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A quarterly newsletter produced in both print and electronic versions featuring in-depth articles by ABC executives and national experts on all aspects of anesthesia practice management.
CURRENT ISSUE
Winter 2023
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- The 2023 Quality Payment Program: Updates for Anesthesia
- New Year, New Challenges
- Cooperation Without Trust
- Today’s Anesthesia Economics: Coping with New Realities
- 2023 Social Media and the Anesthesiology Practice: Marketing and Your Online Reputation
- What a $24.3 Million Judgment Tells You About a Potential Tool to Fight Unfair Awards of Exclusive Contracts
- Where Have all the CRNAs Gone?
PAST ISSUES
Summer 2022
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- Leveling the Playing Field
- Understanding the New Normal
- The Future of Independent Anesthesia Practice
- Anesthesia Services RFPs: Cognitive Biases and Hidden Opportunity
- Is Your Board Overloaded?
- Surgical Services on the Move
- Three Cybersecurity Safeguards to Implement in Your Organization Today
Fall 2021
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- MIPS For 2022
- The More Things Change...
- In-House or Outsource? The Proverbial Quandary: Compelling Considerations for Outsourcing
- Popularity Contests and Disruptive Physicians: Avoiding the Death of Your Anesthesia Group
- Both New and Seasoned Coders Should Know the Many Risk Areas in Anesthesia Coding
- The Ebb and Flow of Anesthesia Practices
- Conflict and Governance
Spring 2021
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- Dissecting the Impact of Covid-19 on the Specialty of Anesthesia
- Looking for Opportunity in the Face of Adversity
- Strategic Planning for Larger Groups
- Anesthesia Group Size and Governance: Bigger is Obviously Better— Until You Hit an Iceberg
- Value-Based Care Advances: CMS Issues New Final Rules for Stark and Anti-Kickback Statutes
- The Role of Anesthesia Leaders in Driving Perioperative Performance
- Is Big Better? The Pros and Cons of Practice Aggregation
Summer 2020
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- Who Really Owns Your Anesthesia Group?
- Coronavirus: A Game-Changing Event
- Internal Audits: Process and Frequency
- Governance Traps and Tricks
- Profile of an Anesthesia Ketamine Clinic
- “Boutique” Anesthesia Services
- COVID-19: Historic Breakthrough in Telemedicine
Winter 2020
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- New Cases, New Tools in the Fight Against the “Company Model” Kickback Scheme
- Anesthesia Tips for the New Decade
- What Determines the Cost of Anesthesia Care?
- Chaos to Clarity: Resolving Strategic Issues
- Passing the Baton: Grooming the Next Generation of Group Leaders
- Funding a Private Investment Opportunity: Practical Tips for Physicians
Fall 2019
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- What Does the QZ Modifier Really Mean?
- The Challenge of Change
- The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Why Some Negotiations Succeed
- What If Everyone Is Doing It But You Don't Want To: Resisting Acquisition By a Larger Anesthesia Group
- Perioperative Telehealth: Should Your Practice Make the Digital Leap?
- Documenting Anesthesia Services
Spring 2019
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- Guidance for Anesthesia Practices on Bridging the Generation Gap(s)
- On Generation Gaps, HR Errors and 40 Years of Anesthesia Consulting
- Compensation for Anesthesia Group Leaders: Who, When, How Much and Why
- Getting It Right: 10 HR Mistakes Anesthesia Groups Should Watch Out For
- Hospital Divorces Anesthesia Group After 24 Years of Marriage: How to Avoid the Same Fate
- Assessing Ambulatory Anesthesia Opppportunities: Robust Due Diligence Required
Winter 2019
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- MACRA Financials for Anesthesia Practices: What We’ve Learned So Far
- Keep Reporting MIPS Anesthesia Quality Data in 2019: Here’s Why
- HR Essentials for Anesthesia Groups: Keys to Finding and Keeping the Best
- Imagining Uberism in Anesthesia
- An Update on the ‘Company Model’ and Other Anesthesia Kickback Schemes
- Motivating Your Group to Deliver Value: Incentives That Work
Fall 2018
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- A Self-Diagnostic for High-Performing Anesthesia Group Leaders
- Strength Means Service, Not Scale, in Today’s Anesthesia Market
- Adding Value for Special Circumstances: Field Avoidance and Special Positioning
- Hospital Co-Management Arrangements: Basics for Anesthesiologists
- Setting Your Strategic Goals in Motion: A How-To Guide for Anesthesia Groups
- What is the Future of Private Anesthesia Practice?
