DOI: 10.3886/icpsr03401
title: Substance Abuse Treatment Cost Allocation and Analysis Template (SATCAAT) Study, 1992-1994: [United States]
title: Archival Version

description: The Substance Abuse Treatment Cost Allocation and Analysis
Template (SATCAAT) is a unit cost protocol based on rigorous cost
accounting methods and standards for collecting substance abuse
treatment cost data. This protocol provides a uniform accounting
system for treatment providers that ultimately translates costs by
category into costs by unit of service. Each treatment provider may
include up to eight service delivery units (SDUs), which are defined
as a single treatment modality delivered at a single geographic
site. Data are entered into a series of spreadsheets within the
template, beginning with the conversion of the provider's financial
accounting reports into the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment's
(CSAT's) chart of accounts structure and continuing through the
allocation of costs using a step-down method of cost allocation. The
allocation of costs will produce a "cost profile" of average cost per
client by unit of service for each SDU. This data collection includes
data from a purposive sample. These data are useful for examining
patterns of service unit costs across the sampled SDUs. However,
generalization to other providers or provider types is not
possible. This release includes two files: (1) the SDU summary file
for residential women and children (RWC) (78 records), and (2) cost
data for all SDUS (213 records). The SDU summary file for RWC includes
four SDU types: (1) residential pregnant and postpartum women, (2)
residential long-term pregnant and postpartum women, (3) residential
short-term pregnant and postpartum women, and (4) residential women
and children. The SATCAAT Study includes data for multiple years for
some SDUs. Each year of data for each SDU constitutes one
record. SATCAAT captures costs for 14 different services: initial
assessment, medical exams, project evaluation, psychosocial
evaluation, individual counseling, group counseling, HIV testing and
counseling, medical and diagnostic services, housing and meals,
clinical case management, networking and outreach, client
transportation, client education, and staff education. The focus of
the SDUs in the cost data file were (1) Aftercare, (2) Children, (3)
Detox, (4) HIV, (5) Outpatient, (6) Residential, and (7) Women. This
file includes 27 different SDU types based on the service delivery
design of the sampled treatment providers (e.g., aftercare -- women
only, outpatient aftercare -- adult, outpatient aftercare --
adolescent).
description: The data include a purposive sample that is not intended
to yield results that can be generalized to the substance abuse
treatment field. The primary objective in sample selection was to
test the protocol on a diverse set of providers and client
populations.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Residential Women and Children SDU Summary
DS2: SDU Cost Data -- All SDUs
description: Substance abuse treatment SDUs funded by Center for
Substance Abuse Treatment demonstration grants through the Target
Cities, Residential Women and Their Children, Pregnant and Post-Partum
Women, HIV Outreach, and Incarcerated Populations Programs.
description: Development of SATCAAT was jointly funded by the
SAMHSA Office of Applied Studies, and the SAMHSA Center for Substance
Abuse Treatment.SATCAAT was developed and pilot-tested by Capital
Consulting Corporation (CCC), Fairfax, Virginia.The SATCAAT
spreadsheet template is freely available. See the SATCAAT "Reports and
Related Sites" and "Related Literature" for links to the spreadsheet,
as well as references that provide analyses of these data and
recommended next steps.The original data were converted from
spreadsheet format to ASCII to facilitate data analysis. This
transformation of the data should not affect analyses.The two
data files in this collection cannot be combined or matched. They
include comparable variables, but were derived using different
calculation methods. While the RWC data file (Part 1) combines the
costs and units for women and children, the SDU Cost data file (Part
2) separates these data for women and children (as well as all
others).