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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-103953"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "HCA"
cik: "0000860730"
company_name: "HCA Healthcare, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T04:29:26.581298+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.35
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# HCA stockholders OK 13.15M share increase for equity plan; officer exculpation amendment passed

## Summary
- Stockholders approved First Amendment to 2020 Stock Incentive Plan, adding 13,150,000 shares (total reserve now 18,542,144).
- Amended charter to provide officer exculpation under Delaware law; 190.2M for, 22.1M against.
- All nine director nominees elected, including Samuel N. Hazen and Thomas F. Frist III, with >84% support.
- Non-management director compensation updated: $130K annual cash retainer, $220K annual equity award, plus committee chair retainers.
- Stockholder proposals on golden parachutes, patient safety committee charter, and acquisition strategy all rejected.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-103953
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: HCA
- cik: 0000860730
- company_name: HCA Healthcare, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-29T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.35
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.35
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 5.03, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312525103953/0001193125-25-103953-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/860730/000119312525103953/d899829d8k.htm

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