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Goldman Sachs 47th Annual Global Healthcare Conference 2026

Jun 8, 2026

Summary

The business has shifted from emergency response to a scalable, technology-driven healthcare delivery model, focusing on in-home, virtual, and transportation services. Integration of SteadyMD and the Care Anywhere platform is driving efficiency, margin improvement, and growth, while regulatory changes and payer partnerships support a path to profitability and long-term expansion.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Good afternoon. My name's Sarah Conrad, and I'm on the GS Healthcare Services team here. Today, I am joined by DocGo and CEO Lee Bienstock. Lee, just for those who are a little less familiar with the story, can you give a high-level overview of the business today and how we're thinking about the core value proposition?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Absolutely, Sarah. It's great to be here with you. For those less familiar with DocGo, essentially, we deliver healthcare, literally. We go into patients' homes and deliver healthcare. We provide virtual care services, remote care services, and we also have a very large Medical Transportation business where we go and take patients from one care setting to the next. That's essentially what our company is there to do. We're going to meet patients where they are or bring patients to where they need to get to, and we do that at great scale. Last year, we transported 700,000 patients, and we also visited about 150,000 patients in the home and did over 1 million telehealth visits. We're really excited. We're meeting patients where they are, and we think when you meet patients where they are, you have better health outcomes.

You have better health outcomes, obviously it's great for the patients, it's great for the system, and we think we'll do well in that way.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. The company's gone through a bit of transition over the last couple of years. You've moved away from your COVID and migrant-related work. Can you talk about the main pieces of the business today and how investors should think about what the normalized business should look like from here?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Absolutely. You mentioned it. The company went public in 2021. At that time, we were a medical transportation company. We've been doing medical transportation now for over 10 years. When the company went public, we were doing about $100 million of medical transportation revenue in that year. This year, we'll do over $200 million. We've doubled the medical transportation business in that time. At the time, we were doing a lot of COVID work and over the last number of years, doing work relating to the migrant crisis in New York. The company was doing a lot of work with emergency response, right? Us being an ambulance company at heart, a medical transportation company at heart, we were mobile and dynamic in that way, and that was what was needed to respond to some of these emergencies.

Really, the goal of the company has evolved into meeting patients where they are in an evergreen way, tackling their health and their chronic conditions in an evergreen, proactive way, and that's where the company has evolved. In Q1 of this year, that was the first quarter in years where the company did not have any COVID revenue or migrant-related revenue. We were providing medical care to the migrants that were being bused to New York. We didn't have any of that type of revenue. We had about $76 million of revenue in Q1 of this year, all of which was comprised of our medical transportation revenue and the Care Anywhere portfolio, as I say, the bringing care to where it's needed. That was an exciting moment for us.

It was the first quarter, and people got a chance, and investors got a chance to see the business for the components that are evergreen and proactive in providing care where it's needed, and that was a big milestone for us.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. Let's move on to medical transportation. This is your largest, most established vertical. Can you talk a little bit about the utilization environments there, what's driving the growth today, and also just the competitive environment within medical transportation?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah. Medical transportation has gotten a lot of excitement recently. I know we were talking about one of our peer companies, I'd say. AMR just went public a couple of months ago, and we're cheering them on as well, of course. I think really medical transportation is evolving. Patients need to get to the care facilities and care settings that they need to get to receive efficient care. As I mentioned, we've been doing it for over a decade now, and the real genesis for us to bring innovation to the space was really, how can we use technology to become more efficient? How can we use technology to help the system? That's basically what we set out to build over the last 10- 11 years.

We built a platform that's embedded within Epic, where a discharge nurse can literally click a button, and just like Uber, see exactly when the ambulance is going to arrive to pick up the patient. That is a really magical experience for a discharge nurse. If you think back, it used to be when you ordered an ambulance or medical transportation, you'd call the first company on the list. "Hey, can you come pick up my patient now?" "Great. We'll be there in an hour." You don't really know. Are they going to be there in an hour and 20 minutes? Are they going to be there in 40 minutes? Maybe they weren't available to pick up the patient. You'd call the second one on the list. Now with us, we have our platform.

