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ch08.pptGetzen’s Health Economics & Financing, 5th Edition
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Chapter 8: Hospitals
QUESTIONS
How do hospitals get paid? What do they pay for?
Does it make a difference to hospitals that 95 percent of their funds come from third-party insurance rather than patients?
Why don’t philanthropists donate as much to hospitals as they used to?
Who pays for medical research?
QUESTIONS cont.
Does cost-shifting help the poor or the rich?
Does reimbursement increase employment? Does it drive up costs?
Who owns a nonprofit hospital? Who gets the profits?
Are hospitals charitable institutions, or instruments of corporate control?
8.1 FROM CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS TO CORPORATE CHAINS: DEVELOPMENT OF THE MODERN HOSPITAL
8.2 HOSPITAL FINANCING: REVENUES
- Sources of Revenues
- Philanthropy and Grants
- Global Budgets
- Charges
- Per Diem
- Cost Reimbursement
- DRGs—Diagnostically Related Groups
- Capitation
- Managed Care Contracts
8.3 HOSPITAL FINANCING: EXPENSES
8.4 FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND COST SHIFTING
8.5 HOW DO HOSPITALS COMPETE?
- Competing for Patients
- Competing for Physicians
- Competing for Contracts
- Measuring Competitive Success
- Measuring the Competitiveness of Markets
8.6 ORGANIZATION: WHO CONTROLS THE HOSPITAL AND FOR WHAT ENDS?
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