital marketing activities in 1Q. I was wondering, can you talk about what other sales and marketing initiatives we should look for from you guys now with the fortified balance sheet, including maybe where you are in terms of sales force expansion?
Yeah, sure. Thanks, Steve. I'll take the sales force expansion first. I think as we may have mentioned last call, we ended with 13 sales professionals at the end of last year. Our goal is to get up to 18 in the short term. At present moment, we have 14. I think as Hadar may have mentioned on the last call, our plan was to get up to 18 by the end of the third quarter. As far as other marketing initiatives that we're doing, we're doing quite a bit. Our real focus is on pushing towards the digital marketing campaigns around patient and patient awareness. As I mentioned in the prepared remarks, we are doing quite a bit in this month. We actually launched the largest campaign on direct to consumer around Deep TMS, highlighting obviously Mental Health Awareness Month.
Great. I was wondering also if you could give us a sense of any feedback from the sales force on the addition of Theta Burst. Any early comments on how that has impacted commercial interactions with customers?
Yeah. I think the initial indication from our sales force was extremely positive. As I mentioned in the prepared remarks, I think also in our press release, it's immediately available to our customers. Just taking a first look, I think that our current customers, roughly around 30% or maybe a little bit more, have already started taking utilization of the Theta Burst protocol. There's pretty good excitement around it. We're looking to continue to leverage that.
Great. Then maybe lastly, you mentioned a lot of activity in the first quarter with payers on OCD. I wonder if you could sort of characterize the meetings generally. Any surprises, and just how you're feeling overall coming out of those meetings?
Yeah, that's a great question. Thanks, Steve, for asking. I think one of the biggest things that we have and we've encountered with the payers is really going through our evidence and describing the difference in our clinical data as compared to traditional TMS. That has sort of muddied the waters for us to a certain extent, because I think the payers just felt all TMS technology is the same. We've had to really educate them on the difference of the technology, and also the benefits of our technology, because they were looking at OCD in totality with all TMS. We've had to do a much better job of educating the payers. I think that was really the biggest hurdle for us, going into it and sort of an eye-opening for us. I'd say, beyond that, it's been really positive.
It's really hard to characterize where it's going to go. As I mentioned, I think on the last call, I've been pretty positive about the response thus far.
Great. Thanks so much. I'll jump back in queue. Thanks.
Thanks, Steve.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jeffrey Cohen with Ladenburg Thalmann. Please proceed with your question.
Hi, Chris and Scott. How are you?
Hi, Jeff.
Great, Jeff. Thanks.
Two areas I wanted to ask about. Firstly, just on the depression front, are you seeing an increase in utilization as far as an influx of new patients that are out there? What are you seeing coming from pharma land and failures in pharma land? I guess, what is the psychiatry market saying, and what are you hearing from the docs?
Yeah. We definitely saw an increase from Q4 to Q1. I think those are all positive as obviously we're continuing to exit COVID. I think we'll continue to see increase as the year goes along. As you know, and I think we've mentioned on previous calls, just sort of the effects of COVID, the patients and the effect of those patients, we may not see them jumping into the fray till probably H2 of this year and then going also into 2022. Just because most of the reimbursement companies are still at four failed medications that are needed, even though there has been a trend going from four to two. To come up and down four medications, you're talking about at least a year minimum, if not two years. I think, yeah. Does that answer your question, Jeff?
Yep, that's helpful. Secondly, can you talk about, not that you have your hands full with three large indications, but could you talk a little bit about some of the studies and any progress in Parkinson's and MS as far as neurodegeneration and also autoimmune? Thanks.
Yeah, great. Thanks for that question, Jeffrey Cohen. We have, I would say, three clear indications here in the U.S., depression, OCD, and smoking addiction, which we talked about. In Europe, we have a number of other indications that are cleared. You mentioned Parkinson's disease. We also have some other neurologic disease that we have there as well. I think as I mentioned on our last call, we are looking to start at least one clinical trial late this year, a pivotal trial late this year. One of those probably be in the neurological area, specifically around MS, which I think I mentioned on the last call.
Yep. Okay. Thanks for taking my questions. Nice read-out. I appreciate it.
Thanks, Jeff.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Kyle Mikson with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please proceed with your questions.
Hi, guys. Thanks for taking the questions.
Hey, Kyle.
Welcome. Good to hear your voice again. Hi.
Yeah, thanks.
A question on the revenue. Beat our estimate and it was above street expectations by close of March, and it's actually closer to the 2Q estimate. I was wondering if there was any one-time or non-recurring items you can kind of call out. I'm thinking like delayed orders from 2020 or maybe some multi-dTMS system orders as well. I'm just trying to understand that $6.1 million number, if that could be like a run rate going forward. Thank you.
