In my community team budget I have 07-08 costs for certain clients who needed an inpatient detox episode purchased outside of th eorganisation. Where should I code these direct non-pay costs?
You should only record costs that relate to the provision of interventions in your service, so please exclude the costs for the placements. However, you may wish to factor this information in to local discussions about the data as in many cases there is likely to be some discrepancy between budgets/contracts and costs of delivery. 2. DIRECT PAY COSTS 2.1. When asking for direct pay costs it states ‘excluding on-costs’. For us this would be problematic. Pay costs are recorded as gross costs as the gross cost is the direct cost of employing the staff member. As part of the exercise we are trying to separate out staff costs from overhead costs as these can vary significantly depending on the service provider. Therefore, in the above case, we would ask that the provider submitting establish the average amount of on-costs usually included in the contract price, and submit this proportion under ‘indirect/overhead costs – corporate charges’ rather than as part of direct pay costs. However, na
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