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Archive Home > 2009 > June > 18 > Doctors try to ease patients’ financial pain

Doctors try to ease patients’ financial pain

Physicians nationwide are cutting fees, adding payment plans

By Sandra G. Boodman / The Bulletin
June 18, 2009

Until recently, the sagging economy wasn’t a subject Mary Newman routinely discussed during office visits. But after a steady stream of longtime patients confided that they had been laid off, were about to lose their health insurance or that their pay had been slashed, she added the....

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