Since mid-2012, I’ve been 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, there were thirteen new judgments to hospitals, doctors, or other medical providers totaling $250,097.
- There was one satisfied judgment, for $5,211.
- And there was one health care related bankruptcy, for $119,789.
I also track filings for each of the four Syracuse hospitals. Here’s the breakdown for this week:
- Crouse had ten, totaling $216,190
- St Joe’s had three, for $18,749
- SUNY Upstate had none
- Community General, a part of Upstate, also had none.
There were two large judgments filed by surgical practices which account for the remaining $129,736.
This year, I am subtracting the satisfied judgments from the overall totals and from the individual hospital totals; the likelihood is that they've already been incorporated into the numbers at some point now, since I've been tracking this for two and a half years.
The paper publishes only those accounts of at least $5,000.
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