Segments

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2025

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segments

Segments

The Company has one reportable segment, which is healthcare services. The healthcare services segment generates revenues by delivering care to its customers, or patients, through its integrated network of hospitals, ambulatory facilities, and physician practices. The Company's Chief Operating Decision Maker ("CODM") is its President and Chief Executive Officer, who regularly reviews financial operating results on a consolidated basis for purposes of allocating resources and evaluating financial performance. The Company’s CODM manages the operations on a consolidated basis to make decisions about overall Company resource allocation and to assess overall Company performance.

The CODM's assessment of segment performance and allocation of segment resources is based on consolidated net income attributable to Ardent Health, Inc. The CODM uses this consolidated profitability measure to monitor budget versus actual results, compare Company profitability period-over-period and make capital investment decisions.

The following table presents the composition of consolidated net income attributable to Ardent Health, Inc. for the healthcare services segment, including significant expenses that are regularly provided to and reviewed by the CODM (in thousands):

		Years Ended December 31,
		2025		2024		2023
Total revenue		$	6,324,339	$	5,966,072	$	5,409,483
Less:
Employee salaries and benefits		2,566,366		2,432,567		2,253,706
Contract labor		91,334		102,189		130,356
Supplies		1,082,908		1,033,122		993,405
Medical professional fees		455,348		399,303		350,799
Contract services		737,297		697,816		629,471
Other segment items (1)		1,255,275		1,090,732		997,842
Net income attributable to Ardent Health, Inc.		$	135,811	$	210,343	$	53,904
(1)	Other segment items included in net income attributable to Ardent Health, Inc. for each of the periods presented primarily consists of rent expense, interest expense, depreciation and amortization, income tax expense, other operating expenses, government stimulus income, loss on extinguishment and modification of debt, other non-operating gains, and net income attributable to noncontrolling interests.

The measure of segment assets is reported on the consolidated balance sheets as total consolidated assets. The accounting policies for the segment are consistent with the consolidated accounting policies provided in Note 2.

As of December 31, 2025 and 2024, all of the Company’s long-lived assets were located in the United States, and for the years ended December 31, 2025, 2024, and 2023, all revenue was earned in the United States.