A Longitudinal Examination of How Hospital Provision of Home Health Services Changed after the Implementation of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Does Ownership Matter?

A Longitudinal Examination of How Hospital Provision of Home Health Services Changed after the Implementation of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997: Does Ownership Matter?

By using a natural experiment approach and longitudinal national hospital data, this study sheds light on the objective functions of hospitals with different ownership forms by comparing their relative reductions in HH provision after the implementation of the BBA. The empirical findings reveal that...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chou, Tiang-Hong
Format: Others
Published: VCU Scholars Compass 2009
Subjects:
Hospital Ownership
Religious hospital
Secular Nonprofit Hospital
Objective Function
Home Health Care
Balanced Budget Act of 1997
Multi-theoretical Framework
Resource Dependence Theory
Transaction Cost Economics
Institutional Theory
Population Ecology Theory
Weisbrod's Nonprofit Model
Policy Analysis
Health and Medical Administration
Medicine and Health Sciences
Online Access:https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1985
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2984&context=etd

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https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/etd/1985
https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2984&context=etd

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