The economy is hitting hospitals hard. For elective surgery, the picture is only starting to emerge. Hospitals' median total margins shrank to near zero in the third quarter of 2008—an unprecedented low, according to a Thomson Reuters analysis of data from 439 hospitals. This was primarily because of a drop in investment income.
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