What explains the growth in hospital assets from 2000 through 2019? A decomposition analysis.

ABSTRACT: Understanding disparities in hospital finances is essential for ensuring equitable systems of care. One understudied element is total assets, which include both financial and capital resources that hospitals acquire. We evaluated changes and drivers of variation in US hospital assets from 2000 through 2019 using data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and American Hospital Association Annual Survey. We decomposed overall variation in total assets to determine the level (hospital, health system, or health care market) that contributed most to variation, and examined the extent to which asset growth was associated with changes in common inputs to hospital wealth vs changing relationships with these inputs or other unmeasured factors. Total assets held by US hospitals increas

SUBMITTER: Teeple S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11797385 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature