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American Renal Associates Holdings, Inc. – ‘10-K’ for 12/31/16 – ‘XML’

On:  Wednesday, 3/8/17, at 5:31pm ET   ·   For:  12/31/16   ·   Accession #:  1498068-17-12   ·   File #:  1-37751

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 3/08/17  American Renal Assocs Holdin… Inc 10-K       12/31/16   97:12M

Annual Report   —   Form 10-K   —   Sect. 13 / 15(d) – SEA’34
Filing Table of Contents

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                Subsidiaries                                                     
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34: R21         Leases                                              HTML     65K 
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38: R25         Stock-Based Compensation                            HTML    142K 
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41: R28         Certain Legal Matters                               HTML     38K 
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43: R30         Concentrations                                      HTML     31K 
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                (Policies)                                                       
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                Subsidiaries (Tables)                                            
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                Accounts Receivable (Details)                                    
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                Amortizable Intangible Assets (Details)                          
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                Identified Non Amortizable Intangible Assets and                 
                Goodwill (Details)                                               
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                Impairment of Long Lived Assets (Details)                        
65: R52         SUMMARY OF SIGNIFICANT ACCOUNTING POLICIES -        HTML     39K 
                Recent Accounting Pronouncements (Details)                       
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                compensation costs (Details)                                     
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