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Part 1: Pricing Setup

Pricing Setup is required prior to adding service costs/pricing maps

Dates

Display Date:

When the service shows in the tree with future pricing map pricing.

Effective Date:

When the displayed pricing actually goes into effect

Source of Price/Rates

Self-Defined:

Manual entry

Percent of Fee

Federal:

Percent of Service Rate charged to a Federal funding source; defined by leadership

Corporate:

Percent of Service Rate charged to a Corporate funding source; defined by leadership

Other:

Percent of Service Rate charged to a Other funding source; defined by leadership

Member:

Percent of Service Rate charged to a Member funding source; defined by leadership

Rates: Funding Source (Type all that apply below)

College, Federal, Foundation, Industry, Investigator, Internal Unfunded Student Research:

Defines the rate utilized for selected funding source, using percent of fee calculation


A service is anything that is orderable in SPARC (i.e. Venipuncture). Services can be located directly under the Program, or Core Level, depending on how your institution is set up.

Tags are special functionality that turn features on.

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*Review data to ensure entry is occurring for correct service*

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Field

Description

Name (and Version):

Appointed survey name; version is required to differentiate

New Associated Survey:

Ability to turn on a survey at specified level



Field

Description

Component:

The provider defined elements of a service that are displayed in SPARCFulfillment.


Services that will pull into the shopping cart together.



Field

Description

Service:

Name of service which is linked to the current service; will appear in shopping cart when current service is chosen.

Required:

When checked, linked service cannot be removed by user until other service is removed. When unchecked, this service will appear but can be removed from shopping cart.

Linked Quantity:

Default quantity of chosen linked service

Linked Quantity Total:

Default total quantity of related service pair

Delete:

Ability to delete related service


                                  Per Patient                                                           One Time Fee


Step 2: Pricing Map

Pricing map defines cost at a procedure level and looks to pricing setup for discounts.

Display Date:

Defines when a service will display in SPARC for use

Effective Date:

When the displayed pricing actually goes into effect

Service Rate:

Cost of service before discounts are applied (Full Rate)

Federal Rate:

Research rate applied to a Federally funded study (this is typically used for NIH or other grant funding)

Corporate Rate:

Research rate applied to a Corporate funded study.

Other Rate:

Research rate applied to Other funding sources defined by an Institution

Member Rate:

Used for collaborative rates

Override:

The ability to overwrite rates

Per Patient

Clinical Quantity Type:

Any unit of measurement (hours, each, slides, etc)

Unit Factor:

Base number used to divide requested Clinical Quantity by

Quantity Minimum:

The minimum quantity that has to be requested (integer)

One Time Fee

Unit Type:

Any unit of measurement (N/A, weeks, days, samples, etc); May not be applicable

Quantity Type:

Any unit of measurement (hours, each, slides, etc)

Quantity Minimum:

Lowest number of allowable requests

Unit Factor:

Base number used to divide requested quantity by

Unit Maximum:

Highest quantity of allowable requests

Exclude from Indirect Cost:

Able to determine at a service level which services are included in indirect cost calculations.

*Updates are always being made to the system. Please contact the SPARCRequest Team if inconsistencies are found*

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