Cost-Shifting, assume your organization has 100 patients analyzed in the manner:

Cost-Shifting,

assume your organization has 100 patients analyzed in the manner:

15 Medicare Patients, who pay $2000 per diagnosis

25 Medicaid patients, who pay $1,800 per diagnosis

20 managed care patients, who pay charges minus a 20% discount

10 managed care patients, who pay charges minus a 25% discount

10 private insurance patients, who pay charges

10 charity care patents, who pay nothing; 10 bad debt patients

who pay nothing. Your organization’s average coast per patient is $2,000. Calculate the charge necessary to recover your cost.