Item 5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders

On May 19, 2022, Surgery Partners, Inc. (the "Company") held its 2022 Annual Meeting of Stockholders (the "Annual Meeting"). As of the close of business on March 30, 2022, the record date for the Annual Meeting (the "Record Date"), 89,904,913 shares of the Company's common stock were outstanding and entitled to vote.

The matters voted on at the Annual Meeting and the final results of such voting were as follows:

Proposal 1: Election of Class I directors. The stockholders elected each of the director nominees to serve as a Class I director until the Company's 2025 annual meeting of stockholders and until each such successor has been elected and qualified. Each of the nominees was a current Class I director of the Company who was re-elected. The results of the vote were as follows:



Name                       Votes For       Votes Withheld        Broker Non-Votes
John A. Deane              76,409,507         9,698,073             1,470,506
Teresa DeLuca, M.D.        77,661,154         8,446,426             1,470,506
Wayne S. DeVeydt           76,810,213         9,297,367             1,470,506

Proposal 2: Advisory vote on executive compensation. The stockholders approved on a non-binding, advisory basis the compensation paid by the Company to its named executive officers, as disclosed in the Company's Definitive Proxy Statement on Schedule 14A, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission on April 7, 2022. The results of the vote were as follows:

Votes For Votes Against Abstentions Broker Non-Votes


 84,240,342         1,818,124            49,114             1,470,506

Proposal 3: Ratification of the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for fiscal year 2022. The stockholders ratified the appointment of Deloitte & Touche LLP as the Company's independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2022. The results of the vote were as follows:



 Votes For        Votes Against       Abstentions
 87,555,166          13,327              9,593

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