eAlerts
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Anesthesia Business Consultants Introduces F1RSTAnalytics and Provides a F1RSTUse Update at the ASA Annual Convention 2013
October 8, 2013
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announces today that it will unveil its newest tool, F1RSTAnalytics™ at the ASA Annual Convention in San Francisco, CA, October 12-16th. F1RSTAnalytics offers “Insight at Your Fingertips.”
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ABC Alerts That Anesthesia Practices Can File Claims for Repayment under MasterCard and Visa Class Action Settlement
May 15, 2013
Anesthesia practices that accept Visa and MasterCard payments are among the “merchants” that may be able to collect a portion of the fees paid to the card issuers under the proposed settlement in the Payment Card Interchange Fee and Merchant Discount Antitrust Litigation pending in federal District Court in New York.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants and iMDsoft Create Synergy for Ambulatory Anesthesia of Atlanta
June 6, 2013
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announces today that the combination of its F1RSTUse technology with myAnesthesia from iMDsoft has produced the premiere offering for mobile EHR technology. ABC and iMDsoft offer anesthesia and pain management professionals the opportunity to maximize their EHR Incentive Payments while achieving complete and easy electronic anesthesia documentation at a new level of mobility. Completely independent of hospital IT infrastructure, this cloud-based service has no hardware or software requirements for hospitals or surgery centers other than the use of an iPad, and no technical knowledge is required for installation or use.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants Comments on What the Sequester Means to Anesthesiologists and CRNAs
Mach 12, 2013
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) cautions anesthesiologists and CRNAs to fully understand the impact of the sequestration on their practices. Failure of the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction to reach agreement on $1.2 trillion in cuts to federal spending, has triggered automatic Federal budget cuts known as sequestration. The 2% cut is evenly split between domestic and defense programs, with half affecting defense discretionary spending (weapons purchases, base operations, construction work, etc.) and the rest affecting both mandatory and discretionary domestic spending. Only a few mandatory programs, like the unemployment trust fund and, most notably, Medicare (more specifically—provider and hospital payments) are affected.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants Teams with Survey Vitals to Provide Valuable Feedback to Anesthesiologists
January 23, 2013
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announces today that it has formed a partnership with Survey Vitals, the premier provider of patient satisfaction questionnaires to the anesthesia industry. ABC has long recognized that without a proper assessment of the status quo, it is impossible to determine proper priorities and goals. Integrated as part of ABC’s powerful OneSourceAnesthesia program, Survey Vitals will aid the clients of ABC by providing a level of feedback they’ve never experienced before. The end result is a new level of awareness, increased performance and elevated patient satisfaction.
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Anesthesiologists Secure the Benefits of Meaningful Use through Complete EHR with F1RSTUse
October 18, 2012
F1RSTUseTM is the first—and only—full-service EHR management platform built exclusively for anesthesiologists and pain management specialists to satisfy with ease Stage 1 of Meaningful Use as required to earn the Medicare EHR incentive payment. It is the only product that provides the full service measures to ensure success: tracking the necessary data points, providing reports of successful measures and ensuring that you are meeting all of the CMS requirements.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants to Provide iPads to all Meaningful Users of F1RSTUse
October 10, 2012
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announces today that it will provide all physicians who successfully attest to the first reporting period of the EHR Incentive Program through F1RSTUseTM with an iPad pre-loaded with ABC’s F1RSTUse Meaningful Use EHR system, as well as other tools designed to meet the operational and regulatory requirements for the CMS EHR Incentive Program.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants teams with iMDsoft® to launch myAnesthesia™
October 8, 2012
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) is technology-driven. We are dedicated to providing clients with the best technology solutions available. ABC is pleased to announce a new product, myAnesthesia™, from our partners at iMDsoft®. myAnesthesia is a cloud-based solution featuring a user interface designed specifically for the iPad .When combined with the F1RSTUse system, myAnesthesia allows providers to document their perioperative record on their tablet and also fulfill the requirements of Meaningful Use.
