Vendors of automated anesthesia record systems would have you believe they are practically god's gift to the specialty of anesthesia. They will capture more information about each anesthetic more conveniently and report it back more legibly than paper records ever could. They will also enhance the completeness and accuracy of billing by ensuring th...

Summary: Among the many documentation components required on the anesthesia record is the provider's signature. However, many don't realize that there are several attendant rules surrounding this basic task that make this component a bit more complicated than one might initially think.The delivery man comes to the door with an expensive package. Yo...

Summary:  As a significant number of anesthesia groups have a chronic pain component, we felt a review of the pandemic's impact on interventional pain management might prove beneficial. An analysis of several groups providing pain management services yielded some surprising results.As the largest provider of outsourced billing and practice ma...

Summary: Anesthesia practices should have more and better data about what actually happens in the operating rooms and delivery suite than most other departments in the facility. Do they use this information effectively? That is the question of the day. Effective business managers have learned that one cannot manage what one cannot measure. Ane...

Summary: Start time and stop time are not the only time issues that anesthesia providers must consider as they attempt to successfully document the medical record. Today's article provides helpful guidance on some additional time issues that many providers are currently overlooking.Earlier this month, we began a multi-part primer on anesthesia...