HEALTHSOUTH CORP
10-K/A, 1997-08-26
SPECIALTY OUTPATIENT FACILITIES, NEC
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                      SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                            WASHINGTON, D. C. 20549

                                  FORM 10-K/A
                                AMENDMENT NO. 2

(Mark One)

[x]  Annual Report  pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the  Securities  Exchange
     Act of 1934 for the fiscal year ended December 31, 1996; or


[ ]  Transition  Report  pursuant  to  Section  13 or  15(d)  of the  Securities
     Exchange Act of 1934 for the transition period from ______ to ______

Commission File Number 1-10315

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


               DELAWARE                                 63-0860407
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     (State or Other Jurisdiction        (I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)
    of Incorporation or Organization)


         ONE HEALTHSOUTH PARKWAY
            BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA                                35243
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      (Address of Principal Executive Offices)           (Zip Code)

 Registrant's Telephone Number, Including Area Code:     (205) 967-7116
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Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:
    

                                                       Name of Each Exchange
   Title of Each Class                                  on which Registered
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  COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE                            NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
      $.01 PER SHARE
  9.5% SENIOR SUBORDINATED                           NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
       NOTES DUE 2001
  5% CONVERTIBLE SUBORDINATED                        NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
     DEBENTURES DUE 2001

Securities Registered Pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act:  NONE

   
     INDICATE  BY CHECK MARK  WHETHER THE  REGISTRANT  (1) HAS FILED ALL REPORTS
REQUIRED TO BE FILED BY SECTION 13 OR 15(D) of the  Securities  Exchange  Act of
1934  during  the  preceding  12 months  (or for such  shorter  period  that the
Registrant was required to file such Reports),  and (2) has been subject to such
filing requirements for the past 90 days.     

                               Yes [x]    No [ ]

     Indicate by check mark if disclosure of delinquent  filers pursuant to Item
405 of Regulation S-K is not contained herein and will not be contained,  to the
best of Registrant's  knowledge,  in definitive proxy or information  statements
incorporated by reference in Part III of this Form 10-K or any amendment to this
Form 10-K. [ ]

     State the aggregate market value of the voting stock held by non-affiliates
of the Registrant as of March 18, 1997:

           Common Stock, par value $.01 per share -- $6,940,206,270

     Indicate  the  number of  shares  outstanding  of each of the  Registrant's
classes of common stock, as of the latest practicable date.
   
          Class                               Outstanding at March 18, 1997
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COMMON STOCK, PAR VALUE                            328,838,938 SHARES
    $.01 PER SHARE 

                      DOCUMENTS INCORPORATED BY REFERENCE

No documents are incorporated by reference into this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

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                                    PART I

     INTRODUCTORY NOTE: HEALTHSOUTH Corporation has declared a two-for-one stock
split to be effected in the form of a 100% stock dividend to be paid as of March
17,  1997 to holders  of record as of March 13,  1997.  All share and  per-share
amounts  described in this Annual Report on Form 10-K  (including  the financial
statements included herein) have been restated to reflect such stock split.


ITEM 1. BUSINESS


GENERAL

     HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation  ("HEALTHSOUTH"  or the "Company") is the nation's
largest provider of outpatient surgery and rehabilitative  healthcare  services.
The Company  provides these services  through its national network of outpatient
and inpatient rehabilitation facilities,  outpatient surgery centers, diagnostic
centers,  occupational  medicine  centers,  medical centers and other healthcare
facilities.  The Company  believes  that it provides  patients,  physicians  and
payors with high-quality  healthcare  services at significantly lower costs than
traditional inpatient hospitals.  Additionally,  the Company's national network,
reputation for quality and focus on outcomes has enabled it to secure  contracts
with  national and  regional  managed  care  payors.  At December 31, 1996,  the
Company had over 1,000 patient care locations in 50 states.

     In its  outpatient  and inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities,  the Company
provides   interdisciplinary   programs  for  the   rehabilitation  of  patients
experiencing  disability due to a wide variety of physical  conditions,  such as
stroke,   head  injury,   orthopaedic   problems,   neuromuscular   disease  and
sports-related  injuries. The Company's rehabilitation services include physical
therapy,  sports  medicine,  work hardening,  neurorehabilitation,  occupational
therapy,  respiratory  therapy,  speech-language  pathology  and  rehabilitation
nursing.  Independent studies have shown that rehabilitation services like those
provided by the Company can save money for payors and employers.

     In addition to its rehabilitation  facilities,  the Company operates one of
the largest networks of free-standing  outpatient  surgery centers in the United
States.  The Company's  outpatient  surgery  centers  provide the facilities and
medical support staff necessary for physicians to perform non-emergency surgical
procedures.  While  outpatient  surgery is widely  recognized as generally  less
expensive  than  surgery  performed  in a hospital,  the Company  believes  that
outpatient  surgery  performed at a free-standing  outpatient  surgery center is
generally less expensive than hospital-based  outpatient surgery.  Approximately
80% of the Company's  surgery center facilities are located in markets served by
its  rehabilitative   service   facilities,   enabling  the  Company  to  pursue
opportunities for cross- referrals.

     Over the last two years,  the Company  has  completed  several  significant
acquisitions  in the  rehabilitation  business and has expanded into the surgery
center,  diagnostic and occupational  medicine businesses.  The Company believes
that these  acquisitions  complement its  historical  operations and enhance its
market  position.  The Company  further  believes  that its  expansion  into the
outpatient surgery,  diagnostic and occupational medicine businesses provides it
with  platforms  for  future  growth.  The  Company  is  continually  evaluating
potential acquisitions in the outpatient and rehabilitative  healthcare services
industry.

     The Company was organized as a Delaware  corporation  in February 1984. The
Company's  principal  executive offices are located at One HealthSouth  Parkway,
Birmingham, Alabama 35243, and its telephone number is (205) 967-7116.


COMPANY STRATEGY

     The  Company's  principal  objective  is to be the  provider  of choice for
patients,  physicians and payors alike for outpatient surgery and rehabilitative
healthcare  services throughout the United States. The Company's growth strategy
is based upon four primary  elements:  (i) the  implementation  of the Company's
integrated service model in appropriate  markets,  (ii) successful  marketing to
managed  care   organizations   and  other   payors,   (iii)  the  provision  of
high-quality,  cost-effective healthcare services, and (iv) the expansion of its
national network.


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   o Integrated Service Model. The Company seeks, where appropriate,  to provide
     an  integrated  system  of  healthcare   services,   including   outpatient
     rehabilitation  services,  inpatient  rehabilitation  services,  ambulatory
     surgery services and outpatient  diagnostic services.  The Company believes
     that its integrated  system offers payors the convenience of dealing with a
     single provider for multiple services.  Additionally,  it believes that its
     facilities can provide extensive cross-referral opportunities. For example,
     the  Company  estimates  that  approximately  one-third  of its  outpatient
     rehabilitation   patients  have  had  outpatient  surgery,   virtually  all
     inpatient  rehabilitation  patients  will require  some form of  outpatient
     rehabilitation,  and virtually all inpatient  rehabilitation  patients have
     had some type of  diagnostic  procedure.  The Company has  implemented  its
     Integrated  Service Model in certain of its markets,  and intends to expand
     the model into other appropriate markets.

   o Marketing to Managed Care  Organizations  and Other Payors.  Since the late
     1980s,   the  Company  has  focused  on  the   development  of  contractual
     relationships with managed care organizations,  major insurance  companies,
     large  regional and national  employer  groups and provider  alliances  and
     networks.  The Company's  documented  outcomes and experience  with several
     hundred  thousand  patients in delivering  quality  healthcare  services at
     reasonable prices has enhanced its  attractiveness to such entities and has
     given  the  Company a  competitive  advantage  over  smaller  and  regional
     competitors.  These  relationships  have  increased  patient  flow  to  the
     Company's facilities and contributed to the Company's same-store growth.

   o Cost-Effective  Services.  The  Company's  goal is to provide  high-quality
     healthcare  services in cost-effective  settings.  To that end, the Company
     has  developed  standardized  clinical  protocols  for the treatment of its
     patients. This results in "best practices" techniques being utilized at all
     of  the  Company's  facilities,  allowing  the  consistent  achievement  of
     demonstrable,  cost-effective  clinical outcomes.  The Company's reputation
     for its clinical programs is enhanced through its relationships  with major
     universities throughout the nation, and its support of clinical research in
     its  facilities.  Further,  independent  studies  estimate  that, for every
     dollar  spent on  rehabilitation,  $11 to $35 is saved.  Finally,  surgical
     procedures  typically are less expensive in outpatient surgery centers than
     in  hospital   settings.   The  Company   believes  that   outpatient   and
     rehabilitative healthcare services will assume increasing importance in the
     healthcare  environment as payors  continue to seek to reduce overall costs
     by shifting patients to more cost-effective treatment settings.

   o Expansion  of  National  Network.  As the largest  provider  of  outpatient
     surgery and  rehabilitative  healthcare  services in the United States, the
     Company is able to realize economies of scale and compete  successfully for
     national  contracts  with large payors and  employers  while  retaining the
     flexibility to respond to particular  needs of local markets.  The national
     network  affords the Company the  opportunity  to offer large  national and
     regional  employers  and payors the  convenience  of dealing  with a single
     provider,  to utilize greater buying power through centralized  purchasing,
     to  achieve  more  efficient  costs  of  capital  and  labor  and  to  more
     effectively  recruit and retain  clinicians.  The Company believes that its
     recent  acquisitions  in the  outpatient  surgery,  diagnostic  imaging and
     occupational  medicine fields will further enhance its national presence by
     broadening   the  scope  of  its  existing   services  and   providing  new
     opportunities  for growth.  These  national  benefits are realized  without
     sacrificing  local market  responsiveness.  The  Company's  objective is to
     provide those  outpatient and  rehabilitative  healthcare  services  needed
     within each local market by tailoring  its services and  facilities to that
     market's  needs,  thus  bringing  the  benefits  of  nationally  recognized
     expertise and quality into the local setting.


RECENT AND PENDING ACQUISITIONS

     Beginning  in 1994,  the Company has  consummated  a series of  significant
acquisitions.  During 1995, the Company consummated pooling-of-interests mergers
with Surgical Health  Corporation  ("SHC";  36 outpatient  surgery centers in 11
states) and Sutter Surgery Centers,  Inc. ("SSCI"; 12 outpatient surgery centers
in three states),  as well as stock purchase  acquisitions of the rehabilitation
hospitals division of NovaCare,  Inc. ("NovaCare";  11 inpatient  rehabilitation
facilities, 12 other healthcare facilities and two


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Certificates  of Need in eight  states) and Caremark  Orthopedic  Services  Inc.
("Caremark";  120  outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities in 13 states).  During
1996, the Company acquired Surgical Care Affiliates,  Inc. ("SCA"; 67 outpatient
surgery centers in 24 states), Advantage Health Corporation ("Advantage Health";
approximately  136  inpatient  and  outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities in 11
states),  Professional  Sports Care  Management,  Inc.  ("PSCM";  36  outpatient
rehabilitation   facilities  in  New  York,  New  Jersey  and  Connecticut)  and
ReadiCare, Inc. ("ReadiCare"; 37 occupational medicine centers in California and
Washington)  in  pooling-of-interests  transactions.  In  addition,  the Company
entered into an agreement to acquire Health Images,  Inc. ("Health  Images";  55
diagnostic   imaging  centers  in  13  states  and  the  United  Kingdom)  in  a
pooling-of-interests  transaction,  which  transaction  was consummated in March
1997.  Information on the Company's  facilities  included herein includes all of
the acquired  facilities other than the Health Images facilities.  The NovaCare,
Caremark,  Advantage  Health and PSCM  transactions  have  further  enhanced the
Company's  position as the nation's largest provider of inpatient and outpatient
rehabilitative  services, while the SHC, SSCI and SCA transactions have made the
Company one of the  largest  providers  of  outpatient  surgery  services in the
nation and the  ReadiCare  and Health  Images  transactions  have  broadened the
Company's services in occupational  medicine and diagnostic imaging. The Company
believes that the  geographic  dispersion  of the more than 1,000  locations now
operated by the Company makes it more attractive to managed care networks, major
insurance  companies,  regional and  national  employers  and regional  provider
alliances and enhances the Company's ability to implement its Integrated Service
Model in additional markets.  See Item 7, "Management's  Discussion and Analysis
of Financial Conditions and Results of Operations".

     On February 17, 1997, the Company and  Horizon/CMS  Healthcare  Corporation
("Horizon/CMS") signed a definitive agreement pursuant to which HEALTHSOUTH will
acquire  Horizon/CMS in a  stock-for-stock  merger in which the  stockholders of
Horizon/CMS  will  receive  0.84338 of a share of  HEALTHSOUTH  Common Stock per
share  of   Horizon/CMS   Common  Stock.   Horizon/CMS   operates  the  nation's
second-largest network of rehabilitation facilities. The proposed transaction is
valued  at   approximately   $1,600,000,000   (including   the   assumption   of
approximately   $700,000,000  in  debt).  Horizon/  CMS  operates  33  inpatient
rehabilitation  hospitals,  58 specialty  hospitals  and subacute  units and 282
outpatient  rehabilitation  locations.  Horizon/CMS also owns, leases or manages
267  long-term  care  facilities,  a contract  therapy  business  holding  1,400
contracts,  an  institutional  pharmacy  business  serving 38,500 beds and other
healthcare services. The transaction is subject to the approval of Horizon/CMS's
stockholders and to various regulatory approvals,  including clearance under the
Hart-Scott- Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended, as well as to
the  satisfaction  of certain  other  conditions.  The Company  and  Horizon/CMS
currently anticipate that the transaction will be consummated in mid-1997.


INDUSTRY BACKGROUND


     In 1991 (the most recent year for which data are available),  approximately
4,000,000  people  in  the  United  States  received  rehabilitative  healthcare
services.  "Rehabilitative  healthcare  services" refers to the range of skilled
services  provided to  individuals  in order to minimize  physical and cognitive
impairments,  maximize functional ability and restore lost functional  capacity.
The focus of rehabilitative  healthcare is to ameliorate  physical and cognitive
impairments  resulting  from  illness  or  injury,  and to  restore  or  improve
functional  ability so that  individuals can return to work and lead independent
and fulfilling lives. Typically, rehabilitative healthcare services are provided
by a variety of healthcare professionals including physiatrists,  rehabilitation
nurses,   physical   therapists,   occupational   therapists,    speech-language
pathologists,  respiratory  therapists,  recreation therapists,  social workers,
psychologists, rehabilitation counselors and others. Over 80% of those receiving
rehabilitative  healthcare  services  return to their  homes,  work,  schools or
active retirement.

     Demand for  rehabilitative  healthcare  services  continues to be driven by
advances in medical technologies, an aging population and the recognition on the
part of the payor  community  (insurers,  self-insured  companies,  managed care
organizations  and  federal,  state and local  governments)  that  appropriately
administered  rehabilitative  services  can  improve  quality of life as well as
lower  overall  healthcare  costs.  Studies  conducted  by  insurance  companies
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significantly  reduce the cost of future care.  Estimates  of the savings  range
from $11 to $35 per  dollar  spent  on  rehabilitation.  Further,  reimbursement
changes  have  encouraged  the  rapid  discharge  of  patients  from  acute-care
hospitals while they remain in need of rehabilitative healthcare services.


PATIENT CARE SERVICES

     The  Company  began  its  operations  in  1984  with a focus  on  providing
comprehensive  orthopaedic  and  musculoskeletal  rehabilitation  services on an
outpatient  basis.  Over the succeeding 13 years,  the Company has  consistently
sought and implemented opportunities to expand its services through acquisitions
and de novo  development  activities  that  complement  its  historic  focus  on
orthopaedic, sports medicine and occupational medicine services and that provide
independent platforms for growth. The Company's acquisitions and internal growth
have  enabled it to become the  largest  provider of  rehabilitative  healthcare
services, both inpatient and outpatient,  in the United States. In addition, the
Company has added outpatient  surgery services,  diagnostic imaging services and
other   outpatient   services  which  provide   natural   enhancements   to  its
rehabilitative  healthcare  locations and facilitate the  implementation  of its
Integrated Service Model. The Company believes that these additional  businesses
also provide opportunities for growth in other areas not directly related to the
rehabilitative  business, and the Company intends to pursue further expansion in
those businesses.

     Rehabilitative Services: General

     When  a  patient  is  referred  to  one  of  the  Company's  rehabilitation
facilities,  the patient undergoes an initial  evaluation and assessment process
that  results  in  the  development  of  a  rehabilitation  care  plan  designed
specifically  for that patient.  Depending upon the patient's  disability,  this
evaluation  process  may involve the  services of a single  discipline,  such as
physical therapy for a knee injury, or of multiple  disciplines,  as in the case
of  a  complicated   stroke   patient.   HEALTHSOUTH   has  developed   numerous
rehabilitation  programs, which include stroke, head injury, spinal cord injury,
neuromuscular  and work  injury,  that combine  certain  services to address the
needs of patients with similar disabilities. In this way, all of the facilities'
patients,  regardless of the severity and complexity of their disabilities,  can
receive  the level and  intensity  of those  services  necessary  for them to be
restored to as productive, active and independent a lifestyle as possible.


     Outpatient Rehabilitation Services

     The Company operates the largest group of affiliated proprietary outpatient
rehabilitation  facilities  in  the  United  States.  The  Company's  outpatient
rehabilitation centers offer a comprehensive range of rehabilitative  healthcare
services, including physical therapy and occupational therapy, that are tailored
to  the  individual  patient's  needs,  focusing  predominantly  on  orthopaedic
injuries,  sports injuries,  work injuries,  hand and upper extremity  injuries,
back injuries, and various neurological neuromuscular conditions. As of December
31, 1996, the Company provided  outpatient  rehabilitative  healthcare  services
through 739 outpatient locations,  including freestanding outpatient centers and
their satellites and outpatient satellites of inpatient facilities.


     The continuing emphasis on containing the increases in healthcare costs, as
evidenced by Medicare's  prospective  payment system, the growth in managed care
and the various  alternative  healthcare reform proposals,  results in the early
discharge of patients from  acute-care  facilities.  As a result,  many hospital
patients do not receive the intensity of services that may be necessary for them
to  achieve  a  full  recovery  from  their  diseases,  disorders  or  traumatic
conditions.  The Company's outpatient rehabilitation services play a significant
role in the continuum of care because they provide  hospital-level  services, in
terms of intensity, quality and frequency, in a more cost-efficient setting.

     Patients treated at the Company's  outpatient  centers will undergo varying
courses of therapy  depending upon their needs. Some patients may only require a
few hours of therapy per week for a few weeks, while others may spend up to five
hours per day in  therapy  for six  months  or more,  depending  on the  nature,
severity and complexity of their injuries.


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     In general,  the Company  initially  establishes an outpatient  center in a
given  market,  either by  acquiring  an existing  private  therapy  practice or
through de novo development,  and institutes its clinical protocols and programs
in response to the community's general need for services.  The Company will then
establish  satellite  clinics  that are  dependent  upon the main  facility  for
management  and  administrative  services.  These  satellite  clinics  generally
provide a specific evaluative or specialty service/program, such as hand therapy
or foot and ankle therapy, in response to specific market demands. The Company's
outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities  range in size from 1,200 square feet for
specialty  clinics to 20,000  square  feet for large,  full-service  facilities.
Currently,  the typical outpatient  facility  configuration  ranges in size from
2,000 to 5,000 square feet and costs less than $500,000 to build and equip.

     Patient utilization of the Company's outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities
cannot be measured in the conventional  manner applied to acute-care  hospitals,
nursing  homes and  other  healthcare  providers  which  have a fixed  number of
licensed beds and serve  patients on a 24-hour  basis.  Utilization  patterns in
outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities  will be  affected  by the  market  to be
served,  the  types of  injuries  treated,  the  patient  mix and the  number of
available therapists,  among other factors.  Moreover,  because of variations in
size,  location,  hours of  operation,  referring  physician  base and  services
provided  and  other  differences   among  each  of  the  Company's   outpatient
facilities,  it is not possible to accurately assess patient utilization against
a norm.


     Inpatient Services

     INPATIENT  REHABILITATION  FACILITIES.  At December 31,  1996,  the Company
operated 96 inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities with 5,749 beds,  representing
the largest group of affiliated proprietary inpatient rehabilitation  facilities
in the United States. The Company's inpatient rehabilitation  facilities provide
high-quality   comprehensive   services  to  patients   who  require   intensive
institutional rehabilitation care.

     Inpatient  rehabilitation patients are typically those who are experiencing
significant  physical  disabilities  due to  various  conditions,  such  as head
injury,   spinal  cord  injury,   stroke,   certain  orthopaedic   problems  and
neuromuscular disease. The Company's inpatient rehabilitation facilities provide
the medical,  nursing,  therapy and ancillary  services  required to comply with
local, state and federal  regulations as well as accreditation  standards of the
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare  Organizations (the "JCAHO") and
the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities ("CARF").

     All  of  the  Company's  inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities  utilize  an
interdisciplinary  team approach to the  rehabilitation  process and involve the
patient and family,  as well as the payor, in the determination of the goals for
the patient.  Internal case managers monitor each patient's progress and provide
documentation of patient status,  achievement of goals,  functional outcomes and
efficiency.

     The Company  acquires or develops  inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities in
those   communities   where  it  believes  there  is  a  demonstrated  need  for
comprehensive  inpatient  rehabilitation  services.  Depending upon the specific
market opportunity, these facilities may be licensed as rehabilitation hospitals
or  skilled  nursing  facilities.  The  Company  believes  that  it can  provide
high-quality  rehabilitation services in either type of facility, but prefers to
utilize the rehabilitation hospital form.

     In  certain  markets  where it does not  provide  free-standing  outpatient
facilities,  the  Company's  rehabilitation  hospitals  may  provide  outpatient
rehabilitation services as a complement to their inpatient services.  Typically,
this  opportunity  arises  when  patients  complete  their  inpatient  course of
treatment but remain in need of additional  therapy that can be  accomplished on
an  outpatient  basis.  Depending  upon the demand for  outpatient  services and
physical  space  constraints,  the  rehabilitation  hospital may  establish  the
services either within its building or in a satellite location.  In either case,
the clinical  protocols  and  programs  developed  for use in the  free-standing
outpatient centers will be utilized by these facilities.

     The  Company's  Nashville,  Tennessee  (Vanderbilt  University),   Memphis,
Tennessee  (Methodist  Hospitals),  Dothan,  Alabama  (Southeast Alabama Medical
Center) and Charleston,  South Carolina (North Trident  Regional Medical Center)
hospital  facilities have been developed in conjunction with local tertiary-care
facilities.  This strategy of developing effective referral and service networks
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opening results in improved operating  efficiencies for the new facilities.  The
Company  is  utilizing  this same  concept  in  rehabilitation  hospitals  under
development  with the  University of Missouri and the University of Virginia and
is pursuing similar  affiliations  with a number of its existing  rehabilitation
hospitals.

     MEDICAL  CENTERS.  At December 31, 1996, the Company  operated five medical
centers  with 912  licensed  beds in four  distinct  markets.  These  facilities
provide  general  and  specialty  medical  and  surgical  healthcare   services,
emphasizing  orthopaedics,  sports  medicine  and  rehabilitation.  One of these
facilities, the 112-bed HEALTHSOUTH Larkin Hospital in South Miami, Florida, was
sold in February 1997.

     The  Company   acquired   its  medical   centers  as   outgrowths   of  its
rehabilitative healthcare services. Often, patients require medical and surgical
interventions prior to the initiation of their  rehabilitative  care. In each of
the markets in which the Company has acquired a medical center,  the Company had
well-established   relationships  with  the  medical  communities  serving  each
facility.  In  addition,   each  of  the  facilities  enjoyed   well-established
reputations in orthopaedics and/or sports medicine prior to their acquisition by
the Company.  Following  the  acquisition  of each of its medical  centers,  the
Company has provided the resources to improve upon the physical plant and expand
services  through  the  introduction  of new  technology.  The  Company has also
developed  additional   relationships   between  these  facilities  and  certain
university facilities,  including the University of Miami, Auburn University and
the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Through these relationships, the influx
of celebrity  athletes and  personalities and the acquisition of new technology,
all of the Company's medical centers have improved their operating  efficiencies
and enhanced census.

     Each  of  the  Company's  medical  center  facilities  is  licensed  as  an
acute-care hospital, is accredited by the JCAHO and participates in the Medicare
prospective payment system. See this Item, "Business -- Regulation".

     INPATIENT  FACILITY  UTILIZATION.  In measuring patient  utilization of the
Company's  inpatient  facilities,  various  factors must be  considered.  Due to
market demand, demographics,  start-up status, renovation, patient mix and other
factors, the Company may not treat all licensed beds in a particular facility as
available beds, which sometimes  results in a material variance between licensed
beds and beds  actually  available for  utilization  at any specific  time.  The
Company is in a  position  to  increase  the  number of  available  beds at such
facilities  as market  conditions  dictate.  During the year ended  December 31,
1996, the Company's inpatient facilities achieved an overall utilization,  based
on patient days and available beds, of 72.56%.

     Surgery Centers

     As a result  of the  acquisitions  of SHC,  SSCI and SCA in 1995 and  early
1996,  the Company  became one of the largest  operators of  outpatient  surgery
centers  in  the  United   States.   At  December  31,  1996,  it  operated  135
free-standing  surgery centers,  including five mobile  lithotripsy units, in 35
states,   and  had  an  additional  ten  free-standing   surgery  centers  under
development. Approximately 80% of these facilities are located in markets served
by the Company's outpatient and rehabilitative service facilities,  enabling the
Company  to  pursue  opportunities  for  cross-referrals   between  surgery  and
rehabilitative facilities as well as to centralize administrative functions. The
Company's  surgery  centers  provide the  facilities  and medical  support staff
necessary  for  physicians to perform  non-emergency  surgical  procedures.  Its
typical  surgery  center is a  free-standing  facility  with  three to six fully
equipped  operating  and  procedure  rooms and  ancillary  areas for  reception,
preparation, recovery and administration.  Each of the Company's surgery centers
is available for use only by licensed physicians, oral surgeons and podiatrists,
and the centers do not perform surgery on an emergency basis.

     Outpatient  surgery  centers,  unlike  hospitals,   have  not  historically
provided overnight  accommodations,  food services or other ancillary  services.
Over the past  several  years,  states have  increasingly  permitted  the use of
extended-stay  recovery  facilities by outpatient surgery centers.  As a result,
many outpatient  surgery centers are adding extended  recovery care capabilities
where permitted.  Fifty-two of the Company's  surgery centers  currently provide
for extended recovery stays. The Company's ability to develop such recovery care
facilities is dependent  upon state  regulatory  environments  in the particular
states where its centers are located.


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     The  Company's   outpatient   surgery  centers  implement  quality  control
procedures to evaluate the level of care provided the centers. Each center has a
medical  advisory  committee  of  three  to ten  physicians  which  reviews  the
professional  credentials of physicians applying for medical staff privileges at
the center.


     Diagnostic Centers

     At December 31, 1996, the Company  operated 14 diagnostic  centers in eight
states. These centers provide outpatient diagnostic imaging services,  including
magnetic  resonance  imaging ("MRI"),  computerized  tomography ("CT") services,
X-ray services,  ultrasound  services,  mammography  services,  nuclear medicine
services and fluoroscopy.  Not all services are provided at all sites;  however,
most of the Company's diagnostic centers are multi-modality centers.

     On March 3, 1997, the Company  completed the  acquisition of Health Images,
which operated a total of 55 diagnostic  imaging centers,  including six centers
in the United  Kingdom.  The Health  Images  centers  are  located in 13 states,
including seven states where the Company did not previously operate freestanding
diagnostic imaging centers. In addition,  the Health Images acquisition provides
the Company with its first sites in the United Kingdom.


     Occupational Medicine Services

     The  Company's  December  1996  acquisition  of  ReadiCare  brought  it  37
freestanding  occupational medicine centers in California and Washington.  These
centers   provide   cost-effective,   outpatient   primary   medical   care  and
rehabilitation services to individuals for the treatment of work-related medical
problems.  While the Company has  historically  provided  occupational  medicine
services through certain of its outpatient rehabilitation centers and associated
physicians, the Company believes that the ReadiCare acquisition provides it with
an additional  platform for growth, and the Company intends to pursue additional
expansion in that arena.


     Other Patient Care Services

     In  certain  of its  markets,  the  Company  provides  other  patient  care
services, including home healthcare,  physician services and contract management
of  hospital-based  rehabilitative  healthcare  services.  The Company evaluates
market  opportunities on a case-by-case basis in determining  whether to provide
additional services of these types, which may be complementary to facility-based
services provided by the Company or stand-alone businesses.


MARKETING OF FACILITIES AND SERVICES

     THE COMPANY  MARKETS ITS  FACILITIES,  AND THEIR SERVICES AND PROGRAMS,  ON
LOCAL, REGIONAL AND national levels. Local and regional marketing activities are
typically coordinated by facility-based marketing personnel, whereas large-scale
regional and national efforts are coordinated by corporate-based personnel.

     In general,  the Company  develops a marketing plan for each facility based
on  a  variety  of  factors,  including  population  characteristics,  physician
characteristics  and  incidence of disability  statistics,  in order to identify
specific service opportunities. Facility-oriented marketing programs are focused
on  increasing  the volume of patient  referrals  to the  specific  facility and
involve the development of ongoing  relationships with area schools,  businesses
and  industries as well as  physicians,  health  maintenance  organizations  and
preferred provider organizations.

     The Company's larger-scale marketing activities are focused more broadly on
efforts to generate patient referrals to multiple facilities and the creation of
new  business  opportunities.   Such  activities  include  the  development  and
maintenance of contractual  relationships  or national  pricing  agreements with
large third-party payors, such as CIGNA, Metrahealth or other national insurance
companies,      with      national      HMO/PPO      companies,      such     as
Healthcare-COMPARE/AFFORDABLE,  Hospital Network of America and Multiplan,  with
national case management companies, such as INTRACORP and Crawford


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&  Co.,  and  with  national  employers,   such  as  Wal-Mart,   Georgia-Pacific
Corporation,  Dillard Department Stores,  Goodyear Tire & Rubber and Winn-Dixie.
In addition,  since many of the  facilities  acquired by the Company  during the
past two years had very limited contractual  relationships with payors,  managed
care  providers,  employers  and others,  the Company is expanding  its existing
payor relationships to include these facilities.

