Download or read book Overview of the Competitive Effects of Specialty Hospitals written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview of the competitive effects of specialty hospitals : hearing before the [Subcommittee on] Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Ninth Congress, first session, May 24, 2005.
Download or read book Overview of the Competitive Effects of Specialty Hospitals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security and published by Amicus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amicus Readers at level 1 include: a picture glossary, a table of contents, index, websites, and literacy notes located in the back of each book. Additionally, content words are introduced within the text supported by a variety of photo labels.In particular, this title describes common community helpers that a child might see around town. Includes visual literacy activity.
Download or read book Overview of The Competitive Effects of Specialty Hospitals S Hrg 109 140 May 24 2005 109 1 Hearing written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Overview of the Competitive Effects of Specialty Hospitals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, and International Security and published by Amicus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amicus Readers at level 1 include: a picture glossary, a table of contents, index, websites, and literacy notes located in the back of each book. Additionally, content words are introduced within the text supported by a variety of photo labels.In particular, this title describes common community helpers that a child might see around town. Includes visual literacy activity.
Download or read book General Hospitals written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-09-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been much debate about specialty hospitals-short-term acute care hospitals with physician owners or investors that primarily treat patients who have specific medical conditions or need surgical procedures-and the competitive effects they may have on general hospitals. Advocates of specialty hospitals contend that competition from these physician-owned facilities can prompt general hospitals to implement efficiency, quality, and amenity improvements, thus favorably affecting the overall health care delivery system. Critics of specialty hospitals are concerned that general hospitals may respond to such competition by making changes that do not necessarily increase efficiency or benefit patients or communities, for example, by adding services already available in the community. The appropriateness of physicians' financial interests in specialty hospitals has also been questioned. GAO was asked to provide information on the competitive response of general hospitals to specialty hospitals. GAO surveyed approximately 600 general hospitals in markets with and without specialty hospitals to provide information on the extent
Download or read book The competitive effects of not for profit hospital mergers a case study written by Michael G. Vita and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Hospitals written by Bruce Steinwald (au) and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Activities of the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Competitive Effects of Not for profit Hospital Mergers written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Legislative Calendar written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Journal of the Senate of the United States of America written by United States. Congress. Senate and published by . This book was released on 1789 with total page 1676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Cardiac Specialty Hospitals on the Cost and Quality of Medical Care written by Jason Russell Barro and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The recent rise of specialty hospitals -- typically for-profit firms that are at least partially owned by physicians -- has led to substantial debate about their effects on the cost and quality of care. Advocates of specialty hospitals claim they improve quality and lower cost; critics contend they concentrate on providing profitable procedures and attracting relatively healthy patients, leaving (predominantly nonprofit) general hospitals with a less-remunerative, sicker patient population. We find support for both sides of this debate. Markets experiencing entry by a cardiac specialty hospital have lower spending for cardiac care without significantly worse clinical outcomes. In markets with a specialty hospital, however, specialty hospitals tend to attract healthier patients and provide higher levels of intensive procedures than general hospitals"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
Download or read book Physician owned Specialty Hospitals written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cross Subsidization and the Welfare Impact of Specialty Entry written by Robert S. Huckman and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growth of the specialty hospital industry has been one of the most important changes to the hospital industry in recent years. Specialty hospitals focus on three specific types of care: cardiac surgery, orthopedic surgery and general surgery. Proponents argue that specialty hospitals are focused factories providing higher quality, lower cost care. General hospitals, on the other hand, suggest that these firms enter the most profitable markets and skim the healthiest (lowest cost) patients leaving them without the profit necessary to pay for indigent and uncompensated care. Given the uncertainty on the issue the Federal Government instituted a moratorium on the construction of new specialty hospitals in 2003. The moratorium was subsequently repealed in August of 2006. We add to recent empirical work on the welfare effects of specialty entry by studying the impact of entry on the ability of competing general hospitals to cross-subsidize unprofitable care. The empirical study of the welfare effect of specialty entry to date has indicated a net welfare gain, with market level spending declining and no change in outcomes (Barro et al. 2006). This approach, however, does not account for the potential welfare impact of transferring profits between firms. Standard economic theory treats profits as welfare enhancing regardless of the firm at which they are obtained. This is unlikely to be true in a setting such as health care where diversified, not-for-profit hospitals can use profits from specific services to cross-subsidize less profitable types of care. We empirically investigate the degree to which entry by specialty hospitals led to reductions in the provision of unprofitable care by general hospitals. Estimating the effect of competition on cross-subsidies is not a straightforward exercise because firm entry is endogenously determined. To account for this we take two approaches. Relying on variation in Certificate-of-Need (CON) laws across states, we model the response of hospitals in states with and without entry restrictions to the 2003 moratorium on specialty entry. We use a difference-in-differences approach in which we assume that the moratorium led to a larger relative reduction in specialty hospital entry in markets without CON than in those with CON. Because CON laws are a strong predictor of specialty hospital entry (GAO 2003) and exogenously determined we can directly estimate the effect that specialty competition has on provision of unprofitable services. Taking this approach a step further, we estimate a triple differences model in which hospitals that offer services mostly likely to be affected by specialty competition (i.e. cardiac surgery or catheterization) are compared across states with differing entry restrictions relative to hospitals not offering these services. To exploit the more detailed market level factors that may affect entry we also estimate a market level entry model. Fitting this model for all markets yields a predicted probability of entry that is used to instrument for the endogenously determined actual entry by specialty hospitals.
Download or read book Grow and Hide written by Colleen M. Grogan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the American health care state that reveals the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US government has always invested federal, state and local dollars in public health protection and prevention. Despite this public funding, however, Americans typically believe the current system is predominantly comprised of private actors with little government interference. In Grow & Hide, Colleen M. Grogan details the history of the American health care state and argues that the public has been intentionally misled about the true role of government. The US created a publicly financed system while framing it as the opposite in what Grogan terms the "grow-and-hide regime." Today, the state's role is larger than ever, yet it remains largely hidden because stakeholders-namely, private actors and their allies in government-have repeatedly, and successfully, presented the illusion of minimal government involvement. The consequences of this narrative are scarce accountability and a highly unequal distribution of benefits. In the wake of a pandemic that has killed over one million Americans--with the highest death rates among minorities and lower-income people--the time has come for an honest discussion about the health care system. As Grogan reveals, America has never had a system that resembles a competitive, free-market model. Given how much the government already invests in the health care system, means how these funds are distributed and administered are fundamental political questions for the American public, not questions that should be decided by the private sector. If we want to fix care in America, we need to reimagine the way it is organized, prioritized, funded, and, perhaps most importantly, discussed. Grow & Hide is an important contribution to this reimagining.
Download or read book Physician owned Specialty Hospitals written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Financing Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
