Tenet Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and FY 2021 Results Announces Plan to Retire $700 Million of Debt Provides Detailed 2022 Financial Outlook Net income from continuing operations available to common shareholders in Q4'

Tenet Reports Strong Fourth Quarter and FY 2021 Results

Announces Plan to Retire $700 Million of Debt

Provides Detailed 2022 Financial Outlook

Net income from continuing operations available to common shareholders in Q4'21 of $250 million ($153 million excluding grant income) versus net income from continuing operations of $414 million in Q4'20 ($89 million excluding grant income)

Consolidated Adjusted EBITDA in Q4'21 of $1.017 billion ($877 million excluding $140 million of grant income) versus $1.278 billion in Q4'20 ($832 million excluding $446 million of grant income)

Diluted earnings per share from continuing operations available to common shareholders in Q4'21 of $2.30 ($1.41 per share excluding grant income) compared to $3.86 in Q4'20 ($0.83 per share excluding grant income) Adjusted diluted earnings per share from continuing operations of $2.70 in Q4'21 ($1.81 per share excluding grant income) compared to $4.72 in Q4'20 ($1.69 per share excluding grant income)

Same-hospital adjusted admissions for Q4'21 were consistent with Q4'20

Same-facility system-wide ambulatory surgical cases increased 4.4% versus Q4'20

Strong cash flow generation in FY 2021 - net cash provided by operating activities of $1.568 billion and free cash flow of $910 million or free cash flow of $1.550 billion excluding $640 million of repayments in FY 2021 associated with Medicare Advance Payments and payroll tax deferrals from FY 2020

Completed previously announced acquisition of 86 centers from SurgCenter Development (SCD) in Q4'21 successful integration of 49 centers previously acquired from SCD continues

The Company plans to retire in Q1'22 $700 million of 7.5% senior secured notes due in 2025 expects annual interest savings of $53 million

FY 2022 Outlook anticipates continuing recovery from the pandemic, and growth from operational performance improvements and acquisitions

Income from continuing operations available to common shareholders Outlook range of $4.56 to $6.16 per diluted share Adjusted diluted earnings per share Outlook range of $5.86 to $7.05 2022 Outlook ranges include a reduction of approximately $0.50 per diluted share related to a change in the IRS interest expense limitation regulations

Adjusted EBITDA Outlook range of $3.375 billion to $3.575 billion, which represents approximately 6% core growth over 2021 at the mid-point of the 2022 range

Net cash provided by operating activities Outlook range of $1.150 billion to $1.450 billion and free cash flow Outlook range of $1.433 billion to $1.683 billion excluding $1.008 billion of the final repayments in FY 2022 associated with Medicare Advance Payments and payroll tax deferrals from FY 2020

DALLAS - February 7, 2022 - Tenet Healthcare Corporation (Tenet) (NYSE THC) today announced its results for the quarter ended December 31, 2021 (Q4'21). Tenet's results for

Q4'21 versus the quarter ended December 31, 2020 (Q4'20) and for the year ended December 31, 2021 (FY 2021) versus the year ended December 31, 2020 (FY 2020) follow

"Our strong performance throughout 2021 continued in the fourth quarter finishing the year with Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $3.5 billion," said Ron Rittenmeyer, Executive Chairman. "This was well in excess of our guidance from a year ago of $3.0 billion, and we also generated significant cash flow. Our results demonstrate that Tenet is focused on continued shareholder value enhancement through the delivery of top-quality medical care and services."

"Continued solid quarterly performance exemplifies the Company's dedication to operational excellence," said Saum Sutaria, M.D., Chief Executive Officer. "With our ongoing expansion of USPI, we have become much more than a hospital company - acquiring ownership in or opening approximately 160 high-quality ambulatory facilities in the past year alone. Coupled with our solid performance across our hospitals as well as Conifer, and our commitment to high-quality care across all business units, we expect our performance trajectory to continue."

COVID-19 Pandemic (COVID)

As previously disclosed, the Company continues to treat COVID patients and manage the operational and financial impact of the pandemic on its operations. The Company experienced an acceleration in COVID cases associated with the Omicron variant during Q4'21 and into 2022 with inpatient COVID cases up 75 percent in late January 2022 versus year end 2021.