     The Company  carries out broader  programs  designed to further enhance its
public image. Among these is the HEALTHSOUTH Sports Medicine Council,  headed by
Bo Jackson,  which is dedicated to developing  educational  programs  focused on
athletics for use in high schools.  The Company has ongoing  relationships  with
the Ladies Professional Golf Association,  the Southeastern  Conference and more
than 125  universities  and  colleges  and 700 high  schools to  provide  sports
medicine coverage of events and rehabilitative  healthcare  services for injured
athletes.  In  addition,  the  Company  has  established  relationships  with or
provided  treatment  services for athletes from some 40-50  professional  sports
teams,  as well as providing  sports  medicine  services for Olympic and amateur
athletes.  In  1996,  the  Company  and  the  United  States  Olympic  Committee
established the Richard M. Scrushy/HEALTHSOUTH Sports Medicine and Sport Science
Center at the USOC's Colorado Springs campus.

     The Company is a national sponsor of the United Cerebral Palsy  Association
and the  National  Arthritis  Foundation  and  supports  many  other  charitable
organizations on national and local levels. Through these endeavors, the Company
provides its employees with opportunities to support their communities.



SOURCE OF REVENUES

     Private  pay  revenue  sources  represent  the  majority  of the  Company's
revenues.  The  following  table sets  forth the  percentages  of the  Company's
revenues from various sources for the periods indicated:


                                         YEAR ENDED           YEAR ENDED
             SOURCE                   DECEMBER 31, 1995     DECEMBER 31, 1996
- -----------------------------------   -------------------   ------------------
     Medicare    ..................           40.0%                37.8%
     Commercial(1)  ...............           34.8                 34.9
     Workers' Compensation   ......           10.3                 11.3
     All Other Payors(2)  .........           14.9                 16.0
                                            ------               ------
                                             100.0%               100.0%

- ----------

(1) Includes commercial insurance, HMOs, PPOs and other managed care plans.

(2) Medicaid is included in this category, but is insignificant in amount.


     The above table does not reflect the SHC, SSCI, SCA, Advantage Health, PSCM
or ReadiCare  facilities for periods or portions  thereof prior to the effective
date of the  acquisitions.  Comparable  information for those  facilities is not
available  and is not  reflected  in 1995 for the SHC or SSCI  facilities  or in
either year for the SCA, Advantage Health, PSCM or ReadiCare facilities.

     See this  Item  "Business  --  Regulation  --  Medicare  Participation  and
Reimbursement" for a description of the reimbursement  regulations applicable to
the Company's facilities.


COMPETITION

     The Company competes in the geographic  markets in which its facilities are
located.  In addition,  the  Company's  rehabilitation  facilities  compete on a
regional and national basis with other providers of specialized services such as
sports medicine and work  hardening,  and specific  concentrations  such as head
injury  rehabilitation and orthopaedic surgery. The competition faced in each of
these markets is similar,  with variations arising from the number of healthcare
providers in the given metropolitan area. The primary competitive factors in the
rehabilitation  services  business  are quality of services,  projected  patient
outcomes,  charges for  services,  responsiveness  to the needs of the patients,
community and  physicians,  and ability to tailor  programs and services to meet
specific needs of the patients.  Competitors and potential  competitors  include
hospitals, private practice therapists, rehabilitation agencies and oth-


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ers. Some of these  competitors  may have greater patient  referral  support and
financial  and  personnel  resources  in  particular  markets  than the Company.
Management   believes  that  the  Company  competes   successfully   within  the
marketplace based upon its reputation for quality,  competitive prices, positive
rehabilitation  outcomes,  innovative programs,  clean and bright facilities and
responsiveness to needs.

     The Company's  surgery centers  compete  primarily with hospitals and other
operators of freestanding surgery centers in attracting physicians and patients,
and in developing  new centers and in acquiring  existing  centers.  The primary
competitive  factors in the outpatient  surgery business are convenience,  cost,
quality of  service,  physician  loyalty  and  reputation.  Hospitals  have many
competitive   advantages  in  attracting  physicians  and  patients,   including
established   standing  in  a  community,   historical   physician  loyalty  and
convenience for physicians making rounds or performing  inpatient surgery in the
hospital.  However, the Company believes that its national market system and its
historical  presence  in certain of the markets  where its  surgery  centers are
located  will  enhance  the  Company's   ability  to  operate  these  facilities
successfully.

     The  Company's  diagnostic  centers  compete  with local  hospitals,  other
multi-center imaging companies, local independent diagnostic centers and imaging
centers owned by local physician groups. The Company believes that the principal
competitive  factors in the diagnostic  services are price,  quality of service,
ability to  establish  and maintain  relationships  with managed care payors and
referring physicians,  reputation of interpreting physicians,  facility location
and convenience of scheduling. Management believes that the Company's diagnostic
facilities  compete  successfully  within their  respective  markets taking into
account these factors.

     The  Company's  medical  centers  are  located in four  urban  areas of the
country,  all with well established  healthcare services provided by a number of
proprietary,  not-for-profit,  and municipal hospital facilities.  The Company's
facilities  compete  directly  with  these  local  hospitals  as well as various
nationally recognized centers of excellence in orthopaedics, sports medicine and
other  specialties.  Because  the  Company's  facilities  enjoy a  national  and
international  reputation  for  orthopaedic  surgery  and sports  medicine,  the
Company  believes  that its medical  centers'  level of service and continuum of
care enable them to compete successfully, both locally and nationally.

     The  Company   potentially  faces  competition  any  time  it  initiates  a
Certificate of Need ("CON") project or seeks to acquire an existing  facility or
CON. See this Item, "Business -- Regulation".  This competition may arise either
from competing  companies,  national or regional,  or from local hospitals which
file competing  applications  or oppose the proposed CON project.  The necessity
for these approvals  serves as a barrier to entry and has the potential to limit
competition by creating a franchise to provide services to a given area. To date
the  Company  has been  successful  in  obtaining  each of the  CONs or  similar
approvals  which it has sought,  although there can be no assurance that it will
achieve similar success in the future.


REGULATION

     The  healthcare  industry is subject to  regulation  by federal,  state and
local  governments.  The  various  levels  of  regulatory  activity  affect  the
Company's business activities by controlling its growth,  requiring licensure or
certification  of its  facilities,  regulating  the  use of its  properties  and
controlling the reimbursement to the Company for services provided.


     Licensure, Certification and Certificate of Need Regulations

     Capital  expenditures for the construction of new facilities,  the addition
of beds or the  acquisition  of existing  facilities  may be reviewable by state
regulators  under a statutory  scheme  which is  sometimes  referred to as a CON
program.  States  with  CON  programs  place  limits  on  the  construction  and
acquisition of healthcare  facilities  and the expansion of existing  facilities
and services.  In such states,  approvals are required for capital  expenditures
exceeding certain amounts which involve inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities or
services.  Outpatient rehabilitation facilities and services do not require such
approvals in a majority of states.


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     State CON statutes  generally  provide  that,  prior to the addition of new
beds, the construction of new facilities or the introduction of new services,  a
state health planning  designated  agency (a "SHPDA") must determine that a need
exists for those beds,  facilities  or services.  The CON process is intended to
promote  comprehensive  healthcare  planning,  assist in providing  high quality
healthcare at the lowest  possible  cost and avoid  unnecessary  duplication  by
ensuring that only those healthcare facilities that are needed will be built.


     Typically,   the  provider  of  services  submits  an  application  to  the
appropriate  SHPDA with  information  concerning  the area and  population to be
served, the anticipated  demand for the facility or service to be provided,  the
amount of  capital  expenditure,  the  estimated  annual  operating  costs,  the
relationship  of the  proposed  facility or service to the overall  state health
plan and the cost per patient day for the type of care contemplated. Whether the
CON is granted is based upon a finding of need by the SHPDA in  accordance  with
criteria  set forth in CON statutes  and state and  regional  health  facilities
plans.  If the  proposed  facility or service is found to be  necessary  and the
applicant to be the appropriate provider,  the SHPDA will issue a CON containing
a maximum amount of expenditure and a specific time period for the holder of the
CON to implement the approved project.


     Licensure  and   certification  are  separate,   but  related,   regulatory
activities. The former is usually a state or local requirement and the latter is
a federal requirement. In almost all instances, licensure and certification will
follow  specific  standards  and  requirements  that are set  forth  in  readily
available  public  documents.  Compliance with the  requirements is monitored by
annual on-site  inspections by representatives  of various government  agencies.
All of the Company's inpatient rehabilitation facilities and medical centers and
substantially all of the Company's surgery centers are currently  required to be
licensed, but only the outpatient  rehabilitation facilities located in Alabama,
Arizona,  Connecticut,  Maryland,  Massachusetts,  New Hampshire, New Mexico and
Rhode Island currently must satisfy such a licensing requirement.


     Medicare Participation and Reimbursement


     In order to  participate  in the  Medicare  program  and  receive  Medicare
reimbursement,  each facility must comply with the applicable regulations of the
United States  Department of Health and Human Services  relating to, among other
things, the type of facility, its equipment,  its personnel and its standards of
medical  care,  as  well as  compliance  with  all  state  and  local  laws  and
regulations. All of the Company's inpatient facilities, except for the St. Louis
head injury center,  participate in the Medicare  program.  Approximately 304 of
the Company's outpatient  rehabilitation facilities currently participate in, or
are awaiting the assignment of a provider number to participate in, the Medicare
program.  All of the  Company's  surgery  centers  and  diagnostic  centers  are
certified  (or  awaiting   certification)   under  the  Medicare  program.   Its
Medicare-certified facilities,  inpatient and outpatient, undergo annual on-site
Medicare  certification surveys in order to maintain their certification status.
Failure to comply with the program's  conditions of participation  may result in
loss  of  program  reimbursement  or  other  governmental  sanctions.  All  such
facilities have been deemed to be in  satisfactory  compliance on all applicable
surveys.  The Company has developed its operational systems to assure compliance
with the various  standards  and  requirements  of the Medicare  program and has
established  ongoing quality  assurance  activities to monitor  compliance.  The
Company  believes  that all of such  facilities  currently  meet all  applicable
Medicare requirements.


     As a result of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1983, Congress adopted
a  prospective  payment  system  ("PPS")  to cover  the  routine  and  ancillary
operating costs of most Medicare inpatient hospital services. Under this system,
the Secretary of Health and Human Services has established fixed payment amounts
per  discharge  based  on  diagnosis-related   groups  ("DRGs").   With  limited
exceptions,  a hospital's payment for Medicare  inpatients is limited to the DRG
rate, regardless of the number of services provided to the patient or the length
of the patient's hospital stay. Under PPS, a hospital may retain the difference,
if any,  between its DRG rate and its  operating  costs  incurred in  furnishing
inpatient  services,  and is at risk for any operating costs that exceed its DRG
rate. The Company's  medical center facilities are generally subject to PPS with
respect to Medicare inpatient services.


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     The PPS program has been beneficial for the  rehabilitation  segment of the
healthcare industry because of the economic pressure on acute-care  hospitals to
discharge patients as soon as possible. The result has been increased demand for
rehabilitation  services for those  patients  discharged  early from  acute-care
hospitals.   Outpatient  rehabilitation  services  and  free-standing  inpatient
rehabilitation   facilities  are  currently   exempt  from  PPS,  and  inpatient
rehabilitation  units  within  acute-care  hospitals  are  eligible to obtain an
exemption from PPS upon satisfaction of certain federal criteria.

     Currently, seven of the Company's outpatient centers are Medicare-certified
Comprehensive  Outpatient   Rehabilitation  Facilities  ("CORFs")  and  222  are
Medicare-certified   rehabilitation   agencies.   CORFs  have  been   designated
cost-reimbursed Medicare providers since 1982. Under the regulations,  CORFs are
reimbursed reasonable costs (subject to certain limits) for services provided to
Medicare  beneficiaries.   Outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities  certified  by
Medicare as rehabilitation  agencies are reimbursed on the basis of the lower of
reasonable costs for services provided to Medicare  beneficiaries or charges for
such services. Outpatient rehabilitation facilities which are physician-directed
clinics, as well as outpatient surgery centers,  are reimbursed by Medicare on a
fee screen basis;  that is, they receive a fixed fee, which is determined by the
geographical  area  in  which  the  facility  is  located,  for  each  procedure
performed.  The Company's  outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities submit monthly
bills  to  their  fiscal   intermediaries  for  services  provided  to  Medicare
beneficiaries, and the Company files annual cost reports with the intermediaries
for each  such  facility.  Adjustments  are then  made if  costs  have  exceeded
payments from the fiscal intermediary or vice versa.

     The  Company's   inpatient   facilities  (other  than  the  medical  center
facilities)  either are not currently covered by PPS or are exempt from PPS, and
are also  cost-reimbursed,  receiving the lower of reasonable  costs or charges.
Typically,  the fiscal  intermediary  pays a set rate based on the prior  year's
costs for each facility.  As with  outpatient  facilities  subject to cost-based
reimbursement,   annual  cost  reports  are  filed  with  the  Company's  fiscal
intermediary and payment adjustments are made, if necessary.

     Congress  has  directed the United  States  Department  of Health and Human
Services to develop  regulations,  which could subject inpatient  rehabilitation
hospitals to PPS in place of the current  "reasonable cost within limits" system
of  reimbursement.  In  addition,  informal  proposals  have  been  made  for  a
prospective  payment system for Medicare  outpatient care. Other proposals for a
prospective   payment  system  for  rehabilitation   hospitals  are  also  being
considered by the federal government.  Therefore,  the Company cannot predict at
this  time  the  effect  that  any  such  changes  may  have on its  operations.
Regulations  relating to prospective  payment or other aspects of  reimbursement
may be developed in the future which could adversely  affect  reimbursement  for
services provided by the Company.

     Over the past several  years an increasing  number of healthcare  providers
have been accused of violating  the federal False Claims Act. That Act prohibits
the  knowing  presentation  of a false  claim to the United  States  government.
Because the Company performs thousands of similar procedures a year for which it
is reimbursed by Medicare and there is a relatively long statute of limitations,
a billing error could result in significant  civil  penalties.  The Company does
not believe that it is or has been in violation of the False Claims Act.


     Relationships with Physicians and Other Providers

     Various state and federal laws regulate  relationships  among  providers of
healthcare  services,  including  employment or service contracts and investment
relationships. These restrictions include a federal criminal law prohibiting (i)
the offer,  payment,  solicitation  or receipt of remuneration by individuals or
entities,  to induce  referrals of patients for  services  reimbursed  under the
Medicare  or  Medicaid  programs  or (ii)  the  leasing,  purchasing,  ordering,
arranging for or recommending  the lease,  purchase or order of any item,  good,
facility or service  covered by such  programs  (the "Fraud and Abuse Law").  In
addition to federal criminal sanctions, violators of the Fraud and Abuse Law may
be subject to significant civil sanctions, including fines and/or exclusion from
the Medicare and/or Medicaid programs.

     In  1991,  the Office of the Inspector General ("OIG") of the United States
Department  of  Health  and  Human  Services  promulgated regulations describing
compensation  arrangements  which  are  not viewed as illegal remuneration under
the Fraud and Abuse Law (the "Safe Harbor Rules"). The Safe


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Harbor Rules create certain  standards  ("Safe Harbors") for identified types of
compensation  arrangements which, if fully complied with, assure participants in
the particular  arrangement that the OIG will not treat such  participation as a
criminal  offense under the Fraud and Abuse Law or as the basis for an exclusion
from the Medicare and Medicaid programs or an imposition of civil sanctions. The
OIG closely  scrutinizes  health care joint  ventures  involving  physicians and
other referral  sources.  In 1989, the OIG published a Fraud Alert that outlined
questionable features of "suspect" joint ventures.

     In 1992,  regulations were published in the Federal  Register  implementing
the OIG sanction and civil money penalty provisions established in the Fraud and
Abuse Law. The regulations  (the "Exclusion  Regulations")  provide that the OIG
may exclude a Medicare provider from participation in the Medicare Program for a
five-year  period upon a finding that the Fraud and Abuse Law has been violated.
The  regulations  expressly  incorporate a test adopted by three federal circuit
courts  providing  that if one purpose of  remuneration  that is offered,  paid,
solicited or received is to induce referrals,  then the statute is violated. The
regulations  also provide  that after the OIG  establishes  a factual  basis for
excluding  a  provider  from the  program,  the  burden  of proof  shifts to the
provider to prove that the Fraud and Abuse Law has not been violated.

     The Company  currently  operates four of its  rehabilitation  hospitals and
many of its outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities as limited  partnerships with
third-party investors.  Two of the rehabilitation  hospital partnerships involve
physician investors, and two of the rehabilitation hospital partnerships involve
other institutional  healthcare providers.  Eight of the outpatient partnerships
currently  have a total of 21  physician  limited  partners,  some of whom refer
patients to the partnerships. Those partnerships which are providers of services
under the Medicare program, and their limited partners, are subject to the Fraud
and Abuse Law. A number of the  relationships  established  by the Company  with
physicians  and other  healthcare  providers  do not fit  within any of the Safe
Harbors.  The Safe Harbor Rules do not expand the scope of  activities  that the
Fraud and Abuse Law prohibits, nor do they provide that failure to fall within a
Safe Harbor constitutes a violation of the Fraud and Abuse Law; however, the OIG
has  informally  indicated that failure to fall within a Safe Harbor may subject
an arrangement to increased scrutiny.

     Most of the Company's  surgery  centers are owned by limited  partnerships,
which include as limited partners  physicians who perform surgical procedures at
such centers.  Subsequent to the  promulgation of the Safe Harbor Rules in 1991,
the Department of Health and Human Services issued for public comment additional
proposed Safe Harbors,  one of which  specifically  addresses  surgeon ownership
interests in ambulatory  surgery  centers (the "Proposed ASC Safe  Harbor").  As
proposed,  the  Proposed ASC Safe Harbor  would  protect  payments to be made to
surgeons as a return on investment  interest in a surgery center if, among other
conditions,  all the  investors  are  surgeons  who are in a  position  to refer
patients  directly to the center and perform surgery on such referred  patients.
Since a  subsidiary  of the Company is an investor in each  limited  partnership
which owns a surgery center, the Company's arrangements with physician investors
do not fit  within the  Proposed  ASC Safe  Harbor as  currently  proposed.  The
Company is unable at this time to predict  whether the  Proposed ASC Safe Harbor
will become final, and if so, whether the language and requirements  will remain
as currently proposed,  or whether changes will be made prior to becoming final.
There can be no assurance that the Company will ever meet the criteria under the
Proposed ASC Safe Harbor as proposed or as it may be adopted in final form.  The
Company believes, however, that its arrangements with physicians with respect to
its surgery center facilities  should not fall within the activities  prohibited
by the Fraud and Abuse Law.

     While  several  federal  court  decisions  have  aggressively  applied  the
restrictions  of the Fraud and Abuse Law, they provide little guidance as to the
application  of the Fraud and Abuse Law to the Company's  limited  partnerships.
The Company  believes that it is in compliance with the current  requirements of
applicable  federal and state law, but no assurances can be given that a federal
or state agency charged with  enforcement of the Fraud and Abuse Law and similar
laws might not assert a contrary  position or that new federal or state laws, or
new  interpretations of existing laws, might not adversely affect  relationships
established  by the Company with  physicians  or other  healthcare  providers or
result  in  the  imposition  of  penalties  on the  Company  or  certain  of its
facilities.  Even the  assertion  of a violation  could have a material  adverse
effect upon the Company.


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     The so-called  "Stark II" provisions of the Omnibus  Budget  Reconciliation
Act of 1993  amend the  federal  Medicare  statute to  prohibit  the making by a
physician of referrals for  "designated  health  services"  (including  physical
therapy,  occupational  therapy,  radiology services or radiation therapy) to an
entity in which the  physician  has an  investment  interest or other  financial
relationship,  subject to certain  exceptions.  Such  prohibition took effect on
January 1, 1995 and applies to all of the  Company's  outpatient  rehabilitation
facility  partnerships with physician limited partners. In addition, a number of
states have passed or are considering statutes which prohibit or limit physician
referrals of patients to facilities  in which they have an investment  interest.
In response to these regulatory activities, the Company has restructured most of
its rehabilitation  facility partnerships which involve physician investors,  in
order to eliminate  physician  ownership  interests  not permitted by applicable
law.  The Company  intends to take such  actions as may be required to cause the
remaining partnerships to be in compliance with applicable laws and regulations,
including,  if necessary,  the prohibition of physician  partners from referring
patients.  The  Company  believes  that  this  restructuring  has not  adversely
affected and will not adversely affect the operations of its facilities.

     Ambulatory surgery is not identified as a "designated health service",  and
the  Company  does  not  believe  that  ambulatory  surgery  is  subject  to the
restrictions set forth in Stark II. However,  lithotripsy facilities operated by
the  Company  frequently  operate on  hospital  campuses,  and it is possible to
conclude that such services are "inpatient and outpatient  hospital services" --
a category of  proscribed  services  within the meaning of Stark II.  Similarly,
physicians  frequently perform  endoscopic  procedures in the procedure rooms of
the  Company's  surgery  centers,  and it is also  possible  to  construe  these
services to be "designated health services".  While the Company does not believe
that Stark II was intended to apply to such services, if that were determined to
be the case, the Company  intends to take steps necessary to cause the operation
of its facilities to comply with the law.

     The Company cannot predict whether other regulatory or statutory provisions
will be  enacted  by  federal  or state  authorities  which  would  prohibit  or
otherwise  regulate  relationships  which the  Company  has  established  or may
establish  with other  healthcare  providers or the  possibility  of  materially
adverse  effects on its business or revenues  arising from such future  actions.
Management of the Company  believes,  however,  that the Company will be able to
adjust its operations so as to be in compliance with any regulatory or statutory
provision  as may be  applicable.  See this  Item,  "Business  --  Patient  Care
Services" and "Business -- Sources of Revenues".


INSURANCE

     Beginning   December  1,  1993,   the  Company  became   self-insured   for
professional   liability  and  comprehensive  general  liability.   The  Company
purchased  coverage  for all claims  incurred  prior to  December  1,  1993.  In
addition,  the  Company  purchased  underlying  insurance  which would cover all
claims  once  established  limits  have  been  exceeded.  It is the  opinion  of
management  that as of December 31, 1996,  the Company had adequate  reserves to
cover losses on asserted and unasserted claims.


EMPLOYEES

     As of December 31,  1996,  the Company  employed  36,410  persons,  of whom
20,930 were  full-time  employees and 15,480 were  part-time  employees.  Of the
above employees,  595 were employed at the Company's headquarters in Birmingham,
Alabama.  Except for approximately 80 employees at one  rehabilitation  hospital
(about 18% of that facility's  workforce),  none of the Company's  employees are
represented by a labor union. The Company is not aware of any current activities
to  organize  its  employees  at other  facilities.  Management  of the  Company
considers the relationship between the Company and its employees to be good.


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ITEM 2. PROPERTIES

     The Company's  executive  offices  currently occupy  approximately  200,000
square feet in a newly-constructed headquarters building in Birmingham, Alabama.
The headquarters  building,  which was occupied by the Company in February 1997,
was  constructed on a 73-acre parcel of land owned by the Company  pursuant to a
tax  retention   operating  lease   structured   through   NationsBanc   Leasing
Corporation.  Substantially  all  of  the  Company's  outpatient  rehabilitation
operations  are carried  out in leased  facilities.  The Company  owns 33 of its
inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities  and leases or operates  under  management
contracts the remainder of its inpatient rehabilitation  facilities. The Company
also owns 40 of its  surgery  centers  and  leases the  remainder.  Prior to the
acquisition  of Health  Images,  substantially  all of the Company's  diagnostic
centers   operated   in  leased   facilities.   The  Company   constructed   its
rehabilitation hospitals in Florence and Columbia, South Carolina, Kingsport and
Nashville,  Tennessee,  Concord,  New  Hampshire,  and Dothan,  Alabama,  and is
constructing its Columbia, Missouri and Charlottesville, Virginia rehabilitation
hospitals,  on property  leased under long-term  ground leases.  The property on
which the Company's  Memphis,  Tennessee  rehabilitation  hospital is located is
owned in  partnership  by the Company and  Methodist  Hospitals of Memphis.  The
Company owns its four medical center facilities. The Company currently owns, and
from time to time may  acquire,  certain  other  improved  and  unimproved  real
properties  in  connection  with its  business.  See  Notes 5 and 7 of "Notes to
Consolidated   Financial   Statements"  for  information  with  respect  to  the
properties owned by the Company and certain indebtedness related thereto.

     In management's opinion, the Company's physical properties are adequate for
the Company's  needs for the  foreseeable  future,  and are consistent  with its
expansion plans described elsewhere in this Annual Report on Form 10-K.


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     The  following  table sets forth a listing of the  Company's  patient  care
services  locations at December 31, 1996  (without  giving  effect to the Health
Images acquisition):





   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                         OUTPATIENT           INPATIENT
                       REHABILITATION      REHABILITATION           MEDICAL        SURGERY   DIAGNOSTIC    OTHER
STATE                    CENTERS(1)     FACILITIES (BEDS)(2)   CENTERS (BEDS)(2)   CENTERS     CENTERS    SERVICES
- ---------------------- ---------------- ---------------------- ------------------- --------- ------------ ---------
<S>                    <C>              <C>                    <C>                 <C>       <C>          <C>
Alabama                       16                   9(389)            1(219)            5          3          10
Alaska                                                                                 1
Arizona                       26                   3(183)                              2
Arkansas                       1                   1(80)                               2
California                    48                   1(60)                              21                     31
Colorado                      28                                                       5                     12
Connecticut                   18                   2(40)                               1
Delaware                       7                                                       2
District of Columbia           1                                                                  1
Florida                       46                   8(613)            2(397)           18                     11
Georgia                       13                   1(75)                               3          1
Hawaii                         5                                                       1
Idaho                                                                                  1
Illinois                      50                                                       2
Indiana                       13                   1(80)                               2
Iowa                           3                                                                              1
Kansas                         5                                                                              1
Kentucky                       3                   1(40)                               2
Louisiana                      2                   1(43)                               1                      1
Maine                          9                   4(155)                                                     1
Maryland                      14                   1(44)                               6          3
Massachusetts                 37                  10(639)                              1                     10
Michigan                       3                                                       1
Minnesota                     11
Mississippi                    2
Missouri                      34                   4(107)                              6                      6
Montana                        1
Nebraska                       2
Nevada                         4
New Hampshire                 13                   3(148)
New Jersey                    52                   2(170)                              2          1           3
New Mexico                     3                   1(60)                               1
New York                      39                   1(27)
North Carolina                12                                                       3
North Dakota                   1
Ohio                          27                   1(24)                               4                      3
Oklahoma                      11                   1(111)                              2                      1
Oregon                                                                                 1
Pennsylvania                  31                  12(1,041)                            6
Rhode Island                   3
South Carolina                 9                   4(235)                              2
South Dakota                   1
Tennessee                     13                   5(330)                              6          1
Texas                         72                  10(633)            1(96)            16          2          14
Utah                           1                   1(86)                               1
Vermont                                            2(52)
Virginia                      11                   2(84)             1(200)            1          2          10
Washington                    36                                                       2                     17
West Virginia                                      4(200)                              1
Wisconsin                      1                                                       4
Wyoming                        1
</TABLE>
    

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(1) Includes freestanding outpatient centers and their satellites and outpatient
  satellites of inpatient rehabilitation facilities.

(2) "Beds"  refers to the number of beds for which a license or  certificate  of
    need has been granted,  which may vary  materially  from beds  available for
    use.


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ITEM 3. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS

     In the ordinary  course of its business,  the Company may be subject,  from
time to time,  to claims and legal  actions by patients and others.  The Company
does not believe that any such pending actions, if adversely decided, would have
a material adverse effect on its financial  condition.  See Item 1, "Business --
Insurance"  and Item 7,  "Management's  Discussion  and  Analysis  of  Financial
Condition  and  Results  of  Operations"  for a  description  of  the  Company's
insurance coverage arrangements.

     From time to time,  the Company  appeals  decisions of various  rate-making
authorities  with  respect  to  Medicare  rates  established  for the  Company's
facilities.  These  appeals are  initiated in the  ordinary  course of business.
Management  believes that adequate  reserves have been  established for possible
adverse  decisions  on any pending  appeals and that the  outcomes of  currently
pending appeals, either individually or in the aggregate,  will have no material
adverse effect on the Company's operations.


ITEM 4. SUBMISSION OF MATTERS TO A VOTE OF SECURITY HOLDERS

     On March 12, 1997,  a Special  Meeting of  Stockholders  of the Company was
held, at which shares of Common Stock  represented  at the Special  Meeting were
voted  for  the  approval  of  an  Amendment  to  the  Restated  Certificate  of
Incorporation  of the Company to increase the authorized  shares of Common Stock
to 500,000,000 shares as follows:


             NUMBER
             VOTING         FOR       AGAINST   ABSTAIN
          ------------- ------------- --------- --------
          138,533,768   137,975,826   339,699   218,243

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                                    PART II


ITEM 5. MARKET FOR REGISTRANT'S  COMMON EQUITY AND RELATED  STOCKHOLDER  MATTERS
     The Company's Common Stock is listed for trading on the New York Stock
Exchange  (Symbol:  HRC). The following  table sets forth for the fiscal periods
indicated the high and low reported  sale prices for the Company's  Common Stock
as reported on the NYSE Composite  Transactions Tape. All prices shown have been
adjusted  for a  two-for-one  stock  split  effected in the form of a 100% stock
dividend  paid on April 17, 1995 and a two-for-one  stock split  effected in the
form of a 100% stock dividend paid on March 17, 1997.

   
                                     REPORTED
                                    SALE PRICE
                               --------------------
                                HIGH        LOW
                               ---------   --------
   1995
     First Quarter    ......     $ 10.22     $  9.03
     Second Quarter   ......       10.82        8.16
     Third Quarter    ......       12.88        8.63
     Fourth Quarter   ......       16.19       11.25
   1996
     First Quarter    ......     $ 19.07     $ 13.50
     Second Quarter   ......       19.32       16.16
     Third Quarter    ......       19.32       14.25
     Fourth Quarter   ......       19.88       17.57
    

     The closing  price for the Common  Stock on the New York Stock  Exchange on
March 25, 1997, was $20.875.

