This review article critiques the growing dominance of market‐based medicine in the United
States against the background of existing problems with quality of care, rising costs …

This text is the result of 18 years of teaching a course in health insurance and managed care
to both master's and doctoral students. The course has been presented in a variety of …

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are rapidly being implemented across the United
States, but little is known about what environmental and organizational factors are …

Background: Hospitals have confronted a difficult financial environment given many factors,
including expansion of managed care, changes in public policy, growing market competition …

Background Telehealth is likely to play a crucial role in treating COVID‐19 patients.
However, not all US hospitals possess telehealth capabilities. This brief report was designed …

Objective. This study adapts Andersen's Behavioral Model to determine if health sector
market conditions affect vulnerable subgroups' use of alcohol, drug, and mental health …

This chapter reviews and integrates the empirical literature on the influence of
organizational factors on hospital financial performance. Five categories of organizational …

The term" underserved patients" refers to patients whose barriers to health care are due to
lack of accessible services while the term" vulnerable patients" refers to patients whose …

The definition of hospital community benefits has been intensely debated for many years.
Recently, consensus has developed about one group of activities being central to …

The question of whether private organizations can outperform public ones in public service
delivery has been a major topic of interest over the last few decades. However, the empirical …