Pleasant Stay Medical Inc. wishes to determine its product costs. Pleasant Stay offers a variety of medical procedures (operations) that are considered its products. The overhead has been separated into three major activities. The annual estimated activity costs and activity bases follow:

1	Activity	Budgeted Activity Cost	Activity Base
2	Scheduling and admitting	$432,000.00	Number of patients
3	Housekeeping	4,212,000.00	Number of patient days
4	Nursing	5,376,000.00	Weighted care unit
5	Total costs	$10,020,000.00

Total patient days are determined by multiplying the number of patients by the average length of stay in the hospital. A weighted care unit (wcu) is a measure of nursing effort used to care for patients. There were 192,000 weighted care units estimated for the year. In addition, Pleasant Stay estimated 6,000 patients and 27,000 patient days for the year. (The average patient is expected to have a a little more than a four-day stay in the hospital.)

During a portion of the year, Pleasant Stay collected patient information for three selected procedures, as follows:

	Activity-Base Usage
Procedure A
Number of patients	280
Average length of stay	6 days
Patient days	1,680
Weighted care units	19,200
Procedure B
Number of patients	650
Average length of stay	5 days
Patient days	3,250
Weighted care units	6,000
Procedure C
Number of patients	1,200
Average length of stay	4 days
Patient days	4,800
Weighted care units	24,000

Private insurance reimburses the hospital for these activities at a fixed daily rate of $406 per patient day for all three procedures.

	Required:
1.	Determine the activity rates.
2.	Determine the activity cost for each procedure.
3.	Determine the excess or deficiency of reimbursements to activity cost.
4.	Interpret your results.

(How to do #1: Activity cost Activity Base = Activity Rate; Sum all activity costs to determine a total cost.)

(How to do #2: Activity usage x Activity rate from Req. (1) = Activity cost; Sum all activity costs per product to determine a total for each procedure.)

(How to do #3: (Patient days x reimbursement rate per day) - Total activity cost from Req. 2 = Excess (deficiency) of reimbursement over activity cost.)