Legal & Regulatory Issues

Hospital Prices Down for September

Overall hospital prices declined 0.2 percent in September, but were still 3 percent higher than last year’s prices, according to an AHA News Now report.

Molly Gamble

Friday, October 15th, 2010

The Bureau of Labor Statistics measured the prices in the Producer Price Index, which measures the fluctuations in selling prices received by domestic producers for output.

Read the AHA News Now report on last month’s declining hospital prices.

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