Prelude EDC’s Invoicing Incentivizes Sites

Integrated invoicing is a powerful mechanism for incentivizing site participation. It also eliminates extraneous trial management activities. What is it and how does it work? This article takes a closer look at integrated invoicing and how it can work for you. 

Sites deserve to be paid for completed study activities in a timely manner.  Payment milestones such as examination completion, lab result analysis, subject visits are known in advance and documented in the master fee schedule for the study or site. Since these billing milestones are well-defined, the study can be configured to automate the creation and submission of site invoices. This eliminates paperwork for the sites, ensures accuracy, relieves study managers of invoice verification activity and speeds payment.

Prelude EDC’s integrated invoicing functionality allows configuration of invoice line items in a flexible and powerful manner. Examples include:

• Subject enrollment
• Study visit completion
• Physical exam completion
• Lab samples drawn and sent to lab 

Invoice line item generation can be tied to field completion, a form’s state (e.g., Reviewed or Finalized), the states of a set of related forms, or a combination of the above. Sites across a study are rarely run the same, and it is not uncommon to see a variation in payment schedules across sites. Prelude EDC allows the invoiced amount for each line item to be configured for each individual site if desired.

It’s common practice to configure the EDC so that the investigator sign off on each invoice activates submission. This serves as an indication that the investigator has reviewed and approved each invoice. Did you know that Prelude EDC can also be configured so that the invoice can be annotated when payment has been made? Study monitors and project managers can easily see the real-time status of all invoices using Prelude EDC’s reporting tool. 

Streamline trail administration activities by using this powerful feature! Sponsors/CROs who don’t take advantage of integrated invoicing often tell us they wish they had used it.