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Relationship with Universal Health Realty Income Trust and Other Related Party Transactions
6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2025
Related Party Transactions [Abstract]  
Relationship with Universal Health Realty Income Trust and Other Related Party Transactions

(2) Relationship with Universal Health Realty Income Trust and Other Related Party Transactions

Relationship with Universal Health Realty Income Trust:

At June 30, 2025, we held approximately 5.7% of the outstanding shares of Universal Health Realty Income Trust (the “Trust”). We serve as Advisor to the Trust under an annually renewable advisory agreement, which is scheduled to expire on December 31st of each year, pursuant to the terms of which we conduct the Trust’s day-to-day affairs, provide administrative services and present investment opportunities. The advisory agreement was renewed by the Trust for 2025 at the same rate in place for 2024, 2023 and 2022, providing for an advisory computation at 0.70% of the Trust’s average invested real estate assets. We earned an advisory fee from the Trust, which is included in net revenues in the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income, of approximately $1.4 million during each of the three-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, and approximately $2.8 million and $2.7 million during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively.

In addition, certain of our officers and directors are also officers and/or directors of the Trust. Management believes that it has the ability to exercise significant influence over the Trust, therefore we account for our investment in the Trust using the equity method of accounting.

Our pre-tax share of income from the Trust was approximately $268,000 and $314,000 during the three-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and approximately $568,000 and $614,000 during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and is included in other income (expense), net, on the accompanying condensed consolidated statements of income for each period. We received dividends from the Trust amounting to $583,000 and $575,000 during the three-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and $1.2 million and $1.1 million during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively. The carrying value of our investment in the Trust was $5.2 million and $5.8 million at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024, respectively, and is included in other assets in the accompanying condensed consolidated balance sheets. The market value of our investment in the Trust was $31.5 million at June 30, 2025 and $29.3 million at December 31, 2024, based on the closing price of the Trust’s stock on the respective dates.

The Trust commenced operations in 1986 by purchasing certain hospital properties from us and immediately leasing the properties back to our respective subsidiaries. The base rents are paid monthly and the bonus rents, which effective as of January 1, 2022 are applicable only to McAllen Medical Center, are computed and paid on a quarterly basis, based upon a computation that compares current quarter revenue to a corresponding quarter in the base year. The leases with those subsidiaries are unconditionally guaranteed by us and are cross-defaulted with one another.

The aggregate rent payable to the Trust in connection with the leases on McAllen Medical Center, Wellington Regional Medical Center, Aiken Regional Medical Center and Canyon Creek Behavioral Health was approximately $5 million during each of the three-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024 and approximately $11 million during each of the six-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024.

In connection with an asset purchase and sale agreement, and related lease agreements, completed with the Trust in 2021, related to Aiken Regional Medical Center ("Aiken") and Canyon Creek Behavioral Health ("Canyon Creek"), our consolidated balance sheets at June 30, 2025 and December 31, 2024 reflect financial liabilities, which are included in debt, of approximately $72 million and $74 million, respectively. In connection with that transaction, as a result of our purchase option within the lease agreements related to Aiken and Canyon Creek, the asset purchase and sale transaction was accounted for as a failed sale leaseback in accordance with U.S.

GAAP and we have accounted for the transaction as a financing arrangement. Our lease payments payable to the Trust in connection with Aiken and Canyon Creek are recorded to interest expense and as a reduction of the outstanding financial liability. Since we did not derecognize the real property related to Aiken and Canyon Creek as a result of the asset purchase and sale agreement, we will continue to depreciate the assets.

