Today’s release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates that prices of health services are outpacing other consumer goods and services by a multiple. From February to March, the seasonally adjusted CPI increased 0.2 percent. Medical care services overall increased at twice that rate, 0.4 percent, while physicians’ and hospital services both increased by 0.6 percent.
Read the entire column at NCPA's Health Policy Blog,
Research and commentary from a former senior executive in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
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