Activity Based Costing: A Practical Model for Cost Price Calculation in Hospitals

Background: Activity Based Costing is an accounting method that allows organizations todetermine actual costs associated with their services based on the resources they consume. Itis an advanced cost calculation method that allocates resource costs to products based onactivity consumption.Objectives: In this study, ABC method was used for calculating cost price of remedialservices in hospital .Methods: To apply ABC method, Valie_asr Hospital was selected. Six steps should befollowed when applying activity based costing to hospital procedures : 1- Defining activitycenters2- Activity analysis in activity centers3-determin output for each center4- calculatingactivity center costs5- Allocating costs of administrative centers to activity centers6-Calculating cost price of services Cost price of remedy activity was calculated.Results: Hospital costs are predominantly determined by personnel cost. Because of thedifferences in tariffs and the cost price of hospital services, most parts of the hospital arelosses and The government is forced to subsidize them.Conclusion: activity-based costing model is a practical tool to evaluate the actual coststructure of hospital. ABC represents useful information about the amount and combinationof cost price services. Hence, it is suggested to Health and care department to take into theirconsideration the use of information on cost price based on ABC in determining the tariffs forservices.

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Activity Based Costing( ABC) ، Cost price ، Hospital