Short interest in Community Health Systems Inc (NYSE:CYH) increased during the last reporting period, rising from 11.16M to 11.70M. This put 8.98% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Based on the recent average volume of 2.81M shares traded per day, it would take 4.16 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.