A Comparison of Rural Hospitals With Special Medicare Payment Provisions to Urban and Rural Hospitals Paid Under Prospective Payment (Final Report)
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Date
08/2010
Description
This final report compares the financial performance and condition of rural hospitals with special Medicare payment provisions to urban and rural hospitals paid under prospective payment (UPPS and R-PPS hospitals,
respectively). Nine ratios from the three most common categories of ratios used in financial statement analysis (profitability, liquidity, and capital structure) as well as four other ratios that are commonly used to evaluate
rural hospital financial performance are assessed.
Center
North Carolina Rural Health Research and Policy Analysis Center
Authors
Mark Holmes, George Pink, Sarah Friedman, H. Ann Howard