Budget Impact Tools
Budget impact tools assist decision-makers in forecasting future costs of providing substance use treatment and/or related medical services. Use these examples to identify how a budget impact tool could assist treatment programs, jail or prison facilities, or other service providers in preparing annual budgets.
Offering Contingency Management for Treating Patients with Alcohol Use Disorder and Severe Mental Illness
This budget impact tool is designed to assist community mental health centers with creating a budget for incorporating contingency management as a treatment supplement for patients with alcohol use disorder and co-occurring serious mental illness. Formatted as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, this customizable tool was created as part of the NIH/NIAAA-funded research study titled “Individualizing Incentives for Alcohol in the Severely Mentally Ill” (R01AA020248; NCT03481049), and allows end-users to estimate and compare the costs implementing and sustaining 3 different contingency management models.
Read more about the tool published in Psychiatric Services.
Incorporating Medications for Opioid Use Disorder into Jail/Prison Facilities
This budget impact tool is designed to assist jails and prisons with creating a budget for delivering onsite opioid use disorder pharmacotherapy. Formatted as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, this customizable tool was created as part of the NIH/NIDA-funded Justice Community Opioid Innovation Network (JCOIN) and allows facilities to estimate and compare the costs associated with implementing and sustaining different treatment delivery models.
Read the original story or view the open-access manuscript in the Journal of Substance Use and Addiction Treatment to learn more about the tool.
This budget impact tool was updated on August 15, 2024 with additional features to enhance its usability. This second iteration of the tool includes:
- Common titles of prison employees
- Specified pharmacotherapy phases, such as Initiation, Stabilization, Titration, and Maintenance
- Nationally representative medication costs per mg dosed
- Detailed screening and diagnosis options for patients
Sean M. Murphy, CHERISH Methodology Core co-director, and Danielle Ryan, Research Manager at Weill Cornell Medicine, presented this updated tool to SAMHSA’s GAINS Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation on August 12, 2024.
Adding Onsite Rapid HIV Testing Services within Substance Use Disorder Treatment
This budget impact tool is designed to assist substance use treatment programs in creating a budget for delivering onsite rapid HIV testing services. Formatted as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, this tool was created as a joint effort between the National Drug Abuse Clinical Trials Network (CTN) study, CTN-0032: HIV Rapid Testing and Counseling (NCT00809445), and SAMHSA. The CTN-0032 study team produced additional research-based products designed specifically for substance abuse treatment providers.