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SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM 6-K

REPORT OF FOREIGN PRIVATE ISSUER

PURSUANT TO RULE 13A-16 OR 15D-16 OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

For the month of October 2019

FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE AG & Co. KGaA
(Translation of registrant's name into English)

Else-Kröner Strasse 1
61346 Bad Homburg
Germany
(Address of principal executive offices)

        Indicate by check mark whether the registrant files or will file annual reports under cover of Form 20-F or Form 40-F.

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Interim Report of Financial Condition and Results of Operations for the three and nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018

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FINANCIAL INFORMATION

Management's discussion and analysis

In this report, "FMC-AG & Co. KGaA," or the "Company," "we," "us" or "our" refers to the Company or the Company and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as the context requires. You should read the following discussion and analysis of the results of operations of the Company and its subsidiaries in conjunction with our unaudited consolidated financial statements and related notes contained elsewhere in this report and our disclosures and discussions in our consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018 prepared in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards ("IFRS") as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board ("IASB"), using the euro as our reporting currency. At September 30, 2019, there were no IFRS or International Financial Reporting Interpretation Committee ("IFRIC") interpretations as endorsed by the European Union relevant for interim reporting that differed from IFRS as issued by the IASB.

The term "North America Segment" refers to our North America operating segment, the term "EMEA Segment" refers to the Europe, Middle East and Africa operating segment, the term "Asia-Pacific Segment" refers to our Asia-Pacific operating segment, and the term "Latin America Segment" refers to our Latin America operating segment. The term "Corporate" includes certain headquarters' overhead charges, including accounting and finance, centrally managed production, asset management, quality management, procurement and research and development. The abbreviation "M" is used to denote the presentation of amounts in millions. The term "Constant Currency" or at "Constant Exchange Rates" means that we have translated local currency revenue, operating income, net income attributable to shareholders of FMC-AG & Co. KGaA and other items for the current reporting period into euro using the prior year exchange rates to provide a comparable analysis without effect from exchange rate fluctuations on translation, as described below under "Financial condition and results of operations—II. Discussion of measures—Non-IFRS measures—Constant currency information."

Forward-looking statements

This report contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"). When used in this report, the words "outlook," "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," "seeks," "estimates" and similar expressions are generally intended to identify forward looking statements. Although we believe that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks and uncertainties, many of which cannot be predicted with accuracy and some of which might not even be anticipated, and future events and actual results, financial and otherwise, could differ materially from those set forth in or contemplated by the forward-looking statements contained elsewhere in this report. We have based these forward-looking statements on current estimates and assumptions made to the best of our knowledge. By their nature, such forward-looking statements involve risks, uncertainties, assumptions and other factors which could cause actual results, including our financial condition and profitability, to differ materially, positively or negatively, relative to the results expressly or implicitly described in or suggested by these statements. Moreover, forward-looking estimates or predictions derived from third parties' studies or information may prove to be inaccurate. Consequently, we cannot give any assurance regarding the future accuracy of the opinions set forth in this report or the actual occurrence of the projected developments described herein. In addition, even if our future results meet the expectations expressed here, those results may not be indicative of our performance in future periods.

These risks, uncertainties, assumptions, and other factors, including associated costs, could cause actual results to differ from our projected results and include, among others, the following:

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changes in governmental and commercial insurer reimbursement for our complete products and services portfolio, including the United States ("U.S.") Medicare reimbursement system for dialysis and other health care services, including potentially significant changes that could be enacted due to the announced intention of the Trump administration to continue its efforts to repeal and replace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("ACA");

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the outcome of government and internal investigations as well as litigation;

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risks relating to compliance current and future government regulations as well as sanctions and export control laws and regulations applicable to our business including, in the U.S., the Anti-Kickback Statute, the False Claims Act, the Stark Law, the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act,

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the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act ("FCPA") including the monitor agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice, the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, and outside the U.S., the European Union ("EU") Medical Device Directive, the EU General Data Protection Regulation, the two invoice policy and the Tendering and Bidding Law in China and other related local legislation as well as other comparable regulatory regimes in many of the countries where we supply health care services and/or products;

