Week 5: Break-even Analysis Assignment

A printed version of these assignment guidelines as well as the grading rubric are available in the Course Resources section of the Introduction and Resources module.

Purpose

The purpose of this assignment is to provide learners with the opportunity to develop break-even-analysis skills.

Total Points Possible: 100

Requirements

Answer the questions and complete the calculations required for the assignment.

Submit your answers on a Word document, with the heading of Week 5 Assignment. For the questions requiring a written response, please adhere to proper grammar and syntax, and provide references. For the questions requiring calculations, show all of your work and follow the format that has been provided for the calculations in the lesson for Week 5.

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Break-Even Analysis Case Study

You and several of your colleague business partners have decided to establish an outpatient fertility clinic in your service area. All of you are very familiar with this patient population base, have completed an extensive market analysis that demonstrated a great need for the service, and are comfortable with setting up a business and the costs associated with this special group of patients.

As part of the business plan, you and your partners will need to convince stakeholders that this new service endeavor will be viable. They will want to know how many annual patient visits will need to occur and how long it will take for the service to be at least cost neutral or profitable. To provide them with this information you will perform a break-even analysis. Use the following data and conduct the analysis accounting for the contribution margin of each patient acuity category.

• Fixed Costs: $9,788,000 (start-costs, specialty physicians, anesthesiologists, APNs, staff nurses and other staff salaries, specialty equipment, other miscellaneous)
• Variable costs: $500/patient visit (specialty equipment, oxygen supplies, other miscellaneous)
• Clinic days: Monday–Saturday; 312 days/year
• Projected patient visits per year: 7488
• Patient charges by patient acuity category:
  • Simple (15%)————$2,000/visit
  • Moderate (60%)——–$6,500/visit
  • Complex (25%)———$10,000/visit

1. Describe your approach to this case study. In addition to the numbers given, what do you need to know before you can calculate the break-even analysis?
2. Perform the calculations needed for the break-even analysis. Show your work, formulas used, and reference the formula. When calculating the patient visits per day, round to the nearest whole number. After you’ve completed the calculations, record your results in the appropriate place in the table.

3. How many patient visits are expected per day?
4. What is the contribution margin of each category of patient?
5. Based on the data and your calculations, what is the expected daily revenue?
6. How long (in days, months, or years) will it be before the return on investment begins?
7. How many patient visits will be required to reach the break-even point?
8. Discuss your analysis. Is the project a viable and profitable service? Does the analysis support moving forward with the business? Cite specific data from your analysis to support your interpretation.

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