Kyle, thanks for the question. We were excited actually, obviously, our direct sales came in probably a little bit higher than we expected. Again, if we have one or two direct sales, that's going to tip the number higher, it's nice. I don't know if it actually trickles over from Q4 or not. Obviously, you saw we had a really great close to Q4. Again, a one-time sale, a direct sale can really tip us in one direction or the other.
All right. Got it. Makes sense. kind of like on a similar note, OCD coil came in lower than they were a year ago. They're actually kind of like on the same level. Anything you can kind of share there why that could've been a little bit weaker or could that kind of pick back up as you go along here? I know there's a seasonality, wondering if there's anything you can share there. Maybe reimbursements kind of more of a headwind than you were expecting.
Yeah. When it comes to OCD, not every clinic that we end up selling actually takes an OCD because they may not be focused on OCD in that clinical practice itself. I think it's usually less than a 50/50 in some case. Some of our business is to existing customers. If an existing customer is expanding and they already have an OCD coil, they may not require one at this time. Again, I think obviously, we're pretty proud of what we have already with 1/3 of the install base having the OCD coil, and that's even, again, without reimbursement. We know as we continue on path to gain reimbursement, we know that those numbers will change.
All right. That's fair, Chris. Chris, you actually mentioned it in the last and prior question, the European indications. Recently, we saw that MagVenture secured some CE mark approvals for indications like addiction, OCD, depression, anxiety. Could you talk about the competitive positioning of BrainsWay in Europe and how you kind of see that evolving over the next couple of years? It's a pretty important market for you. It grew on top line over 3% last year. Would love to hear your thoughts.
Yeah. Again, our focus has really been on the U.S., the U.S. commercial market. We are looking at the international business as a growth opportunity. Right now we're still, I would say, opportunistic in Europe around what we do and the rest of international. I think there are unique opportunities that we leveraged. I mean, you mentioned we had greater than 30% sales last year OUS, which is quite nice, and I think we can continue to leverage some of those. As far as the indications, again, we have a wide, broad range of indications in Europe already, including addiction treatments and things like that, and I think Jeff asked about Parkinson's earlier. I think that helps us internationally. Where we have challenges internationally is more around reimbursement. Our focus has been primarily internationally in Japan.
Japan, as you know, we have clearance there, but we've been waiting on reimbursement in Japan, and COVID has really set us back there. We're looking as we exit COVID to hopefully that we will get reimbursement in Japan and we can start our commercial launch there and have an active focus on that.
Okay. Makes sense. Thanks, Chris. If I could just squeeze one last one in here. I know it's very early in the smoking cessation, but have you begun any of the reimbursement work for that indication? I guess if not, which is probably likely, what is that process really going to be like? Is that going to be revolved around generating some clinical data this year? I think you mentioned that in your remarks.
Are you talking about smoking? Sorry.
Yeah, smoking addiction. Thanks.
Yeah. As part of our controlled market release, as I mentioned, we have 10 sites now that are up installed. We put a pretty robust tracking system in there to gain post-marketing data, and we'll be using that, obviously, that post-marketing data in trying to understand the reimbursement landscape. It's a little bit different with smoking than obviously for depression or OCD, and we're continuing to explore that, but it's really paramount for us to ensure that we're collecting that post-marketing data. We've set up a really robust system. The team did an amazing job thus far, and we're collecting that.
Makes sense. All right, thanks. Congrats on the quarter.
Thanks, Kyle. Appreciate it.
Thank you. Our next question has come from the line of Jason Wittes with Northland Capital Markets. Please proceed with your questions.
Hi, thanks for taking the questions. Just to follow up, maybe on smoking cessation. Obviously, it's going to take a while to assess the waters on reimbursement from the payers, do you also anticipate there could be a large out-of-pocket market for this as well?
Jason, thanks. Thanks for the question. That's a very important thing, and that's one of the things that we're testing in our controlled market release. With the 10 systems that we've already installed, and we plan now to install four more systems, those are specifically the things that we're looking at, how cash pay can be a little bit more robust. We know with OCD, it's been difficult on the cash pay side, but there are some advantages I think we could take with smokers in general, if they're really wanting to quit. It's less treatments. It's about half the number of treatments that you would do for, say, OCD, so the cost would be a little bit less. I think to date, we've probably done about maybe a dozen patients at those 10 sites.
We have some good anecdotal data about how the treatments are going and, there is some excitement there, and we're continuing to learn about it as we expand out and refine our marketing message around it.
