14. SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company is principally engaged in the provision of healthcare services, including a broad range of general and specialized hospital healthcare services and outpatient services. Services are delivered within hospitals that the Company owns or operates as well as related healthcare entities that exist to support and supplement services provided in their associated hospital, including, for example, physician practices, urgent care centers, freestanding emergency departments, occupations medicine clinics, imaging centers, cancer centers and ambulatory surgery centers.

The Company has a single reportable segment represented by hospital operations which includes its general acute care hospitals and related healthcare entities that provide inpatient and outpatient healthcare services. The Company defined its single reportable segment consistent with the manner in which internally reported financial information is regularly reviewed by the Company’s chief executive officer who is the Company’s chief operating decision maker (“CODM”). Resources are allocated and financial performance is assessed on a consolidated basis. The individual serving as the Company’s CODM changed effective October 1, 2025, in connection with the appointment of Kevin J. Hammons as the Company’s interim Chief Executive Officer on such date (Mr. Hammons was subsequently appointed Chief Executive Officer effective on December 10, 2025).

The CODM does not review assets at a different level or category than the amounts disclosed in the consolidated balance sheets.

The CODM uses net income (loss), as presented in the consolidated statements of income (loss), to assess performance and allocate resources. Net income (loss) is used in the annual budgeting process as well as throughout the period when projecting or forecasting quarterly and full-year performance. The CODM considers budget-to-actual and actual versus prior period (prior month, prior year, etc.) variances on a periodic basis as a means of assessing performance. The following segment information, including significant segment expenses, is presented in millions:

 

 

 

Year Ended December 31,

 

 

 

2025

 

 

2024

 

 

2023

 

Net operating revenues

 

$

12,485

 

 

$

12,634

 

 

$

12,490

 

Less:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Salaries and benefits

 

 

5,412

 

 

 

5,418

 

 

 

5,415

 

Supplies

 

 

1,864

 

 

 

1,946

 

 

 

1,993

 

Medical specialist fees

 

 

648

 

 

 

640

 

 

 

606

 

Other segment items

 

 

3,053

 

 

 

3,301

 

 

 

3,101

 

Depreciation and amortization

 

 

426

 

 

 

486

 

 

 

505

 

Interest expense

 

 

872

 

 

 

863

 

 

 

832

 

Interest income

 

 

(2

)

 

 

(3

)

 

 

(2

)

Impairment and (gain) loss on sale of businesses, net

 

 

(406

)

 

 

301

 

 

 

(87

)

Gain from early extinguishment of debt

 

 

(97

)

 

 

(25

)

 

 

(72

)

Equity in earnings of unconsolidated affiliates

 

 

(9

)

 

 

(10

)

 

 

(8

)

Provision for income taxes

 

 

48

 

 

 

79

 

 

 

191

 

Net income (loss)

 

$

676

 

 

$

(362

)

 

$

16

 

Other segment items include various purchased services and other operating expenses including, for example, lease cost and rent expense, contract labor, repairs and maintenance, utilities, professional liability claims expense and software maintenance fees.

Historical Timeline

Fiscal YearFiled
2025Feb 19, 2026Showing above
2024Feb 19, 2025
2017Feb 28, 2018
2016Feb 21, 2017
2015Feb 17, 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.