Tuesday's Number Quarterly Totals

It's hard to imagine we have thirteen Tuesday’s Numbers under our belt already in 2014. 

There’s quite a bit of damage from the health care related filings so far. These include only the ones that are clearly debts for a hospital, nursing home physician or physician group, medical supplier, and so on.  What’s not included are any filings by insurance companies themselves, as diversification makes it difficult to determine whether we’re really looking at a patient debt.

This quarter, there were 253 individual listings totaling $5,499,218.

·         Judgments totaled $4,907,492

·         Satisfied judgments totaled $167,921

·         Bankruptcies totaled $424,204    

And here are the quarterly totals for each of the four Syracuse hospitals:

·         Crouse had 70, totaling $981,809

·         St Joe’s had eleven, totaling $325,304

·         SUNY Upstate had 148, totaling $3,955,895

·         Community General, a part of Upstate, had four, for a total of $34,062 

Will we see a change now that we’ve reached the enrollment deadline for coverage under the Affordable Care Act?  Will some folks now have insurance that haven’t in the past, or better coverage now than they had before?  Time will tell.