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possible future disruptions in federal government agencies' operations and funding that could negatively impact regulatory approvals for our pharmaceutical products, medical devices and regulatory guidance;

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the influence of commercial insurers and integrated care organizations, including efforts by these organizations to manage costs by limiting healthcare benefits, reducing provider reimbursement and/or restricting options for patient funding of health insurance premiums;

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the impact of health care, tax and trade law reforms and regulation, including those proposed and enacted by the Trump administration in the U.S.;

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product liability risks;

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risks relating to our ability to continue to make acquisitions;

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risks relating to our ability to attract and retain skilled employees, including shortages of skilled clinical personnel;

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the impact of currency fluctuations;

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potential impairment loss on assets in the Latin America Segment due to decreases in the recoverable amount of those assets relative to their book value;

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our ability to protect our information technology systems against cyber security attacks or prevent other data privacy or security breaches;

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changes in our costs of purchasing and utilization patterns for pharmaceuticals;

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introduction of generic or new pharmaceuticals and medical devices that compete with our products or services or the development of pharmaceuticals that greatly reduce the progression of chronic kidney disease;

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launch of new technology, advances in medical therapies, or new market entrants that compete with our medical businesses;

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changes in raw material and energy costs or the inability to procure raw materials;

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potential increases in tariffs and trade barriers that could result from withdrawal by the United States or other countries from multilateral trade agreements or the imposition of retaliatory tariffs and other countermeasures in the wake of trade disputes;

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collectability of our receivables, which depends primarily on the efficacy of our billing practices and the financial stability and liquidity of our governmental and commercial payors;

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our ability to achieve cost savings in various health care risk management programs in which we participate or intend to participate; and

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the greater size, market power, experience and product offerings of certain competitors in certain geographic regions and business lines.

Important factors that could contribute to such differences are noted in "Financial condition and results of operations—I. Overview" below, in note 13 of the notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited) included in this report, in note 22 of the notes to consolidated financial statements included in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018, as well as under "Risk Factors," "Business overview," "Operating and financial review and prospects," and elsewhere in that report.

Our business is also subject to other risks and uncertainties that we describe from time to time in our public filings. Developments in any of these areas could cause our results to differ materially from the results that we or others have projected or may project.

Our reported financial condition and results of operations are sensitive to accounting methods, assumptions and estimates that are the basis of our financial statements. The actual accounting policies,

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the judgments made in the selection and application of these policies as well as the sensitivities of reported results to changes in accounting policies, assumptions and estimates are factors to be considered along with our financial statements and the discussion under "Results of operations, financial position and net assets" below.

IFRS 16, Leases ("IFRS 16") replaces the straight-line operating lease expense for former leases under IAS 17, Leases ("IAS 17") with a depreciation charge for the lease asset and an interest expense on the lease liability as well as the classification of certain IAS 17 leases (such effects being, collectively "IFRS 16 Implementation"). As a result of the IFRS 16 Implementation, we have updated our accounting policies accordingly. Please refer to note 1 of the notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited) included in this report for further details on the updated policies. Excluding the policy update for IFRS 16, there have been no significant changes during the nine months ended September 30, 2019 to the items disclosed within the critical accounting policies and estimates in notes 1 and 2 to the consolidated financial statements in our annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018 in accordance with IFRS as issued by the IASB.

Rounding adjustments applied to individual numbers and percentages shown in this and other reports may result in these figures differing immaterially from their absolute values.

