The major difference between the for-profit and the not-for-profit organizational form is:

a. patients receive higher quality of care in not-for-profit hospitals.
b. shareholders receive higher return on their investment in a not-for-profit environment.
c. primarily the ability to transfer assets.
d. for-profit hospitals do not provide charity care.
e. the absence of a profit motive in the not-for-profit environment.


c. primarily the ability to transfer assets.

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