Boston Children$$s Hospital Case

$$ Read the Boston Children$$s Hospital Case. $($CP$)$

$$ Answer the assigned four questions.

$$ Submit your work in the form of a pdf through Blackboard.

$1.$ List the market and competitive forces facing BCH that drive a need for a different

understanding of costs.

$2.$ Explain why a clinical department head should be interested in developing more accurate cost

measurements.

$3.$ Use the accompanying Excel spreadsheet $($Bb$)$ to calculate the costs and margins of the three

different office visits using $($a$)$ the RCC method and $($b$)$ the TDABC method.

$4.$ Suppose the department dedicates the following resources to handle all office visits: $2\mathrm{.}5$

surgeons, $2$ ambulatory service representatives, $2$ RNs$,1$ CA$.$ During the year the office

performs $4,400$ plagiocephaly visits, $2,200$ neoplasm visits, and $1,800$ craniosynostosis visits.

Calculate the quantities and cost of used and unused capacity for the year. How can you

reduce the cost of unused capacity