UI Health Care requests approval for 6% rate increase

At the Iowa Board of Regents meeting June 12, University of Iowa Health Care requested approval for a 6% increase in chargemaster rates for its clinical services, citing factors such as health care inflation.

“Each year, we go through and look at overall input analysis, look at supply cost inflation, labor cost inflation, at a bottom up level,” UI Health Care’s associate vice president for finance and chief financial officer,…