Goodwill amounts for our professional diagnostics and consumer diagnostics reporting units, along with our former patient self-testing reporting unit, which rolled into our professional diagnostics reporting unit on January 1, 2015, are summarized as follows (in thousands):
Professional Diagnostics |
Patient Self- testing |
Consumer Diagnostics |
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Goodwill at December 31, 2013 |
$ | 2,915,417 | $ | 33,545 | $ | 58,035 | $ | 3,006,997 | ||||||||
Acquisitions(1) |
(546 | ) | (25 | ) | — | (571 | ) | |||||||||
Dispositions(2) |
(16,517 | ) | — | — | (16,517 | ) | ||||||||||
Other(3) |
(59,549 | ) | (650 | ) | (3,044 | ) | (63,243 | ) | ||||||||
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Goodwill at December 31, 2014 |
$ | 2,838,805 | $ | 32,870 | $ | 54,991 | $ | 2,926,666 | ||||||||
Balance transfer at January 1, 2015(4) |
32,870 | (32,870 | ) | — | — | |||||||||||
Acquisitions(1) |
32,970 | — | — | 32,970 | ||||||||||||
Dispositions(2) |
(58,611 | ) | — | — | (58,611 | ) | ||||||||||
Other(3) |
(53,081 | ) | — | (11,029 | ) | (64,110 | ) | |||||||||
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Goodwill at December 31, 2015 |
$ | 2,792,953 | $ | — | $ | 43,962 | $ | 2,836,915 | ||||||||
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(1) | Includes initial purchase price allocation, purchase accounting adjustments recorded to the acquired entities’ opening balance sheet and additional payments made for earn-outs and milestones achieved. |
(2) | Reflects write-off related to the dispositions of BioNote in 2014 and the BBI business and Alere Analytics in 2015. |
(3) | These amounts relate primarily to adjustments resulting from fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates. |
(4) | As a result of the sale of our health management business in January 2015, which was the largest component of our former patient self-testing reporting segment, we ceased to report our financial information in four operating segments and, beginning on January 1, 2015 our reporting units included professional diagnostics and consumer diagnostics. |