---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001638833-25-000166"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "SGRY"
cik: "0001638833"
company_name: "Surgery Partners, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T21:15:33.847225+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Surgery Partners appoints Justin Oppenheimer as COO and National Group President effective Jan 1, 2026

## Summary
- Oppenheimer joins from Hospital for Special Surgery, where he was Chief Strategy Officer and COO.
- Base salary of $660,000, signing bonus of $500,000 (subject to repayment if resigns within 1 year).
- Eligible for annual bonus target of 100% of base salary; annual equity target of $1.5M.
- Initial equity grant of $1.25M in restricted stock vesting on first anniversary.
- Reports to CEO; severance includes 12 months base salary plus benefits for without-cause termination.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001638833-25-000166
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: SGRY
- cik: 0001638833
- company_name: Surgery Partners, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-11-12T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1638833/000163883325000166/0001638833-25-000166-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1638833/000163883325000166/sgry-20251112.htm

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