Document Type

Article

Publication Date

1994

Publication Title

Journal of Management Systems

First Page

22

Last Page

38

Additional Publication URL

http://www.aom-iaom.org/jms.html

Abstract

We examine a structural deficiency in the healthcare system that hinders implementation of a meaningful cost accounting system, and suggest an alternative organizational arragement that can facilitate introducing cost control mechanisms. We argue that hospitals need structural rearrangement so that cost-driving activities can be traced, and their costs allocated to responsibility centers. We suggest that this structural rearrangement is a precondition for implementing any meaningful activity-based cost management system. We also suggest a basic framework for value analysis of activities for healthcare providers, and discuss how this framework can be used as a vehicle for controlling diagnostic costs.

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This article was archived with permission from Association of Management-International Association of Management, all rights reserved. Document also available from Journal of Management Systems.

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