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Utah health care providers are steadily raising rates and charging widely different amounts for common procedures, report says

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo)  An advanced medical simulation center at Intermountain Healthcare’s LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, opened in 2015. In a report released Wednesday, the nonprofit Utah Foundation said that Utahns continue to pay the lowest per-capita health costs in the nation, but those costs are rising rapidly, driven by higher costs for new medical devices, pharmaceuticals and the increasing complexity of administering health providers.

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) An advanced medical simulation center at Intermountain Healthcare’s LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City, opened in 2015. In a report released Wednesday, the nonprofit Utah Foundation said that Utahns continue to pay the lowest per-capita health costs in the nation, but those costs are rising rapidly, driven by higher costs for new medical devices, pharmaceuticals and the increasing complexity of administering health providers.