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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.