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Central and South Peninsula hospitals report rising revenue, growing uncompensated care and mobile crisis services
Summary
Central Peninsula and South Peninsula hospitals reported year-over-year revenue gains but rising uncompensated care and cash-collection challenges. Central described a Mobile Crisis Team launched Dec. 5; South Peninsula outlined new specialty services, infrastructure projects and plans to apply for rural-health transformation funding.
Central Peninsula General Hospital (CPGH) and South Peninsula Hospital presented quarterly reports to the Kenai Peninsula Borough Assembly on Feb. 3, outlining gains in gross revenue alongside increasing uncompensated-care trends and operational pressures.
Angela Hennigan, CPGH chief executive officer, said the hospital recorded a 13% increase in gross revenues for the period ending Sept. 30, while net collections grew about 7%. She attributed part of the gap to the sunset of a CMS demonstration project that had boosted Medicare reimbursements, and warned of a rising bad-debt trend: “As of 12/31, we’ve actually had about a 15% increase in our bad debt expense,” Hennigan said. Hennigan said…
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