Summer 2018
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- Why and How You Must Prepare Your Anesthesia Group for the Future
- Becoming a Cheetah and Other Survival Tactics
- The Winning Strategy for Billing Invasive Monitoring
- Anesthesia Group Meetings: Madness or Method—the Choice is Yours
- What is the Right Compensation for Your Providers?
- Lessons Learned: Five Tips for Buying or Selling a Practice
Spring 2018
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- What’s the Problem? Providers’ Waivers of Patient Copays or Deductibles
- On Waivers, ASCs and Independent Anesthesia Practice
- Six Years On: The Growing Pains—and Remarkable Growth—of the Perioperative Surgical Home
- Ambulatory Anesthesia: Everything You Wanted to Know But Were Afraid to Ask
- How Much Call is Too Much?
- Anesthesia Services RFPs: Reality, Unicorns and Cognitive Bias
- Independent Anesthesia Group Practice: A Short Manifesto
Winter 2018
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- What Is the Value of Data and What Data Has Value? Today’s Anesthesia Management Challenge
- Staying Focused in Ambiguous Times
- Conflicts and Kickbacks: Risks for Hospital-Based Physician Groups
- Disrupting the Disruptive Physician
- How (Others’) Stupid Compliance Mistakes Can Save Your Life
- HIPAA Business Associate Agreements: Why These Contracts Matter
Fall 2017
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- The Smart Anesthesia Group’s Guide to Defending a Payer Audit
- Anesthesia in an Era of Scrutiny: Learn, Plan and Prepare to Appeal
- Leading Leaders: Building Influence in a High-Talent Group
- The Flea That Killed the Medical Center CEO: A Cautionary Tale
- Your Hospital Issues an RFP for Anesthesia Services: Now What? (Part 2)
- Expanding Into Non-Hospital Venues: The True Measures of Success
Summer 2017
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- Strategy and Adaptability in a Competitive Market: Lessons from the Nation’s Largest Anesthesia Organizations
- Building a Solid and Secure Future in Anesthesia
- Are You Prepared for a Ransomware Attack?
- Where Do We Go From Here? Choosing the Right Path in Turbulent Times
- Hospital CEO Turnover: What You Must Know and Do to Protect Your Anesthesia Group
- Your Hospital Issues an RFP for Anesthesia Services: Now What?
Spring 2017
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- Predictions for Healthcare in a Trump Era
- On Congress, Carveouts and Crafting a Resilient Professional Identity
- Building Professional Resilience: Strategies For Anesthesia Practitioners
- Why Your Compliance Efforts May Be Worthless
- Effective Governance: Who Decides What?
- Anesthesiologists in the ICU: Economics and Other Considerations
- Preparing for the Financial After-Life
Winter 2017
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- MACRA’s Physician-Focused Alternative Payment Model Options: A
- Anesthesia’s Transition to Value-Based Care
- The Perioperative Surgical Home: Preoperative Risk Stratification, Optimization and Value
- The MACRA Quality Payment Program Is Here. Are You Ready?
- Hope Is Not a Strategy: How to Create Your Strategic Business Plan
- Switzerland and the Anesthesia Group Structure
- The ACA’s Impact on Healthcare Payment
- Electronic Medical Records in Anesthesia: Who Will Benefit and How?
