Anesthesia

UC Davis (Calif.) is slated to launch a nurse anesthesiology program, poising it to become the first school in the University of California system to have one. 

Here are five major anesthesia groups to watch in 2025: 

The exclusive anesthesia services provider for Chattanooga, Tenn.-based Erlanger Health System, Anesthesiology Consultants Exchange, also of Chattanooga, has alleged that its anesthesiologists repeatedly raised concerns that Erlanger surgeons were not complying with the hospital's overlapping surgery policy, according to a…

The highest-paid anesthesiologist in Tampa, Fla., earns $716,600 per year, according to Medscape's salary reporter tool, which is much higher than the mean annual wage of $339,470 anesthesiologists make according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Ronald Lewis, MD, a Louisiana-based anesthesiologist, died on Jan. 6 at 91, according to an obituary from the American Press. 

Cincinnati Children's has expanded its anesthesia partnership with Getinge to provide patients with the Flow anesthesia platform. 

Here are 10 notes on pay for certified registered nurse anesthetists:

A woman has filed a $4 million lawsuit against Providence Health & Services and Oregon Anesthesiology Group, both located in the Portland area, after contracting the life-threatening hepatitis C virus, according to a Jan. 10 report from Oregon Live.

In November 2024, CMS finalized a 94-cent (2.83%) conversion factor decrease from 2024. The physician fee schedule conversion factor for 2025 is $32.35, down from $33.29 in 2024. 

Private equity has an ever-tightening grip in healthcare, across nearly every physician specialty, including anesthesia.