Legal & controls
Item 3 and Item 9A as filed · every verdict is the registrant’s own sentence, printed below it · a filing that fails an extraction gate reads “not extracted”
| Fiscal year | Filed | Item 3 | ICFR | disclosure controls | material weakness | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-31 | 2026-02-26 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We provide services in the highly regulated healthcare industry. Furthermore, operating inpatient rehabilitation hospitals requires significant staffing and involves intensive therapy for individuals suffering from significant physical or cognitive disabilities or injuries. In the ordinary course of our business, we are subject to regulatory and other governmental audits and investigations and are party to various legal actions, proceedings, and claims, including wage and hour, employment and personal injury claims, some of which seek to be certified as class or collective actions. These matters could potentially subject us to sanctions, damages, recoupments, fines, and other penalties. Some of these matters have been material to us in the past, and others in the future may, either individually or in the aggregate, be material and adverse to our business, financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. Additionally, the False Claims Act (the “FCA”) allows private citizens, called “relators,” to institute civil proceedings on behalf of the United States alleging violations of the FCA. These lawsuits, also known as “qui tam” actions, are common in the healthcare industry an… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2025, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2025, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. | ||||||
| 2024-12-31 | 2025-02-28 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We provide services in the highly regulated healthcare industry. Furthermore, operating inpatient rehabilitation hospitals requires significant staffing and involves intensive therapy for individuals suffering from significant physical or cognitive disabilities or injuries. In the ordinary course of our business, we are subject to regulatory and other governmental audits and investigations and are party to various legal actions, proceedings, and claims, including wage and hour, employment and personal injury claims, some of which seek to be certified as class or collective actions. These matters could potentially subject us to sanctions, damages, recoupments, fines, and other penalties. Some of these matters have been material to us in the past, and others in the future may, either individually or in the aggregate, be material and adverse to our business, financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. Additionally, the False Claims Act (the “FCA”) allows private citizens, called “relators,” to institute civil proceedings on behalf of the United States alleging violations of the FCA. These lawsuits, also known as “qui tam” actions, are common in the healthcare industry an… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2024, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. | ||||||
| 2023-12-31 | 2024-02-28 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We provide services in the highly regulated healthcare industry. Furthermore, operating inpatient rehabilitation hospitals requires significant staffing and involves intensive therapy for individuals suffering from significant physical or cognitive disabilities or injuries. In the ordinary course of our business, we are subject to regulatory and other governmental audits and investigations and are party to various legal actions, proceedings, and claims, including employment and personal injury claims. These matters could potentially subject us to sanctions, damages, recoupments, fines, and other penalties. Some of these matters have been material to us in the past, and others in the future may, either individually or in the aggregate, be material and adverse to our business, financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. Additionally, the False Claims Act (the “FCA”) allows private citizens, called “relators,” to institute civil proceedings on behalf of the United States alleging violations of the FCA. These lawsuits, also known as “qui tam” actions, are common in the healthcare industry and can involve significant monetary damages, fines, attorneys’ fees and the award o… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2023, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. | ||||||
| 2022-12-31 | 2023-02-27 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We provide services in the highly regulated healthcare industry. In the ordinary course of our business, we are a party to various legal actions, proceedings, and claims as well as regulatory and other governmental audits and investigations. These matters could potentially subject us to sanctions, damages, recoupments, fines, and other penalties. Some of these matters have been material to us in the past, and others in the future may, either individually or in the aggregate, be material and adverse to our business, financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. Additionally, the False Claims Act (the “FCA”) allows private citizens, called “relators,” to institute civil proceedings on behalf of the United States alleging violations of the FCA. These lawsuits, also known as “qui tam” actions, are common in the healthcare industry and can involve significant monetary damages, fines, attorneys’ fees and the award of bounties to the relators who successfully prosecute or bring these suits to the government. It is possible that qui tam lawsuits have been filed against us, which suits remain under seal, or that we are unaware of such filings or precluded by existing law or cour… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2022, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2022, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. | ||||||
| 2021-12-31 | 2022-02-25 | described here | effective | effective | none in Item 9A | EDGAR |
Item 3 · We provide services in the highly regulated healthcare industry. In the ordinary course of our business, we are a party to various legal actions, proceedings, and claims as well as regulatory and other governmental audits and investigations. These matters could potentially subject us to sanctions, damages, recoupments, fines, and other penalties. Some of these matters have been material to us in the past, and others in the future may, either individually or in the aggregate, be material and adverse to our business, financial position, results of operations, and liquidity. On October 26, 2021, we filed suit in the district court of Dallas County, Texas against April K. Anthony, a former executive officer in our home health and hospice segment (“HH&H”), for breach of her contractual noncompete, nonsolicitation, and nondisclosure obligations to us and for trade secret misappropriation. Ms. Anthony’s senior management agreement, dated October 7, 2019, provides, among other things, that she shall not (i) directly or indirectly engage in the provision of home health or hospice services in any state in which we are operating for a period one year following her departure, (ii) directly or… Item 9A · ICFR · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, our internal control over financial reporting was effective. Item 9A · disclosure controls · Based on our evaluation, our chief executive officer and chief financial officer concluded that, as of December 31, 2021, our disclosure controls and procedures were effective. | ||||||
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- A heading is accepted as a section only when it is not a table-of-contents row (a trailing page number), not a quoted reference in prose, and names its own section; the span must then clear a per-item length band and carry readable text after the heading. Anything that fails a gate is served as 'not extracted' with the reason — never as a default value.
- An effectiveness conclusion is read only from a sentence that names its own control set (disclosure controls and procedures, or internal control over financial reporting) and states an outcome. Conditional sentences — the standard limitations paragraph and forward-looking remediation language — are excluded, because they are hypotheses rather than conclusions.
- When a filing's own sentences disagree — an effective conclusion beside an unremediated material-weakness disclosure, or two conclusions of opposite sign — no verdict is asserted. A wrong 'controls were effective' reading is worse than no reading.
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