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Anesthesia workforce & advisory

Every case needs someone qualified in the room. We make sure that's never in question.

Anesthesia Care Solutions places anesthesiologists and CRNAs in hospitals and surgery centers, and works as an extension of your team on the OR economics behind them — staffing, credentialing, and revenue cycle, with clinical quality treated as the baseline, not an add-on.

Coverage gaps don't wait for business hours. Neither do we.

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Built for hospital administrators, OR directors, and anesthesia group leadership.

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What we do

Two ways we work with your department

Some departments need coverage. Some need a clearer picture of what coverage is costing them. Most need both, from people who talk to each other.

Staffing

Permanent and locum coverage for anesthesiologists and CRNAs

We run it turnkey — sourcing, vetting, credentialing, and billing handled end to end — against your department's actual needs: sub-specialty, call burden, shift pattern, and compensation band. The goal is coverage that works like an extension of your team, not another vendor to manage.

  • MD and CRNA placement, permanent and locum
  • Credentialing built to move in weeks, not months
  • Match scoring on sub-specialty, comp, and shift fit — built for retention, not just a filled shift
  • One consolidated, transparent invoice
  • A bridge during a permanent search, not just a stopgap — built to bring down overtime and locums spend along the way

Coverage gaps are diagnosed the same way our consulting team diagnoses them — so the staffing plan and the financial case for it match.

Consulting

Anesthesia department efficiency, priced and scoped up front

Fixed-scope, fixed-fee engagements focused on the OR economics your department actually controls: utilization, staffing model, and revenue capture. Every finding is grounded in the same operational and clinical metrics anesthesia leaders are already measured on — not benchmarks borrowed from another specialty — and every recommendation ends with a dollar figure attached, not a slide deck of general advice.

  • Department efficiency audits — OR utilization, cost-per-case, staffing plan
  • Anesthesia revenue cycle & coding capture review
  • ASC anesthesia design for new or expanding centers
  • Post-acquisition integration for anesthesia groups

Typical engagement: 8 weeks, fixed scope, fixed fee — no open-ended hourly billing.

Workforce

How staffing works

The same five stages run for every placement, whether it's permanent or locum.

01
Source

Sourced and screened against your department's sub-specialty and shift needs.

02
Vet & credential

License, DEA, board certification, NPDB, and references verified in parallel.

03
Match

Scored on sub-specialty, compensation, geography, and shift fit.

04
Place

Privileging tracked to approval, start date confirmed with your department.

05
Bill

One consolidated, reconciled invoice per billing period.

Process

How a consulting engagement runs

Every engagement follows the same four stages, led by two senior partners and an analyst — so you know what week you're in and what you'll have by the end of it.

01 — Discover
Weeks 1–2

Listen and gather

We interview OR and department leadership, pull scheduling and locums spend, and benchmark compensation against your market.

02 — Diagnose
Weeks 3–5

Put a number on it

We model OR utilization and cost-per-case, and review where revenue capture is falling short. Every finding gets a dollar figure.

03 — Recommend
Weeks 6–7

Bring the plan

A board-ready presentation: a cost roadmap, a staffing model, and the ROI case for each recommendation.

04 — Hand off
Week 8

Stay reachable

We support implementation — through our own workforce team where it fits, or yours — and stay available to leadership as changes take hold.

Why ACS

Why anesthesia departments work with us

We'd rather be the right fit for the departments we're in than the biggest name on a roster.

One team, two disciplines

Staffing and consulting sit inside the same firm, so recommendations come from people who also have to go fill the resulting positions — coverage that works like an extension of your team, not another vendor to manage.

Built for anesthesia, specifically

Not a general locums desk. Every match weighs sub-specialty and call burden the way an anesthesia chief would, grounded in the operational and clinical metrics your department is already measured on.

Speed without shortcuts

Our credentialing workflow is built to shorten time-to-coverage without cutting corners — every required verification still gets completed in full.

Numbers you can check

Billing, compensation benchmarking, and engagement pricing are presented plainly — no hidden spread, no black box. Quality is the baseline here, not the upsell.

Coverage

Where we place coverage

Permanent, locum, and per-diem coverage across the sub-specialties that actually make up a department's call schedule.

General anesthesiaCardiacOB / L&DPediatricNeuroRegional & chronic painTrauma & orthopedicBariatric & ASC
Credentialing

What we verify before day one

The 14-day target doesn't skip steps — it runs them in parallel instead of in sequence.

State license verificationConfirmed directly against the medical or nursing board for every state the clinician will practice in.
DEA registration cross-checkVerified and matched against the placement's prescribing requirements.
NPI verificationConfirmed against the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System.
Board certificationABA certification for physicians, NBCRNA for CRNAs, confirmed directly with the certifying board.
NPDB queryA National Practitioner Data Bank check for malpractice and disciplinary history.
Peer referencesThree minimum, followed up by voice and email until they're actually returned.
Malpractice/liability coverageActive coverage confirmed and certificate held on file.
Privileging packetPrepared and submitted to your medical staff office, then tracked until approval.
Questions

Common questions from department leadership

Do you handle both permanent and locum placements?+
Yes — the same sourcing and credentialing pipeline covers both. Most departments use us for a mix: locum coverage for near-term gaps while a permanent search runs in parallel.
How fast can a coverage gap actually be filled?+
It depends on sub-specialty and your own medical staff office's turnaround, but our credentialing workflow is built around a 14-day target — run in parallel rather than step by step — against an industry norm closer to 90 days.
What happens if a placement isn't the right fit?+
Match scoring weighs sub-specialty, compensation, geography, and shift fit before a placement is ever proposed, specifically to avoid this. If a fit issue does come up, we handle re-matching directly with the department rather than leaving the gap back on your desk.
Can we start with just a consulting engagement?+
Yes. Consulting engagements are scoped and billed independently of staffing — there's no requirement to use our workforce team afterward, though the two are built to hand off cleanly if you choose to.
How is billing structured?+
One consolidated invoice per billing period, reconciled against logged shifts — not a stack of individual locums invoices to check line by line.
Do you work with ASCs, or only hospitals?+
Both. Staffing and consulting extend to ambulatory surgical centers, including ASC anesthesia design for new or expanding centers.
Get in touch

Tell us what your department needs.

Whether it's one open CRNA line or a full department review, we'll follow up within one business day to scope it.

info@anesthesiacaresolutions.com(800) 555-0142