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.The Changing Hospital Industry: Comparing Not-for-Profit and For-Profit Institutions 1st Edition is written by David M. Cutler and published by University of Chicago Press. ISBNs for The Changing Hospital Industry are 9780226132228, 0226132226 and the print ISBNs are 9780226132198, 0226132196.