Healthcare spending will hit 19.4% of GDP in the next decade, CMS projects

Modern Healthcare: Healthcare spending growth will rise at an annual average of 5.5% over the next decade, slightly faster than in the past few years, due to the aging of the baby boomers and healthcare price growth, the CMS Office of the Actuary projects.

Because that growth will exceed gross domestic product growth, the CMS predicts healthcare's share of GDP will rise from 17.9% in 2017 to 19.4% in 2027, according to a report in Health Affairs released Wednesday. That's close to the 19.7% the CMS actuary predicted in its last national health expenditure report a year ago.

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