...Michael D. Rosko; Ryan L. Mutter The Medicare prospective payment system (PPS) contains incentives for hospitals to improve efficiency by placing them at financial risk to earn a positive margin on services rendered to Medicare patients. Concerns about the financial viability of small rural...

...Lucie Michel Abstract This article showcases the realities and challenges of teamwork in American hospitals based on the in situ comparison with France. Drawing on observation of nurse-physician interactions in hospitals in the two nations, this article highlights a troubling conflict between...

...Simone R. Singh; Gary J. Young; Lacey Loomer; Kristin Madison Abstract Do nonprofit hospitals provide enough community benefits to justify their tax exemptions? States have sought to enhance nonprofit hospitals' accountability and oversight through regulation, including requirements to report...

...Eleanor D. Kinney; Bonnie Lefkowitz Issues in current capital cost reimbursement to community hospitals by Medicare and Medicaid are described, and options for change analyzed. Major reforms in the way the federal government pays for capital costs—in particular substitution of other methods...

...Edmund R. Becker This study uses national data from the American Hospital Association and the National Labor Relations Board in a multivariate framework to assess the impact of various structural factors on union activity in hospitals. The theoretical framework includes both management and union...

...Jack Hadley This paper examines current Medicaid policies on the reimbursement of hospitals' medical education expenses. These policies are of interest because of the pressure on Medicaid programs to reduce expenditures. Data for the paper come mainly from two sources: a survey of Medicaid programs...

...E. Richard Brown This article defines the differences among public community hospitals, and examines the problems faced by those that serve primarily the poor. The article analyzes the impacts of (1) the tradition of local fiscal responsibility, (2) third-party funding arrangements, (3) public...

...E. Richard Brown David Rosner, A Once Charitable Enterprise: Hospitals and Health Care in Brooklyn and New York, 1885–1915 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982), 234 pp., $29.50. Copyright © 1983 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1983 616 Journal of Health...

...Harvey M. Sapolsky Bradford H. Gray, ed., The New Health Care for Profit: Doctors and Hospitals in a Competitive Environment (Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, 1983), 178 pp., $17.50 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984...

...Judith Feder; Jack Hadley; Ross Mullner In 1980, while most hospitals were in reasonably good financial health, hospitals heavily involved in serving the poor ran a considerable risk of financial trouble. Fewer than 9 percent of the nation's hospitals accounted for 40 percent of the nation's total...

...Alan Sager Harry F. Dowling, City Hospitals: The Undercare of the Underprivileged (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), 245 pp., $22.50 Copyright © 1984 by the Department of Health Administration, Duke University 1984 344 Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law...

...Glenn L. Pierce; Mary L. Durham; William H. Fisher This paper examines the impact of broadened Washington state civil commitment standards on utilization of the state's mental hospitals. Included in the analysis is an assessment of the impact of a public event (a well-publicized murder case) which...

...Margaret A. Potter; Beaufort B. Longest, Jr. Nonprofit hospitals have traditionally enjoyed charitable exemption from real estate taxes because they provide specific social benefits. However, in the past three decades, major health policy changes at the federal levelmost significantly...

...Paul M. Rosenberg Copyright © 1994 by Duke University Press 1994 Commentary Federal and State Policies on the Charitable Tax Exemption of Nonprofit Hospitals...

.... R. Wholey. 1991 . The Impact of Physician Characteristics in Conditional Choice Models for Hospital Care. Journal of Health Economics 11 : 43 -62. Cohen , M. A. , and H. L. Lee. 1985 . The Determinants of Spatial Distribution of Hospital Utilization in a Region. Medical Care 23 : 27...

...Daniel M. Fox; Daniel C. Schaffer Since 1969 federal tax policy has permitted nonprofit hospitals to turn away indigent patients or to transfer them to public hospitals. The Internal Revenue Service made health policy, but its officials remain convinced that they were not making policy at all...

...Vivienne Byers Laugesen Miriam J. and Gauld Robin . Democratic Governance and Health: Hospitals, Politics, and Health in New Zealand . Dunedin, NZ : Otago University Press , 2012 . 220 pp. $40.00 paper. Copyright © 2016 by Duke University Press 2016 This book details...

...Michael S. Sparer Copyright © 1997 by Duke University Press 1997 Charles Brecher and Sheila Spiezio. Privatization and Public Hospitals: Choosing Wisely for New York City. New York: Twentieth Century Fund Press, 1995. 103 pp. $9.95 paper...

...Jeffrey A. Alexander; Gary J. Young; Bryan J. Weiner; Larry R. Hearld Recent investigations into the activities of nonprofit hospitals have pointed to weak or lax governance on the part of some of these organizations. As a result of these events, various federal and state initiatives are now either...

...Marc A. Rodwin Bradford A. Gray. The Profit Motive and Patient Care: The Changing Accountability of Doctors and Hospitals. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991 440 pp. $37.50 cloth. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991...