Huron Consulting Group Announces CARSM Solution for Enhanced Clinical Research Analysis and Reporting

Solution Provides Quick, Fixed-Price Expert Analysis for Use in Feasibility Review, Budgeting, Informed Consent Drafting, Billing, and Compliance

CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2012-- solution, which provides coverage analysis for research support in budgeting, billing and compliance. The solution helps healthcare and life sciences organizations quickly and compliantly meet the demands of sponsors and research teams by successfully applying Medicare's Clinical Trial Policy (CTP), federal device trial regulations, Medicaid limitations, and claims processing instructions.

"Huron's CAR solution helps clients eliminate a key bottleneck in the study initiation process by shifting the coverage analysis burden from an organization's staff to dedicated expert professionals. This service allows clients to complete the coverage analysis in as little as five business days," said .

solution team includes clinical research, medical coding, and billing professionals who provide a comprehensive approach to address the following:

• Identification and Coding: Review of relevant clinical trial documents to ensure that all patient care costs are identified and included in the billing grid with Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) and Healthcare Common Procedure Coding System (HCPCS) codes.
• Qualifying Clinical Trial Analysis: Assessment of the study's qualifying criteria for determining the appropriateness for seeking reimbursement for routine costs, such as benefit category, therapeutic intent, and "deemed status."
• Limitations Analysis: Review of local, state and federal guidelines to identify limitations on coverage by Medicaid or Medicare.
• Billing Determinations: Identification of the responsible party for each cost, which includes sponsor, patient/payer, or clinical department.

solution, Huron worked with more than 75 institutions, trained more than 900 people, and conducted more than 2,700 coverage analyses. This extensive fieldwork created a coverage analysis solution that is cost-effective, consistent, and streamlined with an extra level of protection against incorrect billing or double billing. has produced coverage analyses for a range of clients, including community hospitals, academic medical centers, teaching hospitals, research institutes, children's hospitals, and cancer centers.

"The CAR solution will help larger organizations address existing backlogs and ease peaks in workload caused by fluctuations in volume or temporary changes in staffing. It can also be a completely outsourced solution to help organizations with smaller research volumes where it is hard to justify full-time resources," said . "This solution will be an important tool to help healthcare and life sciences organizations quickly and compliantly meet the demands of sponsors and research teams."

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Huron Consulting Group
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