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Event Brief of Q3 2005 LifePoint Hospitals, Inc. Earnings Conference Call - Part 2.

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MIKE CULOTTA: Let me jump in here, Jason, too, from the standpoint we did see an increase in self-pay admission, about 120 in same facility but 70% of that related to shifting from TennCare to self-pay, so we did see that increase, and just to give you another factor, I did have that in front of me. I forgot. It was a little note we had here in the script, was the self-pay revenues roughly in the second quarter, again, you're not comparing apples and apples here, but I said there was around 73 million in Q2, but there was 50.4 -- I'm sorry 73 in Q3, 50.4 in Q2, but, remember, you didn't have Danville in there. You only had Wytheville ...

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