The phrase "a cost based on" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing pricing or expenses that are determined by specific criteria or factors.
Example: "The final price of the service is a cost based on the materials used and the time required for completion."
Alternatives: "a price determined by" or "an expense calculated from".
Since the statisticians lack a direct measure of housing costs for homeowners, they impute a cost based on rents.
Such a program could insure privately underwritten mortgage securities at a cost based on in-depth analyses of loans in these pools.
This means that patients as well as manufacturers of drugs experience a cost proportional to what they perceive to be the value they can gain from owning and using a product or technology and not a cost based on manufacturing cost plus a (small) margin, which would be the case in many consumer markets.
The latter two costs were obtained from the Patients' Behavior Survey[ 10], with time converted to a cost based on national wage and labor time statistics[ 11].
The RF+GS approach defines a cost based on the estimated boundary probabilities in all B-scan images and finds the collection of boundary surfaces having the correct ordering and minimum cost over the whole 3D volume.
In Italy, hospital discharge records represents the regional reimbursement document for the hospitals or health facilities, thus each hospitalization is associated with a cost, based on DRG (Diagnosis Related Groups), which is covered by the Regional/National Health Service.
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center said the proposal will cost $2.5 trillion over a decade, while the bi-partisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget estimates a $2.2 trillion cost, based on the details available thus far.
Typically, the production and end-of-life numbers are estimated based on labor costs from similar recent products and a material cost based on a preliminary design and bill of material (BOM) from engineering.
Services may be free or offered at a low cost, based on your income.
Bharti's innovative business model converted fixed costs in capital expenditure to a variable cost based on usage of capacity.
Or insurance could become similar to utility cost with a premium cost based on mileage or usage.
