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For-Profit versus Not-For-Profit Healthcare

Posted on October 27, 2008 by Editors

An Often Contentious Problem By Staff Writers www.HealthcareFinancials.com In general industry, as well as in healthcare, there has been a longstanding discussion on the relative efficiencies of for-profit businesses versus not-for-profits, which concerns the very merits of competition itself. The Studies According to Robert James Cimasi MHA, ASA, AVA, CMP™ of Health Capital Consultants in [...]

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