Fall 2016
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- What Do We Really Know About ICD-10’s Potential Impact on Anesthesia?
- Anesthesiologists and the Changing Healthcare Landscape
- The Perioperative Surgical Home: Invest in Good Will
- Ten Things Anesthesiologists Should Understand About the Medicare Comprehensive Care for Joint Replacement Model
- Preparing for Round 2 of HIPAA Audits
- What Anesthesiologists Need to Know About Enforcement of Non-Compete Agreements
- Hope Is Not a Strategy: A Primer for Anesthesia Groups on Strategic Planning
- Anesthesia Mergers and Acquisitions and Post-Termination Obligations: Have You Terminated Your Future?
Summer 2016
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- Thinking About Medical Errors
- The Importance of Communication in Peri-Anesthesia Matters
- Beyond CAHPS®—Measuring the Patient Experience Digitally and Why It Matters
- Collecting Dilemma of Anesthesia in 2016
- OIG Advisory Opinion Secrets And Strategies
- The Perioperatative Surgical Future
- Addressing Disruptive Behavior in Anesthesia Group Practices
Spring 2016
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- The Perioperative Surgical Home: Of Economics and Value
- Owning Our Future
- Strengthening Your Board
- Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation—The Beginning or the End of the Anesthesia Provider?
- Critical Issues to Consider When Exploring the Sale of Your Practice
- The Road Not Taken
- Confidentiality in the Peer Review Process: What Does it Mean and What is Covered? Part II
Winter2016
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- Impending Death of Hospitals: Will Your Anesthesia Practice Survive?
- The Evolving Relationships between Anesthesiologists and Their Hospitals and ASCs
- The Perioperative Surgical Home: Our Partnership with the C-Suite
- 2016 Coding Updates for Anesthesia
- “I’m Out Of Here!” Now What?
- Confidentiality in the Peer Review Process: What Does it Mean and What is Covered? Part I
- The Hospital is Your Practice’s Client—Understand Client Satisfaction to Retain Your Contract
Fall 2015
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- The Perioperative Surgical Home: “Right for Our Group?”
- The Future Ain’t What It Used To Be
- Improving Board Performance
- Stark 101 for Anesthesiologists
- Anesthesia Informatics: The Future is Upon Us
- Ensuring the Hospital’s AIMS Produces the Business Information Your Practice Needs
- Managing the “L” Word in Your Practice’s Retirement Plan (Liability, That Is)
- A Basic Primer on the Bundled Payments for Care Improvement Initiative
Summer 2015
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- Why Utilization and Productivity Metrics Matter
- Anesthesia Practices Are Not Islands
- Anesthesia Group Mergers, Acquisitions and (Importantly) Alternatives
- How an Investment Banker Can Make an Anesthesia Practice That Wants to Sell Become a More Attractive Acquisition Partner
- The SGR “Fix” in the Context of Anesthesia Practice
- Getting Paid by the Self-Pay Patient
- Has Someone Gotten In Trouble For Doing That? Lessons for Anesthesia Groups from Real Cases
- Is the Office of Inspector General Turning their Attention to Physician Issues?
Spring 2015
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- Anesthesiologists and the World of ASCs: A Different Value Proposition
- The Only Constant In Healthcare Is Change
- Anesthesia Group Mergers: Strategies for Success
- Chronic Pain Management: An Overlooked Opportunity to Financially Partner with Your Hospital & Preserve Your Contract
- Numbers Don’t Lie, but…
- Lack of Succession Planning: Problem or Symptom
- Reviewing Anesthesia and Pain Management 2014 CERT Data to Improve Documentation and Revenue
- The Trend Toward Code Consolidation
Winter 2015
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- Point-Counterpoint: Do National Anesthesia Management Companies Increase Revenues for Acquired Groups?
- From Monologue to Conversation
- QCDR Made Simple—Ha!
