October 14, 2016—Prescription drug prices rose 6.3 percent from August 2015 to August 2016, making them “easily the fastest growing price component” of U.S. healthcare spending, according to independent healthcare think tank Altarum Institute. Hospital-care price growth, meanwhile, held steady for a second year at 0.9 percent.
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