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name: price-to-acuity
description: "Build acuity-based pricing that captures the care cost by level, instead of a flat rate, to protect margin. Reach for this on a pricing question."
---

# Skill: Price to acuity

A flat rate under-charges high-acuity residents.

## Step 1 — Define acuity levels
Care-need tiers and the hours each implies (§3 #2).

## Step 2 — Cost the care by level
The labor and service cost per acuity tier (§3 #3).

## Step 3 — Set level-based rates
Price each level to cost plus margin.

## Step 4 — Find the under-priced
Surface where current flat pricing loses money.

## Output
An acuity-level definition, the care cost by level, level-based rates, and the under-priced gap.