Freeze and Unfreeze Rates for a Service Provider

On the Provider tab, above the list of providers, is a Freeze Rates / Unfreeze Rates button that freezes or unfreezes billing rates for a selected service provider.

• If there is a Freeze Rates button, no rates have been frozen.
• If there is an Unfreeze Rates, button, billing and inflation rates have been frozen for this plan.

When you freeze billing rates for a service provider, changes to the service provider's billing rates no longer impact the plan. ClearTrial copies the current rates for the current service providers and stores them with the plan. If you add service providers to the plan, ClearTrial also copies their current rates to this plan.

The Rate Year in Effect column shows the rate year ClearTrial used to look up billing and inflation rates for the resources for this service provider for this plan. If no billing or inflation rates have been published for a provider, an information icon appears to the right of the rate year. If you click the icon, a message states that neither billing rates nor inflation rates have been published for the provider for the year the study is expected to start.

If you click the Unfreeze Rates button, ClearTrial deletes the copied rates and uses the current published rates for the service providers to calculate expected direct costs for this plan. The plan reflects any changes to the billing rates for its service providers.

Note:

You cannot freeze billing rates for templates.