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Patients piling medical costs on credit cards

By Christopher Rowland
Globe Staff / January 22, 2007

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Some doctors and hospitals are teaming up with financial-services companies to market credit cards to patients, reducing healthcare providers' dependence on bill collection, and causing more low- and middle-income consumers to pay interest on their medical debts. (Full article: 817 words)

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