Projected Impact Of Increasing Hospital Prices

A new brief from UnitedHealth Group finds that hospital prices increasing at current rates could end up costing $250 billion over the next decade. The report indicates that prices set by hospitals for services, and not physician salaries or how much hospital services are used, are what’s driving up patients’ spending.  

The brief can be obtained at https://www.unitedhealthgroup.com/content/dam/UHG/PDF/2019/Hospital-Prices-Drive-Inpatient-Spending.pdf.