Hospitals – The Affordable Care Act and the Impact on U.S. Healthcare Providers

Topic 4 – Hospitals

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 nonprice 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.

9. Describe and discuss the relationship between hospital prices and profits.

10. Describe and discuss the origins of claims of hospitals cost shifting.

11. Describe and discuss conditions under which hospital cost shifting can occur and its causality.

12. Describe and discuss price discrimination and its application to hospitals.