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Las Vegas hospital renegotiating contracts to save
AP/San Jose Mercury News, February 18, 2009
University Medical Center officials are expected to present new contracts with medical groups and healthcare providers that would save Clark County, NV, about $1.3 million per year.
The hospital has been renegotiating the contracts to help ease its $39 million in debt, and hospital officials say the new contracts would save the hospital $9.5 million over the lives of the contracts.
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