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Brian Catron
Economist, Office of Prices and Living Conditions,
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bonnie Murphy
Economist, Office of Prices and Living
Conditions, Bureau of Labor Statistics
To expand coverage of Producer Price Indexes in the services industry, the Bureau has designed a survey to study inflation in the hospital industry. This article profiles the new PPI hospital industry price indexes. It highlights the survey sample and design, analyzes hospital price inflation as measured by the PPI, summarizes the results, and briefly compares the hospital industry measures of the PPI with those of the CPI.
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