tci Part B Insider - 2003 Issue 17

Make Sure Your Anesthesiologist Never Oversees More Than Four Patients

Medical Supervision Guidelines Could Decimate Your Reimbursement When it comes to the patients your anesthesiologist monitors, three may be a crowd - but five or more spells much lower reimbursement.   If your anesthesiologist works in a busy practice, it may be easy for him to wind up having a number of patients under anesthesia at once. But if he is dealing with more than four patients at a time, Medicare considers his services to be medical supervision instead of medical direction.   The reimbursement for medical supervision is much lower than for medical direction, experts say. For medical...

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