Analysis of U.S. Census data from the Center for Sustainable Health Spending notes healthcare spending increased 5 percent last year, reports Bloomberg Business, where they note this increase follows five consecutive years of record slow growth for the healthcare industry.
Figures from the Census report itself show ASC spending grew in the fourth quarter of 2014 from the same quarter last year by 4.87 percent.
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