Mastering Time-Based Anesthesia Billing: A Guide to Boost Accuracy and Revenue

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  Anesthesia billing is a unique and intricate component of medical billing that differs significantly from other specialties. Unlike procedures billed on a per-service basis, anesthesia is often billed based on the duration of the service—making time-based billing a critical factor in accurate reimbursement. Let’s break down what time-based anesthesia billing entails and how practices can optimize their billing processes to avoid costly errors and delays. What is Time-Based Anesthesia Billing? Time-based anesthesia billing involves calculating charges based on the total time the anesthesiologist spends with a patient. This typically includes: Preoperative preparation Administration and maintenance of anesthesia Post-anesthesia care until the patient is no longer under the anesthesiologist’s care The billing formula generally looks like this: Total Units = Base Units + Time Units + Modifying Units Base Units : Determined by the specific surgical procedure perfor...
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How Could Alternative Billing Help General Surgery Billing?

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“General Surgery” is a discipline of surgery having a central core of knowledge embracing anatomy, physiology, metabolism, immunology, nutrition, pathology, wound healing, shock and resuscitation, intensive care, and neoplasia, which are common to all surgical specialties. Due to the numerous illnesses looked after by a general surgeon, the billing and coding (for surgical sub-specialties too) often come with numerous challenges as well. The complexities of coding, procedure rules manifold, and complex contractual adjustments are required to be addressed with care and expertise for apt and timely reimbursements. The complexities include being knowledgeable about the latest rules such as moderate sedation being separately billable, the addition of new mammography codes, new coding for endovascular ablation and endovascular revascularization, under Hemodialysis access – coding for angioplasty and stent placement, thrombolysis or Thrombectomy, a new option for GERD – esophageal sphincter procedure, appropriate coding for fluoroscopic guidance, additions of codes such as 22853, 22854, 22859, revisions of codes 19298, 28289, 31576, along with deletions of codes such as 11752, 22851, 28290, and additional tips for distinguishing between modifier choices along with documentation tips to support billing, etc. General surgery billing and coding with the perfect association is a key step in maximizing profit, maintaining facility organization, and analyzing charges for the services you render, all the while being HIPAA compliant.

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But with increasing copays and insurance premiums, it is getting increasingly difficult for Americans to pay the high cost of healthcare. According to Christy Ford Chapin, author of Ensuring America’s Health: The Public Creation of the Corporate Health Care System, “It was way back in 1938, that structural problems with US healthcare began.” With new diseases and vaccines, hospitals became a safe haven to get treated in. Though free care and the barter system were available at that time with clinics, people began to feel that it would be beneficial to pay small amounts regularly than wait for an emergency to occur and pay all at once (insurance works by the same logic today). Finally, due to the Great Depression, etc., 

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