The changing hospital industry : comparing not-for-profit and for-profit institutions / / edited by David M. Cutler

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (382 p.)
• Disciplina: 338.4/736211/0973
• Soggetto topico: Health facilities - Economic aspects - United States; Hospitals - Economic aspects - United States
• Altri autori: CutlerDavid M
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Hospital Conversions Is the Purchase Price Too Low? -- 2. Converting Hospitals from Not-for-Profit to For-Profit Status: Why and What Effects? -- 3. Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals -- 4. The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services -- 5. How Much Is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life -- 6. Market Forces, Diversification of Activity, and the Mission of Not-for-Profit Hospitals -- 7. Managed Care and Provider Volume -- 8. Implications of Managed Care for Teaching Hospitals: Comparisons of Traditional and Managed Care Medical Services within a Single Institution -- 9. The Tax Benefits of Not-for-Profit Hospitals -- 10. Asymmetric Information and the Not-for-Profit Sector: Does Its Output Sell at a Premium? -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: In recent years, the hospital industry has been undergoing massive change and reorganization with technological innovations and the spread of managed care. As a result, the total number of hospitals countrywide has been declining, and a growing number of not-for-profit hospitals have converted to for-profit status. These changes raise two fundamental questions: What determines a hospital's choice of for-profit or not-for-profit organizational form? And how does that form affect patients and society? This timely volume provides a factual basis for discussing for-profit versus not-for-profit ownership of hospitals and gives a first look at the evidence about new and important issues in the hospital industry. The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions will have significant implications for public-policy reforms in this vital industry and will be of great interest to scholars in the fields of health economics, public finance, hospital organization, and management; and to health services researchers.
• Titolo autorizzato: The changing hospital industry
• ISBN: 1-281-22325-5; 9786611223250; 0-226-13222-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910815099803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Conference report (National Bureau of Economic Research)