Specialized Research Programs

The Medical Banking Project helps its member organizations to develop strategic plans. We provide research assistance for governments, associations and other non-profit organizations who have a need to understand medical banking principles.

Our programs are divided into three categories: Strategic Advisory, Customized and Public Research. For more information about our services, or if you are contemplating a specific project and need help to design or formulate your plans please feel free to contact us.

Strategic Advisory Services
Our strategic advisory engagements have developed in response to requests by large concerns that are seeking to develop a global medical banking strategy. This level of engagement is reserved for our member firms that have the technology and resources to transform the industry. The average length of our strategic advisory engagements is currently 18 months.

Representative firms: Concord EFS|FirstData, Advanced Financial Solutions|Metavante, MasterCard

Custom Research
A cornerstone of our mission is to facilitate medical banking convergence. Along these lines, we are receiving calls from small to medium-sized firms that need advisory assistance. Upon joining MBProject, we can help these firms with specific and/or specialized tasks.

Representative firms: The SSI Group, Inc., LexisNexis, ICSGlobal/THELMA

Public Research
MBProject offers pro-bono research to the federal government, associations, media centers and other entities. Numerous articles have been published in leading journals that describe various aspects in the medical banking industry.

Representative Stakeholders: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, Office of Civil Rights, Department of Health and Human Services, National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, Healthcare Financial Management Association, American Association of Healthcare Administrative Management, The Association for Work Process Improvement, Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission, The Association for Electronic Healthcare Transactions, Hematology & Oncology Magazine, Banking Law Journal (Thompson Financial), Credit & Collections Risk Magazine (Thompson Financial), Health Care Law Treatise (LexisNexis), Healthcare Law Monthly (LexisNexis), iHealthBeat.org, HIMSS Newscast, Terrorism & Technology Conference, National HIPAA Summit Conference Series, HIPAA Colloquium at Harvard University and many others.