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Property Rights And Hospital Behavior Under Drgs : An Examination Of Nonprofit, Government, And Forprofit Sectors, Elizabeth M. Andal Sorrentino

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This study compares nonprofit, government, and forprofit hospitals in South Florida. Property rights arrangement is defined as rights to residual profits in the forprofit hospitals, and the tax-exemption status on the part of nonprofit and government hospitals with obligations to serve charitable purposes in the public interest. This dissertation derives and tests implications about differences in behavior in the context of efficiency, equity, and quality of care delivered in nonprofit, government, and forprofit hospitals.

Fifty-six hospitals with Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals (JCAH) accreditation were compared on institutional variables (bed size, location>; efficiency variables (occupancy rates, ancillary expenses, …