HEALTHSOUTH CORP
S-8, 1996-09-16
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   As filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on September 16, 1996
                                            Registration No. 333-______________



                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                             Washington, D.C. 20549
                              --------------------

                                    FORM S-8
                          Registration Statement Under
                           The Securities Act of 1933
                              --------------------

                             HEALTHSOUTH Corporation
             (Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)
                              --------------------

            Delaware                                   63-0860407
  (State or Other Jurisdiction           (I.R.S. Employer Identification Number)
of Incorporation or Organization)


               Two Perimeter Park South, Birmingham, Alabama 35243
               (Address of Principal Executive Offices) (Zip Code)

                    PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CARE MANAGEMENT, INC.
                             1992 STOCK OPTION PLAN
                    PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CARE MANAGEMENT, INC.
                            1994 STOCK INCENTIVE PLAN
                    PROFESSIONAL SPORTS CARE MANAGEMENT, INC.
                        1994 DIRECTORS' STOCK OPTION PLAN
                            (Full Title of the Plans)

                                  
          RICHARD M. SCRUSHY                             Copy to:               
         Chairman of the Board                    WILLIAM W. HORTON, ESQ.       
      and Chief Executive Officer                  Senior Vice President     
        HEALTHSOUTH Corporation                    and Corporate Counsel        
       Two Perimeter Park South                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation       
       Birmingham, Alabama 35243                 Two Perimeter Park South       
(Name and address of agent for service)         Birmingham, Alabama  35243      
            (205) 967-7116                           (205) 967-7116          
          (Telephone number, including area code, of agent for service)
                              --------------------

Approximate  date of  commencement  of proposed  sale to the public:  As soon as
practicable after effective date of this Registration Statement.
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                          CALCULATION OF REGISTRATION FEE
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
       Title of                                   Proposed Maximum        Proposed Maximum          Amount of
      Securities           Amount to be            Offering Price        Aggregate Offering       Registration
   to be Registered       Registered (1)            per Share (2)             Price (2)              Fee (2)
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
<S>                       <C>                           <C>                  <C>                    <C>         
   Common Stock, Par
 Value $.01 Per Share     180,618 shares                 N/A                 $6,530,481             $2,251.89
- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
</TABLE>

(1)     The amount being registered  represents  180,618 authorized and unissued
        shares  reserved for issuance upon the exercise of options  issued under
        the Plans and outstanding as of August 20, 1996.
(2)     In accordance with Rule 457(h)  promulgated  under the Securities Act of
        1933, the maximum aggregate  offering price and the registration fee are
        based on the aggregate  exercise price of options  outstanding under the
        Plans, which individual  exercise prices range from $18.80 to $51.50 per
        share.
<PAGE>
                                            PART II
                                  INFORMATION REQUIRED IN THE
                                    REGISTRATION STATEMENT


Item 3. Incorporation of Certain Documents by Reference.

        There  are  hereby   incorporated  by  reference  in  this  Registration
Statement,  and  specifically  made  a  part  hereof,  the  following  documents
heretofore filed by HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation (the "Company") with the Securities
and Exchange Commission (the "Commission"),  pursuant to the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act"):

             1. The  Company's  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal  year
ended December 31, 1995, as amended.

             2. The  Company's  Quarterly  Reports on Form 10-Q for the quarters
ended March 31 and June 30, 1996.

             3. The  Company's  Current  Report on Form 8-K dated  December  16,
1995, as amended  (relating to the acquisition of Advantage  Health  Corporation
("Advantage Health")).

             4. The Company's  Current Report on Form 8-K dated January 17, 1996
(relating to the  consummation of the  acquisition of Surgical Care  Affiliates,
Inc. ("SCA")).

             5. The  Company's  Current  Report on Form 8-K dated March 14, 1996
(relating to the consummation of the acquisition of Advantage Health).

             6. The  Company's  Current  Report on Form 8-K dated March 20, 1996
(reporting combined earnings of HEALTHSOUTH and SCA for February 1996).

             7. The  Company's  Current  Report on Form 8-K  dated May 20,  1996
(reporting  combined  earnings of  HEALTHSOUTH  and  Advantage  Health for April
1996).

             8. The description of the Company's  capital stock contained in the
Company's Registration Statement on Form 8-A filed August 26, 1989.

