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Medical payables (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2016
Health Care Organizations [Abstract] |
Components of Changes in Healthcare Costs Payable | The following table shows the components of changes in the healthcare costs payable for the year ended December 31, 2016 and 2015:
|  | December 31, |
|  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
Healthcare costs payable, beginning of the year |  | $ | 212,641 |  |  | $ | 214,405 |
Add: Components of incurred healthcare costs |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  |  | 1,673,742 |  |  |  | 1,587,036 |
Prior years |  |  | (141 | ) |  |  | 1,523 |
Total incurred healthcare costs |  |  | 1,673,601 |  |  |  | 1,588,559 |
Less: Claims paid |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Current year |  |  | 1,473,723 |  |  |  | 1,397,378 |
Prior years |  |  | 198,244 |  |  |  | 192,945 |
Total claims paid |  |  | 1,671,967 |  |  |  | 1,590,323 |
Healthcare costs payable, end of the year |  | $ | 214,275 |  |  | $ | 212,641 |

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