Independent anesthesia groups are facing one of the most volatile financial environments in recent memory. What does that mean for small practices? Payer scrutiny, hospital renegotiations, staffing shortages, and rising labor costs are converging at the same time. Additionally, the average professional reimbursement has fallen at least 5.5% since 2019. For small and mid-sized anesthesia […]
What if anesthesia documentation finally worked at the speed of anesthesia care? For decades, anesthesia providers have balanced patient monitoring, clinical reasoning, and documentation inside one of the most demanding clinical settings in healthcare. The result has often been fragmented records and billing processes that lag behind what actually happened in the operating room. Now, […]
Coding anesthesia for combined procedures is where experience really shows. When multiple surgical procedures are performed during a single operative session, the margin for error narrows quickly. Small mistakes in how anesthesia services are reported can trigger denials, underpayment, or time-consuming (and headache-inducing) audits. For anesthesia providers and billing teams alike, these cases require a […]
