This past May, healthcare prices grew 1.8 percent year-over-year, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending.
That's up from a 1.6 percent annual growth rate in April. Additionally, hospital prices grew 2.1 percent in May, on par with the April growth rate, according to the report
The 12-month moving average for overall healthcare price growth rose to 1.3 percent in May, up from 1.2 percent in April. Although this rate is near the all-time low for the Altarum Institute's data (1.2 percent), it has now gone up for two consecutive months, showing its first increase since January 2012, according to the report.
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