Sarah Couture
RN, CHC, CHRC

Managing Director at Ankura Consulting

Meet Your Expert

Sarah is currently the Managing Director at Ankura Consulting. She is an experienced compliance professional with deep knowledge that spans a wide array of healthcare settings. One of Sarah’s areas of expertise is in clinical research billing. She has performed hundreds of coverage analyses for a variety of academic medical, regional hospital, and physician practice organizations. She is also a clinical research billing educator and has trained numerous clients and colleagues in clinical research billing best practices and coverage analysis.

Sarah is a regular speaker at regional and national compliance events and serves as faculty for the HCCA Compliance Essentials Workshops. She also serves as the Editor for the Ankura Compliance Round Up, a monthly regulatory webinar.

Sarah holds CHC and CHRC certifications and has been a registered nurse for 20 years. Her clinical experience spans both children and adults in multiple practice settings, including Skilled Nursing Facility, Federally Qualified Health Center and free clinic, outpatient primary care, and inpatient hospital.

 


Training Sessions by Sarah Couture

  • Practice-based clinical trial billing

    The added revenue your practice generates from clinical trials is at serious risk. Practice-based clinical trial billing . Enforcement of clinical trial billing violations and their resultant penalties is escalating. This is not surprising considering the complexity of these billing requirements and the fact that not all “normally” billable services can be billed as part of your clinical trial. And, […]

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