A hospital pharmacy fills three types of prescriptions . Prescription A requires refrigeration to maintain the drugs
Question:
A hospital pharmacy fills three types of prescriptions . Prescription A requires refrigeration to maintain the drug’s activity. Prescription B has potentially fatal interactions with other drugs and therefor requires careful review by a pharmacist. Prescription C is a basic, common drug that presents little risk to the patient. Prescription A is a brand-name drug still on patent, and therefore the charge for the drug is high relative to its cost. Consider the following data for the hospital pharmacy:
Annual Prescription Volume, Total Direct Costs, and Total Charges
| Prescription (Rx) A | Prescription (Rx) B | Prescription (Rx) C |
Annual volume | 50 | 200 | 1,000 |
Total direct costs | $7,668 | $48,840 | $31,300 |
Total charges | $35,000 | $70,000 | $50,000 |
Budgeted overhead costs and activity data
| | | Cost Driver Consumption per One Rx | ||
Activity | Annual costs | Cost driver | Rx A | Rx B | Rx C |
Refrigeration | $8,000 | Number of units requiring refrigeration | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Materials handling | 24,000 | Number of feet to drug storage area | 50 | 20 | 10 |
Prescription review | 90,000 | Number of pharmacist minutes | 15 | 60 | 3 |
Total costs | 122,000 | | | | |
Using activity-based costing (ABC) techniques, determine the allocation rate for each overhead activity and determine the overhead that would be allocated to each type of prescription, A, B, and C.
Operations Management Managing Global Supply Chains
ISBN: 978-1506302935
1st edition
Authors: Ray R. Venkataraman, Jeffrey K. Pinto