National health care spending grew 3.9 percent in February, according to a report from the Altarum Institute's Center for Sustainable Health Spending.
Researchers said the growth signals a falling spending rate that returns it to the record low levels seen between 2009–2011.
Hospital care accounted for the bulk of the spending in February 2013 — $928 billion, representing 32 percent of total health spending.
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