Fresenius Medical Care

Fresenius Medical Care — Dialysis chain — VA community care · freseniusmedicalcare.com.

What it sells

Fresenius Medical Care is, with DaVita, one of the two chains dominating U.S. dialysis (roughly 74% combined per HHS’s 2026 kidney plan) and a VA community dialysis provider under the same audited arrangements. No Fresenius-only VA contract total was found in this build’s research; none is printed.

The contract and the money

VA community dialysis via the Community Care Network / Nationwide Dialysis Services Contracts (see the VA OIG audit below). Fresenius also settled with the VA and DOJ over reimbursement for dialysis services to veterans (Jan 2009–Feb 2011), an agreement expected to raise its 2017 revenue recognition by about EUR 100 million (company announcement).

• About $107.3 million (EUR 100M revenue recognition, 2017) — From Fresenius’s VA/DOJ dialysis-reimbursement settlement — a company-announced figure for a settlement, not a contract award. (Fresenius Medical Care announcement)

On the record

What the government’s own watchdogs and prosecutors have published about this company, newest first. The summaries are ours; the findings are theirs.

• Fresenius Agrees to Pay $5.2 Million to Resolve Allegations It Overbilled Medicare for Hepatitis B Tests (DOJ) (2019-10-10) — DOJ: Fresenius billed Medicare for frequent Hepatitis B surface antigen tests for dialysis patients it knew were immune — in many cases against treating physicians’ orders (2003–2010 conduct); a whistleblower False Claims Act case.
• Fresenius to pay $231 million to resolve DOJ/SEC foreign bribery investigations (2019-03) — DOJ/SEC: Fresenius admitted paying bribes to publicly employed health and government officials to obtain or retain business in 13 countries (2007–2016), yielding over $140 million in profits. A foreign-conduct case, not a VA case — printed for the full record.
• VA OIG: VA Needs to Improve Community Dialysis Oversight — VA-wide finding, not Fresenius-specific: nationwide dialysis providers were paid above Medicare rates and VA oversight of community dialysis was ineffective.

If this company is in your chain

• Tell Your Story — this site publishes documented family records. If this company is in your veteran’s chain, your documents belong on the record next to ours.
• VA OIG Hotline: 800-488-8244 — report suspected wrongdoing, inadequate patient care, or mismanagement straight to the Inspector General.

Middlemen data checked 2026-10-25 against the sources cited on this page. If a figure or a fact here is wrong, tell us — corrections are the point of this site.