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Form 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition.
Members of management of Surgery Partners, Inc. (the “Company”), will be meeting with investors on January 8, 2024, as part of the 42nd Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference, including a presentation at 5:15 p.m. ET. Based on results through November 2023, the Company is re-affirming its 2023 Adjusted EBITDA guidance of $436 million to $440 million and its 2023 Revenue guidance of approximately $2.75 billion. This information is included in a Corporate Presentation that may be used for these meetings. The Corporate Presentation is available on the Company’s website at http://ir.surgerypartners.com/events-and-presentations/presentations. In addition, the Company projects 2024 Adjusted EBITDA to be greater than $495 million.
The guidance for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2023 is based on results of the Company through November 2023 and is subject to quarter- and year-end adjustments in connection with the completion of customary financial closing procedures, including management’s review and finalization of the results for the full year 2023 and to audit procedures by the Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, which have not yet been performed. These customary closing procedures, along with December results, could cause actual results to differ materially from management’s guidance. Please also refer to Item 1A “Risk Factors” in the Company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2022 and the Company’s Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters ended March 31, 2023, June 30, 2023 and September 30, 2023, and discussed from time to time in the Company’s reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. You are cautioned not to rely on management’s guidance being achieved when making an investment decision in the Company’s securities.
Adjusted EBITDA is a financial measure that has not been prepared in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles in the United States (“GAAP”) and the Company’s definition and computation of this non-GAAP financial measure may vary from those used by other companies. This measure has limitations as an analytical tool and should not be considered in isolation or as a substitute or alternative to net income or loss, operating income or loss, or any other measures of operating performance derived in accordance with GAAP. The Company defines the term “Adjusted EBITDA” as income before income taxes adjusted for net income attributable to non-controlling interests, interest expense, net, depreciation and amortization, equity-based compensation expense, transaction, integration and acquisition costs, net loss on disposals, consolidations and deconsolidations, litigation settlements and other regulatory change impact and certain other items that we do not believe are representative of our ongoing operations. The Company is unable to present a quantitative reconciliation of Adjusted EBITDA to net income/loss for the periods presented because management cannot reasonably predict with sufficient reliability all of the necessary components of net income/loss for the periods presented. The determination of the amounts that are excluded from non-GAAP financial measure is a matter of management judgment and depends upon, among other factors, the nature of the underlying expense or income amounts.
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SIGNATURES
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
| SURGERY PARTNERS, INC. | |||||||||||
Date: | January 8, 2024 | By: | /s/ David T. Doherty | ||||||||
| David T. Doherty | |||||||||||
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer | |||||||||||