EHC Insights

Anesthesia Employment Models for Hospitals and Healthcare Systems

Many hospitals and healthcare systems are exploring transitions to an employed anesthesia services model to tackle workforce shortages, reduce labor...

Creating a Win-Win Hospital Agreement

Howard Greenfield, MD, presented alongside Judy Semo and Shena Scott on anesthesia groups and hospitals working collaboratively to develop mutually...

What Does the QZ Modifier Really Mean?

American medicine has many quirky aspects. Those who claim they can fix it have no clue what they are up...

Expanding your Anesthesia Practice to New Locations and Responding to RFPs

Expanding your anesthesia practice to new locations presents an exciting opportunity to grow your business. As the demand for specialized...

Transitioning to Hospital Employment What’s in it for Me?

In a recent presentation, Howard Greenfield, MD, Principal at Enhance Healthcare Consulting, shared critical insights on the growing trend of...

Enhance Healthcare’s Anesthesia & Operating Room Review – Third Quarter

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Enhance Healthcare’s Anesthesia & Operating Room Review – Second Quarter

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Enhance Healthcare’s Anesthesia & Operating Room Review – First Quarter

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Enhance Healthcare’s Anesthesia & Operating Room Review – Fourth Quarter

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Howard Greenfield, MD podcast with Becker’s

This episode features Dr. Howard Greenfield, Principal at Enhance Healthcare Consulting & Board Certified Anesthesiologist. Here, he discusses what led...

Anesthesia Workforce Shortage: Part 2

Healthcare economics have always been defined by the supply of providers and demand for services. In Part 2 of our...

Anesthesia Workforce Shortage: Part 1

The healthcare industry is facing an escalating anesthesia workforce shortage. In Part 1 of our “Anesthesia Workforce Shortage” series, we...

Going Under 2021

We surveyed C-suite executives about their experience in choosing new anesthesia solutions, and the results are in! Our survey points...

Going Under: Anesthesia Provider Employment Trend

We surveyed C-suite executives about their experience in choosing new anesthesia providers and noticed a significant number of hospitals considering...

Anesthesia Subsidies: Putting It All On the Table

Hospitals are experiencing a dramatic increase in requests for financial support from their anesthesia service providers, a situation that has...

SUPER: Scheduling Accuracy

Accurate scheduling of surgical cases is a key component of a highly efficient and profitable operating room (OR). Best practice...

SUPER: Utilization Optimization

Analysis and interpretation of utilization is a foundational component of identifying opportunities for Operating Room efficiency and monitoring progress of...

SUPER: Process Consistency

The efficient delivery of processes will maximize throughput of cases in your operating room.  Using LEAN methodology to map current...

SUPER: Ensure Data Integrity

You have revamped your OR Scheduling procedures to increase accuracy, matched your clinical staff and resources to actual Utilization, and...

SUPER: Resource Support

To ensure optimal patient safety and OR performance, nursing leadership must foster and maintain strong relationships and communication with multiple...

Is Your Anesthesia Group an Asset or a Liability?

In this whitepaper, Enhance Healthcare outlines four key strategies for anesthesia groups to become an indispensable asset to their hospitals...

The Changing Landscape Of the RFP

Enhance Healthcare Consulting has seen approximately a fivefold increase in the issuance of RFP’s, with 30% of hospital based RFP...

What Do Hospitals Want From Anesthesia Groups?

Anesthesia groups have many issues to deal with, including pressure on reimbursement and hospital subsidies. Despite these concerns, it is...

The RFP Process: Steps For Getting The Most Accurate Bids

Distributing a request for proposal (RFP) for a HBP service line can often be a painful process and one which...

Mistakes Hospitals Make When Issuing an RFP

“As board-certified anesthesiologists and experienced nurse and business executives, we are able to combine our clinical expertise with nationwide management...

Key Components of a Successful OR Improvement Initiative

  Surgical Services is the key financial driver for all hospitals, often generating 70% of annual revenue. At the same...

Anesthesia Finances in the Age of COVID-19

Our four-part series on the financial and operational implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on hospitals, healthcare systems and anesthesia groups.

The 5 C’s of Group Leadership

Hospital-based provider groups are a vital bridge between the business leaders of the facility and its medical staff. Hospital executives...

