Building a Sustainable Anesthesia Strategy
Strategies for Sustainable Anesthesia Coverage and Performance
Anesthesia has become one of the most important operational and financial challenges facing ASCs. This bundle brings together practical guidance on staffing models, subsidy pressure, reimbursement, scheduling, patient collections, and ASC-anesthesia partnerships to help leaders build more reliable coverage, protect profitability, and create a more sustainable anesthesia strategy.
How ASCs Can Reduce Anesthesia Subsidy Pressure
Brian Cohen and Lee Kortmansky examine anesthesia subsidy and coverage pressure, including how scheduling, OR utilization, staffing models, surgeon relationships, collections, and case profitability affect costs.
Podcast
How Anesthesia Costs Reshape ASC Growth
Garrison Gordon and Cory Hollmann discuss shifting reimbursement, rising subsidies, and anesthesia partnership models, with strategies to align incentives, improve collections, manage risk, and support sustainable growth.
Podcast
Building an In-House Team
Wes Battiste discusses the growing trend of surgery centers building their own in-house anesthesia teams and why this model can help centers protect profitability.
Podcast
Driving Surgical Volume
Colleen Ramirez and Dr. Michael Bernard share how their ASC and anesthesia teams work together to drive case volume, choose which cases to accept, and stay profitable while maintaining a strong clinical partnership.
Podcast
Revenue Optimization Strategies for Anesthesia Providers
Hal Nelson shares five revenue optimization strategies for anesthesia providers, helping anesthesiologists collect what they’ve earned and showing surgery center staff how their workflows support anesthesia revenue.
Podcast
Quick Anesthesia Assignments with HST's Scheduling & Care Communication: Office vs. Surgery Center
See how practices and surgery centers can assign anesthesia using scheduling and care communication, including quick actions that streamline assignments and reduce manual work.
Video
Efficient Estimates with HST: Navigating Anesthesia, Professional Fees, & Eligibility Checks
See how patient estimates can help ASCs explain anesthesia and other professional fees, collect only the facility’s portion, verify eligibility, and respond to coverage or deductible changes.
Video
Allied Anesthesia Associates Modernizes their Pre-Service Payments with HST's Patient Estimates
Allied Anesthesia Associates modernized its pre-payment process so staff can spend more time pursuing outstanding payments and remaining insurance and patient balances.
Video
NorthStar Anesthesia
An anesthesia-specific customer story showing how NorthStar improved pre-service patient engagement and collections. The case study reports 56% of patient responsibility collected before care and a 96% improvement in month-of-service patient collections.
Case Study
State of the ASC Industry Report: Best Practices & Industry Benchmarks for Optimizing ASC Operations
HST’s 2026 State of the ASC Industry Report explores how underused OR block time and high cancellation rates create anesthesia scheduling gaps and can increase stipend and subsidy pressure.
Report
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