Nonprofit, For-Profit, And Government Hospitals Uncompensated Care and Other Community Benefits

By Walker, David M.

Book Id: WPLBN0000013140
Format Type: PDF eBook
File Size: 0.7 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Nonprofit, For-Profit, And Government Hospitals Uncompensated Care and Other Community Benefits
Author:	Walker, David M.
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, Accountability in government, United States. General Accounting Office
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection
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Publisher:	United States General Accounting Office (Gao)


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Government Accountability Integrity Reliability Office Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: Government hospitals generally devoted substantially larger shares of their patient operating expenses to uncompensated care than did nonprofit and for-profit hospitals. The nonprofit groups? share was higher than that of the for-profit groups in four of the five states, but the difference was small relative to the difference found when making comparisons with the government hospital group. Further, within each group, the burden of uncompensated care costs was not evenly distributed among hospitals but instead was concentrated in a small number of hospitals. This meant that a small number of nonprofit hospitals accounted for substantially more of the uncompensated care burden than did others receiving the same tax preference.