Tenet remains committed to the highest standards of safety, with protocols focused on the protection of its patients, physicians and employees, including the distribution of COVID vaccines to its caregivers and the public at large. Company operational teams monitor real-time data to help ensure sufficient staffing, intensive care unit bed capacity and personal protective equipment (PPE). Outpatient facilities are also safely performing elective procedures, and the Company's hospitals and ambulatory facilities continue to follow state and local guidelines concerning elective care.

The Company's dedicated focus on strategic cost reduction measures and corporate efficiencies continue to partially mitigate the impact of COVID, including the impact of lost revenues and higher costs related to the pandemic.

Results from Continuing Operations Available to Tenet Common Shareholders

Net income from continuing operations available to the Company's common shareholders in Q4'21 was $250 million, or $2.30 per diluted share, versus net income from continuing operations of $414 million, or $3.86 per diluted share, in Q4'20. The following items were included in the Q4'21 and Q4'20 periods

Q4'21 included COVID-related stimulus grant income of $140 million pre-tax ($97 million after-tax, or $0.89 per diluted share) versus $446 million pre-tax grant income ($325 million after-tax, or $3.03 per diluted share) in Q4'20.

For FY 2021, net income from continuing operations available to the Company's common shareholders was $915 million, or $8.43 per diluted share, compared to net income from continuing operations of $399 million, or $3.75 per diluted share, for FY 2020. The following items were included in the FY 2021 and FY 2020 periods

a pre-tax gain of $406 million ($276 million after-tax, or $2.54 per diluted share) associated with the divestiture of the Company's Miami-area hospitals

COVID-related stimulus grant income of $205 million pre-tax ($135 million after-tax, or $1.24 per diluted share) compared to pre-tax grant income of $899 million ($655 million after-tax, or $6.16 per diluted share) in FY 2020

a pre-tax loss of $74 million ($56 million after-tax, or $0.52 per diluted share) associated with the early extinguishment of debt compared to a pre-tax loss of $316 million ($240 million after-tax, or $2.26 per diluted share) in FY 2020.

a favorable income tax benefit of $88 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, substantially all recorded in the first quarter of 2020, related to an increase in the deductibility of interest expense for income tax purposes as a result of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act

an income tax benefit of $119 million, or $1.12 per diluted share, associated with a change in tax accounting method.

Adjusted Net Income from Continuing Operations Available to Tenet Common Shareholders

Reconciliations of net income available to Tenet common shareholders to Adjusted net income from continuing operations available to Tenet common shareholders are contained in Table #1 at the end of this release.

Tenet's Q4'21 Adjusted net income from continuing operations available to its common shareholders was $294 million, or $2.70 per diluted share, compared to $506 million, or $4.72 per diluted share, in Q4'20.

Tenet's FY 2021 Adjusted net income from continuing operations available to its common shareholders was $823 million, or $7.58 per diluted share, compared to $842 million, or $7.92 per diluted share, in FY 2020.

Reconciliations of net income available to Tenet common shareholders to Adjusted EBITDA are contained in Table #2 at the end of this release.

Adjusted EBITDA in Q4'21 was $1.017 billion ($877 million excluding $140 million of grant income) compared to $1.278 billion in Q4'20 ($832 million excluding $446 million of grant income).

For FY 2021, Adjusted EBITDA was $3.483 billion ($3.278 billion excluding $205 million of grant income) compared to $3.146 billion in FY 2020 ($2.247 billion excluding $899 million of grant income).

Completion of SCD Acquisition

As disclosed in a press release dated December 22, 2021, the Company and its subsidiary, United Surgical Partners International (USPI), completed its previously announced transaction to acquire SurgCenter Development (SCD). In connection with the closing of the transaction, Tenet USPI acquired SCD's ownership interests in 86 ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and other related ambulatory support services for approximately $1.1 billion.

Additionally, USPI is offering to acquire a portion of equity interests in the ASCs from physician owners for incremental consideration of up to $250 million. As previously announced, this is an ongoing process that is expected to continue over the coming months. Assuming successful completion of the acquisition of physician interests, Tenet will consolidate in its financial statements the results of the centers in which USPI holds a majority ownership position.

The Company still anticipates a phased consolidation of various centers with an estimated fully ramped Adjusted EBITDA of approximately $275 million by years three to four, consistent with Tenet's previous disclosures on the transaction.

Also as previously announced, USPI and SCD's principals have entered into a joint venture and development agreement under which USPI will have the exclusive option to partner with SCD on the future development of a minimum target of at least 50 de novo centers over a period of five years.

