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| • | Effective January 1, 2012, the Company adopted Accounting Standards Update 2011-07, Healthcare Entities (Topic 954), "Presentation and Disclosure of Patient Service Revenue, Provision for Bad Debts, and the Allowance for Doubtful Accounts for Certain Healthcare Entities," which requires certain healthcare entities to present the provision for doubtful accounts relating to patient service revenue as a deduction from patient service revenue in the statement of operations rather than as an operating expense. All periods have been reclassified to conform to this presentation. The Company's adoption of this standard had no net impact on its financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. This standard also requires healthcare entities to provide enhanced disclosure about their policies for recognizing revenue and assessing bad debts, as well as qualitative and quantitative information about changes in the allowance for doubtful accounts. See the "Net Operating Revenues," "Accounts Receivable and Allowance for Doubtful Accounts," and "Recent Accounting Pronouncements" sections of Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, to the consolidated financial statements included as Exhibit 99.4 to this filing. |

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| • | In the first quarter of 2012, the Company adopted additional guidance from the Financial Accounting Standards Board regarding fair value measurement and disclosure requirements. The additional guidance includes the requirement to categorize by level of the fair value hierarchy items not measured at fair value in the Company's balance sheet but for which fair value is required to be disclosed. This requirement primarily impacted the Company's fair value disclosures related to its long-term debt and had no impact on the Company's financial position, results of operations, or cash flows. See the "Recent Accounting Pronouncements" section of Note 1, Summary of Significant Accounting Policies, and Note 15, Fair Value Measurements, to the consolidated financial statements included as Exhibit 99.4 to this filing. |

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| Exhibit Number |   | Description |
| 23             |   | Consent of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm. |
| 99.1           |   | Item 6. Selected Financial Data. |
| 99.2           |   | Item 7. Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations. |
| 99.3           |   | Item 8. Financial Statements and Supplementary Data. |
| 99.4           |   | Item 15. Financial Statements. |
| 101            |   | Sections of the HealthSouth Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2011, formatted in XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language), submitted in the following files: |
|           |   | 101.INS      XBRL Instance Document |
|           |   | 101.SCH     XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document |
|           |   | 101.CAL     XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document |
|           |   | 101.DEF     XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document |
|           |   | 101.LAB     XBRL Taxonomy Extension Label Linkbase Document |
|           |   | 101.PRE     XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document |

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| By:    | /S/   JOHN P. WHITTINGTON |
|   | Name: | John P. Whittington |
|   | Title: | Executive Vice President, General Counseland Corporate Secretary |