     There were approximately  3,671 holders of record of the Common Stock as of
March 17, 1997,  excluding those shares held by depository companies for certain
beneficial owners.

     The Company has never paid cash  dividends  on its Common  Stock  (although
certain  of the  companies  acquired  by the  Company  in  poolings-of-interests
transactions  had  paid  dividends  prior  to such  acquisitions)  and  does not
anticipate the payment of cash dividends in the foreseeable  future. The Company
currently  anticipates  that any future earnings will be retained to finance the
Company's operations.


RECENT SALES OF UNREGISTERED SECURITIES

     During the period  covered by this Annual Report on Form 10-K,  the Company
issued 52,584 shares of its Common Stock in a transaction  not registered  under
the Securities  Act of 1933, as amended.  Such shares were issued as of November
14, 1996, to five individuals who were shareholders of a corporation acquired by
the Company in a merger transaction. Such shares were issued to such individuals
in exchange  for all the issued and  outstanding  capital  stock of the acquired
company. The Company issued such shares of its Common Stock in reliance upon the
exemption  contained in Section 4(2) of the  Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
inasmuch as the issuance of such shares did not involve any public offering.


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ITEM 6. SELECTED FINANCIAL DATA

     Set forth below is a summary of selected  consolidated  financial  data for
the Company for the years  indicated.  All amounts have been restated to reflect
the effects of the 1994 acquisition of ReLife, Inc. ("ReLife"), the 1995 SHC and
SSCI  acquisitions and the 1996 SCA and Advantage Health  acquisitions,  each of
which was accounted for as a pooling of interests.

   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                      -------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                         1992        1993         1994          1995           1996
                                                      ----------- ----------- ------------- ------------- ---------------
                                                                   (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
<S>                                                   <C>         <C>         <C>           <C>           <C>
INCOME STATEMENT DATA:
Revenues   ..........................................$ 750,134   $ 979,206   $ 1,649,199   $ 2,003,146     $ 2,436,537
Operating unit expenses   ...........................  521,619     668,201     1,161,758     1,371,740       1,586,003
Corporate general and administrative expenses  ......   25,667      37,043        61,640        56,920          66,807
Provision for doubtful accounts    ..................   16,553      20,026        32,904        37,659          54,112
Depreciation and amortization   .....................   42,107      63,572       113,977       143,322         188,966
Merger and acquisition related expenses(1)  .........       --         333         6,520        19,553          41,515
Loss on impairment of assets(2)    ..................       --          --        10,500        53,549              --
Loss on abandonment of computer project(2)  .........       --          --         4,500            --              --
Loss on disposal of surgery centers(2)   ............       --          --        13,197            --              --
NME Selected Hospitals Acquisition related
 expense(2)   .......................................       --      49,742            --            --              --
Terminated merger expense    ........................    3,665          --            --            --              --
Loss on extinguishment of debt  .....................      883          --            --            --              --
Interest expense    .................................   18,237      24,200        73,644       101,790          94,553
Interest income  ....................................   (8,595)     (5,903)       (6,387)       (7,882)         (5,912)
Gain on sale of partnership interest  ...............       --      (1,400)           --            --              --
Gain on sale of equity securities(2)  ...............       --          --        (7,727)           --              --
                                                      ---------   ---------   -----------   -----------    -----------
                                                       620,136     855,814     1,464,526     1,776,651       2,026,044
                                                      ---------   ---------   -----------   -----------    -----------
Income before income taxes and minority interests      129,998     123,392       184,673       226,495         410,493
Provision for income taxes   ........................   38,550      37,993        65,121        81,771         140,238
                                                      ---------   ---------   -----------   -----------    -----------
                                                        91,448      85,399       119,552       144,724         270,255
Minority interests  .................................   25,943      29,377        31,469        43,147          49,437
                                                      ---------   ---------   -----------   -----------    -----------
Income from continuing operations  ..................   65,505      56,022        88,083       101,577         220,818
Income from discontinued operations   ...............    3,283       4,452            --            --              --
Extraordinary item(2)  ..............................       --          --            --        (9,056)             --
                                                      ---------   ---------   -----------   -----------    -----------
 Net income   ....................................... $ 68,788    $ 60,474    $   88,083    $   92,521     $   220,818
                                                      =========   =========   ===========   ===========    ===========
Weighted average common and common equivalent
 shares outstanding(3)    ...........................  254,296     264,958       280,854       297,460         326,290
                                                      =========   =========   ===========   ===========    ===========
Net income per common and common equivalent
 share(3)
   Continuing operations  ........................... $   0.26    $   0.21    $     0.31    $     0.34     $      0.68
   Discontinued operations   ........................     0.01        0.02            --            --              --
   Extraordinary item  ..............................       --          --            --         (0.03)             --
                                                      ---------   ---------   -----------   -----------    -----------
                                                      $   0.27    $   0.23    $     0.31    $     0.31     $      0.68
                                                      =========   =========   ===========   ===========    ===========
 Net income per common share -- assuming full
   dilution(3)(4)   .................................     N/A         N/A     $     0.31    $     0.31     $      0.66
                                                      =========   =========   ===========   ===========    ===========
</TABLE>
    



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<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                            YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                        ---------------------------------------------------------------
                                           1992         1993         1994         1995         1996
                                        ------------ ------------ ------------ ------------ -----------
                                                                (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                     <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>          <C>
BALANCE SHEET DATA:
Cash and marketable securities   ......   $  179,725   $  148,308   $  129,971   $  156,321   $  151,788
Working capital   .....................      269,120      284,691      282,667      406,125      543,975
Total assets   ........................    1,143,235    1,881,211    2,230,093    2,931,495    3,371,952
Long-term debt(5)    ..................      413,656    1,008,429    1,139,087    1,391,664    1,486,029
Stockholders' equity    ...............      581,954      646,397      757,583    1,185,898    1,515,924
</TABLE>

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(1) Expenses  related to SHC's  Ballas  Merger in 1993,  the ReLife and Heritage
    Acquisitions  in 1994, the SHC, SSCI and NovaCare  Rehabilitation  Hospitals
    Acquisitions  in 1995  and the SCA,  Advantage  Health,  PSCM and  ReadiCare
    mergers in 1996.

(2) See "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements".

(3) Adjusted to reflect a two-for-one stock split effected in the form of a 100%
    stock dividend paid on April 17, 1995 and a two-for-one stock split effected
    in the form of a 100% stock dividend paid on March 17, 1997.

(4) Fully-diluted  earnings  per  share in 1994,  1995 and 1996  reflect  shares
    reserved  for issuance  upon  conversion  of  HEALTHSOUTH's  5%  Convertible
    Subordinated Debentures due 2001.

(5) Includes current portion of long-term debt.


ITEM  7. MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS
          OF OPERATIONS

GENERAL

     The following  discussion is intended to facilitate the  understanding  and
assessment  of  significant  changes  and  trends  related  to  the  results  of
operations and financial  condition of the Company,  including  certain  factors
related to recent  acquisitions  by the Company,  the timing and nature of which
have significantly affected the Company's results of operations. This discussion
and  analysis  should be read in  conjunction  with the  Company's  consolidated
financial  statements and notes thereto included elsewhere in this Annual Report
on Form 10-K.

     The Company completed the following  acquisitions over the last three years
(common share  amounts have been  adjusted to reflect a two-for-one  stock split
effected in the form of a 100% stock dividend paid on March 17, 1997):

   o On December  29,  1994,  the Company  acquired  ReLife,  Inc.  (the "ReLife
     Acquisition").  A total of 22,050,580  shares of the Company's Common Stock
     were issued in the transaction, representing a value of $180,000,000 at the
     time of the  acquisition.  At  that  time,  ReLife  operated  31  inpatient
     facilities  with an  aggregate  of  1,102  licensed  beds,  including  nine
     free-standing  rehabilitation  hospitals,  nine acute rehabilitation units,
     five sub-acute  rehabilitation  units, seven transitional  living units and
     one  residential  facility,  and also  provided  outpatient  rehabilitation
     services at 12 centers.

   o On  April  1,  1995,   the  Company   purchased   the   operations  of  the
     rehabilitation   hospital   division  of  NovaCare,   Inc.  (the  "NovaCare
     Rehabilitation   Hospitals   Acquisition").    The   purchase   price   was
     approximately $235,000,000. The NovaCare Rehabilitation Hospitals consisted
     of 11 rehabilitation hospitals in seven states, 12 other facilities and two
     Certificates of Need.

   o On June 13, 1995, the Company  acquired  Surgical Health  Corporation  (the
     "SHC  Acquisition").  A total of 17,062,960  shares of the Company's Common
     Stock were issued in the transaction,  representing a value of $155,000,000
     at  the  time  of  the  acquisition.   The  Company  also  purchased  SHC's
     $75,000,000  aggregate  principal amount of 11.5% Senior Subordinated Notes
     due 2004 for an aggregate  consideration of approximately  $86,000,000.  At
     that time, SHC operated a network of 36 free-standing surgery centers in 11
     states, and five mobile lithotripsy units.


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   o On October 26, 1995, the Company acquired Sutter Surgery Centers, Inc. (the
     "SSCI  Acquisition").  A total of 3,552,002  shares of the Company's Common
     Stock were issued in the  transaction,  representing a value of $44,444,000
     at the time of the acquisition. At that time, SSCI operated a network of 12
     freestanding surgery centers in three states.

   o On  December  1,  1995,  the  Company acquired Caremark Orthopedic Services
     Inc.  (the  "Caremark  Acquisition").  The purchase price was approximately
     $127,500,000.  At  that  time Caremark owned and operated approximately 120
     outpatient rehabilitation centers in 13 states.

   o On January 17, 1996, the Company acquired  Surgical Care  Affiliates,  Inc.
     (the "SCA  Acquisition").  A total of  91,856,678  shares of the  Company's
     Common  Stock  were  issued  in the  transaction,  representing  a value of
     approximately  $1,400,000,000 at the time of the acquisition. At that time,
     SCA operated a network of 67 freestanding surgery centers in 24 states.

   o On March 14, 1996, the Company acquired  Advantage Health  Corporation (the
     "Advantage  Health  Acquisition").  A total  of  18,203,978  shares  of the
     Company's Common Stock were issued in the transaction, representing a value
     of approximately $315,000,000 at the time of the acquisition. At that time,
     Advantage Health operated a network of 136 sites of service, including four
     freestanding rehabilitation hospitals, one freestanding multi-use hospital,
     one nursing  home, 68 outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities,  14 inpatient
     managed   rehabilitation  units,  24  rehabilitation   services  management
     contracts and six managed sub-acute rehabilitation units, primarily located
     in the northeastern United States.

   o On  August  20,  1996,  the  Company  acquired   Professional  Sports  Care
     Management,  Inc. (the "PSCM Acquisition").  A total of 3,622,888 shares of
     the Company's Common Stock were issued in the  transaction,  representing a
     value of approximately $59,000,000 at the time of the acquisition.  At that
     time,  PSCM operated a network of 36 outpatient  rehabilitation  centers in
     three states.

   o On December 2, 1996, the Company acquired  ReadiCare,  Inc. (the "ReadiCare
     Acquisition").  A total of 4,007,954  shares of the Company's  Common Stock
     were  issued  in the  transaction,  representing  a value of  approximately
     $76,000,000  at the  time  of the  acquisition.  At  that  time,  ReadiCare
     operated a network of 37 outpatient medical and  rehabilitation  centers in
     two states.


     The  NovaCare   Rehabilitation   Hospitals  Acquisition  and  the  Caremark
Acquisition each were accounted for under the purchase method of accounting and,
accordingly,  the acquired operations are included in the Company's consolidated
financial  information from their  respective dates of acquisition.  Each of the
ReLife  Acquisition,   the  SHC  Acquisition,  the  SSCI  Acquisition,  the  SCA
Acquisition and the Advantage Health  Acquisition was accounted for as a pooling
of interests  and,  with the  exception  of data set forth  relating to revenues
derived  from  Medicare  and  Medicaid,  all  amounts  shown  in  the  following
discussion have been restated to reflect such acquisitions.  ReLife,  SHC, SSCI,
SCA and  Advantage  Health  did not  separately  track such  revenues.  The PSCM
Acquisition and the ReadiCare Acquisition were also accounted for as poolings of
interests.  However,  due  to the  immateriality  of  PSCM  and  ReadiCare,  the
Company's  historical financial statements for all periods prior to the quarters
in which the  respective  mergers  took place have not been  restated.  Instead,
stockholders'  equity has been  increased  during 1996 to reflect the effects of
the PSCM Acquisition and the ReadiCare Acquisition. The results of operations of
PSCM and ReadiCare are included in the accompanying financial statements and the
following  discussion from the date of acquisition forward (see Note 2 of "Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements" for further discussion).

     The Company determines the amortization period of the cost in excess of net
asset value of  purchased  facilities  based on an  evaluation  of the facts and
circumstances of each individual purchase  transaction.  The evaluation includes
an analysis of historic and projected  financial  performance,  an evaluation of
the  estimated  useful life of the  buildings  and fixed  assets  acquired,  the
indefinite  useful  life of  certificates  of need and  licenses  acquired,  the
competition  within local markets,  lease terms where applicable,  and the legal
terms  of  partnerships  where  applicable.  The  Company  utilizes  independent
appraisers and relies on its own management  expertise in evaluating each of the
factors noted above.


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<PAGE>


With respect to the carrying value of the excess of cost over net asset value of
purchased  facilities and other intangible  assets,  the Company determines on a
quarterly basis whether an impairment event has occurred by considering  factors
such as the market value of the asset,  a  significant  adverse  change in legal
factors or in the business  climate,  adverse action by  regulators,  history of
operating  losses or cash flow losses,  or a  projection  of  continuing  losses
associated with an operating entity.  The carrying value of excess cost over net
asset  value  of  purchased  facilities  and  other  intangible  assets  will be
evaluated if the facts and circumstances  suggest that it has been impaired.  If
this  evaluation  indicates that the value of the asset will not be recoverable,
as determined based on the  undiscounted  cash flows of the entity acquired over
the remaining  amortization  period,  the Company's  carrying value of the asset
will be reduced by the estimated shortfall of cash flows.

     Governmental,  commercial and private payors have  increasingly  recognized
the  need  to  contain  their  costs  for  healthcare  services.  These  payors,
accordingly,  are turning to closer monitoring of services,  prior authorization
requirements,   utilization  review  and  increased  utilization  of  outpatient
services.  During the periods  discussed  below,  the Company has experienced an
increased  effort by these payors to contain costs through  negotiated  discount
pricing.  The Company views these efforts as an opportunity  to demonstrate  the
effectiveness  of  its  clinical   programs  and  its  ability  to  provide  its
rehabilitative  healthcare services efficiently.  The Company has entered into a
number of  contracts  with  payors  to  provide  services  and has  realized  an
increased volume of patients as a result.

     The  Company's  revenues  include net patient  service  revenues  and other
operating  revenues.  Net patient service revenues are reported at estimated net
realizable  amounts  from  patients,  insurance  companies,  third-party  payors
(primarily  Medicare and  Medicaid) and others for services  rendered.  Revenues
from third-party  payors also include  estimated  retroactive  adjustments under
reimbursement  agreements  which are subject to final review and  settlement  by
appropriate authorities.  Management determines allowances for doubtful accounts
and  contractual  adjustments  based on historical  experience  and the terms of
payor contracts. Net accounts receivable include only those amounts estimated by
management to be collectible.

     The Company, in many cases, operates more than one site within a market. In
such markets,  there is customarily an outpatient  center or inpatient  facility
with associated  satellite outpatient  locations.  For purposes of the following
discussion and analysis,  same store operations are measured on locations within
markets in which similar operations existed at the end of the period and include
the operations of additional  locations opened within the same market. New store
operations are measured on locations within new markets.



RESULTS OF OPERATIONS OF THE COMPANY


     Twelve-Month Periods Ended December 31, 1994 and 1995

   
     The Company  operated 537 outpatient  rehabilitation  locations at December
31, 1995,  compared to 283 outpatient  rehabilitation  locations at December 31,
1994. In addition, the Company operated 95 inpatient rehabilitation  facilities,
122 surgery centers and five medical  centers at December 31, 1995,  compared to
82 inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities,  112 surgery  centers and five medical
centers at December 31, 1994.     

     The Company's  operations  generated revenues of $2,003,146,000 in 1995, an
increase of  $353,947,000,  or 21.5%,  as compared to 1994 revenues.  Same store
revenues for the twelve months ended December 31, 1995 were  $1,817,359,000,  an
increase of $168,160,000,  or 10.2%, as compared to the same period in 1994. New
store revenues for 1995 were $185,787,000. New store revenues reflect (1) the 11
rehabilitation  hospitals and 12 other  facilities  associated with the NovaCare
Rehabilitation  Hospitals  Acquisition,  (2) the 120  outpatient  rehabilitation
centers  associated with the Caremark  Acquisition,  (3) the acquisition of five
surgery centers and one outpatient  diagnostic  imaging  operation,  and (4) the
acquisition of outpatient  rehabilitation operations in 34 new markets. See Note
9 of "Notes to Consolidated Financial  Statements".  The increase in revenues is
primarily  attributable  to the addition of these  operations  and  increases in
patient volume. Revenues generated from patients under the Medicare and Medicaid
programs  respectively  accounted for 40.0% and 2.5% of total revenues for 1995,
compared to 41.0% and


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3.2% of total  revenues for 1994.  Revenues  from any other  single  third-party
payor were not significant in relation to the Company's  total revenues.  During
1995,  same store  outpatient  visits,  inpatient  days and surgery center cases
increased 21.7%,  10.8% and 4.8%,  respectively.  Revenue per outpatient  visit,
inpatient day and surgery case for same store operations  increased  (decreased)
by 0.8%, 2.5% and (0.9%), respectively.

     Operating expenses,  at the operating unit level, were  $1,371,740,000,  or
68.5% of revenues,  for 1995, compared to 70.4% of revenues for 1994. Same store
operating expenses for 1995 were  $1,243,508,000,  or 68.4% of related revenues.
New store operating  expenses were  $128,232,000,  or 69.0% of related revenues.
Corporate general and administrative expenses decreased from $61,640,000 in 1994
to  $56,920,000  in 1995.  As a percentage  of revenues,  corporate  general and
administrative  expenses  decreased  from  3.7% in 1994 to 2.8% in  1995.  Total
operating expenses were $1,428,660,000, or 71.3% of revenues, for 1995, compared
to  $1,223,398,000,  or 74.2% of revenues,  for 1994. The provision for doubtful
accounts  was  $37,659,000,   or  1.9%  of  revenues,   for  1995,  compared  to
$32,904,000, or 2.0% of revenues, for 1994.

     Depreciation and amortization  expense was $143,322,000 for 1995,  compared
to $113,977,000  for 1994. The increase  represents the investment in additional
assets by the  Company.  Interest  expense  increased to  $101,790,000  in 1995,
compared to $73,644,000  for 1994,  primarily  because of the increased  average
borrowings during 1995 under the Company's  revolving line of credit.  For 1995,
interest income was $7,882,000, compared to $6,387,000 for 1994.

     Merger  expenses in 1994 of $6,520,000  represent costs incurred or accrued
in connection  with  completing the ReLife  Acquisition  ($2,949,000)  and SHC's
acquisition  of  Heritage  Surgical   Corporation   ($3,571,000).   For  further
discussion, see Note 2 of "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements".

     During 1994,  the Company  recognized a  $10,500,000  loss on impairment of
assets.  This amount relates to the termination of a ReLife management  contract
and a permanently damaged ReLife facility. The Company determined not to attempt
to reopen such  damaged  facility  because,  under its existing  licensure,  the
facility was not  consistent  with the Company's  plans.  Also during 1994,  the
Company  recognized  a  $4,500,000  loss on  abandonment  of a  ReLife  computer
project. For further discussion, see Note 14 of "Notes to Consolidated Financial
Statements".

     During the fourth  quarter of 1994,  the  Company  adopted a formal plan to
dispose of three  surgery  centers and certain  other  properties  during fiscal
1995.  Accordingly,  a charge of  $13,197,000  was made to reflect the  expected
losses  resulting from the disposal of these centers.  The closings of the three
surgery centers were completed by December 31, 1995. For further discussion, see
Note 13 of "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements".

   
     As a result of the NovaCare and SHC  acquisitions,  the Company  recognized
$14,588,000 in merger and acquisition related expenses during the second quarter
of 1995.  Fees related to legal,  accounting  and  financial  advisory  services
accounted for $3,400,000 of the expense.  Accruals for employee separations were
approximately  $1,188,000.  In  addition,  the  Company  provided  approximately
$10,000,000 for the write-down of certain assets to net realizable  value as the
result of a facility  consolidation  in a market  where the  Company's  existing
services overlapped with those of an acquired facility. The employee separations
and facility consolidation were completed by the end of 1995.     

     In the fourth  quarter  of 1995,  the  Company  incurred  direct  costs and
expenses of $4,965,000 in connection with the SSCI  Acquisition.  These expenses
consist  primarily of fees related to legal,  accounting and financial  advisory
services and are included in merger and acquisition related acquisition expenses
for the year ended December 31, 1995.

   
     In connection with the SHC Acquisition, the Company recognized a $9,056,000
extraordinary  loss (net of  income  tax  benefit  of  $5,550,000)  on the early
extinguishment  of the SHC Notes  during  1995  (see  Notes 2 and 7 of "Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements").     

     Also during 1995, the Company  recognized a $53,549,000  loss on impairment
of  assets.  The  impaired  assets  relate to six SHC  facilities  and eight SCA
facilities  in which the projected  undiscounted  cash flows did not support the
book value of the long-lived assets of such facilities. See Note 14 of "Notes to
Consolidated Financial Statements".


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     Income before income taxes,  minority  interests and extraordinary item for
1995 was  $226,495,000,  compared to $184,673,000 for 1994.  Minority  interests
reduced income before income taxes by  $43,147,000,  compared to $31,469,000 for
1994.  The  provision  for income  taxes for 1995 was  $81,771,000,  compared to
$65,121,000  for 1994,  resulting in  effective  tax rates of 44.6% for 1995 and
42.5% for 1994. Net income for 1995 was $92,521,000.     

     Twelve-Month Periods Ended December 31, 1995 and 1996

     The Company  operated 739 outpatient  rehabilitation  locations at December
31, 1996,  compared to 537 outpatient  rehabilitation  locations at December 31,
1995. In addition, the Company operated 96 inpatient rehabilitation  facilities,
135 surgery centers and five medical  centers at December 31, 1996,  compared to
95 inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities,  122 surgery  centers and five medical
centers at December 31, 1995.

     The Company's  operations  generated revenues of $2,436,537,000 in 1996, an
increase of  $433,391,000,  or 21.6%,  as compared to 1995 revenues.  Same store
revenues for the twelve months ended December 31, 1996 were  $2,276,676,000,  an
increase of $273,530,000,  or 13.7%, as compared to the same period in 1995. New
store  revenues  for 1996 were  $159,861,000.  New store  revenues  reflect  the
acquisition of one inpatient  rehabilitation hospital, the addition of eight new
outpatient  surgery  centers,  and the acquisition of outpatient  rehabilitation
operations  in 57 new markets.  See Note 9 of "Notes to  Consolidated  Financial
Statements".  The increase in revenues is primarily attributable to the addition
of these  operations and increases in patient  volume.  Revenues  generated from
patients  under the Medicare and Medicaid  programs  respectively  accounted for
37.8% and 2.9% of total  revenues for 1996,  compared to 40.0% and 2.5% of total
revenues for 1995.  Revenues  from any other single  third-party  payor were not
significant in relation to the Company's total revenues. During 1996, same store
outpatient  visits,  inpatient  days and surgery center cases  increased  19.9%,
10.8% and 7.3%,  respectively.  Revenue per outpatient visit,  inpatient day and
surgery case for same store operations increased (decreased) by (0.8)%, 3.8% and
1.1%, respectively.

   
     Operating expenses,  at the operating unit level, were  $1,586,003,000,  or
65.1% of  revenues,  for 1996,  compared  to 68.5% of  revenues  for  1995.  The
decrease  in  operating  expenses  as a  percentage  of  revenues  is  primarily
attributable  to the 13.7% increase in same store revenues noted above.  In same
store operations,  the incremental costs associated with increased  revenues are
significantly  lower as a percentage  of those  increased  revenues.  Same store
operating expenses for 1996 were  $1,486,575,000,  or 65.3% of related revenues.
New store operating  expenses were  $99,428,000,  or 62.2% of related  revenues.
Corporate general and administrative expenses increased from $56,920,000 in 1995
to  $66,807,000  in 1996.  As a percentage  of revenues,  corporate  general and
administrative  expenses  decreased  from  2.8% in 1995 to 2.7% in  1996.  Total
operating expenses were $1,652,810,000, or 67.8% of revenues, for 1996, compared
to  $1,428,660,000,  or 71.3% of revenues,  for 1995. The provision for doubtful
accounts  was  $54,112,000,   or  2.2%  of  revenues,   for  1996,  compared  to
$37,659,000, or 1.9% of revenues, for 1995.     

     Depreciation and amortization  expense was $188,966,000 for 1996,  compared
to  $143,322,000  for  1995.  The  increase  resulted  from  the  investment  in
additional  assets by the Company.  Interest expense decreased to $94,553,000 in
1996,  compared to  $101,790,000  for 1995,  primarily  because of the favorable
interest rates on the Company's  revolving  credit  facility (see "Liquidity and
Capital  Resources").  For 1996,  interest  income was  $5,912,000  compared  to
$7,882,000 for 1995. The decrease in interest income  resulted  primarily from a
decrease in the average amount outstanding in interest-bearing investments.

     Merger expenses in 1996 of $41,515,000  represent costs incurred or accrued
in connection with completing the SCA Acquisition  ($19,727,000),  the Advantage
Health  Acquisition  ($9,212,000),  the PSCM  Acquisition  ($5,513,000)  and the
ReadiCare Acquisition ($7,063,000). For further discussion, see Note 2 of "Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements".

   
     Income before income taxes,  minority  interests and extraordinary item for
1996 was  $410,493,000,  compared to $226,495,000 for 1995.  Minority  interests
reduced income before income taxes by  $49,437,000,  compared to $43,147,000 for
1995.  The  provision  for income taxes for 1996 was  $140,238,000,  compared to
$81,771,000  for 1995,  resulting in  effective  tax rates of 38.8% for 1996 and
44.6% for 1995. Net income for 1996 was $220,818,000.     


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LIQUIDITY AND CAPITAL RESOURCES

     At December  31,  1996,  the Company had working  capital of  $543,975,000,
including cash and marketable  securities of  $151,788,000.  Working  capital at
December 31, 1995 was $406,125,000,  including cash and marketable securities of
$156,321,000.  For 1996, cash provided by operations was $367,656,000,  compared
to $306,157,000 for 1995. The Company used $451,343,000 for investing activities
during 1996, compared to $764,825,000 for 1995. Additions to property, plant and
equipment  and   acquisitions   accounted  for   $172,962,000  and  $91,391,000,
respectively,  during  1996.  Those  same  investing  activities  accounted  for
$172,172,000  and  $493,914,000,  respectively,  in 1995.  Financing  activities
provided  $83,108,000 and $494,100,000 during 1996 and 1995,  respectively.  Net
borrowing proceeds (borrowings less principal reductions) for 1996 and 1995 were
$88,851,000 and $213,155,000, respectively.

     Net accounts receivable were $510,567,000 at December 31, 1996, compared to
$409,150,000  at December  31, 1995.  The number of days of average  revenues in
average  receivables was 66.7 at December 31, 1996, compared to 63.2 at December
31,  1995.  The   concentration  of  net  accounts   receivable  from  patients,
third-party  payors,  insurance  companies  and others at December  31, 1996 was
consistent with the related concentration of revenues for the period then ended.

     The  Company  has  a   $1,250,000,000   revolving   credit   facility  with
NationsBank,  N.A.  ("NationsBank")  and other  participating  banks  (the "1996
Credit Agreement"). The 1996 Credit Agreement replaced a previous $1,000,000,000
revolving credit  agreement,  also with  NationsBank.  Interest is paid based on
LIBOR plus a predetermined  margin, a base rate or competitively  bid rates from
the  participating  banks. This credit facility has a maturity date of March 31,
2001. The Company  provided a negative  pledge on all assets for the 1996 Credit
Agreement.  The effective interest rate on the average outstanding balance under
the revolving credit facility was 5.98% for the twelve months ended December 31,
1996,  compared to the average  prime rate of 8.29% during the same  period.  At
December  31,  1996,  the Company had drawn  $995,000,000  under the 1996 Credit
Agreement.  For  further  discussion,  see  Note  7 of  "Notes  to  Consolidated
Financial Statements".

     In 1994, the Company issued $115,000,000 principal amount of 5% Convertible
Subordinated Debentures due 2001 (the "Debentures").  The Company has called the
Debentures for  redemption on April 1, 1997.  Because the recent market price of
the Company's  Common Stock  substantially  exceeds the conversion  price of the
Debentures, the Company expects that substantially all of the
Debentures will be converted into Common Stock.

     On February 17, 1997,  the Company  entered into a definitive  agreement to
acquire Horizon/CMS Healthcare Corporation  ("Horizon/CMS") in a stock-for-stock
merger in which the  stockholders of Horizon/CMS will receive 0.84338 of a share
of the  Company's  common  stock per share of  Horizon/  CMS common  stock.  The
transaction is valued at approximately $1,600,000,000,  including the assumption
by the Company of approximately $700,000,000 in Horizon/CMS debt. It is expected
that the transaction will be accounted for as a purchase.  Horizon/CMS  operates
33 inpatient rehabilitation hospitals, 58 specialty hospitals and subacute units
and 282 outpatient  rehabilitation  centers.  Horizon/CMS  also owns,  leases or
manages  267  long-term  care  facilities,   a  contract  therapy  business,  an
institutional  pharmacy business and other healthcare services.  Consummation of
the transaction is subject to various regulatory approvals,  including clearance
under the Hart-Scott-Rodino  Antitrust Improvements Act, and to the satisfaction
of  certain  other  conditions.  The  Company  currently  anticipates  that  the
transaction will be consummated by October 1997.
    

