Specialty hospitals, particularly those specializing in surgery and owned by physicians, have
generated a relatively high degree of policy attention over the past several years. The main …

US hospitals are challenged to improve their financial performance due to its ever
increasing role for their survival, especially in the light of the recent legislative, and …

This article examines the relationship between hospital profitability and efficiency. A cross-
section of 1317 US metropolitan, acute care, not-for-profit hospitals for the year 2015 was …

Introduction Key performance indicators are essential navigation tools for hospitals. They
provide managers with valid information enabling them to identify institutional strengths and …

Ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs), limited‐service alternatives for treating surgery patients
not requiring an overnight stay, are a health‐care service innovation that has proliferated in …

Despite its salience as a regulatory tool to ensure the delivery of unprofitable medical
services, cross-subsidization of services within hospital systems has been notoriously …

Purpose: This study aims to review the literature about the impact of hospital competition on
strategies and outcomes of hospitals 1996-2016. Design/methodology/approach: Four well …

Background Multiple studies have investigated physician-owned specialized facilities
(specialized hospitals and ambulatory surgery centres). However, the evidence is …

To improve rural access to care, the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 allowed eligible rural
hospitals to convert to critical access hospitals (CAHs), which changed their Medicare …

Background: Since the early 1990s, specialty hospitals have been continuously increasing
in number. A moratorium was passed in 2003 that prohibited physicians' referrals of …