Per Diem Rates
Fiscal Year 2019
For the purposes of estimating annual costs for research and grant proposals, expect a 3 percent minimum annual increase.
| Per Diem Rates |
|
|---|---|
| Mice | |
| Non-sterile | $0.60 |
| Sterile | $1.05 |
| Quarantine/BSL2 | $0.90 |
| Quarantine/BLS3 | $0.93 |
| Rats | |
| Non-sterile | $1.29 |
Included in Per Diems
- Routine and standard husbandry
- Routine cage changes
- Routine animal health care
- Animal self-injury care
- Daily animal health checks
- Routine sentinel program
- Disease outbreak management
- Animal carcass or tissue disposal
- Sharps containment and disposal
- Environmental enrichment
- Colony health management
- Training and protocol development
- Animal procurement services
- Routine facility inspections, maintenance and repairs
- Routine billing
- General necropsy
- Emergency care
Special Services
The following special services are not included in per diems and are charged back to the PI directly.
- Import and export fees
- Non-standard diets and shipping fees
- Isoflurane
- Quarantine assays
- Quarantine management from unapproved vendors
- Shipping and crate fees
- Special PPE requests
- Special technical services, including drugs, supplies or materials requested by PIs
- Unapproved transfers, imports/exports and shipping costs
Fee for Service
The following fees are not included in per diems and are charged as a fee for services in 15-minute increments.
- Oxygen tank mishandling fee (i.e, leaving the oxygen on overnight): $32 per incident
- Water bottle service rate: $2 per bottle
- Isoflurane restocking fee: $100 per incident
- Dedicated room rental fee: $250 per month
- Treatments by veterinarian or vet staff
- Extra cage changes beyond ASC standard practices due to research model or protocol requirements (e.g., diabetic mice, breeder cages, etc.)
- Foster program/breeding colony management
- Quarantine management from unapproved vendors
- Research activities (e.g., injections, tissue samples, anesthesia, euthanasia, surgical support post-op care, breeding services, etc.) by veterinarian or vet staff
- Research-related necropsies
- Special equipment/room installation, storage or removal costs
- Special housing or room segregation requests
- Dedicated housing or procedure room requests
- Procedure room charges
- Special husbandry requests (e.g., diabetic cage changes, metabolic cage assembly, water bottles, autoclaved water bottles, filling humidifier, special enrichment, etc.)
- Special invoicing requests
- Weaning (including gender confirmation)
| Per Hour | Per 15 Minutes | |
|---|---|---|
| Vet/Vet Tech Rate | $46.62 | $11.65 |
| Tech Time Rate | $12.76 | $3.19 |
| Administrative Fee | $13.92 | $3.48 |
The tech time rates will be charged in 15 minute increments.
Tech time rates will be published and only charged if the PI doing work in the LARC requests any of the special services listed above.
