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Relationship with Universal Health Realty Income Trust and Other Related Party Transactions
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2022
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 March 31, 2022, 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 2022 at the same rate as the prior three years, providing for an advisory fee 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 consolidated statements of income, of approximately $1.2 million and $1.1 million during the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, 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, which is included in other income, net, on the accompanying consolidated statements of income for each period was approximately $300,000 during each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021. We received dividends from the Trust amounting to $555,000 and $547,000 during the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. The carrying value of our investment in the Trust was approximately $9.1 million and $9.4 million at March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively, and is included in other assets in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets. The market value of our investment in the Trust was $46.0 million at March 31, 2022 and $46.8 million at December 31, 2021, based on the closing price of the Trust’s stock on the respective dates.

The Trust commenced operations in 1986 by purchasing certain properties from us and immediately leasing the properties back to our respective subsidiaries. The base rents are paid monthly and the bonus rents, which as of January 1, 2022 are applicable to only 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. 

On December 31, 2021, we entered into an asset purchase and sale agreement with the Trust.  Pursuant to the terms of the asset purchase and sale agreement, which was amended during the first quarter of 2022, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours purchased from the Trust the real estate assets of the Inland Valley Campus of Southwest Healthcare System (at its fair market value of $79.6 million).  Additionally, two wholly-owned subsidiaries of ours transferred to the Trust the real estate assets of Aiken Regional Medical Center (at its fair market value of $57.7 million) and Canyon Creek Behavioral Health (at its fair market value of $26.0 million).  In connection with this transaction, since the $83.7 million aggregate fair market value of Aiken Regional Medical Center (“Aiken”) and Canyon Creek Behavioral Health (“Canyon Creek”) exceeded the $79.6 million fair market value of the Inland Valley Campus of Southwest Healthcare System, we received approximately $4.1 million in cash from the Trust.

Pursuant to the leases, as amended, the aggregate annual rental during 2022 for Aiken and Canyon Creek aggregates to approximately $5.7 million ($3.9 million related to Aiken and $1.8 million related to Canyon Creek).  There is no bonus rental component applicable to the leases for these two facilities.

The asset purchase and sale transaction was accounted for as a financing arrangement and, since we did not derecognize the real property related to Aiken and Canyon Creek, we will continue to depreciate the assets.  Our consolidated balance sheet as of March 31, 2022 reflects a financial liability of $83.3 million, which is included in debt, related to this transaction.  Our monthly lease payments payable to the Trust will be recorded to interest expense and as a reduction to the outstanding financial liability.

The aggregate rental for the leases on the four wholly-owned hospital facilities with the Trust was approximately $5 million during the three months ended March 31, 2022.  The aggregate rental for the leases on the three wholly-owned hospital facilities with the Trust was approximately $4 million during each the three months ended March 31, 2021. 

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 180 days 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 180 days 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 newly constructed facility, which was completed and opened in late, 2020, is also leased from the Trust pursuant to the lease terms as provided in the table below. The rental on this facility was approximately $657,000 and $568,000 for the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021, respectively. 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 March 31, 2022:

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

 

 

$

6,319,000

 

 

December, 2026

 

 

5

 

(b)

Aiken Regional Medical Center/Aurora Pavilion Behavioral Health Services

 

 

$

3,895,000

 

 

December, 2033

 

 

35

 

(c)

Canyon Creek Behavioral Health

 

 

$

1,670,000

 

 

December, 2033

 

 

35

 

(c)

Clive Behavioral Health Hospital

 

 

$

2,628,000

 

 

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 options at fair market value lease rates (through 2031).  Upon the December 31, 2021 expiration of the lease on Wellington Regional Medical Center, a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours exercised its fair market value renewal option and renewed the lease for a 5-year term scheduled to expire on December 31, 2026.  Effective January 1, 2022, the annual fair market value lease rate for this hospital is $6.3 million (there is no longer a bonus rental component of the lease payment). Beginning on January 1, 2023, and thereafter on each January 1st through 2026, the annual rent will increase by 2.50% on a cumulative and compounded basis.  

(c)

We have seven 5-year renewal options at fair market value lease rates (2034 through 2068).

(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 values lease rates (2071 through 2090). Beginning in January, 2022, and thereafter 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 owned by the Trust or by limited liability companies in which the Trust holds 95% to 100% of the ownership interest.

In January, 2022, the Trust commenced construction on a new 86,000 rentable square feet 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 a 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 ground lease and a master flex lease was executed between a wholly-owned subsidiary of ours and the Trust, pursuant to the terms of which our subsidiary will master lease approximately 68% of the rentable square feet of the MOB at an initial minimum rent of $1.3 million annually.  The master flex lease could be reduced during the term if certain conditions are met.

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 $1.0 million, net, in premium payments during each of the 2022 and 2021 years, respectively.

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 consolidated balance sheet. Based upon the closing price of Premier’s stock on each respective date, the market value of our shares of Premier was approximately $79 million and $92 million as of March 31, 2022 and December 31, 2021, respectively.  Any change in market value of our Premier shares since December 31, 2021 was recorded as an unrealized gain/loss and included in “Other (income) expense, net” in our condensed consolidated statements of income for the three-month period ended March 31, 2022. Additionally, Premier declared and paid quarterly cash dividends during each of the three months ended March 31, 2022 and 2021. Our share of the cash dividends amounted to approximately $400,000 for each of the three-month periods ended March 31, 2022 and 2021.  The dividends 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 a partner in 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.