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Investigation of California Physician-Owned Hospitals Profitability and Payor Mix Compared to Other Hospital Ownership Types: 2009 to 2015
<p>Scrutiny of physician-owned hospitals (POHs) intensified beginning in 1989 and continued until passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). Government studies attempted to better understand the allegations that POHs were exploiting the whole hospital exception in the …
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Patient-centric care in the U.S. - A comparative study of patient satisfaction and quality care among for-profit physician-owned, corporate-owned, and not-for-profit hospitals
This dissertation examines the effects of physician ownership of hospitals on the quality of patient-centric care in the U.S. The health care sector in the U.S. is becoming more aligned with markets and in turn, with consumers’ preferences. In consumer driven service industries, consumer …
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Essays in economics
… incentives and quality in hospitals with physician-investors. Proponents of physician ownership argue that it improves care; opponents claim that physician-investors "cherry-pick" profitable patients. This paper uses new data on physician-owned hospitals to estimate a model that allows for …
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Managing Identities in Managed Care: Top -Management -Team Responses to Organizational Complexity and Change
… employed by the top management team in a large, physician-owned, integrated delivery system, using the Pratt and Foreman (2000) classification scheme as a reference point. Through a 18-month-long ethnographic case study, I gathered extensive qualitative data---including non-participant …