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Navigating the Clinical Trial Billing Maze

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If you have been involved in clinical research, you have likely been confronted with how one handles billing for items and services that study participants receive over the course of a clinical trial. Indeed, disparate payer requirements and, often, a lack of coordination among investigators, research sites, and sponsors, have made billing in the clinical trial context a challenge. Complex Medicare rules add to the difficulty of getting clinical trial billing right—a fact brought home by Rush University Medical Center's settlement with the federal government regarding clinical trial billing improprieties in late 2005. This article describes the Rush situation and . . . [Click for More]

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