|
|
|
|
|
TACT User Manual - PDF file (945 KB) - when printed: 72 pages
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction to the Technical Assistance Costing Tool
- Description
- Review statement
- Copyright statement
- Chapter contents
Chapter 2: TACT Overview
- Structure and Use of TACT
- Quick Start Guide
- How to use TACT
- Basic navigation within TACT
- General information on viewing and printing
- Input Tab
- Optimize on-screen viewing
- Minimum data elements required for TACT reports
- Viewing reports
- Detail report tab
- Rollup report tab
Chapter 3: Common Data Sources
- What information do I need to use TACT?
- What is a Member Month?
- How do I determine my member-months?
- What should I do if I'm not sure I calculated member months correctly?
- Where do I find utilization information?
- How should I categorize the care services provided?
- What Units of Measurement Should I Use?
- How Do I Count Units?
- An example of a Primary Care Clinic
- Calculating Number of Members Assigned to Clinic
Chapter 4: Determining Unit Cost of Care
- What is unit cost?
- What do I need to know to develop unit costs?
- Profit and Cost Centers
- Direct and Indirect Costs
- Fully Burdened Cost
- Five steps to determine the fully burdened cost of services
- Step 1. Gather Total Expenses by Expense Category
- Step 2. Assign direct costs to the appropriate cost center
- Example
- Step 3. Normalize Expenses (expenses with special conditions)
- Volunteer staff
- Donated goods and services
- Expense Redistribution
- Step 4. Allocate cost center expenses to profit centers
- Direct costs
- Revenue
- Direct personnel costs
- Square footage
- Step 5. Split total profit center costs to each type of care provided in that profit center
- How do I split costs into care category types?
- Fee-based method
- RVU-based method
- Clinic data and calculations example
- Administration Load
- What Should My Main Concerns Be?
Chapter 5: Detailed Instructions
- Step-by-Step Guide
- The Input worksheet
- Column B - Service Category
- Column C - Sub-Category
- Column D - Service Unit Type
- Column E - Units of Service per Year
- Column F - Total Service Costs
- Column G - Annual Co-Pay
- Column H - Included in Review Yes = 1 No = 0
- Worksheets and Cells Cross Reference Tables
- Detail and Rollup Report Worksheets column heading cell reference
Chapter 6: Examples of TACT Reports
- Small Primary Care Clinic
- Hospital-Based Multi Specialty Clinic
- Summary
Appendix A: Input Tab Definitions
Appendix B: Acknowledgements
Appendix C: Acronym List
Index
|
|
|
|
|
TACT User Manual | TACT web | HRSA | HHS