Research Compliance at Hackensack Meridian Health
Research compliance ensures the appropriate measures and actions are taken to ensure research at HMH follow federal and state laws, institutional policies, and best practices.
Contact the Research Compliance Team
Research compliance covers a broad range of research activities to ensure the highest level of scientific integrity at HMH. If you have questions about research compliance at HMH, contact the Director, Michelle Benson michelle.benson@hmhn.org. Or anyone else on the team:
- Martin Kleber - Research Compliance Auditor
- Jordan Phillips - Conflicts of Interest Analyst
- Amanda Ortiz - Conflicts of Interest Analyst
- Sergio Garcia -Director, Clinical Research Business
Meet your Research Compliance Team
Michelle Benson, Ph.D. - Director of Research Compliance
Martin Kleber - Research Compliance Auditor
Jordan Phillips - Conflicts of Interest Analyst
Amanda Ortiz - Conflicts of Interest Analyst
Clinical Research Billing Compliance
Research billing compliance ensures the medical billing of clinical services provided to study subjects is in accordance with CMS Federal Guidelines and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
All HMH research studies with billable services are required to use HMH’s clinical trial management system (OnCore).
A Medicare Coverage Analysis (MCA) is required for research studies which may bill protocol required routine care services to patients or third-party payors (medical insurance companies).
HMHRI’s Director of Clinical Research Business oversees the administration of OnCore and ensures that the terms of clinical trial agreements align with the IRB approved protocols including the informed consent and study budget.
Routine medical audits and for-cause audits are conducted to ensure compliance with HMH policies and federal regulations.
HMH Contact Information
Sergio Garcia
Director, Clinical Research Business
Related policies
OnCore Utilization for Clinical Trials
Medicare Coverage Analysis
Conflicts of Interest and Research
A Conflict of Interest (COI) is a circumstance in which a competing interest may compromise or bias, or have the appearance of compromising or biasing, a researcher’s professional judgement in conducting research, interpreting, and/or reporting of research results. Both Institutional and Individual Conflict of Interest (ICOI) and Research Policies provide safeguards from actual and/or perceived introduction of bias due to a financial conflict of interest and/or associational relationship.