Date of Award
12-2013
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Legacy Department
Economics
Committee Chair/Advisor
Warren, Patrick
Committee Member
Miller , Daniel
Committee Member
Lewis , Matthew
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to measure and compare several potential differences between for-profit, non-profit, and public hospitals in medical and non-medical cost categories. To do this, costs associated with two medical and two non-medical categories for California short-term general care hospitals were broken down into several subsets in order to better understand exactly how and why each category behaves as it does. The results show significant differences for total costs between for-profits and the other hospital types across the board and a difference for outsourcing decisions between for-profits and the other hospital types for the medical categories but not for the non-medical categories.
Recommended Citation
Knutter, Justin, "DIFFERENCES BETWEEN FOR-PROFIT, NON-PROFIT, AND PUBLIC HOSPITALS IN MEDICAL AND NON-MEDICAL CATEGORIES: COSTS AND OUTSOURCING DECISIONS" (2013). All Theses. 1825.
https://open.clemson.edu/all_theses/1825