Anesthesia Industry and Market News:

April 27, 2015

Anesthesia Business Consultants (ABC), a leading provider in billing and practice management for the anesthesia and pain management specialty, is pleased to announce the release of its new client portal and included analytics desktop and mobile access products aimed at anesthesia practices to increase access and visibility of their practice data.

F1RSTAnesthesia is ABC's proprietary software that gives clients a powerful tool to convert clinical information into claims for reimbursement. The software supports electronic claims editing to ensure consistently high billing acceptance rates, and minimizes manual intervention in payment posting through direct remittance processing. Clients are able to access the details of their practice and to view trends securely online.

F1RSTAnalytics is ABC’s Big Data platform.F1RSTAnalytics works in tandem with F1RSTAnesthesia to provide powerful access to data, whether via desktop or mobile device.F1RSTAnalytics is a suite of dashboards ad-hoc and standardized reporting for desktops and mobile devices. It clarifies and provides actionable insight at your fingertips helping to make better, more-educated decisions. This new release includes the AR Dashboard for the AR and RCM process, the KPI Dashboard for key performance indicators and the Productivity Dashboard for facility & staff productivity and OR utilization. Dashboard solutions planned to be launched later this year include Case Concurrency, Comparative Benchmarks, Quality, and Predictive Modeling.

Tony Mira, President and CEO of ABC states, “Hospitals and health systems have had access to this type of information for years. Now with F1RSTClient, F1RSTAnesthesia and F1RSTAnalytics, we’re providing information to our practices in a way they can use it, when and where they need it, giving them a secure, powerful set of tools to convert clinical information into claims for reimbursement and practice operations. That’s actionable insight at your fingertips.”

You can find ABC at Booth #11 of the MGMA Anesthesia Conference at the Palmer House Hilton in Chicago, IL.