   
     On March 3, 1997, the Company consummated the acquisition of Health Images,
Inc. ("Health Images") in a transaction accounted for as a pooling of interests.
In the transaction, Health Images stockholders received approximately 10,400,000
shares of the Company's  common stock.  Health Images  operates 49  freestanding
diagnostic  imaging  centers in 13 states  and six in  England.  The  effects of
conforming  the  accounting  policies of the  Company and Health  Images are not
expected  to be  material.  For  further  discussion,  see Note 2 of  "Notes  to
Consolidated Financial Statements".

     The Company  intends to pursue the acquisition or development of additional
healthcare  operations,   including  comprehensive   outpatient   rehabilitation
facilities,  inpatient  rehabilitation  facilities,  ambulatory surgery centers,
outpatient  diagnostic  centers  and  companies  engaged  in  the  provision  of
rehabilitation--     


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related services, and to expand certain of its existing facilities.  While it is
not possible to estimate  precisely  the amounts which will actually be expended
in the  foregoing  areas,  the  Company  anticipates  that over the next  twelve
months, it will spend approximately  $50,000,000 on maintenance and expansion of
its existing  facilities and  approximately  $300,000,000  on development of the
Integrated Service Model. See Item 1, "Business -- Company Strategy".

     Although the Company is continually considering and evaluating acquisitions
and  opportunities  for future  growth,  the Company  has not  entered  into any
agreements  with  respect  to  material  future   acquisitions  other  than  the
transactions  with Horizon/CMS and Health Images. In connection with the pending
acquisition  of  Horizon/CMS,  the  Company  has  obtained a  fully-underwritten
commitment  from  NationsBank,  N.A.  for a  $1,000,000,000  Senior  Bridge Loan
Facility  on  substantially  the same terms as the 1996  Credit  Agreement.  The
Company believes that existing cash, cash flow from  operations,  and borrowings
under  the  revolving  line of  credit  and the  bridge  loan  facility  will be
sufficient to satisfy the Company's  estimated  cash  requirements  for the next
twelve months, and for the reasonably foreseeable future.

     Inflation in recent years has not had a significant effect on the Company's
business,  and is not  expected  to  adversely  affect the Company in the future
unless it increases significantly.

   
     Statements  contained  in this  Annual  Report on Form  10-K  which are not
historical  facts are  forward-looking  statements.  In  addition,  the Company,
through its senior management,  from time to time makes  forward-looking  public
statements  concerning its expected future  operations and performance and other
developments.   Such  forward-looking   statements  are  necessarily   estimates
reflecting  the  Company's  best  judgment  based upon current  information  and
involve a number of risks and uncertainties,  and there can be no assurance that
other factors will not affect the accuracy of such  forward-looking  statements.
While is  impossible  to identify all such  factors,  factors  which could cause
actual results to differ materially from those estimated by the Company include,
but are not limited to, changes in the regulation of the healthcare  industry at
either or both of the federal and state levels, changes in reimbursement for the
Company's services by governmental or private payors,  competitive  pressures in
the  healthcare  industry and the  Company's  response  thereto,  the  Company's
ability to obtain and retain favorable  arrangements  with  third-party  payors,
unanticipated  delays in the Company's  implementation of its Integrated Service
Model,  general conditions in the economy and capital markets, and other factors
which  may be  identified  from  time to time in the  Company's  Securities  and
Exchange Commission filings and other public announcements.     


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ITEM 8. FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND SUPPLEMENTARY DATA

     Consolidated  financial  statements of the Company meeting the requirements
of  Regulation  S-X are  filed on the  succeeding  pages of this  Item 8 of this
Annual Report on Form 10-K, as listed below:


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                       PAGE
                                                                                       -----
<S>                                                                                      <C>
Report of Independent Auditors  ......................................................   27
Consolidated Balance Sheets as of December 31, 1995 and 1996  ........................   28
Consolidated Statements of Income for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996   29
Consolidated Statements of Stockholders' Equity for the Years Ended December 31, 1994,
 1995 and 1996   .....................................................................   30
Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows for the Years Ended December 31, 1994, 1995 and
 1996   ..............................................................................   31
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements  ..........................................   33
</TABLE>

     Other financial  statements and schedules required under Regulation S-X are
listed in Item 14(a)2, and filed under Item 14(d), of this Annual Report on Form
10-K.


QUARTERLY RESULTS (UNAUDITED)

     Set  forth  below  is  certain  summary  information  with  respect  to the
Company's  operations for the last eight fiscal quarters.  All amounts have been
restated to reflect the effects of the 1995 acquisitions of SHC and SSCI and the
1996 acquisitions of SCA and Advantage  Health,  all of which were accounted for
as poolings of interests.  All per share amounts have been adjusted to reflect a
two-for-one  stock split  effected in the form of a 100% stock  dividend paid on
April 17,  1995 and a  two-for-one  stock  split  effected in the form of a 100%
stock dividend paid on March 17, 1997.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                  1995
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------
                                                            1ST           2ND           3RD           4TH
                                                          QUARTER       QUARTER       QUARTER       QUARTER
                                                          -----------   -----------   -----------   ----------
                                                                 (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
<S>                                                       <C>           <C>           <C>           <C>
Revenues  .............................................     $ 451,844     $ 499,668     $ 518,537   $ 533,097
Net income   ..........................................        32,922        11,926        41,647     6,026
Net income per common and common equivalent share   .            0.12          0.04          0.14      0.02
Net income per common share -- assuming full dilution .          0.11          0.04          0.14      0.02
</TABLE>


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                  1996
                                                          ----------------------------------------------------
                                                            1ST           2ND           3RD           4TH
                                                          QUARTER       QUARTER       QUARTER       QUARTER
                                                          -----------   -----------   -----------   ----------
                                                                 (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE DATA)
<S>                                                       <C>           <C>           <C>           <C>
Revenues  .............................................     $ 581,234     $ 595,589     $ 616,943   $ 642,771
Net income   ..........................................        37,851        59,555        61,044    62,368
Net income per common and common equivalent share   .            0.12          0.18          0.18      0.19
Net income per common share -- assuming full dilution .          0.11          0.18          0.18      0.18
</TABLE>



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               REPORT OF ERNST & YOUNG LLP, INDEPENDENT AUDITORS

The Board of Directors
HEALTHSOUTH Corporation

     We have audited the accompanying consolidated balance sheets of HEALTHSOUTH
Corporation  and  Subsidiaries as of December 31, 1995 and 1996, and the related
consolidated statements of income,  stockholders' equity and cash flows for each
of the three  years in the period  ended  December  31,  1996.  Our audits  also
included the  financial  statement  schedule  listed in the Index at Item 14(a).
These financial  statements and schedule are the responsibility of the Company's
management.  Our  responsibility  is to express  an  opinion on these  financial
statements and schedule based on our audits.

     We conducted  our audits in accordance  with  generally  accepted  auditing
standards.  Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain
reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material
misstatement.  An audit includes examining, on a test basis, evidence supporting
the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements.  An audit also includes
assessing the  accounting  principles  used and  significant  estimates  made by
management,  as well as evaluating the overall financial statement presentation.
We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

     In our opinion,  the consolidated  financial  statements  referred to above
present fairly, in all material respects, the consolidated financial position of
HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation and Subsidiaries at December 31, 1995 and 1996, and the
consolidated  results of their  operations  and their cash flows for each of the
three years in the period ended December 31, 1996, in conformity  with generally
accepted  accounting  principles.  Also, in our opinion,  the related  financial
statement  schedule,   when  considered  in  relation  to  the  basic  financial
statements  taken as a whole,  presents  fairly  in all  material  respects  the
information set forth therein.


                                                              ERNST & YOUNG LLP


Birmingham, Alabama
February 24, 1997
Except for the first paragraph of Note 15, as to
 which the date is March 12, 1997


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                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                          CONSOLIDATED BALANCE SHEETS


   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                                 DECEMBER 31,
                                                                                        -------------------------------
                                                                                           1995             1996
                                                                                        -------------   ---------------
                                                                                                (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                                                     <C>             <C>
ASSETS
Current assets:
 Cash and cash equivalents (Note 3)  ................................................   $  152,244       $   148,028
 Other marketable securities (Note 3)   .............................................        4,077             3,760
 Accounts receivable, net of allowances for doubtful accounts of $51,143,000 in 1995
   and $65,507,000 in 1996  .........................................................      409,150           510,567
 Inventories    .....................................................................       39,239            47,107
 Prepaid expenses and other current assets    .......................................       76,844           126,197
 Deferred income taxes (Note 10)  ...................................................       21,977            11,852
                                                                                        -----------      -----------
Total current assets  ...............................................................      703,531           847,511
Other assets:
 Loans to officers    ...............................................................        1,625             1,396
 Other (Note 4)    ..................................................................       68,868            82,514
                                                                                        -----------      -----------
                                                                                            70,493            83,910
Property, plant and equipment, net (Note 5)   .......................................    1,283,560         1,390,873
Intangible assets, net (Note 6)   ...................................................      873,911         1,049,658
                                                                                        -----------      -----------
Total assets    .....................................................................   $ 2,931,495      $ 3,371,952
                                                                                        ===========      ===========
LIABILITIES AND STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
Current liabilities:
 Accounts payable  ..................................................................   $  107,018       $   110,265
 Salaries and wages payable    ......................................................       67,905            66,455
 Accrued interest payable and other liabilities  ....................................       87,308            91,407
 Current portion of long-term debt (Note 7)   .......................................       35,175            35,409
                                                                                        -----------      -----------
Total current liabilities   .........................................................      297,406           303,536
Long-term debt (Note 7)  ............................................................    1,356,489         1,450,620
Deferred income taxes (Note 10)   ...................................................       23,733            28,797
Other long-term liabilities (Note 14)   .............................................        8,459             3,558
Deferred revenue   ..................................................................        1,525               255
Minority interests - limited partnerships (Note 1)  .................................       57,985            69,262
Commitments and contingencies  (Note 11)  Stockholders'  equity (Notes 8, 12 and
15):
 Preferred stock, $.10 par value-1,500,000 shares authorized; issued and outstanding-
   none   ...........................................................................           --                --
 Common stock, $.01 par value-500,000,000 shares authorized; issued-152,193,000 in
   1995 and 316,148,000 in 1996   ...................................................        1,522             3,161
 Additional paid-in capital    ......................................................      888,216           996,234
 Retained earnings    ...............................................................      334,582           536,423
 Treasury stock, at cost (1,324,000 shares in 1995 and 91,000 shares in 1996)  ......      (16,065)             (323)
 Receivable from Employee Stock Ownership Plan   ....................................      (15,886)          (14,148)
 Notes receivable from stockholders  ................................................       (6,471)           (5,423)
                                                                                        -----------      -----------
Total stockholders' equity  .........................................................    1,185,898         1,515,924
                                                                                        -----------      -----------
Total liabilities and stockholders' equity    .......................................   $ 2,931,495      $ 3,371,952
                                                                                        ===========      ===========
</TABLE>
    

                            See accompanying notes.



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                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                       CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF INCOME





   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                              -----------------------------------------------
                                                                 1994            1995             1996
                                                              -------------   -------------   ---------------
                                                                 (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
<S>                                                           <C>             <C>              <C>
Revenues   ................................................   $ 1,649,199     $ 2,003,146      $ 2,436,537

Operating unit expenses   .................................     1,161,758       1,371,740        1,586,003
Corporate general and administrative expenses  ............        61,640          56,920           66,807
Provision for doubtful accounts    ........................        32,904          37,659           54,112
Depreciation and amortization   ...........................       113,977         143,322          188,966
Merger and acquisition related expenses (Notes 2 and 9) .           6,520          19,553           41,515
Loss on impairment of assets (Note 14)   ..................        10,500          53,549               --
Loss on abandonment of computer project (Note 14)    ......         4,500              --               --
Loss on disposal of surgery centers (Note 13)  ............        13,197              --               --
Interest expense    .......................................        73,644         101,790           94,553
Interest income  ..........................................        (6,387)         (7,882)          (5,912)
Gain on sale of equity securities (Note 1)  ...............        (7,727)             --               --
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
                                                                1,464,526       1,776,651        2,026,044
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
Income before income taxes, minority interests and ex-
 traordinary item                                                 184,673         226,495          410,493
Provision for income taxes   ..............................        65,121          81,771          140,238
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
Income before minority interests and extraordinary item.          119,552         144,724          270,255
Minority interests  .......................................        31,469          43,147           49,437
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
Income before extraordinary item   ........................        88,083         101,577          220,818
Extraordinary loss from early extinguishment of debt, net
 of income tax benefit of $5,550,000 (Notes 2 and 7) ......            --           9,056               --
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
Net income    .............................................   $    88,083     $    92,521      $   220,818
                                                              ===========     ===========      ===========
Weighted average common and common equivalent
 shares outstanding    ....................................       280,854         297,460          326,290
                                                              ===========     ===========      ===========
Income per common and common equivalent share:
 Income before extraordinary item  ........................   $      0.31     $      0.34      $      0.68
 Extraordinary loss .......................................            --            0.03               --
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
 Net income   .............................................   $      0.31     $      0.31      $      0.68
                                                              ===========     ===========      ===========
Income per common share -- assuming full dilution:
 Income before extraordinary item  ........................   $      0.31     $      0.34      $      0.66
 Extraordinary loss    ....................................            --            0.03               --
                                                              -----------     -----------      -----------
 Net income   .............................................   $      0.31     $      0.31      $      0.66
                                                              ===========     ===========      ===========
</TABLE>
    

                            See accompanying notes.


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                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
                  YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1995 AND 1996


   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                                             ADDITIONAL
                                                                            COMMON STOCK       PAID-IN     RETAINED
                                                                          SHARES    AMOUNT     CAPITAL     EARNINGS
                                                                         ---------- -------- ------------ -----------
                                                                                        (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                                      <C>         <C>      <C>         <C>
Balance at December 31, 1993  ..........................................  129,946     $1,300  $ 493,663   $ 177,979
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................    2,296         23     16,341         --
Common shares exchanged in the exercise of options    ..................      (22)        --       (321)        --
Proceeds from issuance of common shares   ..............................      908          9     13,543         --
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       --         --      6,470         --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       --         --         --         --
Payments received on stockholders' notes receivable   ..................       --         --         --         --
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................       --         --       ----     (1,838)
Purchase of treasury stock    ..........................................       --         --         --         --
Net income  ............................................................       --         --         --     88,083
Dividends paid    ......................................................       --         --         --     (6,237)
                                                                          -------    -------  ---------   ---------
Balance at December 31, 1994  ..........................................  133,128      1,332    529,696    257,987
Adjustment for ReLife Merger (Note 2)  .................................    2,732         27      7,114     (3,734)
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................    1,101         11      9,857         --
Proceeds from issuance of common shares   ..............................   15,232        152    334,896         --
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       --         --      6,653         --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       --         --         --         --
Loans made to stockholders    ..........................................       --         --         --         --
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................       --         --         --     (4,767)
Purchases of treasury stock   ..........................................       --         --         --         --
Net income  ............................................................       --         --         --     92,521
Dividends paid    ......................................................       --         --         --     (7,425)
                                                                          -------    -------  ---------   ---------
Balance at December 31, 1995  ..........................................  152,193      1,522    888,216    334,582
Adjustment for Advantage Merger  .......................................       --         --         --    (17,638)
Adjustment for 1996 mergers (Note 2)   .................................    4,047         40     68,785     (1,256)
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................    3,270         33     32,774         --
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       --         --     23,767         --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       --         --         --         --
Loans made to stockholders    ..........................................       --         --         --         --
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................       --         --         --        (83)
Retirement of treasury stock  ..........................................       --         --    (15,742)        --
Net income  ............................................................       --         --         --    220,818
Stock split (Note 15)   ................................................  156,638      1,566     (1,566)        --
                                                                          -------    -------  ---------   ---------
Balance at December 31, 1996  ..........................................  316,148     $3,161  $ 996,234   $ 536,423
                                                                          =======    =======  =========   =========


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                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
                  YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1995 AND 1996
                                  (Continued)


<CAPTION>
                                                                                                                    NOTES
                                                                                                                  RECEIVABLE
                                                                              TREASURY STOCK       RECEIVABLES       FROM
                                                                           SHARES       AMOUNT      FROM ESOP    STOCKHOLDERS
                                                                         ----------- ------------- ------------- -------------
<S>                                                                       <C>         <C>           <C>           <C>
Balance at December 31, 1993  ..........................................      318     $  (2,123)    $  (18,932)   $  (5,490)
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................       --            --             --           --
Common shares exchanged in the exercise of options    ..................       --            --             --           --
Proceeds from issuance of common shares   ..............................       --            --             --           --
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       --            --             --           --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       --            --          1,455           --
Payments received on stockholders' notes receivable   ..................       --            --             --          250
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................       --            --             --           --
Purchase of treasury stock    ..........................................      601        (6,592)            --           --
Net income  ............................................................       --            --             --           --
Dividends paid    ......................................................       --            --             --           --
                                                                          -------     ---------     ----------    ---------
Balance at December 31, 1994  ..........................................      919        (8,715)       (17,477)      (5,240)
Adjustment for ReLife Merger (Note 2)  .................................       --            --             --           --
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................       --            --             --           --
Proceeds from issuance of common shares   ..............................       --            --             --           --
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       --            --             --           --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       --            --          1,591           --
Loans made to stockholders    ..........................................       --            --             --       (1,231)
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................       --            --             --           --
Purchases of treasury stock   ..........................................      405        (7,350)            --           --
Net income  ............................................................       --            --             --           --
Dividends paid    ......................................................       --            --             --           --
                                                                          -------     ---------     ----------    ---------
Balance at December 31, 1995  ..........................................    1,324       (16,065)       (15,886)      (6,471)
Adjustment for Advantage Merger  .......................................       --            --             --           --
Adjustment for 1996 mergers (Note 2)   .................................       --            --             --           --
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................       --            --             --           --
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       --            --             --           --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       --            --          1,738           --
Loans made to stockholders    ..........................................       --            --             --        1,048
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................       --            --             --           --
Retirement of treasury stock  ..........................................   (1,233)       15,742             --           --
Net income  ............................................................       --            --             --           --
Stock split (Note 15)   ................................................       --            --             --           --
                                                                          -------     ---------     ----------    ---------
Balance at December 31, 1996  ..........................................       91     $    (323)    $  (14,148)   $  (5,423)
                                                                          =======     =========     ==========    =========
<PAGE>
                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY
                  YEARS ENDED DECEMBER 31, 1994, 1995 AND 1996
                                  (Continued)

<CAPTION>
                                                                             TOTAL
                                                                         STOCKHOLDERS'
                                                                            EQUITY
                                                                         --------------
<S>                                                                      <C>
Balance at December 31, 1993  ..........................................  $  646,397
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................      16,364
Common shares exchanged in the exercise of options    ..................        (321)
Proceeds from issuance of common shares   ..............................      13,552
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       6,470
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       1,455
Payments received on stockholders' notes receivable   ..................         250
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................      (1,838)
Purchase of treasury stock    ..........................................      (6,592)
Net income  ............................................................      88,083
Dividends paid    ......................................................      (6,237)
                                                                          ----------
Balance at December 31, 1994  ..........................................     757,583
Adjustment for ReLife Merger (Note 2)  .................................       3,407
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................       9,868
Proceeds from issuance of common shares   ..............................     335,048
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......       6,653
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       1,591
Loans made to stockholders    ..........................................      (1,231)
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................      (4,767)
Purchases of treasury stock   ..........................................      (7,350)
Net income  ............................................................      92,521
Dividends paid    ......................................................      (7,425)
                                                                          ----------
Balance at December 31, 1995  ..........................................   1,185,898
Adjustment for Advantage Merger  .......................................     (17,638)
Adjustment for 1996 mergers (Note 2)   .................................      67,569
Proceeds from exercise of options (Note 8)   ...........................      32,807
Income tax benefits related to incentive stock options (Note 8)   ......      23,767
Reduction in receivable from ESOP   ....................................       1,738
Loans made to stockholders    ..........................................       1,048
Purchase of limited partnership units  .................................         (83)
Retirement of treasury stock  ..........................................          --
Net income  ............................................................     220,818
Stock split (Note 15)   ................................................          --
                                                                          ----------
Balance at December 31, 1996  ..........................................  $1,515,924
                                                                          ==========
</TABLE>
    

                            See accompanying notes.

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                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                     CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS


   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                          YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                               ---------------------------------------------
                                                                  1994            1995            1996
                                                               -------------   -------------   -------------
                                                                              (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                            <C>             <C>             <C>
OPERATING ACTIVITIES
Net income  ................................................    $   88,083      $   92,521      $  220,818
Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided
  by operating activities:
   Depreciation and amortization    ........................       113,977         143,322         188,966
   Provision for doubtful accounts  ........................        32,904          37,659          54,112
   Provision for losses on impairment of assets    .........        10,500          53,549              --
   Provision for losses on abandonment of computer
    project    .............................................         4,500              --              --
   Merger and acquisition related expenses   ...............         6,520          19,553          41,515
   Loss on disposal of surgery center  .....................        13,197              --              --
   Loss on extinguishment of debt   ........................            --          14,606              --
   Income applicable to minority interests of limited
    partnerships  ..........................................        31,469          43,147          49,437
   (Benefit) provision for deferred income taxes   .........       (15,882)            380          13,525
   Provision for deferred revenue   ........................          (164)         (1,990)         (1,270)
   Changes in operating assets and liabilities, net of ef-
     fects of acquisitions:
      Accounts receivable  .................................       (97,167)        (65,382)       (131,514)
      Inventories, prepaid expenses and other current
       assets  .............................................       (15,251)            732         (36,751)
      Accounts payable and accrued expenses  ...............        86,209         (17,334)        (31,182)
                                                                ----------      ----------      ----------
Net cash provided by operating activities    ...............       258,895         320,763         367,656
INVESTING ACTIVITIES
Purchases of property, plant and equipment   ...............      (195,920)       (172,172)       (172,962)
Proceeds from sale of property, plant and equipment   ......        68,330          14,541              --
Additions to intangible assets, net of effects of acquisi-
 tions                                                             (69,119)       (117,552)       (174,446)
Assets obtained through acquisitions, net of liabilities as-
 sumed                                                            (116,650)       (493,914)        (91,391)
Changes in other assets    .................................       (21,962)         (6,963)        (12,861)
Proceeds received on sale of other marketable securities .          18,948          22,161             317
Investments in other marketable securities   ...............        (9,126)        (10,926)             --
                                                                ----------      ----------      ----------
Net cash used in investing activities  .....................      (325,499)       (764,825)       (451,343)
</TABLE>
    

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                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
            CONSOLIDATED STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS -- (CONTINUED)

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                       YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                                                             -------------------------------------------
                                                               1994           1995            1996
                                                             ------------   ------------   -------------
                                                                           (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                          <C>            <C>            <C>
FINANCING ACTIVITIES
Proceeds from borrowings    ..............................   $1,058,479     $ 685,816       $  193,113
Principal payments on long-term debt    ..................    (970,462)      (472,661)        (104,262)
Early retirement of debt .................................          --        (14,606)              --
Proceeds from exercise of options    .....................      14,727          9,868           32,807
Proceeds from issuance of common stock  ..................       1,136        330,954               --
Purchase of treasury stock  ..............................      (6,592)        (7,350)              --
Reduction in receivable from ESOP    .....................       1,455          1,591            1,738
Payments received on (loans made to) stockholders   ......         250         (1,231)           1,048
Dividends paid  ..........................................      (6,237)        (7,425)              --
Proceeds from investment by minority interests   .........       2,268          1,103              510
Purchase of limited partnership interests  ...............      (1,698)       (10,076)          (3,064)
Payment of cash distributions to limited partners   ......     (34,351)       (36,489)         (38,782)
                                                             ----------     ----------      ----------
Net cash provided by financing activities  ...............      58,975        479,494           83,108
                                                             ----------     ----------      ----------
(Decrease) increase in cash and cash equivalents    ......      (7,629)        35,432             (579)
Cash and cash equivalents at beginning of year (Note 2) .      119,946        112,317          152,244
Cash flows related to mergers (Note 2)  ..................          --          4,495           (3,637)
                                                             ----------     ----------      ----------
Cash and cash equivalents at end of year   ...............   $ 112,317      $ 152,244       $  148,028
                                                             ==========     ==========      ==========
SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION 
Cash paid during the year for:
 Interest    .............................................   $  59,833      $ 100,189       $   91,560
 Income taxes   ..........................................      60,166         83,059           62,515
</TABLE>
    

NON-CASH INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

     The Company assumed liabilities of $32,027,000, $55,828,000 and $19,197,000
during the years  ended  December  31,  1994,  1995 and 1996,  respectively,  in
conjunction with its acquisitions.

     During the year ended  December  31,  1994,  the Company  issued  1,248,000
common  shares  with  a  market  value  of  $9,923,000  as   consideration   for
acquisitions accounted for as purchases (see Note 9).

     During the year ended  December  31,  1996,  the Company  issued  8,095,000
common shares as consideration for mergers (see Note 2).


NON-CASH FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

     During  1995 and 1997,  the Company  had a  two-for-one  stock split on its
common  stock,  which was  effected in the form of a one hundred  percent  stock
dividend.

     The Company  received a tax benefit from the  disqualifying  disposition of
incentive stock options of $6,470,000,  $6,653,000 and $23,767,000 for the years
ended December 31, 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively.

     During  the year  ended  December  31,  1994,  22,000  common  shares  were
exchanged in the exercise of options. The shares exchanged had a market value on
the date of exchange of $321,000.

                            See accompanying notes.

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<PAGE>

                   HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION AND SUBSIDIARIES
                  NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

                               DECEMBER 31, 1996

1. SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES

     The significant accounting policies followed by HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and
its  subsidiaries  ("the  Company")  are  presented  as an integral  part of the
consolidated financial statements.


PRINCIPLES OF CONSOLIDATION

   
     The consolidated  financial  statements include the accounts of HEALTHSOUTH
Corporation  ("HEALTHSOUTH") and its wholly-owned  subsidiaries,  as well as its
majority ownership or controlling  interest in limited  partnerships and limited
liability companies. All significant intercompany accounts and transactions have
been eliminated in consolidation.     

     HEALTHSOUTH   Corporation   is  engaged  in  the   business  of   providing
comprehensive  rehabilitative,  clinical,  diagnostic  and  surgical  healthcare
services on an inpatient and outpatient basis.


USE OF ESTIMATES

     The  preparation  of financial  statements  in  conformity  with  generally
accepted  accounting  principles  requires  management  to  make  estimates  and
assumptions that affect the amounts  reported in the  accompanying  consolidated
financial   statements  and  notes.  Actual  results  could  differ  from  those
estimates.


MARKETABLE SECURITIES

   
     Marketable   equity  securities  and  debt  securities  are  classified  as
available-for-sale.  Available-for-sale  securities  are  carried at fair value,
with the  unrealized  gains and  losses,  if  material,  reported  as a separate
component  of  stockholders'   equity,  net  of  tax.  During  1994,  marketable
securities consisting of $13,360,507 of common stock were sold and the resulting
gain was recognized in the consolidated  statement of income.  The adjusted cost
of the specific security sold method is used to compute gain or loss on the sale
of   securities.   Interest  and   dividends   on   securities   classified   as
available-for-sale   are  included  in  investment  income.   Marketable  equity
securities and debt  securities of the Company have  maturities of less than one
year.     


ACCOUNTS RECEIVABLE AND THIRD-PARTY REIMBURSEMENT ACTIVITIES

   
     Receivables from patients,  insurance companies and third-party contractual
insured accounts  (Medicare and Medicaid) are based on payment  agreements which
generally  result  in the  Company  collecting  an  amount  different  from  the
established rates. Net third party settlement  receivables  included in accounts
receivable  were  $21,494,000  and  $21,138,000  at December  31, 1995 and 1996,
respectively.  Final  determination  of the  settlements is subject to review by
appropriate authorities.  The differences between original estimates made by the
Company and subsequent revisions (including final settlements) were not material
to the operations of the Company.  Adequate allowances are provided for doubtful
accounts and  contractual  adjustments.  Uncollectible  accounts are written off
against the allowance for doubtful  accounts after adequate  collection  efforts
are made.  Net  accounts  receivable  include  only those  amounts  estimated by
management to be collectible.     

     The concentration of net accounts  receivable from third-party  contractual
payors and others,  as a  percentage  of total net accounts  receivable,  was as
follows:

   
                                                     DECEMBER 31     
                                                  -----------------  
                                                  1995     1996      
                                                  ------   --------  
       Medicare  .............................     24%        26%    
       Medicaid  .............................      6          5     
       Other  ................................     70         69     
                                                  ----      ----     
                                                  100%       100%    
                                                  ====      ====     
                                                  

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<PAGE>

                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

1. Significant Accounting Policies - (CONTINUED)

INVENTORIES

     Inventories  are stated at the lower of cost or market  using the  specific
identification method.


PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

     Property,  plant and equipment is recorded at cost. Upon sale or retirement
of property,  plant or equipment,  the cost and related accumulated depreciation
are  eliminated  from the  respective  account and the resulting gain or loss is
included in the results of operations.

   
     Interest  cost  incurred   during  the   construction   of  a  facility  is
capitalized.  The Company  incurred  interest of $76,038,000,  $103,731,000  and
$97,375,000,  of which  $2,394,000,  $1,941,000 and  $2,822,000 was  capitalized
during 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively.     

     Depreciation  and amortization is computed using the  straight-line  method
over the  estimated  useful  lives of the  assets or the term of the  lease,  as
appropriate.  The  estimated  useful  life of  buildings  is 30-40 years and the
general range of useful lives for leasehold  improvements,  furniture,  fixtures
and equipment is 10-15 years.


INTANGIBLE ASSETS

   
     Cost in excess of net asset value of purchased facilities is amortized over
20 to 40 years using the  straight-line  method.  Organization  and  partnership
formation  costs are deferred  and  amortized  on a  straight-line  basis over a
period  of 36  months.  Costs  incurred  in  connection  with  implementing  the
Company's   clinical   and   administrative   programs   and   protocols   at  a
newly-developed  or acquired  facility are deferred and  amortized on a straight
line basis over a period of 36 months.  Organization,  partnership formation and
start-up costs and other  capitalized  costs for a project that is  subsequently
abandoned  are  charged to  operations  in that  period.  Debt  issue  costs are
amortized over the term of the debt.  Noncompete  agreements are amortized using
the straight-line method over the term of the agreements.
    


