Health-related travel, also referred to as "medical tourism" is historically well-known. Its emerging contemporary form suggests the development of a form of globalised for-profit healthcare. Medical tourism to India, the focus of a recent conference in Canada, provides an example of the globalisation of healthcare. By positioning itself as a low-cost, high-tech, fast-access and high-quality he...

Roughly half of private health insurance is provided by for-profit corporations. There is little evidence on whether and how for-profits differ from not-for-profits in this important industry. We explore the association as well as the causal effect of ownership status on one key measure: price (or premiums). Using a detailed panel dataset on employer-sponsored insurance from 1998-2009, we first...

To maximize the profit of networks, heterogeneous networks form a whole, which may either compete or cooperate with each other. This paper firstly introduces a healthcare monitor network architecture to build the competitive and cooperative mechanism of heterogeneous networks containing three networks. This paper considers the natural growth rate of the network with competitive and cooperative ...

Source: Succeeding in Hospital & Health Systems M&A: Why So Many Deals Have Failed, and How to Succeed in the Future, Booz & Company, March 20, 2013 Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) among hospitals and healthcare organizations have been on the rise for several years now. Deals between hospitals, physician medical groups, long-term care facilities, and home health providers abound, with activity l...

The German hospital market has been subject over the past two decades to a variety of healthcare reforms. Particularly the introduction of diagnosis-related groups (DRGs) in 2004 aimed to increase efficiency of hospitals. The objective of the paper is to review recent studies comparing the efficiency of German public, private non-profit and private for-profit hospitals. The results of the studi...

A CHARITABLE PURPOSE The history of tax exemption of healthcare organizations has implications for the future. Our nation's first healthcare facilities were exempt from the earliest tax laws because they were seen as clearly having a charitable purpose, providing care and shelter for the sick poor who had no place else to go. The tax code has never specified that healthcare organizations such a...

OBJECTIVE To identify the prevalence, characteristics, and compensation of members of the boards of directors of healthcare industry companies who hold academic appointments as leaders, professors, or trustees. DESIGN Cross sectional study. SETTING US healthcare companies publicly traded on the NASDAQ or New York Stock Exchange in 2013. PARTICIPANTS 3434 directors of pharmaceutical, biote...

To share healthcare information and to promote cooperation among healthcare providers and customers (patients) under computerized network environment, a non-profit organization (NPO), named as OCHIS, was established at Osaka, Japan in 2003. Since security and confidentiality issues on the Internet have been major concerns in the OCHIS, the system has been based on healthcare public key infrastr...

In light of the increased attention the IRS is paying to not-for-profit organizations, healthcare financial managers should stay alert to developments regarding: community benefit standard, executive compensation, corporate governance, transparency and form 990, political activity.

BACKGROUND Healthcare costs in most developed countries are not clearly linked to better patient and public health outcomes, but are rather associated with service delivery orientation. In the U.S. this has resulted in large variation in healthcare availability and use, increased cost, reduced employer participation in health insurance programs, and reduced overall population health outcomes. R...