Financial condition and results of operations

I.     Overview

We are the world's largest kidney dialysis company, based on publicly reported revenue and number of patients treated. We provide dialysis care and related services to persons who suffer from end stage renal disease ("ESRD") as well as other health care services. We develop and manufacture a wide variety of health care products, which includes both dialysis and non-dialysis products. Our dialysis products include dialysis machines, water treatment systems and disposable products while our non-dialysis products include acute cardiopulmonary and apheresis products. We sell our health care products to customers in around 150 countries and we also use them in our own health care service operations. Our dialysis business is therefore vertically integrated. We describe certain other health care services that we provide in our North America Segment and our Asia-Pacific Segment as "Care Coordination." Care Coordination currently includes, but is not limited to, coordinated delivery of pharmacy services, vascular, cardiovascular and endovascular specialty services as well as ambulatory surgery center services, physician nephrology services, health plan services, urgent care services and ambulant treatment services. Until June 28, 2018, Care Coordination also included the coordinated delivery of emergency, intensivist and hospitalist physician services as well as transitional care which we refer to as "hospital related physician services" (see note 2 of the notes to the consolidated financial statements (unaudited) included in this report). All of these Care Coordination services together with dialysis care and related services represent our health care services. We estimated the volume of the global dialysis market was approximately €71 billion in 2018. Due to the complexity and evolving nature of Care Coordination services, we are currently unable to estimate the global volume of this market. Dialysis patient growth results from factors such as the aging population and increased life expectancies; shortage of donor organs for kidney transplants; increasing incidence of kidney disease and better treatment of and survival of patients with diabetes, hypertension and other illnesses, which frequently lead to the onset of chronic kidney disease; improvements in treatment quality, new pharmaceuticals and product technologies, which prolong patient life; and improving standards of living in developing countries, which make life-saving dialysis treatment available. We are also engaged in different areas of health care research.

As a global company delivering health care services and products, we face the challenge of addressing the needs of a wide variety of stakeholders, such as patients, customers, payors, regulators and legislators in many different economic environments and health care systems. In general, government-funded programs (in some countries in coordination with private insurers) pay for certain health care items and services provided to their citizens. Not all health care systems provide for dialysis treatment. Therefore, the reimbursement systems and ancillary services utilization environment in various countries significantly influence our business.

Premium assistance programs

On August 18, 2016, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services ("CMS") issued a request for information ("RFI") seeking public comment about providers' alleged steering of patients inappropriately to individual plans offered on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act individual health insurance

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market. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc. ("FMCH") and other dialysis providers, commercial insurers and other industry participants responded to the RFI, and in that response, we reported that we do not engage in such steering. On December 14, 2016, CMS published an Interim Final Rule ("IFR") titled "Medicare Program; Conditions for Coverage for End-Stage Renal Disease Facilities-Third Party Payment" that would amend the Conditions for Coverage for dialysis providers, like FMCH. The IFR would have effectively enabled insurers to reject premium payments made by patients who received grants for individual market coverage from the American Kidney Fund ("AKF") and, therefore, could have resulted in those patients losing their individual market health insurance coverage. The loss of individual market coverage for these patients would have had a material and adverse impact on our operating results. On January 25, 2017, a federal district court in Texas, responsible for litigation initiated by a patient advocacy group and dialysis providers including FMCH, preliminarily enjoined CMS from implementing the IFR (Dialysis Patient Citizens v. Burwell (E.D. Texas, Sherman Div.)). The preliminary injunction was based on CMS' failure to follow appropriate notice-and-comment procedures in adopting the IFR. The injunction remains in place and the court retains jurisdiction over the dispute. On June 22, 2017, CMS requested a stay of proceedings in the litigation pending further rulemaking concerning the IFR. CMS stated, in support of its request that it expects to publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register and otherwise pursue a notice-and-comment process in the fall of 2017 which they ultimately did not publish. Plaintiffs in the litigation, including FMCH, consented to the stay, which was granted by the court.

Separately, the United States Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") announced in its fall 2018 semi-annual review of agency actions, or "unified agenda," that it was considering the publication of a new proposed rule, ostensibly consistent with the Court's order on the IFR, that would establish requirements for ESRD facilities treating patients that accept financial assistance from third parties for premiums to enroll in coverage provided by an individual market plan (RIN 0938-AT11). On June 6, 2019, CMS sent a proposed rule modifying the ESRD conditions for Coverage and addressing Third Party Premium Payments to the Office of Management and Budget for review.

