Comparing For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Health Care Providers
A Review of the Literature
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This report summarizes a literature review examining the relationship between ownership status and facility costs in hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis centers as well as four post-acute care settings: skilled nursing facilities, long-term care hospitals, institutional rehabilitation facilities, and home health agencies. The report provides background on the issues related to profit status and provider costs and summarizes and discusses the implications of the findings in the literature for future work on the relationship between profit status and provider costs, particularly in the post-acute care setting.
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Background
Chapter Two
Methods
Chapter Three
Results
Chapter Four
Summary and Discussion
Chapter Five
References
Appendix A1
Methodological Approach – Hospitals
Appendix A2
Methodological Approach – Nursing Homes
Appendix A3
Methodological Approach – Other Settings of Care
Appendix B1
Model Specifications – Hospitals
Appendix B2
Model Specifications – Nursing Homes
Appendix B3
Model Specifications – Other Settings of Care
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