Hospital prices only rose 2 percent in January, while physician and clinical service prices increased 0.6 percent.
National health expenditures, meanwhile, grew at an annual rate of 4.1 percent from January 2012 to January 2013, similar to last month’s figures. Altarum estimates that NHE grew at an annual rate of 4.3 percent, which is slightly higher than the 3.9 percent CMS reported from 2009 through 2011.
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