1. Is health care a “business?”
2.What are five of the key factors that distinguish a hospital from other industrial organizations?
3.Define an “average” hospital in terms of size (employees, revenue, beds).
4.What is the difference between Medicare and Medicaid?
5. What is a payer? What impact do payers have on a hospital’s revenue?
6.What is the role of a teaching hospital in the healthcare industry?
7.What makes governance of academic hospitals more complex than community hospitals?
8.What are the different types of managed-care plans?