Earnings call transcript: Tenet Healthcare beats Q2 2025 forecasts with strong EPS

Tenet Healthcare Corporation reported a significant earnings beat for the second quarter of 2025, with an EPS of $4.02, surpassing the forecasted $2.88 by 39.58%. The company also exceeded revenue expectations, reporting $5.27 billion against a forecast of $5.16 billion. This positive earnings surprise led to a 5.01% increase in pre-market trading, with the stock price reaching $183.40. According to InvestingPro data, Tenet maintains a GREAT Financial Health Score of 3.33, with particularly strong profitability metrics, suggesting robust operational efficiency.

Key Takeaways

• Tenet Healthcare reported a 39.58% EPS surprise, significantly outperforming expectations.
• The company’s stock rose 5.01% in pre-market trading following the earnings announcement.
• Tenet’s Q2 2025 revenue reached $5.3 billion, marking a solid performance in its hospital and USPI segments.
• The company raised its 2025 adjusted EBITDA guidance, reflecting confidence in future growth.

Company Performance

Tenet Healthcare demonstrated robust performance in Q2 2025, driven by strong growth across its hospital and USPI segments. The company reported net operating revenues of $5.3 billion and a consolidated adjusted EBITDA of $1.121 billion, representing a 19% increase over the previous year. The hospital segment’s adjusted EBITDA grew by 25%, while the USPI segment saw an 11% increase. Tenet’s focus on high-acuity procedures and efficient operations contributed to these results.

Financial Highlights

• Revenue: $5.3 billion, up from $5.16 billion forecasted
• Earnings per share: $4.02, surpassing the $2.88 forecast
• Adjusted EBITDA margin: 21.3%, a 280 basis point improvement
• Free cash flow: $743 million

Earnings vs. Forecast

Tenet Healthcare’s Q2 2025 EPS of $4.02 significantly exceeded the forecast of $2.88, resulting in a 39.58% earnings surprise. The revenue of $5.27 billion also surpassed expectations by 2.13%. This marks a substantial outperformance compared to previous quarters, highlighting the company’s strong operational execution and strategic focus.

Market Reaction

Following the earnings announcement, Tenet Healthcare’s stock price increased by 5.01% in pre-market trading, reaching $183.40. This movement is notable as it approaches the company’s 52-week high of $179.91. The positive market sentiment reflects investor confidence in Tenet’s ability to maintain its growth trajectory. InvestingPro analysis suggests the stock is slightly undervalued, with a P/E ratio of 11.88 and an attractive free cash flow yield of 9%. Discover more valuable insights about THC and 1,400+ other stocks with InvestingPro’s comprehensive research reports.

Outlook & Guidance

Tenet Healthcare raised its 2025 adjusted EBITDA guidance to a range of $4.4 to $4.54 billion, indicating optimism about future performance. The company expects the USPI segment to achieve an adjusted EBITDA between $1.99 and $2.05 billion, while the hospital segment is projected to reach $2.41 to $2.49 billion. Additionally, Tenet anticipates generating free cash flow of $2.025 to $2.275 billion.

Executive Commentary

CEO Saum Satoria emphasized the company’s commitment to a strong balance sheet and improved cash flow generation, stating, "We continue to deliver on our commitments to a strong balance sheet and significantly improved free cash flow generation." CFO Sun Park highlighted the company’s financial flexibility, noting, "We have strong financial performance and balance sheet flexibility to make the right decisions."

Risks and Challenges

• Potential changes in outpatient hospital care rules could impact revenue.
• Healthcare exchange volumes and subsidy changes may affect admissions.
• Payer contracting and denial management strategies require careful execution.
• Macroeconomic pressures could influence healthcare demand and costs.

Q&A

During the earnings call, analysts inquired about the potential impact of outpatient hospital care rule changes and the implications of healthcare exchange volumes on future growth. Executives addressed these concerns by highlighting their revenue cycle improvements and AI technologies. Additionally, discussions on payer contracting and denial management strategies were emphasized as key areas of focus for sustaining growth.

