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

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

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...

The high costs of for-profit care.

A s we have written elsewhere, 1 some aspects of life are too precious, intimate or corruptible to entrust to the market. We prohibit selling kidneys and buying wives or judges. But the market has unquestionably gained new territory in recent years, as more and more activities previously performed by government or nonprofit agencies — including interrogating Iraqi prisoners — have been turned o...

For-profit hospitals loom large on health care scene.

A survey by the Institute of Medicine examined both factual matters and value questions connected with the provision of health care by investor-owned, for-profit hospitals. One inference drawn from the study data is that for-profit enterprise is not as bad as it has been portrayed. Costs at for-profit institutions are greater than at other hospitals. However, the recently implemented system ...

The Economic Performance of For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals

Investor-owned hospital systems have grown rapidly in the 1970s and 1980s. Policy-makers are concerned about the changes in the access to and quality of hospital care that may be caused by this development. These concerns are predicated on the belief that for-profit hospitals perform differently than not-for-profit hospitals. This research examines the economic performance of for-profit and not...