---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-24-017171"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2024-02-20T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-05T22:42:21.028670+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.8
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Community Health Systems Q4 adj loss $0.41; FY23 net loss $133M; provides 2024 outlook

## Summary
- Q4 net op rev $3.181B (+1.2% YoY); adj loss per share $(0.41) vs income $1.50 prior year; adj EBITDA $386M vs $404M.
- FY23 net loss $(133)M or $(1.02)/share; adj loss $(1.39)/share; adj EBITDA $1.453B vs $1.466B prior year.
- Same-store admissions +3.5% and adjusted admissions +5.3% in FY23; Q4 same-store admissions +1.9%, adjusted +3.6%.
- Extinguished $402M of notes in Q4 via repurchases; issued $1B 10.875% Senior Secured Notes due 2032, used to buy $985M of 2026 notes.
- Provided 2024 annual earnings guidance; also divested eight hospitals and majority interest in another hospital during 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-24-017171
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2024-02-20T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.8
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.8
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024017171/0000950170-24-017171-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024017171/cyh-20240220.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-017171
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950170-24-017171.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC reported the three months and year ended December 31, 2023 results: revenue Net operating revenues totaled $3.181 billion for the three months...; Net operating revenues for the year ended Decembe, net income Net income attributable to Community Health Systems, Inc. stockholders was $46 million, or $0.35 per share (diluted), fo, EPS $0.35 per share (diluted) for the three months; $(1.02) per share (diluted) for the year.
  - Period: the three months and year ended December 31, 2023
  - Revenue: Net operating revenues totaled $3.181 billion for the three months...; Net operating revenues for the year ended Decembe
  - Net income: Net income attributable to Community Health Systems, Inc. stockholders was $46 million, or $0.35 per share (diluted), fo
  - EPS: $0.35 per share (diluted) for the three months; $(1.02) per share (diluted) for the year
  - Result: reported results
  source text: and momentum to continue in 2024.” The following highlights the financial and operating results for the three months ended December 31, 2023. • Net operating revenues totaled $3.181 billion. • Net income attributable to Community Health Systems, Inc. stockholders was $46 million, or $0.35 per share (diluted), compared to $414 million, or $3.18 per share (diluted),
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000095017024017171/0000950170-24-017171-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.