We found a match
Your institution may have access to this item. Find your institution then sign in to continue.
- Title
Making profits and providing care: comparing nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals.
- Authors
Horwitz, Jill R
- Abstract
Three types of entities-nonprofit, for-profit, and government-own hospitals. Yet we know neither whether hospital types specialize in different medical services nor how service profitability affects specialization. In this econometric analysis of American Hospital Association data for every U.S. urban, acute care hospital (1988-2000), more than thirty services were categorized as relatively profitable, unprofitable, or variable. For-profits are most likely to offer relatively profitable medical services; government hospitals are most likely to offer relatively unprofitable services; nonprofits often fall in the middle. For-profits are also more responsive to changes in service profitability than the other two types.
- Publication
Health affairs (Project Hope), 2005, Vol 24, Issue 3, p790
- ISSN
0278-2715
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1377/hlthaff.24.3.790