title: Patient care. Time for tea. As insurance kicks in and patient demand grows, alternative therapy is hard to ignore.
abstract: A growing number of hospitals--and payers--are giving thumbs up to alternative therapies as a way to treat ailing patients. But not everyone agrees that the techniques are legitimate solutions.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Blank
mesh_terms: D000529:Complementary Therapies / Q000191:economics* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D019538:Health Care Surveys; D015285:Hospital-Patient Relations; D006761:Hospitals / Q000706:statistics & numerical data / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D010342:Patient Acceptance of Health Care; D015990:Placebo Effect; D014481:United States