Full transcript - Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC) Q2 2025:

Conference Operator: Good morning. Welcome to Tennant Healthcare’s Second Quarter twenty twenty five Earnings Conference Call. After the speakers’ remarks, there will be a question and answer session for industry analysts. Each. I’ll now turn the call over to your host, Mr.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations. Mr. McDowell, you may begin.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations, Tennant Healthcare: Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining today’s call. I am Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations. We’re pleased to have you join us for a discussion of Tennant’s second quarter twenty twenty five results as well as a discussion of our financial outlook. Tennant’s senior management participating in today’s call will be Doctor. Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Our webcast this morning includes a slide presentation, which has been posted to the Investor Relations section of our website tenanthealth.com. Listeners to this call are advised that certain statements made during our discussion today are forward looking and represent management’s expectations based on currently available information. Actual results and plans could differ materially. Is under no obligation to update any forward looking statements based on subsequent information. Investors should take note of the cautionary statement slide included in today’s presentation as well as the risk factors discussed in our most recent Form 10 ks and other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

And with that, I’ll turn the call over to Saum.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Thank you, Will, and good morning, everyone. The second quarter continues our track record of strong outperformance in each of our businesses. We reported second quarter twenty twenty five net operating revenues of $5,300,000,000 and consolidated adjusted EBITDA of $1,121,000,000 which represents growth of 19% over 2024. Second quarter twenty twenty five adjusted EBITDA margin of 21.3% represents a two eighty basis point improvement over the prior year driven by strong same store growth and very efficient operating performance. USPI continues to deliver.

We generated $498,000,000 in adjusted EBITDA, which represents 11% growth over second quarter twenty twenty four. Same facility revenues grew 7.7% in the second quarter, highlighted by a 12.6% growth in total joint replacements in the ASCs over the prior year. We added eight new centers in the quarter, including facilities specializing in high acuity procedures such as spine, orthopedics and neurosurgery. We continue to see a robust pipeline for M and A opportunities and expect to exceed our baseline intention for $250,000,000 of M and A spend in 2025. Turning to our Hospital segment, adjusted EBITDA grew 25% to $623,000,000 in the second quarter of twenty twenty five.

Same store hospital admissions were up 1.6% in the quarter. Second quarter twenty twenty five revenue per adjusted admission was up 5.2% over the prior year as payer mix and acuity remained strong. We are making significant investments to expand our network to support growth in our markets and have confidence that the demographic trends, our high acuity service line priorities and our efficient operating platform can generate ongoing returns in this segment. We have also reduced overhead given we downsized our hospital portfolio. Our results in both segments exceeded our expectations and extend our track record of consistently strong fundamental execution.

We continue to capitalize on our compelling valuation and have deployed $1,100,000,000 to repurchase 7,200,000.0 shares in the first half of twenty twenty five. As we noted in our release, the Board of Directors has authorized a $1,500,000,000 increase to our share repurchase program. Turning to our full year guidance. At this point in the year, we are raising our full year 2025 adjusted EBITDA guidance to a range of $4,400,000,000 to $4,540,000,000 which represents an increase of $395,000,000 or 10% roughly at the midpoint of the range of our prior guidance. The guidance increase is supported by fundamental strength in our businesses and expectations for continued growth.

In summary, we continue to deliver on our commitments to a strong balance sheet and significantly improved free cash flow generation. Finally, in closing, we are committed to a culture of quality, transparency and compliance. This culture permeates our business and is reflected in the dedication of our colleagues and caregivers that go to work each day to care for our patients and communities that we serve. We are pleased that these are the values that we have instilled into our organization, which continue to drive results and outperformance. And with that, will provide a more detailed review of our financial results.

Sun, turning it over to you.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Thank you, Sam, and good morning, everyone. We delivered strong results in 2025 with adjusted EBITDA well above the high end of our guidance range driven by strong fundamentals including same store revenue growth, continued high patient acuity, favorable payer mix and effective cost controls. We generated total net operating revenues of $5,300,000,000 and consolidated adjusted EBITDA of $1,121,000,000 a 19% increase over second quarter twenty twenty four. Second quarter adjusted EBITDA margin was 21.3%, a two eighty basis point improvement over prior year. I would now like to highlight some key items for each of our segments beginning with USPI, which again delivered strong operating results.

In the second quarter, USPI’s adjusted EBITDA grew 11% over last year with adjusted EBITDA margin at 39.2%. USPI delivered a 7.7% increase in same facility system wide revenues with net revenue per case up 8.3% and case volumes down 0.6% reflecting our continued disciplined shift towards higher acuity services. Turning now to our Hospital segment. Second quarter adjusted EBITDA was $623,000,000 with margins up 300 basis points over last year at 15.6%. Same hospital inpatient admissions increased 1.6% and revenue per adjusted admissions grew 5.2%.

