The doctor is holding money in gloved hands.

In the op-ed for Penn LDIAtul Gupta discusses how hospitals exploited a Medicare payment loophole, benefiting for-profit hospitals. This highlights the need for more oversight in hospital payment systems.

Citation:

How For-Profit Hospitals Billed More Aggressively than Nonprofits for Medicare Outlier Payments: A Case Study from the Early 2000s.” Penn LDI, A Gupta, August 7, 2024.

Gupta A, Forgia A, Sacarny A. 2024. “Turbocharging Profits? Contract Gaming and Revenue Allocation in Healthcare.” The National Bureau of Economic Research.