Company: THC
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000070318-25-000009
Chunk: 118

Company: TENET HEALTHCARE CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-18
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 8
Chunk 118
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 life, typically ranging from five to seven years. Similarly, some of our leases of information technology and telecommunications assets include a transfer of title and, therefore, have useful lives of 15 years.Certain of our lease agreements for real estate include payments based on actual common area maintenance expenses and others include rental payments adjusted periodically for inflation. These variable lease payments are recognized in other operating expenses, but are not included in the right‑of‑use asset or liability balances. Our lease agreements do not contain any material residual value guarantees, restrictions or covenants.We have elected the practical expedient that allows lessees to choose to not separate lease and non‑lease components by class of underlying asset and are applying this expedient to all relevant asset classes. We have also elected the practical expedient package to not reassess at adoption (1) expired or existing contracts for whether they are or contain a lease, (2) the lease classification of any existing leases or (3) initial indirect costs for existing leases.

Goodwill and Other Intangible AssetsGoodwill represents the excess of costs over the fair value of assets of businesses acquired. Goodwill and other intangible assets acquired in purchase business combinations and determined to have indefinite useful lives are not amortized, but instead are subject to impairment tests performed at least annually. Our reporting segments are the reporting units used to perform our goodwill analysis. If we determine the carrying value of goodwill is impaired, or if the carrying value of a business that is to be sold or otherwise disposed of exceeds its fair value, we reduce the carrying value, including any allocated goodwill, to fair value. Estimates of fair value are based on third‑party appraisals, established market prices for comparable assets or internally developed estimates of future net cash flows and presume stable, improving or, in some cases, declining results at our hospitals, depending on their circumstances.Other intangible assets consist of capitalized software costs, which are amortized on a straight‑line basis over the estimated useful life of the software, which ranges from three to 15 years, costs of acquired management and other contract service rights, most of which have indefinite lives, and miscellaneous intangible assets.

Accruals for General and Professional Liability RisksWe accrue for estimated professional and general liability claims, to the extent not covered by insurance, when they are probable and can be reasonably estimated. We maintain reserves, which are based on modeled estimates for the portion of our professional liability risks, including incurred but not reported claims, to the extent we do not have insurance