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Earnings per share (Tables) | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2015
Earnings Per Share [Abstract] |
Reconciliations of Numerators and Denominators Used to Calculate Basic and Diluted Earnings Per Share | The reconciliations of the numerators and denominators used to calculate basic and diluted earnings per share are as follows:
|  | Three months ended |  |
|  | March 31, |  |
|  | 2015 |  |  | 2014 |  |
Basic: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net (loss) income attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | (110,617 | ) |  | $ | 183,289 |  |
Weighted average shares outstanding during the period |  |  | 215,581 |  |  |  | 213,564 |  |
Vested stock units |  |  | — |  |  |  | 5 |  |
Contingently returnable shares held in escrow for the DaVita HealthCare Partners merger |  |  | (2,194 | ) |  |  | (2,194 | ) |
Weighted average shares for basic earnings per share calculation |  |  | 213,387 |  |  |  | 211,375 |  |
Basic net (loss) income per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | (0.52 | ) |  | $ | 0.87 |  |
Diluted: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Net (loss) income attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | (110,617 | ) |  | $ | 183,289 |  |
Weighted average shares outstanding during the period |  |  | 215,581 |  |  |  | 213,564 |  |
Vested stock units |  |  | — |  |  |  | 5 |  |
Contingently returnable shares held in escrow for the DaVita HealthCare Partners merger |  |  | (2,194 | ) |  |  | — |  |
Assumed incremental shares from stock plans |  |  | — |  |  |  | 2,550 |  |
Weighted average shares for diluted earnings per share calculation |  |  | 213,387 |  |  |  | 216,119 |  |
Diluted net (loss) income per share attributable to DaVita HealthCare Partners Inc. |  | $ | (0.52 | ) |  | $ | 0.85 |  |
Anti-dilutive potential common shares excluded from calculation |  |  | 5,992 |  | (1) |  | 2,999 |  | (2)
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(1) | Shares associated with stock-settled stock appreciation rights and contingently returnable shares that are excluded from the diluted denominator calculation because they are anti-dilutive due to the Company’s net loss.
(2) | Shares associated with stock-settled stock appreciation rights that are 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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