Anesthesia Business Consulting:
At Enhance Healthcare Consulting, we specialize in empowering anesthesia practices and hospital groups through key services: staffing and compensation advice, optimizing revenue, leveraging data-driven strategies, driving operating room efficiency and offering expert advisory support.
These core elements create a solid foundation for every practice to thrive. Achieving this level of excellence requires a collaborative approach, with each team member contributing their specialized expertise.
Unlike staffing firms, we serve as impartial advisors, focused solely on finding tailored solutions for each client’s unique challenges. Our partnerships with hospitals and anesthesia groups of all sizes are designed to enhance operating room efficiency and align priorities through fair, balanced methodologies.
Grounded in comprehensive data and benchmarked strategies, we craft customized solutions to achieve our clients’ goals. Our aim is to establish a robust, sustainable framework where the business models of hospitals and anesthesia groups work harmoniously, supporting each other for mutual success.
Benefits of Working with Enhance Healthcare Consultants
‣ Navigating Anesthesia Practice Challenges: Anesthesia management is complex, requiring expertise in staffing, scheduling, compliance, and financial oversight. Consultants bring specialized skills to identify inefficiencies and implement solutions.. They assist with development of strategies for recruitment, regulatory compliance, hospital and payer contract negotiations, payer contracts, and performance tracking . Working on a project basis, we help optimize key areas such as staffing models, OR utilization, and market based compensation ,revenue cycle, and managed care agreements.
‣ Enhancing Leadership and Strategy: Effective anesthesia practices require strategic decision-making beyond clinical expertise. Consultants provide data-driven insights to support leadership, guiding critical choices like market based compensation adjustments and workforce planning to improve retention and financial stability.
‣ Improving Communication: Communication challenges can hinder efficiency in anesthesia groups. Smaller teams juggle clinical duties with practice management, while larger groups struggle with internal alignment. Consultants facilitate transparency by streamlining communication, using tools like dashboards to ensure clarity among partners and stakeholders.
‣ Establishing Trust: Trust is essential in anesthesia practices. Consultants foster confidence by providing unbiased, expert advice that prioritizes the practice’s best interests, strengthening collaboration and decision-making.
‣ A Cost-Effective Alternative: Hiring a full-time administrator is costly. Part-time or project based anesthesia consultants offer specialized guidance at a lower cost, delivering expertise and strategic support without the long-term financial commitment.
Who Can Benefit from an Anesthesia Business Consultant?
Working with an experienced anesthesia consultant offers comprehensive benefits from not only the standpoint of hospitals and anesthesia groups, but also patients and operating room staff, and doctors.
By working with anesthesiology consultants to streamline processes and improve perioperative care, all stakeholders involved benefit.
Our Anesthesia Consulting Services
Enhance Healthcare Consulting’s (EHC) anesthesia consulting services run the gamut and our clients include:
Hospital and Healthcare Systems
Ensuring quality anesthesia coverage is crucial for optimizing patient care, operations, and finances. EHC leverages deep expertise to design and implement efficient, cost-effective anesthesia models that meet clinical and operational goals.
This includes offering a variety of services such as anesthesia service assessments, perioperative process assessments, anesthesia subsidy analysis and contract negotiations, anesthesia RFP management, hospital employed anesthesia support, anesthesia satisfaction surveys and more.
Anesthesia Groups
Amid rising costs, reimbursement issues, and provider shortages, the gap between anesthesia groups’ needs and hospital expectations continues to grow. EHC bridges this divide with consulting services that create sustainable, mutually beneficial solutions.
Our services for anesthesia groups consist of anesthesia subsidy analyses and contract negotiations, responding to anesthesia RFPs, financial analysis for anesthesia groups, anesthesia service assessments, anesthesia management services, anesthesia satisfaction surveys, and anesthesia revenue cycle reviews.
Perioperative Improvement
An efficient OR is vital for boosting profits, expanding market share, and enhancing satisfaction for surgeons and patients. With deep expertise, EHC streamlines perioperative processes to improve efficiency, profitability, and cost management.
We specialize in perioperative improvement services such as perioperative process assessments, preadmission testing evaluation and improvement, implementing enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS), non-operating room anesthesia (NORA) evaluation and improvement, and data analysis and benchmarking.
Anesthesia Management Solutions for Operational Excellence
Competing with large national groups requires a strong business infrastructure. Enhance Healthcare Consulting’s anesthesia management support services provide expert support to streamline operations, drive growth, and maximize value.