It's directly embedded within Epic, they click a button, and they can see exactly when we're arriving. The other piece is we've approached the market in a very different way. We're contracting with major hospital systems to provide medical transportation for their entire population. This is a big aspect because you can imagine if a hospital called up an ambulance company and said, "Hey, can you come pick up a patient?" If they didn't have such great insurance, maybe they're busy. If they didn't have any insurance, maybe they're not available. For us, we help the hospital system manage the patient. We contract in a way that we align incentives so that we can help them manage the patient flow, and that has been a big sort of breath of fresh air to the customers we work with.

We work with some hospital systems like NYC Health + Hospitals, Mount Sinai, Jefferson Health. We work with Main Line Health. We work with Methodist. We work with a lot of great hospital systems that use our software, Northwell, and we help them manage that patient flow. That integration between software and services is very unique. I think that's a winning strategy. We can talk more about it, there's a lot of companies out there that are just doing the software, but they can't provide you with the services, or there are antiquated companies providing services, but they don't have the technology, and that's kind of our unique value proposition is we bring both to bear, both the platform and the services, all integrated into one seamless experience for the facility and the patient.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

You mentioned you take all types of payers. We've had a couple changes in the market recently with the ACA subsidies expiring, Medicaid challenges with DSH payments. Can you talk a little bit about how your payer mix has shifted over the last year or so?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

For us, really, we contract first and foremost either with the insurance companies directly or with the hospital systems. I'll tell you that there's a lot of strain on the system right now. Hospital systems are definitely worried about expenses and the reimbursement rates that they're going to be getting. Certainly, we believe there's going to be a lot of fewer population on some of the Medicaid plans. As a result, well, patients are going to end up in the hospital. The question is, do they have Medicaid or do they not have Medicaid? Do they have insurance, or do they not have insurance? The hospitals are going to have to grapple with how they're going to provide services for those patients. That's really why we exist. We're there to help them either mitigate that.

We try to keep patients out of the hospital when they don't need to be there, and I'll tell a personal story in a second. Of course, if the patient does need to be there or needs to be transported out upon discharge, we help them do that efficiently. I think, to be more and more efficient. One of is really CMS's goal to reward outcomes, and the upfront reimbursements are so low, you have no choice but to use technology to drive down the cost. Otherwise, you won't be successful. It's pretty clear what the industry and what CMS is trying to do. They're trying to incentivize providers like us and hospital systems and insurance companies that we work with to drive the cost down, to improve outcomes, and to reward companies and providers for doing that.

We've all had experiences where we've gone to the doctor or taken a child to the hospital, and there's just test after test. Providers get rewarded the sicker and sicker you get, the more and more times they visit the hospital, the more and more times they visit a doctor's office. The system has to change to where actually companies like mine, companies like ours, are successful, the healthier the patient is. That's what CMS, I believe, is trying to do. We sit at the intersection of that, and I think you're going to see more and more of that come down the pipe here. I think also, in some cases, you're going to see pressure on rates, but in some cases, you're going to see higher incentives. I think CMS is really pushing more preventative care. They're increasing the G codes on preventative care.

They're improving reimbursements on proactive screenings and things of that nature, all with an effort to improve outcomes, which will ultimately drive down the total cost of care. That's really the piece of the strategy we're focused on.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. I guess, sticking on Medical Transportation just for a little bit. What do you think customers are prioritizing when they're selecting their vendors? What do you think is driving your ability to continue to take share in this market?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

I think first and foremost, the customers we work with are prioritizing the transparency of the service delivery. When are we going to be there? How often do we arrive on time? How quickly can we move the patients and free up the bed for the next patient? That's the key. For example, when we're ordered, when a Medical Transportation is ordered through us, alerts go out across the hospital. The housekeeping team is notified. Now it's time to go and make up the room for the next patient. The intake team is notified, "Hey, the bed is freed up for the next patient." The discharge nurse knows exactly when to get the patient ready because they know exactly when we're going to be arriving.

