SUMMARY: The federal government has just released new regulations that provide details for implementing provisions of the No Surprise Act. How will this affect anesthesia providers? Today's alert takes a look.On September 30, 2021, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), along with other federal departments and agencies, issued an i...

SummaryIt's not getting any easier for anesthesiologists and anesthetists who provide services in pain clinics. Medicare recently released a new policy that will make it more difficult to get paid in facet intervention cases.From the crease of the valley below, you can see the degree of the slope just ahead. The walk thus far has been at either a l...

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Summary:  What happens when you make a mistake in your medical record documentation? Do you just write over it or, in the EMR context, simply hit delete and reenter? What about the timing of the revision? All these and other topics related to revising the anesthesia record are discussed in today's article.In November of 1948, editors of the C...

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 packa...