National Health Spending, Price Growth Remained Low in September

Healthcare prices and expenditures continued to grow at a slow pace in September, according to the Altarum Institute.

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This past September, healthcare prices were only 1 percent higher compared with September 2012 and fractionally above the August 2013 rate of 1 percent, which was the lowest year-over-year growth recorded since January 1990, according to a report from the Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending.

 

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