Nevada Business in Healthcare

SOUTHERN NEVADA MEDICAL SECTOR: Hospitals' losses rise
Clark County acute-care hospitals had their worst year on record in 2008, and the state's shaky economy and rising unemployment are expected to create more problems for uninsured people and the health community in the near future. Because of the recession and local hospitals' long-standing reimbursement problems area hospitals posted a cumulative operating loss of $68.3 million last year, $408 for every patient that checked in, by far the worst performance on record. As recently as 2006, numbers reported to the state's Department of Health and Human Services by the individual hospitals showed an operating profit of $16.7 million.
[ source ] http://www.lvrj.com : June 29, 2009 |  Comments: (0)

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