For-Profit Hospitals Out of Business? Financial Sustainability During the COVID-19 Epidemic Emergency Response.
| Autor: | Kruse FM; IQ Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands., Jeurissen PPT; IQ Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.; Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport, The Hague, The Netherlands. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | International journal of health policy and management [Int J Health Policy Manag] 2020 Oct 01; Vol. 9 (10), pp. 423-428. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Oct 01. |
| DOI: | 10.34172/ijhpm.2020.67 |
| Abstrakt: | This perspective argues that for-profit hospitals will be heavily affected by epidemic crises, including the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak. Policy-makers should be aware that for-profit hospitals in particular are likely to face financial distress. The suspension of all non-urgent elective surgery and the relegation of market-based mechanisms that determines the allocation and compensation of care puts the financial state of these hospitals at serious risk. We identify three organisational factors that determine which hospitals might be most affected (ie, care-portfolio, size and whether it is private equity [PE]-owned). In addition, we analyse contextual factors that could explain the impact of financial distress among for-profit hospitals on the wider healthcare system. (© 2020 The Author(s); Published by Kerman University of Medical Sciences. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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