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Monday, January 19, 2009

U.S. health spending tops $2.2 trillion

A Medicare pay freeze and imaging fee cuts in 2007 helped constrain the rise in spending on physician services.

By Doug Trapp, AMNews staff. Posted Jan. 19, 2009.


 National health spending in 2007 grew at its slowest pace since 1998, largely due to a sharp slowdown in the growth in spending on prescription drugs, according to federal actuaries. Growth in spending on physician services slowed slightly.

Overall health spending increased by only 6.1% in 2007 to reach $2.24 trillion, according to the annual Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services report, published in the January/February issue of Health Affairs. Health expenditures last dipped below the 6% growth mark in 1998./.../

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