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Anesthesia Financial Information
Your bill is due and payable when the service is rendered. In addition to cash, we accept personal checks, Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. If you do not have insurance, we ask that you contact our office immediately. The sooner you contact us, the more options we will have if you will need to make payment arrangements.
As a courtesy Brevard Anesthesia Services, P.A. will submit your bill to the insurance company information we have on file before looking to you for payment. Since we frequently do not see patients before surgery, we rely upon the facility to provide us with the appropriate information. Shortly after your surgery, you will receive a statement from us indicating any insurance information we have on file. Please check this information carefully and notify us immediately if any of the information is incorrect. Since many insurance companies have limitations on the time frame within which a claim may be filed, it is critical to check this information carefully at the outset to ensure that your insurance company does not reject your claim for this reason, leaving you responsible.
We typically allow two billing cycles (sixty days) for the insurance company to pay. You will receive statements throughout this process. If your insurance has not paid after thirty days, we ask you to contact them and/or our billing office to determine how you may assist in expediting payment. After sixty days, we will look to you for payment of your outstanding bill. As such, anything you can do to expedite this process will serve everyone's best interest.
Because some insurance carriers do not consider labor epidurals to be medically necessary, patients wanting this service are asked to provide insurance information and, if necessary, make payment arrangements in advance.
We work in an anesthesia care team approach. This means that, in addition to our anesthesiologists, we employ certified registered nurse anesthetists (CRNAs). CRNAs are advanced registered nurse practitioners (ARNPs) with masters' level degrees and at least two years of specific anesthesia training. They always work under the medical direction of our anesthesiologists. In instances where both an anesthesiologist and CRNA are involved with your care, we submit our bills in accordance with Medicare guidelines. While this may appear to be a duplicate charge, there are modifiers attached to each charge which indicate to the insurance company how the service was provided. Insurers have different ways of reimbursing in these situations and we work with their guidelines as indicated by their Explanation of Benefits to determine appropriate allocation of payments and patient responsibility.
To access specific pain clinic financial information, click here. If you have questions or concerns about any aspect of your bill, please do not hesitate to contact our billing office at 321-723-4723.
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