MINORITY INTERESTS

     The equity of  minority  investors  in  limited  partnerships  and  limited
liability  companies of the Company is reported on the balance sheet as minority
interests.  Minority  interests  reported in the  consolidated  income statement
reflect  the  respective  interests  in  the  income  or  loss  of  the  limited
partnerships  or  limited  liability  companies  attributable  to  the  minority
investors  (ranging from 1% to 50% at December 31, 1996), the effect of which is
removed from the results of operations of the Company.


REVENUES

   
     Revenues include net patient service revenues and other operating revenues.
Other operating  revenues include cafeteria revenue,  gift shop revenue,  rental
income,  trainer/contract  revenue,  management and  administrative  fee revenue
(related to non-consolidated  subsidiaries and affiliates) and  transcriptionist
fees which are insignificant to total revenues. Net patient service revenues are
reported at the  estimated net  realizable  amounts from  patients,  third-party
payors  and  others  for  services  rendered,  including  estimated  retroactive
adjustments under reimbursement agreements with third-party payors.     


INCOME PER COMMON AND COMMON EQUIVALENT SHARE

     Income  per common and common  equivalent  share is  computed  based on the
weighted  average  number  of  common  shares  and  common   equivalent   shares
outstanding  during the  periods,  as adjusted for the  two-for-one  stock split
declared in April 1995 and the  two-for-one  stock split  declared in March 1997
(see Note 15).  Common  equivalent  shares  include  dilutive  employees'  stock
options, less the num-


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

1. Significant Accounting Policies - (CONTINUED)

   
ber of treasury  shares  assumed to be  purchased  from the  proceeds  using the
average  market  price of the  Company's  shares in the  calculation  of primary
earnings per share and the  year-end  market  price of the  Company's  shares in
calculating fully diluted earnings per share if such market price is higher than
the average price used in computing  primary  earnings per share.  Fully diluted
earnings per share (based on 290,298,000,  309,686,000 and 338,516,000 shares in
1994,  1995 and 1996,  respectively)  assumes  conversion of the 5%  Convertible
Subordinated Debentures due 2001 (see Note 7).
    


IMPAIRMENT OF ASSETS

     In accordance with FASB Statement No. 121, Accounting for the Impairment of
Long-Lived  Assets and Long-Lived  Assets to Be Disposed Of, the Company records
impairment  losses on  long-lived  assets  used in  operations  when  events and
circumstances  indicate  that the assets might be impaired and the  undiscounted
cash flows  estimated to be generated by those assets are less than the carrying
amounts of those assets. Effective January 1, 1995, the Company adopted FASB 121
to account for long-lived assets.

   
     With  respect  to the  carrying  value of the excess of cost over net asset
value  of  purchased   facilities  and  other  intangible  assets,  the  Company
determines  on a quarterly  basis  whether an  impairment  event has occurred by
considering  factors  such as: the  market  value of the  asset;  a  significant
adverse change in legal factors or in the business climate;  adverse action by a
regulator;  a history  of  operating  or cash flow  losses  or a  projection  of
continuing  losses  associated with an operating  entity.  The carrying value of
excess cost over net asset value of purchased  facilities  and other  intangible
assets will be evaluated if the facts and circumstances suggest that it has been
impaired.  If this evaluation  indicates that the value of the asset will not be
recoverable,  as determined based on the  undiscounted  cash flows of the entity
acquired  over  the  remaining   amortization  period,  an  impairment  loss  is
calculated  based on the  excess of the  carrying  amount of the asset  over the
asset's fair value.

SELF-INSURANCE

     The Company is self-insured  for professional  liability and  comprehensive
general  liability.  Liabilities for asserted and unasserted  claims are accrued
based upon specific  claims and incidents and the claims history of the Company.
The reserves for estimated liabilities for asserted and unasserted claims, which
are not material in relation to the Company's consolidated financial position at
December  31,  1995 and 1996,  are  included  with  accrued  interest  and other
liabilities in the accompanying consolidated balance sheets.
    


RECLASSIFICATIONS

   
     Certain  amounts  in the 1994  and  1995  financial  statements  have  been
reclassified  to conform with the 1996  presentation.  Also in 1995, the Company
included the loss on extinguishment of debt with merger and acquisition  related
expenses.  Such amount has been  reclassified  as an  extraordinary  item in the
accompanying  1995 income  statement.  Such  reclassifications  had no effect on
previously reported consolidated financial position and consolidated net income.
    


2. MERGERS

     Effective  December  29,  1994, a  wholly-owned  subsidiary  of the Company
merged with ReLife,  Inc.  ("ReLife"),  and in connection  therewith the Company
issued  22,050,580  shares of its common  stock in exchange  for all of ReLife's
outstanding  common  stock.  Prior to the  merger,  ReLife  provided a system of
rehabilitation  services and operated 31 inpatient  facilities with an aggregate
of approximately 1,100 licensed beds, including nine freestanding rehabilitation
hospitals, nine acute rehabilitation units, five sub-acute rehabilitation units,
seven transitional living units and one residential facility, and provided


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
2. Mergers - (CONTINUED)

outpatient  rehabilitation  services  at twelve  outpatient  centers.  Costs and
expenses of $2,949,000, primarily legal, accounting and financial advisory fees,
incurred by HEALTHSOUTH in connection  with the ReLife merger have been recorded
in  operations  in 1994 and  reported  as merger  expenses  in the  accompanying
consolidated statements of income.

   
     Effective  June 13, 1995, a  wholly-owned  subsidiary of the Company merged
with  Surgical  Health  Corporation  ("SHC"),  and in  connection  therewith the
Company  issued  17,062,960  shares of its common  stock in exchange  for all of
SHC's common and preferred stock. Prior to the merger, SHC operated a network of
36 freestanding  surgery centers and five mobile lithotripters in eleven states,
with an aggregate of 156 operating and  procedure  rooms.  Costs and expenses of
approximately  $4,588,000  incurred  by the Company in  connection  with the SHC
merger have been  recorded  in  operations  during  1995 and  reported as merger
expenses in the accompanying  consolidated statements of income. Fees related to
legal,  accounting and financial  advisory services  accounted for $3,400,000 of
the  expense.   Costs  related  to  employee   separations  were   approximately
$1,188,000.  Also in connection  with the SHC merger,  the Company  recognized a
$14,606,000  extraordinary  loss as a result of the  retirement of the SHC Notes
(see Note 7). The extraordinary loss consisted  primarily of the associated debt
discount plus premiums and costs  associated with the retirement,  net of income
tax benefits of  $5,550,000.  SHC merged with Heritage  Surgical  Corporation on
January 18, 1994 in a transaction  accounted for as a pooling of interests.  SHC
recorded merger costs of $3,571,000 in connection with this transaction in 1994.
    

     Effective October 26, 1995, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company merged
with Sutter Surgery  Centers,  Inc.  ("SSCI"),  and in connection  therewith the
Company  issued  3,552,002  shares of its common  stock in  exchange  for all of
SSCI's outstanding common stock. Prior to the merger, SSCI operated a network of
12  freestanding  surgery  centers  in three  states,  with an  aggregate  of 54
operating and procedure rooms.  Costs and expenses of approximately  $4,965,000,
primarily legal, accounting and financial advisory fees, incurred by the Company
in connection with the SSCI merger have been recorded in operations  during 1995
and reported as merger expenses in the accompanying  consolidated  statements of
income.

     Effective January 17, 1996, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company merged
with Surgical Care Affiliates,  Inc.  ("SCA"),  and in connection  therewith the
Company  issued  91,856,678  shares of its common  stock in exchange  for all of
SCA's  outstanding  common stock.  Prior to the merger,  SCA operated 67 surgery
centers in 24 states. Costs and expenses of approximately $19,727,000, primarily
legal,  accounting  and  financial  advisory  fees,  incurred  by the Company in
connection with the SCA merger have been recorded in operations  during 1996 and
reported  as merger  expenses in the  accompanying  consolidated  statements  of
income.

     Effective  March 14, 1996, a wholly-owned  subsidiary of the Company merged
with  Advantage  Health  Corporation  ("Advantage  Health"),  and in  connection
therewith the Company issued  18,203,978  shares of its common stock in exchange
for all of Advantage  Health's  outstanding  common stock.  Prior to the merger,
Advantage  Health  operated a network of 136 sites of  service,  including  four
freestanding  rehabilitation hospitals, one freestanding multi-use hospital, one
nursing home,  68 outpatient  rehabilitation  facilities,  14 inpatient  managed
rehabilitation  units, 24 rehabilitation  services management  contracts and six
managed  sub-acute  rehabilitation  units.  Costs and expenses of  approximately
$9,212,000, primarily legal, accounting and financial advisory fees, incurred by
the Company in connection with the Advantage Health merger have been recorded in
operations  during  1996 and  reported as merger  expenses  in the  accompanying
consolidated statements of income.

   
     The mergers of the Company with ReLife, SHC, SSCI, SCA and Advantage Health
were  accounted  for as poolings of interests  and,  accordingly,  the Company's
consolidated  financial  statements have been restated to include the results of
the acquired companies for all periods presented.
    


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
2. Mergers - (CONTINUED)

     Combined and separate results of the Company and its material 1996 mergers,
SCA and Advantage Health, are as follows (in thousands):




<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                               ADVANTAGE
                      HEALTHSOUTH      SCA      HEALTH     COMBINED
                      ------------- ---------- ---------- -----------
<S>                     <C>           <C>        <C>        <C>
Year ended
 December 31, 1994
   Revenues .........   $1,274,365    $239,272   $135,562   $1,649,199
   Net income  ......       50,493      29,280      8,310       88,083
Year ended
 December 31, 1995
   Revenues .........    1,556,687     263,866    182,593    2,003,146
   Net income  ......       78,949       3,322     10,250       92,521
Year ended
 December 31, 1996
   Revenues .........    2,380,587      11,028     44,922    2,436,537
   Net income  ......      216,654       1,746      2,418      220,818
</TABLE>

     There were no material  transactions among the Company,  ReLife, SHC, SSCI,
SCA and Advantage  Health prior to the mergers.  The effects of  conforming  the
accounting policies of the combined companies are not material.


   
     Prior to its merger  with the  Company,  ReLife  reported  on a fiscal year
ending on September 30. The restated financial  statements for all periods prior
to and including  December 31, 1994, are based on a combination of the Company's
results for its December 31 fiscal year and ReLife's  results for its  September
30 fiscal year. Beginning January 1, 1995, all facilities acquired in the ReLife
merger  adopted a December 31 fiscal  year end;  accordingly,  all  consolidated
financial  statements  for  periods  after  December  31,  1994  are  based on a
consolidation of the Company and the former ReLife subsidiaries on a December 31
year-end.  ReLife's  historical results of operations for the three months ended
December 31, 1994 are not included in the Company's  consolidated  statements of
income or cash flows. An adjustment has been made to stockholders'  equity as of
January  1, 1995 to adjust  for the  effect of  excluding  ReLife's  results  of
operations  for the three months ended  December  31, 1994.  The  following is a
summary of ReLife's  results of  operations  and cash flows for the three months
ended December 31, 1994 (in thousands):
    




   
<TABLE>
<S>                                                 <C>
Statement of Income Data:
Revenues  .......................................   $ 38,174
Operating expenses:
 Operating units   ..............................     31,797
 Corporate general and administrative   .........      2,395
Provision for doubtful accounts   ...............        541
Depreciation and amortization  ..................      1,385
Interest expense   ..............................        858
Interest income .................................        (91)
HEALTHSOUTH merger expense  .....................      3,050
Loss on disposal of fixed assets  ...............      1,000
Loss on abandonment of computer project .........        973
                                                    ---------
                                                      41,908
                                                    ---------
Net loss  .......................................   $ (3,734)
                                                    =========
Statement of Cash Flow Data:
Net cash provided by operating activities  ......   $ 38,077
Net cash used in investing activities   .........     (9,632)
Net cash used in financing activities   .........    (23,950)
                                                    ---------
Net increase in cash  ...........................   $  4,495
                                                    =========
</TABLE>
    

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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)
2. Mergers - (CONTINUED)

     During the three months ended December 31, 1994, ReLife received $7,141,000
in proceeds from the exercise of stock options.

     Prior to its merger with the Company, Advantage Health reported on a fiscal
year ending on August 31. Accordingly,  the historical  financial  statements of
Advantage  Health  have been  recast to a November  30 fiscal  year-end  to more
closely  conform  to  the  Company's  calendar  fiscal  year-end.  The  restated
financial  statements  for all periods prior to and including  December 31, 1995
are based on a combination of the Company's results for their December 31 fiscal
year and  Advantage  Health's  results for its recast  November 30 fiscal  year.
Beginning  January 1, 1996,  all  facilities  acquired in the  Advantage  Health
merger  adopted a December 31 fiscal  year-end;  accordingly,  all  consolidated
financial  statements  for  periods  after  December  31,  1995  are  based on a
consolidation  of all of the Company's  subsidiaries  on a December 31 year-end.
Advantage  Health's  historical  results of  operations  for the one month ended
December 31, 1995 are not included in the Company's  consolidated  statements of
income or cash flows. An adjustment has been made to stockholders'  equity as of
January 1, 1996 to adjust for the effect of excluding Advantage Health's results
of  operations  for the one month ended  December 31, 1995.  The  following is a
summary of Advantage  Health's  results of operations and cash flows for the one
month ended December 31, 1995 (in thousands):



<TABLE>
<S>                                                       <C>
Statement of Income Data:
Revenues  .............................................   $ 16,111
Operating expenses:
 Operating units   ....................................     14,394
 Corporate general and administrative   ...............      1,499
Provision for doubtful accounts   .....................      1,013
Depreciation and amortization  ........................        283
Interest expense   ....................................        288
Interest income .......................................        (16)
Loss on impairment of assets   ........................     21,111
                                                          ---------
                                                            38,572
                                                          ---------
Loss before income taxes and minority interests  ......    (22,461)
Benefit for income taxes ..............................      4,959
Minority interest  ....................................       (136)
                                                          ---------
Net loss  .............................................   $(17,638)
                                                          =========
Statement of Cash Flow Data:
Net cash used in operating activities   ...............   $ (2,971)
Net cash provided by investing activities  ............        105
Net cash used in financing activities   ...............       (771)
                                                          ---------
Net decrease in cash  .................................   $ (3,637)
                                                          =========
</TABLE>

     In December 1995,  Advantage Health recorded an asset impairment  charge of
approximately  $21,111,000 relating to goodwill and tangible assets identifiable
with  one  inpatient  rehabilitation  hospital,  one  subacute  facility  and 32
outpatient  rehabilitation centers, all acquired by the Company in the Advantage
Health  merger.  The Company  intends to operate these  facilities on an ongoing
basis.

     The Company has historically assessed  recoverability of goodwill and other
long-lived  assets using  undiscounted  cash flows estimated to be received over
the useful  lives of the  related  assets.  In  December  1995,  certain  events
occurred  which  significantly  impacted the Company's  estimates of future cash
flows to


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

2. Mergers - (CONTINUED)

be received from the facilities  described above. Those events primarily related
to a  decline  in  operating  results  combined  with  a  deterioration  in  the
reimbursement  environment at these facilities. As a result of these events, the
Company revised its estimates of undiscounted cash flows to be received over the
remaining  estimated  useful  lives  of these  facilities  and  determined  that
goodwill and other long-lived assets (primarily property and equipment) had been
impaired.  The Company  developed its best  estimates of future  operating  cash
flows  at  these  locations   considering   future   requirements   for  capital
expenditures  as well as the impact of inflation.  The projections of cash flows
also took into account  estimates of  significant  one-time  expenses as well as
estimates of  additional  revenues and  resulting  income from future  marketing
efforts in the respective  locations.  The amount of the  impairment  charge was
determined by discounting the estimates of future cash flows, using an estimated
8.5% incremental  borrowing rate, which management believes is commensurate with
the risks  involved.  The  resulting  net present value of future cash flows was
then compared to the historical net book value of goodwill and other  long-lived
assets at each operating  location which resulted in an impairment loss relative
to these centers of $21,111,000.

     During  1996,   wholly-owned   subsidiaries  of  the  Company  merged  with
Professional Sports Care Management,  Inc. ("PSCM"), Fort Sutter Surgery Center,
Inc.  ("FSSCI") and  ReadiCare,  Inc.  ("ReadiCare").  In connection  with these
mergers the Company issued an aggregate of 8,094,598 shares of its common stock.
Costs and expenses of approximately $12,576,000, primarily legal, accounting and
financial advisory fees,  incurred by the Company in connection with the mergers
have been recorded in operations  during 1996 and reported as merger expenses in
the accompanying consolidated statements of income.

     The PSCM and ReadiCare mergers were accounted for as poolings of interests.
However,  due to the  immateriality of these mergers,  the Company's  historical
financial  statements  for all  periods  prior  to the  quarters  in  which  the
respective mergers were completed have not been restated. Instead, stockholders'
equity has been  increased  by  $43,230,000  to reflect  the effects of the PSCM
merger and  $15,431,000  to reflect the  effects of the  ReadiCare  merger.  The
results of operations  of PSCM and  ReadiCare  are included in the  accompanying
financial  statements  from the date of acquisition  forward.  In addition,  the
FSSCI merger was a stock-for-stock  acquisition.  Stockholders'  equity has been
increased by $8,908,000 to reflect the effects of the merger.

   
     On  December 2, 1996,  the Company  entered  into an  agreement  to acquire
Health Images,  Inc. ("Health Images") in a transaction to be accounted for as a
pooling-of-interests.  In the proposed  transaction,  Health Images stockholders
will receive  approximately  10,400,000  shares of the  Company's  common stock.
Health Images operates 49 freestanding  diagnostic  imaging centers in 13 states
and six in England.  The effects of conforming  the  accounting  policies of the
Company and Health Images are not expected to be material.  This  transaction is
expected to be consummated in March 1997.

     The following table summarizes the unaudited consolidated pro forma results
of  operations,  assuming  the Health  Images  acquisition  described  above had
occurred  at the  beginning  of each of the  following  periods.  This pro forma
summary does not  necessarily  reflect the results of  operations  as they would
have been had the Company and Health  Images  constituted a single entity during
such periods.     


   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                           YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31
                                  -----------------------------------------
                                    1994           1995           1996
                                  ------------   ------------   -----------
                                  (IN THOUSANDS, EXCEPT PER SHARE AMOUNTS)
                                   --------------------------------------
<S>                                 <C>            <C>          <C>
Revenues  .....................     $1,726,321     $2,118,681   $2,568,155
Net income   ..................         86,948         98,250      189,864
Net income per common share-
 assuming full dilution  ......           0.30           0.32         0.55
 </TABLE>
    

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                HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries NOTES TO
                CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED )

3. CASH, CASH EQUIVALENTS AND OTHER MARKETABLE SECURITIES

     Cash, cash  equivalents and other  marketable  securities  consisted of the
following:





<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                         DECEMBER 31
                                                                    ----------------------
                                                                     1995         1996
                                                                    ----------   ---------
                                                                        (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                                 <C>          <C>
Cash ............................................................   $140,476     $138,235
Cash equivalents ................................................     11,768        9,793
                                                                    ---------    ---------
 Total cash and cash equivalents   ..............................    152,244      148,028
Certificates of deposit   .......................................      1,962        1,765
Municipal put bonds .............................................        615          495
Municipal put bond mutual funds .................................        500          500
Collateralized mortgage obligations   ...........................      1,000        1,000
                                                                    ---------    ---------
Total other marketable securities  ..............................      4,077        3,760
                                                                    ---------    ---------
Total cash, cash equivalents and other marketable securities (ap-
 proximates market value)                                           $156,321     $151,788
                                                                    =========    =========
</TABLE>

     For purposes of the  consolidated  balance  sheets and  statements  of cash
flows,  marketable securities purchased with an original maturity of ninety days
or less are considered cash equivalents.


4. OTHER ASSETS

     Other assets consisted of the following:



<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                               DECEMBER 31
                                                           --------------------
                                                            1995       1996
                                                           ---------   --------
                                                              (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                        <C>         <C>
Notes and accounts receivable   ........................   $24,628     $38,359
Investment in Caretenders Health Corp.   ...............     7,417       7,370
Prepaid long-term lease   ..............................     8,888       8,397
Investments in other unconsolidated subsidiaries  ......     6,754      15,362
Real estate investments   ..............................    14,324      10,020
Trusteed funds   .......................................     1,879       1,879
Other   ................................................     4,978       1,127
                                                           --------    --------
                                                           $68,868     $82,514
                                                           ========    ========
</TABLE>

     The  Company  has a 19%  ownership  interest in  Caretenders  Health  Corp.
("Caretenders");  accordingly,  the Company's  investment is being accounted for
using the equity method of accounting.  The  investment was initially  valued at
$7,250,000.  The Company's equity in earnings of Caretenders for the years ended
December 31, 1994,  1995 and 1996 was not material to the  Company's  results of
operations.

   
     It was not practicable to estimate the fair value of the Company's  various
investments in other unconsolidated subsidiaries (involved in operations similar
to those of the  Company)  because of the lack of a quoted  market price and the
inability to estimate fair value without incurring excessive costs. The carrying
amount at December 31, 1996  represents  the original  cost of the  investments,
which management believes is not impaired.     


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                   HEALTHSOUTH    Corporation   and   Subsidiaries    NOTES   TO
           CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED )

5. PROPERTY, PLANT AND EQUIPMENT

     Property, plant and equipment consisted of the following:


   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                DECEMBER 31
                                                         --------------------------
                                                           1995           1996
                                                         ------------   -----------
                                                               (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                      <C>            <C>
Land  ................................................   $   76,686     $   81,089
Buildings   ..........................................      767,038        802,040
Leasehold improvements  ..............................       87,216        112,149
Furniture, fixtures and equipment   ..................      603,985        722,095
Construction-in-progress   ...........................       33,407         64,417
                                                         -----------    -----------
                                                          1,568,332      1,781,790
Less accumulated depreciation and amortization  ......      284,772        390,917
                                                         -----------    -----------
                                                         $1,283,560     $1,390,873
                                                         ===========    ===========
</TABLE>
    

6. INTANGIBLE ASSETS

     Intangible assets consisted of the following:


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                           DECEMBER 31
                                                                    --------------------------
                                                                      1995           1996
                                                                    ------------   -----------
                                                                          (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                                 <C>            <C>
Organizational, partnership formation and start-up costs   ......   $  163,820     $  230,298
Debt issue costs ................................................       34,973         34,389
Noncompete agreements  ..........................................       70,636         85,894
Cost in excess of net asset value of purchased facilities  ......      736,195        899,788
                                                                    -----------    -----------
                                                                     1,005,624      1,250,369
Less accumulated amortization   .................................      131,713        200,711
                                                                    -----------    -----------
                                                                    $  873,911     $1,049,658
                                                                    ===========    ===========
</TABLE>

7. LONG-TERM DEBT

     Long-term debt consisted of the following:


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                             DECEMBER 31
                                                                      --------------------------
                                                                        1995           1996
                                                                      ------------   -----------
                                                                            (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                                   <C>            <C>
Notes and bonds payable:
 Advances under a $1,000,000,000 credit agreement with banks       .  $  790,000     $       --
 Advances under a $1,250,000,000 credit agreement with banks       .          --        995,000
 9.5% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2001   ........................      250,000        250,000
 5.0% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2001  ...............      115,000        115,000
 Notes payable to banks and various other notes payable, at in-
   terest rates from 5.5% to 9.75%                                       180,166         77,270
 Hospital revenue bonds payable   .................................       32,337         22,503
Noncompete agreements payable with payments due at intervals
 ranging through December 2004 ....................................       24,161         26,256
                                                                      -----------    -----------
                                                                       1,391,664      1,486,029
Less amounts due within one year  .................................       35,175         35,409
                                                                      -----------    -----------
                                                                      $1,356,489     $1,450,620
                                                                      ===========    ===========
</TABLE>

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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

7. LONG-TERM DEBT - (CONTINUED)

     The fair value of total long-term debt  approximates book value at December
31, 1995 and 1996. The fair values of the Company's long-term debt are estimated
using discounted cash flow analysis,  based on the Company's current incremental
borrowing rates for similar types of borrowing arrangements.

     During 1995, the Company entered into a Credit Agreement with  NationsBank,
N.A. ("NationsBank") and other participating banks (the "1995 Credit Agreement")
which consisted of a  $1,000,000,000  revolving  credit  facility.  On April 18,
1996, the Company amended and restated the 1995 Credit Agreement to increase the
size of the  revolving  credit  facility  to  $1,250,000,000  (the "1996  Credit
Agreement"). Interest is paid based on LIBOR plus a predetermined margin, a base
rate, or competitively  bid rates from the  participating  banks. The Company is
required to pay a fee on the unused  portion of the  revolving  credit  facility
ranging from 0.08% to 0.25%,  depending on certain defined ratios. The principal
amount is payable in full on March 31,  2001.  The  Company  provided a negative
pledge on all assets under the 1996 Credit  Agreement,  and the lenders released
the first  priority  security  interest in all shares of stock of the  Company's
subsidiaries and rights and interests in the Company's  controlled  partnerships
which had been granted  under the 1995 Credit  Agreement.  At December 31, 1996,
the  effective  interest  rate  associated  with the 1996 Credit  Agreement  was
approximately 5.87%.

     On March 24, 1994, the Company issued $250,000,000 principal amount of 9.5%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2001 (the "Notes"). Interest is payable on April 1
and October 1. The Notes are senior subordinated  obligations of the Company and
as such are  subordinated to all existing and future senior  indebtedness of the
Company,  and also are  effectively  subordinated  to all  existing  and  future
liabilities  of the  Company's  subsidiaries  and  partnerships.  The Notes rank
senior  to all  subordinated  indebtedness  of  the  Company,  including  the 5%
Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2001 described below.
The Notes mature on April 1, 2001.

     Also on March 24, 1994, the Company issued $100,000,000 principal amount of
5% Convertible Subordinated Debentures due 2001 (the "Convertible  Debentures").
An additional  $15,000,000 of Convertible Debentures was issued in April 1994 to
cover underwriters'  overallotments.  Interest is payable on April 1 and October
1. The Convertible  Debentures are convertible  into common stock of the Company
at the option of the holder at a conversion  price of $9.406 per share,  subject
to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events.

   
     In June 1994, SHC (see Note 2) issued $75,000,000 principal amount of 11.5%
Senior  Subordinated Notes due July 15, 2004 (the "SHC Notes").  The proceeds of
the SHC  Notes  were  used to pay  down  indebtedness  outstanding  under  other
existing credit  facilities.  During 1995, the Company purchased  $67,500,000 of
the $75,000,000  outstanding principal amount of the SHC Notes in a tender offer
at 115% of the face value of the Notes, and the remaining $7,500,000 balance was
purchased on the open market,  using proceeds from the Company's other long-term
credit facilities. The loss on retirement of the SHC Notes totaled approximately
$14,606,000.  The loss consists of the premium,  write-off of  unamortized  bond
issue  costs and other fees and is reported  as an  extraordinary  loss on early
extinguishment of debt in the accompanying 1995 consolidated statement of income
(see Note 2).     

     Principal maturities of long-term debt are as follows:

          YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31     (IN THOUSANDS)
          -------------------------   ---------------
          1997   ..................     $    35,409
          1998   ..................          25,932
          1999   ..................          16,715
          2000   ..................          11,117
          2001   ..................       1,367,788
          After 2001   ............          29,068
                                        ------------
                                        $ 1,486,029
                                        ============


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            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED )

   
8. STOCK OPTIONS
    

     The company  has  various  stockholder-approved  stock  option  plans which
provide for the grant of options to directors,  officers and other key employees
to  purchase  common  stock at 100% of the fair  market  value as of the date of
grant.  The  Audit  and  Compensation   Committee  of  the  Board  of  Directors
administers  the stock option plans.  Options may be granted as incentive  stock
options or as  non-qualified  stock  options.  Incentive  stock options vest 25%
annually, commencing upon completion of one year of employment subsequent to the
date of grant.  Non-qualified  stock  options  generally  are not subject to any
vesting  provisions.  The options expire at dates ranging from five to ten years
from the date of grant.

   
     In October, 1995, the Financial Accounting Standards Board issued Statement
of  Financial   Accounting   Standards  No.  123,  "Accounting  for  Stock-Based
Compensation"  ("SFAS 123").  SFAS 123 is effective  for fiscal years  beginning
after  December 15, 1995 and allows for the option of  continuing to account for
stock-based  compensation  under  Accounting  Principles  Board  Opinion No. 25,
"Accounting   for  Stock   Issued  to   Employees"   ("APB  25"),   and  related
interpretations,  or selecting the fair value method of expense  recognition  as
described  in SFAS 123.  The Company has elected to follow APB 25 in  accounting
for its employee stock options.  The Company  follows SFAS 123 in accounting for
its non-employee stock options.  The total compensation  expense associated with
non-employee stock options granted in 1996 was not material.
    

     Pro forma  information  regarding  net  income  and  earnings  per share is
required  by  Statement  123,  and has been  determined  as if the  Company  had
accounted  for its employee  stock  options  under the fair value method of that
Statement.  The fair value for these  options was estimated at the date of grant
using a Black-Scholes  option pricing model with the following  weighted-average
assumptions for 1995 and 1996,  respectively:  risk-free interest rates of 5.87%
and 6.01%; dividend yield of 0%; volatility factors of the expected market price
of the Company's  common stock of .36 and .37; and a  weighted-average  expected
life of the options of 4.3 years.

     The  Black-Scholes   option  valuation  model  was  developed  for  use  in
estimating the fair value of traded  options which have no vesting  restrictions
and are fully  transferable.  In addition,  option  valuation models require the
input of highly  subjective  assumptions  including  the  expected  stock  price
volatility.  Because the Company's  employee stock options have  characteristics
significantly different from those of traded options, and because changes in the
subjective input assumptions can materially  affect the fair value estimate,  in
management's  opinion, the existing models do not necessarily provide a reliable
single measure of the fair value of its employee stock options.

