Mr. Samuel N. Hazen, also known as Sam, serves as Chief Executive Officer of HCA Healthcare Inc. since January 01, 2019 and has been its Director since September 10, 2018. Mr. Hazen served as the President and Chief Operating Officer at HCA Healthcare Inc. (formerly known as HCA Holdings, Inc.) since November 16, 2016. Mr. Hazen has been the President of Operations at HCA Inc. since February 9, 2011. Mr. Hazen serves as the President of Samaritan LLC, General Partner of Good Samaritan Hospital, L.P. He serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President of Ogden Regional Medical Center. He serves as an Executive Director at Ogden Tomotherapy, LLC. He has been Principal Executive Officer and President of Green Oaks Hospital Subsidiary, L.P., since May 2009. He serves as Principal Executive Officer and President of Conroe Hospital Corporation-general partner of Chca Conroe. He serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President of WHMC Inc. - General Partner of CHCA West Houston, L.P. He serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President of San Jose Medical Center LLC - General Partner of San Jose Hospital, L.P. He serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President of Pasadena Bayshore Hospital Inc. - General Partner of CHCA Bayshore, L.P. Mr. Hazen serves as the Principal Executive Officer of Woman's Hospital of Texas Incorporated and President of Woman's Hospital of Texas Incorporated of CHCA Woman's Hospital, L.P. He serves as the Principal Executive Officer and President of Brownsville-Valley Regional Medical Center Inc. -general partner of Columbia Valley Healthcare System, L.P. He was the President at West Valley Medical Center, Inc. and was its Principal Executive Officer. He served as the Chief Operating Officer at HCA Holdings, Inc. since January 2015 until November 16, 2016 and served as its President of Operations from February 9, 2011 to January 2015 and President of Western Group from July 2001 to February 9, 2011. He served as the Principal Executive Officer and President of Danforth Hospital Inc. - General Partner of CHCA Mainland L.P. He served as President of Western Group of HCA from July 2001 to February 9, 2011. He serves as Chief Operating Officer and President at St. Mark’s Lone Peak Hospital, Inc. He served as the Principal Executive Officer and President of HCA Health Services Of Oklahoma Inc., Los Robles Regional Medical Center, Brigham City Community Hospital, Encino Hospital Corporation Inc., Sunrise Mountainview Hospital, Inc., St. Mark's Lone Peak Hospital, Inc., Columbine Psychiatric Center, Inc., Columbia Riverside, Inc., Columbia Medical Center Of Lewisville Subsidiary, L.P., Mountain View Hospital, Inc., San Jose, LLC and Columbia Ogden Medical Center, Inc. He served as the Principal Executive Officer and President of Kph-Consolidation, Inc. He served as President and Principal Executive Officer at Eastern Idaho Health Services, Inc. He served as Principal Executive Officer and President of Los Robles Hospital and Medical Center. Mr. Hazen served as the Chief Financial Officer of Western Group at HCA Inc. from August 1995 to July 2001. He served as the Chief Financial Officer, North Texas Division of HCA Inc. from February 1994 to July 1995. Prior to that, he served in various hospital and regional Chief Financial Officer at Humana Inc. and Galen Health Care, Inc. Mr. Hazen began his career in Humana's Financial Management Training Program in 1983. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of hospitals in Georgia and Nevada and as a Regional Chief Financial Officer in Kentucky. Mr. Hazen serves as a Director of Nashville Health Care Council. He served as a Trustee of Adventure Science Center. Mr. Hazen earned his Bachelor Degree in Finance from University of Kentucky in 1982 and his Master Degree in Business Administration from University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1988.
HCA Healthcare is an American for-profit operator of health care facilities that was founded in 1968. It is based in Nashville, Tennesseeand in 2018 it managed 178 hospitals and 119 freestanding surgery centers,[2] including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics in the United States and United Kingdom.[3] HCA went public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1969 followed by a substantial growth period for the next two decades. The company was ranked No. 63 in the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue.[4]
In 1993, lawsuits were filed against HCA by former employees who drew attention to the company's questionable billing practices to Medicare for hundreds of millions of dollars.[5] Some of the allegations included charging the government costs for running its hospitals, paying kickbacks to physicians for referrals, and unlawfully charging for costs involving wound care facilities. A federal probe ensued, spanning nearly a decade, and culminated in 2003 with "the government receiving a total of over $2 billion in criminal fines and civil penalties for systematically defrauding federal health care programs."[6] The federal probe has been referred to as the longest and costliest investigation for health-care fraud in U.S. history.[7]
