BASIS OF PRESENTATION Description of Business and Basis of Presentation Tenet Healthcare Corporation (together with our subsidiaries, referred to herein as Tenet, we or us) is a diversified healthcare services company. At June 30, 2017 , we operated 80 hospitals, 20 short-stay surgical hospitals and over 470 outpatient centers in the United States, as well as nine facilities in the United Kingdom, through our subsidiaries, partnerships and joint ventures, including USPI Holding Company, Inc. (USPI joint venture). Our Conifer Holdings, Inc. (Conifer) subsidiary provides healthcare business process services in the areas of hospital and physician revenue cycle management and value-based care solutions to healthcare systems, as well as individual hospitals, physician practices, self-insured organizations, health plans and other entities . This quarterly report supplements our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2016 (Annual Report). As permitted by the Securities and Exchange Commission for interim reporting, we have omitted certain notes and disclosures that substantially duplicate those in our Annual Report. For further information, refer to the audited Consolidated Financial Statements and notes included in our Annual Report. Unless otherwise indicated, all financial and statistical data included in these notes to our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements relate to our continuing operations, with dollar amounts expressed in millions (except per-share amounts). In addition to the impact of the new accounting standards discussed below, certain prior-year amounts have also been reclassified to conform to the current-year presentation, primarily related to the detail of other intangible assets in Note 1 and the line items presented in the changes in shareholders equity table in Note 8. Effective January 1, 2017, we adopted the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) Accounting Standards Update (ASU) 2016-09, CompensationStock Compensation (Topic 718) Improvements to