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New government health care spending tables show that hospitals are the players driving up private health insurers’ costs, and that costs are going up much faster for private employers than for other payers.

Overall spending increased 7.5% between 2022 and 2023, to $4.9 trillion, or $14,570 per person, according to new national health expenditure data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.


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