That transparency and understanding each piece of the service delivery is very, very valuable to the hospital system, and that's what the tech platform enables them to do. I also think the quality of the service is very, very important. They choose us based on that. They typically don't choose us based on price. We're not going to be the lowest cost provider. We're there to provide Medical Transportation to the entire patient population that they serve. Oftentimes, that requires the hospital system to invest alongside us. Part of the issue has been that all the ambulance companies happen to be busy when a patient that doesn't have insurance or has, say, low reimbursement insurance needs to be transported. We'll be there to take that patient.

We want to provide great care and great access for all, the incentives have to be in line between the facility and the provider. In a lot of cases, we have a program where we call a dedicated fleet, where our ambulances are dedicated to that facility, and we'll transport any of the patients they need to transport, and we'll bill insurance. If we're able to collect our daily minimum, the hospital system doesn't owe us anything. If we're not able to collect, the hospital pitches in the shortfall. That aligns incentives. The other way we align incentives is we'll tell the hospital when we're going to arrive to pick up the patient. We show up there and the patient's not ready, and we just have to wait around. Everybody loses. The patient loses, the hospital loses, and we lose.

We couldn't be the only ones to lose in that scenario where we're just waiting for the patient to be ready. That's the key, aligning all the incentives where the hospital system knows they can have reliable, great quality, transparent transportation and patient flow. We know that when we show up, the patient's going to be ready, so we could be really efficient and transport as many patients as we can throughout that shift, throughout that day. Of course, the patient benefits in a great way when there's great quality, predictable transportation to get them where they need to be. That's what we've set up. That's why we think we're going to be very successful.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

It's great hearing about those partnerships and relationships that you have. I want to pivot to the recent acquisition of SteadyMD, which had a really strong first quarter. Can you talk a little bit about how this business is operating post-acquisition, and how we should think about the pipeline of new logos and existing logos from here?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yes. We're very excited. We have a very talented team that's joined the company in SteadyMD. They had a record quarter in Q1. They're on a really great trajectory for the rest of this year. They continue to sign incredible customers and partners in the pharmacy space, in the digital wellness space, and I think we're very excited. The other piece that is very foundational, this idea of going to deliver care in the home. We don't send a doctor, we don't send an MD to the home. We don't send a nurse practitioner or physician's assistant into the home. There's just too much drive time. There's too much Time in between the patient interactions. What we do, which is very unique, is we'll send a medical assistant or an LPN into the home.

They're the hands, eyes, and ears in the home that's able to vaccinate a patient, that's able to take a swab, take a lab sample, take a screening, and remotely, virtually, is the higher order clinician, and that's the SteadyMD network. We've really, through this acquisition, we've done two things. A. We've brought a great 50-state virtual care practice into the company, and we've created this network where now the SteadyMD clinicians are overseeing the DocGo visits in the home. That 400, 5, 600 clinician network is enabling us to scale the in-the-home visits way faster. That's why we're so excited about this, and we think, look, you have to be able to provide care in every modality, virtually, remotely, and in person. There are so many companies that could do it virtually, but they can't be in person.

There are companies that could be in person, like the doctor's office, but they don't do the digital or remote well. We are building the competency to do all of it under one clinical practice. When the telehealth visit will do, we'll do a telehealth visit. When we need to be with the patient hands-on, we have the ability to do that as well. We can't take a blood sample through a Zoom call, through a virtual visit. We can't give a patient a vaccination through a screen. We can do a lot of things virtually, and that's the wonderful aspect of what we're building. We're building this Care Anywhere platform where we can be with the patient when it's needed. We can be virtual when it's efficient.

We can be remote, so we're monitoring the patient throughout their daily lives, and we can intervene and be proactive in the moment in real time. That is very unique at the scale we're doing it. It's a very big vision. It's really, frankly, what's needed for the healthcare system because if the healthcare system keeps going the way it's going, where we spend 19% of GDP, I'm sure a lot of people are talking about this throughout the conference, patients are just getting sicker and sicker. Rewarding providers like ours for treating patients that just keep getting sicker and sicker, really frankly makes no sense. That's what CMS is really pushing. We applaud them for that.

