Kent Thiry

Type: Person

Name: Kent Thiry

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 2 reports

DaVita sets $300M aside to settle investigations

DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. has $300 million put aside to settle investigations alleging the Denver company paid kickbacks to doctors to send patients to its kidney dialysis centers, The Denver Post reports.The settlement funds were disclosed during ... [Published Denver Business Journal - May 10 2013]

Entities: DaVita Inc, Denver (Colorado, United States), Kent Thiry, DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Motley Fool

Berkshire Won't Be Buying This Health Care Company After All

Help yourself with the Fool's FREE and easy new watchlist service today.If you're wondering which company Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-B ) (NYSE: BRK-A ) might buy next, go ahead and cross DaVita Healthcare Partners (NYSE: DVA ) off your list.As it ... [Published Motley Fool Discussion Boards - May 08 2013]

Entities: DaVita Inc, Motley Fool, Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Health Care, Warren E Buffett

First reported May 08 2013 - Updated May 08 2013 - 1 reports

DaVita Inc

DaVita HealthCare, Berkshire Agree to Standstill Agreement

DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (DVA) moved to resolve two lingering uncertainties Tuesday, reaching an agreement to constrain Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.A, BRK.B) from engineering a takeover of the firm, and setting aside $300 million ... [Published Capital.gr - May 08 2013]

Entities: DaVita Inc, Deadlock, Health Care, Kent Thiry

First reported May 02 2013 - Updated May 02 2013 - 1 reports

Conn's Inc

DaVita HealthCare Partners Surpasses 2,000 Clinics, 50,000 Teammates as of Q1 2013

DENVER - (BUSINESS WIRE) - DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. (NYSE:DVA) today announced that the company has reached two important milestones as of the end of the first quarter of 2013 - owning or operating more than 2,000 centers, and employing more than ... [Published NewsBlaze - May 02 2013]

Entities: DaVita Inc, Health Care, Conn's Inc, Kent Thiry, DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Legendary Investors Bet Big on Boomer Biotechs

In New York City, you can't walk into a Starbucks and feign dietary ignorance while ordering your favorite Frappuccino. The calorie cost stares back at you as clearly as the price.From Wall Street to the White House with obesity strongly linked to the ... [Published Minyanville - May 01 2013]

Entities: DaVita Inc, Phillip Frost, SafeStitch Medical Inc, Dialysis, Obesity

First reported Apr 17 2013 - Updated Apr 17 2013 - 1 reports

Kent Thiry, John and Anna Sie to receive Woodrow Wilson Awards

John Sie, the founder and former chairman of Starz Entertainment Group, and his wife, Anna, along with DaVita's chairman and CEO, Kent Thiry, are to receive Woodrow Wilson Awards at a dinner that begins at 6 p.m. Thursday in the Seawell Grand Ballroo ... [Published Denver Post - Apr 17 2013]

Entities: Kent Thiry, Woodrow Wilson, Denver School of Science and Technology, Hank Brown

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

The Restaurant Group plc

Penny Parker On The Town: Writer does Denver but would rather ditch

Really, dude?Did David Landsel , contributing editor at Airfarewatchdog.com, get bullied by a bison during visits to Colorado? Landsel recently wrote the story 10 Terribly Overrated Destinations (And Where to Travel Instead), which ran in the “Huffington ... [Published INDenver Times - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: Pancreatic Cancer, ACE, Cancer Research, The Restaurant Group plc, Larissa Herda

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

DaVita: Going Beyond Kidney Care in Push to Overhaul Health Care

Nearly half a million Americans depend on kidney dialysis to keep them alive and one in three of those patients gets their treatment from a company called DaVita (DVA). High demand has this Denver-based health care company growing faster than ever.“When ... [Published Yahoo! Finance - Apr 15 2013]

Entities: DaVita Inc, Kidney, Kent Thiry

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Profiles in workplace culture

The Denver Post selected four companies, from among its 114 Top Workplaces employers, that have established unique and positive corporate cultures. Here are their profiles:Physician Health PartnersHow does a company measure joy? Physician Health Partners ... [Published Denver Post - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Ken Nielsen, Chris Terrill, Physician, DaVita Inc

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Open primaries in Colorado are one way to counter partisan politics

In his farewell address to the nation in 1796, President George Washington provided what has proven to be a remarkably insightful warning about the influence of political parties. These parties, Washington penned, "serve to organize faction, to give it ... [Published Denver Post - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: George Washington, Democracy, Kent Thiry

First reported Apr 14 2013 - Updated Apr 14 2013 - 1 reports

Colorado's Pitch For New Business: Healthy, Lean Workers Cost Less

The cost of doing business may be lower in areas where there’s a “culture of health.” And that’s put Colorado, which has the lowest adult obesity rate in the nation, on the map for companies looking to relocate or expand.Kelly Brough is proud of this. ... [Published Palm Beach Interactive - Apr 14 2013]

Entities: Kent Thiry, DaVita Inc, Obesity, Workers

First reported Apr 12 2013 - Updated Apr 12 2013 - 1 reports

Henry Stewart: Can a Workplace Be Democratic?

The 51 "Most Democratic Workplaces" in the world were announced today in the 2013 Worldblu Awards. These come from ten different countries, dozens of industries and vary in size from 5 employees to 50,000. This year twelve of those organizations are based ... [Published Huffington Post UK - Apr 12 2013]

Entities: Henry Stewart, Democracy, BrandWatch, DaVita Inc

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The money set aside is part of a "comprehensive offer to settle all the related civil, administrative and criminal matters" Thiry told analysts. The investigations are "solely about physician relationships" and do not concern patient care, he said

Denver-based DaVita sets aside $300M to settle kickback investigations [Published Denver Post - May 10 2013]

"Improving quality of care while reducing costs should be the primary goal of any health care provider," Thiry said. "it's just the right thing to do."

DAVITA HEALTHCARE PARTNERS INC: DaVita HealthCare Partners Surpasses 2,000 Clinics, 50,000 Teamma ... [Published 4 Traders - May 02 2013]

..."The aging of America ... is going to lead to more demand for our services," said Kent Thiry, DaVita's CEO. "our mission is, however, to help prevent prevent kidney failure, to help prevent other chronic illnesses, and at the same time, reduce costs and improve quality once people have them."

Legendary Investors Bet Big on Boomer Biotechs [Published Minyanville - May 01 2013]

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