Abstract

Through a study of US hospital in two historical periods, this paper explores the construction of hospitals as accounting entities in the early 1900s, and the subsequent protection of established entity boundaries with the adoption of the federal Medicare health insurance program in the 1960s. The analysis examines the social, economic and political conflicts underlying entity definitions and the consequences of accounting entity boundaries for relations profit accumulation and cost reporting in the US health care sector.

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