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Indiana employers and workers paid more than $2 billion above the national average for hospital care in 2020.

"Indiana's hospital prices are among the highest in the country and are driven in part by high levels of provider concentration, which makes it difficult for these prices to come down to more reasonable levels without policy intervention," said Chris Whaley, Ph.D., a RAND Corp. economist, who assisted the Employers' Forum of Indiana in its analysis of their data.

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