     For  purposes of pro forma  disclosures,  the  estimated  fair value of the
options is amortized to expense over the options' vesting period.  The Company's
pro forma information follows (in thousands, except for per share amounts):


                                 1995        1996
                                ---------   ---------

Pro forma net income   ......   $74,330     $193,417
Pro forma earnings per share:
 Primary   ..................   $ 0.25      $ 0.59
 Fully diluted   ............   $ 0.25      $ 0.58


   
     The effect of compensation expense from stock options on 1995 pro forma net
income  reflects  only the vesting of 1995 awards.  However,  1996 pro forma net
income reflects the second year of vesting of the 1995 awards and the first year
of vesting of 1996  awards.  Not until  1998 is the full  effect of  recognizing
compensation expense for stock options representative of the possible effects on
pro forma net income for future years.
    


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

8. STOCK OPTIONS - (CONTINUED)

     A summary of the Company's  stock option  activity and related  information
for the years ended December 31 follows:

   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        1994                 1995                  1996
                                                 ------------------- --------------------- --------------------
                                                                                WEIGHTED              WEIGHTED
                                                                                 AVERAGE              AVERAGE
                                                 OPTIONS    PRICE     OPTIONS   EXERCISE    OPTIONS   EXERCISE
                                                  (000)     RANGE      (000)      PRICE      (000)     PRICE
                                                 --------- --------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------
<S>                                              <C>       <C>       <C>        <C>        <C>        <C>
Options outstanding January 1:   ............... 30,452               29,216        $4      33,988       $ 5
 Granted .......................................  3,188    $5 - $9     7,310         9       4,557        17
 Exercised  .................................... (3,856)   $1 - $4    (2,202)        4      (6,540)        5
 Canceled   ....................................   (568)                (336)        5        (255)        6
                                                 -------             --------              --------
Options outstanding at December 31  ............ 29,216               33,988        $5      31,750       $ 7
Options exercisable at December 31  ............ 22,466               26,003        $5      26,992       $ 6
Weighted average fair value of options granted
 during the year  ..............................    N/A              $  3.81               $  7.13
</TABLE>
    

   
     The following table summarizes  information about stock options outstanding
at December 31, 1996:
    

   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                       OPTIONS OUTSTANDING                    OPTIONS EXERCISABLE
                          ---------------------------------------------   ---------------------------
                                              WEIGHTED
                                              AVERAGE        WEIGHTED                       WEIGHTED
      EXERCISE               OPTIONS         REMAINING       AVERAGE        OPTIONS         AVERAGE
       PRICE               OUTSTANDING       CONTRACTUAL     EXERCISE     EXERCISABLE       EXERCISE
       RANGE               AT 12/31/96          LIFE          PRICE       AT 12/31/96       PRICE
- -----------------------   ----------------   -------------   ----------   ---------------   ---------
                          (IN THOUSANDS)      (YEARS)                     (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                       <C>                <C>             <C>          <C>               <C>
Under $8.40............       20,324            5.50           $ 4.12         19,328          $ 4.08
$8.40 - $16.40.........        9,305            8.55            10.94          7,172           11.59
$16.41 and above ......        2,121            9.14            18.20            492           19.02
</TABLE>
    

9. ACQUISITIONS

     1994 Acquisitions

     At various dates during 1994, the Company  acquired 53 separate  outpatient
operations and a majority  equity  interest in five  outpatient  surgery centers
located  throughout  the United  States.  The combined  purchase  price of these
acquired outpatient operations was approximately  $80,456,000.  The Company also
acquired  a  specialty  medical  center in  Dallas,  Texas,  a therapy  staffing
service, a diagnostic  imaging company,  four physical therapy practices and two
home health  agencies.  The  combined  purchase  price of these  operations  was
approximately  $32,044,000.  The form of  consideration  constituting  the total
purchase  prices  of  $112,500,000  was   approximately   $88,455,000  in  cash,
$14,122,000  in notes payable and  approximately  624,000 shares of common stock
valued at $9,923,000.

     In connection with these transactions,  the Company entered into noncompete
agreements with former owners totaling $10,814,000. In general, these noncompete
agreements are payable in monthly or quarterly installments over periods ranging
from five to ten years.

     The fair value of the total net assets  relating  to the 1994  acquisitions
described  above  was  approximately  $17,958,000.   The  total  cost  for  1994
acquisitions exceeded the fair value of the net assets acquired by approximately
$94,542,000.  The Company evaluated each acquisition  independently to determine
the appropriate amortization period for the cost in excess of net asset value of
purchased  facilities.  Each  evaluation  included an  analysis of historic  and
projected  financial  performance,  evaluation of the estimated  useful lives of
buildings and fixed assets acquired, the indefinite lives of certificates


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            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

9. ACQUISITIONS - (CONTINUED)

of need and licenses acquired, the competition within local markets, lease terms
where applicable, and the legal term of partnerships where applicable.  Based on
these  evaluations,  the Company determined that the cost in excess of net asset
value of  purchased  facilities  relating  to the 1994  acquisitions  should  be
amortized over periods ranging from 25 to 40 years on a straight-line  basis. No
other identifiable intangible assets were recorded in the acquisitions described
above.

     All  of  the  1994  acquisitions  described  above  were  accounted  for as
purchases and, accordingly, the results of operations of the acquired businesses
(not material individually or in the aggregate) are included in the accompanying
consolidated financial statements from their respective dates of acquisition.


     1995 Acquisitions

     Effective April 1, 1995, the Company acquired the rehabilitation  hospitals
division  of  NovaCare,  Inc.  ("NovaCare"),  consisting  of  11  rehabilitation
hospitals,  12 other  facilities,  and  certificates  of need to build two other
facilities.   The  total  purchase   price  for  the  NovaCare   facilities  was
approximately  $235,000,000  in cash.  The cost in excess of net asset value was
approximately  $173,000,000.  Of this  excess,  approximately  $129,000,000  was
allocated to leasehold value and the remaining  $44,000,000 to cost in excess of
net asset value of purchased facilities. As part of the acquisition, the Company
acquired  approximately  $4,790,000  in deferred  tax assets.  The Company  also
provided  approximately  $10,000,000 for the write-down of certain assets to net
realizable value as the result of a planned  facility  consolidation in a market
where the  Company's  existing  services  overlapped  with those of an  acquired
facility.  The planned  employee  separations  and facility  consolidation  were
completed by the end of 1995.

     Effective  December  1,  1995,  the  Company  acquired  Caremark Orthopedic
Services  Inc.  ("Caremark"). At the time of the acquisition, Caremark owned and
operated  approximately  120 outpatient rehabilitation centers in 13 states. The
total purchase price was approximately $127,500,000 in cash.

     Also at various  dates  during  1995,  the  Company  acquired  70  separate
outpatient rehabilitation operations located throughout the United States, three
physical  therapy  practices,  one home  health  agency,  one nursing  home,  75
licensed  subacute  beds,  five  outpatient  surgery  centers and one outpatient
diagnostic imaging operation. The combined purchase prices of these acquisitions
was  approximately  $136,724,000.  The form of  consideration  constituting  the
combined purchase prices was approximately  $117,405,000 in cash and $19,319,000
in notes payable.

     In connection with these transactions,  the Company entered into noncompete
agreements with former owners totaling $16,222,000. In general, these noncompete
agreements are payable in monthly or quarterly installments over periods ranging
from five to ten years.

     The fair value of the total net assets  relating  to the 1995  acquisitions
described  above,   excluding  the  NovaCare   acquisition,   was  approximately
$72,844,000. The total cost of these acquisitions exceeded the fair value of the
net assets acquired by  approximately  $191,380,000.  Based on the evaluation of
each acquisition  utilizing the criteria described above, the Company determined
that the cost in excess of net asset value of purchased  facilities  relating to
the 1995  acquisitions  should be amortized  over periods  ranging from 25 to 40
years on a straight-line  basis. No other  identifiable  intangible  assets were
recorded in the acquisitions described above.

     All  of  the  1995  acquisitions  described  above  were  accounted  for as
purchases and, accordingly, the results of operations of the acquired businesses
are included in the accompanying  consolidated  financial  statements from their
respective  dates of  acquisition.  With the exception of NovaCare,  none of the
above acquisitions were material individually or in the aggregate.


     1996 Acquisitions

     At   various   dates  during  1996,  the  Company  acquired  80  outpatient
rehabilitation  facilities,  three  outpatient  surgery  centers,  one inpatient
rehabilitation hospital, and one diagnostic imaging center. The


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

9. ACQUISITIONS - (CONTINUED)

acquired operations are located throughout the United States. The total purchase
price of the acquired  operations was  approximately  $104,321,000.  The form of
consideration   constituting   the  total  purchase  prices  was   approximately
$92,319,000 in cash and $12,002,000 in notes payable.

     In connection with these transactions,  the Company entered into noncompete
agreements with former owners totaling $11,900,000. In general, these noncompete
agreements are payable in monthly or quarterly installments over periods ranging
from five to ten years.

   
     The fair value of the total net assets  relating  to the 1996  acquisitions
described  above  was  approximately  $40,259,000.  The  total  cost of the 1996
acquisitions exceeded the fair value of the net assets acquired by approximately
$64,062,000.  Based on the evaluation of each acquisition utilizing the criteria
described  above,  the Company  determined  that the cost in excess of net asset
value of  purchased  facilities  relating  to the 1996  acquisitions  should  be
amortized over periods ranging from 25 to 40 years on a straight-line  basis. No
other identifiable intangible assets were recorded in the acquisitions described
above.

     All  of  the  1996  acquisitions  described  above  were  accounted  for as
purchases and, accordingly, the results of operations of the acquired businesses
(not material individually or in the aggregate) are included in the accompanying
consolidated financial statements from their respective dates of acquisition.


10. INCOME TAXES
    

     HEALTHSOUTH  and its  subsidiaries  file a consolidated  federal income tax
return. The limited  partnerships and limited liability  companies file separate
income tax returns. HEALTHSOUTH's allocable portion of each partnership's income
or loss is included in the taxable income of the Company.  The remaining  income
or loss of each partnership is allocated to the limited partners.

     The Company  utilizes the liability  method of accounting for income taxes,
as required by Financial  Accounting  Standards Board (FASB)  Statement No. 109,
"Accounting for Income Taxes".

     Significant components of the Company's deferred tax assets and liabilities
as of December 31, 1995 are as follows:


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                CURRENT      NONCURRENT       TOTAL
                                                ----------   ------------   ------------
                                                             (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                             <C>          <C>            <C>
Deferred tax assets:
 Accruals   .................................     $  8,016    $      --      $  8,016
 Disposal of surgery centers  ...............        2,675           --         2,675
 Impairment of assets   .....................        1,309        5,434         6,743
 Development costs   ........................           --          849           849
 Acquired net operating loss  ...............           --       16,277        16,277
 Allowance for bad debts   ..................       29,089           --        29,089
 Other   ....................................        1,818        5,549         7,367
                                                 ---------    ---------      --------
Total deferred tax assets  ..................       42,907       28,109        71,016
Deferred tax liabilities:
Depreciation and amortization ...............           --       30,960        30,960
 Non-accrual experience method   ............       14,559           --        14,559
 Purchase price accounting ..................           --        4,802         4,802
 Contracts  .................................        3,849           --         3,849
 Capitalized costs   ........................           --       12,916        12,916
 Other   ....................................        2,522        3,164         5,686
                                                 ---------    ---------      --------
Total deferred tax liabilities   ............       20,930       51,842        72,772
                                                 ---------    ---------      --------
Net deferred tax assets (liabilities)  ......     $ 21,977    $ (23,733)     $ (1,756)
                                                 =========    =========      ========
</TABLE>

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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

10. INCOME TAXES - (CONTINUED)

   
     At December 31, 1996, the Company has net operating loss  carryforwards  of
approximately  $13,546,000  for income tax  purposes  expiring  through the year
2009. Those carryforwards resulted from the Company's acquisitions of Diagnostic
Health Corporation, Renaissance Rehabilitation Center, Inc. and
Rebound, Inc.
    

     Deferred  income  taxes  reflect the net effects of  temporary  differences
between the carrying  amounts of assets and liabilities for financial  reporting
purposes and the amounts used for income tax purposes. Significant components of
the Company's deferred tax assets and liabilities as of December 31, 1996 are as
follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                CURRENT     NONCURRENT       TOTAL
                                                ---------   ------------   -------------
                                                             (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                             <C>         <C>            <C>
Deferred tax assets:
 Acquired net operating loss  ...............   $    --      $   5,283      $   5,283
 Development costs   ........................        --            849            849
 Accruals   .................................     6,626             --          6,626
 Allowance for bad debts   ..................    31,704             --         31,704
 Other   ....................................     1,915          2,597          4,512
                                                --------     ---------      ---------
Total deferred tax assets  ..................    40,245          8,729         48,974
Deferred tax liabilities:
 Depreciation and amortization   ............        --         14,361         14,361
 Purchase price accounting ..................        --          4,802          4,802
 Non-accrual experience method   ............    17,694             --         17,694
 Contracts  .................................     3,849             --          3,849
 Capitalized costs   ........................     5,013         17,436         22,449
 Other   ....................................     1,837            927          2,764
                                                --------     ---------      ---------
Total deferred tax liabilities   ............    28,393         37,526         65,919
                                                --------     ---------      ---------
Net deferred tax assets (liabilities)  ......   $11,852      $ (28,797)     $ (16,945)
                                                ========     =========      =========
</TABLE>

     The provision for income taxes was as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                    YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31,
                              ------------------------------------
                                1994          1995        1996
                              ------------   ---------   ---------
                                         (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                           <C>            <C>         <C>
Currently payable:
 Federal ..................    $  70,641     $66,927     $113,262
 State   ..................       10,362       8,914       13,451
                               ---------     --------    ---------
                                  81,003      75,841      126,713
Deferred (benefit) expense:
 Federal ..................      (14,046)        342       12,138
 State   ..................       (1,836)         38        1,387
                               ---------     --------    ---------
                                 (15,882)        380       13,525
                               ---------     --------    ---------
Total provision   .........    $  65,121     $76,221     $140,238
                               =========     ========    =========
</TABLE>

     As part of the  acquisitions  of PSCM,  Readicare  and FSSCI,  the  Company
acquired approximately $1,664,000 in deferred tax liabilities.


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

10. INCOME TAXES - (CONTINUED)

     The  difference  between  the  provision  for  income  taxes and the amount
computed by applying  the  statutory  federal  income tax rate to income  before
taxes was as follows:

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                                      YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31
                                                            ------------------------------------------
                                                              1994           1995           1996
                                                            ------------   ------------   ------------
                                                                          (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                                         <C>            <C>            <C>
Federal taxes at statutory rates ........................    $  64,636      $  74,161      $ 143,673
Add (deduct):
   State income taxes, net of federal tax benefit  ......        4,899          5,832          9,645
   Minority interests   .................................      (11,014)       (15,102)       (17,303)
   Disposal/impairment/merger charges  ..................          668          9,955          6,563
   Other ................................................        5,932          1,375         (2,340)
                                                             ---------      ---------      ---------
                                                             $  65,121      $  76,221      $ 140,238
                                                             =========      =========      =========
</TABLE>

11. COMMITMENTS AND CONTINGENCIES

     The Company is a party to legal proceedings  incidental to its business. In
the opinion of management,  any ultimate liability with respect to these actions
will not materially  affect the  consolidated  financial  position or results of
operations of the Company.

     At December 31, 1996,  anticipated capital expenditures for the next twelve
months are $350,000,000.  This amount includes  expenditures for maintenance and
expansion  of the  Company's  existing  facilities  as well as  development  and
integration of the Company's services in selected metropolitan markets.

     Beginning   December  1,  1993,   the  Company  became   self-insured   for
professional   liability  and  comprehensive  general  liability.   The  Company
purchased  coverage  for all claims  incurred  prior to  December  1,  1993.  In
addition,  the  Company  purchased  underlying  insurance  which would cover all
claims  once  established  limits  have  been  exceeded.  It is the  opinion  of
management that at December 31, 1996, the Company has adequate reserves to cover
losses on asserted and unasserted claims.

     Prior to consummation of the SCA and Advantage Health mergers (see Note 2),
these  companies   carried   professional   malpractice  and  general  liability
insurance.  The policies were carried on a claims made basis.  The companies had
policies in place to track and monitor incidents of significance.  Management is
unaware of any claims that may result in a loss in excess of amounts  covered by
existing insurance.

     Operating  leases  generally  consist of short-term  lease  agreements  for
buildings  where  facilities  are located.  These leases  generally  have 5-year
terms, with one or more renewal options, with terms to be negotiated at the time
of renewal.  Total  rental  expense for all  operating  leases was  $75,355,000,
$100,183,000  and  $127,741,000  for the years ended December 31, 1994, 1995 and
1996, respectively.

     The  following is a schedule of future  minimum  lease  payments  under all
operating  leases  having  initial or  remaining  non-cancelable  lease terms in
excess of one year:


          YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31     (IN THOUSANDS)
          -------------------------   ---------------
          1997   ..................      $108,187
          1998   ..................        99,079
          1999   ..................        86,178
          2000   ..................        71,485
          2001   ..................        55,862
          After 2001   ............       249,566
                                         ---------
                                         $670,357
                                         =========


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           NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

12. EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PLANS

     The Company has a 401(k)  savings plan which matches 15% of the first 4% of
earnings  that an employee  contributes.  All  contributions  are in the form of
cash.  All  employees  who have  completed one year of service with a minimum of
1,000  hours  worked  are  eligible  to   participate   in  the  plan.   Company
contributions   are  gradually   vested  over  a  seven-year   service   period.
Contributions  to  the  plan  by  the  Company  were  approximately  $1,168,000,
$1,287,000 and $2,087,000 in 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively.

     In 1991, the Company  established an Employee Stock Ownership Plan ("ESOP")
for the purpose of  providing  substantially  all  employees  of the Company the
opportunity to save for their  retirement and acquire a proprietary  interest in
the Company.  The ESOP  currently  owns  approximately  3,320,000  shares of the
Company's  common  stock,  which were  purchased  with funds  borrowed  from the
Company, $10,000,000 in 1991 (the "1991 ESOP Loan") and $10,000,000 in 1992 (the
"1992 ESOP Loan").  At December 31, 1996,  the combined ESOP Loans had a balance
of  $14,148,000.  The 1991 ESOP Loan,  which bears an  interest  rate of 10%, is
payable in annual  installments  covering interest and principal over a ten-year
period  beginning in 1992.  The 1992 ESOP Loan,  which bears an interest rate of
8.5%, is payable in annual  installments  covering interest and principal over a
ten-year period  beginning in 1993.  Company  contributions to the ESOP began in
1992  and  shall  at least  equal  the  amount  required  to make all ESOP  loan
amortization  payments for each plan year. The Company  recognizes  compensation
expense based on the shares allocated  method.  Compensation  expense related to
the ESOP recognized by the Company was $3,673,000,  $3,524,000 and $3,198,000 in
1994,  1995 and 1996,  respectively.  Interest  incurred  on the ESOP  Loans was
approximately  $1,608,000,  $1,460,000  and  $1,298,000 in 1994,  1995 and 1996,
respectively.  Approximately  1,212,000  shares  owned  by the  ESOP  have  been
allocated to participants at December 31, 1996.

     During 1993, the American  Institute of Certified Public Accountants issued
Statement of Position 93-6,  "Employers  Accounting for Employee Stock Ownership
Plans" ("SOP 93-6"). Among other provisions, SOP 93-6 requires that compensation
expense relating to employee stock ownership plans be measured based on the fair
market value of the shares when  allocated to the  employees.  The provisions of
SOP 93-6 apply only to leveraged ESOPs formed after December 31, 1992, or shares
newly acquired by an existing  leveraged  ESOP after December 31, 1992.  Because
all shares owned by the Company's ESOP were acquired prior to December 31, 1992,
the Company's accounting policies for the shares currently owned by the ESOP are
not affected by SOP 93-6.


13. LOSS ON DISPOSAL OF SURGERY CENTERS

     During the fourth  quarter of 1994,  the  Company  adopted a formal plan to
dispose of three  surgery  centers and certain  other  properties  during  1995.
Accordingly,  a loss of  $13,197,000  was made to reflect  the  expected  losses
resulting from the disposal of these centers. The loss is comprised primarily of
losses on the sale of owned  facilities and  equipment,  write-off of intangible
and  other  assets,  and  accrual  of future  operating  lease  obligations  and
estimated operating losses through the anticipated date of disposal.


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

13. LOSS ON DISPOSAL OF SURGERY CENTERS - (CONTINUED)

     The following are the major components of the loss (in thousands):



<TABLE>
<S>                                                                                     <C>
Write-down of land, buildings and equipment   .......................................   $ 4,806
Write-off of excess of cost over fair value of net assets acquired and other assets       2,762
Estimated operating losses through anticipated date of disposal .....................     1,750
Accrual of future lease commitments and other obligations resulting from disposal ...     3,879
                                                                                        --------
                                                                                        $13,197
                                                                                        ========
</TABLE>

     The closings of the three  surgery  centers were  completed by December 31,
1995.  An  accrual  of  $929,000  is  included  in  accrued  liabilities  on the
accompanying  December 31, 1995  consolidated  balance  sheet for the  remaining
costs to be incurred  relative to the disposal of these surgery  centers and the
other properties. The remaining accrual was used in 1996.


14. IMPAIRMENT OF LONG-TERM ASSETS

     During 1994,  certain events  occurred which impaired the value of specific
long-term  assets of ReLife (see Note 2). A hospital in Missouri with a distinct
part unit  which  ReLife was  managing  was  purchased  in 1994 by an acute care
provider  which  terminated  the  contract  with ReLife.  Remaining  goodwill of
$1,700,000  and costs  allocated to the management  contract of $1,300,000  were
written off as there is no value remaining for the terminated contract.

     A ReLife  facility in central Florida  incurred  tornado damage and has not
operated since September 1993. During 1994, management of ReLife determined that
it was  probable  that  this  facility  would  not  reopen.  Start-up  costs  of
$1,600,000 were written off. This facility is leased under an operating lease as
described  in Note 11 through  the year 2001.  An  impairment  accrual  has been
established  based on the projected  undiscounted net cash flows related to this
non-operating  facility for the remainder of the lease term. The accrual totaled
$5,900,000  and consists of $4,700,000 in lease payments and $1,200,000 in fixed
costs and operating expenses,  including property taxes,  maintenance,  security
and other related costs.

     During 1994,  ReLife entered into a contract for a new information  system.
Payments under the contract and related costs were capitalized  during the year.
After the agreement to merge with  HEALTHSOUTH  was entered  into,  the computer
project  was  abandoned,  resulting  in  a  write-off  of  capitalized  cost  of
$4,500,000.

     In 1995, the Company recorded an asset  impairment  charge of approximately
$53,549,000  relating to goodwill and tangible assets identifiable with fourteen
surgery centers. Approximately $47,984,000 of this charge related to ten surgery
centers  which the  Company  intends to operate on an ongoing  basis,  while the
remaining loss of $5,565,000 is identifiable with four surgery centers which the
Company decided during the fourth quarter of 1995 to close.

     With  respect to the ten surgery  centers  the Company  intends to continue
operating,  certain  events  occurred  in  the  fourth  quarter  of  1995  which
significantly  impacted  the  Company's  estimates  of future  cash  flows to be
received  from these  centers.  Those events  primarily  related to a decline in
operating  results  combined  with a  deterioration  in  relationships  with key
physicians  at  certain of those  locations.  As a result of these  events,  the
Company revised its estimates of undiscounted cash flows to be received over the
remaining  estimated  useful lives of these centers and determined that goodwill
and  other  long-lived  assets  (primarily  property  and  equipment)  had  been
impaired.  The Company  developed its best  estimates of future  operating  cash
flows  at  these  locations   considering   future   requirements   for  capital
expenditures  as well as the impact of inflation.  The projections of cash flows
also took into account  estimates of  significant  one-time  expenses as well as
estimates of additional revenues and result-


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                   HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries
            NOTES TO CONSOLIDATED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS - (CONTINUED)

14. IMPAIRMENT OF LONG-TERM ASSETS - (CONTINUED)

ing income from future marketing efforts in the respective locations. The amount
of the impairment  charge was determined by discounting  the estimates of future
cash flows, using an estimated 8.5% incremental  borrowing rate which management
believes is  commensurate  with the risks  involved.  The  resulting net present
value of future cash flows was then compared to the historical net book value of
goodwill and other long-lived  assets at each operating  location which resulted
in an impairment loss relative to these centers of $47,984,000.

     The remaining impairment charge of $5,565,000 relating to the centers to be
closed was based on the fair value of the related assets less estimated costs to
sell. One of these  facilities is expected to be sold by the middle of 1997. The
Company  continues to operate the remaining  three  facilities and is evaluating
its alternatives for their disposition.  Assets held for sale having a remaining
net book value of  $2,839,000  and  $2,309,000  are  included  in  property  and
equipment  on the  accompanying  December  31,  1995  and 1996  balance  sheets,
respectively.

     The above amounts are included in operations  for 1995 in the  accompanying
consolidated statement of income.


15. SUBSEQUENT EVENTS

   
     On  January  18,  1997,  the  Company's  Board of  Directors  authorized  a
two-for-one  stock split to be  effected  in the form of a 100% stock  dividend,
subject to the  approval by the  Company's  stockholders  of an amendment to its
Certificate  of  Incorporation  increasing  the number of  authorized  shares of
common  stock  from  250,000,000  to  500,000,000.  The  Company's  stockholders
approved the amendment on March 12, 1997. The stock dividend is payable on March
17, 1997 to holders of record on March 13, 1997. Accordingly,  all share and per
share  amounts  included  in the  accompanying  financial  statements  have been
restated to give effect to the stock split.  The stock  dividend is reflected in
the accompanying statement of stockholders' equity as a 1996 transaction.     

     On February 17, 1997,  the Company  entered into a definitive  agreement to
acquire Horizon/CMS Healthcare Corporation  ("Horizon/CMS") in a stock-for-stock
merger in which the  stockholders  of  Horizon/CMS  will receive  .84338  (after
adjustment for the two-for-one  stock split) of a share of the Company's  common
stock  per share of  Horizon/CMS  common  stock.  The  transaction  is valued at
approximately  $1,600,000,000,  including  the  assumption  by  the  Company  of
approximately  $700,000,000  in  Horizon/CMS  debt.  It  is  expected  that  the
acquisition  will  be  accounted  for as a  purchase.  Horizon/CMS  operates  33
inpatient  rehabilitation  hospitals,  58 specialty hospitals and subacute units
and 282 outpatient  rehabilitation  centers.  Horizon/CMS  also owns,  leases or
manages  267  long-term  care  facilities,   a  contract  therapy  business,  an
institutional  pharmacy business and other healthcare services.  Consummation of
the transaction is subject to various regulatory approvals,  including clearance
under the Hart-Scott-Rodino  Antitrust Improvements Act, and to the satisfaction
of  certain  other  conditions.  The  Company  currently  anticipates  that  the
transaction will be consummated in mid-1997.


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ITEM 9. CHANGES IN AND DISAGREEMENTS WITH ACCOUNTANTS ON ACCOUNTING AND
          FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE

     The Company has not changed  independent  accountants  within the 24 months
prior to December 31, 1996.


                                   PART III


ITEM 10. DIRECTORS AND EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

     Directors

     The  following  table sets forth  certain  information  with respect to the
Company's Directors.

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                           PRINCIPAL OCCUPATION
                                                            AND ALL POSITIONS                        A DIRECTOR
            NAME                   AGE                       WITH THE COMPANY                         SINCE
- --------------------------------   -----   -------------------------------------------------------   -----------
<S>                                <C>     <C>                                                       <C>
Richard M. Scrushy  ............   44      Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer           1984
                                           and Director
James P. Bennett ...............   39      President and Chief Operating Officer and Director          1993
Phillip C. Watkins, M.D.  ......   55      Physician, Birmingham, Alabama, and Director                1984
George H. Strong ...............   70      Private Investor, Locust, New Jersey, and Director          1984
C. Sage Givens   ...............   40      General Partner, Acacia Venture Partners and                1985
                                           Director
Charles W. Newhall III .........   52      Partner, New Enterprise Associates Limited Partner-         1985
                                           ships, and Director
Aaron Beam, Jr.  ...............   53      Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer        1993
                                           and Director
Larry R. House   ...............   53      Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive        1993
                                           Officer, MedPartners, Inc., and Director
Anthony J. Tanner   ............   48      Executive Vice President-- Administration and               1993
                                           Secretary and Director
P. Daryl Brown   ...............   42      President--HEALTHSOUTH Outpatient Centers and               1995
                                           Director
John S. Chamberlin  ............   68      Private Investor, Princeton, New Jersey, and Director       1993
Richard F. Celeste  ............   59      Managing Partner, Celeste and Sabaty, Ltd. and              1991
                                           Director
Joel C. Gordon   ...............   68      Private Investor, Nashville, Tennessee, Consultant to       1996
                                           the Company and Director
Raymond J. Dunn III ............   54      Private Investor, Woburn, Massachusetts, Consultant         1996
                                           to the Company and Director
</TABLE>

     Richard M. Scrushy, one of the Company's management founders, has served as
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company since 1984, and
also served as President of the Company from 1984 until March 1995. From 1979 to
1984, Mr. Scrushy was with Lifemark  Corporation,  a  publicly-owned  healthcare
corporation,  serving in  various  operational  and  management  positions.  Mr.
Scrushy is also a director of  MedPartners,  Inc., a  publicly-traded  physician
practice  management  company,  and  Chairman of the Board of Capstone  Capital,
Inc., a  publicly-traded  real estate  investment  trust.  He also serves on the
boards of directors of several privately-held healthcare corporations.


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     Phillip C. Watkins, M.D., FACC, is and has been for more than five years in
the  private  practice of medicine  in  Birmingham,  Alabama.  A graduate of The
Medical College of Alabama,  Dr. Watkins is a Diplomate of the American Board of
Internal Medicine. He is also a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and
the Subspecialty Board of Cardiovascular Disease.

     George H.  Strong  retired as senior  vice  president  and chief  financial
officer of Universal Health Services,  Inc. in December 1984, a position he held
for more than six years.  Mr. Strong is a private  investor and continued to act
as a Director of Universal Health  Services,  Inc., a  publicly-traded  hospital
management corporation, until 1993. Mr. Strong is also a director of Core Funds,
a public mutual fund group, Integrated Health Services,  Inc., a publicly-traded
healthcare corporation, and AmeriSource, Inc., a large drug wholesaler.

