When most practice administrators started in anesthesia billing operations, collecting for services was markedly different than it is today, even if you are relatively new to the special. There are a variety of factors including government regulations, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009 (ACA), bundled payments, high deductible h...

SUMMARY Anesthesia Business Consultants anticipates that most of its clients will be prepared to participate in the "partial" reporting option during the first year of the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System of the Quality Payment Program mandated by the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA). In our view, this option offers the most...

Article courtesy of SurveyVitals CEO, Bob Vosburgh.​ Why Track the Patient Experience? For every patient who expresses dissatisfaction or voices concern, there are nine or ten more who keep quiet.1 However, dissatisfied patients are often some of the most vocal. They are likely to tell at least 20 people about their experiences or go to an onl...

SUMMARY Postoperative delirium (POD) is a significant problem in elderly patients, and yet the complication is also preventable in many cases. Anesthesiologists are leading the way in the prevention of POD in older surgical patients through the Brain Health Initiative of the American Society of Anesthesiologists and with the development of effectiv...

Press releases following a publication in the British Medical Journal (BMJ) hysterically echoed the article's headline: "Medical error—the third leading cause of death in the U.S."1 The authors used a variety of published sources on the incidence, lethality and preventability of medical errors to produce an estimate of 251,000 deaths per year attri...