BACKGROUND Hospitals face increased pressure to improve their quality of care in an
environment of dwindling hospital payments. It is unclear whether lower hospital margins …

Importance Safety net hospitals (SNH) provide many community services. The cost of
providing these services is unknown. Objective To determine what safety net criteria are …

Background Hospitals face financial pressure from decreased margins from Medicare and
Medicaid and lower reimbursement from consolidating insurers. Objectives The objectives of …

Purpose: To assess the internal and external environmental factors that affect variations in
hospital profitability. We are especially interested in examining the impact of the ACA …

Objective To examine the effect of the recession on the financial performance of safety‐net
versus non‐safety‐net hospitals. Data Sources/Study Setting Agency for Healthcare …

Background Hospitals face increasing pressure to lower cost of care while improving quality
of care. It is unclear if efforts to reduce hospital cost of care will adversely affect quality of …

The impetus for stakeholder calls to incorporate socioeconomic status into outcome
measures, and readmission measures in particular is primarily concerns about the financial …

Providers with lower costs may be more efficient and, therefore, provide better care than
those with higher costs. However, the relationship between risk-adjusted costs (often …

To identify the characteristics of the most profitable US hospitals, we examined the
profitability of acute care hospitals in fiscal year 2013, measured as net income from patient …

BACKGROUND Hospitals that have robust financial performance may have improved
publicly reported outcomes. OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between hospital …