Rewarding folks like us for the healthier the patients get, the less they're bouncing back to the hospital is really where the system needs to go to save the system, frankly, from total collapse.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. We talked a little bit about the flywheel of demand with the SteadyMD acquisition. As we think about the demand trajectory and also the margin profile, how should we think about this integrating into the company and driving additional efficiencies?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah. That is the big aspect. That integration where the SteadyMD clinical practice group. Before we acquired SteadyMD, we had our own clinical practice group, and then, of course, SteadyMD came with a clinical practice group. Now we've integrated the clinical practice group into one clinical practice group serving all the patients we see, whether they be the SteadyMD patients, DocGo patients, or any of the patients that we see. Again, marrying the SteadyMD network to the clinician in the home, when DocGo sends a clinician in the home, that's what's going to be driving the efficiency. We think that's going to improve the margins. A big aspect of the company is we've been investing into the ability to bring a doctor's office into a patient's living room. That's what we've been investing into. It's cost us money.

Obviously, it's contributing to the EBITDA loss. We think that opportunity is just such a big opportunity. We also realize that we have to improve the margins as we go if we want to be effective and viable. SteadyMD allows us to improve the margins as we go, allows us to see the patients in the home, but also to serve other customers with virtual visits and that integration, integrating the clinical practice groups and integrating the competencies, DocGo's ability to go in the home, SteadyMD's ability to be virtual. Now it's all under one roof, and we can be very efficient going forward.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah, just double-clicking one more time into SteadyMD. There's been a little bit of focus on some of the current logos, like the online pharmacies for weight loss. Can you talk about, are there any other types of customers that you want to call out or additional logos that you would want to expand into that you think are a big opportunity?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah. You mentioned the online pharmacies. That's obviously a big, with the GLP-1 adoption, that's been a big growth driver for the company, and we've been at the forefront of that. I also think something that has not been talked about a lot is. Everyone's talking about AI, but everyone's talking about AI as sort of like a replacement or maybe to be more efficient. We actually think the clinician with AI is going to be very powerful. I'll give you an example. We work with a customer today, a dermatology AI-focused company, where you can upload a picture of, let's say, a skin condition, or you can engage with AI in a chat. Ultimately, if there's some diagnosis that's needed or there's some higher-level interaction that's needed where a patient actually wants to speak to a clinician, we can unlock that.

I think, it's going to be our clinicians that are making sure that the AI is making the right diagnosis. It's our clinicians that are going to be sort of an off-ramp for when a patient actually does want to speak to a human clinician, I think you're going to see a lot of marrying between the two. Today, a clinician still has to review that dermatology assessment, we're working with a lot of AI companies to bring the clinical practice to whatever tools they're trying to build to make the healthcare system more efficient.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay. Now that we've walked through a lot of the pieces of the business, I want to ask about the underlying demand trends that you're seeing across the portfolio in the second quarter. We've heard from some of our hospital companies, one last week, who said surgical volumes were down, potentially flagged a weaker demand environment. I guess just is there any color that you can give us on demand trends, throughout the second quarter so far?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah. Actually, we don't play with those higher order surgical procedures. Actually, if we're doing our job well, surgical procedures will go down, higher, more acute interventions will go down, that's really, frankly, what the healthcare system needs. Of course, hospitals play a vital role. If a patient truly needs that more acute surgical procedure, we want to be there to be able to maybe coordinate the transportation or to provide the follow-up care in the home to make sure that it's healing properly and so forth. We do all of that. I think the demand trends we're seeing is really around the consumerization of healthcare. I think a lot of the wearable companies are going to get more and more into healthcare.

