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Segments | 3 Months Ended
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Mar. 31, 2020
Segments [Abstract] |
Segments | 3. Segments Service revenues and sales by business segment are shown in Footnote 2. After-tax earnings by business segment are as follows (in thousands):
| Three months ended March 31,
| 2020 |  | 2019
After-tax Income/(Loss) |  |  |  |  |
VITAS | $ | 41,279 |  | $ | 29,288
Roto-Rooter |  | 24,322 |  |  | 22,986
Total |  | 65,601 |  |  | 52,274
Corporate |  | (9,710) |  |  | (7,607)
Net income | $ | 55,891 |  | $ | 44,667
We report corporate administrative expenses and unallocated investing and financing income and expense not directly related to either segment as “Corporate”.

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- Definition The entire disclosure for reporting segments including data and tables. Reportable segments include those that meet any of the following quantitative thresholds a) it's reported revenue, including sales to external customers and intersegment sales or transfers is 10 percent or more of the combined revenue, internal and external, of all operating segments b) the absolute amount of its reported profit or loss is 10 percent or more of the greater, in absolute amount of 1) the combined reported profit of all operating segments that did not report a loss or 2) the combined reported loss of all operating segments that did report a loss c) its assets are 10 percent or more of the combined assets of all operating segments. + References Reference 1: http://fasb.org/us-gaap/role/ref/legacyRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 280 -URI http://asc.fasb.org/topic&trid=2134510 + Details
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