Hospital Employed Providers and Private Anesthesia Groups: Your Participation in the 2025 ASA Conversion Factor Survey of Commercial Payment Rates is Imperative
📢Attention📢 The American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) Annual Conversion Factor Survey of Commercial Payment Rates is an invaluable tool for hospitals and private anesthesia practices nationwide. At Fusion Anesthesia Solutions, we rely on this data in nearly...
CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2025
What are the CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2025? Chapter II of the National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual for Medicare Services goes over the CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2025. We’ve provided the CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2025 below – From the...
Utilization: It’s Time to Get the Conversation Started
OR Utilization has been discussed for years by both hospital c-suite and private anesthesia groups but the two rarely come together to collaborate on improvements, due in part to the lack of data to support the conversation. Most hospitals have an overall target...
The Benefits of Outsourcing Your Hospital’s Anesthesia Revenue Cycle Management
Anesthesiology is a highly specialized and complex service with an equally complex anesthesia billing formula. There are many rules and guidelines that are specific to anesthesia care and the formula used to determine reimbursement is unique to anesthesia. Below are...
CMS Guidelines for 2024
What are the CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2024? Chapter II of the National Correct Coding Initiative Policy Manual for Medicare Services goes over the CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2024. We’ve provided the CMS Anesthesia Guidelines for 2024 below – From...
Why Your Business Partners’ Goals and Values Are as Important as Your Own
During our last company wide meeting, the Fusion Anesthesia Solutions' leadership team discussed our organization’s goals and that lead into a very insightful company wide Q & A. Some of the questions and observations were surrounding our clients, who from time to...
Anesthesia Expertise is Imperative When Negotiating Hospital Payer Contracts
We have many hospitals that we partner with to provide revenue cycle management services for their anesthesiology departments (including academic) or employed medical groups. While we handle payer contract negotiations for our private practice clients, the process for...
OR Utilization: It’s Time to Get the Conversation Started
OR Utilization has been discussed for years by both hospital c-suite and private anesthesia groups but the two rarely come together to collaborate on improvements. Most hospitals have an overall target utilization number they hope to achieve, typically between...
Evaluating Your Current Anesthesia Billing Service
While external audits are an extremely effective way to evaluate how your anesthesia billing service is performing, an audit can be costly and time consuming. While the results may provide the best insight to your vendor’s performance, we’ve put together a list of...
Practice Independence
Practice Independence: How to Remain Independent During Market Uncertainty From our perspective, anesthesia providers who are owners in an independent practice are happier in their work, enjoy having control over their retirement – and make significantly more money...
Transparent Performance
Transparent Performance with Fusion AnesthesiaTransparent Performance: ANESTHESIA BILLING WITH 100% TRANSPARENCY Not partnering with the correct anesthesia billing company will significantly impact the revenue of your anesthesia practice. At Fusion Anesthesia...
2023 Taxes – What Anesthesia Professionals Need to Know
2023 Taxes - What Anesthesia Professionals Need to KnowDownload our 2023 Tax Updates Book - What Anesthesia Professionals Need to Know. Gain valuable insight on how new laws will impact your personal taxes as a high-earning individual and how those changes impact...
Cyber Security: What Your Anesthesia Group Needs To Know
Cyber Security: What Your Anesthesia Group Needs To Know Between October 2023 and January 5, 2024, I have personally received five “Notice of Data Event” letters: one from an anesthesia billing company, three from Michigan health systems (two coming from the same...
ANESTHESIOLOGY 2023 RECAP
The annual anesthesiology conference is back in full force! It was great to see the conference return to pre-pandemic attendance at the Anesthesiology 2023 Conference in San Francisco, California. The Fusion Anesthesia booth was busy, and we had some great...
Anesthesia Billing’s Most Important Metric: Customer Service
While there are changes and updates regularly in anesthesia billing, one thing that remains constant is our unyielding commitment to provide outstanding customer service to our clients. There are many attributes that set Fusion Anesthesia Solutions apart from our...
Outsourcing Your Hospital’s Anesthesia Revenue Cycle Will Positively Impact Your Bottom Line
Anesthesia is the most complex of any specialty to bill due to the large number of documents that must be reviewed to accurately code and bill as well as the formula used to bill (Base Units + Time Units + Modifiers) x Conversion Factor. Most hospitals are now using...
Why Choose Fusion Anesthesia Solutions as Your Anesthesia Billing Partner
Whether you’ve made the decision to change anesthesia billing vendors or have decided to move from an in-house billing operation to outsourcing, a common question we heard from every client that chose us is: What Makes Fusion Different? Below are just a few of the...
Reporting for your Anesthesia Practice: Providing Insight into the Financial Health of your Anesthesia Practice
Our reporting goal is to provide not just information but insight. Data provides value that is critical to your anesthesia practice. Fusion Anesthesia Solutions developed a proprietary tool for clients, CogitoAnalytics, that presents billing information in a...
Transparent Performance in Anesthesia Billing
Transparent Performance: ANESTHESIA BILLING WITH 100% TRANSPARENCY Not partnering with the correct anesthesia billing company will significantly impact the revenue of your anesthesia practice. At Fusion Anesthesia Solutions we believe 100% transparency in anesthesia...
The Importance of Leadership to an Anesthesia Practice
During ASA Advance: The Anesthesiology Business Event, leadership was a topic of discussion in both the exhibit hall and of the many sessions. For a private anesthesia practice, leadership comes in several different areas, a few of which we’ve highlighted below. To...
Reimbursement Issues in Anesthesiology – Revenue Cycle Health for Hospitals Part 2
Reimbursement Issues in Anesthesiology: Part 2 of our Revenue Cycle Health for Hospitals Series In Part 2 of our series on Revenue Cycle Health for Hospital Anesthesiology Departments we’ll explore issues with revenue leakage on anesthesia services. As discussed in...
Revenue Cycle Health, Part 3: The Importance of Your Anesthesia Practice’s Payer Contract Negotiations
The Importance of Your Anesthesia Practice's Payer Contract Negotiations Part 3 of our Anesthesia Billing Revenue Cycle Health Series In the final part of our series focused on Revenue Cycle Health, we’ll explore the importance of annual payer contract negotiations...
Anesthesiology 2022 Recap
It was a Mardi Gras of a time in New Orleans at the American Society of Anesthesiologists’ annual conference, Anesthesiology 2022. It was so nice to see all the smiling faces and hear more about the challenges anesthesiologists are faced with today. We’ve highlighted...
Stay in the Know: November 2022
Updates from November 2022 affecting the anesthesia industry that you don't want to miss: These news articles from November 2022 relating to the anesthesia industry and practice leadership. From open first-year residency spots to average incentive bonuses, here are...