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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Health Policy. 2010 Aug 4;99(1):52–59. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2010.07.008

Table 2.

Total Costs of Chicago Cancer Navigation Project

Component Cost driver Cost per
person per
month
($)
Component
costs
($)
Percent
from
grand
total
(%)
Personnel

Program Director 0.25 FTE 2,449 51,433
Social Worker Navigator 1 FTE 4,875 102,375
Lay Navigator 3 FTE 504 31,752

  Total 185,560 58
Variable

Office supplies 4 Nava 10 840
Office and cell phone charges 4 Nava 75 6,300
Transportation and parking fees
incurred by navigators
4 Nava 75 6,720
Transportation fee provided for
patients
4 Nava 10 840

  Total 14,700 5

Fixed

Initial training (personnel and
overhead)
4 Nava 19,552 * 0.4
Setting an office (computer,
desk, cabinets, etc.)
4 Nava $ 1200 per
office
4,800 * 0.4
Associated overhead of the
navigator office (renting, taxes,
utilities, etc.)
4 Nava $42.5 per
square foot
107,100

  Total 116,841 37

Grand Total (n=252) 317,101 100
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Navigator