…think it would be impossible to empirically confirm Egmont Kakarot-Handtke’s “law” of profit. There is no “real” yardstick with which to measure aggregate profit. If Egmont is right that “[m]acroeconomic…

…prescription drugs while moving the rest of its lower profit operations into other ventures. Off-patent drugs such as Lipitor and Viagra having lower profit margins would be targeted for joint…

…proposed adjustment will omit some types of profit shifting. Beyond that, Blouin and Robinson’s conclusions regarding how their adjustments affect the scale of profit shifting set aside many nuances in…

…merging into larger non-profit systems. But a growing number of them have been gobbled up by private equity firms, often interested in making outsized profits and cashing in on their…

It should come as no surprise to regular AB readers that the US for-profit healthcare system is a disaster for everyone except the executives and stock-holders. Here’s yet another confirmation:…

…made by a particular payer to the hospital’s overall profitability is determined by comparing the dollar amount of profits and losses from that payer to the profits and losses from all of…

…are the reasons for the surging growth and profits in the Medicare Advantage (MA) programs. The dynamics of growth and profits are related to risk-coding games, making MA a costly…

…top wage rate could be paid $98,000 – from wages, cost-of-living adjustment bonus, ratification bonus, profit sharing, and overtime – in the first year alone. Farley . . . “This…

…are based on an arm’s-length analysis.” The model requires that two separate transactions – the buy-in payment and the cost sharing contribution – be analyzed as if they were a…

…humanity’s success as a species. Cooperation, altruism, and sharing are what got us to the top of the food chain. (We’re not talking here about the techno-utopians’ faux-“sharing economy,” in…