How do we slow healthcare spending?
Although overall growth in healthcare spending has moderated in recent years, costs are expected to continue rising. How can we help slow healthcare spending? The new American Hospital Association report "Ensuring a Healthier Tomorrow: Actions to Strengthen Our Health Care System and Our Nation's Finances” offers a starting point of initiatives and activities that stakeholders can take together.
Examining hospital billing
Forbes magazine Health Policy Contributor Chris Conover takes a look at claims made in the March 4 TIME magazine article “Bitter Pill” about hospital billing and finances.
Health insurance exchanges and the feds
More than half of U.S. states will allow the federal government to establish health insurance exchanges, according to a report issued by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation.
Nursing Management’s 2013 Salary Survey
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Animal-assisted therapy: Paws with a cause
Lorraine S. Ernst, MS, RN, AHN-BC