General Hospital, a not-for-profit acute care facility, has the following cost structure for its inpatient services:
Fixed Costs: $10,000,000
Variable cost per inpatient day: $200
Charge (revenue) per inpatient day: $1,000
The hospital expects to have a patient load of 15,000 inpatient days next year.
- Construct the hospital's base case projected P&L statement.
- What is the hospital's breakeven point?
- What volume is required to provide a profit of $1,000,000? A profit of $500,000?
- Now assume that 20 percent of the hospital's inpatient days come from a managed care plan that wants a 25 percent discount from charges. Should the hospital agree to the discounted proposal?