Identifying responsibility centers. Identify each responsibility center in the list below as either a service center, cost center (clinical or administrative), profit center (capitated or administrative), or investment center. Explain your choices.
a. Radiology department that must control its own costs.
b. Admitting department of a hospital.
c. HMO.
d. Stand‐alone outpatient clinic that must earn a 10 percent return on investment (ROI).
e. Volunteer department with no budget.
f. Development office.