Tuesday's Number: $972,129

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, thirty-two people were listed with new judgments totaling $768,169 to hospitals, doctors, or other medical providers.   

This week, five people were listed as having satisfied judgments totaling $194,391 to a hospital, doctor, or other medical provider.   

And this week, there was one health-care related bankruptcy listed, totaling $9,569.   

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