They are doing a wonderful job with some of the diagnostics they're able to do with the wearables, if they truly want to take the next leap into a medical device, they're going to need a clinical practice. Setting up a clinical practice is not so easy to do. Certainly to do it in all 50 states is not so easy to do. We're finding a lot of demand there, where you have the consumerization of healthcare, those digital health companies that want to offer actual medical advice, medical services to their members, to their subscribers, we unlock that for them. We're seeing a lot of growth there. I think we're also seeing a lot of growth, again, from the payer side, where they're trying to improve their MLR. They're trying to drive down costs. They're trying to reduce hospital readmissions.

They're trying to improve their HEDIS quality score ratings. The only way to really do that, there's lots of ways to do that, the big way to do that is that are drifting, that are unattached, that are going without the care we're helping them address that. We're seeing a big tailwind there for sure. We're continuing to widen the scope that we're providing in the home. We're trying to meet patients before they end up in a hospitalization. We're trying to meet patients within that 30-day readmit window so that we can see them in the home, maybe re-dress that incision site, maybe make sure that they don't bounce back to the hospital.

We work with a very large payer in California where they've been giving us the LACE score patients, the Length of Stay Acuity, chronic condition patients on a scale of one to 10. They've been giving us, I think, on average, 9.2 out of 10. These are the highest acuity patients. Our patient population they've been giving us has been bouncing back to the emergency department 60% less. Because, again, we're following up with their care plans in the home. I think this idea of meeting patients where they are is playing out and the payers that the majority of the customers we have on the payer side want to expand with us this year.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay. Maybe all the demand's just shifting-

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

out of those acute settings. You've outlined a path to profitability this year. How should we think about the key drivers and what the puts and takes are going to be?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

This is a big aspect for the company. We shared on our last earnings call that we plan to break even in the back half of the year, and it's really a factor of three, obviously, key components. The first is on a quarterly revenue basis, we want to achieve the $80 million-$85 million. We feel like that's the critical need, the sort of watermark that we need to get to on a revenue side in order to have the scale that we need. In Q1, I mentioned we did about $76 million of revenue. We feel like we're quite close to that, and of course, I mentioned a lot of the growth that we're seeing throughout the company. That is sort of within reach, if you will.

That revenue base, that's one component of it, about $80 million-$85 million of quarterly revenue. On the gross margin side, we feel like we need to be in the 34%-35%. In Q1, we were at 31.6 adjusted gross margin. We feel like, again, we have about 200 basis points- 400 basis points to go there. That's going to be driven by being more and more efficient in our delivery, reducing overtime hours for our staff, reducing shift bonuses, being much more efficient, again, in the field with the medical assistants and the licensed practical nurses alongside the SteadyMD clinicians and driving that gross margin up. As the Mobile Health portfolio takes more and more of the revenue component, that will drive margins up with it.

As an example, our Mobile Phlebotomy offering has about 55% gross margins. Our Remote Patient Monitoring practice has about 60% gross margins. As those continue to grow and become a bigger component of the revenue base, it will also take gross margins with it. We need to cut about $4 million-$5 million of SG&A spend per quarter. We did a very large reduction in force recently, we took some costs out of the business, and we're continuing to work with the vendors that we work with to sort of pare back some of the spending there, and we think that we can get that done.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay, that was some really good detail there on mix versus scale versus operating efficiency. As we think about 2027 and beyond, once we're past that break-even point, what do you think are the biggest levers going forward?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah, I think it's going to continue to be, from a growth perspective, it's going to continue to be the Care Anywhere platform. I think we're going to continue to have very nice growth in those components. We think the Care Anywhere platform, again, the virtual care, the care in the home, the Mobile Phlebotomy, the Remote Patient Monitoring aspects will grow about 30%-40% year-on-year. Medical Transportation less. As that grows, that'll be a continuing lever for that. I think we'll also continue to expand with the payers we work with. Right now, we work with a number of wonderful, fantastic name brand payers. I know some of them will be at the conference. We work with those payers, and we think over time, we're going to be thoughtful about it.

