Patient Satisfaction The problem: You are a newly hired Patient Services Manager of a foodservice contract company for a 200-bed teaching hospital. The current patient meal service runs from 7am to 10pm, in which the patients can order what they want when they want, average length of stay for the hospital is about 10 days. […]
How might you, as a health care manager, use the cost allocation method to assign costs to support activities to patient services?
Health Care Manager Consider how a health care manager might use the differences between direct costs and variable costs in making decisions. How might you, as a health care manager, use the cost allocation method to assign costs to support activities to patient services?