Early Retirement of Debt

In the quarter ending March 31, 2022 (Q1'22), the Company plans to retire $700 million aggregate principal amount of its 7.50 percent senior secured notes due in 2025 using available cash on hand. In conjunction with this transaction, Tenet expects its annual cash interest payments will be lowered by approximately $53 million.

Hospital Operations and Other (Hospital) Segment Results

Tenet's Hospital business segment is primarily comprised of acute care and specialty hospitals, imaging centers, ancillary outpatient facilities, micro-hospitals and physician practices. Effective April 1, 2021, the Company's imaging centers that were previously operated under USPI were realigned under the Hospital segment.

(a) Same-hospital revenues and statistical data include those for hospitals and hospital-affiliated outpatient centers operated by the Company's Hospital segment continuously from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2021. Amounts associated with physician practices are excluded. Prior-period same-hospital net patient service revenues and volume changes have been recast to reflect only the continuously operated facilities since January 1, 2019.

(b) Adjusted admissions represent actual patient admissions adjusted to include outpatient services provided by facilities in our Hospital segment by multiplying actual patient admissions by the sum of gross inpatient revenues and outpatient revenues, then dividing that result by gross inpatient revenues.

Revenues and Volumes

Net operating revenues (which exclude grant income) in the Hospital segment were $3.910 billion in Q4'21, a decline of 3.8 percent from $4.065 billion in Q4'20. The decrease in revenues was primarily due to the sale of the Company's Miami-area hospitals on August 1, 2021, partially offset by higher patient acuity and improved pricing yield.

Same-hospital net patient service revenues were $3.545 billion in Q4'21, growth of 1.7 percent from $3.485 billion in Q4'20.

Same-hospital net patient service revenue per adjusted admission also increased 1.7 percent year-over-year for Q4'21 primarily reflecting higher patient acuity, favorable payer mix and pricing yield.

Adjusted EBITDA in the segment was $552 million in Q4'21 ($440 million excluding $112 million of grant income) compared to $837 million in Q4'20 ($431 million excluding $406 million of grant income). The Adjusted EBITDA margin excluding grant income was 11.3 percent in Q4'21 compared to 10.7 percent in Q4'20.

Ambulatory Care (Ambulatory) Segment Results

Tenet's Ambulatory business segment is comprised of the operations of USPI. As of December 31, 2021, USPI had interests in 399 ambulatory surgery centers (249 consolidated) and 24 surgical hospitals (eight consolidated) in 34 states. Results for Q4'20, FY 2020 and FY 2021 included USPI's imaging centers (realigned under the Hospital segment as of April 1, 2021) and its urgent care centers (sold in April 2021). The Company owns 95 percent of USPI.

(c) Same-facility system-wide revenues and statistical information include the results of the facilities in which the Ambulatory segment has an investment that are not consolidated by Tenet. To help analyze the segment's results of operations, management uses system-wide measures, which include revenues and cases of both consolidated and unconsolidated facilities.

(d) Excludes the Baylor-related NCI impact of certain charges that were not included in Adjusted EBITDA. Such charges resulted in a reduction of NCI expense of $1 million in Q4'20 and FY 2020.

Revenues and Volumes

The Ambulatory segment produced net operating revenues of $742 million in Q4'21, an increase of 14.3 percent compared to $649 million in Q4'20. This increase primarily related to

higher volumes in Q4'21 than in Q4'20, higher patient acuity, new service line growth and additional revenues associated with the SCD portfolio acquisition completed in December 2020, partially offset by the second quarter 2021 sale of USPI's urgent care centers and the realignment of USPI's imaging centers under the Company's Hospital segment also in the second quarter of 2021.

Surgical business same-facility system-wide net operating revenues increased 7.7 percent in Q4'21 compared to Q4'20, with cases up 4.4 percent and revenue per case up 3.2 percent. The increased revenue per case, was primarily attributable to a heavier mix of higher-revenue cases together with favorable pricing.

Segment Adjusted EBITDA was $371 million in Q4'21 ($343 million excluding $28 million of grant income) compared to $330 million in Q4'20 ($290 million excluding $40 million of grant income).

Adjusted EBITDA margins for the Ambulatory segment excluding grant income were 46.2 percent in Q4'21 compared to 44.7 percent in Q4'20.

Adjusted EBITDA less facility-level NCI in Q4'21 was $236 million ($220 million excluding grant income) compared to $214 million in Q4'20 ($193 million excluding grant income).

