FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENTS

Financial Environments

Financial Environments



Introduction

There has been a debate over the efficiencies of for-profit versus not-for-profit businesses. The debate covers not only general industries but also healthcare industry. Therefore, differences and similarities need to be examined with respect to profit, not-for-profit, and government financial environments.

Differences

According to a report provided by Cimasi in www.HealthcareFinancials.com, investigations, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), made a comparison between spending of Medical care (after adjustment in local costs, demographics of patients, and the various kinds of domestic healthcare providers and centers) in markets with hospitals operating as not-for-profit, for-profit, and hospitals ...