This is the third straight month of wholesale cost increases for physician practices, which have experienced increases totaling 0.8 percent since July, and the second month of increases for hospitals, which experienced a 0.2 percent in August, according to the Producer Price Index.
View the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ historical data on hospital wholesale costs.
View the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ historical data on physician practice wholesale costs.
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