HCA Healthcare Returning $6 Billion in Federal Coronavirus Aid

It's rare when a company returns federal money. It's rarer still when that money amounts to billions of dollars. Yet that's the situation with top U.S. hospital operator HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), which aims to return gobs of government largesse from whence it came.

All told, HCA announced that it's planning to return roughly $6 billion, $1.6 billion of which consists of federal COVID-19 grants and $4.4 billion in Medicare loans. Both were provided as part of the government's Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES) passed in the early stages of the current pandemic.

HCA benefited from the loans and grants bestowed upon operators of healthcare facilities to help keep them afloat.

Source Fool.com