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HCA HOLDINGS, INC.
NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS (Continued)
NOTE 14 — EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS (continued)
We maintain a Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan (“SERP”) for certain executives. The plan is
designed to ensure that upon retirement the participant receives the value of a prescribed life annuity from the
combination of the SERP and our other benefit plans. Benefits expense under the plan was $51 million for 2012,
$33 million for 2011 and $27 million for 2010. Accrued benefits liabilities under this plan totaled $242 million at
December 31, 2012 and $237 million at December 31, 2011.
We maintain defined benefit pension plans which resulted from certain hospital acquisitions in prior years.
Benefits expense under these plans was $49 million for 2012, $39 million for 2011, and $33 million for 2010.
Accrued benefits liabilities under these plans totaled $196 million at December 31, 2012 and $161 million at
December 31, 2011.
NOTE 15 — SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION
We operate in one line of business, which is operating hospitals and related health care entities. Prior to
2013, our operations were structured into three geographically organized groups: the National, Southwest and
Central Groups. Effective January 1, 2013, we reorganized our operational groups into two geographically
organized groups: the National and American Groups. We are presenting our segment and geographic
information under both structures. The acquired HealthONE operating results have been included in the
Southwest Group (American Group effective January 1, 2013) operating results for periods subsequent to
November 1, 2011. Prior to November 1, 2011, the Southwest Group recorded its share of the HealthONE
operating results in equity in earnings of affiliates.
At December 31, 2012, the National Group included 63 hospitals located in Alaska, California, Florida,
southern Georgia, Idaho, Nevada, South Carolina and Utah, and the Southwest Group included 47 hospitals
located in Colorado, Wichita, Kansas market, Oklahoma and Texas, and the Central Group included 46 hospitals
located in northern Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Hampshire, Tennessee, Virginia and the Kansas
City market. As of January 1, 2013, the National Group includes 77 hospitals located in Alaska, California,
southern Georgia, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, northern Kentucky, Nevada, New Hampshire, South Carolina, Utah
and Virginia, and the American Group includes 79 hospitals located in Colorado, northern Georgia, Kansas,
southern Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee and Texas. We also operate six
hospitals in England, and these facilities are included in the Corporate and other group for both presentations.
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