Tuesday's Number: $503,633

Tuesday is the day my local paper, the Syracuse Post-Standard, publishes the weekly business section. In addition to special features, tips from stock experts, budgeting advice and the like, we get the judgment and bankruptcy listings. 

As I did for much of last year, I will be tracking health care related filings. I include anything that is clearly a debt owed to a hospital, nursing home, physician or physician group, medical supplier, and so on; I do not include filings by insurance companies, many of which are so diversified it would not be a fair assumption that the filing is related to medical care or health insurance. 

This week, nineteen people were listed with new judgments totaling $456,976 to hospitals, doctors, or other medical providers.  

This week, two people were listed as having satisfied judgments totaling $17,002 to a hospital, doctor, or other medical provider.  

And this week, there were three health-care related bankruptcies listed, totaling $29,655.  

The paper published only those accounts of at least $5,000.