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

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...

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

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

The economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.

This paper examines the economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals through the prism of capital acquisitions. The exercise suggests that of two hospitals that are equally efficient in producing health care, the for-profit hospital would have to charge higher prices than the not-for-profit hospital would, to break even on capital acquisitions. The reasons for this divergence are (1) th...

Measuring community benefits provided by for-profit and nonprofit hospitals.

Nonprofit hospitals are expected to provide benefits to their community in return for being exempt from most taxes. In this paper we develop a new method of identifying activities that should qualify as community benefits and of determining a benchmark for the amount of community benefits a nonprofit hospital should be expected to provide. We then compare estimates of nonprofits' current level ...