Sam Hazen | Chief Executive Officer |
Bill Rutherford | Chief Financial Officer |
Mark Kimbrough | Chief Investment Relations Officer |
Justin Lake | Wolfe Research LLC |
Pito Chickering | Deutsche Bank |
A.J. Rice | Credit Suisse Securities |
Whit Mayo | UBS |
Steve Tanal | Goldman Sachs. |
Matthew Borsch | BMO Capital Markets |
Michael Newshel | Evercore ISI |
Sarah James | Piper Jaffray |
Matthew Gillmor | Robert W. Baird. |
Frank Morgan | RBC Capital Markets LLC |
Scott Fidel | Stephens |
Brian Tanquilut | Jefferies LLC |
Ana Gupte | SVB Leerink |
Ralph Giacobbe | Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. |
Gary Taylor | JP Morgan Chase & Co |
Good day. And welcome to the HCA Healthcare Fourth Quarter 2018 Earnings Conference Call. Today's call is being recorded. At this time for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Chief Investment Relations Officer, Mr. Mark Kimbrough.