Billing Optimization

Whether you are a hospital paying an anesthesia subsidy or a group trying to maximize profitability, it is in your...

Your Hospital Issues An RFP For Anesthesia Services: Now What?

As a national anesthesia consulting firm, we are seeing hospitals and healthcare systems change or attempt to change their incumbent...

Management Services Organizations: Leveling the Playing Field for Small and Local Groups

In the Healthcare environment of 2018, it seems that "bigger is better" is the mantra from all sides. We've got...

6 Steps for Anesthesia Practices Considering Selling

Howard Greenfield, MD, principal of management and consulting firm Enhance Healthcare, described several steps to follow when deciding whether to...

Uncovering Key Data Points To Improve OR Profitability

Hospital finance leaders can increase profit from operating rooms by developing performance improvement plans around key statistics, such as utilization,...

4 Ways Anesthesia Can Help Hospitals Reach Health Reform Goals

Here are four examples of ways anesthesia providers can help hospitals reach these goals.

F-O-C-U-S: 5 Key Factors of Anesthesia Success

Drs. Greenfield and Stiefel present a new framework hospitals can use when thinking about anesthesia services.

Physicians’ Role in Patient Satisfaction

Anesthesiologists can affect patients' satisfaction by overseeing preoperative preparation, ensuring the patient understands the process for the day of surgery...

How Preoperative Preparation Can Drive OR Performance

Some key preoperative responsibilities that can improve intraoperative metrics, including start times, turnover time and OR utilization

Anesthesia 101: Coverage Models

All MD Anesthesia Care Team (ACT) CRNA Only Each of these models has unique characteristics which will affect how the...

Anesthesia 101: Service Expectations

Hospitals have specific goals regarding patient and surgeon satisfaction as well as growth initiatives. Your facility's anesthesia model should help...

Anesthesia 101: Subspecialty Needs

Critical care. OB. Pain. Cardiovascular. Pediatric. Anesthesia sub-specialties have evolved to address an often complex and challenging subset of patients. Each...

Anesthesia 101: Stakeholder Needs

The needs of each of these stakeholders are diverse and when taken together, serve as a way to measure the...

Anesthesia 101: Business Models

The healthcare environment has dramatically changed in recent years, and anesthesia business models are evolving as well. If current trends...

Anesthesia 101: Anesthesia Subsidy Drivers

With eighty percent of hospitals paying an anesthesia subsidy, finding ways to reduce these costs – without risking quality –...

Pre-Op Your Anesthesia Practice

A “pre-operative” assessment of your own practice will reveal how your group will look to a possible partner, investor or...

Strategy And Adaptability In A Competitive Market: Lessons From The Nation’s Largest Anesthesia Organizations

The size and scope of these entities could not have been envisioned just a decade ago. The entities profiled below...

Renegotiated Payor Contracts And Improved Collections Significantly Boost Anesthesia Revenue

Due to lack of oversight of the anesthesia revenue cycle, this small Southwestern health system suspected it was not capturing...

Going Under 2016: Enhance Healthcare Releases Recent Anesthesia Survey Results

The RFP process has become much more standardized, and the options for change more robust, while at the same time...

Leadership And Technology Enhancements Allow Cost-Effective Expansion Of Coverage

A tertiary care facility in the South, part of a four hospital system needed to improve coverage amongst all its...

Improved Revenue Cycle Solution Increases Collections By 37% And Reduces Subsidy

SITUATION: Three years in a row the amount of subsidy had increased – 15%, 12% and 20% respectively – despite...

EHC STAFFING STRATEGY REDUCES ANESTHESIA SUBSIDIES BY 40%

SITUATION: An important Surgical Service Line expansion forced a West Coast community hospital to face a dramatic increase in anesthesia...

EHC OR/ER STRATEGY SAVES COMMUNITY HOSPITAL $1 MILLION ANNUALLY

SITUATION: A 321-bed community hospital in the Southeast United States was experiencing significant financial challenges due to its high anesthesia...

OR Efficiency and Throughput

Dr. Robert Stiefel discusses the heightened importance of OR efficiency to hospitals.

Anesthesia Group Changes

Dr. Greenfield shares insights on how anesthesia groups can stay afloat in the face of growing group consolidation.