Here are four points:
1. Hospital spending was up 5.3 percent.
2. In the third quarter, nursing homes and residential care facilities was 3.3 percent higher.
3. Compared to the third quarter of 2014, physician offices’ spending was up 7.4 percent.
4. Outpatient centers’ spending was up 8.6 percent.
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