- Understanding the Impact of Individual Exchange Plans on
- Phoenix Project: Reconstructing a Local Group from the Ashes of Its Predecessor
- The National Practitioner Data Bank: What You Need to Know . . .
- It’s Update Time! 2015 Coding and Medicare Fee Schedule Updates for Anesthesia and Pain Medicine
- Ten Questions about ICD-10
Fall 2014
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- Making Meaningful Use More Meaningful
- The Challenges are Great—And So Is the Expertise in Our Specialty
- The Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR)
- Computer-Assisted Personalized Sedation (CAPS): Will it Change the Way Moderate Sedation is Administered?
- Anesthesia Practice Attributes Your Hospital Leadership Teams Value Most
- 10 Concerns Facing ASCs Heading Into 2015
- The Value of a Quality Practice Administrator
- Compliance Corner: Medicare’s Modifier 59 Expansion
- Potential Revenue Losses with Health Insurance Exchange Patients Due to Premium Payment Default
Summer 2014
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- Working For Tips…
- M&As Still Going Strong: Position Your Anesthesia Practice
- Pre-Op Your Anesthesia Practice
- What’s Your Anesthesia Group Worth? And Why it Might Not Make Any Difference.
- Management Service Organizations and Anesthesia Practices Today and in the Future
- Changes Involving Payment for Post-Operative Pain Procedures
- The Role of Anesthesiologists in the Intensive Care Unit
- Improving the Documentation of Anesthesia Procedures
- Reporting Critical Care Services
- Field Avoidance and Special Positioning
Spring 2014
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- The Dark Side of Quality
- Quality and Other Components of the Value Proposition
- What Do Hospitals Want From Anesthesia Groups?
- The Physician-Owned Management Services Organization
- Should You Apologize for a Poor Outcome?
- Thinking of Investing In, or Renting Space In, an ASC?
- ICD-10 is the Latest Y2K: The Potential Impact on Provider Revenue
Winter 2014
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- Using Big Data for Big Research: MPOG, NACOR and other Anesthesia Registries
- Another Year of Changes Lies Ahead for Anesthesiologists
- Disruptive Change, Anesthesiologists, and ASCs
- Performing High Acuity Cases in ASCs: The Anesthesiologist’s Role
- Endoscopy : Revisited
- Reporting Postoperative Pain Management in 2014
- 2014 CPT Coding and Key Reimbursement Changes
Fall 2013
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- A New Approach to Anesthesiology and Health Care System Safety: High Reliability Organizing (HRO)
- Value for Hospitals, Anesthesiology Practices and Physicians
- What is the Value of A Chronic Pain Practice to an Anesthesia Group?
- How to Legally Break Up with Your Patient
- The Siren Song of Hospital (Un)Employment
- So You’re Thinking About Serving as an Expert Witness? Here’s What You Need To Know.
- COMPLIANCE CORNER: Time is of the Essence. Are We Double Dipping?
- Tips For Improving Anesthesia Pre-Admission Testing Processes
- Many Practice Management Educational Opportunities for the Anesthesia Community
Summer 2013
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- Creating a Clinical Database: Opening the Pandora’s Box or Mining the Treasure Trove
- Securing the Future for Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine Practices
- Strengthening Your Anesthesiology Group
- Timing Is Everything: Divining the Wisdom of Anesthesia Aggregation in the Current Environment
- Student Training Programs May Pose Significant Liability Exposure to Anesthesiologists
- Are You Ready for ICD–10?
- A Retrospective Study of a Gastroenterology Facility: Are the Patients Sicker?
Spring 2013
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- Successfully Competing In Anesthesia Services Today
- What Defines Success in Today’s Healthcare Environment?
- Are You Making This Mistake Concerning Competition?
