Expenditure category	Price measure	Source
Hospital care	National Hospital Input Price Index a/	Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA)
Physicians' services	CPI b/-physicians' fees	Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
Dentists' services	CPI-dental care	BLS
Other professional	CPI-medical professional services	BLS
Drugs and sundries	CPI-medical commodities c/	BLS
Eyeglases and appliances	CPI-prescription and dispensing of eyeglasses	BLS/HCFA d/
Nursing Home Care	Nursing Home Input Price	HCFA e/
Other personal health care	CPI-medical care	BLS

^a/See the article by the same name in this issue.

^b/Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.

^c/Formerly called “drugs and prescriptions.”

^d/CPI for Urban Wage and Clerical Workers; discontinued by BLS in June 1978, this price has been estimated by HCFA since that time.

^e/Unpublished data from the Office of Research, Demonstrations, and Statistics.