Title
Non-Profit Hospitals Face Structural As Well As Financial Challenges: Lessons from Massachusetts
Document Type
Occasional Paper
Publication Date
3-2005
Abstract
Like most non-profit hospitals, those of Massachusetts are facing serious financial challenges. While the immediate issue is the shortfall between revenues and expenses, the paper finds that their real problems are structural, evidenced by at least three systemic impediments -uncompensated care, over-utilization of teaching hospitals, and an increasingly unattractive environment for the practice of medicine. Other states whose non-profit hospitals face persistent financial difficulties may find it useful to consider whether structural impediments of the type facing Massachusetts undermine the operating performance of their own institutions.
Recommended Citation
Hayden, Eric W., "Non-Profit Hospitals Face Structural As Well As Financial Challenges: Lessons from Massachusetts" (2005). Financial Services Forum Publications. 24.
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/financialforum_pubs/24
Comments
Working Paper #1003