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SPOTLIGHT: Hospital prices drop in November
While higher than they were a year ago, hospital prices fell 0.5 percent in November, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics' Producer Price Indices. This number includes the negotiated contract... Read more...
Hospital prices up over last year
While hospital prices crept up just one tenth of a point last month, they are currently 2.4 percent higher than they were in April 2008, according to a new report by the federal Bureau of Labor... Read more...
NJ law caps hospital prices for uninsured
Following a trend emerging in recent years across the country, New Jersey has enacted a law capping hospital prices for low- and middle-income uninsured patients. The new law is one of four bills... Read more...
ALSO NOTED: Hospital prices up, physician office prices down; Almost Family plans IPO; and much more...
> According to the latest Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers, wholesale hospital prices rose 0.5 percent in March, while wholesale prices for physician office services dropped 1.6 percent. Read more...