- HIPAA Omnibus Rule: What Anesthesiologists Must Do Now
- Taking Security on the Road: Steps You Can Take to Secure Your Mobile Devices
- Anesthesia and Chronic Pain Compliance Risk Areas: Compliance Advice from Benjamin Franklin and Francis Bacon
- Health Information Management Challenges in the World of EHR
Winter 2013
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- Disruption and the Theory of the Anesthesia Business
- Anesthesia Cliffhangers and Reprieves
- More Ingredients for your Alphabet Soup
- Is Big Better?
- A Survey of State Prompt Pay Laws, Part II
- The Institute for Safety in Office-Based Surgery Patient Checklist (ISOBS PC)
- Why You Need a Quality Management Program
- Compliance Corner: Reporting Post-Operative Pain Management Procedures in 2013
- Three Common Issues
Fall 2012
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- Update on the Company Model and Other Schemes–OIG Issues Advisory Opinion
- The Company Model
- A Survey of State Prompt Pay Laws, Part I
- Approaches to Collecting from Self Pay and High Deductible Patients
- Clarifying TEE ’s Coding and Documentation Requirements (CPT 93312-93318)
- Anesthesia Quality Databases
- CLIENT ALERT: Viewing The Recent OIG Company Model Advisory Opinion For What It Truly Is
Summer 2012
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- Puttin’ on AIRS
- Quality, Safety and Practice Management
- Obstructive Sleep Apnea: The Not-So-Silent Killer
- Social Media Policies: Do I Really Need One?
- Hospital Contracting: New Rules for a New Era
- Deductibles: Impact on the Physician
- Understanding What Statistics Say, Or Don’t Say, About Your Practice
Spring 2012
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- Proposed Meaningful Use Stage 2—What it Means to the Anesthesia and Pain Communities
- Helpful and Not So Helpful Implementations of Health Information Technology
- The AQI: Present and Future
- Planning for Payor Negotiations
- Anesthesiologists Should Beware of HIPAA Audits
- Knowledge is Power: Why Anesthesiologists Need to Capture, Analyze and Use Data
Winter 2012
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- Protecting Your Exclusive Contract, Your Practice And Your Profits
- 2012: There Is Much To Do
- The Benefits of Strategy
- CMS Finally Speaks (Again): The Medicare Shared Savings Program Final Rule and its Relevance to Anesthesiologists
- What is Your Value Proposition? Is Your Practice The Steak Or The Sizzle?
- Federal Insurance Legislation—Can It Help Me?
- Compliance Corner: Anesthesia Practices Should Prepare for More Audit Activity
Fall 2011
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- How Does Cloud Computing Fit into Anesthesia?
- Continuing to Reach For Quality and Efficiency in Ways Old and New
- Pre- and Post-Anesthesia Assessment: Role of the AQI
- Anesthesia Leadership in the Preoperative Clinic
- The Institute For Safety in Office-Based Surgery (ISOBS)
- Putting Your Anesthesiology Practice on Wheels
- Anesthesiologists Targeted in CMS’ Review of Existing Rules
Summer 2011
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- CMS Finally Speaks: The Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Proposed Regulations and What They Mean for Anesthesiologists
- More Pressure on Anesthesiology Groups to Grow
- The Company Model of Anesthesia Services: Will Less Money Lead to Jail Time?
- Getting Paid for Anesthesia: Mastering the Challenges of Viability
- Anesthesia: The Increasing Consolidation of our Industry
- Tax Saving Options for 2011
Winter 2011
- How to Increase Practice Revenue by Improving or Efficiency
- Evolving Organizations and Responsibilities
- Are Anesthesia Providers Destined to Become Hospital Employees?
- Federal Healthcare Reform: The Push for Quality, Efficiency and Integration
- Size Matters: Antitrust Warning Signs In Anesthesia Group and Pain Group Mergers
- The PROMETHEUS Payment® Model Dividing The Pie for an Episode of Care
- Group to Group: The Impact of Organizational Culture
- Where Do We Fit In The Alphabet Soup?
