Analysis of Hospital Operating Margins and Provision of Safety Net Services

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Explores the association between five hospital safety net services - undercompensated care measured using the Disproportionate Share Hospital index, uncompensated care, essential community services, neighborhood disadvantage, and Sole Community Hospital and Critical Access Hospital status - and hospital operating margins. Includes information on the relationship between bed count, Census region, urban/rural location, ownership status, and having a Graduate Medical Education residency program with operating margins.

Lukas K. Gaffney, Kenneth A. Michelson

JAMA Network Open, 6(4), e238785

04/2023

Critical Access Hospitals · Healthcare business and finance · Hospitals · Reimbursement and payment models · Rural-urban differences · Sole Community Hospitals