Understanding Key Anesthesia Metrics | Anesthesia Staff and Operating Room Efficiency
When seeking to improve the performance of your anesthesiology practice knowing what to focus on is crucial. Through our decades of work with practices of all sizes, we’ve identified key factors that have the greatest impact your financial health. By focusing on these...
Understanding Key Anesthesia Metrics | Anesthesia Concurrency: How CRNAs Factor In
When seeking to improve the performance of your anesthesiology practice you’ll find no shortage of recommendations from industry sources on a wide range of topics. While it’s good to stay informed about trends and best practices, it is even more important to...
Understanding Key Anesthesia Metrics | Negotiating Anesthesia Contracts: Private Rates
When aiming to improve the performance of your anesthesiology practice you’ll find no shortage of recommendations from industry sources on a wide range of topics. While it’s important to stay informed about trends and best practices, what matters most is knowing where...
Understanding Anesthesia Metrics | Improving Anesthesia Group Profitability
There are lot of ideas that you could focus on when trying to improve the financial health of your practice. Practice management fads come and go. Which ones should you pay attention to? After decades in the business, we can confidently tell you that these are the...
Anesthesia Quality Reporting: Understanding MIPS vs APM
Anesthesia quality reporting has been a hot topic over the last few years. While there was a period of time when experts and publications were convinced that every anesthesiologist group would need to adopt it – that view has since changed. Many experts and...
Anesthesia Quality Reporting: Considering Hospital Relations
Whether or not anesthesia practices should implement quality reporting has been a hot topic for several years. One factor that many practices often overlook is how anesthesia quality reporting plays into hospital relations. Want to know more about whether or not you...
Anesthesia Quality Reporting: Everything You Need to Know
Anesthesia quality reporting was a hot topic when it was first introduced. Many experts predicted that every anesthesiologist group would need to quickly adopt quality reporting for clinical and financial reasons. However, the implementation methods by various...
Anesthesiologist Taxes: End-of-Year Tax Bill Updates
by Courtney Diderrich This is a follow-up post regarding some of the 2018 tax bill changes. For a more comprehensive overview of all the changes made, check out our other posts on personal taxes and business taxes. With the end of the year fast approaching, there are...
Anesthesia Seminars 2019: Anesthesia Seminars, Simulations, and Certification Programs
(Updated Oct 2018) As 2018 comes to a close, you should start thinking about which conferences and seminars you want to work into your schedule for next year. Here’s our round-up of the top anesthesia events in 2019* (To see our complete list of recommended...
Anesthesia Conferences 2019
(Updated Sept 2018) Are you planning on attending any Anesthesia Conferences 2019? As 2018 comes to a close, you should start thinking about which conferences you want to work into your schedule for next year. Here’s our round-up of the top anesthesia conferences in...
Anesthesia Billing: Medical Billing Analysis Process
Anesthesia billing is hard. Yes, we have said it over and over but it’s true. Without the right tools, people, and expertise in billing and collections you could be losing money (anywhere between 5 and 15 percent of your potential revenue). How do you know if you’re...
Anesthesia Billing Consultants | Anesthesia Billing Consulting Services
We have noticed that too many anesthesia billing consultants and companies focus on the trees instead of the forest when it comes to anesthesia billing. Their focus is often entirely on the mechanics of the anesthesia billing process. While the nuts and bolts...
Anesthesia Billing Companies | How to Pick the Right Anesthesia Billing Company
Whether you are an independent anesthesiologist group or in charge of hospital revenue, picking the right billing company is critical to maximizing revenue. While there are many anesthesia billing companies out there, not all are created equal. Jump to:Anesthesia...
Need a Laugh? Anesthesiologist and Anesthesia Jokes
Stuck in the OR waiting for surgery and need a good laugh? Exhausted from a long day and trying to get your colleague to crack a smile? Check out our anesthesiologist joke generator for some of our favorite anesthesia and anesthesiologist jokes. [boxzilla_link...
Physicians Accounting is Now Fusion Anesthesia Solutions
Physicians Accounting is becoming Fusion Anesthesia Solutions. Don’t worry, you will still have the same great service and the same great team. We are just working under a new name to reflect our expanded offerings. Here’s a little more background on why we decided to...
The Best Anesthesia Billing Services Increase Hospital Revenue
Hospitals and healthcare organizations are under constant pressure to optimize operations while remaining within strict budget guidelines. Every department must find ways to cut costs or, even better, increase revenue. By using the best anesthesia billing services, it...
The Best Anesthesia Billing Services Increase Take Home
Anesthesia billing is more than just coding and submitting claims, collecting whatever money comes in, and calling it a day. It takes detail-oriented coding specialists, anesthesia-specific expertise, precise reconciliation processes, and extensive follow up. It’s...
Anesthesia Revenue Management: What would extra revenue mean for your practice?
What could your practice do with an extra $10k, $50k, or $100k? Increase your take-home pay? Give your employees raises? Increase staff with CRNAs or employed anesthesiologists? Increasing revenue to achieve these goals might be as simple as changing your anesthesia...
How Anesthesiologists Lose Money by Saving Money
We’ve been providing billing services for anesthesiologists for over 40 years. Our clients are smart folks. So it always astounds us when we see anesthesiologists making basic business errors when it comes to selecting a billing company. Here’s the flawed...
How the New Tax Bill Will Impact Anesthesiologists’ Personal Taxes
This article is about how the new tax bill changes personal taxes. If you want to know the types of changes that have been made to anesthesiologist business taxes click here. On December 20, 2017, Congress passed a new tax bill that has been touted “the most sweeping...
How the New Tax Bill Impacts Anesthesiologists’ Business Taxes
This article is about how the new tax bill will impact anesthiologist business taxes. We also have an article on how the new tax bill will impact your personal taxes as an anesthesiologist. Back in December, Congress approved the biggest tax overhaul in 31 years....
Anesthesia Billing | Anesthesia Modifiers: Gotta Catch ‘Em All
When it comes to medical billing, surgeons have it easy. After the surgery is performed, they use a single CPT code that covers everything from the procedure itself to all pre-op and post-op visits with the patient. It’s as simple as can be: a single code covers...
Optimizing Anesthesiologist Schedules: The Essential Data You Need to Know
As an independent anesthesiology group competing with national chains, it’s critical that you’re collecting the maximum revenue you’re entitled to. The main benefit of working with Fusion Anesthesia is that we can help you increase your take-home by an additional...
Increasing Hospital Anesthesia Revenue
Hospitals and health systems are facing more competition and belt-tightening than ever before. The financial impact of bundled payments, the increasing costs of staff and supplies, and rising drug prices mean that hospitals need to maximize their revenue wherever it’s...