1 Front Matter; 2 An Introduction to the New Health Care for Profit; 3 Legal Differences between Investor-Owned and Nonprofit Health Care Institutions; 4 Wall Street and the For-Profit Hospital Management Companies; 5 When Investor-Owned Corporations Buy Hospitals: Some Issues and Concerns; 6 Physician Involvement in Hospital Decision Making; 7 Economic Incentives and Clinical Decisions; 8 Ethical Dilemmas of For-Profit Enterprise in Health Care; 9 Secondary Income from Recommended Treatment: Should Fiduciary Principles Constrain Physician Behavior?; 10 Biographical Sketches of Contributors; 11 Index