The ambulatory care division of an integrated health system is evaluating its fo

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The ambulatory care division of an integrated health system is evaluating its four departments, a multidisciplinary physician practice, a same day surgery center, an outpatient clinic, and a home health practice, to determine if it is maximizing the value of health care services it could provide under its $6,800,000 budget. All four departments are operating at their current level and each manager has been told to create budgets including revenues expenses, and number of patients to be used to determine if their budget is increased and decreased Substantial changes in patient volumes have been seen with a large increase in demand for same day surgery and a modest decline in the outpatient clinic. The output measure the departments will be evaluated and ranked on is revenue generated per dollar of expense. The health system recognizes that the outpatient clinic although generating less revenue than its expenses provides an outlet for the emergency room and has estimated that two of every five clinic patients would end up at the emergency room and generated substantial uncompensated costs. Avoided ER costs are included as a benefit (revenue) of the clinic to recognize its contribution to the health system. Using the Problem 8.1 tab in the BudgetCh08.xls file, calculate the marginal revenue to marginal expense ratios for all the decision packages and rank them from highest to lowest. Create a zero-base budget assuming a budget constraint of $6,800,000, should any departments be expanded or contracted? How many patients can be served under the ZBB versus the current budget?

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Ratio and Rank:

Patient that can be served:

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Multispeciality Phy Same Day Surgery OP Clinic Home Health Revenue 345000 468000 60580 492000 Avoided 133300 Expense 300000 320000 208000 488000 Patient 2880 1104 1210 10000 Ratio                                 115                              146              29                    101 Rank 2 1 4 3

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