The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions

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.

Book Details

• Author: David M. Cutler
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• eBook ISBN: 9780226132228, 0226132226
• Print ISBN: 9780226132198, 0226132196