A. A HISTORICAL SNAPSHOT through purchasing or budget transfers to service providers.
The resource-generation function includes the Advances in health during the past few …

Economic issues have had a growing importance in the health care field as the sector's
share of the gross national product has risen. Clinicians are under increasing pressure to …

Prologue: Interest in the comparative economic performance of for-profit hospitals and not-
for-profit hospitals has intensified in recent years as these institutions have increasingly …

Can we really use economic thinking to understand our health care system? Health
Economics, now in its sixth edition, not only shows how this is done, but also provides the …

Government appears to both promote and mistrust nonprofit organizations in the health
sector. Tax exemptions, subsidies, and preferential treatment in contracts support these …

The medical care industry is characterized by a large market share of output produced in
firms which are organized on a not-forprofit basis. The market share of not-forprofit acute …

Managed health care plans and providers in the US and elsewhere sell their services to
multiple payers. For example, the three largest groups of purchasers from health plans in the …

Nonprofit hospitals are expected to provide benefits to their community in return for being
exempt from most taxes. In this paper we develop a new method of identifying activities that …

Abstract In a Harvard Business Review (1987) article, Herzlinger and Krasker suggested
that not-for-profit hospitals do not return more benefit to society than do for-profit hospitals …