Discipline: Economics
This paper attempts to model the output and pricing behavior of nonprofit hospitals under a prospective payment system and examines the effect of this behavior on the provision of uncompensated hospital care.' A utility maximizing framework is employed to derive and evaluate comparative statics derivatives describing the effects of a reduction in government reimbursement rates on prices charged by hospitals to private patients and on the quantity of uncompensated care.
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