5. How Much Is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. National Bureau of Economic Research v
3. Contents vii
4. Acknowledgments ix
5. Introduction 1
6. I. Hospital Conversions to For-Profit Form
7. 1. Hospital Conversions Is the Purchase Price Too Low? 13
8. 2. Converting Hospitals from Not-for-Profit to For-Profit Status: Why and What Effects? 45
9. II. Medical Care Quality in For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Organizations
10. 3. Comparing Hospital Quality at For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Hospitals 93
11. 4. The Adoption and Impact of Advanced Emergency Response Services 113
12. 5. How Much Is Enough? Efficiency and Medicare Spending in the Last Six Months of Life 169
13. 6. Market Forces, Diversification of Activity, and the Mission of Not-for-Profit Hospitals 195
14. III. Managed Care and Hospital Quality
15. 7. Managed Care and Provider Volume 229
16. 8. Implications of Managed Care for Teaching Hospitals: Comparisons of Traditional and Managed Care Medical Services within a Single Institution 249
17. IV. Taxation and Information
18. 9. The Tax Benefits of Not-for-Profit Hospitals 285
19. 10. Asymmetric Information and the Not-for-Profit Sector: Does Its Output Sell at a Premium? 325
20. Contributors 357
21. Author Index 361
22. Subject Index 365