The operation of charitable assistance programs like that of the AKF is also receiving increased attention by state insurance regulators and legislators. The result may be a regulatory framework that differs from state to state. Even in the absence of the IFR or similar state actions, insurers are likely to continue efforts to thwart charitable premium assistance to our patients for individual market plans and other insurance coverages. If successful in a material area or scope of our U.S. operations, these efforts would have a material adverse impact on our business and operating results.

On January 3, 2017, FMCH received a subpoena from the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts inquiring into its interactions and relationships with AKF, including its charitable contributions to the Fund and the Fund's financial assistance to patients for insurance premiums. FMCH cooperated with the investigation.

For further information on these and other legal proceedings, please see note 13 of the notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited) found elsewhere in this report.

U.S. ballot initiatives and other legislation

Further federal or state legislation or regulations may be enacted in the future through legislative and public referendum processes that could substantially modify or reduce the amounts paid for services and products offered by us and our subsidiaries and/or mandate new or alternative operating models and payment models that could present more risk to our healthcare service operations. Ballot initiatives that are successfully introduced at the state level in the United States require the vote of state citizens to directly adopt or reject proposed new legislation. These ballot initiatives require a material expenditure of resources by us to participate in public discourse regarding the proposed new legislation underlying the initiatives, which if passed, could further regulate multiple aspects of our operations including, for instance, clinic staffing requirements, state inspection requirements and profit margins on commercial business. Efforts to enact new state laws regarding our operations are continuing. State regulation at this level would introduce an unprecedented level of oversight and additional expense at the clinic level which could have a material adverse effect on our business in the impacted states. It is also possible that statutes may be adopted or regulations may be promulgated in the future that impose additional eligibility requirements for participation in the federal and state healthcare programs. Such new legislation or regulations could, depending upon the detail of the provisions, have positive or adverse effects, possibly material, on our businesses and results of operations.

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Significant U.S. reimbursement developments

The majority of health care services we provide are paid for by governmental institutions. For the nine months ended September 30, 2019, approximately 33% of our consolidated revenue is attributable to U.S. federally-funded health care benefit programs, such as Medicare and Medicaid reimbursement, under which reimbursement rates are set by CMS. Legislative changes could affect Medicare reimbursement rates for a significant portion of the services we provide. To date, the stability of reimbursement in the U.S. has been affected by (i) the implementation of the ESRD prospective payment system ("ESRD PPS") in January 2011, (ii) the U.S. federal government across the board spending cuts in payments to Medicare providers commonly referred to as "U.S. Sequestration," (iii) the reduction to the ESRD PPS rate to account for the decline in utilization of certain drugs and biologicals associated with dialysis pursuant to the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 ("ATRA") as subsequently modified under the Protecting Access to Medicare Act of 2014 ("PAMA") and (iv) CMS' 2017 final rule on the Physician Fee Schedule, which partially corrected reimbursement for certain procedures that were materially undervalued in 2016. Please see the detailed discussions on these and further legislative developments below:

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Under the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act of 2008 ("MIPPA"), for patients with Medicare coverage, all ESRD payments for dialysis treatments are made under a single bundled payment rate which provides a fixed payment rate, the ESRD PPS, to encompass substantially all goods and services provided during the dialysis treatment. MIPPA further created the ESRD quality incentive program ("QIP") which provides that dialysis facilities that fail to achieve quality standards established by CMS could have payments reduced, determined on an annual basis, by up to 2%.

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MIPPA also includes a provision for an annual adjustment to the ESRD PPS base rate based on changes in the costs of a "market basket" of certain healthcare items and services, less a productivity adjustment.

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Additionally, as a result of the Budget Control Act of 2011 ("BCA") and subsequent activity in Congress, U.S. Sequestration ($1.2 trillion in across-the-board spending cuts in discretionary programs) took effect on March 1, 2013 and is expected to continue through mid-2024. In particular, a 2% reduction to Medicare payments took effect on April 1, 2013 and continues in force. Spending cuts pursuant to U.S. Sequestration have adversely affected and will continue to adversely affect our operating results.

