The company has issued the debt as senior notes in three series, which will accrue interest at 3.18 percent, 3.58 percent and at a rate equal to LIBOR, respectively.
“We announced with the Siemens acquisition that we were using cash on hand, so with rates at attractive levels it made sense for us to acquire debt to fund future capital projects,” said Cerner spokesperson Dan Smith in the report.
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