Fees and Costs
(9.13.2011)
Several fees are associated with the accreditation process. Fees charged for the accreditation of programs are determined annually by the ARC-PA. The ARC-PA has not increased the fees related to clinical PA postgraduate program accreditation since beginning the process in 2007. Fees were increased in September, 2011.
A PDF copy of the fee schedule is available here.. The sample 10-year cost estimate here is based on the 2012 fee schedule.
Technical Assistance Fee: This fee covers the cost of web conference or onsite technical assistance to programs prior to submitting applications. Fee is assessed per program regardless of the number of program participants. Technical assistance is optional.
Administrative Review Fee: This fee is payable with submission of application and covers the initial administrative review of the program’s application for completeness and is required prior to scheduling the program site visit. If the program chooses not to continue in the process within one year of this review, it must submit a revised application and pay the administrative fee again prior to a site visit. This fee is charged each time a program submits its application for administrative review, including required resubmissions after initial administrative review.
Initial accreditation application fee: This fee is payable prior to the visit and covers the review of the program’s application materials and the cost of the site visit, for one visitor for a one day visit.
Annual accreditation fee: This fee is billed to each accredited program in December of each year.
Continuing application accreditation fee: This fee is payable with the continuing application and covers the costs of program review for continuing accreditation after initial 3 year period of accreditation. No site visit is required for this review. (This cost is in addition to the annual fee.)
Application fee for review of continuing application and site visit: This fee will be incurred at 6 years after the program was initially accredited.
Special site visit costs: This cost would cover any special visits required due to concerns based on changes in program outcomes, periods of program inactivity, review of annual reports. One visitor for one day visit.