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In 2014, as mandated by ATRA, CMS issued a final rule for the ESRD PPS, which phased in payment reductions to account for changes in utilization of certain drugs and biologicals that are included in the ESRD PPS, which were subsequently modified by PAMA. These reductions reduced our market basket inflation adjustment by 1.25% in 2016 and 2017, and reduced our inflation adjustment by 1% in 2018.

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On July 29th, 2019 CMS issued the proposed rule and updated the ESRD PPS rate for 2020. CMS estimates that FMC and other large dialysis organizations will experience a 1.5% increase in payments under this proposed rule. The base rate per treatment is $240.27 which represents a 2% increase from the 2019 base rate including the adjustment for the wage index budget-neutrality factor and a productivity-adjusted market basket increase of 1.7%. CMS updated the acute kidney injury dialysis payment rate for calendar year ("CY") 2020 to $240.27, which is the same as the base rate finalized under the ESRD PPS for CY 2020. CMS proposes to extend the ESRD PPS Transitional Drug Add-on Payment Adjustment ("TDAPA") for calcimimetics for a third year in CY 2020 to collect sufficient claims data for rate setting analysis. However, CMS proposes to reduce the basis of payment for the TDAPA for calcimimetics for CY 2020 from ASP+6 to ASP+0. CMS will also narrow eligibility for TDAPA for certain drugs that fall within an existing functional category by revising the definition of a new renal dialysis drug or biological product. CMS proposes to pay a transitional add-on payment adjustment for certain new and innovative renal dialysis equipment or supplies approved after January 1, 2020 and furnished by ESRD facilities. Under the proposal, new equipment and supplies must meet the substantial clinical improvement criteria similar to that specified in the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS) regulations at 42 CFR 412.87(b)(1).

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The CY 2020 ESRD PPS proposed rule, released on July 29, 2019, also updated the ESRD Quality Incentive Program (QIP), for payment years (PY) 2022 and 2023, under which payments made to dialysis facilities are subject to reduction based on clinical measures. For PY 2022, based on performance period CY 2020, the ESRD QIP measure set will contain 14 measures including the two measures beginning with payment year 2022 (the Percentage of Prevalent Patients Waitlisted (PPPW)

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clinical measure and the Medication Reconciliation for Patients Receiving Care at Dialysis Facilities (MedRec) reporting measure), which were finalized in the CY 2019 ESRD PPS rule. For PY 2022, CMS proposes to convert the Standardized Transfusion Ratio (STrR) measure from a clinical measure to a reporting measure, which reflects stakeholder concerns regarding the measure's validity. This means facilities will now receive a score on the STrR reporting measure based on the successful reporting of data, not on the values actually reported. CMS also proposes to update the scoring methodology for the National Healthcare Safety Network's (NHSN) Dialysis Event reporting measure by removing the measure's exclusion of facilities with fewer than 12 eligible reporting months. Beginning with the payment year 2022, CMS proposes to assess successful reporting based on the number of months facilities are eligible to report the measure. CMS also proposes to add new regulation text that would codify automatic adoption of the baseline period and performance period for each payment year; data submission requirements for calculating measure scores; and requirements for the Extraordinary Circumstances Exception (ECE) process. Finally, CMS is not proposing to adopt any new measures beginning with the PY 2023 ESRD QIP.

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On July 29, 2019, CMS issued the CY 2020 proposed rule for hospital outpatient and ambulatory surgery center payment systems. For CY 2020, CMS will continue to pay certain dialysis vascular access codes at the Ambulatory Surgical Center ("ASC") rate. We continue to evaluate the implications of the proposed rule.

Presently, there is considerable uncertainty regarding possible future changes in health care regulation, including the regulation of reimbursement for dialysis services. See "Risk factors—We operate in a highly regulated industry such that the potential for legislative reform provides uncertainty and potential threats to our operating models and results" which is included in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018.