- Business Consolidations: Lessons Learned During The Acquisition of Associated Anesthesiologists, Inc., by Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC
- Anesthetist Scheduling
Fall 2010
- Turning Data into Dollars: How To use Quality Management information To Create Value for your Practice
- More Than Ever, It's About Data
- Breaking Down the Business of Anesthesia
- AQI and Related Presentations at the ASA Annual Meeting
- ABC Partners with ePREOP
- Should I Change Banks? Understanding Bank Ratings
- Ten Facts That Anesthesiologists Should Know About Medicare Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs)
- Focus On Compliance
Summer 2010
- Scoping out Endoscopy
- Knowing and Managing Our Risks
- Risks and Issues in Treating Anesthesesia Group Professional Staff As Independent Contractors
- Practical Considerations In Converting Personnel From Independent Contractor Status To Employee Status
- The Family Medical Leave Act
- Managing For Success Requires Managing Risk
- Managed Care Participation - Yes or No?
Spring 2010
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- Assessing the Impact of the Recession on Anesthesia
- Navigating the Recession Through Knowledge and Elbow Grease
- The Anesthesia Community Must Be Prepared for Increased Audit Activity by RACS and Others
- Cash Balance Plans
- Out Of Network Penalties: How Your Patients Can Help You Receive Payment In Full
- Healthcarare Marketing: Navigating the Regulatory Landscape
- Shareable Ink® – Pilot Project
- The Billing Nuances of Post-Op Pain
Winter 2010
- A Culture of Customer Service
- The Customer, First and Foremost
- Customer Satisfaction: A Necessary Element For Group Success
- Customer Service Makes the World Go ’Round
- Customer Service in Anesthesia Care
- Distinctive Client Service: Five Practices You Can Implement Today
- Traditional IRA: Shall I Convert?
- Breach Notification Final Rule
- The Stark Law’s In-Office Ancillary Services Exception: In-Office Ancillary Arrangements Remain Viable for Pain Management Practices
- 6th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals Affirms Conviction of Pain Management Physician for Overutilization & Billing Fraud
- Perspectives on Client Service From ABC Senior Staff
Fall 2009
- Operating Room Utilization Data Management
- The Pace Picks Up in the Development of Health Information Technology
- The Anesthesia Record™ Powered by Shareable Ink®: A Dialogue with the Inventor
- Is Your Concurrency Software Compliant?
- The State of AIMS Adoption
- The Tipping Point for Anesthesia Information Management Systems
- The Cost-Cutting Approach To Healthcare Reform
- 13 Steps to a Disastrous Anesthesia Information System Implementation
- Anesthesiology Practice Web Sites
- HITECH in a High Tech Era
Summer 2009
- What Anesthesiologists And Pain Management Physicians Need To Know About The RAC Program
- Understanding Some of the Legal Risks Facing Anesthesia Practices
- Relevance of LLCs to Anesthesia Practice: How Well Do They Protect the Founders' Income?
- Identity Theft Programs: What Every Anesthesia practice Should Consider Doing Now
- How Anesthesia Groups Thrive, Not Simply Survive
- Writing Your Contracts For Smooth Entry Into and Exit From Anesthesia Groups
- WARNING: Dangerous Provisions in Medical Staff Bylaws
- Anesthesia Groups Not Immune From Stark Law Risk
- A Modest Proposal: Insurance Companies, Not Providers, Should Bill and Collect Deductibles and Coinsurance
Spring 2009
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- The Future of the Anesthesia Care Team
- The Constancy of Change
- The All-Anesthesiologist Model of Anesthesia Care
- The Modified Anesthesia Care Team Model
- MGMA AAA 2009 Conference Provides Exceptional Education and Networking Opportunities
- The History of Intermountain Anesthesia
- The Taxation of Disability Insurance Premiums
- Avoiding Pitfalls as Practices Move Toward Care Team Model
- The “Care Team” Billing Rules
- Coding Corner: ICD-10: 2011
- Practice Governance in Relation to Organizational Lifecycle
- Re-Assessing Anesthesia Group Administration
- Anesthesia's Role in Developing Effective OR Governance
Winter 2009
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- Building a Successful Pain Practice
- Painful Considerations
- Group Considerations in Anesthesiologists' Pain Practices
- The Top 10 Lost Revenue Items in Chronic Pain Management
- Understanding the Bell-Shaped Curve of Evaluation and Management Services
- Health Care Quality and Measuring Performance
- Proposed ICD-10 Rule Published
- Cash Balance Plans
- Have You Hugged Your Anesthesiologist Today?
