Hospital-Doctor Deal Confuses, Angers Patients About Billing ; Miami Valley Makes Changes for Patients of a Cardiology Group.

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DAYTON -- Miami Valley Hospital has owned physician practices for years. But the region's largest hospital encountered unexpected push- back from patients over billing practices in recent months after it absorbed Miami Valley Cardiologists, a large cardiology practice.

It was the hospital's first experiment with "commingling" a standalone, hospital-owned physician building outside the hospital's walls, in effect making it a hospital outpatient setting.

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Hospital-Doctor Deal Confuses, Angers Patients About Billing ; Miami Valley Makes Changes for Patients of a Cardiology Group.

Officials described as "seamless" the April 5 conversion into hospital space of th...

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