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, variably profitable, or uncertain. It updates “Research Note: Relative Profitability of Acute Hospital Services,” an online … Affairs 24, no. 3 (2005): 790-801. Whether a service is likely to be profitable for any individual hospital depends on many … time the service is adopted and provided, the management priorities and skills of the hospital executives, and a host of …

Privatization has been shown to increase growth and profitability of public firms. However, effects on consumers are … understudied. We study potential trade-offs in the US hospital sector where public control declined by 42% over 1983-2019. Private … operators may improve hospitals' financial performance, but a focus on profitability may adversely affect access to care for …