Interest on Late Fees
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Fees are invoiced with a payment due date of 30 days.
Outstanding invoices of 60 days or more will be charged a
1.5%/month/outstanding amount due. |
Postponement Fee
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If a program wishes to postpone the on-site date with
between 61 and 90 days notice, a postponement fee of $500.00
plus applicable taxes is charged to the organization. Between 31 and 60
days, a fee of $1,000.00 plus applicable taxes and between 0 and 30 days,
a fee of $1,500.00 plus applicable taxes will be charged. |
Package Fees
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Complete pre-site packages are sent
directly to all of the team members. Programs that submit
pre-site materials that are not complete or poorly organized
will be asked to either re-submit the materials (with enough
time to have the pre-site meeting as scheduled) or have CAC
do so. If CAC needs to copy and/or distribute the materials,
a cost of $75/hour plus applicable taxes plus the cost of photocopying
and couriering the re-worked package to each team
member, will be added to the invoice for the per-diem costs.
It is an expectation that materials submitted to the
Accreditation Panel are anonymous and have all identifying
information removed. Having CAC staff “white-out”
identifying information (i.e. program names, logos,
identification on the top of faxed pages etc.) will result
in an administrative fee of $75/hour added to the final
invoice to the program. It is expected that the Organization
courier or hand deliver these anonymous responses. Only the
reference number should appear on all documentation. |
2nd Pre-Site Fee
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One pre-site review of policies is included
in the Accreditation Fee. If the team finds that the
pre-site review of policy(s) results in many standards found
to be non-compliant, they may suggest that the program
re-work the policy manual and re-submit it to the team for a
2nd review. It is the choice of the program to have the team
review the policy a second time or address the issues at the
scheduled on-site. The advantage of re-submitting the policy
is that the program has more time to implement policies and
adjust practice (if needed).
A second review of pre-site materials will be invoiced at
the rate of $200 per team member plus applicable taxes. |
Costs Associated with Appeals
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A flat rate of $1,000.00 plus applicable
taxes will be
charged to the organization should they decide to appeal.
This would cover the cost of travel, accommodation (if any)
and time spent reading the material as well as time at the
appeal committee meeting. If the result of an appeal is to
re-review of a program the costs associated will be assumed
by the organization and are the same as for a follow-up
review. |
Costs of Investigating Complaints
Suspension or Revoking of Accreditation
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The organization will be responsible to cover
all the costs resulting from the investigation of the
complaint. Failure to pay costs would result in suspension
of accreditation status. |
