| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w23131 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 23131 |
| Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care? | |
| Cory Capps; Dennis W. Carlton; Guy David | |
| 发表日期 | 2017-02-06 |
| 出版年 | 2017 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | Nonprofit hospitals receive favorable tax treatment in exchange for providing socially beneficial activities. Extending this rationale would suggest that, insofar as suppression of competition would allow nonprofits to cross-subsidize care for needy populations, nonprofit hospital mergers should be evaluated differently than mergers of for-profit hospitals. However, this rationale rests upon the premise that nonprofit hospitals with greater market power provide more care to the needy. In this paper, we develop a theoretical model showing that the welfare implications of an antitrust policy that favors nonprofit hospitals depends on the link between market power and charity care provision. To test the link, we use three measures of charity care—two dollar-denominated and one based on service volume—to study charity care provision by for-profit and non-profit hospitals under different competition conditions. Using detailed California data from 2001 to 2011, we find no evidence that nonprofit hospitals are more likely than for-profit hospitals to provide more charity care, or to offer more unprofitable services, when competition falls. Overall, while some courts have given deference to defendants’ nonprofit status, our study finds no empirical evidence that such hospitals provide greater charity care as they have greater market power. |
| 主题 | Health, Education, and Welfare ; Health ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior ; Nonprofits |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w23131 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
| 引用统计 | |
| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/580805 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Cory Capps,Dennis W. Carlton,Guy David. Antitrust Treatment of Nonprofits: Should Hospitals Receive Special Care?. 2017. |
| 条目包含的文件 | ||||||
| 文件名称/大小 | 资源类型 | 版本类型 | 开放类型 | 使用许可 | ||
| w23131.pdf（1201KB） | 智库出版物 | 限制开放 | CC BY-NC-SA | 浏览 | ||
除非特别说明，本系统中所有内容都受版权保护，并保留所有权利。
