According to a report (PDF) from Altarum, healthcare prices grew 2.2  in April from a year earlier,  the highest rate since January 2012. Hospital price growth, the main culprit,  jumped 3.6 percent from a year earlier, mostly driven by a 4.6 percent price growth for Medicare patients and a 3.8 percent private-insurance price growth.

But Medicaid prices rose  only 1.6 percent.

More and more consumers are struggling to pay for the world’s most  expensive healthcare.

To read the Altarum report, please hit this link. To read FierceHealthcare’s take on the report, please hit this link.