Healthcare spending up 4.6%, while service use plateaus: 5 things to know

(By Morgan Haefner for Becker’s Hospital Review)

While healthcare spending depends on price and service use, substantial hikes in healthcare spending between 2012 and 2016 were mainly due to price increases, according to a recent Health Care Cost Institute report. Continue reading article here…

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