Andra M. Popa Email & Phone Number

United States

The Biomedical Research Alliance of New York (BRANY) is owned by "NYU School of Medicine, Montefiore Medical Center, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, and Northwell Health," which are "four academic medical centers in the New York City area." BRANY provides human research trial support services, including Medicare coverage analyses, outsourced IRB services.

I am currently working on a project that interprets health care experiences through drawing, painting, photography, and writing. To help compliance professionals create compliance tools and policies and procedures that consider the experience of the person reading the material, I created a course in design and compliance: designandcompliance.com

• I have worked with approximately 40 health care entities, mainly related to Medicare compliance. Many of these entities have hundreds of clinics.
• I help leadership who work within health care boards of directors, billing and coding, research, revenue cycle, general compliance, and Medicare compliance through complex risk events, such as through Medicare.
• Although I have scaled other businesses, based on client preference, I do not scale my consulting practice and perform my portion of the work entirely myself, including the project and team management. For some.
• Create audit, corrective action plan, root cause analyses, and educational products for clients in health care, life sciences, and human research compliance sectors
• Experience with auditing and compliance within a variety of Medicare payment models and audit types: fee for service, Medicare Advantage, and value based, population health models
• Auditing and monitoring of a variety of Medicare issues: physician professional fee billing and coding, “incident to” billing, and RADV audits based on charts.

• Aegis Compliance and Ethics Center grew to become part of Ankura Consulting.
• Performed Medicare coverage analyses for clinical research trials with application of National Coverage Determinations, Local Coverage Determinations, CPT and ICD-10 coding guidelines, and Medicare Manuals;
• Conducted investigations as to research ethics and compliance; and
• Provided ICD-10 coding guideline interpretation and auditing for revenue cycle within health care entities.

• Beginning in 2007, recruited from Medicare Law class by professor to be part of the first group to develop Medicare coverage analyses of medicine and device clinical trials for health care entities as related to the.
• . Performed quality assurance reviews of Medicare coverage analyses for a large consulting firm and an academic medical center.
• Responsibility for all elements of effective human research compliance programs, including program creation, gap analyses, and program assessments.
• Assistant Director, Quality Assurance/ Quality Improvement of a human research office at a research university
• Led, prepared, and negotiated for cause and routine site visits from OHRP and the FDA, as well as assisted in drafting suggestions to new regulations during comment periods for a university. During this time, I served.

Bevacizumab-induced oral mucositis in background of cutaneous plaque-type psoriasis http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23115228

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English, Economics

• Extensive undergraduate courses in drawing, painting, photography, and art history •Two summer internships as a writer at United.

Master Of Laws (Llm), Healthcare Law

• The Art Institute of Chicago, Public Contact Volunteer• Thesis: Hospital Liability from Third-Party Contractors

Doctor Of Law (J.D.)

• Service and Leadership Award

Certificate In Child Life

Studied child development, pediatric illnesses, and the effects of treatments. Studied pediatric end of life issues and illuminated.

Education record

Varsity swimming and tennis. Winter Park, Florida