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Medical payables (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2014
Health Care Organizations [Abstract] |
Components of Changes in Health Care Costs Payable | The following table shows the components of changes in the health care costs payable for the year ended December 31, 2014 and 2013:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2014 |  |  | 2013 |
Health care costs payable, beginning of the year |  | $ | 172,310 |  |  | $ | 119,512 |
Acquisitions and other adjustments |  |  | — |  |  |  | 26,575 |
Add: Components of incurred health care costs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  |  | 1,572,723 |  |  |  | 1,329,887 |
Prior years |  |  | 3,429 |  |  |  | (16,587 | )
Total incurred health care costs |  |  | 1,576,152 |  |  |  | 1,313,300 |
Less: Claims paid |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  |  | 1,378,137 |  |  |  | 1,169,455 |
Prior years |  |  | 155,920 |  |  |  | 117,622 |
Total claims paid |  |  | 1,534,057 |  |  |  | 1,287,077 |
Health care costs payable, end of the year |  | $ | 214,405 |  |  | $ | 172,310 |

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