A Different Time Zone: Searching The Outer Limits Of Anesthesia Time
Go back to the 1960s. Television series such as The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone were all the rage with a certain segment of the American viewer.…
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The Complexities of Evaluating Anesthesia Subsidy Performance
On the surface, anesthesia support agreements appear straightforward and involve a very simple computation: Collections – Provider Comp – Operating Expenses= Financial Support Required…
Their Favorite Targets: Auditors Zero In On Particular Pain Services
There are times when we just have to do it. We get the urge to set up a few tin cans on the fence…
Cyber Security: The Year In Review
We live in a digital world; you know that, right? I mean, we can romanticize about days gone by when mankind was completely delinked…
The Evolution Of Anesthesia Professional Fees
Anesthesia professional fees have evolved through a number of distinct phases over the past five decades; and, unfortunately, this history illustrates the most significant…
A Gentle Reminder: Anesthesia For Pain Injections Still Problematic
A rap on the knuckles with a wooden ruler, leading an offender by the ear to the principal’s office, a swift swat of the…
The Prepayment Challenge For Anesthesia
When most of us go to a doctor or dentist for a visit or a procedure we are asked for a payment that should…
Digital Pathology Supplemental Code Update
Digital pathology is a dynamic, image-based environment that enables the acquisition, management and interpretation of pathology information generated from digitized glass microscope slides. Glass…
A New Year’s Revelation: Survey Discloses Commercial Payment Patterns
As Shakespeare reminds us, “What’s past is prologue.” So, as we enter a new year, it may be helpful to take notice of recent…
2026 PFS Final Rule: From the Pain Perspective
As our readers certainly know by now, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released its latest Physician Fee Schedule (PFS) final…
Who Should Manage The OR Schedule?
In 1981, when Mark Rogers, MD took over as chairman of the department of anesthesiology at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, one of his…
Hacking Off The Hackers: Four Tips To Better Cybersecurity
In the world of espionage, there is the straightforward spying component, which is essentially playing offense. But there is a defensive component, as well.…
