Tuesday's Number: $539,777

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.

Each week, I track 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, there were eighteen new judgments to hospitals, doctors, or other medical providers totaling $452,249.

·         There were two satisfied judgments listed, for $45,460.

·         And, there were two health care related bankruptcies, for $42,068.

New this year, I’m tracking filings for each of the four Syracuse hospitals. Here’s the breakdown for this week:

·         Crouse had three, totaling $31,579

·         St Joe’s had one, for $27,000

·         SUNY Upstate had eighteen, totaling $481,198

·         Community General, a part of Upstate, had none  

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