| The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-For-Profit and For-Profit Institutions Contributor(s): Cutler, David M. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0226132196 ISBN-13: 9780226132198 Publisher: University of Chicago Press OUR PRICE: $93.06 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Health Care Delivery - Business & Economics | Nonprofit Organizations & Charities - General - Medical | Health Policy |
| Dewey: 338.473 |
| LCCN: 99027207 |
| Series: National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 6.38" W x 9.32" (1.41 lbs) 378 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cutler, David M.: - David M. Cutler is the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University, and a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. |