In a final rule published on November 6, 2015, CMS provided for implementation of the PAMA oral-only provision. CMS clarified that once any non-oral ESRD-related drug in a category previously considered oral only is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration ("FDA"), such category of drugs will cease to be considered oral only. However, for at least two years, CMS will pay for both oral and non-oral versions of the drug using a TDAPA. During this transition period, CMS will not pay outlier payments for these drugs, but the agency will collect data reflecting utilization of both the oral and injectable or intravenous forms of the drugs, as well as payment patterns, in order to help determine how to appropriately adjust the ESRD PPS payment rate as these drugs are included in the payment bundle. At the end of this transition period, CMS will incorporate payment for the oral and non-oral versions of the drug in the ESRD PPS payment rates, utilizing a public rulemaking process.

The introduction of Parsabiv™ an intravenous calcimimetic, has resulted in changes in how some payors, other than Medicare, arrange for the provision of calcimimetics for their patients. While some patients continue to receive calcimimetics from their pharmacies as a pharmacy benefit, other patients receive calcimimetics from their dialysis providers, as a medical benefit. While we receive additional reimbursement from some payors when these drugs are provided by our clinics, this type of transition from an oral-only drug has not occurred previously and the reimbursement landscape-for non-Medicare payors continues to evolve.

Several generic calcimimetic products have been approved by the FDA. Fresenius Medical Care Holdings, Inc., "FMCH") has been able to purchase certain of these generic calcimimetic products at rates that are lower than the rate paid for the brand name calcimimetic, Sensipar. As a result, FMCH has been able to realize a savings in cost. Amgen, Inc. ("Amgen"), the manufacturer of Sensipar, has taken steps to prevent the continued sale of the generic products through settlement and legal action. If Amgen is successful in preventing the continued sale of generic calcimimetics, FMCH might not be able to purchase a lower priced alternative and continue to realize cost savings, which could have an adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition.

If we are unable to secure and maintain appropriate reimbursement arrangements for calcimimetics when provided by our dialysis clinics, we could experience a material adverse effect on our business, results of operations and financial condition. See "Risk Factors—If we are unable to secure appropriate reimbursement arrangements for the pharmaceuticals we provide in our dialysis clinics, our business could be adversely affected" in our Annual Report on Form 20-F for the year ended December 31, 2018.

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Participation in new Medicare payment arrangements

Under CMS' Comprehensive ESRD Care Model (the "Model"), dialysis providers and physicians can form entities known as ESRD Seamless Care Organizations ("ESCOs") as part of a new payment and care delivery model that seeks to deliver better health outcomes for Medicare ESRD patients while lowering CMS' costs. Following our initial participation in six ESCOs, we are presently participating in the Model through 23 ESCOs formed at our dialysis facilities. ESCOs that achieve the program's minimum quality thresholds and generate reductions in CMS' cost of care above certain thresholds for the ESRD patients covered by the ESCO will receive a share of the cost savings, which is adjusted based on the ESCO's performance on certain quality metrics. ESCOs that include dialysis chains with more than 200 facilities are required to share in the risk of cost increases and to reimburse CMS a share of any such increases if actual costs rise above set thresholds. As of September 2019, the number of patients participating in our ESCOs was approximately 45,000.

In November 2017, we announced the results from the first performance year ("PY") from our ESCOs. The results, which cover the period from October 2015 through December 2016, show improved health outcomes for patients receiving coordinated care through the ESCOs. This success was validated by an independent report, which showed a nearly 9% decrease in hospitalization rates for these patients during the same time. As a result, the Company's ESCOs together generated more than $43 M in gross savings, an average 5.47% reduction in expenditures per patient, with all six of its first-year ESCOs exceeding the shared savings benchmark.

