Hospitals' Care of Uninsured Patients during the 1990s: The Relation of Teaching Status and Managed Care to Changes in Market Share and Market Concentration

• Main Authors: Joel S. Weissman (Author), Darrell J. Gaskin (Author), James Reuter (Author)
• Formato: Libro
• Publicado: SAGE Publishing, 2003-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Competitive forces in health care make it difficult for hospitals to shift the costs of caring for poor and uninsured patients onto paying patients. The care of uninsured patients in teaching hospitals may have been especially affected by increased levels of managed care during the 1990s. We found t...