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After completing this week's readings, including The Growing Importance of Cost Accounting for
Hospitals, describe the ways in which healthcare financial managers use financial resources and cost
classifications to allocate indirect costs to direct costs when determining patient charges. Also, explain
how utilization rates are related to volumes and revenue generation. Support your answer with scholarly
resources.
Healthcare facilities use cost allocation as well as direct costs across multiple departments to create and
generate charges or profits. Since healthcare organizations do not send a bill for every product or service
that was provided, for example, heating or cooling they assign the indirect costs and some direct costs to
other departments that do generate charges (Norwicki, 2022).
Utilization rates are affected by volume and income, this describes the many services offered to the
general productiveness. The more services that are offered, inpatient or outpatient, the higher the
utilization rate of that service, and the more money is made.
In determining profit managers must review costs in relation to volumes and revenues which are
generated by the utilization rate of the services offered (Norwicki, 2022).
Hi Cassandra, I agree that differentiating direct and indirect costs as well as utilizations rates being very
essential for financial managers. Without knowing the costs of what is being used for staff provide safe
patient care is a big downfall for the organization. If it deemed as non-essential yet is used for every
patient this is not a cost that can be stopped. It directly effects patient care. Instead, finding a way to
save money for a department like billing the laundry services to a rehabilitation unit, and so on. It is also
not good practice to ignore utilization rates. Without it, services and resources cannot be tracked, and
revenue could be lost for the organization.
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