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  • Chart of the day: Medicare hospital inpatient and outpatient volume growth

      12/18/2012
      Austin Frakt

    From MedPAC (PDF):

    Mcare inpt outpt growth

    H/t: Brad Flansbaum.

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    • Comments (1)

    • by Jonathan on December 19th, 2012 at 08:51

      I wonder why they stopped at 2004. Doesn’t the trend go back another 10 to 20 years?

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