P 11— 1 8: Hospital Admissions Office The admissions office of a large hospital has an annual operating budget of 5700.000. These costs are distributed to inpatient departments (surgery. medicine, pediatrics. psychiatry) and to outpatient departments (dru

P 11— 1 8: Hospital Admissions Office The admissions office of a large hospital has an annual operating budget of 5700.000. These costs are distributed to inpatient departments (surgery. medicine, pediatrics. psychiatry) and to outpatient departments (drug treatment, prenatal care. dialysis). In the past, the admissions office's oasts have been allocated to inpatients and outpatients based on the number of patients processed. But now hospital management is seeking some alternative ways to distribute these costs. The following data for the last 12 months summarize the number of patients. average days per stay, average patient bill. and average number of minutes to register inpatients and outpatients.

Number Average Days Average Patient Average Minutes to of Patients per Patient Stay Bill Register a Patient

Inpatient 25.000 6.50 58.200 12 Outpatient 120.000 1.00 700 8