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Family Medical Care (FMC) is a family medical practice with 8physicians, a nursing staff of 10 to 12 nurses, and anadministrative staff that varies from 6 to 9 personnel. RajatPatel, the chief physician at FMC, is interested in studying theefficiency of the practice as a basis to set some benchmarks forfurther improvement, for rewarding his staff, and for comparing theefficiency of the FMC practice to other family medical practices.He is able to get comparable data for other practices from industrysources. So that the data are consistent with the industry sources,Patel has asked Marin & Associates, his accounting firm, todevelop a set of productivity measures that would satisfy thisrequirement. Upon investigation, Joseph Marin finds that themeasures to be used are the partial financial and operationalproductivity measures as defined in the chapter. The followinginformation is for the last 2 years for the FMC practice:

Current YearPrior Year
Patient visits      34,300       29,700
Nursing hours used      21,600       20,700
Administrative hours used      14,725       14,725
Cost of nursing support per hour          52          51
Cost of administration per hour        37.6          37
Industry average financial productivity
Nursing        0.03         0.03
Administrative        1.25         1.27

Required:

1. Compute the partial financial productivity ratios for nursingand administrative support for the current and prior year.

2. Separate the change in the partial financial productivityratio from the prior year to the current year into productivitychanges, input price changes, and output changes.

(For all requirements, round your answers to 4 decimalplaces. Negative values should be indicated by a minussign.)

NursingAdministrative
1Financial Partial Productivity for the current year
Financial Partial Productivity for the prior year
2Productivity Change
Input Price change
Output Change

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1 Partial Financial Productivity Particulars Current Year Prior Year Nursing Number of visits 34300 29700 Total nursing cost 1123200 1055700 Partial financial productivity of nursing 00305 00281 Note Total nursing cost Number of nursing hours used 21600 20700 Cost of nursing support per hour 5200 5100 Total nursing cost 1123200 1055700 Total administrative cost Number of visits 34300    See Answer
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