Anesthesia Practice Management
Development & Consulting

An anesthesia practice is a service business with many demanding customers. The development, organization and ongoing management of a comprehensive anesthesia service is complex. A successful anesthesia practice provides the legal foundation, organizational structure, support functions, and leadership necessary to attract and retain quality providers. When properly conceived and directed, an anesthesia practice allows providers to pay full attention to their patient's mediacal care while fulfilling the role of a consultant.

Anesthesiologists are consultants and as consultants it is their responsibility to foster strong relationships with their referring physicians. Good outcomes and affable personalities are important inducements to use an anesthesia service. The best steps for an anesthesia department to take are to have clear lines of authority, clinically active anesthesia leadership, and open communication. An open organization, non-confrontational attitude of the leadership, and timely response are important factors in the success of not only an anesthesia practice but the OR and the institution it serves, as well.

MP2 is matching its depth of experience, knowledge, and ability to implement realistic solutions with such entities. We have learned that on a clincal level, anesthesia is about the four A's -- Affability, Availability, Ability, and Accountability. Without these characteristics, an anesthesia service will certainly struggle and potentially fail. And yet there is a fifth A -- Affordability -- that is just as important as the other four. This is as true for the cost of providing anesthesia services for the hospital, as it is to the anesthesia professional costs to patients.

MP2 has learned that the practice of anesthesia is not the business of anesthesia - there's a distinct difference. Groups and hospitals pay a very dear price for this misjudgment. An anesthesia group of any size requires a high level of business leadership skills and strong clinical leadership. Groups fail more often from poorly executed business practicies than poor quality anesthesia.

Today, there are few hospital ORs and/or anesthesia practices that have avoided the challenges, impact, and effects of the ever changing and evolving anesthesia marketplace. Whether it be a reduction in reimbursement, to increasing cost for malpractice coverage, to physician and CRNA recruitment and retention the challenges seem overwhelming. Many hospitals are experiencing a growth in surgical and obstetrical volume creating additional staffing and service demands.

MP2's principals have over 75 years of combined expertise and experience in medical practice management and consulting. Since 1987, one principal has specific experience in Anesthesia Practice Management, Anesthesia Department and Practice Consulting, Anesthesia Practice Development, Anesthesia Practice Merger, Anesthesia Network Development, and Anesthesia Provider Recruiting.

What does this mean to you?

That you have access to and can draw upon a well of expertise and experience that has been accumulated over the years, nationally, - in 750+ bed tertiary care teaching hospitals to small rural community hospitals from Florida to California to Maine and back. Below is a partial list of expertise and experience:

Anesthesia Practice Management
Anesthesia Department & Operating Room Analysis
Mediation Services and Contract Negotiations
Conflict Resolution
-Internal Practice Relations
-Practice and Hospital Relations
Anesthesia Practice Consulting
Recruiting and Retention Programs
-Physicians & CRNAs
Anesthesia Billing
Collection Analysis
Compliance Audits