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Audio: Getting To The Bottom Of Hospital Pricing

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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released data Wednesday on variations in hospital pricing and how much Medicare has actually paid to individual hospitals for various procedures. Jordan Rau joined NPR’s “Talk of the Nation” Wednesday afternoon to discuss what the data tell us about the the cost of health care and whether higher prices are correlated with better quality.

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