Link the goals of your grant proposal back to your need statement. To more effectively hook grant reviewers, use visionary words in your goals. Try terms such as decrease, deliver, develop, establish, improve, increase, produce, and provide. A goal is only as good as the objectives that go with it.
Calculating the fee. The PCORI Fee is equal to $1 per covered life for each plan or policy year ending on or after Oct. 1, 2012, and before Oct. 1, 2013. The fee then increases to $2 per covered life for each plan or policy year ending on or after Oct. 1, 2013, and before Oct. 1, 2014.
The PCORI regulation provides that issuers and sponsors of self-funded plans may use any of the following methods to calculate the fee: 1) the actual count method; 2) the snapshot method; or 3) the Form 5500 method. In addition, issuers are permitted to use the state form method and the member months method.