Hettinger Hospital bases its budgets on patient-visits.
The hospital's static budget for March appears below:
Budgeted number of patient-visits 8,900 Budgeted variable cost;
Supplies (@$10.00 per patient-visits) $89,000
Laundry (@$9.70 per patient-visit) 86,330
Total variable cost 175,330
Budgeted fixed costs;
Wages and Salaries 99,840
Occupancy costs 107,840
Total fixed cost 207,680
Total cost $383,010
The total variable cost at the activity level of 9,000 patient-visits per month should be: