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SECTION 5 – CORPORATE GOVERNANCE AND MANAGEMENT
| Item 5.05. | Amendments to the Registrant’s Code of Ethics, or Waiver of a Provision of the Code of Ethics. |
In connection with its regular review and assessment of its compliance and ethics program, on October 20, 2022, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of Amedisys, Inc. (the “Company”), upon the recommendation of the Compliance and Ethics Committee of the Board, approved an amended and restated Code of Conduct (the “Code”). The Code applies to all officers, employees and directors of the Company, including but not limited to the Company’s principal executive officer, principal financial officer, principal accounting officer, and controller, as well as to the Company’s contractors, subcontractors and agents. The Code reflects what the Company considers to be current best practices and policies and improves readability over the Company’s prior Code of Ethical Business Conduct. The adoption of the Code did not relate to or result in any waiver, explicit or implicit, of any provision of the existing Code of Ethical Business Conduct.
The above description of the Code does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of the Code, a copy of which is available on the Investors subpage of the Company’s website at www.amedisys.com (under the link “Governance”). Information on the Company’s website shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into, or to be a part of, this Current Report on Form 8-K.
SIGNATURE
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.
| AMEDISYS, INC. | ||
| By: | /s/ Christopher T. Gerard | |
| Christopher T. Gerard | ||
| President and Chief Executive Officer | ||
| DATE: October 21, 2022 | ||