Company: UHS
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-049925
Chunk: 101

Company: UNIVERSAL HEALTH SERVICES INC
Filing Date: 2025-04-03
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 101
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 attendance at the Annual Meeting and will have an opportunity to make a statement, if they desire to do so, and to respond to any appropriate inquiries of the stockholders or their representatives.

PwC’s audit report on our consolidated financial statements as of and for the years ended December 31, 2024 and 2023 did not contain an adverse opinion or a disclaimer of opinion and was not qualified or modified as to uncertainty, audit scope or accounting principles.

Audit fees consisted of professional services rendered to us or certain of our subsidiaries. Such audit services include audits of financial statements, audit of our annual management assessment of the effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting in 2024 and 2023 (as required by Section 404 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), reviews of our quarterly financial statements and audit services provided in connection with regulatory filings, acquisitions, bond issuances and other matters.

Set forth below are the fees paid or accrued for the services of PwC during 2024 and 2023:

|                    |     |   |      2024 |     |   |      2023 |
|:-------------------|:----|:--|----------:|:----|:--|----------:|
| Audit fees         |     | $ | 4,864,125 |     | $ | 4,389,525 |
| Audit-related fees |     |   |     7,075 |     |   |     7,075 |
| Tax fees           |     |   |   350,000 |     |   |   436,000 |
| All other fees     |     |   |   288,000 |     |   |   288,000 |
| Total              |     | $ | 5,509,200 |     | $ | 5,120,600 |

Fees for tax services in 2024 and 2023 consisted primarily of consultation on various tax matters related to us and our subsidiaries, including when applicable, compliance, planning and preparation of federal and state income tax returns for certain of our subsidiaries.

The other fees to PwC in 2024 and 2023 consist of services related to Independent Review Organization services in connection with our behavioral health facilities located in the United States.

The Audit Committee has considered and determined that the provision of non-audit services by our principal auditor is compatible with maintaining auditor independence.

All audit and permissible non-audit services provided to us by the independent aud