Rural hospital ownership
Subtitle: medical service provision, market mix, and spillover effects
By: Jill R. Horwitz, Austin Nichols
Contributors: Nichols, Austin; National Bureau of Economic Research
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 16926; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 16926.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "The NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health provides summaries of publications like this.  You can sign up to receive the NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email.  Roughly one half of hospitals in the U.S.  are in rural areas, yet researchers have largely studied the effects of hospital ownership in the urban context.  We examine differences in the provision of profitable and unprofitable medical services in rural areas across nonprofit, for-profit, and government hospitals.  We also consider the effect of hospital ownership mix within rural hospital markets.  We find that rural nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to offer unprofitable services, many of which are underprovided services.  Nonprofits respond less than for-profits to changes in service profitability.  Nonprofits with more for-profit competitors offer more profitable services and fewer unprofitable services than those with fewer for-profit competitors"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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