Paying Your Bill
Account Statements
Once your insurance company has processed our anesthesia claim (usually 30-45 days after your procedure), we will send you an account statement that details our charges, any payments made by your insurance carrier and their determination of any out-of-pocket costs (co-payment, co-insurance and/or deductible) for which you are financially responsible. You may also obtain a copy of your Explanation of Benefits (EOB) from your insurance carrier.
We offer several convenient ways by which you can pay your invoice:
- By credit card online, via our secure portal, at https://paynow.anesthesiallc.com/
- By credit card by calling 1-800-222-1442.
- By personal check or money order via U.S. mail. Please make the check payable to "Capital Anesthesia Partners," include your invoice number in the memo field of your check and mail to:
Capital Anesthesia Partners
PO Box 17665
Baltimore, MD 21297
Payment is due, in full, immediately upon receipt of our invoice. Our ability to continue providing medical services diminishes if we are unable to collect, in full, for our services in a timely basis. Accounts that are not paid may be transferred to a third-party collections agency at our discretion.
In the unlikely event that your insurance company mailed you a check for anesthesia services, you may either endorse the check and mail it to us or send us a personal check for the amount paid to you.
Should you have any questions about your account statement, please call our billing office at 1-800-222-1442.
Insurance
Health Insurance & Billing
We participate (are in-network) with every* insurance carrier that is accepted at the facilities at which we provide care. This means that we have negotiated a contracted rate with your carrier to provide our professional services. Your carrier will determine if you have any financial responsibility (co-payment, co-insurance or deductible) based on the specific plan and benefits you chose at enrollment.
Patients may expect to receive as many as four bills for their outpatient procedure:
- professional fee from physician (surgeon/gastroenterologist) who performed the procedure
- facility fee from the hospital, Ambulatory Surgical Center or endoscopy center at which services were provided to cover supplies, medications and equipment
- professional fee from Capital Anesthesia Partners for services provided by our anesthesia provider who cared for you during the procedure
- professional fee from pathologist for testing and interpreting the results of any findings if a biopsy was performed during your procedure
Capital Anesthesia Partners believes that patients should be able to anticipate costs related to receiving medical care. Our patients' average out-of-pocket cost for anesthesia services is $85 (average deductible is $287). If a patient has a high-deductible plan where the deductible for the plan year has not yet been met, he/she may expect to pay $500 or more for anesthesia.
We know that health insurance and medical billing can be confusing. To that end, we have created an Understanding Your Anesthesia Bill brochure. If you have questions regarding your specific plan coverage benefits, co-payment, co-insurance or deductible, please contact your insurance carrier or your employer's human resources department. Should you have any questions about our charges or your account balance, please call our billing office at 1-800-222-1442.
Accepted Carriers
For your convenience, Capital Anesthesia Partners participates with the majority of major health plans, listed below. This list is provided as a courtesy and is subject to change at any time. If your insurance carrier is not listed, you may still be covered through a partner carrier. Please contact our billing office at 1-800-222-1442 for questions about eligibility.
- Aetna
- CareFirst (BCBS Federal, BlueChoice)
- Cigna
- Coventry / First Health
- Healthnet
- Kaiser Permanente
- Medicaid
- Medicare
- Montgomery Cty Cancer Crusade
- MultiPlan
- TRICARE
- United Healthcare (Optimum, UMR)
* We are NOT contracted with Johns Hopkins Medical Plan though anesthesia services for some EHP PPO members may be covered if their plan accesses the MultiPlan network.
NPI Number: 1265715692
Understanding Screening Colonoscopy Anesthesia Benefit
Screening vs Surveillance classification can affect your insurance benefits . . .
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) has allowed for several preventative services, such as colonoscopies, to be covered at no cost to the patient. However, there are federal legislation limitations that may prevent patients from taking advantage of this provision, thereby resulting in out-of-pocket costs.
If you are age 50 years or older (45 years old or greater for African Americans due to an increased risk of colorectal cancer) AND have no personal history of gastrointestinal disease, colon polyps and/or colon cancer AND if no abnormal results are identified in your "screening" colonoscopy, your insurance company will almost always pay the anesthesia fee in full.
In any other circumstances, including where a colonoscopy begins as a "screening" but results in a post-operative diagnosis of polyps, hemorrhoids, diverticulitis, etc., the screening benefit no longer applies and you will be responsible for any out-of-pocket costs associated with the anesthesia professional fee. Further, once there is a post-operative diagnosis other than "normal colon," the patient is no longer eligible for a screening colonoscopy benefit under the ACA.
If another procedure (e.g. Upper Endoscopy) is performed at the same time as a colonoscopy, the ACA's screening benefit does not apply to anesthesia charges.
A bi-partisan group of US Senators sent a letter to CMS Administrator Verma to fix the colonoscopy screening loophole administratively. This action would prevent patients from any financial responsibility if a polyp is found during a procedure. CMS has not taken any action to date. Read the full letter here.