| Basis of Presentation and Significant Accounting Policies | NOTE 1 — BASIS OF PRESENTATION AND SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES Reporting Entity HCA Healthcare, Inc. is a holding company whose affiliates own and operate hospitals and related health care entities. The term “affiliates” includes direct and indirect subsidiaries of HCA Healthcare, Inc. and partnerships and joint ventures in which such subsidiaries are partners. At March 31, 2020, these affiliates owned and operated 186 hospitals, 123 freestanding surgery centers and provided extensive outpatient and ancillary services. HCA Healthcare, Inc.’s facilities are located in 21 states and England. The terms “Company,” “HCA,” “we,” “our” or “us,” as used herein and unless otherwise stated or indicated by context, refer to HCA Healthcare, Inc. and its affiliates. The terms “facilities” or “hospitals” refer to entities owned and operated by affiliates of HCA and the term “employees” refers to employees of affiliates of HCA. Basis of Presentation The accompanying unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles for interim financial information and with the instructions to Form 10-Q S-X. The majority of our expenses are “costs of revenues” items. Costs that could be classified as general and administrative would include our corporate office costs, which were $96 million and $86 million for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Operating results for the quarter ended March 31, 2020 are not necessarily indicative of the results that may be expected for the year ending December 31, 2020. For further information, refer to the consolidated financial statements and footnotes thereto included in our annual report on Form 10-K COVID-19 Pandemic On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization designated COVID-19 COVID-19 Our response plan has multiple facets and continues to evolve as the pandemic unfolds. As a precautionary measure, we have taken steps to enhance our operational and financial flexibility, and react to the risks the COVID-19
• Implemented certain cost reduction initiatives;
• Suspended our authorized share repurchase program;
• Suspended our quarterly dividend program;
• Reduced certain planned projects and capital expenditures;
• Executed a new $2 billion 364-day term loan facility (which was undrawn at March 31, 2020) to supplement our existing credit facilities; and
• Subsequent to March 31, 2020, requested accelerated Medicare payments as provided for in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (“CARES”) Act . We believe the extent of the COVID-19 stay-at-home Revenues Our revenues generally relate to contracts with patients in which our performance obligations are to provide health care services to the patients. Revenues are recorded during the period our obligations to provide health care services are satisfied. Our performance obligations for inpatient services are generally satisfied over periods that average approximately five days, and revenues are recognized based on charges incurred in relation to total expected charges. Our performance obligations for outpatient services are generally satisfied over a period of less than one day. The contractual relationships with patients, in most cases, also involve a third-party payer (Medicare, Medicaid, managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies, including plans offered through the health insurance exchanges) and the transaction prices for the services provided are dependent upon the terms provided by (Medicare and Medicaid) or negotiated with (managed care health plans and commercial insurance companies) the third-party payers. The payment arrangements with third-party payers for the services we provide to the related patients typically specify payments at amounts less than our standard charges. Medicare generally pays for inpatient and outpatient services at prospectively determined rates based on clinical, diagnostic and other factors. Services provided to patients having Medicaid coverage are generally paid at prospectively determined rates per discharge, per identified service or per covered member. Agreements with commercial insurance carriers, managed care and preferred provider organizations generally provide for payments based upon predetermined rates per diagnosis, per diem rates or discounted fee-for-service out-of-network Our revenues are based upon the estimated amounts we expect to be entitled to receive from patients and third-party payers. Estimates of contractual adjustments under managed care and commercial insurance plans are based upon the payment terms specified in the related contractual agreements. Revenues related to uninsured patients and uninsured copayment and deductible amounts for patients who have health care coverage may have discounts applied (uninsured discounts and contractual discounts). We also record estimated implicit price concessions (based primarily on historical collection experience) related to uninsured accounts to record these revenues at the estimated amounts we expect to collect. Patients treated at our hospitals for non-elective care, who have income at or below 400% of the federal poverty level, are eligible for charity care. Because we do not pursue collection of amounts determined to qualify as charity care, they are not reported in revenues. Our revenues by primary third-party payer classification and other (including uninsured patients) for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 are summarized in the following table (dollars in millions):
2020 Ratio 2019 Ratio
Medicare $ 2,743 21.3 % $ 2,770 22.1 %
Managed Medicare 1,826 14.2 1,589 12.7
Medicaid 414 3.2 347 2.8
Managed Medicaid 666 5.2 613 4.9
Managed care and insurers 6,645 51.6 6,426 51.4
International (managed care and insurers) 292 2.3 297 2.4
Other 275 2.2 475 3.7
Revenues $ 12,861 100.0 % $ 12,517 100.0 %
To quantify the total impact of the trends related to uninsured patient accounts, we believe it is beneficial to view total uncompensated care, which is comprised of charity care, uninsured discounts and implicit price concessions. A summary of the estimated cost of total uncompensated care for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and 2019 follows (dollars in millions):
2020 2019
Patient care costs (salaries and benefits, supplies, other operating expenses and depreciation and amortization) $ 11,342 $ 10,606
Cost-to-charges 11.9 % 11.8 %
Total uncompensated care $ 7,873 $ 7,085
Multiply by the cost-to-charges 11.9 % 11.8 %
Estimated cost of total uncompensated care $ 937 $ 836
The total uncompensated care amounts include charity care of $3.735 billion and $2.905 billion, and the related estimated costs of charity care were $444 million and $343 million, for the quarters ended March 31, 2020 and 2019, respectively. Recent Pronouncements During March 2020, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted final rules that amend the financial disclosure requirements in Regulation S-X for subsidiary issuers and guarantors of registered debt securities and for affiliates whose securities are pledged as collateral for registered securities. The new rules are effective January 2021, but earlier compliance is permitted, and we have elected to adopt the new rules effective for the quarter ended March 31, 2020. The new rules permit alternative disclosures of summarized financial information, rather than our previous footnote presentation of condensed consolidating financial statements. The summarized financial information for subsidiary issuers and guarantors may be presented on a combined basis and the periods for which the summarized financial information must be provided has been reduced from all periods presented in the Company’s condensed consolidated financial statements to the most recent fiscal year and applicable year-to-date We are providing the summarized financial information and related disclosures in management’s discussion and analysis included in Item 2 of this Form 10-Q. The new rules also amend the requirement that a registrant file financial statements of an affiliate whose securities constitute a substantial portion of the collateral for a class of registered securities, and replace it with a requirement to present summarized financial information for the applicable affiliate to the extent material. The new rules provide for the continued application of Rule 3-16 of Regulation S-X for registered securities issued prior to January 4, 2021 where financial statements have not previously been filed under Rule 3-16 for affiliates whose securities are pledged as collateral for such registered securities, including in situations such as ours where the indentures governing such securities include Rule 3-16 collateral release provisions. We are therefore not providing summarized financial information with respect to affiliates whose securities are pledged as collateral for our outstanding senior secured notes. Reclassifications Certain prior year amounts have been reclassified to conform to the current year presentation. |
