FMS
Fresenius MedicalยทNYSE
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FMS Profile
Fresenius Medical Care Ag
The nation's leading provider of kidney care services
Healthcare Providers and Services
08/05/1996
10/01/1996
New York Stock Exchange
111,513
12-31
Depository Receipts (Ordinary Shares)
Else-Kroner Strasse 1, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany
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Fresenius Medical Care AG was originally established as a joint stock company on August 5, 1996 and registered as a joint stock company on February 10, 2006. The company is a German partnership (Kommanditgesellschaft auf Aktien), the world's largest kidney dialysis company, operating in the field of dialysis care and dialysis products for the treatment of end-stage renal disease (" ESRD "). In addition to providing dialysis treatment, the Company's dialysis care business includes pharmacy services and vascular access surgery services (collectively referred to as "extended services "). The Company's dialysis products business includes the manufacture and distribution of products for the treatment of ESRD. The Company's dialysis business is vertically integrated, providing dialysis treatment to the dialysis clinics it owns or operates and offering a wide range of products to those clinics. In addition, the company sells dialysis products to other dialysis service providers. In the United States (" US "), the company also provides laboratory testing services, as well as inpatient dialysis services and other services under contract with hospitals.
