Accepting a sponsor's limited budget without putting up much of a fight can be a result of understaffed teams, compressed timelines, and uncertainty about what is actually negotiable.
Don’t Get Bulldozed in the negotiation phase. That mistake compounds over every study you run.
Elevate was built to fix this directly.
Our Approach
WE NEGOTiate on your behalf
Our team reviews your study documents, builds a bottom-line budget based on your site’s actual costs, and negotiates with the sponsor or CRO on your behalf. We know what sponsors will move on. We know where standard budgets undercount real costs. And we know how to build the case for what your site actually needs.
In most cases, our fee is built into the administration costs we request in the sponsor budget - so our service pays for itself in the negotiation.
WHAT YOU GET
What changes when Elevate handles your budget
Study documents routinely undercount what it actually takes to run a trial. We dig into the protocol and the details to surface overlooked costs - and make sure they are funded before the study starts.
Hidden costs identified and recovered before the study starts.
Better compensation and faster activation.
A clear picture of the financials before you commit.
We work with sites of all types and sizes - academic medical centers, integrated health systems, dedicated research sites, multi-specialty practices, and site management organizations. Whether you are negotiating your first study budget or your five hundredth, we can help you get it right.
FAQ
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No - in most cases it speeds it up. We know what sponsors will move on and where standard budgets undercount real costs, so we get to a fair number faster than a back-and-forth negotiated without that experience.
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We typically need the sponsor's proposed budget, the clinical trial agreement, the informed consent form, the protocol, and coverage analysis if it's available. The more complete the document set, the more accurately we can build your bottom-line budget.
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As involved as you want to be. Some institutions prefer to stay hands-off and let us manage the negotiation directly with the sponsor or CRO. Others want visibility or sign-off at each stage. We customize our approach to your institution's preferences.
Stop leaving money on the table
Connect with our team and see what your studies should actually be funded at.