Company: EHC
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form Type: S-8
Source: 0000785161-25-000040
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Company: Encompass Health Corp
Filing Date: 2025-07-29
Form: S-8
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<div align='center'>As Filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on July 29, 2025</div>

#### Registration No. 333-________

### UNITED STATES

### SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

#### WASHINGTON, DC 20549
#### ___________________

#### FORM S-8

### REGISTRATION STATEMENT

#### UNDER

#### THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933
#### ___________________

### ENCOMPASS HEALTH CORPORATION
<div align='center'>(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)</div>

| Delaware                                                       |     |                          63-0860407 |
| (State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization) |     | -I.R.S. Employer Identification No. |
| 9001 Liberty Parkway                                           
 Birmingham, Alabama                                            |     |                               35242 |
| (Address of Principal Executive Offices)                       |     |                           -Zip Code |

#### _____________________________

<div align='center'>Encompass Health Corporation 2025 Omnibus Performance Incentive Plan

(Full title of the plan)</div>

#### _____________________________

#### Patrick Darby, Esq.
<div align='center'>Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary</div>

#### Encompass Health Corporation

#### 9001 Liberty Parkway

#### Birmingham, Alabama 35242
<div align='center'>(Name and address of agent for service)

(205) 967-7116

(Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)

With a copy to:</div>

#### Stephen D. Leasure, Esq.

#### Vice President and Deputy General Counsel

#### Encompass Health Corporation

#### 9001 Liberty Parkway

#### Birmingham, Alabama 35242
<div align='center'>(205) 967-7116</div>

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is a large accelerated filer, an accelerated filer, a non-accelerated filer, a smaller reporting company or an emerging growth company. See the definitions of “large accelerated filer,” “accelerated filer,” “smaller reporting company,” and "emerging growth company" in Rule 12b-2 of the Exchange Act.

| Large accelerated filer |     | ☒ |     | Accelerated filer         |     | ☐ |
| Non-accelerated filer   |     | ☐ |     | Smaller reporting company |     | ☐ |
|                         |     |   |