Pursuant to the Master Leases by certain subsidiaries of ours and the Trust as described in the table below, dated 1986 and 2021 (“the Master Leases”) which govern the leases of McAllen Medical Center and Wellington Regional Medical Center (each of which is governed by the Master Lease dated 1986), and Aiken Regional Medical Center and Canyon Creek Behavioral Health (each of which is governed by the Master Lease dated 2021), we have the option to renew the leases at the lease terms described above and below by providing notice to the Trust at least 90 days prior to the termination of the then current term. We also have the right to purchase the respective leased hospitals at their appraised fair market value upon any of the following: (i) at the end of the lease terms or any renewal terms; (ii) upon one month’s notice should a change of control of the Trust occur, or; (iii) within the time period as specified in the lease in the event that we provide notice to the Trust of our intent to offer a substitution property/properties in exchange for one (or more) of the hospital properties leased from the Trust should we be unable to reach an agreement with the Trust on the properties to be substituted. In addition, we have rights of first refusal to: (i) purchase the respective leased facilities during and for a specified period after the lease terms at the same price, terms and conditions of any third-party offer, or; (ii) renew the lease on the respective leased facility at the end of, and for a specified period after, the lease term at the same terms and conditions pursuant to any third-party offer.

In addition, we are the managing, majority member in a joint venture with an unrelated third-party that operates Clive Behavioral Health, a 100-bed behavioral health care facility located in Clive, Iowa. The real property of this facility, which was completed and opened in late 2020, is also leased from the Trust (annual rental of approximately $2.8 million, $2.7 million and $2.6 million during 2024, 2023 and 2022, respectively) pursuant to the lease terms as provided in the table below. In connection with the lease on this facility, the joint venture has the right to purchase the leased facility from the Trust at its appraised fair market value upon either of the following: (i) by providing notice at least 270 days prior to the end of the lease terms or any renewal terms, or; (ii) upon 30 days' notice anytime within 12 months of a change of control of the Trust (UHS also has this right should the joint venture decline to exercise its purchase right). Additionally, the joint venture has rights of first offer to purchase the facility prior to any third-party sale.

The table below provides certain details for each of the hospitals leased from the Trust as of June 30, 2025:

 

Hospital Name

 

Annual
Minimum
Rent

 

 

End of Lease Term

 

Renewal
Term
(years)

 

 

McAllen Medical Center

 

$

5,485,000

 

 

December, 2026

 

 

5

 

(a)

Wellington Regional Medical Center

 

$

6,805,000

 

 

December, 2026

 

 

5

 

(b)

Aiken Regional Medical Center/Aurora Pavilion Behavioral Health Services

 

$

4,164,000

 

 

December, 2033

 

 

35

 

(c)

Canyon Creek Behavioral Health

 

$

1,882,000

 

 

December, 2033

 

 

35

 

(c)

Clive Behavioral Health Hospital

 

$

2,851,000

 

 

December, 2040

 

 

50

 

(d)

 

(a)
We have one 5-year renewal option at existing lease rates (through 2031).
(b)
We have one 5-year renewal option at fair market value lease rates (through 2031). On each January 1st through 2026, the annual rent will increase by 2.5% on a cumulative and compounded basis.
(c)
We have seven 5-year renewal options at fair market value lease rates (2034 through 2068). On each January 1st through 2033, the annual rent will increase by 2.25% on a cumulative and compounded basis.
(d)
This facility is operated by a joint venture in which we are the managing, majority member and an unrelated third-party holds a minority ownership interest. The joint venture has three, 10-year renewal options at computed lease rates as stipulated in the lease (2041 through 2070) and two additional, 10-year renewal options at fair market value lease rates (2071 through 2090). In each January through 2040 (and potentially through 2070 if three, 10-year renewal options are exercised), the annual rental will increase by 2.75% on a cumulative and compounded basis.

In addition, certain of our subsidiaries are tenants in several medical office buildings (“MOBs”) and two free-standing emergency departments ("FED") owned by the Trust or by limited liability companies in which the Trust holds 95% to 100% of the ownership interest. In connection with these two FEDs, in October, 2024, our subsidiaries exercised their 5-year renewal options on the facilities which are located in Weslaco and Mission, Texas. The renewal option covers the period of February 1, 2025 through January 31, 2030 (the current lease terms were scheduled to expire on January 31, 2025; with aggregate annual lease rates of approximately $1.07 million). Pursuant to terms of the leases, and consistent with the terms of the leases currently in effect for each property, the lease rates are scheduled to increase 2% per year through the end of the renewed lease terms. Our subsidiaries have four, 5-year renewal options remaining on each of these FEDs, with the first three renewal options (covering the years 2030 through 2044) providing for 2% annual increases to the lease rates, and the remaining two, 5-year renewal options (covering the years 2045 through 2054) providing for lease

rates at the then fair market value. These leases are cross-defaulted with one another and our subsidiaries have the option to purchase the leased properties upon the expiration of each five-year extended term at the fair market value at that time.