Okay, great. Related to that, it also seems like it would be pretty susceptible, I guess, would be the word, to DTC marketing. It's kind of a unique approach. There's quite a lot of desperate smokers out there, but there's also quite a few options. Obviously, a lot of them don't work. In this rollout, are you also supporting with some DTC, either local or internet, or could you explain your thinking there, in terms of how the DTC drive might shape up?
Yeah. Great question. Obviously, as part of our big launch this year with the direct-to-consumer market we have done as part of our controlled market release, we're also doing digital marketing around smoking as well to test what kind of responses would we see and how would they be working. We've been working with several of our customers around that as well. Again, that's again to hone in our messaging.
Okay. I might have just missed this in the release, did you break out the lease versus sale breakout on the revenues? Related to that, do you think COVID is having any impact on the direct sales piece of the revenue?
This is Scott. Our lease revenue was about 56% of the mix this quarter.
I do think there's still some lingering COVID-19 impact from the end of the year and into the first quarter on our business. As Chris mentioned in his comments, we see positive trends about that starting to relieve.
Okay. Also just, again, maybe in terms of how you're thinking, you just had a successful raise. You have a bit of a war chest now. You're going to 13 to 18, which is certainly a decent increase, in terms of sales reps. Still puts you behind some of your competitors. I guess the question is, when you talk about ramping up on revenue, or excuse me, on expenses, it sounds like a large percentage of that is going to be for DTC type and internet type advertising. Am I thinking about this right? I'd be curious to know how you think the best way to attack this market since there's so much-
Yeah, look.
Yeah.
It's a good point. I think it's a two-pronged approach here. We have to just create awareness. I think that's the biggest driver for us. Then we're going to put feet on the street. We have planned to go to 18, and I would expect as those ramp up, we'll look opportunistically at where the other territories could be and potentially add sales where necessary. At least our plans are only to go to 18 right now. Personally, I think, and just coming in here, awareness is a huge driver, and everything we can do to create patient awareness in all these geographies is going to help pull through for us to help our sales team.
Okay, great. Thanks. I'll jump back in queue.
Thanks, Jason.
Thank you. Our next question comes from the line of Jayson Bedford with Raymond James. Please proceed with your question.
Hi, guys. This is Pavan Surabhi for Jayson Bedford. I just wanted to ask about trends exiting the quarter and what the trends look like for the rest of the first half and for the year now that COVID seems to be less of an issue.
Yeah, very good question. I think as I remember remarking on last quarter, we expect the trends to continue to get improvement and our initial thoughts are obviously as we go into the second half of the year, it's going to continue to expand. We're pretty positive about what we're seeing, and I think overall, just talking to the sales force and getting their feedback, they're getting more face-to-face meetings, which I think is quite exciting.
Great. Thank you. If you could elaborate on the three-minute protocol a little bit more. Does this protocol require a new piece of hardware? Also in terms of what type of patients the shorter protocol is suited for as opposed to standard protocol. Just a few more details on what the potential patient population, how it could be different than with the standard protocol would be great.
Thanks for that question. Our latest and greatest system was actually built with this in mind. It is the, I would say, most powerful stimulator on the market for any TMS company that's out there. It's in fact immediately available to all of our customers. There's nothing that's needed at all. It's ready to roll. Our customers have been, like earlier I said, roughly about 30% or greater of our customers have already started utilizing this. Again, it's more, I would say, it's physician-dependent. We want the physician to decide what's best for the patient. We've given some guidelines out, but anecdotally, I've heard from physicians, just that maybe you have an elderly patient that's not maybe well suitable to tolerate the 19-minute treatment. In that case, maybe a three-minute treatment is more suitable.
Got it. Other than that patient being older, what is preventing the 30% from? I would think that most people would want a shorter treatment as opposed to a longer treatment. What's preventing greater adoption of this? In terms of average ASP per procedure, is it different than the standard, or are you guys still getting reimbursed the same amount for the standard as well as the new protocol?
From a reimbursement percentage, certain insurance companies will obviously reimburse protocol for Deep TMS for depression. Maybe some of the insurance companies call out Theta Burst or they don't. I think in general, we really want to leave it up to the customers to decide that, let them have the flexibility of what's more appropriate for their patients.
Got it. Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you. There are no further questions at this time. I would like to turn the call back over to management for any closing comments.
Thank you. In conclusion, I would like to thank all of our investors and other participants for their interest in BrainsWay, and we look forward to keeping you up to date on our progress throughout the remainder of the year. With that, please enjoy the rest of your day.
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