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Dialysis Patient Count

measures the number of patients served by the issuer's U.S. dialysis business at period end.

By Lee BaileyPublished Sep 25, 2026
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Sep 25, 2026Use the dated article and cited sources for the definition, examples, and stated limitations.
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  1. Annual treatment volume was about 143 treatments per patient
  2. Patient count and market share imply a roughly 557,000-patient U.S. market
  3. Patient count is not annual unique-patient flow
  4. Part of the Dialysis Provider Economics
  5. See It in Company Research
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Dialysis Patient Count measures the number of patients served by DaVita's U.S. dialysis business at period end.

DaVita reported approximately 200,500 U.S. patients in its 2025 disclosures.

Annual treatment volume was about 143 treatments per patient

DaVita reported 28,733,980 U.S. dialysis treatments.

Dividing treatment volume by 200,500 patients gives approximately 143 treatments per patient per year as a broad activity-density measure.

Patient count and market share imply a roughly 557,000-patient U.S. market

DaVita estimated approximately 36% U.S. market share by patients served.

Dividing 200,500 by 36% implies a market of about 557,000 patients, but this is only a rough inversion of DaVita's own market-share estimate.

Use Dialysis U.S. Market Share for the issuer-estimated share.

Patient count is not annual unique-patient flow

Starts, deaths, transplants, transfers, and modality changes can make a point-in-time patient count differ from annual unique patients treated.

Primary source: DaVita 2025 Form 10-K.

Part of the Dialysis Provider Economics

Connect treatment activity, reimbursement per treatment, patient-care cost, modality and payor mix, collections, network footprint, market share, and segment profitability across a dialysis provider.

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