AHA survey reveals hospitals continue to keep costs low.
DATA BENCHMARKS: Good news on the hospital cost front for 1997: Hospitals and health systems continued their three-year pace of keeping costs down, according to the American Hospital Association's annual survey of more than 5,000 hospitals and health systems. Find out what the survey results revealed.
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