Our consolidated salary wages and benefits was 41% of revenues, a 140 basis point improvement from the prior year. And our contract labor expense was 1.9% of consolidated SWB expense. This improvement has been driven by our data driven approach to capacity and labor management management and disciplined operating expense controls. Finally, we recognized a $79,000,000 favorable pretax impact for additional Medicaid supplemental revenues related to prior periods in the second quarter of twenty twenty five. This includes the recently approved program in Tennessee.

As a reminder, our second quarter twenty twenty four results included a $30,000,000 favorable pretax impact for additional Medicaid supplemental revenues related to prior year. Next, we will discuss our cash flow balance sheet and capital structures. We generated $743,000,000 of free cash flow in the second quarter. And as of 06/30/2025, we had $2,600,000,000 of cash on hand with no borrowings outstanding under our $1,500,000,000 line of credit facility. Additionally, we have no significant debt maturities until 2027.

And finally, during the second quarter, we repurchased 4,600,000.0 shares of our stock for $747,000,000 And year to date through June 30, we have repurchased 7,200,000.0 shares or $1,100,000,000 Our leverage ratio as of 06/30/2025 was 2.45 times EBITDA or 3.11 times EBITDA less NCI driven by our outstanding operational performance and continued focus on financial discipline. We are very pleased with our ongoing cash flow generation capabilities and remain committed to a deleveraged balance sheet. We believe we have significant financial flexibility to support our capital allocation priorities and drive shareholder value. Let me now turn to our outlook for 2025. For 2025, we now expect consolidated net operating revenues in the range of $20,950,000,000 to $21,250,000,000 an increase of $300,000,000 over prior expectations.

As Saum mentioned, we are raising our 2025 adjusted EBITDA outlook by $395,000,000 at the midpoint to 4,400,000,000 to $4,540,000,000 reflecting the strong fundamental performance of our business. At the midpoint of our range, we now expect our full year 2025 adjusted EBITDA to grow 12% over 2024. At USPI, we are now expecting twenty twenty five adjusted EBITDA of 1,990,000,000.00 to $2,050,000,000 a $70,000,000 increase over prior expectations. In addition, we have increased our assumption for same facility USPI revenue growth by 100 basis points to 4% to 7% for 2025. In Hospitals, we are raising our 2025 adjusted EBITDA outlook range by $325,000,000 at the midpoint to 2,410,000,000.00 to $2,490,000,000 Additionally, we are lowering our assumption for hospital adjusted admissions growth by 50 basis points to 1.5% to 2.5% for 2025.

Finally, we expect third quarter twenty twenty five consolidated adjusted EBITDA to be in the range of 22.5% to 23.5% of our full year consolidated adjusted EBITDA at the midpoint. We expect third quarter twenty twenty five USPI EBITDA to be in the range of 23.5% to 24.5% of our full year USPI adjusted EBITDA at the midpoint. Turning to our cash flows for 2025. We now expect free cash flows in the the range of $2,025,000,000 to $2,275,000,000 distributions to non controlling interest in the range of $780,000,000 to $830,000,000 resulting in free cash flow after NCI in the range of $245,000,000 to $1,445,000,000 an increase of $195,000,000 at the midpoint of our range from prior outlook. Turning now to our capital deployment priorities.

We are well positioned to create value for shareholders through the effective deployment of free cash flow and our priorities have not changed. First, we will continue to prioritize capital investments to grow USPI through M and A. Second, we expect to continue investing in key hospital growth opportunities to fuel organic growth including our focus on higher acuity service offerings. Third, we will evaluate opportunities to retire and or refinance debt. And finally, we’ll continue to have a balanced approach to share repurchases depending on market conditions and other investment opportunities.

As Saum noted, our Board of Directors has recently authorized a 1,500,000,000 increase to our share repurchase program. We continue to deliver consistent growth and have disciplined operations, which has translated into outstanding financial results. We are confident in our ability to deliver on our increased outlook for 2025 as we continue to provide high quality care for those in the communities we serve. And with that, we’re now ready to begin the Q and A. Operator?

Conference Operator: Thank you. At this time, we’ll be conducting a question and answer session. Our first question comes from A. J. Rice with UBS.

Please proceed with your question.

A.J. Rice, Analyst, UBS: Hi, everybody. I might just ask about two aspects of the backdrop in Washington. The proposed rule on outpatient hospital care has the elimination of potentially of the inpatient only rule. Can you just comment on what you think that might mean for your hospital and ASC business if that were to go through? And then just any updated figures on the public exchange volumes, how that contributed into the quarter, what you’re seeing year to year?

