Q. How are we certain we are maximizing CRNA reimbursement within our facility?

A. This is an excellent 'opener' at a meeting with facility administration for any department head of an anesthesia department when the topic of anesthesia revenue comes up. Professional services in the anesthesia department may well be the only department within the facility that potentially has untapped revenue available for today's educated and 'street smart' healthcare administrator. I say 'street smart' because today's effective healthcare administrator needs to think entirely 'out of the box' to develop methods of efficiency and revenue enhancement and identification that have not been previously tried and tested within today's healthcare marketplace. Professional services revenue is available to anyone that employs or contracts with anesthesia providers whether physician or CRNA. Another 'out of the box' theory is to grasp professional services revenue and own it, manage it, measure it, and control it so that the employer or contractor of the anesthesia group is in control of the economic drivers that are present within the marketplace for anesthesia. Only then will the 'street smart' healthcare executive maintain the ability to state that they are maximizing their CRNA reimbursement.