Same-hospital admissions declined 2.8 percent, due mainly to a decline in inpatient surgeries.
Combined inpatient and outpatient volume rose 1.7 percent, on higher emergency-room visits, and per-patient revenue rose 4 percent.
Read the release on LifePoint’s fourth-quarter.
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