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Getting Paid for Someone Else’s Work: The Hidden Hurdles of Incident-To Billing

It’s not an unknown phenomenon. Getting paid for something that was at least partially performed or created by someone else is a well-established practice. Thomas Edison was well known for taking the inventions of others, including his employees, and appropriating them as his own, receiving the acclaim and a hefty pay day (Nikola Tesla was […]

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Special Report: CMS Releases Cyberattack Relief Funds Special Report

In an attempt to address the serious impact of last month’s cyberattack against Optum’s Change Healthcare—which went on to create ripples in the stability of the nation’s overall healthcare system—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued this past Saturday an announcement that it was providing immediate help. The agency has been in constant […]

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Washington to the Rescue: Help to Hospitals in Wake of Cyberattack

In an attempt to address in some meaningful way the serious impact of last month’s cyberattack against Optum’s Change Healthcare—which went on to create ripples in the stability of the nation’s overall healthcare system—the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) issued this past Saturday an announcement that it was providing immediate help. The agency […]

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The Impact of Hospital Mergers on Anesthesia Practices

Anesthesia providers should be well trained to respond appropriately to any unanticipated clinical complication that occurs during a case. Vigilance is the key to effective anesthesia care. They know that things can go wrong even during what should be an uncomplicated surgical procedure. After all, while the surgeon is only focused on a very specific […]

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Collecting Anesthesia Charges from Patients

Defining Patient Responsibility Most patients have insurance for their medical expenses. Conventional insurance plans determine the value of services submitted on a claim, which they define as the allowable. Plans that emulate the original Blue Shield policy then pay the provider 80 percent of the allowable, unless there is an applicable unmet deductible. The result […]

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Cyber Attack Against Optum’s Change Healthcare: What Our Clients Need to Know 

As many of you know, Change Healthcare was the target of an apparent cyberattack this past Wednesday. The revenue cycle company, which is a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group’s Optum, indicated that it had managed to “isolate its systems” to mitigate further harm. Optum, UnitedHealthcare, and UnitedHealth Group (UHG) systems were not affected by the attack, […]

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Anesthesia Payment Options for Non-Covered Services

As payer policies evolve, once-covered services often become non-covered services. The two most common examples of this are colonoscopy (depending on the patient’s physical status) and anesthesia for Chronic Pain Injections (such as epidural steroid injections, facet injections and transforaminal epidural steroid injections). A number of notable insurance plans have stopped paying for anesthesia in […]

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Major Jump in Job Growth: Big Boon for Hospitals?

Whenever historians want to categorize a ruler as particularly impactful, they will sometimes bestow a title that includes the word “great.” Cyrus the Great, Peter the Great and Catherine the Great come to mind. But certain eras or events have also been characterized with this same descriptor: the Great Migration, the Great War, the Great […]

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Determining A Fair Compensation Package for Anesthesia Providers

While general surveys of anesthesia practice compensation may have some value, it is more important to assess what would cause a provider to want to join your group or to leave your group. Those potential causes are analyzed in today’s alert. One of the most perplexing challenges in the current anesthesia market is determining what […]

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