- Visibility16
- Citations4
- Sentiment56
- Site quality87
- AI readiness36
AI assistants name DaVita in 8.3% of answers, which is more often than the typical company in its sector at 3.3%. DaVita has an overall score of 35 out of 100, ranking 845th of 2,047 companies. Its website passes 5 of 14 technical checks for AI tool readiness.
We asked 15 unbranded questions about the healthcare market: none named DaVita. AI assistants named it in 5 of 60 answers (8.3%). The typical healthcare company is named in 3.3% of answers. By how often it is named, DaVita ranks 32 of 105 in its sector.
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Five parts, each scored out of 100.
How often AI assistants name the company
How often AI uses the company's own website as a source
How positively AI describes the company
How well built the website's own pages are
How easily AI tools can read and use the website
Visibility is calculated from the answers on this page. How the score is built.
105 companies in this sector. The line on each bar is the typical company.
An answer that names the company
“How much does dialysis treatment cost in the United States without insurance?”
Dialysis treatment in the United States without insurance can be very expensive, with costs varying significantly based on the type of dialysis and location.
Here's a breakdown of potential costs:
Per Session/Treatment:
A single hemodialysis treatment can cost $500 or more. Some sources indicate a range of $500 to $1,500 or more per session.
One dialysis center quoted a rate of over $1,400 but would negotiate with self-pay patients.
DaVita, a large dialysis provider, charges about $480 per treatment, not including medications.
Weekly Costs:
For hemodialysis, which is …
The AI’s answer as we received it, shortened and not checked for accuracy.
How the mentions in these answers were split between this company and its rivals
Answers naming it, out of answers received
What this website publishes for an AI agent to read, use and buy from, on a scale of six levels.
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Level 1: Basic web presence. Two of robots.txt, a sitemap and Link headers are in place.
- Content Signals
Not by itself. DaVita publishes none of the purchase protocols we look for. An agent would have to click through the checkout like a person.
- UCPNot present
- ACPNot present
- AP2Not present
- x402Not present
- MPPNot present
The shop runs on WooCommerce.
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- study: 92.0%robots.txtPassed
A valid robots.txt with crawl rules at the site root.
- study: 86.8%SitemapPassed
An XML sitemap listing the pages, ideally referenced from robots.txt.
- study: 0.3%Link headersNot met
Send Link headers such as rel="api-catalog" or rel="describedby" on the homepage.
- study: 5.5%DNS for AI DiscoveryNot present
Advertise agent endpoints with SVCB records under _agents.
- study: 1.9%Markdown negotiationNot met
Return a markdown version when asked with Accept: text/markdown, for example at the CDN.
- study: 25.1%llms.txtNot met
Publish an llms.txt with a short summary and the key links.
- study: 93.4%AI bot rulesPartly met
Add explicit robots.txt groups for the main AI crawlers.
- study: 1.4%Content SignalsNot met
Add a Content-Signal line for search, ai-input and ai-train to robots.txt.
- study: 0.2%Web Bot AuthNot present
Only relevant if you run your own agents or crawlers: publish a signing key directory.
- study: 0.3%API CatalogNot met
List public APIs in a linkset at /.well-known/api-catalog.
- study: 11.8%OAuth discoveryNot met
Publish OpenID Connect or OAuth server metadata under /.well-known.
- study: 10.3%OAuth Protected ResourceNot met
Serve protected resource metadata at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.
- study: 0.0%auth.mdNot met
Publish an auth.md describing how agents sign in.
- study: 0.2%MCP Server CardNot met
Offer an MCP server and publish its server card under /.well-known.
- study: 0.1%A2A Agent CardNot met
Publish an agent card at /.well-known/agent-card.json.
- study: 0.2%Agent SkillsNot met
Publish a skills index with the main tasks agents can do.
- study: 33.7%WebMCPCould not check
Register key actions such as search or cart as WebMCP tools.
- study: 0.1%ARD manifestNot met
Publish an ai-catalog.json listing every agent interface.
Score 25 of 100 · 97% of checks could run · checked on October 5, 2026 · davita.com · 2,047 companies scanned
5 of 14 passed. This list is for your technical team. The percentage is how many companies in the study pass each check.
These 14 checks ran during the audit and are what the AI readiness part of the overall score counts. The scan above ran later and is stricter on Link headers and Markdown, so a check can pass here and not there.
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- Passedrobots.txt publishedstudy: 85.0%
- PassedXML sitemapstudy: 73.2%
- PassedHTTP Link headers (RFC 8288)study: 29.0%
- PassedMarkdown content negotiationstudy: 8.3%
- Not metllms.txt publishedstudy: 21.7%
- PassedToken budget (page weight)study: 95.2%
- Not metExplicit AI bot rulesstudy: 13.0%
- Not metAPI Catalog (.well-known/api-catalog)study: 0.2%
- Not metOAuth Authorization Server discoverystudy: 10.1%
- Not metOAuth Protected Resource discoverystudy: 9.3%
- Not metMCP Server Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metA2A Agent Cardstudy: 0.0%
- Not metWebMCP toolsstudy: 4.2%
- Not metAgent Skills declaredstudy: 0.0%
This website sets no rules for any AI crawler by name, like 84% of the websites whose rules we could read. Every AI crawler follows its general rules.
- GPTBotallowed
- ClaudeBotallowed
- Anthropic-AIallowed
- Google-Extendedallowed
- Applebot-Extendedallowed
- Meta-ExternalAgentallowed
- FacebookBotallowed
- Bytespiderallowed
- CCBotallowed
- Diffbotallowed
- Omgilibotallowed
- OAI-SearchBotallowed
- Claude-SearchBotallowed
- PerplexityBotallowed
- Applebotallowed
- Amazonbotallowed
- YouBotallowed
- ChatGPT-Userallowed
- Claude-Userallowed
- Perplexity-Userallowed
- DuckAssistBotallowed
- MistralAI-Userallowed
Read from the website’s own rules file (robots.txt). An asterisk marks a crawler the file names. The rest follow its general rules. “Partly” means only some pages are blocked.
How many times each website was listed as a source in these answers
In the study as S&P 500.
- How much does dialysis treatment cost in the United States without insurance?
- In-center dialysis vs home hemodialysis—what are the main differences for patients?
- Where can I find alternatives to traditional in-center dialysis, like home-based care options?
- What are some nonsurgical alternatives to dialysis for early-stage kidney disease?
- How does peritoneal dialysis compare to hemodialysis for people with end-stage renal disease?
- What other lifestyle changes can help manage chronic kidney disease besides dialysis?
- How can patients find top-rated kidney disease education resources in the United States?
- Can people on dialysis travel or go on vacation safely?
- What are the best ways to manage chronic kidney disease through outpatient dialysis?
- Why might blood pressure drop suddenly during a dialysis session?
- What should I do if I experience side effects during dialysis treatments?
- Are kidney health education classes worth attending for newly diagnosed patients?
- Is home dialysis a good option for individuals with busy schedules?
- What are some kidney-friendly meal ideas for people managing kidney disease?
- Are there financial assistance programs for people undergoing long-term dialysis?
Columns, left to right: OpenAI, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. The AI assistants often disagree. Across the study, on 40% of the questions where a company is named, only one of the four names it.
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