        All documents filed by the Company pursuant to Sections 13(a), 13(c), 14
or 15(d) of the  Exchange  Act after  the  effective  date of this  Registration
Statement and prior to the filing of a post-effective  amendment indicating that
all the  securities  offered  hereby have been sold, or  deregistering  all such
securities  then  remaining  unsold,  shall  be  deemed  to be  incorporated  by
reference in this  Registration  Statement and to be a part hereof from the date
of filing of such documents.  Any statement contained in a document incorporated
or deemed to be incorporated by reference  herein shall be deemed to be modified
or superseded for purposes of this  Registration  Statement to the extent that a
statement  contained  herein or in any other  subsequently  filed document which
also is or is deemed to be incorporated by

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<PAGE>
reference  herein  modifies or  supersedes  such  statement.  Any  statement  so
modified or superseded shall not be deemed, except as so modified or superseded,
to constitute a part of this Registration Statement.


Item 4. Description of Securities.

        Not applicable.


Item 5. Interests of Named Experts and Counsel.

        Not applicable.


Item 6. Indemnification of Directors and Officers.

        In June 1986, Delaware enacted legislation which authorized corporations
to eliminate  the personal  liability  of  directors to  corporations  and their
stockholders  for monetary  damages for breach or alleged  breach of  directors'
fiduciary "duty of care".  Under prior Delaware law,  directors were accountable
to  corporations  and  their  stockholders  for  monetary  damages  for  conduct
constituting  gross  negligence in the exercise of their duty of care.  Although
the  1986  statute  does  not  change   directors'  duty  of  care,  it  enables
corporations to limit available relief to equitable  remedies such as injunction
or rescission.  Numerous complaints,  not involving the Company, alleging breach
of directors' duty of care have been filed in connection with corporate  mergers
and acquisitions, and the 1986 statute limits available remedies of stockholders
in connection  with these  transactions as well as in other  circumstances.  The
1986  statute has no effect on a  director's  liability  for:  (a) breach of the
director's duty of loyalty; (b) acts or omissions not in good faith or involving
intentional misconduct or knowing violations of law; (c) a corporation's illegal
payment  of  dividends;  and (d)  approval  of any  transaction  from  which the
director derives an improper personal benefit.

        Pursuant to this  Delaware  statute,  the  Company  has  included in its
Restated  Certificate  of  Incorporation,  which became  effective on October 1,
1986, a provision  to eliminate  the  personal  liability of its  Directors  for
monetary  damages  for  breach  or  alleged  breach  of their  duty of care.  In
addition,  the Company's  Bylaws  provide that the Company  shall  indemnify its
Directors and officers to the full extent  permitted by Delaware law,  including
in  circumstances  in which  indemnification  is otherwise  discretionary  under
Delaware  law.  The Company  believes  that these  provisions  are  necessary to
attract and retain qualified persons as Directors and officers.

        At present,  there is no pending  litigation or  proceeding  involving a
Director or officer of the  Company  where  indemnification  will be required or
permitted.  The Company is not aware of any threatened  litigation or proceeding
which may result in a claim for indemnification by any Director or officer.



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<PAGE>

Item 7. Exemption from Registration Claimed.

        Not applicable.


Item 8. Exhibits.

        Exhibits (numbered in accordance with Item 601 of Regulation S-K).

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
Exhibit No.                            Exhibit
<S>            <C>
   4(a)        Professional Sports Care Management, Inc. 1992 Stock Option Plan, as
               amended, filed as Exhibits 10.1, 10.2 and 10.3 to Professional Sports
               Care Management, Inc.'s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registra-
               tion No. 33-81654), is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

   4(b)        Professional Sports Care Management, Inc. 1994 Stock Incentive Plan,
               filed as Exhibit 10.4 to Professional Sports Care Management, Inc.'s
               Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 33-81654), is
               hereby incorporated herein by reference.

   4(c)        Professional Sports Care Management, Inc. 1994 Directors' Stock Option
               Plan, filed as Exhibit 10.5 to Professional Sports Care Management,
               Inc.'s Registration Statement on Form S-1 (Registration No. 33-81654),
               is hereby incorporated herein by reference.

