When you ask for aggregate health expenditures represented by participating organizations is that to be charges including patient expenditures, or can it be “covered” expenses by insurers?
The Aligning Forces call for proposals requests that applicants define their respective health care market and then describe it by, among several things, estimating the amount of aggregate health care expenditures represented by the applicant organizations. That request anticipates that the applicant would estimate the health care expenditure footprint of each of the applicant organizations that form your proposed leadership team. We understand that this number is an estimate, but it is important for those reviewing proposals to understand as much as possible about the potential impact a proposed leadership team might have on the proposed health care market. Again, the point of this information is to help reviewers understand that leadership team impact. Certainly, covered expenses would be relevant. A community may determine that patient expenditures are also relevant to that market definitionand that applicant may have ready access to that information. In that case, an applicant may
