Discover a sophisticated coding tool that assists with the anesthesiologist’s documentation of a patient’s medical history, including pre-existing physiologic conditions.

1. Anesthesia Professional Coding
for McKesson Anesthesia Care™
Benefits While surgeons focus exclusively on co-morbidities brings in $7,301.081.1
the surgical procedure at hand, Failure to charge patients for
– Maximize revenue with anesthesiologists are charged with increased levels of severity and
accurate comorbid condition assembling a detailed portrait of changes to their diagnostic
documentation the patients’ overall health. As they related group stature is
create each patient’s anesthesia plan effectively giving away care —
– Support documentation of of care from pre-op to post-op, a proposition healthcare
procedures and diagnoses anesthesiologists are uniquely organizations can’t afford.
positioned to recoup the
– Increase revenue by improving considerable revenue routinely lost
professional fee capture to limited comorbid documentation. Improved Professional Fee
Capture
– Save labor hours spent doing McKesson’s Anesthesia Professional
time-consuming medical By permitting the start of
Coding module is a sophisticated continuous and discontinuous
record coding coding tool that assists with the anesthesia time in pre-op and
anesthesiologist’s documentation of sign-off in PACU, the McKesson
– Improve anesthesiologists’ a patient’s medical history, including
financial health and Anesthesia Care™ application
pre-existing physiologic conditions. provides an accurate record of an
satisfaction with healthcare Anesthesia Professional Coding
organization anesthesiologist’s beginning and
utilizes five-digit codes to specify end time. The Anesthesia
comorbid conditions requiring a Professional Coding module
– Save time spent dealing higher level of care — such as
with rejected claims prevents the routine loss of billable
hypertension, atrial fibrillation, time on the front and back end of
congestive heart failure and gastric every case, increasing the anesthesia
reflux disease. The resulting provider’s reimbursement as well as
digital documentation provides the employing hospital’s revenue.
a more accurate and thorough Electronic data transfer of
charge capture for quality professional fee billing information
professional care. dramatically reduces the time spent
transcribing data and cuts the costs
of paper storage and transmittal.
Accurate Comorbid
Documentation
Inadequately documented comorbid Increased Labor Savings
conditions cost hospitals more than Accurate billing always begins
three times the dollars, per surgical at the point of care. Anesthesia
case, lost to medication errors. Professional Coding improves
For any given surgery, the financial the speed of the collection cycle
disparity between an event with by sending outbound charge
documented comorbidities and an capture directly to the healthcare
event without is significant. For organization’s billing system at
example, an appendectomy with case closure. Without digital
documented comorbidities might documentation, certified coders
result in a hospital reimbursement in Medical Records spend
of $13,556.57, while the same approximately three hours
appendectomy without documented interpreting each chart.

2. Features Anesthesia Professional Coding Maximum Return on Investment
reduces that time by more than a In an independent study conducted
– Five-digit codes to specify third, resulting in considerable
comorbid conditions with the records of Medicare
labor savings and decreased inpatients at an academic medical
overtime for both the Medical center, use of McKesson’s Anesthesia
– An accurate record of Records department and the
an anesthesiologist’s Professional Coding module in
anesthesiology group’s billing staff. anesthesiologists’ pre-op assessment
beginning and end times
increased revenues by $21.23
– Electronic data transfer of per surgical case — resulting in
Protected Legal Record projected annual revenue of more
professional fee billing
information Due to the unquestionable than $248,000. In addition,
immediacy of information captured providing coders with a legible,
within the electronic health record organized summary of surgical
(EHR), the Anesthesia Professional patients’ comorbid conditions
Coding module also reduces legal amounted to $13.45 in labor savings
risk. In court, the EHR protects per surgical case — an annual
anesthesiologists from those savings of more than $157,000.2
who might seek to impugn a
handwritten medical record.
1
Jerry Stonemetz, MD, “A Key Opportunity for
Return on Value: Capturing Comorbid Condition
Documentation,” HCT Project, Volume 2, 7/17/2004.
2
Ibid.
For More Information
For more information on the Anesthesia Professional Coding module and
McKesson Anesthesia Care, contact your client executive or call McKesson
McKesson Provider Technologies
at 800-981-8601.
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