What other challenges do ASCs face regarding anesthesia services?
Not uncommonly, when surgical volume does not provide for anesthesia department solvency, anesthesia clinicians will bill out-of-network to stay afloat. This, however, often taints the payor relationships ASCs may have worked long and hard to develop. It will also poison relationships between patients and surgeons and, even more concerning, relationships between surgeons and their referral bases. Other times, anesthesia departments, satiated with robust out-of-network payments, will waive co-payments and deductibles. Although this mitigates the previously mentioned acrimony of surgeons and patients, it creates compliance risks for the anesthesia group which can negatively affect the ASC’s reputation. Newspaper (Remove Newspaper) Claims that your anesthesia group has been charged with UCR fraud will not help with the recruitment of patients or surgeons. The other major challenge ASCs face is anesthesia quality management. In today’s world, providing stellar service requires clinicians t