     C.  Sage  Givens is a general partner of Acacia Venture Partners, a private
venture  capital  fund  capitalized  at $66,000,000. From 1983 to June 30, 1995,
Ms.  Givens  was  a general partner of First Century Partners, a private venture
capital  fund  capitalized  at  $100,000,000.  Ms.  Givens  managed  the  fund's
healthcare  investments. Ms. Givens serves on the boards of directors of PhyCor,
Inc.  and UroHealth Systems, Inc., both publicly-traded healthcare corporations,
and several privately-held healthcare companies.

     Charles W. Newhall III is a general  partner and founder of New  Enterprise
Associates Limited Partnerships,  Baltimore, Maryland, where he has been engaged
in the venture  capital  business  since 1978. Mr. Newhall is also a director of
Integrated Health Services,  Inc., MedPartners,  Inc. and Opta Food Ingredients,
Inc., all of which are publicly-traded corporations.

     Aaron Beam, Jr.,  C.P.A.,  a management  founder,  serves as Executive Vice
President and Chief Financial  Officer of the Company and was elected a Director
in  February  1993.  From  1980 to 1984,  Mr.  Beam  was  employed  by  Lifemark
Corporation in several  financial and operational  management  positions for the
Shared Services Division,  including division controller. Mr. Beam is a director
of Ramsey Healthcare, Inc., a publicly-traded healthcare corporation.

     James P.  Bennett  joined the Company in May 1991 as Director of  Inpatient
Operations,  was promoted to Group Vice  President  -- Inpatient  Rehabilitation
Operations in September 1991, again to President and Chief Operating  Officer --
HEALTHSOUTH  Rehabilitation  Hospitals in June 1992, to President -- HEALTHSOUTH
Inpatient  Operations in February  1993,  and to President  and Chief  Operating
Officer of the  Company in March  1995.  Mr.  Bennett  was elected a Director in
February  1993.  From August 1987 to May 1991,  Mr. Bennett was employed by Russ
Pharmaceuticals,  Inc.,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  as Vice President -- Operations,
Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and director. Mr. Bennett served as certified
public accountant on the audit staff of the Birmingham,  Alabama office of Ernst
& Whinney (now Ernst & Young LLP) from October 1980 to August 1987.

     Larry R. House is  Chairman  of the Board,  President  and Chief  Executive
Officer of MedPartners,  Inc. a publicly-traded  physician  practice  management
firm, a position he assumed as his  principal  occupation  in August  1993.  Mr.
House was elected a Director of the Company in February  1993.  At the same time
he  became  President  --  HEALTHSOUTH  International,  Inc.  and  New  Business
Ventures, a position which he held until August 31, 1994, when he terminated his
employment  with the Company to  concentrate on his duties at  MedPartners.  Mr.
House  joined  the  Company  in  September   1985  as  Director  of   Marketing,
subsequently  served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the
Company,  and in June 1992  became  President  and Chief  Operating  Officer  --
HEALTHSOUTH  Medical  Centers.  Prior to  joining  the  Company,  Mr.  House was
president  and chief  executive  officer  of a  provider  of  clinical  contract
management services for more than ten years.

     Anthony J. Tanner,  Sc.D., a management  founder,  serves as Executive Vice
President  --  Administration  and  Secretary  of the  Company and was elected a
Director in  February  1993.  From 1980 to 1984,  Mr.  Tanner was with  Lifemark
Corporation  in  the  Shared  Services   Division  as  director,   clinical  and
professional programs (1982-1984) and director,  quality assurance and education
(1980-1982),  where he was responsible for the development of clinical  programs
and marketing programs.

     P.  Daryl Brown joined the Company in April 1986 and served until June 1992
as  Group  Vice  President  --  Outpatient  Operations.  He  became President --
HEALTHSOUTH Outpatient Centers in


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June 1992,  and was elected as a Director in March 1995.  From 1977 to 1986, Mr.
Brown served with the American Red Cross,  Alabama Region, in several positions,
including Chief  Operating  Officer,  Administrative  Director for Financing and
Administration and Controller.

     John S. Chamberlin retired in 1988 as president and chief operating officer
of Avon Products, Inc., a position he had held since 1985. From 1976 until 1985,
he served as chairman and chief executive officer of Lenox, Incorporated,  after
22 years in various  assignments  for General  Electric.  From 1990 to 1991,  he
served as chairman and chief executive  officer of New Jersey Publishing Co. Mr.
Chamberlin is chairman of the board of Life Fitness  Company and WNS,  Inc., and
is a director of The Scotts Company and UroHealth  Systems,  Inc. He is a member
of the Board of  Trustees of the Medical  Center at  Princeton  and the Board of
Overseers  of Parsons  School of Design and is a trustee of the  Woodrow  Wilson
National Fellowship Foundation.

     Richard F. Celeste originally joined the Board of Directors in 1991, took a
leave  of  absence  from the  Board  of  Directors  in  August  1993 to head the
Democratic  National  Committee's  healthcare reform campaign,  and rejoined the
Board in May 1994.  He is  Managing  Partner  of Celeste  and  Sabaty,  Ltd.,  a
business  advisory firm located in Columbus,  Ohio,  which assists United States
companies to build strategic  business alliances in Europe,  Africa,  South Asia
and the Pacific  Rim.  He served as  Governor of Ohio from 1983 to 1991,  during
which time he chaired the National Governors'  Association  Committee on Science
and Technology, and directed the United States Peace Corps from 1979 to 1981. He
is a member of the  Advisory  Council of the  Carnegie  Commission  on  Science,
Technology  and  Government,  and  chairs  Carnegie's  Task  Force  on  Science,
Technology and the States. He is a director of Navistar International,  Inc. and
Republic Engineered Steels, Inc., both of which are publicly-traded companies.

     Joel C. Gordon served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of SCA from its
founding in 1982 until  January 17, 1996,  when SCA was acquired by the Company.
Mr. Gordon also served as Chief Executive Officer of SCA from 1987 until January
17, 1996.  Mr.  Gordon  serves on the boards of directors of Genesco,  Inc.,  an
apparel manufacturer, and SunTrust Bank of Nashville, N.A.

     Raymond J. Dunn, III served as Chief Executive  Officer of Advantage Health
from 1986 until  March 14,  1996,  when  Advantage  Health was  acquired  by the
Company. In addition,  he served as Chairman of its Board of Directors from 1990
to March 14, 1996 and as its President from 1994 to March 14, 1996. From 1987 to
1990, he served as Vice Chairman of the Board of Advantage Health.  From 1979 to
1986, Mr. Dunn was Chief Executive  Officer of a former  subsidiary of Advantage
Health responsible for management of Advantage Health's operations. From 1970 to
1978, he was Administrator of New England Rehabilitation Hospital, Inc. Mr. Dunn
has elected to retire from the Board of Directors at the 1997 Annual  Meeting of
Stockholders to pursue other interests.


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EXECUTIVE OFFICERS

     The  following  table sets forth  certain  information  with respect to the
Company's executive officers.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                                        ALL POSITIONS                         OFFICER
         NAME                AGE                        WITH COMPANY                          SINCE
- --------------------------   -----   ------------------------------------------------------   --------
<S>                          <C>     <C>                                                      <C>
Richard M. Scrushy  ......   44      Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer        1984
                                     and Director
James P. Bennett .........   39      President and Chief Operating Officer and Director       1991
Aaron Beam, Jr.  .........   53      Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer     1984
                                     and Director
Anthony J. Tanner   ......   48      Executive Vice President-- Administration and            1984
                                     Secretary and Director
Michael D. Martin   ......   36      Executive Vice President-- Finance and Treasurer         1989
Thomas W. Carman .........   45      Executive Vice President-- Corporate Development         1985
P. Daryl Brown   .........   42      President--HEALTHSOUTH Outpatient Centers and            1986
                                     Director
Robert E. Thomson   ......   49      President--HEALTHSOUTH Inpatient Operations              1987
Russell H. Maddox   ......   56      President--HEALTHSOUTH Imaging Centers                   1995
William T. Owens .........   38      Senior Vice President-- Finance and Controller           1986
William W. Horton   ......   37      Senior Vice President and Corporate Counsel and          1994
                                     Assistant Secretary
</TABLE>

     Biographical  information  for  Messrs.  Scrushy, Bennett, Beam, Tanner and
Brown  is  set forth above under this Item, "Directors and Executive Officers --
Directors"

     Michael D. Martin joined the Company in October 1989 as Vice  President and
Treasurer,  and was named  Senior Vice  President  -- Finance and  Treasurer  in
February 1994 and Executive Vice President -- Finance and Treasurer in May 1996.
From 1983 through September 1989, Mr. Martin  specialized in healthcare  lending
with  AmSouth  Bank N.A.,  Birmingham,  Alabama,  where he was a Vice  President
immediately  prior to joining the Company.  Mr. Martin is a Director of Capstone
Capital, Inc.

     Thomas W.  Carman  joined  the  Company  in 1985 as  Regional  Director  --
Corporate  Development,  and now serves as Executive Vice President -- Corporate
Development.  From 1983 to 1985,  Mr.  Carman was  director of  development  for
Medical  Care  International.  From  1981 to  1983,  Mr.  Carman  was  assistant
administrator at the Children's Hospital of Birmingham, Alabama.

     Robert E. Thomson joined the Company in August 1985 as administrator of its
Florence,  South Carolina inpatient  rehabilitation  facility,  and subsequently
served as Regional Vice  President -- Inpatient  Operations,  Vice  President --
Inpatient Operations,  Group Vice President -- Inpatient Operations,  and Senior
Vice  President  -- Inpatient  Operations.  Mr.  Thomson was named  President --
HEALTHSOUTH Inpatient Operations in February 1996.

     Russell H.  Maddox  became  President  --  HEALTHSOUTH  Imaging  Centers in
January 1996. He served as President --  HEALTHSOUTH  Surgery & Imaging  Centers
from June 1995 through  January  1996.  From  January  1992 until May 1995,  Mr.
Maddox served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Diagnostic Health  Corporation,  an outpatient  diagnostic imaging company which
became a wholly-owned  subsidiary of the Company in 1996. Mr. Maddox was founder
and President of Russ Pharmaceuticals,  Inc., located in Birmingham, Alabama. In
March 1989 Russ  Pharmaceuticals  was acquired by Ethyl Corporation of Richmond,
Virginia.

     William  T.  Owens,  C.P.A., joined the Company in March 1986 as Controller
and  was  appointed  Vice  President  and  Controller  in  December 1986. He was
appointed Group Vice President -- Finance


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and  Controller  in June 1992 and became  Senior Vice  President  -- Finance and
Controller in February 1994. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Owens served as a
certified public accountant on the audit staff of the Birmingham, Alabama office
of Ernst & Whinney (now Ernst & Young LLP) from 1981 to 1986.

     William W. Horton  joined the Company in July 1994 as Group Vice  President
- -- Legal Services and was named Senior Vice  President and Corporate  Counsel in
May 1996.  From August 1986 through June 1994, Mr. Horton  practiced  corporate,
securities and healthcare law with the Birmingham, Alabama-based firm of Haskell
Slaughter Young & Johnston, Professional Association, where he served
as Chairman of the Healthcare Practice Group.


GENERAL

     Directors  of the  Company  hold office  until the next  Annual  Meeting of
Stockholders  of  the  Company  and  until  their  successors  are  elected  and
qualified.  Executive officers of the Company are elected annually by, and serve
at the  discretion  of the  Board of  Directors.  There are no  arrangements  or
understandings  known to the Company between any of the Directors,  nominees for
Director or executive  officers of the Company and any other person  pursuant to
which any of such  persons was elected as a Director  or an  executive  officer,
except the Employment  Agreement between the Company and Richard M. Scrushy (see
Item  11,  "Executive   Compensation  --  Chief  Executive  Officer   Employment
Agreement")  and except  that the Company  agreed to appoint Mr.  Gordon and Mr.
Dunn to the Board of Directors in connection  with the SCA and Advantage  Health
mergers.  There are no family relationships between any Directors,  nominees for
Director or executive officers of the Company.


COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16(A) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

     Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 requires the Company's
officers  and  Directors,  and persons who  beneficially  own more than 10% of a
registered  class  of the  Company's  equity  securities,  to  file  reports  of
ownership and changes in ownership with the  Securities and Exchange  Commission
and the New York Stock Exchange.  Officers,  Directors and beneficial  owners of
more than 10% of the  Company's  Common  Stock are  required by  Securities  and
Exchange  Commission  regulations  to furnish  the  Company  with  copies of all
Section 16(a) forms that they file. Based solely on review of the copies of such
forms furnished to the Company,  or written  representations  that no reports on
Form 5 were required,  the Company  believes that for the period from January 1,
1996,   through   December  31,  1996,  all  of  its  officers,   Directors  and
greater-than-10%  beneficial  owners  complied  with all  Section  16(a)  filing
requirements applicable to them, except as set forth below.

     Raymond J. Dunn,  III, a retiring  Director of the Company,  did not timely
report sales  aggregating  393,330 shares of the Company's  Common Stock in four
transactions  in  September  1996  and  "private  collar"  derivative   security
transactions  covering an aggregate of 2,162,478  shares of the Company's Common
Stock in June 1996.  All such  transactions  were reported on Form 5 in February
1997.


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ITEM 11. EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION.


EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION -- GENERAL

     The following  table sets forth  compensation  paid or awarded to the Chief
Executive Officer and each of the other four most highly  compensated  executive
officers  of the Company  (the  "Named  Executive  Officers")  for all  services
rendered to the Company and its subsidiaries in 1994, 1995 and 1996.


                          SUMMARY COMPENSATION TABLE

   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                     ANNUAL COMPENSATION         LONG-TERM COMPENSATION
                              ---------------------------------- -----------------------
                                                  BONUS/ANNUAL     STOCK     LONG-TERM         ALL
                                                    INCENTIVE      OPTION    INCENTIVE     OTHER COM-
NAME AND PRINCIPAL POSITION   YEAR     SALARY         AWARD        AWARDS     PAYOUTS     PENSATION(1)
- ----------------------------- ------ ------------ -------------- ----------- ----------- ----------------
<S>                           <C>    <C>          <C>            <C>         <C>         <C>
Richard M. Scrushy            1994     $1,207,228   $2,000,000            --     --       $    12,991
Chairman of the Board         1995      1,737,526    5,000,000     2,000,000     --           650,108(2)
and Chief Executive Officer   1996      3,380,295    8,000,000     1,500,000     --            34,280(2)

James P. Bennett              1994        357,740      250,000            --     --            10,760
President and Chief           1995        371,558      600,000       300,000     --             7,835
Operating Officer             1996        485,110      800,000       200,000     --            32,106(2)

Michael D. Martin             1994        189,013      250,000            --     --             7,311
Executive Vice President      1995        165,626      500,000       170,000     --             7,919
and Treasurer                 1996        270,164      750,000       120,000     --            31,587(2)

P. Daryl Brown                1994        272,573      200,000            --     --            10,226
President -- HEALTHSOUTH      1995        263,462      300,000       260,000     --             8,580
Outpatient Centers            1996        324,345      400,000       100,000     --            11,181

Aaron Beam, Jr.               1994        298,223      175,000            --     --            11,272
Executive Vice President      1995        247,903      300,000       200,000     --             8,695
and Chief Financial Officer   1996        287,417      350,000        30,000     --            33,314(2)
</TABLE>
    

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(1)  Includes  car  allowances  of $500 per month for Mr.  Scrushy  and $350 per
     month for the other Named  Executive  Officers.  Also includes (a) matching
     contributions under the Company's Retirement Investment Plan for 1994, 1995
     and 1996, respectively,  of: $318, $292 and $708 to Mr. Scrushy; $355, $900
     and $1,289 to Mr. Beam;  $625, $900 and $1,425 to Mr.  Bennett;  $526, $900
     and  $1,371 to Mr.  Martin;  and $274,  $900 and $1,897 to Mr.  Brown;  (b)
     awards under the Company's  Employee Stock Benefit Plan for 1994,  1995 and
     1996,  respectively,  of $4,910, $1,626 and $3,389 to Mr. Scrushy;  $4,910,
     $1,626 and $3,389 to Mr. Beam;  $4,910,  $1,626 and $3,387 to Mr.  Bennett;
     $1,345,  $1,626 and $3,386 to Mr. Martin; and $4,910,  $1,626 and $3,389 to
     Mr. Brown;  and (c) split-dollar  life insurance  premiums paid in 1994 and
     1995 of $1,723,  $2,190 and $2,312  with  respect to Mr.  Scrushy;  $1,807,
     $1,969 and $2,559 with respect to Mr. Beam; $1,025,  $1,109 and $1,217 with
     respect to Mr. Bennett; $1,240, $1,193 and $752 with respect to Mr. Martin;
     and $842,  $1,854 and $1,695  with  respect  to Mr.  Brown.  See this Item,
     "Executive  Compensation  --  Retirement  Investment  Plan" and  "Executive
     Compensation -- Employee Stock Benefit Plan".

(2)  In addition to the amounts  described in the preceding  footnote,  includes
     the conveyance of real property  valued at $640,000 to Mr. Scrushy in 1995,
     and the  forgiveness of loans in the amount of $21,877 each owed by Messrs.
     Scrushy, Beam, Bennett and Martin in 1996.

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STOCK OPTION GRANTS IN 1996



                               INDIVIDUAL GRANTS

<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                                           # OF TOTAL
                                             OPTIONS
                             NUMBER OF     GRANTED TO       EXERCISE
                             OPTIONS       EMPLOYEES IN      PRICE        EXPIRATION         GRANT
         NAME                GRANTED       FISCAL YEAR      PER SHARE       DATE         PRESENT VALUE(1)
- --------------------------   -----------   --------------   -----------   ------------   -----------------
<S>                          <C>           <C>              <C>           <C>            <C>
Richard M. Scrushy  ......   1,500,000          36.9%         $16.25       1/17/06          $10,982,625
James P. Bennett .........    200,000            4.9%          16.25       1/17/06            1,464,350
Michael D. Martin   ......    100,000            2.5%          16.25       1/17/06              732,175
                               20,000            0.5%          16.44       8/14/06              146,435
P. Daryl Brown   .........    100,000            2.5%          16.25       1/17/06              732,175
Aaron Beam, Jr.  .........     60,000            1.5%          16.25       1/17/06              439,305
</TABLE>

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(1) Based on the Black-Scholes option pricing model adapted for use in valuating
    executive stock options.  The actual value, if any, an executive may realize
    will depend upon the excess of the stock  price over the  exercise  price on
    the date the option is  exercised,  so that there is no  assurance  that the
    value realized by an executive will be at or near the value estimated by the
    Black-Scholes  model.  The  estimated  values  under that model are based on
    arbitrary assumptions as to certain variables,  including the following: (i)
    stock price  volatility is assumed to be 37.5%;  (ii) the risk-free  rate of
    return is assumed to be 6.21%;  (iii) dividend yield is assumed to be 0; and
    (iv) the time of exercise is assumed to be 5.5 years from the date of grant.


STOCK OPTION EXERCISES IN 1996 AND OPTION VALUES AT DECEMBER 31, 1996


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                             NUMBER                                                    VALUE OF UNEXERCISED
                           OF SHARES                 NUMBER OF UNEXERCISED OPTIONS     IN-THE-MONEY OPTIONS
                            ACQUIRED                    AT DECEMBER 31, 1996(1)       AT DECEMBER 31, 1996(2)
                               ON         VALUE      ----------------------------- -----------------------------
          NAME              EXERCISE     REALIZED    EXERCISABLE   UNEXERCISABLE    EXERCISABLE   UNEXERCISABLE
- -------------------------- ----------- ------------- ------------- --------------- -------------- --------------
<S>                        <C>         <C>           <C>           <C>             <C>            <C>
Richard M. Scrushy  ...... 1,000,000     $16,168,845  13,869,892         2,632       $188,007,958   $   35,836
James P. Bennett .........    90,000       1,183,950     860,000            --          9,353,300           --
Michael D. Martin   ......    83,500       1,291,461     200,000       105,000            888,750    1,200,381
P. Daryl Brown   .........    77,000       1,218,986     935,000            --         12,048,828           --
Aaron Beam, Jr.  .........   152,500       2,053,794     260,000            --          2,371,250           --
</TABLE>

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(1) Does not reflect any options  granted  and/or  exercised  after December 31,
    1996.  The net effect of any such grants and  exercises  is reflected in the
    table appearing  under Item 12,  "Security  Ownership of Certain  Beneficial
    Owners and Management".
(2) Represents the difference between market price of the Company's Common Stock
    and the respective exercise prices of the options at December 31, 1996. Such
    amounts  may  not  necessarily  be  realized.  Actual  values  which  may be
    realized,  if any,  upon any  exercise of such  options will be based on the
    market price of the Common  Stock at the time of any such  exercise and thus
    are dependent upon future performance of the Common Stock.

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STOCK OPTION PLANS

     Set forth below is information concerning the various stock option plans of
the Company at December 31,  1996.  All share  numbers and exercise  prices have
been adjusted to reflect the Company's March 1997 two-for-one stock split.


     1984 Incentive Stock Option Plan

     The  Company  had a 1984  Incentive  Stock  Option  Plan (the "ISO  Plan"),
intended to qualify under Section  422(b) of the Internal  Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended (the  "Code"),  covering an  aggregate of 4,800,000  shares of Common
Stock.  The ISO Plan expired on February 28, 1994, in accordance with its terms.
As of December 31, 1996,  there were  outstanding  under the ISO Plan options to
purchase  31,702  shares of the  Company's  Common Stock at prices  ranging from
$2.52 to $3.78 per share.  All such  options  remain in full force and effect in
accordance  with  their  terms and the ISO Plan.  Under the ISO Plan,  which was
administered  by the Board of Directors,  key employees could be granted options
to purchase  shares of Common  Stock at 100% of fair market value on the date of
grant (or 110% of fair market  value in the case of a 10%  stockholder/grantee).
The outstanding  options granted under the ISO Plan must be exercised within ten
years from the date of grant, are  cumulatively  exercisable with respect to 25%
of the shares covered  thereby after the expiration of each of the first through
the fourth years following the date of grant, are nontransferable except by will
or pursuant  to the laws of descent  and  distribution,  are  protected  against
dilution and expire within three months after termination of employment,  unless
such termination is by reason of death.


     1988 Non-Qualified Stock Option Plan

     The  Company  also has a 1988  Non-Qualified  Stock  Option Plan (the "NQSO
Plan")  covering a maximum of 4,800,000  shares of Common Stock.  As of December
31, 1996, there were outstanding  under the NQSO Plan options to purchase 57,300
shares of the Company's  Common Stock at prices ranging from $8.37 to $16.25 per
share.  The NQSO  Plan,  which is  administered  by the Audit  and  Compensation
Committee of the Board of Directors provides, that Directors, executive officers
and other key  employees  may be granted  options to  purchase  shares of Common
Stock  at 100%  of fair  market  value  on the  date of  grant.  The  NQSO  Plan
terminates on the earliest of (a) February 28, 1998, (b) such time as all shares
of Common Stock  reserved for  issuance  under the NQSO Plan have been  acquired
through the exercise of options  granted  thereunder or (c) such earlier time as
the Board of Directors of the Company may determine. Options granted pursuant to
the NQSO Plan have a  ten-year  term are  exercisable  at any time  during  such
period,  are  nontransferable  except by will or pursuant to the laws of descent
and distribution,  are protected against dilution and expire within three months
of termination  of association  with the Company as a Director or termination of
employment, unless such termination is by reason of death.


     1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 Stock Option Plans

     The Company  also has a 1989 Stock  Option Plan (the "1989  Plan"),  a 1990
Stock Option Plan (the "1990 Plan"), a 1991 Stock Option Plan (the "1991 Plan"),
a 1992 Stock Option Plan (the "1992 Plan"),  a 1993 Stock Option Plan (the "1993
Plan")  and a 1995 Stock  Option  Plan (the  "1995  Plan"),  under each of which
incentive stock options ("ISOs") and  non-qualified  stock options ("NQSOs") may
be granted.  The 1989,  1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 Plans cover a maximum of
2,400,000  shares,  3,600,000  shares,   11,200,000  shares,  5,600,000  shares,
5,600,000  shares and  11,563,548  (to be increased  by 0.9% of the  outstanding
Common  Stock of the  Company  on each  January  1,  beginning  January 1, 1996)
shares,  respectively,  of the Company's  Common Stock. As of December 31, 1996,
there were outstanding  options to purchase an aggregate of 28,188,880 shares of
the  Company's  Common  Stock under such Plans at exercise  prices  ranging from
$2.52 to $19.12 per share.  An  additional  2,778,356  shares were  reserved for
grants under such Plans. Each of the 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 Plans
is administered in the same manner as the NQSO Plan and provides that Directors,
executive  officers and other key employees  may be granted  options to purchase
shares of Common  Stock at 100% of fair market  value on the date of grant.  The
1989, 1990, 1991, 1992, 1993 and 1995 Plans terminate on the earliest of (a)


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October 25, 1999, October 15, 2000, June 19, 2001, June 16, 2002, April 19, 2003
and June 5,  2005,  respectively,  (b) such time as all  shares of Common  Stock
reserved for issuance under the respective  Plan have been acquired  through the
exercise of options granted  thereunder,  or (c) such earlier times as the Board
of Directors of the Company may  determine.  Options  granted  under these Plans
which  are  designated  as ISOs  contain  vesting  provisions  similar  to those
contained in options granted under the ISO Plan and have a ten-year term.  NQSOs
granted  under these Plans have a ten-year  term.  Options  granted  under these
Plans are nontransferable  except by will or pursuant to the laws of descent and
distribution  (except  for  certain  permitted  transfers  to family  members or
charities),  are protected  against dilution and will expire within three months
of termination  of association  with the Company as a Director or termination of
employment, unless such termination is by reason of death.


     1993 Consultants' Stock Option Plan

     The  Company  also has a 1993  Consultants'  Stock  Option  Plan (the "1993
Consultants'  Plan"),  under which  NQSOs may be granted,  covering a maximum of
3,000,000  shares  of  Common  Stock.  As  of  December  31,  1995,  there  were
outstanding  under the 1993  Consultants'  Plan  options to  purchase  1,636,000
shares of Common  Stock at prices  ranging  from $3.37 to $17.75  per share.  An
additional  40,000  shares were  reserved for grants under such Plans.  The 1993
Consultants'  Plan,  which is  administered in the same manner as the NQSO Plan,
provides that certain non-employee  consultants who provide significant services
to the Company may be granted options to purchase shares of Common Stock at such
prices as are determined by the Board of Directors or the appropriate committee.
The 1993  Consultants' Plan terminates on the earliest of (a) February 25, 2003,
(b) such time as all shares of Common Stock reserved for issuance under the 1993
Consultants'  Plan have been  acquired  through the exercise of options  granted
thereunder,  or (c) such  earlier  time as the Board of Directors of the Company
may determine.  Options granted under the 1993 Consultants' Plan have a ten-year
term.  Options  granted  under the 1993  Consultants'  Plan are  nontransferable
except  by  will or  pursuant  to the  laws of  descent  and  distribution,  are
protected  against  dilution and expire  within three months of  termination  of
association  with the Company as a  consultant,  unless such  termination  is by
reason of death.


     Other Stock Option Plans

     In connection with the  acquisitions of SHC, SSCI, SCA, PSCM and ReadiCare,
the  Company  assumed  certain  existing  stock  option  plans  of the  acquired
companies,  and outstanding  options to purchase stock of the acquired companies
under such plans were  converted  into  options to acquire  Common  Stock of the
Company in accordance  with the exchange ratios  applicable to such mergers.  At
December 31, 1996, there were  outstanding  under these assumed plans options to
purchase  1,906,200  shares of the  Company's  Common  Stock at exercise  prices
ranging from $2.14 to $25.75 per share. No additional  options are being granted
under any such assumed plans.


EXECUTIVE LOANS

     In order to enhance  equity  ownership  by senior  management,  in 1989 the
Company  adopted a program of making  loans to officers  holding the position of
Group Vice  President and above to facilitate the exercise of stock options held
by such persons.  Each loan bears interest at the prime rate announced from time
to time by AmSouth  Bank of  Alabama,  Birmingham,  Alabama  and is secured by a
first lien on the shares of Common Stock acquired with the proceeds of the loan.
Each loan has a ten-year  term,  and the Company's  lien on the shares of Common
Stock is released as the indebtedness is repaid at the rate of one share per the
weighted  average  option  exercise  price  repaid.   The  only  loan  currently
outstanding  under such program is a loan made on May 7, 1992 to P. Daryl Brown,
President -- HEALTHSOUTH  Outpatient  Centers,  which had an original  principal
balance of $213,613 and of which $190,000  remained  outstanding at December 31,
1996.


RETIREMENT INVESTMENT PLAN

     Effective  January 1, 1990, the Company adopted the HEALTHSOUTH  Retirement
Investment Plan (the "401(k) Plan"), a retirement plan intended to qualify under
Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The 401(k) Plan
is open to all full-time and part-time employees of


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the Company  who are over the age of 21, have one full year of service  with the
Company and have at least 1,000 hours of service in the year in which they enter
the 401(k) Plan.  Eligible  employees  may elect to  participate  in the Plan on
January 1 and July 1 in each year.

     Under the 401(k) Plan,  participants  may elect to defer up to 20% of their
annual  compensation  (subject to  nondiscrimination  rules  under the  Internal
Revenue Code). The deferred  amounts may be invested among four options,  at the
participant's  direction:  a  money  market  fund,  a bond  fund,  a  guaranteed
insurance contract or an equity fund. The Company will match a minimum of 10% of
the amount deferred by each participant,  up to 4% of such  participant's  total
compensation, with the matched amount also directed by the participant. See Note
12 of "Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements".

     Aaron Beam, Jr.,  Executive Vice President and Chief  Financial  Officer of
the Company,  and Anthony J. Tanner,  Executive Vice President -- Administration
and  Secretary  of the Company,  serve as Trustees of the 401(k) Plan,  which is
administered by the Company.

EMPLOYEE STOCK BENEFIT PLAN

     Effective   January  1,  1991,   the  Company   adopted   the   HEALTHSOUTH
Rehabilitation  Corporation  and  Subsidiaries  Employee Stock Benefit Plan (the
"ESOP"),  a  retirement  plan  intended  to qualify  under  sections  401(a) and
4975(e)(7) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. The ESOP is open to
all full-time and part-time employees of the Company who are over the age of 21,
have one full year of service  with the Company and have at least 1,000 hours of
service in the year in which they  begin  participation  in the ESOP on the next
January  1 or July 1 after  the  date  on  which  such  employee  satisfies  the
aforementioned conditions.

