Cover: What's Behind Losses At Large Nonprofit Health Systems?

What's Behind Losses At Large Nonprofit Health Systems?

Published in: Health Affairs Forefront, (March 24, 2023) DOI: 10.1377/forefront.20230322.44474

Posted on RAND.org on June 07, 2023

by Christopher M. Whaley, Sebahattin Demirkan, Ge Bai

In this article, we aim to understand the financial performance of large nonprofit hospitals systems in the post-COVID-19 era. We examined several of these systems' overall profit margin (including both operating and nonoperating activities) by using their most recent annual financial reports.

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