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Huang SS, Hirth RA, Smith DG. Managers' Compensation in a Mixed Ownership Industry: Evidence from Nursing Homes. Front Public Health. 2016;4:283doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00283.
Huang, S. S., Hirth, R. A., & Smith, D. G. (2016). Managers' Compensation in a Mixed Ownership Industry: Evidence from Nursing Homes. Frontiers in public health, 4283. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00283
Huang, Sean Shenghsiu, et al. "Managers' Compensation in a Mixed Ownership Industry: Evidence from Nursing Homes." Frontiers in public health vol. 4 (2016): 283. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2016.00283
Huang SS, Hirth RA, Smith DG. Managers' Compensation in a Mixed Ownership Industry: Evidence from Nursing Homes. Front Public Health. 2016 Dec 26;4:283. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00283. eCollection 2016. PMID: 28083528; PMCID: PMC5183623.
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Front Public Health. 2016 Dec 26;4:283. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00283. eCollection 2016.

Managers' Compensation in a Mixed Ownership Industry: Evidence from Nursing Homes.

Frontiers in public health

Sean Shenghsiu Huang, Richard A Hirth, Dean G Smith

Affiliations

  1. Department of Health Systems Administration, Georgetown University , Washington, DC , USA.
  2. Department of Health Management and Policy, University of Michigan , Ann Arbor, MI , USA.
  3. Louisiana Health Sciences Center, School of Public Health , New Orleans, LA , USA.

PMID: 28083528 PMCID: PMC5183623 DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2016.00283

Abstract

An extensive literature is devoted to differences between for-profit and non-profit health-care providers' prices, utilization, and quality. Less is known about for-profit and non-profit managers' compensation and its relationship with financial and quality performance. The aim of this study is to examine whether for-profit and non-profit nursing homes place differential weights on financial and quality performance in determining managers' compensation. Using a unique 8-year dataset on Ohio nursing homes, fixed-effect regression models of managers' compensation include financial and quality performance as well as other explanatory variables concerning firm and market characteristics and manager qualifications. Among for-profit nursing homes, compensation of owner-managers and non-owner managers are compared. Compensation of for-profit managers is significantly positively associated with profit margin and return-on-assets, while compensation of non-profit managers does not exhibit any consistent relationship with financial measures. Compensation of neither for-profit nor non-profit managers is significantly related to quality measures. Nursing home size and managers' years of experience are the only consistent determinants of compensation. Owner-managers earn significantly higher compensation than non-owner managers and their compensation is less related to nursing home performance. Finding that home size and experience are strong determinants of compensation, and the association with ownership and financial performance for for-profit nursing homes are as expected. The insignificant relationship between compensation and quality performance is potentially troublesome.

Keywords: compensation; incentives; non-profit; nursing homes; ownership; quality

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