Rural hospital ownership: medical service provision, market mix, and spillover effects.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To test whether nonprofit, for-profit, or government hospital ownership affects medical service provision in rural hospital markets, either directly or through the spillover effects of ownership mix.

Data sources/study setting

Data are from the American Hospital Association, U.S. Census, CMS Healthcare Cost Report Information System and Prospective Payment System Minimum Data File, and primary data collection for geographic coordinates. The sample includes all nonfederal, general medical, and surgical hospitals located outside of metropolitan statistical areas and within the continental United States from 1988 to 2005.

Study design

We estimate multivariate regression models to examine the effects of (1) hospital ownership and (2) hospital ownership mix withi

SUBMITTER: Horwitz JR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3207187 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature