Community Health Systems Inc. is a Fortune 500 company based in Franklin, Tennessee. It is the largest non-urban provider of general hospital healthcare services in the United States in terms of number of acute care facilities. As of January 2014, it operates 206 hospitals in 29 states.The company operates 25 of the fifty hospitals in the United States that charge uninsured patients the most - all charge such patients more than ten times the actual cost of care.