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. …
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