Will Latham, MBA President, Latham Consulting Group, Inc., Chattanooga, TNIn despair at the way its programs were organized, the business school at one university recruited as the director of programs a successful businessman, who had made a modest fortune in his own business and wanted to move on to a new career. "I will soon put some order in thi...

SummaryConcurrency is the number of cases an anesthesia provider is involved in at a given moment in time. It applies to all anesthesia cases performed by any type of provider and to all insurance companies. Because the accurate documentation of time is so important in this aspect of billing, we recommend using a single time piece to document anest...

What is it that makes today's anesthesia providers so good at managing patients safely through the trauma and discomfort of surgery? While many will cite the value of experience, the most critical factor is the availability of timely and relevant data that facilitates critical management decision making at appropriate junctures in the case.The curi...

SummaryWe review takeaways from the Advanced Institute for Anesthesia Practice Management on recent legal cases of interest to anesthesia and pain practices pertaining to incorrect billing for anesthesia time and violations of the Anti-Kickback Statute. We continue this week with our third eAlert highlighting legal cases related to significant risk...

​"Patient satisfaction" and the patient experience are considered key measures of quality and performance in our increasingly value-based healthcare system. The American Society of Anesthesiologists' Committee on Performance and Outcomes Measurement (ASACPOM) has acknowledged that "monitoring of patient satisfaction has already been incorporated in...