• DaVita Integrated Kidney Care

    Delivering holistic value-based care to patients
    across the continuum

Transforming Kidney Care

DaVita Integrated Kidney Care1 (DaVita IKC) is the country’s largest kidney care provider accredited by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). We provide comprehensive care and complex chronic condition management nationwide to patients, whether they are in the early stages of kidney disease, transitioning to dialysis, seeking a transplant or receiving life-sustaining dialysis.

27K+

patients receiving IKC services every month

20 Years

of integrated kidney care experience

$1.7B

medical costs under management

Health Plans

Discover the benefits our high-quality integrated care, dialysis, in-home and acute programs could offer.

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Physicians

Together, nephrologists and DaVita IKC can improve outcomes for kidney care patients.

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Patients

If you are a part of the DaVita IKC program, your integrated care team is available to help you lead a healthier life.

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Delivering Holistic Care Across the Kidney Care Continuum

DaVita IKC enables patients’ nephrologists and care teams to meet their total health needs, both inside and outside of the dialysis center, including management of comorbid conditions. The vision is to provide coordinated care to help delay CKD progression, smooth the transition from CKD to ESKD and optimize ESKD treatment.

Predictive analytics for early patient identification, timely intervention and proactive management of comorbid conditions to help delay CKD progression

Patient education helps patients manage their health and determine the modality that best fits their lifestyle, including home and transplant

Care coordination to help patients schedule appointments, access resources and find support


Active collaboration between nephrologists and care teams to provide holistic patient care, including comorbid condition management

Partnering with DaVita IKC

DaVita IKC’s payment models include shared savings, fully delegated value-based and traditional fee-for-service arrangements. DaVita IKC has been fully capitated in the industry’s longest-running Medicare Advantage ESRD Chronic Condition Special Needs Plan (C-SNP) since 2011 and now operates nine ESRD C-SNPs, three ESRD Seamless Care Organizations (ESCOs)2 and more than a dozen programs with commercial payors and health systems. DaVita IKC operates programs under the DaVita IKC and VillageHealth brands.

DaVita IKC’s approach is proven to reduce total cost of care, demonstrated by a 17% savings in addressable costs over five years3. Holistic kidney care has also demonstrated improved clinical outcomes and a positive overall patient experience:

48%

Decrease in hospital readmission rates
in 20184

23%

Decrease in mortality for DaVita SNP patients compared with similar patients in similar counties5

74

Net Promoter Score®6, which rates services as exceptional by patients surveyed

Offering Personalized Care

“I believe that DaVita IKC is not just an organization that is focused on the disease itself. They’re focused on the person. They made it personal, and that made things much easier for me to get through.”
–Sherrie, DaVita IKC patient

Meet the Program Team Leading the Transformation

Todd Ezrine

General Manager, Group Vice President

Martha Wofford

Group Vice President

Nathan Lohmeyer

Vice President, Government Programs

David Roer, MD, FACP, FAHA, FASN

Vice President, Medical Affairs

Briah Carey

Division Vice President, Commercial Programs

Eric Franco

Vice President, Finance

Stephen Bentfield, JD

Group General Counsel

Get in Touch

For Partners

If you are a health plan, physician or hospital interested in collaborating with DaVita Integrated Kidney Care*, email Partnerships@davita.com.

For Patients

Learn more about how our integrated care team can help you. Simply call 1-833-IKC-DAVITA (TTY 711). We are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

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(1) DaVita Integrated Kidney Care (“DaVita IKC”) is the integrated care division DaVita Kidney Care with programs operating under the DaVita® and VillageHealth® brands for Total Renal Care, Inc. and VillageHealth DM, LLC, respectively. (2) Learn more about DaVita IKC’s ESCOs: Philadelphia and Camden ESCO, Phoenix-Tucson ESCO and South Florida ESCO, (3) In specific markets; ending in 2018; Commerial members experiences a 33% decline in inpatient care costs, 41% decline in professional costs, 45% increase in prescription drug costs, and 27% decline in other expenses. For Medicare Advantage members, these costs are changed (28%), (16%), 47% and (20%) respectively., (4) Source: 2018 USRDS Annual Report for 2016 data; 2017 DaVita C-SNP data in specific markets (5) Source: DaVita Clinical Research Analysis; DaVita Kidney Care internal data; survey data Jan 2013 – Dec 2018, (6) Net Promoter, Net Promoter System, Net Promoter Score, NPS and the NPS-related emoticons are registered trademarks of Bain & Company, Inc., Fred Reichheld and Satmetrix Systems, Inc.