Case Study: Fresenius Medical Care North America achieves increased accounting capacity and reduced risk with BlackLine

Freeing Accounting Capacity & Reducing Risk with BlackLine Automation

Fresenius Medical Care North America, a leading dialysis and chronic‑care provider with 15 divisions and 17 accounting offices, struggled with fragmented, manual accounting across roughly 300,000 account/profit‑center combinations. The lack of standardization and visibility increased audit and compliance risk, forced time‑consuming quarterly reconciliations for high‑volume accounts, and made it difficult for leadership to harmonize processes across the organization.

Fresenius implemented BlackLine with UHY Consulting to centralize and automate account reconciliations, transaction matching, journal entries and task management. The integrated solution and training cut manual work (about 50% of reconciliations now auto‑certify), accelerated the close, improved visibility and documentation for auditors, strengthened controls, revealed unreconciled segments, and allowed the company to handle rapid growth without adding headcount while freeing accountants for higher‑value work.

Fresenius Medical Care North America

Terri Hall

VP of Special Projects