{"id":18510,"date":"2025-09-15T17:56:32","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:56:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/?p=18510"},"modified":"2025-09-15T17:56:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T21:56:32","slug":"health-spending-outlay-tops-2-trillion-but-spending-growth-on-doctors-declines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/15\/health-spending-outlay-tops-2-trillion-but-spending-growth-on-doctors-declines\/","title":{"rendered":"Health spending outlay tops $2 trillion, but spending growth on doctors declines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 While the national health spending growth rate increased slightly in 2006, the percentage rise in expenditures on physician services slowed markedly, due largely to a small Medicare pay increase and its private-sector fallout, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services.<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>At the same time, the start of Medicare Part D had a major impact in the prescription drug sector.<\/p>\n<div class=\"post-teaser\"><b><a title=\"Permanent Link: Health spending outlay tops $2 trillion, but spending growth on doctors declines\" href=\"\/in-the-news\/health-spending-outlay-tops-2-trillion-but-spending-growth-on-doctors-declines\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read the rest of this post here<\/a><\/b>\u00a0(271 words, estimated 1:05 mins reading time)<\/div>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed this post, make sure you\u00a0<a href=\"\/feed\/\">subscribe to my RSS feed<\/a>!<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington \u2014 While the national health spending growth rate increased slightly in 2006, the percentage rise in expenditures on physician services slowed markedly, due largely to a small Medicare pay increase and its private-sector fallout, according to a new report by the Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services. At the same time, the start of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18510\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valuecare.wpgamma.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}