Problems

1. Snowden Hospital is reviewing its inpatient services lines using the following table to calculate the year-to-year change in expenses (millions). Which services lines have the highest and lowest growth rates? Which service line expenses are growing faster than the average for inpatient services?

	2021	2022
Inpatient services	$ (millions)	%	$ (millions)	%	CHANGE
Internal Medicine	$24.3		$24.80
Oncology	18.1		18.3
Cardiology	30.7		31.5
Neurology	12.5		12.8
Obstetrics	6.9		7.0
Pediatrics	9.1		9.4
General surgery	21.5		22.6
Mental health	13.2		13.8
Total Expenses	$136.3		$140.2