Ardent Health, Inc.
For the period ended Dec 31, 2025. Filed Mar 16, 2026.
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FY2025 · Filed Mar 16, 2026
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Item 8. Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm
To the Stockholders and the Board of Directors of Ardent Health, Inc.
Opinion on the Financial Statements
We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of Ardent Health, Inc. (the Company) as of December 31, 2025 and 2024, the related consolidated income statements, comprehensive income statements, statements of changes in equity and statements of cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “consolidated financial statements”). In our opinion, the consolidated financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2025 and 2024, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2025, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.
We also have audited, in accordance with the standards of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB), the Company's internal control over financial reporting as of December 31, 2025, based on criteria established in Internal Control—Integrated Framework issued by the Committee of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway Commission (2013 framework), and our report dated March 16, 2026 expressed an unqualified opinion thereon.
Basis for Opinion
These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company's management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the PCAOB and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.
We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.
Critical Audit Matters
The critical audit matters communicated below are matters arising from the current period audit of the financial statements that were communicated or required to be communicated to the audit committee and that: (1) relate to accounts or disclosures that are material to the financial statements and (2) involved our especially challenging, subjective or complex judgments. The communication of critical audit matters does not alter in any way our opinion on the consolidated financial statements, taken as a whole, and we are not, by communicating the critical audit matters below, providing separate opinions on the critical audit matters or on the accounts or disclosures to which they relate.
| Revenue Recognition – Contractual Adjustments and Implicit Price Concessions | |
| Description of the Matter | For the year ended December 31, 2025, the Company’s revenues were $6,324.3 million. As discussed in Note 2 to the consolidated financial statements, revenues are based upon the estimated amounts the Company expects to be entitled to receive from patients and third-party payers. Estimates of contractual adjustments are based upon the contractual payment terms specified in the related contractual agreements and the historical collection experience of each payor. Medicare and Medicaid regulations and various managed care contracts are complex, and subject to interpretation and adjustment. Updated regulations and contract renegotiations occur frequently, necessitating continual review and assessment of the estimates by management. Revenues related to uninsured patients and copayment and deductible amounts for patients who have healthcare coverage may have discounts applied (uninsured discounts and other discounts). The Company also records estimated implicit price concessions (based primarily on historical collection experience) related to uninsured accounts to record self-pay revenues at the estimated amounts expected to be collected. These estimates are adjusted for estimated conversions of patient responsibility portions, expected recoveries, and anticipated changes in business and economic conditions, trends in federal, state and private employer healthcare coverage and other collection indicators. Auditing management’s estimates of contractual adjustments and implicit price concessions was complex and judgmental due to the significant data inputs and subjective assumptions utilized in determining related amounts as discussed above. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | To test the estimated contractual adjustments and implicit price concessions, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, testing a sample of revenue transactions, correlating the revenue recognized to subsequent cash received, assessing the methodologies and evaluating the significant assumptions discussed above and testing the completeness and accuracy of the underlying data used by the Company in its estimates, including historical collection experience. We compared the significant assumptions used by management to historical assumptions and to current industry and economic trends and considered changes, if any, to the Company’s business and other relevant factors. We also assessed the historical accuracy of management’s estimates based on subsequent collection experience and used the assessment as a source of potential corroborative or contrary evidence supporting management’s assumptions of future collections of existing accounts receivable. |
| Professional and General Liability and Related Costs | |
| Description of the Matter | At December 31, 2025, the Company’s accrual for professional and general liability asserted and unasserted claims was $284.6 million and the Company’s related costs for professional and general liability claims for the year ended December 31, 2025 was $131.3 million. As discussed in Notes 2 and 11 to the consolidated financial statements, accruals for professional and general liability claims represent the estimated ultimate costs of all reported and unreported claims incurred and unpaid through the balance sheet date. The Company’s estimated liability and related costs for asserted and unasserted claims is based on a number of factors including, but not limited to, the number of asserted claims and reported incidents, estimates of losses for these claims based on recent and historical settlements and industry trends, estimates of amounts recoverable under the Company’s insurance policies, and other actuarial assumptions. Auditing management’s professional and general liability and related costs was complex and judgmental due to the significant estimations required in determining the accrual, particularly the actuarial assumptions related to the trends in frequency and severity of claims. |
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| How We Addressed the Matter in Our Audit | To test the Company’s determination of the estimated professional and general liability and related costs, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, testing the completeness and accuracy of underlying claims data used by the Company in its determination of the accrual and reviewing the Company’s insurance contracts to validate self-insured limits, deductibles and coverage limits. Additionally, with the involvement of our actuarial specialists, we performed audit procedures that included, among others, assessing the actuarial analyses and testing the significant assumptions utilized therein, including consideration of Company-specific claim reporting and payment data, and industry experience. We also assessed the accuracy of management’s historical accrual estimates based on subsequent developments in frequency and severity, and we developed an independent range of accrual for comparison to the Company’s recorded amounts. |
/s/ Ernst & Young LLP
We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2004.
Nashville, Tennessee
March 16, 2026
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