Aegis Compliance & Ethics Center LLP in conjunction with Meade & Roach, LLP has designed on-site seminars and workshops to assist health care providers with their clinical research billing compliance initiatives. The seminars and workshops can be tailored to fit the needs to the institution and are available in three formats: ½ day seminar on Medicare coverage rules and compliance safeguards; a full day workshop that includes detailed training on how to analyze a research study for Medicare coverage; a two day workshop that includes the instructor performing two coverage analyses live on two of the institution’s research studies.
The one day and two day workshops include a license to reproduce for the institution the 200+ page manual: How to Analyze a Research Study for Medicare Coverage and a 1 hour training DVD.
The seminars and workshop topics can be tailored for the needs of the organization from among the following topics/modules:
The basics of Medicare & clinical research
Overview of the new CMS Clinical Trial Policy
How to perform a coverage analysis of a research study
Using a coverage analysis to improve budgeting process
Medicare for investigators and study coordinators
Device trials Medicare coverage: a rule unto itself
Investigator-initiated studies: drafting protocols to satisfy Medicare
How to handle existing research studies
Holding the IND yourself: the pluses and minuses
Clinical trial agreements with sponsors: pitfalls to avoid and tips to implement
Financial discussions in informed consents
Live coverage analysis
Costs
½ day seminar: $3000
Full day workshop: $5000*
Two-day workshop: $12,000**
* includes license to reproduce training manual and 1 hour DVD
** includes license to reproduce training manual, 1 hour DVD and two coverage analyses
For more information or to schedule an on-site workshop, please email cfleck@meaderoach.com.