Abstract
Hospitals are the largest single component of healthcare expenditures. Nancy Kane’s study of hospital financial performance fulfills a mandate of Maine’s Dirigo Health Reform Act. By most financial measures, Maine’s hospital industry outperformed hospitals nationwide and in the Northeast during 1993-2003. Still, there is major variability among the state’s hospitals in financial performance. Kane analyzes financial and non-financial characteristics of high-, medium-, and low-performing hospitals, and suggests that not maintaining acute inpatient volume is the biggest problem for low-profitability hospitals. Although no hospital is in imminent danger of failing, Kane suggests a new “blueprint” is needed for Maine’s healthcare system, before financial crisis and loss of access occurs.
First page
36
Last page
51
DOI
https://doi.org/10.53558/MBRX2455
Recommended Citation
Kane, Nancy. "Financial Performance of Hospitals in Maine, 1993-2003." Maine Policy Review 13.2 (2004) : 36 -51, https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/mpr/vol13/iss2/8.