For PY 2017, which included the six original ESCOs and the eighteen ESCOs added on January 1, 2017, these twenty-four ESCOs had a total of approximately 25,000 aligned patients and produced $66.8 M in gross savings (3.5% improvement from the CMS benchmark), which will be shared between CMS and the ESCO partners. Based upon these reports as well as preliminary indications on future performance years, we recorded a reduction of revenue and operating income of approximately €86 M for the nine months ended September 30, 2019. We will continue to evaluate the changing ESCO rate environment.

As of January 1, 2019, we no longer provide any Medicare Advantage ESRD Chronic Conditions Special Needs Plan ("MA-CSNP") products.

We have also entered into sub-capitation and other risk-based and value-based arrangements with certain payors to provide care to commercial, including Medicare Advantage, ESRD patients. Under these arrangements, a baseline per patient per month amount is established. If the cost of complete care is less than the baseline, we retain the difference. If the cost of complete care exceeds the baseline, we may owe the payor the difference.

Executive order-based models

On July 10, 2019, President Trump signed an Executive Order on advancing kidney health. Among other things, the order instructs the Secretary of HHS to develop new Medicare payment models that will encourage identification and treatment earlier in kidney disease progression as well as increase home dialysis and transplant. One of those models, the ESRD Treatment Choices ("ETC") model, is a mandatory model that will create financial incentives for home treatment and transplant. This model proposes to apply a positive payment adjustment to claims submitted by physicians and dialysis facilities for home dialysis patients for 3 years. This model also proposes a payment adjustment based on performance. The performance-based adjustment will be based on home dialysis and transplant rates and will range from (8%) to 5% in the first payment year to (13%) and 10% percent in the final payment year. The ETC model proposes a start date of January 2020 and would end in 2026, however CMS may postpone the start date of the ETC model. Participants in this model will be selected randomly. Pursuant to the Executive Order, the Secretary also announced voluntary payment models, Kidney Care First ("KCF") and Comprehensive Kidney Care Contracting ("CKCC") (graduated, professional and global), which aims to build on the existing Comprehensive End Stage Renal Disease Care model. The voluntary models create financial incentives for health care providers to manage care for Medicare beneficiaries with chronic kidney disease stages 4 and 5 and with ESRD to delay the start of dialysis and to incentivize kidney transplant. The voluntary models allow health care providers to take on various amounts of risk. One model, the CKCC global model, allows participating organizations to assume risk for 100 percent of the total cost of care for all Medicare Part A and B services for aligned beneficiaries. The KCF model limits participation to nephrologists while the CKCC model requires participation by both nephrologists or nephrology practices and transplant providers. Dialysis providers and other suppliers may participate. The voluntary models are expected to begin in January 2020 and end in 2023, however CMS may postpone the start date of the

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voluntary models. It is too soon to predict the effects on our business of the ETC payment model and the voluntary payment models.

Company structure

Our operating segments are the North America Segment, the EMEA Segment, the Asia-Pacific Segment and the Latin America Segment. The operating segments are determined based upon how we manage our businesses with geographical responsibilities. All segments are primarily engaged in providing health care services and the distribution of products and equipment for the treatment of ESRD and other extracorporeal therapies. Management evaluates each segment using measures that reflect all of the segment's controllable revenues and expenses. With respect to the performance of business operations, management believes that the most appropriate IFRS measures are revenue, operating income and operating income margin. We do not include income taxes as we believe this is outside the segments' control. Financing is a corporate function which our segments do not control. Therefore, we do not include interest expense relating to financing as a segment measurement. Similarly, we do not allocate certain costs which relate primarily to certain headquarters' overhead charges, including accounting and finance, because we believe that these costs are also not within the control of the individual segments. Production of products, production asset management, quality and supply chain management as well as procurement related to production are centrally managed at Corporate. Global research and development is also centrally managed at Corporate. These corporate activities do not fulfill the definition of a segment according to IFRS 8. Products are transferred to the segments at cost; therefore, no internal profit is generated. The associated internal revenue for the product transfers and their elimination are recorded as corporate activities (see note 15 of the notes to consolidated financial statements (unaudited) found elsewhere in this report). Capital expenditures for production are based on the expected demand of the segments and consolidated profitability considerations. In addition, certain revenues, investments and intangible assets, as well as any related expenses, are not allocated to a segment but accounted for as Corporate. Accordingly, all of these items are excluded from our analysis of segment results and are discussed below in the discussion of our consolidated results of operations.

