Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2014

Segment Information [Abstract]

Segment Information Disclosure

14.  SEGMENT INFORMATION

The Company operates in two distinct operating segments, represented by hospital operations (which includes its general acute care hospitals and related healthcare entities that provide inpatient and outpatient healthcare services) and home care agency operations (which provide in-home outpatient care). 

Only the hospital operations segment meets the criteria as a separate reportable segment. The financial information for the home care agency segment does not meet the quantitative thresholds for a separate identifiable reportable segment and is combined into the corporate and all other reportable segment.

Substantially all of the assets acquired in the HMA merger are recorded as part of the hospital operations segment. The distribution between reportable segments of the Company’s net operating revenues, income from continuing operations before income taxes, expenditures for segment assets and total assets is summarized in the following tables (in millions):

	December 31,
	2014		2013		2012
Net operating revenues:
Hospital operations	$	18,399	$	12,637	$	12,665
Corporate and all other		240		182		168
Total	$	18,639	$	12,819	$	12,833
Income from continuing operations before income taxes:
Hospital operations	$	772	$	575	$	882
Corporate and all other		(430)		(229)		(360)
Total	$	342	$	346	$	522
Expenditures for segment assets:
Hospital operations	$	817	$	583	$	731
Corporate and all other		36		31		38
Total	$	853	$	614	$	769
	December 31,
	2014		2013
Total assets:
Hospital operations	$	25,014	$	15,595
Corporate and all other		2,407		1,522
Total	$	27,421	$	17,117