And do you have any updated thoughts on what the outlook for next year might be if the enhanced subsidies go away?

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Hey, A. J, it’s Sam. Thanks for the questions. The first one, obviously, enabling additional innovation in the ASCs is positive for the USPI business. I think about it this way, which is one is the reimbursement, allowable reimbursement and certainly, this move is positive.

At the same time, it takes work and experience in higher acuity ASC procedures to actually be able to successfully move those things from an inpatient setting to an outpatient setting. As you know, the patient selection criteria and expertise makes a big difference there so that you’re doing the right things clinically. Those are all areas in which we’re pretty advanced as an ASC operator and platform. So I think it plays to our advantages. I think it represents an opportunity for the future for sure.

And I also think it gives us a platform to work with physicians to build the right protocols for many of these things to move into that more freestanding setting with the right patient selection. Sun, do you want to comment on the update on our exchange volumes? I would say just as a summary statement there, A. J, obviously the efforts to lobby for their extension and importantly the critical role they play in supporting small businesses and employees of small businesses in America is an added benefit of the exchanges that is obviously part of the discussion today.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes. Thank you, Sam. And just to add, obviously healthcare exchange remains an important part of our business. For second quarter of twenty twenty five, we saw about a 23% increase in admissions year over year and we saw about a 28% increase in revenues from exchange year over year. In the second quarter, our exchange volume now represents about 8% of our total admissions and about 7% of total consolidated tenant revenues.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Okay. Thanks a lot.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Josh Raskin with Nephron Research. Please proceed with your question. Hi, thanks. Good morning. I was wondering if you could just give some more specifics on the outperformance in the core results, and I’m specifically looking at the incremental $70,000,000 on the USPI side, the increase in guidance.

And then within that, is there anything Tennant has specifically to improve your ability to sort of document categorized patients as you submit claims? Are there new systems, new technologies, new vendors or partners? And obviously anything relating to AI, I’d be curious if there’s new things that you’re doing within there.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Hey, Josh. Well, going you know, kinda going backwards, we have the there USPI has its own significant revenue cycle capability. We think it’s an industry leading capability. It’s an environment that mostly serves our own ASCs, but certainly serves ASCs beyond that. We’re pretty busy in advancing a lot of those capabilities.

It is not difficult for me to say that some of the improvement in our results over the last few years has been related to real standardization technology deployment, better reporting and certain advanced analytical tools that we have deployed into the ASC environment, not surprising given our focus in revenue cycle as a company that we have done that and it’s certainly paying dividends in terms of how we work in that environment, both on the retail collection side, as you can imagine, these are elective procedures, but also on the wholesale collection side all the way from authorization back through accurate documentation and more efficient management of the AR through technology and offshore capabilities. We’re really pleased with the platform that’s being built for ASC revenue cycle within USPI. Sun, do you want to comment on the nature of the guide?

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes, sure. Josh, the first half and the second quarter, I both consistent themes. We’ve seen high acuity, good case mix, good payer mix, good growth in some of our key case lines service lines including ortho and total joints. So all the trends that we’ve discussed previously I think continue in USPF for second quarter. That’s why you saw the strong net revenue overall growth of 7.7% as well as the strong net revenue per case.

So and then I think good operating expense management. So we demonstrated a 39.2% EBITDA margins in second quarter as well. So I think all those trends apply for both Q1 and Q2, which resulted in about a 50,000,000 increase versus our prior guidance. And then our general expectation is for those trends to continue into the second half, which is part of the guidance raised for the remaining full year. I think we also remain positive on our M and A activity in terms of contribution.

As Saum noted in his opening statement, we expect to exceed our $250,000,000 baseline assumption for USP M and A. So I think all those things contribute to the guidance raise.

Conference Operator: Thank you. Our next question comes from Andrew Mock with Barclays. Please proceed with your question.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Hi, good morning. I just wanted to ask about the volumes. There’s a little bit of a deceleration there on both the inpatient and adjusted admissions in the quarter. You took down the guidance by I think 50 basis points. Were volumes impacted by any discrete items in the quarter or anything else to kind of call out driving some of the deceleration for the quarter and the full year?

Thanks.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Hey, well, first of all, I think the guidance is just simply reflecting the math that would play out for the rest of the year. That was a strong quarter. We had strong volumes, the right acuity and mix and very much reflects the focus on our service lines as we prioritized them. So, I don’t think there’s anything particularly unusual other than seasonality.

