Increased emphasis is placed on running the hospitals´ departments as profit centres. This results in a growing proportion of intra organization trade. To substantiate the concept further, internal prices have to be set. Thereby ideas are translated which have a fine tradition in business administration. However, the internal prices´ growing importance in hospitals is discussed for a short time. Therefore the detectable professional literature provides only little indication of establishing internal prices in the specific business environment of hospitals. The present research work contributes to close this gap. It analyzes how internal prices should be fixed to motivate and monitor the relative efficiency of the related business units. To this end, reasons for transfer pricing in hospitals are derived whereby the main focus is on pros and cons of applicable approaches and the effects on the allocation of the total profit among the departments of the company. Due to external requirements, dealing with full cost based prices is required what succeeds in different ways and either hits or misses.
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Increased emphasis is placed on running the hospitals´ departments as profit centres. This results in a growing proportion of intra organization trade. To substantiate the concept further, internal prices have to be set. Thereby ideas are translated which have a fine tradition in business administration. However, the internal prices´ growing importance in hospitals is discussed for a short time. Therefore the detectable professional literature provides only little indication of establishing inte...
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