The highest-paid anesthesiologist in Louisville, Ky., earns $898,700 per year, according to Medscape’s salary reporter tool, which is significantly higher than the mean annual wage of $360,570 anesthesiologists make, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Here is what the…
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Black nurses make up 12.4% of U.S. registered nurses but hold only about 4% of certified registered nurse anesthetist jobs, according to a Nov. 5 Nurse.org analysis of federal workforce data. The report , written by Krista Walker, PhD, draws…
ASC leaders have spent the past year absorbing anesthesia costs that keep climbing. The share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to 44% in 2025, according to a VMG Health survey. One ASC executive…
Anesthesia coverage has become one of the tightest constraints on ASC growth. The U.S. is projected to face a shortage of 6,300 anesthesiologists by 2036, and more than half of practicing anesthesiologists are older than 55. Private equity has reshaped…
Nabil Younan, MD, who was director of anesthesia at Shore Memorial Hospital in Somers Point, N.J., for 19 years, died Oct. 29 at age 91, according to an obituary published in The Press of Atlantic City. Dr. Younan joined the…
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From new staffing agreements to academic affiliations, here are five recent partnerships shaping the anesthesia space: 1. Sound Anesthesia, the anesthesia division of Sound Physicians, named Emil Engels, MD, as chief physician officer on Oct. 28, 2026. The new role…
An Arkansas hospital has stopped contracting out its anesthesia services. CHI St. Vincent Hot Springs now employs its anesthesia providers directly. The hospital said the shift gives it more local oversight and lets it tailor clinical operations to its patients,…
Five former students in Texas Wesleyan University’s Doctor of Nurse Anesthesia Practice program have sued the Fort Worth-based school, alleging it dismissed them as part of a fraudulent and discriminatory over-enrollment scheme. The complaint, filed Oct. 2 in the U.S.…
Irving, Texas-based NorthStar Anesthesia is warning that the recent calm in anesthesia staffing may not last, as the company reports evaluating three times as many Dallas-Fort Worth partnerships in the fourth quarter of 2026 compared to the first quarter. After…
CMS has proposed cutting the Medicare anesthesia conversion factor 1.38% in 2027, to $20.2143 from $20.4976, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists. For anesthesia providers in qualifying alternative payment models, the rate would fall 0.89%, to $20.4165 from $20.5998.…