LAS VEGAS—University Medical Center officials are expected to present new contracts with medical groups and health care providers that would save Clark County about $1.3 million per year.
The hospital has been renegotiating the contracts to help ease its $39 million in debt.
Hospital officials say the new contracts would save the hospital $9.5 million over the lives of the contracts, between 4 percent and 20 percent on each arrangement.
UMC spokesman Rick Plummer says Clark County commissioners Rory Reid and Lawrence Weekly helped in the contract negotiations.
Officials say the hospital spends $37 million per year on roughly 20 contracts.
The contracts include groups that provide HIV services, anesthesia, heart and vascular services, lung specialists and urology services, among others.
Information from: Las Vegas Review-Journal,