Women of Distinction Magazine Selects Kristi Etchberger as a Distinguished Professional in Her Field

    LAKE WORTH, FL, October 10, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Kristi Etchberger, President and Chief Executive Officer of Clinical Research Billing, has been recognized as a Distinguished Professional in her field through Women of Distinction Magazine for her work in Healthcare.

President and CEO of Clinical Research Billing Kristi Etchberger founded her organization in 2015 after spending nearly 30 years working in corporate America. Completing her MBA at the Wharton School of Business in 1986, she rapidly gained expertise as an Equity Analyst for Latin America food and beverage stocks. By 2001, she had moved into corporate finance and worked on the financial restructuring of Satelites Mexicanos before becoming CFO of Rich Products' Mexican subsidiary and then CFO of Genomma Lab Internacional, which she helped to lead to the public equity markets in 2008 with an Initial Public Offering. In 2012, she became the CEO of Atlantic Clinical Research Collaborative, a clinical research group in Boynton Beach, Florida where she developed the business side of the operation and allowed the doctors to focus on research.

"It was during my years in Florida that I discovered that many clinical research sites do not invoice or collect for all of the procedures they are performing. That's when two of us decided to go into business together," Etchberger said, noting that her business partner, MaryAnn Giallombardo, is an integral part of the company.

Clinical Research Billing is located in nearby Lake Worth, Florida. The company offers a specialized billing service dedicated solely to clinical research to research sites, physicians, and medical practices. Medical billing, although common, is considerably different due to clinical research being run by individual contracts with sponsors. Clinical Research Billing serves as a billing company that ensures that research sites get paid for the work they do. Helping sites with their invoicing, as well as implementing Clinical Trial Management Systems for clinical research sites, Etchberger relies on her hands-on experience of working in clinical research and her many years in finance to guide her. By handing the invoicing, receivables, follow-up with sponsors/CROs regarding payments, reporting accounts receivables, negotiating budgets, and providing management reports, Clinical Research Billing supports sites with financial expertise on the revenue side.

"We want new medical treatments to be tested effectively," Etchberger added, "and to do that, we first must make sure that the clinical research sites that are performing human testing for new treatments have the necessary resources to work both productively and efficiently."

Giallombardo noted that her organization has helped a number of clinical research sites recover payments for work they've performed previously, strengthening sites to continue conducting clinical trials, which is a crucial part of the drug development process.

For more information, visit www.clinicalresearchbilling.com.

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