Description: Anesthesia coding presents unique challenges for HIM teams, involving crosswalks, concurrency rules, time-based billing, modifiers, and more. Small documentation or calculation errors aren't just nuisance-they result in high denial rates, audit risk, and missed revenue. This session equips HIM professionals with a clear understanding of the complexity inherent in anesthesia workflows, and highlights the power of automation: rule based CPT ASA crosswalks, accurate modifier logic, and time unit calculation linked to EHR data all combine to reduce manual labor, improve compliance, and accelerate revenue. HIM leaders will gain actionable insights to drive reliable and compliant anesthesia billing.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and interpret key elements of anesthesia coding, including ASA crosswalks, concurrency rules, time-based billing, and modifier application
• Evaluate how documentation and calculation errors impact denials, audit exposure, and reimbursement outcomes
• Analyze the role of automation in improving accuracy, compliance, and efficiency in anesthesia billing workflows.
• Formulate process improvement strategies to enhance anesthesia revenue cycle performance and operational reliability.
  
  

Webinar Publish Date: This was presented as part of the OHIMA 2026 Annual Meeting & Trade Show - March 11, 2026.
Duration: 1 hour

Speaker: Gary Bernklow is the Senior Product Director at Medaptus where he played an essential role in the development of medaptus' fully automated Charge Infusion product. Today, he spearheads the product development for Charge Infusion, ensuring it continues to meet the needs of the evolving healthcare landscape. Gary has 30 years of experience within the revenue cycle, medical coding and software spaces, including 10 years leading revenue cycle and billing operations at Massachusetts General. His experience has given him deep knowledge of charge management and our rules engine. His depth of knowledge enables him to be a subject matter expert for revenue cycle workflows. He also acts as a consultative resource for application configuration, workflow design and custom reporting requests. He has been a part of enterprise rollouts at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Lahey Clinic, Banner Health, Beth Israel Lahey Health, Dallas Children's Hospital, and Phoenix Children's Hospital. In his spare time, Gary enjoys hiking and backpacking.

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Cost: $25 Members / $35 Non-Members
1 AHIMA CEU*
Domain: Data Structure, Content and Information Governance

*AHIMA CEUs are also accepted by the AAPC! Check eligibility on the AAPC website.