Provider and surgeon productivity reporting for performance and staffing decisions
CPC-certified coders and auditors (≥95% coding accuracy)
Knack RCM Anesthesia Services
Specialty-intelligent, white-glove, technology-driven revenue cycle and practice management support that
consistently outperforms industry benchmarks.
- CPC-certified coders >95% coding accuracy
- Benchmarks that outperform industry KPIs
$5B+
In collected anesthesia payments
$315M+
Collected in CY 2025 alone
1M+
New anesthesia claims processed annually
40+
Certified Professional Coders in anesthesia
100+
Dedicated onshore anesthesia professionals
300+
Total dedicated anesthesia professionals
Why anesthesia groups choose Knack
Built for the realities of anesthesia practices.
What makes us different?
What we deliver
Three pillars, one accountable partner
01 · Revenue cycle precision
End-to-end RCM by certified specialty coders
02 · Insightful reporting & benchmarks
Anesthesia KPIs that do more than report the past
03 · Practice & hospital partnership
Strengthen practice economics & hospital/ASC relationships
Case studies
Two decades of anesthesia partnerships — with the numbers to prove it
98%
Net collection rate — top of the industry’s 94–98% world-class range
≥95%
Coding accuracy by CPC-certified anesthesia coders
Benchmark-beating
Days in A/R & denial rates vs. industry KPIs
Kentucky Anesthesia Group
Since 2003
At the top of the industry’s 94–98% “world-class” range — we state the benchmark alongside the number so it means something.
Knack RCM (then Merrick Management) stood up KAG from scratch in 2003 — state filings, hospital and payer contracts, credentialing, benefits and optimized RCM — and has been a growth partner ever since.
250%
Increase in annual collections
97%
Net collection percentage
26
Days in accounts receivable
95%+
Compliance audit score
Knack RCM’s practice management services have aided us in maintaining our initial hospital relationships since 2003 — more than doubling the number of cases and revenue our practice generates annually.
Raymond Depa, DO · President, Kentucky Anesthesia Group
Anesthesiology Consultants Enterprises
Since 2007
Louisville, Kentucky · Provider-owned · 38 anesthesiologists + 90 CRNAs · three tertiary-care hospitals
In 2007, Knack RCM (then Merrick Management) helped ACE’s founders move from a hospital-employed model to private practice — negotiating the coverage and subsidy arrangement, securing payer contracts, and handling business formation.
15%
Collections lift in Year 1
98%
Net collection percentage
25–30
Days in accounts receivable
95%+
Compliance audit score
We have grown from $6 million in clinical to almost $30 million. It is due to our ongoing partnership with Knack RCM and Ryan that we’ve been able to accomplish this growth.
Kenneth A. Thielmeier, MD, FACC · Anesthesiology Consultants Enterprises
Leadership & team
The people behind your revenue
LEADERSHIP & TEAM
Thought leadership
Payer advantage, ASC economics & the provider power shift
Anesthesia benchmark review
See how your anesthesia revenue compares.
- CPC-certified anesthesia coders
- 98% net collection rate
FAQ
Anesthesia revenue cycle management, answered
Straight answers to the questions anesthesia groups, hospitals and ASCs ask most.
Why use a specialty RCM partner for anesthesia instead of a general billing company?
Anesthesia’s time-based billing, concurrency rules and payer-specific nuances create revenue leakage that generalist vendors routinely miss. A specialty partner with CPC-certified anesthesia coders and benchmark reporting captures more revenue, lowers denial rates and reduces compliance risk.
What does Knack's anesthesia RCM service include?
End-to-end coding and billing by CPC-certified coders, eligibility and clean-claim validation, denial and A/R follow-up, payment posting and patient support, KPI and OR-efficiency reporting, and data-grounded contract and stipend negotiation support for hospitals and ASCs.
What results can an anesthesia group expect from Knack?
Knack has collected more than $5B in anesthesia payments — including $315M+ in CY 2025 — and processes over one million new anesthesia claims a year. Core KPIs such as days in A/R, denial rate and net collection percentage consistently meet or exceed industry benchmarks, with net collections reaching 98%.
How long has Knack worked in anesthesia?
Our anesthesia practice is built on the combined heritage of Merrick Management (founded 1975) and PPM Partners (founded 1991), and we still serve our very first anesthesia client from 1975.