Avoided Costs Calculator

Avoided Costs Calculator Purpose

The avoided costs calculator is a calculator for estimating how funds currently spent on other health center operations could be avoided by having the outreach program take on these tasks.

For some health centers, outreach workers are the best medium for certain health center operations such as marketing for the health center. This calculator asks about the costs of marketing, needs assessment, and cultural competency trainings to estimate the financial benefit of integrating outreach staff into these health center operations. As with the other calculators, this calculator may not be applicable to the health center.

Use the Avoided Costs Calculator if:

• Your health center currently pays for marketing.
• Outreach workers can replace a portion of marketing efforts.
• You currently pay for needs assessments.
• Outreach worker could collect community needs data.
• You currently pay for cultural competency training for health center staff.
• Outreach worker could fill a part of this training need.