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As noted earlier in this report, the Cost Sharing Model can be used to address a wide variety of issues: • For the purpose of improving internal program management, the model offers more precise measures of what services currently cost to deliver. • For agencies interested in changing their service delivery methods (e.g., purchasing services instead of providing them)
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The right price for each agency then will be dependent on the level of service that they require as indicated by the numbers of hours and the numbers of miles required to produce the trips that they need. Using the chart of accounts of this report and the Cost Sharing Model, Table 8-1 shows that the total expenses were distributed as $278,584 allocated to hourly expenses, $143,226 allocated to mileage expenses, and $191,107 allocated to fixed expenses.
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Agency Service Hours Miles Trips Area Agency on Aging 16,875 202,500 28,700 Sheltered Workshop 10,000 135,000 22,000 Medicaid Program 8,450 67,500 12,675 Totals 35,325 405,000 63,375 Table 8-2. Services received by stakeholders.
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Different unit costs could be used for each agency as long as each agency eventually paid their share of the total annual expenses. Summary These examples illustrate some of the many applications of the Cost Sharing Model.
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