Conifer Segment Results

Tenet's Conifer business segment provides comprehensive end-to-end and focused-point business process services, including hospital and physician revenue cycle management, patient communications and engagement support and value-based care solutions to hospitals, health systems, physician practices, employers and other clients.

The Company continues to pursue spinning off its Conifer segment. If consummated, this transaction is expected to potentially enhance shareholder value and, to a lesser degree, reduce the level of Tenet's debt through a tax-free debt-for-debt exchange. There can be no assurance regarding the timeframe for completion, the allocation of assets and liabilities between Tenet and Conifer, that the other conditions of the spin off will be met, or that it will be completed at all.

Conifer segment revenues in Q4'21 were $324 million compared to $344 million in Q4'20, a decline of 5.8 percent, primarily due to the previously disclosed Tenet contract scope changes and the receipt in Q4'20 of $9 million for services revenue previously fully reserved for in FY 2019 as a result of a client's bankruptcy.

Conifer generated $94 million of Adjusted EBITDA in Q4'21 compared to $111 million in Q4'20 primarily due to the Tenet contract scope changes and the $9 million receipt for

revenues previously reserved for in FY 2019 described above. Conifer's Adjusted EBITDA margin was 29.0 percent in Q4'21 versus 32.3 percent in Q4'20.

Balance Sheet, Cash Flows and Liquidity

Balance Sheet Highlights

(e) Net debt is total debt less cash and cash equivalents

Cash and cash equivalents at December 31, 2021 were $82 million lower than December 31, 2020 primarily due to the Company's early retirement of $1.578 billion of debt during FY 2021, partially offset by $1.100 billion of proceeds from the sale of the Company's Miami-area facilities.

In FY 2020, the Company received approximately $1.5 billion of Medicare advance payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Approximately $616 million of the Medicare advances were repaid during FY 2021 by the Company. Repayment terms for the Medicare advance payments began 12 months from the Company's receipt of the advance payments. An interest rate of 4.0 percent will be assessed on any outstanding balances 29 months from the initial advance. The Company began repaying these advance payments in April 2021 and expects to fully repay the advances before interest starts to accrue in September 2022.

The Company also repaid in FY 2021 approximately $136 million of the Company's payroll tax match that was deferred in FY 2020 under COVID stimulus legislation.

The Company had no outstanding borrowings on its $1.9 billion line of credit as of December 31, 2021.

The Company's ratio of net debt plus the Medicare advances liability to Adjusted EBITDA was 4.07x at December 31, 2021 compared to 3.47x at September 30, 2021, and 4.70x at December 31, 2020. The primary reason for the increase in this ratio since September 30, 2021 is due to the Company earning $140 million of grant income in Q4'21 versus $446 million in Q4'20.

Cash flows and liquidity

Reconciliations of net cash provided by operating activities to both Free Cash Flow and Adjusted Free Cash Flow are contained in Table #3 at the end of this release.

The Company produced positive free cash flow of $910 million in FY 2021 or free cash flow of $1.550 billion excluding $640 million of aggregate repayments in FY 2021 associated with Medicare Advance Payments and the Company payroll tax match deferrals from FY 2020.

Free cash flow in FY 2020 was $2.867 billion or $1.214 billion excluding approximately $1.653 billion in aggregate related to the receipts of Medicare advance payments, as well as the deferral of the Company's payroll tax match.

Reconciliations of Outlook net income available to Tenet common shareholders to Outlook Adjusted EBITDA for the year ending December 31, 2022 (FY 2022) and Q1'22 are contained in Table #4 at the end of this release.

Reconciliations of Outlook net income available to Tenet common shareholders to Outlook Adjusted net income from continuing operations to common shareholders for FY 2022 and Q1'22 are contained in Table #5 at the end of this release.

Reconciliations of Outlook net cash provided by operating activities to Outlook free cash flow and Outlook Adjusted free cash flow from continuing operations for FY 2022 are contained in Table #6 at the end of this release.

Tenet's Outlook for FY 2022 (consolidated and by segment) and Q1'22 follows

(f) The effective tax rate is calculated as income tax expense divided by the adjusted pretax income. Income tax expense is calculated by multiplying 24% (the federal corporate tax rate of 21% plus an estimate of state taxes) by the sum of adjusted pretax income less GAAP NCI expense plus permanent differences, non-deductible interest expense and non-cash NCI expense related to the portion of USPI the Company does not own.

(g) Same-hospital basis for hospital statistics USPI surgical cases on a same-facility system-wide basis