Specialty versus community hospitals: what role for the law?
Health Aff (Millwood)
; Suppl Web Exclusives: W5-361-72, 2005.
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ABSTRACT
U.S. health care has long featured a struggle between regulation and markets as vehicles of reform, and the community hospital is at the center of this struggle. The key to its financial viability is cross-subsidization, whereby revenues from insured patients subsidize the care of the uninsured and underinsured, and profits from well-compensated services support those operating at a loss. Cross-subsidization has been challenged by efforts to move highly compensated services and well-insured patients to ambulatory surgical centers and specialty hospitals. We review the ongoing battle between through a legal lens and offer conjectures about the outcome. Refined certificate-of-need regulation may be the preferable policy choice.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Hospitais Comunitários
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Hospitais Especializados
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Health Aff (Millwood)
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article