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.
Since mid-2012, I’ve been tracking health care related filings. I include anything that is likely a patient 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 20 new judgments to hospitals, doctors, or other medical providers totaling $268,604.
- There was one satisfied judgment, for $8,448.
- And there were no bankruptcies listed.
By hospital, here’s the breakdown:
- Crouse had eleven, totaling $128,963
- St. Joseph’s had one, for $8,880
- SUNY added another seven, totaling $102,766.
- There were no filings for Community (part of Upstate).
SUNY’s total included a credit for the satisfied judgment; I subtract satisfied judgments from the overall and individual hospital totals, on the likelihood that they’ve already been incorporated into the numbers at some point since I began my tracking.
There were three other judgments this week, one each for a doctor, a radiology group, and a cardiovascular group, which accounted for the $19,507 difference between the overall total and the hospital totals.
The paper publishes only those accounts of at least $5,000.
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