     The ESOP was  established  with a  $10,000,000  loan from the Company,  the
proceeds of which were used to purchase 1,655,172 shares of the Company's Common
Stock. In 1992, an additional  $10,000,000  loan was made to the ESOP, which was
used to purchase an additional 1,666,664 shares of Common Stock. Under the ESOP,
a Company  Common Stock account (a "company stock  account") is established  and
maintained for each eligible employee who participates in the ESOP. In each plan
year,  such  account is credited  with such  employee's  allocable  share of the
Common Stock held by the ESOP and allocated with respect to such plan year. Each
employee's  allocable  share for any given plan year is determined  according to
the ratio  which such  employee's  compensation  for such plan year bears to the
compensation of all eligible participating employees for the same plan year.

     Under the ESOP, eligible employees who participate in the ESOP and who have
attained  age 55 and have  completed 10 years of  participation  in the ESOP may
elect to diversify  the assets in their  company  stock account by directing the
plan  administrator  to transfer  to the 401(k) Plan a portion of their  company
stock account to be invested,  as the eligible employee directs,  in one or more
of the investment options available under the 401(k) Plan. See Note 12 of "Notes
to Consolidated Financial Statements".

     Richard M. Scrushy,  Chairman of the Board and Chief  Executive  Officer of
the Company,  Aaron Beam,  Jr.,  Executive  Vice  President and Chief  Financial
Officer of the  Company,  and Anthony J.  Tanner,  Executive  Vice  President --
Administration  and  Secretary  of the  Company,  serve as Trustees of the ESOP,
which is administered by the Company.

STOCK PURCHASE PLAN

     In order to further  encourage  employees to obtain equity ownership in the
Company,  the Company's  Board of Directors  adopted an Employee  Stock Purchase
Plan (the "Stock  Purchase  Plan")  effective  January 1, 1994.  Under the Stock
Purchase Plan, participating employees may contribute $10 to $200 per pay period
toward the purchase of the Company's  Common Stock in open-market  transactions.
The Stock Purchase Plan is open to regular full-time or part-time  employees who
have been  employed  for six  months  and are at least 21 years  old.  After six
months of  participation  in the Stock Purchase Plan, the Company will provide a
10% matching  contribution  to be applied to purchases  under the Stock Purchase
Plan. The Company also pays all fees and brokerage  commissions  associated with
the  purchase  of the  stock.  The  Stock  Purchase  Plan is  administered  by a
broker-dealer firm not affiliated with the Company.


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BOARD COMPENSATION

     Directors who are not also employed by the Company are paid Directors' fees
of $10,000 per annum, plus $3,000 for each meeting of the Board of Directors and
$1,000  for  each  Committee  meeting  attended.  In  addition,   Directors  are
reimbursed  for all  out-of-pocket  expenses  incurred in connection  with their
duties as Directors.  The Directors of the Company,  including Mr. Scrushy, have
been granted  non-qualified  stock  options to purchase  shares of the Company's
Common  Stock.  See this Item,  "Executive  Compensation  -- Stock Option Plans"
above.


   
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER EMPLOYMENT AGREEMENT
    

     The Company is a party to an Employment  Agreement with Richard M. Scrushy,
pursuant to which Mr. Scrushy, a management founder of the Company.  is employed
as  Chairman  of the Board and Chief  Executive  Officer  of the  Company  for a
five-year term which ends December 31, 2000. Such term is automatically extended
for an additional year on December 31 of each year. In addition, the Company has
agreed to use its best efforts to cause Mr.  Scrushy to be elected as a Director
of the  Company  during  the term of the  Agreement.  Under the  Agreement,  Mr.
Scrushy received a base salary of $999,000,  excluding incentive compensation of
up to  $2,400,000,  in 1996 and is to receive  the same base  salary in 1997 and
each year thereafter,  with incentive compensation of up to $2,400,000,  subject
to annual review by the Board of Directors,  and is entitled to  participate  in
any bonus plan approved by the Board of Directors for the Company's  management.
The  incentive  compensation  is earned at $200,000  per month in 1996 and 1997,
contingent  upon the  Company's  success in  meeting  certain  monthly  budgeted
earnings per share targets.  Mr. Scrushy earned the entire $2,400,000  incentive
component  of his  compensation  in  1996,  as all such  targets  were  met.  In
addition,  Mr. Scrushy was awarded  $8,000,000  under the management bonus plan.
Such additional  bonus was based on the Committee's  assessment of Mr. Scrushy's
contribution  to the  establishment  of the  Company as the  industry  leader in
outpatient and  rehabilitative  healthcare  services,  including his role in the
negotiation and consummation of the SCA,  Advantage  Health,  PSCM and ReadiCare
acquisitions   and  the   negotiation  of  the  Health  Images  and  Horizon/CMS
acquisitions,  as well as the Company's success in achieving annual budgeted net
income  targets and certain other factors  reflecting  the Company's  growth and
performance.  Mr. Scrushy is also provided with a car allowance in the amount of
$500 per month and  disability  insurance.  Under the Agreement,  Mr.  Scrushy's
employment  may  be  terminated  for  cause  or if he  should  become  disabled.
Termination  of Mr.  Scrushy's  employment  under the  Agreement  will result in
certain  severance  pay  arrangements.  In the event that the  Company  shall be
acquired,  merged  or  reorganized  in such a manner as to result in a change of
control of the Company,  Mr.  Scrushy has the right to terminate his  employment
under the  Agreement,  in which case he will receive a lump sum payment equal to
three years' annual base salary  (including the gross incentive portion thereof)
under the  Agreement.  Mr.  Scrushy  has agreed not to compete  with the Company
during any period to which any such  severance  pay  relates.  Mr.  Scrushy  may
terminate the Agreement at any time upon 180 days' notice, in which case he will
receive one year's base salary as severance pay.


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ITEM 12. SECURITY OWNERSHIP OF CERTAIN BENEFICIAL OWNERS AND MANAGEMENT

     The following  table sets forth certain  information  regarding  beneficial
ownership of the Company's Common Stock as of March 17, 1997, (a) by each person
who is known by the Company to own  beneficially  more than 5% of the  Company's
Common Stock,  (b) by each of the  Company's  Directors and (c) by the Company's
five most highly  compensated  executive officers and all executive officers and
Directors as a group.


<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
                    NAME AND                             NUMBER OF SHARES        PERCENTAGE OF
                ADDRESS OF OWNER                       BENEFICIALLY OWNED(1)     COMMON STOCK
- ----------------------------------------------------   -----------------------   --------------
<S>                                                    <C>                       <C>
     Richard M. Scrushy  ...........................         15,076,658(2)            4.51%
     John S. Chamberlin  ...........................            222,000(3)               *
     C. Sage Givens   ..............................            392,100(4)               *
     Charles W. Newhall III    .....................            711,920(5)               *
     George H. Strong    ...........................            577,882(6)               *
     Phillip C. Watkins, M.D.  .....................            797,854(7)               *
     Aaron Beam, Jr.  ..............................            323,620(8)               *
     James P. Bennett    ...........................          1,250,000(9)               *
     Larry R. House   ..............................            459,600(10)              *
     Anthony J. Tanner   ...........................          1,043,808(11)              *
     Richard F. Celeste  ...........................            260,000(12)              *
     P. Daryl Brown   ..............................          1,093,000(13)              *
     Joel C. Gordon   ..............................          3,660,668(14)           1.14%
     Raymond J. Dunn, III   ........................          3,226,166(15)           1.01%
     Michael D. Martin   ...........................            457,008(16)              *
     FMR Corp.
        82 Devonshire Street
        Boston, Massachusetts 02109  ...............         38,509,640(17)          12.03%
     Putnam Investments, Inc.
        One Post Office Square
        Boston, Massachusetts 02109  ...............         22,880,090(18)           7.15%
     All Executive Officers and Directors as a Group
       (20 persons)   ..............................         32,119,688(19)           9.33%
</TABLE>

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(1)  The persons named in the table have sole voting and  investment  power with
     respect to all shares of Common Stock shown as beneficially  owned by them,
     except as otherwise indicated.

(2)  Includes 14,472,524 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(3)  Includes 150,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(4)  Includes  2,100  shares  owned by Ms.  Givens's  spouse and 390,000  shares
     subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(5)  Includes 790 shares owned by members of Mr. Newhall's  immediate family and
     710,000 shares subject to currently  exercisable stock options. Mr. Newhall
     disclaims  beneficial  ownership of the shares owned by his family  members
     except to the extent of his pecuniary interest therein.

(6)  Includes  103,662  shares owned by trusts of which Mr.  Strong is a trustee
     and claims shared voting and investment power and 300,000 shares subject to
     currently exercisable stock options.

(7)  Includes 600,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(8)  Includes 320,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(9)  Includes 1,160,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

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(10) Includes 457,996 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(11) Includes  72,000  shares held in trust by Mr.  Tanner for his  children and
     910,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(12) All of the shares are subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(13) Includes 1,035,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(14) Includes 364,340 shares owned by his spouse, 144,988 shares owned by trusts
     of  which  he  is  a  trustee  and  384,520  shares  subject  to  currently
     exercisable stock options.

(15) Includes 50,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(16) Includes 455,000 shares subject to currently exercisable stock options.

(17) Shares held by various  investment  funds for which affiliates of FMR Corp.
     act as investment advisor.  FMR Corp. or its affiliates claim sole power to
     vote  1,407,440  of the  shares  and sole  power to  dispose  of all of the
     shares.

(18) Shares  held by various  investment  funds for which  affiliates  of Putnam
     Investments,  Inc. act as investment advisor.  Putnam Investments,  Inc. or
     its  affiliates  claim sole power to vote  2,070,760 of the shares and sole
     power to dispose of all of the shares.

(19) Includes  24,215,544 shares subject to currently  exercisable stock options
     held by executive officers and Directors.

 *  Less than 1%



ITEM 13. CERTAIN RELATIONSHIPS AND RELATED TRANSACTIONS

     During  1996,  the Company  paid  $12,906,000  for the  purchase of new NCR
computer  equipment  from GG  Enterprises,  a  value-added  reseller of computer
equipment  which is owned by Grace  Scrushy,  the mother of Richard M.  Scrushy,
Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company,  and Gerald P.
Scrushy,  Senior Vice  President  -- Physical  Resources  of the  Company.  Such
purchases were made in the ordinary course of the Company's business.  The price
paid for this  equipment was more favorable to the Company than that which could
have been obtained from an independent third party seller.

     During  1996,   the  Company  paid   $429,247  to   MedPartners,   Inc.,  a
publicly-traded  physician practice management company,  for management services
rendered  to  certain  physician  practices  owned by the  Company.  Richard  M.
Scrushy,  Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company,  and
Larry R. House, a Director of the Company,  are directors of  MedPartners,  Inc.
Mr. House also serves as Chairman of the Board,  President  and Chief  Executive
Officer of MedPartners, Inc., a position which has been his principal occupation
since August 1993. At March 1, 1997, Mr. Scrushy beneficially owns approximately
0.48%, Mr. House  beneficially  owns  approximately  0.71%, and the Company owns
approximately  0.67% of the issued and outstanding  Common Stock of MedPartners,
Inc.  The Company  believes  that the price paid for such  services  was no less
favorable  to the  Company  than that  which  could have been  obtained  from an
independent third-party provider.

     In June 1994, the Company sold selected properties, including six ancillary
hospital facilities,  three outpatient rehabilitation facilities, two outpatient
surgery  centers,  one  uncompleted  medical  office  building  and one research
facility to Capstone Capital Corporation  ("Capstone"),  a publicly-traded  real
estate  investment  trust.  The net  proceeds  of the Company as a result of the
transaction were approximately $58,425,000. The net book value of the properties
was approximately  $50,735,000.  The Company leases back substantially all these
properties  from  Capstone  and  guarantees  the  associated  operating  leases,
payments under which aggregate  approximately  $6,900,000 annually. In addition,
in  1995  Capstone  acquired  ownership  of  the  Company's  Erie,  Pennsylvania
inpatient  rehabilitation facility, which had been leased by the Company from an
unrelated  lessor.  The  Company's  annual  lease  payment  under  that lease is
$1,700,000.  In 1996 Capstone also acquired  ownership of the Company's  Altoona
and Mechanicsburg,  Pennsylvania inpatient rehabilitation facilities,  which had
been leased by the Company from unrelated  lessors.  The Company's  annual lease
payments under such leases aggregate $2,818,000. Richard M. Scrushy, Chairman of
the Board and Chief  Executive  Officer of the  Company,  and Michael D. Martin,
Executive Vice  President and Treasurer of the Company,  were among the founders
of Capstone and serve on its Board of Directors.  At March 1, 1997,  Mr. Scrushy
owned approximately


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2.4% of the issued and  outstanding  capital  stock of Capstone,  and Mr. Martin
owned  approximately  0.9%  of the  issued  and  outstanding  capital  stock  of
Capstone.  In addition,  the Company owned  approximately 0.5% of the issued and
outstanding  capital  stock of Capstone at March 1, 1997.  The Company  believes
that  all  transactions  involving  Capstone  were  effected  on  terms  no less
favorable  than  those  which  could have been  obtained  in  transactions  with
independent third parties.

     In order to enhance equity ownership by senior management,  the Company has
adopted a program of making loans to officers holding the position of Group Vice
President  and above to  facilitate  the exercise of stock  options held by such
persons. See Item 11, "Executive Compensation -- Executive Loans".

     At various  times,  the  Company  has made loans to  executive  officers to
assist them in meeting  financial  obligations  at certain  times when they were
requested  by the  Company  to refrain  from  selling  Common  Stock in the open
market.  At January 1, 1996, loans in the following  original  principal amounts
were outstanding:  $460,000 to Larry R. House, a Director and a former executive
officer, and $140,000 to William T. Owens, Senior Vice President and Controller.
Outstanding  principal balances at December 31, 1996 were $414,000 for Mr. House
and  $126,000 for Mr.  Owens.  In  addition,  during  1995,  the Company made an
additional  loan of $350,000  to Mr.  Owens and  $500,000  to Aaron  Beam,  Jr.,
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the Company, which loans
were  outstanding in full at December 31, 1996.  Such loans bear interest at the
rate of 11/4%  per  annum  below  the prime  rate of  AmSouth  Bank of  Alabama,
Birmingham, Alabama, and are payable on demand.


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                                    PART IV

ITEM 14. EXHIBITS, FINANCIAL STATEMENT SCHEDULES AND REPORTS ON FORM 8-K

     (a) Financial Statements, Financial Statement Schedules and Exhibits.

       1. Financial Statements.

       The consolidated financial statements of the Company and its subsidiaries
   filed as a part of this  Annual  Report on Form 10-K are  listed in Item 8 of
   this Annual Report on Form 10-K, which listing is hereby  incorporated herein
   by reference.

       2. Financial Statement Schedules.

       The financial  statement  schedules  required by Regulation S-X are filed
   under Item 14(d) of this Annual Report on Form 10-K, as listed below:

       Schedules Supporting the Financial Statements

       Schedule II Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

       All  other  schedules  for  which  provision  is made  in the  applicable
   accounting  regulations of the Securities and Exchange  Commission  have been
   omitted  because they are not required under the related  instructions or are
   inapplicable,   or  because  the   information   has  been  provided  in  the
   Consolidated Financial Statements or the Notes thereto.

       3. Exhibits.

       The  Exhibits  filed as a part of this  Annual  Report are listed in Item
   14(c)  of  this  Annual  Report  on  Form  10-K,   which  listing  is  hereby
   incorporated herein by reference.

     (b) Reports on Form 8-K.

       During the last  quarter of the period  covered by this Annual  Report on
   Form 10-K, the Company filed no Current Reports on Form 8-K.

     (c) Exhibits.

       The Exhibits  required by  Regulation  S-K are set forth in the following
   list and are filed either by incorporation by reference from previous filings
   with the Securities  and Exchange  Commission or by attachment to this Annual
   Report on Form 10-K as so indicated in such list.


EXHIBIT
 NO.                             DESCRIPTION
- ---------   --------------------------------------------------------------------
(2)-1       Amended  and  Restated  Plan and  Agreement  of Merger,  dated as of
            September 18, 1994, among  HEALTHSOUTH  Rehabilitation  Corporation,
            RRS Acquisitions  Company,  Inc. and ReLife,  Inc., filed as Exhibit
            (2)-1  to  the   Company's   Registration   Statement  on  Form  S-4
            (Registration No. 33- 55929),  is hereby  incorporated by reference.
            (2)-2 Amended and Restated Plan and Agreement of Merger, dated as of
            January  22,  1995,  among  HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation,   ASC  Atlanta
            Acquisition Company, Inc. and Surgical Health Corporation,  filed as
            Exhibit  (2)-4 to the  Company's  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
            Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,  1994,  is hereby  incorporated  by
            reference.
(2)-3       Stock Purchase Agreement,  dated February 3, 1995, among HEALTHSOUTH
            Corporation, NovaCare, Inc. and NC Resources, Inc., filed as Exhibit
            (2)-3 to the  Company's  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the  Fiscal
            Year Ended December 31, 1994, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(2)-4       Plan  and  Agreement  of  Merger,   dated  August  23,  1995,  among
            HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation,  SSCI  Acquisition  Corporation and Sutter
            Surgery  Centers,  Inc.,  filed  as  Exhibit  (2) to  the  Company's
            Registration  Statement on Form S-4  (Registration No. 33-63-055) is
            hereby incorporated by reference.

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EXHIBIT
NO.                           DESCRIPTION
- ---------   --------------------------------------------------------------------
(2)-5       Amendment to Plan and  Agreement of Merger,  dated October 26, 1995,
            among  HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation,  SSCI  Acquisition  Corporation and
            Sutter  Surgery  Centers,  Inc.,  filed  as  Exhibit  (2)-5  to  the
            Company's  Annual  Report on Form  10-K for the  Fiscal  Year  Ended
            December 31, 1995, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(2)-6       Amended  and  Restated  Plan and  Agreement  of Merger,  dated as of
            October 9, 1995,  among  HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation,  SCA  Acquisition
            Corporation  and Surgical Care  Affiliates,  Inc.,  filed as Exhibit
            (2)-1 to Amendment No. 1 to the Company's  Registration Statement on
            Form S-4  (Registration  No.  33-64935),  is hereby  incorporated by
            reference.
(2)-7       Agreement  and  Plan of  Merger,  dated  December  16,  1995,  among
            HEALTHSOUTH   Corporation,   Aladdin  Acquisition   Corporation  and
            Advantage  Health  Corporation,   filed  as  Exhibit  (2)-1  to  the
            Company's Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No.
            333-825), is hereby incorporated by reference.
(2)-8       Plan and Agreement of Merger,  dated May 16, 1996, among HEALTHSOUTH
            Corporation,  Empire Acquisition Corporation and Professional Sports
            Care  Management,  Inc.,  filed as  Exhibit  (2)-1 to the  Company's
            Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-08449),  is
            hereby incorporated by reference.
(2)-9       Plan and  Agreement  of Merger,  dated  September  11,  1996,  among
            HEALTHSOUTH   Corporation,   Warwick  Acquisition   Corporation  and
            ReadiCare,   Inc.,   filed  as  Exhibit   (2)-1  to  the   Company's
            Registration Statement on Form S-4 (Registration No. 333-14697),  is
            hereby incorporated by reference.
(2)-10      Plan  and  Agreement  of  Merger,  dated  December  2,  1996,  among
            HEALTHSOUTH  Corporation,  Hammer Acquisition Corporation and Health
            Images,  Inc., filed as Exhibit (2)-1 to the Company's  Registration
            Statement  on Form  S-4  (Registration  No.  333-19439),  is  hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(2)-11      Plan and  Agreement  of  Merger,  dated  February  17,  1997,  among
            HEALTHSOUTH   Corporation,    Reid   Acquisition   Corporation   and
            Horizon/CMS Healthcare Corporation.
(3)-1       Restated Certificate of Incorporation of HEALTHSOUTH Corporation, as
            filed in the  Office  of the  Secretary  of  State  of the  State of
            Delaware on March 13, 1997.
(3)-2       Bylaws of HEALTHSOUTH Rehabilitation  Corporation,  filed as Exhibit
            (3)-2 to the  Company's  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the  Fiscal
            Year Ended December 31, 1991, are hereby incorporated by reference.
(4)-1       Indenture,  dated March 24, 1994, between HEALTHSOUTH Rehabilitation
            Corporation  and  NationsBank  of  Georgia,   National  Association,
            relating to the Company's 9.5% Senior  Subordinated  Notes due 2001,
            filed as Exhibit (4)-1 to the  Company's  Annual Report on Form 10-K
            for the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1994, is hereby  incorporated
            by reference.
(4)-2       Indenture,  dated March 24, 1994, between HEALTHSOUTH Rehabilitation
            Corporation  and  PNC  Bank  of  Kentucky,  Inc.,  relating  to  the
            Company's 5% Convertible  Subordinated Debentures due 2001, filed as
            Exhibit  (4)-2 to the  Company's  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
            Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,  1994,  is hereby  incorporated  by
            reference.
(10)-1      1984  Incentive  Stock  Option  Plan,  as amended,  filed as Exhibit
            (10)-1 to the  Company's  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal
            Year Ended  December  31,  1987,  is hereby  incorporated  herein by
            reference.
(10)-2      1988  Non-Qualified  Stock Option Plan, filed as Exhibit 4(a) to the
            Company's  Registration  Statement  on Form  S-8  (Registration  No.
            33-23642), is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
(10)-3      1989 Stock Option  Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-6 to the  Company's
            Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,
            1989, is hereby incorporated by reference.


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EXHIBIT
NO.                                               DESCRIPTION
- ---------   --------------------------------------------------------------------
(10)-4      1990 Stock Option Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-13 to the  Company's
            Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended  December  31,
            1990, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-5      Forms of Stock Option Agreements utilized under 1984 Incentive Stock
            Option Plan,  1988  Non-Qualified   Stock  Option  Plan,  1989 Stock
            Option Plan and 1990 Stock Option Plan,  filed as Exhibit (10)-14 to
            the  Company's  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year ended
            December 31, 1990, are hereby incorporated herein by reference.
(10)-6      1991 Stock Option Plan, as amended,  filed as Exhibit (10)-15 to the
            Company's  Annual  Report on Form  10-K for the  Fiscal  Year  ended
            December 31, 1991, is hereby incorporated herein by reference.
(10)-7      Forms of Stock Option  Agreements  utilized  under 1991 Stock Option
            Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-16 to the  Company's  Annual Report on
            Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year  Ended  December 31, 1991,  are hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(10)-8      1992 Stock Option  Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-8 to the  Company's
            Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,
            1992, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-9      Forms of Stock Option  Agreements  utilized  under 1992 Stock Option
            Plan, filed as Exhibit (10)-9 to the Company's Annual Report on Form
            10-K for the Fiscal  Year  Ended   December  31,  1992,   are hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(10)-10     1993 Stock Option Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-10 to the Company's
            Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended  December 31,
            1993, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-11     Forms of Stock Option  Agreements  utilized  under 1993 Stock Option
            Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-11 to the  Company's  Annual Report on
            Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended De- cember 31, 1993,  are hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(10)-12     1993  Consultants  Stock Option  Plan,  filed as Exhibit 4(a) to the
            Company's  Registration  Statement on Form S-8 (Commission  File No.
            33-64316), is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-13     Form of Stock Option  Agreement  utilized under the 1993 Consultants
            Stock  Option  Plan,   filed  as  Exhibit  4(b)  to  the   Company's
            Registration  Statement on Form S-8 (Commission File No.  33-64316),
            is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-14     1995 Stock Option Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-14 to the  Company's
            Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,
            1995, is hereby incorporated by ref- erence.
(10)-15     Form of Stock Option Agreement  utilized under the 1995 Stock Option
            Plan,  filed as Exhibit  (10)-15 to the  Company's  Annual Report on
            Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,  1995,  is hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(10)-16     Employment  Agreement,  dated  July 23,  1986,  between  HEALTHSOUTH
            Rehabilitation Corporation and Richard M. Scrushy, as amended, filed
            as Exhibit (10)-16 to the Compa- ny's Annual Report on Form 10-K for
            the Fiscal Year Ended December 31, 1995, is hereby  incorporated  by
            reference.
(10)-17     Third Amended and Restated Credit  Agreement,  dated as of April 11,
            1996, between HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and NationsBank, N.A.
(10)-18     Form  of  Indemnity   Agreement  entered  into  between  HEALTHSOUTH
            Rehabilitation  Corporation  and  each of its  Directors,  filed  as
            Exhibit (10)-13 to the Company's  Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
            Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,  1991,  is hereby  incorporated  by
            reference.
(10)-19     Surgical Health Corporation 1992 Stock Option Plan, filed as Exhibit
            10(aa) to Surgical Health  Corporation's  Registration  Statement on
            Form S-4 (Commission File No. 33- 70582), is hereby  incorporated by
            reference.

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EXHIBIT
NO.                                DESCRIPTION
- ---------   --------------------------------------------------------------------
(10)-20     Surgical Health Corporation 1993 Stock Option Plan, filed as Exhibit
            10(bb) to Surgical Health  Corporation's  Registration  Statement on
            Form S-4 (Commission File No. 33- 70582), is hereby  incorporated by
            reference.
(10)-21     Surgical Health Corporation 1994 Stock Option Plan, filed as Exhibit
            10(pp) to Surgical  Health  Corporation's  Quarterly  Report on Form
            10-Q  for  the  Quarter   Ended   September   30,  1994,  is  hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(10)-22     Heritage  Surgical  Corporation  1992 Stock  Option  Plan,  filed as
            Exhibit 4(d) to the Com- pany's  Registration  Statement on Form S-8
            (Commission File No. 33-60231), is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-23     Heritage  Surgical  Corporation  1993 Stock  Option  Plan,  filed as
            Exhibit 4(e) to the Com- pany's  Registration  Statement on Form S-8
            (Commission File No. 33-60231), is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-24     Sutter Surgery Centers,  Inc. 1993 Stock Option Plan,  Non-Qualified
            Stock  Option  Plan and  Agreement  (Saibeni),  Non-Qualified  Stock
            Option Plan and Agreement  (Shah),  Non- Qualified Stock Option Plan
            and  Agreement   (Akella),   Non-Qualified  Stock  Option  Plan  and
            Agreement (Kelly) and Non-Qualified  Stock Option Plan and Agreement
            (May),  filed as Exhibits 4(a) - 4(f) to the Company's  Registration
            Statement on Form S-8 (Commission File No.
            33-64615), are hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-25     Surgical  Care  Affiliates  Incentive  Stock Plan of 1986,  filed as
            Exhibit  10(g) to Surgical Care  Affiliates  Inc.'s Annual Report on
            Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended  December  31,  1993,  is hereby
            incorporated by reference.
(10)-26     Surgical Care  Affiliates 1990  Non-Qualified  Stock Option Plan for
            Non-Employee  Directors,  filed as Exhibit  10(i) to  Surgical  Care
            Affiliates,  Inc.'s  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year
            Ended December 31, 1990, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-27     Professional Sports Care Management, Inc. 1992 Stock Option Plan, as
            amended,  filed as Exhibits 10.1 - 10.3 to Professional  Sports Care
            Management,  Inc.'s  Registration  Statement on Form S-1 (Commission
            File No. 33-81654), is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-28     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 (Commission File No.  33-81654),
            is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-29     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 (Commission
            File No. 33-81654), is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-30     ReadiCare,  Inc.  1991  Stock  Option  Plan,  filed as an exhibit to
            ReadiCare,  Inc.'s  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the Fiscal  Year
            Ended February 29, 1992, is hereby incorporated by reference.
(10)-31     ReadiCare,  Inc. Stock Option Plan for  Non-Employee  Directors,  as
            amended,  filed as an exhibit to  ReadiCare,  Inc's Annual Report on
            Form 10-K for the Fiscal  Year  Ended  February  29,  1992 and as an
            exhibit  to  ReadiCare,  Inc.'s  Annual  Report on Form 10-K for the
            Fiscal Year Ended  February  28,  1994,  is hereby  incorporated  by
            reference.
(11)        HEALTHSOUTH Corporation and Subsidiaries,  Computation of Income Per
            Share.
(21)        Subsidiaries of HEALTHSOUTH Corporation.
(23)        Consent of Ernst & Young LLP.

    

     (d) Financial Statement Schedules.

       Schedule II: Valuation and Qualifying Accounts

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               SCHEDULE II -- VALUATION AND QUALIFYING ACCOUNTS


   
<TABLE>
<CAPTION>
             COLUMN A                  COLUMN B                 COLUMN C               COLUMN D      COLUMN E
- ------------------------------------ -------------- -------------------------------- ------------- --------------
                                                      ADDITIONS        ADDITIONS
                                      BALANCE AT      CHARGED TO      CHARGED TO
                                     BEGINNING OF     COSTS AND     OTHER ACCOUNTS    DEDUCTIONS    BALANCE AT
            DESCRIPTION                 PERIOD         EXPENSES        DESCRIBE        DESCRIBE    END OF PERIOD
- ------------------------------------ -------------- --------------- ---------------- ------------- --------------
                                                    (IN THOUSANDS)
<S>                                  <C>            <C>             <C>              <C>           <C>
Year ended December 31, 1994:
 Allowance for doubtful accounts       $30,511         $32,904      $     7,041 (1)  $31,038 (2)     $ 39,418
                                       ---------       --------     -----------      ------------    ---------
Year ended December 31, 1995:
 Allowance for doubtful accounts       $ 39,418        $37,659      $    18,750 (1)  $44,684 (2)     $51,143
                                       ---------       --------     -----------      ------------    ---------
Year ended December 31, 1996:
 Allowance for doubtful accounts       $51,143         $54,112      $    13,643 (1)  $53,391 (2)     $65,507
                                       ---------       --------     -----------      ------------    ---------
</TABLE>
    

   
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(1) Allowances of acquisitions in years 1994, 1995 and 1996, respectively.

(2) Write-offs of uncollectible patient accounts receivable.
    

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                                  SIGNATURES

     Pursuant  to  the  requirements  of  Section  13 or 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange  Act  of  1934,  the Registrant has duly caused this Amendment No. 2 to
this  Report  to  be  signed  on  its  behalf by the undersigned, thereunto duly
authorized.


                                        HEALTHSOUTH CORPORATION



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



Date: August 26, 1997


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