The Changing Hospital Industry

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Hospital Conversions to For-Profit Form
1. Hospital Conversions: Is the Purchase Price Too Low?
2. Converting Hospitals from Not-for-Profit to For-Profit Status: Why and What Effects?
II. Medical Care Quality in For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Organizations
3. Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals
4. The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services
5. How Much Is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life
6. Market Forces, Diversification of Activity, and the Mission of Not-for-Profit Hospitals
III. Managed Care and Hospital Quality
7. Managed Care and Provider Volume
8. Implications of Managed Care for Teaching Hospitals: Comparisons of Traditional and Managed Care Medical Services within a Single Institution
IV. Taxation and Information
9. The Tax Benefits of Not-for-Profit Hospitals
10. Asymmetric Information and the Not-for-Profit Sector: Does Its Output Sell at a Premium?
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index