---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-041984"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CYH"
cik: "0001108109"
company_name: "COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC"
filed_at: "2023-02-17T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-19T07:47:54.369121+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# CHS approves 2023 compensation for named executive officers including CEO, CFO, others

## Summary
- CEO Tim Hingtgen target cash incentive 225% of base ($1.2875M); potential additional 40% for non-financial goals.
- CFO Kevin Hammons target 125% of base ($772.5K); Pres. Lynn Simon 115% ($659.9K); Reg. Pres. Mark Medley 100% ($640K).
- Equity grants: Hingtgen 200K NQSOs, 200K time-vesting RSUs, 400K performance-based RSUs (0-200% vesting over 3 years).
- Non-executive Chairman Wayne Smith: $265K stipend converted to time-based RSUs with 3-year ratable vesting, grant in March 2023.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-041984
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CYH
- cik: 0001108109
- company_name: COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
- filed_at: 2023-02-17T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312523041984/0001193125-23-041984-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312523041984/d418300d8k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-23-041984.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Wayne T. Smith changed role as non-executive Chairman of the Board at COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: changed role
  - Role: non-executive Chairman of the Board
  source text: the Company’s former Executive Chairman of the Board who is now serving as non-executive Chairman of the Board
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312523041984/0001193125-23-041984-index.htm
- Executive change
  Benjamin C. Fordham retired as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary at COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary
  source text: Benjamin C. Fordham, the Company’s former Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary, who is now retired
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1108109/000119312523041984/0001193125-23-041984-index.htm

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