During the third quarter of 2023, the Trust acquired the McAllen Doctor's Center, a 79,500 rentable square feet medical office building located in McAllen, Texas. A master lease was executed between a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours and the Trust, pursuant to the terms of which our subsidiary will master lease 100% of the rentable square feet of the MOB at an initial minimum rent of $624,000 annually. The master lease commenced during August, 2023 and is scheduled to expire in twelve years from that date.

During the first quarter of 2023, the Trust substantially completed construction on a new 86,000 rentable square foot multi-tenant MOB that is located on the campus of Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center in Reno, Nevada. Northern Nevada Sierra Medical Center, a 170-bed newly constructed acute care hospital owned and operated by a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours, was completed and opened in April, 2022. In connection with this MOB, a ten-year master flex lease was executed between a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours and the Trust (scheduled to expire in March, 2033), pursuant to the terms of which our subsidiary initially agreed to master lease up to approximately 68% of the rentable square feet of the MOB. The master flex lease has been reduced since inception as certain conditions have been met. A ground lease for this facility commenced during 2023 and is scheduled to expire in 2098.

Other Related Party Transactions:

In December, 2010, our Board of Directors approved the Company’s entering into supplemental life insurance plans and agreements on the lives of Alan B. Miller (our Executive Chairman of the Board) and his wife. As a result of these agreements, as amended in October, 2016, based on actuarial tables and other assumptions, during the life expectancies of the insureds, we would pay approximately $28 million in premiums, and certain trusts owned by our Executive Chairman of the Board, would pay approximately $9 million in premiums. Based on the projected premiums mentioned above, and assuming the policies remain in effect until the death of the insureds, we will be entitled to receive death benefit proceeds of no less than approximately $37 million representing the $28 million of aggregate premiums paid by us as well as the $9 million of aggregate premiums paid by the trusts. In connection with these policies, we will pay/we paid approximately $1 million, net, in premium payments during 2025 and 2024.

In August, 2015, Marc D. Miller, our President and Chief Executive Officer and member of our Board of Directors, was appointed to the Board of Directors of Premier, Inc. (“Premier”), a healthcare performance improvement alliance. During 2013, we entered into a new group purchasing organization agreement (“GPO”) with Premier. In conjunction with the GPO agreement, we acquired a minority interest in Premier for a nominal amount. During the fourth quarter of 2013, in connection with the completion of an initial public offering of the stock of Premier, we received cash proceeds for the sale of a portion of our ownership interest in the GPO. Also in connection with this GPO agreement, we received shares of restricted stock of Premier which vested ratably over a seven-year period (2014 through 2020), contingent upon our continued participation and minority ownership interest in the GPO. During the third quarter of 2020, we entered into an agreement with Premier pursuant to the terms of which, among other things, our ownership interest in Premier was converted into shares of Class A Common Stock of Premier. We have elected to retain a portion of the previously vested shares of Premier, the market value of which is included in other assets on our condensed consolidated balance sheets. Based upon the closing price of Premier’s stock on each respective date, the market value of our shares of Premier was $49 million as of June 30, 2025 and $47 million as of December 31, 2024. Any change in market value of our Premier shares since December 31, 2024 is recorded as an unrealized gain/loss and included in “Other (income) expense, net” in our condensed consolidated statements of income for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2025. Additionally, we received cash dividends from Premier amounting to approximately $470,000 during both three-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, and approximately $937,000 and $900,000 during the six-month periods ended June 30, 2025 and 2024, respectively, which are included in “Other (income) expense, net” in our condensed consolidated statements of income.

A member of our Board of Directors and member of the Executive Committee and Finance Committee is Of Counsel for Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP, a law firm engaged by us for a variety of legal services. The Board member and his law firm also provide personal legal services to our Executive Chairman and he acts as trustee of certain trusts for the benefit of our Executive Chairman and his family.