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Midwest-Based Anesthesia Group, Capital Anesthesia Solutions, Chooses ABC's Affiliate Company, Plexus TG’s, Integrated Anesthesia EMR Solution to Implement at Berger Health
January 25, 2018
The Anesthesia Business Consultants' (ABC) affiliate company Plexus Technology Group, LLC (Plexus TG), a fully KLAS-rated and trusted anesthesia information management systems (AIMS) partner, today announced that Capital Anesthesia Solutions has selected Plexus TG’s comprehensive anesthesia documentation solution, Anesthesia Touch™, to streamline their workflow at Berger Health located in Circleville, OH. Capital Anesthesia Solutions, an anesthesia services provider in the Midwest, strives to create a partnership that delivers on leadership and efficiency while enhancing patient and surgeon satisfaction.
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ABC Announces Partnership with Productive Scheduling Solutions
July 19, 2012
At Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC), providing clients with added value and the best technology solutions available, is imperative. Our quest to seek out the best complements to our OneSourceAnesthesia platform is relentless. ABC is pleased to announce a new partnership with Productive Scheduling Solutions (PSS) to bring Anesthesia Call Account to ABC’s OneSourceAnesthesia platform.
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ABC Establishes Automated Electronic Transfer of Anesthesia Records at Greenwich Hospital
May 1, 2012
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) builds on its record of providing our clients with exemplary customer service and technological excellence with its latest integration with Epic Anesthesia at Greenwich Hospital in Greenwich, CT. The collaborative efforts between Greenwich Hospital at its facility in Greenwich, CT, and ABC have developed a process and product that enhances the unparalleled efficiency at Greenwich Hospital.
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ABC Partners with SIC to Streamline Revenue Cycle Workflow
August 20, 2012
Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC) announced today that it has partnered with Surgical Information Systems (SIS), a leading anesthesia information management system (AIMS) provider, to streamline revenue cycle workflow. The alliance provides integration that enables data captured in SIS’ AIMS to flow into ABC’s anesthesia billing tools to improve billing accuracy and timeliness. It also offers analytics capabilities that enable ABC clients to collect and analyze anesthesia-specific perioperative data.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants Comments to CMS
May 9, 2012
For the first time in its 32-year history, Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC (ABC) has filed formal comments on a “Notice of Proposed Rulemaking” published by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). The Proposed Rule in question would modify the requirements for physicians and hospitals to demonstrate “meaningful use” of certified Electronic Health Record (EHR) technology. Meaningful users of certified EHRs are able to earn Medicare bonuses of up to $44,000 or Medicaid bonuses of up to $63,750 per physician. Just as important, eligible professionals who fail to become meaningful users will be subject to payment penalties beginning in 2015.
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Anesthesia Business Consultants Completes SOC 1 Report
June 7, 2012
Anesthesia Business Consultants, a Limited Liability Company, has announced the successful completion of the Service Organization Controls (SOC) Report, Level 1.
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ABC Announces Partnership with Picis
June 18, 2012
Anesthesia Business Consultants’ (ABC) dedication to the complex and intricate specialty of anesthesia and pain management requires continued commitment to technology and collaboration with the technology leaders in the industry. ABC and Picis are pleased to announce a strategic partnership to leverage the combined strengths of technology and operations to all facets of the anesthesia community.
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Anesthesia Self-Pay and Coinsurance Resolution Upgrade to ePREOP at Point of Care
January 27, 2011
Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC (ABC) is excited to announce a new upgrade to ePREOP which will be premiered at the American Society of Anesthesiologists Conference on Practice Management in Houston held from January 28th through the 29th. ePREOP offers a revolutionary software that promises to improve outcomes and save healthcare dollars, and now allows for the capturing of patient payment information, such as credit card information, resulting in faster payment processing with fewer errors.