There are a lot of markets that those payers want us to go to. I shared, and it's always, like you said, it's a balance there, right? We have a payer that we work with in California. We recently expanded with them to Kentucky and New Mexico. There's other states we could expand with them. I think it's, but we also want to be mindful. New markets require new investment, which require perhaps strain on the EBITDA. We're being very thoughtful about that. We're expanding to new states in a very measured way, and we think we're expanding to states in a way where we can do it profitably quickly. We announced a couple of weeks ago that we just launched Mobile Phlebotomy services in Southern Florida, actually, in this neck of the woods.

We did that in partnership with one of the major labs, and we did it in a way where we were able to scale the staff cheaply and quickly, and the demand was already there for us. We didn't have to generate it, we think we're going to be profitable very quickly in that endeavor here in Southern Florida. That's the way we're going to be scaling the business.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. We touched a little bit on the CMS Access Model a little earlier. I'd love to go more in-depth into both CMS Access, also, are there any other CMS or regulatory proposals that we should be aware of as it relates to your business?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah. The Access Model was a big program that CMS launched. Essentially, what that model is trying to incentivize is a much lower upfront, basically reimbursement for a preventative care. If you're successful in achieving health outcomes, which I'll give some examples of, then you get sort of incentive payments and bonus payments. That was a big move by CMS. They put out an RFP. I think a lot of companies responded to it. They ultimately ended up choosing 150 to participate. We are one of the 150 that was selected, and I think time will tell. We will launch in a measured way, where patients can be enrolled into our practice as part of the Access Program, and we will provide preventative care exactly like we're doing today and try to drive outcomes. I think we will see more programs like that from CMS.

I think that's the only real solution. I think part of the aspect that people in healthcare don't talk enough about is in order to improve health outcomes, most of the time, you need a long-term view. By patients that have chronic conditions, it takes time to impact their health outcomes. It takes time to improve their condition. Our system is set up in a very short-term way. I may have one insurance provider this year, and next year, I might change my insurance provider. I might work for a company where I have one insurance, and then I go and work for another company that has a different insurance.

How can an insurance company actually invest to make me healthier, try so hard this year to maybe perhaps help me, if I'm struggling with a chronic condition, only to see me go to another health insurance company if I were to change roles or change jobs or change insurance companies. That's the problem the system has. The only one that can solve that is CMS. I think that is CMS's responsibility, and I think they're going to continue to look there. All the conversations that we have around this from people that are in that orbit, advising in that space, are telling us that CMS is pushing more and more to develop programs that are incentivizing that, because otherwise the healthcare system is completely doomed.

Even for us, we're a self-insured employer on the health side, we try so hard to help our employees, our team members that perhaps are high utilizers and have chronic conditions. Look, we feel a moral responsibility to try to help them, even if they are to go to move on to another company and have another insurance provider. We see it. You have to have a long-term view to impact someone's health, but the insurance industry and the healthcare industry is set up for short-term incentives. That has to be solved. Everybody's talking about all these things with AI and everything else. You can invest in anything you want.

If it does not improve health outcomes over a period of time where you could actually make a return on that investment, which is how we're set up, which is the way it should be, right? I'm going to work so hard to make a patient healthier, only to see them go to another provider or go to another insurance company, and that insurance company is going to get all the benefit of all the investment I made into that patient, then that has to change. I think that's the types of programs you're seeing. The HEDIS quality scale is a big part of that, where insurance providers are incentivized to improve outcomes and have higher star ratings. I think it's about something like 40% of the plans, improvement in their reimbursement rate if they were stars, and they're missing out on that.

5% is a meaningful premium reimbursement to get from CMS uplift. I think that's where the system's going. It has to go that way. The only one that could actually push incentives like that is CMS, and I know from the Access program, as an example, they're really looking towards that.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay. I've got one quick housekeeping modeling question. Fuel costs have been a big area of focus with the conflict in the Middle East. They weighed on earnings in the first quarter, but it seems like costs have come down. Is there any updated framing you can give us on how we should be thinking about that into the second quarter and the rest of the year?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah, it's funny, Sarah. Obviously I should have mentioned at the onset, we deliver healthcare. How do we do it? We have 1,000 vehicles. We have 4,000 clinicians in the field, all meeting patients where they are, taking patients to where they need to get to. Last year, we were bragging that we drove 11.5 million miles. The team, we were talking about it, and I said, "Hey, guys, actually, we should be bragging about how much fewer miles we can drive." That's part of the efficiency. If we didn't have our tech platform, I'm sure we'd be driving a lot more. As part of that, we purchase about 270,000 gallons of gasoline each quarter. It's pretty significant. For every dollar increase at the pump, we see about a 35 basis point margin hit.