Conference Operator: All right. Thank you. Our next question comes from Matthew Gillmor with KeyBanc Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Hey, thanks for the question. Wanted to ask about payer contracting. There’s a lot of different dynamics creating pressure on payers. Has there been any discernible shift in terms of your negotiations with payers? Are you still getting the normal updates you’d expect?

And is there anything to report with respect to denial activity? Yes. Well, a couple of things. First of all, obviously, different parts of the sector, at various times certainly go through their ups and downs. And I think our philosophy most importantly with the health plans, both the national plans and state based plans is to work consistently to create value in what we do in our level of pricing and our negotiations and also to create predictability for both sides over a multiyear period.

I think that’s ultimately what’s probably most important on both sides so that each party can then manage their own operations. We have extended that philosophy over the last few years into the next wave of contracts. Think most people were aware that there are a number of contracts that are coming up and we’re not seeing anything unusual and and certainly no change in our guidance with respect to the way that we have been negotiating our contracts. But again, I think that’s because, we’re committed to the value that we provide there both from the standpoint of our highly efficient ambulatory business, also working in an environment with reasonable and predictable rate increases so that we can focus on managing our own operations. Look, the denials activity and it’s really not just denial, it’s the disputes, documentation requests, denials, etcetera, have ramped up over the past few years post COVID to levels that are, I would argue not acceptable, in some cases.

And we have adapted, obviously this is part of Conifer’s job is to adapt and learn to respond to those things. In the early days, the responses were driving up expenditures. Today, as we have evolved and realized this is a new normal, we have of course deployed more technology, more automation, trained up more offshore staff and other things to be able to respond to those types of requests and activities in a more efficient and I would argue more effective manner. We track things like our yield relative to the volume or dollars that were disputed or denied. I think Conifer is doing well there for both ourselves and for our clients relative to the overall industry.

You can see it in our results and I think that translates across the board. And so this is a constant battle with respect to what’s appropriate there. And obviously, we welcome both regulation and other things that would support a reduction of some of that what we consider inappropriate activity.

Conference Operator: Got it. Thank you. Our next question comes from Justin Lake with Wolfe Research. Please proceed with your question.

Josh Raskin, Analyst, Nephron Research: Thanks. Good morning. First, I just wanted to follow-up on A. J. Question.

I do understand that the industry is lobbying for an extension of these subsidies and how important that could be to a lot of folks. But is there a framework that the company can share with us in terms of how to think about the potential impact to 2026 earnings if those subsidies do go away. And then sticking with that DC stuff, maybe you can give us an update on the provider tax run rate you’re seeing in 2025 versus I think the previous guidance was about 1,100,000,000.0 And have you analyzed and have anything to share with us in terms of the impact of if that the bill that just passed, it does get rolled out, what the impact to DPP could be over time as provider taxes? Thanks.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yeah. Hey, Justin. So we don’t have any comments about 2026 at this stage and certainly all of the work and effort is focused on helping stakeholders realize again how important the exchanges are for families who utilize them including those that came off of Medicaid from a Medicaid redetermination standpoint over the last few years. It’s very much my belief that because of the existence of the exchanges and the subsidies for the people who don’t have very high income levels as Medicaid redetermination proceeded, the exchanges were a critical safety net for the individuals who needed healthcare insurance to have a landing spot and it created what I consider a pretty smooth Medicaid redetermination process, because of the availability of those insurance options for individuals and families that needed it. And so that in addition to the fact that the exchanges represent critical support for small businesses that are unable to provide broad based insurance coverage options to their employees, which supports obviously a very large part of

Conference Operator: the

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: economy represents two of the most important prongs of the conversation around why it’s important to extend these subsidies, not the least of which is that it affects red states more than blue states given the nature of the administration and Congress today, that’s also an important fact. So look, think the work is ongoing in that area. I think it’s important and I think it’s important to more than just our industry. It affects other parts of, our sector, but it also affects the macro economy through the support for small businesses, which helps to make them more competitive in The US economy at large. The current situation and bill that passed, a lot of the impacts as you know have been pushed out pretty far into the very, very end of twenty seven or really ’28 from that standpoint and we really don’t have any insight into how this will be implemented.

There are new legislative proposals that have already come up attempting to rescind some parts of the OBBB, which are in play in Congress and I think it just it remains an area of significant uncertainty and we don’t have any projections to provide from that standpoint, especially because we’re talking about, again, I said, out to 2028. Sun, do you want to cover there was a question in there about the DPP programs.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes. Let me just clarify that Justin. So for Q2 of twenty twenty five, we recorded about $350,000,000 of total Medicaid supplemental payments. So for the first half of this year, we’re at about $675,000,000 range. Now we have pointed out some one timers.

