Where Did Three Million Patients Go?
Explore how Medicaid coverage losses affect millions of patients, healthcare providers, and reimbursement, and what coverage changes mean for patient access to care.
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Anesthesia Compensation Options: The Carrot versus the Stick
The Long Game There was a time when most anesthesia providers were paid based on the collections posted for the patients they treated. This…
The Anesthesia Misery Index Revisited
What makes anesthesia providers so effective at providing consistently safe anesthesia is their access to and their ability to use timely and accurate data…
Anesthesia Payer Contracting Challenges
In the early 1980s, Medicare started reducing payment rates for anesthesia. Over the course of a few years, the disparity between commercial payment rates…
Getting to Know You: Anesthesia Evaluates Its Surgeons
It has often been said that managing an operating room suite is like sitting on a three-leg stool where hospital administration represents one leg,…
Postoperative Pain Blocks: Taking Another Look
Astrophysicists had it right. Or so they thought. For decades, they held to certain assumptions about the early formation of the universe; but then…
Fair Market Value for Anesthesia Practices
The notion of a fair market value (FMV) analysis is very common in real estate. The intent is to determine the price that a…
Medicare to Deny Anesthesia for Facet Injections
The trend continues. At least as it concerns Medicare, times are getting harder for anesthesia providers in the context of pain injection procedures. As…
Cracking the Code: Qualifying and Quantifying the QZ Modifier
It was called the Enigma machine. During WWII, it was Germany’s fail-safe encryption device that would secure all communications between its fleet of U-boats…
The Challenge of Anesthesia Charge Capture
In contrast to medical billing in the main, the submission of anesthesia claims in particular is uniquely intricate because of the multiple ways in…
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