Thanks misterwhipple. The cleanup helps a great deal.
Here is the output from this sub routine. I want it to break the loop after the first Total (where the data starts with dollar sign and has digits dot digits). The two dates, two descriptions and total after the first total are not needed.

<Page id="2">
<DATE>06/09/08</DATE>
<DESCRIPTION>3 PHARMACY</DESCRIPTION>
<AMOUNT>36.00</AMOUNT>
<DATE>06/09/08</DATE>
<DESCRIPTION>1 LABORATORY</DESCRIPTION>
<AMOUNT>35.00</AMOUNT>
<DATE>06/09/08</DATE>
<DESCRIPTION>1 EMERGENCY SVCS</DESCRIPTION>
<AMOUNT>1,159.00</AMOUNT>
<DATE>06/09/08</DATE>
<DESCRIPTION>3 PULMONARY FUNCTION</DESCRIPTION>
<AMOUNT>246.00</AMOUNT>
<DATE>06/09/08</DATE>
<DESCRIPTION>3 THERAPEUTIC SERV</DESCRIPTION>
<AMOUNT>111.00</AMOUNT>
<TOTAL>$1,587.00</TOTAL>
<DATE>10/08/08</DATE>
<DATE>06/09/08</DATE>
<DESCRIPTION>70247259</DESCRIPTION>
<DESCRIPTION>000000840423</DESCRIPTION>
<TOTAL>$68.54</TOTAL>
</Page>

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