General - Stock Compensation - Performance-Based Restricted Stock Units - General Information (Details) - Performance Based Restricted Stock Units ("PSUs")	9 Months Ended
Sep. 30, 2020 D company
Stock options, Non vested restricted stock awards and nonvested restricted stock units
Number of trading days considered for average share value \| D	30
Number of companies in peer group \| company	48
Performance period	3 years
Minimum
Stock options, Non vested restricted stock awards and nonvested restricted stock units
Shares to be settled (as a percent)	0.00%
Maximum
Stock options, Non vested restricted stock awards and nonvested restricted stock units
Shares to be settled (as a percent)	200.00%

Represents the number of companies in peer group considered for S&P Health Care Services Industry Index.

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Percentage of shares to be settled as per peer group of share-based compensation awards.

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Threshold number of specified trading days that common stock price to be considered for average share value for share based compensation during the performance period.

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Estimated period over which an employee is required to provide service in exchange for the equity-based payment award, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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