- MGMA Launches Groundbreaking Social Networking Platform for Members
- The Government is Watching Facet Joint Injection Claims
Fall 2008
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- Journey to Quality: Quantum Clinical Navigation System
- Taking Control
- Positioning Your Group For Exclusive Contracting Success
- Working with Your Billing Service—A Practice Administrators View
- The Value of MGMA AAA Membership
- When Can You Bill For A Newly-Hired Anesthesiologist Under the Medicare Locum Tenens Rules?
- Planning for Compliance
- Northwest Networking Group - NWAAG
Summer 2008
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- Why the Cost of Anesthesia Care Matters
- Ebb and Flow
- Anesthesiology's Role in Effective OR Governance
- Understanding the Roth 401(k)
- Getting A Political Return On Investment
- How To Report Anesthesia for Cosmetic Surgeries
- The Logical Fallacy Inherent in the Marketing of Aquavan
- Additional Revenue Lies in the Accurate Documentation of the Procedure
Spring 2008
- What is Your Cost Per Anesthetizing Location?
- Picking The Right Battles
- Medicare Now Values CPT - Code 00797 at the Correct Level - 11 Base Units
- The 2008 MGMA Cost Survey for Single Specialty Practices
- ABC Organizes the Kick off Meeting of the WAAG
- Anesthesia Group (Un)Governance
- Succeeding At Negotiations Through Preparatory Work And Psychological Operations
- OIG Workplan 2008: Interventional Pain Procedures Included
- OR Succession Planning, Change Management, and Leadership Development
Fall 2007
- President's Words
- Compliance Corner: Get Ready for Increased Medicare Audit Activity As Recovery Audit Contractors Are Going Nationwide
- Coding Corner: Are You Reporting Pre-Operative Antibiotic Prophylaxis Under the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI)?
- The Three-Prong Changes To "Stark" That You Must Understand
- The Medical Direction Team and Comparisons in Clinical Work Measures
- ASA Fee Survey of Commercial Payment Rates 1997 - 2007
- Karin Bierstein, J.D., M.P.H. Joins Anesthesia Business Consultants
Summer 2007
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- President's Words
- Coding Corner: The Future of Coding - ICD-10-CM and ICD-10-PCS
- Divining the Financial Potential Of Ultrasound
- MGMA/ASA Anesthesia Cost Survey
- Gain Your Fair Share: Gainsharing Makes a Comeback
Fall 2006
- President's Words
- Customer Service - Get It Yourself!
- Surgeon Satisfaction: A 360 Degree Perspective
- Assessing Operating Room Efficiency
- Compliance Auditing: How Many Records Should You Review?
- 2007 MGMA AAA Annual Conference Provides Exceptional Education and Networking Opportunity
- Coding Corner: Documenting Spinal Surgery
Summer 2006
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- President's Words
- Medical Directorship Of Anesthesia Services: Are You A Player...Or Are You Just Being Played?
- Second Annual MGMA/ASA Cost Survey For Anesthesia Practices Released
- Waiver of Copayments and Deductibles: To Waive Or Not To Waive?
- Who Is Really Managing Your Practice?
- Compliance Corner: 3 Cost-Effective Compliance Tips To Jump Start Your Compliance Efforts
- Anesthesia Customer Service
- Coding Corner: Important Role Of CPT Surgical Codes
- Your Hospital Issues an RFP for Anesthesia Services: Now What?