The Clinical Trials Office


	Thank you for submitting your proposal information online to the CTO. As a final step in this process, the CTO Finance department must approve your budget for this proposal. To assist you in planning your proposal budget, you may download the budget worksheet, budget checklist, feasibility checklist, and instructions. You must review the budget checklist to ensure you have considered all the cost recoveries needed to conduct this study. Pay special attention to the feasibility checklist. The CTO Finance Budgets team members are continually apprised of all changes in New York-Presbyterian Hospital ChargeMaster program and can assist investigators in using the appropriate fees. For further assistance or clarification with the Budget Worksheet process, please contact a CTO Financial Analyst at ctobudget@columbiaclinicaltrials.org or 212-342-3956. During the development of the research budget, the PI must specify which services are standard-of-care and which are research-related. Please note that the current institutional overhead rate on industry-sponsored studies requires a minimum of 33%. Research-related billing must be coded and charged based on actual services rendered, allowable by governing regulations and consistent with the informed consent. Columbia University Medical Center's research billing policy can be found here. Again, thank you for submitting your proposal information online to the CTO. Please return to the CTO Web site regularly to view updated information regarding your post-award distribution status and new CTO initiatives.