Managing Your Financial Success
You put in the extra effort, time and expense to specialize
in anesthesia. Why expect less from your billing company?
Specialization allows concentration of resources, centralized
focus and a higher level of expertise.
Billing Services
Your business success hinges on how effectively you code, bill and monitor incoming payments. Perform poorly in any of these areas and
you will not be adequately compensated for your time.
Managed Care Contracting
Traditional, or indemnity, insurance continues to lose its
hold as a third-party reimbursement alternative. In its place
is an array of methods limited only by the imagination of
the insurer. Meanwhile, HMOs, PPOs and other hybrid payors
are rapidly taking over the healthcare marketplace.
The Value of Locum Tenens
With a decreasing candidate pool of anesthesia providers,
locum tenens are a necessity for many practices. Locum tenens
are temporary, contracted employees who are physicians.
Anesthesia FAQs from Ohio Medicare
The answers to these FAQ are PalmettoGBA's modified responses
to a series of questions known as the "Georgia Guidelines"
developed by the Georgia Society of Anesthesiologists and
published in the Georgia Carrier's November 1999 newsletter."
Did you know?
In any sample of 200 claims, it is not
uncommon to find 80% with the wrong code altogether, 41% over-coded,
45% under-coded and 17% billing for services that aren't even
documented in the record.
Thousands of dollars a month are "lost" because
of unqualified coders – this includes physicians.