For every dollar, again, 35 basis point margin hit. Our biggest component in the business is really the vehicles and the labor, not the gas. We'd love it if the gas prices went lower, but it's about, for every dollar, it's about 35 basis points. Sometimes people think it would end up impacting our business more. It will be a headwind for us in Q2. We're seeing much higher gas prices in Q2. We think that will persist. We think, hopefully, it abates in the back half of the year, which will help on the gross margin side. The other piece that we're doing in order to offset things we can't control, like gas prices, is to invest in the things that we can control, like automating a lot of the aspects of the business.

I mentioned on our last earnings call, we have an efficiency portfolio that includes a lot of automation in the business. For example, on our pre-billing, annual pre-billing function where we would go in and see pre-authorization to see if the patient has insurance, are we going to be able to collect, notify the hospital system of that, and now we're using AI to do that, as an example. We were using a lot of human capital to coordinate patient schedules, visits, rescheduling, confirming appointments, and now we're using AI more and more to do that. We are going to do the best we can to procure the gas for the cheapest possible way, but understanding we can't control the price.

We are absolutely, sleeves rolled up on the aspects of the business that we can control, investing in automation so that we can improve the margins, which is a big facet of what we're doing to get to break even in the back half of the year.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. How should we think about cash flow and capital needs over the medium term, and how should we think about capital allocation, given where we are today?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Yeah. First and foremost, I've been resolute. In terms of the capital allocation, we're going to continue to fund the growth of the business and fund the capabilities of the business. We think that there's a lot of opportunity for us in the pipeline that we have in the business and the existing customer base we have. As I mentioned, the majority of our health plans are looking to expand with us this year. That's really first and foremost where the capital allocation priority will sit. I think, we have ability to access capital. We have a line of credit today that we're looking to slightly modify and have access to capital to help fund the growth of the business going forward.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Okay, we've got about two minutes left, I just want to go over, what do you think investors are most misunderstanding about the DocGo business today?

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

That's a good one, Sarah, thank you for asking that. Again, sometimes people look at our stock chart and say, "Lee, what am I missing? You have a $300 million healthcare service and technology company going and meeting patients where they are." Which is, again, one of the other pieces we didn't talk about is the federal government is also earmarking about $50 billion to help improve access to patients. You're doing all this. You have great scale. You have 1,000 vehicles, 4,000 clinicians. You're operating across all 50 states. What are we missing when we look at the stock chart? I think we, over the last couple of years, have really been digesting the comps from the COVID and the migrant. Like I said, I think Q1 was the first quarter where we didn't have any of that.

In Q1 of last year, we had about $35 million of migrant revenues providing services to the humanitarian crisis in Europe relating to the migrants. When you look year-over-year, right, well, is the business growing or is it not? Again, when you take out the migrant revenues, it is. When you see it on that screening process, those year-over-year comps have been tough for us. That continues. I think we'll have some of that in Q2, but as we go throughout the year, that will abate. I also think, again, I think people are looking at really where we're investing into and they want to see the progress in the healthcare at any address, Care Anywhere program. I think we are showing that. We certainly showed that with all the volumes being up in Q1.

We'll continue to show that as we go throughout the year here. Then as we hit that profitability threshold, I think we're going to be celebrating that.

Sarah Conrad
Analyst, Goldman Sachs

Yeah. We're super excited to watch the rest of the story from here and reaching breakeven profitability. Thank you so much for the time and attending our conference today.

Lee Bienstock
CEO, DocGo

Thanks, Sarah. Appreciate it. Thank you to the Goldman team.