So once you normalize for that in the first half of the year, our run rate for the full year is right around the $1100000000.01200000000.0 dollars range that we previously discussed.

Andrew Mock, Analyst, Barclays: Thanks.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Sarah James with Cantor Fitzgerald. Please proceed with your question.

Matthew Gillmor, Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets: Thank you. I just wanted to circle back to what went on with the volume guide down. I understand seasonality and just the math of the quarter impact on the year, but what actually changed in this quarter or in your view of the year? Are there certain segments or any type of deflation?

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Well, the most important thing that we would be focused on that happened in the second quarter was, as I said earlier, the strength and success of our high acuity strategy that has been in place for multiple years continuing to demonstrate in this market the ability to generate revenue and earnings across our hospital portfolio. I mean, that’s really at the end of the day, that’s the most notable and important trend in the second quarter, which is that that strategy continues to deliver results.

Matthew Gillmor, Analyst, KeyBanc Capital Markets: Okay. Thank you.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Steven Baxter with Wells Fargo. Please proceed with your question.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes. Hi, thanks. Just to follow-up on Justin’s question. I wanted to ask about the jump off point for EBITDA this year. Is it as simple as removing the out of period Medicaid supplemental EBITDA?

I think it’s $149,000,000 this quarter and $40,000,000 with the first quarter? Or are there any other meaningful areas to consider whether there are Medicaid supplemental payments or other sort of one time contributors to the year that we should think about as we’re bridging to 2026? Thank you.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: We’re not making any comments about 2026 nor are we commenting on headwinds and tailwinds yet for the following year.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Ben Hendrix with RBC Capital Markets. Please proceed with your question. Thank you very much. Just a quick follow-up on the acuity trends that you’re seeing. Appreciate that the revenue per shows strong acuity trends there and that’s consistent with your strategy.

But also just wanted to square that with the hospital inpatient surgeries being down. Just a little more detail on where you’re seeing that stronger case mix and how that’s kind of translating into the stronger rates on the hospital side? Thanks.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes. I mean our strength in cardiovascular, orthopedics, spine, neurosurgery, broad based general surgery, robotics, I mean, are all the areas that, you know, we continue to focus on in terms of our work. Now I would add to that emergency driven trauma and trauma surgery. As you know, we have a lot of very large urban emergency departments that have built trauma capabilities in order to service patients in need of trauma. And finally, as we have indicated over the past few years, our transfer strategy always being willing to accept any patient from any outlying hospital, as long as we have the services available to help them, we have been committed to providing that help.

And obviously many of those patients tend to be sicker and may require more complex surgery. So all of those things, have been contributors to the results from what we described as a high acuity strategy.

Conference Operator: Thank you.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Of course.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Whit Mayo with Leerink Partners. Please proceed with your question.

Justin Lake, Analyst, Wolfe Research: Yeah. Thanks. Just one quick clarification. I was wondering if you could comment briefly on how much your medical case mix did increase in the quarter and if

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: it changed much from prior trends. But my real question is looking at the EBITDA growth at USPI. Is there any way to quantify the contribution that you may still be seeing from continued synergies whether from SED covenant? Just wondering if those are contributing to any of the growth still. Thanks.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Well, case mix acuity was up. I’m not sure exactly what you’re asking. Son, you may want to comment more specifically on that question. Mean, but consistent with what we’re saying about acuity, case mix index was up. That’s referring to the hospital segment.

On the USPI side, you know, the revenue growth that we see obviously in a very dynamic business comes from all sorts of things, including same store growth, volume growth, our payer contract, escalators, rostering of new facilities onto our managed care contracts as part of our network strategy of having an alliance of high quality reliable centers. All of that contributes to the revenue growth, but that’s why we provide the total revenue growth and also the same store revenue growth, so that one can differentiate between those. I think all of that data is consistent with both with success of the high acuity strategy, but also we’re consistently performing in revenue growth above our long term trend, which has been very positive for USPI.

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes. And Saum just your I’m sorry, what your question on case mix, We’re up about 1% year over year in Q2. And obviously if you look at a longer period of time that growth would be more significant based on acuity. Okay. Thanks.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Pito Chickering with Deutsche Bank. Please proceed with your question.

