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As Health Care Systems Began to Acquire Physician Practices and Form

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As health care systems began to acquire physician practices and form large integrated group practices within their ownership, the health systems were attempting to develop a distribution access barrier to entry.

Understand and calculate the target profit in pricing decisions.
Understand cost-plus pricing strategies and how markup percentages are calculated from total variable costs and full costs.
Gain knowledge on the relationship between production costs, mark-up percentages, and final product pricing.
Understand the technique of time and material pricing for services.

Definitions:

Overapplied Overhead

A situation where the allocated manufacturing overhead cost is more than the actual overhead cost incurred.

Underapplied Overhead

Occurs when the allocated overhead costs are less than the actual overhead costs incurred.

Job Costing System

A cost accounting system that tracks the expenses of a specific job against its revenue to determine profitability.

Overapplied Overhead

This occurs when the allocated manufacturing overhead cost is more than the actual overhead costs incurred, leading to a variance.

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