The Consumer Price Index for hospital spending accounts for payments from private payors and the uninsured, not including Medicare and Medicaid. The CPI for hospital spending had grown in the previous two months: 0.7 percent in February and 0.4 percent in March.
The decline is simultaneous with a similarly historic drop in hospitals’ producer price index, which also fell 0.6 percent last month.
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