The share of ASCs reporting adequate access to anesthesia providers has reached its highest level since 2022, according to the Ambulatory Surgery Center Association’s third-quarter 2026 60-Second Survey, published Oct. 16. Of the 307 surgery centers across 44 states that…
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For many patients, anesthesia is one of the least understood parts of a surgical or procedural experience. People generally understand why they are having surgery. They know what their surgeon is going to repair, remove, replace or examine. But when…
CMS has approved B. Braun Medical’s Stimuplex Single-Shot Nerve Block Needles for separate Medicare payment under the Non-Opioids Prevent Addiction in the Nation (NOPAIN) Act, effective retroactively to April 30. The devices qualify as non-opioid medical devices under the law,…
Many ASCs are paying anesthesia groups coverage subsidies to keep their ORs staffed. Casper (Wyo.) Surgical Center has never paid one in its 26 years. The share of ASCs expecting to pay anesthesia stipends jumped from 28% in 2024 to…
Yale School of Medicine’s Department of Anesthesiology has developed Anesthesia Playground, an AI-enabled simulation website built to give medical students early, consistent exposure to anesthesia care. According to an Oct. 14 news release, Chanseo Lee, a fourth-year Yale medical student,…
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In an Oct. 14 white paper Surgical Directions and Ventra Health argue that hospitals should manage anesthesiology operations and revenue cycle management as one financial system to ease subsidy pressure and protect procedural access. Surgical Directions recommends an adjusted OR…
When its anesthesiology group pulled out roughly two years ago, a Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC had to rethink how it delivers anesthesia. That meant new supervision policies, retraining for its clinical staff and a new surgical schedule. Kimberly Fullone, administrator of…
A Buffalo, N.Y.-based ASC stopped performing pediatric surgery after its anesthesiology group left and the center moved to a CRNA-only model. Before that, it had been one of only two local sites performing pediatric strabismus surgery. Kimberly Fullone, administrator of…
Florida International University’s Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine and Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida are launching a four-year anesthesiology residency program, with the first class set to begin in July 2027. The program is now recruiting residents, according to an…
The Mindful CRNA, a Chicago-based coaching and education platform, will open its CRNA Bootcamp on Oct. 21. The program helps registered nurses preparing for nurse anesthesia school, along with current nurse anesthesia residents, handle the pressure of training. Amanda Kay,…