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This paper compares and contrasts the financial aspects of not-for-profit hospitals and large academic medical centers.

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"Community non-for-profit hospitals and large academic medical centers are operated quite differently from a business and financial standpoint, and this results in many differences in financial implications as well as a few basic similarities. As might be expected, for-profits are more responsive to changes in service profitability than other types of hospitals and are more likely to offer relatively profitable medical services. According to a study in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, "Investor-owned hospitals have higher charges than non-profit hospitals as well as...""

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