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Article Excerpt
Continuing a long, recession-fueled trend, prices for a market basket of medical-surgical product categories remained relatively unchanged through the first quarter of 2009, according to the most recent figures available from IMS Health in Plymouth Meeting, PA.
The extended period of docile prices even hit paper products, an explosive category that edged just 2.7% higher in the year's first three months.
However, even that small rise still left paper products, a key category of expense for nearly every hospital and hospital supplier, an astonishing 80.3% higher over the past three quarters. Paper...
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