Comprehensive Anesthesia Practice Management Consulting for Growth
Enhance Healthcare Consulting provides anesthesia practice management consulting to support groups and hospitals looking to optimize anesthesia operations through hospital contract negotiation, OR efficiency, governance, revenue cycle, and strategic growth, including service expansion, and mergers.
Anesthesia Revenue Cycle Management for Financial Stability
Anesthesia revenue cycle management consists of streamlined billing, coding, and claims processing to maximize revenue. External revenue cycle assessment seeks to identify opportunities to improve reimbursement. Our team evaluates performance for revenue cycle partners, identifying missed revenue and where appropriate recommending options to optimize anesthesia revenue cycle management.
Mastering Anesthesia Contract Negotiations & Subsidy Agreements
Our goal is to negotiate contracts that benefit both hospitals and anesthesia providers by developing data driven, market based solutions ,designed to balance the cost of anesthesia with the required capacity. As an expert, unbiased intermediary EHC support groups and hospitals and conduct anesthesia contract negotiations that benefit all parties involved.
Anesthesia RFP (Request for Proposal) Support
Enhance Healthcare Consulting helps assist in creating and responding to anesthesia requests for proposals by managing the anesthesia RFP process, from development to contract negotiations. We collaborate with hospital leaders and anesthesia groups to ensure a smooth, confidential, and cost-effective transition.
NORA Anesthesia Solutions for Non-Operating Room Anesthesia Cases
With more complex cases shifting to NORA anesthesia settings, efficiency is critical, our team evaluates and optimizes anesthesia services in endoscopy, cath lab, and interventional radiology to enhance performance, financial viability and proceduralist alignment.
Why Choose Our Anesthesiology Consultants?
The anesthesiology consultants from Enhance Healthcare Consulting are committed to empowering and improving the perioperative experience by offering actionable insights that provide real results.
At Enhance Healthcare, we bring unparalleled expertise and a wealth of national experience to every facet of the hospital/health system, operating room and anesthesia collaboration.
Our deep understanding of the operating room environment and the intricate dynamics of anesthesia partnerships allows us to connect the priorities of hospitals and health systems with the practical demands of anesthesia services.
Through sustainable strategies that promote operating room efficiency, manage costs effectively, and drive lasting quality improvements, we harmonize the goals of all stakeholders for long-term success.
Here’s what some of our clients have to say about us:
“Enhance Healthcare did a phenomenal job on our system-wide anesthesia assessment. They were very well organized, responsive, and have a great perspective as subject matter experts.”
Peter Powers, FACHE
Chief Executive Officer
Memorial Regional Healthcare
“St. Joseph Hospital is a community hospital in Maine. For a variety of reasons, we decided to make the transition from an outsourced all physician anesthesia group to an employed anesthesia group that incorporated physicians and CRNAs all under the same umbrella. This was a big, complicated undertaking for us and we would not have been able to make the transition without the help of Enhance Healthcare. They were there with expert advice and support every step of the way from recruitment, staffing models, revenue cycle, policies and procedures, PAT, etc. With their expertise, we now have a vibrant anesthesia group supporting our surgical services.”
William Wood, MD
Chief Medical Officer
St. Joseph Hospital
“Our group used Enhance Healthcare Consulting after our hospital administration delayed negotiations with our “new” hospital contract. Howard was instrumental in presenting data in a meaningful way that the administrators understood. He both educated them and us on the best method to use in these negotiations. In addition, Howard kept us on track and pointed out pitfalls and weaknesses in the contracts. Enhance Healthcare was there every step of the way and has continued to check in with us after we signed our new hospital contract. We really appreciated Enhance’s expertise and their commitment to helping secure the contract.”
Maribel Galiano-Goll, MD
President
Medical Center Anesthesia
“The knowledge of the overall market, coupled with Enhance Healthcare’s experience in the space on both sides of the table (i.e. representing groups and hospitals) made for a unique bargaining position. Howard and Keandra were excellent. They were very attentive to every detail and provided wonderful coaching throughout the entire negotiation process.”
Brian Cadre, MD
Anesthesiologist
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Learn more about how we can streamline processes and increase your bottom line. Whether you’re a hospital or anesthesia group, Enhance Healthcare Consulting offers services that are essential to growth, scalability, and operating room efficiency.
Reach out to us through our website or give us a call at (954) 242-1296 to learn more about how our solutions can enhance efficiency, boost profitability, and elevate staff satisfaction.