DaVita news and information

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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DaVita, the Denver-based kidney-care provider, has forged its second international deal this month and will enter the dialysis market in Taiwan.
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The U.S. attorney's office in St. Louis has dropped its investigation of DaVita without taking any action against the kidney-care provider.
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Fighting to crack the Chicago market, dialysis provider DaVita says the state facilities board is allowing it to open fewer new clinics than its much bigger rival, Fresenius Medical Care.
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