Community Health Systems Inc (CYH) SEC Filing 10-K Annual report for the fiscal year ending Thursday, December 31, 2015

Exhibit 99.1

COMMUNITY HEALTH SYSTEMS, INC. ANNOUNCES

FOURTH QUARTER 2015 RESULTS WITH NET OPERATING REVENUES OF $4.798 BILLION

FRANKLIN, Tenn. (February 15, 2016) – Community Health Systems, Inc. (NYSE: CYH) (the “Company”) today announced financial and operating results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2015.

The operating results of Health Management Associates, Inc. (“HMA”) are included in the Company’s consolidated results and statistical data from January 27, 2014, the date the Company completed its acquisition of HMA. For hospitals acquired in the HMA merger, same-store operating results and statistical data reflect the periods from January 1 through December 31, 2015 and 2014, as if such hospitals were owned during both comparable periods.

Net operating revenues for the three months ended December 31, 2015, totaled $4.798 billion, a 2.4 percent decrease compared with $4.918 billion for the same period in 2014. Income from continuing operations attributable to Community Health Systems, Inc. common stockholders decreased to a loss of $(74) million, or $(0.66) per share (diluted), for the three months ended December 31, 2015, compared with income of $129 million, or $1.12 per share (diluted), for the same period in 2014. The results for the three months ended December 31, 2015, include $0.33 per share (diluted) related to impairment of long-lived assets, $0.02 per share (diluted) of expenses related to government legal settlements for several qui tam matters settled in principle and related legal expenses and $0.04 per share (diluted) related to expenses from the planned spin-off of Quorum Health Corporation. Excluding these items, loss from continuing operations was $(0.28) per share (diluted). The financial results for the three months and year ended December 31, 2015, include a $169 million increase in the Company’s allowance for doubtful accounts on the December 31, 2015 consolidated balance sheet and a corresponding $169 million increase to the provision for bad debts related to a change in estimate recorded during the three months ended December 31, 2015. This adjustment reduced net operating revenues and adjusted EBITDA by $169 million and income from continuing operations by $108 million, or $0.96 and $0.94 per share (diluted), for the three months and year ended December 31, 2015, respectively.

Net income attributable to Community Health Systems, Inc. common stockholders was a loss of $(0.73) per share (diluted) for the three months ended December 31, 2015, compared with income of $0.87 per share (diluted) for the same period in 2014. Discontinued operations for the three months ended December 31, 2015, consisted of $(0.04) per share (diluted) of losses from operations of entities sold or held for sale and $(0.03) per share (diluted) of expenses related to the impairment of long-lived assets held for sale, for a total after-tax loss of approximately $(9) million, or $(0.08) per share (diluted). Weighted-average shares outstanding (diluted) were 113 million for the three months ended December 31, 2015, and 115 million for the three months ended December 31, 2014.

Adjusted EBITDA for the three months ended December 31, 2015, which includes the provision for bad debts change in estimate adjustment of $169 million, was $527 million compared with $785 million for the same period in 2014, representing a 32.9 percent decrease.

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