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Atlanta hospitals buy medical practices; patients forced to pay

By WSB-TV  
   February 16, 2015

Some metro Atlanta residents have seen their medical bills go up by as much as double, and they are having a hard time understanding why. Channel 2's Erica Byfield investigated and found that it's a nationwide trend. Independent doctors are disappearing and are going to work for big hospitals. Cancer patient Mike Rosenberg, who gets chemotherapy every month, used to go to the Atlanta Cancer Care. Rosenberg stopped going in early 2013 after his last bill shocked him. He said the bill was the only thing that had changed.

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