II.    Discussion of measures

Non-IFRS measures

Certain of the following key performance indicators and other financial information as well as discussions and analyses set out in this report include measures that are not defined by IFRS ("Non-IFRS Measure"). We believe this information, along with comparable IFRS measurements, is useful to our investors as it provides a basis for assessing our performance, payment obligations related to performance-based compensation as well as our compliance with financial covenants. Non-IFRS financial measures should not be viewed or interpreted as a substitute for financial information presented in accordance with IFRS.

Delivered EBIT (Non-IFRS Measure)

As a result of the significance of noncontrolling interest holders in our operations, we believe a measure that is meaningful to investors is operating income less noncontrolling interests ("Delivered EBIT"). Delivered EBIT approximates the operating income attributable to the shareholders of FMC-AG & Co. KGaA. As such, we believe that operating income, or EBIT, is the closest comparable IFRS measure. Delivered EBIT is also benchmarked based on movement at constant exchange rates. See "Constant currency information" below.

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Below is a table showing the reconciliation of operating income to Delivered EBIT on a consolidated basis and for our reporting segments:

Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities in % of revenue

Our consolidated statement of cash flows indicates how we generated and used cash and cash equivalents. In conjunction with our other primary financial statements, it provides information that helps us evaluate changes to our net assets and our financial structure (including liquidity and solvency). Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities is applied to assess whether a business can generate the cash required to

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make the necessary replacement and expansion of investments. This indicator is impacted by the profitability of our business and the development of working capital, mainly receivables. Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities in percent of revenue shows the percentage of our revenue that is available in terms of financial resources. It is an indicator of our operating financial strength.

Free cash flow in % of revenue (Non-IFRS Measure)

Free cash flow (net cash provided by (used in) operating activities after capital expenditures, before acquisitions and investments) refers to the cash flow we have at our disposal. This indicator shows the percentage of revenue available for acquisitions and investments, dividends to shareholders, reducing debt financing or for repurchasing shares.

The following table shows the cash flow key performance indicators for the nine months ended September 30, 2019 and 2018 and reconciles free cash flow and free cash flow in percent of revenue to Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities and Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities in percent of revenue, respectively:

Net leverage ratio (Non-IFRS Measure)

The Net Leverage Ratio is a key performance indicator used for internal management. To determine the Net Leverage Ratio, debt less cash and cash equivalents (net debt) is compared to EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) (adjusted for acquisitions and divestitures made for the last twelve months with a purchase price above a €50 M threshold as defined in our Amended 2012 Credit Agreement and non-cash charges). The ratio is an indicator of the length of time the Company needs to service the net debt out of its own resources. We believe that the Net Leverage Ratio provides alternative information that management believes to be useful in assessing our ability to meet our payment obligations in addition to considering the absolute amount of our debt. We have a strong market position in a growing, global and mainly non-cyclical market. Furthermore, most of our customers have a high credit rating as the dialysis industry is characterized by stable and sustained cash flows. We believe this enables us to work with a relatively large share of debt capital compared with companies in other

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industries. The following table shows the reconciliation of Net Leverage Ratio as of September 30, 2019 and December 31, 2018.

Return on invested capital ("ROIC") (Non-IFRS Measure)

ROIC is the ratio of operating income, for the last twelve months, after tax ("net operating profit after tax" or "NOPAT") to the average invested capital of the last five quarter closing dates and expresses how efficiently we allocate the capital under our control or how well we employ our capital with regard to a specific investment project. The following table shows the reconciliation of average invested capital to total

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assets, which we believe to be the most directly comparable IFRS financial measure, and how ROIC is calculated: