Clinical Research Budget & Billing Mini-Intensive

Tracie Bistany is the Associate Director Oncology Research Finance at Levine Cancer Institute (LCI), Atrium Health. LCI is a 25-site Oncology Network that spans throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, providing access to cancer care where patients live. She has been employed by Atrium Health for almost 16 years and has been a part of research for the last 11 years. In her current role, she directs all the financial aspects of clinical trials, which includes development of a detailed coverage analysis for all protocols, financial review of the clinical trial agreements, research billing, clinical trial billing audits, and invoicing sponsors.

She completed her B.A. degree in Accounting from University of North Carolina at Charlotte. She is a member of various accounting and clinical research groups.

Kelly Denney, CCRP, is an Associate Director of Financial Compliance in the Office of Clinical Research for Indiana and has worked in clinical research since 2013. She is a founding member of Indiana University’s centralized coverage analysis team where she helped to lead the formation of a centralized Medicare Coverage Analysis review process. Kelly now works to direct other research billing compliance projects across the school and health system. Previously, as a Research Business Administrator within the IU School of Medicine, she developed expertise in clinical trial budget creation and negotiation. In her free time, Kelly enjoys reading and spending time with her husband, their energetic and comedic eleven-year-old son, and the family cat.