The United States relies on charitable medical care to serve the uninsured, most of which is offered by hospitals that … blamed for increasing financial pressures on hospitals and previous work has shown that safety net hospitals have been … charity care patients to concentrate in public hospitals. Second, we find that these hospitals, in turn, see a decrease in …

The United States relies on charitable medical care to serve the uninsured, most of which is offered by hospitals that … act as providers of last resort and that constitute the safety net. Traditionally, these hospitals have been able to … analyze the effects that financial pressures have on the provision of charity care by hospitals. To do so we look at the …

health care expenditure) has on the adoption of technologies by hospitals. Managed care may affect hospitals' decision to … during the period 1982-1995. We analyze annual data on 5,390 US hospitals regarding the adoption of 13 different technologies …, demographics and local market characteristics, we find that managed care has a negative effect on hospitals' technology acquisition …

hospitals' decision to provide charity care and use a probit model to test the results empirically. We find that managed care … hospitals and the services most used by the uninsured, and by negatively affecting the quality of government hospitals …