- Subsidized Anesthesia Services
- Fee-for-Service Anesthesia Services
- Joint Venture Models
- Pure Management Models
- Locums Services
With all of the options, we are able to ensure the creation of facility-specific anesthesia departments with robust and reliable administrative support. That includes recruiting, scheduling, in-house billing & collections, payor contracting and anesthesia logistics support with an ever-present focus the quality of hospital anesthesia services. This starts with a careful credentialing & privileging process and continues with ongoing anesthesia peer review, quality assurance and patient satisfaction programs.
Hospital anesthesia departments can make or break a hospital. Somnia understands that the surgical service and operating room ward tends to be profitable and improve the top and bottom lines of most institutions. This occurs through the generation of facility fees but also through heightened utilization of radiology and pathology services and filling beds on the inpatient wards. To this end, Somnia takes a broader view of the role of well-run hospital anesthesia services.
Somnia appreciates that developing an anesthesia service department is altogether different than hiring anesthesiologists or certified nurse anesthetists. From our point of view, leadership on hospital committees, collaboration with senior administrators and supporting the hospital’s growth plans are all reasonable expectations of well-run anesthesia services.
Our Anesthesia Chief will have the clinical background and administrative skills to solve the clinical, operational and administrative issues that impact the hospital, surgeon and operating rooms. This includes ensuring that there is ample anesthesia staff with the requisite skill set to support operations. For instance, caring for obstetrical, pain management or pediatric patients requires that anesthesia personnel with appropriate experience are part of the team.
The anesthesia services provider landscape has created an environment where the cost of running an anesthesia department can exceed the expected anesthesia revenue. After exploring indigenous revenue sources—such as chronic and acute pain services, covering the GI suites and converting local only cases to anesthesia cases—it not uncommon for hospital anesthesia departments to require some financial support. Somnia has a variety of contractual models to serve the needs of most hospitals, each mindful of the need to keep the economic liability borne by the hospital as low as possible.
With the migration of surgery from the hospital to free standing surgery centers, many hospitals are seeking to develop surgery centers, sometimes in conjunction with surgeons. The Somnia team has been collaborating with surgeons and ASC management companies to help them meet their goals for nearly ten years. We have broad and deep knowledge with project management and accreditation standards. In fact, Somnia has a division that is entirely devoted to helping facilities achieve accreditation. By helping hospitals be highly reactive to an ever-changing ambulatory surgery environment, Somnia offers a distinguishing value-add that can underscore institutional commitment to innovation.
Getting Started
Does your anesthesia department need to go different direction? Somnia can help address any and all issues related to a smooth and efficient hospital anesthesia services. In addition to these services, Somnia also provides ambulatory anesthesia and office-based anesthesia services. Please call us with any questions you may have, or to put together an anesthesia coverage arrangement to meet your needs. We can be reached at 877.4SOMNIA (877.476.6642), ext. 3538 or by completing our contact form.