---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-23-136049"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HCA"
cik: "0000860730"
company_name: "HCA Healthcare, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T23:46:41.227374+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HCA Healthcare issues $3.25B in three tranches of senior notes

## Summary
- Issued $1B 5.200% notes due 2028, $1.25B 5.500% notes due 2033, $1B 5.900% notes due 2053.
- Notes are senior unsecured obligations of HCA Inc., fully guaranteed by HCA Healthcare, Inc.
- Interest payable semi-annually June 1 and Dec 1 starting Dec 1, 2023.
- Issuer may redeem notes at any time at specified redemption prices; change-of-control put at 101%.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-23-136049
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HCA
- cik: 0000860730
- company_name: HCA Healthcare, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-05-04T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 2.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312523136049/0001193125-23-136049-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312523136049/d308813d8k.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  HCA Healthcare, Inc. entered into Indentures valued at $3,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount (effective 2023-05-04).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: notes offering
  - Value: $3,250,000,000 aggregate principal amount
  - Effective: 2023-05-04
  source text: On May 4, 2023, the Notes were issued pursuant to an indenture dated as of August 1, 2011 (the “Base Indenture"), among the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, Delaware Trust Company (as successor to Law Debenture Trust Company of New York), as trustee (the “Trustee"), and Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as paying agent, registrar and transfer agent (the “Paying Agent"), as amended and supplemented by, (i) the Supplemental Indenture No. 34, dated as of May 4, 2023, among the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, relating to the 2028 Notes (together with the Base Indenture, the “2028 Notes Indenture"); (ii) the Supplemental Indenture No. 35, dated as of May 4, 2023, among the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the Trustee and the Paying Agent, relating to the 2033 Notes (together with the Base Indenture, the “2033 Notes Indenture") and (iii) the Supplemental Indenture No. 36, dated as of May 4, 2023, among the Issuer, the Parent Guarantor, the Trustee and the Paying
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312523136049/0001193125-23-136049-index.htm

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