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 Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued final regulations on December 5, 2012, requiring health insurance issuers and plan sponsors of self-insured health plans to finance the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Trust Fund through the payment of an annual fee (the PCORI fee).