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The profit motive and patient care : the changing accountability of doctors and hospitals

Title
  1. The profit motive and patient care : the changing accountability of doctors and hospitals / Bradford H. Gray.
Published by
  1. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1991.
Author
  1. Gray, Bradford H., 1942-

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Description
  1. xv, 440 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  1. Looks at how the private ownership of health organizations has affected the cost of care and the availability of services, and discusses accountability.
Subject
  1. American Medical Association
  2. Medicaid
  3. Medical economics > United States
  4. Hospitals > United States > Business management
  5. Medical care > United States
  6. Delivery of Health Care > trends
  7. Economics, Hospital > trends
  8. Economics, Medical > trends
  9. Financial Management, Hospital > trends
  10. Hospitals, Proprietary > trends
  11. Hospitals > Business management
  12. Medical care
  13. Medical economics
  14. Gesundheitsökonomie
  15. Management
  16. Medizinische Versorgung
  17. Krankenhaus
  18. United States
  19. United States
  20. USA
Contents
  1. Changing accountability of American health care -- Accountability for profitability: proprietary and investor-owned health care organizations -- Evolution of investor-owned hospital companies -- Accountability in nonprofit hopsitals: how distinctive from investor-owned? -- Performance of for-profit and nonprofit health care organization -- External accountability and problems of fraud and abuse -- Provider efforts to shape the reimbursement and regulatory effort -- For-profit health care and the accountability of physicians -- Organizational dependence and the fiduciary ethic -- Payers and physicians' patient care decisions: steps toward a new accountability -- Utilization management by third parties -- Profit motive and accountability in the future.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Note
  1. "A Twentieth Century Fund report."
  2. Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-428) and index.