The 12-month moving average of the healthcare price growth rate hit a new low at 1.3 percent. Hospital prices showed a 1.2 percent year-over-year increase in October, the lowest rate recorded since November 1998, according to the report.
Meanwhile, healthcare spending grew 4.1 percent in October 2013 compared with the same period last year, increasing to a seasonally adjusted rate of $2.95 trillion, marginally higher than its value of $2.94 trillion in September. Hospital spending was $939 billion and represented 32 percent of total health spending in October.
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