Trends in Asset Structure Between Not-for-Profit and Investor-Owned Hospitals

Investor - Owned and Not - for - Profit Hospitals : Addressing

Investor - Owned and Not - for - Profit Hospitals : Addressing Some Issues

Uncompensated care provided by for-profit, not-for-profit, and government owned hospitals

BACKGROUND There is growing concern certain not-for-profit hospitals are not providing enough uncompensated care to justify their tax exempt status. Our objective was to compare the amount of uncompensated care provided by not-for-profit (NFP), for-profit (FP) and government owned hospitals. METHODS We used 2005 state inpatient data (SID) for 10 states to identify patients hospitalized for th...

Quality of care in investor-owned vs not-for-profit HMOs.

CONTEXT The proportion of health maintenance organization (HMO) members enrolled in investor-owned plans has increased sharply, yet little is known about the quality of these plans compared with not-for-profit HMOs. OBJECTIVE To compare quality-of-care measures for investor-owned and not-for-profit HMOs. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Analysis of the Health Plan Employer Data and Informa...

Competition Between not-for-profit and for-profit Hospitals in Small Markets

This paper examines the relationship between how hospital ownership is organized and the intensity of competition in the health care market. I study the question using an empirical entry model. These models typically exhibit multiple equilibria. To resolve this problem, a novel algorithm that computes all the equilibria of the game is developed. This paper uses the algorithm togetherwith two di...