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Consulting Services
Need a second opinion?
NAPA recognizes that anesthesia groups and hospitals may, at times, need to call on outside personnel to provide an objective view of their practice, operations and policies. We can provide you and your group with a wide array of consulting services that will help you find areas for improvement and develop the custom solutions required.
Consulting Packages
Whether you need to assess your anesthesia department’s operations, reduce overhead, improve collections, recoup lost revenue, or even reduce exposure to fraud and abuse, NAPA’s team of dedicated professionals are prepared to help you and your practice in almost all areas of practice management.
Our consulting packages include:
- Anesthesia Staffing and Operating Room Efficiency Reviews
- Through our Clinical Services Division’s years of clinical experience, NAPA is able to quickly and expertly, with a non-biased approach, assess and report on the difficulties you may be facing when arranging for anesthesia coverage in your clinical settings. While assessing the effective levels of anesthetic coverage for a hospital or anesthesia group, our consultants take all factors that effect patient care into consideration, from Operating Room block time to room turnover time to appropriate anesthesiologist to CRNA ratios. Our consultants will conduct an in-depth, on site review of the situations effecting the efficient use of your operating rooms and staff and deliver to you a detailed analysis and suggested methods to correct any potential deficiencies.
- Billing, Coding and Documentation Audits
- To identify areas of lost revenue, non-compliance and governmental audit exposure and help ensure your practice is achieving its best possible results, our team of certified coders and reimbursement specialists can help you review documentation, billing and coding methods and collection efforts. You’ll receive a detailed report on each area found to be at risk, as well as suggestions on how to improve in these areas.
- Compliance Implementation and Creation
- Complying with OIG, HIPAA and Medicare/Medicaid guidelines can be a difficult process. Let us help your organization create its own customized Compliance Plan, as well as assist you in its implementation. Please see our section on compliance for further information on this service.
- Educational In-Services
- Need to educate your staff (or brush up on) billing, coding, documentation, compliance and other reimbursement issues pertinent to anesthesia and chronic pain management? We’ll customize on-site educational services to your practice or department’s specific needs and issues – more cost-effectively than a seminar. Educational In-Services can also help you satisfy educational requirements set by your group for compliance purposes.
- Feasibility Studies and Other Analysis
- If you are considering the start of a new venture such as an Ambulatory Surgical Center, a new office based practice or just wanting additional focus on your current operations, we can provide you with a detailed feasibility analysis to assist you in determining the financial viability of the proposed initiative. Several types of studies, such as CRNA cost/benefit ratios, per procedure analysis, payer, case and per unit reviews can also be conducted and presented to you with our findings and recommendations.
For more information on any of these services, call 516-945-3000 or email us for more information.