What we do — 01
Anaesthetic Billing.
End-to-end claim submission for private anaesthesiologists. Coded, prepared, submitted, and tracked by people who do nothing else.
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The scope
PractiSync handles the full cycle of anaesthetic claim submission for private anaesthesiologists. Every claim is coded, prepared, submitted, and tracked by people who do nothing else but anaesthetic claims.
The work is straightforward in principle and demanding in detail. A correctly billed anaesthetic claim depends on accurate time-unit calculation, the right base-unit allocation, appropriate modifier application, correct identification of additional procedures, and submission against the scheme rules that apply to that specific patient. Each of these is a place where revenue is routinely lost in generalist environments.
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Technical scope
The five disciplines that sit inside every claim we submit.
Coding and claim preparation
Procedure coding, anaesthetic time recording, base units, time units, modifier selection, additional procedure capture, and supporting documentation review before submission.
Scheme submission
Submission to all major South African medical schemes, with attention to the specific submission requirements, payment behaviours, and query patterns of each.
Pre-submission accuracy review
Every claim is reviewed before it leaves the practice. The discipline is to catch errors at submission, not after rejection — short-paid and rejected claims are significantly harder to recover than correctly submitted ones are to prepare.
Patient billing
Where claims are not fully covered by the scheme, the residual is billed to the patient with clear, professional invoicing and statements that reflect well on the practitioner.
Documentation and record-keeping
Every claim, every submission, every payment, and every patient interaction is recorded in a manner that supports audit, dispute resolution, and the practitioner’s own oversight of their practice.
The Revenue Diagnostic
Curious how your billing is actually performing? A specialist review, in writing, within 48 hours. Free.
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Specialism in practice
What makes anaesthetic billing different in practice — and what generalists routinely miss — is the cumulative effect of small specialist decisions.
Time units calculated against the wrong base. Modifiers applied where they should not be, or omitted where they should. Procedures billed under codes that schemes routinely query. Standing list arrangements that produce predictable billing patterns a specialist recognises and a generalist treats as exceptions. Scheme behaviours that experienced anaesthetic billers know to anticipate and work around.
In Marli’s experience, the cumulative loss across these patterns is significant — often a meaningful share of billed revenue, persisting for years before any practice notices it.
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What we do not do
We are deliberate about scope.
We do not provide billing services for any specialty other than anaesthesia. We do not provide general practice management beyond billing — appointments, rosters, theatre coordination, and clinical record-keeping remain with the practitioner. We do not provide tax, accounting, or financial advisory services. Where a client needs services outside our scope, we are happy to refer to trusted partners.
The discipline of doing one thing well is the foundation of doing it well.
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How we work with you
A new client begins with a structured onboarding: a review of the practice’s current billing position, a clean handover from the previous arrangement, and an agreed cadence for submission, scheme follow-up, and reporting.
Once steady-state, the practitioner has a single, named point of contact. There are no call centres, no support ticketing systems, and no general inboxes. Billing is too operationally close to clinical work to be mediated through generic channels.
Anaesthetic Billing is the front end of a connected revenue cycle. The accuracy of the work we do at submission directly determines the performance of collection downstream.
The Revenue Diagnostic
See where billing accuracy is — and is not — earning what it should.
Collection ratio, days-to-pay, short-paid patterns, coding accuracy, modifier usage. Independent specialist review. Free. 48-hour written findings.
Book a Revenue Diagnostic