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St. Paul Heart Clinic (MN) to dissolve on Jan. 1 into hospital groups
The Star Tribune, November 22, 2010
With a wave to the economics of present-day health care, the St. Paul Heart Clinic will go out of business on Jan. 1 when its 31 cardiologists join the Allina and Health East hospital systems.
Clinics integrating with hospitals has become common as federal reimbursement procedures have become more cumbersome for standalone cardiology groups.
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