     5         Opinion of Haskell Slaughter & Young, L.L.C.

    23         Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

    24         Powers of Attorney (See Signature Page).
</TABLE>

Item 9. Undertakings.

        The undersigned Registrant hereby undertakes:

               (1) To file, during any period in which offers or sales are being
        made, a post-effective amendment to this Registration Statement:

                      (iii) to include any material  information with respect to
               the  plan  of  distribution  not  previously   disclosed  in  the
               Registration Statement or any material change to such information
               in the Registration Statement;

               (2) That, for the purpose of determining  any liability under the
        Securities  Act of 1933,  each such  post-effective  amendment  shall be
        deemed to be a new registration

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        statement relating to the securities  offered therein,  and the offering
        of such  securities  at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona
        fide offering thereof.

               (3) To  remove  from  registration  by means of a  post-effective
        amendment any of the securities  being registered which remain unsold at
        the termination of the offering.

        The  undersigned  Registrant  hereby  undertakes  that,  for purposes of
determining  any liability  under the Securities Act of 1933, each filing of the
Registrant's  annual  report  pursuant to Section  13(a) or Section 15(d) of the
Securities  Exchange  Act of  1934  that is  incorporated  by  reference  in the
Registration  Statement  shall  be  deemed  to be a new  registration  statement
relating to the securities offered therein,  and the offering of such securities
at that time shall be deemed to be the initial bona fide offering thereof.

        Insofar as indemnification  for liabilities arising under the Securities
Act of 1933 may be permitted to directors,  officers and controlling  persons of
the  Registrant  pursuant  to  the  foregoing  provisions,   or  otherwise,  the
Registrant  has been advised that in the opinion of the  Securities and Exchange
Commission such indemnification is against public policy as expressed in the Act
and is, therefore,  unenforceable. In the event that a claim for indemnification
against such  liabilities  (other than the payment by the Registrant of expenses
incurred or paid by a Director,  officer or controlling person of the Registrant
in the successful defense of any action, suit or proceeding) is asserted by such
Director,  officer or controlling person in connection with the securities being
registered, the Registrant will, unless in the opinion of its counsel the matter
has been  settled by  controlling  precedent,  submit to a court of  appropriate
jurisdiction the question whether such  indemnification  by it is against public
policy as expressed in the Act and will be governed by the final adjudication of
such issue.

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<PAGE>



                                          SIGNATURES

        Pursuant  to  the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  the
Registrant certifies that it has reasonable grounds to believe that it meets all
of the requirements for filing on Form S-8 and has duly caused this Registration
Statement  to be  signed  on its  behalf  by  the  undersigned,  thereunto  duly
authorized, in the City of Birmingham, State of Alabama, on September 16, 1996.

                                            HEALTHSOUTH Corporation


                                            By /s/ RICHARD M. SCRUSHY
                                               -----------------------
                                                   Richard M. Scrushy
                                                 Chairman of the Board
                                              and Chief Executive Officer

        KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE  PRESENTS,  that each  person  whose name  appears
below  constitutes and appoints Richard M. Scrushy and Aaron Beam, Jr., and each
of them, his attorney-in-fact,  with power of substitution for him or her in any
and all capacities, to sign any amendments,  supplements or other instruments he
or she deems  necessary  or  appropriate,  and to file the same,  with  exhibits
thereto,  and other documents in connection  therewith,  with the Securities and
Exchange   Commission,   hereby   ratifying   and   confirming   all  that  said
attorney-in-fact or his substitute may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

        Pursuant  to the  requirements  of the  Securities  Act  of  1933,  this
Registration  Statement  has been signed below by the  following  persons in the
capacities and on the date indicated.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
        Signature                 Capacity                                Date
        ---------                 --------                                ----
<S>                             <C>                                     <C>
/s/ RICHARD M. SCRUSHY          Chairman of the Board                   September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------     and Chief Executive Officer   
   (Richard M. Scrushy)         and Director                                                    

/s/ AARON BEAM, JR              Executive Vice President and            September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------     Chief Financial Officer      
     (Aaron Beam, Jr.)          (Principal Financial Officer)    

/s/ WILLIAM T. OWENS            Senior Vice President and Controller    September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------     (Principal Accounting Officer)
    (William T. Owens)            

/s/ RICHARD F. CELESTE          Director                                September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------
   (Richard F. Celeste)

