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Health Spending Trends Up In 2011 Despite Slow Growth In Health Care Prices
Health care spending in the first four months of 2011 grew at an annual rate of 4.7 percent, up from 3.9 percent growth in 2010, according to the July Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs released...
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Health Spending Growth Up In 2011, But Trending To Record Lows at Year’s End
ANN ARBOR — The January Health Sector Economic Indicators briefs released Friday by the Altarum Institute’s Center for Sustainable Health Spending indicate that over the first 11 months of 2011, health...
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Health Job Growth Slows in April, But Spending and Prices Remain Stable
ANN ARBOR — Health care job growth slowed in April, with just 19,000 new jobs created compared to the 24-month average of 24,000 jobs. Prior to April, job growth for the first quarter of 2012 was...
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August Health Spending Grows by Only 3.8 Percent But Hospital Prices Jump
ANN ARBOR — National health expenditures in August 2012 grew by 3.8 percent relative to August 2011, equal to the July rate, and representing the fourth consecutive month of growth below 4 percent. The...
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Truven Study: Hospital Employees Less Healthy, More Likely To Be Hospitalized
ANN ARBOR — Physician, good luck healing thyself. Health care spending is 9 percent higher for hospital employees than it is for the general employee population, according to study results released...
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September Health Spending and Price Growth Near Record Lows
ANN ARBOR — National health expenditures in September 2012 grew by 3.7 percent relative to September 2011, ticking down a tenth from the August rate, and representing the fifth consecutive month of...
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Health Spending Growth Historically Low For 4th Straight Year
ANN ARBOR — Over the first 11 months of 2012, national health expenditures grew at an annual rate of 4.3 percent, compared to the 3.9 percent increase for 2011 reflected in data released last week by...
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Health Care Price Increases Remain Low; Employment Growth Slowing Too
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) – A net 15,000 health care jobs were created in October 2013, significantly below the two-year average of 21,000 jobs per month, according to new figures from the Ann Arbor-based...
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Growth in Health Jobs Down; Spending Up Due To ACA; Healthcare Price Hikes At...
ANN ARBOR (WWJ) — Growth in health care job creation remained low in February, with a national gain of 9,500 jobs, according to figures from the Ann Arbor healthcare consulting organization Altarum...
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