Healthscope has warned that reduced patient visits in the first quarter of 2016-17 have caught the country's second largest private hospital operator by surprise.
Ahead of the $5 billion company's annual meeting on Friday Healthscope said if the trend in the first three months of the year continued operating earnings before interest, tax, depreciation for the hospital division - the majority of the business - would be flat for the full-year.
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