/s/ JOHN S. CHAMBERLIN          Director                                September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------
   (John S. Chamberlin)


/s/ C. SAGE GIVENS              Director                                September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------
   (C. Sage Givens)

/s/ CHARLES W. NEWHALL III      Director                                September 16, 1996
- ---------------------------
   (Charles W. Newhall III)
</TABLE>


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/s/ GEORGE H. STRONG            Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (George H. Strong)


/s/ PHILLIP C. WATKINS          Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (Phillip C. Watkins)


/s/ JAMES P. BENNETT            Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (James P. Bennett)


/s/ LARRY R. HOUSE              Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (Larry R. House)


/s/ ANTHONY J. TANNER           Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (Anthony J. Tanner)


/s/ P. DARYL BROWN              Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (P. Daryl Brown)


/s/ JOEL C. GORDON              Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (Joel C. Gordon)


/s/ RAYMOND J. DUNN, III        Director                 September 16, 1996
- -----------------------------
   (Raymond J. Dunn, III)


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                                                                      Exhibit 5



                       HASKELL SLAUGHTER & YOUNG, L.L.C.
                           1200 AMSOUTH/HARBERT PLAZA
                            1901 SIXTH AVENUE NORTH
                           BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA 35203


                               September 16, 1996

HEALTHSOUTH Corporation
Two Perimeter Park South
Birmingham, Alabama 35243


        Re:    Registration  Statement on Form S-8 --  Professional  Sports Care
               Management, Inc. 1992 Stock Option Plan, Professional Sports Care
               Management,  Inc. 1994 Stock  Incentive  Plan,  and  Professional
               Sports Care Management, Inc. 1994 Directors' Stock Option Plan

Gentlemen:

        We have  served as  counsel  for  HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation,  a  Delaware
corporation  (the  "Company"),  in connection  with the  registration  under the
Securities  Act of 1933,  as amended,  of an  aggregate  of 180,618  shares (the
"Shares") of the Company's authorized Common Stock, par value $.01 per share, to
be issued to participants of the Professional Sports Care Management,  Inc. 1992
Stock Option Plan,  the  Professional  Sports Care  Management,  Inc. 1994 Stock
Incentive  Plan,  and  the  Professional  Sports  Care  Management,   Inc.  1994
Directors'   Stock  Option  Plan  (the  "Plans"),   pursuant  to  the  Company's
Registration   Statement  on  Form  S-8  relating  thereto  (the   "Registration
Statement").  This opinion is furnished to you pursuant to the  requirements  of
Form S-8.

        In connection with this opinion,  we have examined and are familiar with
originals or copies  (certified or otherwise  identified to our satisfaction) of
such  documents,  corporate  records  and  other  instruments  relating  to  the
incorporation of the Company and to the authorization and issuance of the Shares
as we have deemed necessary and appropriate.

        Based   upon  the   foregoing,   and   having   regard  for  such  legal
considerations we have deemed relevant, it is our opinion that:

        1.     The Shares have been duly authorized.

        2. Upon issuance, sale and delivery of the Shares as contemplated in the
Registration  Statement and the Plans, the Shares will be legally issued,  fully
paid and nonassessable.

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HEALTHSOUTH Corporation
September 16, 1996
Page 2





        We do hereby  consent to the filing of this opinion as an Exhibit to the
Registration Statement.

                                            Very truly yours,

                                            HASKELL SLAUGHTER & YOUNG, L.L.C.


                                            By   /s/ MARK EZELL
                                               ------------------------------
                                                     Mark Ezell

                                                                     Exhibit 23





                                 Consent of Ernst & Young LLP,
                                     Independent Auditors


We consent to the incorporation by reference in the Registration Statement (Form
S-8)  pertaining to the  Professional  Sports Care  Management,  Inc. 1992 Stock
Option Plan, the Professional Sports Care Management,  Inc. 1994 Stock Incentive
Plan and the  Professional  Sports Care  Management,  Inc. 1994 Directors' Stock
Option Plan of our report dated May 23, 1996,  with respect to the  consolidated
financial  statements  and schedule of HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation  included in its
Annual Report (Form 10-K/A) for the year ended December 31, 1995, filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission.


                                                  ERNST & YOUNG LLP

Birmingham, Alabama
September 16, 1996



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