Experts are watching hospital finances to see whether slumping economic activity and growing unemployment rates are having an impact. At for-profit Tenet Healthcare Corporation, same-hospital paying admissions declined by 1.3% from Q1-08 to Q1-09. Tenet also said that its bad debt ratio of 6.8% had only increased by 0.1% from the same quarter last year. […]
May 18, 2009 “Intelligence: Late Breaking Lab News”
- By Robert Michel
- > From the Volume XVI No. 7 - May 18, 2009 Issue
