Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-049925
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Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
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Fifth, the Audit Committee received the written disclosures and the letter from the Company’s independent auditors required by applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board regarding the independent auditor’s communications with the Audit Committee concerning independence, and discussed with the independent auditors the auditors’ independence from management and the Company, including the matters in the written disclosures required by the Independence Standards Board, and considered the compatibility of non-audit services with the auditors’ independence.

Finally, the Audit Committee obtained and reviewed a report from the independent auditor describing: (i) the independent auditor’s internal quality-control procedures; (ii) any material issues raised by the most recent internal quality-control review, or peer review, of the independent auditor, or by any inquiry or investigation by governmental or professional authorities within the preceding five years inspecting one or more independent audits carried out by the independent auditor, and any steps taken to deal with any such issues; and (iii) all relationships between the independent auditor and the Company.

The Audit Committee reviewed and discussed our consolidated financial statements with the Board of Directors and discussed them with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP during the 2024 fiscal year, along with the matters required to be discussed by Statement of Auditing Standard No. 16, Communications with Audit Committees, as amended, and as adopted by the Public Company Accounting Oversight

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| Audit Committee Report |

Board. The Audit Committee received from PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP the written disclosures, including the letter, required by PCAOB 3524 and 3526 and discussed with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP its independence.

Based on the discussions with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and management, the consolidated financial statement review, and such other matters deemed relevant and appropriate by the Audit Committee, the Audit Committee recommended to the Board of Directors that the audited consolidated financial statements be included in our 2024 Annual Report on Form 10-K, as filed on February 26, 2025.

AUDIT COMMITTEE

Eileen C. McDonnell (Chairperson)

Maria R. Singer

Elliot J. Sussman, M.D.

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RELATIONSHIP WITH INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”) served as our independent auditors during 2024 and 2023. Representatives from PwC will be in