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3 Months Ended

Mar. 31, 2012

Service Revenues And Sales And After-Tax Earnings By Business Segment


		Three months ended
		March 31,
		2012			2011
Service Revenues and Sales
VITAS		$	260,847		$	235,673
Roto-Rooter			92,096			95,245
	Total	$	352,943		$	330,918

After-tax Earnings
VITAS		$	19,627		$	18,125
Roto-Rooter			7,496			8,511
	Total		27,123			26,636
Corporate			(6,678	)		(8,535	)
	Net income	$	20,445		$	18,101

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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