Sarah James, Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald: Hey, good morning guys. Thanks for taking my questions. Nice quarter here. DSOs trended down nicely, maybe the lowest that I’ve ever seen with you guys. Can you talk about cash collections and what have you done differently?

Or are the payers doing something differently? And from a cash flow perspective, should

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: we continue to model sort of bulk of free

Sarah James, Analyst, Cantor Fitzgerald: cash flow going into repo with some M and A in there, so you can buy back around 10% plus of your mark cap each year while still delevering. Is that the way the right way to think about it?

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Well, okay. Just two separate things. Sun, do you want to start with the second one and then we’ll back into the revenue cycle question?

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yes, sure. So Peter, yes, we obviously have very strong free cash flow performance have increased our guidance for free cash flow after NCI up 195,000,000 I would say the other notable piece obviously is the amount of share repurchases we completed in the second quarter of this year. It was a substantial increase from our normal trends. I would say looking forward, our capital allocation priorities haven’t changed, right? USPI, M and A, hospital CapEx for high acuity strategy and then maintaining our deleveraged balance sheet and a balanced share repurchase approach.

It’s hard to predict what our run rate share repurchase activity will be in the next quarter, the second half of this year into 2026. I think that will depend on facts and circumstances. But I do believe our free cash flow and financial performance and balance sheet flexibility will afford us make the right decisions as those things come.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yeah. Look in summary on the first part of the question, as the industry has trended up overall in terms of denials and also, the times to collect given some of the dispute and back and forth on documentation requests and other things. We’ve we’ve remained very focused on trying to keep that as tight as possible using technology automation. I mean, you know, one of the advantages that Conifer has is an incredibly standardized workflow that is really critical to not only collections, but also timely collections, in an environment where those time frames have been increasing for a long period of time. We’re obviously, as we’ve talked about before, supplementing some of those capabilities that we have today that used to be manual with AI enabled technologies that allow us to produce more rapid automated responses to various types of disputes based upon pattern recognition that you would see from various sources that allow us to do that more effectively.

And that makes in the end what we’re doing more reliable, but also as you’re pointing out sort of faster. The other thing I would say about this environment in which we talk a lot about the dispute denial activity and as I said earlier, I think some of it’s highly inappropriate. But it’s also important that we spend our time being committed to very accurate documentation and coding. And I think one of the things that Conifer does well is produce accurate documentation and coding and that has a tendency to also reduce the dispute activity to some extent from the health plans. It is a two way street in the end and both parties have to perform in that direction and that speeds up collections to some extent.

Anyway, I said this earlier and I’ll let it be, adapting to the current environment, from a collection standpoint is a critical capability that we have developed and that capability has moved from being manual when it first started to increase to much more technology driven and workflow automation driven.

Conference Operator: Great. Thanks so much. Our next question comes from Benjamin Rossi with JPMorgan Chase. Please proceed with your question.

Andrew Mock, Analyst, Barclays: Good morning. Thanks for the question here. Just as a follow-up on your ACA exchange volumes. With your reported hospital length of stay down, call it, 3% year over year and ACA exchange volumes up 28% during 2Q, is there any additional detail you can provide on procedural mix or length of stay across those exchange based volumes? We’ve just been getting some comments from prominent payers in recent weeks regarding the elevated trend there across that group.

So just curious if there are any particular areas that were contributors to that 2Q growth figure or if it was more broad based across all specialties for your ACA exchange book? Thanks.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: I don’t think there’s been anything unusual in this quarter versus prior quarters with respect to the exchange volumes. Remember, the one thing I would say is the exchange business tends to behave similar to the Medicaid business more than the commercial business in the sense that a disproportionately larger amount of it is emergency department driven, may still come with higher acuity, it tends to be more emergency department driven. That’s why the impact of the exchanges on our business is higher hospital segment versus the USBI segment even though it’s present in both, but I don’t think that I noticed anything unusual about the nature of the exchange volumes this quarter. Sun, is there anything you would point out there?

Sun Park, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Tennant Healthcare: No, I think you’re right, Sam. It’s pretty consistent with prior mix overall.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Okay.

Andrew Mock, Analyst, Barclays: Got it.

Conference Operator: Thanks for

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: the color.

Conference Operator: Our next question comes from Ryan Langston with TD Cowen. Please proceed with your question.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations, Tennant Healthcare0: Thanks. Good morning. SWB continues to run I mean, I assume as you achieve these levels this becomes kind of a new baseline expectation to your operators. But I guess the question is how much more opportunity do you see on SWB?

And I guess what types of initiatives can execute on to keep up sort of this level of performance?

