Healthcare providers

Clinical and support departments serve many service lines. ProfitKeel allocates their cost by real consumption, so service line margins reflect how care is delivered.

Questions you can answer

Which service lines cover their full cost, including support departments?
How much does each department really cost per patient day or procedure?
How do payer mixes change the margin of a service line?

How the model is shaped

LedgerClinical, support and facility cost centers.
Support departmentsFacilities, IT and admin spread to clinical departments, with reciprocal services solved exactly.
Clinical departmentsDepartment cost by volume of care.
Service linesLanded on service line, payer and site.

Typical cost objects

Service lineDepartmentPayerProcedure groupSite

Typical drivers

Patient daysTheatre minutesLab testsImaging studiesSquare footage

Use cases

Shared service chargeback Activity-based costing Product and SKU profitability Branch, store and site profitability Month-end management P&L What-if and budget scenarios

Who uses it

CFO and finance director FP&A Cost and management accountant Operations and supply chain Shared services leaders Financial controller

ProfitKeel produces management costing. It does not replace billing or statutory cost reports.

See your own cost structure in ProfitKeel.

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