The HealthINFLATION News is a monthly report on medical care inflation as reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics for:

• Professional Medical Care
• Hospital Care
• Drugs, Equipment and Supplies

HealthINFLATION News reports for the medical and medical financial community to keep current on healthcare inflation for:

• Pricing Policy
• Negotiating Contracts and Contract Escalations
• Monitoring Medical Care Inflation Trends
• Forecasting Health Care Inflation

Subscribers to the HealthINFLATION News report include medical financial mangers for hospitals, HMOs, clinics, insurance companies, businesses, organizations with medical benefits plans, and others.

What Subscribers Say About Us

"I have been a subscriber to HealthINFLATION News since 1992 and am as enthusiastic today as I was when I received my first issue. During my years at Kaiser Permanente I found HealthINFLATION News an invaluable source (and the only source available) covering the broad spectrum of healthcare inflation throughout the United States. During my tenure on the Board of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco I was required to report monthly on the status of healthcare inflation to the full board of Governors of the Bank. HealthINFLATION News was my primary source of data. I know of no other source with the breadth and currency of your newsletter. Keep up the good work."

James A. Vohs
Chairman and CEO (Retired)
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

"The newsletter helps us with insurance contracts and setting rates . When I call Subscriber Services with questions about the data, I get answers."

Mark Gibbons
Health Care Analyst
Ashland Community Hospital
Ashland, Oregon

"As one involved in the delivery of health care and health care administration for a large group practice for over 40 years, I would like to comment on the value of HealthINFLATION News. The clearly presented, well organized, informative material keeps us current on the constantly changing cost of Health Care and better able to react to these trends."

R. Hewlett Lee, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Executive Director Emeritus, Palo Alto
Medical Clinic; Trustee, Emeritus, Palo Alto
Medical Foundation;
Past Trustee, Stanford University Hospitals,
Blue Shield of California, Lifeguard. Co-
Founder of TakeCare and Preferred Providers
of America.

What the U.S. Department of Labor Says About Us

...enables members of the medical community and related businesses to keep pace with the rapidly changing costs and trends in Health Care Inflation. Price Index Communications has produced a newsletter since 1992 using Consumer and Producer Price Index Health Care Inflation...in a format customized to meet the interests of insurance and pharmaceutical companies, HMO's, hospitals, managers of employee medical benefits plans, and others. Subscribers use the data to negotiate contracts, forecast medical costs, analyze medical markets, and follow inflation trends.

U.S. Department of Labor 2002 Annual Report