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Hospital services pre-payment may loom large in future
Recently, we've covered a variety of news that touched on the issue of whether hospitals should get tough about collecting from patients prior to delivering care for elective procedures. Most of it suggests that this is a risky strategy, at least politically: Read more ...
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