Business Segment Information |
Business Segment InformationThe Company has identified three business segments, North America, International, and Asia Pacific, which were determined based upon how the Company manages its businesses. All segments are primarily engaged in providing dialysis care services and manufacturing and distribution products and equipment for the treatment of ESRD. In the U.S., the Company is also engaged in performing clinical laboratory testing and providing inpatient dialysis services and other services under contract to hospitals. The Company has aggregated the International and Asia Pacific operating segments as International. The segments are aggregated due to their similar economic characteristics. These characteristics include the same services provided and products sold, the same type patient population, similar methods of distribution of products and services and similar economic environments.Management evaluates each segment using a measure that reflects all of the segments controllable revenues and expenses. Management believes that the most appropriate measure in this regard is operating income which measures the Companys source of earnings. Financing is a corporate function, which the Companys segments do not control. Therefore, the Company does not include interest expense relating to financing as a segment measure. Similarly, the Company does not allocate corporate costs, which relate primarily to certain headquarters overhead charges, including accounting and finance, professional services, etc. because the Company believes that these costs are also not within the control of the individual segments. The Company also regards income taxes to be outside the segments control. Information pertaining to the Companys business segments for the three and six-month periods ended June 30, 2009 and 2008 is set forth below.
NorthAmerica International SegmentTotal Corporate Total
Three months ended June 30, 2009
Net revenue external customers $ 1,876,347 $ 887,071 $ 2,763,418 $ 151 $ 2,763,569
Inter - segment revenue 769 21,467 22,236 (22,236) -
Total net revenue 1,877,116 908,538 2,785,654 (22,085) 2,763,569
Depreciation and amortization (64,762) (43,420) (108,182) (2,189) (110,371)
Operating income 297,495 153,548 451,043 (33,406) 417,637
Capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments 106,149 80,318 186,467 315 186,782
Three months ended June 30, 2008
Net revenue external customers $ 1,714,570 $ 950,566 $ 2,665,136 $ 160 $ 2,665,296
Inter - segment revenue - 19,900 19,900 (19,900) -
Total net revenue 1,714,570 970,466 2,685,036 (19,740) 2,665,296
Depreciation and amortization (57,512) (42,835) (100,347) (1,891) (102,238)
Operating income 289,854 166,681 456,535 (27,490) 429,045
Capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments 107,120 92,780 199,900 45,156 245,056
Six months ended June 30, 2009
Net revenue external customers $ 3,650,159 $ 1,672,914 $ 5,323,073 $ 306 $ 5,323,379
Inter - segment revenue 1,233 38,993 40,226 (40,226) -
Total net revenue 3,651,392 |