Health care costs + prospective pricing = riskier capital financing.
The author discusses four types of strategies that hospitals can employ to maintain or enhance their access to the capital markets during the era of prospective pricing: (1) diversification of assets, (2) diversification of funding sources, (3) assumption of greater risk, and (4) increasing use of financial guarantee intermediaries.
D002202:Capital Financing / Q000379:methods*; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005376:Financial Management / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D005377:Financial Management, Hospital / Q000639:trends*; D007449:Investments; D011445:Prospective Payment System; D012306:Risk; D014481:United States