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Earnings per share (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Reconciliations of Numerators and Denominators Used to Calculate Basic and Diluted Net Income Per Share | The reconciliations of the numerators and denominators used to calculate basic and diluted net income per share are as follows:
|  | Year ended December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |  |  | 2012 |
|  | (shares in thousands) |
Basic: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income from continuing operations attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | 723,114 |  |  | $ | 620,197 |  |  | $ | 536,236 |
Discontinued operations attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  |  | — |  |  |  | 13,249 |  |  |  | (219 | )
Net income attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. for basic earnings per share calculation |  | $ | 723,114 |  |  | $ | 633,446 |  |  | $ | 536,017 |
Weighted average shares outstanding during the period |  |  | 214,496 |  |  |  | 212,128 |  |  |  | 192,396 |
Vested stock units |  |  | — |  |  |  | 5 |  |  |  | 6 |
Contingently returnable shares held in escrow for the DaVita HealthCare Partners merger |  |  | (2,194 | ) |  |  | (2,194 | ) |  |  | (366 | )
Weighted average shares for basic earnings per share calculation |  |  | 212,302 |  |  |  | 209,939 |  |  |  | 192,036 |
Basic income from continuing operations per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | 3.41 |  |  | $ | 2.95 |  |  | $ | 2.79 |
Basic income from discontinued operations per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  |  | — |  |  |  | 0.07 |  |  |  | — |
Basic net income per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | 3.41 |  |  | $ | 3.02 |  |  | $ | 2.79 |
Diluted: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Income from continuing operations attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | 723,114 |  |  | $ | 620,197 |  |  | $ | 536,236 |
Discontinued operations attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  |  | — |  |  |  | 13,249 |  |  |  | (219 | )
Net income attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. for diluted earnings per share calculation |  | $ | 723,114 |  |  | $ | 633,446 |  |  | $ | 536,017 |
Weighted average shares outstanding during the period |  |  | 214,496 |  |  |  | 212,128 |  |  |  | 192,396 |
Vested stock units |  |  | — |  |  |  | 5 |  |  |  | 6 |
Assumed incremental shares from stock plans |  |  | 2,432 |  |  |  | 2,631 |  |  |  | 3,540 |
Weighted average shares for diluted earnings per share calculation |  |  | 216,928 |  |  |  | 214,764 |  |  |  | 195,942 |
Diluted income from continuing operations per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | 3.33 |  |  | $ | 2.89 |  |  | $ | 2.74 |
Diluted income from discontinued operations per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  |  | — |  |  |  | 0.06 |  |  |  | — |
Diluted net income per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | 3.33 |  |  | $ | 2.95 |  |  | $ | 2.74 |
Anti-dilutive stock-settled awards excluded from calculation(1) |  |  | 1,715 |  |  |  | 4,194 |  |  |  | 2,616 |
(1) | Shares associated with stock-settled stock appreciation rights and stock options excluded from the diluted denominator calculation because they are anti-dilutive under the treasury stock method.

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- Definition Tabular disclosure of an entity's basic and diluted earnings per share calculations, including a reconciliation of numerators and denominators of the basic and diluted per-share computations for income from continuing operations. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 260 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 1 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=6371337&loc=d3e3550-109257 + Details
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