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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Outsourcing Physician Credentialing to MBC

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As a practice owner, you might have a team of professional physicians who possess the right qualification and licenses but without properly credentialed providers you invite the risk of losing payments. To enhance the performance of your practice you must complete the entire credentialing process including collecting provider documentation & validation; identifying top payers; applying for top payers; follow-up on the application; obtaining enrollment, and periodic updates of payer documents for credentialing. If you lack the know-how to navigate the physician credentialing process, you need to outsource provider credentialing and enrollment services to professionals like us.

Our Provider Credentialing Services 

Our credentialing experts deeply understand payer enrollment guidelines and credentialing policies. Based on your geographical area of practice and patient mix, we identify top payers who need to get credentialed. Whether you own a group practice or are a solo provider, we have a customized credentialing service. For a single-payer, our physician credentialing services include the following:

  • CAQH attestation includes CAQH application filing; and CAQH quarterly attestations. In case you don’t have a CAQH account created, we will ask for all required information and documentation and will create a CAQH account. We will also enable it for payer review in case of credentialing and enrollment process.  
  • Filling up applications for all top payers. It will include completing the required documentation and identifying exceptions. Verifying practitioner/ facility information from physicians and obtaining missing documents and updating the payer’s database.
  • Enrollment for electronic transactions. Our team will enroll providers for electronic transactions like Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Electronic Remittance Advice (ERA), and Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT).
  • Provider data maintenance includes provider demographic updates in payers’ records i.e., updates of the provider’s specialty or additional educational qualifications, checking the payer website and verifying provider details like Phone and Fax #, Zip code, updating the correction to payers, and tracking expiry date for State DEA License, Board certificate, and Malpractice Insurance. 
  • Contracting includes new group/individual practitioner contracts, adding/deleting providers in the existing contract, and rate negotiations.

To know more about Outsourcing Physician Credentialing to MBC, click here: https://bit.ly/44ihrQu Contact us at info@medicalbillersandcoders.com/ 888-357-3226.

Location: United States

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