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Clinical research finance: budgets, sponsor payments, and coverage analysis
Clinical research finance is the work of making the money behind a clinical trial trackable: building the budget that matches the protocol, mapping every procedure to its cost, invoicing sponsors accurately, reconciling payments against the budget, and analyzing coverage so the study doesn't quietly subsidize itself from clinical revenue.
The buyers are academic medical centers, hospital research offices, independent research sites, and site management organizations. It is a small, underserved niche with genuine scarcity of qualified people and the protocol-to-cost and sponsor-payment experience I bring is directly on point.
What I handle
- Clinical research budget analysis
- Protocol-to-cost mapping
- Internal budget logic development
- Sponsor payment review
- Research invoicing and reconciliation
- Coverage analysis support
- Research financial feasibility
Why this matters
- Most research offices cannot say whether a study is covering its costs the budget was built once and never reconciled against actuals.
- Sponsor payments arrive late, short, or without the detail needed to match them to a study and nobody is tracking the gap.
- Coverage analysis determines what the sponsor should pay versus what Medicare or a commercial payer should pay getting it wrong means either losing money or creating compliance exposure.
- Protocol-to-cost mapping is the foundation: every procedure in the protocol has a cost, a billing rule, and a payment source, and the budget only works if all three are correct.
What it costs
Project-based or monthly, depending on the scope and the number of active studies. Contact me to discuss.
Who this is not for
Sponsors and CROs looking for a site to run a trial this is financial and operational support for the research site, not trial management or monitoring.
State rules
Coverage analysis depends on payer policy and state Medicaid rules, which vary by jurisdiction. Research-specific billing rules under Medicare (National Coverage Determination 310.1) apply nationwide.
FAQ
Questions and answers
The process of taking every procedure in a clinical trial protocol, determining its true cost, and mapping it to a payment source sponsor, Medicare, commercial payer, or institutional. It is the foundation of an accurate research budget.
The determination of which costs in a clinical trial are billable to the sponsor and which are standard of care billable to insurance. Getting it wrong means either losing money or creating compliance exposure.
No. Regulatory submissions, IRB coordination, and clinical monitoring are outside my scope. This is the financial and operational side of research.
Start with an assessment, not a contract
Two weeks, fixed fee, $2,500 to $5,000 depending on practice size. You get a written finding: where the money is going, what each leak is worth annually, and what it costs to fix. You own that report whether or not you hire me for anything after it.
Start with an assessment