---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-24-222126"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "UHS"
cik: "0000352915"
company_name: "UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC"
filed_at: "2024-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T03:46:49.307310+00:00"
event_type: "debt"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Universal Health Services issues $1B senior secured notes to refinance term loan

## Summary
- $1B in senior secured notes: $500M at 4.625% due 2029, $500M at 5.050% due 2034.
- Notes are guaranteed by subsidiaries that also guarantee UHS credit facility.
- Proceeds used to repay outstanding borrowings under UHS's tranche A term loan facility.
- Underwriters include J.P. Morgan, BofA, Truist, U.S. Bancorp, Wells Fargo.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-24-222126
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: UHS
- cik: 0000352915
- company_name: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
- filed_at: 2024-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: debt
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352915/000119312524222126/0001193125-24-222126-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/352915/000119312524222126/d869521d8k.htm

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