DaVita news and information

DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, is expanding its multispecialty medical group operations into a fifth state with the acquisition of Arizona Integrated Physicians.
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With its acquisition of multispecialty medical group HealthCare Partners, dialysis giant DaVita has ventured beyond the realm of kidneys toward serving the whole patient.
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The CMS Innovation Center in February unveiled the first Medicare accountable care program for specialty care with the Comprehensive ESRD Care Initiative, which targets patients with end-stage renal disease.
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DaVita HealthCare Partners, Denver, has announced that Dr. Craig Samitt has been named executive VP of its HealthCare Partners division, which manages and operates medical groups and affiliated physician networks in California, Florida, Nevada and New Mexico.
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Garry Menzel will join DaVita Healthcare Partners as CFO in September. Menzel, 48, will start at the Denver-based company as senior VP of finance and then officially begin serving as CFO after the company files its third-quarter financial results. Since 2008, Menzel has served as COO and CFO...
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Garry Menzel will join DaVita Healthcare Partners, one of the nation's largest providers of dialysis services, as its CFO later this year.
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Dialysis service providers would see a 9.4% cut to their Medicare pay in 2014 under a proposed CMS update issued late Monday.
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U.S. Renal Care will acquire Ambulatory Services of America under a definitive merger agreement that the Plano, Texas-based dialysis company announced Tuesday.
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DaVita HealthCare Partners rallied the most since 2009 after signing an agreement that was seen as setting a path for Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway to negotiate for a possible takeover.
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Physicians are in the vanguard of developing accountable care organizations in the sprawling Los Angeles market, a new report found, with large physician practices driving the change.
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