Business Segment Information |
11. 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.
North America International Segment Total Corporate Total
Three months ended September 30, 2009
Net revenue external customers $ 1,949,384 $ 939,115 $ 2,888,499 $ 170 $ 2,888,669
Inter - segment revenue 572 20,668 21,240 (21,240) -
Total net revenue 1,949,956 959,783 2,909,739 (21,070) 2,888,669
Depreciation and amortization (67,995) (48,005) (116,000) (2,291) (118,291)
Operating income 324,723 156,589 481,312 (29,987) 451,325
Capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments 81,076 90,806 171,882 162 172,044
Three months ended September 30, 2008
Net revenue external customers $ 1,770,820 $ 942,278 $ 2,713,098 $ 167 $ 2,713,265
Inter - segment revenue 1,146 20,849 21,995 (21,995) -
Total net revenue 1,771,966 963,127 2,735,093 (21,828) 2,713,265
Depreciation and amortization (61,156) (44,388) (105,544) (2,352) (107,896)
Operating income 295,809 152,083 447,892 (25,702) 422,190
Capital expenditures, acquisitions and investments 109,220 79,050 188,270 13,868 202,138
Nine months ended September 30, 2009
Net revenue external customers $ 5,599,543 $ 2,612,029 $ 8,211,572 $ 476 $ 8,212,048
Inter - segment revenue 1,805 59,661 61,466 (61,466) -
Total net revenue 5,601,348 2,671,690 8,273,038 (60,990) 8,212,048
Depreciation and amortization (196,450) (131,178) (327,628) |