Company: THC
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000070318-25-000017
Chunk: 49

Company: TENET HEALTHCARE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-04-29
Form: 10-Q
Item: Part I, Item 1
Chunk 49
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 disbursements, including our book overdrafts, and required cash disbursements, such as interest payments and income tax payments. Cash flows from operating activities in the first quarter of the calendar year are usually lower than in subsequent quarters of the year, primarily due to the timing of certain working capital requirements during the first quarter, including our annual 401(k) matching contributions and annual incentive compensation payments. These fluctuations can result in material intra-quarter net operating and investing uses of cash that have caused, and in the future may cause, us to use our Credit Agreement as a source of liquidity. We believe that existing cash and cash equivalents on hand, borrowing availability under our Credit Agreement and anticipated future cash provided by our operating activities are adequate to meet our current cash needs. These sources of liquidity, in combination with any potential future debt incurrence, are adequate to finance planned capital expenditures, payments on the current portion of our long-term debt, payments to current and former joint venture partners, including those related to our share purchase agreement with Baylor, and other presently known operating needs.

Long-term liquidity for debt service and other purposes will be dependent on the amount of cash provided by operating activities and, subject to favorable market and other conditions, the successful completion of future borrowings and potential refinancings. However, our cash requirements could be materially affected by the use of cash in acquisitions of businesses, repurchases of securities, the exercise of put rights or other exit options by our joint venture partners, and contractual or regulatory commitments to fund capital expenditures in, or intercompany borrowings to, businesses we own. In addition, liquidity could be adversely affected should there be a deterioration in our results of operations, including our ability to generate sufficient cash from operations, as well as by the various risks and uncertainties discussed in this section, and the Risk Factors section in Part I of our Annual Report, including changes in federal and state statutes, regulations and executive orders that effect the healthcare industry directly or indirectly, particularly those impacting government healthcare funding, and significant costs associated with legal proceedings and government investigations.

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We have not relied on commercial paper or other short-term financing arrangements or entered into repurchase agreements or other short-term financing arrangements not otherwise reported in our balance sheet. In addition, we do not have significant exposure to floating interest rates given that all of our current long-term indebtedness has fixed rates of interest except for borrowings, if any, under our Credit Agreement.

CRITICAL ACCOUNTING ESTIMATES

In preparing our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements in conformity with GA