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Performant Financial Corp. – ‘10-Q’ for 9/30/22 – ‘EX-101.DEF’

On:  Wednesday, 11/9/22, at 4:21pm ET   ·   For:  9/30/22   ·   Accession #:  1550695-22-69   ·   File #:  1-35628

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  As Of               Filer                 Filing    For·On·As Docs:Size

11/09/22  Performant Financial Corp.        10-Q        9/30/22   52:4.3M

Quarterly Report   —   Form 10-Q

Filing Table of Contents

Document/Exhibit                   Description                      Pages   Size 

 1: 10-Q        Quarterly Report                                    HTML   1.11M 
 2: EX-31.1     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 3: EX-31.2     Certification -- §302 - SOA'02                      HTML     20K 
 4: EX-32.1     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     17K 
 5: EX-32.2     Certification -- §906 - SOA'02                      HTML     17K 
11: R1          Cover Page                                          HTML     68K 
12: R2          Consolidated Balance Sheets                         HTML    121K 
13: R3          Consolidated Balance Sheets (Parenthetical)         HTML     31K 
14: R4          Consolidated Statements of Operations               HTML     82K 
15: R5          Consolidated Statement of Changes in Stockholders'  HTML     81K 
                Equity                                                           
16: R6          Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows               HTML    122K 
17: R7          Organization and Description of Business            HTML     61K 
18: R8          Property, Equipment, and Leasehold Improvements     HTML     28K 
19: R9          Notes Payable                                       HTML     40K 
20: R10         Leases                                              HTML     28K 
21: R11         Stock-Based Compensation                            HTML     46K 
22: R12         Income Taxes                                        HTML     21K 
23: R13         Net Income (Loss) per Share                         HTML     34K 
24: R14         Subsequent Events                                   HTML     18K 
25: R15         Organization and Description of Business            HTML     46K 
                (Policies)                                                       
26: R16         Organization and Description of Business (Tables)   HTML     34K 
27: R17         Property, Equipment, and Leasehold Improvements     HTML     27K 
                (Tables)                                                         
28: R18         Notes Payable (Tables)                              HTML     35K 
29: R19         Leases (Tables)                                     HTML     29K 
30: R20         Stock-Based Compensation (Tables)                   HTML     45K 
31: R21         Net Income (Loss) per Share (Tables)                HTML     34K 
32: R22         Organization and Description of Business -          HTML     57K 
                Narrative (Details)                                              
33: R23         Organization and Description of Business -          HTML     33K 
                Disaggregated Revenue by Category (Details)                      
34: R24         Property, Equipment, and Leasehold Improvements -   HTML     33K 
                Summary (Details)                                                
35: R25         Property, Equipment, and Leasehold Improvements -   HTML     22K 
                Narrative (Details)                                              
36: R26         Notes Payable - Narrative (Details)                 HTML     66K 
37: R27         Notes Payable - Outstanding Debt Obligations        HTML     30K 
                (Details)                                                        
38: R28         Notes Payable - Maturities of Long Term Debt        HTML     32K 
                (Details)                                                        
39: R29         Leases - Narrative (Details)                        HTML     18K 
40: R30         Leases - Components of Lease Term and Discount      HTML     23K 
                Rate (Details)                                                   
41: R31         Leases - Schedule of Maturities of Lease            HTML     30K 
                Liabilities (Details)                                            
42: R32         Stock-Based Compensation - Narrative (Details)      HTML     36K 
43: R33         Stock-Based Compensation - Stock Option Activity    HTML     69K 
                (Details)                                                        
44: R34         Stock-Based Compensation - Restricted Stock and     HTML     45K 
                Performance Stock Units Activity (Details)                       
45: R35         Income Taxes (Details)                              HTML     17K 
46: R36         Net Income (Loss) per Share - Reconciliation of     HTML     24K 
                Basic to Diluted Weighted Average Shares (Details)               
47: R37         Net Income (Loss) per Share - Antidilutive          HTML     26K 
                Securities Excluded from Computation of Earnings                 
                Per Share (Details)                                              
50: XML         IDEA XML File -- Filing Summary                      XML     86K 
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49: EXCEL       IDEA Workbook of Financial Reports                  XLSX     82K 
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10: EX-101.PRE  XBRL Presentations -- pfmt-20220930_pre              XML    525K 
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51: JSON        XBRL Instance as JSON Data -- MetaLinks              245±   374K 
52: ZIP         XBRL Zipped Folder -- 0001550695-22-000069-xbrl      Zip    256K

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