Acadia Healthcare Company, Inc. Segments Disclosure
22. Segments
The Company has one reportable segment, behavioral healthcare services. The behavioral healthcare services segment provides inpatient and outpatient behavioral healthcare services. The Company derives revenue from 40 states and Puerto Rico and manages business activities on a consolidated basis. Revenue is primarily derived from services rendered to patients for inpatient psychiatric and substance abuse care, outpatient psychiatric care and adolescent residential treatment.
The accounting policies of the behavioral healthcare services segment are described in Note 2 — Summary of Significant Accounting Policies. The Company’s Chief Operating Decision Maker (“CODM”) is the . The CODM assesses performance for the behavioral healthcare services segment and decides how to allocate resources based on earnings before interest, income taxes, depreciation and amortization (“EBITDA”). The CODM reviews expenses in a format consistent with the consolidated statements of operations. The measure of segment assets is reported on the balance sheet as total assets.
The CODM uses EBITDA to evaluate income generated from segment assets in deciding whether to reinvest assets into the behavioral healthcare services segment or into other parts of the entity, such as for acquisitions or debt reduction. EBITDA is used to monitor budget versus actual results. The CODM also uses EBITDA in competitive analysis by benchmarking to the Company’s competitors. The competitive analysis along with the monitoring of budgeted versus actual results are used in assessing performance of the segment and in establishing management’s compensation. The Company does not have intra-entity sales or transfers.
Historical Timeline
| Fiscal Year | Filed | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | Feb 27, 2026 | Showing above |
| 2024 | Feb 27, 2025 | |
| 2019 | Feb 28, 2020 | |
| 2018 | Mar 1, 2019 | |
| 2017 | Feb 27, 2018 | |
| 2016 | Feb 24, 2017 | |
| 2015 | Feb 26, 2016 | |
About Segments Disclosures
Segment disclosures break a company into its reportable operating units, revealing revenue, profit, and asset allocation that consolidated financial statements obscure. Under ASC 280, segments must match how the chief operating decision maker views the business, providing a window into internal management structure and resource allocation priorities.
Key signals: compare segment margins to identify which units drive profitability and which destroy value. Watch for changes in the number of reportable segments — segment aggregation or disaggregation often coincides with strategic shifts or attempts to obscure declining performance. Intersegment elimination patterns reveal internal pricing practices. The reconciliation between segment totals and consolidated figures exposes corporate overhead allocation and unallocated items. Geographic revenue concentration highlights regulatory and currency exposure. Compare segment-level capital expenditure against segment revenue to assess where management is investing for future growth versus harvesting existing assets.