Tuesday's Number: $116,827

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. 

We have another slow news week – there were only five people listed with new judgments to hospitals, doctors, or other medical providers totaling $79,692.  

This week, there was one satisfied judgment totaling $37,135 to a hospital, doctor, or other medical provider.   

And, as typically is the case, there were no health-care related bankruptcies listed.  

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