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Odessa, Texas, Hospital Strapped for Cash.

By Julie Breaux, Odessa American, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

May 3--Alliance Hospital is experiencing "difficulties with cash flow" because of a dysfunctional billing and collections system, not a lack of patients or capital, the chairman of the hospital's board of directors says.

Dr. Sudhir Srivastava says problems with Alliance's computer billing system led to delays in billings and collections, "and that really has been the reason to cause the difficulties with cash flow." Srivastava said the hospital expects the installation of a new

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