Revision of the CPI hospital services component.

The revised “hospital and related services” index, part of the “medical care” major group of the consumer price index (CPI), incorporates several significant improvements in the structural definition and methodology used to gauge hospital price change. The writer outlines the changes that are to be...

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Published in:	Monthly Labor Review Vol. 119; pp. 40 - 49
Main Author:	Cardenas, Elaine M.
Format:	Article
Published:	US Department of Labor December 1996
Subjects:	Consumer price indexes Hospital charges Hospitals Government policy
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost