Anesthesia Business Consultants

Anesthesia Business Consultants, LLC (ABC) is the largest billing and practice management company dedicated to the complex and intricate specialty of anesthesia and pain management. It is both an Anesthesia Quality Institute Preferred Vendor and a Gold Affiliate with the Medical Group Management Association. Tony Mira, ABC’s founder, president and CEO, has maintained a concentration on providing services exclusively to anesthesia and pain management professionals since the company’s inception more than 35 years ago.

ABC distinguishes itself by providing optimal business tools to strengthen business processes and enhance cash flow—all while keeping pace with constant changes in the health care environment. ABC prides itself on the longevity of its client relationships and its ability to customize services to the unique requirements of each practice. ABC offers its clients innovative billing and reimbursement services, as well as valuable practice management tools and solutions that allow them to realize their own particular strategic visions and business plans.

The ABC Management Advantage

ABC distinguishes itself through its focus, operational approach and management structure:

• Unlike many competitors who continually redefine their market focus, ABC has remained true to its core market of anesthesiologists, certified registered nurse anesthetists and pain management specialists, enhancing the credibility of its insight and advice.
• ABC believes its relationship with its clients is a true partnership—a partnership in which ABC not only helps improve the billing process, but also helps the group operate more efficiently in the operating room, and more proactively in its relationship with the hospital.
• ABC’s centralized approach allows effective management and oversight, ensuring consistent results.
• Managing a business based on the input and expectations of shareholders does not always result in the most appropriate business decision making. Because ABC is privately held, it has much greater flexibility in setting its agenda, managing the business and being responsive to its clients’ needs.

The ABC Service Advantage

ABC offers a full range of services designed to meet its clients’ needs, from a specific area of service to an all-encompassing solution partner.

Billing and Reimbursement Services

Because all processing is centralized, ABC maintains its high standards for quality control and efficiency, resulting in faster claims resolution and higher levels of reimbursement. Extensive management reporting options allow both management and clients to monitor subtle changes in payor mix and reimbursement patterns.

Services include:

• Front-end edit and claim-scrubber technology
• Patient deductible strategies and solutions
• Claim underpayment monitoring and reporting

Management Support Services

No one company is more qualified to furnish critical management information and proactively advise practice decision makers. ABC stands alone in its ability to provide a full range of management support services:

• Strategic management
• Practice management and consulting
• Human resources consulting
• Contracting services
• Compliance and HIPAA
• Quality management (PQRS/QCDR)
• Education and training
• Financial services
• F1RSTProfessional liability insurance
• F1RSTCode anesthesia-specific ICD-10 documentation application

The ABC Technology Advantage

To ensure flexibility with its clients and their varying levels of need, ABC has carefully crafted a portfolio of products to meet client needs during the entire perioperative process. The ABC approach to account management can be performed on either a PC or an Apple iPad. The solution requires no interaction with the hospital or surgery center’s servers to host the software. These elements offer an unparalleled platform to streamline and automatically incorporate best practices and clinical protocols to any practice.

Data and Billing Backbone—F1RSTAnesthesia

The most advanced, secure and reliable software designed especially for anesthesia billing and practice management, F1RSTAnesthesia converts clinical information into claims for reimbursement. This powerful tool supports electronic claims editing to ensure consistently high billing acceptance rates and minimizes manual intervention in payment posting through direct remittance processing. Providers also are able to receive real-time or historical information through F1RSTAnesthesia’s web-based technology or advanced data warehousing/data-mining technology.

Support Technologies

Joining F1RSTAnesthesia’s software strength is a group of carefully crafted service lines that encompass the perioperative process:

• Dashboards and Reports: F1RSTAnalytics is a suite of dashboards and reports that give you the knowledge you need to operate your anesthesia practice as an effective clinical organization and successful business. Actionable insight when you need it.
  • Key Performance Indicators (KPI) Dashboard
  • Accounts Receivable (AR) Dashboard
  • Productivity Suite
  • Quality Measures Dashboard
• Client Portal: F1RSTClient is a premier client portal that allows clients to securely and seamlessly access ABC’s applications and data such as F1RSTAnesthesia and F1RSTAnalytics.
• AIMS Support: Anesthesia information management systems through Plexus TG’s Anesthesia Touch
• Patient portal
• Quality management
• Call scheduling
• Patient satisfaction
• Patient monitoring

This corporate profile was reviewed and approved by Anesthesia Business Consultants.

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