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Difference Between Private Hospitals and Public Hospitals - What is a Private Hospital?

Public and private hospitals are quite different from each other. In this article, we weigh the pros and cons of working in both fields!

This Health Affairs article describes how CHCF-funded improvement projects have helped pave the way for California public hospitals to get ready for health care reform.

Hospitals, a reliable source of employment growth in the recession and its aftermath, are starting to cut thousands of jobs amid falling insurance payments and inpatient visits.

HEN summary of a network member's report. Published 15 August 2003.

An economist explains how hospitals price their services, and how prices differ for patients depending on their insurance plans (or lack thereof).

Learn about how Medicare is funded through 2 trust accounts held by the U.S. Treasury: the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund (which pays for Medicare Part A, inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing facility care, home health care, hospice care, and combating fraud and abuse), and the Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Fund (which pays for Medicare Part B outpatient health care and Medicare Part D prescription drug coverage).

A private hospital is a hospital owned by a for-profit company or a non-profit organization and privately funded through payment for medical services by patients themselves, by insurers, Governments through national health insurance programs, or by foreign embassies.

A public hospital or government hospital is a hospital which is owned by a government and receives government funding. In some countries, this type of hospital provides medical care free of charge, the cost of which is covered by government reimbursement.

Public and private hospitals are funded from a range of different sources, reflecting the types of patients they treat and the services they provide.