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Medical payables (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2017

Health Care Organizations [Abstract]

Components of Changes in Health Care Costs Payable

The following table shows the components of changes in healthcare costs payables:

	For the nine months ended September 30, 2017
Healthcare costs payables, beginning of the period	$	214,275
Add: Components of incurred health care costs
Current year	1,509,433
Prior years	(12,597		)
Acquired balance(1)	3,218
Total incurred health care costs	1,500,054
Less: Claims paid
Current year	1,226,953
Prior years	194,285
Total claims paid	1,421,238
Healthcare costs payables, end of the period	$	293,091

(1) Represents healthcare cost payables acquired in the Magan Medical Clinic, Inc. (Magan) acquisition. See Note 15 to these condensed consolidated financial statements for further discussion of the Magan acquisition.

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