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Well, obviously effective labor management has been a strength of our organization, not just recently, but over the last few years. We stay focused on the various parameters that drive demand, obviously length of stay, the acuity, the day to day productivity and accurate staffing needs that we have in our hospitals. But at the same time from a supply standpoint, we’ve really I think benefited from improved recruiting strategies, relationships with some terrific nursing schools around the country, where we’ve created good opportunities for their students and graduates to work in our environments and also improving our retention rates as a result of what we’ve done. We found that making investments and we have made real investments in our nursing and overall hospital management, director and other supervisor levels with special recognitions and other things that have been ongoing for multiple years because we see the value that they provide in terms of creating a stable and effective workforce for patient care. That has been an important part of what we have done over the last few years and recognizing their efforts.

I mean, I think look, all of those things are sustainable strategies and all of them contribute to the improvements that we’ve made both in our efficiencies and effectiveness there.

Conference Operator: Thanks. Our next question comes from John Ransom with Raymond James. Please proceed with your question.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations, Tennant Healthcare1: Hey, good morning. I’m going to ask Tom a question. He’s not going to answer. When he doesn’t answer it, I will ask him another question. Do you think that now that we’ve gotten the bill behind us and we know the nodes, is the environment if you were able to look to sell any more hospitals, is the environment stabilized such that that’s more profitable now?

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: John, I’m not sure how to answer that question. We don’t comment on asset sales and anything that we may be looking at there. We’re pretty happy with the portfolio. It’s obviously performing based upon the last couple of years in the post transaction environment. I don’t know how to comment on whether the broader industry has fully understood the implications implications for them of OBBB or anything else that may come.

I would take this opportunity to reiterate that our view from what we’ve seen so far in the external landscape, related to legislation, regulation, etcetera, Washington essentially, we think about this pretty carefully. It has not changed our commitment to our core strategy as it stands right now. So I feel good about that looking forward.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations, Tennant Healthcare1: Yes. So you let me write to my other question. Now that this bill is behind this, what are your current legislative and lobbying priorities in DC? And then where are you going to spend your time there?

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: The most important area right now, as I said, both for the healthcare industry, for the insurance industry, and importantly, we think now that we have an understanding of how important these exchanges are for small businesses and keeping and remaining a competitive workforce for small businesses in in America is engaging in dialogue about mechanisms to extend the exchange subsidies.

Conference Operator: Our final question comes from Kevin Fischbeck with Bank of America. Please proceed with your question.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations, Tennant Healthcare2: All right. Great. Thanks. I guess wanted to understand a little bit more of the commentary on hospital volumes and the payer mix. I guess how much of the payer mix improvement that you’re seeing is because of the exchange growth?

If we took exchanges out, would you still be talking about improved payer mix to the same degree? And then when we think about the volume outlook, the volume outlook being lower, you guys have always had a different view on volumes. It’s hard to kind of tell what how much is this high acuity strategy versus underlying demand. Do you have a sense of what underlying demand growth was in the quarter? Was it consistent with where Q1 was?

Or did it decelerate kind of similar to how your overall volumes decelerated from Q1 to Q2? Thanks.

Saum Satoria, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Tennant Healthcare: Yeah. A couple of things. One is commercial mix was strong. And as I indicated earlier, maybe another way of describing that. I mean, obviously the growth that Sun described in the exchanges indicates that some of that mixed strength is is definitely on the payer mix side is definitely coming from the exchanges.

And this is again going back to the importance of the exchanges as a landing spot as Medicaid redetermination has worked its way through the overall system. It’s been an important landing spot. And then finally, no, I mean, I think look, underlying demand in this environment is still strong on a macro basis. I mean, it wouldn’t be the case, that we would be able to lose significant amounts of underlying what you would call general med surge, emergency department, etcetera demand and exists solely on a high acuity strategy, right? The high acuity strategy is meant to support the types of margin expansion and growth that we have seen on an efficient basis in the hospital segment and the margin expansion in the hospital segment over the last twelve, we were just looking over the last twelve months or even over the last three to four years has been significant.

And that’s really what the strategy has helped support. But I don’t think it’s worth making anything of one single quarter, especially when you have seasonal trends and quarter to quarter trends and ramp on and ramp off of respiratory illness and other things. I think this will play itself out over time. The underlying demand environment when you compare it to a multiyear basis still seems strong to me.

Will McDowell, Vice President of Investor Relations, Tennant Healthcare2: Okay, great. Thanks.

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