can a CRNA bill for themselves?

[amherstguy]

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can a crna bill for anesthesia care on their own or does the supervising physician (surgeon, anesthesiologist) bill for them and then subsequently pay them a flat hourly rate??

 

[Planktonmd]

If they are part of a group or employed by the hospital then that employer bills for them regardless of the supervision status.
If they are working as independent contractors and they are unsupervised then they bill for their own cases.

can a crna bill for anesthesia care on their own or does the supervising physician (surgeon, anesthesiologist) bill for them and then subsequently pay them a flat hourly rate??

 

[amherstguy]

i guess what im asking...if you are a surgeon utilizing a crna in a private practice/small business model...can you bill for a crna's work while paying them a set salary?

 

[Planktonmd]

i guess what im asking...if you are a surgeon utilizing a crna in a private practice/small business model...can you bill for a crna's work while paying them a set salary?

Sure, Then that surgeon or small business becomes the employer and it can collect the money billed under the CRNA's name and pay the CRNA a salary.
It increases the surgeon's exposure to to litigation because in addition to being the supervising physician he becomes vicariously liable as an employer.

 

[amherstguy]

for surgical procedures i def see the risk. but for low risk procedures like a colonoscopy is this model routinely employed.

 

[jwk]

for surgical procedures i def see the risk. but for low risk procedures like a colonoscopy is this model routinely employed.

I would guess it's not very common for an individual private physician to employ the anesthetist, but not uncommon for a larger clinic. Considering the volume of cases a quality GI practitioner can do, they can make a good bit more doing their own billing, or by billing you on a contractor basis, which I would guess would be for more than what you're probably wanting to pay them on an hourly basis.

 

[coprolalia]

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[Matty44]

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