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In what is being hailed as good news for southeast Wisconsin health care costs, a new study found the average hospital bills paid by commercial insurers here increased by about half the rate of increases nationally.
The average per-unit commercial payments in the area increased about 48 percent from 2003 through 2015 compared with a 101 percent increase in the nationwide hospital component of the Consumer Price Index, according to a study released Thursday by the Greater Milwaukee Business Foundation…