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New hospital financial headaches

Higher insurance deductibles mean more up-front payments at hospitals

Hospitals in Central Oregon and across the country are increasingly collecting money up front from patients in an effort to recoup more of the costs of service.

St. Charles Bend is among the hospitals that have beefed up bill collection before or at the time of an elective hospital procedure to....

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