. Describe and discuss the performance of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals.
Hospitals – The Affordable Care Act and the Impact on U.S. Healthcare Providers
Address EACH of the following content items in your Paper:
1. Discuss why hospitals are predominantly nonprofit.
2. Describe and discuss the performance of nonprofit and for-profit hospitals.
3. Describe and discuss tax-exempt status for nonprofit hospitals.
4. Describe and discuss the effects of managed care on health care providers.
5. Describe and discuss the origins of non price competition among hospitals.
6. Describe and discuss hospitals’ transition to price competition.
7. Describe and discuss hospital price competition in theory and practice.
8. Describe and discuss the theory of hospital cost shifting.