EHC’s Anesthesia Consulting Services deliver unbiased evaluations and recommendations to help healthcare organizations optimize anesthesia group integration, alignment, and processes to improve overall perioperative performance. Our anesthesia consulting services teams, led by board-certified anesthesiologists along with healthcare and OR nursing executives, work collaboratively with hospital administration, physicians and nursing leadership to improve anesthesia group alignment with hospital goals and strategy, surgeon satisfaction, clinical quality and patient throughput as it relates to anesthesia services.
Our Anesthesia Consulting Services begin with our detailed and customized Anesthesia Services Evaluation. EHC will provide an assessment to your hospital across all anesthetizing locations, to evaluate your anesthesia groups performance and identify opportunities to maximize anesthesia operational and financial efficiency.
Our comprehensive Anesthesia Services Evaluation includes:
- Anesthesia financial analysis and pro forma development
- Anesthesia Utilization Analysis
- Evaluation of current anesthesia contracts and service standards
- Staffing model review and identification of opportunities to create innovative staffing models to fit specific facility needs and budget
- Assessment of current anesthesia compensation and compensation methodology
- Review of processes which impact OR efficiency and throughput
- Comparing current anesthesia practices to national best practices, EHC’s Metrics and standard anesthesia performance metrics
- Evaluation of anesthesia clinical quality, safety and efficiency
- Surgeon, nurse manager and administration satisfaction surveys
- Onsite Evaluation
- Final report with recommendations based on findings and analysis
After our reports and recommendations are presented, EHC can create a tailored plan of action for any recommendations. Common next steps include one or more of the following:
Support for Anesthesia Contract Negotiations+
- Clear understanding of anesthesia coverage requirements
- Facilitate discussions between the hospital and the existing anesthesia practice
- Define the level of support, structure and anesthesia subsidy required to fulfill service standards
- Development of contractual anesthesia performance metrics
- Align anesthesia processes with facility requirements
Anesthesia Revenue Cycle and Billing Assessment+
- Review compliance
- Analysis of optimal charge capture and coding
- Analyze Billing Lag Time and A/R Aging
- Develop strategies to increase cash flow and receivables
- Calculate payments received compared to current contract rates and compare to industry norms
- Assess current payer rates and identify opportunities for improvement
- Quantifying potential opportunities for revenue improvement
Support of Hospital Employed Anesthesia Programs +
- Create compensation models designed to align providers with the facility
- Design alternative anesthesia staffing models to include CRNAs/AAs
- Support leadership in development of compensation and anesthesia performance metrics
- Develop hospital specific anesthesia policies and procedures
- Optimize revenue cycle processes
- Analyze report design and benchmark performance
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Implementation of Anesthesia Care Teams+
- Evaluate operational and financial implications of a transition to an anesthesia care team model
- Provide opinions on market-based compensation for Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (CRNAs) and Anesthesiologist Assistants (AAs)
- Review stakeholder readiness to transition to or adopt a new anesthesia care team model
- Assist the facility and/or anesthesia group in implementation of a care team and management of the transition
Anesthesia RFP Support +
- Develop and manage anesthesia Request for Proposals (RFPs) for anesthesia services as requested
- Assess vendor responses to anesthesia RFPs
- Advise hospitals and healthcare in selection of existing or new anesthesia services
- Support anesthesia contract negotiations with new service provider
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Medical Director Mentorship+
- Implement Anesthesia Leadership Development Program
- Develop OR Medical Director, including establishing performance expectations with quantifiable targets
- Create short, intermediate and long-term goals to track results and success
