November 2, 2026 — HCA Healthcare, Inc. (NYSE: HCA) today announced that its wholly owned subsidiary, HCA Inc., proposes to offer senior notes, subject to market and other considerations. Actual terms of the senior notes, including maturity, interest rate and principal amount, will depend on market conditions at the time of pricing. HCA Inc. intends to use the net proceeds from this offering for general corporate purposes, which may include the redemption of all or a portion of the $1.200 billion outstanding aggregate principal amount of its 4.500% senior notes due February 2027, the repayment of outstanding borrowings under its $8.000 billion commercial paper program and the repayment of any outstanding borrowings under its senior unsecured credit facility.

Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Barclays Capital Inc., BofA Securities, Inc., and Wells Fargo Securities, LLC are acting as the joint book-running managers for the offering.

The offering of the senior notes is being made pursuant to an effective shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The offering is being made only by means of a preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus, copies of which may be obtained by contacting Mizuho Securities USA LLC, Attn: Debt Capital Markets, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020, or by calling toll-free at 1-866-271-7403; Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY 11717, by email at barclaysprospectus@broadridge.com or telephone at 1-888-603-5847; BofA Securities, Inc., NC1-022-02-25, 201 North Tryon Street, Charlotte, NC 28255-0001, Attn: Prospectus Department, by email: dg.prospectus_requests@bofa.com or by telephone: 1-800-294-1322; or Wells Fargo Securities, LLC, 608 2nd Avenue South, Suit 1000, Minneapolis, MN 55402, Attn: WFS Customer Service, by email: wfscustomerservice@wellsfargo.com or by telephone (toll-free): 1-800-645-3751.

You may also visit www.sec.gov to obtain an electronic copy of the related preliminary prospectus supplement and the accompanying prospectus.

About HCA Healthcare

Nashville-based HCA Healthcare is one of the nation’s leading providers of healthcare services comprising 189 hospitals and approximately 2,600 ambulatory sites of care, including surgery centers, freestanding ERs, urgent care centers, and physician clinics, in 19 states and the United Kingdom. With its founding in 1968, HCA Healthcare created a new model for hospital care in the United States, using combined resources to strengthen hospitals, deliver patient-focused care and improve the practice of medicine. HCA Healthcare has conducted a number of clinical studies, including one that demonstrated that full-term delivery is healthier than early elective delivery of babies and another that identified a clinical protocol that can reduce bloodstream infections in ICU patients by 44%. HCA Healthcare is a learning health system that uses its approximately 47 million annual patient encounters to advance science, improve patient care and save lives.